Chapter 8: The Original meets his Comparison

The group of five finally arrived at the game Battle Arena Toshinden 3 where the plot is the same as in modern Japan. Daigo sensed it's different atmosphere than in Aoharu City that he lived.

"This place looks different than in Aoharu City. I can feel the wind blows in this place."

"Ryu... do you think Akira was been taken here? I'm sure Kurow just went through that place." Jin asked and Ryu answers.

"Yeah... he's probably here. I can sense his presence. These fighters we can encounter here are wielding with weapons."

"If only I have my Mishima War Sabre in my hands. In case if every hostiles are trying to attack us." Jin wondered as the group stopped walking and they sensed a yellow fireball comes to attack them as Ken retaliates by shooting his Hadoken on the fireball as it explodes.

"Agh... what is this?" Xiaoyu screamed.

"I've encounter the same move it's the same as Batsu or Hideo's." Daigo said seriously mad about the move as the man wields an excalibur which happens to be a bounty hunter named Kayin Amoh.

"Well... what a surprise... you manage to deflect my Sonic Slash." Kayin said smirking.

"Well well... I'd never expect a British blond man who intends to ambush us with one simple Hadoken. Why do you have to be such a pain?" Ken sighed and Kayin was very impressed to see his newly found opponent and ready to fight.

"It's simple as always... just like my best friend Eiji Shinjo. Let's see if you can stand up with my sword, Excalibur."

"You know, british buddy... you have the same comparision as I do. Let's bring it on, shall we." Ken said ready to fight Kayin and tells them. "Guys... I'll deal with them while you find that Kurow. I'm going to have fun to fight this guy."

"Be careful, Ken... he wields a sword. He might killed you with that." Ryu said worried to his best friend as the four leave and both Kayin and Ken are fighting in their different fighting styles. Although, Kayin is a skilled swordsman.

The four run fast to avoid other people to be encounter by other fighters. Therefore, Judgement was watching as he threw a grenade at them as it explodes causing the four to be separated.

Ryu was disappointed to see them separated and wanted to get his data back. However he meets Eiji Shinjo the lead character of the third Toshinden game.

"Are you Eiji Shinjo?"

"That's right... it is me..." Eiji smiled while keeping his sword, The Byakko no Tachi or the White Tiger Sword.

"My goodness... are you actually the comparison? You wore the same headband as mine." Ryu said smiling and Eiji tells him.

"Seems like you got lost. Looks like it's up to me to help you out."

"Thanks for your offer." Ryu said thankfully. "I'd like a companion in need to find my friends. We are here to find a man named Kurow Kirishima."

"Kurow? Sounds like a ninja you've been looking for." Eiji said as he agrees to join with him. "Very well... let's find your friends. Mine as well need to stop my buddy."

Eiji and Ryu then go back where Ken fights against Kayin as the search continues.

Jin finally gets up after the explosion that occured. He then confronted a female mercenary named Rachael who wields a double-sided tonfa blades in a muscular figure. Much to his shock, reminding of his bodyguard, Nina.

"I don't believe this... why am I approached to a woman in a big chest?"

"Stop being such a pervert, pretty boy." Rachael said coldly to Jin while spinning her double-sided tonfa blades. "No one dares calling me that way. Just like I hated my twin sister."

"Hate? Just look around you...? You think your sister is a curse to you. I think my fists would reveal the truth." Jin said raising his brow in a smirk and Rachael furiously attacks him with her tonfas as he avoids.

She then shoots her tonfa on the ground create an explosion but he still avoided. Jin sharply kicked her to the face making her in rage countering him with a tonfa punch that engulfs fire with her Atomic Blow making them equally matched.

"That punch on your tonfa means nothing to me... All you care about is yourself. You think you sister just abandoned you that way." Jin said while in mental alertness stance.

"Shut the hell up... I don't care about my sister very much. You're just like her!" Rachael yelled and Jin comments evilly.

"You think I'm like her but your cold blooded attitude looks just like mine."

Fueled with rage, Rachael charges him with another Atomic Blow as she creates a drill-like projectile to knock him down. Jin then slightly avoid the blast and knocks her with a Demon's Paw.

"Ugh... I can't believe it you're strong."

"I don't kill you with no mercy. It's best if you tried to start over again with your sister. You just don't want to see her again, don't you." Jin said in a serious manner and Rachael still angers him.

Xiaoyu and Daigo are lucky to be not separated and both meets Shizuku Fuji who takes care of David and Cuiling was with them.

"My goodness... you look pretty lost, aren't you..."

"Oh my...? I never expect people here?" Xiaoyu wondered and Daigo tells her.

"Don't worry... I think this lady looks very nice. We might stay here for a while."

"Hmm... you're simply as a gentleman. Is it okay to fight me in a gamble?" Shizuku said challenging Daigo in a gamble as he calmly agrees.

