-1 SOUL CALIBUR IV

My Immortal Hero

Created by:

Bride-Of-Nightmare/Absolhunter251

Disclaimer: I do not own the soul calibur series or its characters. I don't own anything or I don't care if Mary sue haters hate this story its their own rule, but I want to make this series a good series to begin with. Well Anywho, lets continue this epic series. Well looks like the story continues! Yay! Well, lets see what happens next shall we?

Chapter 10: Reflections of Nightmare

The huge shadow Lizardman was about to strike until it seemed to had gotten destroyed by something. Siegfried looked up and saw it was Yoda from before.

"Come to rescue you I have." Yoda said, landing putting away his light saber.

Siegfried just stared at the small little creature. "Thank you." all he said to reply to the creature's strange talk but somehow he understood on what Yoda had said.

"I know what pain, going through you are, the darkness that dwells within you, you fear it, Hm?"

Siegfried nodded. He then began to wash off Marisa's wounds with whatever he could get, out from the pouch that she equipped.

"So, do you know about soul edge's return?" Siegfried asked Yoda.

"Yes that I have, it will return within time, that why I came to save you from death, hold the holy sword you grasp, yes?"

Siegfried pulled out soul calibur from his back, and it made Yoda look up with joy, feeling the good light from the sword.

"with that sword in hand, it will save you and her for all time, destroy the evil for good."

Siegfried didn't really need Yoda's help, but it would hurt to have another ally keep watch for near by enemies, so he agreed for Yoda's help in finding the new location for soul edge's return. Marisa soon woke up. Siegfried was pleased to see her recover so fast. They both got up and followed Yoda, since he knew where soul edge could be lurking.

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MEANWHILE:

Taki and Seong-Mina ran far from Italy to find the location of Siegfried, since he carried Soul Calibur. They seemed to have found his location and headed for that mark.

But what they didn't know, they were running out of time since soul edge was retuning and it could happen anytime or soon.

Cervantes was close to reawakening soul edge, he could feel it.

He sensed a missing fragment under the old dead chapel on what was left of the grand castle that Nightmare had lurked before being destroyed by Coul the warrior who gave his life to save his sister and friend. Cervantes saw the fragment on the molten lava that was hard as stone. He picked up the fragment, as the rock began to crumble revealing the glowing fragment. "Yes…I have a few more to go, then soul edge, you will grant me ultimate power." He said with a grin. He then looked around seeing the Shadow Lizardman appear out of nowhere surrounding him.

He leered at the shadow creatures. "Hmph…worthless souls, fear my power!" he said quickly going into battle stance, while fire swirled around his body, as Inferno was his to command.

He moved forward slashing his swords killing the shadow Lizardman, but more kept on reappearing.

But Cervantes kept on attacking.

"FOOL! YOU ARE NOT WORTHY TO HAVE MY POWER!" cried out a voice. Cervantes was confused as he heard the voice echo through the castle of the Ostrheinsburg chapel.

Cervantes looked around, trying to find the voice. "W-What! Who are you?" he growled. "I demand you show yourself!" he shouted towards the empty room.

The voice laughed a sinister laugh. Cervantes leered at the voice laughing at him, he looked straight at the shadow Lizardman. "ONCE YOU FIND THE FINAL FRAGMENT, I SHALL BRING DESPAIR AND FINALLY BE REBORN…"

Cervantes looked confused as if the voice was coming from the shadow Lizardman themselves, but it was coming from something else. He then looked at his sword, the fragment he picked up was Nightmare's soul and sword.

"No, your power belongs to me, Soul Edge!" Cervantes said. The shadow Lizardman walked forward, Cervantes was trapped. "Then…drown in the cesspool of darkness!"

The Lizardman fused into one, Cervantes's eyes had widen as he saw Nightmare's shape, from the shadow Lizardman.

He quickly shot at the shadow figure with his attacks from his gun but it seemed to go through it. "What!"

He then roared unleashing Inferno out from his hand. Inferno landed on the ground as it pulled out a weapon.

It grabbed the shadow Lizardman/nightmare and destroyed it with one lash from its long sword.

Cervantes called back inferno and began to laugh. "Soon, soul edge will have to bow down to me, the azure knight is no more!" He said and looked up at the cloudy sky. He then left the chapel to find the two missing pieces of soul edge left before returning back to the chapel to begin the ritual.

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Taki then turned around as she saw the shadow Lizardman appear behind her and Seong-Mina.

"They never give up!" Seong-Mina said. "Its Soul Edge…if they are following us, that means Siegfried is close by." Taki explained. "He's near the lake side, lets go there."

Seong-Mina nodded and went towards the lake side coliseum, Taki followed behind her.

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Siegfried, Marisa and Yoda walked towards the long road that lead to the lake side coliseum, they found out some warriors were carrying fragments of soul edge and went to investigate it.

