Sending a quick text message, Raphael smiled at the response and he pocketed his Blackberry. Pouring an unhealthy amount of syrup on his pancakes, he was about to dig into his breakfast when Amy suddenly kicked open the door to the dining room and looked at her father angrily.

Raphael stared at his daughter and she merely stared back. This turned into a staring competition that last for five mins before his eyes started burning and he groaned. "What is it Amy? Can't you see I'm trying to have a healthy and relaxing breakfast?"

She merely pointed out the window and gave him a –hurry up and look already- look.

Putting his fork and knife down, he walked over to the window and gasped. A big van was parked outside the gate to his house/Soul Land. Could it be the people who wanted to kill him for making this new world? He stroked his chin thoughtfully and decided that at least Cervantes couldn't really do anything since he's trapped on his ship which was a mile from the ground. He had banned all of his servants from touching that ride so there was no way the undead pirate can get down and kill him which meant he had one least enemy to deal with. To his amazement, another van parked beside the previous one and the occupants inside started chucking random objects at each other through the window. He thought he saw Hilde throwing a golf club at somebody."Well, I must say I'm quite surprised Amy. I wonder who could be in those vans."

Amy joined him beside the window and said, "They're obviously the rest of the Soul Calibur crew."

"How do you know?"

His daughter sighed and pointed to the giant words painted on the vans. Soul Calibur.

"Oh, I see. But what seems to be the problem Amy?" Raphael asked curiously.

"Father! Soul Land opens in thirty minutes, how are our customers going to get through with those guys parked in front of the gate!" Amy explained grumpily.

Raphael merely shrugged. "Let the servants handle it. I'm going back to my breakfast."

But before he could return to his chair, Amy grabbed his cape. "Oh I don't think so father, I watched the news you know. You're going to go down and settle things as the man you are." She gave a shrill whistle and a servant ran in with a wheelbarrow. Snapping her fingers, two more servants entered and they dumped Raphael unceremoniously into the wheelbarrow and they wheeled him out. "AMY!" shouted Raphael. What happened to the sweet little girl he used to know? Oh yeah, puberty happened… Dang it!

As they servants put him down about five feet away from the gate, Raphael stood there and burned. Not burn as in burning in fire or burning in rage. He as just sweating and his skin was just rather sensitive to the sunlight since he's a vampire and it was about eight in the morning. He made a note to buy some sunscreen later if he survived the encounter with the rest of the Soul Calibur crew. Whipping out his Flambert, he strolled toward the gate confidently. Those fools can't possibly get him with the gate locked so as long as he doesn't open them, he's safe.

As he stepped in front of the gate, he was going to yell out his name since that's what important people with impressive titles do. But before he could do that, one of the vans honked their horns really loudly and it made him go deaf for a few minutes. The people from that van stormed out and he was dismayed to see Mitsurugi, Nightmare, Tira, Astaroth, Taki, Lizardman, Yun-Seong, Seong-Mina, Rock, Hwang, Xianghua, Zasalamel, and Voldo. They were all wearing some really scary and angry expressions and as they headed toward him and they looked like they were saying/shouting at him but he couldn't really hear anything so he merely made a put one hand over his ear and made the gesture that he couldn't hear anything.

"Wind!" A gust of powerful wind blew past him and it nearly tipped him over but he found that he could hear again. He knew instantly who that was and he waved. "Thanks Talim! It's good to see you."

Talim exited the other bus along with Siegfried (who had a new haircut since Raphael chopped off his long hair), Hilde, Cassandra, Sophitia, Maxi, Kilik, Setsuka, Yoshimitsu, and Ivy. If things get messy and a battle ensues, both sides would have an even number since he counted himself and Amy. The two opposing team stared at each other and finally, Zasalamel cleared his throat and said, "I would like the leaders of each team to step forward and start talking since I don't have time to waste."

"But dude, don't you like, live forever?" asked Yun-Seong.

Zasalamel raised his scythe threateningly and said, "What's your point?"

Seong-Mina elbowed her fellow Korean in the stomach and said, "It nothing, he's just mumbling to himself. Just ignore him."

Zasalamel turned around and gestured for the two leaders to approach the centre. As predicted, the leaders were Siegfried and Nightmare. They came forth and glared at each with extreme hatred. This turned into a starting contest that Nightmare won because when his eyes started watering, he used his Soul Edge as a replacement, Siegfried got creeped out at staring at the giant eyeball on the sword and he lost. The fact that Tira was staring at him with a creepy smile on her face was not helping either.

