Chapter 16: Abandoned

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Xiao felt fear build up as he approached her; Devil Jin was relenting against Jin, stopping him from gaining control. Xiao felt her heartbeat quicken and her palms of her hands sweat. She slowly pulled out the dagger and kept it firm in her right hand, holding it up as defence in case he attacked her.
There was silence, no man spoke or moved. They just stared at Xiao and Devil Jin.
The beast and the young beauty stared straight at each other, he moved closer and closer to her until he was adjacent enough to hear her almost silent breathing. He reached out his clawed right hand and touched her cheek. She didn't flinch at his scorching touch much to his amusement; she was showing her fear of him.
He smiled, showing sharp fangs, his towering figure didn't scare her, but the fact he was completely evil forced fear into her guts. He bent down to her level and took the knife from her half frozen with fear and threw it aside. He kissed her on the lips, she couldn't stop herself from kissing him back, her thin arms reached around him and she pushed herself into his arms. His eyes twinkled and his giant black-feathered wings enclosed around her.
Without warning fangs silently emerged from his mouth and sank into her neck, she screamed loudly in pain as his fangs sand into her neck. She tried to pull away but his hold was too strong, already blood loss from the knife wound had caused a great deal of pain but his drinking of her blood made her so light headed she could barely stay awake.

She uttered Jin's name once and felt the fangs emerge from her neck; she closed her eyes and collapsed into his arms. He smiled at her surprisingly sweetly, and his wings began to outstretch, almost knocking some soldiers off the feet, Devil Jin held Xiao in his arms and flew off into the distance. The soldiers watched on in awe.

Heihachi slowly got up into a sitting position, his plans were almost complete.

"Soon Japan will be mine!" He hissed under his breath, rubbing his hand on his head. "All I need to do is get her out of the way, Kazuya and Jin won't see it coming. Jun Kazama Mishima will die along the way, and Auska won't dare to return to Japan."

When Xiao at last woke up she felt quite dizzy and felt pain all around her stomach. She looked around at her surroundings; it was just a bare cave. She tried to remember how she got here but every time she closed her eyes she felt a pounding headache swell in her head.
"Jin?" Her weak voice barely made a sound. She could feel liquid running down her neck, her hand absentmindedly reached up to wipe away what she thought was just some stray water, but when her hand wiped it off it felt much to warm and thick to be water. She stared hard at her hand; at first she could barely tell the colour of the liquid, it was too dark. Then as her eyes grew accustomed to the darkness she began to notice it had a red colour to it. "Blood?" She was confused, why was she bleeding from her neck, she hadn't been stabbed there.

She felt warmth surround her and embraced him. He kissed her sweetly on the lips, then without a word something sharp sunk into her neck, she felt fierce pain. She tried to pull away from him in dread and fear but his hold was much too strong for her, for once she was truly afraid. She began to feel light headed and slowly her eyes closed…

"NO!" She screamed, her eyes burst open with tears brimming in them, she felt he had some sort of evil in him but he couldn't be on of the blood drinkers. It was impossible; he was able to walk around in broad daylight without getting hurt from the light.

"Xiao?" A voice with clear uncertainty echoed in the cave.

She stood up suddenly and walked towards where she heard the voice coming from. She walked towards the back of the cave slowly, carefully watching where she stepped. "Jin!" She breathed a sigh of relief, he was standing up opposite from her. She smiled slowly and ran towards him, offering him a hug.

He shook his head and pushed her off him. "Go Xiao…leave." He begged, feeling evil enclose around him.

She whispered his name and stood still, staring at him, looking closely at his sate. His mouth was blooded up, his fingers were claws, and there were silver chains wrapped around one leg. His arms had the same sort of chains running along them and his bare chest had strange symbols on them. On the floor were black feathers, black feathers, and blood. Then she noticed the claw marks on his face. Blood slowly leaked out of them.

"Don't come any closer Xiao! Please." He took in a deep breath and steadied himself against the back wall of the cave.

"What happened?" She was still unaware of the details; only vague memories crossed her path.

He shuddered from the coldness. "I didn't mean to…to let it take control Xiao, I tried to stop it but. It wanted blood, I couldn't stop it from hurting you."

"What is it?"

"You've figured it out already Xiao, you know what it is."

