DISCLAIMER: I do not own Tekken, any of the places in the Tekken games, its events which are used in this fanfiction or its characters; all right and credit belongs to Namco who do own Tekken.
Author's Note: This story follows on several years after Julia's Mother III: Finding Life. It is the sequel to the previous trilogy and should be seen as Julia's Mother IV: The Human Genome. This first chapter is rather short however the others are significantly longer as this was origianlly intended as a prologue.
"Genocell was the key"
"When you combine the human and devil genes the devil gene suppresses the human gene"
"Genocell was the key"
"Was the key"
"Was the key"
"Was the ke…"
"…No!" Julia screamed and looked around in a panic., the digital radio next to her bed told her that it was 5:30 am. Her common sense told her that it was 6:30 am, March 23rd. The clocks had gone forward. "Jin?" she asked groggily but she knew that there was no one in the bed next to her before she even turned to look. "Jin?" she called again but received no indication that she would receive a response.
She pulled the quilt cover off and felt strangely cold, averting her stare away from the digital radio she saw the window… her mind paused as she debated whether it was open.
Or broken.
"Genocell was the key"
Echoed through her mind again. "No!" she breathed, her breath heavy and rasping. She moved to the window cautiously. Her vision wasn't magnificent, literally living off of apples had given her a Vitamin A deficiency that almost constituted blindness but the pale moonlight urged her on, causing her to see something curious amidst the glass.
"I ought to test this" she whispered to herself as she pocketed one of the shards, failing to notice a red glimmer in the edge of the room.
On the windowsill she discovered a single white feather "oh, Jin" she sighed, suddenly clutching her head. She fell to the ground and reached to pull herself up. With the moon now turned away her vision blurred and dispersed. Her arm was by her side, paralysed. "Genocell was the key" juxtaposed over the closing of the door; someone had been there all the time. "You?" Julia realised that she hadn't, couldn't speak aloud.
"I finally found you" Julia was unsure of the man's emotion. His voice was distant and his eyes veiled in a pool of red glass. "Stupid, stupid Ms. Chang" he hissed, his voice somehow sounding fragile despite the apparent tone now used. Or was that Julia's attempt to say "Mrs. Kazama actually?"
"Either way it doesn't matter" the voice was amplified now, had she spoken? Resonating through her ears were the man's last words.
Or hers.
"Genocell was the key"
"You didn't delete everything" he emphasised 'you' with precise venom.
"And now you're the last hope for reforestation" he stopped to snigger before mimicking her voice, "the future of mankind."
"Genocell is the key."
He shot her.
"Genocell was the key"
"When you combine the human and devil genes the devil gene suppresses the human gene"
"Genocell was the key"
"Was the key"
"Was the key"
"Was the ke…"
…"No!" Julia screamed and looked around in a panic, the digital radio next to her bed told her that it was 6:30 am, her common sense agreed. Or succumbed. "Jin?" she asked.
"Yeah?" she got a response before she had time to look. Distracted she asked "are you OK?" Thinking it had just been a dream. She sighed with relief, juxtaposing Jin's response of "No… I'm cold."
"What?" Julia asked straight away with an apparent tone of urgency, turning alertly to the broken window. Without thinking her hand flew immediately to her pocket. Pain seared through her arm as she gripped something sharp.
A single shard of glass.