Oh HEYY! Sorry for the delayed update, this past weekend was my cousins college Homecoming, and I was invited to go...so now that I'm nice and sobered up, let us continue with the story! I'm posting 12 and 13, mainly because 13 is short. Really short. I'm apologizing beforehand. Enjoy!

Chapter Twelve

The Next Morning

"You sure this is the place?"

"Positive, Teal. She should be here soon."

"What the hell is taking her so long? Maybe she knows.."

"Trust me, Kunimitsu never turns down an fight. And I told her it was for my pendant. She'll be here."

Teal was in a clearing in the woods with Julia, waiting for Kunimitsu to show. Julia had told Kunimitsu that she wanted to fight her, and that if she won, she would give her the pendant that was around her neck. Little did Kuni know, that it was actually a set up for Teal to get answers out of her. Teal hadn't planned on fighting her, just asking her what she knew about this so-called operation she was forced to be apart of. But if she had to beat the questions out of Kunimitsu, she would. The wind blew fiercely and the forest trees swayed, causing Julia to shudder.

"I wish she would hurry up, it's cold as hell." She murmured.

Someone suddenly jumped to the ground in front of her, and Julia sighed with relief. It was Kunimitsu, and she held her hands on her hips.

"So, you were serious about this challenge?" She asked.

"Of course." Julia shrugged. "But wait, I need to get the pendant first."

"Where is it?" Kunimitsu asked, getting defensive. "It's always around your neck. Where is it?"

"Relax." Julia said. "I took it off so that we can have the same fair advantage. Hold on."

Julia walked into the woods, but didn't come back out.

"Julia?" Kunimitsu said, looking around quickly. "Shit! I should've known! When I find her I'm gonna—"

"Looking for this?" Teal said, walking into the clearing with Julia's pendant in her hand.

"Teal." Kunimitsu said, genuinely shocked. "What are you doing here?"

"I just wanna ask you some questions."

"About what?"

"Why did you attack me in Echo?"

"I was ordered to."

"By Helena, right?"

Kunimitsu was quiet, and Teal walked closer to her. "I already know Helena put a hit on me. Why did she call it off?"

"I don't think it's a good idea for you to demand any answers from me." Kunimitsu said, getting into her fighting stance. "She called the hit off, but I'll gladly still go through with it."

"Why do you guys always want to do it the hard way? Fuck it." Teal said, getting into her fighting stance also. "If you wont voluntarily tell me the answers, I'll gladly beat it out of you."

Kunimitsu yelled and charged at Teal at full speed, and the fight began. She grabbed Teal and threw her across the field, but Teal landed on her feet safely. Before she could catch a breather, Kunimitsu came at her again and swung wildly, but Teal dodged every hit. She took out her knives and attempted to cut her, but Teal did a matrix-like move, bending backwards and grabbing Kunimitsu's legs and making her fall to the ground. She did a split leg drop on Kunimitsu's neck and shook her head.

"You already cut one of my shirts. That's not happening again."

Kunimitsu pushed Teal off and stood up again, her body heating up with anger. She swung at Teal again with her knives and Teal blasted her back. She was finally able to focused her powers and picked up Kunimitsu telepathically, swinging her from side to side and slamming her on the ground again. Teal walked over to her as she laid on the ground, coughing and holding her side.

"You witch!" Kunimitsu sneered, causing Teal to wince. She really hated that word.

"I really, really hate that word." Teal said, standing over her. "You're gonna tell me what I need to know, or do I have to throw you around like a rag doll again?"

"Helena...told me to get rid of you, because she thought you were useless." Kunimitsu breathed out, adding emphasis on the 'useless' part. "She found out that you were important to this entire thing, so she called it off."
"Important how?" Teal asked, but Kunimitsu didn't answer. She began choking her telepathically, and Kunimitsu screamed. "How?!" Teal yelled again.

"I don't know!" Kunimitsu yelled. "She..she said something like how you're the weapon everyone's been looking for. She said there's no way she'd kill you if you were who the Zaibatsu and G Corp needed this whole time. She wanted to completely brainwash you into helping her make Jubilee the most powerful company in the world."

Teal released her telepathic choke hold on Kunimitsu and stepped back. "That wasn't so hard, was it?"

"You're a fucking bitch." Kunimitsu said, standing up slowly.

"Ice those wounds, baby girl." Teal smirked. "If everything you just told me is true, than I might have to approach Helena sooner than I thought. I know it's pretty embarrassing that I just beat you up, so I'll do you a favor. I'll keep this little altercation between us. I know you'll do the same."

"You'll get yours. Just wait." Kunimitsu said before she disappeared in the trees.

