I Don't Own Tekken (There! Now that's out of the way for now)
So.. this is Chapi 18… They are getting many… Well in here there will be a short feature from a Escaflowne fic I've written.. nothing you really need to know.. . It's just to read on… I'm thinking about featuring another Songfic in this.. What do you think? Should I? Welll On With the Chapi!!
Chapter 18 Dragonheart
"What the hell are _you_ doing here?" Hwoarang asked looking angrily at Jin.
"I said let her go." Jin repeated.
Hwoarang pulled Ryuu closer to him and his eyes narrowed.
"Why should I?"
"Hey!" Ryuu interrupted them both. "Lay it off." She turned around to face the Korean again. "You see that lady in the car who's looks is a mixed between concern and fear?" She waited just enough time for him to see her mother then face her again before she continued. "That's my mother… Behave. Or I'll see to it that they'll find you both" she glanced back at Jin "in pieces." She smiled lightly when she faced Hwoarang again.
He let go of her wrist and slowly caressed her cheek instead. He met Jin's eyes, they were hard. And the thought of her being with him… He looked down at her steel gray eyes again.
"Now why didn't you say so…" he said with a faked smile. He leaned down to give her a quick kiss and then lay his arm around her. "Better get going then." He smiled teasingly at Jin as he stepped into the car together with Ryuu.
Jin watched them as the car drove away. Hwoarang would do anything to make him madder wouldn't he? He breathed slowly as he heard a questioning voice behind him.
"What's so great about her anyway?"
He turned around to meet the face of Sora as she was walking up to him from about five meter range.
"What do you mean?"
"You, Hwoarang, Heihachi… Everyone seems to be after her." She said turning her eyes to Jin when the car had disappeared completely. She stopped and looked at him with crossed arms.
"I've known her since I was fourteen years old. Eight months later she disappeared out of my life."
"Until two days ago?" (shit.. I've taken 18 chapters and it's only been two nights? That's kind of bizarre isn't it?)
"Yeah… 'Till two days ago…" He folded his arms and his eyes sought to the ground.
How was he going to get a hold of her now? He closed his eyes for a longer moment but opened them quite fast when he felt an arm rubbing his back. His face met with Sora's and she smiled at him.
"You know… I had a brother… Or so I was told. When I was thirteen he was killed in a shooting accident… Never got the chance to see him. See if we had anything in common or if we were completely different. Guess what I'm trying to tell is that I know how it is to loose someone. As well as I lost my father… and have never really seen my mother… "She looked down at the ground but faced him with a smile again. "You'll get over it…"
A smile eventually crept upon his lips and he put his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry… My problems seem like cottages next to your high houses. And you're right…. I shouldn't care about her." He nodded to confirm himself right. You could hear that he said that to convince himself more than Sora. "Come on… let's grab a taxi home."
She just smiled and hooked her arm with his. It was working. If that damn girl was going to be everywhere she looked, why not let her see her together with Jin? She most certainly seemed to want him… well in some weird point of view anyway. And Sora herself didn't seem to get close enough to Hwoarang. Maybe that would change, with the iron fist tournament. She smiled to award herself. What a breath taking story wasn't it? It sounded like she'd lost a whole precious family… the only one she ever cared of were her father. A brother she'd never had and her mother… that's another story. (If this sounds weird, and I'm good at sounding weird, let me explain. She totally lied to Jin… Kind of :b)
* * *
There was silence in the car. No one spoke at the whole ride until they were getting closer to the bridge. Ryuu followed the road with her eyes and breathed in slowly and carefully.
"Mother… Can you stop the car please?" She smiled at the lady.
She stopped the car and Ryuu looked at Hwoarang in the reverse mirror their eyes met and he stepped out of the car. Ryuu let her seatbelt off and her mother grabbed her arm when the Korean closed the door.
"Ryuu… do you know who that man is?" Her eyes lit up with concern.
"Mom… I know who he is. He won't hurt me." Her eyes assured the words she spoke.
"I'm worried about you… He is a gangster and you can't trust him!"
Ryuu leaned back in the car and watched her lap with a smile. She folded her hands and took some deep breaths.
"Mother… I've been living with Hwoarang and his gang for three years now." She turned her head towards her somewhat surprised mother. "They won't hurt me now." She started to get out of the car but leaned down with a smirk. "And if he tries, I'll beat him to death." She closed the door and walked down towards the bridge, where Hwoarang was waiting.
