Not another Nightmare and Cassandra fic by Herofox
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this story. They are (c) Namco
It's based upon my older Seigfreid/Cassandra fic. I was advised to Flesh out the story a bit more, and show the characters becoming fond of each other. So I thought, 'Why not make a longer story?'
By the way, I'm fully aware that Xianghua defeated Nightmare, using Soul Calibur, but this is based on Nightmare's arcade version boss-battle in the DC version of SC.
And if you don't like the coupling, that's okay, everyone has an opinion, but please respect the opinions of those who do like the paring.
NOW, I can start.
Sophitia: 'Okay! Here we go!' -
"How does she do it every few years?" asked Cassandra, to herself. It seemed to be happening every few years now. Every few years, she'd received an oracle regarding Soul Edge. The first time, seven years ago, she succeeded in destroying one of the twin demon blades, so her task was half completed. Three years later, she was summoned to finish the job. The Dark Knight she fought, was supposed to have been freed of it's control, but ooooooooooooh no. He was causing trouble again. 'When, I get my hands on that bastard...' she thought. Then she approached the castle. It was a big place, but somehow, she found her way to the room above the great hall, as if the Gods where guiding her. There it was; the Massive Soul Edge. But that wasn't all that caught our heroine's attention. There was a young man behind the blade, on bended knee. His golden hair shone brightly in the mid day light, shining through the stained-glass windows. But what caught the girl's attention the most...was his six-pack. She was about to approach this man, but then he raised his head up. Opening his eyes, they light up, red as blood. As his hair began to change to a brilliant Crimson, Azure coloured armour began to appear around his body. "What ARE you?" gasped Cassandra. She had seen some pretty weird stuff on her travels, but someone who could pass for He-Man, transforming into a mad demon Knight was by far the most bizarre. "Your worst Nightmare." Answered the evil man, pulling up Soul Edge, ready for battle.
About to wet herself with fear, the would-be warrior woman pondered a strategy 'Okay...what would Sophitia do? That's right! Try to reason with him!' so then she spoke out loud, "That sword's just using you, you dozy dipstick! You have to get rid of it!" she yelled. Upon seeing his eyes burn hotter, she began to think 'Okay, maybe that wasn't the smartest thing to say.' "Dozy huh?" was all the dark Knight said, before charging forward with his sword. With a mighty roar, he smashed the mighty weapon down on the blonde woman in front of him. But Cassandra back flipped, to dodge the attack, and landed on top of the sword. A quick kick to the head knocked him back a few feet. Nightmare recovered and struck a punch that Cassandra blocked with her shield. She quickly felt the recoil of the attack, given Nightmare's incredible strength. Before she had time to recover, the Knight of Darkness hit her with a powerful tackle that knocked her to the ground. When she opened her eyes, she received a very nasty shock. Nightmare was on top of her, restraining her wrists with his huge powerful hands, and pinning her to the floor. 'How strange.' Where the thoughts in the demons mind, 'She has the same eyes, as someone I met long ago..."
Considering that Cameras weren't invented back then, you couldn't say that he exactly had a Photographic memory, but he was beginning to remember the day, four years ago...
"I want to...save you!" said the beautiful woman, holding a shield bearing the symbol of Omega, in one hand, and a short sword in the other. "There's no turning back now." Said the Dark Knight, pointing at her, even though it was rude to point, "My sword will feast well upon your pure soul!" he roared, charging at the woman. Sophitia, ducked to the left, and extended her foot, successfully tripping Nightmare.
