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A Castle is supposedly found within the forest of Mittelberg in Germany. It was constructed by a knight known as Sir Stefan, and the castle was known as an impregnable fortress. It has since the gone into ruin after the current owner, the Azure Knight, Nightmare, used it as a battleground and place for dark rituals. Even after his defeat, The Castle ruin still swirls in the evil energy it's master had, and ravens still circle around the ruin. Is something still here?

He did not know what he had done until he had done it. It was a reflective action. He suddenly saw a bright blue light, and from it a familiar sword came. It was Soul Calibur, the sword he fought against before, was now his ally. as he took the sword into his hands, it guided him. The next thing he heard, was a deafening scream as he saw the holy sword pierce the cursed sword that controlled him for so long...

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At the end of the ordeal, he saw a new sword in his hands. It looked more horrible than the cursed sword did, and it seemed to radiate almost no power from it. It seemed like the cursed sword was sealed by the holy blade's power, but the holy blade's power was gone as well.

"This isn't enough." Siegfried said. "I will find a way to destroy the blade. I swear it."

Then he looked at himself. He was still in Nightmare's armor. As he took it off, he felt a sense of liberation. Like a burden was just lifted off of him. Then he dressed in his old armor and looked at the Azure armor with contempt. Then an anger suddenly came over him, and he took his sword, and smashed the armor into the ground. Then he suddenly got up and left with the new sword. Unknown that he could not get away from his past so easily...

As Siegfried pierced Soul Edge, he did not notice the evil of the blade slip into his armor. The armor that had struck fear into countless men, The armor of the Azure Knight, Nightmare.

Unfortunately, without Soul Edge he couldn't even move. And so he waited.

Eventually, a visitor came to the castle. He was a colored man and he was dressed in while with a hood that covered his head. and his right eye, a gold orb. As he walked into the chapel where the armor lay, he seemed to understand everything that had happened. And then he looked at the the armor and saw that it had life. Minutes went by without a word from the man with the hood. Then suddenly, he spoke.

"Fine. I will help you."

And as he said that, his hands started to glow purple. He then started to move his right arm to many different directions of the chapel, while keeping his left aimed right at the armor. Suddenly, the armor started to glow the same color as his hands and it started to mend itself. The hooded man's right arm started moving faster now, this time moving in the direction of the armor every few seconds. and every time he moved his arm to he armor, a crack healed. Eventually the armor started to levitate, glowing even brighter now, and fully healed. Suddenly, the hooded man stopped. He then pointed both arms at The armor and started to chant in an ancient language. As he chanted, the armor started to move. slowly at first, but as he finished, blood red eyes appeared in the holes of the armor, and in it's deformed hand, a bizzare sword appeared.

Seeing that his work was done, the hooded man melted into the shadows, his face emotionless.

As for the Revived Nightmare, This was the first time he was his own being. He moved his arms around, then his legs. It was a strange, new sensation for the creature, as it suddenly remembered that his original host had it's true body.

"Siegfried... I will get my body back!"

And with that the Azure Knight rushed out of the castle. Setting the gears of destiny once again...

Putting his Iron Sword back onto the holder on his back, Drake took a brief glance around at the few bandits that were nothing but bodies taking up space now. He'd seen them before, and had been going after them along with finding something with enough power to bring his family back to him.
'How many more must I cut through to get to what I'm after?' he thought to himself as he stepped over the bodies and continued onto the ever-fading trail in what looked to be the middle of nowhere. He was feeling the weight of his weapons finally, but it wasn't enough to keep him down. His thirst; however; was a different story. He knew he'd need to find a town or maybe a source of water soon. He picked up his pace as he looks for either.

Myeikura finished her meal and then as she walked there were bodies coming into view. Their blood was dry from what she could smell and she then jumped up and out of the canoyn to see there were a few more. Seeing Euphrates she stayed a distance away but she sniffed the bodies and then backed away in disgust and looked around wondering what could have happened there. In her tiger form she was enormously huge in size. Probably a few sizes bigger than a regular tiger. As she walked carefully through the bodies she sniffed some that had strange scents which was usually liquor or some kind of drug.

Suddenly, She saw a streak of black from a tree, going to the next. heading in the direction of a castle in the distance...

"Get out of here, you pathetic men!" Olcadan shouts after slamming down a person who attacked him from behind with a dagger in where he was training people.
"If I see you again I won't go as easy on you!" he continues to stay as the man promptly flees from the training area, which isn't very much but it was near Lakeside Coliseum, so naturally people who wanted to fight that lived nearby would consider at least once going there. Olcadan sighs briefly; disappointed as he turns to face his other pupils, which seemed to dwindle by the month. At this rate he more than likely will not be able to keep up payments to keep the dojo up.

Rodir sat quietly in the trees studying a scroll. He looked around the forest and tried some magic. His eyes glowed a deep green as he tried to manipulate a sapling... he thought of the Ancient people who used to do the same thing.

Suddenly the sapling grew taller into a foot tall tree.

"Hmm... Disappointing. I was expecting a change... more magnificent. Looks like I'm not done with this scroll yet."

As he looked over the scroll trying to see what he had done wrong he saw through the trees a sudden black streak hopping from tree to tree towards a castle.

"I wonder what that was..." Rodir stared back at his books. He still had research to do; he couldn't just wander around randomly. Then again he felt that the blur might have some meaning to it.

Regardless of what he thought Rodir remained in the woods and continued looking over the scroll. He didn't feel like leaving on a whim today.

The man in armor slipped slowly into the chapel through a hole in the chapel wall. He could still sense the evil energy lurking in the chapel from the previous owner. "He was here recently." He said.