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

It was almost noon when Tira woked up. She woke up to the "wonderful" sensation of Nightmare breathing down the back of her neck. He also had his deformed arm-claw thing around her waist, pulling her closer to his body. As soon as Tira saw the claw around her waist, she automatically screamed, pushed it off of her and punched Nightmare. He woke up right after Tira had punched him.

"Ouch! Tira that hurts!" Nightmare placed a hand on his temple and growled. "Dang...I have a headache."

"Hangovers are a bitch, aren't they?" Tira said with a hint of haha-your-a-stupid-person in her voice.

Nightmare glared at her before curling himself back up into his blanket.

"Do you want me to get you anything?" Tira asked.

"Just steal a bag of ice from the neighbors..." he muttered quietly.

After she combed her hair and put into uneven pigtails, she made the dangerous trek to dun dun dun...Kilik and Xianghua's tent. (Distant scream and que "Mission: Impossible" theme music.)

Tira sneaked quietly over to the neighbors, hiding behind trees and bushes. When hiding behind the tree nearest to the tent, she what she was looking for. A cooler...filled with ice. A choir angels sang and a bright light surround the cooler as if it were a gift from a divine being. A mischeivious came across Tira's face as she climbed up the tree with a rope in one of her hands. When she got to a branch that was just over the cooler, she crawled onto the branch. Carefully positioning herself over the cooler, she tied on end of rope on a little branch coming off the branch she was on. She tied the other end around her waist.

She looked around. The coast was clear. Then, she slowly desended down, adding a few flips when she was coming. When she got to the cooler, she was just hanging there. She slowly opened the containers top and saw the cold gold she was looking for. Tira smirked and grabbed the largest bag of ice she could find. She closed the top slowly, so she wouldn't make any noise. She then went back up the tree. Mission almost accomplished. Then, Xianghua did what she did best, popped out of nowhere, happier than the average human, scarying the crap out of Tira.

"Hello neighbor!" Xianghua greeted cheerfully.

Tira screamed and dropped the bag of ice. The rope that was holding her snapped and she fell to the ground. Thankfully, she was only six feet from the ground so she wasn't that badly hurt.

"What the hell is your problem?! Why do you just suddenly pop out of nowhere?!" Tira asked as loudly as possible.

Xianghua tilted her head. "I don't understand what you're saying."

"...Are you on something?" Tira asked.

Xianghua looked down at the bag of ice. "What are you doing with that?"

"Nothing..." Tira said trying to act innocent.

"If you needed a bag of ice, all you had to do was ask," Xianghua said. She lifted up the bag and handed it to Tira, who was a little angry because she didn't want her "Mission: Impossible" rip-off scene to go to waste.

"Um...Thanks," Tira said quietly.

"No problem!" Xianghua said before skipping away. Kilik looked out of his tent and saw Tira walking away.

"Yo! Tira!" Kilik yelled after her.

Tira stopped and looked behind her to see Kilik running up to her. ...Great she muttered under her breath.

"Sorry we didn't bring you two home," Kilik said when he got to the girl.

"It's no problem," Tira lied. "We got a ride from someone."

"Oh...OK then. Tell Nightmare I said hi."

"I will. Can I go now? This ice is melting and it's making my clothes feel damp."

Kilik blushed. "That ain't good."

Tira could feel Xianghua glaring at her. Xianghua mouthed the words 'Back off, biznitch. HE'S MINE!!'

Tira waved good-bye to Kilik and walked back to the tent. She rolled her and made a mental note to herself. 'KILL XIANGHUA!!'

Tira entered the tent with the bag of ice. Nightmare looked at her and his red eyes narrowed.

"What took so long?"

"That weirdo Xianghua," she answered.

"Oh...figures."

Tira threw the bag of ice at him and he placed it on his head. "Ow...how much did I drink last night?"

"About sixty drinks..."

"Sixty?! Why didn't you stop me?"

"Because you would a) tell me to go to hell, b)drink faster, look at me and say 'what are you talking about?' or c) throw a bottle at me."

"Oh...did I do anything stupid?"

"Well...you kissed the handsomest man in the world and tried to make-out with people you haven't even met. Oh, and you lost the karoke contest."

"Sounds like fun."

Tira rolled her eyes. "Need anything else?"

"No, you can go." Nightmare said as he placed his head back on the pillow.

Tira nodded and walked out of the tent. She walked over to the edge of the lake and began skipping stones for about ten minutes.

After boring herself out of that, she looked over and saw something covered in moss. Tira walked over to the strange thing and got the moss off of it. It appeared to be a boat. It was old but in good condition.

"Nightmare!" Tira yelled. "Nightmare!"

"What?!" Nightmare roared back.

"You need to see this!"

In no time, Nightmare stormed out of the tent, wearing his pajamas that had little Soul Edge images and little Soul Calibur images on it. He wore cute little slippers that reminded one of bunny slippers, but the bunnny head was replaced by an eye that looked like Soul Edge's. He still had the ice bag on his head.

