I don't think I should do this anymore. Updating I mean.. I so suck at
keeping it at date. The few readers I have will abandon me for sure :(
Well Here it is anyway.. I'll try and update once a week or something like
that.. I'll TRY okay. I'm working a lot for a Final Fantasy community that
starting up here in Sweden. Bah.. what do you care.. You just want the
chapters to come, right?
Okey.. here's chapter 21
Chapter 21 Jin - on a road to hell
Ryuu smiled vaguely as the man attacked her. She tilted her head slightly. To her he could just as well have been standing still.
"Too slow." She said calm and simply sidestepped away from his shoulder tackle.
She grabbed his arm and twisted it up his back to force him to bend back wards. She put a knee up against his back and when he finally shouted at the pain she hastily let him go and watched him fall unto the ground. At once when he stood up she leaped into the air and span one circle before her feet impacted on his chest. He winced and smiled at her.
"Hey you're good."
"Shut up and fight already." She just commented. She wanted to get this over with.
So he tried on a smaller combo. First aiming to punches against her chest then a kick and a punch but this time for her head and finishing with a stronger right hand towards her. He grinned to himself when he thought he saw her falling towards the ground. But actually she back-flipped. She shook her head and that grin of his disappeared; none of the hits had actually impacted.
"My turn." She said and moved against him. Quick. As said. she wanted to get it over with.
When she rushed him he guarded on instinct. It might help on the first move but then she simply moved to fast. Two hard mid punches followed by two high kicks then a low kick then punch, punch kick. And to finish it all of with style she moved low and aimed her fist right towards his knee.
-Crack-
You could hear the loud sound when the bone snapped. The crowd was dead silent.
"And the winner is Ryuu!" The referee announced.
And the crowd cheered once more. Ryuu just snorted. This was hardly even a workout. Without caring that the man was trying to talk to her she walked out from the stage. Several of the crew was looking oddly at her. Some was commending her for the good fight. But she walked straight outside. She glanced up at the sun. Spring. she preferred the winter much more. It was always darker days then.
"Hey."
She heard just when she was about to start up her bike to drive off. And since she was quite alone in the area she figured the man who shouted meant her. She turned around and sighed at the sight. Just who she wanted to see. or not. Jin.
"Didn't I tell you to stay away from me.?" Ryuu stated as she looked forward again.
"I just happened to pass by." Jin tried to lie defending himself.
Not a very good lie now was it.
"Mm Yeah right." She said letting the engine fire up.
"Hey wait." He said calmly and stepped up to her. "About last night-"
"Get on." She interrupted him.
"What?" He slightly frowned. What was she thinking now?
"Get on." She said more firmed and looked at him. "If you don't believe me I'm just going to force you to believe. Now get on."
He stepped up to the bike and let his leg slide over the seat. He noticed that the seize of it probably wasn't meant for a woman. It was bigger than that. He glanced down at her feet and also noticed that she had to lean the bike quite much to reach the ground. He smiled for himself and shook his head. That would be just like Ryuu wouldn't it. Taking on more than she really should.
"Hold on." She warned him and burned off.
Jin was quite taken by the acceleration. Buy instinct he grabbed the closest thing he could found. This, of course, was Ryuu. He smiled shyly and took advantage of the situation. He let his arms wrap around her stomach. This also let him hold his head closer to hers. Ryuu just rolled her eyes at let more gas to the engine.
* * * This was probably the first time that Sora actually let someone touch her, and wanted it at the same time. If she stayed here like this forever it really wouldn't matter. But just as well as she was the one who took the initiative for the kiss she was the one who broke it. She leaned her forehead against his and while he opened his eyes she kept hers closed.
"What is it?" Hwoarang asked looking at her.
"Nothing." She said smiling vaguely and opened her eyes. "There's something I want to show you. You have transport?" She asked pulling away from him.
"Of course." He said and rose. "On the parking lot." He said and waited for her to rise and then followed her towards the hall.
He grabbed his goggles (Yay finally!) and strapped them around his head. He let them up his forehead and his hair behaved very obedient and bent backwards, just as he liked it. He walked out the hallway with Sora in his heals. He didn't bother to turn around and check the door if it locked. It was a hotel for Christ sake. it's supposed to lock by itself. Well outside his eyes sought through the area and between cars, people and other bikes he spotted his own. He walked up to it and turned around to make sure Sora was still with him.
"So. Where are we going?" He asked crossing his arms and looked at her.
"Nowhere." A voice interrupted from behind.
Hwoarang knew that voice too well. He sighed and lowered his head and shook it. Of all times. Why the hell now? He turned around and smiled extremely vaguely and raised his eyebrow.
"What do you want now Lucielle?" He asked in a busy tone.
Lucielle leaned over at the seat of his bike and smiled widely. She glanced over at Sora but paid no further attention since it wasn't Ryuu after all.
"Didn't Ryuu tell you?" She asked tilting her head, causing her curled hair to frame her face.
"Tell me what?" He asked calmly. Just wishing she would just go away.
"It's because of me you're out here. And not in that cozy little cell of yours."
Hwoarang chuckled. She actually thought he would believe her on that? Well sure, Ryuu said something like that to him but still it was Ryuu, and not Lucielle, who got him out.
"Lucielle. Whatever you did. wasn't enough. You actually want me to believe that Ryuu cooperated with you?" He smiled when he saw the stupid face she made. "And besides. What did you expect me to do? Smile and say 'Hey lets be friends!'?"
"Hmp." She rose from his bike and placed her hands on her hips. "If it's a war you want Talon. Why don't you just say so? Some of my men actually long for it." She said glancing back at blond-haired boy. "Some of them want revenge."
"Revenge?" He said and laughed. "You're not the one to talk about revenge." And suddenly his voice was dark and serious again. "Maybe you can tell me what happened with Jack, huh? That boy should watch where he's aiming his eyes." He said nodding at the blond boy. "And if I were him I should stay away from Ryuu the rest of my life. Cause with his history with her plus this. She's not gonna listen to me anymore. Now get the hell out of here."
She snorted and turned around to slowly walk away. Hwoarang followed her until she was out of sight.
"I've always wanted to do that." He said and turned towards Sora with a smile. His voice had turned to a friendlier tone.
"And that was?" Sora asked in disbelief.
"A pain in the ass." He just said and swung his leg over the bike. "Now get on so we can get away. And to that, where are we going?"
"Don't bother about that." She smiled and took her place behind him. "Just turn when I say so."
"Alright Lady." He said as he fired up the engine.
She let her hands hold around him and pressed herself against him. Ah, she could already imagine him taking care of her at the late nigh. Erhm. yeah ^_~
* * * "Where are we going?" Jin shouted, not too loud.
"To The Core." Ryuu answered calmly.
And suddenly she turned off towards the forest. Into the middle of nowhere you would say. She seemed rather concentrated though so it was probably the right way after all.
"The Core?" He asked with doubt in his voice.
"Yeah. We like to call it that."
"We?"
