It had taken Julia two years to get over her mother's death and just as she'd finally been able to move on death came and attacked from out of the blue. Julia had seen the power of Genocell once before and now she saw it again. As she averted her gaze from the porch and into the night sky she tried to avoid looking at the assassin; Nina who lay looking crippled but in fact she was dead, murdered. Julia knew this was all her fault okay she hadn't stuck the knife in so to speak but she told Nina to head out this way. As was the same way she felt at the death of her mother, Michelle.
However Julia had no idea of why Nina had been to see Ganryu, maybe he led to the answer she so sought. She'd asked Nina to track down Abel, had she made some sick mistake and gone to Ganryu's house? But it just didn't add up and Julia wished she'd known why Nina had gone to see Ganryu. Nina, unlike Michelle had not been bitten to death, which was the cruel fate her mother had suffered at the hands of Genocell. In his crazed devil form Kazuya Mishima had killed Michelle when she entered the third King of Iron fist tournament; she'd gone looking for Julia who hadn't returned for a month after the end of the tournament. Julia felt bad because she'd spent this time conducting her research on Genocell and when she saw her Mother's dead body she knew instantly what it was due to. The secret couldn't be unveiled to the world and Abel with his control on Mishima had made sure that it didn't happen. Julia had better things to do than tell the world, she couldn't face more guilt.
Nina had turned purple, literally her body gave off an eerie violet glow and this hadn't happened to Michelle, just purple holes in the left of her neck where she'd been bitten. Useless in motion Nina could now only reply on words in her dying minutes and when she spoke she startled Julia who'd assumed she was in fact dead. Nina turned her head towards Julia and spoke softly "tell Steve" Julia thought about this and then noted to herself to inform Steve, she didn't have a clue who he was but in the complex world she occupied she had the feeling she'd soon learn. Then Nina turned and closed her eyes, Julia watched horrified as the woman died, was this cruel act her doing? Bite marks appeared on her eyelids and slowly faded away into nothingness.
That ordeal had scared Julia but she felt hatred at herself for sending this woman off on a killer hunt that she couldn't be paid for. Julia didn't even have one million dollars let alone three. She felt obliged to carry out the assassin's dying wish. She wondered how she could find Steve and noted Anna, Nina's sister as a source. Julia decided it best not to talk to Ganryu just yet, she had another quest to ensue and so she got into her car and drove home.
She was letting the world get to her and felt paranoid at every corner she turned, wondering how Kazuya Mishima who was now rumoured to be dead could have killed Nina. She didn't know what to do now as she didn't knew where Anna or Steve was.
When she got home she decided to at least try, turning on her laptop she typed "Steve" into the home page search engine. She knew there would be millions of matches, but she had to make it up to Nina, so she sat calling many 1000's of Steve's all night long, until eventually she gave into nature's wicked way. Determined to try again the very next day. The next day when she woke at first she didn't know where she was, but she soon remembered. She went to her laptop and saw a large page-sized ad for the one thing she least expected now. Her own corporation had put her out of business and all the files on her computer had been wiped out. Heihachi was a cheat. The advertisement was for The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4. The prize was a large sum of land in the South of England and also total control of the Mishima Zaibatsu, she wanted neither but she had a feeling Steve may be there.
Julia immediately decided to enter. Not to get revenge on Heihachi, but to kill the mad Dr. Abel herself and hopefully find Steve or at the very least someone who knew the man. But this tournament would be a lot harder than the last tournament. She had done very badly in the last tournament as there were two evil Ogres' that stopped her from claiming her prize. She longed for Jin Kazama who had helped her with some answers he could provide for her the last time she fought in a tournament, her aim of reforestation back then seemed minor to her now. She knew Jin well and he also possessed the Devil genome but he was fighting it, Kazuya Mishima was dead and she had to remind herself of that several times to stop herself from shaking.
Julia was under a hard training programme, she was training for the tournament because she knew she had to get far to get answers, losing to someone who just wanted fame like Paul Phoenix at the first hurdle would be shameful to herself. But this was difficult as she only had one day. Apparently Heihachi Mishima had learned of something which he needed and fast but she couldn't think what; he was more caught up in the Ogre's who meant nothing to Julia than the Devil's. She had designed a training timetable last night and it was to last her the whole day, each exercise lasting one full hour. Julia trained long and hard throughout the day into the dying hours of the night. She was tired but she had to keep on, she knew that she would soon be fighting and she made sure that she had the power she'd lost in the last two years.
Finally she was about to go to bed when something purple flashed past her window. She screamed. The Devil was looking into her house and before she knew it he was already smashing the window and climbing in. Julia was out of energy, she couldn't win. But then she wondered how the Devil was being kept alive, as Kazuya was dead and Jin relied on Kazuya's power for life. 'Oh god' she sighed, wondering whether her visitor was Kazuya or Jin.
Julia knew where Jin was, she had helped him leave the country. It was time he repaid the favour however she knew that Jin wouldn't just choose to use his devil formation, something she knew Kazuya Mishima would kill for. Kazuya Mishima was back. Julia ran to the window jumped through and ran into the night, she knew how Jun Kazama had died, an Ogre had chased her and she was being chased by a Devil.
Devil followed closely behind but eventually he took off into the night. By 5:00am Julia arrived at New York airport. About half an hour later she had boarded the plane. At 5:00 the next morning she arrived in Brisbane, Australia feeling very sleepy. She knocked on Sensei Kyboro's door six times as loudly as her aching knuckles would allow before passing out. Jin found her five minutes later when he realised someone had knocked on the door. He saw Julia lying there with bite marks in her eyelids, she was a state, and she was turning a shade purple.
Jin got her in and called Sensei Kyboro. They stayed with her for seven hours until she did wake up, a strange scar that had appeared on Jin's head receded when she awoke; had he healed her?
Julia had not been bitten, but she had been touched by the devil, so that explained her condition; the genome was effecting her skin but seemed to have stopped. She told Jin everything about Genocell and that she thought she needed him. Jin agreed to help Julia because he too had heard of the king of Iron Fist tournament 4 and that his father may still be alive. Afterwards he told sensei Kyboro that one day he would return to finish his training. After he packed a few things he tried to order a plane for himself and Julia but cash was running short; Julia couldn't use a bribe like she had to get a seat immediately yesterday (or was it the day before? She'd passed out and had no collective memory of the event). They wouldn't be able to arrive until at least two days when the tournament would have started, time was not on there side and their one hope was the Heihachi needed Jin and that he would postpone the tournament.