The Demons Within
"Jin!!!" Xiaoyu shrieked as she heard Jin fall to the floor with a thud. She fell to her knees and touched the ground looking for his fallen body. She felt something warm and cradled the body in her arms, tears running down her cheeks, almost too terrified to move.
The figure up ahead, eyes brightly glowing an eerie crimson stepped slowly towards Xiaoyu.
"Stop! Don't get any closer!" Xiaoyu yelled, clutching Jin's body tighter.
The figure stopped about five feet in front of Xiaoyu. With a loud scream, she flung herself towards Xiaoyu.
Xiaoyu never felt the slam of a body against her, but instead found herself being pushed away and hitting the ground. She no longer felt Jin's body in her arms.
She looked up and saw the silhouette of a figure standing in front of her, the back facing Xiaoyu. She quietly leaned over to take a look at the standing figure and noticed eyes glowing blood red, with the light that illuminated from the eyes, she noticed strange markings on the figures face.
Her attacker snarled and leaped towards the other but was knocked into the wall of the cave, flying five feet backwards with a surprised yell.
The silhouette took big steps toward the fallen body and grabbed the enemy by the hair, yanking roughly.
All Xiaoyu could do was watch. She held her breath and tried not to whimper as she winced at the sound of crashing, banging and screeching.
She slowly stood up and leaned against the wall, every few seconds taking a step towards the fighting figures.
The crimson-eyed woman swung angrily and managed to hit her opponent square in the stomach. He let out small 'oof' but regained his fighting stance.
The two of them managed to violently fight their way more than halfway out of the cave, Xiaoyu quietly following along, unnoticed.
Soon, the light from the outside began to shine on the faces of the two mysterious opponents. But what Xiaoyu saw was nothing compared to human.
"Ugh," Hwoarang groaned, clutching his side. "What the...?"
He found himself alone inside the cave, head throbbing and his side feeling as if it were going to burst. The last thing he remembered was being knocked to the ground by something he couldn't see. All he saw were a pair of blood red glowing eyes, glowering at him before he blacked out.
He brushed himself off and stood up slowly, unaware of what was going on until he heard something being thrown against the wall. Some rocks and dirt clattered on the floor from the impact.
He took off on a run, after realizing that the banging against the wall became constant. "Julia!"
Hwoarang kept running and began to see the light from the opening of the cave. But what was before his eyes, Hwoarang could hardly believe.
There Julia was, on top of a man with torn clothing, clawing at his face as the man tried to fight him off her. But something was wrong with the two of them.
They hardly looked human anymore.
"Julia! Stop!" Hwoarang ran forward and grabbed Julia by the arm. "Ugh!" he was knocked to the floor by Julia's free arm as she slashed him away.
He got up quickly and tried to grab Julia's waist but the thrashing man accidentally kicked him in the shin painfully. His knee throbbed as he bit his lip, trying to hold his balance.
"Julia, what the hell is wrong with you?!" Hwoarang took a firm hold on Julia's waist and managed to wrench her off of the man. She squirmed and shrieked but was unable to break out of his tight grip.
All of a sudden, the man on the floor stood up in a flash, glaring at Hwoarang with his glowing eyes. But even through the strange markings that covered around his face, Hwoarang immediately recognized the man.
"Kazama!"
"Kazama! What the hell are you doing here?!" Hwoarang yelled out of surprise and shock as he fought to keep a hold of Julia.
Jin did not answer but took a fighting stance, appearing to challenge Hwoarang.
"Oh, so you wanna fight, eh?" Hwoarang's old self kicking in. He shook out of it and for once, appeared to be thinking logically. "No, not now. Look at Julia."
Julia turned her head around and bit Hwoarang painfully on the shoulder. Out of shock, Hwoarang's hands let go of Julia and tried to pry her off of him. As soon as his hands went away from her waist, she took off into a run and stopped when she was ten feet away from the both of them.
Her face held anger, but Hwoarang was able to read panic in her eyes. He was about to go after her but was knocked to the ground after a rush of footsteps came forward and he found himself with Jin on top of him about to pummel his face in.
"Get the hell of me, Kazama! I don't want to deal with you right now!" Hwoarang yelled, kicking from under him.
Jin lowered his fist but grinned evilly, gazing into Hwoarang's eyes.
Hwoarang stared back at him, anger burning in his eyes. His hands were splayed at his sides, but as he distracted Jin, he grabbed a hand full of sand and with one quick toss out of desperation; he threw the sand into Jin's eyes.
Jin howled and staggered backward, rubbing at his eyes. Hwoarang was tempted to kick the crap out of Jin but remembered Julia, who was still watching tensively.
Usually Hwoarang would never run away from an opportunity like this but he decided that Julia was more important than some repetitive battle. He would continue this later.
While Jin was still distracted trying to clear his eyes, Hwoarang leaped to where Julia was watching and did the first thing that came to mind.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and used one hand to push on a pressure point on the back of her neck roughly as she tried to kick at him. Suddenly, her eyes glazed over, her knees buckled and she fell lifelessly in Hwoarang's arms.
Xiaoyu who was watching all of this could not hold in her anger anymore in seeing everyone fighting so viciously like that, broke into a run and grabbed Jin by the waist.
"Stop! No more!" Xiaoyu cried nails digging into his sides. Jin turned his head around and glared into her tear-filled eyes.
Xiaoyu knew what she was doing was foolish but she held on anyway. To her surprise, Jin did not push her away. Instead, he put his hand on top of her hand and held it there.
"Jin, I was so worried. I almost thought that you turned into some weird..." Xiaoyu sighed as she felt the warmth of Jin's back.
Jin, with one quick swift move, grabbed both of her arms and slammed her into the ground but cradled her head as if he wanted to protect it.
Xiaoyu, already confused, looked up at the sky, shocked that Jin had actually done that to her. But soon the view of the sky was replaced with Jin kneeling over her with a sadistic grin on his face.
"What are you doing?!" Xiaoyu screamed, trying to scramble up. Jin placed his knee on her stomach, holding her down. And then he did the unthinkable.
He wrapped his hands around Xiaoyu's neck and began to squeeze.
TBC
A/N: Bwahahaha I finally updated...took me this long but I finally did. Well, details, details, details...the obvious question...what is going to happen to Xiaoyu and demonic Jin? Will Julia ever wake up and if she does, will she ever be normal? Find out next chapter!