Hey there dudes and dudettes! It's been cool that your reading my stuff. I'm saying this because I like to entertain people. Whether it's displaying my guitar virtuosity, or even writing this story, I enjoy it. It's what I do. And not only do I have these stories on FF , I have them on DA as well! So if there's even a few people on Fanfiction, There's A few more on Deviantart
I do not own Soul Caliber or Legend of Zelda in any way, but i could. I could maybe buy stock holding shares from them, so then I could own a small portion of them. Do they even have stocks? I should look into that….
"Contestants get ready! Fight!"
'Okay, let's see what this clown has to show.' Maxi thought to himself.
Link unsheathed his sword and latched his shield to his arm.
'How predictable, all these Greeks use are swords and shields.' Maxi ruminated.
Maxi pulled a set of nunchuku from his belt and twirled them around a few times and began to move his feet back and forth.
'Need to keep moving. Keep him guessing Maxi.'
Link ran forward, sword raised high, and ready to bring his wrath down upon Maxi's head.
Maxi tightened his grip on his nunchuku and pulled them tight and held them above his head, using the chain that held them together to stop Link's blow.
'Pathetic'
Just then, Link thrust his shield into Maxi's stomach, knocking the air from Maxi's lungs.
Link spun around, bringing his sword around as well, and cut into Maxi's right arm.
"Not bad.." Maxi said aloud as he stood to his feet.
He swung his nunchuku around his arm at lightning fast speed, confusing link just long enough for him to bring it upwards into Link's chin. Link lingered back a few feet, dazed at Maxi's blow. Maxi ran forward delivering another blow, and another blow. Maxi quickly developed his small burst of attacks into an onslaught of lightning fast blows.
Link was knocked to the ground. He spit out some blood and rubbed his shoulder.
"You're not bad yourself." Link said as he recovered from Maxi's attacks.
Link brought his sword to his side and squatted down for a split second. He then spun around, with his sword extended outward. The blade caught Maxi in the stomach. Link had spun around with so much force; he didn't stop spinning and continued to cut into Maxi.
'This fucker is fast.' Maxi thought as he hit the ground from Link's assault.
Link jumped into the air and as he landed, his blade grazed Maxi's side. Maxi had barely moved out of the way when Link had done this.
Maxi Kicked Link in the chest, knocking him back a few more paces, and slowly eased himself up.
By now, both fighters were bleeding pretty heavily. Maxi was breathing heavily from the pain that was enshrouding his body. He had several gashes in his abdomen and a deep wound in his right arm.
Link's nose was bleeding and a little blood was trickling down from a score directly under his temple.
'Any more of this and I I'll fucking feint.' Maxi reflected.
Maxi slowly circled Link, trying not to show his pain.
'What can I do to him? I can't hit this guy hard enough to knock him out… Wait. I CAN knock him out.'
Maxi started to walk closer to Link, making Link slowly edge backwards.
Link was moving closer to the edge, and he began to realize what Maxi was trying to do.
Maxi was trying to ring him out, and Link couldn't do a thing about it.
Link was almost to the edge when Maxi lunged; bringing his foot up to kick.
"Rising Dragon of the Zodiac!"
Link moved to the side, but not far enough, because Maxi caught his shirt and pulled Link along with him. Making both of them land into the water.
'Not the water, not the water!' Link thought. But it was to late, Maxi had succeeded in making Link fall into the water.
"Dang! I guess I lost too." Maxi said as he spit some water from his mouth.
"I Hate the water…." Link said aloud, grabbing his hat which was now off of his head and beginning to sink into the water.
Maxi's eyes widened.
"You're an elf?" He blurted out.
Link was dazed from the fight and had not realized right away what he meant and quickly threw hit hat on top of his head. (A/N:By far, the hardest sentence I've ever had to write.)
"I can't believe I just beat the hell out of an elf!" Maxi nearly yelled.
