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(a/n): I know I ended the last chapter in such suspense. A question is powerful ending don't you all agree. Who saved Eden???? In this chapter you will all find out.
Chapter 7
Truth
Warm sun hit Eden in the face when he woke up that morning. His whole body was aching and he felt like throwing up. His back and ribs hurt and when he breaths his chest burned so much that it made him cough. He raised his hands in front of his eyes to block the sun and tried to sit up but pain only welcomed him. Eden screamed out in pain and fell back into bed.
He heard someone open a door and a lady steps in with a white coat. "Okay…kiddo…let's see." She said in Japanese. "You have 3 broken ribs on your right and a sour back. You have burned your trachea (windpipe) due to oxygen loss. You should be able to go home today. You should not be practicing for a week, rather stay in one place. When your ribs will heal you can start to practice but don't over do it." Eden looked at her with his painful expression. "Where am I?" He said it in English, forgetting he's still in Japan. She looked confused, probably not understanding what he just said. "Where am I?" He tried again this time saying it in Japanese. The doctor smiled. "Your in a hospital. Two men brought you here. They say they are your friends. I'll tell them they can see you now. Is that okay?" Eden nodded in response and laid his head back on the pillow.
Eden still thought about what happened yesterday. He has so many questions and yet no one will answer him. Who was that woman? How did she know he would be ambushed? Who was Gillis? Is he even human? How did he control his body? Who saved him? How did his wings get on fire? Why does he even have wings?
His head was ripping into different directions, screaming for answers but Eden had non. He's so confused, lost and angry. He doesn't know what to feel or think anymore. He only knows that he needs to find his mother and father but now he was injured and practically useless. How would he fight Heihachi now? Eden sighed and felt angry with himself. He is so weak, naïve, fragile and just a boy, how his master once have said. He was still too young and new to this world and he was also very vulnerable.
He heard a door open again and saw a man in a black jacket with black hair that was pointing towards the back. He had brown chocolate eyes and pyramid eyebrows with bangs in front of his eyes.
"Father!" Eden exclaimed. Jin smiled and sat besides him.
"How are you feeling?" Eden sighed again and looked away.
"Like crap." Eden responded.
Jin chuckled and said, "Well, you never thought that you can get out of that fight untouched, did you?"
Jin sighed and continued. "All of you teenagers are the same. You always think nothing can hurt you." He paused and thought a little.
"Ugh. Don't worry." Jin nudged him on the shoulder.
"I was like that too when I was younger."
"And I'm still like that!!!" Another voice said in a playful way.
"Zion!?" Eden sat up so fast that pain didn't even stop him. "Your alive!!!" Zion smirked. "Of course I am! You thought an almighty like me could die???" Jin rolled his eyes and sighed. "Zion, for once in a lifetime tell him the truth." Zion's smirk dropped. "That's right Jin. Spoil the fun!" Zion turned to Eden and began. "Your Pops saved me." "Pops?" Jin seemed to be mortally wounded. Zion shrugged and continued. "So that's the story." Eden arced and eyebrow. "That's it? My dad saved you, end of story?" Zion seemed to think a little and then he nodded.
Eden shook his head. "It's like in one of those commercial. 21% real juice is same thing as 21% of a story. Like a father reading a bedtime story to his daughter, 'once upon a time there was a lovely princess, the end.' And the girl stares at him weirdly and than they show 21% fun." Zion started to laugh like hog. Well that's what it sounded like to Eden. A smile was forming on Jin's face too and then he says, "You watch too much television, Eden." Eden started to laugh himself as he said, "Like you don't." And then the whole room was filled with laughter.
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She watched them from afar, smiling. Look at them just look at them. Just when her mother was afraid that Jin will be like his father and try to destroy the world. But Jin, knowing he is a devil, laughing with his son. It made her feel good, she is like her mother not cursed but yet blessed and still never found laughter within herself. She doesn't know how it feels when you laugh from your heart because she never found the right moment.
She lowered her hood a little more when she heard someone walk by in the back. She would rather people think she is a bum rather than a hot chick that is waiting for a guy to come and stick to her. She looked at the guys again and smiled once more. No one will even think they are devils. They all look like kids, sweet and funny. She turned around to walk away just when she saw a guy approach her. Just great. She went the other way but the man continued walking after her. She started to run but only found him chasing her.
