A/N: well then, my first Soul Caliber fanfic. I decided to write this because in my opinion there is never enough Tira stories, I will try my best not to make the characters to OOC, but it may occasionally seem that way. This story takes place after Tira's ending in SCIV, nothing from SCV is involved, I only liked Phyrra but that was only because of her personality, otherwise the game play was adequate, the storyline was short and not based off of who you wanted to play as, but the character creation was enhanced greatly, anyway on with the story.

After the glowing sphere of golden light faded into the ceiling of the tainted castle, a young woman sat alone on the cold stone floor. Looking to the spot on the ceiling where Soul edge, her master, her only meaning of life, just disappeared, like a wisp of smoke. The girl continued to stare at the ceiling, her violet eyes glazing over the tan stone.

"What do I do now?" she asked no one in particular in her childish voice only it was laced with sorrow and despair.

We have to find a way to bring Soul Edge back! The darker voice said inside her head, until then we must survive!

Tira slowly shook her head as small tears began to run down her cheek, "I can't" she choked out "I don't want to be alone" she whispered as she wrapped her arms around herself.

Stop this now! Tears are for the weak and we are not weak. The gloomy side of the girls mind said. Despite this Tira couldn't stop her sobs as she collapsed on the floor.

A group of soldiers marched in line to the gates of the castle; the sound of their cold iron boots impacting the ground rang in the air letting all who aimed to stop them from achieving their mission know that they would be a challenge like no other. The red headed princess fully outfitted in the glistening royal Wolfkrone armor, the flag on her pole-arm waving in the wind. With her helmet in her arms, Hilde proudly walked to the gate; her resolve to end the source of her father's madness steeled her for anything that the evil sword could throw at her.

The evil sword had ruined so many innocent lives, her father, the great king of Wolfkrone, had fallen to madness from the dark influence of Soul Edge. Even the knight that she had meant had spent half of his life trying to wrong what he did. The blade must be destroyed, the red headed princess thought as she led her soldiers further into the core of the evil that is Ostrheinsburg.

When they reached the twisted iron gates, Hilde and one of her royal guardsmen stepped to the side to allow the soldiers to ram the door down with the dark log with a steel rams head at the front. With one final clash between the two metals, the gate collapsed. Hilde stepped past the fallen gate as her warriors put the ram down and followed, they were greeted by the sight of large suits of armor carrying both swords and shields. Hilde drawled her short sword and braced herself for an attack, after a few moments of standing their staring at the unmoving armor she cautiously stepped towards it. In a swift movement Hilde struck the armor with her pole arm and watched as the armor came down making a dull ring, Soul Edge's power no longer possesses these things, she thought as she watched her guardsmen doing the same to the other suits of armor.

She looked back to the door leading into the throne room of the castle, the captain of the soldiers barked the order to open the door and they rushed to pry the large oak door open. With a creek the doors opened to the throne room of the castle, more of the harmless armor stood there, seeming to protect an invisible king. Hilde ordered all but the captain to stay back while she and the older green haired woman stepped closer.

Hilde begun to hear a sound, she stopped and focused on what sounded like a sorrowful cry. Turning the other direction she walked towards the sound leaving the other woman to stand watch. Stepping into a new room with a great chasm at the edge she found the armor of the Azure knight lying in pieces with a girl in odd red clothing collapsed next to it. Hilde stepped closer to the girl until she accidently kicked a fallen piece of armor, the sound made the girl stop her sobs. The girl stood up and turned around with a circular blade on her shoulders, her violet eyes were puffy but showed an undeniable rage.

"Who dares to step into the throne of Soul Edge" the girl with lopsided pony tails said in a tone filled to the brim with malice.

Hilde was shocked by the way this girl stood, it was as if she wasn't even crying. "I am princess Hilde form Wolfkrone, I have come to vanquish the evil that is Soul Edge."

The girl lips twisted into a sinister smile, she began to laugh like a madwoman. "Well then I guess you're too late, my masters presence is already gone, it is no longer in this domain" when Hilde heard this she couldn't help but to her a twinge of pain in the girl as she spoke.

