Siegfried sealed the cursed sword Soul Edge with the use of Soulcalibur. Freed from his binds as the evil Azure Knight he walks the world now seeking redemption.

In a forest somewhere in Europe, a tall man in silver armour steps heavily along a muddied path. A long green cloak covers his form, concealing all but the hilt of his massive zweihander. As he walks, a dark sense of foreboding comes across him.

Stopping suddenly, he blinks as his eyes scan the trees cautiously. A strong tingling suddenly shoots up his right arm. Gripping it suddenly in pain, his vision flashes and his arm turns demonic and green; reminiscent of Nightmare.

Staggering back from his own arm almost in fear, Siegfried's vision flashes again and his appendage is his own again. Quickly scanning the trees once more, he releases his weapon from behind him, standing at ready before a flash of dark birds escaping the trees catches his attention above.

After a moment of silence, he returns his sword to his back and sighs deeply. He knows of a town, not far from here where he could probably obtain safe lodging, away from torch wielding peasants; relatives of those destroyed by the Azure Knight.

Watching Siegfried with half-interest, a green, tattered clothed girl perches in a tree, hidden by birds and foliage. Turning her attention from the man, Tira looks at the fragment to Soul Edge in her hand, a twistedly happy smile on her face. "It worked just like we thought it would!"

Resting with his armour against the far wall, Siegfried lays against a small, scantly covered bed. Only a small sheet covers his form, obviously too small, the rest of his covering only what's left of his clothing; a black shirt and pants. Primarily the sheet covers his bare feet from the cool rainy air that drafts in the poorly insulated room.

Quick and silent, a black cloaked creature slips into the knight's room. Discarding the cloak at the foot of the bed, Tira slips quietly onto the bed, flipping back her hair as she ignores the man's nervous twitching before he holds his right arm.

Rousing from the pain in his arm, Siegfried blinks at the shadow beneath him and swiftly turns. Snapping out his hand, he reaches wildly for 'Requiem' as Tira quickly grabs his hand and holds it back.

"Ah-ah-ah!" She giggles, holding him harshly.

Narrowing his eyes as it appears that his arm disobeys him, Siegfried grits his teeth as he sits up suddenly with a grunt, forcing Tira back. "Be gone!"

Jumping on him again instantly, all he gets in return is a slightly crazed giggle. "Aww, you don't wanna play? I bet he does!" She states, her grip and weight suddenly seeming much harder to overcome as she holds him down with one hand, the other reaching down, unbuttoning his pants with ease.

Growling out loud in disbelief, Siegfried grits his teeth. Leading with his more obedient left arm, he snaps it down to grab the wrist of Tira's 'busy' hand. "Wench! Do not touch me!"

Clawing him across the face with that same hand, the green haired girl sneers, her eyes suddenly turning hard, cold, and malicious as her hand moves to hold both of his hands away from her with an unnatural strength. "If you ever touch me like that again, I'll rip your eyes out!" Before she yanks his pants away from his soft member.

How the hell… is she this strong! It must be Nightmare! Gritting his teeth, Siegfried stares back into Tira's eyes and frowns. "You serve Soul Edge!"

Her grin returning as she leans down to his crotch, she only giggles darkly before taking him into her mouth. "Mmm..!"

Grunting again, a look of disgust crosses Siegfried's face, then coupled with humiliation. Disgusted by the fact that a girl like her is trying to please him this way, and humiliated by the fact that he can do nothing to stop her. Taken her unnatural strength, he assumes she can more than likely take more than one punch to the head even at his hardest. If he didn't knock her out in one hit…. well, her teeth look sharp. Besides that, and his body seems to be betraying him.. and responding to her warmth and teasing tongue.

Once his cock becomes rock hard, Tira lifts her head, her saliva dripping onto his length before she licks her lips and mounts him, uttering with a grin. "I knew all you needed was some persuasion."

Narrowing his eyes coldly, Siegfried glances down to find himself still securely in her grasp. Any sudden movements now could put him in a very painful position. "Damnit…" Wincing slightly as he feels her lower lips wrap around him, and her body sinks down onto him, his face contorts almost in revulsion. "I will kill you for this…insult!"

