Resolved Soul

By: BlackShadowtheking

Chapter 1:The Village of the Wind

Several days had past ever since the duel of Cervantes and Nightmare ended. The dread Pirate soon after recovering the zweihandler sword from Nightmare began a killing spree to every harbor he went. As Cervantes continued on with his buisness Nightmare had washed up onto an unkown beach and had been lying there for several hours. His soft breaths were hardly noticable to a normal human unless the person got in close reach of Nightmare. The sun clearly shining a bright and lighting up the land in a warm glow.

Nightmare suddenly as if it had been centuries ever since he last moved, started to slowly move his right monsterous arm. It's claws digging into the yellow sand and scraping it up as he began to push himself up from the ground and onto his feet. The sound of sand pouring from his armour echoed inside him. The bleeding of his wounds had stopped but only because of his abnormal ability to heal fast. The wound however was still fresh and would easily bleed again if disturbed badly. Nightmare who took several minutes to get to his feet now stood in a hunchback like stance and began to slowly walk along the beach.

His heavy feet sinking into the sand with each step he took. The warm sand pouring into his armour boots started to weigh it down some. Making his movement even more sluggish. As he keep on walking along the beach he soon came across a dirt path leading away from the beach and into a nearby forest. He stood there for a few minutes staring at the path thinking about things like "what if theres people at the other end of this path? and if there are people have they heared of the stories of a monster called Nightmare who killed thousands of people and devoured their soul?" After thinking about it for a few mintues the Knight decided to press forward taking his chances with the path and what may lay at the end of it.

Hours had flown by, and the sun was finally in the dead center of the sky indicating that it was noon and inside Nightmare's armour he was burning up. Sweat instead of blood was driping out of his helmet and out of every opening of his armour. The dark color of his armour seemed to have attracted sunlight and was burning him up inside. Nightmare then fell to one knee gasping and despritaley breathing for air. His vision of the path had become dull and fuzzy. And the more he keep the armour on the more his vision got worse. He would have taken of his armour but his helmet was almost basically burried within his skin and the mutant arm had grown over his chest armour thereby making it almost impossible for him to take off his armour.

When Nightmare had almost reached the end of the path, he finally collasped to the ground, exhausted and burning up the end had seemed near to him. The path now all nothing up fuzzy and bright light, it seemed the only thing he could do was lay down and rest in peace. But a second before he closed his eyes he heared at soft yell, of a young girl. Nightmare opened his eyes to see a girl, about 15 or so with black medium length hair, had what seem to be a blue cloth draped over her white top, and she wore sandles and white pants. The sound of her soft and sweet voice seemed to have made some of the pain he felt go away. "please hold on, I'll be there in a second"

The girl quickly ran towards his side. Checking the knight to see whats wrong with him. The girl had noticed the Knight was burning up from the armour he was wearing. She tried to remove the helmet from his head but to no advail. The armour was piecered into his skin and wouldn't budge. Trying to find a way to save the knight she threw his right monster arm over her shoulder and tried with all her strenght to lift him off the ground and get him to her village. "Don't worry sir your gonna be allright, just please hold in there" the girl said as she began carry the knight towards her village.

Nightmare turned his dulled red eyes at the girl as she struggled abit as she carried the Knight. He tried to open his mouth to speak but he was so exhausted that only dry breaths came out. She turned her head towards him as she heared him trying to speak. "please don't speak you'll need all the strenght you'll need if you want to live." she said as she looked back at Nightmare with her own brown eyes. The Knight nodded while underneath his helmet smiled abit and then passed out.

When Talim returned to her village the people soon surrounded her as she brought the armour clad man to village square and into her Family's house. "Mom, Dad, Grandma please come here quickly please, theres a man here about ready to die, we need to help him!" She yelled as she entered the house. Her father first came down from upstairs and took nightmare off his daughters shoulders and layed him on a couch like furniter. Her grandma and mother soon came into the room and began to remove the skin covered armour slowly but effictivaley.

End of Chapter! Please reveiw.

Disclamour:I don't know anything Soul Calibur they all belong to Namco.

Next Chapter:Nightmare's Awakening.