As soon as we pulled up by the stadium, I jumped out of the car and was running towards the entrance before Steve even had the chance to pull the keys out of the ignition. I raced into the arena just in time to see Hwoarang slam onto the floor, blood gently trickling down his face from a small cut just over his eye.

"Hwoarang!" I gasped.

A large crowd was gathered round the arena watching the match, and I started pushing through them, ignoring their protests as I did. Eventually I reached the edge of the arena and Asuka caught my attention by waving me over to her. I shook my head, silently telling her that I wasn't moving, and she frowned slightly.

I felt a hand tap my shoulder and turned to see Baek smiling at me. I smiled back at him and he gave my shoulder a friendly squeeze.

"congratulations on your engagement" he said.

"how'd you know?"

"Hwoarang spoke to me before the match. He asked me to look after you if anything were to happen to him."

"he'll be fine."

Baek gave me another smile and we turned to continue watching.

Hwoarang smirked at Kazuya, who returned it by growling. Kazuya then looked over Hwoarang's shoulder, straight at me, and his eyes narrowed, and I saw the familiar flash of the evil lightening behind his eyes. I didn't glare back, I just sent him the same smirk as Hwoarang had, which succeeded in making him glare even harder at me. Hwoarang must have wondered why Kazuya was glaring, so he turned round and his eyes widened in surprise as he saw me. I gave him a wide smile and waved at him, wincing slightly as I waved with my bad arm.

Kazuya turned back to Hwoarang as they readied themselves for the next round, the final one. I didn't know why but I had this feeling that Kazuya knew about my dad and was going to take his anger out on Hwoarang. I gulped the lump in my throat down and watched with a sense of worry as I saw Hwoarang start the round by throwing a few kicks aimed at Kazuya. Kazuya grabbed his leg at one point and swung him round before throwing him onto the floor. Hwoarang let out a loud yell, and I felt myself lurch forward, only stopping because Baek placed a steadying hand on me to keep me in place.

Hwoarang stood back up and stretched, but I noticed he was standing gingerly on his left leg. I didn't like that one bit. Hwoarang always preferred to kick with his right leg which meant putting his weight on his left leg. If he couldn't kick with his right, then he would lose a lot of power, which could ultimately stop him from winning. He kicked Kazuya a couple more times, but even I could tell that there was hardly any power there.

Kazuya just sneered at him before sending a barrage of attacks his way, and suddenly Hwoarang had to play the dodging game, as Kazuya continued to send attack after attack at him. I covered my mouth with horror as I saw the sparks of electricity flickering off Kazuya's arm.

"Hwoarang! Look out!" I screamed.

Too late. Suddenly, Kazuya's fist connected with Hwoarang's stomach, and the electricity surged all over Hwoarang, sending him crashing to the floor again, crying out as the electricity slashed deep gashes all over him. I screamed again but he suddenly started standing up, and charged towards Kazuya.

Kazuya didn't even let Hwoarang near him, he just gave a cynical laugh and grabbed his throat as he had mine, and started squeezing it. I began to shake with fear as Hwoarang's blood began to drip onto the floor and his face slowly started to turn red as he struggled to breath.

"Round three goes to Kazuya. The winner of the match and tournament is Kazuya"

Kazuya had won, but he showed no sign of it. He continued to strangle Hwoarang, even though he had finished.

Suddenly, everyone burst into action at once. I flew up onto the stage at the same time as Steve, Asuka, Julia and Baek. Steve and Baek both attacked Kazuya, which caused him to let go of Hwoarang. I managed to grab him as he began crashing onto the floor, and Julia and Asuka helped me to move him away, Asuka making a noise of surprise as she noticed my own wounds that were still bleeding. I shrugged her off and told the pair of them to help Baek and Steve out as they were struggling to control Kazuya. The crowd of people that had been watching the match had disappeared now as they had gotten scared as he hadn't stopped trying to kill Hwoarang.

As I looked down at Hwoarang, I suddenly felt myself go light headed. The loss of blood had finally caught up with me. However, I forced it back as I reached down to gently brush his hair off his face. His eyes opened and he smiled at me.

"hey." I said.

"hey yourself. I see you made it then?"

"yeah. Dad's safe."

He reached a hand up and cupped my face. I stroked his face before telling him to stay there. I called out to Julia and she came running over, holding her wrist that was swollen.

"look after him for me"

"sure thing"

I glanced over to Kazuya to see Steve clinging to his back, while Asuka was charging towards him. Baek was just about ready to hit him, and all of a sudden, I felt completely ready to fight. I ran over to them, ignoring Hwoarang call my name out in worry as I did, and as I reached him, I jumped into the air, flicking my leg out and hitting him squarely in the chest, forcing him to stumble backwards a few steps. As I landed, he glared at me.

"you're going to regret that, girl"

"bring it on" was all I said in response.

As soon as he said that, I suddenly felt all the air around me compress. The others must've felt it too as they all sank to the floor due to the power of it. I felt my knees start to bend, but there was a sudden surge of power from Kazuya and I was sent flying backwards, nearly landing on poor Hwoarang as I did.

"Kerry!" he groaned.

I grit my teeth and sat up, letting out an uncontrollable gasp of fear as I saw Kazuya, or more the devil within Kazuya. Enormous black wings exploded from his back as sacred marks began sprawling over his body like thick black tentacles.

I felt Julia grasp my arm and her hand was shaking so badly it actually caused my whole arm to vibrate. I knew Kazuya had stepped up his game, and it was too dangerous for my friends to stay here anymore.

"everyone get out!"

They all turned to look at me, each one in disbelief, fear and refusal, but I managed to eventually force them to leave, even though they were all extremely reluctant to do so, especially Hwoarang and Steve. As soon as the last of them left, I turned to face Kazuya, who smirked.

"I see you managed to trick me, my niece" he growled.

His voice no longer sounded human. It was evil, pure evil. I was afraid, no, I was terrified to be standing there facing him like that, but at the same time, the adrenaline surging through me gave me just enough courage to stay where I was.

He watched me, his black eyes never once blinking. I watched him too, even though every part of my body was screaming at me to get the hell out of there. In the time it took me to blink, I felt a powerful force slam into my side and I was sent literally flying into the air, slamming into a wall, hissing and groaning as I heard the sickening snap of something breaking. Until I moved though, I couldn't be sure what was broken.

As soon as I pried myself off the wall, I realised what it was. My left wrist was swollen up and I could hardly move it without a searing pain racing through my arm. I caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye and ducked, narrowly missing a huge blast of electricity that had been thrown my way. I then rolled away as I saw Kazuya moving towards me, crying out as I rolled straight onto my broken wrist. I heard Kazuya's laugh from behind me and at that point in time, I honestly couldn't help but think one thing…

I wasn't going to make it through this alive.