Memories, part two: Ray of Light
A/N: Heyhey, this chapter is a LOT longer than the other ones, I'm not sure if I'll be able to write as much each time, but right before, I were in THAT kind of mood. Notice that this one have a Madonna title, yeah, that's right... So, powarh to Madonna, and powarh to you guys who reviewed me (sends fruitbaskets to all of you who reviewed )
can i get a: Why thank you.. If you review this chapter, could you pleade tell me what mistakes I make, so I can correct them later, and keep them im mind? That would mean so much to me, thanks for the review, you guys rule!
Mikki: YAAAY! Someone else who enjoys my writing (powarh to me, I guess?) you too, if you see some mistakes, point them out, and if there's a lot of them, just take the worst (hopefully can i get a will take care of the others huh?) ... Thanks
Moochii: (a chick who reviewed over my mail) YAAAY! Thank you, AGAIN! You guys have no idea how shibby you are, well, now you do... I guess... Hehe, but I'll think about writing Hwoarang in this fic, hmmm, even if he's gonna join in somehow, it'll be a loong way down Nina's path... But I will try to make it happen...
About time I let this chapter start, eh?
" NO! TELL ME! WHO AM I?! " Nina yelled furiously at her younger sister, who looked like she enjoyed it.
" ... Why should I tell you? " The redhead said calmly, even though, somehow she urged to scream back at her blonde sister.
" I am your sister. That is all I know, and aren't sisters supposed to look out for each other? " Nina replied, ignoring the anger and tears building up inside of her. She was so close to burst.
" If you're my sister, then how come you treat me like crap? All I fucking wanted to do after we woke up was to help you. " Anna tried to calm down her sister by using a cheerful, yet constructive voice.
" Then WHY didn't you tell me who I used to be? Do you have any idea how long I've searched for the truth? For my past? " Nina's feelings was close to unbearable, but she had to stay strong, she could not show Anna her pain, her weekness.
" Because I wanted, and I still do, to protect you. Our past is something I wish, no I pray that I would somehow just forget. " Now Anna had to hide her tears, neither of them wanted to let the other one see their real emotions, and yet, both of them knew how eachother felt.
" YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO KEEP THAT FROM ME! " The Irish woman turned her back to her sister, to hide her own tears of dispair.
" AAAAAAARGH! "
' Just a dream. ' Nina thought, she was wet all over from sweat, and could feel that her eyes were in pain. She walked to the bathroom. Water poured out of the sink into Nina's hands.
SPLASH!
She looked in the mirror, gazing at her long blond hair and the rest of her, otherwise flawless face, it was surprisingly... Messed up, which were unusual, since Nina were allways in total control of her self, never letting anything be unexpected... Least of all her looks.
Sleep wasn't necesary, well, not when those kind of thought haunted her mind. She just layed there on her silk sheeted bed, thinking about all sorts of things, and the merchant then agreed with herself that she had to go see a friend. Anna was out of the question for now, that would hurt to much, and more pain was definatly not needed right now.
Perhaps Eddy, whom she teamed up with during the Tag Tournament. Eddy too had a life of crime, well Lee used to be a thief before he started inventing and designing things... That much she knew, Anna told her during the third tournament, when she also found out that she participated in the second King of Iron Fist Tournament with her sister, a looooong time ago, before they both was frozen down.
' Lee it is... So... Where can I find you Mr. Chaolan? '
Nina walked up and down her living room, that soon were lit up by the rising sun.
' Lee will have to wait, I need a dress for the party... ' Nina thought to herself, humming "Material Girl" with Madonna.
Meanwhile at the conference hall where the reforesting pary would be held by tomorrow night.
A young woman with long brown hair in ponytails who wore glasses ran from one place to another, to make sure everything would be just perfect.
" No not there! Higher, but the left side should be more even... Like... " The handymen obeyed her commands, and moved the decoration a bit.
" Uh-uh-uh! STOP! It's perfect there... Aaaaah, don't put that table there! " she ran of to boss the other guys around.
" You really want this to be perfect, don't you? " an older woman with even longer, but loose, ebonybrown hair came up from behind, catching Julia of guard.
" Michelle! You weren't supposed to be here before tomorrow. " Julia said pleasently surprised.
" Well, I thought you might needed a hand... "
" You were right, I'm having so much trouble getting this done right, " The youonger native woman saw some more men entering. " I said PINK tulips, not LAVENDER! "
The two men shrugged: " Sorry boss! "
" Okay, what do you need help with? " Michelle asked to make use of herself.