He walked over to Tira and saw the old boat. "What's that?"

"A boat!" Tira said with a smile.

Nightmare flipped the boat over so then the inside of the boat was showing.

"Hang on a sec..." Nightmare said.

He ran into the tent and in no time, he was wearing his signature Azure armor. He had two fishing poles in his hands and he ran up to Tira.

"Let's go fishing!" Nightmare said cheerfully.

"Wow...can't beileve your hangover disappeared that quickly," Tira said, a little bit confused.

"No, I still have it! Oh, and if I throw up in the boat, don't push me out of the boat."

Tira rolled her eyes. "But, genius, who are we going to get it move through the water? We don't have a motor or oars."

"Oh, Tira. Don't you know that I had an oar as a joke weapon?"

"No...Siegfried did. You had the giant squid."

Nightmare glared at the girl. "I hate it when you correct me...But I always carry two oars in the car."

Nightmare handed Tira the two poles and ran to the yellow, rusty piece of junk, known as his car. He opened the trunk and took out two oars. He ran back over to Tira and threw the oars into the boat and pushed the boat into the water.

"What are we going to do about bait?" Tira asked.

"Hm..." Nightmare thought about this for a second. Then, he ripped off Tira's shirt. "That'll work."

"Nightmare! Give that back!" Tira said as she covered up her chest.

Kilik was standing at his picnic table when he saw Nightmare pulled off Tira's shirt. He looked at Tira and got a nose bleed. Xianghua walked up to and asked him why he had a nose-bleed. Since he was too baffled to speak, Xianghua looked at the direction he was looking at. Her jaw dropped, slapped Kilik across the face, called him a pig and walked away crying.

Tira and Nightmare looked over to see Kilik, who's was still looking and still having a nose-bleed. Nightmare handed Tira her shirt and she quickly put it on.

"Sorry!" she hollered over to Kilik.

He didn't answer. Instead, he fell over onto his back with his mouth wide open.

Tira glared at Nightmare. "What the hell was that for?"

"What? I thought that would be perfect bait."

"Yeah. If it were teenage boys! I highly doubt fish like looking at breasts!"

"If I were a fish I would...What do fish eat then?"

"Don't they eat bugs or something?"

"I don't know!" Nightmare said as he got into the boat. "We'll just do it without bait."

Tira sighed and got into the boat. They each took one oar and paddled to the middle of the lake. Nightmare grabbed his fishing rod and casted away. Tira did the same.

The two sat quietly for at least and hour. In that hour, they caught nothing. The sun was already setting.

"This is boring," Tira muttered.

"Tira, can't you at least pretend that you are having fun?"

"No...Can you?"

"Oh, shut up and go back to fishing."

Another hour past by. Finally, Nightmare felt something tug at his line.

"I think I got something! It's a big one!"

Tira looked over and was actually kind of excited.

Nightmare yanked up and out came a itsy, bitsy sized fish. Tira couldn't contain her laughter and bursted out laughing. Nightmare took the fish off and threw it back into the water.

"It's not that funny..." Nightmare growled.

"Yeah it is!" Tira said as she was starting to stop laughing.

Then, Nightmare felt another tug on the line.

"It' probably that stupid pint-sized fish again," Tira said.

"You're probably right, but it's worth seeing what it is."

Nightmare began yanking and trying to reel the fish up. This fish was far more stubborn than the last. After five minutes of struggling with the fish, the fish gave up and got away. This made Nightmare angry.

"Hey!" Nightmare yelled at the fish. "Come back and fight like a man!"

Then, a big, strong looking fish, with a mom tattoo on one of his muscular fins. Nightmare's eyes went wide with fear.

"You just insulted my wife..." growled the fish.

"I'm so sorry!" Nightmare said getting onto is knees. "Please forgive me!!"

But the fish showed no mercy and beat him up. Then, the fish went away when it needed more water. He warned Nightmare that he will "finish the job later". Tira went over to Nightmare who was in the fetile position.

"Nightmare," Tira said comforting the distraught master. "You alright? The mean fishie is gone now."

"H-h-he is?" Nightmare stammered.

"Yes...I'll bring you back to camp and then we-"

"Oh, Tira!" Nightmare cried as he wrapped hais arms around her waist. "It was terrible!"

"I know...I was there."

She rowed the entire way back with Nightmare clinging to her the entire time. When they got back to shore, Tira helped Nightmare to the tent and settled him into his bed.

"Can you read me a story?" Nightmare asked.

"You're old enough to read one by yourself..." Tira answered.

"No I can't. I never learned how to read."

Tira rolled her and sat next to Nightmare. "Once upon a time...the end."

"That's not a story!"

"Yeah it was, now go to bed!"

Nightmare rested his head on the pillow and in no time, he was already asleep.

Tira sighed and walked outside. She grabbed a gas can, that she stoled from the neighbors, and dumped all the gasoline onto the boat. She litted a match and set the boat on fire. She watched the inferno grow and devour the old boat.

"Damn shame Nightmare is missing this..."