Chapter 12 – Two Worlds
Leonsritt had recognized the place he was in, a very familiar place...
"I... I'm back... in my room..."
Angelo had been relieved that he was in his room, seeing his dream was going out of control. He lied back down on his bed. He remembers everything that had happened in his dream. He noticed his steel paddle next to his bed. He sat up and noticed a red ribbon placed with a small piece of elegant-looking paper. He stared intently and realized that this ribbon was real.
(I know this was a dream, and certainly I remember Amy giving me this ribbon... so...)
Angelo picked it up and read the note.
I know who you are.
What you went through was not a dream.
You must return to save our world and yours.
Soul Edge is causing your world to combine with ours.
You must put an end to this.
"No way... It can't be..."
Angelo had been surprised, and he left the note on his drawer. He walked in to the bathroom.
(Man, I gotta snap out of it. Maybe if I wash my face, I'll finally wake up and I won't see what Amy gave me.)
He spent a few minutes in the bathroom and went back to his room. He looked at his drawer. The note was still there.
(Why is it still there? Was this really a dream or not?)
As he thought about this, another question had popped out of his head.
(Wait.. If this wasn't a dream, then how come Soul Edge isn't in my body?)
This was a little confusing for him, but then he decided to turn the TV on.
This is Channel 5 News, with a warning for families to stay in their homes. We have recently received footage from one of the neighboring states that what seems to be a castle that appeared out of nowhere. All around the world many strange things have happened, and even with people who seem to be coming from these places. The threat is these strange black creatures that sprout from the ground. To all families, lock your doors and stay inside.
There was a scream heard in the background.
What was that? … Wait, what the hell? Guahh!
One of those strange creatures had attacked the news reporter, and the transmission had cut off.
"You've gotta be kidding me..."
He changed the channel, and another newscast was on, but it seemed that one of the cameras was tipped over. A red giant appeared on the TV.
"What the... no way..."
Night Terror had approached the camera. It picked it up and destroyed it. Angelo had stood up. He walked back to his room and grabbed his steel paddle. He opened the window to his room and saw the pitch black sky with thunder. He jumped out of the window and looked around. The whole street was abandoned.
"Something's not right about this..."
The creatures had appeared to him and they all were ready to pounce.
"Alright... Let's do this thing..."
Angelo had prepared himself but he heard the sound of a wind cutter. The creatures disintegrated in the air, and a swordsman had appeared. This swordsman wielded a katana.
"Are you alright?"
"Uh, I didn't need any help, but thanks. You must be Mitsurugi."
"So you know of me?"
"It's a long story."
Mitsurugi had put away his weapon.
"You are Leonsritt, are you not?"
"How do you know?"
"I'll explain along the way. We have to head north."
Angelo placed the steel paddle on his back. He looked at Mitsurugi and looked north. He noticed a strange red and purple aura emanating from there.
(Night Terror's in downtown.)
More of the creatures had appeared, and they started to take Nightmare's form.
"Go! I'll handle these!"
Angelo nodded, as he ran to his motorcycle and started it up. He stepped on it as he saw Mitsurugi defeating every one of the Nightmare copies. He rode past the deserted and destroyed streets.
(Man, I thought saving the world was gonna be easy, but nope. And I guess I'll do the temp name change for a bit.)
Leonsritt rode on but stopped as soon as the street was blocked by destroyed cars. He got off the motorcycle and looked at what happened. Cars were destroyed and flipped over, as if a giant fight had happened. He walked until he felt someone embrace him.
(Cassandra... is that you?)
He turned to look, but the look on his face was priceless... again.
"OH WHAT THE F-"
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Cassandra and Hilde woke up in the middle of a ruined building.
"Where are we?"
"I can see that we're in the other world that Ivy mentioned."
"You mean..."
"We're in Leonsritt's world."
Cassandra stood up and looked around at the strange-looking buildings. Hilde had looked around and saw cars.
"Wow, his world is a lot different than ours."
"We have to find a way back..."
Hilde and Cassandra had picked up their weapons and walked towards the ruined street.
"But where do we go first?"
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Ivy had appeared at a destroyed park. She looked around and saw so many things unknown to her.
"I have to find that boy. He's the only one who can get this back to the way it was."
She pulled her dress off and revealed her purple outfit and in her hands, wielded the Valentine.
"I know he's around somewhere."
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"-UUUUUCK!"
"I FINALLY FOUND YOU! I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD FIND YOU HERE BUT I DID!"
Tira had appeared once again. Leonsritt jumped away and yet Tira followed him everywhere.
"Come on! Can't you leave me alone already?"
"But I don't wanna be lonely again..."
"What do you want from me?"