He swung his giant sword back at Sophitia, as he stood up, but she blocked with her shield. "Why are you fighting me?!" he demanded, "Only a fool would come here! Seeking battle with the wielder of Soul Edge is suicide!" Still the woman stood strong, "The sword may be evil, but I don't believe that the man holding it is." She said in her soft, sweet voice, "You where just deceived by the rumours of a sword of great power. You had no idea that it would claim your soul, as it's own." Nightmare was now even more confused, "I'm...not evil?" he asked himself? 'Don't listen to her!' came a deep, booming voice inside his head. 'She is your enemy!' "But..." Nightmare said out loud, "She's only trying to help." 'Destroy her!' came the voice "Why?" he asked himself, "You're being manipulated." Said Sophitia again, "You can still take your soul back, you just have to try." 'Finish her off!' the voice said, "I..I.." Nightmare stuttered. The delicate balance between good and evil wavered within him; "You can do it!" said Sophitia, trying to encourage him, "Reclaim your soul! Turn back into the person you once where!" 'Don't listen to her lies!' Soul Edge demanded, 'We have always been together! This person who once existed is gone forever! Your name is Nightmare, and you're evil to the core!' "I... I will fight!" Nightmare roared out loud. "Be gone you devil!" he yelled, throwing the sword to the ground, "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS BETRAYAL!!" came the voice of Soul Edge. Once Inferno appeared from the sword, he took it in hand, and ran at Nightmare, taking him with a flash of light to another dimension. Sophitia was completely bewildered at this. Lightning began to flash, and the roaring thunder soon followed. It was as if the clouds themselves where in a great duel of their own. Suddenly, a hole in the air opened up, dropping Nightmare out of it, before closing up again. But Nightmare was different. He had returned to his human form. Sophitia ran over to him, to make sure that he was alright, "It's you." She said, feeling his chest, to see if his hear was still beating. "Seigfreid, are you alright?" as he sat up, the temporally free Seigfreid fluttered open his eyes, "Sophitia." He said, remembering her, from his mission to find soul Edge, three years ago, "Thank you." He said with a weak smile. Sophitia's facial expression didn't change, but her green eyes began to look shiny. Shutting her eyes, she flung her slender arms around his neck, and placed her head on his shoulder, "Seigfreid." She sighed.
The he came back from his daydream, and looked back down at the girl, he was holding down. "Why?" he asked her, "Why throw your life away?" Cassandra turned her head away from him. She didn't want to look into his eyes. 'Kill her!' came a voice from inside his head. "No!" he said out loud "She was only trying to help me!" 'Do it!' came the voice again, "I won't!" Nightmare roared, 'You DARE betray me?!' the voice wouldn't stop. "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" yelled Nightmare as he rose to his feet, threw off his helmet, and grabbed his own head in agony. Cassandra was now getting puzzled, at the Knight's sudden insanity. "TRAITOR!" came the voice again, this time out loud. Soul Edge began to levitate, and a fiery figure exploded into view.
Grabbing the Giant mutated Sword, the figure swung its blade at Nightmare, who was slashed across the chest, leaving a mark in his armour. Stumbling back, the bear headed knight, tried to maintain his footing. As the mighty blade came down at him, the azure nightmare caught it. Blood trickled from his mutated arm, while he struggled to gain control. "Get him!" Nightmare yelled to Cassandra, who was just picking herself up off the floor. 'Did he just say, "Get him"?' she pondered. "You've been sent here to destroy Soul Edge, so now's the time to do it!" Now our heroine was puzzled. This...thing, which had just a moment ago, held her down and threatened to kill her, was now asking her to destroy his sword. "DO IT!!!" he bellowed. This brought her out of her thoughts. "Okay!" she called to him, thrusting her stout sword into the eye of the evil weapon. A broken scream was heard, and Inferno flinched in pain. Seeing his chance, Nightmare picked up the evil sword, and snapped it across his knee. "SEIGFREID!!!" roared Inferno, "I'LL BE BACK!!" with the physical body of Soul Edge, snapped in two, Inferno was no longer able to maintain his Burning Spirit form. As the last remains of Inferno's ashes where swept away by the wind, Nightmare smiled at the sky. No longer possessed, his skin returned to its normal colour, his red hair turned to the colour of gold, and his eyes no longer possessed their evil red glow, but settled to a soft blue colour. He turned to Cassandra. "I don't really know what to do." He said to her. Cassandra just turned her back to him. "I'm not sure either." She answered. "You've done some pretty evil stuff, but my sister told me that you where just confused by the rumours." Then she looked back at him, over her shoulder. "Maybe if you destroy all the fragments of Soul Edge, maybe that would make it right?" Seigfreid nodded. "I tried that once. But I guess it shouldn't be too hard to pick up where I left off." So he picked up a fragment and crushed it, in his gloved hand. As the fragment turned to dust, and was blown away by the wind, Cassandra left.