"well then I should take my leave" Hilde said as she turned around, feeling the girls presence was closer than a second ago, Hilde turned around and blocked the blade from slicing into her flesh with her short sword.

The violet eyed girl was now right in front of her, trying to force the blade to cut into the princess's skin. "Who said you could leave?" now that the girl was closer to her Hilde recognized her, the lopsided hair, violet eyes, and the red indecent battle suit. This girl was none other than Tira, Nightmare's former right hand woman.

Hilde forced Tira back and took a battle stance, "I don't wish to fight you" she said ready for the young assassin to attack her.

The Gloomy version of Tira smiled wickedly, with the whiny crying girl out of control she could now do something more productive instead of crying on the floor. "Good then stay still so I can kill you faster". Tira rushed to the red head swinging her Eiserne Drossel, each attack was merely blocked or thrown to the side as with Hilde's short sword and pole arm.

In her rage she left an opening on her side and Hilde manage slip past the blade and restrain the assassin forcing her to drop the over sized Chakram and she kicked it away.

"Let go of me you wretch" Tira said struggling against the older woman, Tira managed to wrap her foot around Hilde's ankle and forced them on the ground. Before Hilde was able to reach for her sword that was now laying only a foot away from her hand, Tira grabbed Hilde's leg to drag her closer to her. Tira straddled the princess's waist and pinned down her arms, "now, I'll take your soul".

"What" Hilde said before the assassin pressed their lips together in a forced kiss; Hilde felt the younger girl force her tongue into her mouth and couldn't help to moan as the wet muscle swirled around as if it was searching for something.

After another few moments of the assassin forcefully kissing the princess, she pulled back to breathe and noticed that her victim was breathing as well. "What? Why are you still alive?" Tira began to shake her head with tears slowly returning to her eyes. "He abandoned me, I'm all alone now"

Now confused, Hilde attempted to reach out to her attacker to restrain her but was stopped when she let out a blood curdling scream. Hilde covered her ears trying to sound out the screams until they suddenly stopped. Hilde looked up to see the captain reaching out her hand to help her up, "thank you Gerhilde" she said as she clasped the captain's hand.

"Of course milady" she said back, both women looked at the younger girl who the captain was forced to knock unconscious, "what shall we do with her?" she asked.

Hilde stared at the unconscious girl on the floor; she couldn't have been that old, maybe a year younger than Hilde. Usually the princess wouldn't hesitate to slay a servant of the evil sword. But now Hilde hesitated, she related with the assassin, they both were forced to become older than they actually were. But Hilde could not imagine what could have driven the girl to worship Soul Edge. "Go prepare the horses" Hilde said finally breaking the silence, "we're taking the girl with us"

"Are you sure that's a good idea milady?" the captain asked

"Probably not" Hilde said while crouching down and picking up the assassin bridal style, "but I personally think that there has been enough death for today"

"Understood" then the captain ran off to carry out the princess's order.

Tira woke up to the sound of gentle galloping on the hard ground and an occasionally whine of a horse. Tira opened her eyes but then immediately closed them to shield them from the harsh blinding light. Tira attempted to open her eyes again, only this time much slower so she could adjust to the light. Opening her eyes she found a few of a field slowly moving away with each sound of the hooves hitting the ground. Tira tried to move her arms to shade her burning eyes but found that she was able to move her arms, looking down she saw her hands bound by a tightly knotted rope.

"So your finally awake" a voice in front of her said, Tira jumped when she heard the person. Looking in front of her she saw the back of a curly haired red head decked in glistening silver armor that clanked slightly with every movement the grey horse underneath them made. "I was starting to become a little worried" she said with a light tone to her voice, "you been knock out for days"

Tira sat there searching her mind for gloomy or jolly so they could take over and deal with things for them. Tira haven't been in control over her own body in a while, usually jolly or gloomy are more than willing to take over but now she couldn't find them. Not knowing how to properly interact with other humans, Tira stayed silent and merely focused on the discomfort she felt due to the binds on her wrist.