"Please don't leave me! If you do, I'll get hot and bothered again, and I won't control myself!"
"That's YOUR problem. I gotta stop Night Terror from destroying everything. This is a life and death situation, you know."
"Well this is a life and death situation, too!"
He though about this and came up with a plan, but something was off about her.
"Hey, wait! Aren't you supposed to be chasing after my Soul Edge shard?"
"After that night, not anymore."
"Ugh, whatever. If I finish this, the whole thing that's going on, you can have your way with me. Deal?"
"YES!"
Tira had lunged at Leonsritt. She hugged him tight and both got on his motorcycle.
"What is this thing?"
"It's called a motorcycle."
He turned it on and with revving the bike, Tira moaned.
"Calm down."
"Sorry."
Leonsritt had stepped on it.
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A few hours had gone by, and the world had been progressing in the fusion between the real world and the other world. Cassandra and Hilde kept walking in the abandoned city.
"I'm pretty exhausted from this. How can we keep going if we don't even know where we are and who or what we're looking for."
"Look Cassandra, we need to find a way to get this back to the way it was. We can't give up. We already lost Leonsritt. Do we need to lose more?
Cassandra stood quiet, with a depressing look on her face.
"I'm the one at fault. I was the one who made him like that. I should've listened..."
Cassandra had tears running down her eyes as she clenched her fists. She fell to her knees, as she looked at the pavement. Tears were marking the pavement, disappearing the moment they landed. Hilde walked up to her and embraced her to calm her down.
"IT'S ALL MY FAULT!"
She cried loudly as it had started raining. Hilde felt a chill, and dark creatures started to rise from the destroyed pavement. Cassandra stopped crying and opened her eyes. She wiped her tears off and braced her weapons as she saw the creatures approaching them.
"Get ready, Cassandra!"
Leo, this is for you!
Cassandra leaped at the creatures, attacking them in a crazed manner. Hilde started to attack the creatures as well. The beings had grown in numbers as both girls destroyed one after another. Cassandra and Hilde kept on fighting with determination, to get home and to end the nightmare. The creatures soon grew in numbers enough to overwhelm the girls. They had been pinned down.
"I won't give up... not now..."
Cassandra let out a grunt of anger as she shoved the creatures off her and Hilde.
"No matter how many times you take me down, you'll never defeat us..."
Cassandra charged at the giant crowd of monsters.
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Ivy had made her way through the park, with a trail of an inky black liquid dripping from the Valentine.
"Never did I think I would be facing this kind of threat."
She heard a faint growling noise coming from her left. She prepared the Valentine, as the growl came closer. She saw from the horizon that the growling wasn't coming from a creature, but from something else. It got close enough to see two people mounted on some sort of device. It stopped in front of her.
"Ivy. What happened...?"
Leonsritt got off his bike, with Tira following behind.
"Leonsritt? How are you...?"
"There's no time to explain, and how did you know my name?"
"I'll explain that later, but right now..."
More of the shadowy creatures had appeared. Ivy, Tira, and Leonsritt prepared themselves.
"I guess we're gonna have to fight our way through. We gotta get to Night Terror."
"Let's have some fun then!"
"These pathetic worms won't have a chance against us..."
Leonsritt, Tira and Ivy attacked the creatures but were suddenly stopped in their tracks as they saw three people arrive, destroying multiple creatures at once.
"You're Leonsritt, aren't you?"
"Yeah, and I take it you are Kilik, Xianghua, and Maxi. Am I right?"
"I guess we need no introduction, but you are trying to get to Night Terror. We'll take care of this."
"Heh, might as well."
Leonsritt got on his motorcycle with Tira and rode off as Kilik, Xianghua, Maxi and Ivy fought off the creatures.
(Cassandra, where are you...?)
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Cassandra and Hilde fought the creatures with exhaustion. More waves of these creatures came at them, but they couldn't take it anymore. The shadows crept up to them and lunged at both. Hilde fell to her knees.
"I... I can't fight... any... longer..."
Hilde fainted of exhaustion, as Cassandra fell to her knees and closed her eyes.
(Is this it for me?)
Cassandra felt everything slow down.
(Leo, if you we're still here, I would tell you I'm sorry...)
A tear ran down her face.
(Leo... save me...)
She looked up in to the gray sky.
"SAVE ME!"
Cassandra closed her eyes shut and everything went silent.
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Author's Notes: Well, it took me a while to finish this chapter. But thanks to the Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep Gamerip, it keeps on inspiring for the upcoming battles in this story. And like I always have to say, I don't own anything related to SOULCALIBUR. So, tell me, how is the story so far, now that it's at the beginning of the end?