As unfortunate as it is, I have to state that I do not own soul caliber or Legend of Zelda.

His tale of souls and swords chapter two

As Dante raised his head, to see who had helped him. He could make out a figure wearing an odd lopsided green cap, with a long green tunic and brown leggings. This mysterious warrior said nothing as he sheathed his sword and placed a kite shield on his back. He Held out a hand help Dante up, and Dante accepted the gesture. They lock hands and the mysterious figure pulled Dante up to his feet.

"Thanks pal, "Dante said as he was dusting himself off "Who are you?"

The man said nothing for a moment.

"My name … is Link" he replied.

"Where did you come from?" Dante asked

Link didn't answer. He just pointed upwards.

"The sky? Yea right, tell me the truth."

Link just shrugged.

"Don't talk that much do ya? I'll find out where you came from when this is all over….

Well, I don't care, but maybe you can help with this bandit problem we got here." Dante said as two more bandits were running around looking for more pillage.

Link only nodded and pulled a bow out of his pouch and knocked an arrow.

"How'd you do that?" Dante asked with his eyes wide opened and locked on the bow.

"Magic" was the only thing link said, and then, He released the arrow onto a bandit charging at an old lady.

"Fair enough" Dante said, and then ran at another bandit swinging his Massive blade with ferocity.

"Oh man, I hope I get there in time." Maga said breathing heavily as he raced to the ranch.

After 12 minutes of never ending sprinting, he finally reached his destination.

Suddenly coming from the barn.

"Give me those horses old man!"

"Never you sap sucking mother fuckin' queer bait sorry toe steppin' son of a bitch!"

"You'll pay for your incolense!"

Maga Ran into the barn where he heard the voices yelling.

Just as The bandit raised his Sword, Maga intervened.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you!"

"Huh?" The bandit breathed as e turned his head to where the voice had come from.

Ben took the chance to run behind a hay stack.

Maga Raised his sword and charged forward, to place a blow on the man's head when the Bandit turned around and blocked it with his scimitar. The bandit kicked Maga in the stomach. Maga, caught of guard by his retaliation, backed up and coughed, trying to catch his breath. Just then the bandit lunged at him, swinging hit scimitar with deadly accuracy and nearly gauged the tip of it in into Maga's eye. Maga took a step back as he analyzed his enemy.

"Lets see" He thought quickly to himself.

"Where are his openings?" he thought as the bandit unleashed another swell of attacks upon Maga.

All Maga could do is Block every one of them until he could find his opening.

The bandit ended his flurry of attacks for only a moment.

"This is it!" Maga screamed in his mind and he swung his sword in a chopping motion down on the man.

The thief jump out of the way of what would have been a fatal blow, but was not fast enough. With that chopping motion came down, it did not come down on his skull, but rather his arm, completely dismembering it to the floor. He wailed back in pain as he held his hand over a stump of where his left arm should be. He looked at Maga dead in the eyes.

"!" Maga thought. His eyes are Crimson, Just like the one he let go from earlier. This almost entranced Maga, when the Bandit performed one last sweeping motion with his sword, when an arrow struck him right between the eyes. His eyes rolled up , into his head , as blood slowly dripped off the end of the arrow, but barely, due to the mass of blood lost from his arm being severed. Maga turned around to see his familiar brother with an un-familiar man clad in green.

"Am I going to have to come to your rescue all the time?" Dante said with a grin on his face.

"Techiniqly I came to his rescue." Said the man next to him

"Pfft, I could have handled it!" Maga exclaimed.

"Who's that?" He asked

"This is Link" Dante replied " And don't worry about the bandit problem in town, its been taking care off."

"How did you know I was here?" Maga asked.

"A girl named Raine told us where you were at." Said Link

"Is she ok?"

"Yea she is" Dante said as Link nodded.

"Lets get going home then…. Hey Ben! It's okay to come out now!"Yelled Maga.

"Thanks the Gods!" Ben said caorsley as he got up out of a loose hey stack

As Maga ,Dante and Link were heading out, Ben stopped the group.

"You forgetting something?" He asked.

"Huh?" Maga looked around as if there was something he dropped.

Ben put his fingers to his mouth and Blew a loud whistle. A set of neighs could be heard coming from around the barn. Suddenly, two Black Colts Ran around the corner towards Maga and Dante.

"I comepletely forgot!!" Maga shouted as one of the horses was sniffing and nibbling on his Vest.

"They're yours boys. And as for you…"Ben said to Link.

"I may not have anything big, but you are welcomed back here anytime you wish."

Link smiled and nodded towards the man.

On the way back to the village, Maga was biraging Link with questions.

"Where'd you come from? Why are you here"

Link showed no sign of irritation and pointed up to the sky.

"The sky? I don't get it."Maga said looking up

"I came here looking for something."

"And what would that be?" Dante asked.

Link opened his pouch and pulled out a little box with a fragment of skin… or is it metal?

"That looks nasty, What is it?" Maga said.

Dante was transfixed upon this small shard of mystery.

"I'ss tell you in a safer place.."Link responded quitly as he quickly tucked the box back into his pouch.

"Okay then, how do you hole some much stuff in that little pack?"

Link simply replied, "Magic."

The three continued into the village where Maga interrupted an intriguing conversation between Dante and Link.

"He guys, I'll be back, I've got to go see Raine." He said as he took a hard left and pulled his new colt along.

The other two didn't seem to notice as they were caught into a deep conversation about the possible motives of the bandits sudden attack.

