Strength and Vengeance

Author's Note: All Characters belong to Namco and the creators of the Soul Edge Series except Hayate.

Quick Bio on Hayate.

Member of the Takuzo clan which has been greatly weakened though the revolution.

Father: Denzo Takuzo

Brother: Hoshi Takuzo

The Horseman: You'll find out later


Chapter 1 Bloodbathed Origins

A scream, a yell and a ear-piercing shriek came to the ears of Hayate Takuzo. The boy who would grow to change the lives of millions across the world. The man who would one day wield the fabled sword...Soul Calibur. When people asked about Hayate's beginnings, people shivered to the dark story of his past. Filled with death, violence and vengeance coming from such humble beginnings in Edo, Japan as a 7 year old farmer boy in the mountains. This is his legacy...

"Oi! Takuzo-sama! Help! It is him!" said Hoshi Takuzo as he burst into Denzo Takuzo's room.

"Hoshi? What are you talking about?"

"Takuzo-sama, it is...it is..."

"HOSHI!!"

"Papa? What is...Hoshi-chan." Said Hayate.

Hayate and Takuzo looked on in absolute horror as Hoshi lay dead in the house. A bunch of shuriken stuck into his back. Laying there dead and lifeless. A shuriken suddenly whizzes in at lightning speed and slashes Denzo's right arm.

"Papa..." Hayate timidly said.

"Hayate...listen to me...take your mother and grandmother. Run now. Go to the nearest house and warn the others."

"But father...you're arm..."

"HAYATE! This is not the time! Wake them up and flee now!" said Denzo as he grabbed his old katana. As he unsheathed his katana, it shone in the moonlight with glimmering beauty.

Denzo looked at Hayate intently, "Hayate...go."

Seeing the anger in his fathers eyes, he obediently left to wake his mother.

"Mother! Baa-Chan! Please we must go!"

"Hayate? What's going on?" Slurred Hayate's mother.

"Hoshi is dead mother! DEAD! Please...we must go."

"Oh dear...what about your father?"

"Mother no time to explain! Get baa-chan!"

Before they left, Hayate saw his father, his sword ready for attackers, brave and stern. Denzo looked at Hayate one last time.

"Son, I promise you...I will see you again...someday."

"Father..."

As they hurried out of the house into the fields for safety, Hayate took a glance back at his house.

Over twenty shadows of what he could identify as swordsmen and a heavily armed men on horseback wielding a weapon that was obviously bigger than the horse itself. He heard the sound of metal swords clashing. Clanging, banging and breaking, slicing, fighting and a final scream.

Then nothing but silence. As he watched on, 5 minutes later, his house went ablaze. A torrent of fire came from the horseman's sword, utterly incinerating his farm house. Ashes to ashes, the house fell in seconds. Hayate could only watch on as his life was torn in two...


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