"Hehe." She smiled "We. the demons of the earth."
"O-okey." He said and raised an eyebrow.
"Now this is the fun part."
And before Jin had the chance to even ask a portal opened up before them to disappear just when she drove through. When they were on the other side it appeared to be just a normal parking house. Ryuu let the engine die out and reached inside her inner pocket for a packet of cigarettes and a lighter. She shook it so the end of a cigarette was in sight. She took it to her mouth and then lit it up to take a smoke. She leaned back not thinking that it was Jin who sat behind her. When she felt her back against his chest she just smiled and exhaled.
"I hate this place." She stated.
Jin however was still a little startled to take it easy. He looked around to make sure he was still alive. and somewhere that at least looked like earth. Well, there weren't any windows but it still looked liked it was built by humans. Ryuu looked up at him from where she was leaning at him.
"You haven't seen half of it yet." She looked around but saw no one there. "HEY!" She shouted loud.
After a while a boy entered from the left. He was wearing a uniform and looked quite curious as he stepped in. But his expression changed when he saw Ryuu.
"Ryuu! W-w-wh-what are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here in about-"
"Seven days." She finished the sentence for him. "I'm not here because of that. And you don't need to know why. Just take care of my bike." She said and got off. She started to walk away and looked behind her. "Hey Jin."
"Huh?" He found himself still sitting on the bike. "Oh yeah."
He shrugged and got off. The young boy walked up and led away the bike and Jin walked up to Ryuu. She just shook her head.
"What I'm about to show you, you can't tell anyone. You don't even know this place exists." She looked at him when he walked by her side again.
"Or else?" He asked looking at her with a smile.
"I bet you can figure that out by yourself." She said luring and turned her head straight again.
The corridors were more and more looking like those of a hospital. Soon you could even see people dressed as nurses. Well something that reminded of nurses anyway.
"What is this place?" Jin asked looking around.
"It's a medical Centrum for those who need a little more than human care. Or a getaway for those who need. Strictly for people with genes from demons and such."
"Ryuu." A nurse stopped in front of her and smiled. "What are you doing here so early?"
"I'm not here for my own sake. Can you tell Yama I need to speak with her? I need access to the files about the devil gene."
"The devil gene?" She asked and looked troubled. "It's been asleep for quite along time now hasn't it.?" She sighed discreetly. "Well I'll go get Yama. You'll go to your normal room?"
"Sure." She nodded and started to walk again.
"Oh by the way." Their eyes met once more. "Before you leave can't you go see the boy in room 368? He's been talking about you for two days I think."
Ryuu chuckled quietly and nodded. Then she turned around to start walking again.
"You're quite famous here aren't you?" Jin asked as he started to believe this was quite serious.
"Yeah I guess so. Most of them know who I am. No wonder really. I'm here quite often I guess."
"Why is it so?"
Ryuu stayed quiet for a while and looked down at the floor. She sighed within her self, not loudly. This was one of those things she had to thank her biological father for. In the short time she got to know him he managed to do a lot to her. Or against her. Every time the moon disappeared she was reminded of her homeland and father. This was the time when she changed into the second form. It wasn't too bad; she could get away with fooling people that it was a costume. but once every month? Nah, it didn't work. So she simply came to stay at The Core during that time.
"Ryuu?" Jin looked at her when she wouldn't answer. "Ryuu?" He shouted a little louder until he stopped her and grabbed her shoulders and shook her gently. "Ryuu?"
And she snapped out of it. She was quite surprised to meet Jin's face.
"Jin. Sorry. I must have drifted off."
"Yes you tend to do that a lot when he isn't around." A stranger announced her presence.
Jin looked up and saw the face of a woman. Not too old but still not young. Ryuu turned around.
"Yama, nice to see you to." She said a little sarcastic.
"I thought I would catch up with you since your room is on the wrong side of the building if you are going to the archives. And by the way, where is he anyway? It has been a long time since I saw him now." She said aiming her eyes down at some paperwork.
"He was going off to fight a war or something. I'm not sure. And what the hell do you mean by that anyway?" Ryuu asked frowning towards the older nurse.
"What?" She asked looking up from her papers. "Well it is true you know. You behave more. collected when he's around. Anyway. It's this way to the archives. And Ryuu."
"What?" She asked in an annoyed tone.
"No smoking."
"Whatever." She grunted and dropped it to the ground to step on it.
Yama turned left and kept walking with Jin and Ryuu by her heals. Jin glimpsed at Ryuu. But her face was as neutral as ever. He kept wondering. Who was this 'he'? Well he figured out that it at least wasn't Hwoarang, since he wasn't out on some war. And he was 'just' a human. Jin hadn't had so many unanswered questions in a long while now. And it was rather bothering to not know what was going on.
* * * Lucielle sat down between two guys on a bench some meters from the Mishima hotel. She sighed and crossed her arm rather significant. Her eyes narrowed as she stared at Hwoarang as he drove of with Sora behind him.
"What the hell happened Lucielle?"
"The Blood Talon just made himself a new enemy."
The blond haired boy smiled and leaned back with a satisfied smirk on his face.
"Finally." He said under his breath.
"What did you do to his precious little Ryuu anyway?" She asked looking at the boy.
"I didn't have so much to do with it. It was mostly Zephyr."
"Oh? What did that fucking guy do?"
And Tai, the blond haired man, looked over at her and raised an eyebrow. She looked strangely at him. And suddenly she got the picture and her mouth fell open.
"No. you don't mean?" She paused and puckered her brows. "He raped her? Ryuu? Nah that's not possible."
"She was weak at that point. She had crawled into an alleyway and was already bleeding and shit. But she was cocky. As always. So Zephyr decided to repay her for letting a boy escape from us for like. 10 years ago or something."
"That man had no soul, or he sold it to the devil." She smiled. "So that's why she hates you so. Honestly Tai. Since what happened to Jack I don't think your life will be so long."
"Go figure." He said with a sigh.
"But hey. I've got a solution to the problem. First I thought it was a little to low. But now. Hey, a war is a war." She said smiling inductive.
"Like what?" He asked, sounding very interested.
"That old guy, Heihachi, he gave me an offer the other day. If I helped him catch that little wench I would have a lot more freedom around the town. I said no at the time. But the offer still stands. And you, my friend," She said laying a hand on Tai's shoulder. "Are the perfect bait."
She smiled widely while the boy frowned. But he probably didn't have anything to say about it. He just smiled doubtfully and played along with it.
* * * "Here. Turn left." Sora instructed
"Are you sure? What the hell is this place?"
"Just shut up and drive."
She paid quite a lot attention to the surrounding, which was that of a ruin. They had slowed down quite a bit buy now.
"I'm starting to believe you're some kind of hired assassin paid to kill me. And now you're just making it easy for yourself by tricking me out in the woods."
Sora laughed at him and moved her hands to his chest. She rubbed him just were his heart was and snickered. She leaned forward and whispered in his ear.
"Maybe I am to."
He glanced back at her with a smirk.
