Who are the heroes, who are villains, the answer, however, will be no one..........................

Chapter one: merging

Nightmare and siegfried stood together, it seemed that their nature would fight each other, but instead, they both faced a being...............the hero king whom even enslaved soul edge............................................. ................................Algol. Nightmare launched his first attack charging hen bashing a sword into Algol, but algol sweeped him away easily, and did the same to attacking siegfried.
nightmare then launched himself into Algol again, with siegfried at the other side, "no being could withstood that power", they've thought, but yet algol simply raised his two hand, shattering the tip of the two swords. he then forced two powerful orbs into nightmare and siegfried, which almost killed them, then his arm expanded into the shape of shoul edge and soul calibur and hit them down onto the floor. as they got up wounded and in pains, Algol charged and hit nightmare, then siegfried, sent them flying high into the air. nightmare's body and siegfried's rammed into each other, merged together and an energy is unleashed, an energy so great it even torn algol to pieces........and created a dimension

in another universe, the swords closhed in a palace. Two greatest sorcerers engaged each other in a battle...........one was a handsome young chinese man in a very elaborate black trenchcoat. his very long and smooth black hair covers up an almost effeminate face, and he fight with an Chinese sword in an noble and fluid manner. The other a bald headed silver skinned man, as if he can be called a man because he is rally a demon, wearing only a loncloth and a hood exposing his proud physique and unholy tattoos, he carried two broad sword. "Quan chi, there is no alliance, we both fight for our self and only our self, and now the common goal is dead" said the trench coated man, whom named shang tsung, said. "I do not care of your advice, I kill you, i gain the world" the demon, Quan Chi answered and swing his sword at shang tusng, shang tsung turned back and kicked quan chi back, the launched himself into quan chi with the sword in directly hitting. just as the sword almost hit quan chi's eye, Quan Chi give a roundhouse kick, knocking shang tsung far back, he then tossed his two blade aside, confidently stepped to shang tsung and kicked him again and again, it is a short battle indeed. The deadly alliance is broken, right after defying the god Raiden easily. But what caught Quan chi's attention is another thing, a great bulk of flesh, covered by scale and wore a majestic helmet, quan chi tossed a fireball, but it as no effect on him. And at the time, the wounded raiden and shang tsung got back to their feet and throw the most powerful attack onto the creature, but it looked if it is not care any bit "even the god's power weakened in his face" the god Raiden thought, and he gathered up all the essence of the place, form them into the greatest energy blast...........................the blast destroyed the palace, sacrificed raiden's life and disturbed the time and space, connect to the exact place where the soul swords falls into

in Mishima Zaibasu, another great dual happened, Heihachi and Kazuya mishima, one in his 70s but yet have an imposing physique shown through his open cheated gi and a spiked hair around his balded head, the other, kazuya, is in his 40s, with a muscular and handsome look wearing a tuxedo suit and a spiked hair combed backward. Heihachi launched his foot into Kazuya, but kazuya, being quicker than heihachi, evade the attack. Then Kazuya launched his fist toward heihachi, whom grabbed it and twisted kazuya's arm. kazuya, in pain, kicked heihachi away. But soon, the place was surrounded by Jacks, awful machine created by G-corp. Heihachi and kazuya stood back to back, facing these jacks, they are ready to fight as father and son. Kazuya first launched a fist into one of the Jacks, while avoiding the Cossack kick of another, the he flip kicked another into air, which Heihachi delivered a powerful fly kick shattered the jack and every other one that it's part hit. Heihachi then grabbed one by its head, sent it flying and Kazuya grabbed in on the other side and twisted it's head backward. But more and more jack is coming in and Kazuya realized that he can't defeat them any more so he suddenly turns and grabbed heihachi, throw him into the incoming jacks and jumped out the window. The jack gradually piled up on the defenseless and alone heihachi, and one's head popped open, and a bomb went off, connect it to another dimension..................................

Chapter2: THIS IS SPARTA!