"Sure..."

"Cards are my favorite..." Shizuku said as she gets her cards underneath her half-kimono. Daigo blushes to see her.

"Uh... Mr. Daigo. You're blushing...?" Xiaoyu said and Daigo replies.

"This is my first time to be attracted by this woman."

"What...?"

Kayin and Ken still continues to fight as he executes a multi-slash uppercut the Deadly Raise at him. Ken avoids every sword slashes that he threw at him and knocks him with a Shoryuken.

"Boy... your sword really gives me in a bloody smack. But your kicks are very focused." Ken said smirking and Kayin equally fights him with the kicks but he manages to knock him in a Shoulder Crush. He sighs with a comment. "On second thought, your kick just got you split."

"Thanks... I learn this when someone ambushed me."

Both then clashing with two fireballs both Kayin's Sonic Slash and Ken's Hadoken. He multiple kicks him with his overdrive, Hell's Gate. Ken smirks as he counters him with his one of his super technique the Shippu Jinrai Kyaku multiple kicks him with a thunderous effect and goes with the Tatsumaki Sempukyaku. Eiji and Ryu finally arrive to stop both Ken and Kayin from fighting and Kayin attack Ken one last time with his desperation move, Hell's Inferno but Ken avoids his final blow and counters him with Shoryuken with multiple kicks and defeats him with a Shinryuken.

"Wow... one Hizouzan on flames. I've never seen that one before." Eiji said amazed on Ken's super moves and Kayin gets up in defeat and knowing that Ken is a tough fighter.

"Eiji, what are you doing here?"

"We came here to look for his friend. Is this guy with a red gi you've been looking for?" Eiji said while pointing at Ken and Ryu finally found his best friend.

"Yes, Eiji..." Ryu said and smiled to see his best friend alive. "Ken... thank god you're all right. I thought that he might killed you with one single blow."

"Yeah, Ryu... his sword slashes give me the chills to avoid it. But I was lucky I knocked him down." Ken smiled happily and asks him. "Anyway, where's Jin, Xiaoyu and the big guy."

"We tried to find Kurow on the forest. Until someone just threw a grenade on us to be separated." Ryu said sadly and Kayin begins to leave.

"Eiji, since Soshiki Organization was fallen. I know few of his followers are still alive. You have to kill him before it's too late."

"But, Kayin... where are you going?" Eiji asked and he smirks.

"I must take my foster daughter, Naru to the orphanage and to pass my Excalibur to her. You go on and help these two." Kayin then proceed to leave the trio. Eiji finally accepts to let both help find their friends.

"You're name is Ryu am I right...? It seems that I'm a comparison to you." Eiji said nicely and Ryu was amused.

"Yes of course... you are..."

"Anyway... Mr. Eiji guy... what's the Soshiki Organization they are talking about?" Ken asked and Eiji answers.

"I'll tell you everything once we found your lost friends. It's a long story..."

"Well then, let's find the three of them." Ryu said as the trio continues to find the other three.

At the abandoned Soshiki hide out, an unconscious Akira was been placed on the rock as Kurow glows on a purple light.

"Hah... they really don't believe what exactly I have been planning." Kurow said in an evil smirk. "I just came here to get this girl to be a sacrifice for the god of fighting, Agon Teos..."

Kurow was been manifested in the form of a dark spirit. The former leader of Soshiki, Veil who laughs maniacally and he continues to control his host to revive his former soldier and deceased current leader of Soshiki, Abel to revive his legacy to awaken the ancient god.

Trivia:

*Eiji and Kayin's moves derived on both Ryu and Ken's moves respectively with the exception of their weapons.

*Kayin's moveset becomes different with her foster daughter Naru in their game series. His Shoulder Crush appears to be a single heavy kick while his foster daughter appears to kick her opponent multiple times before executing this move. His overdrive Hell's Gate appears to be variation of kicks while his foster daughter goes for a multiple drill kicks. His Rainbow Crush appears to be a multiple version of his Shoulder Crush and deals his opponent with the last Somersault while his foster daughter executes a multiple version of dragon kicks and deals her opponent a somersault. And his desperation move Hell's Inferno, comes from a variety of kicks in a elbow and deals the final blow with his Deadly Raise while his foster daughter deals the same but with multiple slashes and deals the final blow using Deadly Raise. Since Kayin's last appearance was in Toshinden 3 because in Toshinden 4 he appears to be in the ball of light at Naru's ending knowing that he was dead.

*This chapter was after the events of Toshinden 3 where other Soshiki members are still alive after their organization was fallen. However, Veil's spirit was manifested within Kurow and continues to revive Abel's legacy.

A/N: Ryu and Ken finally meets their comparison. Jin still fights against Rachael when he easily knows her background story while Daigo was challenged by Shizuku in a gamble. Can Jin stop her? Find out in the next chapter.