"You know. It wouldn't surprise me. It would be typical wouldn't it? A blond, good looking, western girl. Hired by well... Whoever wants me dead which could make quite a long list."
"Oh I don't doubt that." And something caught her eye and she smiled. "Stop here."
He broke the speed slowly and when the engine died out Sora instantly got off. She walked around a little and Hwoarang just leaned back and watched her. She was watching the surroundings for something, almost rigorously close. At last she seemed to find what she was looking for. She smiled and turned towards Hwoarang.
"It's here. Come on." She said and disappeared into the forest.
"Hey, wait up."
And he had to hurry after her. When he walked past the first branches and found a path. He figured that Sora must've followed it since she was nowhere in sight. He started to follow it, constantly cursing the branches that over and over got in his hair and face. At last he lowered his goggles and let them hang around his neck instead. He finally made it thorough and found himself standing in an open area. A former temple probably. He stood on the stone-yard before the torn down temple and gazed upon it. He thought himself to see a symbol he very well knew. He wore it on his own dojo uniform, the red and blue ying and yang mark.
"This was one of the first temples in Japan who practiced the art of Tae Kwon Do in the older ages. Some even think this was the very first."
Sora spoke calm and silent. Hwoarang could very well hear on her voice that she liked the place. He stood still in the center of the stone-yard and in the corner of his eye he could see her soon.
"Father showed me this place. The single time I traveled with him was to Japan. And he showed me this."
"Baek Doo San was here ey?" He looked around. He -did- miss him. He was his master after all.
"Yeah. Quite a long time ago. I don't think I was more then 12 at that time." She turned around and watched Hwoarang in silence for a while before she asked him. "Where is it?"
He looked puzzled at her and raised an eyebrow.
"Where's what?"
"My ribbon. The one you never gave back to me." She placed her hands on her hips and looked as if she was waiting for him to hand it over.
"Oh yeah." He stuck his hand into his back pocket and drew out the ribbon. It folded out as he held it up in front of him. "You mean this?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"Apparently." She said short and was about to stretch out her hand to grab it but Hwoarang pulled it away from her. She tilted her head and looked at him. "What now?"
"I'll give it back to you. On one condition."
"What condition?" She asked somewhat curious in her voice and her eyes narrowed.
"You'll have to fight me first." He smirked.
"Aha. But I thought you didn't fight girls."
"Well. I can make an exception. Besides. Were you going to let me get out of here until you had fought me?" He asked arching an eyebrow.
"Well." She said with thought. "I really don't think so."
He smiled towards her as she pulled out another band to tie her hair up with. So. He was finally going to fight someone that may be as equally talented in Tae Kwon Do as him. And the offspring of his master to.
* * * To be in a place like The Core sent shivers down Jin's spine. It was something about it he just didn't like. When he looked around the atmosphere, the surroundings. Everything seemed so neutral. And once in a while that nurse looked back at him as if she was insuring that he was still there, and normal. When he looked over at Ryuu he could see nothing more then a used eye and a cold look. The nurse looked back at Jin again while she talked to Ryuu.
"Why this sudden interest in the Devil gene Ryuu?"
"None of your business. Buy the way, is the infected still here?"
"Still here?" She said hard and looked over at Ryuu. "What do you think? It takes a little more than a month to handle that kind of thing."
Ryuu shrugged and sighed.
"Well we're here." She said stopping before a door. She pressed some buttons and the letter 'D' appeared on the door. "The archives are in alphabetical order, so it shouldn't be too hard to find."
"Key." She said and put a hand on the door.
"Oh Ryuu. Can I talk to you. privately?" She said aiming her eyes at Jin then demonstrative looking at Ryuu again.
"Sure." She said a little uncertain. "You'll go inside?" She asked Jin who just nodded and stepped inside the door.
"That boy. Who is he?" She asked piercing Ryuu's eyes.
"So my feeling was right then." She sighed.
"Right? Yes if you felt that he is carrying the Devil gene within him you were right. What are you going to do with him?"
"I?" She asked with a doubting look.
"Yes you. I mean, the dragons have always hated the Devils. Aren't you going to annihilate him or something?"
"Annihilate?" She said raising an eyebrow and the shook her head. "Why should I. I'm not like 'them'. And besides he still got him under control."
"Then if you're not here to learn how to truly kill a Devil. then why are you here?"
"To make him realize what he really is. So if you'll excuse me. I have a Devil to take care of." She said smiling and turned around to walk inside.
When she stepped inside she met Jin's gaze. She lied to Yama, partly lied. She was here to teach Jin a lesson. As long as he was human she wouldn't bother. But as the nurse had said. the dragons always hated the Devils. And if Jin turned into one, she wouldn't be able to stop herself.
"Found anything?" She asked returning his gaze.
"Only this." He said holding up a blank glass square. "It says 'Devil Gene' on it, nothing more. Just a blank surface."
"Here give it to me." She said walking up and grabbed it from him.
She continued past him and sat down by a computer and turned on a projector next to it. She entered the glass disk into the projector and typed on the computer's keyboard. Jin took a look at the keyboard and noticed that he didn't understand the signs on it. He squinted as he tried to figure out what language it could be. Ryuu noticed and smirked.
"Don't bother to even try. The language is dead since long. Only few alive understand it. I've been told it's a safety method if humans or such ever were to find the place." She watched Jin frown. "Hey. Even if we're demons we want some privacy. and our secrets to be protected."
"How come you know the language?"
"I don't know really. Serge told me it was an inherited thing. High culture Draconians, or something, created the language to be sure to separate themselves from others. So I probably got it from my mother. Since my father was an ashole." And before Jin got to say anything further she pressed a button so a picture along with the same kind of texture was shown. "There. deciphered it."
He raised his head and straightened his back. He was looking at an old picture symbolizing a vicious animal.
"What is it?"
"It's one of the first Devils. They take form after their victim's thoughts. In the beginning mankind didn't really believe in too far off supernatural things. They weren't smart enough. Let's skip a few centuries." She typed in something and another picture came up. "Ah. that's a classic."
And the picture showed a dragon, or a water snake. Being defeated by the god he falls down into water. (Inspiration taken by a picture made by Gustave Doré)
"Leviathan. A biblical sea dragon. you know. this is why harmless dragons gets the blame of being a pawn of evil. Shitty Devil bastards." And the picture disappeared while she pressed a button two times and a well known picture filled the wall.
Jin instantly recoiled. Who he saw was Kazuya, his own father. Along his face ran text, probably information about him. His eyes narrowed.
"What does it say?" He asked with a darkened voice.
"Mishima, Kazuya, son of Heihachi Mishima. Why am I not surprised." She said rolling her eyes. "The end of his life was when his father threw him into an active volcano. Although we can not be sure that this was the end of the gene which he was carrying. We have not been able to find the body or any remains of the man. Secondly he had a son. Devils are known to pass down their genes to a next generation for security of their life. With one part alive the second can be reviewed to become whole again. Kazuya was never totally controlled by Devil in our knowledge, but neither did he have control over Devil. If in life he will be extremely dangerous. Treat with tremendously care." Ryuu sighed. "Seems like a nice guy."
