Here's what happened between this story and the previous story:
Nightmare's monsters rebuilt the Schwartztrom Castle of anything that were destroyed by Cervantes and his fellow undead pirates, including the big statue of Nightmare on the top
The Lizardmen and golems went to call for more Lizardmen and golems to come and join the Schwartztrom, to replace the dead ones
Nightmare stole Cervantes' airship, the Adrian. Nightmare ordered his monsters to paint over the "The Adrian" label on the ship. Then he ordered them to paint the sail of the airship black, with a picture of Nightmare on it, and the word "Schwartztrom" painted below the Nightmare picture in italic red.
Nightmare told his monsters to study how the airship was created. They decided to modify this technology to create many small boat-like vehicles that could fly in the air at amazing speed, many tanks and they also decided to make some regular battleships
Now here's the story:
It was a cloudy, windy night in the coast of Korea. Hwang Sung Kyung, who was sailing his ship to defend the coast of Korea, looked out in the ocean with his binocular, checking if there are any enemies out in the sea. He didn't see any. His enemies hadn't appeared for almost a week now. Then a fellow defender of Korea walked next to Hwang, and looked at the pitch black ocean of the night.
"Hey..." he said to Hwang. The wind was blowing in Hwang's and the man's face, and their hair were blowing in the cold wind.
"Hi Fwang!" Hwang said as he stopped looking through his binocular and faced the man who we know as Fwang.
"It's windy, eh?" Fwang said.
"Sure" Hwang replied. "Where have our enemies gone? They haven't appeared for ages..."
"Our enemies, eh? They surrendered..."
"Did they?"
"That's my guess..." Fwang said. He looked up at the full moon, that could just be seen through a hole in the cloudy sky of the night. Hwang turned around and walked a bit around the deck of his battleship, stretching a bit.
Fwang looked into Hawng's binocular. But he saw a ship in the distance.
"Hwang!" Fwang shouted, somewhat excitedly. "Our enemies...they have arrived!"
"Where?"
"There!" Fwang said. He moved out of the way so Hwang could go and look through the binocular. He saw the ship Fwang saw.
"People!" Hwang shouted. "Attack! Our enemies have arrived!"
Hwang's men then got out of the ship and onto the deck. Hwang looked back, and now, the ship was close enough for him to see with his naked eyes.
"Where's our enemy?" the men asked.
"There!" Hwang said, pointing at the ship he saw.
The people went to their big cannons and fired at the ship in the distant while Hwang decided to take one last look at the ship through his binocular. He wasn't surprised when he saw that there were more than one battleship. But when he saw many small boats flying in the air, he was surprised!
"What the..." Hwang said quitely in disbelief. "Air boats?"
He noticed that on every boat, there was a lid on it. But Hwang didn't have the time to think about them.
"Watch out!" Hwang said as he quickly ran to a cannon. "Air boats!"
The people were confused when Hwang shouted that, but they ignored it and continued firing at the ship. But to their surprise, they saw many small airboats flying at the ship. They noticed lids on top of the air boats. Suddenly, the lid on one of the air boats opened, and a Lizardman stuck it's head out of it. The Lizardman roared and threw a bomb at Hwang's ship. The bomb hit one of Hwang's men, blowing him to pieces. The lids of the other boats also opened. Some revealing Lizardmen, others revealing golems. They threw bombs at Hwang's ship, killing many men and making the ship tilt violently.
"Attack!" Hwang shouted. The people fired at the air boats, destroying some of them. But they were too small and fast to be hit easily. Some of the air boats landed on the deck of Hwang's ship. Then some Lizardmen and golems came out of the ship and attacked Hwang's men using their many different weapons - from nunchakus to axes. Hwang's men fought back with their Chinese swords. The battles were fierce and bloody. Hwang fought them too. As time went on, more and more air boats landed on Hwang's ship, and more and more Lizardmen and golems appeared.