" I'm sure they messed up the table settings, if you could go help those poor things? "
" Sure I'm on it! " Michelle left her younger sister, or daughter as she had come to think of her, to do what she could to help. After all, thair tribe depended on this money raising event to be succesful.
' I know this is gonna be great! '
Rodeo Drive, LA. 14.21
" 10.000!? That is a whooooole lot of money, y'know... But I must say, it sure is a beautiful dress. "
Nina shopped, she needed a formal dress for the party. The blonde had a very clear picture in her head about what she wanted it to be, and what she DIDN'T want it to be... Most of the dresses she found fell in under the category "maybe", but after spending 5 hours without anything getting anywhere NEAR her dreamdress, she would have to settle for the one closest to her goal.
" Miss, if you are having difficulties decide, then I suggest that you try it on? " the clerk said, obviously trying to sell the dress, and it worked, Nina went to change, and minutes after she returned.
" You look... Stunning. It really is a gorgeous dress, especially on you." This time, the clerk didn't just try to sell it, this time, she ment it. Nina really was a sight to see.
" It is, isn't it? Nina walsed around in the midnightblue and black dress, that sparkled as she moved, pearls was scattered around the elegant fabric, not too many, not too few. Just perfect.
" I'll take it. " Nina walsed dreamingly back to change into her ordinary clothes, that almost hided her true beauty, but that was the point, not to be noticed...
Well, not tomorrow night, that was for sure.
" Cash or credit? " The rutined clerk asked, although she knew that you don't JUST pay a hefty amount like 9999.95 in cash.
" Credit " Nina Williams handed over her gold card, and pressed in her code.
" That should be it. Enjoy the dress. " The clerk sounded almost jealoux, while packing down in a bag, which she handed over to the Irish woman, with the credit card. " Have a nice day. "
" Thanks, you too. Bye." Nina left the store, feeling more spectacular and extraordinary than ever. She could hardly wait until tomorrow.
Nina's penthouse appartment, LA. 16.02
It was a sunny day, one that Nina would usually be spending on the beach, but she had some personal buisness to attend to.
The Irish woman looked like 20, but probably would surprise most people by telling her actual age at about 40-50 years, Nina herself did not know exactly how old she was. The cryosleep had almost stopped her aging, leaving her like a... Flawless, almost too flawless, energetic, youthful female. She might live for another 50 years, and you wouldn't be able to tell a difference.
Same shiny blond hair.
Same milky white skin, hardly affected by the sun.
Same passion pink lips.
... But the only thing changed was her eyes, before they were warm, glowing, happy and spirited, but now, they were completely opposite, now they seemed dead, no warmt, no glow, and absolutely no happiness, the only thing left in them were the mystical indigoblue, deep, remorsteful irises.
- Nina had turned into a machine, and that was what she tried to avoid. One of her greates fears was the exact same thing she had became. And that scared the otherwise fearless assasin, which was why she looked for help. Several chances were given to her sister, who each and every time made Nina come closer to the darkness.
Anna used up all of her chances, Anna did not deserve any more of Nina's time.
That was why the blonde woman seeked help elsewhere, why she spent most of her sparetime either training to beat Anna senseless at their next encounter, or looking for the people that used to be her friends before her cryosleep-induced amnesia.
She wanted her real eyes back.
Eddy had dissapeared without a trail behind him, no one knew where he was, not even one of his closest friends, and protegé, Christie Montiero, knew where he'd gone.
Lee too was gone, neither did he leave a clue, he did not show up at work, and that was odd, since he OWNED his working place, it was his lifes purpose. Though, a strange person showed up the day after Lee's disapearence, Violet, he had to know a secret considering the complex subject of Lee Chaolan.
He had to.
Nina spent this wonderful afternoon inside, at her computer, trying to find out where Violet lived, where he worked, who he dated, what he spent his wonderful afternoons doing. She would find no rest until she had found out atleast SOMETHING that could lead her onwards, even if that ment knowing every little dirty detail of this "Violet"
Two hours later.
' Okay, I'm starting to have a headache... This Violet, if that IS his real name, don't live anywhere, donøt work, don't date, and he sure don't spend his wonderful afternoons putting his name in the headlines... It's like he doesn't even exist... '
Nina sighed out and burried her head in her hands.