So this was Jin's father huh? She leaned back not looking at him. She was quite sure, no positive, that this man was Jin's father. She didn't look over at Jin. He was to alike his father for that right now. After some seconds three big red letters appeared blinking on the screen.
"Ha." She said smiling. "Son missing." And a text line beneath the other appeared. "And mother unknown."
"Try typing in Jun." He said silently. "Kazama, Jun."
She stopped for a second before she typed it in. So it was that important for him to acknowledge his mother. As she pressed enter the picture of Kazuya shrank and another one came up beside, a picture of Jun.
"What the..? She's in the archives?" Ryuu said surprised and leaned forward. Soon the text started to roll again.
"What does it says?" Jin demanded hastily and stepped forward.
"Hold on." She said aiming her head down and entering another code to make it understandable for her to read. "Kazama, Jun daughter of -unknown- (no not the one in Tekken tag). Has visited The Core once before to pled help for her young son Kazama, Jin. Her wish was rejected as the doctors and researchers found nothing extraordinary on the child. How is it possible of her knowledge of us? Kazama, Jun and Kazama, Jin were put under supervision. When her son was normal and healthy at the age of five we found no further meaning in watching them. Unfortunately she appeared to be the target of Toshin ten years later."
Ryuu's voice died out. She didn't watch Jin, she already knew the feeling. To have someone as close as the one who brought you up suddenly ripped away from you. A horrible feeling, but she had the luck to not care. Luck? Yes, she had embraced the fact of becoming a demon. To grow neutral to all feelings. To never loose again. It was a bless to be cold. She pulled out the glass disk and the picture died out.
"You get it now?" She asked and turned her face towards Jin.
He looked down at her. What was there to get? His eyes spoke his feeling. He hated his father, and right now it felt good to do so. He understood that he had this 'gene' within him, but not what it meant. Ryuu sighed and stood up. She left the disk lying on the desk and walked past Jin.
"Time for a visit." She said and opened the door.
* * * Lucielle folded her arms as she waited for Heihachi to arrive in the room she had been guided to. She walked around to get a look at the things he had there. There were very few things to look at. Not even single picture of his family. Mostly it was diplomas of achievement business and such. She yawned vaguely and walked over to sit down at the chair behind the desk. She sank down comfortably and placed her hands on her stomach. She watched the rings that bejeweled her hand. She had no less then four rings of gold, and one in fake gold.
"I see you have made yourself comfortable." Heihachi said as he entered the room.
She leaned forward and crossed her arms at the desk with a wide smile.
"I wanna nail the bitch." She said and looked straightly at the old man.
He smiled and walked over to the desk. She leaned back when he opened one of his drawers and took out a small vault. He input the right code and a small click could be heard. When he opened it you could sea a green sphere admitting a small glow. Lucielle frowned
"What's that?" She asked curious.
"This," He said and picked it up. "Is what you will use when you catch her."
"What?" She raised her eyebrow in disbelief.
He placed it down in the box again and closed it. Carefully. He took a note and scribbled down the combination of it and handed it over to the girl, together with the vault.
"You don't need to know anything. Here." He said and handed over a cell phone to her. "Phone me when you have achieved your mission. Now get out of here."
She grabbed the phone and placed the box under her arm with a smile. She rose from the seat and smiled at the man.
"No problem." And she walked out of the room.
Heihachi took his place in the chair and leaned back smiling. Finally he was going to get this called angel back. And this time she wasn't going to escape buy any chance.
* * * Sora walked away a few steps to get some space between them. She turned around again and watched Hwoarang closely. They both bowed at each other the same way and so it had started. He noticed that her stance was the exact same as her father's. (I'm just gonna make Sora fight exactly as Beak in TTT)
There was no waiting the first thing she did was to attack, her first attempt was to make a 'Hunting Hawk' but she failed quite big. Already at the first impact Hwoarang succeeded to grab her foot and wrist to force her to stop the attack. But she knew how to counter. instead of just ending the attack she let her whole body follow with her foot so she span around in the air to give him a taste of her heel.
And that attack was a success. With no time of recover Hwoarang attack her with a smash low and a right high. She blocked the last mentioned and tried to grab him but failed and instead got attacked by Hwoarang's 'Rejector'. But this time she was the one to grab his foot. Although Sora did not do the same as Hwoarang. While holding his foot she quickly got into a flamingo stance and preformed a 'Flamingo Eliminator'. This he was totally unprepared for so every of her hit she felt impact.
"He he he." Hwoarang smiled and tightened his gloves. "You're actually quite good."
"Really you think?" She answered in a seriously self secured manner raising an eyebrow.
And fast as hell Hwoarang was in front of her grabbing her jacket an pulling her down, he rolled over his back and soon he had her nailed down to the ground. (Like a 'roll and choke' only not locking her arms or actually perform the attack...)
"Really, I think." He said with a smirk.
Sora smiled vaguely and without him noticing that she had clenched her fist and now put it straight in his face.
"Heey!" He exclaimed. "What the hell was that for?"
"Well," She said sitting up still having him almost crushing (he's not small you know!) her legs. "Are we going to fight or not?"
He rose and held down a hand to help her up. She got up herself without taking his hand and smiled. Both of them positioned themselves in stance. You feel the tense by only looking at them. The wind almost seemed to honor them with its small effects. So it was all coming down to this. One strike and a winner would be found.
* * * Ryuu walked fast through the corridors that seemed endless. Jin noticed that sometimes there were dots in different colors on the doors. Sometimes there was more than one. The most he saw was one green, three blue, one yellow, and one red. He tried to figure out what they meant at first but since he could see who or what was behind the door he gave it up pretty quickly. Just as he thought there was no end to the corridors Ryuu stopped in front of a door where she pointed out the dots and explained the color. Fist she pointed at the green, there was two of them.
"This color represents what class of demon you are. This one is class one. That would be new demons or infected ones." And she moved on to the blue. "This one is mental stability. Guess what one dot means." She said raising an eyebrow and moving on to the yellow. "Yellow is physical strength and for class one four is high while five is the most. This one" She said and pointed at the five red dots. "Tells you how dangerous the demon is. So for a first class this is damn ugly." She turned her head towards the door and pressed down the knob. "You will only be able to look through a window. But watch closely, because this is what can happen to you with that gene inside of you."
And then she let the door slide open to show another door with a window in it. She stepped aside while Jin stepped up. He placed his right hand on the glass and looked inside. What he saw made him quite disgusted. It was a man strapped down with first ropes and then thick metal shackles. Despite this the man tried to struggle his way out of there. One of his arms was actually broken. The ropes were digging into his flesh. And he could see in his eyes that he wasn't himself. Repulsed he stepped away and closed the door and watched the dots on it in a considerate way. Could he turn into this?
