Disclaimer: Again I don't own any of the characters portrayed in this fic. Do I have to keep writing this every time?

Chapter 3: Nightmare Awoken

1 day earlier

The sun was overhead as its heat beat down on the blue knight that stood on the grassy field. The single lone figure holding a large but deformed shaped sword glared ahead on the large expanse. The grass wasn't very tall barely reaching up to the ankles of the figure that stood five feet six inches. Its left arm was also deformed with claws where its hand should be. The azure armor covered his entire body from head to foot, his eyes glowed read through his helmet as he glared ahead.

The sound was a loud as thunder and the beating of several thousand feet hit against the earth, all going in the direction of the azure knight, but the azure night didn't waver he stood his ground then declared.

"You shall be my nourishment!" He shouted lifting the deformed weapon.

Thousands of armored knights ran through the grassy field with all their strength as they prepared for battle, they had covered the entire northern part of the soon to be battlefield, from a birds eye perspective they were like thousands of ants going after a meal, but their target was the one who viewed them as his meal.

As the first couple dozen knights drew their swords and prepared to strike their adversary, the wondering knight swung his mighty sword in an arc, though the sword was a big as he was he swung it as if it was as light as a feather. There was a chaotic upheaval of bodies as the sword ripped through their armors like a hot knife through butter, and the force of his swing sending their now lifeless corpses into the air. Now even more warriors had surrounded the azure knight, their numbers ranged in the hundreds, but the monstrous warrior was unfazed as they prepared one final sprint to close the distance between themselves and the mighty warrior he swung his blade again this time in a complete three hundred and sixty degrees, their mutilated corpses then hit the ground as the blade ripped through their metal armor, flesh and bone as if it were mere paper.

"GIVE ME YOU SOULS!" The monster demanded, and then struck his sword into the ground, and an eye opened on one of its sides. Soon a powerful burst of energy in the form of a sphere emanated from the sword it constantly grew larger and larger as it engulfed all the azure knight's enemies.

Then there was silence after the tremendous amount of energy that was expelled and a green gaseous substance began to emerge from the bodies of the warrior's charred victims, as they slowly rose into the atmosphere they began to flow into the eye of the sword.

A few hours later

It had already past midday and the thousands of bodies that now lay in the field had attracted the attention of many scavengers, from foxes, to birds to insects. Finally two more figures made their way into the battlefield one male and one female. The dark haired Chinese female gasped as she saw the carnage but he Chinese male didn't flinch.

"Who could have done this Killik?" The woman asked.

"It seems our information was accurate Xianghua," Killik replied.

"So the azure knight has returned," Xianghua stated.

Killik only wore a red long pants and warrior's boots, his upper half was exposed, with a glowing green pendent that hung around his neck and had a leather strap on his back that held his staff weapon, Xianghua had on a one piece black dress that stopped a little past her hips and had a white part by her chest, along with thigh high black boots.

"He can't be much farther," Killik said. "This massacre looks like it only happened a few hours ago."

The two soon departed together.

The monster that caused the earlier carnage now walked alone on a dirt path surrounded by trees of both sides of the path. He suddenly stopped and turned around two see two figures running towards him.

"Nightmare," Killik shouted as he stopped short of the Azure knight.

"Let me share with you my madness," Nightmare declared.

"Listen my soul rages with strength," Killik replied.

Killik they drew his staff from it's case and ran towards Nightmare.

"Be careful!" Xianghua shouted at Killik as she to also drew a chinese sword and prepared for battle against Nightmare.

As Killik swung his staff against Nightmare he caught it with his clawed arm and crushed it in half much to Killik's surprise. Nightmare then knocked Killik back with his elbow. Xianghua then came up to Killik's side.

"What!" Killik exclaimed.

"HA HA HA!" The beast exclaimed, "Gotta come better than that, this won't be like our last time."

But before Killik had time to do anything else Nightmare appeared before them with blinding speed, he held his had up and swung down on where Killik knelt but the cursed sword was stopped by another sword. Killik looked up to see a cloaked man dressed in white and a white beard stop the colossal warrior.

"Quickly you must escape," Their new ally declared in a rough tone. Killik quickly recognized the voice.

"Master, the…," He started but was stop off.

"I know he has grown too powerful, we no longer have any change of defeating him," The master explained.

"Edgemaster then what do we do?" Xianghua asked.

Nightmare fell back for a moment slightly surprised at the new arrival but he was happy it would be another soul for him to feed to the sword. He reversed his grip on his sword and prepared to strike again.

"Quickly you two must escape," Edgemaster stated as he saw Nightmare prepare for another assault, "I'll try to slow him down for you to escape."

"But you just said we cannot defeat him," Killik replied to his master's comment.

"Go to Greece, by the old Gods temple," Edgemaster said, "According to some recent information the only warrior who has the power to defeat Nightmare is currently there, but you have to hurry he might not stay there long."

Killik nodded and grabbed Xianghua's hand as he prepared to leave but Xianghua quickly pulled back.

"We can't leave Edgemaster alone, he said we cannot defeat Nightmare, that means Nightmare will kill him," She protested.

"I know but if we all stay we all will die, this way if we find the warrior in Greece we can avenge master's death and out death's won't be in vain," Killik pleaded with Xianghua.

"But…" Xianghua was still unsure.

"Trust me," Killik replied.

This time it was Xianghua's turn to nod in agreement. They both looked back at Edgemaster one final time before running off.

Nightmare had lounged towards his opponent, Edgemaster tried to block the blow but was overpowered and knocked back. The elderly was now on one knee, he held his sword with both hands now as he stood up against his approaching adversary, quickly he leaped into the air and slashed downwards while he descended at Nightmare but the slash would be incomplete as Nightmare using the same speed as before thrust the cursed sword upward and into the old man, it pierced through his chest while he was still in midair. The sword fell from his hand as he hung there blood from the open wound pouring onto the blade the eye of the sword opened, Edgemaster screamed out a deafening sound until his voice box was shattered and was unable to scream anymore, it only took a second for the sword to absorb the soul, Nightmare held the lifeless corpse in mid-air for a second as it continued to hang from his sword, then he swung his sword outward throwing his now dead adversary onto the ground, he was about to chase after the two who had escaped but another sight had caught his attention. Nightfall had descended and behind him he could make out the lights in a village, it was a small typical village that filled the area, filled with farmers and their families, he could see women and children in the streets coming out to greet their fathers and husbands who had been farming whole day apparently the sound of the screaming Edgemaster had caused the people to be alert.

"Ahhh, dinner," Nightmare said happily in his rough tone as he headed off in the direction towards the village.