Thor's Notes: Whenever a chapter has a battle in it, the face off will be given at the start of a chapter. The main character will be listed as well as his opponents and the type of battle. When a main character faces off with more then one opponent in a chapter, the symbol (x) will indicate he will fight them at the same time. The symbol (--) will represent he will face the combatants one at a time. That should cover the fighting for now until later in the fic

The Alexandra Sisters

(Sauron vs. Sophitia x Cassandra)

After the fair, Rothion took his kids back to his estate. Pyrrha and Patroklos ran inside anxious to show off their new toy, but Rothion couldn't shake off the horror he had to encounter at the fair. Pyrrha and Patroklos both ran in the house and started calling.
"Mama Mama!" they ran in screaming. A woman came to greet them, but she wasn't their mother.
"Well, welcome back. Sophitia, they're back." The woman who greeted them was Cassandra, sister of Sophitia and the aunt of the children.
"Aunty Cassandra!" Pyrrha ran towards Cassandra Holding up her ball. "Look at what I got at the festival."
"Wow! Now that's a nifty looking toy." Cassandra played to Pyrrha, but then her attention was drawn to Pyrrha's hand that had what appeared to be a brass ring on one of her fingers. "Hey Pyrrha, were did you get that ring?"

"Oh, this ring?" Pyrrha answered. "I found it at the festival…on the ground. Does it make me look pretty?"

"It sure does." Then another woman entered the room.

"Welcome home" said the woman.

"Mommy!" shouted the kids as they ran to their mother. "Is dinner ready yet mama?"

"Not yet. It won't be for some time now." Sophitia answered.

"That means we have time to play." Said Patroklos as he ran to Cassandra. "Aunty Cassandra, come play with us."

"Alright, but don't tire me out too much." Said Cassandra as Pyrrha and Patroklos dragged her outside.

Rothion and his wife were left alone. "I offered my sister a night here with us tonight. Will that be alright with you, dear?" Sophitia asked Rothion, but Rothion didn't answer for he was still concerned on how to handle his situation with Sauron. Sophitia started to get worried. "Rothion, is something wrong?"

"Who…oh! Yeah, that's fine with me. She is my sister-in-law, right?" Rothin answered trying to cover up his thought. "Well…I…I better go…see what our children are doing to Cassandra. By all means, they could lock her in the stocks again." He runs off putting on the fakest laugh. Sophitia wasn't fooled for a second. Her intuition told her that something was horribly wrong.

That night, Cassandra slept downstairs in the guest room, the children in the nursery, and Sophitia slept next to her husband in their room, but Rothion couldn't sleep that night. He had a job to do. He got out of bed, put on his night robe and went to the chest in the other side of the room. He got the key and opened the chest, inside was a few family air looms. He reached in and took out a sack. He opened it and placed in his hand 9 shards of Soul Edge.

"What do I do? If I don't give Sauron the shards, my family is in danger, but if I do give them to him, the whole world is in peril. Why must it happen to me? …Wait, he knows I have shards of Soul Edge, but he doesn't know how many. That's it! I'll just give him four and keep the other five. He won't know."

At that, he took out only four shards and put the rest back in the sack. He then pits the sack on the table and heads for the door. But before he could leave, he is surprised by a small figure and almost screamed aloud, but he sees it is just Pyrrha and stops himself.

"Pyrrha? What are you doing up this late?"

"I was just thirsty, so I went looking for water."

"What? Well, I'll give you a cup of water when I get back, but daddy must do something very important right now. I want you to crawl in bed and stay there. I'll be back soon."

"But Daddy…."

"No buts! Look, it is dangerous out tonight. So please go to bed and stay there." At that, he walks out leaving Pyrrha alone. Before long, Sophitia comes up behind her. She heard the whole thing and had already grabbed her sword, shield, and battle attire.

"Pyrrha, what did your father say to you?"

"Nothing! Just to go to bed."

