This chapter is purely flashback. About Hwoarang met Ryuu, how he met Sora and an introduction to a new original character.
I do not own Tekken or any of its characters and such. I do own Ryuu, Sora and the man appearing at the end.
Chapter 27 Times that have past
- - - (Hwoarang
and Ryuu)
Her
lids were heavy to open as she started to wake up. When she looked
around they were only halfway open and when she didn't recognize
the surroundings she gave up and closed them again. Her arms were
twisted in an uncomfortable kind of way and she tried to roll over on
her stomach. Her hands were tied together on her back. When she had
managed to roll over she concentrated on centering her strength in
her arms. And with a simple move the ropes were broken and she was
free.
She troubled herself to sit up. She could feel how her spirit along with her strength had currently diminished. Her head rested on the back of the sofa since she didn't have power to actually hold it up. She heard the door being unlocked and opened. Her instincts told her to kill the one who entered. Luckily for the person… she was simply too exhausted.
The man was surprised when he saw the woman sitting up and had freed herself from the rope. 'I tied those ropes hard enough to keep myself down… at least if I were in the same shape as she is in…'
He walked over to the sofa in silence. Maybe she was still asleep. He picked something up from a table as he walked past it and seated himself in a chair next to her. He laid a pair of handcuffs on the table in front of her then leaned back with crossed arms.
"If you believe I am sleeping you are deluding yourself." She whispered between her lips. Her voice was dark and filled with weariness.
"Such nice words she knows." He smiled. "Nonetheless you have no strength right now. You have slept for four days without getting any nourishment. I'm surprised you even managed to get out of that rope."
"Well I have strength that you will never understand."
"And my guesses are that you would like to have something to eat. You can have some. But you need to answer a question first." She stayed quiet and he observed her for a while. "What's your name?"
"I don't want to tell you." She stated like it didn't matter whether she got food or not.
"So you wanna die of hunger?"
"Death is a fact that doesn't scare me."
There was such plain honesty in her voice that it shook him little.
"What…" He laughed softly. "You're what… maybe 16 years old… and you claim that you're not afraid to die? I think you're lying."
"And you are what… maybe…" She concentrated for a few seconds before she spoke again. "Ten months older than me… You're welcome to try my relations towards death if you like."
"Open your eyes." He said studying her face continuously.
She sighed silently and opened her lids slowly, looking straight at the ceiling. She took no notice on the man that sat practically next to her. It annoyed him quite a bit.
"Look at me."
And she rolled her head slowly to the left until she watched him. Grey eyes with no fear of anything stared at him. Her face looked mostly annoyed as she spoke.
"Do you still have a whish to kill me or what?"
- - - (Hwoarang and Sora (Ha-Neal)
"Hurry
up or else you won't be able to come with me today."
"I'm coming I'm coming! I'm just going to-"
And her father picked up the running little girl with a smile.
"Either you come with me or you keep chasing the cat all morning… You can't do both."
"But little Nana can't stay in all day Miss Hwang says it's bad for her!" She pleaded.
"Then Miss Hwang can take care of it when she comes over, can't she?" And he looked at her while she thought of it.
"Well yeah I guess but…"
"Ha-Neal… training is a very important thing. And being in time is one of the points on discipline which-"
"Also is very important if you are going to train any form of martial arts. I know daddy!" She smiled. "So what are you waiting for? We're getting late."
He just shook his head and grabbed a duffel bag to walk away.
When they entered the dojo it was still empty. Baek started to make everything ready. Ha-Neal changed her clothes to the training uniform and then started to walk around watching the different scribbling of the walls. Suddenly she noticed something. She quickly turned her head to her right and saw a boy. He was just about her own age, probably a bit older. He sat in one of the corners and holding his eyes steady on her. She turned around slowly and met his eyes.
"Who are you?" She asked with a voice mixed with curiosity and firm.
He rose from his place and his dark hair framed his face as he tilted it a little.