She got back to her room and sat on the bed again. Her bags were already packed, and they were on the floor next to her. After unzipping one of the bags, she dug inside of it and took out a medium sized book and looked at it.

"Hello spell book. Haven't seen you in ages..I knew I put you in here somewhere." She said as she opened the book.

The spell book was given to her by her grandmother when she was younger. In order to remember how to do certain things with her powers, she had to read and study the spells in the books. Before, when she would want to do a certain thing, like pick up objects, she would have to chant the spell in order to do it. She did these spells so much that her mind and body had gotten used to it, and she didn't have to chant anything, any more. Now, Teal would look in the book just to have memories, or if she sees a spell that she hadn't done in a long time.

"Invisibility? Dammit, I wish I would've remember this spell!" Teal said, looking in the book. "If I would have done that, I could have easily broke into Jin's place. But then we wouldn't have..."

She let that last sentence go, but she continued. "I could use this to get to Helena without being noticed. Let's see if it still works."

After chanting the spell for a couple of seconds, Teal had seen her arms and legs slowly become less visible, to the point where her whole body had became invisible. "Hm, I need to work on this if I want my body to become invisible fast enough."

The door opened a couple of seconds later and Xiaoyu walked inside. "Teal! You in here!"

"I'm right here."

"Huh? I don't see you!"

"Oh. Hold on."

She became visible again and Xiaoyu screamed in terror. "What the hell?!"

"Sorry, I was trying out a spell." Teal said, crying out in laughter.

"Dammit, I don't think I'll ever get used to you having powers. But you can do invisibility too? That's so cool!"

As if right on cue, Teal's eyes turned into a dark purplish color, and she was having a vision again. Since Xiao was oddly used to that (instead of the fact that Teal has powers, period), she placed a paper and pen in Teal's hands, and she began drawing away. When Teal was done, she blinked her eyes again as they both looked down at the paper.

"What is it?" Xiao asked.

"I...I think it's JCo." Teal said.

"Teal, JCo doesn't have these large tube thingys." Xiao pointed at one part of the drawing. "Do they?"

"I didn't think so...I don't know what this is trying to tell me. But thinking of JCo, I found out something last night."

"What's that?"

"Helena did tell Kunimitsu to kill me, but she called it off because I'm somehow connected to this whole company war."

"What? Are you serious?"

"Very. I'm still foggy on everything else, but I'm going to have a talk with Helena when I get back to Tokyo."

"So...you're not participating in the tournament anymore?"

Teal shook her head, "I was forced to do that, remember? Hopefully I can stop this whole tournament from continuing before it's too late."

"What? I don't understand.."

"I think the winner of this tournament would have been the one being used in this operation. You guys aren't going to be rewarded for winning, Xiao."

"That doesn't mean I don't want to still fight in it. I didn't travel out here for no reason."

Teal couldn't believe how her best friend was acting. Xiaoyu folded her arms across her chest and huffed, and Teal sucked her teeth. "Xiao, are you serious right now? Do you not know how much trouble the world is about to be in?"

"I know."

"No, you obviously don't. This is not about me anymore. I'm trying to end whatever is about to happen, before it begins."

"Alright, alright!" Xiaoyu yelled, throwing her hands up in mock-surrender. "I get it, T. I'm sorry if I seemed naïve for a second. You're right, there's definitely something that's going on in the shadows, something big."

"There is...I'm not sure what it is, but I'm going to figure it out."

"You know you're my best friend, Teal. If you need help with anything, I got you."

"Thanks, babe..."

It was silent for a couple of seconds, until Xiaoyu spoke up again. "You were with him last night, weren't you."

"What?"

"I'm not stupid, Teal. You didn't come back at all yesterday, after you left."

Teal felt her face turn a flushing red color, and Xiaoyu laughed and hugged her. "It's okay, no need to be embarrassed by it. Is that why you're doing all of this now?"

"I guess you can say that. My bags are already packed, and I'm leaving for Tokyo tomorrow. I was thinking about formally dropping out of the tournament, but I'm not. I want Helena, and everyone else to know that I know what's going on."

"Okay, then I'm leaving with you. We should probably get our plane tickets now...I'll see if Lili could get it for us. Her rich ass has connections."

Later That Night

Jin took the bloody blade out of his stomach and fell to the ground. A dark red and blackish pool of blood formed around him on the ground, and he didn't even try to hold his wounds. Maybe it was because they were self-inflicted wounds. This was his umpteenth attempt to get the Devil gene out of him by harming, or possibly even killing himself, and yet again, it didn't work. The blood continued to ooze out of the wounds on his stomach and arms, and on to his living room floor as the Devil began laughing again.

"Again with this, Jin?" It said. "You tried this already, it's not going to work. Give it up. I already told you, I'm not going anywhere."