"Shhh! Look, don't say a thing." Link managed to say before the boat man that ferried the two across the water onto the arena arrived. He extended his hand and helped both Link and Maxi out of the water.
The crowd was going wild.
"I won't tell of what I saw." Maxi assured Link, who was now freezing from the ice cold water.
"Thank you." Link said.
Maxi placed his elbows on his knees and put his head in his hands.
"I feel like I'm going to pass out..." Maxi said as he caressed his head.
"To tell you the truth, I was close to feinting myself..." Link breathed.
The crowd was cheering loudly now and every now and again, Maga could hear the clash of Link's sword against metal.
"Sounds like they're putting on a real show." Maga muttered.
"Not getting scared are you?" Dante teased.
"No!" Maga snapped.
"Sounds like it to me." Dante said.
"Why are we doing this again?" Maga asked, trying to change the subject.
"To see who the better fighter is."
"Right..." Maga said.
"That would be me." Mitsurugi interrupted.
Dante looked at the samurai and raised an eyebrow.
"You're a real cocky asshole aren't ya?" He said.
"Cocky? I merely know who will be the victor."
"No one asked you." Dante growled.
Maga looked at the monk he had assumed was Kilik.
"Why are you fighting in this tournament?"
Kilik, who was still meditating, opened his eyes and looked to Maga.
"Are you asking me?" He questioned him.
"Yes."
"My friends and I need the money." He replied.
"What if you don't win?" Maga asked.
"I will."
"What makes you so sure?" Dante asked, averting his attention to the monk.
"I am willful and have more faith in myself then I have in you." He replied.
"It's not a battle of will, monk." Misturugi interrupted, "It's a battle of strength."
Kilik stood and gazed at the samurai in response to his remark.
"I've met men like you. All believing that they are invincible, they search for challenges, going on forever, never quenching their thirst of blood lust. Of approval. You may live, but will never achieve your quest of attestation of your might." He preached.
Misturugi met the gaze of Kilik with a fierce growl of dissatisfaction.
"You must not know whom you talk to monk. I am Misturugi, The Demon of Japan. I have single handedly defeated mass armies; I have plagued every Japanese warriors mind with fear. I have defeated the almighty gun. I have killed more men then all of nation's wars, I am more violent then violence, more deadly then death. I would hold my tongue if I were you." He spat hatefully. (A/N: borrowed that from a Megadeth song.)
Just then the battle announcer casually entered the room with his scroll.
"Okay, the battle between Link and Maxi has ended in a draw. Both contestants are disqualified. The next fight will begin in a few moments, I suggest you get ready.." He said and looked down at his scroll yet again, "Kilik and Maga."
Maga grabbed his newly forged weapon and stood, as did Kilik.
"Let's go you two." He said to both of the participants.
Both warriors followed when Maga stopped for a moment.
"What happened to Link and Maxi?" He asked the battle announcer.
"Those two were really banged up, they've been checked into the infirmary."
Maga gulped at his answer.
"Not having second thoughts, are you?" Dante called over to his brother.
"I wouldn't dream of it." Maga answered back.
Maga continued to follow the announcer into a seemingly ancient tunnel towards the ferry.
It gave him goose bumps, considering he had never really been in a tournament.
'Okay, just remember that he can't kill you, and you can't kill him.' Maga assured himself, sparking a flare of confidence.
Upon reaching it, Maga and Kilik stepped into the small boat and slowly made their way across the water, nearing the stage. They exited the tunnel and the glare of sunlight and bright colors shone brightly. The crowd began to boom with cheers, and some even threw confetti upon the arrival of the warriors.
Maga began to grin with excitement.
'The crowd really is excited. This might be fun!'
The boat finally reached the stage.
Kilik was the first to step off the boat. He slowly walked to the center of the arena.
"And now, Round two of our most festive event of the year is beginning! Our next brave warrior hails from the Ling Empire! The battle monk, Kilik!" boomed the voice of the announcer. The crowd began to cheer yet again. In answer, Kilik twirled his staff around his neck and brought it down to his side and walked to the far side of the arena.
