The man who called himself Xehanort holds his odd looking weapon tightly. The weapon is deep black with white line across its surface. The hilt has covers like rapier, but unlike rapiers, since the guards are on two side. It's hollow on its center and has a part protruding on one side at its end. The weapon is also crafted with lot of ornamented part, making it more stylist than what other weapon appears to be. Truly, it's more like an oversize key than a weapon.
Moreover, his build is not that of a warrior. His body is quite slender, contrasted with Siegfried muscular body. Siegfried feels a confusion inside him. What he sees in front of him is a not a person capable of standing in the same ground as him, yet his instinct tell him to not underestimate this man. He can feel it, a pressure of intimidation starts to flow out from this Xehanort since his appearance, something that only a true warrior can have it. Siegfried stay still, he doesn't want to make a move that will make him regret it later on.
On the other hand, there is still another threat that he should wary of. Not far from him, a figure clad in Azure armor and equipped with Soul Edge, is still standing. Seconds from now, there inevitably will be a three way battle. Handling Nightmare is though enough and Siegfried doesn't want to think about how hard it will be to fight these two adversary at once. Especially when he can't surmise how strong this Xehanort is.
Xehanort readies his stance. He grips his weapon firmly and leaps forward with great speed. He moves as if he glides above the ground. Siegfried stuns, never in his entire years meeting many warriors he ever see move like that. Xehanort move's is swift yet accurate and unlike what people familiar with. It's like something out of this world.
With Soul Edge reflected in his eyes, Xehanort dashes toward the Azure Knight. Relies mostly with instinct than knowledge and experience, Nightmare swing his enormous weapon at Xehanort. Without any hesitation, Xehanort spins and swings his weapon to welcomes the incoming slash despite the obvious disadvantage of their weapon's size and their build.
The clash of the two weapons resonance within the ruined Cathedral. Both weapons bounced off each other, leaving the bearers slightly unbalanced. Doesn't want to waste the chance in front of him, Siegfried dash toward Xehanort and swing his holy sword to attack him.
Just when Soul Calibur about to slash him, Xehanort disappear, leaving only thick fog-like substance made of darkness. Dumbfounded from that maneuver, Siegfried caught off guard by Xehanort who apparently already in the air just behind him. A huge swing of the key-like weapon slashes Siegfried's back, pushing Siegfried forward. Despite looking harmless, the weird weapon held by Xehanort give a real pain that of a blade. The slash leaves a deep cut on Siegfried's armor and penetrates it, glancing Siegfried back, making a fresh blood starts flowing slowly. The cut itself not that bad, what really matters is the power that of Xehanort and his mysterious weapon. Unlike their appearance, their powers is really real.
With two of its adversary lined up, Nightmare move forward and unleash another huge swing by spinning. The arc is wide and the power behind the swing is huge. Whoever failed to avoid the swing is subject to certain death or at least really fatal injury. Realizing his life in danger, Xehanort jumps back out of the harm's way. Unfortunately, Siegfried has little to no time to avoid this strike. He put his weapon vertically at his side, using it as shield.
A huge clash between the holy sword and the evil sword ensues. Siegfried thrown away after receiving the impact while Nightmare lose its balance from the spin. Siegfried manage to block successfully, leaving him with virtually no injury. But his body and arm are in pain after receiving that kind of blow. His body now weaken. This is not good. The battle has just started, but he's already losing so much stamina.
Thankfully, Xehanort couldn't care less about Siegfried. His eyes locked into the horrid blade on Nightmare's hand. Without hesitating, he dashes to the unbalanced Azure Knight and let out a barrage of slashes to the defenseless Nightmare. Xehanort's movement's are quick and swift. Without anything but his armor, Nightmare pushed back and barely maintain its balance. If this continues, thing won't be good for Nightmare.
And then, without a warning, Nightmare unleash a dark shock wave around it. The sudden move surprises the currently attacking Xehanort. Unable to take time to protect himself, he get caught in the shockwave and thrown back. With the assaults from Xehanort stops, Nightmare stands back up on its feet.
The three now exhausted. The battle is short, but they already letting out all they have. Each one of them aiming to end this quickly. Each one of them has different goal. Destroying Soul Edge, claiming Soul Edge, or just crushing anyone on its path. Whatever their goal is, they need to finish this quickly if they want to achieve it.
Intending to finish this battle, Xehanort let out all of his power of darkness, letting dark aura emit from his body. His eyes are fixated on the evil sword on Nightmare's hand. Seeing this, Siegfried worried. He can feel the power emitting form Xehanort and it is incredible. He know neither he nor Nightmare will be able to block that perfectly and will let up to some unpredictable carnage.
Siegfried look around and squint his eyes on Nightmare's Soul Edge. The only way to prevent it goes to Xehanort possession is by destroying it, leaving it rendered unusable by anyone. But, to be able to do this, he must aiming right and precise and timing it right. He need to wait for Nightmare to focus on Xehanort so he can get near it on its blind side.
Without warning, Xehanort leaps forward in amazing speed, leaving trail of faint darkness behind him. His target is on his track, the mighty evil sword Soul Edge. Fascinated with the speed of the speeding darkness, Nightmare prepare its stance quickly and ready to parry the incoming attack. This leaving a blind spot that has been waited by Siegfried.
Having positioned nearer to Nightmare than Xehanort is, the Soul Edge quickly enter Siegfried's range of attack. Through the corner of his eyes, Siegfried notices that Xehanort is closing really fast. Without hesitating, Siegfried lift the Soul Calibur and thrust it with all his might toward the moving eye of Soul Edge.
The shining white sword pierces the eye of the evil sword. The sword letting out a shrieking-like noise as if it screaming out of agony. Soon, both swords engulf in light, not blinding, yet quite bright. Slowly, ice, or more like crystal, grows from the part where Soul Calibur pierces Soul Edge and starts covering both swords. It is a state called 'Soul Embrace' where the power of the two swords locked and sleep indefinitely.
Looking that his prize is almost escaping from his grasp, Xehanort screams loud, "NOOOOOOOOOOO!" He dashes with all his energy toward the crystal that was formed shortly before. His strange weapon covered in thick darkness, mirroring his desire to get the sword. In fury, he swings his darkness-covered weapon to the crystallized swords, pouring all his power into it.
A crack appears on the crystal. Nightmare and Siegfried are unable to release their hold and thus unable to hold Xehanort back. The crack is spreading covering larger area and more. Light and darkness start to seeping out from the cracks, twirling into one, making a weird combination of light and darkness.
And as expected, the crystal finally shatters. It releasing a blinding towering light with darkness spiraling around it and seeping out, creating a bizarre view. The blast of light and darkness are wide and getting wider by seconds. The three warriors surrounding the crystal are now gone, engulfed by the enormous combination of light and darkness. And suddenly, a big boom comes from high in the sky, at the top of the pillar of light followed by lights scattered into different directions and then darkness follows. It too scatters around all directions and gone from the sight.
Not long, the blast receded, leaving only pieces of shattered crystal which slowly crumble to pieces and leave nothing on its place. And so, the three warriors can't be found around, blasted inside the light to someplace no one knows.
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