Gritting her teeth, Tira releases his hands only to dig her nails into his chest and slice down clear to his stomach. "You should feel privileged! Don't be so ungrateful. I'm not expecting much from you, so just lie there and take it. I'm just doing my job."

Calling out in anger and pain, Siegfried grits his teeth as his eyes flare and his voice lowers to a guttural growl. "You're not expecting much..? I've got the scrap remains from the Azure Knight!"

Flinching slightly, Tira only frowns as she grumbles, pumping quickly down on the man below her. "It's not like it was my idea. Or choice. So just shut up!"

"Hmph!" Siegfried scoffs loudly, flicking his eyes to the side where 'Requiem' rests against the wall before they return quickly to Tira. Keeping his face straight, save for squinted angry eyes, the tall blonde lashes out again, reaching up to dig his left hand into Tira's shoulder as his right goes for the hilt of his sword again.

Grabbing him once more and all but throwing his upper half back down onto the bed, the scantly clad girl bends down over him, holding his body fast as she bounces and pounds down onto the blonde's dick. Gripping into the flesh of his shoulders with her nails, Tira digs them in deep until she feels her nails reach his bone.

Siegfried's face twists in pain again as his hands jolt up. Forcing past it, he grits his teeth, staring her right in the face as a revelation crosses his mind; when fighting fire… fight with fire. Using this as fuel he quickly locks his arms around her back, grunting when he feels his flesh tear under her nails. He brings his legs up overtop her own and quickly rolls, forcing Tira onto her back.

Her jaw drops in shock before she closes her eyes and calls out in pleasure as the man above her starts pounding into her tiny hole. "Wh-what the hell are you doing!" She growls angrily, pushing the pleasure aside as she wriggles and squirms beneath him. "Get off of me!"

Forcing his entire body down on her, Siegfried's lips come just astride her ear as he rumbles lowly. "This is what you came for… Like all the others. You come looking for trouble, and then… You never measure up! Take what you deserve, pathetic servant of Nightmare!"

"N-No! Damnit, get off of me!" She shrieks, digging her naiils in deeper and grinding them against the bone. "Stop it! Stop it!"

Grunting and shivering slightly, Siegfried's eyes tear only slightly as they clamp shut. Pulling back, he roars out as her nails yank from his arms. Bringing his from behind her back, he quickly grabs her by the elbows, and forces them down to the bed. "I know why you sought me! I was once Nightmare. My body was his! Being his servant, that makes you mine as well!" Blinking once at his own words, he only shakes them away. His right arm has been bothering him since she showed up. It must be influence from the strong presence of Soul Edge nearby… then, upon noticing something nearby Tira resonating softly, Siegfried's eyes narrow again. Fragment of Soul Edge… No wonder!

Shaking her head and writhing beneath the older man, tears spring to her eyes as she cries out. "Get off me! Please! Just get off…!"

Slowing slightly, Siegfried squints in confusion before he just shakes his head and picks up again. "I won't trust you!" That fragment… is clouding me…. damnit! Shivering once, dropping his head, Siegfried's right arm buckles suddenly and releases her arm, lashing out to grab the Soul Edge fragment. "Aaarrgh! No!"

Thrashing out her hand, Tira knocks the fragment from the blonde's hand before clawing him across his cheek opposite from the last, sobbing once before containing her tears as the man above her stops. "Y-You son-of-a-bitch..! Get the hell off of me!"

Holding his bleeding cheek loosely with his left hand, Siegfried rolls easily from Tira to put himself between her and his sword. "..Fool. Realize. You were set up to fall!"

"I'm here for something! And I can't leave until I get it!" She returns, jumping on top of him and holding him down fiercely as her mouth comes down on him once again.

"D-DAMNIT!" He roars out again. How had he allowed himself to fall for such a juvenile trick? Sneering darkly as he feels her rigorous ministrations drawing him closer, he flinches and holds a groan back deathly. Why? Damnit.. What is the purpose!

A soft sob leaves the younger girl as she notes a particular twitch in his cock and jumps onto him, flinching when she feels his hot cum pump into her body.