The merge created another world, all on it's own, the history begins anew, with a much different future. In one day of the new history, Cassandra got ready to bed as her sister was talking to a man, a strong man with short black hair and a long beard, all he wears is a loincloth and a blood red cape, exposing his proud body sharpened by many battle wounds. His name is Aeon Calcos and he is a warrior from Sparta, and he is here to help Athens to defend against the eastern invaders. A horseman suddenly rode in, he was dressed in gold long robes with a black cloak outside of it, his face covered by a cowl, and he jumped down the horse and bows down, taking off the dirty cloak. "This is your last warning, lord Shang Tsung has sent the last request for" he paused for a second, "earth and water." Aeon Calcos turned to the man, " messenger, your so called lord is so afraid of Spartans that he won't even show his face, pathetic!" They walked around a well, pacing while talking. Sophitia suddenly burst in "your so called god does not exist! He is merely an arrogant man, go" Cassandra got off the bed by her sister's voice, as she always did, and secretly hear their conversations, Shang Tsung, she never heard of that name before, and the messenger's face is strange through the slit of the door, a rounded face with strange proportions----------He had small eyes, a low-bridged nose, and a funny goatee. She wanted to laugh, but if she does, she will surely be noticed. Time passed slowly, and the man's word got more and more suffocating "if not surrender, Sparta, Athens, and the rest of your home will be burned to the ground" "thousands of nations of our empire descend upon you! Our arrow will block out the sky!" but Aeon calmly replies, " then we'll fight you freaks in the shade." and he raised his sword toward the messenger. Stunned, the man only said" what, this is blasphemy, this is madness!" and all in a sudden, Aeon kicked into the man, sending him down the pit of darkness while shouting " THIS IS SPARTAAAAA!"

At the palace Far East from Athens, Shang Tsung, the demonic yet godly sorcerer hovered over his desk, pacing and thinking of something. "My great lord, the army is assembled." The sorcerer turns to the servant, whom fled the room in terror. "So, finally, I shall have my plan, I needed you, Cassandra, it is not Athens I seek, it is you." a deceptive smile flirted across his face, "your courage and power, I can see into your souls, you are the one! You are the one to destroy the bond." Shang Tsung had waited so many years for this. Despite his young and extremely finely featured appearance under the cloak, he is over a thousand years old. He thought back to his past………

Chapter 3: Memories.

A long, long time ago, in the exact palace, man has forged a sword, it was a combination of flesh of the most powerful warrior, and the best forged of all swords, the sword, is named…………….soul edge. The sword was once of good, it brought prosperity and justice by defeating wave and waves of the dark emperor Shao kahn's army, but no one ever knew a small tint of wickedness lies within the blade when Shang Tsung, it's first user, wounded the dark lord with the blade. The darkness feasted on weak souls first, growing stronger and gradually ties itself to Shang Tsung, though himself is not corrupted, his body greatly changed, he developed the same lust for soul, which if he does not consume, he will face mortality. But on the flip side, he can achieve immortality just by stealing enough souls and attain knowledge and power, but to the curse, he blindly falls into a trap of the dark emperor. And second encounter between the Sorcerer and the emperor, the half dead Emperor throws the blade out his palace just before Shang Tsung snapped his neck, and after that a weak and evil warrior picked it up. And soul edge was left to be corrupted for centuries to come

The Hero's sword, as it so called, was becoming darker in nature as wielder feed it blood and souls under it's owners. The legend started at Aexcelleus Von Krone, the first king of the wolfkrone kingdom. It opens up with the battle of Walvenberg, the capital of Wolfkrone kingdom…

Chapter 4: Wolfkrone

Thousand of soldiers, headed by Algol and his trusted general Zasalamal clashed with Aexelleus's force. The battle was fierce, as spears entangle with one another and swords clash into another, Aexelleus and Algol stumbled upon each other. " Aexelleus, Hero's sword is the power I need, stand out the way!", aexcelleus said nothing, but instead launched the hero's sword into Algol, whom easily blocked the attack and grab the sword in one fluid motion. The battle quickly ended, with Algol victorious and Aexelleus fled, but only to come back when Algol himself is dead creating the soul calibur.

One thousand years later, in Wolfkrone kingdom emerged a new threat, Nightmare, the Azure knight, emerges. It first starts as an assault on a village nearby the Wolfkrone. On one day, a peaceful day, an exodus of armor descends upon the people. The creature under the armor, half man, half monster, with an grotesque gigantic arm and red glowing eye, but otherwise looked well liked a missing boy, the son of Frederick Schtauffen, Siegfried. Nightmare swings his sword, killing one man, while many tried to escape to their home from the frightening scene. But as another man got into the house, Nightmare simply busted all the wall open and grabbed his body. "I shall enjoy consuming your soul", the creature said, and soon a man is nothing but a pale corpse, then another man, and another, even the village's woman and children were not spared, and the village, once thriving, is now broken ruin of what it has been.