Once they entered they were ambushed by Shadow Lizardman. Siegfried leered and got in front of Marisa guarding her from the shadow creatures. Yoda knew these enemies could reproduce so quickly, but they could stand there, they had to fight.

Yoda leaped into the air stabbing a shadow Lizardman in its chest before jumping to the next one.

Siegfried ran towards the shadow Lizardman that were walking toward him.

Marisa quickly dodged one of the shadow Lizardman's sharp axe and slashed its neck, with her sword.

Yoda clashed with one shadow Lizardman that was far stronger than the others, it began to push Yoda down a bit with its strength. Yoda tried to counter the attack, but something was forcing him down.

He then pushed the shadow Lizardman back, and made it smash into the cage. But it got up and unleashed soul edge vines, they erupted from the stone flooring, as the vines grew long and wide, Yoda began to slash the vines, but there were so much to take down. He looked up at the shadow Lizardman and glared at it.

Siegfried then got slammed hard with one of soul edge's vines. He fell on his back, while the shadow Lizardman began to pile over him. "Siegfried!" Marisa shouted, slashing another shadow Lizardman down, before running towards the swarm, stabbing and slashing on what she could take out of the shadow Lizardman.

Yoda jumped over a swirling vine and made it go towards the shadow Lizardman that unleashed the soul edge vines. The shadow Lizardman then began to grind on the long soul edge vine heading straight for Yoda. They both clashed blades making a small shockwave.

They made eye contact, before a shadow Lizardman appeared before the strong one and jumped back.

Siegfried was fighting with one Lizardman in the pile, he punched it hard, jabbing his fist so hard it busted through the shadow Lizardman's face. He saw that his fist went through its jaw out from its skull. He pulled out his fist and stabbed it hard, making its body fade.

He kicked the others that were falling on top of him. He unleashed his critical finish move knocking ach one aside with his long glowing sword.

Marisa saw the light of soul calibur making its way through the pile, she walked back. The blast made all of the shadow Lizardman fly through the air, dissolving into the light.

Siegfried twirled his sword knocking more shadow Lizardman down, but more kept on reappearing before the fallen ones.

Yoda was still fighting off the main Lizardman that unleashed the soul edge vines.

Siegfried was about to slash another until it got destroyed by another weapon, he turned around and saw Taki land before him, grabbing her weapons dashing towards the next shadow Lizardman. Seong-Mina did the same.

Siegfried ran towards Marisa before heading towards Yoda.

The shadow Lizardman then changed into Nightmare's shape. Siegfried jumped in the air ready to slash, it. But he got punched hard and flew towards the ground hard. He got up slowly, grabbing soul calibur to pull himself up. Yoda jumped towards the shadow Lizardman/Nightmare slashing it with all of his might. The shadow Lizardman faded away, from the arena.

Yoda put his light saber away, and looked at Siegfried. Siegfried sat up, while blood dripped from his mouth, he was hurting badly from the strong punch the shadow nightmare had gave him.

Marisa ran to his side, to check if he didn't have a broken rib. Taki and Seong-Mina walked towards Siegfried.

"Looks like they fled, but they will be back." Taki said looking down at Siegfried.

"Whew, we finally found you Siegfried." Seong-Mina said.

Siegfried was trying to catch his breath from the hard punch that nearly knocked out his air. He then looked up at Taki and Seong-Mina.

"You were looking for me?" Siegfried asked.

"Yes…since you carry soul calibur, we came to see if you seal soul edge yet?"

Siegfried lowered his head and shook it. "No…I didn't seal it, I made sure it would be destroyed in the dead chapel, but as long as one fragment remains of that damned evil spirit…it will be reborn, I couldn't seal it last time, so what makes you think this time it will?" He said raising up his head.

"This time Soul Calibur has the power in destroying it for good." Seong-Mina said.

"But its too late now, we should of found you 2 years ago to talk about it being sealed, but you disappeared for a long time." Taki said.

Siegfried looked to the side, but he didn't want to say anything bad. Marisa looked at Siegfried with worry.

"what remains here is of no importance, we must find a way to stop soul edge's return." Yoda said, listening in on the conversation.

"He's right…" marisa said. She then looked down and pulled out her sword, as she felt soul edge's power, near by.

Siegfried had the strength to get up and looked towards the sky, as he heard a flock of birds flying towards the dark sky.

Marisa got up and held Siegfried's hand as she was trembling with fear, knowing that by the time they try to stop soul edge, it would be too late.

Seong-Mina noticed Siegfried held his friend's hand tightly, and kept a comment to herself. "It will at least take us 2 days to get to where soul edge is being reborn, unless you know a short cut, Siegfried." Taki said.

Siegfried looked at Taki. He didn't say anything and walked forward. Taki, Seong-Mina, and Yoda followed Siegfried and Marisa.