A/N: Well I'm not giving you a date on when the next chapter will come, but I hope it's sometime soon ^_^ Bare with me :) AND PLEASE.. review me.. it boosts my spirit a lot ^_^
Okey.. here's chapter 21
Chapter 21 Jin - on a road to hell
Ryuu smiled vaguely as the man attacked her. She tilted her head slightly. To her he could just as well have been standing still.
"Too slow." She said calm and simply sidestepped away from his shoulder tackle.
She grabbed his arm and twisted it up his back to force him to bend back wards. She put a knee up against his back and when he finally shouted at the pain she hastily let him go and watched him fall unto the ground. At once when he stood up she leaped into the air and span one circle before her feet impacted on his chest. He winced and smiled at her.
"Hey you're good."
"Shut up and fight already." She just commented. She wanted to get this over with.
So he tried on a smaller combo. First aiming to punches against her chest then a kick and a punch but this time for her head and finishing with a stronger right hand towards her. He grinned to himself when he thought he saw her falling towards the ground. But actually she back-flipped. She shook her head and that grin of his disappeared; none of the hits had actually impacted.
"My turn." She said and moved against him. Quick. As said. she wanted to get it over with.
When she rushed him he guarded on instinct. It might help on the first move but then she simply moved to fast. Two hard mid punches followed by two high kicks then a low kick then punch, punch kick. And to finish it all of with style she moved low and aimed her fist right towards his knee.
-Crack-
You could hear the loud sound when the bone snapped. The crowd was dead silent.
"And the winner is Ryuu!" The referee announced.
And the crowd cheered once more. Ryuu just snorted. This was hardly even a workout. Without caring that the man was trying to talk to her she walked out from the stage. Several of the crew was looking oddly at her. Some was commending her for the good fight. But she walked straight outside. She glanced up at the sun. Spring. she preferred the winter much more. It was always darker days then.
"Hey."
She heard just when she was about to start up her bike to drive off. And since she was quite alone in the area she figured the man who shouted meant her. She turned around and sighed at the sight. Just who she wanted to see. or not. Jin.
"Didn't I tell you to stay away from me.?" Ryuu stated as she looked forward again.
"I just happened to pass by." Jin tried to lie defending himself.
Not a very good lie now was it.
"Mm Yeah right." She said letting the engine fire up.
"Hey wait." He said calmly and stepped up to her. "About last night-"
"Get on." She interrupted him.
"What?" He slightly frowned. What was she thinking now?
"Get on." She said more firmed and looked at him. "If you don't believe me I'm just going to force you to believe. Now get on."
He stepped up to the bike and let his leg slide over the seat. He noticed that the seize of it probably wasn't meant for a woman. It was bigger than that. He glanced down at her feet and also noticed that she had to lean the bike quite much to reach the ground. He smiled for himself and shook his head. That would be just like Ryuu wouldn't it. Taking on more than she really should.
"Hold on." She warned him and burned off.
Jin was quite taken by the acceleration. Buy instinct he grabbed the closest thing he could found. This, of course, was Ryuu. He smiled shyly and took advantage of the situation. He let his arms wrap around her stomach. This also let him hold his head closer to hers. Ryuu just rolled her eyes at let more gas to the engine.
* * * This was probably the first time that Sora actually let someone touch her, and wanted it at the same time. If she stayed here like this forever it really wouldn't matter. But just as well as she was the one who took the initiative for the kiss she was the one who broke it. She leaned her forehead against his and while he opened his eyes she kept hers closed.
"What is it?" Hwoarang asked looking at her.
"Nothing." She said smiling vaguely and opened her eyes. "There's something I want to show you. You have transport?" She asked pulling away from him.
"Of course." He said and rose. "On the parking lot." He said and waited for her to rise and then followed her towards the hall.
He grabbed his goggles (Yay finally!) and strapped them around his head. He let them up his forehead and his hair behaved very obedient and bent backwards, just as he liked it. He walked out the hallway with Sora in his heals. He didn't bother to turn around and check the door if it locked. It was a hotel for Christ sake. it's supposed to lock by itself. Well outside his eyes sought through the area and between cars, people and other bikes he spotted his own. He walked up to it and turned around to make sure Sora was still with him.
"So. Where are we going?" He asked crossing his arms and looked at her.
"Nowhere." A voice interrupted from behind.
Hwoarang knew that voice too well. He sighed and lowered his head and shook it. Of all times. Why the hell now? He turned around and smiled extremely vaguely and raised his eyebrow.
"What do you want now Lucielle?" He asked in a busy tone.
Lucielle leaned over at the seat of his bike and smiled widely. She glanced over at Sora but paid no further attention since it wasn't Ryuu after all.
"Didn't Ryuu tell you?" She asked tilting her head, causing her curled hair to frame her face.
"Tell me what?" He asked calmly. Just wishing she would just go away.
"It's because of me you're out here. And not in that cozy little cell of yours."
Hwoarang chuckled. She actually thought he would believe her on that? Well sure, Ryuu said something like that to him but still it was Ryuu, and not Lucielle, who got him out.
"Lucielle. Whatever you did. wasn't enough. You actually want me to believe that Ryuu cooperated with you?" He smiled when he saw the stupid face she made. "And besides. What did you expect me to do? Smile and say 'Hey lets be friends!'?"
"Hmp." She rose from his bike and placed her hands on her hips. "If it's a war you want Talon. Why don't you just say so? Some of my men actually long for it." She said glancing back at blond-haired boy. "Some of them want revenge."
"Revenge?" He said and laughed. "You're not the one to talk about revenge." And suddenly his voice was dark and serious again. "Maybe you can tell me what happened with Jack, huh? That boy should watch where he's aiming his eyes." He said nodding at the blond boy. "And if I were him I should stay away from Ryuu the rest of my life. Cause with his history with her plus this. She's not gonna listen to me anymore. Now get the hell out of here."
She snorted and turned around to slowly walk away. Hwoarang followed her until she was out of sight.
"I've always wanted to do that." He said and turned towards Sora with a smile. His voice had turned to a friendlier tone.
"And that was?" Sora asked in disbelief.
"A pain in the ass." He just said and swung his leg over the bike. "Now get on so we can get away. And to that, where are we going?"
"Don't bother about that." She smiled and took her place behind him. "Just turn when I say so."
"Alright Lady." He said as he fired up the engine.
She let her hands hold around him and pressed herself against him. Ah, she could already imagine him taking care of her at the late nigh. Erhm. yeah ^_~
* * * "Where are we going?" Jin shouted, not too loud.
"To The Core." Ryuu answered calmly.
And suddenly she turned off towards the forest. Into the middle of nowhere you would say. She seemed rather concentrated though so it was probably the right way after all.
"The Core?" He asked with doubt in his voice.
"Yeah. We like to call it that."
"We?"
"Hehe." She smiled "We. the demons of the earth."
"O-okey." He said and raised an eyebrow.
"Now this is the fun part."
