Since I have a few days off from whatever I'm doing, I might add a few more chapters after this one. Iska Farkas from Soul Calibur Legends makes his appearance as an enemy. Enjoy!


Chapter 6: Birth of an Empress

A month later

On a balcony of the Wolfkrone castle, Siegfried looked out into the horizon, which looked as it was on fire due to the radiant sun that was coming up. The knight was waiting for Princess Hilde's next order on what to do next. Yesterday, she claimed that she had enough of Emperor Iska and his foul ways of ruling the Holy Roman Empire and that it's time that someone else took his place.

While he was waiting, Siegfried had a lot on his mind: where his unforgivable past was, what Princess Hilde would do next, and even Cassandra, his beautiful wife. He just couldn't get her off his mind. He remembered what she looked like as she slept beside him during the nights. She was just so cute, snuggling up to his side and sleeping peacefully. She was truly beautiful, like an angel.

Then someone approached Siegfried from behind. The knight turned and saw that it was Cassandra, but she wasn't wearing an outfit that she wore before. She was wearing armor with a pair of white wings and dark blue clothing underneath. The armor was all trimmed with gold and she had pink shoulder pads that bear the symbol as that on her shield. Ever since Cassandra married Siegfried, she insisted that she received new armor, and the local blacksmith gladly fulfilled her request.

Siegfried was truly amazed, for she now looked like a warrior angel; a beautiful one. The knight extended out his hand and Cassandra took it. Then he pulled her towards himself and hugged her, allowing her to hear the beating of his heart.

As they stayed that way for a while, Cassandra made a vow to herself in her mind. "Wherever Siegfried goes, I shall go as well. And whatever he does, I shall do it to. I shall always stay by his side, no matter what."

Then they let go of each other as Hilde approached them from behind. They saw that her eyes were full of confusion and they couldn't figure out why until she finally spoke up.

"I'm sparing Emperor Iska. Although he doesn't do a good job as a leader, it would be bad for me to try to overthrow him. If I did, it'll leave a bad impression on me. So I cannot attack."

"Princess!" Cassandra shouted. "Even though there are things you need to do that you don't like, you have to do them with your head held high. Trust me, cuz I know. When my brother Achilles retook Athens, he didn't want to do it at first cuz he didn't want to harm the city. But he pulled himself together and did it. What I'm trying to say here is that if you want to make your dream come true, then you gotta be more flexible with things. So, whatdya say?"

The princess held up her right hand and looked at it, still looking unsure. "More flexible . . . Right."

Cassandra shook her head with disappointment as she walked towards the edge of the balcony. "Ugh. Princess, when we go into battle, you better not lead your army with such a sad expression."

Siegfried was pretty shocked when he heard his wife's words. "Battle? Cassandra, you're planning to go into battle with us?!"

"Of course! I'm not just gonna be a normal housewife! Wherever you go and whatever you do, I shall go and do as well!"

The knight walked up to his wife and placed his hand on his shoulders. "But . . . I don't want you to get hurt . . ."

"I'll be fine Siegfried. I can take care of myself. Besides, if I ever need help, I have you. So I'm not afraid of anything."

The knight looked down, still hesitant about it. But after realizing that she was right, he looked up to her face and drew her into a hug. "Just promise you won't leave my side on the battlefield. I don't want to lose you . . . just like how you lost your brother."

There was a moment of silence before Cassandra answered. "I will."

As Siegfried let go of her, Hilde approached them from behind. "Well Cassandra, I'll take your advice and be more flexible to make my dream come true. Now then, shall we head for Vienna?"


A week later, outside Vienna

When the Wolfkrone army reached Vienna, they saw that Emperor Iska has doubled the guards on the balcony of the city walls. When Hilde saw this, she had a feeling that he must've known all along that she would come, but she pondered why he was becoming afraid of her. She was just a mere princess of a part of the Holy Roman Empire, so why?

Siegfried was standing beside her and noticed the expression on her face. Somehow he read her mind. "Iska must be afraid of you because of all of the good deeds you have done for the people. Doing good deeds for them is rewarded with earning their love for you. Iska is most likely seeing that as a threat because the people will likely prefer you over him."

"He's scared of me . . . just because of that?"

