A/N: Heyaz! Its Thee Slushee back, yet again, for the 8th chapter! Awwww, thanks a heap xjmaster. I'll try not to let ya down. Thanks for the reviews everybody! Ok, so last we left off, Xiao's gonna try and save Devil Jin and Devil Asuka. Should be interesting eh? Like I've sed a million times before, I don't and never will own the Tekken series. If I did, I probably would've made the whole story revolve round Xiao. LOL Ahem, to the story!
Chapter 8: Narrow escape Part 2
Devil Jin, Devil Asuka and the man (I am sooooo tired of calling him "the man" but since they don't know who he is yet (and we all do) I'd jus hav to stick with it) were in the midst of their battle. Devil Asuka had just dealt a powerful roundhouse kick to the man and he went spinning through the air. Devil Jin spread his wings and flew up, laser beaming the downed opponent. Devil Asuka caught sight of Devil Jin and took flight, grabbing Devil Jin's arm and flinging him into the ground. Devil Jin snarled and flew back up to Devil Asuka, both of them engaging in their own battle. The man stood up and shot a fireball at the two. Both of them evaded it and started to attack the man once more. Xiaoyu watched them intently, trying to figure out what to do.
"Xiao, are you insane? You're going to get yourself killed!" Miharu protested against Xiaoyu's actions.
"I think it's safer to let the non-humans battle it out." Christie stated.
"There's no way mortals like us can do anything to stop them." Julia said.
"I've done it before and I can do it again." Xiaoyu said with pure determination. Everybody was confused at what she had said. Xiaoyu scanned her environment, searching for anything at all that can somehow distract them from their battle. Her eyes fell upon a garbage can lid on the ground. A small smirk landed on her face. She picked up the lid, ran towards them and when she was about a few meters away, she threw it at the man. It collided cleanly with his head. The monstrous man jerked his head towards the mortal who had thrown it at him...Xiaoyu. He started walking slowly towards her, each step he took making the concrete sink beneath his feet. Xiaoyu gulped, large amounts of fear swirling within her but no matter how much her brain told her to run like hell, she stood her ground bravely, staring at him with as much courage as she could muster. While the man walked towards Xiaoyu, Devil Jin and Devil Asuka were once again, absorbed in their own battle so they couldn't save her. Xiaoyu was extremely close to give up and run away when poles abouta meter in length, struck the bulky man. Xiaoyu snapped her head to the direction they came from and it was Christie, Julia and Miharu.
"Thanks so much you guys." Xiaoyu said, a thankful smile on her face.
"If you aren't getting out of here without saving them two," Christie said, pointing towards Devil Jin and Devil Asuka, "then we'd might as well help you." Julia finished.
A confident smile reached Xiaoyu's face. "Let's do this."
"Mortal style!" Miharu added.
Miharu picked up her pole and charged at him, screaming like Tarzan. She whipped her pole at the man's face, leaving her in her back stance. She jabbed her pole behind her on the place where she thought a man's weakness would lie. She turned around and he was wearing an evil smirk. "No…way…" Miharu said, surprised, taking a few steps back. He slashed at her pole, which got ripped out of her hands and got thrown onto the concrete. Christie unleashed a battle cry, similar to Xena's (You guys have heard of Xena warrior princess, right?) and jump kicked him in the head. He got pushed to the ground. Julia performed a high jump on the downed body but instead, her feet landed in the chest mouth. Julia gasped and immediately flipped out, the jaw closing a split second later. From her knee down, Julia was covered with an unusual sticky substance.
"That is so gross!" Miharu squealed.
"Ewww, this is so disgusting." Julia complained.
"Poor Jules." Christie said sympathetically.