Watching the scene from atop the hill nearby, Shang Tsung, even played as god, felt a very human chill down his spine. "Hildegard must be warned, this insanity must be stopped, and the only way, is to take out the sword."

The sorcerer changed his form into a soldier, as any Wolfkrone soldiers who even know slightly of nightmare is dead. He walked through the corridor " pathetic" he thought "the soldier in the hall all are peasant in armors, not knowing of any fighting, how can they uphold nightmare?" he then walked up the stairwell led the royal bedroom, where Hildegard must be in right now. Shang tsung walked in "my lady, there is an attack on a village" " by whom, the army led by Sorels?" "It's not an army, it's a monster, with a right arm look of greater size than your whole body!" "Then" Hilde paused, slightly disbelieving, but after what happened to her father and how he tried to murder her and the look her mad father's eyes filled with anger and death, she would believe much of any legend. "The creature is much more powerful than you can imagine, it may just be one man but it's armor was impossible to pierce with spears, arrows, even…a cannon, it has strength to knock a whole house down in a swing of his sword and it can summon hellfire to burn anything alive" "who are you? If that is what you said, soldier, then you will be dead already." Shang Tsung then shifted back to his true form, "I live, for that I am no ordinary soldier", and he teleported away.

A year later, nightmare came back for more. This time, he now seems to be less human, with no body but just armor with energy filling in it. On his side were more, Ivy, the seductive witch; Astroth, the crushing destroyer; Tira, the insane angel of death; and finally Raphael, a vampire noble who leads an army of ghouls.

The wolfkrone warriors prepared a large army, led by Hilde herself. They thought they might win, but as they seen the monstrosities they faced, most of them fled and the flag formation is broke " get back, get back." Hilde Commanded, but no one listens. And what remains start their charge……………

As the army approaches, the vampires formed a line of shields under command of Raphael, and then, they turn their blade into the heart of the soldiers. At far front, Astroth began to mow down the army, an axe cut onto one soldier and his head falls off, and another, and another, until the body pile up to a mount at foot of the black giant. Tira swings her hoop onto a soldier, "let's dance", and soon after it will become "die, you scum", and among the monstrosities there s a very uneasy warrior, her name is Sophitia, she fight simply because she want her child to be safe…. to be free of the soul edge, how ironic, destroy freedom for freedom. Azure knight finally jumped in, the sword start to swing wildly, his blade slice through the enemies, punting them like baseball bat, but perhaps the worst of all, installing fears into them. Thousand of Hilde's man died, and Hilde is nervous, if she loses here, she will lose everything: Her kingdom, her people, and her life. A barrage of arrow approached, however, from far side, and the sky is darkened. It was the sorcerer; he is helping her on his way to invade deep into Greece. The barrage killed many ghouls, and Astroth also falls, his body looks like a porcupine of the floor. Tira escapes the arrows, only to be slaughtered by Hilde's own hand, only Nightmare and Raphael teleported away with shame.

Chapter5: the hot gates

Shang Tsung's army led momentum through all Europe and Asia, sorcery has granted the army immortality, at least what it seems. Aeon led 500 men to counter it. The cliff was indeed dangerous for large army; they got cut down row-by-row from Aeon and his men's sword, axe and spear. When the sea of men fails, Shang Tsung brought beast straight from another world, four armed giant, creature with men's torso and horse's body and orc-ish creatures with claw extending from their arms and teeth that sharp enough to crush not just flesh, but metals. And when that fails, he turned to sorcery, black magic that hold people still and curse that made them sick. The hot gate held itself for three days, with Aeon Calcos bravely fighting, but unknown to him, he violated the rules set by the gods, whom said that the sword he has cannot contact blood of innocent beings, like mercenaries and conscripts under the army of Shang Tsung, and soon he went unconscious and felled to his knees (only to be awoke as Lizard man). Sparta Athens and the rest of Greece are fallen, to the demon sorcerer.

