This is yet another romance/action story revolving around Siegfried and Cassandra. Hope you all enjoy it!
Chapter 1
In the beginning…
In a chapel near a ruined castle, a lone man stood in a hypnotic state in front of his sword. He waited for strong souls to come to him so he could feast upon them…. His name is Nightmare, the Azure Knight. He stands there, thinking back over what he has done…
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A village is in ruins, set on fire… many lay dead, but the sword can sense more souls who tried to evade him. He bursts into a house on the edge of the flaming village and sees a family cowering in the corner. "Souls…… Give me your souls!" he growled at them. Suddenly he is stricken from behind, he turns round to see the husband wielding a broadsword. "Ah… someone to play with…" Nightmare lets out a loud laugh. "Silence foul beast! You will not lay a finger on my family!" The man charges at him and unleashes a backhanded slash on Nightmare… but it had little affect, it literally bounced of his armour.
"You're pathetic…. Go away!" He smashes the man in the chest with the side of his blade, knocking him back. He then walks over to the floored man and raised the monstrous sword. "I'm through toying with you now…" he then plunges his sword into him, the man cried out in pain. The eye of the sword opened and drained him of his soul. Nightmare the walks towards the fallen mans wife and two daughters... the door closes behind him. All you hear is the screams of the three women and then nothing.
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"Someone is coming" the voice of his sword, the legendary Soul Edge said to him. He looked up and saw no one, so he went back into his trance until he heard a voice. "Hello? Is anybody there?" Nightmares head shot up. He heard the voice of a woman, it was an angelic voice, yet had the sound of anger and resentment in it. He watched in the shadows, a young woman in white and blue clothing wielding a sword and shield walk on by, she did not notice him at the back of the long room. She looked familiar to him, much like someone he once fought many years ago, suddenly the eye of the sword opens.
She could not help but notice the giant eye in the back of the room. "Show yourself demon!" There is a flash of lightning, and she sees a knight dressed in purple armour, kneeling before the Soul Edge… his arm was grotesquely mutated. He quickly stood up, grabbing his sword, she could now see his red eyes. "You… you hath returned to me…" he mumbled. She dismissed what he said and continued talking "You and your sword are plaguing my family! You have slaughtered many in the name of evil! I will kill you for this!" She drew her sword from under her shield.
Nightmare walked forward slowly towards her. "Tsk tsk tsk… The same speech given by many warriors before you… all of them have fallen! What makes you think that you are any different?" She doesn't speak, she just gets into her stance. Nightmare started to look serious. "Nothing. And so you will fall… just like all the rest!" He charges at her with an overhead slash, she dodges out of the way and tried to attack from the side, but he grabbed her with his human arm and threw her away. He then went to finish her quickly with his 'Earth Divide' attack. She managed to recover in time and dodge the blow, she then started to attack him in quick succession, he blocked most of the hits, but the odd one or two attacks get through his block. She then hits a jumping strike which knocks Nightmare to one knee, she puts her weapon back in her scabbard. "You have failed Azure Knight!" Nightmare looks up at her, very angrily and lets out a cry of anguish, he rises, grabbing her by the head with his mutated arm, unfortunately for the young woman, she dropped her weapons.
Nightmare laughs out loud, so loud that the birds in the trees outside the chapel fly off, she struggles to break free but she couldn't get out of his grip. "You have failed young one! Any last words before I take your soul!" He throws her against the wall and walks up to her, giving her no chance to run… "I…." she takes a deep breath while he looks on "I… i'm sorry sister…" She starts to cry… "I'm sorry I couldn't help… I should never have ran off!" Nightmare looks down at this young woman and starts to feel something inside of him… something he has never felt since his carefree youthful days. Nightmare walks off, he turns around to look at her and says "Go…. Go now… before I change my mind…" She looks up at him with tears in her eyes confused. He drops his sword and lets out a painful scream, and in his human voice, shouts to her "Run!" She picks up her sword and shield and runs off.
"Why didn't you kill her? Why didn't you take her soul?" The voice of the sword was speaking to Siegfried about his actions concerning this young girl. "No… I couldn't! She was only trying to save her family!" The sword didn't hold back with any of its replies "So have many others, why is she different!" Siegfried paused for a while before answering "I don't want this anymore!" The sword still persisted in getting an answer from him "Answer me!" Siegfried shouted at the voice in his head "I don't want to kill… I don't want to hurt anyone anymore!" The sword laughed at him and said "You weakling!" The mental battle was over… Nightmare grabbed his sword and looks down for a few seconds… Then let out a huge scream while he was then he was engulfed in electrical power before everything went dark…
Please comment on what you have seen so far, I have many chapters for this… this is just a prologue really. This will make sense in the next few chapters.