Chapter 3:

Heihachi appeared; carefully he picked up Jin's body, and stood at the very edge of the helicopter. He looked down into the volcano, and threw Jin's body into it.

"NOOOO!" screamed Ling furiously, she stood up quickly, even though she felt a bit dizzy and started to walk towards the edge of the helicopter. She couldn't see Jin's body. Panic had struck her heart, and was tearing at it!

"Time for you to join him Xiaoyu!" said Heihachi, pushing Ling out of the helicopter and into the fiery-pitted volcano.

Ling screamed in fear, the memory of the day Jin saved her life was thrown into her face. Where was her hero around when she desperately needed him?

Her yellow bow fluttered around her, and her thin silk red with yellow trim suit seemed to be fighting against an invisible enemy! One of her hair ribbons had slipped of her hair; it didn't fall as fast as her.

Meanwhile down below, Jin's body seemed to be glowing a furious dark red, shadowed wings began to sprout from his back, strange black symbols appeared upon his forehead. Eventually Jin's eyes opened, his eyes were black as the night sky. He looked down, towards the volcano, instead of panicking he found himself soaring upwards. As he flew, out of the corner of his eye he noticed a yellow hair ribbon. Swiftly and soundlessly he flew towards the ribbon, and caught it neatly. He had seen it before, the beautiful perfumed fragrance that concealed it smelt of flowers. It was familiar!

Meanwhile Ling was approaching the volcano at an amazing high speed, her breathing was difficult, now she also breathed in the poisonous gases of the volcano. "I wish Jin was with me…then I could bear this!" she said as tears rolled down her cheeks.

Only then did Devil Jin awaken. "This must be little Xiaoyu's ribbon…I have no time for little schoolgirls now though! Killing Heihachi is much more important!" he said, his voice full of hatred and revenge.

"She's important to me…to us! She saved my life…we owe her!" said a voice inside Devil Jin's head; the good and kind Jin inside tried to persuade the Devil Jin to change his mind.

"Why do you care about her so much? Its not as if you love her…or is it?" asked the Devil Jin.

"I…I…she's a good friend…and only that! We both owe her, you and I both know that!" Jin whispered fiercely.

"Very well then…I will save her weak and pathetic body from the volcano!" sighed the Devil Jin.

In due course he eventually reached Ling's body, she was only meters from the volcano, quickly he grabbed her inert body, she lay in his arms still unconscious.

"She has been breathing in the volcanic air…she needs medical help!"

"NO! I haven't time…we both want to kill Heihachi! I will drop her off at a safe distance, and then I'm going after Heihachi!"

Devil Jin simply looked at Ling's bandages. They were filling with blood, blood dripped from her chest onto his hands. He seemed unconcerned.

The Jin inside wanted to yell out loudly, Ling was hurt, and he could do nothing!

Ling's peaceful body was lain out on the sand, the water lapped at her shoes and seaweed entwined with her hair. The one remaining ribbon that was in her hair had faded, and lost its silky feel, along with it exquisite fragrance, which was replaced by the smell of ash.

Her eyes flickered open; she blinked several times to get rid of the sand. Her head felt dizzy, and was filled with headaches. Her whole body was full of aches and pains, carefully she inched herself up out of the sand and sat up, admiring the view she had.

The horizon was a reddish orange colour; the sun's bright rays warmed her immensely.

"Where am I?" she asked herself.

After Devil Jin had left Ling on the beech, he tried to chase after the helicopter, but the chase was lost even before it began.

"I'll get you Heihachi!" he yelled heatedly.

Neatly he landed on the grass and rested his back against a tree. Birds twittered, the sun shone brightly, the sky was cloudless and he hated it. After all he was Devil Jin, you can't expect him to have loved the beauty of nature!

Deep inside Devil Jin, the real Jin was worried for Ling's sake. She was in a bad state when he had left her.

When Ling finally got up, she wondered where her friend Panda was, the last place she had seen Panda was at the hotel's gym.

Flashback

They were sparring together, against each other, although Panda's attacks were quite powerful, she just wasn't as swift as Ling, so as usual Ling had won the battle.

Everyone that had been watching cheered seeing Ling victorious; the children stroked Panda and had little rides on her back.

However out of the corner of her eye Ling saw a familiar face.

He was wearing plain white pants, and had a black shirt on. He was pounding on a large punch bag in the corner. Already it looked like the stuffing had been knocked out by a whirlwind of attacks!

Ling quietly approached him from behind, hoping to give him the shock of his life. She didn't realise that he was already aware someone was behind him; he just didn't know who it was.

Ling was about to tap his shoulder when unexpectedly he turned around and flung her onto the ground with a furiously harmful force.

Ling spluttered and coughed from the attack.

"What do you want Ling?" he asked as he turned his back on her and continued with his punches.

Ling just looked at him angrily.

"You know…I wasn't going to attack you!" she said viciously. "So…I guess you and Julia are going out tonight…to the dance…"

Jin just continued hitting the punch bag. "Yes, I'm going out with her to the dance. What about you?" he asked, just about paying no attention to her.

Well…I…I'm not going!" she stated, biting at her lower lip. "I hope he buys that…I don't wanna seem like I'm made for him!"

Jin merely nodded his head and continued punching the large punch bag without a reply.

"I hope I haven't hurt he feelings…I know she loves me."

End Of Flashback

Ling collapsed as soon as she had walked a meter. She could smell something delicious, of course; it was food!

"There's people nearby!" she thought as she forced herself up again, this time she was able to go more then one meter without collapsing. Blood seemed to have started to pore out of her wounds. She felt incredible woozy, eventually after five meters she just collapsed. She could hear footsteps coming towards her, but she couldn't stay conscious any longer!

Eventually Jin realised that he had to find Julia's mother.

"If I don't find her now, she may die, and Julia would never forgive me!" he thought fearfully.

Writers End Note:

Ok, so nothing much happened here, but now you know that Jin goes back for Julia's mother, and don't worry, I will include that as a whole chapter, and also a few flashbacks.

Also Ling's role isn't going to be long, all I can say is that she isn't in bad shape…

Since I'm starting school now, I may take a few days to update the story, a week at the most!