"And challenging Kilik will be the young, flamboyant Maga!"
Maga sheepishly walked to the center of the ring and waved to the cheering audience in the stands, then returned to his side of the arena.
"Don't hold anything back." Maga yelled to the other competitor.
"Oh don't worry, I won't." Kilik replied as he took his battle stance.
"Warriors, prepare yourselves! Fight!"
"Oh no!" Yelled Raine.
She watched as Link and Maxi both fell into the water at the same time.
"Darn it!" Bellowed the lady in blue. "I could have done much better then that!"
Raine stared at the strange lady throwing a tantrum next to her.
The distressed woman saw that she was being gawked at by other audience members and quickly blushed and sat down.
"Are you okay?" Talim asked her.
"I'm not crazy if that's what your thinking!" She blurted.
"Are just that into the fights?" Raine interjected.
"No! It's just that , that was one of my friends. We saw the fliers around town when we arrived here today, and we kinda needed the money, so I suggested we enter… Of course Kilik and Maxi Wouldn't let me join. I could have beaten that guy!" She began to explain.
"Hey! There's no need to get all flustered." Mina said to her.
"Yeah, I know. It's just it's so frustrating when men think they can take care of anything, and that the woman can't." She said.
"I know what you mean. When I worked with My friends Maga and Dante at my uncles ranch, they wouldn't let me do anything." Raine said.
She extended her hand to the lady in blue.
"I'm Raine, What's your name?"
The woman looked at Raine as if she were questioning whether or not she should accept her greeting.
"I'm Xianghua." She said after a few moments, accepting the hand shake.
"It's nice to meet you Xianghua, " Raine began, " This is Mina," She said, pointing to Her hard headed companion, " And this is Talim." She finished.
"Oh and I almost forgot, This is Cassandra…. Wait, where'd she go?" Raine asked as she searched for her new acquaintance.
"Huh?" Mina asked, " She was here just a second ago. I was paying to much attention to the fight to babysit her."
"She got up and left a little after the fight started." Talim said.
"And she hasn't been back?"Raine asked her.
"No. I assumed she was just as disgusted at this barbaric event just as much as I am."
Just then, the crowd began to cheer again and the group averted their attention to a ferry that was slowly nearing the arena.
"That's Maga!" Raine cheered.
"And that Kilik!" Xianghua applauded next to her.
"It looks like our friends are again pitted against each other." Talim said
"And now, Round two of our most festive event of the year is beginning! Our next brave warrior hails from the Ling Empire! The battle monk, Kilik!" boomed the voice of the announcer. The crowd began to cheer yet again. In answer, Kilik twirled his staff around his neck and brought it down to his side and walked to the far side of the arena.
"Kilik looks real talented with that staff of his." Mina gawked.
"Don't get any ideas." Xianghua growled.
"And challenging Kilik will be the young, flamboyant Maga!" The announcer boomed again.
"Flamboyant? More like dim witted!" Raine laughed.
Maga sheepishly walked to the center of the ring and waved to the cheering audience in the stands, then returned to his side of the arena.
"Warriors, prepare yourselves! Fight!"
"Go Maga!" cried his friends.
"Come on Kilik! Win this one!" Yelled Xianghua.
Maga answered the call of battle. With his sword lifted high above his head, he charged and leapt up into the air, and brought his sword down to that ground in front of Kilik; causing dirt and small shards of stone to fly into the air. It was the same tactic he and Dante had used countless times against rogue bandits, the only difference was that Maga was alone and fighting a very skilled warrior. Kilik took several steps back and shielded his eyes.
'Clever.' He thought, ' He'll come through the dust right about… now!'
As Kilik had predicted, Maga rushed straight through the vague cloud and thrust his sword forward. Kilik sidestepped out of his way and quickly brought the end of his staff down on Maga's knee; making it buckle and sending Maga hard to the ground. Kilik hammered the butt end of his staff into Maga's back, causing him to cry out in pain. Maga rolled over and swung his sword with mass rage and nearly took Kilik's head clean of his head.
