And now, here's the chapter that you've all waited for! This chapter will explain everything thus far...well most of it...Anyway, enjoy!


Chapter 28: Revelations

I soon dreamt again, it was the same dream, but now I saw it fully instead of bits and pieces. It was weird but I was looking as if through someone else's eyes.

Algol sat on his throne with Malgreed watching as Mark started to get up.

"Huh? What…where am I" Mark asked as he looked around, then saw Algol and Malgreed. "You!" He pointed a finger at them.

"Yes, do you remember me?" Malgreed asked. Mark thought and suddenly remembered making a character named Malgreed who looked like the same man standing before him.

"You're that character I created! But…how'd you get out?" Mark asked him.

"Long story, but you're the one key component I need in my plans" Malgreed tossed him a sword, which landed in front of Mark. He looked at the sword and picked it up; it felt heavy in his hands and he looked at the two men.

"Which one am I fighting?" He asked the two.

"Both" They said and charged at Mark. Although he fought valiantly, he soon fell on the floor. Malgreed went to him and summoned a ball of dark energy in his hand and infused it into his sword. He then stabbed Mark through it; Mark's eyes opened with shock, then closed as a ball of light appeared above him, then rose until it was above their heads.

Suddenly the shadows in the area suddenly flew towards the glowing ball as it was usurped in a typhoon of darkness. Soon Thanatos appeared and floated down, landing on his feet and his trademark helmet forming around his head.

"Seeing as you are Mark's darkness…an appropriate name for you would be 'Thanatos'" Malgreed said to him.

"As you wish…Master Malgreed," Thanatos said. As I watched how Thanatos was created, the scene changed, it was the same area but without me and in my place was Nightmare.

Oh damn…

"Well Nightmare, glad you can make it…" Thanatos said with a grin (he no longer has his helmet on).

"Silence you whelp, I am here for Siegfried…" Nightmare grumbled.

"Yeah…about that…you're gonna give me Soul Edge…whether you want to or not…" Thanatos said and pointed his sword at Nightmare.

"FOOL! You think you can kill me?" Nightmare roared and charged at Thanatos. The two dark souls clashed at each other, Thanatos glowing with a crimson red aura and Nightmare with his regular aura but brighter. Thanatos dodged Nightmare's swing and stabbed him in the stomach, Nightmare gasped from that and Thanatos pulled away from his as a bunch of the souls from the wound flew out. Nightmare grabbed his side and gasped from the loss, in time for Thanatos to kick him hard and make him drop Soul Edge, which Thanatos picked up and stabbed Nightmare with it, much to Algol and Malgreed's surprise.

"Did he just…" Algol began to say.

"Yep…this outta be good," Malgreed said. Nightmare's energy (the glowing vapor thing in the armor) soon went inside Soul Edge, which started to grown tendrils that snaked up Thanatos's arm.

"You think you can control me?" Soul Edge asked Thanatos. Thanatos grinned as the tendrils suddenly flew off his arm, inside the sword, Thanatos stood before Inferno as the darkness behind him felt cold against the flames of Inferno.

"You think you can beat me? You're just a soul who got separated from its true self, you're just a fraction of the darkness" Inferno said.

"Tch, you think I'm not strong enough? I got the hatred of a child who's bottled it up for years, I can easily kill you!" Thanatos yelled and soon transformed. Inferno looked up at a newly transformed Thanatos, a silhouette of a winged demonic creature hanging over him.

There was a bright light and soon Malgreed and Algol looked at a newly transformed Thanatos. He now had spiked armor, the red will lines now glowing, looking like thorns on his face, his hair spiked up, and he also had two pairs of seriously demonic looking wings with an orange membrane and black bones, not to mention a tail (similar to b-st Haseo's tail from .Hack G.U Trilogy movie) that swished lazily. The claws on his hands were sharpened to the point and Thanatos's canids were sharper as well.

"Amazing…" Algol muttered. The Soul Edge now looked much more upgraded than before, it looked more of a fleshy appearance, and now made of metal. The eye of soul edge now was completely red with a black slit for a pupil, plus it looked really wicked (good and bad way).