It felt wrong, walking away while her mother was still in the car worrying. She shrugged it off. She had bigger things to worry about then her mother. Besides, she wasn't supposed to have any feelings left for her family. Her head rose and she met the eyes of the Korean as her first step touched the bridge. He was about to open his mouth but she cut him off.
"Wait 'til she can't see us." And she continued walking, past the bridge and entered the forest. There she turned around, leaned against a tree and looked at Hwoarang. "It's not a big thing Talon… It's not like our 'relationship' is monogamous exactly…"
He walked up closer to her. Calm, yet furious.
"Jin… is the enemy. Whatever you say it doesn't justify your actions."
"Justify? Justify my actions? I don't give a shit of what you think is right or wrong." Her eyes narrowed at the thoughts that she was thinking. No one would ever control her. She wouldn't allow it. "You don't own me… no living creature ever will. And you can't control me."
"I can't? Oh yes… I can." He said leaning one of his hands at the tree.
"I'd love to see that." She said slow and firmed. "There are a lot of things you don't know about me."
"Like your wings?" He said tilting his head.
Now that surprised Ryuu. But she didn't budge an inch. Well he noticed since he had spent some time with her and knew when she was chocked.
"My what?" she asked like she dismissed the idea in first thought.
"I've seen you walked of at the late night… and staying away for at least a day. Always at the same time. When the moon disappears. I saw it once..." He looked sharp into her eyes.
"It?" She still acted like he was stupid.
"You know what I mean Ryuu… Your wings… white wings…"
Ryuu slightly dropped her eyes. Why did he know this? He shouldn't know! No one should know. Did he know any further? No, he didn't seem to.
"What does that make you?" he continued. "An angel?"
Her eyes flung sharp at him. Repeated words. She heard them echo in her mind. Hwoarang, Dilandau, they had both called her by the name of an angel. She was not an angel… And that's what had been said between her and Dilandau.
~ Flashback ~
Dilandau was watching Ryuu from a distance as she had her wings out. Just as she finished her sentence she looked oddly at him.
"What?" She asked confused.
"Your wings"
He commented and she looked away. Knowing that people with wings on this planet were looked at as demons
"I can't help it." She stated and he walked up to her.
"I didn't mean it like that. Once you told me about angels."
"I'm not an angel Dilandau. Far from it." She said with a smile upon her lips.
"I know… You're a Dragonheart."
She smiled to herself and warmly accepted his embrace. Not knowing how right he truly was going to be.
~ End Flashback ~
If she commented his words… what would his answer be? Would it be the same? She inhaled fast and looked up at him.
"I'm no angel Ta-" She stopped herself and used a more soft voice. "Hwoarang."
"Of course not..." he snorted vaguely… "How can you be an angel when you have the heart of a dragon?"
The words only confirmed her. The heart of a dragon… If he only knew how right he was. The sentence made her straighten her back. How proud was she not of her heritage. She was quiet and still. What could she answer him back? Still their eye contact didn't break.
"What are you doing?" A voice asked from the forest and a man emerged.
Saved.
"Akirakaze. " Hwoarang said out loud to confirm that he knew that he were there. "Do you mind…? We're busy here…"
"No we're not." Ryuu said, still not breaking the eye contact.
"Stop it... both of you… You can't live like this… a man got hurt last nigh… really bad. And all you do is to think about yourselves? Geez." He rolled his eyes and turned around to go.
But Hwoarang broke the contact between him and Ryuu and looked at the youth.
"Akirakaze… Calm yourself. You don't know what lay behind this…"
"Jack is going to die." He almost interrupted Hwoarang. He turned around to meet the both eyes of Ryuu and the Korean. "He's still alive… but he won't be at the end of the day."
"Take me to him." Was Ryuu's instantly reply.
The boy smiled vaguely. At last something that mattered happened. He was tired of all this. So many things had happen, well it seemed like. This kind of stuff happened everyday. But when the leader started to act like this. Something was wrong.
"I'll go get your bike." He said and started to move into the woods again.
Hwoarang looked over at Ryuu again. Silence lay between them both. Who was to blame for this? Ryuu for not taking care of Jack? Hwoarang for stopping her in the first place? Who knows…? They both heard the sound of a motor come closer. Still they did no attempt of exchanging any words between each other. Ryuu just simple moved from the tree over to the man sitting on her bike. He got of and said to her while she mounted her own motorcycle.
