The Third Side
Encounter With the Devil
E1sky

Chapter I
Encounter With the Devil

'Take this'

Jin Kazama was hit by a wild kick, crushed a wall, and landed on his back flatly. It happened to him many times before, but it was still irritating. Especially when it is done by a woman…a girl!. The kick really hurts, his back was hurt, but the thought that it was just a girl who did it irritates most.

Jin lifted up his head. He saw the blonde lady approaching slowly. She then halted to watch him on the ground.

"Jin Kazama, how long will you stand my attacks?", dared Lili.

Jin stands up. 'Why am I fighting her? What did she want? I think I saw her fight in the Iron Fist. She is… she is… never mind. But I need to show her she's not enough to defeat Jin Kazama'.

Jin charged at her, executing a right kick. The lady ducks. He immediately retracted his feet and followed it with a right-straight punch. His fist passed through strands of hair. She had dodged, moving to her right. Her sapphire eyes captured his, a sudden duel of sharp stare. She then pulled his arm following his flow of force and gives him a kick in the back.

Jin fell to the ground forward with his arms supporting him. He immediately turned and sees Lili. Again, she was watching him standing up. This only adds up to Jin's irritation. He can feel a bit of mockery in her eyes, whether intentionally or not.

Jin launches an attack, this time a left-straight. She successfully dodged it again. But Jin anticipated it, after seeing her speed and style, he knows she would and she could dodge it. Targeting her left side, he successfully made her move to the right. Then cutting his attack, he changed its direction following her movement. The left-straight turned to a hook going for her head.

Lili had blocked the attacked with her both arms. But he did hit her. His force overpowered her defense. He hit her in the head with her arms. That attack made her close her eyes for a moment, hiding Jin's preparation for the next attack.

Jin lowered down, stepped forward, swung his arm, and hit her badly in the stomach, one of his finishing blows. Lili was thrown a few yards away landing with her right side. She twisted and lifted up her body. Alerted, she saw Jin started charging towards her.

Lili tried to move away, but before she could stand up, a huge motorcycle jumps over her. When it passed her, its speed increased more, headed to Jin Kazama. Jin had no chances to dodge the speeding bike. It hit him. He was thrown meters away and landed on his back almost unconscious.

The time the bike bumps with Jin, Hwoarang turned it; it drifted, and then halted leaving a trail of cloud dust. He kicked the stand and get off the bike.

"Need back up?", Hwoarang asked Lili.

"Not really", she answered. Then she takes her look to Jin, not moving still. " You knocked him badly", she added.

Hwoarang followed her look to Jin. Jin started to get up slowly, still dizzy. Hwoarang laughed.

"That's not enough. I've prepared more", he said.

Then before Jin could really stand up straightly, two mini rockets approached him. The first one hit the ground where he actually stands. The second one is not seen because of the explosion. The explosions, with only split second interval, created a shockwave that pushes Lili and Hwoarang backward together with wall fragments scattered on the ground. The bike was thrown a few feet away from its previous location.

"Is that what you mean?", Lili asked him.

"No", Hwoarang answered, confused.

Then they saw a band of men approaching their place. They were in full battle gears with high calibrated ammos. They headed at Jin first, still covered with smoke, and surrounded him. The others move on to where Hwoarang and Lili are.

"Hey, were not your enemy", Hwoarang said to the approaching soldiers, raising his hands.

Lili, who stand a few feet away from him, didn't give any attention to the soldiers aiming at them. Her eyes were focused to the smoke where Jin should be.

"They killed him", she said in a low voice.

"I doubt it", Hwoarang answered.

'What kind of human can stand such explosions?', Lili wondered. Then before the smoke totally disappeared, they saw a black shadow emerged from it up in the air. Then Lili saw his black wings, his piercing horns, which answer her question. She saw the devil.

"Oh", she silently exclaimed.

Lili heard about that devil genes before, but this is the first one she encountered one. She didn't even know how to react. 'am I scared?'. She stood there unmoving, staring at the horrible devil.

Devil Jin's eyes flashes, beams came out from it that created destruction and explosion to where it hits, annihilating the soldiers that previously surrounding him. Then he looked at them. Lili felt a sudden pump in her blood. She gasped,'Would he also shoot us with that beam?'.

