Hngh… life is killing me right now… I'm so sorry bur this lack of updates will continue for a while. I have like eight tests on two weeks plus homework and projects.. Gah… I barely have time to watch the World Champion In hockey! And god knows I love hockey…
I sketched a picture of Sora on my way to Germany by the way… To bad I don't have a scanner. I'll try to get it scanned when schools out.
Anyway… I still don't own Tekken. I do own Sora and Ryuu. And that's about what I have to say before the chapter starts..
Chapter 19 The legend of the fifth Angel - Seraphim
Ryuu looked at her watch before she put it away in her bag. 21:00 Exactly. She had changed her clothes and moved over to look at herself in the mirror. It had been a long time since she last had a reason to wear her combat clothes. The dressing was an old style. Overall she mostly looked like a Miko, but the trousers were deep blue instead of the traditional red. She sighed lightly and finally walked out the door.
"Right on time I can see…" Heihachi let a satisfied smile cross his face.
But Ryuu's face stayed serious. She wouldn't let him get the upper hand by losing control.
"You must excuse me if I'm late. A friend of mine died in front of my eyes." She said simply. Not really excusing herself.
A door opened on her right and in stepped Jin and Sora, also dressed in combat clothes.
"My sincere apologies that we arrive late. Things got complicated." Jin said looking directly at Heihachi and not breaking the eye contact between them.
"Very well you are excused… Choose your opponent." He turned his eyes towards Ryuu as he urged her to choose between Jin and Sora.
Amazingly enough Ryuu still kept her senses. Actually she seemed quite satisfied with the situation.
"Ryuu?" Jin asked when he saw her. It didn't take long until he understood that she was about to enter the tournament. An interesting thought. But it would be more enjoyable to meet her in the tournament first. He was already quite sure that she would choose him as opponent.
"The woman…" She said smiling when she met the eyes of Sora. "Is a little too easy." She hadn't showed her full strength out in the streets against her. Far from it. But she was good at acting exhausted. She had been forced to learn it if she was to keep her cover in 'this world'. "I choose the man."
"Good." Heihachi himself had probably already counted this in. To have Ryuu staying at the Mishima hotel would only put a smile on his face. To know where she slept and so on. "Jin, Enter the arena."
Jin knew there was no point in arguing. Even if he were able to peruse Heihachi Ryuu would still insist to fight. He entered the arena and met her eyes. She was wearing that strange smile of hers. And for a second he could swear that her eyes changed color to a silver shade.
Jin made it easy for her at the beginning. They both could have started with a competition of patience, but on experience it would take the whole night. So he charged at once. Which she naturally blocked.
He continued with a spinning high kick and Ryuu blocked it with her left arm as she aimed her own right leg high at his face, he blocked, second kick she span around and aimed low and hit his lower shin then spun to aim at his head again. The last kick he blocked and counter attacked. He grabbed her arm to twist it and force her to drop to mid level. He kept pushing forward which caused Ryuu to flip.
Jin was still going easy. She jumped back up on her feat. Well well… If he was going to be so easy on her she just had to kick the living shit out of him to show how serious she was. She rushed him and not to expect she used her fists to first punch him. High, mid, mid, high. Then legs turn. Low, high, mid, high and a last finishing touch by delivering an uppercut to his jaw.
Of this combo Jin only manage to block the first punch and the last mid and high kick. He received the juicy uppercut and flew up a meter or two in the air before landing on the floor. Ryuu didn't wait, she instantly started to walk up to him. She took up some speed an leaped into the air she pressed her feet together and aimed directly at his chest. When she was about to impact she stretched her leg off so the damage would be greater.
But the hit never impacted. Jin rolled away and instead the floor bent below her feet. She turned around slowly and held a smile on her lips. She looked at Jin who's eyes narrowed slightly. Why did she put so much effort into this? She rushed him and just before she was about to attack he let his fist come in the way. But Ryuu grabbed it and held it for a while and whispered in his ear.
"You're not even trying, Jin." And she pulled him to her left to let her elbow help him down to the floor.
Alright if she was going to play this so serious. So would he.
He got up and finally you could notice that light in his eyes. Ryuu smiled again. Finally he understood that she wasn't playing any games.
She moved in for another combo, starting with a roundhouse and then.. No, Jin blocked her leg and leaped a short way up in the air and started spinning. The first mid kick didn't hit but the following low, low, mid did. While Ryuu was rising she let off an extremely high kick which cause Jin to back off a few steps to not get hit.
