Orb of One

Author's Note: Alrighty then! I forgot what chapter I'm officially on, so I'm just going to let the computer do it for me…and now, I'm sure you've been waiting for Devil Jin to make his appearance…and, whatever happened to Vampire Jamie? Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about them! And seeing as how Jinpachi is supposed to be this big huge…malevolent presence in the game…I'm not exactly including him until the end.

Jamie awoke once again into an unfamiliar surrounding…and…he was…chained to the bed.

"…wait…what…" The Nephilim asked blearily as he tugged on the chains.

He looked around and found himself in a dimly lit bedroom…the only illumination came from the candles placed in corners of the room. At first he thought that he might have been kidnapped…and that he was about to be tortured by his sadist, vampiric double…instead he found Mina, Dimitri, and Kazuya standing over his bed.

"You're finally awake." Dimitri said tiredly.

"We didn't know how long you'd be out…you…you scared us Jamie." Mina said, blinking back tears.

Kazuya, as usual, stated the obvious. "We chained you up because you were going crazy, speaking in tongues, and screaming the name Toshio."

"Toshio…" Jamie murmured.

"I don't like this anymore Jamie…we don't know anything about these Chakra Orbs except they cause people to go into uber epileptic seizures." Mina said.

"We think that the whole inner peace issue that the Orbs are supposed to offer isn't actually the case." Dimitri added.

"Do you remember anything?" Kazuya asked.

"I…I saw…Japan…back towards the end of World War II…and…and…I saw," Jamie looked at Kazuya. "I saw Jinpachi…I've never really seen him before…but I knew it was him…and he was with this guy, who looked like he was my age…his name was Toshio…and it looked like he was,"

"Jinpachi's personal bodyguard." Kazuya interrupted.

"Yeah," Jamie nodded. "He was a Nephilim…and he was collecting the Chakra Orbs for Jinpachi…but, Jinpachi wouldn't tell him why…"

"Well, there was an accident in the labs…it changed my grandfather…and he killed everyone in the labs with him, and Toshio was with him…my father managed to subdue Jinpachi…but no one really knows what had happened down there."

"Y'know…there's an ancient Egyptian text that pre dates the age of pharaohs…back when the kingdom was divided…it said that the Chakra Orbs were gifts from the "gods of the stars…and that the "Orbs of Seven could meld into an Orb of one…an object so powerful that it could turn day to night, power to weakness…and good to evil…" Dimitri quoted.

"So why would people lie and say that it gave inner peace?" Mina queried.

"Inner peace covers a lot of bases Mina," Kazuya began. "Everyone has their own version of enlightenment…to some, it's to be powerful, to others it's to be rich…I think inner peace was just some kind of ancient 'blanket statement'."

"But Hwoarang told me that Buddha used them…it's been documented that he had…" Jamie thought aloud.

Dimitri shrugged. "He could've…maybe that's one of the ways he got enlightened…who knows?"

"The others are still researching in the library…" Kazuya said.

"Yeah…I'd like to join everyone but," Jamie gestured to the chains.

"Don't worry, they sent someone to get the keys…we'll meet you in the library."

Kazuya and Dimitri walked out…but Mina stayed.

"I got off the phone with Robbie and Maureen…" She began.

"Oh," Jamie replied. "How are they doing?"

"Okay…happy to hear y'know, that I'm not dead, and you're alive."

Jamie had no idea what else to say…after all, what else does one talk about when he's strapped to the bed? He looked down, and found himself wearing a pair of checkered, plaid , baggy shorts, and a white t-shirt with "Vote for Pedro!" Displayed on the chest.

"Justin sent you a care package and Xiao let me borrow some of her clothes since we're the same size…I dressed you, because everyone else was kind of busy relaying all the events and stuff."

Jamie blushed slightly at that revelation.

"Relax…it's nothing I haven't seen since…well…since the last time we…" Mina started nervously.

"Came across an apocalypse?" Jamie asked with a grin.

"Yeah…do you think it's going to be another apocalypse? Do you…do you think we're going to survive this?"

Jamie looked at her…she looked gorgeous in a form fitting black dress. The dress had tiny cherries all over it, and the straps tied around the back of her neck…it came down to about her knees, and she wore a pair of black flip flops.

