Alright, before I start this story, I'll go over everything that happened between my previous story and this story:
Three months had passed
Aeon Calcos wasn't dead. Just knocked out for a few days
Ares revived Astaroth
Ares, knowing Astaroth would be no match for Nightmare, who was huge and had wings and a tail, decided to create a huge dragon named Astaragon and sent it to kill Nightmare. Astaragon entered the Schwartztrom Castle to challenge Nightmare. The battle took place high above the clouds, and Nightmare managed to defeat Astaragon, but not before Soul Edge was accidently shattered in the battle. The pieces of Soul Edge went flying and was lost in an unknown place, but Nightmare still had over half of Soul Edge. Since Soul Edge was shattered, the link before Nightmare and Soul Edge was weakened. So Nightmare transformed back to his original form, without wings and a tail.
The Lizardmen and golems rebuilt the parts of Nightmare's Castle that were destroyed when Kilik, Maxi and Xianghua entered the it.
Kilik, Maxi and Xianghua had found themselves inVietnam after Nightmare defeated them. But they are still on their quest travelling on their quest to destroy Soul Edge (now Maxi, who doesn't know Astaroth is revived, is helping them destroy Soul Edge)
The pieces of Soul Edge which were lost after Nightmare defeated Astaragon were found by Cervantes, who used the pieces to make his own Soul Edge even more powerful
Oh, and just something before you read the story: SoulEdge is a character from Soul Blade, the first game of the Soul Calibur series. After you defeat Cervantes in Arcade Mode, he'll become SoulEdge, a character which looks like Inferno, but it wears Cervantes' coat and fights like Cervantes, only faster and stronger. Make sure you take note that there is no space between "Soul" and "Edge" for the name of "SoulEdge". This is just so you can tell the difference between Soul Edge (which has a space between it, and it means the evil sword that Nightmare wields) and SoulEdge (With no space in it, and it means Cervantes on fire).
Now, here's the story:
It was a night with a full moon. A section of the night sky was covered by a huge cloud. Ocassionally, lightning bursted out of the huge cloud. After a while, something wooden could be seen coming out of the cloud. It was an airship, a ship that could fly in the sky. The airship was labbled "The Adrian". On the deck of the ship were many undead pirates, one of them being the captain of the ship, Captain Cervantes de Leon. Cervantes wielded Nirvania, a curved sword with a pistol built in it, and a part of the legendary sword, Soul Edge, an evil blade covered in flesh. After collecting more parts of the demonic blade, Cervantes gained the ability to ressurect his crews, who were slaughtering in his hands over 20 years ago.
The airship, The Adrian was now completely out of the cloud it was once "sailing" in. It was now heading towards a huge castle surrounded by a huge lake filled with lava. A bridge led over the lake and to the entrance of the castle. On top of this castle was a gigantic statue of Nightmare, the evil azure knight who also wielded a part of Soul Edge. To the pirates sailing on the airship, The Adrian, this castle seems to be just below the full moon that was present in the sky.
"You all see that statue, right?" Cervantes asked his crew of undead pirates as he pointed at the giant statue of Nightmare on the castle's roof while sailing his airship towards the castle.
"Yes, we do, captain!" the pirates answered.
"That is a statue of Nightmare! Being the hogger of the precious Soul Edge that he is, we shall slay this knight today! Soul Edge shall be complete in my hands once again today, as it was over 20 years ago! This pathetic thief named Nightmare is obviously hiding in this castle! We shall slay him before dawn!" Cervantes shouted so that his whole crew could hear it.
"Yeahhhh!" the pirates cheered.
"So what are you doing now?" Cervantes asked. "Attack!". Then the pirates went to the cannons and blasted some missiles at Nightmare's castle. Most of the missiles hit the giant statue of Nightmare, while one of them went into a window of the castle and caused an explosion. The giant statue of Nightmare then fell down. The pirates cheered as they watched the statue collapse into the lake of lava that surrounded the castle.
The missile that went into a window killed a Lizardman which lived in the castle. When it's friend, which was a golem saw it die, it looked out the window and saw Cervantes' airship. The golem told the other Lizardmen and golems in the castle. The news about the dead Lizardman and the airship spreaded quickly throughout the castle, until it reached Nightmare, the leader of the Lizardmen and golems. Nightmare sat on his high chair behind a portrait of himself and flanked by two statues of himself, looking down at the two creatures which told him the news, Astaroth, a golem which is the commander of all the other golems in the castle and Aeon Calcos, a Lizardman which commands the other Lizardmen.
