Chapter 12

Things had turned out to be just as Jin had expected. Heihachi and Kazumi were unstoppable as they cruised through the tournament stages. Though he hated to intervene, Jin had to stop Xiaoyu and Lili from fighting the unstoppable duo as he cared about Xiaoyu's wellbeing. Ultimately, in the semifinals to decide who would battle Jin and Asuka, it would be a match between Kazuya Mishima and Jun Kazama versus Heihachi and Kazumi. As with the rest, they too were no match and Heihachi decided to beat them up a bit more than usual and put his son in the hospital with a critical condition. Heihachi smiled to himself, as he was just a few steps away from gaining control of the Zaibatsu.

The final battle of the seventh King Of Iron Fist Tournament...

Jin wiped his face with a napkin and sighed as he looked out of the helicopter that was taking him and Asuka to the location of the final match with Heihachi Mishima and Kazumi Mishima. He recalled the last fight he and his sister had with their grandfather and remembered the fact that if Heihachi hadn't decided to have a rematch, they would be sleeping in their graves by then. He nor Asuka had the strength to continue the fight with him then, as they were tired by fighting Devil Jun and True Ogre in the temple, and Jin really thanked his grandfather for that. While he never regretted the decisions he took during his life, he had come to regret his sparing Heihachi's life as he would have preferred to kill him when he was weak enough.

The fact that the Zaibatsu's ownership was at stake put enormous pressure on the young Kazamas. While he had almost nothing to lose before, this time a loss meant serious consequences, some for which Jin could never forgive himself nor his sister. After all, putting the most technologically advanced corporation in the hands of one of the most evil persons on the face of Earth would be a huge mistake.

It would be equal to sentencing the whole world to death, and its fate now depended on the fighting prowess of this young man and his sister. He now mentally prepared for his most gruelling battle till then while his sister was peacefully sleeping. Knowing her hot-headed personality, Jin decided to let her be till the beginning of the match.

"Sir, we have arrived at the destination." The pilot responded and Jin just gave a nod. He now looked at the location and understood why he was sweating a lot more than he would be under normal stress.

He was now at the base of Mount Meakan, the very volcano into which Kazuya was thrown into by his father, Heihachi. The ground beneath had begun to rumble, an ominous sign that the volcano would erupt any time from then. Then they calmly jumped out of the copter, and faced their opponent, a mutated Heihachi. Jin noticed the absence of Kazumi and finally spoke up.

"Where's your tag partner?"

Heihachi just laughed in a inhuman voice and said, "That bloody woman tried to stop me through words and then challenged me to a fight. She is a weakling, and I killed her to absorb her power, and here I am to kill you two cretins!" He let out a roar as he grew in size, his muscles buffed up and he didn't have any faint resemblance to a human. Jin just stared at him with hatred in his eyes, as his body got engulfed in a blue aura and his eyes became yellow.

"You better be happy, you old fart 'cause you'll be needing everything you have in you to beat us!" Asuka scoffed and then quickly transformed into her Devil form, while Jin just laughed at their grandfather and tightened his gloves while the aura around him shone brighter and he floated in the air. And he finally transformed into the most advanced version of his devil form till then.

He was more beast like, losing whatever little resemblance he had to his normal self. His skin had turned silver, his wings were larger than before with a gold colored metallic look. His hair was now a single solid mass still spiked backwards. His talons and gauntlets were larger. His eyes were now black and his third eye was a huge crystal of deep blue. Devil Jin descended back on to the ground and crossed his arms in front of his chest that made him look so similar to his father. (A/N: In a nutshell, he looks like he did in the Blood Vengeance film, with some changes in the color scheme.)

"I'm afraid to say that your old clock has stopped ticking, pal." Devil Jin said calmly with a normal human voice and looked at the huge green skinned monstrosity with bat like wings. "And, no one is going to wind it up again." Then he gave a menacing smile at Heihachi.

'This is the potential of the mixed gene, eh?' Devil Jin thought to himself as he recalled the words Dr. Arnaude Larne had said to his father back at Yakushima. 'Not bad at all.'

"Aniki? Aniki! Don't lose yourself to the Devil! Don't give up on us!" Devil Asuka said as he frantically shook Devil Jin's shoulders snapping him out of his reverie. looked back at her with a smile.

"I am NOT giving in to the wretch, Imouto." Asuka's face went pink when Devil Jin called her by a name she wasn't ever called by before. "Stay. Back. I'll be the only one to fight him, and you shall just spectate the match. If...if I die, they will always their daughter to look after them, won't they?" Asuka saw him with a sad face, and thus Devil Jin added, " I won't be going down that easily, so do not worry about me." He said and pushed her away.(Note: Devil Jin will be referred to as just Jin and the same applies to Asuka.)

"Now, let us begin!" Jin declared and stood in his fighting stance, while taunting Heihachi with his left arm. "Come on if you have the...balls." Jin gave an evil smirk when he saw the green monster run at him blinded by anger. When he came within reach, Jin grabbed him by the head and smashed his head in to the ground with the monster howling in pain, bringing a satisfied smile to Jin's face. Now he grabbed Heihachi by his horn and threw him away. The green monster just groaned, as it struggled back to stand.

"Not so tough now, are you? I'll make you pay for all the crimes you have committed you bastard!" Jin said while he looked at Ogre Heihachi struggle to get back on his feet. Then, he ran towards the green monster and unleashed a flurry of kicks and punches which hit Heihachi perfectly. Then instantly, Jin was caught off guard by an energy beam that Heihachi shot from his palms. Then Heihachi rushed at him but Jin recovered instantly and launched him into the air and then hit him with his own charged up Devil Beam. Then Jin carried him even higher in the air and brought him down to the ground with a loud crash, beating him with a series of punches along the way. Blood came out of Heihachi's mouth as he was lying on the ground, motionless. Jin finally defeated his grandfather, putting the end to the source to all of his family's miseries.

Jin became his normal self again, and Heihachi's body too lost all its demonic and beastly features. The final battle was over in sixty seconds, a record time for a King of Iron Fist Tournament battle. He walked over silently to the dead body of Heihachi, while Asuka joined him.

''So, it is all over, huh?"

"Yeah, I guess." Jin muttered under his breath and lifted Heihachi's body and then walked over to the volcano's mouth's edge. He then looked at the old man's face for one last time and threw him into the volcano.

"Sayonara, Mishima Heihachi. Hope you have a hard time in hell." was all that Jin said after he threw the old man. All that was left now was the unsolved puzzle of the death of his long-time friend, Shin Kamiya. Once he solved that, he decided to undo all the wrongdoings of his predecessors and start over fresh: a life of a CEO of a huge company.