Walking away from the Castle that reeked of death, she entered the surrounding forest. 'I wonder,' she began to think, 'is it really the end of Soul Edge? Is this nightmare finally over?' But before long, a large man jumped down from a tree and grabbed her from behind, knocking her to the floor. The girl was taken by surprise, but she wasn't about to take it lying down. She rolled onto her back, which was on top of the assassin, and was able to brake free from his grip. As the masked scoundrel was about to get back on his feet, Cass gave him a hard kick to the unmentionable area.
She was just about to knock him out cold with her shield, when two more assassins jumped into view and trapped her in a net.
Back in the castle, Seigfreid was just finishing his task. All the fragments of Soul Edge, from his battle with Inferno, had been disposed of. "Finally," he said, "I can rest." Now, most of you are probably thinking 'That's where you're wrong Seigfeid!', and you are absolutely correct. After a second, the fallen knight felt a light tingling in his head, and a sharp pain in his heart. "It can't be." He said to himself, "More fragments are here?"
Meanwhile, Cassandra was feeling pretty cheesed off. The trio of masked men had tied her to a tree, and wrapped a gag around her mouth. "There's a little money left in her wallet." Said one of them, "Her sword and shield might be worth a little cash too." Said another. Now we all know, quite well that Cassandra would never allow her sisters weapons to be sold off, just so that a bunch of creeps in masks could fill their stomachs. All three of them where sitting around the travelling bag, so they couldn't see her arms, bound behind the tree. She began rubbing the ropes against the bark, in hope of wearing them out. 'Damn!' she though, 'the bark is too smooth! It may take too long!' However, unknown to her, and the three thieves, a pair of blue eyes, where watching from the bushes.
"Well," said one assassin, through his purple mask, drawing his blade, "Lets kill her, and get it over with." But then another stopped him, "Wait a minute!" he said, "What's up?" asked his friend. The assassin with the brown mask turned his head to Cassandra, "She's pretty hot, don't you think?" at this, the poor girl could only blink, in confusion. "I get your point!" said the purple masked bandit, "Lets have some fun with her first!" then he approached her. Poor Cassandra was feeling afraid. It wasn't enough to kill her and steal her belongings; they had to steal her virginity as well.
The unwitting villain was about to have his wicked way with our unfortunate heroine, when a mighty battle cry roared through the trees. As Seigfreid charged at the assassin, he swung a giant sword at the baddies neck. That was the end of him. Then, the muscled swordsman charged at the brown masked one. He rammed the might blade into his chest, and threw him into a tree. The assassin with the green mask knew that he had to act quickly. He drew his assassin blade, and ran over to Cassandra. He grabbed hold of her hair and pointed the blade at her throat, "Stop!" he called out, "Take one more step and I cut her head off!" "You bastard!" Seigfreid growled. He blamed himself for Cassandra's capture. If she wasn't fatigued from fighting him, she might have been able to escape. In fact, the only reason she had come to the castle in the first place, was to destroy the wicked sword, he once wielded.
The assassin was beginning to relax, when he felt a great pain, strike him in the most uncomfortable place imaginable. Seems that Cassandra succeeded in wearing down the ropes. She then rose to her feet and punched the masked man in the jaw, rendering him unconscious.
"You finished!" said Seigfreid, about to behead the unconscious bandit, "Don't do it!" Called Cassandra, upon removing the gag, "He deserves it!" Seigfreid called back, "Attacking an innocent woman, stealing from her and then trying to rape her, is dishonourable, and I will see to it, that this villain receives his punishment!" "Haven't you killed enough people? You don't have to do this anymore!" Seigfreid hesitated for a moment, but then he lowered his weapon, "Very well then." He said softly.