"He's at the center hospital, ward room number 53. Just ask for Jack at the disk. They know your name."
"Cool." She said and nodded towards him. "Oh and Talon… Buy the way… You kinda owe Lucielle for this."
What was going on, he never got the chance to ask. He frowned but soon shrugged it off. He had other things to do.
* * *
Miss Lynn, a normal human being in these days. When she didn't lecture in classes she was just a normal nurse. Nobody could explain why she had always been so successful in foreseeing some things. When something caused by evil was going to happen, she had always seen it before and manages to stop it. Sometimes she had simply warned a person on the street to not dating someone. And later on it had showed to be a murderer, rape or such.
As she now walked away from the school she held her books very close to her. Today she had sensed something no one like her ever wanted to feel. An intense feeling of darkness flowing from one single being. The next question was, who was she? However, Miss Lynn wasn't sure that she ever wanted to find out.
She raised her eyes for the first time on her walk home. A temple lay before her and she started to walk up the stairs. When she took the last step and again looked up she was taken by surprise.
"Huh?"
"Lynn-San" The old priest smiled at her. Revealing a great deal of wrinkles he had earned as the time had past. "Your heart is troubled."
"Mm… Hai." She said nodding short. Her eyes grew very soft towards him.
"Let us go inside then."
Inside one of the temple houses they were both sitting sharing a cup of warm tea.
"Now… What is it that makes your beautiful young face seem so worried my young child?"
"Satoshi-dono… I… I felt something awfully horrible and strange today. A dark aura produced by only one being."
"How did this feeling strike you?" He asked while looking closer at her face.
"As a warm wind, burning caressing the skin. And the heat became only more intense as my eyes sought to her."
"It was a female then?"
"Hai." She nodded and looked down at her cup and emptied it. "It was so strange. Have we any knowledge of such thing?"
The man closed his eyes and seemed to thing trough things very precise. He did not want to be wrong about this. The woman waited very patient and did nothing to disturb his concentration. At last he nodded slowly.
"I am sorry to say that it seems to be no one less then the one we would refer to as Seraphim."
The woman's eyes seem to widen at his sentence.
"Are you sure?" She asked slowly.
The old man nodded as an answer. She fell into silent thought. The Seraphim she knew about was a prophecy told for a long time ago. Seen by an old priestess and so she told it before she stepped into the eternal sleep. And so she foretold; "When balance is set wrong between good and evil, a creature of evil shall emerge. A being never known to the world yet shall open its eyes and the soul shall be hosted by a body of a pure demon. It shall be pure evil in many ways. But also… The goodness we refer to as the light shall always glow, and wait to burn bright. So you shall see it in its eyes."
And thus this being were to be called Seraphim, witch means the angel of fire.
* * *
There had been silence between them both as they had stepped into the cab. Jin, Sora… They both stared at the road before them. As usual Sora didn't feel too comfortable in plain silence. Her mind worked quickly trying too come up with something to say. Although it seemed to be quite futile.
Jin had started to think deeper at the question that Sora had asked. "What's so great about her anyway?" It was a good question. And he couldn't answer it. It was as if he had no other choice then to… do… what he did. When did he ever get this desire for her anyway? They had had a childish relationship before. But they were young at that age. And now they most certainly weren't made for each other. They were so different yet more alike than they would think.
"Hey?"
Jin snapped out of his thoughts as he heard Sora's voice cut them off.
"Aren't we supposed to be at the Dojo in about a half an hour?"
Jin glanced over at the Taxi driver's watch. The red letters said exactly -20:32- He nodded slightly.
"I think it is something about the tournament. Not really sure actually."
"Better get back then I guess."
Jin nodded and asked the driver to speed up a little. Would he have such a rush if he knew who would wait for him at the Dojo?
* * *
Ryuu broke the speed gently as she stopped in front of the hospital. She followed the building's lines with her eyes before she got off and started to walk inside. The automatic doors slid open the first set then the second. Inside there was just like on any other hospital. She walked up at the disk and cleared her throat to get the nurse's attention. She turned her head up from where she was squatting and then rose.
"Can I help you Miss?" She laid her hand on the desk and smiled brightly at Ryuu.
Frankly Ryuu wanted to punch her in the face for making such ridiculous smile. But she strained herself.
"I'm here to see Jack, room 53. He's waiting for me."