And before Jin had the chance to even ask a portal opened up before them to disappear just when she drove through. When they were on the other side it appeared to be just a normal parking house. Ryuu let the engine die out and reached inside her inner pocket for a packet of cigarettes and a lighter. She shook it so the end of a cigarette was in sight. She took it to her mouth and then lit it up to take a smoke. She leaned back not thinking that it was Jin who sat behind her. When she felt her back against his chest she just smiled and exhaled.
"I hate this place." She stated.
Jin however was still a little startled to take it easy. He looked around to make sure he was still alive. and somewhere that at least looked like earth. Well, there weren't any windows but it still looked liked it was built by humans. Ryuu looked up at him from where she was leaning at him.
"You haven't seen half of it yet." She looked around but saw no one there. "HEY!" She shouted loud.
After a while a boy entered from the left. He was wearing a uniform and looked quite curious as he stepped in. But his expression changed when he saw Ryuu.
"Ryuu! W-w-wh-what are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here in about-"
"Seven days." She finished the sentence for him. "I'm not here because of that. And you don't need to know why. Just take care of my bike." She said and got off. She started to walk away and looked behind her. "Hey Jin."
"Huh?" He found himself still sitting on the bike. "Oh yeah."
He shrugged and got off. The young boy walked up and led away the bike and Jin walked up to Ryuu. She just shook her head.
"What I'm about to show you, you can't tell anyone. You don't even know this place exists." She looked at him when he walked by her side again.
"Or else?" He asked looking at her with a smile.
"I bet you can figure that out by yourself." She said luring and turned her head straight again.
The corridors were more and more looking like those of a hospital. Soon you could even see people dressed as nurses. Well something that reminded of nurses anyway.
"What is this place?" Jin asked looking around.
"It's a medical Centrum for those who need a little more than human care. Or a getaway for those who need. Strictly for people with genes from demons and such."
"Ryuu." A nurse stopped in front of her and smiled. "What are you doing here so early?"
"I'm not here for my own sake. Can you tell Yama I need to speak with her? I need access to the files about the devil gene."
"The devil gene?" She asked and looked troubled. "It's been asleep for quite along time now hasn't it.?" She sighed discreetly. "Well I'll go get Yama. You'll go to your normal room?"
"Sure." She nodded and started to walk again.
"Oh by the way." Their eyes met once more. "Before you leave can't you go see the boy in room 368? He's been talking about you for two days I think."
Ryuu chuckled quietly and nodded. Then she turned around to start walking again.
"You're quite famous here aren't you?" Jin asked as he started to believe this was quite serious.
"Yeah I guess so. Most of them know who I am. No wonder really. I'm here quite often I guess."
"Why is it so?"
Ryuu stayed quiet for a while and looked down at the floor. She sighed within her self, not loudly. This was one of those things she had to thank her biological father for. In the short time she got to know him he managed to do a lot to her. Or against her. Every time the moon disappeared she was reminded of her homeland and father. This was the time when she changed into the second form. It wasn't too bad; she could get away with fooling people that it was a costume. but once every month? Nah, it didn't work. So she simply came to stay at The Core during that time.
"Ryuu?" Jin looked at her when she wouldn't answer. "Ryuu?" He shouted a little louder until he stopped her and grabbed her shoulders and shook her gently. "Ryuu?"
And she snapped out of it. She was quite surprised to meet Jin's face.
"Jin. Sorry. I must have drifted off."
"Yes you tend to do that a lot when he isn't around." A stranger announced her presence.
Jin looked up and saw the face of a woman. Not too old but still not young. Ryuu turned around.
"Yama, nice to see you to." She said a little sarcastic.
"I thought I would catch up with you since your room is on the wrong side of the building if you are going to the archives. And by the way, where is he anyway? It has been a long time since I saw him now." She said aiming her eyes down at some paperwork.
"He was going off to fight a war or something. I'm not sure. And what the hell do you mean by that anyway?" Ryuu asked frowning towards the older nurse.
"What?" She asked looking up from her papers. "Well it is true you know. You behave more. collected when he's around. Anyway. It's this way to the archives. And Ryuu."
"What?" She asked in an annoyed tone.
"No smoking."
"Whatever." She grunted and dropped it to the ground to step on it.
Yama turned left and kept walking with Jin and Ryuu by her heals. Jin glimpsed at Ryuu. But her face was as neutral as ever. He kept wondering. Who was this 'he'? Well he figured out that it at least wasn't Hwoarang, since he wasn't out on some war. And he was 'just' a human. Jin hadn't had so many unanswered questions in a long while now. And it was rather bothering to not know what was going on.
* * * Lucielle sat down between two guys on a bench some meters from the Mishima hotel. She sighed and crossed her arm rather significant. Her eyes narrowed as she stared at Hwoarang as he drove of with Sora behind him.
"What the hell happened Lucielle?"
"The Blood Talon just made himself a new enemy."
The blond haired boy smiled and leaned back with a satisfied smirk on his face.
"Finally." He said under his breath.
"What did you do to his precious little Ryuu anyway?" She asked looking at the boy.
"I didn't have so much to do with it. It was mostly Zephyr."
"Oh? What did that fucking guy do?"
And Tai, the blond haired man, looked over at her and raised an eyebrow. She looked strangely at him. And suddenly she got the picture and her mouth fell open.
"No. you don't mean?" She paused and puckered her brows. "He raped her? Ryuu? Nah that's not possible."
"She was weak at that point. She had crawled into an alleyway and was already bleeding and shit. But she was cocky. As always. So Zephyr decided to repay her for letting a boy escape from us for like. 10 years ago or something."
"That man had no soul, or he sold it to the devil." She smiled. "So that's why she hates you so. Honestly Tai. Since what happened to Jack I don't think your life will be so long."
"Go figure." He said with a sigh.
"But hey. I've got a solution to the problem. First I thought it was a little to low. But now. Hey, a war is a war." She said smiling inductive.
"Like what?" He asked, sounding very interested.
"That old guy, Heihachi, he gave me an offer the other day. If I helped him catch that little wench I would have a lot more freedom around the town. I said no at the time. But the offer still stands. And you, my friend," She said laying a hand on Tai's shoulder. "Are the perfect bait."
She smiled widely while the boy frowned. But he probably didn't have anything to say about it. He just smiled doubtfully and played along with it.
* * * "Here. Turn left." Sora instructed
"Are you sure? What the hell is this place?"
"Just shut up and drive."
She paid quite a lot attention to the surrounding, which was that of a ruin. They had slowed down quite a bit buy now.
"I'm starting to believe you're some kind of hired assassin paid to kill me. And now you're just making it easy for yourself by tricking me out in the woods."
Sora laughed at him and moved her hands to his chest. She rubbed him just were his heart was and snickered. She leaned forward and whispered in his ear.
"Maybe I am to."
He glanced back at her with a smirk.
"You know. It wouldn't surprise me. It would be typical wouldn't it? A blond, good looking, western girl. Hired by well... Whoever wants me dead which could make quite a long list."