Gritting his teeth, eyes shut tight, Siegfried's body relaxes once he finishes and his breath rises up a light pant. Reaching up quickly, he pushes her to the side.. off of him, and the small bed they are both on.

Grunting once and quickly standing on unsteady legs, Tira sniffles once before muttering a few obscenities and picks up her cloak as well as the weapon that was held within. "..You're just like him. No wonder he wanted your line to carry on the Nightmare."

Snapping his eyes to her quickly, Siegfried's widen slightly as he stands quickly, blood still drizzling from several spots on his body. "What?" Grabbing his sword from the wall, he jumps, onto the bed before springing forward to land astride her, looping his arm up and backwards around her neck. "You lie!"

Scoffing as her twisted smile peeks out from her now almost dry tears, Tira only utters back, her body only slightly unsteady. "At this very moment, I'm carrying your future next of kin. Nightmare made it so there'd be no 'maybe's'. And this child is—"

Pushing her shoulders against the wall, jolting her words to a stop, Siegfried grips the flash of steel within her cloak as he holds his own at ready in one hand. "If what you say is true… I am not prepared to allow you to leave! I will not allow my kin to bear that sin!"

"What are you going to do about it?" She all but laughs in a sing-song tone.

At that moment, without a second thought, the blonde knight shifts his sword sideways, smashing it against Tira's left leg until he hears a sickening crack. When she screeches from the pain, he releases her.. incidentally receiving her nails as she falls. Starting from the top of his stomach, down his right leg to his knee. Staggering in mid pivot, he regains balance quickly and growls, lifting his left foot to stamp down hard on her right ankle instead, making it snap as well.

Crying out as she grips the inside of his leg, Tira screams and thrashes as she threatens him almost incoherently. "YOU SON-OF-A…I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU! I HATE YOU! YOU SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO LIVE!"

Gritting his teeth to the point that they should nearly crack, Siegfried brings his foot back again, kicking her hard… three times.. in the forehead. As she falls unconscious, the hand that holds him turning to a death grip, the former Nightmare reaches down, squeezing until bones break before he peels it away.

Dropping down to one knee, Siegfried pants a moment before forcing himself up again. Limping to where she holds her cloak, and loops the hoop around the tip of his blade, tossing it away onto the bed. At this, he lets his sword rest against the wall and looks down at her. He will come for her… no.. he will come for it. Of course he thinks of his child, incubating in this sanguinary lunatic. Looking to the side again, he spots the piece of Soul Edge laying astride the bed. This will serve to draw him out…

Siegfried waits in the rain for Nightmare. The droplets soak into his long blonde hair, matting it to his face and down the sides. Blinking some water away from his eyes he stands before the Soul Edge fragment balanced with 'Requiem' in front of him, both hands against the hilt. A gentle wind blows at his locks as a figure approaches, but not Nightmare. Narrowing his eyes sternly, the skin around his right eye scar seems to make it stand out more. "You! Stop where you are!"

When the figure stops, a voice that he is sure he has heard somewhere before answers back. "I won't allow anyone to stop me! Not while evil exists in this world."

Lowering his voice, Siegfried rumbles. "You know not what you step into! I wait for the reaper, to strike him down! Leave or be cast into oblivion!"

Stepping into eyeshot, an Asian man with a scar across his cheek keeps a cloak tight about his body. A hood over trendils of brown hair fall across his almond shaped brown eyes. Producing a bo staff from within the confines of his clothes, he jabs it into the ground and stands facing Siegfried. "That fragment of Soul Edge… Give it to me!"

Scowling now, Siegfried hoists up 'Requiem' and holds it low behind himself. "If that's what you're after… then I can't let you leave!"

Twirling the staff into a readied position, the young man scowls back. "I won't be held responsible for your injuries. You brought this on yourself."

"Fool!" Siegfried scoffs before charging forward, lifting his right arm high and pushing forward his left, he drags the tip of his sword along the ground, slamming hard into Kilik's staff.