"Alright" She turned to the computer and pressed some buttons and read something before she turned towards Ryuu again. "You're Ryuu then I suppose?"
And Ryuu nodded vaguely.
"This way then." She turned to shout at her comrades "Sheila, will you take over here?"
"Sure!"
And then the nurse walked around the desk and led her through three corridors before she stopped in front of a door. The sign above said "53".
"Now, he is in here. Have you been informed about his condition?"
Again she nodded vaguely.
"I'm sorry. You can stay as long as you like. I'll leave you alone." Her smile was supposed to be comforting, but Ryuu knew no comfort.
She looked at him through the glass for some minutes before she opened the door and walked in. Her movements were silent, her footsteps didn't make a sound. And when she stood by the side of him he still hadn't noticed her.
"Jack." Her voice was dark, but still clear and somewhat loud.
He turned his head over towards her and opened his left eye, the other he could not see with.
"Ryuu" His voice was husky, you could hear his life was slipping through his fingers. "Look at me… What have become of me? Ugh… I can't take this anymore. Their shoots and pills don't take away any pain. Only make me feel like I'm going to fall asleep."
"But you don't want to sleep, do you Jack… Let me give you the cold truth. By the end of this day… You won't wake up ever again."
"Hmm, I thought so." He closed his eye and frowned at the pain shooting through his body. "Then Ryuu… Please… End this now." He opened his eye again and looked pleading at her. "I didn't want to die like this."
"Who was it?"
"Tai… alone. If it wouldn't be that he surprised me I would have-"
"No excuses…" She cut his sentence "Excuses are a coward mans lie. I'll take care of Tai. You worry about the journey ahead of you." She raised her hands to unbutton the two first buttons on the clothes he wore. She exposed his chest were his heart was located and put her hand above it. "Now, concentrate. Be calm; imagine yourself floating on the surface of an ocean."
Her hand was warm when she placed it on his chest. He closed his eyes and started to breathe deeper. His heart started to beat in a steady pace.
"You're alone. Floating in peace. Slowly and comfortable fall asleep out on the great ocean." She felt his heartbeat under her hand beating slower and slower. "You stretch out your arms, relaxing and soon you let the sea devour you. The surface closes above you, you no longer belong to the world of the living, don't walk the earth anymore. Find peace in the ocean." At last Jack's heart stopped beating. His final breath was drawn. "And say Hello to my family." She clenched her hand and drew it back to herself. She sighed lightly and just watched him for a couple of minutes. She looked outside the window and met the burning setting sun. "Fathers. Show him the better way."
Then a movement across the parking lot below caught her eye. She recognized him. Of course. Hwoarang. He wouldn't let her out of sight for long after what she did. She looked around. Everything had been so much easier if she had been on the top floor. There she could fly away without anyone noticing her. And she was on the third floor, so jumping out the window wouldn't be an option. Without someone taking notice of the unnatural health she would have afterwards.
Or maybe that was the solution? She opened the window and made sure that he had walked inside. Looked down for an edge to stand upon. She found one just about 10 centimeters wide. One window away was the drainpipe. She took a grip around the metal windowsill and started to move to the other side. She reached for the drainpipe and grabbed it, she pressed the pipe between her feet so she didn't slide down instantly. When she was ready she released her grip and rushed down. The burning feeling you would normally feel didn't become her. Heat at all didn't become her.
When there were two meters left she let go of the pipe and landed softly in the flowerbed. She didn't take any time of recovery before she started to move towards her bike. She glanced down on her right hand to check what time it was.
"Shit." She slipped on the gloves and started her bike. As she drove away she could hear Hwoarang screaming at her from the window. He wouldn't be able to catch up with her now.
Hwoarang turned around and watched Jack instead. Ryuu was someone he'd never understand fully. She seemed to make sure that no one could foretell anything that she made. At the exact moment you though you knew where you had her… she was gone three seconds ago.
"How did you do it Jack? How did you get into her heart like that?" he questioned him. Of course he knew that he wouldn't answer. Jack was dead. And left was the question of revenge.
* * *
She broke it hard and rose from the bike. Lifted the seat on it to reach for the bag that was under it. She hadn't worn the clothes in it for a very long time now. But a challenge like this she actually felt obligated to. It was time to "prove herself" time to show how good she really was.
As she slipped inside the Dojo at the Mishima mansion a taxi stopped a few meters away from the building. Out from it hurried two teenagers to enter the dojo from a different door.