Now the both of them stood still, watching each other. Ryuu nodded to herself. It was time to see who Jin really was. She held up her right hand before her, palm facing outwards. She concentrated without letting anyone know on what. Jin advanced and aimed a kick at her. Just before hit she grabbed his foot with the hand she was holding out and twisted it. Eventually Jin made contact with the floor again. But this time Ryuu followed him down and with her eyes gleaming slightly in silver she forced Jin to eyecontact.
She smirked quite evilly at him. A very low snarling could be heard from her throat. Jin was probably the sole one hearing it to. She let her hand be placed on his chest and watched his reactions closely. But to her slight surprise she didn't see any. Her sixth sense was wrong? No she couldn't be that wrong not with a so familiar sense.
Jin felt the burning heat from her hand. How the hell could she be so warm? But soon he forgot about that as he felt something moving… inside him? It was as a calling. Repeatingly chanting the words 'Hate' 'Anger' 'Win' 'Charge' 'Fury' over and over again. In order to get them out of his head he managed to throw Ryuu off himself. He rose and they both attacked each other at the same time.
Their fists met and you could hear a cracking sound from one of them. Jin frowned when he discovered that it actually was from him. And when he stared at his fist in surprise he felt Ryuu's foot impact in his stomach. Three hits and the last one a little higher and caused him to fly off again.
She walked up to him. This time he didn't get up. Her beats had been as hard as stone. She towered over him and crossed her arms with a smile on her lips.
"You weren't even trying Jin." She stated, repeating her words. He could do better, she knew it. And she was going to force him to it.
"Good going Sakamoto, Ryuu." Heihachi stated with his disgusting grin on his face. "You will find an envelope in your dressing room. Welcome to the Tournament."
"Arigato." She replied him coldly.
And he ordered the ones who worked there to take care of Jin. Sora stared at Ryuu. She hadn't seen that strength when they two were fighting each others. And not the same style either. She was a mixer then. Or maybe an inventor… What Sora couldn't deny was the she at least had skills. She watched Ryuu turn around and walk off the arena into the dressing room.
As Heihachi had said she found the envelope on her bag in the dressing room. She didn't control it but went straight to the shower. The water was welcomed as it washed down her body. She didn't let herself be long, so soon she was ready and also had changed into her old clothes again. Both surprised and relieved that Heihachi in fact hadn't tried to do anything she pressed down the doorknob to walk outside.
As she opened the door she met the face of the man she just fought with. Her face was expressless, right now she had no real desire to deal with Jin and his questions. So she walked on, simply ignoring him.
"Don't ignore me Ryuu." He warned her.
"Don't stalk me Jin." She answered back quite quickly with a voice that held no emotion.
He started to walk towards her, she had made it about half way out on the parking lot when he again talked to her.
"What just happened in there? Whatever you got your strength from it wasn't human!"
"Whoever said I was human?" She said realizing instantly what a mistake she had done spitting that comment out.
"We're not kids anymore!" Jin almost shouted out to her.
"Then stop treating me like one." Ryuu shouted back.
She was about a meter or two away from her bike when he caught up with her and was about to lay a hand on her shoulder. But before he had the chance she turned around and steered his hand away with her arm. She met his eyes with a serious look. They stood only inches away from each other and no one made an attempt of talking. Who would blame Ryuu for taking advantage of this situation? It was almost expected of her. But this time she just didn't bother.
"Ryuu… What the hell is going on?"
"Nothing." She stated firmly. Right now she only wanted one thing. Sleep.
"You expect me to believe that?"
"Yes."
"Come on…"
"You're not human either Jin. Can't you feel it? For me it was quite obvious after I came and got the pendant back."
"What are you talking about?" He questioned her in confusion.
She sighed and shook her head.
"Nothing Jin." She said and took a step back. "Just stay away from me… okay…"
She didn't know for sure but she had a hunch. Jin was a demon. Correction… he had a demon inside of him. The kind that would feed on his soul and eventually has his body for his own. That's why he hadn't noticed it yet. Demons that fed on other souls never truly die if you don't kill them in the right way. And you wouldn't expect to see any of those demon hunters on earth. So the one in Jin was probably experienced and knew how to hide himself well.
However… There are even less throughout breed demons. And Ryuu was one of them. Therefore she could also sense demons in others. But she was young and inexperienced, and that would prove to be fatal later on at the tournament.
She turned around and lifted the seat to put the bag in there and then mounted the bike. Jin only watched her. And in the silence between them a soft rain started to pour down. Ryuu glanced up at the sky and squinted towards it. She let her right hand slip through her hair to clear her face from the strands of her hair.
Jin only watched her. He didn't understand what she was saying. What was this talk of not being human? Since when did she become so farfetched? What was going to happen from now on?
