Sorry for the long wait for updates guys! I got alot of things going on right now, with school and working, and coming up with ideas for my other stories...I'm trying the best that I can lol. But, for missed time, I'll go ahead and give you guys the next two chapters! Working on Chapter Six right now. Enjoy! :)

Chapter Four

Later on that day was the first rounds of the King of Iron Fist tournament. On her way to the building were the rounds would be held, Teal had secretly hoped that her name wouldn't be on the list to fight first. When she got there, sure enough, her name was on the list. She groaned internally and looked over at Lili, who was looking at the board to see if her name was up there.

"Yes! I'm fighting today." Lili said excitedly, but looked at Teal and said. "Your name on there?"

"Yeah, unfortunately." Teal said.

"Unfortunately? What do you mean? Don't you want to be in this tournament?" Lili said.

"Uh, yeah, I do." Teal lied. "I'm just kinda tired, thats all."

"Well, I'm gotta go get ready. It looks like I'm fighting someone named Steve Fox...see ya, good luck." Lili said, walking off.

"Likewise." Teal said.

She looked at the board again to see who her opponent was. Leo Kliesen? she thought. Hm, never heard of him. She looked to see where the match would be held at, which was on the top floor of the building. After taking the elevator to the floor, she walked into a big, studio-type room. The room was bare, almost empty if you didn't count the random chairs that were sprawled around it. Teal put her bag on the other side of the room, careful that it would be out of sight of the fight. Her cell phone was in there, and that was like her entire life.

"Are you my opponent?" A voice said.

Teal was getting really sick and tired of people approaching her when her back was turned. She turned around and seen someone standing there, and assumed it was Leo.

"Yeah." Teal said.

Leo laughed and shook her head. "You? Oh man, this should be easy."

"Excuse me?" Teal said, then remember what Lili had told her earlier.

"Don't judge a book by it's cover, Teal. I can kick some major butt."

"I hope you really don't think that, bro." Teal said.

"Bro?!" Leo said. "I'm not a boy!"

Teal was taken back by what Leo had said for a second, but then she smirked. "Could've fooled me." She said.

"Ugh, I'll make you pay for saying that." Leo said angrily. "Come on!"

Teal smiled again and said, "Alright, you asked for it."

They both began circling around each other, and Leo striked first. Teal easily dodged her hit, with her own hit connecting with Leo's face. Leo stumbled backwards and shook her head quickly, striking at Teal again, this time her hit connecting. Teal fell on her stomach, and looked up. Damn, she's stronger than I thought, Teal thought as Leo began laughing.

"That's all you got?" She spat.

"Not even close." Teal said.

Teal jumped up again and swung at her again, and again, and again. All of her hits were connecting, when she suddenly kicked Leo, causing her to fly back onto one of the chairs. The chair broke as she fell onto it, causing her to fall to the ground. Leo stood up slowly, and began limping back over to Teal, who was still in her fighting stance.

"This..isn't... over yet." Leo said. "I'm not... done with you."

"Yeah? Well I'm done with you." Teal said.

Teal jumped up and placed her hands on Leo's shoulders, using all of her strength and throw her back across the room. Leo crashed against the wall, slumping back on the ground. When she didn't get up anymore, Teal had knew that the match was over. She smiled and walked out of the room, grabbing her bag on her way out. She could've been a bitch, and starting talking shit to Leo as she laid on the floor, knocked out, but that was totally out of Teal's character. She made her way back downstairs and had seen that the tournament board had changed, showing that she had beaten Leo, advancing her to the next round. She also looked on the board and seen that Lili had beaten her opponent. The elevator door had opened again and Lili walked out, fixing her gloves on her hands.

"Hey!" She said. "Did you win?"

"Yeah. You know Leo Kliesen?" Teal said.

"Unfortunately." Lili said. "Why? That was your opponent?"

"Yup. She's a tough one...and why didn't nobody tell me she wasn't a boy?"

"Uh oh." Lili gasped, then laughed. "You called her a boy to her face?"

"I didn't know! She got pretty upset." Teal said, then laughed also.

Just then, a woman walked up to the both of them, causing them to stop talking. She was beautiful, and very exotic, and didn't looked about a year or two than Teal. Granted, her outfit wasn't something that Teal would pick out first, but she was still very pretty.

"Hey, you guys are in the tournament too, right?" She asked.

"Yeah." Teal and Lili said.

"Great!" The woman said, smiling. "I'm Christie. I don't really know my way around this side of the world, maybe you guys can help me?"

"Teal's your girl." Lili said, pointing to Teal. "She knows Japan like the back of her hand."

"You do?" Christie asked.

"Uh, yeah I guess you can say that. I'm from Tokyo." Teal said.

"Yeah yeah. Can we go eat dinner or something? All of that fighting has got me parched." Lili said.

"Parched?" Christie said, looking at Teal for an answer.

