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Savior

"Oh my God! Julia! Can you hear me!? JULIA! Oh my God! This can't be happening!" Verity screamed in anguish as she peered over the slick ledge of the ravine, frantically looking for Julia.

"I've got to find a way down! Damn it! Why did it have to start raining!" Verity began to look around for a safer way down the side of the trench.

"Hold on Julia, please hold on!" Verity cried as she followed the edge of the seemingly interminable chasm.

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God!… Why…Why is it …so hot?! Somebody… please…do SOMETHING! Stop it…stop…the pain…please….

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----What the Hell is SHE doing here?!

"You picked a great time to come back…" Jin muttered sarcastically in a rough tone, "Couldn't you have stayed away for a few more hours?!"

----You didn't answer me. What is that girl doing here!?

"What does she look like she's doing? Coming over for a sleepover?" Jin snapped at the furious demon.

----Don't play smart with me, boy. Answer me damn it!

"She lost her footing near the ledge of the ravine near the temple, and fell. Doesn't it look kind of obvious? Or have you suddenly lost your brilliant powers of deduction?" came the irritated and angry response.

----Damn you, boy. You should have left her at the bottom! You should have let her DIE!

Do you have any idea what is going to happen when she wakes up and sees that you, Jin Kazama, is in the middle of the Amazon rainforest watching over her when you should be rotting six feet under! shouted the incredulous demon.

"I don't care if she does! I'm not going to let her die!"

----Why don't you just take her back and let her friend deal with her?! When that girl sees that her friend is not where she should be she'll go back to that accursed village and get help. What then? Huh? They'll find the fucking temple and then guarding it will be impossible!

"I would have. But she's hurt much to badly. I saw Verity run off to find a way down the slope, but the nearest accessible way down is over half a mile away! Julia wouldn't have made it that long. I had to take her. Her left arm and right leg are broken. The bones splintered; they aren't clean breaks and they sliced through her skin and severed several of her veins. I think she has a really bad concussion, too. If I had left her she would have bled to death before Verity made it even half way down the ledge!"

----You and your damned human compassion! HUMAN compassion! cried the demon in exasperation, For crying out loud! You're not even HUMAN! You should know nothing of COMPASSION!

"Well, luckily for Julia, I feel compassion for the suffering of another living being. If you don't give a damn, what are you still doing here?!

----That girl is not going to make it. I can tell you that right now. No matter what you do, she's going to die. You might as well take her body back to that glorious ravine and thank the fucking rift that she's never going to find the temple.

"The temple, the temple! Is that all you care about!? It's nothing but a bunch of stones piled up to hide a horrific past. I don't care what you say, what you think, or what you feel. I'm saving her and that's that!" snapped Jin fiercely as the demon's wrath emanated from his formless spirit in tidal waves.

----What are you going to do, oh grand savior? mocked the demon in a shrill tone.

"I'm going to heal her leg. It's the worst of the breaks," Jin muttered as he walked over to Julia, who was currently unconscious and bleeding on his bed.

----Heal it? Are you crazy? Now, I know you find your newfound ability to heal yourself as well as others deliciously empowering, but healing a break like that could kill you! You have nowhere near enough 'practice' with healing. It's like trying to drive a fucking eighteen-wheeler after you've just barely learned to ride a bike. A bike with training wheels, I might add!

"It's not about having practice, demon. I'm going to heal her leg today, and then I'll heal her arm when my strength comes back completely. It's as simple as that. Neither of us is going to die in the process," Jin stated firmly as he finished setting Julia's broken arm. None of the major veins had been severed in her forearm, so Jin didn't have to worry about her bleeding to death that way. Now he just had to hope that her head injury hadn't caused any brain damage. He wouldn't be able to heal her again for at least two days after he took care of her leg.

Looking down, Jin saw that Julia was shaking rather forcefully, and that her skin was burning. She had a fever already and was undoubtedly delirious. Bracing himself for the sudden wave of exhaustion that would follow his healing of her leg, Jin reached down to grab Julia's shin, closed his eyes, and let instinct do the rest.

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Make the pain go away….go away…

Gasping, Julia suddenly became aware of an overly hot sensation in her right leg. It had been throbbing before, but now it felt as if someone had poured lighter fluid on her leg then thrown a match on it .

Oh God, no! ….Make it …go away, don't …don't…make it worse!

However, as suddenly as it had felt like someone had set her shin on fire, the burning went away. Nothing. She felt nothing in her right leg. The searing agony had disappeared and now she no longer felt neither heat nor subconsciously expected cold. Relief swept through her and the pain had lessened enough that she fell into a definite void, where she would no longer feel anything else.

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You're wrong demon. She's going to be fine. Jin smiled gently as he saw Julia's form visibly relax.

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Sometime later, Julia began to groggily regain consciousness. The first thing she became aware of was a dull throbbing in her left arm. Looking down at it, she saw that it had been placed in a splint.

What? A splint? Ugh…I must have broken it when I fell. Wait. Where am I? Julia thought confused.

In the attempt to stand up to take in her surroundings, Julia noticed an odd sensation in her right leg. She remembered feeling a horrible pain in her leg as well as her arm on her fall to the bottom of the trench.

Great. I must have broken my leg, too. It must be tied up pretty good - I can't even feel it.

Suddenly it struck her that unless she was on some serious pain medication, which was doubtful since she could feel the dull throb of pain in her arm and her head, she should be able to feel it. Hell. It should feel a whole lot worse than her arm.

Panic quickly flooded through her body as she realized that she could not feel her leg. Almost as if she didn't have one at all. As she tried to sit up, pain washed over her. Every muscle ached and the dull throbbing became a sharp knife stabbing her arm as well as her head. Groaning in pain, Julia collapsed back onto the bed she was lying in.

Not one to give up, Julia shut her eyes in pain and tried to pull herself up again, but this time was stopped by a hand that had suddenly gripped her shoulder and was gently pushing her back down.

"You shouldn't try to get up. You're still hurt pretty badly," a deep, double-timbered voice said.

Surprised by the fact that it sounded almost like two people were talking to her at the exact same time, Julia turned her head toward the odd voice.

She froze. Every muscle in her body was suddenly pulled tight, and her breathing had gotten stuck halfway down her windpipe.

Looking down at her were the same glowing golden eyes that she had seen on her first day in the forest. Now, however, there was no tree to obstruct her vision. She was staring at… JIN KAZAMA??!!

Only, it wasn't really him. Was it?

This creature definitely looked like him but had several appendages that no normal human being had: From his head, slightly behind his temples, two slick, ivory horns twisted their way forward to point in her direction. His mouth was slightly open as he looked at her with unhindered curiosity. Her expression must have been unfathomable. Julia could see that his canines were longer that any person's should be, and that they were definitely far too sharp. They reminded her of the fangs of a vampire in some terrifying horror movie. Above his eyes, set in the center of his forehead, was a slender crimson jewel that seemed to emanate a weak light - nowhere near as intense as the light from his eyes. From the jewel, extended a series of tattoo-like markings that covered his entire forehead then doubled back to trace a dark like under the outer edges of his golden eyes. Last to catch her attention were the two dark raven-like wings protruding from his back. Her mouth dropped open as she saw that they were enormous. In a few quick moments Julia reasoned that if he were to spread them out they would be at least seventeen feet long from tip to tip.

This was impossible…she couldn't be looking at …a demon?

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A/n: Whew! Stayed up till 1:46 a.m. to write this chapter! Hope you liked it!

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