Cassandra approached them from behind. "C'mon Princess. That's a good thing, isn't it? It means that you got a lot of support behind you. So you have nothing to fear, for they will always be right behind you."

Hilde nodded. "You're right. When I fight against him tomorrow . . . I'll fight for the people!"


The next day

Hilde, Siegfried, and Cassandra looked out to the mighty walls of Vienna. They did not want that or the city to fall. But Emperor Iska must. The Princess raised her spear high so that her army behind them could see it clearly.

"Let us achieve victory for the sake of the people!"

In an instant, the men gave a powerful war cry as they all charged to the northern gate. All of a sudden, archers appeared up on the balcony and shots dozens of arrows on the Wolfkrone army. Many of the soldiers were killed in an instant. Hilde, Siegfried, and Cassandra sped up on their horses, quickly avoiding the arrows. Suddenly the gate opened, and Iska's army came out near the exit, ready to defend. Shortly afterwards, the gate was quickly closed. Hilde, Siegfried, and Cassandra immediately reached them and slashed down from horses, killing many soldiers. Then their army came in and helped them out.

As soon as there was only a handful left, Hilde shouted, "We need to take the door down to get inside!"

Then the Wolfkrone army brought out an enormous piece of log near the gate and some of the men started banging it on the door. As Hilde, Siegfried, Cassandra, and the rest of the men were finishing off Iska's men and protecting the men with the log from incoming arrows. Gradually, the gate began to collapse, until finally, it gave in.

Hilde saw this and cried, "The gate is down! Now, move in!"

Then they all charged in, taking down every soldier that stood in their way. Cassandra immediately jumped off of Athena and ran up to the balcony and started taking down the enemy archers swiftly while being covered by a few Wolfkrone archers. Hilde, Siegfried, and their men were easily taking down Iska's men when Cassandra rejoined them.

The knight then turned to the princess. "Cassandra and I can take care of these guys. You go in and deal with Iska. Be careful."

Hilde nodded. "Alright. You two take care."

In an instant, she and a couple of her men headed for the castle. It wasn't hard for them to get past the castle guards and break into the castle. As her soldiers stayed behind to take down the surrounding enemies, Hilde continued to through, easily taking down every soldier that was in the way. Eventually, she made her way to the throne room, where she finally found her main opponent: Emperor Iska Farkas. He had short, silver wavy hair, with his left eye being red and his right blue. He had a blue shirt, a yellow vest, long indigo gloves, tight purple trousers, and dark purple boots. Within his right hand was the legendary spirit sword, Soul Calibur.

"So you've come. I understand that you're trying to take my place as the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire. Ha-ha-ha, what a foolish girl you are. It's pretty much obvious that you aren't capable of beating me, especially when I have this, the legendary sword, Soul Calibur. So why even bother of trying to defeat me?"

Hilde readied her weapons. "I have the support of the people, which is something you don't have. You've been treating them with so much disrespect that they have now deemed you unworthy of being Emperor, which is something that I agree to. With their faith in me, I shall let you feel the vengeance of the people!"

Iska sighed. "You are really foolish, just like your late father. Very well, then." He readied Soul Calibur. "If death is what you truly want, then I shall grant it to you."

Hilde quickly sprinted towards Iska. Once she reached him, she began rapidly attacking the emperor with her weapons. Iska easily blocked every attack with Soul Calibur. The princess looked straight into the emperor's eyes and saw that he wasn't worried at all. Not only that, but it seemed that he could read her movement, expecting every attack that she was going to do. She couldn't figure out why. Suddenly, as Hilde slashed vertically at Iska with her sword, he sidestepped to dodge the blade and slashed at her back. She grunted with pain and quickly turned around. But before she could counter attack, Iska sprinted towards her and slashed at her again. Hilde managed to block the attack, but the impact threw her back, causing her to fall on the stairs behind her.

The princess managed to get back on her feet, but she was in so much pain. She then figured out why Iska didn't have a hard time with her. "It must be Soul Calibur, I'm sure of it. That sword must be showing him when I'm gonna attack next. If that's the case, then what should I do?"

Iska somehow read her mind. "You seem to have figured it out by now. But I'm afraid it's too late. There's nothing you can do."

Hilde pointed her blade. "Nothing's impossible. I will find your weakness."

