Soul Calibur belongs to Namco, but I wish it could be mine. Oh well, I can keep dreaming...

A\N: My HDD crashed, so my chapters and ideas from the previous story were lost. I wanted to start this one as soon as possible because there is a lot more to do from other stories I had to finish. Also, this story has no time period, just to let you know. Enjoy this one!

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"A Hearty Party Is A Hardy"

Chapter One:

Preparations

Sophitia and Cassandra Alexandra were making preparations for a special party bash, just for no reason, and they needed something fun to do for once. Having a huge checklist, expanding to about three pages down, the girls were working very quickly, but also diligently.

"Are the food tables set up and ready to be transported?" Cassandra asked her older sister.

"Almost done," Sophitia replied. "Just a couple more dishes to be set and we are ready to go." The two sisters were in the kitchen, baking delicious goods from a fine marble oven. The children, Pyrrha and Patroklos, could smell the goods from far away in a different room. Rothion, who was being as lazy as he could be, was sitting on the leather couch, watching television for nearly an hour now, browsing the channels as he watched a random reality show. Patroklos was waiting for Rothion to depart out of the living room so that he and Pyrrha could play their recently acquired video entertainment system, the FunBox 9000. It would seem that all hope was lost as he kept browsing the channels on the television set, now in the 1000's range.

"Say, that is some good thumb exercise, huh daddy?" Patroklos impatiently blurted, disturbing Rothion from the TV.

"Listen, kids. Daddy needs his daily television fix so that daddy can be happy for the rest of the day," Rothion replied. He knew that a massive argument between him and the kids was about to run amok.

"Daddy, you have been watching TV for like seventy-thousand-million hours already. Why can we play?" Patroklos stood up and said.

"Yeah! We want to play now!" Pyrrha agreed with her brother, standing next to him. The two were about to retaliate against Rothion by attempting to pull his hair until excruciating pain occurs. So they leaped onto his lap and began to pull strands of his hair, annoying him to a point where he grew furious and slammed one of his fists on the remote control, powering off the television.

"Hey! You broke it!" Pyrrha sadly said, staring at the television set. Then shortly after, Sophitia walked into the living room, looking at a messed-up Rothion.

"Uugh, Rothion... Are you not letting the kids use the TV again?" Sophitia questioned her husband. Rothion tried to talk to her with confidence, but just couldn't show it.

"But honey, you know these kids are gonna be left alone before the party starts, right?" he said, hoping to get back to the television.

"Wait! You're leaving, mommy?" the two children said in unison, surprised at the information that Rothion gave out.

"Well kids, me and my sister are hosting an adult party for fun. We need a bit of social time with everyone else for a while," Sophitia spoke to her children. "You two can't come because it could become dangerous with some of the people there. You might get hurt!"

"But mom," the children said in unison again, depressed that they couldn't attend the party.

"Yes, I know kids, but this is a time for us adults to enjoy. Besides, good old Rothion here is going to take care of you two while we are gone," Sophitia had replied to her children. Rothion was astonished to hear that he wasn't 'invited'.

"Honey! What about me? Can't I come? Oh, please, I will do ANYTHING to taste that new grape wine! Oh please honey, you have to let me go..."

"Oh, I am sorry dear, but somebody has to watch over the kids while the party is out and about. We wouldn't want to tell off our guests that the party has been canceled because my two lovely children need attention..." Sophitia said in a sweet and caring tone as she hugged her two children gently, with them hugging her back.

"Ohhh, mommy. We will miss you," Pyrrha and Patroklos said together, hugging Sophitia tighter than before. Rothion ran to Cassandra to try and convince her to let him into the party, but he also looked behind him, only to see that Pyrrha and Patroklos were taking over 'his' television, starting up the FunBox 9000 as Sophitia powered on the TV for them. He was now in a bit of a pickle.

Quickly facing Cassandra, he spoke with desperation in his eyes, or he at least tried to. "Oh please Cassie, you have to convince your sister to let me into the party! I want to talk to all of my friends, and eat all the food and have some of that wine! Oh, please! I'm gonna break out!"

"I'm sorry Rothion, but you weren't invited," Cassandra told him off, annoyed that Rothion just wanted to leech off the party and not actually have a good time. "Sophi, the biscuits and lasagna are done and are placed on the catering table!" she yelled to her fellow sister.

"Alright sis! I'll help you load the moving truck in a few seconds," Sophitia yelled back to Cassandra. "Alright kids, hope you behave for Rothion, and hope to see you," she finally said to the two, whom were deeply engaged in a space-shooter video game.

"Alright mom! See ya later!" they both yelled in unison. "Bye Cassie! Bye mommy!" they both said to the girls as they went out the door with the table.

"Damn. This really sucks," Rothion said in despair. "Why must you shame me, God? Why must I be so unfortunate!" he screamed at the ceiling.

"Shut up, daddy! We're trying to play!" the two said at Rothion. Filled with sorrow, Rothion looked outside, noticing the loading crew was finished loading all the party equipment, and the loading truck drove off, with Sophitia's car soon behind it. He wasn't going to stand for this 'nonsense'.

End A\N: Woohoo, first chapter done! Hope you liked it. Reviews are very important to me, so don't forget to send in your review! See how the party gets started in the next chapter.