"Oh I don't doubt that." And something caught her eye and she smiled. "Stop here."
He broke the speed slowly and when the engine died out Sora instantly got off. She walked around a little and Hwoarang just leaned back and watched her. She was watching the surroundings for something, almost rigorously close. At last she seemed to find what she was looking for. She smiled and turned towards Hwoarang.
"It's here. Come on." She said and disappeared into the forest.
"Hey, wait up."
And he had to hurry after her. When he walked past the first branches and found a path. He figured that Sora must've followed it since she was nowhere in sight. He started to follow it, constantly cursing the branches that over and over got in his hair and face. At last he lowered his goggles and let them hang around his neck instead. He finally made it thorough and found himself standing in an open area. A former temple probably. He stood on the stone-yard before the torn down temple and gazed upon it. He thought himself to see a symbol he very well knew. He wore it on his own dojo uniform, the red and blue ying and yang mark.
"This was one of the first temples in Japan who practiced the art of Tae Kwon Do in the older ages. Some even think this was the very first."
Sora spoke calm and silent. Hwoarang could very well hear on her voice that she liked the place. He stood still in the center of the stone-yard and in the corner of his eye he could see her soon.
"Father showed me this place. The single time I traveled with him was to Japan. And he showed me this."
"Baek Doo San was here ey?" He looked around. He -did- miss him. He was his master after all.
"Yeah. Quite a long time ago. I don't think I was more then 12 at that time." She turned around and watched Hwoarang in silence for a while before she asked him. "Where is it?"
He looked puzzled at her and raised an eyebrow.
"Where's what?"
"My ribbon. The one you never gave back to me." She placed her hands on her hips and looked as if she was waiting for him to hand it over.
"Oh yeah." He stuck his hand into his back pocket and drew out the ribbon. It folded out as he held it up in front of him. "You mean this?" He asked raising an eyebrow.
"Apparently." She said short and was about to stretch out her hand to grab it but Hwoarang pulled it away from her. She tilted her head and looked at him. "What now?"
"I'll give it back to you. On one condition."
"What condition?" She asked somewhat curious in her voice and her eyes narrowed.
"You'll have to fight me first." He smirked.
"Aha. But I thought you didn't fight girls."
"Well. I can make an exception. Besides. Were you going to let me get out of here until you had fought me?" He asked arching an eyebrow.
"Well." She said with thought. "I really don't think so."
He smiled towards her as she pulled out another band to tie her hair up with. So. He was finally going to fight someone that may be as equally talented in Tae Kwon Do as him. And the offspring of his master to.
* * * To be in a place like The Core sent shivers down Jin's spine. It was something about it he just didn't like. When he looked around the atmosphere, the surroundings. Everything seemed so neutral. And once in a while that nurse looked back at him as if she was insuring that he was still there, and normal. When he looked over at Ryuu he could see nothing more then a used eye and a cold look. The nurse looked back at Jin again while she talked to Ryuu.
"Why this sudden interest in the Devil gene Ryuu?"
"None of your business. Buy the way, is the infected still here?"
"Still here?" She said hard and looked over at Ryuu. "What do you think? It takes a little more than a month to handle that kind of thing."
Ryuu shrugged and sighed.
"Well we're here." She said stopping before a door. She pressed some buttons and the letter 'D' appeared on the door. "The archives are in alphabetical order, so it shouldn't be too hard to find."
"Key." She said and put a hand on the door.
"Oh Ryuu. Can I talk to you. privately?" She said aiming her eyes at Jin then demonstrative looking at Ryuu again.
"Sure." She said a little uncertain. "You'll go inside?" She asked Jin who just nodded and stepped inside the door.
"That boy. Who is he?" She asked piercing Ryuu's eyes.
"So my feeling was right then." She sighed.
"Right? Yes if you felt that he is carrying the Devil gene within him you were right. What are you going to do with him?"
"I?" She asked with a doubting look.
"Yes you. I mean, the dragons have always hated the Devils. Aren't you going to annihilate him or something?"
"Annihilate?" She said raising an eyebrow and the shook her head. "Why should I. I'm not like 'them'. And besides he still got him under control."
"Then if you're not here to learn how to truly kill a Devil. then why are you here?"
"To make him realize what he really is. So if you'll excuse me. I have a Devil to take care of." She said smiling and turned around to walk inside.
When she stepped inside she met Jin's gaze. She lied to Yama, partly lied. She was here to teach Jin a lesson. As long as he was human she wouldn't bother. But as the nurse had said. the dragons always hated the Devils. And if Jin turned into one, she wouldn't be able to stop herself.
"Found anything?" She asked returning his gaze.
"Only this." He said holding up a blank glass square. "It says 'Devil Gene' on it, nothing more. Just a blank surface."
"Here give it to me." She said walking up and grabbed it from him.
She continued past him and sat down by a computer and turned on a projector next to it. She entered the glass disk into the projector and typed on the computer's keyboard. Jin took a look at the keyboard and noticed that he didn't understand the signs on it. He squinted as he tried to figure out what language it could be. Ryuu noticed and smirked.
"Don't bother to even try. The language is dead since long. Only few alive understand it. I've been told it's a safety method if humans or such ever were to find the place." She watched Jin frown. "Hey. Even if we're demons we want some privacy. and our secrets to be protected."
"How come you know the language?"
"I don't know really. Serge told me it was an inherited thing. High culture Draconians, or something, created the language to be sure to separate themselves from others. So I probably got it from my mother. Since my father was an ashole." And before Jin got to say anything further she pressed a button so a picture along with the same kind of texture was shown. "There. deciphered it."
He raised his head and straightened his back. He was looking at an old picture symbolizing a vicious animal.
"What is it?"
"It's one of the first Devils. They take form after their victim's thoughts. In the beginning mankind didn't really believe in too far off supernatural things. They weren't smart enough. Let's skip a few centuries." She typed in something and another picture came up. "Ah. that's a classic."
And the picture showed a dragon, or a water snake. Being defeated by the god he falls down into water. (Inspiration taken by a picture made by Gustave Doré)
"Leviathan. A biblical sea dragon. you know. this is why harmless dragons gets the blame of being a pawn of evil. Shitty Devil bastards." And the picture disappeared while she pressed a button two times and a well known picture filled the wall.
Jin instantly recoiled. Who he saw was Kazuya, his own father. Along his face ran text, probably information about him. His eyes narrowed.
"What does it say?" He asked with a darkened voice.
"Mishima, Kazuya, son of Heihachi Mishima. Why am I not surprised." She said rolling her eyes. "The end of his life was when his father threw him into an active volcano. Although we can not be sure that this was the end of the gene which he was carrying. We have not been able to find the body or any remains of the man. Secondly he had a son. Devils are known to pass down their genes to a next generation for security of their life. With one part alive the second can be reviewed to become whole again. Kazuya was never totally controlled by Devil in our knowledge, but neither did he have control over Devil. If in life he will be extremely dangerous. Treat with tremendously care." Ryuu sighed. "Seems like a nice guy."