While they walked, marisa went close to Siegfried, holding onto his arm. "Siegfried…I'm scared." She said to him, that only he could hear. He looked at her. "I know…" He said in a soft voice.

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Cervantes headed onward to find the two remaining pieces of soul edge. He was then stopped by a samurai warrior, it was

Mitsurugi.

"Give me the fragments you hold or I'll take it by force." Mitsurugi said to Cervantes. Cervantes glared at his opponent and quickly got into battle.

Mitsurugi charged at Cervantes at full speed. Cervantes quickly warped and flew straight down with his swords piercing the ground with a small shockwave, as Mitsurugi dodged the attack. He turned around, slashing Cervantes in the back, cutting through Cervantes's coat like cape.

Cervantes flinched from the impacted and quickly aimed his gun to shoot, and shot his enemy's armor plating off.

Mitsurugi glared and jumped towards Cervantes with a death blow, but his opponent vanished, Cervantes then reappeared unleashing his swords into the samurai 's chest, Mitsurugi was dangling from the two long blades Cervantes used and felt the impacts of the gun fire Cervantes threw at him. He was tossed to the ground, and coughed out blood, as he looked up at Cervantes walking towards him.

"Prepare to die…" Cervantes said with a smirk, while he stretched his blades, ready to stab Mitsurugi, while the man's blades dripped with his enemy's blood.

"Heh, you think you're all big and bad…but soon you will be in hell before me!" Mitsurugi chuckled his last, as he grinned at Cervantes.

Cervantes unleashed his critical finish on Mitsurugi, and made sure there was nothing left. He then absorbed Mitsurugi's soul and found out that he was holding another fragment of soul edge, he sneered at the fragment and knew that he only had one more to go.

He set his sights on Siegfried to finally destroy soul calibur and free soul edge, as if he knew Siegfried's friend held the last one. He found their trail and headed for Siegfried's direction.

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Siegfried and the others soon found themselves in the lost cathedral, The Forsaken Sanctuary.

Marisa never seen this place before, but they were all there standing before it, hearing the waterfall echo through the cathedral.

"If I remember this only appears for the wielders of the two swords, and also fight to their destiny…" Taki said as she stepped forward. Siegfried stared at Taki and then turned around to see the sunset. Yoda then heard someone coming and turned around. Siegfried and the others turned around as well.

Raphael appeared before everyone, he walked slowly towards them, as his body was cringing in pain. He looked up with an insane grin. He chuckled. "well, well…looks like I will kill you all at once." He said.

Siegfried walked forward and glared at Raphael. "If your going after the sword, then don't expect to get past it alive." He told Raphael.

"Hoo-hahah…you are just to much, Siegfried…you had the chance to kill me last we met but something stopped you."

"I survived the fall that those fools thought they killed me, but looks like fate has brought us again to fight to the death, once I kill you…I'll take care of your little friends, soon after you say your last breath." He continued while grinning.

Siegfried pulled out soul calibur and got ready to fight the intruder.

They both clashed swords and tried to push one another back.

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Taki then turned around as if she sensed something. She then looked up and saw the shadow Lizardman appear. She pulled out her weapons. Seong-Mina did the same.

"Here they come!" Seong-Mina said. Marisa and Yoda got ready to fight off the shadow Lizardman that started to land before them.

Siegfried and Raphael began to fight fiercer then before, clashing their swords again leering at each other.

"With this…it ends!" Siegfried shouted, unleashing his critical finish that impaled Raphael in the stomach with spiked up pillars made of ice. Raphael tried to use the last of his power to break free, but he was too weak from the hard fall he had a long time ago. Siegfried slashed Raphael again, killing the swordsman.

He turned around only to see the shadow Lizardman had return, he ran towards them but soon stopped as he looked back at Raphael.

Raphael's body began to glow with evil energy, he then somehow came back to life from the kill and began to shift into a strange form of soul edge and was laughing insanely.

Siegfried looked up at Raphael's decaying body float in the air, as if soul edge was inside the dead swordsman's body.

He got into battle, ready to fight the dead swordsman. He whispered to himself, Nightmare's name as he knew Nightmare was coming back.

-end of chapter 10-

A/N: well, another cliffhanger. Hmmm…so far the story is getting good. :3 I mean I'm surprised Raphael was still alive even though he was supposedly dead, at least from what Kilik and his friends thought before they were killed by Algol who got killed by Nightmare. Wow a lot of the soul calibur cast are getting killed left from right in my story, I'm sorry if I'm killing off any of your favorite soul calibur character, I really don't mean it, but the ones that don't even appear in my fanfic are killed by Algol or are safe. But I need some ideas from the visitors or reviewers to help me in writing chapter 11 for me, so that way you all can feel good in helping my fanfic get this far. But I guess I do feel sorry for Sophitia and Cassandra, I mean they were still alive during them being frozen, but since the castle got covered in lava, I guess they didn't make it, like Coul. But please leave a review!