"Massacre!" Nightmare shouted as he pointed at Astaroth and Aeon Calcos. The two then went around the castle, telling the other golems and Lizardmen to fight the pirates. They then all each went to a window, took a cannon and shot at the airship.
Missiles were being fired from the castle at the airship, and from the airship at the castle. The war between Nightmare's monsters and Cervantes' crew of undead pirates had begun. Many pirates, Lizardmen and golems were being killed by the missiles that were constantly being fired around. As the war went on, the airship was flying closer and closer towards Nightmare's Castle. The airship then stopped right in front of the castle. Some of the pirates jumped off the airship and into windows of Nightmare's Castle, also known as the Schwartztrom Castle. There they fought Nightmare's monsters using their weapons. Some of Nightmare's monsters also got onto the deck of The Adrian and attacked the pirates.
The battles were bloody and brutal. The blood of the corpses of the pirates and Nightmare's monsters were splashed onto the walls of Nightmare's Castle. Some even went onto the portraits of Nightmare that were hanging on the castle's wall. Many pirates, Lizardmen and golems fell off the edge of The Adrian and into the lava that surrounded the castle when they were defeated. But some fell onto the bridge that crossed the lake, and the corpses were bloodily smashed on the bridge.
Cervantes watched the raging war from the back of The Adrian. He then looked up at the top middle window of the Schwartztrom Castle and jumped into it. When he entered, he was in Nightmare's room.
"Taaake this!" Cervantes shouted as he spun around with his Soul Edge and Nirvania up like a helicopter. He hit Nightmare, sending him flying off his high chair and at the ceiling. Nightmare made a hole through the ceiling and landed on his back on the roof of his castle. Cervantes then jumped through the ceiling through the same hole Nightmare made, and he landed on the roof with Nightmare. Then Nightmare, who was on the ground, rolled back and got up.
"Offer your soul!" Nightmare shouted, spinning his huge zweihander Soul Edge around, and then getting into a fighting position with both his hands holding the hilt of Soul Edge, which points behind him from his right.
"Do not defy me!" Cervantes said as he got into a fighting position, with Nirvania pointing at Nightmare and Soul Edge above his head. As soon as they both got into a fighting stance, it started raining heavily and the lightning that were flashing in the sky suddenly got stronger.
"Got you!" Nightmare said as he held his huge sword on the left side side of his body, pointed it at Cervantes and then poked him. Cervantes blocked with his swords, but the force of the attack sent Cervantes flying back. Cervantes fell on his face, but he rolled and got up in a flash. "Die!" Nightmare said as he ran at Cervantes, spun around and tried to split him in half with a powerful vertical slash. Cervantes sidestepped, avoiding the attack completely.
"There!" Cervantes shouted as he stabbed Nightmare with both his swords. Nightmare's azure armor protected him, but he was sent flying backwards and fell down. "No mercy!" Cervantes said, jumping high up in the air, landed next to Nightmare and slashed him. But Nightmare's armor protected him again. Nightmare then jumped up and kicked Cervantes twice, knocking him down. Nightmare then starting stomping the downed Cervantes repeatly.
"This is it!" he said as he did the last stomp. But to his surprise, Cervantes got up, jumped up in the air, spun around 360 degrees and slashed Nightmare with his swords, hurling him high up in the air.