Some other Korean warships also came to fight the powerful force known as the Schwartztrom. A Schwartztrom ship then sailed towards them. The sail of the ship was black. A picture of Nightmare was painted on the sail, and under Nightmare was the word "Schwartztrom" in italic red. The Schwartztrom ship then fired at Hwang's ship. It hit Hwang's ship and made a hole underwater on the front of the ship. Hwang, his men, and the other monsters fighting on the ship didn't notice. They just continued fighting while the other Korean ships fired with their cannons at the Schwartztrom ships and the Schwartztrom's air boats.
Eventually, the front of Hwang's ship was filled with water, so the ship tilted on a 90 degree angle. All the Lizardmen, golems, Hwang and his men ran to the back of the ship as fast as they could. But only Hwang made it, while the rest slid off the ship and into the freezing cold water. They froze to death.
Hwang didn't know what to do. He was at the back of the ship, and the ship was tilted 90 degrees. But suddenly, the ship cracked in half. Hwang knew he wouldn't survive, so he turned around and jumped at another Korean warship. He landed on the other ship successfully, because he jumped from a very high point. Hwang then turned around and looked at his ship. The front half of the ship was already underwater, while the back of it sunk vertically. As soon as the ship was 100 underwater, Hwang turned around. Some Schwartztrom air boats had landed on this ship, and the Lizardmen and golems attacked the people of this ship. So Hwang, with his sword, the Blue Thunder, decided to help defeat these monsters. He sliced a Lizardman's head off. Then he kicked a golem on the face, knocking it off the ship and into the ice cold ocean.
Meanwhile, more and more Schwartztrom and Korean ships came to battle. The Schwartztrom's air boats interrupted the Korean ships. The battle raged on, with the Koreans fighting the uphill battle. After hours of battling, most of the Lizardmen, golems and Koreans were tired, but Hwang was strong enough to continue fighting easily. He slaughtered many of the Schwartztrom members with ease.
Eventually, dawn came. The Sun rose beautifully in the horizon, making a magnificent orange part in the seemingly endless ocean. Just before dawn, Hwang had slaughtered all the Lizardmen and golems that attempted to attack the ship that he was on. He looked at the horizon and couldn't believe what he just saw. In the sihloutte of the rising Sun, he saw a ship. But it wasn't any ordinary ship. The ship was an airship, a ship that could fly in the sky. And it was flying towards Hwang's ship at great speed. This airship was originally Cervantes' ship, The Adrian. Soul Edge gave this ship the power to fly. Hwang had heard stories of a flying ship called The Adrian about seven years ago when he was searching for Soul Edge, which was known to him as the Sword of Salvation.
"Cervantes? The Adrian?" Hwang asked himself quitely as he walked back.
The airship was flying closer and closer. When it got close enough, Hwang saw Nightmare painted on the ship's sail. He was now half thinking this wasn't The Adrian, but rather another airship. He thought for a moment, but he was forced to get into a fighting position when he saw a dragon-like creature jumping off the airship and onto the deck of the ship he was on. At first, Hwang couldn't tell what it was, as it was far away in the sihloutte of the rising Sun. But when it landed, Hwang could see clearly what it was...
It was a knight in azure armor, holding a gigantic fleshy zweihander sword with an eye on it. The knight was definitely not human, as it had a reptilian head, wings, two inhuman sized arm and a huge, brown muscular tail. The creature was none other than the Azure Nightmare (he kept his reptilian head, wings, right demon arm and tail from the previous story).
"Go home!" Hwang said, spinning around and kicking the air a few times.
"There's...no turning back!" Nightmare stated, lifting his huge zweihander sword, known as the legendary Soul Edge up from the ground.
From afar, Hwang, Nightmare and the ship they were on looked like nothing but a sihloutte in the huge, rising sun.
"Got you!" Nightmare said as he poked Hwang with his sword, who jumped and dodged. While Hwang was in the air, he got into a horizontal position, spun around and kicked Nightmare on the face. Nightmare flinched a bit. "Die, you pathetic soul!" he said as he did a vertical slam with his Soul Edge at Hwang, who sidestepped and dodged.