Cassandra smiled once again. Seigfried approached one of the corpses on the floor, and pulled a Soul Edge Fragment from the pocket. He then placed it on the ground a ground it into dust with his sword. "So what's next for you Nightmare?" Cass asked him, "There are still a few fragments of Soul Edge left in this world." He said, "If I want to stop the creation of another Nightmare, I have to destroy all of them. So what where are you going from here, Sophitia?" "Well," Answered Cassandra "I think..." but then she realised something, "Did you just call me Sophitia?" she was used to being mistaken for her older sister, and it was usually quite irritating. "Of course." He answered, "No other woman I've met has this sent as you." "I think you're confusing me with my sister. My name's Cassandra." Seigfreid looked confused. Upon further inspection, he realised that this girl had shorter hair, bigger eyes, and a slightly rounder face. "You're...not Sophitia." He said. "No." answered the girl, quite annoyed, "I'm Cassandra. Ca-San-Dra." Saying her name in syllables, to sink it into his head. She noticed his cheeks turn a pale red as he turned his head, "Sophitia is more femmine, and beautiful." He muttered. Before Cassandra could get even MORE annoyed at that comment, he got back to his original point, "So, What are you doing from here Cassandra?" he asked. "I'm going with you." She answered. "What?" Seigfried was surprised at this. Most people who've met him never wanted anything to do with him. "My sister destroyed one half of Soul Edge, seven years ago," Cassandra began, "She has a family to take care of now, so I took her sword to finish the job." Then she turned her head to the corpses "and besides, I have to make sure that you don't go berserk like that again." Seigfreid turned to head into the city, "Well, okay, I'll let you tag along, but be on your guard. I won't always be there to rescue you!" he chuckled
After retrieving Cassandra's travel bag, they headed into the city.
And that's the end of part one.
I hope you enjoyed it. I'll try to make the next chapter better.
Till next time!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters in this story. They are (c) Namco
It's based upon my older Seigfreid/Cassandra fic. I was advised to Flesh out the story a bit more, and show the characters becoming fond of each other. So I thought, 'Why not make a longer story?'
By the way, I'm fully aware that Xianghua defeated Nightmare, using Soul Calibur, but this is based on Nightmare's arcade version boss-battle in the DC version of SC.
And if you don't like the coupling, that's okay, everyone has an opinion, but please respect the opinions of those who do like the paring.
NOW, I can start.
Sophitia: 'Okay! Here we go!' -
"How does she do it every few years?" asked Cassandra, to herself. It seemed to be happening every few years now. Every few years, she'd received an oracle regarding Soul Edge. The first time, seven years ago, she succeeded in destroying one of the twin demon blades, so her task was half completed. Three years later, she was summoned to finish the job. The Dark Knight she fought, was supposed to have been freed of it's control, but ooooooooooooh no. He was causing trouble again. 'When, I get my hands on that bastard...' she thought. Then she approached the castle. It was a big place, but somehow, she found her way to the room above the great hall, as if the Gods where guiding her. There it was; the Massive Soul Edge. But that wasn't all that caught our heroine's attention. There was a young man behind the blade, on bended knee. His golden hair shone brightly in the mid day light, shining through the stained-glass windows. But what caught the girl's attention the most...was his six-pack. She was about to approach this man, but then he raised his head up. Opening his eyes, they light up, red as blood. As his hair began to change to a brilliant Crimson, Azure coloured armour began to appear around his body. "What ARE you?" gasped Cassandra. She had seen some pretty weird stuff on her travels, but someone who could pass for He-Man, transforming into a mad demon Knight was by far the most bizarre. "Your worst Nightmare." Answered the evil man, pulling up Soul Edge, ready for battle.