"Go to hell!" he said as he jumped up to Nightmare and did a vertical slash on him, sending him back down onto the ground with a thump. Cervantes was about to land on Nightmare, but Nightmare pointed his sword up. Cervantes knew he'll die if he landed on the sword, so he kicked the flat part of Nightmare's Soul Edge and jumped to the side. Nightmare then got up, spun around and did a powerful upward vertical slash with his huge Soul Edge at Cervantes, but Cervantes did several backflips to avoid the slashes. After Nightmare finished his attack, he had Soul Edge resting on the ground on his right, with his right demon claw holding it's hilt. Nightmare then did a low, sweep slash at Cervantes, who jumped and avoided the hit. But after he did that, Nightmare spun around once as his demon claw gave Soul Edge to his left hand. He then did a horizontal slash at Cervantes, who blocked, but was still knocked over. Cervantes then got up, ran at Nightmare, lifted his right foot up and dropped it on Nightmare's face, knocking Nightmare down. "Stop flailing!" Cervantes shouted as he lifted both his swords up and tried to stab Nightmare with them. Nightmare, who was on the ground next to Cervantes' feet, rolled back and dodged the attack by just a hair. He then got up, grabbed Cervantes with his claw, lifted Cervantes from the ground using his claw alone and threw Cervantes back. Cervantes then rolled back and got up. "Prepare to die!" he said as he crossed his arms, spun his swords around and walked at Nightmare.
"Suffer!" Nightmare said as he did an upward vertical slash at Cervantes. The attack collided with Cervantes' attack, but Nightmare's attack was more powerful, so Cervantes went soaring up in the air and landed down with as thump. "Begone!" Nightmare yelled, thrusting his sword diagonally downward at Cervantes, making a deep mark on the side of his stomach. Cervantes let out a painful cry as he got up. Blood poured out of his side rapidly.
"Die with regret, you fool!" Cervantes said in an annoyed manner as he started shooting Nightmare with Nirvania's pistol non-stop. But Nightmare held his sword upside down and started slashing it around again. The slashes deflected all the bullets. When Cervantes used up all but three bullets, he gave up shooting and stopped. "Stop struggling!" he said as he threw himself at Nightmare like a missile while spin around. He hit Nightmare, sending him flying to the opposite direction Cervantes was travelling. They both landed down just before they were about to fall off the edge of the castle's roof. Cervantes landed on his feet, while Nightmare fell on his face as he was hit. As he got up, Cervantes was about to charge at him, but the pain on his side stopped him from doing that. Instead, Cervantes shot Nightmare again with Nirvania, hoping it'll hit him. This time, he hit Nightmare and knocked him off the edge of the roof, but Nightmare grabbed the edge with his huge claw and climbed back up with ease. Nightmare then felt a pain on his left shoulder. He looked at his left shoulder and saw a hole through the armor caused by being shot by Nirvania.
"This is the end!" Nightmare shouted as he ran at Cervantes angrily. Cervantes tried to shoot Nightmare again, but Nightmare spun around while running and hit the bullet with a horizontal slash, deflecting it into the lava that surrounded the castle. Nightmare then hit Cervantes with the spikes on his right shoulder. Cervantes tried to block, but he dropped both of his weapons and was knocked over easily, as the pain on his side weakened him. "I will show you..." Nightmare said, lifting his sword above his head. "...the greatest nightmare!" he continued as he was about to finish Cervantes off with a vertical slash when a lightning bolt came down from the sky and killed them both.
Meanwhile, the war between Nightmare's monsters and Cervantes' pirates were still going on, and they were almost evenly matched. They also didn't know Nightmare and Cervantes were dead, and they just kept fighting inside the Schwartztrom Castle and on the deck of Cervantes' airship, The Adrian. Suddenly, all the pirates, Lizardmen and golems that were fighting on Cervantes' airship stopped fighting and looked up on the top of the Schwartztrom Castle. It suddenly stopped raining, and a huge pillar of light shot down from the sky and onto the spot where Nightmare and Cervantes were. Nightmare's Soul Edge and Cervantes' Soul Edge both floated up so all the pirates, Lizardmen and golem could see them. Then suddenly they starting spinning around really fast, and then Nightmare's Soul Edge landed next to Nightmare's corpse and Cervantes' Soul Edge landed next to Cervantes' corpse. The pillar of light then dissapeared, but it didn't start raining again. Even the lightning and thunder had stopped. Suddenly, Nightmare and Cervantes both came back to life. Cervantes' flesh then fell from his skeleton, and now he was nothing but a skeleton wearing a pirate costume. Suddenly, flame bursted out of the skeleton, and now Cervantes was no longer Cervantes de Leon anymore. He was now SoulEdge, the same flaming skeleton Nightmare had to face before he could get his hands on Soul Edge.