Teal shrugged and they all laughed, and left the building. They had found a little restaurant not too far away from the hotel and decided to eat dinner there.

"So, Christie." Lili started, once they had all gotten their dinner. "Where are you from?"

"Brazil." Christie said.

"Really? I've always wanted to go there." Teal said. "My grandmother lives there."

"It's beautiful, but too damn quiet. I've lived there my whole life, but I've always loved the city. Brazil is too country-side for me."

"Trust me Christie, you don't want to live in the city." Teal joked.

"I didn't live directly in the city, but one of my daddy's corp buildings were there." Lili said. "Whenever I went there, I hated it."

"Whoa, I never said it was bad." Teal said. "Some people just aren't city material."

"Agreed." Christie said. "Have you lived in Japan your whole life, Teal?"

"Yeah, but I've been outside of the country before. My dad is a US Army Ranger...was a US Army Ranger."

"What happened to him?" Lili asked.

"He was killed on the field three years ago." Teal said lowly.

"Aw." Christie and Lili said. "I'm so sorry to hear that."

"Yeah, it's okay. I know he's in a better place." Teal said.

Her phone began vibrating, and Teal took it out of her bag. It was a text message from an unknown number.

Stop playing around and get your ass back to the hotel. I have an assignment for you. -H

She rolled her eyes and put the phone back in her bag. Bitch, I can't have any fun? She thought as she continued to talk to Lili and Christie, and eat her dinner. When she got back to the hotel, she had to go straight to her room. Her phone started ringing again, she and picked it up. Helena's face suddenly appeared across the screen, meaning that it was a video call.

"Heard you beat your first opponent today." Helena said, smiling. "Congratulations are in order, but don't get too comfortable. Your opponents get harder and harder as you advance more rounds."

"Yeah, well, I'll be ready for anybody who comes at me." Teal said.

"Good, good. I knew we picked the right person for this. Speaking of assignments, I have a quick one for you to do." Helena said.

"What is it?"

"Open your laptop, I need for you to see something."

Teal walked over to the laptop that JCo provided her and opened it. After she signed on, a bunch of files began popping up on the screen. The last things to pop up were pictures of two girls.

Helena continued, "Those girls there are Nina and Anna Williams. They're blood-related sisters, and boy do they hate each other. Nina is Jin's bodyguard over at the Zaibatsu, and Anna is Kazuya Mishima's over at G Corp. These girls are naturally put against each other every time, but they are regular participants in the tournament, so don't be surprised if you have to fight one, or both of them at one point. Although they hate each others guts, they have both been summoned by their respective bosses to have a sit-down, and talk about the two companies future plans."

"So where do I come into this situation?" Teal said.

"Do you feel like clubbing tonight?" Helena said.

"Huh?"

"The sit down will be happening in the VIP area of Club Echo there in Okinawa. You are to go there, and see what you can pick up from their meeting."

"So you basically want me to be nosy."

"You can say that. At least you'll be being nosy for a reason. Be at Echo at least by midnight. You're 18, so they should let you in with no problem. The area will be heavily guarded, so please try and act like a regular party-goer."

"Fine."

Teal was getting ready to hang up, but Helena had one more thing to say.

"Oh, and one more thing. Both of these ladies are trained, cold-blooded assassins, so they will have no problem killing you on the spot, if they find out that you are spying on them. Be careful. This whole thing would be a waste if you were to get killed now."

Helena ended the video call, and Teal threw her phone back on the bed. Any other time, she would be ready to go to the club in a heartbeat. But now she had to go and basically sit around. And there was a possibility that she could get killed? It was 9:30 now, which meant that she had about 2 and a half hours to rest up, and get herself ready. She searched through her suitcase to find something decent to wear, and decided to wear a pair of her micro-shorts, her favorite sequined raglan t-shirt, and her knee-high boots. Back at home, Xiaoyu and Miharu would make fun of her boots, and call them "stripper boots". Teal sighed when she thought about how much she was starting to miss her best friends, but they both understood why she had to leave. After taking out the rest of the things she was going to wear (her jewlery, fishnet stockings, eyeliner, etc), she jumped in the shower.

She was out of the shower, and changed into her club clothes. When it was on her, she took a quick look in the mirror, and smiled.

"If only I was going to the club for fun." She said to herself while she was shaking her head.

Teal went back into the bathroom to figure out what she was going to do with her hair. No matter how much she would straighten it, it would look really pretty, but it would be back to curly the day after. While she was growing up, her mother would always have her hair in ponytails, or just out and curly, because she didn't really know how to style that type of hair. She would get teased by a couple of people, but always ignored it. Jin had even teased her a couple of times, calling her "raion", (which is "lion" in Japanese), because of her wild hair. She decided to just wear her hair out, putting on one of her favorite headbands also. She put on her jewelry, her boots, and her eye make-up, and was ready to go. It was 11:30, and she finished right on time.

"Okay, let's get this over with." She said, grabbing her purse and walking out of the door.