Maga walked passed burnt buildings and stables that were reduced to nothing but ash, he walked passed families that cried over fallen loved ones, and over homelessness. Maga's stomach dropped a little as he saw this. It truly did sadden him to see so much pain. He walked to the end of the path to Raines house and knocked on the slightly charred door.

"One minute." Said an all too familiar female voice as footsteps neared the door.

The door creaked open as Raine peered out the opening.

She rushed out and hugged Maga tightly, with almost bone crushing strength.

"Oh Maga! Your safe! Is Uncle Ben safe too!?" She said in a flurry of excitement.

"Yes, he's safe, I made sure of it."

"That's great! Oh, how rude of me, come in and sit down.. on what ever you can find to sit in that is." She said as her voiced lowered into a slightly gloomy state.

Maga tied his colt to a boulder in front of the house and as he walked in, he took notes of what was left inside. All that was left, was a single chair, piles of torn and or burned books, half the roof had caved in, and there was dirt all throughout the house.

"It's seen better days" Raine said calmly over a hidden sadness.

"Yea, no kidding." Maga replied as he just took a seat on the floor in front of the chair.

"Are you okay, you know, after those guys….." Maga began

"I'm fine, thanks to your heroicness." Raine said

"Heroicness? "Maga said smiling , " I was expecting more like awesomeness." Lightening up moods was a speciality of Maga's. Raine only laughed

"And don't forget your modesty" Raine giggled back in a happier tone

"Hey, Maga. Can you wait a second here? I need to go change out of these dirty things" Raine said as she pointed out her dirty clothing.

"sure thing."

"And NO peeking, or I won't give you your gift I have for you" Raine said

"Well, I guess I won't if im getting a present" Maga said with a friendly smile on his face.

"okay, I'll be right back." Raine said leaving Maga to himself for a few minutes.

After a few moments, she reappeared in a new set of clothing.

She had brushed her short dark blond hair back to the beautiful waves that naturally took place , and wore here normal brown cloth shirt, and here white pants. She ,unlike many of the other women of the village, wore leather boots instead of dainty sandals. Her reason for such was that it isn't fun going around and you step in a puddle of water and get your socks wet. Her impression kinda gave a tomboyish personality, always wanting to go and gather wood or go fishing with Maga on the weekends or train with Dante every other day.

"Okay, close your eyes and hold out your hands"

Maga did as he was told and in his hands plopped something soft and woolly feeling.

"You can open them now" Raine said. Maga opened his eyes and looked at what was in his hands.

"What is it?" He asked

"Its your gift. It's a bracelet I made out of sheeps-wool. See?"

"Maga examined it a bit more and smiled wide.

"Thanks Raine, I'll cherish it so long as our friendship lasts." Maga said kindly

"And how long do you think that is?" Raine said

"Forever" Maga said warmly

"Better have, I've snuck into my house at night too many times when Dante would get mad at you and lock you out of your home." Raine giggled.

"Speaking of which, how are you and your uncle going to live in here? The roof might cave in on us any minutes."

" We'll get by ,Maga. But thanks for worrying."

"Okay, if you insist." There was a loud neigh outside.

"Oh yea! I forgot, I want you to meet my horse!"Maga said as he grabbed Raines hand and pulled her outside. Raine blushed at this, but hid it so Maga wouldn't notice.

"AS they walked outside, Raines eyes lit up brightly as she saw the beautiful colt standing out in front of her home.

"He's so pretty, what are you going to name him?"

"I'm debating between Killmiester and Mejaro." He said snickering a little as he did so.

Raine only shot Maga a little "Nuh-uh" look.

"But" He added quickly" I'm leaning more towards Mejaro." Smiling as he did so.

"That's a lot better then killmiester." Raine said in a sarcastic tone

"I guess it is."

"Well, I like Mejaro. It's a nice name, soo, because I like Mejaro, you'll name him so." She said in a kind of demanding but fun voice.

"Well, if her royal highness wishes it, then so be it!" Maga said making a clumsy bow towards Raine.

This made Raine giggle and laugh until her stomach hurt. She enjoyed these little games Maga and her play.

"Well, I'm going to back to Dante and that new guy. I want to see what those things he had were."

Maga said as he untied Mejaro from his boulder.

"What did he have?"Raine asked curiously

"a weird piece of something he called a ultimate evil or something like that."Maga said while adding a spooky voice to the end.

"Well, I kinda want to see that now too." Raine said while rubbing her head, wondering what it could be.

"Come on with me then." Maga said

"I think I might not be able to walk there, seeing all the running around I did today." Raine said.

"Well then, hop onto Mejaro. He can hold ya" Maga said cheerfully.

"He's far to tall for me, and plus he has no saddle"

""And that's the way I intend it to be. Now, I'll just help you up onto him then."

Maga said.

He kneeled down and locked his hands together for Raine to step onto, as sort of a step.

She stepped onto them, holding onto Mejaro for balance, and swung her leg around onto the horse.

"Alright, ill just lead him and you just relax." Maga said to Raine.

She didn't argue. She liked it when Maga led her around everywhere, and this is no exception.

"Off we go then!" she said cheerfully, as they made their way through the village, Looking for Dante and Link.

I'd like to thank my neighbor Ben for giving me a personality for the character "Ben" in this story and I'd like to say a few things.

I work partially as a sort of Ranch hand/stable boy, for my neighbor . And he always speaks his mind and will always help anyone that asks for it. But is in no way going to hide, like the ben in this story. But if you piss him off, he'll defiantly let you know. I even got the cursing phrase in this story from him. He's awesome, and once again, thanks.