She rounded a corner and ran towards the alley to escape. The man seemed to be faster than her and caught up to her. He grabbed her by her shoulder and pinned her against the closest wall in the alley she ran in. He breathed hard in her face and she could feel anger coming from him. "You think you can stop me?" He asked her. Her face was still covered by her hood. She looked at his red eyes, she knew who it was and it wasn't who she wanted it to be. Gillis. "Who are you?" He demanded and started to choke her. She didn't answer or fight back. She couldn't even give him a clue on who was she, it was against her teachings that her mother taught her. "Very well! Then I should kill you." He raised her by her throat and pulled his left hand back to swing a punch.
His punch went right through her and hit the wall. He stared at his hand and then stared at her. He then felt her fall from his grip. He watched her regain her balance and she jumped directly through him. He felt something inside of him began to burn. He looked at her again as he turned around and saw her hand was on fire and she was holding something that looked like a fireball. He saw her eyes shine in red as her other hand, also, burned with flames and she shot out the two blazes straight into him. Gillis fell through the alley wall right out on the street. Cars zipped by fast and trains could be heard overhead. She turned around and walked away, promising to herself, if she sees him again, she will kill him.
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Jin stopped laughing as he felt something deep inside of him burn. "Dad what's wrong." Eden asked in concern. Jin only shook his head and felt the burn gone. "Nothing." Jin said and smiled again. He didn't want to worry Eden; he already went through a lot. "Come on, kid. Let's go home." Eden nodded but Jin noticed confusion on his face.
"Home? But I thought it was—" Jin nodded.
"Not in Australia, we have to stay in a hotel for a while until we find your mother, when we will, we'll go home."
"But what a bout Heihachi?" Eden sat up.
"I think Heihachi is holding her hostage, so we'll have to go through him of course." Jin said.
"Dad? Is it true?" Eden asked looking into his father's eyes.
"What is true?" Zion intruded. Jin smiled again and looked at Zion.
"Zion can you leave us alone for a while?" Zion seemed to be offended but his response was an intelligent one.
"Sure…" Zion nodded at Eden and walked away, closing the door behind him. They waited for a few minutes to make sure Zion didn't hear them speak. Jin slowly and quietly came up to the door and opened. No one was standing there and Jin was glad. Finally Zion is growing up.
"We need to talk Eden." Jin said to him when he closed the door. "About something I never told you before." Eden seemed to nod. "I know." Eden said. "Mom told me something about a devil gene. It all seemed so fast. How she told me everything in the last minute." Jin nodded and pulled out a chair to sit next him. "Listen." He began. "You and me, we are not exactly what you can call human. We are something more. We have this inhuman power, speed and intelligence. We have the power to control another ones body but we must train in order to do.
"It all started out with your grandfather, Kazuya. When he was a little kid Heihachi threw him down a cliff like lions used to do to their cubs. Only the strongest could have gone back up that cliff, their reward? Life. Kazuya almost died when he fell down. But he didn't because he sold his soul to this devil and climbed back up. A scar on his chest was left.
"Heihachi welcomed his son back but Kazuya had only hatred to give. Finally when he was old enough, he confronted his father and threw him down the same cliff in the end of Iron Fist Tournament 1. Heihachi came back up with vengeance for he wanted his Zaibatsu back.
"Before Kazuya fought his father in the last battle of Iron Fist Tournament 2 it seemed he was with your grandmother, Jun. At the end of the tournament Kazuya lost to his father and Heihachi threw him into a volcano this time. Happy and satisfied with his success he got his kingdom back.
"When your grandmother was pregnant she told me the same devil that once resided in Kazuya came to take my soul. But she fought him off and he returned were Kazuya had fallen but I still carried the devil gene.
"Soon after a demon a woken called Toshin or King of Fight. He fed on the strongest souls. He killed so many people that were once in the Tekken and by then they were gone.
"Unfortunately your grandmother was also picked as a strong soul. So she was killed. I tried my best to protect her but I was too young. I was still new to the fighting and I couldn't protect her.
"She told me to go to Heihachi before we were attacked and so I did. Heihachi trained me to the highest point and, well, I was almost unstoppable. The Toshin came to take my soul for I was the last he needed. But instead of him taking my soul, I beat him; beat him because of the anger inside of me.
"Just then, Heihachi's troops fired at me, killing me slowly. Heihachi came up to me and…and shot me with his own gun. I gave up to the devil that night and slammed him against the wall but I thought that wasn't enough so I crushed him through the ground as well. And so I fled to Brisbane Australia. I trained there and unlearned my Mishima style and learned another one. I came back into the tournament to kill him.
"My father, Kazuya was somehow resurrected and I was so angry at that time that I wasn't thinking. I wanted to kill him as well. When I was about to fight him, Tekken Force found me and captured me. When I woke up I was in chains and standing before me was Kazuya.
