Chapter Twelve: Beneath You
Authors Note: Heyz! Okay, I know everybody is dying to know who the "mysterious voice" is…so…here ya go!
"Feel the wrath of God…"
Jamie's heart sank and his blood ran cold as ice. The voice had the unique pitch of being strikingly high pitched and yet gravely at the same time. The phrase was Japanese, and unfortunately he knew exactly what it meant…slowly, Jamie turned and stared into a familiar face.
"…Jin…" Jamie almost whispered.
Everyone turned and saw him standing there.
He wasn't too far away, only about five feet away. Jamie had fought hundreds of thousands of demons before…none very aesthetically pleasing to the eye…and most would strike fear into the hearts of men…but this was one of the rare occasions where a demon actually terrified him.
Maybe it was because of the startling familiarity of Jin's latest form.
His skin was almost as pale as alabaster…really, he had the appearance of a vampire's pale form…or perhaps a drug addict. He grinned at the group, and Jamie saw rows of sharp, pointed teeth that could probably rip through someone's jugular the same way a child sinks his teeth into a candy bar.
His chest was a mess of black, lightning bolt shaped marks, and his eyes held the appearance of some kind of feral jungle cat. Perhaps the most dramatic changes on his person were the bull-like horns that protruded from his temples, and the raven's feather black wings coming out of his shoulder blades.
"Oh God…oh God no…" Xiao murmured.
Her eyes were glassy with tears.
"Hello lover." Jin answered wolfishly to Xiao.
"Kazama…what…" Hwoarang asked speechless.
"Ah, Jin's little enemy…I'm above all that as I am a higher being now…the Nephilim's vampiric doppelganger helped me rise above Jin's pathetic mental barriers…but that doesn't stop me from killing you all anyway."
Suddenly, Jin's forehead began to split open…
"GET DOWN NOW!" Jamie screamed.
Everyone ducked as the piercing beam shot from Jin's head…the laser hit a tank and it exploded in a fiery plume.
"What the hell…" Dimitri asked as he withdrew his desert eagle.
Back about four years ago or so, Jamie would have relied on Dimitri for all the answers...and now Dimitri obviously didn't have them, but to his credit he was keeping an extremely cool head…after all, in his line of work as a treasure hunter, one had to keep a cool head if they wanted it attached to their shoulders.
Dimitri fired off a couple of rounds at Jin as he began to advance on Julia and Christie. The bullets did nothing to Jin…it only annoyed him.
"Might as well be attacking this guy with trained fleas…" Dimitri murmured.
Devil Jin turned and ran at the adventurer…Dimitri began hopping backwards firing off rounds…while Jin began brandishing terrible claws that could slash an adventurer or a Nephilim's flesh to ribbons and peel their skin off like an apple peel.
Jin swiped at Dimitri, and he cried in pain as the claws raked across his chest.
"DIMITRI!" Jamie cried.
The helicopter finally got close enough to pick everyone up and Steve began escorting the girls to safety.
"JUST GO!" Dimitri called back.
Dimitri was hunched over, clutching his wound attempting to staunch the flow of blood…ideally, Jamie should have just left him, but he had left Jin before and he was not about to lose another friend.
Jamie leapt into the battle with a jumping side kick to Jin's head. He roared angrily and whirled around, his wings hit Jamie in the face and the Nephilim stumbled.
"What's the matter Nephilim," Jin said angrily. "You look like you've seen a ghost?" He asked.
Somewhere, Jamie heard the voice before…but where?
"I'd saved up so much nostalgia since our last encounter that I must say that I'm saddened by the fact that you won't be sharing any of your trademark witty banter."
Jamie felt like he couldn't move…suddenly, Jin grabbed Jamie roughly by his shoulders.
"Let go of me!" Jamie cried pitifully.
"You have no idea how much I hate you! You destroyed my other half…but that's okay, I'll just absorb your spirit to make up for it."
"How can you be back…no…I killed you…I drove you out…no…" Jamie murmured.
His eyes were glassy with tears and the sheer horror…at that second Jin's forehead split open…Jamie struggled, but realized he wasn't getting anywhere. Jamie was setting into pure panic and he needed to do something…like now!
Desperately, Jamie snorted, hawked back a nasty loogie and spit into Devil Jin's face. Jamie remembered when he was ten, and just learning how to skate, Justin had become a pro skater by that time, and he, Bam, and Tony Hawk were teaching him one afternoon, and one of the earlier lessons Jamie learned was how to spit.
If there's one thing a good boarder needs to learn how to do is to hawk a big one…
It worked, Jin was so stunned that he dropped Jamie, and he landed on his butt. The Nephilim wasn't out of the woods yet though…he crawled backwards, but couldn't find the strength to get back up. Finally, the guys came to help.
Hwoarang axe kicked Jin in the temple, while Dimitri and Kazuya bum rushed the demon off the roof.
"Always told Kazama he should jump off a building…and now that he's the big bad I get an excuse to not only watch him fall, but to push him off." Hwoarang murmured.
"We have to go…whenever I'm in this situation they always get back up." Dimitri murmured still clutching his wounded chest.
"Under extreme stress the gene comes out…he's powerful if he's half of mine…we need to leave now!" Kazuya advised.
"Two steps ahead of ya boss, let's get the hell out…c'mon Jamie!" Steve called.
They helped the Nephilim into the helicopter and as they flew away Jamie looked into the abyss of the alley below.
"Jin…I'll save you…I promise…" Jamie murmured.
He turned to the others and looked at them with a hard edge. "Mishima Zaibatsu." He stated simply.
"What?" Xiao asked struggling to wipe her tears.
"I'm sick of this. I'm sick of my friends in danger and I want to end it! Somehow, someway I know that the Zaibatsu is behind it and I am fucking sick of this wild goose chase! They want a war huh? Well I say that we give them one!"
Author's Note: 'kay, sorry this chappie was so short but I hope you enjoy it! Next stop, Mishima Zaibatsu but don't worry this story is not gonna end anytime soon! Let's just say that in the next couple of chappies we will meet some more Tekken Characters, see another OC, and the biggest baddest bad guy of them all! Oh, and please read and review because I love the assurance of my peers and I need it!