Squinting when steel clashes with the special material of his Kali-Yuga, Kilik snaps up the opposite end, catching Siegfried in the stomach and making him double over. He then draws the top half down quickly, smacking the taller man to the ground.

Balancing against one hand, Siegfried growls as he lunges in, Grabbing the back of Kilik's knees in a wrestling 'duck-walk' move to flip him over onto his back. Pushing off he leaps over the younger man and twirls almost in mid-air, slamming the blunt side of his sword against Kilik's ribs.

Rolling side, Kilik makes it to his feet, twirling the staff behind him in one hand, as his other comes ahead, helping to center his chi as he faces Siegfried's back.

Turning quickly to face Kilik, the blonde's sword flips up as he keeps it behind his shoulder, he paces his opponent as they move side to side. The knight's eyes stay on him, though keep him a distance from the reach of his weapon.

Smirking once, Kilik's expression turns serious as he swings Kali-yuga in front of him and dances back, stabbing the entire length forward toward Siegfried.

Squinting quickly, the armour clad Siegfried steps lightly to the side, his own chi snapping around his wrist into the hilt of the blade. Stepping into a full overhead swing, he roars out as he slams Kilik into the ground, bouncing him into the air. Following up, the blonde man swiftly stoops down, his blade ahead of him. "This is…." Swinging up quickly, shouldering into the attack, he launches Kilik high as the man screams in pain. "…the end!"

"Back off!" A feminine voice calls out from behind, and just as Siegfried turns towards her, Xianghua's unnamed blade slices into his back right at the end of his armour. "Toh!"

Grunting, stumbling forward, Siegfried sneers as he turns quickly, lashing out with his right hand, grabbing on to the front of her clothes. Pulling her forward he smashes his shoulder into her stomach. "Don't…" As she doubles over he kicks out hard with a metal boot. "…get in…" watching her stagger back he leaps, slamming the side of his sword down hard, flinging her body to the ground. "…my way!"

Calling out an almost eerie cry, the pink clad girl flops and twitches slightly, her breathing shallow and becoming more so with every breath.

"I avoided your vitals…" Siegfried states as he turns from both of them, flipping his sword back to stand on its sharp end. "You'll live."

"Xi-Xiang…hua….!" Kilik calls, lifting his eyes to look to her barely conscious form. Gripping his staff he pushes up, grunting as he tries to push himself up.

"If you can stand.. then leave. Take her with you." Siegfried warns. "Do not continue to fight when you know you will lose."

"Soul Edge… fragment…." Kilik grunts as he makes it to his knees. "…I have to… purify it…."

"Listen!" The tall man calls. "As it stands, this is my only means, of drawing out the Azure Knight! You will not touch that fragment! Its evil energy is what draws him!"

"You're… drawing the Azure Knight …here? What about.. the village!" Kilik grunts back in pain.

"We are far enough away…." Siegfried responds, looking down at his right arm as he makes a fist. A small charge of soul energy crackling. "I do not intend to let him past here alive."

Stopping for a moment, Kilik squints and frowns. "….You… So, that explains it… you're the one… that sealed Soul Edge…"

Falling silent, Siegfried stares ahead and narrows his eyes.

Using his staff, Kilik braces himself as he moves past Siegfried, kneeling down next to Xianghua. Before he can speak, the taller man states.

"There is an inn just inside of town. The keeper should give you a room. Rest there."

"You're him, aren't you…?" Kilik asks again.

"I was him." Siegfried answers before his opponent can question further. "I've been freed from that sword, but not from the sins I committed while it was mine." He utters, staring down at his right arm.

"It still haunts you… maybe I can help." Kilik offers, patting a small glowing fragment on his chest. "This shard of Dvpara-yuga has the power to purify evil."

Blinking twice, Siegfried's eyes suddenly soften and turn hopeful. "I'll gladly accept!" before holding out his right hand.

Stringing the shard off of his neck, Kilik lets it resonate along Siegfried but it soon flickers and fades. Frowning deeply, Kilik sighs. "The evil in your body has taken deep root… deep even beyond my reach…. I'm sorry."

The tall man's face falls and he sighs deeply, lowering his head as his face twists into deep despair. "Will I ever… be saved?"