"I could ask you the same question."
"I train here." She answered quickly. She knew that she wasn't supposed to let it out that Baek was her father. So in public she even called him Master.
"I've never seen you here before. Is this your first day?"
"If you mean to train in a dojo the answer is yes."
"So you have trained before?"
"Yes."
"How old are you?"
"Seven… and a half." She smiled lightly.
"You don't look Korean… where are you from?"
She looked at him a little strange. Not sure if she knew what he was asking just as she was about to draw her breath her father interrupted them.
"You don't need to have so much information on your fellow students Hwoarang."
"Master!"
They both said in union and then looked at each other.
- - - (Hwoarang and Ryuu)
Ryuu
sighed when she looked over at her hand that was cuffed to an
element. At least now she felt refreshed after eating a good meal.
She slid further down in the sofa and rested her legs on the table.
Just as she succeeded to find that perfect position the door opened
and Hwoarang walked in.
"Feeling better?" He smiled.
"Shut up." Was her single answer.
"Seems like you are." He walked over and sat down in front of her. "So… why do you wish to kill me?"
"I don't like to be in depth to people." She answered quite plain as she turned her eyes straight unto his.
"Heh." He smiled. "It never occurred to you that instead of killing me you just would need to not show yourself to me again?"
"It's not my style to let things slip out of my hands like that."
"Well… I'm going out… And I can't leave you here while I go away now can I…"
She turned her eyes away from him and sighed slowly. He rose from his place and walked over to her. From the corner of her eye she looked at him, a little curious of what he was doing. He opened the part of the cuffs that was fastened around the heater. Then she heard the sound of it being put together again. She looked over at him and saw that he had put it around his own wrist.
"Wanna go for a walk?" He asked raising his eyebrow.
- - - (Hwoarang and Sora (Ha-Neal))
Ha-Neal
sat down alone by one of the long walls. On the other side there was
a group of boys chatting and Hwoarang sat next to them. Some seemed
to whisper about her, or so she thought. They were giving her looks
and continuously whispering.
When the lesson started there was no talk about it. There was the respect that was supposed to be shown in a dojo. However, after the lesson, outside the dojo…
"You're a girl! You can't train with us!" A boy shouted towards her.
"Of course I can!" She defended herself without hesitation.
"Oh yeah? You're too weak." He pushed.
"I'm NOT!" She said and clenched her fist and hit him right across the face.
He was shocked at first as he covered his face with his hand. When he looked down on it he saw drops of blood staining his palm. His nose had started to bleed.
"That's it bitch! You're going to die!"
"Bring it on!" She urged him.
But just as he raised his arm Baek grabbed it and prevented him. He ordered the boys to go home and the boy Ha-Neal had been fighting with to come earlier the next morning to sort everything out. The boys were already out of sight as the other boy stepped out again. Ha-Neal, who was opening the door to go inside again stopped suddenly and looked at him.
"What are you still doing here?" She asked, surprised to se him.
"What are you?" He asked hastily and went inside the door before her.
- - - (Hwoarang and Ryuu)
Ryuu
frowned as she was lead through Tokyo chained to a man she wanted to
see dead. However, she started to realize the importance he had in
the underground networks that existed in the city. And with that
knowledge her thought about this not being so bad grew. Suddenly a
slight wind caressed her in the middle of the square where there
really was no room for it. She looked around and she saw it coming,
only seconds before. But the edge of a blade cut the chain between
her and Hwoarang and soon someone who rushed away from the place held
her.
"Hey!" She heard the Korean screaming in the background as she and the mysterious person entered an alley.
Ryuu looked up under the hood of this person and she met a pair of red eyes looking back at her.
"You… I know your face." She said in a considerate way. "Gaia…" She stated. "Serge… That was your name, right?"
"Right." He answered short. "I'm only here briefly; I'll come back for you later."
"For me?" She asked confused.
