Chapter 29: Bloody Fate
Ritsuko came home to an alarming site.
"Mother I'm home...AUgh! Mother!"
Her mother was on the floor, bleeding out of a nasty gash on her back. If that wasn't traumatic enough, Midori was missing.
"What happened?! Who did this to you?! Where's Midori?!"
With what little strength she had left...
"They...They...took her."
"Who took her?!"
"Demons."
Ritsuko couldn't believe what she heard.
Midori and many other captives were brought into an underground mine dug out, underneath Kanemasa. The building stayed in place thanks to underground support beams. The captives were being used as slaves to unearth the third fragment of Soul Edge.
Something in the ground started glowing red. Midori picked it up, and tried to hide it, only for Abyss, the slave master, to grab her wrist and take it from her.
"A slave like you shouldn't do that to her master."
Nightmare approached.
"My lord, it has finally been found!"
Abyss gave the shard to the knight, who then added it to Soul Edge.
The flesh on the blade solidified, the area around the eyeball turned into a hilt, shaped like a six-pointed star, and blade looked smooth, diamond-shaped, and almost complete; except for a large chunk missing from one of the edges.
Nightmare himself seemed to have degraded into a body of dark energy. What was once flesh-like had now fully transformed into a compound of metal and bone. The "mouth" covering the chestplate from before had split open around his entire waist, connecting the legs and torso with a torrent of evil energy. The armor appeared to be fused to his claw and much more metallic in appearance.
"Now, the time for hiding has ended!" He turned to Abyss. "Begin the assault!"
"Yes, my lord."
Abyss rounded up all the slaves, and put them in cages.
Nightmare swung his blade around, saying "Blood! Darkness! I shall drown the world in both!"
Nightmare has almost finished his task. Now, with his new power, he's setting his sights on Sotoba—to draw out Soul Calibur, in order to obtain the final piece—things are starting to get serious.
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