(a/n) I don't own Soul Caliber if I did the girls would still kick ass but be hotter
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(b/n) Editing this guy's grammar was something of abhorrence. Half the time I didn't know what he wanted said. Hehe...I wonder if Rengeki will edit this out?
DIVINE POWER
CHAPTER 1
Gladiator
Kilik tentatively paced in front of Nightmare, hoping it was over. He was wrong, Nightmare moved again and tried to push himself off the ground. Kilik raised his rod and struck him again and again.
"Don't you ever pass out, you stupid dog?!" He screamed. When Nightmare stopped moving again, Kilik used his rod to lift one of Nightmare's arms off the ground, then let it drop heavyly to groung. Satisfied, he turned to walk away but Nightmare leapt up and punched him across the back with his claw then followed up with a horrible slash aimed for the head.
Kilik evaded the slash by jumping up. Thrusting one side of his staff into the ground he used it to direct his falling weight into a terrible kick to Nightmare's head then he jumped to safety a few metres away. Taking advantage of his adversary's temporary daze, Kilik soul-charged then pulled off the phoenix's divine, the most powerful move he knew. Nightmare futilely tried to block the blow but was knocked out.
"Finally...I think." Kilik said, turning his attention away from the knight only after getting out of immediate striking distance. Kilik then turned to the full, cheering stadium that was watching...and caught himself staring at a black-haired teen girl.
Talim
Kilik exited the stadium through the warriors' gate after giving the female guard his weapon and then went through the congratulating crowd of the other warriors that had been brought into this prison made just for them: Yunsung, Yoshimitzu, Raphael, Voldo, Maxi, Astaroth, and other male fighters. These, along with Kilik, had constituted the members of the Great Journey. After his temporary fans...everyone was a fan of anyone who beat the hated Nightmare...went away, Kilik went to take a shower. Standing in the cold stream of water, he allowed himself to remember that ambush. It was this battle that solidified women's control of the Empire, capturing the last of the great male champions and naming females as political and social leaders in name and in deed. In the Kingdom of the Khali it was even permissible to hold male citizens of the Empire as slaves. But it was not this that his mind dwelt on...he could only think of how Talim had looked as she fought him in that ambush. Did I let her win? He thought. Did I want to lose to her?
Memory
The Great Journey consisted of men who had fought against Skye and the Fire Demon before and won. Nightmare was the one who killed the Fire Demon in the fight, causing Skye to flee. But that night Skye, Nightmare's spirit brother, came and rewoke the Rage within him. Waking in the middle of the night, Nightmare fled from the presence of his comrades and soon became, once again, the terror in the hearts of the Seven Kingdoms' Empire. Once he had obliterated an entire platoon of soldiers with one thundering blow, lightning literally coming out of his blade and frying the petty men to ashes. To many it seemed impossible to defeat him.
But as they had done to the Fire Demon, so would they do to their traitor ally Nightmare, reasoned the male heroes of the Empire, forming what became known as the Great Journey. Chasing the villian across the Seven Kingdoms and even into the World Beyond, they were finally able to force him into open combat. Once in battle, the force of the combined combatants easily overcame the insane man. Returning to the Empire with Nightmare as prisoner, they were welcomed with an ambush as soon as they were within the lands of the Seven Kingdoms.
The ambushers were known as the Khali. The Khali wore a simple crystal with every single thing's life energy in it, these crystals were known as Khala. Kilik was the only one of the Great Journey wearing a Khala, but it stopped the Khali only from snatching his soul. But regardless of his Khala, and even though he was blessed by Saradomin, the King of the Gods, his physical body was helpless.
He had an advantage over most opponents as they were unaccustomed to fighting someone so skilled with the staff. He was young and nimble, 18, very athletic, powerful, and very fast, but even that would not help him. He had brown hair that hung loosely in spikes draped over his shoulders and rags around his arms and hands.
Stab, counter, spin, attack, block, counter, soul charge...it was all useless against someone who could dodge about anything and was the quickest human he had met, the one person of all the ambushers who had to be the one who fought him...Talim.
