Author's note: Hey guys, sorry it took so long. I apparently underestimated how long and hard fighting scenes are to describe. If I had known I would've written more in advance. I'm also not entirely sure writing is the best medium to convey those. But seeing I don't have the budget (give it to me Namco, it'll be 50 times better than Blood Vengeance!) to direct a movie or animation I am currently stuck with this. I tried to make it interesting so sorry if I failed.

Chapter 3: Clashing Shades

Outside the orange sun hanged low above the horizon of the lake.
"Heh, it's been a while," Xiaoyu said to Hwoarang
"Yeah, how've you been?" Hwoarang asked
"To be honest I've been thinking a lot about things lately," Xiaoyu replied watching the sunset.
"Yeah... me too," he replied as he made a stone skip across the water surface.
He took a brief pause and looked at Xiaoyu.
"So... what about?" he asked sitting down.
"Oh, you know, the future... How it might be in a year, in three years. Maybe even 10 years," she confessed.
"If we'll have Jin back or not..."
"What a coincidence; I've been thinking about those exact same things, too... huh, you know, I think this is the first time we've really talked with each other," Hwoarang remarked.
"Yeah, usually we're always fighting," Xiaoyu said.
"To be honest, I've been kinda reserved since the third tournament because I thought you were all show. You know; all style, no substance," Hwoarang smiled slyly.
Xiaoyu smilingly frowned, took a deep breath and replied: "Hey, in neijia (internal arts) the emphasis is on naturalness. So of course the movements will look aesthetically pleasing.
Besides you're one to talk, mister-stands-on-one-leg-all-the-time. What are you? A flamingo? Too cool for hands?"
"Hey, you wanna try my no-hands?" Hwoarang provoked assuming a fighting stance.
"Bring it," Xiaoyu smiled assuming hers.

"You seem to be very full of yourself for some one who's never been to a Tekken tournament," Asuka said pointing towards Miharu.
"Hey, I've been to the fourth," Miharu replied.
"Congratulations, what do you do when you're MIA?" Asuka asked condescendingly, "...probably all the guys in school," she said under her breath.
Miharu's eyes widened. "Hey, are you calling me a skank?"
"What if I am?" Asuka replied with great hostility.
"Now girls, play nicely," Jun tried to interrupt.
"And your hair is not brown; it's obviously red," Asuka spat.
"That's it!" Miharu yelled as she got up with her back towards Asuka.
"Being called a skank is one thing... but being called a ginger is..." she said narrowing her eyes, "unforgivable!"
"Take your best shot," Asuka said assuming a stance with one arm above her head and the other in front of her middle. (Counter Stance)

As a battle between Asuka and Miharu ensued Lei turned to Panda:
"There's a lot of fire in these young ones, isn't there?"
Panda stared blankly at Lei, grunted and then looked away.
"Well?" Lei drew out.
"It's a panda, Lei," Raven said sitting cross legged, cards in hands, behind a low poker table facing Yoshimitsu.
"Were you really expecting an answer?"
"Truly rivalry is a great thing, isn't it?" Lei said facing the other side and bumping into Angel.
Flinching, he warily stepped back.
"Guys, did you notice there's an angel in this room?" he asked the ninjas behind him.
"Yes, Lei, she's been nothing new since the second tournament," Yoshimitsu said calmly whilst laying a card from his hand on the table.
"You've been kinda slow ever since that last drug lord you brought down, haven't you, Lei?" Raven remarked.
"Got hit on the head one too many times?"
As Lei turned around to face the ninjas an airborne Miharu was sent over the table.
Asuka soon followed jumping over it.
"Hey, we're playing a game here," Raven snapped unmoving.
"Such a petty thing rivalry is. Good that we've resolved that issue, isn't it, Raven?" Yoshimitsu said.
"Right," Raven drew out slowly.
"Are you kidding?" Lei asked. "It is one of the most beautiful things there is, two friends testing each others limits. Both aiming for perfection..."
he said full of conviction with the slightest of tears in his eye corner.
"Why this reminds of the one I have with Lord Mokujin."
"You know, mister Mokujin?" Alisa asked "I had to fight him to get here. I defeated him."
Lei gasped; "You defeated Lord Mokujin? This cannot be," he said.
"Now I must challenge you. Prepare yourself!" he declared standing on one leg and putting one hand in the air. (Phoenix Illusion)
Alisa tilted her head sideways not quite understanding the situation.

