Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of Soul Calibur. Namco does!

A/N: I know I usually have the characters and I interact with eachother during the disclaimer but I don't feel like it again today!

It was the early morning and the sun was just begininng to peak it's bright face over the horizon. The birds where out and chriping already. But their beautiful morning song was being drowned out by Nightmare's loud snoring.

Tira was already wide awake and staring at the little images of Soul Edge on the blanket that is being used as the "water-proof tarp". Thanks to Nightmare, she hardly got any sleep. She was lying on her side and covered her ears if her pillow. Sadly, she could still hear Nightmare snore. (A/N: It's better than him talking in his sleep...)

"Why the hell didn't I just sleep in the car...?" Tira asked herself quietly.

Nightmare slowly sat up and yawned. He looked over at Tira and placed his normal hand on her shoulder.

"Good Morning, Tira!" He said cheerfully, with a hint of tiredness in his voice.

Tira growled out something that sounded like 'Good Morning Nighty...'

Nightmare tilted his head to the side. "Tira...you OK?"

Tira slowly sat up, her hair all messed up. She slowly turned her head to look at Nightmare and tried to smile a happy smile. Instead, it looked like a 'I'm going to kill you' smile.

"I'm peachy...how are you?" She said trying to stay "happy".

Nightmare looked into her blood-shot eyes. "Tira...were you drinking last night?"

"No...I was sleeping next to you all night long."

"But you look as if you hardly got any sleep."

"I didn't because you were snoring all night long..."

Nightmare's eyes narrowed. "I was not..."

"Yeah you were! You were snoring so loud that you probably scared the fish in the lake!"

"They're just jealous..."

Tira got up.

"Where are you going?" Nightmare asked.

"I'm going to change...Where can I do that?"

"Um...Behind a bush?"

Tira grabbed her clothes and walked out of the tent. Nightmare sat in the tent and twidled his thumbs.

Five minutes later, Tira walked back in her SC IV 1P outfit.

"Nightmare, when are going to change?"

"It's kind of hard to take the armor off because of my sexy arm." Nightmare said as he held up his deformed hand.

Tira rolled her eyes and walked out of the tent once again. Nightmare followed soon after. The sun was already high in the sky.

"Look at that Tira...Isn't the outdoors beautiful?" Nightmare asked as he wrapped an arm around the girl.

"It's nice..." she muttered.

Nightmare gasped and ran up to the lake shore. "Look at that Tira! A turtle!"

He pointed at a giant, mean looking turtle who was still sleeping in the sand.

"Um, Nighty. I think that turtle is a snapping turtle."

"Nonsense Tira! It's perfectly harmless." He said as he walked up to the turtle.

"Nighty, I-"

"Tira! This turtle is harmless."

"It's eyes are open..."

The turtle was glaring at Nightmare.

"Watch! It won't bite me!" Nightmare began petting the turtle. "What a nice turtle!"

The turtle lifted it's head up and bit Nightmare's deformed hand.

"Ow! Dammit!!" Nightmare yelled as he ran around with the turtle still clinging to his hand. "Tira! Get it off! GET IT OFF ME!!"

Tira watched Nightmare run around with the turtle biting him. A cute little smile came across her face as she watched her master's anguish.

The turtle let go of Nightmare's hand, hissed at him and went into the lake. Nightmare rubbed his deformed hand and blew on it.

"There, there my sexy hand..."He said gently to his deformed hand. "That mean ol' turtle won't ever hurt you ever again..."

At this point, Tira was laying on the ground laughing very hard. Nightmare glared at her.

"Stop that!" Nightmare yelled at her. "Now fetch me the first aid kit!"

When Tira was done laughing, she did just like her master ordered her to do. She zipped the red bag open and pulled out a few bandages.

"Wait! Aren't you suppose to spray something first so then my hand won't get infected with germs?!"

Tira looked at his deform hand then back at his face. "It already looks infected..."

"But it was an animal bite! What if that creature had rabies?!"

"Then we'll pray that you got a rabies shot." Tira said as she wrapped a bandage around his hand.

"Since when did you know first aid?"

"I don't know! Blame the writer!"

"...Stupid writer..."

"How does it feel?" Tira asked when she finished with the bandage.

"...It's OK. But I missed my deformed hand."

Tira punched his head and went into the tent. Nightmare rubbed the spot Tira punched him.

"Your mean!" He yelled at her.

"I know I am!" she yelled from inside the tent.

Nightmare was now looking at the water. He was watching the pretty blue water ripple as a gentle breeze blew. He let his mind wander and imagined he was a fish. Swimming in a deep sea with other fish that looked just like him...

The sound of a car horn was heard, shattering Nightmare's day dream. A nice looking red car parked right next to Nightmare's piece o' junk yellow car. Two figures step out of the car, a male and a female.

"This is such a pretty place!" the female said. "Oh goodie! We have neighbors, too!"

"I think I see one of them now, sweet heart!" The male figure said. He began waving at Nightmare. "Hiya, neighbor!"

Nightmare glared and shoke his fist at his newly found neighbors. "This our spot!"

"Oh, isn't that swell? He's waving at us to come say hello!" the lady said.

"Let's go say hi!"

The two walked over to Nightmare.

"Hello, new neighbor! My name is Xianghua."

"And I'm Kilik."

"...Nice to meet you. I'm Nightmare..." Nightmare muttered.

"Don't you think this place is beautiful Mister Nightmare?" Kilik asked.

"It was OK till you two got here..."

"Oh, Nightmare is such a long name. Can we call you "Nighty"?" Xianghua asked.

"No! No one calls me that!" Nightmare yelled.

"OK then! We'll call you Nighty!" Xianghua said cheerfully.

"Nightmare," Tira asked poking her head out of the tent. "Who's here?"

Xianghua gasped. "Your not alone?!"

Kilik looked at Tira and motioned her to come over. Tira shrugged and walked over.

"Is this your kid?" Xianghua asked as she pulled on Tira's cheek.

"Ouch!" Tira slapped Xianghua's hand. "I'm not his kid!"

"So...are you married?" Kilik asked.

"No!" both Nightmare and Tira said.

"I'm his room mate..." Tira said.

"Oh..."Kilik said. "Well, we're your neighbors now!"

"That's right! We're celebrating our ten week anniversery!" Xianghua said before kissing Kilik on the lips.

"Good for you..." Tira growled.

"We honestly don't care." Nightmare added. "Now can you leave us alone?"

"Sure we will!" Kilik answered cheerfully. "Besides we need to set up our campsite. We're having a BBQ tonight. Do you wish to join us?"

"Sure!" Tira and Nightmare answered.

"That's awesome!" Xianghua said. "Buh-bye now!"

The two waved and walked over to their car.

"Well...at least we'll get free food." Tira whispered to Nightmare.

A/N: Now that Tira and Nightmare have neighbors, hopefully the story will pick up. But, anyways, thanks for ready! I know this chapter isn't that funny but I promise that the story will start to pick up now.