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She got up and staggered backwards, her legs ached from kneeling for almost an hour and she had to jump so as she didn't trample on the flowers she'd laid. She stood back and gave her eyes time to refocus to the coming darkness of the dusk. Her gaze averted to the gravestone in front of her where she read 'Michelle Chang' in bold capital letters, underneath some more words were written. Then again in large letters at the bottom of the tomb stone the date 22nd February 2003 had been engraved. It'd been two years. Two years since her mother had been murdered.
These had been two years of hatred and regret for Julia Chang, Michelle's only daughter. It was because of Julia's actions Michelle had died, it wasn't her thoughts being shrouded by grief causing her to believe this, it was true and she hated herself for it but it couldn't be changed. It had been two years ago when Julia won the King of iron fist tournament 3; a fighting tournament organized by the Mishima Zaibatsu which her mother had entered twenty years previously. Julia had entered for her mother and her dream to see the land reforested before she died. The winner would inherit the entire Mishima Zaibatsu and its many research facilities which would have given her an awful amount of power and influence, influence even to reforest the land that was being swallowed up by the ensuing desert.
However it was two years ago where she had been beaten in the semi-finals of the tournament by a devil. Literally she found it hard to believe but after research that she conducted she found it to be true. Jin Kazama who she had faced off against in the semi-final had transformed into an evil-looking purple creature that looked like a typical drawing of the devil (with horns and bulging muscles etc.) and after he changed he nearly killed her but he transformed back to his original state in the nick of time, apologized and headed for the final which took place immediately after the semi-finals; it was there he faced Paul Phoenix.
Feeling defeated and cheated Julia headed back to her hotel and researched the Mishimas and the Kazamas; she found a file about the devil's genome: genocell. A special gene carried from generation to generation within the Mishima family (for Jin was the son of Kazuya Mishima, the dead former leader of the Mishima Zaibatsu) that seemingly could be used to reforest the land. Julia wanted reforestation but changed her quest to destroy genocell, it wasn't the only choice and would destroy the world. Jin's devil could have killed her in less than five seconds if it had wished to. So Julia contacted an assassin whom she had fought during the tournament; Nina Williams. For a small fee she'd trained Julia in the art of infiltration and so it was that she snuck into the Mishima Zaibatsu's main research facility.
Julia acted quick and looked through all of the Genocell files in the main directory, she saw that the creator had been a man named Dr. Abel; not a name befitted to such a man who was able to destroy the world. She saw in one file that there was no devil gene active that they had in their possession but she needed to be on the safe side, they could have held the whole tournament with the intent of capturing Jin. Heihachi, the founder of the Mishima Zaibatsu did not have the gene because the data showed it was recessing but Kazuya had gained it and passed it to his son. So she destroyed Abel's creation. She destroyed Genocell. In return Dr. Abel had destroyed her life.
After returning home that very night she saw her mother's body broken and crippled on the floor, Michelle appeared to have been murdered. Julia walked closer to the body; what she saw made her skin crawl. There were bite marks deep and visible in Michelle's neck, and her whole body had turned a faint purple. Her body glowed the same colour as Jin Kazama's but Michelle didn't have the gene to cope with this and so her body had destroyed itself trying to fight the devil genome. Genocell had done this and that was apparent, Dr. Abel's creation was still alive and lived in Jin; had he done this?
Julia saw her advantage to gain revenge, her mother had taught her revenge was wrong but her mother wasn't here to watch now. Abel had made a mistake, maybe he'd seen his research was gone and put two and two together but now he didn't have any research on Genocell so he had to start from scratch. This bought Julia the time she needed to gain revenge.