Miharu tried to give Asuka a right slap from her back turned stance but quickly got thrown across the room.
"Ooh, smart girl, huh?" Miharu said as she punched right.
Repeating the same stance Asuka threw Miharu across the room once more.
"Aargh, take this!" she yelled as she unleashed a back turning left sidekick. (Raccoon Swing)
Asuka caught her kicking leg, kicked the leg she was standing on, and gave a reverse punch to a kneeling Miharu's head. (Counter Stance)
Miharu rolled away and turned around while Asuka once more assumed her stance. (Rain Dance)
"Reverse this," Miharu said as she butt-tackled Asuka, making the latter drop to the ground. (Miharu's Attack)
"And this..." she said faking a mid chop but doing a left mid elbow instead. (Doki Doki Elbow)
"And an other!" she yelled as she grabbed Asuka and clumsily tackled her. (Miharu Unlimited)
"Enough!" Asuka yelled as she countered Miharu's low sweep with a parry and two stylish punches to the chest. (Surprise Sweep Kick/Raging Storm)
While charging ki Asuka started spinning around towards a flinching Miharu.
Suddenly she unleashed a massive kick to Miharu's face, who was sent flying over the poker table Yoshimitsu and Raven were sitting at. (Spinning Heel Drop)
Asuka ran towards it and jumped over it.

"You know, this is not how I expected how our first meeting would go," Jun said with an apologizing smile.
"Yeah, well at least, the grown-ups are behaving," Zafina remarked.
"Bastard!" Yoshimitsu yelled as he grabbed Raven's hand, revealing several hidden Aces.
"Ninjas are all about deception, Yoshi. When will you ever learn that?" Raven responded.
"For this treachery, I shall have your head!" Yoshimitsu proclaimed while slashing the poker table in half; hoping to reach Raven who had teleported to safety.

Alisa was snapped out of her confusion the moment Lei carthweeled backward while right kicking her right under her chin. (Scythe Kick to Crane)
This sent her flying towards the ground.
As Lei got up he entered his Crane stance.
As Alisa thought she had discovered a weakness in this one-legged stance she tried to sweep his standing leg by doing a jet-propelled, left-turning,
double low kick but was surprised as Lei jumped over the sweep and right kicked her. (Harpoon Sweep/Crane Auto-Counter)
While Alisa laid on the ground Lei gave her a low kick from his Crane stance. (Crane Kick)
Asuka side-rolled up and hit Lei with a jet-propelled right palm to his stomach.
The hit swept him off his feet and as soon as he left the ground Alisa came in with a jet-propelled left knee sending him flying over the counter of the bar that was standing in the corner of the room.
(Jumper Switch)
Lei was knocked into the shelves with all kinds of spirits.
Alisa waited for him to emerge from behind the counter but it seemed he was knocked unconscious.
To verify she went over and looked behind, only to see Lei laying in a pool of booze and broken glass, one hand behind his head, supporting it, and in the other a bottle of a high-quality whiskey, which he had chugged for about one-fourth. (Play Dead)
"Good, this will incapacitate you and there will be no need for further aggression," Alisa stated.
Lei got up and walked in a staggering fashion whilst rolling his fists. (Startled Drunk)
Alisa checked his bio-mechanics with her android eyes.
"Hmm, temperature rising, but no fever? Could it be that this so-called 'ki' of his is rising?"
Lei took another sip from the bottle. (Tiger Sip)
Alisa saw a faster circulation of energy within his body.
"What is going on?" she asked as Lei staggered over left hitting her in the head while standing on his left leg. (Drunken Tiger Lash)
Alisa was sent backwards and Lei stumbled over.
While she got up, he made some waving motions with his hands as if he was holding a ball.
Suddenly her head was between his hands.
He yanked on it by making a circular motion with his whole body but to his surprise her body fell to the ground and he was left standing with head in hands. (Out of Control)
Whilst blankly gazing at a perplexed Lei, Alisa had the intent of activating the bomb inside her head.
She however decided not to as she turned her eyes to the corner of the room and saw Asuka sitting on the back of her honorable spare-parts caddy whilst pulling her leg,
Miharu screaming out in pain while bumping her fists on the floor.
She looked back at a still equally perplexed Lei and seemingly from nowhere her body sucker punched him in the gut. (Parry)
He let loose of her head as he dropped to the ground and Alisa caught it, placing it on her neck.
"It seems more efficient methods will be required to deal someone as tough as you," she said while she employed her chainsaws. (Destructive Form)
Lei got up. "Say, are you by any chance a robot?" Lei asked in broken English.
"Very good, Lei," a passing, flipping Raven said.
Just as Alisa was about to stab him he back turned, front turned and back turned away putting reasonable distance between them. (Shredder/Back Turn "Ha-ha Steps")
Alisa rushed over and made a dive towards Lei and the ground. (Thruster Drill)
Lei evaded the chainsaws by drunkenly, staggering away.
Nowhere left to run he stood facing a wall with a collection of classical Chinese weapons.
"I should have a weapon, too," he said as he took the spear.
From his back turned stance he lunged the spear towards Alisa's head, who had not dodged it completely and was cut across the cheek. Next he stabbed mid, cutting her side, gave a quick kick to her shin and stabbed high again on the other side and cheek, effectively giving her a Glasgow smile and revealing all her teeth. (Dancing Spear (with spear)).
Desperate Alisa dashed backwards.
Now she was ready to use a head bomb anyways.
In a ballerina-like motion she kicked her head towards Lei who kicked it back with a turning side kick. (Logic Bomb/Spinning Side Kick)
Alisa tried the same move again and while jumping Lei threw his spear towards it.
It entered the mouth and effectively pinned the head to the wall.
Lei rolled forward as he landed. (Immortal Flight).
The headless body and Lei rushed towards each other and both made a double, horizontal 360 ° turning kicking motion, both missing the first hit, but exchanging the second.
(Linear Dropkick/Turbulent Winds)

