Venom Amaranth is bouncing back! :D Well, for Christmas, I got Soul Calibur IV and haven't been able to stop playing it, so I decided to write this. Personally, I think it's awesome, but I want to know what you think. This is my first crossover, so be nice!

Anyways, this is Kilik's POV. Enjoy!

PREFACE

I was merely a phantom now, rendered one by the energy released by both swords when they had clashed for a second time. But I knew I wasn't alone. All of those who had ties to the cursed sword or the spirit sword for a very long time had become spirits.

However, we were fortunate. Miraculously, we had all managed to raise children long enough to the point where they could carry out our legacies alone, and it would continue for almost four hundred and thirty years. The swords had almost been untouched and silenced for that same period of time.

Many of us wandered the streets of a small town named Domino, unbeknownst to the townsfolk, who went about their day, too young to know or even remember. When we roamed, we listened to the conversations of the people around us, and because of how they spoke, we could accurately keep track of the constantly fading time. They also developed a game at this point, which they had called "Duel Monsters". As we wandered the town, we would see eccentric creatures commanded by the people overlooking their opponents, and they would either attack the people directly, or they would assault another creature violently.

But one night, one of us had decided it wasn't time to surrender her service to the evil that almost devastated the world forty decades ago. Tonight would be when the two swords would begin to compose a new tale to tell the world.

It would be when she would choose a host to transform this small town into a field of souls to harvest from. Her spiteful operation began during the hours of darkness, where it would only be thirty minutes until midnight. Interest and worry clashing, I had watched her from the top of a strange building, thirty feet away from her, but she didn't even notice I was there. Every now and then, a strange vibration would shake the building, and as they came, the servant tensed. Whether she was excited or irritated, I did not know.

The shaking stopped when an excited voice declared the victor, but I couldn't make out the name. It didn't matter though. What was she up to?

After six minutes faded with time, she suddenly leapt down from the roof. Knowing that her victim was coming, I followed her. Her red attire and the black veil that was her hair, tied into two pigtails, made her impossible to miss. The street lights that stood much taller than us helped me to get a glance at her target; a teal haired youth garbed in black who was much taller than any of us. Like I had suspected, he didn't know we were right behind him.

It didn't take long before the moment I had feared had come.

Still holding her ring blade, the girl's pace sped up to a jog before it transfigured into a run. She was only two feet away from when she finally hurled herself into the air and extended her foot, kicking him in the back of his skull. The youth let out a cry and landed on the concrete, not bothering to retaliate. But I knew why. She had knocked him unconscious.

She then grasped his wrist and dragged him into a darker area. Alarmed, I dashed after them. Darkness was no obstacle to me as I closed in on the horror awaiting me. She smirked, and then pulled a fragment out of a small purse that hung on her belt. A menacing grin gracing her deranged face, she then pressed the fragment to her target's neck. Slowly now, both fragment and servant disappeared in a black vapor into him.

My eyes widened. She implanted her own soul into his body! There was no doubt she was going to harvest more souls with her new host. There was only one course of action left for me. I had to seek my descendant, who I knew as a person and his whereabouts too well. Leaving the youth on the ground because of my desperation, I left the town and soared beyond the boundaries and over the ocean to seek an island where a school was inhabited. I didn't have a fragment of the spirit sword to get inside of him, but I had to stay close to him.

The fate of this planet rests in his hands, I thought. Good luck, Jaden Yuki. How I wish you didn't need it.

So there's the preface of Soul Calibur GX. Remember, this is my first crossover. Criticisms (but not flames!) welcomed.

Venom Amaranth out.