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Revelations

The stone floor was cold, hard and extremely uncomfortable. It may have been smooth, but the marble had a cruel edge to it; being the floor of a prison cell--it had to be.

Julia propped herself up on one sore arm as she finally regained consciousness. Looking around she saw that very little - even less than there was in a standard penitentiary. As she braced herself with her hands to stand up, a shooting pain ran through Julia's left hand forcing her to cry and collapse back down.

"So you're awake," said a harsh but clearly bored voice.

Julia turned toward her captor and saw yet another demon standing with crossed arms on the other side of a wall made entirely of metal bars going up an down from floor to ceiling.

"What…what am I doing here?" Julia demanded as she sat up.

The demon continued to gaze at her with indifferent, orange eyes, "You'll see soon enough. I'll go get Veldor, he's been dying to meet you." The demon walked away.

Ten minutes later a demon even larger than the one who had attacked her at home strolled into view flanked by two other demons. One of them was the clearly-uninterested-in-what-was-going-on guard, and the other was a much smaller cloaked-and-hooded demon. Julia could only see its golden eyes watching her with unrivaled intensity from underneath the shadows of its hood. Judging from its size, she had to be female.

The largest of the demons gave her only a glancing look before turning to the demons standing beside him, "Open the door Haze. Reaper, grab a hold of her and bring her along. This is no place for our guest of honor."

The guard stepped forward and undid the large padlock and pulled on the door. It opened without so much as a creak, and then the hooded demoness stepped forward. She grabbed Julia and whispered into her ear, "Don't try to escape. There are too many of us here for you to get very far." Julia was shocked as to how melodious her voice was; it was nothing like the shrill, discordant tones of the other demons.

"What do you want with me?" Julia questioned as she tried to struggle out of Reaper's grip. But it was hopeless. The demons said nothing else and Reaper was much too strong. After five minutes of being pushed and shoved down numerous hallways lined with cells, Julia was led out of the dungeons and taken to a large office-like room. Reaper walked her over to a seat and pushed her down onto it.

"What do you want with me? What am I doing here?" Julia repeated frantically.

"You are here to help us human." The large demon propped himself against an enormous stone-crafted desk to face her. Julia looked at them incredulously.

I'm supposed to help them? Now… "Why the hell would I do something like that!" Julia spat, seeing that being afraid was going to get her nowhere. Maybe the best defense would be a good offense.

"You have no choice…Ms. Chang,"

Julia's jaw dropped, "How do you know my name"The demon chuckled. The noise was like grating metal. A shudder ran through Julia's entire body.

"We know a lot about you Ms. Chang. In fact, we may know more about you than even you do," he smirked. "Now, before you ask again, I am going to tell you what you're doing here, and how you're going to help us. But first, I have to give you some… background information. If you would be so kind as to please not interrupt what I'm going to be telling you, it will make this much quicker."

Julia shifted uncomfortably in the chair she was sitting in.

"Now, where to begin? With the obvious I suppose: introductions," the demon sneered coldly, "My name is Veldor. I am the leader of our humble assemblage of demons. This is Haze, your watch-guard," he pointed to the large gray-skinned demon who had clearly found little fascination in her, "and this is Reaper, one of my most trusted advisors and second in command to our battalions," he gestured to the hooded, golden-eyed demoness, who gave Julia a small, nearly unnoticeable bow. Julia noticed that neither of the other demons had seen her give her that small acknowledgment as Veldor continued to speak.

"We (with the exception of Reaper) have dwelled in this accursed world for the past three thousand years," Julia gasped, "We have heard legends of our arrival in this realm passed on through countless generations, and we have become tired of it. We became trapped here when the gateway to our world (currently situated in South America) was sealed. Despite our best efforts to open it, nothing has succeeded. Many problems presented themselves to us in our attempts. One of which is the gateway itself. For the strangest of reasons, we have been unable to locate it. We believe it is some sort of defense that the angel-architect that sealed the gate in the first place, put on the temple that encases it.