"JIN!" He heard Sora shout from the dojo.
"Come on... Don't break her heart Jin." She said smiling before she drove off.
He watched her for a while as she disappeared in to the darkness of night. Then he turned around and started to walk towards the dojo.
Sora wished for no more than to kill her, right there on the parking lot. She would if she only was given the chance. But after seeing what she saw in that dojo… Something was strange about her. Extremely strange. And she wasn't sure she wanted to know what
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The drops of rain trickled down on the window. One was following the other. She watched them. They almost looked as little stars towards the black background.
The apartment of Miss Lynn was a very green one. In every corner, window and on every table you could see plants flourishing. The walls were painted in harmonic colors that were close to nature. She leaned back in the wicker chair with a cup of cactus tea in her hands. She loved the creaking sounds it made as you moved in them.
You could tell that she truly was a nature loving person. She probably had products that were naturally produced to. This was her favorite room. Here she was surrounded by little trees, different kinds of flowers and her own little vegetable patch. She also had different earth beds with herbs waiting to grow. The floor was covered with pebbles. By the chair she was sitting in was a little pond, the water made a rippling sound that broke the silence in the room. Well it wasn't really silence to her. She loved to just sit and listen to the plants and trees in there. In front of her there was a large round window which gave her quite a good view over Tokyo. She lived in one of the highest located apartments in Tokyo. Her mother and father paid for it since they had moved to Europe. They where quite successful in their jobs and only wanted the best place to live for their only daughter.
She finished her tea and put it down on the wicker table beside her. She walked up to window and looked down on the streets. She felt this rush of a strange power running through her body. Probably she felt it from Ryuu as she drew by the skyscraper. She frowned lightly as she looked up at the moon if she guessed right the new moon would take place in about seven or eight days.
"It's worth a try I guess." She spoke to herself.
She walked out to the room and made it into the room furthest from the entrance of the apartment. It was a room hard to discover for the untrained eye. She pulled away the drapes and unraveled a dark room. The walls were painted black, a good color for deep concentration in the likes of Miss Lynn. She took up a box of matches and lit one up. She lit three candles at the right side of the door before the match went out. She put away the box and held her two hands above one of the candles. She chanted a formula in some ancient, probably dead, language. She did the same with the two other candles. The she lit three candles at the left side of the door and repeated the session. She kept on doing this until three candles had been lit on every wall of the room.
This room was a very special made one. It had five walls altogether. And on the floor there were five transparent pipes connected together. Inside the pipes there was floating water, enchanted water. Together the five lines shaped a pentagram. In the middle of the pentagram there were three items placed. One, a bowl of holy water. Two, a bed of dried sticks for a sacred fire. And the third a pot which contained blessed earth. From the sealing also hung a thurible.
As you might already have understood Miss Lynn is what we today would call a witch. This word brings many people fear and connects it to evil witchcraft. But mostly witches are not evil. They are often more connected to Mother Nature than other people. They live with it, feel with it and borrow its power. One of the laws of witchcraft tells us that "What you do will always come back to you". So they rarely ask Mother Nature to lend its power for doing evil.
She walked up to the middle of the pentagram and at last lit the incense. She started the séance with praying a silent prayer.
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After Hwoarang had given up looking for Ryuu he decided to check in at the Mishima hotel. The room was nothing of what he was used to. Everything was clinically clean. The bed stood in an own room, and in king size. He sat in a chair looking out the window. Across the street lay a giant parking lot, and after that… The Mishima Empire. He sipped on the drink held in his hand and watched the light go on in a room in the other building. He squinted as he seemed to recognize the figure. He rose from the chair and opened the balcony door to step out. He put the glass on the window frame and gave the sky a slight look as he felt the soft rain. He was right about his guesses. The person in the window was Sora. He smiled to himself as she walked behind the shades to change clothes.
"Master Baek's daughter eh?" He slowly sighed. "You've raised a hell of a daughter Baek… And a hell of a woman."
When Sora was dressed for bed she opened the balcony door and stepped out in a lightblue nightgown. She stopped by the entrance to roll out the blinds, for protection from the rain. She went up to lean against the rail and watched the moon. She sighed lightly and let her face rest in her hands. Everything was a mess. Maybe she just should have stayed at home. Maybe she should have been satisfied with the life she had been living. A heavy sight escaped her lungs as she folded her arms at the rail and started to look at the surroundings. After a while she noticed the man at the other side of the streets on the balcony at the hotel. She tilted her head lightly, squinted and drew back her hair behind her right ear.
"Hwoarang…" She said silently and a smile crept upon her face.
