A/N Hey everybody, I'm back with the new and improved version of Shadow Soul! I swear I will try harder to update more often, but I can't keep any promises. I'm really, really busy. Anyway, without any further wait, here's the first chapter for Shadow Soul!

Disclaimer: I don't own Soul Calibur, Namco owns it blah blah blah. I only own my OCs who appear in the story. And my friends who appear randomly own themselves.

Chapter 1: Game or Reality?

"C'mon, can I please play? Please?" A girl whined. Her doe-brown eyes were as large and as deer-like as possible to try to get her point across.

"I told you, you're next! That means after me. AF-TER!" Her sister replied with a roll of her light green eyes. She sighed, and pushed her strawberry blonde (much more red than blonde though) back from her eyes with some difficulty, considering she hadn't paused the game and her hands were still on the PS2 controller.

"Chill Julia, you'll get your chance." The third of the girls laughed, ruffling the brown-eyed girls golden blonde hair, causing the latter to smack the former on the head.

"I told you! I hate it when you do that!" Julia snapped. Her friend who had ruffled her hair ran her fingers through her own blonde with a reddish tinge hair. Her light blue eyes that had a grey tint were dancing with concealed laughter.

"That's why I do it." Julia's friend laughed again.

"You're in for it now, Chanelle!" Julia practically jumped on Chanelle, causing her to fall over and hit her head on the desk next to them. Julia's sister, Hannah, rolled her eyes at the antics of her little sister and best friend.

"Gosh, what are you two? Five year olds?" She asked, pausing the game to look at them. Being the oldest of the three at fourteen years, she was also the more responsible and calm of the trio. Chanelle, the middle in age at thirteen, shrugged.

"Maybe…" She said with a shifty look, causing Julia to crack up. Julia was the youngest of the trio, being twelve. She was also the exact opposite of Hannah. She was hyper, overly bubbly, irresponsible, and had a very large tendency to get in trouble.

"Well, if we are five, then why are we playing a game rated Teen?" Chanelle added, the game being Soul Calibur 3, the girls' favorite. Chanelle is the middle in both age (thirteen), and personality. She is usually calm-ish, but is also very optimistic, and has a little insane streak in her soul as well.

"Ooh, we're bad girls!" Julia put in, causing herself to crack up. Hannah just rolled her eyes again and turned back to the T.V., muttering about how hopeless her best friend and sister were, but that she had no choice in this because they had nothing better to do. They were all over at Chanelle's house in the middle of summer. It was waaaaaay too hot to go outside yet, and Chanelle's mom wouldn't let them go swimming until a couple of hours later because they'd all fry. Which stuck them in Chanelle's room, playing videogames and talking for the next few hours. Chanelle flopped on her nice, big, comfy bed, reading her newest book, and sighed.

"Haven't you killed Nightmare by now, Hanners?" Hanners was one of Hannah's nicknames.

"First of all, only Julia can call me that and live-" Hannah started

"But it's fun!" Chanelle interrupted, and was rewarded by a whack on the head by 'Hanners'.

"Ow, didn't have to go and do that." She muttered, rubbing her head.

"As I was saying, and second: Nightmare is really tough and just refuses to die!"

Hannah finished. Julia suddenly grabbed the controller, ripping it out of Hannah's hands.

"Lemme try!" She said, then started playing.

"It's not your turn yet!" Hannah yelled, grabbing it back. They continued arguing over the controller until Chanelle got up and turned off the PS2, secretly unplugging it as well.

"Stop it! It's just a stupid controller!" She cried, interrupting the warring sisters.

"But it's my turn!" They both yelled at the same time, causing yet another argument. Chanelle sighed, grabbed the controller, and put it on the desk next to her, on top of a couple of books, a notebook, and papers with scribbles for her latest story.

"If you two don't shut up, neither of you will play!" Chanelle growled, "It's my game, after all." The two sisters looked at each other and sighed,

"Fine."

"There now, that's settled. If Hannah can't kill Nightmare this time, Julia will get her turn, okay? Okay." Julia jumped up from her seat and turned on the PS2. A screen came on on the T.V. saying 'New Tales of Souls unlocked. Begin?', along with 'Yes' and 'No' beneath it. Chanelle's face showed her confusion.

"I thought you had beaten the game, Chanelle." Julia said.

"I did. I've never seen this before." Chanelle replied, adding "And this really isn't possible"

"Huh? How?"

"The PS2 is unplugged."

"Say what?" Hannah said, her eyes widening.

"See for yourself. When you were arguing, I unplugged the PS2." Both Hannah and Julia looked over at the outlet where the PS2 cable was. Sure enough, it wasn't in the socket.

"This isn't physically possible…" Hannah mused. Suddenly, an arrow began moving between the Yes and No on the screen, almost as if someone was holding down the joystick.

"Julia, are you sitting on the controller again?" Hannah asked.

"Um…no…" Julia answered.

"The controller's on the desk, and nobody's touching it." Chanelle added.

The arrow had started to slow down, going slowly from Yes, to No, and back again, until it stopped on Yes. The screen went black, and a dark voice said, "Welcome, to the Tales of Souls. Your own souls!", followed by evil laughter. A dark purple light flooded the room, causing the three to scream, or rather try to. They couldn't make a sound, or even move! The light then reached the girls, pulling them forward and into the T.V. They shot each other looks of total fear as they found themselves falling through what felt like space and time itself; just swirling darkness, trying to smother them. Just as they felt they were going to be consumed by the darkness, three lights appeared in front of each girl: silver in front of Chanelle, sky blue before Julia, and dark green in front of Hannah. They each fell through their colored light and lost consciousness, unaware of the changes about to happen to themselves, and to the world they knew.

Well, that's it for Chapter one! Chapter two should come up soon, rather, when I get five reviews! So review away please! Bye!

Also, all flames will go to…um…snap (and before you say anything h890, I use the word 'snap' now, so don't get mad about stealing things from you again!), Inferno only appears in the arcade version of SC3…okay, they'll go to Abyss to barbeque the person/people who flamed! MWAHAHAHA!