She never looked better, and Jamie couldn't lie to her…he wanted desperately to believe that this wouldn't be hard…a walk in the park really…but nothing had told him during this journey that it would be that easy…a once very powerful ally was now possessed by Devil, and a vampiric double with more clout then the Nephilim himself was after him.

And, even if Jamie and the others managed to save Jin and kill the vampiric clone, they still had to stop Jinpachi Mishima…a man more powerful then God himself.

"There are all these bad guys coming at us from all sides…it's insane…I don't…I don't know…" Jamie sighed and shook his head.

"We'll find a way though Jamie…you'll do what has to be done…and you know that we'll always be backin' you all the way." Mina said with a smile.

"I know…and right now, that's all that's keeping me going."

Silence followed for a bit, finally Mina broke it.

"Do you remember when you left? And I told you that when you came back…" She began.

"Yeah, I remember." He responded.

"I guess you've earned it now…after all, you're saving the world, and you took out all those robots and stuff." She said with a smile.

"Well, I'm all tied up now so what else would we do?" Jamie asked with a grin.

She walked over to the bed and kissed him then…he kissed back, hungrily, passionately…with a sense of urgency…he needed this, after everything that had happened lately he needed this moment of intimacy.

And then the door opened.

"Oh my God," The male voice exclaimed.

Quickly, Mina rolled off of Jamie and the two stared at the visitor. It was one of the "Successors" a term used for the young men who weren't officially Nephilim, but could very well become one if Jamie were to meet a discernable end. The Nephilim gene made itself known to many young men…but whether it would kick in or not was an entirely different matter…scientifically, the Nephilim trait was a dominant/recessive one.

Like eye, and hair color, it was a gene…just a rare one. Whenever a Nephilim is activated, the gene changes from a recessive to a dominant…but for the Successors, the gene doesn't make an appearance until a young man's fifteenth birthday, and if they're not called by the time they reach the age of twenty, the gene becomes so recessive that it eventually vanishes.

Successors do not have Nephilim powers per se…they are trained, but can never be as powerful as a full Nephilim. They rarely get sick (which was true to Jamie…before becoming a Nephilim he almost always had perfect attendance at school), but that doesn't hold a candle to rapid healing.

This particular Successor was one that went to high school with Jamie and Mina…and Jamie had known him since he was in fourth grade…and he had made the Nephilim's life miserable since before he became the Chosen One.

His name was Chris Patterson…the most popular guy at Jamie's high school…captain of the basketball team, all the girls loved him for his rich background and Abercrombie and Fitch good looks…Jamie hadn't seen him since leaving for college…Jamie thought that Chris went to SMU or something.

"I heard that you were having some weird trance thing and that they had to tie you down…so I came over here to get you out…and now I see you two bonin' and-" Chris tended to ramble.

"Chris? Could you do what you came to do please?" Jamie asked irritably.

"Oh alright," Chris unlocked the chains. "But I swear, this whole successor thing is so unfair…I mean, it's bad enough that they dragged me here on my summer break, but me and Devon are the oldest here and-"

"Wait…Devon's here too?" Mina asked.

Devon was another former classmate…he was the popular musician….guitar and lead vocals to be precise…he was always nice to Jamie, and his band always seemed to be about six months away from getting famous.

"Yeah," Chris sweapt back his shwoopy, brown, Bon Jovi hair in a practiced way that melted many a girl's heart. "They want to run some tests to see if the gene is still inside us…or something…anyway, they're waiting for you in the library."

"Uh…thanks…" Jamie said.

The three walked down the halls and into the library…inside, Julia, Hwoarang, Xiaoyu, Kazuya, Steve, Christie, Asuka, and Dimitri were waiting with a few priests. Stacks of books were all over the oak desk.

"Mr. Parker, we have some information regarding Toshio and-"

Suddenly, a low, wet smacking sound hit the glass window. Xiao gasped and everyone turned to the window. To Jamie, it sounded sort of like a spit ball…but when they looked at the window, they saw a smear of blood…and…a severed…head sliding wetly down the pane…Jamie looked out the window to see a raven haired, young vampire…with about twenty others of his kind walking up the promenade…he looked up at Jamie, smiled, and winked…and in that moment, the power cut.

Author's Note: Please read and review! Much love to everyone!