Suddenly, Soul Calibur began to glow with a bright blue light. "Foolish girl, this sword has absolutely no weakness!"

He then sprinted towards her and rapidly attacked her. Hilde managed to block, but the power of the spirit sword was so intense that it kept on pushing her back. Then Iska charged the sword up and swung it at the princess. Its power penetrated her block and the emperor stabbed Soul Calibur into her left shoulder. As Hilde let out a huge cry of pain, Iska pulled out Soul Calibur and slashed at her chest, destroying her breastplate. The princess tried to quickly recover, but the emperor attacked again, slashing at her vertically upwards and causing her to fly upwards. When Hilde came down at the right spot in the air, Iska charged Soul Calibur up even more and swung it horizontally, destroying the rest of her armor and sending her flying.

Hilde lay where she landed. The wounds she received from the spirit sword were causing her body to slowly go numb. She looked up to the ceiling and realized that she failed. "I . . . can't believe . . . that I lost . . . Will my dream . . . of a land of peace . . . end?"

Iska walked up to her and knelt by her side. He then brought the still charged Soul Calibur to her neck, ready to deliver the final blow. "What did I tell you? There's no way I can be defeated, as long as I have this sword. All shall obey me."

"There's no way . . . the people . . . will obey you."

As Hilde was saying these words, tears came out of her eyes. One of the tears fell on the spirit sword, and in an instant, it was surrounded with blue flames.

Iska was shocked when he saw this. "Wh-What's going on?! Aa-Aaaahh!!"

Suddenly Soul Calibur severely burned his hand, causing him to drop it. Seeing an opportunity, Hilde got up with the last of her strength. Grabbing the spirit sword, she drove it into Iska chest, piercing his heart in the process. The emperor looked down at his mortal wound and tried to pull the sword out. But all of a sudden, the blue flames began to consume Iska's body.

"No! NO! I don't want to die! NO!!!"

Before he knew it, all of his body was consumed. Hilde watched in shock as the flames burned his body. Siegfried and Cassandra came running into the throne room and saw what was happening. They were horrified when they saw Iska dying in the flames. Eventually, all of his flesh was gone, and the bones fell to ground. Then they turned into dust and were blown away by the winds. The only thing that was left was Soul Calibur, which was no longer surrounded by the blue flames.

As Hilde collapsed on the floor, Siegfried and Cassandra immediately ran up to her and caught her. The princess panted for a few moments before she spoke up. "It's done . . . Iska . . . is finally dead."

She then slowly got up with the assistance of her comrades. She then picked up Soul Calibur. "Iska depended on this sword for power. But I vow not to follow his example. So this must be destroyed."

Siegfried then spoke up. "Wait Your Highness. That sword is the only thing powerful enough to stand against Soul Edge. Let's seal its power away, until we need it to fight Nightmare. That way, we can seal the two swords together and let them rest for eternity."

"Very well. Once we're done repairing Vienna, we'll make sure no one gets their hands on this."

The princess then headed outside, and Siegfried and Cassandra followed her. Once she reached the castle doors, all of her men turned towards her. She then raised Soul Calibur as she cried out, "Iska has finally been defeated! From now on, I shall be known as Hilde, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire!"

In an instant, the men gave a loud shout of victory. A new era of peace was about to begin.


After Vienna was repaired, Hilde locked Soul Calibur away in an isolated and secret room within the castle, making sure that it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Only she, Siegfried, and Cassandra knew where the sword was being kept. When evening fell, the Wolfkrone army had a grand victory party held in the grand hall of the castle, with the people that supported Hilde invited. As some ate and drank until they were full, others went up to their new Empress and congratulated her on her victory.

Siegfried watched from a balcony nearby as Hilde received congratulations. "With so much support of the people of the Holy Roman Empire, her dream of creating a land of peace will soon become a reality."

Cassandra turned to her husband. "And she won't fulfill it alone. She's got you and me to help."

The knight looked down at his wife and smiled. He took his right arm and wrapped it around Cassandra's back, drawing her closer. "You know, I'm starting to think that we were truly made for each other."

She nodded. "Let's aid Hilde with her dream . . . together."

Siegfried nodded and drew her even closer. Then he kissed her gently on the lips, and she wrapped her right arm around his neck. After a long while, they departed and looked up to the starlit sky.