"I see. Well it is best you do as he says. Don't get up until we come home." She leaves and once again, Pyrrha was left alone. When everyone was gone, she turned her attention to the sac with the shards of Soul Edge."

Rothion waits in the courtyard to hear from Sauron.

"Alright, I got what you want. Now tell me where to go so I can give you the shards and you can stay out of my life."

Sauron finally speaks. "Patience, my friend. You'll get my location, but first, I want to see the friend you brought."

"What!" Rothion is alerted by a sound behind him. As he looks, he sees his wife.

"Rothion, what are you doing out in the middle of the night? Why did you take the shards of Soul Edge?"

"Who is this?"

"Nobody! Let me send her away." To Sophitia. "Look, there is something I have to do to keep our family safe. Please go home and watch the kids."

"But…"

"Now now, she is only worried about you, so why don't you bring her along. Go to the far side of your citadel. I expect you to bring your friend with you."

"WAIT…err" "Fine, you may come along, but please let me handle stuff."

"O.k." Rothion goes to the citadel and Sophitia follows. They head to the back of the church as instructed. When they get there, they notice that one of the mosaics was reflecting the moon light onto the ground.

"Place them in the light." Sauron speaks aloud and Sophitia even hears him. Rothion does what he says and immediately places the four shards on the ground in the light and quickly backs away. At first all was still, but soon, the ground began to shake in rhythm under Sauron's footsteps. He comes close enough to the light that the two could see him completely. Even Sophitia cringed in fear when she saw him. He stared at them for a while, and then he looked down and saw the shards and picked them up.

Rothion step forward. "There, all the shards I have. You got what you want. Now leave me and my family and never come back!"

Sauron counts the shards in his hand, but then shakes his head. "Hmm, I thought we had an agreement."

"Huh?"

"You were supposed to bring me all the shards you have." He then held out his and. For a while, nothing happened, but then, the remaining five shards of soul edge seem to appear out of thin air and land in his hand.

"What the?" Sophitia asked. There was a slight pause, and then all of a sudden, Pyrrha appeared right next to Sauron. She is holding what appears to be a ring right off her finger. "Pyrrha!"

"No! Sauron, how could you kidnap my daughter like that?"

"I didn't kidnap her." Said Sauron. "She came out of her own free will. If you want her back, then take her."

"…O.k. Pyrrah, step away from the black knight and come back to daddy."

"Why!" asked Pyrrha.

"Pyrrha, listen to your dad!" Sophitia couldn't help but to cut in. "That man is dangerous. Some to us now!"

Pyrrha looks at them, then at Sauron. "But the knight is really nice to me."

"Pyrrha?" Sophitia had no idea what was with her daughter."

"It is useless. See that ring she is holding?" He points out the brass ring in her hand. "It is my personal property which is always connected to me. Any one who possesses it is under my influence. Normally, I would of perished the moment I was separated from it. But…" Holds up his shards of Soul Edge. "These shards seem to be able to sustain my life for a set period."

"You…you got what you want! Please give me my daughter back and leave. I swear, that is all of the shards we own." Rothion begged.

"Well, We agreed to you giving me all of the shards you had in exchange for your families safety, but since you dropped your end of the bargain, I don't know if I can keep up mine." Said Sauron.

"I had enough of your chit-chat!" Sauron turns around to see Cassandra with her shield and sword.

"Cassandra?" Said her sister surprised.

"Messing with Soul Edge is bad enough, but messing with my family my. Now I must beat you down." Cassandra said as she drew her sword.

Sophitia then gets up. "I'm afraid that with us two together, we are a formidable force. It is best you surrender now or we will be forced to take action."

"A fight between two women. Interesting, I wish to see what you can do." Sauron said as he grabbed his staff.

"That's it, you just sealed your fate." Cassandra charges Sauron.

"Wait! Cassandra!" Sophitia said, but then she charged Sauron as well.