Xiaoyu started to concentrate on Devil Asuka and Devil Jin, since the others were taking care of the other man. Devil Jin and Devil Asuka were just having an air battle. Each of them were throwing punches and kicks, evading and adding a laser beam here and there. Ok, how am I supposed to help them when they're flying 3 meters above me? Xiaoyu asked herself. Devil Asuka got thrown onto the ground. She was starting to stand up when Devil Jin unleashed a laser beam at her. Xiaoyu reacted and instantly pushed Devil Asuka out of the way. Devil Asuka immediately laser beamed Xiaoyu while she was getting up. Xiaoyu jumped out of the way but part of the laser beam burned her shoulder. Xiaoyu yelped, tears forming in her eyes. She clasped her shoulder and stood up, Devil Asuka also standing up, eying her with complete hatred. Devil Jin also caught sight of her and flew towards her with incredible speed. He tackled her to the ground and was about to use one of his steel claws to slash her neck. Xiaoyu closed her eyes tightly, fearing this was the end. Nothing came(Always love saving Xiao in the nick of time). Xiaoyu opened her eyes slightly to see Jin's fist slowly unclenching and turning back to normal, his horns retreating, his wings retracting and his eyes turn brown again but his markings remained. He immediately fell back on the ground. Xiaoyu stood up and tried to shake him awake.
"Come on, Jin. Wake up. Please, wake up!" Xiaoyu said desperately, shaking him. At that moment, Devil Asuka touched down on the ground, hand planted on the ground and wings out stretched. She regained her composure, her wings folding up and staring blankly at Xiaoyu. Xiaoyu laid Jin back down on the ground and stood up, not breaking eye contact with Devil Asuka and ignoring her little wound from the laser beam. Asuka unleashed a laser beam and Xiaoyu had ducked this one. The laser beam elevated, like last time, until she was looking straight up but then it ceased. Devil Asuka started to wave around dizzily, everything turning back to normal and she slumped on the ground. The man saw that both of the devils had returned to their normal forms so when Julia prepared to kick him, he grabbed her leg and flipped her over. Miharu and Christie went into attack but he easily deflected them, both of them landing on the ground harshly. He completely ignored Xiaoyu as he went to the two unconscious figures. Xiaoyu knew that she couldn't do anything at this point. He's really determined to…kill them…if I try anything, it'll just end up like the other's attempts. The monstrous man was within 10 meters of them when suddenly, the rising buzz of an engine was heard.
"INCOMING!" A familiar voice was heard.
"CHIRANIMOHHHHHH!" Yet another familiar voice was heard.
Everybody snapped their heads to where the voices came from. In the air, Steve and Hwoarang were on motorcycles, heading towards the man from behind. Steve and Hwoarang jumped off the bikes and went rolling across the ground. The man turned around and slashed at the motorcycles. An explosion had ensued. "Everybody out!" Steve yelled. Julia, Christie and Miharu quickly complied and started running in the direction they had came from. Xiaoyu wasn't easily swayed. "What about Jin and Asuka?" Xiaoyu asked. "I've got Asuka." Hwoarang said, an unconscious Asuka in his arms.
"I didn't see Kazama anywhere."
"We have to go look." Xiaoyu said desperately, about to run in when Steve grabbed her arm.
"It's too dangerous, Xiao. We have to go…even if we have to drag you." Steve said seriously and it didn't seem like he was joking about the dragging thing.
Without warning, Xiaoyu broke free from Steve's grasp and tried to rush off towards the explosion area to find Jin but Steve's lightning fast reflexes caught her before she went too far.
"You leave me no choice, Xiao."
And, being true to his word, Steve started to drag Xiaoyu away from the area, Xiaoyu fighting to break free from his vice-like grip but to no avail. Xiaoyu felt a crushing guilt, as they were lead away from the area. I hope your still alive, Jin…
"I would've never imagined Hwoarang would give up his bike to save us." Julia said when they were safely out of the area.
"Dude, that wasn't my bike. We 'borrowed' a couple from the parking lot. I would never give up my baby and you guys know that." Hwoarang said.
"I should've known." Miharu stated, laughing a little.
A/N: Wooooh, another chappie done. I liked how this chappie turned out and I hope youguys did too.Well, I was having a brainstorm on how Hwoarang and Steve could get them out of there until I thought of something in Crimson Destiny. It was when Dimitri was on his motorcycle; he got off it and shot it with a gun, making an explosion (early in the story). I kinda based this on that. Thanks heaps for that MoonTeARZ! Even though you didn't really intend on it being inspiration to my story :P Anyways, read and review!