"Sword, give me strength!" Nightmare shouted, and then he started transforming as well. He also grew pitch black wings out of his shoulder joints, his left arm became a demon claw like his right arm, he grew a huge brown, muscular tail and his helmet started cracking. His helmet was then destroyed, revealing Nightmare's head. It was a dinosaur-like head.
Cervantes de Leon, who is now known as SoulEdge, picked up his Soul Edge and Nirvania. He tried to shoot Nightmare with Nirvania, but Nightmare's huge, thick, azure armor protected him from harm. Nothing but a mere small mark was left behind by the bullet. SoulEdge then tried to shoot Nightmare's face with Nirvania, but he realized he doesn't have anymore bullets left. He then threw Nirvania at Nightmare's head, but Nightmare ate it. Nightmare then breathed in air and then blasted some pieces of metal covered in flame out of his mouth at SoulEdge, but SoulEdge floated up to the sky to avoid the attack. Nightmare, with his huge, pitch black wings followed SoulEdge up there. Eventually, they were both above the clouds. SoulEdge roared as he held the hilt of his only remaining sword, Soul Edge with both of his hands. He then pulled the evil blade apart, and now it became two swords, to compensate for his lack of a second sword after Nightmare had eaten Nirvania. SoulEdge's Soul Edge now looked different. It wasn't as fleshy as it was before. There were yellow-orangish flesh around the hilt of both Soul Edge blades held by SoulEdge, but that was all the flesh there was of the two blades. One of SoulEdge's Soul Edge blades is larger than the other. The smaller sword is curved, just like Nirvania. SoulEdge then got into a fighting position, which is the same as Cervantes', except he was floating high above the clouds.
"Prepare to face your ultimate nightmare!" Nightmare shouted as he got into a fighting position the same as before, only that he was hovering in the air this time. Then he stabbed SoulEdge with his huge zweihander sword, sending him flying ten feet back. SoulEdge then threw himself at Nightmare like a missile. When he hit Nightmare, there was an explosion of flame. Then Nightmare was covered in flame, but he flapped his black wings around and eventually the flame around him vanished. As Nightmare flapped his wings, he created a whirlwind that blew SoulEdge back a bit. Nightmare then tried to slash SoulEdge, but SoulEdge flew back, avoided the slash and then started rocketing around the place. He then flew into Nightmare, but Nightmare blocked with Soul Edge. Nightmare's Soul Edge was now covered in flame, and SoulEdge bounced back after hitting Nightmare's Soul Edge. Nightmare then slashed SoulEdge with his firey sword, causing an explosion which blew SoulEdge back a bit. Nightmare now got rid of the flame around Soul Edge with that slash. SoulEdge then flew up to Nightmare and started trying to drill through Nightmare's thick, azure armor with his two Soul Edge blades. Nightmare flew back to stop taking anymore hits from SoulEdge's drill attack. He looked at his armor and saw a deep mark on it. "This is it!" he said as he did a vertical slash on SoulEdge, sending him down below the clouds.
SoulEdge then landed into the lake of lava surrounding the Schwartztrom Castle, but it still survived, as it is used to extremely hot temperatures. He then spun around inside the lava, causing a huge tornado of lava. The lava tornado reached above the clouds and almost hit Nightmare, but Nightmare flapped his wings and blew the lava and the tornado away. Far away from Nightmare, SoulEdge and the Schwartztrom Castle, the lava rained down on a city, destroying it.
SoulEdge then immerged out of the lava and flew up to the clouds. He was now covered in lava. He flew at Nightmare at the speed of sound, and when he hit Nightmare, he caused a great big explosion that sent Nightmare flying and dissapeared into the North in less than one second. SoulEdge then laughed evily, thinking he had defeated Nightmare. He then turned around and saw Nightmare flying from the South, and then dissapearing into the North again. After this happened five times, Nightmare appeared from the South, but stopped in front of SoulEdge. SoulEdge had unleashed an attack so powerful that Nightmare went flying around the Earth five times! Now, after that attack, the lava around SoulEdge dissapeared. He then merged his two Soul Edge swords into a double sided blade, swung it around and blasted hellfire at Nightmare. But Nightmare grabbed his Soul Edge upside down and swung it around, deflecting the hellfire. Some of them hit some of the Lizardmen, golems and pirates which are fighting below Nightmare and SoulEdge, killing them. SoulEdge then gave up with shooting the hellfire. He then threw his double sided Soul Edge at Nightmare as if it was a boomerang. The blade was heading towards Nightmare's neck, but Nightmare blocked with Soul Edge just in time. The double sided sword then returned to SoulEdge, who caught it and pulled it apart, and now it was like the way it was before again. Nightmare then did a backflip and hit SoulEdge with his tail, and SoulEdge went flying up into space. Nightmare followed him up there.