"Teeya!" Hwang shouted as he jumped at Nightmare and tried to kick him. But Nightmare flew to the side with his huge wings and dodged. Hwang nearly fell off the edge of the ship.
"This is it!" Nightmare said as he spun around and did a low horizontal slash at Hwang. But Hwang jumped, did a backflip and dodged. Hwang then turned around and slashed Nightmare twice with his Chinese sword. But Nightmare blocked with Soul Edge. He then tried to punch Hwang with his huge, clawed fist. As Nightmare did that, Hwang did a jump kick at Nightmare. But Nightmare slightly ducked as he punched and avoided the kick. But Hwang jumped over Nightmare's punch too. So now Nightmare and Hwang are both behind each other.
"You idiot!" Hwang said as he turned around and bashed Nightmare behind the head with the hilt of his sword. Nightmare stumbled forward, almost falling off the edge of the ship. Hwang then ran at Nightmare, kicked him twice with his left foot, then he spun around and kicked him with his right foot, knocking Nightmare off the edge of the ship and into the water.
Hwang assumed Nightmare to be dead, so he went up to a cannon on the ship and was about to fire at the Schwartztrom's airship when suddenly, the ship tilted around violently. Hwang looked down from the edge of the ship and saw that it was being sucked into the ocean by a whirlpool! He knew he had no choice but to jump to another ship. He ran to the back of the ship and tried to jump to another Korean ship. But he didn't make the jump and landed into the freezing cold water.
"Hwang!" Hwang heard a voice say. He looked up and saw a man on the ship he tried to jump to and saw a man calling his name. The man threw a rope down at Hwang. Hwang swam towards the rope, but before he made it, a huge, brown arm punched him from under the water, sending him flying over the ship he was swimming to, and he landed on a different Korean ship. Hwang got up and saw Nightmare flying out of the water and onto the ship he was on.
"Massacre!" Nightmare shouted as he spun around and slaughtered all the people on the ship except for Hwang. After that, Nightmare slowly stared at Hwang.
"Just die already!" Hwang said as he got into a fighting position.
"Fwaaahahahahahahahahahaha!" Nightmare laughed as he grabbed the hilt of Soul Edge upside down with his left hand, swung it around a bit and passed it to his right hand from behind his back. "You think that would of killed me? The great Nightmare? By pushing me into mere water? Ahahahahaha! How pathetic! Now, you shall experience a world of pain!" Nightmare said and then he blasted a beam of water at Hwang, sending him flying across the ocean until he landed on a Schwartztrom ship. Nightmare had swallowed water when he was in the water, and now he blasted them at Hwang. Hwang got up and looked around. A Lizardman holding elbow blades jumped at him and tried to hit him with the hilt of its right elbow blade. Hwang ducked and the Lizardman jumped over him. He then turned around and punched the Lizardman on the back of the head. The Lizardman jumped at him and tried to bite his head, but Hwang blocked with his sword. Hwang then kicked the Lizardman between the legs and it fainted. A golem then lunged at him with a giant scythe and tried to kill him with a vertical slash. Hwang blocked with his sword and kicked the golem on the stomach. The golem dropped it's weapon, put it's hands on it's stomach and bent down in pain. Hwang jumped, spun around 360 degrees in the air and kicked the golem on the nose, knocking it out. Hwang was then sent flying to the back of the Schwartztrom ship. He turned around and saw a golem, who just kicked him with it's huge foot.