"24 hours from now, be in a desolate place. You Must make sure you're alone." He turned his head back and noticed that the man had almost caught up on them. "Remember, 24 hours."
And in an instant he was gone. She stood still looking after him as she felt Hwoarang's hand around her wrist again. Though she didn't react. She kept watching the way he had disappeared.
"Hey you…" He asked calmly at first. But when she didn't listen to him he pulled her arm. "Hey…"
"What?" She asked him annoyed and started to walk towards to square with him by her side again.
"Did you know that person?"
"No." She answered shortly.
"Yeah, right. Ah well. You're still here, so it doesn't really matter."
"Yeah whatever." She answered like it didn't mean anything. Right now she knew that she could escape if she wanted. He wasn't strong enough to hold her if she concentrated her demon strength, or should we say… she wasn't that weak. "Where are you taking me anyway?"
"Just to another motel. You see I can't stay at the same place too long."
She just raised her eyebrow and decided on following him. She ogled over at a clock that you could see in one of the corners of the square. 19:00… it was walking towards winter so the night was beginning to fall. At this time next day she had to be completely alone. How was she going to manage with that?
After walking further into Tokyo they finally reached the goal. But only moments after they had entered the motel and bar Hwoarang felt that Ryuu tensed.
He looked over at her and found her eyes full of hate as he watched her looking at another man. Her teeth clenched as well as her fists. He followed her eyes and spotted someone whose existence wasn't exactly unknown… He was about to speak to her but she forced him to let her go by almost plunging an attack towards the man sitting in the bar. Just as two of Hwoarang's men managed to stop her, the man she glared hatefully at noticed her and grinned spitefully. He nodded as a greeting to her, raising his glass slightly. She tried to wrestle her way out of the grip they were holding on her but with no real luck. Plus at a time like this she couldn't focus her streangth; she needed more training for that. When she had been forced into the room and Hwoarang managed to keep her under control the two other men left. He pressed her hands towards the wall while he tried to force her to look into his eyes.
"What the fuck is this all about?" He questioned her.
"Nothing that you need to know." She shouted back. Annoyed, angry no, she was furious.
"The man you were looking at, Zephyr, is a member of a gang whose leader I'm so sick of…" He frowned at the thought of Lucielle. "And that man… is as cold as ice. I've wanted to nail him for quite a while now. Give me one reason…" And finally he managed to catch her eyes in his. "One reason… and his life are all yours to take."
At his words she relaxed. He felt it and let her arms go. She noticed that his eyes didn't lie to her. He wanted to get rid of this person as much as she did. She looked away from him and crossed her arms. She fastened her eyes on a table that stood into a wall. It wasn't that easy though… She didn't want to tell him what happened. Her conclusion was that he would look at her as a weaker person. She felt his hand beneath her chin and he made her look at him again.
"Tell me." He said in a hard voice.
"It happened about an hour before you found me the first time." She sighed. "I had been in a fight for life or death… sort of… By accident I got in to that ally in some kind of way. When he found me I had no strength to fight back."
"I get it. You don't need to say anymore." He smiled lightly. "Now there is only one thing left…"
"What?" She frowned.
"If I'm going to have the right to let you have your revenge. You need to be a part of my gang." He smirked.
"Oh." She understood the hidden word of that sentence quite fast. "Well you can try… to make me a subordinate. You are so welcome to try." She laughed shortly. "My biological father tried that… only once though. You can ask him how it went… If you meet him in your afterlife." She smiled in a very self-assuring way as she walked past him towards the sole bed in the room.
"Wait…" He said and turned around to look at her back. "You… killed him?"
"Mm…" She nodded vaguely. And as she thought back on it she realized… "And it felt good to."
"Heh…" He moved up to her, laid a hand on her shoulder and whispered in her ear. "Then I'll just make sure I won't make the same mistake ey..?"