"Shut up." Jin growled, as he continued to cut himself with the blade. "You're getting out of me...just wait."

"Look at you, you're a mess. Stop stabbing yourself up, it's not gonna work."

The wounds began to heal up almost immediately, which made Jin even angrier. He was back to looking normal(as far as his wounds going away) in a matter of seconds, and the blood on the floor began to disappear too. It was like no matter what he tried to do, the same thing happened. There was only one other option, which was to go through with his company war against the world. So much evil intentions would summon another evil force from the darkness, and maybe it can take the Devil gene out of him. But there was just one problem; the secret weapon that he needs is someone that he would actually die for. His front door bell rung, interrupting his thoughts. When he opened it, he was not expecting who was standing in him.

"Teal?"

"Uh, hey..." She said, looking down.

"W-What are you doing here?"

"I kinda need to talk to you...can I come in?"

"Yeah, sure."

He let Teal inside of the house, and led her to the living room. While he was walking behind her, he felt a heavy-like sensation being lifted off of him, and his body felt calm. It was the same feeling he had gotten the night before when she was with him, and he realized that the Devil wasn't inside of him anymore. Weird, he thought. I think Teal's powers has something to do with it exiting my body like this.

"Are you okay?" He asked her. He sat on the couch, but she stood against the wall with her arms folded.

"I just have question for you. Are you planning to use me as a weapon for this company war too?" She suddenly asked him.

"What?" He was confused.

"You heard me right. I know everything Jin...well, almost everything. Are you planning to use me too?"

"No...no I'm not."

"Don't lie to me!" Teal yelled, but then took a deep breath and said quietly. "Don't lie to me."

"I'm not lying to you! But I wouldn't be telling the truth if I told you that wasn't the plan at first."

"Why are you doing all of this, Jin? There has to be a specific reason. Why can't you tell me?"

Jin didn't say anything and Teal walked over to him. She didn't sit down, but she was standing over him.

"Jin, last night I decided to give you something that I will never, ever get back. The least you can do is tell me what's going on...I want to help you. I really do." She said.

He looked up at her and sighed. "...Do you know that I have the Devil gene inside of me?" He started. She nodded slowly and he continued. "For some reason, he expels from my body whenever I'm around you. Last night, he wasn't inside of me at all."

"Really? Is that a good thing?"

Jin stood up and Teal moved back, as he began pacing. He was in deep thought. "I'm not sure, but I think it is. This has never happened before, which makes me wonder if it's because your powers. Teal, I think you can defeat the Devil."

"What?" Teal shook her head. "No way. I'm a pretty strong girl, but not that strong. He could probably snap me in half."

"Think about it. He's not in me right now. If I can make myself turn into him around you, you can kill him."

"But wouldn't that mean I would have to kill you?" He didn't say anything again, and she quickly denied. "No, Jin. I'm not doing that. I can't just kill you! I can't...I can't kill somebody that I love."

"Teal, you have to—"

"Forget it, Jin! There has to be another way...and you still didn't answer my question. Why are you doing this?"

"By declaring war against the world, enough negative energy will be harnessed in me to summon another greater demonic force, Azazel. That name should sound familiar to you."

Teal nodded. "One of my ancestors defeated him back in the ancient Egyptian times. My grandmother told me that story all of the time. It hasn't been awoken since."

"If I can summon it, it could kill the gene, and stop it from spreading to another generation after me."

"So you would do all of this, put the world in so much trouble, in order to end the Devil's bloodline?"

"Exactly...I know it seems like a small reason, Teal. That's why I don't mind being look at as the bad guy for now. I have to do this, though."

" If you continue with this mission...destroying homes and cities, even countries, do you know how many lives can be lost? Did you ever think about that?"

"I did...I did."

"Jin, I want to help you, but this is not the way to do it. There has to be another way to get rid of this gene."

You can't get rid of me! The Devil's voice said in Jin's head. Jin figured he was in another room, listening to the conversation. You can't, and she can't either.

"You'll see." Jin sneered.

"Huh?" Teal said.

"Nothing...but I agree with you, I guess. Is that the only reason you came, or did you want to spend the night with me again?" He smirked, backing her up against the wall slowly.

Oh, please. Bring me a fucking barf bag. The Devil groaned in Jin's head as he kissed Teal. When she felt like things were getting a little too hot, she broke away.

"I can't stay with you." She breathed out. "Not tonight."

"Why?"

"I'm leaving to go back to Tokyo in the morning. I have some...business to take care of. I just came to ask you that question...you should come back too."

"I will, in a few days." He murmured as he sniffed her neck, kissing it again. "You sure? I can have you at the airport early enough to catch the plane."

"I'm suree." Teal said, gripping his shirt. "I gotta go. I guess I'll see you soon."