About to wet herself with fear, the would-be warrior woman pondered a strategy 'Okay...what would Sophitia do? That's right! Try to reason with him!' so then she spoke out loud, "That sword's just using you, you dozy dipstick! You have to get rid of it!" she yelled. Upon seeing his eyes burn hotter, she began to think 'Okay, maybe that wasn't the smartest thing to say.' "Dozy huh?" was all the dark Knight said, before charging forward with his sword. With a mighty roar, he smashed the mighty weapon down on the blonde woman in front of him. But Cassandra back flipped, to dodge the attack, and landed on top of the sword. A quick kick to the head knocked him back a few feet. Nightmare recovered and struck a punch that Cassandra blocked with her shield. She quickly felt the recoil of the attack, given Nightmare's incredible strength. Before she had time to recover, the Knight of Darkness hit her with a powerful tackle that knocked her to the ground. When she opened her eyes, she received a very nasty shock. Nightmare was on top of her, restraining her wrists with his huge powerful hands, and pinning her to the floor. 'How strange.' Where the thoughts in the demons mind, 'She has the same eyes, as someone I met long ago..."
Considering that Cameras weren't invented back then, you couldn't say that he exactly had a Photographic memory, but he was beginning to remember the day, four years ago...
"I want to...save you!" said the beautiful woman, holding a shield bearing the symbol of Omega, in one hand, and a short sword in the other. "There's no turning back now." Said the Dark Knight, pointing at her, even though it was rude to point, "My sword will feast well upon your pure soul!" he roared, charging at the woman. Sophitia, ducked to the left, and extended her foot, successfully tripping Nightmare.
He swung his giant sword back at Sophitia, as he stood up, but she blocked with her shield. "Why are you fighting me?!" he demanded, "Only a fool would come here! Seeking battle with the wielder of Soul Edge is suicide!" Still the woman stood strong, "The sword may be evil, but I don't believe that the man holding it is." She said in her soft, sweet voice, "You where just deceived by the rumours of a sword of great power. You had no idea that it would claim your soul, as it's own." Nightmare was now even more confused, "I'm...not evil?" he asked himself? 'Don't listen to her!' came a deep, booming voice inside his head. 'She is your enemy!' "But..." Nightmare said out loud, "She's only trying to help." 'Destroy her!' came the voice "Why?" he asked himself, "You're being manipulated." Said Sophitia again, "You can still take your soul back, you just have to try." 'Finish her off!' the voice said, "I..I.." Nightmare stuttered. The delicate balance between good and evil wavered within him; "You can do it!" said Sophitia, trying to encourage him, "Reclaim your soul! Turn back into the person you once where!" 'Don't listen to her lies!' Soul Edge demanded, 'We have always been together! This person who once existed is gone forever! Your name is Nightmare, and you're evil to the core!' "I... I will fight!" Nightmare roared out loud. "Be gone you devil!" he yelled, throwing the sword to the ground, "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS BETRAYAL!!" came the voice of Soul Edge. Once Inferno appeared from the sword, he took it in hand, and ran at Nightmare, taking him with a flash of light to another dimension. Sophitia was completely bewildered at this. Lightning began to flash, and the roaring thunder soon followed. It was as if the clouds themselves where in a great duel of their own. Suddenly, a hole in the air opened up, dropping Nightmare out of it, before closing up again. But Nightmare was different. He had returned to his human form. Sophitia ran over to him, to make sure that he was alright, "It's you." She said, feeling his chest, to see if his hear was still beating. "Seigfreid, are you alright?" as he sat up, the temporally free Seigfreid fluttered open his eyes, "Sophitia." He said, remembering her, from his mission to find soul Edge, three years ago, "Thank you." He said with a weak smile. Sophitia's facial expression didn't change, but her green eyes began to look shiny. Shutting her eyes, she flung her slender arms around his neck, and placed her head on his shoulder, "Seigfreid." She sighed.
