Beyond the Kristallis
"Do you think that life on the other side of that wall will bring you happiness?"
Act III: The King of Iron Fist
September 14th, 2039 – 11:00p.m. - Tekken Bar-
Final Fantasy VII sound: Oppressed People
The cold wind against Jin's chest as sweat cascaded down his skin. Jin had entered a bar where he had taken a seat on one of the bar stools. The bartender looked at Jin as he asked him how long the tournament was being announced, "How's the Iron Fist action going?" The bartender looked at him, "Ahh to early to tell." The T.V. in the background went on talking about the current fighter Marshall Law who was deemed undefeated in the early rounds.
"How's my tab?" Jin had asked as he looked at the bartender. The bartender responded at Jin as he dried one of his glasses, "350! Tap out!" Jin looked at him and smiled as he pulled some global money out from his pocket showing the man the money, "How 'bout now?" The bartender looked at Jin and smiled taking the money, "Oooo, that's why you're my favorite customer!" Jin smiled as he got up from his seat, "Catch you later." Jin walked to the back of the bar where a black man was sitting with two women, "Hey!" Jin yelled out the man responded back, "Hey…" Jin looked at the man and the box that was in front of him, "You got anything interesting?" The man smiled back and responded, "Everything I got is interesting to somebody, and you know what I mean?"
Final Fantasy VII sound: Tifa's Theme
"How 'bout coffee, and one of those oranges…and a bar of chocolate," the man looked at Jin and smirked giving him his things and paying for them leaving the bar. The air outside was cold and Jin walked holding his backpack around his shoulder. Hearing the sirens of the police from far away life in the slums was getting worse for him and his mother. The evolution of new creatures was rising the fall of AVALANCHE. After the Ragnarok all became harsh the world as he knew was gone. During these times people could actually hear the cries of the planet. The pleas of its pain were a death march to the people's ears. The world was growing cold and without the High Summoner the people were losing hope. Jin entered his home where he and his mother live. Jin's mother was doing her meditation Jin leaned against the door smiling at his mother, "I remember those moves…" Jin's mother smiled as she stopped what she was doing, "You should…you were my best student…" Jin walked forward from where he was leaning, "I was your only student mom…" Jin replied softly. Jin's mother walked to her cabinet, "You hungry? I've been rationing protein squares." Jin smiled, "How 'bout an orange?" Jin's mother looked at him and laughed, "Very funny…" Jin's mother stopped as she saw him holding out an orange then giving her the little bag of coffee, "Coffee…this must have cost a fortune…" Jin smiled, "You've always talked about how your missing it so much…and I can afford it runs have been good."
Jin's mother looked at him annoyed, "Jin…running anti-Tekken corporate bans will get you killed!" Jin looked at her smiling as her playfully punched the air, "Or I can always enter Iron Fist make some real money, huh?" Jin's mother stopped him and told him, "You will have nothing to do with Tekken do you understand? I will not have you waste your talent…" Jin looked at her, "But it wouldn't be a waste it pays…and what difference does it makes? Who cares where the money comes from?" Jin's mother looked at her son as he walked, "I care!" Jin stopped and turned around as she yelled at him, "This is not what I trained you for!" Jin lashed back at her, "Then what the hell did you train me for?" Jin's mother walked up to her son, "Do you think that life beyond that wall will bring you happiness? Trust me it won't…" Jin walked away as he headed toward the door, "Oh here we go…" The mother grabbed Jin by the arm, "The world burned because people had to have more! Our leader had to have more as well as the resistance AVALANCHE! Their all gone because of their greed their so called 'cause of peace and hope' now look at the world now. They are gone because of the lust for power that they had. Our world could have been saved by them from the Ragnarok but it wasn't…"
Jin looked at his mother angry, "And this is better! Rationing protein squares is that what my father would have wanted for us? To stay in this dump all because of the mistake of what our leader did?" Jin's mother looked at him, "Don't!" Jin looked at her, "Why won't you ever talk about him?" she cut him off, "Your father is dead and that's all you need to know…" Jin walked to the door giving up, "You know what forget it I'm out of here…" Saying that Jin grabbed his bag as his mother warned him, "There's a curfew tonight there are Jacks everywhere!" Jin yelled out to her as he opened the door, "The Jacks are always everywhere!" Jin's mother looked at him before he left out into the streets, "I am telling you not to go!" Jin left slamming the door behind him as his mother was left there all alone.