"Easy there!" Kilik said as he jumped back.
Maga stood up from the ground and grinned.
"I thought you weren't going to hold back." He said.
"I accept your challenge then." Kilik responded.
Kilik ran forward and sung his bow staff around his side, causing it to gain momentum, at Maga.
Maga raised his sword to protest the possibly bone shattering blow to his arm and returned a blow with the flat of his blade onto Kilik's left arm. Kilik nearly fell to the ground from the force of the blow.
'Once again, a clever move.' Kilik began to think and he planted his feet to the ground, 'But he is still very predictable.'
Kilik threw his staff at Maga and ran forward along side it. The Staff caught Maga by surprise and hit him directly in the stomach. Kilik then ran next to him and brought his legs up around Maga's neck and threw Him to the ground. He performed all this and caught his staff, which was still, somehow, suspended in mid air. When he hit the ground, Maga let loose his grip on his sword and it slid far from his reach. Maga began to feel his way towards his sword but Kilik jumped on top of him and placed his foot on his wrist. Kilik held his staff into the air as if to impale Maga with the end of his staff. The crowd boomed with cheers.
Maga quickly swung his foot up and kicked Kilik in his back, causing him to stagger forward off of Maga's wrist, giving him enough time to scramble for his sword.
Maga reached his sword and stood up from the ground.
'I gotta think of something. He's way too quick for me, and he knows what I'll do next…'Maga thought to himself. He thought for a long moment and something clicked into his mind. Maga smiled at his new thought. He quickly devised his plan and charged forward at Kilik and leapt into the air once again and brought his sword down onto the arena floor. Dust and stone floated into the air, blinding Kilik.
'He's trying to pull this off again?' He thought at he shielded his eyes from the dust particles.
What he did not know, from the other side of the dust cloud, Maga threw his sword up into the air above the dirt cloud and charged into it. Kilik saw Maga's blade began to emerge from above the dirt cloud and assumed Maga had leapt into the air in attempt to impale him and brought his stick above his head and held it tight with both hands. Just then, Maga burst through the cloud and jumped into the air and grouped his feet together and drop kicked Kilik in the chest. Kilik's air was knocked out of his lungs as Maga's feet made contact with his chest. Just then, Maga's sword came straight down and planted itself deep into the arena floor. Maga caught it's handle and pulled himself back and landed on his feet.
'why'd he stop?'Kilik thought, but quickly realized what was happening. In the heat of battle, Kilik had not noticed how close he was to the edge of the arena. His opponent had skillfully knocked him back hard enough to make him fly very far backwards and slide off the arena.
Kilik felt a cold sensation come over him as he plummeted off the arena edge.
The crowd went wild and cheered loudly. Kilik splashed above the water and saw Maga grinning with satisfaction.
"Looks like I win." Maga said to the monk as he extended his hand to help him out the water.
"I suppose you do..." Kilik mumbled.
Dante and Misturugi were staring each other down in the contestant waiting room.
They have been since Maga and Kilik has left for their fight. Ever since the exact moment those two left the room, the tension was so tight that the smallest nick in the works could make both warriors snap.
'I can't wait to beat this guy. Demon? Hah, that's hilarious. He thinks he can't be beaten, but oh I will. I will win. It's not about Maga and I anymore. It's about kicking this cocky bastard's ass.'
Then the announcer stepped into the room with his trusty clipboard.
"Wow, you could cut the tension in here with the smallest prick." He said in an annoyingly gleeful tone
"Any ways, the battle has just ended. Maga won by means of ring out. It was a rather spectacular battle, if I do say so myself. Both of them are in the infirmary at the moment. Our officials wanted to make sure nothing was broken."
"That's good to know." Dante said.
"Anyways, your fight won't be happening today. It's been rescheduled for tomorrow, due to damages ensued upon the arena during the last two fights. Especially the last one."
