Tale 1: Mitsurugi and Taki's Adventure
Our story begins in the lands of Feudal Japan. It's nightfall over the small village of Bizen. Heishirō Mitsurugi was sitting in a small temple with his sword master, learning of a new power that may catch his interest.
"Mitsurugi…have you heard of a blade called Soul Calibur?" his master asks.
"Soul Calibur? No, doesn't ring a bell," Mitsurugi responds, scratching his head.
"Then what about Soul Edge? Surely you have heard of that?" his master asks next.
"Uh…no, haven't heard anything about that either," Mitsurugi says with a shrug.
WHACK!
His master whacks Mitsurugi over the head with a kendo stick.
"Mitsurugi! This is proof you need to get out more often and see the world! Those two names I mentioned are sacred swords of good and evil! You must venture out and bring then to me! Unless…you wish to be whacked on the head day-in and day-out!" his master says sternly to him.
Meanwhile, just outside of the small temple's door, Taki was eavesdropping silently upon he two's conversation.
"Two sacred swords? Interesting…I must have it!" Taki says to herself.
Taki's silent spectation was then threatened when small black cat wanders toward her and began scratching at her leg.
"Hey, stupid cat! Go away, I'm busy!" Taki says to the cat, trying to shoo it away, but it persisted with the scratching. "I said go away!" Taki hisses, taking the cat and chucking it away from her.
No sooner had she thrown the cat away, the cat charges back at her, leaps up, and clings its claws onto her face.
"AAAEEEIIIIIIIII!" Taki shrieks, flailing around as the cat began mauling her face from her frantic reaction, causing her to haphazardly stumble into the temple after finally getting the cat off of her.
Mitsurugi and his master quickly spin around.
"Look! A spy!" his master proclaims.
"Whoa…that girl's got some huge…" a wide-eyed Mitsurugi began to say, before getting whacked in the head again by his master.
"Kill her, dumbass!" his master shouts.
Taki immediately rises to her feet and turns to flee the temple with Mitsurugi close on her trail. The pursuit continued throughout the village as they ran through several winding streets and alleys. After toughly thirty-minutes of chasing, both of them began to lose steam and slow down. They stop and decided to take a brief break to catch their breaths, realizing then that they were back in front of the temple's entrance. Mitsurugi's master shook his head in disbelief at the antics of his student and the spy.
"Screw this, I'm going back inside. Come back when you find the damn swords…" Mitsurugi's master says with a frustrating sigh before disappearing back into the temple.
After his leave, Mitsurugi resumed the chase after Taki. Taki decides to elude the samurai by leaping onto a nearby-shingled rooftop, only to immediately slip off and fall flat on her face.
"Stupid wet rooftop…" Taki mutters as Mitsurugi approaches her.
"Hey, just who the heck are you anyways?" Mitsurugi asks her.
"That is none of your business. I have a mission to accomplish," she said to him, slowly getting up.
"Oh okay, carry on…" Mitsurugi says.
Taki brushes herself off and makes her leave from Mitsurugi. After the rusty gears in Mitsurugi's mind finally started to turn, he realized that she was after the swords his mater spoke of.
"H-HEY WAIT A MINUTE!" Mitsurugi yells, resuming the chase once more.
About an hour later, Taki arrives at a port city not too far from the village. There, a large ship would be heading across the ocean toward the mainland at sunrise. Evading the guards patrolling the area, Taki sneaks onto the ship and finds a spot to hide during the ride.
Minutes later, Mitsurugi arrives at the same port. Walking toward the ship where he suspects she may have gone into, the port city's guards quickly surround him.
"Hey, who are you? Let's see some papers!" one of the guards says.
Five seconds later, Mitsurugi walks past the now pile of fallen guards, sheathing his blade as he went toward the ship. Upon boarding, he takes his place in the room directly next to Taki's.
Both would be unaware of each other's presence until they would reach the mainland.
Continue on to the next chapter!