The he came back from his daydream, and looked back down at the girl, he was holding down. "Why?" he asked her, "Why throw your life away?" Cassandra turned her head away from him. She didn't want to look into his eyes. 'Kill her!' came a voice from inside his head. "No!" he said out loud "She was only trying to help me!" 'Do it!' came the voice again, "I won't!" Nightmare roared, 'You DARE betray me?!' the voice wouldn't stop. "GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" yelled Nightmare as he rose to his feet, threw off his helmet, and grabbed his own head in agony. Cassandra was now getting puzzled, at the Knight's sudden insanity. "TRAITOR!" came the voice again, this time out loud. Soul Edge began to levitate, and a fiery figure exploded into view.
Grabbing the Giant mutated Sword, the figure swung its blade at Nightmare, who was slashed across the chest, leaving a mark in his armour. Stumbling back, the bear headed knight, tried to maintain his footing. As the mighty blade came down at him, the azure nightmare caught it. Blood trickled from his mutated arm, while he struggled to gain control. "Get him!" Nightmare yelled to Cassandra, who was just picking herself up off the floor. 'Did he just say, "Get him"?' she pondered. "You've been sent here to destroy Soul Edge, so now's the time to do it!" Now our heroine was puzzled. This...thing, which had just a moment ago, held her down and threatened to kill her, was now asking her to destroy his sword. "DO IT!!!" he bellowed. This brought her out of her thoughts. "Okay!" she called to him, thrusting her stout sword into the eye of the evil weapon. A broken scream was heard, and Inferno flinched in pain. Seeing his chance, Nightmare picked up the evil sword, and snapped it across his knee. "SEIGFREID!!!" roared Inferno, "I'LL BE BACK!!" with the physical body of Soul Edge, snapped in two, Inferno was no longer able to maintain his Burning Spirit form. As the last remains of Inferno's ashes where swept away by the wind, Nightmare smiled at the sky. No longer possessed, his skin returned to its normal colour, his red hair turned to the colour of gold, and his eyes no longer possessed their evil red glow, but settled to a soft blue colour. He turned to Cassandra. "I don't really know what to do." He said to her. Cassandra just turned her back to him. "I'm not sure either." She answered. "You've done some pretty evil stuff, but my sister told me that you where just confused by the rumours." Then she looked back at him, over her shoulder. "Maybe if you destroy all the fragments of Soul Edge, maybe that would make it right?" Seigfreid nodded. "I tried that once. But I guess it shouldn't be too hard to pick up where I left off." So he picked up a fragment and crushed it, in his gloved hand. As the fragment turned to dust, and was blown away by the wind, Cassandra left.
Walking away from the Castle that reeked of death, she entered the surrounding forest. 'I wonder,' she began to think, 'is it really the end of Soul Edge? Is this nightmare finally over?' But before long, a large man jumped down from a tree and grabbed her from behind, knocking her to the floor. The girl was taken by surprise, but she wasn't about to take it lying down. She rolled onto her back, which was on top of the assassin, and was able to brake free from his grip. As the masked scoundrel was about to get back on his feet, Cass gave him a hard kick to the unmentionable area.
She was just about to knock him out cold with her shield, when two more assassins jumped into view and trapped her in a net.
Back in the castle, Seigfreid was just finishing his task. All the fragments of Soul Edge, from his battle with Inferno, had been disposed of. "Finally," he said, "I can rest." Now, most of you are probably thinking 'That's where you're wrong Seigfeid!', and you are absolutely correct. After a second, the fallen knight felt a light tingling in his head, and a sharp pain in his heart. "It can't be." He said to himself, "More fragments are here?"
Meanwhile, Cassandra was feeling pretty cheesed off. The trio of masked men had tied her to a tree, and wrapped a gag around her mouth. "There's a little money left in her wallet." Said one of them, "Her sword and shield might be worth a little cash too." Said another. Now we all know, quite well that Cassandra would never allow her sisters weapons to be sold off, just so that a bunch of creeps in masks could fill their stomachs. All three of them where sitting around the travelling bag, so they couldn't see her arms, bound behind the tree. She began rubbing the ropes against the bark, in hope of wearing them out. 'Damn!' she though, 'the bark is too smooth! It may take too long!' However, unknown to her, and the three thieves, a pair of blue eyes, where watching from the bushes.