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So.. this is Chapi 18… They are getting many… Well in here there will be a short feature from a Escaflowne fic I've written.. nothing you really need to know.. . It's just to read on… I'm thinking about featuring another Songfic in this.. What do you think? Should I? Welll On With the Chapi!!
Chapter 18 Dragonheart
"What the hell are _you_ doing here?" Hwoarang asked looking angrily at Jin.
"I said let her go." Jin repeated.
Hwoarang pulled Ryuu closer to him and his eyes narrowed.
"Why should I?"
"Hey!" Ryuu interrupted them both. "Lay it off." She turned around to face the Korean again. "You see that lady in the car who's looks is a mixed between concern and fear?" She waited just enough time for him to see her mother then face her again before she continued. "That's my mother… Behave. Or I'll see to it that they'll find you both" she glanced back at Jin "in pieces." She smiled lightly when she faced Hwoarang again.
He let go of her wrist and slowly caressed her cheek instead. He met Jin's eyes, they were hard. And the thought of her being with him… He looked down at her steel gray eyes again.
"Now why didn't you say so…" he said with a faked smile. He leaned down to give her a quick kiss and then lay his arm around her. "Better get going then." He smiled teasingly at Jin as he stepped into the car together with Ryuu.
Jin watched them as the car drove away. Hwoarang would do anything to make him madder wouldn't he? He breathed slowly as he heard a questioning voice behind him.
"What's so great about her anyway?"
He turned around to meet the face of Sora as she was walking up to him from about five meter range.
"What do you mean?"
"You, Hwoarang, Heihachi… Everyone seems to be after her." She said turning her eyes to Jin when the car had disappeared completely. She stopped and looked at him with crossed arms.
"I've known her since I was fourteen years old. Eight months later she disappeared out of my life."
"Until two days ago?" (shit.. I've taken 18 chapters and it's only been two nights? That's kind of bizarre isn't it?)
"Yeah… 'Till two days ago…" He folded his arms and his eyes sought to the ground.
How was he going to get a hold of her now? He closed his eyes for a longer moment but opened them quite fast when he felt an arm rubbing his back. His face met with Sora's and she smiled at him.
"You know… I had a brother… Or so I was told. When I was thirteen he was killed in a shooting accident… Never got the chance to see him. See if we had anything in common or if we were completely different. Guess what I'm trying to tell is that I know how it is to loose someone. As well as I lost my father… and have never really seen my mother… "She looked down at the ground but faced him with a smile again. "You'll get over it…"
A smile eventually crept upon his lips and he put his hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry… My problems seem like cottages next to your high houses. And you're right…. I shouldn't care about her." He nodded to confirm himself right. You could hear that he said that to convince himself more than Sora. "Come on… let's grab a taxi home."
She just smiled and hooked her arm with his. It was working. If that damn girl was going to be everywhere she looked, why not let her see her together with Jin? She most certainly seemed to want him… well in some weird point of view anyway. And Sora herself didn't seem to get close enough to Hwoarang. Maybe that would change, with the iron fist tournament. She smiled to award herself. What a breath taking story wasn't it? It sounded like she'd lost a whole precious family… the only one she ever cared of were her father. A brother she'd never had and her mother… that's another story. (If this sounds weird, and I'm good at sounding weird, let me explain. She totally lied to Jin… Kind of :b)
* * *
There was silence in the car. No one spoke at the whole ride until they were getting closer to the bridge. Ryuu followed the road with her eyes and breathed in slowly and carefully.
"Mother… Can you stop the car please?" She smiled at the lady.
She stopped the car and Ryuu looked at Hwoarang in the reverse mirror their eyes met and he stepped out of the car. Ryuu let her seatbelt off and her mother grabbed her arm when the Korean closed the door.
"Ryuu… do you know who that man is?" Her eyes lit up with concern.
"Mom… I know who he is. He won't hurt me." Her eyes assured the words she spoke.
"I'm worried about you… He is a gangster and you can't trust him!"
Ryuu leaned back in the car and watched her lap with a smile. She folded her hands and took some deep breaths.
"Mother… I've been living with Hwoarang and his gang for three years now." She turned her head towards her somewhat surprised mother. "They won't hurt me now." She started to get out of the car but leaned down with a smirk. "And if he tries, I'll beat him to death." She closed the door and walked down towards the bridge, where Hwoarang was waiting.