That was one reason to stay. Since the day she found out about him she had begun to think back more. She thought about the training and who he really was. Well she came down to the same answer all the time. That she really didn't know anything about him.
"What are you doing over there?" She shouted with a smile.
Hwoarang was a little surprised. She didn't want anyone else to understand what she was saying so she had shouted in Korean. And he answered in the same language.
"I'm invited to the tournament… Free living at the hotel... Can't turn that down."
"What room?"
"Good." She started to walk inside. "Maybe I'll visit you sometime." And she disappeared behind the door.
"I'll be waiting." He said to himself and also turned around to walk inside.
As he locked and placed the key on the window frame and took his glass instead he heard someone entering his room. He frowned lightly. Who could that be? But he did nothing, he just waited for the person to show him/herself. It couldn't be an intruder sine the person seemed to take its time to hang of his/her coat and so on. At last he saw who it was.
"What the hell are -you- doing -here-?"
"I've been driving around half Tokyo… If you haven't noticed it's kinda wet outside. And since the elevator is broken I really don't have the strength to go five more floors up."
The one standing there was, of course, Ryuu. When she finished her sentence she turned around to open the door to the bedroom and went in.
"Hey you can't just-" He didn't get the chance to stop her.
When he walked in she already laid in his bed, hugging one of the pillows. Without taking her clothes of first. But before he got the chance to protest she cut him off.
"I'm sleeping here tonight. My key is in the inner pocket of my jacket if you have a problem with it. And if you try to say anything against me I'll kill you in the morning."
And silence fell in the room. For a while he just watched her and then put down the glass on the table beside him. He walked over to the bed and removed her hair from her shoulders and neck. He placed his hands on them and slowly started to massage them. Soon he could hear her soft groaning.
"Come on... that's not fair… I'm too tired to protest."
He laughed quietly continuing to massage her. He sat down at the bed and kissed her in the neck. He whispered quietly.
"Exactly."
She opened her left eye and watched him from the corner of it. Typical for Hwoarang, wasn't it?
((You can all guess what happened here... duuh… I don't like writing sex scenes though. If someone out there wants to write it I'll rate the fic R and put it up.))
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In the center of Tokyo Miss Lynn just finished the ancient prayer. She opened her eyes and kneeled by the sticks. She raised her hands above them.
"If it so is the heavens will, allow the fire to be burning still." And the bed of sticks took fire. "I ask of only one sign to tell. Is the woman the one that the legend speaks about?" She rose to turn towards the holy water to continue the ritual.
"Even if it is only a question it is not little you ask of."
"What?" She turned to the pot and saw a flower that had grown up from it. "Ah… Who are you?" She asked and kneeled before the flower.
"I am one of the gods of life. The one that lives in all plants and flowers."
"Mother nature?" She asked with a hint of surprise in her voice. "Did I call upon you?"
"No." She said and smiled, if so is possible for a flower. "But I must tell you this. This woman that you speak about... You have met her?"
"Yes. Well so I believe anyway."
"I trust you. And that is why I must tell you this. This woman… she is extremely dangerous. And we can't let her be free. You have to help us. Do you know about The Core?"
She nodded lightly. She had been at The Core once. The Core was a place were inhuman creatures could receive care and feel safe from the surroundings of the world.
"In the future this woman will come here. That is when you must bring her to The Core-"
"Wait a minute… She will come here?"
"Do not interrupt me young one." The voice echoed in the room and Sora silently apologized. "Yes… the creature will come here. You must bring her to The Core. Not to worry, she will need it. You shall speak to Yama. Tell her that she shall absolutely not be killed, but sealed."
Miss Lynn frowned lightly.
"Why shall she not be killed?"
"Why were the four angels before her sealed an not killed? The same answer stands still."
"I-I don't know of any other angels."
"When unbalance is great between god and evil an angel is born. Whether the angel is good or evil the unbalances will see to. Since the gods creates the soul of the angel you cannot kill it. The soul is too strong. The last angel born was also set on this planet. Unfortunately he was sealed away before we could save him."
"Who was it?" She asked a little curious to know.
"You must've heard of him. They called him Jesus."
"So he was the real Son of God?"
"You could say that. But Ryuu is not like him in any of ways. She is unlike any of the previous angels."
"Why is that?"
"Her soul… Her soul was created by the five true gods of fire. The God of Passion, The God of the Will of Life, The God of Love, the God of Hate and at last The Great Lord of Fire himself."
"But if the God of Love had something to do with it shouldn't she love more than hate?"
"No… To her nothing does matter. What she loved was taken away from her. She is still at young age. We might have a chance to end this before it even starts."