"Well," said one assassin, through his purple mask, drawing his blade, "Lets kill her, and get it over with." But then another stopped him, "Wait a minute!" he said, "What's up?" asked his friend. The assassin with the brown mask turned his head to Cassandra, "She's pretty hot, don't you think?" at this, the poor girl could only blink, in confusion. "I get your point!" said the purple masked bandit, "Lets have some fun with her first!" then he approached her. Poor Cassandra was feeling afraid. It wasn't enough to kill her and steal her belongings; they had to steal her virginity as well.
The unwitting villain was about to have his wicked way with our unfortunate heroine, when a mighty battle cry roared through the trees. As Seigfreid charged at the assassin, he swung a giant sword at the baddies neck. That was the end of him. Then, the muscled swordsman charged at the brown masked one. He rammed the might blade into his chest, and threw him into a tree. The assassin with the green mask knew that he had to act quickly. He drew his assassin blade, and ran over to Cassandra. He grabbed hold of her hair and pointed the blade at her throat, "Stop!" he called out, "Take one more step and I cut her head off!" "You bastard!" Seigfreid growled. He blamed himself for Cassandra's capture. If she wasn't fatigued from fighting him, she might have been able to escape. In fact, the only reason she had come to the castle in the first place, was to destroy the wicked sword, he once wielded.
The assassin was beginning to relax, when he felt a great pain, strike him in the most uncomfortable place imaginable. Seems that Cassandra succeeded in wearing down the ropes. She then rose to her feet and punched the masked man in the jaw, rendering him unconscious.
"You finished!" said Seigfreid, about to behead the unconscious bandit, "Don't do it!" Called Cassandra, upon removing the gag, "He deserves it!" Seigfreid called back, "Attacking an innocent woman, stealing from her and then trying to rape her, is dishonourable, and I will see to it, that this villain receives his punishment!" "Haven't you killed enough people? You don't have to do this anymore!" Seigfreid hesitated for a moment, but then he lowered his weapon, "Very well then." He said softly.
Cassandra smiled once again. Seigfried approached one of the corpses on the floor, and pulled a Soul Edge Fragment from the pocket. He then placed it on the ground a ground it into dust with his sword. "So what's next for you Nightmare?" Cass asked him, "There are still a few fragments of Soul Edge left in this world." He said, "If I want to stop the creation of another Nightmare, I have to destroy all of them. So what where are you going from here, Sophitia?" "Well," Answered Cassandra "I think..." but then she realised something, "Did you just call me Sophitia?" she was used to being mistaken for her older sister, and it was usually quite irritating. "Of course." He answered, "No other woman I've met has this sent as you." "I think you're confusing me with my sister. My name's Cassandra." Seigfreid looked confused. Upon further inspection, he realised that this girl had shorter hair, bigger eyes, and a slightly rounder face. "You're...not Sophitia." He said. "No." answered the girl, quite annoyed, "I'm Cassandra. Ca-San-Dra." Saying her name in syllables, to sink it into his head. She noticed his cheeks turn a pale red as he turned his head, "Sophitia is more femmine, and beautiful." He muttered. Before Cassandra could get even MORE annoyed at that comment, he got back to his original point, "So, What are you doing from here Cassandra?" he asked. "I'm going with you." She answered. "What?" Seigfried was surprised at this. Most people who've met him never wanted anything to do with him. "My sister destroyed one half of Soul Edge, seven years ago," Cassandra began, "She has a family to take care of now, so I took her sword to finish the job." Then she turned her head to the corpses "and besides, I have to make sure that you don't go berserk like that again." Seigfreid turned to head into the city, "Well, okay, I'll let you tag along, but be on your guard. I won't always be there to rescue you!" he chuckled
After retrieving Cassandra's travel bag, they headed into the city.
And that's the end of part one.
I hope you enjoyed it. I'll try to make the next chapter better.
Till next time!