"Now that we have Soul Edge, we just need its sister to complete the sword," Thanatos said in a demonic tone.


Mark's POV

I woke up with a start, now aching in my chest from where Thanatos stabbed me, causing me to fall onto the bed in agonizing pain. My god why me? What did I do to deserve this? A warm hand on my hand and a soft kiss on my forehead caused me to look at who was the one doing that.

It was Talim…well at least some good came out of it. As soon as she finished kissing me and smiled sweetly at me, her eyes tearing up with happiness.

"Hey don't go crying on me ok?" I asked her softly. A smile and a hug was her response. "How long was I out?" I asked as I held her in my arms.

"Ten days…but tell me…what happened?" Talim asked. I was going to talk, but the others barged in and they asked the same thing.

"Ok, ok…" I said. "Alright…Thanatos is…well…he's my darker half…I guess he's the combination of my darkness inside me and my hatred, I tried to keep him contained…until now…Malgreed took Thanatos out of me, and due to his hatred of being cooped up in me, he thought that killing me would make him free…big mistake…" I muttered that last part.

"Well seeing him without that helmet on pretty much explained everything," Mina said.

"Um…actually…before I woke up I had another dream…Thanatos has Soul Edge now…" I told them.

"WHAT?" Everyone yelled. My chest started hurting again as I panted.

"Why does…this hurt?" I yelled in pain.

After getting healed, I explained about my dream I had and once finished, Yun seong spoke out.

"Well this is great! The dark half of our friend has Soul Edge now!" he said.

"Yeah…but what do they need it for?" Joseph wondered.

"I can guess what they want…" Elder E said as he walked in with a scroll in his hand. We looked at E as he put the scroll on the table and unfurled it.

"This is what they're after…" E said as we crowded around. We saw the image of a man holding a large two handed sword with light coming out of it…wait…why does it seem familiar?

"The Ultima Sword…" E muttered.

"Huh?" I asked.

"When I saw Thanatos's face for the first time, I wondered what Malgreed was planning; I researched until I found this…" E explained. "This sword…this is a sword of such great power, that whoever wields it will have the powers of a god…" E stated.

"Whoa…" we all said.

"Yes…but a soul of good and a soul of evil, wielding Soul Calibur and Soul Edge respectively, can create it…and they have one piece of the puzzle…" E said.

"So Thanatos being Mark's darker half…" Joseph began.

"Malgreed was gonna use me to create the sword…" I finished.

"Damn…we are so screwed…" Kilik said.

"Well not yet, we need Soul Calibur…" I said.

"No, you need to rest after what happened with Thanatos," E told me. I wanted to protest, but he was right, I needed the rest.

"Fine…" I sighed. I got back into bed as the others left…except Talim, who stayed with me.

"I'm glad you're alive…" she said softly.

"Heh, you know I'm too stubborn to die that easily," I grinned at her. Talim smiled, and then yawned loudly. "Did you eat or get some sleep?" I asked her.

"Well…I got some snacks to eat…and the food they brought for you in case you woke up…" Talim said softly.

"And sleep?" I asked.

"Well…a little…I stood up for a few hours…all night…" Talim confessed.

"…get in…" I told her as I scooted over to make room. Talim now went at least five shades of red before she came into the bed with me and lay there beside me, a minute later she was out like a light. Man, she's just so damn cute when she's asleep…heh…I rested my head on my pillow and closed my eyes, sleep taking over everything moments later.


Thanatos's eyes opened up as he stopped leaning against the pillar he was leaning on previously.

"He's alive…" Thanatos growled.

"Good, it means he'll be useful for the forging," Malgreed said.

"Once he arrives with Soul Calibur, the god sword will be reborn into the world once more…" Malgreed grinned. "In the meantime, Thanatos, test out that new power you got ok?" he told the dark side. Thanatos just nudged his head and headed downstairs while Malgreed looks at the landscape before him.

"It's so beautiful here…but the new world's beauty will surpass all of this…" Malgreed smirked.


Well at least some things are made clear. Malgreed wants to forge the Ultima Sword and gain the powers of a god and using me to do it. But what shall happen now that they have Soul Edge? Stay tuned to find out! R&R Plz!