After a few minutes of complete silence, Hilde in an attempt to break the silence began to mindlessly chatter about random things. "Sorry about your bindings" she said adding a nervous laugh, "My guardsmen wouldn't stand to scout ahead with you on my back without anything stopping you from attacking me"

Tira ignored the red head as she continued to ramble on, eventually she hear the trotting of another horse in front of them and looked to the side of the princess to see what was going on. She saw midsized man with short brown hair and a boyish face speaking to the woman, "your highness, and the citizens of Wolfkrone crowds the streets eagerly awaiting your return" he said with a light smile.

"Well then let's not keep them waiting" the princess said back.

"Your highness" the young knight said stopping the princess before she could take off, "please allow me to take the prisoner, it would be most shocking for your subjects to see their princess riding with prisoner" he said giving Tira a dirty look that she ignored.

"That's quite alright" the red head said calmly, "I am the one who decided to take the girl with us so I must take responsibility for her"

The warrior bowed his head, "as you wish your highness" he said before he turned his horse around and galloped down the path with the princess following.

Due to the speed that the horse was now running, Tira was forced to lean against the princess to brace herself so she wouldn't fall. Resting her cheek on the cold armor that covered the woman's upper back, Tira pressed herself tightly against the princess to avoid falling. After what felt like an eternity to Tira, the horse slowed itself to a trot; Tira poked her head out from behind the princess and saw that they were on a wooden draw bridge with a stone arch in front of them. The arches appeared to be made out of a strong grey stone with the kingdoms symbol engraved into the middle of it.

As they passed the arch the women were greeted with the cheers of the kingdoms subjects, men and women of all ages were lining the streets all happily shouting and screaming in joy over there princess's return to the kingdom. Tira looked around at the semi dirty faces that currently surrounded her they looked as if they tried to clean themselves but were in a rush. Tira began to notice the odd looks she received from people when their eyes glanced at her. But anyone who looked at her soon returned to cheering as they passed by. Tira heard a low growl as she continued watching.

Look at the dirty faces of that insufferable beast, Tira heard the gloomy side of herself say in her head. They cheer just for the return of this woman, their love for her will surely make even sweeter to drain her blood.

Tira, understanding what the other side of her said. Tira understood what the other side said and loosened her bindings preparing for an opening.

Once they reached the gates of the royal castle, barked by the two stone statues of two great and prideful looking wolves. Hilde slowly turned her horse around, making sure that Tira did not fall from the sudden movement. "People of Wolfkrone" Hilde said in a loud voice that over came the cheering and silence the people, "I return with great news" she paused letting the people hang on her words. "the evil that is soul edge is no more!" she said with great volume, Hilde watched as her subjects cheered in joy at hearing the news, even some of her most highly regarded nobles joined in. "tomorrow we shall hold a feast in honor of those who have given their lives to destroy the evil sword, but for tonight I must let the men return to their families."

After she finished speaking servants went to take her knights horses allowing them to reunite with their families. The older married men returned to their wives and children whiled the younger soldiers that had included women, allowed due to Hilde's influence in the royal courts, returned to their parents, the mothers crying in joy while fathers gave the smiles that showed how proud they were. it was truly a miracle that so few people died during the battle, but for those who did Hilde wanted to make sure that the family was well take care of and made plans for later. A young servant boy walked up to Hilde and offered to take her horse, Hilde smiled and jumped down from the horse and reached to grab her prisoner putting her down when she was sure that she could walk without trouble. Silently Hilde walked into the castle with Tira and her royal guard's captain; two servants closed the door after them as they were crowded by the nobles that lived in the castle.

"Welcome home" said a rather plump man with fine noble cloths.

"Thank you" Hilde said with a smile, she continued walking with her hand gently tugging on Tira's forearm leading her to her chambers; the nobles looked at Tira with a confused expression but said nothing as the green haired shook her head silently telling them to not question their princess. Reaching the stairs, "please send a few maids to first guess room" she said and then took Tira to what would be her new room. Hilde brought her to a well decorated room that would usually serve as a room for noble guest; she sat Tira down on the bed and cut the bindings that she thought was restraining the oddly dressed girl. Hilde heard a knock and allowed whoever it was to come in, three women dressed in maids clothing walked in bowing to the princess and then stood awaiting their orders. "Excellent, please see to it that this young woman is properly cleaned up" the red head said walking out the room.