So this was Jin's father huh? She leaned back not looking at him. She was quite sure, no positive, that this man was Jin's father. She didn't look over at Jin. He was to alike his father for that right now. After some seconds three big red letters appeared blinking on the screen.
"Ha." She said smiling. "Son missing." And a text line beneath the other appeared. "And mother unknown."
"Try typing in Jun." He said silently. "Kazama, Jun."
She stopped for a second before she typed it in. So it was that important for him to acknowledge his mother. As she pressed enter the picture of Kazuya shrank and another one came up beside, a picture of Jun.
"What the..? She's in the archives?" Ryuu said surprised and leaned forward. Soon the text started to roll again.
"What does it says?" Jin demanded hastily and stepped forward.
"Hold on." She said aiming her head down and entering another code to make it understandable for her to read. "Kazama, Jun daughter of -unknown- (no not the one in Tekken tag). Has visited The Core once before to pled help for her young son Kazama, Jin. Her wish was rejected as the doctors and researchers found nothing extraordinary on the child. How is it possible of her knowledge of us? Kazama, Jun and Kazama, Jin were put under supervision. When her son was normal and healthy at the age of five we found no further meaning in watching them. Unfortunately she appeared to be the target of Toshin ten years later."
Ryuu's voice died out. She didn't watch Jin, she already knew the feeling. To have someone as close as the one who brought you up suddenly ripped away from you. A horrible feeling, but she had the luck to not care. Luck? Yes, she had embraced the fact of becoming a demon. To grow neutral to all feelings. To never loose again. It was a bless to be cold. She pulled out the glass disk and the picture died out.
"You get it now?" She asked and turned her face towards Jin.
He looked down at her. What was there to get? His eyes spoke his feeling. He hated his father, and right now it felt good to do so. He understood that he had this 'gene' within him, but not what it meant. Ryuu sighed and stood up. She left the disk lying on the desk and walked past Jin.
"Time for a visit." She said and opened the door.
* * * Lucielle folded her arms as she waited for Heihachi to arrive in the room she had been guided to. She walked around to get a look at the things he had there. There were very few things to look at. Not even single picture of his family. Mostly it was diplomas of achievement business and such. She yawned vaguely and walked over to sit down at the chair behind the desk. She sank down comfortably and placed her hands on her stomach. She watched the rings that bejeweled her hand. She had no less then four rings of gold, and one in fake gold.
"I see you have made yourself comfortable." Heihachi said as he entered the room.
She leaned forward and crossed her arms at the desk with a wide smile.
"I wanna nail the bitch." She said and looked straightly at the old man.
He smiled and walked over to the desk. She leaned back when he opened one of his drawers and took out a small vault. He input the right code and a small click could be heard. When he opened it you could sea a green sphere admitting a small glow. Lucielle frowned
"What's that?" She asked curious.
"This," He said and picked it up. "Is what you will use when you catch her."
"What?" She raised her eyebrow in disbelief.
He placed it down in the box again and closed it. Carefully. He took a note and scribbled down the combination of it and handed it over to the girl, together with the vault.
"You don't need to know anything. Here." He said and handed over a cell phone to her. "Phone me when you have achieved your mission. Now get out of here."
She grabbed the phone and placed the box under her arm with a smile. She rose from the seat and smiled at the man.
"No problem." And she walked out of the room.
Heihachi took his place in the chair and leaned back smiling. Finally he was going to get this called angel back. And this time she wasn't going to escape buy any chance.
* * * Sora walked away a few steps to get some space between them. She turned around again and watched Hwoarang closely. They both bowed at each other the same way and so it had started. He noticed that her stance was the exact same as her father's. (I'm just gonna make Sora fight exactly as Beak in TTT)
There was no waiting the first thing she did was to attack, her first attempt was to make a 'Hunting Hawk' but she failed quite big. Already at the first impact Hwoarang succeeded to grab her foot and wrist to force her to stop the attack. But she knew how to counter. instead of just ending the attack she let her whole body follow with her foot so she span around in the air to give him a taste of her heel.
And that attack was a success. With no time of recover Hwoarang attack her with a smash low and a right high. She blocked the last mentioned and tried to grab him but failed and instead got attacked by Hwoarang's 'Rejector'. But this time she was the one to grab his foot. Although Sora did not do the same as Hwoarang. While holding his foot she quickly got into a flamingo stance and preformed a 'Flamingo Eliminator'. This he was totally unprepared for so every of her hit she felt impact.
"He he he." Hwoarang smiled and tightened his gloves. "You're actually quite good."
"Really you think?" She answered in a seriously self secured manner raising an eyebrow.
And fast as hell Hwoarang was in front of her grabbing her jacket an pulling her down, he rolled over his back and soon he had her nailed down to the ground. (Like a 'roll and choke' only not locking her arms or actually perform the attack...)
"Really, I think." He said with a smirk.
Sora smiled vaguely and without him noticing that she had clenched her fist and now put it straight in his face.
"Heey!" He exclaimed. "What the hell was that for?"
"Well," She said sitting up still having him almost crushing (he's not small you know!) her legs. "Are we going to fight or not?"
He rose and held down a hand to help her up. She got up herself without taking his hand and smiled. Both of them positioned themselves in stance. You feel the tense by only looking at them. The wind almost seemed to honor them with its small effects. So it was all coming down to this. One strike and a winner would be found.
* * * Ryuu walked fast through the corridors that seemed endless. Jin noticed that sometimes there were dots in different colors on the doors. Sometimes there was more than one. The most he saw was one green, three blue, one yellow, and one red. He tried to figure out what they meant at first but since he could see who or what was behind the door he gave it up pretty quickly. Just as he thought there was no end to the corridors Ryuu stopped in front of a door where she pointed out the dots and explained the color. Fist she pointed at the green, there was two of them.
"This color represents what class of demon you are. This one is class one. That would be new demons or infected ones." And she moved on to the blue. "This one is mental stability. Guess what one dot means." She said raising an eyebrow and moving on to the yellow. "Yellow is physical strength and for class one four is high while five is the most. This one" She said and pointed at the five red dots. "Tells you how dangerous the demon is. So for a first class this is damn ugly." She turned her head towards the door and pressed down the knob. "You will only be able to look through a window. But watch closely, because this is what can happen to you with that gene inside of you."
And then she let the door slide open to show another door with a window in it. She stepped aside while Jin stepped up. He placed his right hand on the glass and looked inside. What he saw made him quite disgusted. It was a man strapped down with first ropes and then thick metal shackles. Despite this the man tried to struggle his way out of there. One of his arms was actually broken. The ropes were digging into his flesh. And he could see in his eyes that he wasn't himself. Repulsed he stepped away and closed the door and watched the dots on it in a considerate way. Could he turn into this?
A/N: Well I'm not giving you a date on when the next chapter will come, but I hope it's sometime soon ^_^ Bare with me :) AND PLEASE.. review me.. it boosts my spirit a lot ^_^