"A vampire…" Xiao was confused. How could Jin have another side to him?

He nodded in shame and looked away from her hoping she would leave in case it came back.

"Is that why you did that?" She pointed to the claw marks on his face. "Because it hurt me?"

He looked at her, her petite frame yet determined look seemed almost a little warming to him. He wanted to draw her by his side and hug her, but he couldn't risk it. "Yes." He finally spoke after a silence between them both. He slid down to the floor, leaning against the cave wall with his head looking up at the rocky ceiling.

Xiao approached him slowly, this time she knew he couldn't back away from her any further; she ripped a part of her sleeve off with ease as the wet material had dried and seemed to have become weaker from the slight tares in it. She kneeled down in front of him and slowly with care she dabbed away the blood from his face, her fingers delicately touching his face to check for other wounds.

"It…it's a curse from my father, he made a pact with a devil vampire, in return his spawn and himself would have the gene of a vampire combined with a devil. He wanted revenge for what Heihachi had done to him."

She couldn't help not being surprised, ever since the incident when Kazuya had branded her with the royal imperial seal she could sense a strange evil mist surround his act.
"Isn't there a way to break the curse?" She asked. Her light dabs were taking off he blood leaving scars behind.

"No…" He stayed silent; deep in thought but then spoke gruffly. "Do you remember the day when you were captured, did you see a mark…a tattoo on my arm?"

She nodded. "It's the mark of the curse I guess."

Jin bowed his head shamefully. "I wish I never existed sometimes, even my sister has the gene."

"You have a sister?" Xiaoyu was shocked; she hadn't heard anything about Jin having a sister, about their being a princess of Japan.

"She deemed herself an outcast so she wouldn't have to have an arranged marriage. Kazuya was furious with her, so much so that he passed a law stating that if anyone other then royalty dare mention her name they would face the penalty of death."

"Bit severe isn't it?"

"Yes, but my father was so angry with her that he almost killed her himself, or at least that's what his vampire devil side tried to make him do."

"What is her name?"

"Auska…Auska Mishima, now though she calls herself Auska Kazama, still hates the Mishima name." Xiaoyu fell silent but noticed how his firsts clenched up in anger. "So do you."

He didn't reply but merely stood up, towering over Xiaoyu's sitting frame. "You should go…leave…"

"But Jin…"

"NOW!" He shouted, his voice showed pain and his hands were digging into his face again. He was in immense pain. "ITS COMING BACK…LEAVE NOW XIAOYU" His shouts echoed in the cave.

She stood up and backed away from him in awe. She stopped suddenly and watched as Jin slowly and painfully turned into the devil vampire. Black wings emerged from his back, his fingers earned sharp claws at the tips, horns of darkness appeared on his head and lastly peering out of his mouth were fangs, sharp and still covered in her own blood.
Without knowing what she was actually doing she approached him and called out his name loudly in a harmonious sounding voice. She reached out with her hands as if asking him to take her hand, he restrained his hand from touching hers and without warning he pushed her aside and ran to the edge of the cave, he looked back, his face showing the raging battle with the beast and the human self. Then he turned his face and sprang up from the ground, his large black wings covered the mouth of the cave, clouding Xiao into darkness but then as he took off into the sky, light descended back in. She merely stood all forlorn and alone. Her hand fell to her stomach and blood was still dripping out much to her alarm. She stumbled onto her knees in a spell of dizziness. She looked out at the mouth of the cave, knowing she had no choice but to force herself to walk to the nearest village, only she wasn't sure whether that village would be Japanese, or Chinese, both were equally dangerous for her, to the Japanese she was a prisoner and a slave and to the Chinese she was a traitor.
Her mind swayed to and fro inside until she decided to get some sleep on the cold and bare floor and to leave her fate to the people of the village she would go to, if she made it there alive.
The black feathers looked invitingly warm when she focused her eyes on them, she hoped they might give the same comfort as Jin when he sat beside her, but she remembered that the feathers were merely instruments of evil, she hadn't been tinged with evil yet and was determined to keep it that way.

Writer's Note:
I know I haven't posted in a while but sad to say I might not post for another week or so as I have an important exam coming up where I hope to study harder then I ever have before...but I will continue to check in and read some fanficts!