Final Fantasy VII sound: Interrupted by Fireworks
September 14th, 2039 – 11:45 p.m. - Tekken Docks –
Rinoa arrived at the Tekken City docks with her only her bags and her dog Angelo. Angelo whimpered at Rinoa as she bent down to pet him, "It's okay sweetie we'll be fine I'm here to protect you as you are to me…So don't cry…" Rinoa began to walk to the slums of the city where the announcement of the tournament was being held. The people looked at Rinoa strangely as she walked through the street of the alley ways of the slums. Rinoa heard a big explosion nearby as she looked at the house that burnt down. A man was walking though the burnt down house looking through the rubble finding that his mother was dead. Rinoa hid behind a wall looking around the corner seeing him grab some thing out from a little box. Jin looked at his mother's thing with tears in his eyes for the Jacks were looking for him and they blew up the house for when she didn't tell who or where he was. Jin stood up with anger in his eyes. A girl with blonde hair came out of the corner hugging Jin as they both talked. Jin looked at the poster of Heihachi Mishima as he tore it off the wall. Rinoa could hear him yelling at the girl but nothing she couldn't interpret. Both Jin and the girl walked off in to the darkness of the alley leaving the burnt down house alone.
Parasite Eve sound: Theme of Aya
Rinoa came out from behind the corner and walked up to the burnt home searching the remains of the burnt building. Rinoa looked down onto the floor seeing a picture of a woman and a child. One of the pictures had a young man on it Rinoa picked it up seeing the picture and closely examining it. Rinoa's body soon went into shock feeling her body heat up again. The intense heat of her body began release white wings from her back. Rinoa grabbed her head in pain as her mitochondria from within her body began to get out of control from seeing the picture if Jin. Rinoa screamed in pain until the blonde girl came back hoping to salvage some of the things that were lost in the explosion. She saw Rinoa glow crimson red as electricity began to come out of her body then…it happened Rinoa's body let out a wave of heat in the process got the blonde girl caught on fire. The blonde girl named Kara screamed in pain as the flames consumed her whole. Kara felled down to the ground her meat burnt off her as her body remained on the floor motionless. Rinoa scooted to a corner of the building crying with tears in her eyes. Angelo came out from hiding coming up to Rinoa nudging at her leg as Rinoa hid her face in her legs as her arms held on to them. Rinoa cried hearing the sirens of the police drawing near. Rinoa looked up with tears in her eyes and grabbed her things running from the site with Angelo by her side.
12:25 a.m. – Bus to Iron Fist –
Final Fantasy VIII sound: Drifting
Jin won the wild card entry by defeating Marshall Law the road to the tournament was now beginning. All of the people hoped they knew that Jin would free them from the Zaibatsu's clutches. It was only a matter of time before the Zaibatsu fell. Jin leaned his head against the window of the bus that was heading for the tournament grounds. Feeling his loneliness slip in the death of his mother was playing in his head like a roll of film on repeat. The guilt never stopped the last thing he had even did with his mother was argue. The memories of seeing her in the window of the house where Jacks surrounded her right before the explosion pained him to have someone get close to him. For the fear of them dying if they get near him could happen. Jin's anger toward the Zaibatsu fueled even more with just thinking about his mother's death. The rain beat down on the window of the bus as it road through the storm that reflected from what Jin was feeling inside.
12:30 – Tekken Slums Alley –
Rinoa sat against the wall of the alley looking down upon the picture of Jin. Her eyes emotionless as the rain poured upon her head as it dripped down soaking her. Rinoa saw the pipes that ran into one of the buildings green sparks were flying out of it. The return of mako was here Rinoa crawled to the pipe as she looked upon the mako that flowed out of the pipe. Now that AVALANCHE was gone the return of mako was at hand once again soon the entire world will be using it. Rinoa knew the time for heroics was long gone her time as one of AVALANCHE's resistance members was over. The High Summoner had disappeared soon after AVALANCHE was destroyed. The leader of AVALANCHE Zak was dead all because of the infection of the malice of Ragnarok that infected the minds of her friends. All of her friends had turned against each other killing each other in the process. Only a few survived from the Ragnarok: Meku, the High Summoner, the Communicator, and herself. No one knew it the High Summoner was dead or alive so people lost hope. Rinoa saw an old poster of AVALANCHE it had the symbol of the Fenrir on it. Rinoa soon got up and headed toward the last bus for the tournament as she walked through the alleys with Angelo. Once they got on the last boarding bus to the tournament she looked back at the city once more and left off to the tournament…