"I… I will do my best." She confirmed with a determined voice.
A/N: Please do review me… I want to read something else then homework and shit in the internet ^_^'
I sketched a picture of Sora on my way to Germany by the way… To bad I don't have a scanner. I'll try to get it scanned when schools out.
Anyway… I still don't own Tekken. I do own Sora and Ryuu. And that's about what I have to say before the chapter starts..
Chapter 19 The legend of the fifth Angel - Seraphim
Ryuu looked at her watch before she put it away in her bag. 21:00 Exactly. She had changed her clothes and moved over to look at herself in the mirror. It had been a long time since she last had a reason to wear her combat clothes. The dressing was an old style. Overall she mostly looked like a Miko, but the trousers were deep blue instead of the traditional red. She sighed lightly and finally walked out the door.
"Right on time I can see…" Heihachi let a satisfied smile cross his face.
But Ryuu's face stayed serious. She wouldn't let him get the upper hand by losing control.
"You must excuse me if I'm late. A friend of mine died in front of my eyes." She said simply. Not really excusing herself.
A door opened on her right and in stepped Jin and Sora, also dressed in combat clothes.
"My sincere apologies that we arrive late. Things got complicated." Jin said looking directly at Heihachi and not breaking the eye contact between them.
"Very well you are excused… Choose your opponent." He turned his eyes towards Ryuu as he urged her to choose between Jin and Sora.
Amazingly enough Ryuu still kept her senses. Actually she seemed quite satisfied with the situation.
"Ryuu?" Jin asked when he saw her. It didn't take long until he understood that she was about to enter the tournament. An interesting thought. But it would be more enjoyable to meet her in the tournament first. He was already quite sure that she would choose him as opponent.
"The woman…" She said smiling when she met the eyes of Sora. "Is a little too easy." She hadn't showed her full strength out in the streets against her. Far from it. But she was good at acting exhausted. She had been forced to learn it if she was to keep her cover in 'this world'. "I choose the man."
"Good." Heihachi himself had probably already counted this in. To have Ryuu staying at the Mishima hotel would only put a smile on his face. To know where she slept and so on. "Jin, Enter the arena."
Jin knew there was no point in arguing. Even if he were able to peruse Heihachi Ryuu would still insist to fight. He entered the arena and met her eyes. She was wearing that strange smile of hers. And for a second he could swear that her eyes changed color to a silver shade.
Jin made it easy for her at the beginning. They both could have started with a competition of patience, but on experience it would take the whole night. So he charged at once. Which she naturally blocked.
He continued with a spinning high kick and Ryuu blocked it with her left arm as she aimed her own right leg high at his face, he blocked, second kick she span around and aimed low and hit his lower shin then spun to aim at his head again. The last kick he blocked and counter attacked. He grabbed her arm to twist it and force her to drop to mid level. He kept pushing forward which caused Ryuu to flip.
Jin was still going easy. She jumped back up on her feat. Well well… If he was going to be so easy on her she just had to kick the living shit out of him to show how serious she was. She rushed him and not to expect she used her fists to first punch him. High, mid, mid, high. Then legs turn. Low, high, mid, high and a last finishing touch by delivering an uppercut to his jaw.
Of this combo Jin only manage to block the first punch and the last mid and high kick. He received the juicy uppercut and flew up a meter or two in the air before landing on the floor. Ryuu didn't wait, she instantly started to walk up to him. She took up some speed an leaped into the air she pressed her feet together and aimed directly at his chest. When she was about to impact she stretched her leg off so the damage would be greater.
But the hit never impacted. Jin rolled away and instead the floor bent below her feet. She turned around slowly and held a smile on her lips. She looked at Jin who's eyes narrowed slightly. Why did she put so much effort into this? She rushed him and just before she was about to attack he let his fist come in the way. But Ryuu grabbed it and held it for a while and whispered in his ear.
"You're not even trying, Jin." And she pulled him to her left to let her elbow help him down to the floor.
Alright if she was going to play this so serious. So would he.
He got up and finally you could notice that light in his eyes. Ryuu smiled again. Finally he understood that she wasn't playing any games.
She moved in for another combo, starting with a roundhouse and then.. No, Jin blocked her leg and leaped a short way up in the air and started spinning. The first mid kick didn't hit but the following low, low, mid did. While Ryuu was rising she let off an extremely high kick which cause Jin to back off a few steps to not get hit.
Now the both of them stood still, watching each other. Ryuu nodded to herself. It was time to see who Jin really was. She held up her right hand before her, palm facing outwards. She concentrated without letting anyone know on what. Jin advanced and aimed a kick at her. Just before hit she grabbed his foot with the hand she was holding out and twisted it. Eventually Jin made contact with the floor again. But this time Ryuu followed him down and with her eyes gleaming slightly in silver she forced Jin to eyecontact.