It felt wrong, walking away while her mother was still in the car worrying. She shrugged it off. She had bigger things to worry about then her mother. Besides, she wasn't supposed to have any feelings left for her family. Her head rose and she met the eyes of the Korean as her first step touched the bridge. He was about to open his mouth but she cut him off.
"Wait 'til she can't see us." And she continued walking, past the bridge and entered the forest. There she turned around, leaned against a tree and looked at Hwoarang. "It's not a big thing Talon… It's not like our 'relationship' is monogamous exactly…"
He walked up closer to her. Calm, yet furious.
"Jin… is the enemy. Whatever you say it doesn't justify your actions."
"Justify? Justify my actions? I don't give a shit of what you think is right or wrong." Her eyes narrowed at the thoughts that she was thinking. No one would ever control her. She wouldn't allow it. "You don't own me… no living creature ever will. And you can't control me."
"I can't? Oh yes… I can." He said leaning one of his hands at the tree.
"I'd love to see that." She said slow and firmed. "There are a lot of things you don't know about me."
"Like your wings?" He said tilting his head.
Now that surprised Ryuu. But she didn't budge an inch. Well he noticed since he had spent some time with her and knew when she was chocked.
"My what?" she asked like she dismissed the idea in first thought.
"I've seen you walked of at the late night… and staying away for at least a day. Always at the same time. When the moon disappears. I saw it once..." He looked sharp into her eyes.
"It?" She still acted like he was stupid.
"You know what I mean Ryuu… Your wings… white wings…"
Ryuu slightly dropped her eyes. Why did he know this? He shouldn't know! No one should know. Did he know any further? No, he didn't seem to.
"What does that make you?" he continued. "An angel?"
Her eyes flung sharp at him. Repeated words. She heard them echo in her mind. Hwoarang, Dilandau, they had both called her by the name of an angel. She was not an angel… And that's what had been said between her and Dilandau.
~ Flashback ~
Dilandau was watching Ryuu from a distance as she had her wings out. Just as she finished her sentence she looked oddly at him.
"What?" She asked confused.
"Your wings"
He commented and she looked away. Knowing that people with wings on this planet were looked at as demons
"I can't help it." She stated and he walked up to her.
"I didn't mean it like that. Once you told me about angels."
"I'm not an angel Dilandau. Far from it." She said with a smile upon her lips.
"I know… You're a Dragonheart."
She smiled to herself and warmly accepted his embrace. Not knowing how right he truly was going to be.
~ End Flashback ~
If she commented his words… what would his answer be? Would it be the same? She inhaled fast and looked up at him.
"I'm no angel Ta-" She stopped herself and used a more soft voice. "Hwoarang."
"Of course not..." he snorted vaguely… "How can you be an angel when you have the heart of a dragon?"
The words only confirmed her. The heart of a dragon… If he only knew how right he was. The sentence made her straighten her back. How proud was she not of her heritage. She was quiet and still. What could she answer him back? Still their eye contact didn't break.
"What are you doing?" A voice asked from the forest and a man emerged.
Saved.
"Akirakaze. " Hwoarang said out loud to confirm that he knew that he were there. "Do you mind…? We're busy here…"
"No we're not." Ryuu said, still not breaking the eye contact.
"Stop it... both of you… You can't live like this… a man got hurt last nigh… really bad. And all you do is to think about yourselves? Geez." He rolled his eyes and turned around to go.
But Hwoarang broke the contact between him and Ryuu and looked at the youth.
"Akirakaze… Calm yourself. You don't know what lay behind this…"
"Jack is going to die." He almost interrupted Hwoarang. He turned around to meet the both eyes of Ryuu and the Korean. "He's still alive… but he won't be at the end of the day."
"Take me to him." Was Ryuu's instantly reply.
The boy smiled vaguely. At last something that mattered happened. He was tired of all this. So many things had happen, well it seemed like. This kind of stuff happened everyday. But when the leader started to act like this. Something was wrong.
"I'll go get your bike." He said and started to move into the woods again.
Hwoarang looked over at Ryuu again. Silence lay between them both. Who was to blame for this? Ryuu for not taking care of Jack? Hwoarang for stopping her in the first place? Who knows…? They both heard the sound of a motor come closer. Still they did no attempt of exchanging any words between each other. Ryuu just simple moved from the tree over to the man sitting on her bike. He got of and said to her while she mounted her own motorcycle.