"So? A few bumps in the ground won't affect my fighting." Mitsurugi interjected.
"It's not my say. It's the official's choice. Beside's, those aren't just a few bumps in the ground. They're craters!" the announcer exclaimed.
Dante stood up from the bench and stretched his back.
"Well , if there's no match today, then I'll just go now." He said.
Dante casually walked out the door.
"I guess I'll go to the infirmary, I'm sure that's where everyone else is…" he said to himself.
"That's amazing. I never imagined a world like you just described." Maxi said.
"Yeah, it's real great there."
Link and Maxi were in a white room that was littered with crude tools used for doctoring wounds and harsh battle wounds. Maxi was sitting upright and had several bandages woven around his body. Link, one the other hand, who was lying on his side, had several bruises and a bandage he had wrapped around his head himself.
"And the castle town you talked about! And all those open fields!"
"Please! Don't talk so loud. Oh…" Link groaned, " I think I'm going to throw up again."
And that he did, luckily, there was a pale right next to him.
"I didn't hit you that hard did I?" Maxi asked.
"Yes, you did. I'm happy you just didn't crack open my skull."
Just then, two large oak doors opened up behind Link and some people entered.
"Oh there they are!" Said a familiar priestess' voice.
Link began to smile.
Maxi, on the other hand, did not. In fact, he actually frowned in disappointment.
"There you are! I can't believe you lost! And so did Kilik! Now we're broke! I could have one this thing but noooo! You and Kilik had to play tough and enter instead!"
"I didn't know what I was up against Xianghua." He mumbled.
"Ohh please stop yelling." Link moaned in pain.
"Are you okay Link?" asked Talim. She had walked around Link's bed and stood in front of him.
Raine and Mina followed closely behind.
"Wow Link! I didn't know you knew such pretty girls!" Maxi exclaimed with a devious grin.
"Hello mister dandy. I'm Mina." Mina began to tease.
"Please, please, you can just call me Maxi." He slickly spoke. (A/N: More like Maxipad!)
"I'll think about it." Mina cooed.
"Hey Talim? Can you do me a favor?" Link asked.
"Of course Link!" she responded.
"Can you get my pouch for me? The nurses took it from me and set it across the room."
"Sure thing!" She said and hurried to the area Link pointed to.
Link gazed at the stranger who had been yelling at Maxi.
"Who are you?" Link asked Xianghua.
Xianghua turned around and met the exhausted gaze of Link's blue eyes.
"I'm Xianghua."
"It's nice to meet you Xianghua. I'm Link." He said as he painfully reached out his hand to shake hers.
"You don't need to shake my hand. You'r in to much pain to do anything right now." She said.
Link slowly retracted his shaky hand.
Just then Talim came back with Link's trusty pouch and held it in front of him.
"Thanks Talim." He said, " Now can you do me another favor? Can you look in there and see if you can't find a bottle with red liquid inside of it."
"Of course." She said kindly as she explored the confines of his magical side pouch.
After of moments of searching, Talim produced a bottle full of red liquid.
"What's that?" Raine asked
"It's a potion." He said.
"Can you uncork it for me?" He asked the ever so kind Talim.
"Yes." She said.
After she pulled the cork from the bottle, the most putrid smell empowered the room.
Mina and Xianghua gagged at the smell while Raine and Talim pinched their noses.
"That's horrible! Did something die in there?" Raine nearly shouted.
Talim handed Link the bottle of rancid liquid.
"Believe it or not, this is the better smell it put's off. After a few months, it smells the worst." Link said.
And with that, he gulped down half the bottle of liquid.
The group watched in amazement as his bruises began to lighten up and disappear as well as Link become more active.
"Thank you very much Talim." Link said.
"You might want to take some too Maxi." He added said as he held the bottle out to Maxi.
Maxi took the bottle and looked at it in disgust.
"I don't know… Is it safe?" he asked while swirling around the liquid.