She smirked quite evilly at him. A very low snarling could be heard from her throat. Jin was probably the sole one hearing it to. She let her hand be placed on his chest and watched his reactions closely. But to her slight surprise she didn't see any. Her sixth sense was wrong? No she couldn't be that wrong not with a so familiar sense.
Jin felt the burning heat from her hand. How the hell could she be so warm? But soon he forgot about that as he felt something moving… inside him? It was as a calling. Repeatingly chanting the words 'Hate' 'Anger' 'Win' 'Charge' 'Fury' over and over again. In order to get them out of his head he managed to throw Ryuu off himself. He rose and they both attacked each other at the same time.
Their fists met and you could hear a cracking sound from one of them. Jin frowned when he discovered that it actually was from him. And when he stared at his fist in surprise he felt Ryuu's foot impact in his stomach. Three hits and the last one a little higher and caused him to fly off again.
She walked up to him. This time he didn't get up. Her beats had been as hard as stone. She towered over him and crossed her arms with a smile on her lips.
"You weren't even trying Jin." She stated, repeating her words. He could do better, she knew it. And she was going to force him to it.
"Good going Sakamoto, Ryuu." Heihachi stated with his disgusting grin on his face. "You will find an envelope in your dressing room. Welcome to the Tournament."
"Arigato." She replied him coldly.
And he ordered the ones who worked there to take care of Jin. Sora stared at Ryuu. She hadn't seen that strength when they two were fighting each others. And not the same style either. She was a mixer then. Or maybe an inventor… What Sora couldn't deny was the she at least had skills. She watched Ryuu turn around and walk off the arena into the dressing room.
As Heihachi had said she found the envelope on her bag in the dressing room. She didn't control it but went straight to the shower. The water was welcomed as it washed down her body. She didn't let herself be long, so soon she was ready and also had changed into her old clothes again. Both surprised and relieved that Heihachi in fact hadn't tried to do anything she pressed down the doorknob to walk outside.
As she opened the door she met the face of the man she just fought with. Her face was expressless, right now she had no real desire to deal with Jin and his questions. So she walked on, simply ignoring him.
"Don't ignore me Ryuu." He warned her.
"Don't stalk me Jin." She answered back quite quickly with a voice that held no emotion.
He started to walk towards her, she had made it about half way out on the parking lot when he again talked to her.
"What just happened in there? Whatever you got your strength from it wasn't human!"
"Whoever said I was human?" She said realizing instantly what a mistake she had done spitting that comment out.
"We're not kids anymore!" Jin almost shouted out to her.
"Then stop treating me like one." Ryuu shouted back.
She was about a meter or two away from her bike when he caught up with her and was about to lay a hand on her shoulder. But before he had the chance she turned around and steered his hand away with her arm. She met his eyes with a serious look. They stood only inches away from each other and no one made an attempt of talking. Who would blame Ryuu for taking advantage of this situation? It was almost expected of her. But this time she just didn't bother.
"Ryuu… What the hell is going on?"
"Nothing." She stated firmly. Right now she only wanted one thing. Sleep.
"You expect me to believe that?"
"Yes."
"Come on…"
"You're not human either Jin. Can't you feel it? For me it was quite obvious after I came and got the pendant back."
"What are you talking about?" He questioned her in confusion.
She sighed and shook her head.
"Nothing Jin." She said and took a step back. "Just stay away from me… okay…"
She didn't know for sure but she had a hunch. Jin was a demon. Correction… he had a demon inside of him. The kind that would feed on his soul and eventually has his body for his own. That's why he hadn't noticed it yet. Demons that fed on other souls never truly die if you don't kill them in the right way. And you wouldn't expect to see any of those demon hunters on earth. So the one in Jin was probably experienced and knew how to hide himself well.
However… There are even less throughout breed demons. And Ryuu was one of them. Therefore she could also sense demons in others. But she was young and inexperienced, and that would prove to be fatal later on at the tournament.
She turned around and lifted the seat to put the bag in there and then mounted the bike. Jin only watched her. And in the silence between them a soft rain started to pour down. Ryuu glanced up at the sky and squinted towards it. She let her right hand slip through her hair to clear her face from the strands of her hair.
Jin only watched her. He didn't understand what she was saying. What was this talk of not being human? Since when did she become so farfetched? What was going to happen from now on?
"JIN!" He heard Sora shout from the dojo.
"Come on... Don't break her heart Jin." She said smiling before she drove off.
