Chapter Ten



Later that night, Ken, Guile, Veronica, and Jasmine made their way back to their hotel.

Guile looks over at Veronica. He saw sadness in her eyes. He touches her shoulder. "Don't worry, Veronica. Everything will be all right."

Veronica sighed. "Who knows what really happened to them. Ever since we found out what this town is really all about, I became scared for them." She looks into Guile's eyes. "Aren't you worried about Wagner?"

Guile laughed a little. "Wagner's a trooper. He can get through anything."

The friends made their way up the elevator. Then, Ken looks up with concern on his face.

Jasmine noticed this. "What's wrong?"

Ken's brown eyes narrowed. "Guys.......I think we're about to run into trouble."

The elevator door opens. They walk towards their hotel room. Ken quickly opens it with his key. They go into the room. In then den, four figures sat on the couches.

The friends recognize three of them.

"Ryu!" Ken cried.

"Wagner!" Guile cried.

"Fei-Long!" cried Veronica.

"Who the hell are you?!" Jasmine asked looking at the forth figure.

The figure stood up. The moon's glow through the window showed her face. "I've been expecting you four."

"What have you done to our friends?" Veronica demanded.

The woman laughed. "Nothing yet. All I did was put a little love spell on your friends."

Jasmine gasped realizing who this woman is from the pictures back at the small museum and what Rovno told them. "Destiny," she growled.

"Guess you do know me after all," Destiny said. "You four are nothing but an interference in my mission. Now I'm going to kill all you in just one bite." She grins showing off her fangs.

Veronica gets into her fighting stance. "I'll show you!" She runs over to Destiny. She jumps up and aims her foot at her.

To her surprise, Destiny blocks the move. Veronica steps back as soon as she lands back on the ground. Destiny gets into a fighting stance and smirks. "Just because I'm a vampire doesn't mean that I don't know how to fight like you humans."

Jasmine gets into a fighting stance. "Need help, big sister?" she asked.

Veronica smirks. "Sure, little sister."

Jasmine looks at Guile and Ken. "You guys watch the, well, guys. We'll take care of this."

The two men look at each other. Ken shrugs. Rarely was there a time when the girls would fight and the men would be on the sidelines.

The sisters run towards Destiny and both did a roundhouse kick. Destiny blocks both kicks. She takes Veronica's leg and flips her over. Veronica landed with a hard thud.

Jasmine starts throwing punches at Destiny. Destiny blocks all of them.

"(Man she's good!)" Jasmine thought. "(I've never seen any women fight like this before.)"

Destiny manages to slug Jasmine. Jasmine lets out a loud gasp.

Veronica gets up and runs back towards Destiny. As Jasmine falls to the ground, Destiny throws a punch at Veronica. Veronica blocks every move Destiny throws at her. Then, Veronica finds an opening and does a karate chop right at the base of Destiny's ribs. The wind was knocked out of Destiny (A/N: if she has any air in her lungs) giving Veronica a chance to strike. With her palms open, Veronica throws kung-fu punches at her.

Jasmine slowly gets up holding on to her stomach.

"Are you sure you girls don't need help?" Jasmine heard Guile say.

Jasmine turned to him and smirk. "We'll be fine. If we need help, we'll let you know." She manages to get on her feet. She takes a deep breath.

Destiny then takes two of her fingers, one on each hand, and presses either side of Veronica's neck where her pulse was hard and fast. Veronica screams in pain. She falls to the ground holding on to her neck.

"Veronica!!!" Jasmine cried and rapidly throws series of punches at Destiny. She managed to break Destiny's block and punch her a few times in the face.

Ken and Guile run over to Veronica and bend over to her. "Veronica! Are you okay?" Ken asked.

The two men were surprised to see that Veronica is still alive from the last blow she received. Obviously, Destiny didn't deliver the blow hard enough to kill her. "I'm all right," she said. "But that was just too painful. I don't think I can go on."

Guile picks Veronica up and brings her to an empty couch. "Just rest for a little while."

Jasmine jumps back a little. "That's for nearly killing my sister!!"

Destiny hisses and runs after Jasmine. She throws a series of punches at her. Jasmine was only able to block the first few blows. She then missed Destiny's fist and was hit square in the jaw. The next blow hit Jasmine to her head. Jasmine tumbles back but still keeps her balance.

Jasmine returns to her fighting stance. "Okay, I never ask anyone this, but I would love a little assistance from one of you guys."

Guile gets into a fighting stance. "I'll be glad to help."

Ken rolls his eyes. "I wanted to fight!"

"Oh boo-hoo!" Jasmine said. "How about this, Ken......I get knocked out, you can fight next."

Ken shrugs.

Guile runs towards Destiny and throws a series of punches at her. Destiny blocks all of them.

"(Damn, she's good!)" Guile thought.

Then, Destiny performs a roundhouse kick knocking Guile to the side, but he still remains his balance.

Jasmine runs at Destiny. Destiny quickly back kicks her right at Jasmine's ribs. Jasmine jumps back. Then, she performs a cartwheel kick hitting Destiny's face.

Jasmine jumps back. Then, her face lit up. "Ken! Take over, I have an idea."

"All right," Ken said happily getting into a fighting stance.

Jasmine begins running towards the kitchen. As she did, she passes Ryu, Fei-Long, and Wagner. Jasmine stares at Ryu for a brief moment. She sighs thinking about all the nice things he's done for her, even when he touched her arm just to help her up.

"(Don't worry)" Jasmine thought. "(You guys will be free soon.)"