Sauron was surrounded, but he was still relaxed. Just before they were in striking distance, he stomped the ground hard and caused them to lose balance, Sophitia was the first to regain and started slashing at Sauron, but he was able to deflect all of the blows with ease. She is knocked a way as Cassandra gets a few shots, but is unable to break his defense. As he fights Cassandra, Sophitia gets up and tries to catch him off guard. As they close in on him together, Sauron drops to one knee and hurls his staff across his body and lets go of it, but instead of going in one direction, it orbits his body at blinding speed. The sisters were forced to put up their shields to block the quick attack. After being pushed back, Cassandra finally ducked under the orbiting staff and charged Sauron. Sauron turns his attention, but Sophitia then jumps over the attack and aimed to attack him from above. Sauron recalled his staff and braced for the double attack. The sisters pounced, but they were both stopped as Sauron used the staff to block Cassandra's sword, and used his hand to catch Sophitia's. The three stood there in a deadlock for a few seconds, then Sauron throws them aside like they were nothing. Cassandra was the first one back up and started an offensive on Sauron. Sophitia soon got up and was about to strike Sauron, but Sauron parried Cassandra away and raises his staff at Sophitia. Sauron goes in the offensive for the first time and with great force. Sophitia blocks the first strike, but the force nearly broke her arm. She ducks the second one, she tried to parry the third one with her sword, but her sword completely shatters. Then Sauron put all his might into the next attack and hit Sophitias shield and caused it to break into peaces and breaks her arm. Sophitia drops to the ground and holds her damaged arm.

Cassandra watches her sister get mangled. "Sophitia? No!" Cassandra charges Sauron in a fit of rage. But Sauron quickly turns around and blocks the attack and knocks the sword out of her hand. Then Sauron hold out an empty palm at Cassandra. Nothing happened at first, but then Sauron fires a sonic boom at Cassandra and sends her flying into a wall behind her. She stumbles to her knees and passes out from the blow.

"YOU MONSTER!" Sophitia gets up quickly and kicks Sauron in the head, but since his body is made of metallic, she ends up just breaking her leg. Sauron was unphaised, but there was something about the kick that caught his attention. Sophitia could barely stand now. "Don't underestimate our resolve!" She yelled with all her might, but then Sauron Began laughing.

"Ha ha ha! Now that was clever. I didn't even sense them there. That is a good idea hiding them there."

"What are you talking about?"

"Don't you know? Let me show you." At that he raises his arm, and Sophitia seems to rise with it. Soon, one arm, both legs and a shoulder seemed to be stuck in place.

"What the?" Rothion said as his wife dangled in the air trying to get free. He would attack, but he knew he wouldn't stand a chance against him.

"Hiding shards of Soul Edge in your body. Pure genius." Sauron continued to hold up Sophitia, but with a motion of Sauron's hand, her body jerked and out flew four pieces of Soul Edge from her limbs in a splash of blood. The shards flew into Sauron's hand while Sophitia was dropped to the ground bleeding badly. She passes out.

"Sophitia?" Rothion was in disbelief. He quickly runs to Sophitia and holds her in his arms. "Sophitia. Wake up."

Sauron holds all the shards in his hand, then he places them all in his arm and they stick like magnets. He looks around. "Well, I think that was the last of the Soul Edge shard in this area. Since you entertained me for the time I was here, I shall leave you to die the way you see best." He looks to Pyrrha. "I shall be needing my ring back." The ring disappeared from Pyrrha, and magically appeared on Sauron's finger. Pyrrha then seems to snap out of a trance, took one look at Sauron, and runs to her daddy screaming. "I shall take my leave now." He then walks out of the ally. Cassandra finally comes to, and sees Sauron just before he disappears into the night. Cassandra, struggles to her feet, then sees Rothion and Pyrrha struggling to revive Sophitia. She limps over to join them, just as imperial guards came to see what was happening.