"He's at the center hospital, ward room number 53. Just ask for Jack at the disk. They know your name."
"Cool." She said and nodded towards him. "Oh and Talon… Buy the way… You kinda owe Lucielle for this."
What was going on, he never got the chance to ask. He frowned but soon shrugged it off. He had other things to do.
* * *
Miss Lynn, a normal human being in these days. When she didn't lecture in classes she was just a normal nurse. Nobody could explain why she had always been so successful in foreseeing some things. When something caused by evil was going to happen, she had always seen it before and manages to stop it. Sometimes she had simply warned a person on the street to not dating someone. And later on it had showed to be a murderer, rape or such.
As she now walked away from the school she held her books very close to her. Today she had sensed something no one like her ever wanted to feel. An intense feeling of darkness flowing from one single being. The next question was, who was she? However, Miss Lynn wasn't sure that she ever wanted to find out.
She raised her eyes for the first time on her walk home. A temple lay before her and she started to walk up the stairs. When she took the last step and again looked up she was taken by surprise.
"Huh?"
"Lynn-San" The old priest smiled at her. Revealing a great deal of wrinkles he had earned as the time had past. "Your heart is troubled."
"Mm… Hai." She said nodding short. Her eyes grew very soft towards him.
"Let us go inside then."
Inside one of the temple houses they were both sitting sharing a cup of warm tea.
"Now… What is it that makes your beautiful young face seem so worried my young child?"
"Satoshi-dono… I… I felt something awfully horrible and strange today. A dark aura produced by only one being."
"How did this feeling strike you?" He asked while looking closer at her face.
"As a warm wind, burning caressing the skin. And the heat became only more intense as my eyes sought to her."
"It was a female then?"
"Hai." She nodded and looked down at her cup and emptied it. "It was so strange. Have we any knowledge of such thing?"
The man closed his eyes and seemed to thing trough things very precise. He did not want to be wrong about this. The woman waited very patient and did nothing to disturb his concentration. At last he nodded slowly.
"I am sorry to say that it seems to be no one less then the one we would refer to as Seraphim."
The woman's eyes seem to widen at his sentence.
"Are you sure?" She asked slowly.
The old man nodded as an answer. She fell into silent thought. The Seraphim she knew about was a prophecy told for a long time ago. Seen by an old priestess and so she told it before she stepped into the eternal sleep. And so she foretold; "When balance is set wrong between good and evil, a creature of evil shall emerge. A being never known to the world yet shall open its eyes and the soul shall be hosted by a body of a pure demon. It shall be pure evil in many ways. But also… The goodness we refer to as the light shall always glow, and wait to burn bright. So you shall see it in its eyes."
And thus this being were to be called Seraphim, witch means the angel of fire.
* * *
There had been silence between them both as they had stepped into the cab. Jin, Sora… They both stared at the road before them. As usual Sora didn't feel too comfortable in plain silence. Her mind worked quickly trying too come up with something to say. Although it seemed to be quite futile.
Jin had started to think deeper at the question that Sora had asked. "What's so great about her anyway?" It was a good question. And he couldn't answer it. It was as if he had no other choice then to… do… what he did. When did he ever get this desire for her anyway? They had had a childish relationship before. But they were young at that age. And now they most certainly weren't made for each other. They were so different yet more alike than they would think.
"Hey?"
Jin snapped out of his thoughts as he heard Sora's voice cut them off.
"Aren't we supposed to be at the Dojo in about a half an hour?"
Jin glanced over at the Taxi driver's watch. The red letters said exactly -20:32- He nodded slightly.
"I think it is something about the tournament. Not really sure actually."
"Better get back then I guess."
Jin nodded and asked the driver to speed up a little. Would he have such a rush if he knew who would wait for him at the Dojo?
* * *
Ryuu broke the speed gently as she stopped in front of the hospital. She followed the building's lines with her eyes before she got off and started to walk inside. The automatic doors slid open the first set then the second. Inside there was just like on any other hospital. She walked up at the disk and cleared her throat to get the nurse's attention. She turned her head up from where she was squatting and then rose.
"Can I help you Miss?" She laid her hand on the desk and smiled brightly at Ryuu.
Frankly Ryuu wanted to punch her in the face for making such ridiculous smile. But she strained herself.
"I'm here to see Jack, room 53. He's waiting for me."
