Author's note: Uh, sorry about the wait, thank you for your patience. So here is chapter six, enjoy.

Alexa ended her story and a long silence fallowed, the only sound that was made, was the tapping noise Rosamond made with her fingernail on the tabletop of the table they had gathered around. The silence was so prolonged that Alexa soon became uncomfortable. Imp was the first one to break the silence; he busted out laughing and said, "Wow, that was the best story I ever heard!"

"It wasn't a story, it really happened! And why are you laughing, it's not funny!"

"I didn't say that it did. But man what an awesome adventure you're having right now! How I wouldn't give to have an adventure right now."

"I wouldn't say that it was awesome, I'd would rather call it completely and utterly horrible!"

"You wouldn't say that if you were stuck here in this rundown, smelly, old, peace of crap of an inn…"

Sigmund interrupted in his usual German, "This place wouldn't be so bad if you actual attempted to do some work."

"Work is for losers, besides I have better things to do."

"Like what?"

"Both of you shut up. I'm trying to think." Rosamond snapped in German and they fell silent.

Rosamond sighed and pored herself more tea from the broken teapot, then she pored more into Alexa's cup, even though Alexa hadn't even touched it. "Could you tell us again what the sword, that saved your life, looked like?"

"Well, it shined a blueish white and it was made out of a whole bunch of crystals. And I remember, in it's center was a perfectly round crystal that seemed to be were most of the radioactivity… sorry, energy came from."

Rosamond frowned, thinking. "And you said that the other sword reacted to it? In a way a violent way?"

"Yes, and also… I can't believe I'm about to say this, but the evil sword reviled the sword that saved me. I know that sounds crazy, but I swear that what I felt from it."

"It not so crazy." Said Sigmund, and Rosamond and Imp nodded in agreement.

"He is right, it's not crazy, in fact, we know about the sword that you speak of." Rosamond leaned on the table. "The sword, is called Soul Edge and it is the weapon that the Azure Knight wield and. What you described to us is nothing new. We have heard of the sword itself having emotions either enjoyment or hatred, from survivors."

Soul Edge, there that name again… wait, survivors?

"Survivors of what?"

Imp cleared his throat and said, "Let just say these are dark times."

Rosamond rolled her eyes, "(In German to Imp)stop trying to scare her, she scared enough as it is!" "What he is trying to say is that Soul Edge has become a reason for people to fear for their life. The Azure Knight would pick a village and then him and his slaves would go in and destroy the village. Almost no one survives…" Rosamond trailed off and Sigmund looked down. "(In German)O, yeah that a whole lot better, now she really going to be scared." Imp said with a hint of humor in his voice.

"So… uhm… What century is this, again, because I'm pretty sure I'm not in the twenty first century anymore?" Alexa said, trying to get them of the uncomfortable subject.

"I think, the scholars maintain that this is the seventeenth century."

Alexa put her face in her hands, leaned against the table, and whispered, "But how? How did I end up so far back in time? Is this even possible?"

"I don't know, but one thing is clear, Soul Edge and the other sword must be involved." Rosamond said, thinking harder still.

"The question is, what is the other sword?" Imp said, "For I've never heard of a crystal sword before. Nevertheless, one that Soul Edge, itself, despises."

"You right, the… crystel sword… unknown…" "Sigmund speak in German, please I'm having a hard time understanding you when you try to speak English." Imp laughed when Sigmund gave him a dirty look. Rosamond growled, "Please ignore them, they do this all of the time. Imp, shut up and Sigmund, uh never mind; you're just hopeless anyways."

There was a hiatus that fallowed where Imp stood up to stretch and Rosamond went to back to get some bandages for Alexa's leg. Sigmund smiled at Alexa and asked, "You alright?"

Alexa forced a smile back, "I will be fine, I think, thanks."

Sigmund nodded with sympathetic, "Do not worry… you return home safely… me see to it." Alexa couldn't help but to be glad he was there. Even though she had only known him for two hours, she felt attached to him and she knew she could trusted him. Rosamond returned with the bandages and began wrapping her leg. "Sorry if this hurts, but I've got to make it good and tight."

"Do you know what wrong with my leg?"

"Well, I don't think it's broken, you just twisted it severely, that's all."

"You make it sound like it's no big deal."

"Well, just be thankful you're not going to lose your leg."

"O, you have a point there…"

When she was finished she surged it so it wouldn't slip off and she sat back down in the same chair in front of Alexa.

"I just thought of something." She said, "I've been thinking about this sword that apposed Soul Edge and I just had a thought on this. You said that the Soul Edge acted like it hated this sword and that the sword had the same energy level of Soul Edge, however this energy is more good then Soul Edge, more pure, am I correct?" Alexa nodded, a tad weary of all the inquiries.

"Is it possible."

"Is what possible?" Imp asked, getting interested. He sat back down, ears open, just like the rest of us.

"Is it possible that Soul Edge had an opposite, a sword that might achievable be a threat to it? It sounds possible, but it can't be possible. If it were, Soul Edge would have been destroyed by now. But it has to be true, it's the only explanation..."

"O Rosamond that's just you hope talking," Imp interrupted, "As much as I would love it to be true, there is no such thing and you know it."

"That is not so, there is such a thing."