He couldn't figure out what it was about this girl that made him so interested. Maybe it was the fact that she had the guts to challenge him head on, and having the power to actually defeat him. Although he wouldn't admit it. Did he believe what she just had said? That she had killed her father? Maybe it wasn't so hard to believe. She seemed strange in a way. She radiated certain coolness; on the surface she was calm. And looking into her steel gray eyes could make you feel a slight shiver. Though if you touched her you felt that her body was warmer than a normal human were.
She smiled to herself. This was the perfect opportunity to get the time she needed.
"Then let me go." She said suddenly. And glanced over at a digital clock. 21:00, then she probably only needed 24 hours to meet up with the man and hear his words and be back, if she would come back that is. "Give me 24 hours. Without anyone following me. If I come back…" She turned her head back and looked at him from the corner of her eye. "I'll give you my name.. and I guess… I'll stay around."
"Deal." He smiled, not knowing who she was or what would happen with someone like her in a gang.
- - - (Hwoarang and Sora (Ha-Neal))
She
looked over at the boy a little nervous. No one was supposed to know…
That she was Baek's daughter. She stood still in the dojo, almost
next to him. Waiting.
Waiting for her father to walk out again. She looked over at him but noticed that he was strictly looking forward. And of course Baek entered the dojo again just that time while she just shortly looked away.
"Ha-Neal."
She heard his strong voice and turned her face towards him.
"I'm sorry." She excused herself. She wondered… what would her father do about her reentering dojo? The class was supposed to be over. She had no reason to be there right now.
"What is your reason to be here when the training is already over?"
'WHAT? He's dumping this one on ME? Grrr… I'll kill him for this!' Ha-Neal though in her frustration. But acted calmly and quick. "I only need to inform that I will not attend to the lesson tomorrow morning. There is a traditional ceremony my family holds high that must be preformed on this particular time."
"Alright, you are excused to leave." He said and watched his daughter closely; quite proud that she handled it so well.
She looked at the boy closely before she completely turned her face towards the door. He was still aiming his eyes forward. Disciplined. She wondered who he was, where he came from. As she stepped out of the door and started to walk home she realized something, she had never even seen him before. The others she had seen at the first term at school. But never him. She sighed and shrugged it of. What did it matter anyway…?
- - - (Ryuu and Serge)
She
walked silently towards her goal. Through the forest towards a cliff
she knew was nearby. What did he want with her? It hadn't been too
long since she had left Gaia. Quite frankly she didn't even
remember how. She placed her foot precisely by the edge of the cliff
when she reached her goal. She raised her eyes towards the sky. The
calmness of nature surrounded her, but only for a short while.
Quickly she moved her upper body to her left and she raised her arm
to take grip around a kunai.
"Who uses these anymore?" She mumbled as she looked down on the weapon. She turned her head towards the forest and saw the man she was expecting. "What's this for?" she asked and threw it back towards him.
He grabbed it and started spinning it round and round his finger as he walked towards her. He no longer wore that half-circle cloak. His clothes seemed less out of place than she thought. Black pants along with a black leather coat. Even if his distinct red eyes and dark blue hair made it hard to melt in. He stopped about two-three meters in front of her.
"So here she is." He smiled lightly.
"What is this all about?" She asked, now remembering just about everything from her time on Gaia. She remembered him clearly now. "And who are you?"
"The more interesting part here is you. Do you know who you are?"
She both understood and didn't know what he meant. She knew that she wasn't an ordinary habitant of this planet. She knew she had a feeling inside of her that she didn't understand. Frankly she wasn't sure of who or what she was.
Suddenly the man stepped up to her, placed his hand on her shoulder and pushed her. She didn't have time to react so she took a step backwards. But there was no ground to support her feet. She fell from the cliff. He crossed his arms and just waited.
"Alright… I know that you already knew about my wings." She said as she landed on the ground again with spread white wings.