"I drank it didn't I?" Link inquired.
Maxi gave one last questionable look at the mysterious red drink.
"Hurry and drink it! It smells horrible!" Xianghua urged.
Maxi drank the rest of the liquid in one quick gulp. His face went pale for a split second.
"Are you okay Maxi?"Xianghua asked.
"Do I look okay?" He replied sarcastically.
Link laughed at Maxi and then he heard the doors creak open and screech closed yet again.
Maxi's face went from a pale frown to a large grin.
"Hey Kilik! You win?" He asked.
"No I didn't."
Raine ran from Link's side over to the doorway.
"Oh Maga! You were great!"
Xianghua followed closely behind her.
"Well, the announcer guy did say put on a show." Maga replied.
"Are you okay Kilik? You look like you took a real beating." Xianghua asked
"Are you serious? I was cut up in places I didn't even know I had, and your babying him! He only has a red mark on his chest!" Maxi shouted in disbelief.
Link slowly inched himself to a sitting position and looked at Maga.
"Then does that mean you won Maga?" Link asked.
"You bet." Maga shouted with excitement. " And with only a few bangs and bruises." He added triumphantly.
"Heh, then I guess the only battle left is going to be Dante's." Link said.
"And that's going to be tomorrow." Kilik added.
"Huh? Why?" Maxi asked.
"Because Maga almost destroyed the stage with that giant sword of his." Raine said.
"Then maybe someone should go find him." Talim suggested.
"Perfect idea! You can come with me!" Mina giddily said and she grabbed Talim's and nearly dragged her out the door.
"U-uh bye!" Talim managed to say before she was swooshed out the door.
The group waved to Talim as she left and Raine let out a sigh
"Poor Talim… she doesn't even get a say in anything." Raine said.
"Especially when Mina has made up her mind." Maga chuckled.
"She's really hard headed." Raine added.
"Hah! Kinda sounds like Xianghua here." Maxi said as he pointed to his companion.
"Excuse me?" she nearly shouted.
Kilik took a seat next to Maxi.
"You know he was only joking." Kilik said, trying to keep his friend from getting hurt any further.
"So what brings you too Athens?" Kilik asked Maga.
"We're looking for something." He replied.
"What?" Xianghua, who was now sitting on the bed next to Maxi as well, asked.
"You might not have heard of it. We actually just heard of it a few weeks ago when a group of bandits attacked our village. It's a sword called Soul Edge."
Maxi looked at Kilik as did Xianghua.
"We have heard of it." He stated, "We've been searching for it for months. Slowly gathering information on it and gathering its shards… We hope to destroy it."
"So do we." Link said.
"We almost did before." Kilik said, "We shattered it, hoping that breaking the sword. But that only made things worse and now there are pieces of its evil all over the world" Kilik added.
"Have you found a way to destroy it?" Link asked.
"Yes, the key to destroying it is its sister sword."
"Soul Caliber."
Alas, this chapter wasn't as long as I had wished, but I was spent on those fight scenes.(Even if they aren't that good) So the gang has finally learned about soul Caliber. I don't sound as ecstatic as about this as I normally would, but it's late, and I'm tired. So I just want to say Read and review.
And now, to add her summery is my co-writer, Jennifer.
Hi Everyone! Jennifer here, I'm Jesse's co-writer for 'His Tale of Souls and Swords'. I wrote the 'stands' scene and the 'stare down' scene. Like it? It's not as much as Jesse writes, but he says he really appreciates my help!
It was cool of Jess to ask for my help, I've been real bored lately. Oh, and where'd Cassandra go? Ooohh maybe she ran away? Or something? Anyways, I just finished reading IMO the best Soul Caliber Fic ever! Its by the author Sokluski. I can't recall the name ATM but I'll tell you all in the next chapter! Just keep an eye out for my Bold-Italicized author notes and writings and summaries and stuff.
Any ways, Read and Review (Go easy on my scenes please!)