The soldiers shifted their gun from them and aim it at Devil Jin. Then an ear-shaking gun fire rolled in throughout the air. Lili covered her ears and ducked. She can see bullet capsules continuously falling on the ground. Then it stopped with the gunfire. She looks up to devil Jin. The bullets were still in the air, as though something invisible was preventing them towards him. Then it all drop in an instant. Devil Jin move closer to them. Lili began to shake. An estrange emotion was happening around her. Devil Jin's eyes began to glow. 'would he shoot us?' .

The next thing that happened is every wall of the ruined building collapsed by explosions from here and there, and a huge volume of dust and smoke was formed in the air.

Encounter With the Devil
E1sky

Chapter 2
Don't Act Like You Care

Lili started waking up. She was lying in her left side on a wide bed much for her comfort. Her eyes were half open. Then she closed it again gently. She feels a sudden pain in her stomach. She arched forward and held her belly with her hands. 'aw, it was probably because of the fight… the fight!'. She suddenly recalled.

Her eyes quickly opened up, completely awakened. And then she saw the… a perfect view of a brilliant sunset. The orange shining sun gently sinking in the horizon. It was so beautiful that it silently invades Lili's mind. The clouds above and the trees below were shining with the sun's silky rays.

Then a bird flew in and landed directly in the side of her bed, in front of her. Lili got up to sit. She stare at the bird, it was a colorful one. 'beautiful'. Then another bird landed beside the first one. 'now they were a pair'. Lili watched the birds as they also innocently watched her and make some chirping sounds. Lili smiled. She thought she heard them say "good morning" and "hello". Her fantasy made her giggled sweetly. But suddenly, despite of the entertainment she enjoys from the birds, her instincts made her look at her back as though someone was watching her.

And her instinct was right. She completely turned to what she saw. She gasped and startled a little. Her sudden movement sends the birds away, but she doesn't care about them anymore. Her attention was totally captured by the man in front of her. It was Jin Kazama.

Lili moved backward out of the bed to the side of the window. Now she was standing face to face to the man she wanted to defeat.

Jin Kazama doesn't make any movements since Lili notice him. He was sitting on a huge chair a distance from the bed. He was sitting in a manner that he looks like sleeping. His back was totally leaning on the chair. His right cheek was resting on his right knuckles that supported his slightly bowed head. He's not even looking to Lili directly, and without any movements, he asked

"Who are you?"

Lili clenched her fist in her own style of clenching.

"After all the troubles you brought me your still asking who am I?... I will kill you".

"Why?"

Lili snorted, "Stop pretending your innocent!"

'but is he really pretending?'

Then the door behind him opened. A well groomed woman entered the room. She wears shades and her blonde hair was neatly tied.

"Did she speak up?"

The woman asked as she approached Jin and stood beside him.

"No"

"Anyway, I got her records", the woman stated, opening the folder she's holding and read "Her name is Emily Rochefort. She joined the Iron Fist Tournament 5 and defeated by Asuka Kazama. She was the only daughter of a wealthy oil magnate, a mishima zaibatsu former business partner. Unfortunately, he suffered bankruptcy because of the zaibatsu split up".

'Why did he needed that report? What kind of CEO is he?'

"You want to avenge your father", Jin questioned her.

Lili didn't answer she even stared at him more sharply.

"He's still alive. Go home and take care of him. Come back when he's dead", Jin continued.

"What are you talking about?", she asked.

"Years ago, a son joined the tournament to avenge her mother, unfortunately he too died", Jin stood up. "You'll be discharged tomorrow", He said before going out. The woman followed her. The door closed.

Lili stood still. She was left in the room with those words, the words that never occurred in her mind till now.

'Me…die…father will…'

With these death-defying activities she was undertaking, she knows that one could easily die. Her father would surely extremely grieve if he lost her only daughter.

…..

Lili was given a meal later after Jin leaves the room. After about an hour, the maid enters the room to get the empty plates. 'They're one of the world's wealthiest. No wonder they have good cooks'.

Lili was lying on the bed now, supposedly to sleep. But she can't, she had just awakened and several thoughts bothered her mind. What happened to Hwoarang? How did I get here? What was Jin doing with me?... "he saved me", she whispered a moment, "no!", she blurted getting up.

"I shouldn't think such things. I have no time for confusion. If there's a perfect chance to defeat Jin Kazama, this is it."