"Hey you! Stop staring at my boyfriend!" Hilde shouted angrily.

Tira merely giggle and said, "Ewww, I don't think about your boyfriend that way. I was just thinking how yummy his soul would be. Then me and Nighty can have a romantic dinner with him as the main course."

Everyone stared at her, including Nightmare. Mitsurugi inched over to the Azure Knight and said, "So why do you let her follow you around?"

Nightmare whispered back, "She's a pretty useful servant. And, after Ivy left, I sorta needed a right hand woman. You know, the game producers thought that would help the game sell more. That's like the only reason they let Hilde join the crew, so that Siegfriend would have a right hand girl as well."

A gold club flew through the air and smacked Nightmare on the head. "I heard that punk! For my honour, I will be victorious!" Who knew Hilde was so short tempered, but anway, she leapt on top of Nightmare's back and began whacking him with her lance and sword.

"Hey! Don't you dare touch my Nighty! I'll do the same thing to blondie here!" cried Tira as she charged toward Siegfried.

The knight's last thought before the crazy girl jumped on him was "Don't touch my hair!"

For some strange psychological reason, whenever the leaders start fighting (or in this case they're sort of being kicked around) the rest of their teammates usually go into battle mode and fight as well. To make things short, it was rather chaotic as punches flew, someone got kicked in a certain area, and there was plenty of catfights and hair pulling between the women. Finally, Zasalamel was the first one to regain his senses and he shouted "EVERYONE! STOP MOVING OR I'LL HAVE YOU ALL SUCKED INTO MY BLACK HOLE!"

Everyone frozed in midmotion; including Taki who was somehow launching a kick midair. "How are you doing that?" asked Rock.

"That's a secret ninja technique that I cannot reveal," and Taki returned to the ground. Everyone than looked at Zasalamel with absolute attention, since they were afraid of his deadly critical finish where he summons a black hole and warps them to places they don't want to find out. Ever.

Clearing his throat Zasalamel proceeded to speak. "I would like to remind everyone here that the reason we're here is to give Raphael Sorel a quick and painful death if he doesn't agree to change this world back to normal. So will you people-"

"Hsshh" interrupted Voldo.

"What the heck is he saying?" said Hwang, who spoke for everyone that wondering the same question.

Astaroth translated, "He said, you mean the Raphael that opened the gate for those other guys while we were busy paying attention to Zasalamel. That Raphael? Oh and he's also calling a tow truck to tow away our van." Everyone just had stared at Astaroth with a stupefied expression on their face.

"You can translate all that?" exclaimed Xianghua.

"Guys! Look! They're towing away our van!" Seong-Mina shouted. Everyone turned to see the tow truck towing away their van, along with all their food and supplies inside.

Yun-Seong began weeping. "No! My iPod's in there! You'll pay for this Raphael!" Everyone there that hated Raphael felt their hatred multiply be tenfold and they charged the gate. Behind the gate, Raphael stood there safely, along with the rest of his Soul Calbur buddies that liked this new world. "Hah, pathetic! You'll never get me now."

Shaking the gate, Xianghua shouted to Kilik who was standing beside Raphael, "Kilik! Open these gates at once! If you don't, we're so breaking up!"

"I'm sorry Xianghua, but I really don't understand why you hate this world so much. I'll open the gate at once if you join our side."

"Are you crazy! Ever since that idiot vampire made this world, I hardly ever get to see you since you're always running away from those fangirls! I had to change my email and address ten times in the past few days since I've received enough hate mails (from kilik's fangirls) to last five of Zasalamel's lifetimes! Open this gate at once!" And Xianghua began shaking the bars on the gate even harder. "Maxi! Open this stupid gate!"

But Maxi mouthed –sorry- and shook his head.

Meanwhile, Yun-Seong was reaching out to Talim and basically saying the same thing as Xianghua. "Tal! Open up! Are we friends or what?"

"I'm sorry Yun-Seong, but Raphael promised me twenty free tickets to Soul Land if I help him," Talim said sheepishly.

By this time, Seong-Mina joined in as well, crushed between Hwang and Yun-Seong. "What in the world are you going to do with, ouch! Get off my foot!" She elbowed Lizardman in the stomach and turned back to Talim. "What are you going to do with twenty free tickets!"