"Outta my ship!" the golem said as it charged at Hwang with it's spiky club. It swung it's club at Hwang, but Hwang sidestepped and the club was stuck in the ground. Then Hwang stabbed the golem square in it's heart, killing it. Hwang was then tripped over by a sweeping staff. He rolled, got up and turned around. He saw a Lizardman with a staff. It poked Hwang and knocked him off the edge of the ship. Hwang just barely grabbed onto the edge. The Lizardman poked his fingers, and he fell down, but he grabbed onto a rope that was attached to the ship. Hwang climbed up the rope and saw the Lizardman with the staff. It assumed Hwang to be dead, so it turned around and continued on with what it was doing before. But Hwang jumped at it from behind and split it's head in half with a powerful vertical slash. Hwang then found himself being hit by a huge brown, muscular tail and tossed 50 feet up in the air. He landed down onto the ship on his back with a thump. When he got up, he saw Nightmare.
"Your nightmare isn't over yet!" Nightmare said evily and then he blasted a fireball from his mouth at Hwang. Hwang ducked the fireball, but he was hit by another one when he landed.
"Arrrggghhhhhhhhh!" he screamed in pain. He quickly ran off the edge of the ship and into the water to get rid of the flame around his body.
Nightmare looked around the Schwartztrom ship he was on. All the Lizardmen and golems on this ship were dead, so he didn't need to worry about killing his own monsters. He did a backflip, flew above the ship and burnt it with a firebreath, hoping it'll sink and hit Hwang, who was in the water near the ship. Hwang swam away as fast as he could, but soon he saw something moving in the water. It was a tail. At first, he thought it was a shark, then he thought it was a crocodile. But when he remembered that there weren't any crocodiles in the ocean, the thing jumped at him. It was a Lizardman. It jumped at him and tried to bite him. Hwang dived under the water and dodged. He then resurfaced, but there was no sight of the Lizardman. He put his head under the water, and after a few seconds, he saw the Lizardman swimming towards him under the water. Hwang tried to swim away, but he wasn't fast enough. The Lizardman headbutted him from under the water, and he went flying a few metres away. When Hwang landed back into the water, he turned around. The Lizardman was swimming at him again, and it was holding a sword. It tried to slash Hwang, but he blocked with his sword. He then kicked the Lizardman, pushing it away a little. He also used the kick to gain some speed, and he swam away as fast as he could towards the nearest ship. At the moment, he didn't care if he was swimming towards a Schwartztrom ship or a Korean ship. He only cared about something to stop at.
He reached the ship and saw a ladder. He climbed it, but he heard a roar when he climbed halfway. He looked down and saw the Lizardman coming after him, and it was climbing the ladder much faster than he could! It climbed up to Hwang and tried to stab him with it's sword, but Hwang jumped, did a backflip and grabbed back onto the ladder, but now he was under the Lizardman. He stabbed the Lizardman's right leg. It roared in pain, lost it's balance and fell back into the water. Hwang swung to the other side of the ladder so the Lizardman didn't land on him. After it fell in the water, Hwang took a deep breath, and then he swung back to the other side of the ladder and continued climbing.
When he reached the top, he realized he was on a Korean ship, but the men on it were fighting some Lizardmen and golems that attacked their ship. Hwang looked around, seeing if Nightmare was anywhere up in the sky. But before he noticed, he was hit by an armored knee from behind. Hwang went flying to the front of the ship. He turned around and saw Nightmare again.
"You're finished!" Hwang said as he ran at Nightmare.
"Begone!" Nightmare shouted as he lifted his sword with his left hand, then he thrusted it at a downward angle at Hwang's feet. But Hwang stopped running and dashed one step backward, dodging Nightmare's attack by a hair. Hwang then dashed forward and stabbed Nightmare with his sword. Nightmare was knocked back and fell down, but his armor protected him from harm. Hwang then put his left foot up until it touched his left shoulder. He then dropped it down onto Nightmare's face.
"How did you like that?" Hwang teased. Nightmare then got up, jumped and kicked Hwang twice in the air, knocking him down. Nightmare then started stomping on Hwang, who was on the ground screaming in pain.
"This is it!" Nightmare said as he finished his last stomp. But to his surprise, Hwang got up and did two overhead slashes at Nightmare, who blocked with Soul Edge just in time. Hwang then kicked Nightmare's right leg, but nothing happened as the armor protected Nightmare.
