Hi everybody! My name is Michael, I'm Spanish and I'm a Soul Calibur fan. It's been a while since I started writing this story which is based on the saga (up to SC III, because at that time I had never played SC IV and SC V hadn't been released). I have kept some elements of the storyline in the videogames, but I have also changed and added many others.

I'm studying English so I have decided to translate the original Spanish version of the story into English as an exercise for me, but also in order to share the story with more people. You'll find both versions in this web. I hope those of you who are going to read it in English can forgive my mistakes, and I'd be glad if you helped me to correct them. The story has 100 episodes (+ a prologue and an epilogue). Most of them are quite short, but a few of them are a bit longer. The Spanish version is almost finished, but I have just started to translate it into English, so I'm going to upload the episodes in both languages when their English version is finished. That's all! Hope you enjoy it! :D

Prologue

In a time of hand to hand combats and naval battles, when brute strength was worthier than intelligence; everybody around the world spoke about a powerful sword.

A big, resistant and strong sword. A sword which could only be controlled by a warrior with a great fighting spirit.

This sword was no other than Soul Edge.

It was firstly found by a rarity merchant from the British Empire. He was marvelled at it, but he couldn't even imagine how powerful it was, neither how many deaths it would bring (directly, with its own edge; and indirectly, through all the battles it would start among its seekers). This merchant, known as Mr. Adams, loaded the sword on his ship as a piece of his merchandise. He had made a terrible mistake.

At the night when he was heading to his native England, a pirate ship with Spanish flag came in his way. The pirate crew boarded Adams' ship, killing almost everyone on board.

The only survivors were Mr. Adams, his wife and their son, who was hidden in the hold.

The pirate crew had the Adams surrounded on the deck.

At that moment, Cervantes de León, the pirate captain, made his appearance.

He murdered the Adams in cold blood, and ordered his crew to take only Soul Edge.

After having the sword, the pirate ship moved away, not before sinking the Adams' with their cannons.

The Adams' ship was sinking slowly into the ocean, with a frightened boy hidden inside, trying to hang on his life, a life which had been taken off his parents.

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But not a far better future was in store for Pirate Cervantes either.

A time after that, in a naval battle, he was mortally wounded, and he fell to the sea along with Soul Edge.

His corpse and the sword were dragged by the currents to Indian coasts, where a German descendent called Siegfried Schtauffen found them.

Filled with greed, he tried to get the sword, but it was then when it unleashed its power. The evil spirit of the sword possessed Cervantes' body in order to protect itself.

After a hard battle, Siegfried got the weapon, leaving the pirate for dead.

He didn't know how wrong he was.

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Little by little, Soul Edge was draining Siegfried's soul, until there was nothing left, and he became Nightmare, a bloodthirsty warrior.

Nightmare begun slaughtering all around the world, until Siegfried managed to fight himself and get rid of the evil he had inside.

After leaving Nightmare's armor and Soul Edge, Siegfried tried to forget all that had happened, but soon he started feeling something was wrong, like if his interior evil being was trying to get out.

He soon found out Soul Edge had revived Nightmare through his armor, and that he had to defeat both of them if he wanted to live. Furthermore, the Evil Seed had been released and it was spreading all around the Earth.

In order to finish it all, Siegfried should find the only weapon able to defeat Soul Edge: Soul Calibur, The Holy Sword.

It wouldn't be an easy task, and there would be a lot of people after the sword, but he had to do it. He owed it to himself and to all the people he had killed under Nightmare's influence. And among all of them, to his own father.