"Alright" She turned to the computer and pressed some buttons and read something before she turned towards Ryuu again. "You're Ryuu then I suppose?"
And Ryuu nodded vaguely.
"This way then." She turned to shout at her comrades "Sheila, will you take over here?"
"Sure!"
And then the nurse walked around the desk and led her through three corridors before she stopped in front of a door. The sign above said "53".
"Now, he is in here. Have you been informed about his condition?"
Again she nodded vaguely.
"I'm sorry. You can stay as long as you like. I'll leave you alone." Her smile was supposed to be comforting, but Ryuu knew no comfort.
She looked at him through the glass for some minutes before she opened the door and walked in. Her movements were silent, her footsteps didn't make a sound. And when she stood by the side of him he still hadn't noticed her.
"Jack." Her voice was dark, but still clear and somewhat loud.
He turned his head over towards her and opened his left eye, the other he could not see with.
"Ryuu" His voice was husky, you could hear his life was slipping through his fingers. "Look at me… What have become of me? Ugh… I can't take this anymore. Their shoots and pills don't take away any pain. Only make me feel like I'm going to fall asleep."
"But you don't want to sleep, do you Jack… Let me give you the cold truth. By the end of this day… You won't wake up ever again."
"Hmm, I thought so." He closed his eye and frowned at the pain shooting through his body. "Then Ryuu… Please… End this now." He opened his eye again and looked pleading at her. "I didn't want to die like this."
"Who was it?"
"Tai… alone. If it wouldn't be that he surprised me I would have-"
"No excuses…" She cut his sentence "Excuses are a coward mans lie. I'll take care of Tai. You worry about the journey ahead of you." She raised her hands to unbutton the two first buttons on the clothes he wore. She exposed his chest were his heart was located and put her hand above it. "Now, concentrate. Be calm; imagine yourself floating on the surface of an ocean."
Her hand was warm when she placed it on his chest. He closed his eyes and started to breathe deeper. His heart started to beat in a steady pace.
"You're alone. Floating in peace. Slowly and comfortable fall asleep out on the great ocean." She felt his heartbeat under her hand beating slower and slower. "You stretch out your arms, relaxing and soon you let the sea devour you. The surface closes above you, you no longer belong to the world of the living, don't walk the earth anymore. Find peace in the ocean." At last Jack's heart stopped beating. His final breath was drawn. "And say Hello to my family." She clenched her hand and drew it back to herself. She sighed lightly and just watched him for a couple of minutes. She looked outside the window and met the burning setting sun. "Fathers. Show him the better way."
Then a movement across the parking lot below caught her eye. She recognized him. Of course. Hwoarang. He wouldn't let her out of sight for long after what she did. She looked around. Everything had been so much easier if she had been on the top floor. There she could fly away without anyone noticing her. And she was on the third floor, so jumping out the window wouldn't be an option. Without someone taking notice of the unnatural health she would have afterwards.
Or maybe that was the solution? She opened the window and made sure that he had walked inside. Looked down for an edge to stand upon. She found one just about 10 centimeters wide. One window away was the drainpipe. She took a grip around the metal windowsill and started to move to the other side. She reached for the drainpipe and grabbed it, she pressed the pipe between her feet so she didn't slide down instantly. When she was ready she released her grip and rushed down. The burning feeling you would normally feel didn't become her. Heat at all didn't become her.
When there were two meters left she let go of the pipe and landed softly in the flowerbed. She didn't take any time of recovery before she started to move towards her bike. She glanced down on her right hand to check what time it was.
"Shit." She slipped on the gloves and started her bike. As she drove away she could hear Hwoarang screaming at her from the window. He wouldn't be able to catch up with her now.
Hwoarang turned around and watched Jack instead. Ryuu was someone he'd never understand fully. She seemed to make sure that no one could foretell anything that she made. At the exact moment you though you knew where you had her… she was gone three seconds ago.
"How did you do it Jack? How did you get into her heart like that?" he questioned him. Of course he knew that he wouldn't answer. Jack was dead. And left was the question of revenge.
* * *
She broke it hard and rose from the bike. Lifted the seat on it to reach for the bag that was under it. She hadn't worn the clothes in it for a very long time now. But a challenge like this she actually felt obligated to. It was time to "prove herself" time to show how good she really was.
As she slipped inside the Dojo at the Mishima mansion a taxi stopped a few meters away from the building. Out from it hurried two teenagers to enter the dojo from a different door.
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