"It's not that." He said and turned towards her. "Come here." He reached for her arm. He took a grip around her wrist and held up his right hand towards her forehead with his middle- and index finger extended. "This'll hurt." He said plainly when he met her eyes.
"What?" She frowned.
She soon felt that under his fingers on her forehead something was changing. And he was right. It hurt like hell. She covered her forehead with her hands as she dropped to her knees. When she lowered her hands she saw dark dark blood in her hands, blood too dark to belong to a human. She looked up and the man, Serge, squatted in front of her. With the help of his hand he raised her head and looked at the mark that had appeared on her forehead.
"What…?" She panted, a little dizzy from what just had happened.
"There is a proof to what a part of you is, in this shape." He said as he looked over her head. On her now white hair and her black wings. But still the most interesting thing was the lying crescent moon in her forehead.
"How is this possible? This only happens once a month…" She glanced up at the sky but it wasn't even night, and it was even less the night of the new moon, which was the time when she usually changed into this form.
"You're quite unspoiled though." He commented for himself. "Do you even know what this is?" He asked as he held up the kunai so she saw her face on its surface.
What he meant was the mark on her forehead. That which had caused the bleeding and now just lay there as a black moon. Speaking more about her than she realized.
"I'm sure you're going to tell me about it." She stated quite annoyed as she pulled her head from his hand.
"It's a proof." He stated as he rose.
"Proof? Of what?" She asked as she rose on a pair of somewhat shaking legs.
"There is only one kind of demon who wears a mark over The Third Eye." He paused and awaited her eye contact. "The throughout breeds, the ones that are born full-bloods. They are not soiled with any human blood, or have mixed it with other demons… They are pure."
This Chakra located 'on' you forehead is also called "The Third Eye" in teachings of Chakra
"Heh…" She smiled. "So where's yours?" She raised her eyebrow with a smile.
"Hmp." He smiled lightly. "If you grown into which strength you have the possibilities to posses, you'll see it eventually."
"You haven't said it all, have you?" She asked as she was steadily gaining strength as the seconds passed.
"There isn't much more I can tell. You'll have to figure out things by yourself. Your lineage, your soul and your potential."
"You haven't answered my question…" She said and he looked a little wondering on her. "Who are you?"
"My name is still the same. Though what you know about me… Everything is probably wrong."
"I figured…" she rolled her eyes as her strength had completely returned to her. This made her more confident.
"I won't stay here much longer. This earth disgusts me with its human inhabitants. I will come back though." He said as he turned his eyes towards the sky for a slight glance on how far the sun had reached. "Come back and take you from this earth."
"What?" Her eyes narrowed. "Why would you do that?"
"It's not as if I like you. Get that clear. However there is something within you that I want to awake."
"The dragon… Right?"
"You know about your kind?" He asked and saw her face turned serious.
She walked over and sat down with her legs hanging free over the edge.
"Know and know…" She said a little passing. "I've felt it. And I've been able to do this ever since I fell from Gaia." She said as she extended her arm and a flame appeared from her hand. "I'm not sure of how. But it's quite simple." And the flame burned out. "And I know I can do much more."
"You need to burn out you power before you can build them up to another level. That is the fastest way of gaining strength. Though you need someone to look after you in the while in between to take care of you. Or you learn to set up a barrier around you while you rest." He paused for a while and looked down on her where she sat staring at the sky. "Until you have learned such a skill I am ready to be that person."
She turned around and looked at him suddenly. Surprised of his words.
"Why?" She asked in a serious voice.
"Because it would be a shame to let your powers go to waste before you face death. And since it will be my blade that brings you that death I want a good fight before you face the afterlife."
Ryuu wasn't as shocked as you thought she'd be. She just lowered her eyes and turned her head towards the sky. She blinked a few times then smiled weakly.
"Yeah… Let us see which one kills which."
And when she stood up again and turned into her 'human' body and turned around to look at him, he was already gone.
