Talim told Damien where that cathedral is. For many reasons, it is best for me not to mention it's location now, all I can say is that the cathedral was somewhere on a mountain. At least that's what Talim told him. Damien opened up a portal, which transported all four of us to that mountain. Unfortunately, he didn't actually transport us in the cathedral. That's because it was really on top of that mountain. He wasn't really pleased with this, but he still needed both of us to find Soul Calibur, so he couldn't kill us in his rage. He made us lead him the way to the cathedral.

It did take a while before we had reached the top. I am not sure why we weren't transported so far away, maybe Damien wanted us to suffer, or Talim thought this could save us some time so we can cook something up to beat this guy. When we reached the cathedral, nothing has been cooked up however. On top of that, knowing how the stories had described the cathedral, and seeing what it looked like when we were there, it really amazed me in such a way that I lost all concentration. This way, they could easily snatch Talim away without me noticing it in time to stop them. The zombie girl grabbed her. I tried to stop her, but Damien pushed me away. Despite the fact that Talim had put up a good fight, the zombie took away her tonfas. The zombie placed Talim's hands on the wall, and pinned the tonfas on the wall, in such a way it would look like she's chained to the wall.

"Don't worry about your maiden!" Damien said, "She won't be able to stop you from finding the sword!"

My guess is that he thought I was easier to break then Talim. He believed I would want to find the sword for him, whereas Talim would only agree so she can perform an ambush. Why is it that these kind of people are always able to distinguish the weakest from the strongest?

I knew what he wanted me to do. But I don't know what I should do! This cathedral lies in ruins, so looking for Soul Calibur here would take ages. Maybe those granite images of Soul Calibur could be of help.

"One of those swords must be the one!" I guessed out loud.

Damien said something to the zombie. She swayed her blade around, destroyed all of the 'swords', but they all turned out to be fake.

Damien wasn't happy: "The sword's not here!"

"Well..." I had another idea where to find it, "there was this woman called Xianghua to whom it once belonged, but to find someone who only exists in..."

He didn't let me finish what I wanted to say. He give me one hard push, and drew Soul Edge, saying: "I won't listen to you anymore!"

He started to sway the sword, only narrowly missing me. Then I remembered that I still had one metal fragment in my pocket. The floor we were on was surrounded by water, so I took out the fragment, and threatened to throw it in the water.

"What do you hope to accomplish?" Damien asked.

I tried to sound even more threatening: "You kill me now, and this rock will fall in the water! When that happens, Soul Edge will never have it's full strength!"

His voice all on it's own made it seem he wasn't intimidated: "I don't need you to give me that fragment, nor does it matter whether or not you throw it away!"

He grabbed my throat again, and threw me away from the water. I fell pretty hard on that floor, and the rocks. But... then it turned out Damien just signed his own contract of death, when I found a lit sticking out of the rocks. I looked back to him. He marched to me, raised Soul Edge, and strikes it down. I grabbed that lit, took the sword out just in time and used it as a shield to guard myself against the attack. After the sparks faded away, both Damien and I could see the sword I just used. Another sword with an eye, with a split end: Soul Calibur!

"It's only a fairy tale, huh!?" I said, suddenly finding the kind of courage I never had before.

I pushed Soul Edge away, giving myself the chance to get up. The stories say that Soul Calibur lends it's powers to it's wielder. Fighting off Damien, I found out that that part of the story was true. I was fighting him with the sword as if I had never done anything else in my life. For once in my life I felt like nothing could beat me. I was surprised to see that the zombie girl didn't step into the fight. Maybe she only does whatever she's told to do, and since Damien didn't tell her to help him, she wasn't helping him either. Another thing that was weird was the fact that I could realize such things while not losing focus on the battle.This sword truly does make the wielder invincible.

There was a moment when Damien had enough of fighting me. He raised his sword again, to give me the final blow. What happened then went so fast I only remember how it began and how it ended: with my sword's split end, I could easily catch his sword, next thing I remember Soul Edge was stuck in the floor. Damien wanted to pull it out, but I stabbed him with Soul Calibur, through his bulletproof vest, which immediately absorbed him. When it was done, all that there was left of Damien was his trenchcoat, bulletproof vest and whatever else he wore. His death seemed to have had it's effect on the zombie as well, for she dropped down the minute Damien was gone. I looked at Talim. We both knew that thé moment has arrived. We didn't need words to express how we felt at this situation. One last heroic deed for Soul Calibur became to destroy the wall on which Talim was pinned, allowing us to spend one last night together.