Two of the girls began to franticly move around the room preparing things while the last one took Tira to a bathing room that was connected to the guest room. The maid stripped Tira of her red battle suit and untied her hair from the two lopsided pony tails and unbraided the other section of her hair. Tira cautiously stepped into the tub aware of the heat that the water contained, the maid added some pink liquid to the water making a aroma with the scent of strawberries flood Tira's nose. Rolling up her black sleeves the maid began to gently scrub the assassin's body leaving no place unwashed. The maid then moved on to Tira's hair and gently lathered and massaged another odd liquid into the woman's hair cleaning out the grim and blood from her battles. After her hair was rinsed the maid took her out the bath and quickly dried her off with a fluffy white towel. Once she was dry the maid led her out of the bathroom to get her dressed.

The maids clothed her in a white lacy undergarments after she blatantly refused to were a corset, it was far to restricting for the assassin to wear, the maids then dressed her in a black dress with red floral patterns decorating the bodice and sections of the lower dress. One of the maids decided to pick up the task of fixing the assassins hair while the other two fussed with the dress, using a brush the maid brushed the girl's dark hair back. While this was going on, Tira rarely complained. She only allowed this because she needed to get closer to the princess so she could kill her. After they finished they left Tira in the room by herself leaving her to explore her new surrounding, Tira got up from the overly soft mattress and when to the mahogany dresser that sat in front of her. The top of it was covered in things that she found useless such as makeup and jewelry, in her exploration of the dresser top she found a silver letter opener with a mildly sharp edge. Tira twirled it around her fingers, admiring the intricate designs made into the metal. Grabbing a cloth she strapped the knife to her thigh and walked out the room.

Outside of the room Tira looked down the extravagant hallways tiled in a beautiful looking tan marble with an occasional bust of a noble. Tira walked down the hallway until she came upon a servant with a silver tray with something covered on it. Assuming it was the princess dinner, Tira followed her to the left wing and watched her enter a room. Tira waited for the maid to come back out and when she did Tira slipped through the door before it closed all the way. Tira let the gloomy side take over, she felt tired due to the fact that she rarely had control for this long, usually the jolly side of her had control, but she was somewhere deep inside the chaos that made up Tira's mind.

Hilde sat on the sofa eating a piece of glazed apples as she looked over the documents that were delivered to her earlier. Out of instinct she turned around just in time to catch the hand of someone holding a knife to attempt to stab her. She looked up to see Tira bearing her teeth as she struggled to force the knife down on the princess. Hilde was impressed at the girls strength, she never met so many powerful women before this journey and now she one of the best assassins in Europe in her home. Many of the nobles that served her would be flabbergasted if they knew who the young woman was. But that thought only encouraged Hilde to keep the girl more due for her love of irritating the old men who attempted to control her when she first took over the kingdom. Hilde, while still holding Tira's wrist, stood up and brought the assassin closer to her.

They were now so close together that their noses almost touched each others, Hilde stared into her hate filled eyes and decided to retaliate with the same method that the assassin used when they first battled each other. In a quick motion, Hilde captured the shorter girls lips and forced her tongue inside her mouth similar to how Tira did to the princess days before.

Due to the force kiss, the gloomy side gave up control of the body leaving it to the control of the original Tira. the girl with the shattered mind just stood there letting the red head kiss her on account of her not knowing what to do, after what felt like forever Hilde finally released the shorter girls lips and smiled as she watched her run away back to the guest room. "Looks like things have recently gotten more interesting" Hilde said to herself with a wicked smile on her face, she then returned to her documents and pen to continue her work from before.

A/N: well that's the first chapter; I hope that the idea doesn't seem to strange. I tried to describe the castle as best I could but I really suck and castles, and I wasn't sure if Tira had an original personality so I made on myself, if anyone knows for certain tell me. As always I will say I accept request and challenges so throw an idea at me and I will see what I can do. Review if you want, bye!