Chapter 6: Quest

Cassandra woke up one day, and dressed herself under her attires, which consist no more of a small dress and underwear. She looked into the mirror and tied her hair using a ribbon and goes out of the door it seems nothing is different in her room, plain and undecorated. But as she went out, She saw no more of the lively town she was in, no more of the crowd in front of her family's bakery, no more of Rothion saying good morning, but piles of bodies and people bound in chains. Cassandra suddenly grasped her fist and gritted her teeth, then, she ran into her storage, largely destroyed at the moment, and take her sword and shield.

Proceed through the barren land burned down by the men instructed by the sorcerer, she is determined with revenge, for killing her sister in a barrage of arrows, and destroyed her home in a war, Whoever Shang Tsung is, he is going to pay! She rode the horse toward east, to the mystical orientals, where in legend the sorcerer may dwell in. On her way, a creature stopped her, it was Ashlotte, she seemed to be gleaming silver with metal part and under it, a black dress, her face is pale and mechanical, yet seems beautiful in a strange way, and from back of her artificial hair, it extend a long, metal horn. She was colorless like a ghost, yet there is one color visible, and that is the red in her eyes, determined with strength. She was holding a large club like long spear prepared to attack. She, clearly hostile, stands in the way of Cassandra, whom reluctantly jumped down from the horse and said "I'm going to go all out." And posed into battle stance. Meanwhile Ashlotte said nothing and attacked, Cassandra leapt to evade the first smash, then she attacked with her sword while defend her using the shield. Ashlotte is not a strong opponent; Cassandra cut her down in a few strikes.

Chapter 7: the god emperor

With Ashlotte dead, Cassandra rode the rest of the way, and arrived at a large city, that city seemed to be beautiful and prosperous, with everyone including even a baker and a blacksmith wearing the richest of silk, she wished she had it back home. "Where is Shang Tsung" Cassandra pulled off a man on the road, "I said where he was?" "Our benevolent leader, he is in his palace between the two cities Leichen and Wei Shao. Cassandra barely understood, but she knew it would be best to go south as the person said. "You looking for me, Cassandra" Cassandra felt a finger running down her back along with a cold chill as she heard the man calling her name. The man is dressed in black trenchcoat decorated with dragons and other symbols, inside the fine leather coat is a layer of heavy armor over a silky white robe, his hair was long, and his face was handsome, like what she imagined him to be. "Die, sorcerer!" she called out while charging at him, but he simply deflects her charge with a fireball and said "I am the sorcerer, and now you must help me, Cassandra." "For what I would help somebody ho killed my sister." "For that she still lives……….. under submission of soul edge." He pointed out while teleported her into his palace.

Cassandra awoke, confused, "whatever you are talking about makes no difference, you are going to DIE!" then she charged again, smashing her shield into Shang Tsung, or what she thought was him. It was but a pillar, the sorcerer teleported away. "Stand out, coward" Cassandra shouted, her voice echoed back to her, but no replies. She walked around the large corridor covered with elaborate draperies, searching for the man whom is the greatest demon in her mind, she had not thought of Raphael and nightmare she feared and hated so much before, but she only thought for that small and weak-seeming man. But all the sudden, her eyes darkened, and she fell. "Do not let down your guard, child," the sorcerer appeared behind her, " but I really do not wish a fight at this time, so I may have cheated the rule a bit." Cassandra was asleep, from her dreams, she heard, "the curse must be lifted, you must understand, we are from a different world, and if this hollow universe grow, the rest of reality will be of nothingness." It was a word from god, but yet she sees Shang Tsung in front of her, "I hope you understand, of what is inside the soul calibur, it was not light, it was but deception, neither soul sword is good, you must understand, they need to be destroyed so that world may be back to normal." The sound of the man that Cassandra so hated hover through her mind, but she did not feel hate anymore, she felt only comfort.