He watched her for a while as she disappeared in to the darkness of night. Then he turned around and started to walk towards the dojo.
Sora wished for no more than to kill her, right there on the parking lot. She would if she only was given the chance. But after seeing what she saw in that dojo… Something was strange about her. Extremely strange. And she wasn't sure she wanted to know what
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The drops of rain trickled down on the window. One was following the other. She watched them. They almost looked as little stars towards the black background.
The apartment of Miss Lynn was a very green one. In every corner, window and on every table you could see plants flourishing. The walls were painted in harmonic colors that were close to nature. She leaned back in the wicker chair with a cup of cactus tea in her hands. She loved the creaking sounds it made as you moved in them.
You could tell that she truly was a nature loving person. She probably had products that were naturally produced to. This was her favorite room. Here she was surrounded by little trees, different kinds of flowers and her own little vegetable patch. She also had different earth beds with herbs waiting to grow. The floor was covered with pebbles. By the chair she was sitting in was a little pond, the water made a rippling sound that broke the silence in the room. Well it wasn't really silence to her. She loved to just sit and listen to the plants and trees in there. In front of her there was a large round window which gave her quite a good view over Tokyo. She lived in one of the highest located apartments in Tokyo. Her mother and father paid for it since they had moved to Europe. They where quite successful in their jobs and only wanted the best place to live for their only daughter.
She finished her tea and put it down on the wicker table beside her. She walked up to window and looked down on the streets. She felt this rush of a strange power running through her body. Probably she felt it from Ryuu as she drew by the skyscraper. She frowned lightly as she looked up at the moon if she guessed right the new moon would take place in about seven or eight days.
"It's worth a try I guess." She spoke to herself.
She walked out to the room and made it into the room furthest from the entrance of the apartment. It was a room hard to discover for the untrained eye. She pulled away the drapes and unraveled a dark room. The walls were painted black, a good color for deep concentration in the likes of Miss Lynn. She took up a box of matches and lit one up. She lit three candles at the right side of the door before the match went out. She put away the box and held her two hands above one of the candles. She chanted a formula in some ancient, probably dead, language. She did the same with the two other candles. The she lit three candles at the left side of the door and repeated the session. She kept on doing this until three candles had been lit on every wall of the room.
This room was a very special made one. It had five walls altogether. And on the floor there were five transparent pipes connected together. Inside the pipes there was floating water, enchanted water. Together the five lines shaped a pentagram. In the middle of the pentagram there were three items placed. One, a bowl of holy water. Two, a bed of dried sticks for a sacred fire. And the third a pot which contained blessed earth. From the sealing also hung a thurible.
As you might already have understood Miss Lynn is what we today would call a witch. This word brings many people fear and connects it to evil witchcraft. But mostly witches are not evil. They are often more connected to Mother Nature than other people. They live with it, feel with it and borrow its power. One of the laws of witchcraft tells us that "What you do will always come back to you". So they rarely ask Mother Nature to lend its power for doing evil.
She walked up to the middle of the pentagram and at last lit the incense. She started the séance with praying a silent prayer.
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After Hwoarang had given up looking for Ryuu he decided to check in at the Mishima hotel. The room was nothing of what he was used to. Everything was clinically clean. The bed stood in an own room, and in king size. He sat in a chair looking out the window. Across the street lay a giant parking lot, and after that… The Mishima Empire. He sipped on the drink held in his hand and watched the light go on in a room in the other building. He squinted as he seemed to recognize the figure. He rose from the chair and opened the balcony door to step out. He put the glass on the window frame and gave the sky a slight look as he felt the soft rain. He was right about his guesses. The person in the window was Sora. He smiled to himself as she walked behind the shades to change clothes.
"Master Baek's daughter eh?" He slowly sighed. "You've raised a hell of a daughter Baek… And a hell of a woman."
When Sora was dressed for bed she opened the balcony door and stepped out in a lightblue nightgown. She stopped by the entrance to roll out the blinds, for protection from the rain. She went up to lean against the rail and watched the moon. She sighed lightly and let her face rest in her hands. Everything was a mess. Maybe she just should have stayed at home. Maybe she should have been satisfied with the life she had been living. A heavy sight escaped her lungs as she folded her arms at the rail and started to look at the surroundings. After a while she noticed the man at the other side of the streets on the balcony at the hotel. She tilted her head lightly, squinted and drew back her hair behind her right ear.
"Hwoarang…" She said silently and a smile crept upon her face.
That was one reason to stay. Since the day she found out about him she had begun to think back more. She thought about the training and who he really was. Well she came down to the same answer all the time. That she really didn't know anything about him.