"Tatsumaki Senpukyaku!!!!" Ken cried out. He jumps in the air and performs his hurricane kick rapidly hitting Destiny in the face a few times.

Suddenly, Destiny teleports towards Veronica and grabs her up from the couch.

"Veronica!" Ken cried.

Destiny aims her fangs at Veronica's neck. Veronica was still weak from the blow she received but she was fully aware of what was going on. The two men watch her tremble with fear.

Destiny hisses. "You fools didn't think I could teleport, did you? You also think that I was going to kill this girl that first time? Well, I purposely made her weak rather than kill her so you two can watch me slowly suck the life right out of her."

"You're sick!" Ken cried. "Let her go!"

Destiny laughs. "I don't think so."

Guile and Ken run after Destiny but then find out that their feet were stuck to the ground.

"Sh**!!" cried Guile. "She used some sort of magic to do this!"

"You're telling me!" Ken said.

Destiny laughs again. "Say goodbye to your friend." She brings her fangs closer to Veronica's neck.

"Oh Destiny!" everyone heard Jasmine say. "I have a little present for you."

Jasmine holds up a palm-size garlic.

Destiny drops Veronica and screams in agony just by the sight of the garlic. Veronica tumbles to the ground. The spell was broken for Guile and Ken.

Jasmine laughs evilly as she runs closer to Destiny. Destiny runs to the corner.

"What's wrong Destiny?" Ken asked. "Can't teleport?"

That's when they heard a couple of loud thumps. Guile, Ken, and Jasmine turn around. Ryu, Fei-Long, and Wagner were now laying on the floor unconscious.

"All of Destiny's powers are gone just by that little garlic," said Guile.

Jasmine turns back to Destiny. "There are a few ways to kill a vampire. The obvious is sunlight, but it's nearly midnight and I'm too tired to wait. Then there's stabbing them in the heart, but I think that requires a special knife or something. Then there's decapitation, but I don't want to make this hotel more of a mess than it already is. So, there was only one other option left. Hopefully, this myth is true."

She throws the garlic right at Destiny's face.

Destiny shrieks in agony as the garlic hits her skin. Jasmine runs back towards Guile and Ken. Fire started to flare on her skin. She burned until there was nothing left of her.

Guile looks at Jasmine. "You a lot about vampires do you?"

Jasmine shrugs. "Sort of."

Ken runs towards Veronica who was still awake. Guile and Jasmine follow.

"Veronica," Jasmine said with a worried-like tone in her voice.

Veronica looks at her sister and manages to smile. "I'm all right now. I think I can get up."

Jasmine and Ken help her get up. As soon as Veronica got on her feet, they hear Guile gasp. "Wagner!"

The other gasps as well. They run over to where their three friends lay.

Veronica runs over to Fei-Long. "Fei-Long!" she cried shaking his shoulder. Then, she heard him groan.

Fei-Long slowly lifted his head up. "Wha.......what happened?"

Ken smirks seeing that Fei-Long's eyes are normal.

Wagner slowly gets up as well. "Whoa! I have a headache."

"You're all right now," said Guile. "We'll tell you all about it tomorrow."

Wagner looks at Guile. "What happened? Last thing I remember, some pretty lady bit my neck and then I was out."

"Ryu!" everyone heard Jasmine cry. "Guys he's not waking up!"

Ken crawls over to Ryu. "Ryu! Wake up."

Jasmine slaps him hard across the face. Ryu wakes up and blinks a few times. "Ow!" he cried.

Veronica looks at Jasmine. "You love slapping guys do you?"

Jasmine laughs. "They need it sometimes."

Ryu slowly gets up. "What the heck happened?"

Jasmine smiles. "We'll tell you tomorrow. Right now you guys need some rest."

Wagner rubs the back of his neck. "Did we, like, have a bad hangover or something?"

Guile and Ken laughed at that comment. "No Wagner, you didn't."

"Damn," Wagner said. "I was hoping that was the case."

Veronica throws her arms around Fei-Long. "You're okay now."

Fei-Long hugged her back even though he has no idea what's going on.

To everyone's surprise, Jasmine throws her arms around Ryu. "Yeah, you guys are okay now." She whispers in Ryu's ear. "Go ahead, I trust you."

Ryu smirks and hugs her back. Whatever he did, he was glad to finally earn her trust.

Wagner huffs. "What? I don't get a hug?"

"You will," Ken said with an evil grin. "By us!" He and Guile run over to him to give him a big hug.

"Ack!! No!" Wagner cried. Guile grabs him and gives him a big bear hug. "This is what you asked for and that's what you're going to get."

"No!! Help!! Rape!!" Wagner cried. Everyone couldn't stop laugh, even Jasmine.

Guile lets go of Wagner who tumbles to the ground. "All right guys, first thing in the morning, we're taking the next flight out of here."

"Definitely," said Veronica. "But where."

"Wait a minute," Ken said. He walks over to the coffee table. "We got some mail before from someone." He looks at the letter. "Wow! You guys, it's from Chun-Li."

"I was wondering about her," said Jasmine.

Ken opens the letter and reads it. After reading, he looks at his friends. "Speak of the Devil. She wants us to take the next flight to England tomorrow. She and her husband Liang just finished the Taiwan investigation and now are vacationing in England. They want us to be there."

"Awesome," said Fei-Long. "Looks like our next destination is England."

"Yup," Ken said. "So tomorrow, we pack our bags. Rest up everybody, especially from tonight."

"What happened?" Wagner asked.

"We'll tell you tomorrow," Guile said.

Wagner huffed again.

"England, here we come!" Jasmine cried.