Chapter 8: The forged alliance

Cassandra woke up in a lavishly furnished bedroom. She slipped out of the smooth silky blanket and jumped down the golden bed. Inside the room, everything is either gold or extremely well carved wood of the Orientals, "is this heaven, a little too eastern for my taste" but just as the word ended, the sorcerer is seen, he sat on the corner of the room, thinking over something. It is late, but the sorcerer did not sleep. He cannot sleep, for that if he does, souls would escape his weakened body, floating out of the host, and when that happened, he will age quickly and die prematurely. "Cassandra, this seems to be heaven, I must say thank you to your compliment. But this place, as well as the rest of the world, was about to be turned to hell." the sorcerer then turned his face into a more serious and cold mood, "Listen, I just wanted soul Edge, you should know what I've said to you in your dreams, and the only way is to wither rip this world apart into it's way before the crisis or to control the expansion of the universe so it doesn't cause apocalypse, and apparently the control lies in soul edge." Cassandra then gulped down her last bite "yeah, yeah, I know, destroy the sword, you don't have to tell me because that's just what I'm about to do after killing you" "After killing me? try it, Cassandra, you know you cannot do this alone…so can't I, that's the deepest fact, soul edge is too powerful, only together do we even has a chance." "How?" "I need your soul, your sword, your power and your trust from god, you will fight alongside me and my army." "That would be fun" 'not if you die because you did not act serious enough, Cassandra" "why? What's so hard." "There is no choice, no option, you must do it! Or else no one will, it is of great responsibility, Cassandra" "Please, just leave me alone, I can't stand this anymore" "you think you cannot handle It." Shang Tsung paused for a minute, " then no one will, and apocalypse will come, it's all your fault! All because you abandoned your destiny!" Shang Tsung's use to be calmness seems to be gone at the moment, and he then speak with a tone seemingly like crying, "I've failed." But shortly after he pulls back his manners, and spoke in an indusive voice, "don't be so foolish, you know you can't do it alone." and thus, an alliance is formed.

Chapter9: foil

Two Years later

The humiliated Azure knight stood back in his throne at Ostenberg, he screeched in a loud voice for revenge and death, haunting all whom hear it to insanity, but the loyal Raphael did not been effected, as he was insane enough, not to the level like Tira, but enough.

The army is gone, but the vampiric ghouls were useless anyways, Tira is dead, it would only mean that a insane servant died of carelessness, Nightmare knew he would take Tira's soul sooner or later. But what bothers him is that Sophitia, the edge's next intended host, is gone from his sight, where would she go? Nightmare wondered, as he notice her body and weapons are not on the field, not impaled by arrows, Nightmare just hope she doesn't free herself, as if that happened, his immortality and power, gifted by Hephestus through Sophitia, will be gone, he knew he had to act fast

Nightmare then proceed out again brashly of aggressiveness, no deception, but bare, naked evil, brutal. This time, they are heading to Shang Tsung's palace, the Oriental empire's capital.

While inside the palace, Shang Tsung spent one more day taking more soldiers into field training and rally them with sorcery and speech, "let thou faith took over, for that when god is on your side, you shall be victorious" He shouted, and everyone, peasant, warriors, even monster and beast, cheered for him, hundreds of thousands of men, enough to cover a city, cheered, and their voice became so loud the ground had shaken. Cassandra, on the other hand, did almost nothing, she was not a brilliant strategist or anything, for that she has only two talents in her, fighting and making bread, neither of it can she use. Soon, the bored Cassandra goes down into the dining room, which is the only place she could stay besides her own room. She sat down at the table and saw a unfinished piece of writing left there "I shall have a nice greeting toward you, Scorpion, if you would so kindly come, as I will let you avenge the murder of your family, if and only if Nightmare is stopped. Shang Ts" and another one is almost the same, except it is toward another warrior, Sub Zero, who appeared to be the head of some clan, then, one to reptile, Baraka and many other Cassandra had never heard of, but what caught her attention is a letter toward Amy, Raphael's beloved foster daughter. "I did not just invite you here, my child, as you can see, I gathered up all the possible warrior I can gather, regardless of good nor evil, to come, and as for the one to Amy, it's a trap for Raphael………hope you are satisfied" "you are one twisted freak." "Well, let our dinner to be served", Shang Tsung changed his topic, and all the sudden hundred of plate served on the table, each with a very finely made food that Cassandra would never dared dream eating " go ahead, but make sure don't eat too much, I want to make sure you would be the one that can fight, not a fat burden to my side" Shang Tsung joked, and Cassandra burst into laughter, it was funny, indeed.

