Chapter 20: A difficult choice
Rock had accepted to join Cervantes' crew.
That way, he would be close to his two goals: Cervantes himself and Soul Edge. Rock didn't know if the pirate had the sword, but he was sure that Cervantes would go after it if he hadn't it yet.
Rock soon learned, talking to his fellows, what had happened to them.
Cervantes died in action and he was resurrected by Soul Edge. He soon realized that he now was a zombie unable to die. However, he had lost the sword in the hands of a warrior.
So he looked for a new crew and, when he thought he had found the appropiate people, he killed them all and used the power inside him to turn them all into undead zombies as well.
They couldn't die, but there was a way to finish them off.
If Soul Edge was destroyed, Cervantes and all the zombies would disappear along with it.
Because of that, Cervantes was desperately looking for the sword, to prevent anyone from destroying it.
Rock understood then that Soul Edge wasn't an ordinary weapon and that he had to destroy it to put an end on everything.
He also noticed something else. Something very disturbing.
Cervantes was checking that Rock was a competent member of his crew. If he was, Cervantes would kill him and turn him into a zombie. If he wasn't, he would kill him too and throw his body to the sea. Rock only had two choices: fleeing or finding and destroying Soul Edge before Cervantes made his decision. Neither of them seemed to be easy at all.