"My best demons have concluded that the only way to open it, is very similar to the way in which it was created. Somehow, we had to combine the spirits of a demon and an angel to break the seal. Although we have plenty of demons who would volunteer, we are scant on angels. They never stick around long enough for us to trap them.

"However, quite recently, we came to realize that there was no need to scour the skies for celestial beings, nor sacrifice the life of one of our own. The combining of demon and angel spirits had already occurred! Somehow the spirits of the original demon and angel that had been utilized had also been trapped in this realm. And they had found human vessels to inhabit.

"Although we are still confused as to how it could have occurred, considering that they were mortal enemies, the two vessels met in human form and did not destroy each other. We have our theories, but I will not trouble you with them. They are unimportant. What does matter is that they wound up with a child… A child of destiny that is half demon, half seraph… A child that refused to help us in our plans," the demon scowled at air in front of him and then turned to Julia who stiffened as he set his gaze on her.

"You know this child."

At this Julia had to speak, gripping the chair as she did, "I do?"

"Yes. You do. And you know him quite well," Veldor reached forward and jabbed at the charm hanging from her neck with a long black claw. Julia's eyes widened and she took in a shaky breath. Jin…they were talking about Jin!…I guess to them, a bunch of three thousand year old demons, Jin was still a child since he was only twenty-two.

"So…So…what are you…what are you going to do?" Julia stammered, suddenly feeling lightheaded, "Are you going to use me to lure him out of hiding?"

"Well. That was originally the plan. You see… he is very good at hiding. I suppose one with mixed blood like his has to be. The Amazon rainforest is ludicrously large and dense. On top of that it is nearly impossible to track him since he always seems to know when we're looking for him," at this the demon frowned again.

"The plan…changed?" Julia said weakly. She remembered when Jin had said that he'd always been tipped off about the search parties. Without those warnings, he would have been found months ago.

Veldor snickered, " Yes, it did. We have come to realize that there is no need to use you to lure him out. It's much more simpler now."

"Well…if…its so simple…why do you need me?" she managed to say.

"We no longer need Jin Kazama to find and open the gate for us. We have you now."

"Me? What's so special about me?"

"Everything. You know the exact location of the Gateway temple, don't you," he sneered.

Julia was speechless. It was true. She did know where it was. Julia had begged Jin for nearly two weeks for him to take her there before he relented. She had been amazed, and wanted to go inside, but Jin had refused. However, she had been content with finally seeing it that she didn't continue asking. She had made the discovery she had come to make.

Taking her silence as an affirmation, Veldor smirked, "Good. Very good. This is almost too easy now."

"You still need Jin though. I could only tell you were it is," Julia said trying to convince herself that they couldn't do anything, "Only he can open it…you can't."

"Oh…I'm not going to open it. Jin isn't going to either. But…," he grinned, "your child will."

"Huh? Child? What child?" Julia asked, stunned at the remark.

"The child you carry, Ms. Chang," Veldor smiled cruelly, "That child is going open the gate. No need to waste time and effort looking for its father."

Julia felt like she was about to pass out. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. What that demon was saying was impossible. It couldn't be true. Could it?

"Breathe Ms. Chang. You look like you're about to lose consciousness. I see you hadn't realized this yet." Julia continued to take quick, shallow breaths and began to shake her head in disbelief. "In fact, if it had not been for a few of my most stealthiest scouts, none of us demons would have even been aware of your relationship with the half-breed. I kept them near you so they could observe you. At first, as I said before, the plan was to use you as bait to lure him out, but as time passed they came to notice your seemingly deteriorating state. They reported their observations, and our plans changed to suit new…parameters…so to speak.

"You made it easy for us Ms. Chang. We had almost forgotten just how easily your race propagates, but you have brought it all into perspective once again. We figured that after being his lover for well over a month…you'd be with child," Veldor still had that malicious smile pasted to his face and Julia was beginning to hyperventilate. "Take her back to her cell Haze. It seems she needs some time put all the pieces together."

Haze roughly grabbed her arm and pulled her up, leading her out of the room.

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