' Hmm, that Jin-guy had a familiar face, but ha can't be someone I used to know... He was only 19... BUT! - '
Nina suddenly realized something. Something that refilled her with stamina, and quriosity, giving her inspiration to keep on looking for information on her high-tech, top of the line computer, that gave her access to a lot of information ordinary people could not get a hold of. ' All part of the job. '
She could feel it, Jin had something to do with her past, maybe even more than she could immagina. Maybe not? But how could it be possible for a teenage boy to have anything to do with events that happened over twenty years ago?
The blonde merchant leaved her desk filled with various files and papers on the previous entrants for all of the King of Iron Fist Tournaments, to find an old assingment, an assignment she failed during the third tournament...
Again, this was because of Anna...
' That bitch! '
... ' Where could I have left it? ' she asked herself, while going through all of her drawers, maps, briefcases, checking for anything that might have something to do with Jin, her first target after the cryosleep.
Realizing this would be a long afternoon, she made herself a cup of tea. With milk. Her favourite...
Nina came closer to the truth, or atleast a part of the truth around sunset, allthough she wasn't quite sure what to do with the information. Atleast she had found a path to follow, so, now all left for her to do was to walk down to the end of it, reaching the truth.
But it was a long path, one that might take several years to end, though, what did a couple of years matter if they unlocked a whole lifetime. Besides Nina was hardly getting any older.
These heavy thought filled up her mind, slowly causing her to fall into a heavy sleep.
o0O Dream Vision O0o.
Blob.
Blob?
Blob!
BLOB!?
Icecold water surrounded her completely bare body. She opened up her icyblue eyes. Glass on all sides, what she was in, was in a waterfilled tube.
' How did I get here? ' then another important thought came to mind:
' I can't breathe! '
The blonde cryosleep subject panicked, she was trying to break the glass around her, but no matter how hard she hit, it wouldn't shatter.
The last thing she saw before passing out was a silhouet of two scientists standing over her, analyzing her every movement.
" Huh? "
She lay in a bed, a few feet away from the now empty tube, and wore clothes. The two scientist had dissapeared, the only things she could spot in the room was four, black, metallic walls, the tube, a big mirror covering most of one wall, a glass door to the left side of the mirror, and a bedside table next to the bed she now sat up on.
' Hmm... What's this? " a folder layed on the table next to her, she opened it.
Jin Kazama, 18 years old, asian male.
Your Target is infected with the Devil Gene, making him a possible treath to my plans. I have arranged for you to be a participant in the third King of Iron Fist Tournament, which opens on your targets 19th birthday.
Your job is to prevent him from reaching the finals, by assasinating him. I'll make sure that you will receive further information later on, and anything you might need for your task is granted at your disposal.
Toshin.
A picture of a young raven-haired man fell out of the folder.
The Blonde suddenly figured out something.
' Who am I? '
She desperatly checked the folder for any girlnames, but did not find any, so she went over to the tube to find information.
' There have to be something. They can't just... let me not know who I am... CAN THEY!?! '
She quickly calmed down once she saw a sign on the side of the glass tube.
Nina Williams, cryosleep subject #00001
Origin: Ireland
Age: 22
Height: 161 cm
Weight: 49 kg
Blood type: A
Family: Anna Williams (sister), all other known relatives are either missing or deceased.
' Nina Williams... I don't feel like a Nina... How come I'm not called Christina? Or perhaps Amy? Hmmm... '
With this information Nina Williams saw no point in staying at this scary, sterile, godsforsaken lab, so she picked up the folder and left through the door.
A whole bunch of security guards tried to stop Nina, who felt that renewed, full of energy, and somehow she knew: Fighting was her field of expertise.
One of them placed a punch right in her stomach, which she absorbed, grabbing the arm and breaking it, then pushed him at the other guards, knocking all but one down.
Then she ran towards the one that was left, whp had prepared for a flying kick, but the blonde was creative and slided underneath his legs, then jumped up while kicking backwards, causing the guard to fall down in his fellow guards who were allready lying down. She used that kick to leap up, waay up.
Suddenly, while she was in mid-air, an otherworldly ray of light appeared around her, then, great big white feather wings grew out from her back, and she flew out, through the roof, leaving the guards still able to see speechless.
A/N: Okay, I know it, I rule, ever so bad... Oh yes I do... And if you don't think so... Well then, I just won't send YOU guys any fruitbaskets (hah!)
I wonder what'll happen next chapter... This is a good thing about not plannig your own stories, even the author get a surprise