Fiddling with one of pigtails, Talim said, "Oh those tickets are for those orphans back at the watermill village. I promised them I would take them to Soul Land but the tickets were too expensive since Raphael charged a thousand bucks each. But then he texted me early this morning and said he'd give them to me for free if I joined his side so here I am. And the wind doesn't really have a problem with this new world. My whole village is now powered by wind energy and we now have T.V and stuff so we're happy."

Raphael was glad that some people actually liked this new world and he and Talim did their secret handshake. "That's right Yun- whatever your name is. She's my buddy now, muhaha."

"Open this gate like a man, you French dandy!" And Mitsurugi brandished his katana menacingly.

Setsuka drew her umbrella and said, "Believe me, if he does open the gate for you, I'll kill you before you take the second step inside."

"If you manage to kill me with that umbrella, then I'll marry you. And believe me; both of those things will never happen," and the samurai continued shaking the gate angrily.

Setsuka was about to say something but then two big giants interrupted her.

"Everyone stand back!" Everyone, including those behind the gate, took a few steps back. Rock and Astaroth were holding their giant axe(Astaroth) and giant mace (Rock) in their hand and it looked like they were about to smash through the gate.

Siegfried siddled up to Raphael and said, "Look here man, I don't like you. The only reason I'm on your side is because I'm never going to be on Nightmare's side. So if they smash through, I'm ditching."

Raphael merely smirked. "Well, let's see if they can smash through then."

Letting out a battle roar/cry/yell, Astaroth and Rock charged toward the gate and... they didn't smash through. Instead, they hit a force field and bounced backward onto Nightmare who shouted, "Get off me!"

"Hey got off my Nighty!" and Tira yanked the two giants off her master/boyfriend.

"Why couldn't we smash through?" Astaroth asked with a puzzled expression on his face. He only skipped three days of working out; it couldn't have affected him that much could it?

Laughing at his thunderstruck enemies, Raphael answered their question. "If there's one good thing about those Star Wars guest characters, it's the new force field they've installed for me. And all I did was tell Darth Vader was that I was on the 'dark side' and he agreed to install it. So long suckers!" And Raphael sauntered off with his comrades.

"What are we going to do now?" Hwang asked.

Nightmare turned to the Korean dude and said, "Why are you guys on our side anyway? I would've thought that you'd be on the other side."

Yun-Seong pointed to Mina to explain. She brushed some hair away from her face and sighed. "Thanks to Raphael's new world, I'm kinda in the same situation as Kilik. And my father's been pressuring me more than ever to pick a husband already. I mean, come one. If I rejected Hwang, what makes him think I'll go for those prebubescent boys who drool when they see me walk by."

"Your clothing is alittle revealing," Yun-Seong pointed out.

She merely responded by cracking him on the head with her halberd.

"So what about you boys?" Taki asked.

Hwang crossed his arms and replied, "Me, Mina and Yun-Seong were fighting in the war between Japan and Korea and if I must say, we were doing pretty good. That promotion I've been working towards, coughfor2yearscough, was hanging pretty much in front of my eyes. But as you can see, with this new world, the war was put to halt along with my promotion."

Yun-Seong nodded. "Yeah, I was going to prove myself as well and show everyone that I was just as good if not even better than Hwang, but this happened and the only thing I proved was that-."

"I'd hate to interrupt this very extremely interesting conversation but I think we have bigger fishes to fry. In this case, it would be a very annoying bat," said Zasalamel.

"Hshhhhssh Hshssh shhh?" hiss Voldo.

Everyone turned toward Astaroth to translate.

"He said, but we can't get through the force field using force. How are we going to get in?" explained Astaroth.

Everyone looked toward the brain of the group for a plan. Zasalamel golden eye flashed as he thought of a plan. "We'll just sneak in and crash the party. Who's with me?"

"Go team DRAW!" shouted Nightmare.

"Shhish?" said Lizardman. There's really no need for a translator since everyone knew what he asked since the same question was on everyone's mind.

"What? It stands for Destroy Raphael's Annoying World? How come no one got that?"Nightmare said confusedly.

Everyone resumed cheering and they looked at Soul Land with an evil smile. Raphael is going down. Along with his annoying new world.


Darkinwings13: Well, it's been some time since I've updated so please accept my humblest apology. But I've uploaded my bonus/last chapter to my other Soul Calibur story this morning which is finally complete so I will now have time to work on this one. Thanks for reading. Review if you feel like it.