After the delightful dinner, a man appeared at the door, it was none other than Raphael, one of Nightmare's servants. "You come earlier than I expected" "yes, indeed, and master will be on his way soon" "I suppose I should kill you without my allie's help" "my lord knew who they were, and they are to be slaughtered, Scorpion, Sub zero, and all others." Raphael then burst into laughter, "what about your beloved Amy?" Shang tsung questioned back…" if she opposes me, she is dead as well" A gloomy sound appeared behind Shang Tsung, "and, your finely prepared army was diminished as well, I killed them all." Nightmare said appearing at Shang Tsung's back. "You are next." Cassandra shivered, how can nightmare killed off all the great army, she peeked outside, and she thought Nightmare was lying. But this is the truth, she soon found, hundreds of men were piled on top of one another in the palace ground, among them, the yellow garbed scorpion and blue coated Sub zero, and to Raphael's horror, Amy. some looked like about to diliver a strike, some looked like they were shocked, but in all of them, one thing, fear. Fear killed most of them, yes, fear.

Noticing such abnormality, Shang Tsung posed into a stance, Cassandra recognized it, it was the stance that she fought against and became so feared of, there is no way nightmare is going to win, she thought. Shang Tsung first attempted to dive his sword into nightmare's body, but it failed, as the armor is too strong, then he turned and landed a second blow, which also cannot penetrate the armor. "My turn now!" nightmare grinned and lauched his gigantic sword into the sorcerer, but he missed, Shang Tsung was way too fast. Then Shang Tsung lauched three fireball, and in an instant he transformed into Siegfried, and launched his sword into nightmare's armor, but Nightmare did not get wounded as he supposed so, the soul calibur is not soul calibur, it is just a shape shifted sword handed by a weak man. Nightmare blasted Shang Tsung aside, and Shang Tsung flied off, coughing blood and shifted to his original form. Then, Shang Tsung attacked again, lauching fireballs at nightmare, which did not seem even to care what might be fatal to humans. And Nightmare only walked in front of the sorcerer and lifted his sword…

Chapter 10: savior

Cassandra cannot resist anymore, in her futile effort, she dove in, piercing the eyes in the center of the soul edge. Nightmare let out an inhuman cry, and attempts to land blow onto Cassandra, But Shang Tsung launched another fireball at nightmare, this time, knocking him to the side. Raphael saw the situation and fled, he never care if nightmare is triumphant, but he only fight for Amy…for that she is saved, for their world. And all the sudden, the draperies was blown off by the wind…what appeared behind it, Sophitia, just cleansed off of the darkness from the sword! Nightmare was soon weakened, he is no longer immortal, and souls escaped him and soul edge quickly. In a flurry of brute force and magic, Nightmare knelt down and fallen to pieces, left nothing inside the azure armor. Sophitia was shocked; it was Cassandra whom landed the fatal blow, she destroyed the soul edge, or what remains of it, a cracked piece of metal falls, and on it was an emblem of eyes, and far away, Siegfried's sword, the holy soul calibur, cracked with soul edge as well, it's deceptive voice is gone, and half a world away, it becomes another piece, fit exactly into the jagged end of soul edge.

Sophitia and Cassandra cheered and embraced their arm around each other, crying n grief and happiness. But as they are done, they noticed Shang Tsung was no longer at the palace, but they heard a voice. " Now my curse is lifted, I thank you of the greatest Gratitude, Cassandra, you have taken apart the cursed dimension, and everything will be well, thank you." And the voice echoed around their mind, especially Cassandra's.

But as Cassandra dreamed inside the royal chambers, the world crumbled, no one noticed it and no one resented it, instead, they just relaxed and their conscience will fall back where they belongs, nothing will be remembered about this merging.

The Next day, Cassandra woke up again, no longer inside her royal chamber of Shang Tsung's palace, but in her family's bakery, "Cassandra, you are running late, time to get the water, will you?" Sophitia's voice is heard, and Cassandra obeyed, " I thought I'm ruling over an empire, damn." Cassandra cursed, but she picked up a note on the side of her bed as she dressed up herself " you are, in another world. Sincerely, Shang Tsung." She smiled and tossed the note away, getting back into enjoying her simple life as a baker's daughter. But she would have no idea, of how soul edge, now existing only in it's rightful place, is going to impact the world and soon, her sister will leave and destroy one of the Soul Edge from Cervantes's hand, unfolding the event of the Souls.