"What are you doing over there?" She shouted with a smile.
Hwoarang was a little surprised. She didn't want anyone else to understand what she was saying so she had shouted in Korean. And he answered in the same language.
"I'm invited to the tournament… Free living at the hotel... Can't turn that down."
"What room?"
"Good." She started to walk inside. "Maybe I'll visit you sometime." And she disappeared behind the door.
"I'll be waiting." He said to himself and also turned around to walk inside.
As he locked and placed the key on the window frame and took his glass instead he heard someone entering his room. He frowned lightly. Who could that be? But he did nothing, he just waited for the person to show him/herself. It couldn't be an intruder sine the person seemed to take its time to hang of his/her coat and so on. At last he saw who it was.
"What the hell are -you- doing -here-?"
"I've been driving around half Tokyo… If you haven't noticed it's kinda wet outside. And since the elevator is broken I really don't have the strength to go five more floors up."
The one standing there was, of course, Ryuu. When she finished her sentence she turned around to open the door to the bedroom and went in.
"Hey you can't just-" He didn't get the chance to stop her.
When he walked in she already laid in his bed, hugging one of the pillows. Without taking her clothes of first. But before he got the chance to protest she cut him off.
"I'm sleeping here tonight. My key is in the inner pocket of my jacket if you have a problem with it. And if you try to say anything against me I'll kill you in the morning."
And silence fell in the room. For a while he just watched her and then put down the glass on the table beside him. He walked over to the bed and removed her hair from her shoulders and neck. He placed his hands on them and slowly started to massage them. Soon he could hear her soft groaning.
"Come on... that's not fair… I'm too tired to protest."
He laughed quietly continuing to massage her. He sat down at the bed and kissed her in the neck. He whispered quietly.
"Exactly."
She opened her left eye and watched him from the corner of it. Typical for Hwoarang, wasn't it?
((You can all guess what happened here... duuh… I don't like writing sex scenes though. If someone out there wants to write it I'll rate the fic R and put it up.))
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In the center of Tokyo Miss Lynn just finished the ancient prayer. She opened her eyes and kneeled by the sticks. She raised her hands above them.
"If it so is the heavens will, allow the fire to be burning still." And the bed of sticks took fire. "I ask of only one sign to tell. Is the woman the one that the legend speaks about?" She rose to turn towards the holy water to continue the ritual.
"Even if it is only a question it is not little you ask of."
"What?" She turned to the pot and saw a flower that had grown up from it. "Ah… Who are you?" She asked and kneeled before the flower.
"I am one of the gods of life. The one that lives in all plants and flowers."
"Mother nature?" She asked with a hint of surprise in her voice. "Did I call upon you?"
"No." She said and smiled, if so is possible for a flower. "But I must tell you this. This woman that you speak about... You have met her?"
"Yes. Well so I believe anyway."
"I trust you. And that is why I must tell you this. This woman… she is extremely dangerous. And we can't let her be free. You have to help us. Do you know about The Core?"
She nodded lightly. She had been at The Core once. The Core was a place were inhuman creatures could receive care and feel safe from the surroundings of the world.
"In the future this woman will come here. That is when you must bring her to The Core-"
"Wait a minute… She will come here?"
"Do not interrupt me young one." The voice echoed in the room and Sora silently apologized. "Yes… the creature will come here. You must bring her to The Core. Not to worry, she will need it. You shall speak to Yama. Tell her that she shall absolutely not be killed, but sealed."
Miss Lynn frowned lightly.
"Why shall she not be killed?"
"Why were the four angels before her sealed an not killed? The same answer stands still."
"I-I don't know of any other angels."
"When unbalance is great between god and evil an angel is born. Whether the angel is good or evil the unbalances will see to. Since the gods creates the soul of the angel you cannot kill it. The soul is too strong. The last angel born was also set on this planet. Unfortunately he was sealed away before we could save him."
"Who was it?" She asked a little curious to know.
"You must've heard of him. They called him Jesus."
"So he was the real Son of God?"
"You could say that. But Ryuu is not like him in any of ways. She is unlike any of the previous angels."
"Why is that?"
"Her soul… Her soul was created by the five true gods of fire. The God of Passion, The God of the Will of Life, The God of Love, the God of Hate and at last The Great Lord of Fire himself."
"But if the God of Love had something to do with it shouldn't she love more than hate?"
"No… To her nothing does matter. What she loved was taken away from her. She is still at young age. We might have a chance to end this before it even starts."
"I… I will do my best." She confirmed with a determined voice.
A/N: Please do review me… I want to read something else then homework and shit in the internet ^_^'