"Pathetic!" said Nightmare and then he flapped Hwang with his huge demon wings, sending him flying to another ship, which didn't have anyone on it as they were all dead. Nightmare flew after Hwang and tried to do a flying tackle at him, but Hwang jumped and kicked his head, knocking him down.
"Meet your doom!" said Hwang as he did a split and a vertical slice at Nightmare, but Nightmare blocked while on the ground. Nightmare then got up and did a low horizontal swing with Soul Edge at Hwang. He jumped over the swing, but Nightmare spun around did a low tail sweep at him. Hwang landed on Nightmare's tail, and he was tripped over. Nightmare then lifted his right leg slowly above Hwang, who was on the floor. Hwang knew he'll be stomped if he didn't move, so he rolled back and got up. Nightmare then stomped the ground and caused a small explosion. But it had enough force to crack the ship in half. Hwang saw a little rocky island on the side of the ship with a palm tree on it. He quickly jumped to the island before the ship even halfway sank. Nightmare flew and followed him there. He flew directly above Hwang. Then he fell down and tried to stomp on his head. But Hwang did a cartwheel to the side and dodged. Hwang then slashed Nightmare twice, but Nightmare held Soul Edge vertically and blocked both hits.
"Got you!" said Nightmare as he did an uppercut with his huge arm and knocked Hwang down. Nightmare then turned around and slammed Hwang with his huge tail. But before Nightmare could turn around again, Hwang got up, dropped his sword and grabbed Nightmare's tail. Then he swung him around, around, and around. Eventually, he threw Nightmare over the horizon, and it seemed as if Nightmare went flying and dissapeared into the rising Sun.
Hwang took a deep breath and sat down, leaning on the single palm tree on the island. He grabbed the sword he dropped before, and he looked at himself in the blade's reflection. Blood ran down his head, and there were marks everywhere from the battle against Nightmare. He then put his sword beside him, while still holding it with his right hand, and looked at the beutiful scene of the sunrise. His mind was temporarily away from Nightmare and the Schwartztrom, until he saw something in the horizon. At first he thought it was a bird, but it got bigger and bigger. When he saw the thing had bat wings, he knew who it was. Nightmare. He was back...again...
"I will show you..." Nightmare shouted as he flew at Hwang in unimaginable speed. Hwang got up and looked at Nightmare, holding his sword firmly with his right hand. "...the greatest nightmare!" Nightmare continued and he flew at Hwang and punched him. Hwang went flying into the horizon...over the clouds and the seemingly endless oceans. He eventually fell unconcious while soaring through the sky.
When he woke up, he found himself in a bed, which was in a familiar place. At first, he thought he just had a nightmare, but he knew it wasn't when he felt the pain all over his body when he tried to get up. He felt pain as soon as he tried to move, so he just layed still, looking up at the ceiling. He wondered where he was...the place looked very familiar, but he didn't bother thinking about it, as an excruciating pain in his leg kept taking his mind from it. He then heard some footsteps.
"Hwang! You woke up?" he heard a familiar voice asking. It didn't take long before he knew who it was. It was his Master, Seung Han Myong. From that moment on, he knew where he was. He was somehow back in his dojo.
"Hwang?" Seung Han Myong asked again.
"Yeah?" Hwang answered in a tired voice.
"I found you on a beach unconcious, so I just bought you back here" Han Myong said as he sat on a small chair next to Hwang's bed. "What happened?"
"I fought Nightmare..."
"Nightmare?"
"The wielder of the Sword of Salvation..."
Han Myong widened his eyes when he heard that. "So did you take the sword from him?"
"No...only because it isn't really the Sword of Salvation..." he said. Han Myong looked at him, confused. "The sword is evil. That's all I know. It's wielder had inhuman sized claws, a tail and pitch black wings. And the sword had a demon eye on it..."
Han Myong thought for a while. "Well, you just take some rest here..." he said. Then he left the room.