"I broke the chains and fought Kazuya, it was a close fight but anger is what have driven me. Heihachi came soon after and I fought with him as well. Just when I had him in my grasp I pulled my hand back to kill him but I saw my mother, Jun. I really saw her. It calmed me I guess. I felt the devil fading and I regained my composure. I dropped him on the floor and fled once again.
"I was sitting next to my burned down home, once where I used to live with my mother and saw Xiaoyu came up to me. I guess…I fell in love with her so I decided to go far away from Japan with her and live my life happy. And that's when you come in. Don't feel bad if you have the devil gene. I mean look at me. I'm not a devil. I can control it, because I'm good inside, like my mother. And you too are just like me and your mother."
Jin smiled at Eden and he nodded slowly. Jin will give him time; time to let everything sink in. He knows it's a lot of information and it needs time to be over thought. Jin looked at his son and saw him smile. "Okay." Eden said. Jin smiled as well and said, "Come here." He took his son by the neck and messed up his hair. Eden laughed and resisted but Jin had a hard grasp.
Eden finally unwrapped himself from his father's grasp and started to laugh hard with Jin. "Come on. Let's go." Eden smiled and said, "Yeah, before the doctors think we need a psychiatrist. God! I didn't laugh is such a long time." Eden got out of bed and saw he was in a gown. He blushed and asked, "I'm wearing a dress?" Jin started to laugh harder. "Here's some clothes, hotshot." Jin threw Eden's clothes straight at his face. "Those are your clothes so feel free to put them on. I'll be waiting for you outside. We have to come up to Mishima Zaibatsu to get our schedule on who we fight and when." Eden looked at Jin with those almond eyes in such innocence. "You're joining the tournament too?" Jin shook his head. "It's better for Heihachi to think I'm dead. He thinks he killed me, see?" "Ohhhhhhh." Eden looked like a child, which he was. "Get dressed. I'll be waiting for you outside." Eden nodded in response and looked at his clothes. Jin went out of the room and closed it silently.
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"How did he escape?" Heihachi screamed at Gillis and the Tekken Force. The leader of the Force said, "Gillis told us he will handle it. We trusted him, sir, like you told us to and so we went away." Heihachi was burning red. "You didn't even wait to back him up!? You just went away!? You are stupid, insolent fools! What if he needed back up!?" The leader only shrugged in response lowering his head in shame. "You're not getting your paycheck this month get out of my face and YOU." He looked at Gillis. "Are to stay here. You got that!?" Gillis nodded. "I don't hear you!" "Yes, sir." Gillis said shamefully.
Heihachi waited for the Force to get out before he's going to lecture his new son. Gillis was like a son to Heihachi but Heihachi was just very angry. He made Gillis through the Devil's blood. He had to test if it was safe to combine the Devil gene with a human. It was, but when he combined the human's blood with Ogre's, the human died, decaying inside of his own body. But the scientist say if you combine the Devil's and Ogre's blood with a human everything will go well. And it did because Heihachi is still standing. He feels so much energy inside of him, he feels so young and strong.
"Now…" Heihachi began, cooling off a little. "What happened. Why couldn't you get the boy?" Gillis looked at Heihachi with his yellow eyes and lowered his head again. "A woman in a cape saved him. She…She's not normal. I don't think she's human. I think she's like me." Heihachi seemed to be curious. Another devil, without his creation and who is not Jin's son? This is interesting. Who could have created her? "How do you know, she is not human?" Gillis looked at him again and said, "When I was about to punch, she…my hand went right through her. It didn't touch her it just went through her like she was never there. Than she jumped through me and fired two fireballs or something straight into me with such force that I broke the wall." Heihachi thought a bit. This was interesting, very interesting, she might be a devil who have discovered all of her powers. He will need her to discover all of his powers as well.
He feels this energy building inside of him everyday but he does not know how to use it. "Excellent, I shall meet her then. Set up a concert to all of the contestants. I shall give a speech and lovely Emma Williams will sing a song for everyone and then there is going to be grand dinner." Heihachi smiled. "She will come, if I think I know who she is, she will come." Heihachi started to laugh like a true devil.
(a/n): So…what'd you all think? Is it getting interesting? If some of you think I got the name wrong, "Emma Williams" that's okay. It's not supposed to be Anna or Nina. It's someone else. It's another new character. On the next chapter "The Great Concert" will be the last chapter were the characters in here would be relaxing. Action will break lose and it's going to rock. Review this story plzz and I shall write more. Now I got to go. See ya later alligators!
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