A.N. don't own Soul Calibur, second story, first one with soul Calibur, grammar may not be the best. is going to be multi-chap

Blade met blade in a clash of power as the Azure knight and his former host fought, Soul edge, a sword of corruption and power met its own counterpart in Soul Calibur, the sword of supposed justice, ignoring their titles however, both swords were just as corrupted as the other, Calibur was just more subtle about it.

Above, Algol, the hero king, watched from the walls, seeing the swords meet and anticipating his retrieval of both. Many warrior's had already reached him, all were defeated, even now he was fighting a reluctant team of a rock creature and a nun chuck wielder, the two had reached the top from opposing sides and now were forced to work against himself, fools. After dodging a high and low combination from the two by gliding between the weapons he used his own swords to strike them to the edge, his own weapons were manifestations of his will, replicas of soul edge and Calibur, taking only the appearance of the swords. two kicks later the warriors fell from the top, the golem grabbing the human and holding him to his chest as his back hit the ground, effectively saving the man.

The shockwave of the fall however, alerted the wielders below, raising their eyes the two raced to the tower top, finding Algol upon his throne.

Algol amused, stood from his throne and transformed his hands to the shape of the swords before him. Only Siegfried was shocked, Nightmare however moved into a blocking stance, knowing of this warrior already from the time Algol had held him. Running forward in a charge, Nightmare extended the arm holding his blade to pierce the hero king's chest. The blade was caught by Algol's replicas, held in a guard, releasing the guard, Nightmare fell back as Algol brung both blades up into an upwards slash sending the possessed armour back to Siegfried's side. Horrified at the ease that it took to take down his counterpart, Siegfried moved into stance and steeled his nerve's, waiting for an attack to counter. That attack came, in the most unexpected way possible, Algol had changed his arms once more into... cannons?. From them fired several bubbles, it only took one to break his guard, the rest threw him into the arms of a risen Nightmare. Placing Siegfried on his feet, Nightmare met the crystal knight's gaze, and with a wordless negotiation, they nodded at one another and charged to Algol. Nightmare began with an overhead slice, blocked by Algol's bladed hand as Siegfried took the opportunity to slice at Algol's chest, however, only the chest plate was damaged as the king had glided backwards seconds before being sliced. Transforming his arm into a bubble cannon, Algol moved to fire at Siegfried but was intercepted by a piercing pain as soul edge penetrated his body by Nightmare behind him, infuriated, the ancient one turned his hands back to blades to strike at Nightmare, but was stopped once more. Siegfried had repeated Nightmare's action when Algol had turned and penetrated him with Soul Calibur. With a roar, Algol sprouted numerous blades form his back and from, slicing both warrior and forcing them to roll back.

Immediately an idea came to the mind of Algol, as the king transformed his hands once more to cannon's, he began charging the necessary power as both warrior's charged to him, his arm's spread to each side aiming at each. He could not defeat them both, but without one, the other would fall. In a moment Algol took the action none expected, turning both arms now to face Siegfried he fired a huge bubble, which sprouted its own smaller bubble which destroyed the quick block Siegfried had attempted, throwing his arm to the side, leaving him open to the quickly coming energy.

As Siegfried looked upon his likely demise, he recalled his life.

"Mommy, look at me" a young blond haired child cried, playing with a wooden sword

"Father, I am ready" spoke a teenage youth, equipped with silver armour, and a large sword

"Son, NO!" Cried a middle aged man as a blond stabbed through him with the sword requiem.

"I'll bring you back dad, I promise" spoke a blonde in rusted armour, grasping Soul edge,

"NOOO!" he had cried as the sword changed him

"OFFER YOUR SOUL"

"PEASANTS"

"CRETINS!" Exclaimed the Azure knight, killing village after village

"this is your end Soul Edge" thought the Blond, impaling the eye of soul edge with soul Calibur, creating the soul embrace, nullifying both swords.