Alexa, Sigmund, and Imp nearly fell out of their chairs, surprised by the sort of deep, heavy English voice that came from a woman. Rosamond face hardened and she smirked unsurprised. Rosamond breathed in deeply and said, "I was wondering if you where ever going to speak or just sit there quietly and take as much information as you could from our mouths. Did you think that you could wonder our village grabbing at what little information you could like a little rat without anyone noticing?" Rosamond stood and turned around, and everyone fallowed her gaze to the corner table.

O, I had forgotten he…rather she was there. O no she heard ever word didn't she? What does she want?

The stranger in the black cloak shifted a little and a sliver of white, silver-like hair was revealed in the darkness of the hood, "Watch what you say to me, cure." She said simple, but her words were sharp.

"Same to you." Rosamond snapped back, her body tense, "So, I can tell you know something about all of this Soul Edge business. I think it would be fair if you shared it with us, since you already know what we know" The woman began to laugh and she stood up abruptly. Rosamond knees bended and her arms came out in a protective stance, ready for a fight. Sigmund stood up ready to protect his sister and Imp jumped up eagerly. The woman in the black cloak just laughed louder, a crazed laugh that made Alexa squirm.

"I have no wish to fight." She said, "I've got what I came for, why would I need to bother myself with the likes of you all?" She stepped closer to them, and Alexa noted how tall she was. The woman raised her hands and pushed her hood away, reviling her face to them.

The woman was the most frightening individual Alexa had ever meet, up to this point. She had short hair and light blue eyes. From what she could tell, the woman was in her thirties and looked more Spaniard then English. She cared herself much like a noble and also like a warrior, who has been in many fights. But what scared Alexa was her what she felt from this woman.

She has the look of someone who is a long friend of hatred. And something about her doesn't seem natural, and is it just me, or do I feel the same vigor that radiated off of Soul Edge. It's very faint, but I can feel it.

The woman's eyes moved over to Alexa and for a moment Alexa saw curiosity in those dangerous eyes. She, then, began to move toured the door, without a word.

"Hey, aren't you forgetting something!" Rosamond growled.

The woman turned back to us, her eyes flashing.

"I'm not letting you leave until you tell us everything you know."

"O, and how are you planning on accomplishing this? You have no weapon and I do." From under her cloak, she pulled out a sword, a normal sized sword unlike the two enormous swords from before, and it was scarlet with a green gem or something in it's hilts middle.

"A true warrior can fight with or without a weapon." Rosamond said with audacious.

"Like I said, I have no wish to fight, but I will if you get in my way. Don't meddle in things that doesn't concern you." She turned to leave and no one made an attempt to stop her.

She knows something, something that might help me.

And to everyone's surprise, even Alexa's, Alexa stood up, her leg forgotten, and she ran to the door, and blocked the woman's way. The woman narrowed her eyes at this little girl who stood in her way and Alexa stared back; scared, but determined.

"Please, you have got to tell us, you don't understand, for it does concern us. I know you know something about that crystal sword, and the crystal sword is my only link, besides Soul Edge. Please, all I want is to go home and it's the only way I could return home… I don't know how I know this, but…just, please tell us and we won't bother you again after."

The woman face was darkened over for a moment and the out of the blue the woman's foot came flying at her and Alexa was kicked through the door and onto the decaying porch, which broke underneath her when she landed and she fell into a hole. Rosamond came at the woman and throw a punch at her, which the woman dogged easily, but she didn't notice Rosamond foot, which nearly knocked her down. Imp taking advantage of her surprise ran at her and tried kicking the legs from underneath her, but he was to slow. She blocked his blow with her sword and with her high heel boots; she kicked him in the stomach and sent him flying into a table. Sigmund attempted to go around them to aid Alexa, but he fell to the ground when Rosamond was knocked into him. Imps ran to the bar, grabbed a glass bottle, and throw it at her, which smashed into the back of her head. It didn't even make her flinch. The woman grabbed Rosamond by the neck and tossed her across the room and Sigmund stood up in attempt to defend his sister, but was meet with steel slapping him across the face, leaving a bloody slash across his face. He fell, with a cry and Imp came running at her one last time and he too fell to the ground.

"Enough!" The woman roared as Rosamond got up and came at her again. With one single movement, the sword expanded and wrapped itself around Rosamond's waist.

"I can snap you in half anytime I want to now!"

Alexa, who had just crawled out of the hole, didn't take a moment at all for her to get up and run to save Rosamond, her leg screamed from the pain, but Alexa clenched her teeth and enored it. In desperation, Alexa, without thinking, ran up from behind the woman and grabbed the whip like sword and tried pulling it out of her hand.

"Let her go! Ok, you can go without telling us anything! I'll figure it out myself! It's not worth fighting over! And it's defiantly not worth anyone's life! Please, let her go!" For a moment she just stared at her, then finally she smiled with amusement.

"I'll give you this much little girl, you know how to negotiate, but you are not very smart, especially if you think you can lay a hand on my sword." Alexa let go and backed away quickly. When she did, Rosamond was freed from the death grip and she fell to the ground gasping. Alexa ran over to her and helped her sit up. Imp and Sigmund got up too and helped Alexa pick Rosamond off the ground. The woman stood at the door and watched them for a while, and then she said, "The crystal sword you spoke of is called Soul Calibur. If you wish to seek it out, look for a man in crystal armor, who was once known as the Azure Knight, Soul Edge's pet, but is now Soul Calibur's wielder." She turned to leave, but then stopped, "And don't expect to never see me again. For I plan on finding out the connection between you and that sword, little girl." Then she disappeared through the door.