-Narrator- yes that's just me wanting to give you a little info…
As you surely have noticed by now Ryuu is a demon. Let me explain what it means.
Firstly it's said that she is a dragon. What do I mean by that? Just what it says. Her true form is in a state of a dragon. But her process has been reversed. If we say that dragons can, with training, turn themselves into human form Ryuu must fight to turn into dragon form.
The only form she right now can go into is her second demon form. Where the wings she possesses turns black. The black wings symbol the darkness she walks in. The pain she has been suffering and the sadness she hides.
In this state her hair also turns white. That symbols the innocent child she still is. Though she actually killed her own father with her own hands ' She has yet to explore the powers that she can possess. So the color of her hair in this state will eventually change.
The third and last is the sign on her forehead. Right now the symbol is a simple lying crescent moon. Pitch black, of course. This is a symbol of femininity, kind of. The moon has also been a symbol of madness for a very long time.
Oh I almost forgot. The color of her eyes also changes in this form from steel gray to silver gray. It's no real meaning in it. I just think it's cool
Serge! Is more difficult to explain. Since I use these two in more fictions than this it would be a possible spoiler to tell what/who Serge is. Let's just say that he's more powerful than he seems to be. The thing about Serge is that he's so hard to write. In contrast to Ryuu I have to think carefully about every word he speaks. (Ryuu's character is mostly based on her movements and her eyes.) Serge is the sort of man that keeps his mysteries to himself, doesn't let anybody in and knows that he's powerful. Just this part:
"Because it would be a shame to let your powers go to waste before you face death. And since it will be my blade that brings you that death I want a good fight before you face the afterlife."
Took me like a whole evening to get right. Also to have him say that he would protect Ryuu straight out like that sounds wrong in my ears. But since they were alone and Serge still knows the promise he maid to her it was still the right thing. Serge promised to never leave Ryuu once.
A/N: I wholeheartedly thank the ones who have reached the end of this chapter. I will try and post chapter 28 as soon as I get up from my sleep.
Any reviews will be greatly appreciated
Some notes, that might help you
As you surely have noticed by now Ryuu is a
demon. Let me explain what it means.
Firstly it's said that she is a dragon. What
do I mean by that? Just what it says. Her true form is in a state of a dragon.
But her process has been reversed. If we say that dragons can, with training,
turn themselves into human form Ryuu must fight to turn into dragon form.
The only form she right now can go into is
her second demon form. Where the wings she possesses turns black. The black
wings symbol the darkness she walks in. The pain she has been suffering and the
sadness she hides.
In this state her hair also turn white. That
symbols the innocent child she still is. Though she actually killed her own
father with her own hands ' She has yet to explore the powers that she can
possess. So the color of her hair in this state will eventually change.
The third and last is the sign on her
forehead. Right now the symbol is a simple lying crescent moon. Pitch black, of
course. This is a symbol of femininity, kind of. The moon has also been a
symbol of madness for a very long time.
Oh I almost forgot. The color of her eyes also change in this form from steel gray to silver gray. It's no real meaning in it. I just think it's cool
Serge! Is more difficult to explain. Since I
use these two in more fictions than this it would be a possible spoiler to tell
what/who Serge is. Let's just say that he's more powerful than he seems to be.
The thing about Serge is that he's so hard to write. In contrast to Ryuu I have
to think carefully about every word he speaks. (Ryuu's character is mostly
based on her movements and her eyes.) Serge is the sort of man that keeps his
mysteries to himself, doesn't let anybody in and knows that he's powerful. Just
this part:
"Because it would be a shame to let your
powers go to waste before you face death. And since it will be my blade that
bring you that death I want a good fight before you face the afterlife."
Took me like a whole evening to get right.
Also to have him say that he would protect Ryuu straight out like that sounds
wrong in my ears. But since they were alone and Serge still know the promise he
maid to her it was still the right thing. Serge promised to never leave Ryuu
once. She doesn't remember it though.