"It is a sin for you to be alive" spoke the Azure knight, clashing with Siegfried

"I will live on. for you, father"

SLASH!

the sound of metal hitting flesh sounded, bringing the wielder of Soul Calibur back to his senses. Before him stood Nightmare, Soul edge clashing with the orb of energy created by Algol's will. Algol, seemingly surprised, walked towards the pair, blades out, as Nightmare fell to one knee in a vain attempt to hold of the bubble, Siegfried, still shocked at the help of his greatest enemy, was more than useless. Halfway to them however, the bubble was cut in half. Nightmare relieved of his tension looked up at his would be saviour, garbed in grey-black clothing, standing before the two, was Cervantes's.

Looking over his shoulder to Nightmare, Cervantes's simply said

"My sword, ye will be mine once more after a' deal with this fool."

Cervantes's jumped forward and came down with a downward strike to the blocking Algol, as the two engaged in battle.

Resting by the pillars to the edge of the arena, Nightmare questioned in his demonic voice

"So, how long do you think we have before the pirate falls"

"hopefully a few more moments, I require a second's rest" Answered Siegfried, holding soul Calibur to his chest .

"Right, we must charge the cretin who dares attack me when his guard is- NOW" the Azure Knight screamed.

With Algol, Cervantes had been disarmed by Algol, who had upwards slashed him to the air, both his cursed and regular sword falling. A gun blade was seized by Algol, who used it to fire a shot to Cervantes falling body, the impact forcing him to miss the tower top and to fall to the earth below. It was only a moment later he had to turn to block both Soul Swords. Quickly pulling away from Algol after the clash, Nightmare targeted the legs while Siegfried targeted the head. Block once more, Algol this time twisted around, and slashed, this would put them back into the same position counting on the fact that they would both block, however Algol felt no resistance from Nightmare's end, and instead screamed as a blade was forced into the side of his mid-rift. Looking down he noticed the cursed blade of Cervantes's that he had dropped to block the soul swords in Nightmares regular arm. A look of satisfaction crept into Nightmares arm's as he fired the blade thrice, loving the screams of Algol, soon enough he was batted away, yet still held onto the blade, causing the wound to start to gush with blood without the pressure of the blade.

Stunned, Algol shook almost falling back as Nightmare and Siegfried charged, Nightmares blade removing Algol's leg, Cervantes's blade being pushed into Algol's heart, by this point however, Soul Calibur had already taken the hero king's head.

Falling back, or rather pushed back by the power that flushed from Algol's body, the two warrior's lay on their back. The power however was not yet done, as it forced it's way into Nightmare's body. He lay, screaming as the horn on his head receded, the mouth on his chest closed and retreated to his shoulder, and finally, a heaviness was lifted. Siegfried sat up first and looked at his squirming comrade, watching as he also finally sat up.

"That miserable cretin, well at least he was good for something" Nightmare spoke, his voice sounding like it did when the two had fought at the forgotten cathedral before the tower of remembrance had appeared., removing his helmet, revealing something that nearly stopped Siegfried's heart, Siegfried's head was under the helmet, the only difference being the red eyes that Nightmare had.

"confused? to put it simply the power of that man has given me a body, amusing that the perfect host would be you. The best thing is that I wont need souls to keep the form stable." Proudly spoke Nightmare, needing a new host every year or so had always been a pest, and the host needing to rush around to find soul's just to keep their body from imploding was always annoying.

Siegfried and Nightmare then looked across towards the hero king, and laughed. It was not a mad laugh, or a demonic laugh... just a happy laugh, a proud laugh.

Stopping after a few more moments, Siegfried looked at his counterpart who had put his helmet back on. Perhaps it was the teamwork, perhaps it was saving his life, but somehow, Siegfried could feel no hate to the beast, it just wasn't their anymore, in truth, he felt that by killing Algol, he had somehow reached atonement. Standing the two looked upon the other, until the sound of the hatch on the tower head busting open was heard as Hilde jumped from it, above them from somewhere Tira dropped and ran to Nightmare's side, reaching it she only just noticed Siegfried and jumped back to block. Hilde looked before running towards them, and attempted to stab at nightmare with her spear, only for Siegfried to catch it and to give her a look of annoyance.

"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON" both Tira and Hilde exclaimed. The two wielders of the soul swords looked to each other, and sighed.

A.N. This is going to be multi-chap, and btw nightmare is in no way going to be all goody good, expect a healthy dose of slaughter of innocents from him later, now questions

A: Do you want pairing's, if so which

B: which other character's do you want to show up/

See you next time!