Chapter 6: A Shocking Betrayal

A dark and starry night offered it's beauty to King. It was almost as if it was doing it's best to comfort him. Comfort was exactly what he needed. "Oh Armor King, I hope that I won't fail you." Just as he said this, Craig Marduk opened his hotel window and began to light a cigarette. At the same time, Starcain was watching from a nearby bush. In his hand was a large shotgun. He used the gun to target Marduk.

No harm was going to come to King. As King continued sitting on the wooden bench of which he'd made himself comfortable, a lit cigarette landed on his head. "Agh! What the hell!" He yelled as he threw the cigarette away from him. Immediately, he glanced up to see Marduk above hanging halfway out of his window. "Mister King! Just wanted to show you my gratitude for freeing me from jail." King growled with anger before saying "Gratitude, huh! You don't have a strand of decency in that mammoth body of yours!"

After a laugh, Marduk replied "Don't worry, you'll join your idol Armor King soon enough." King angrily replied "He was my FATHER!" Apparently, Marduk showed no sign of regret as he said "Yeah, well whoever he was, you'll be just as useless as he was!" King growled with his usual jaguar-like roar before he stood up. Marduk leaned forward more as he appeared to want to fight. Starcain determined that this was going to far, so without any warning, he shot a bullet towards Marduk. It hit the wall next to him, causing him both King and himself to gasp. "What the hell is goin' on!" Marduk cried as he jumped back inside and shut his window.

King looked around fearfully, hoping that he wasn't going to get hit. He was alert, using his heightened senses to sniff out the sniper. Starcain quietly snuck away while King searched eagerly. Starcain felt bad for King. Before he took the assignment from Peter, he did a background check on King, and he determined that he was an overall nice guy. It wasn't fair what happened to him and Starcain knew it. Marduk was just a lowlife jerk, consumed with rage. On the other hand, King was leaning towards the same view. He was bent on revenge. "Ah, who am I to talk." Starcain said to himself. MANY events in his life dealt with him getting revenge against those who opposed him.

Suddenly, he felt his cell phone vibrating in his back pocket. After ducking into the shadows, he flipped opened the cell and read who the caller was. "Peter? What now?"

In a few minutes, Starcain met Peter on the roof of the Training Area. Peter simply stared into the black of the night as Starcain approached. "Peter? I got your call. Is everything alright?" As Peter slowly turned around, Starcain froze up in shock. Peter's eyes were glowing red as he smiled and replied "Oh, everything is quite fine with me. Don't know if you'll be able to say the same." Peter ran towards Starcain and flipped into the air. Starcain barely dodged to his side as Peter's right leg came crashing down towards his face.

Starcain grabbed his shotgun and aimed at Peter's head. Just as the loud "blam!" noise rang through the air, Peter bent down and sweep kicked Starcain so that he landed on his back. "Peter! What are you doing!" Starcain yelled as he stood up. With a second thought, Starcain refrained from blasting Peter's brains out. He lowered the shotgun which he was holding and stood in his 'Jaded Pride' fighting stance. At first, he thought that this Peter was an imposter, but now he realized that this was really him. No matter how angry he felt, he couldn't kill his friend and put King deeper into depression. Peter apparently lacked Starcain's rare merciful attitude. He reached behind Starcain's back and unsheathed the sword which he always carried. "Razi!" He cried out as he attempted to re-take his prized possession.

Suddenly, Starcain felt his struggle end as he looked down to his stomach. Peter was smiling at him as he held Razi. As drops of blood fell to the ground, Starcain dropped to his knees, for he was impaled with his own sword. Peter smiled at Starcain and said "Your father put up a better fight than you. He died this same exact way as well. How tragic." With that said, Peter left Starcain to die on the dark rooftop.

Peter made his way downstairs, passing several of the other fighters on the way. They all yelled out in shock upon seeing Peter's eyes. Bryan Fury laughed and stood in front of Peter. "You look like you could put up a good fight." Peter looked up into Bryan's eyes and said "Can you?". With that, he threw Bryan feet away and through a nearby glass door. Julia saw this and ran to help. As she grabbed on to Peter's shoulders and asked him what was going on, he continued to walk and ignore her.

"Peter, it's happening again isn't it?" Peter kept walking and Julia said "Peter, I don't want to hurt you. Stop now." Her warning went unheeded. She put herself in front of Peter and stopped him from continuing. "I said STOP damn it!" Peter stared down into Julia's eyes and without warning, slapped her out of his path. Julia hit the floor and rolled up into her fighting stance. Peter suddenly noticed her. "So YOU are the one who used the pendant. I will have mercy on you." Julia charged at Peter and jumped into the air, kicking him in the face with her left leg, then her right. Peter staggered backwards, but caught Julia's next kick. With a short smile, Peter tossed Julia backwards, causing her to land into her friend named Christie Monteiro.

Peter laughed as everybody backed away. Christie yelled to him "Hey! Rat bastard! What's your freaking problem!" She quickly quieted as soon as she saw Peter's glowing red eyes glaring at her. "Call me…Ogre!" With that, Peter turned around and stepped over Bryan Fury's body. He walked briskly before bumping into King. "You…get out of my way. Now!" King looked confused and said "Peter, what's wrong?" Peter didn't answer, he just pushed King out of his way and said "I'm off to get revenge against that Jin Kazama. He who killed me, will suffer greatly."

King ran after Peter and grabbed him around his waist, holding his arms as well. "Peter! Stop now!" Peter surprisingly burst out of King's grasp and said "If you want to die too, then it will be my pleasure." With that, he ran at King and kicked him in the side, where his injury was. King fell to the ground, but quickly stood back up. As Peter punched at him, King grabbed his arm and pulled him closer, then jumping up and wrapping his legs around it. Peter fell to his back as King used a painful Arm Bar. Amazingly, Peter rolled up and kicked King in the face. "Leave me alone if you want to live!"

Suddenly, Peter's eyes returned to brown. "King, stay away! He might-" Then they returned to red. King backed away and watched Peter glare him down. He obviously lost interest, for he turned around and walked off into the night. Julia and Christie appeared next to King. "Where did he go!" Julia cried while Christie helped her stand. King replied "I'm not sure. What's going on!" Julia looked to the ground and said "It's a side effect of the pendant…"

Elsewhere, Jin falls to the floor. "What is it that you want!" It is then that he realized that Peter was not himself. "Yes Jin, Peter is not here. I am Ogre and I have been reborn through this body so that I may exact my revenge upon you!" Peter raised his fist into the air but suddenly, a hand held it back. Peter spun around to see Starcain pointing a gun in his face. "Go back to where you came from Ogre."

Blam!

Peter fell to the ground. Starcain departed just as Jin saw Starcain leave. King, Julia, and Christie then arrived. "Oh God! Peter!" cried King and Julia as they ran over and grabbed hold of Peter's now lifeless body.