They were now both up in space. Nightmare tried to slash SoulEdge, but SoulEdge blocked. SoulEdge spun his bigger Soul Edge blade around like a drill and stabbed Nightmare, but Nightmare blocked with his own Soul Edge. SoulEdge spun around like a helicopter and hit Nightmare, but Nightmare's armor prevented the cuts he would have suffered from. Nightmare then roared, spun around and did an upward vertical swing at SoulEdge. SoulEdge blocked, but the force of the hit was so powerful SoulEdge went flying into the Sun.
"Yes...this is it!" Nightmare said, flapping his wings around. Suddenly, a huge beam of fire blasted out of the Sun at Nightmare. Nightmare flew out of the way, and the beam of fire hit a star, destroying it and causing a great explosion that also destroyed seven stars that were surrounding it. Then SoulEdge, which was covered in magma, blasted itself out of the Sun at Nightmare, who spun his zweihander sword around like as drill and hit SoulEdge, causing a huge explosion that sent Nightmare flying billions of light years away from the Sun in just fifteen minutes.
When Nightmare stopped flying, SoulEdge flew back to Earth. It dived into a volcano and then it shot out of it in and headed towards Nightmare in unimaginable speed.
Nightmare then saw a black hole. As soon as he saw it, he was about to fly away as fast as he could as he saw the black hole sucking up stars and planets. He thought he was no exception to the other black hole's victims, but he stopped when he saw the black hole being sucked into his sword, Soul Edge!
"I'm invincible! Fwahahahahahahaha!" Nightmare laughed evily as Soul Edge was sucking the power out of the black hole. As Soul Edge absorbed the black hole's power, it grew bigger, fleshier and the eye on it grew a blood red color.
After about twenty minutes, Nightmare's Soul Edge had sucked everything out of the black hole. Soul Edge now had spikes around it, it's flesh was black like coal and the reflection of a river of blood seemed to flow through it's eye. Nightmare then saw SoulEdge flying towards him in the distance. At first he thought it was a comet, but as it got closer, Nightmare knew it was SoulEdge.
"Nightmare Beam!" Nightmare shouted as he pointed Soul Edge at SoulEdge. Two rays of blood red light shot out of Nightmare's blood red eyes, and then a huge beam of pitch black energy shot out of Soul Edge and headed towards SoulEdge, which was flying towards Nightmare. When the black beam hit SoulEdge, there was a huge explosion of black energy that pushed all the stars and planets within nine thousand light years flying billions of light years away. The beam also destroyed SoulEdge instantly, and the two Soul Edge blades SoulEdge was holding went flying, and it seemed like it got lost in space. As Nightmare blasted the beam out of Soul Edge, Soul Edge was slowly changing back to it's original form before it absorbed the black hole. The power of the beam also caused all the planets and stars within billions and billions of light years flying at random places. The Earth, Moon and the Sun were included, and this lasted for several hours until Nightmare was no longer blasting anything out of Soul Edge. When this happened, the Earth, Moon and the Sun just so happened to be repositioned near Nightmare. So Nightmare flew back down to the Earth and back to the Schwartztrom Castle.
The pirates, Lizardmen and golems were still fighting, and they seemed to be evenly matched. When the Lizardmen and golems saw Nightmare descend from the sky, they all stopped fighting the pirates, and they all gathered behind Nightmare, tired from the long war. The pirates were tired too.
"I hope you guys have a good nightmare!" Nightmare teased the pirates, and then he bent down and blasted fire out of his mouth at the pirates, burning them into crisp. "This is it!" he said as he finished his breath of fire. He flew back into the middle window of the Schwartztrom Castle, and the Lizardmen went back inside too. After taking some rest, Nightmare orded the Lizardmen and golems to rebuild everything in the castle that were destroyed in the battle, including the big Nightmare statue on the roof of the castle.