He remembered lieing listlessly on the dirt, blood oozing out of his head. He had never been beaten that quickly before. He remembered blankly staring at Voldo who stood above the broken form of Cassandra. Everyone else was still fighting...Talim made a promise to free him from the slavery he was heading to before running to attack Voldo.
Breaking Free
Why was he still thinking about Talim? She was just another slave master, just another owner of the young men from the Great Journey. Kilik picked up his pillow and thrust his head under it. Atleast they provided a decent cot in this rank cell.He thought, But then of course they want me healthy enough to fight. Ah, there goes the clinkin' of the keys signifying the opening of the food door. Why ever in the world they thought they needed to bar that cat-sized opening...why, that's the big door being opened!
He got his head out from beneath his pillow and did a series of double-takes. He was about to speak when Talim stopped his words with a finger to his lips.
"Why have they done this to you, warrior." Kilik removed her finger from his lips.
"Why do you come to me?" He asked.
"Because I trust you. Do not free any of the others, you are the only one I can trust. Find me when you get out." With that, she gave him the keys and left.
That night Kilik broke free of the compound and was already to the next Kingdom accompanied by Talim...he was free!
Realization
One day when Kilik was jogging behind Talim he couldn't keep himself from stealing images of Talim to burn into a special corner of his mind. She wore a short blue and white outfit that was not revealing at all but even in clothes that were dirty and torn from battle she could outshine Orion.
It suddenly hit him why he kept doing this...he loved her.
Being eighteen he was of age and his parents and her parents were all dead so who would care if they were married?
He ran to get beside her and turned his head to ask her a question. But before he could even opened his mouth she told him,
"You have to prove yourself to me." Kilik raised an eyebrow.
"What?" Talim pursed her lips.
"You have to prove yourself to me." She repeated, slowing to a walk. "I, uh...I want you to. I want you to prove yourself."
"Why?" Kilik asked, stopping his feet and crossing his arms over his heaving chest.
"Becuz'..." Talim began, shyly looking at her feet and kicking rocks that were on the ground. "I do."
"You want to marry me." He said. "You want to know if you can live with me forever, because you think you want to."
She did not reply, but continued staring at her stilled feet.
"Well..." Kilik said, "I was just about to ask you if you would marry me...but I think I just got my answer."
They both stared at the ground for a few more moments before looking at each other and laughing. They were soon sharing their first kiss, the setting sun painting the land in resplendant colours.
Vigilantes & Ambassadors
They traveled through the Seven Kingdoms causing much mayhem to the corrupt government, and giving their spoils of war to the poor. They were unstoppable, no one person could defeat them both in battle. One day, with no one else left to turn to, the King of Arsgarnia asked the two to rid his castle of demons that had taken it as their abode. Accepting the mission out of the thought that a corrupt King is better than demons, the two were able to do even this marvelous feat. In the midst of their fight against the demons, Kilik asked Talim to marry him. She accepted this time.
In return for their service, the grateful King of Arsgarnia gave the two much power throughout his land. He accepted their ideals as law by declaring an emancipation of all slaves in his Kingdom, paying for all costs of the slaves' freedom from his own treasury.
Kilik and Talim spent the next few years as Ambassadors of Arsgarnia to the six other Kingdoms in the Empire, convincing them to release their slaves. They were finally married in a small chapel run by Seung-mina and the newly freed Maxi.
Even as their wedding bells were ringing, however, a force was sweeping throughout the Empire and the World Beyond, a force that would start a war to destroy Kingdom by Kingdom, a war that will threaten not only their lives, but also the very bond of love between themselves.
(a/n) I love cliffhangers.. sorry for crappy ending but plz read and review.. Honest critics are my favorite kind.. possible lemons in later chapters for u OTHER fans
(b/n) Betas can write notes, right? Well, to all of you readers out there, how is the change in grammar? Haha...sorry Rengeki, or RENGEKI, however you want to be called.