Hwoarang started with three right high kicks on a back turned and spinning away Xiaoyu. (Right Kick Combo/Spinner)
As he kicked for the third time Xiaoyu made a backroll under his leg and pushed herself up while double kicking him in the chest. (Cyclone Left)
As soon as he got up she used his body as stairways and lightly kicked the back of his head while jumping over him. (So Shoe Me)
"Huh, I'll show you how the boys do that one," he said doing a similar move but kicking her so hard in the back of the head she fell to the ground. (Human Cannonball)
As she got up he kicked her shin left and followed with a high right kick. (Step Right Low (spam))
Xiaoyu flinched as he repeated these same two hits over and over again.
Seemingly there appeared to be nothing that could stop this ongoing flurry of kicks.
Suddenly she guarded against the low and effectively ducked under the second high.
While crouching she made a half turn while left sweeping low and following with a right backhand slap from the back turned position. (Fire Dancer 2 Hits (spam))
She turned and did these same two hits again and again.
Hwoarang growing weary of the pattern recognized the incoming low and gave a jumping left kick over it, turned in air, right kicked, turned and ended with a left aerial axe kick. (Hunting Hawk)
Xiaoyu got up and turned backwards and gave two right back-hand slaps, one high and one low. (Turn of Fortune 2 Hits)
Hwoarang parried the two hits.
"I'll show you, no-hands" he said as he intended to land a double fist in Xiaoyu's lower back. (Push Hands)
Instantly Xiaoyu turned around waving her hands, effectively deflecting Hwoaring's hands and giving him a devastating push in the gut.
Hwoarang dropped to the ground, got up and came in with a low right kick and a high right kick. (Fire Cracker)
Not fazed by the pain in her shin Xiaoyu ducked in Art of Phoenix under the high kick and retaliated with a jumping left kick sending him in the air and immediately pulled him back to the ground with her left hand assuming Art of Phoenix once more. (Alley-Oop)
Hwoarang rolled back as Xiaoyu rolled forward and came in with a right slap across the cheek while turning her back. (Sunflower)
Xiaoyu instantly turned while crouching and punched right, got up, gave the same slap across the cheek again, turned, crouching punched right, got up, slapped across the cheek, and so on and so forth. (Sunflower/Generic Back Turned Right Low Punch (Spam))
"Haaa, you're really annoying, you know that?" Hwoarang said frustrated.
"Ha, you're one to talk," Xiaoyu said baiting Hwoarang into a back turned right lifting kick. (Mistrust)
As Hwoarang gave a right kick high, Xiaoyu phoenixed under it. (Right Hook Kick to Right Flamingo)
"No, not again," he said standing on his left leg.
He sweeped right low, turned and gave a left side kick sending her away. (Cactus Shot)
"I've got enough of your shenanigans!" Hwoarang said as he lunged in with a right kick. (Torpedo Kick)
"Same here!" Xiaoyu said waving left and right and ending with a thrusting mid palm. (Storming Flower) The two exchanged the attacks with each other.

Jun stared wide-eyed at the three ongoing fights in the room and the wreckage it caused.
"You know, it's times like this I'm glad I'm a smoker," Zafina said exhaling a huge cloud of smoke she had just drawn in from her grape-flavored hookah.
"Smoking's bad for you!" Jun said in a cutely concerned fashion, equally wide-eyed.
"Meh, helps the visions along," Zafina remarked.
"Hmm, I prefer purity and clarity for my visions, thank you very much!" Jun retorted.

Raven stood back turned as Yoshimitsu charged his sword and intended to stab his lower back. (Sword Stab).
Just as the blade was about to hit him Raven backflipped while fazing through Yoshimitsu. (Phantom Warp)
The alien-ninja quickly turned around to give a guarding Raven a right knee to the gut. (Fubuki)
"This is how you do knees," Raven said as he kneed Yoshimitsu right under his chin. (Swift Justice)
Yoshimitsu tried the same move again.
Raven blocked the move once more and unleashed a left flying knee to Yoshimitsu head. (Sudden Strike)
Raven came in with a slow turning right mid punch and just as he was about to hit Yoshimitsu the ninja flashed his sword making him collapse. (Laevateinn/Soul Stealer)
"You know, for a ninja, you're quite slow sometimes," Yoshimitsu laughed while charging ki doing a kabuki-like dance.
Raven got up and whiffed a right punch and right elbow, but got Yoshimitsu to the ground with the last pulling move. (Death Talon)
"Got your leg," he said.
As Yoshimitsu got up, Raven grabbed him, did a standing front split with Yoshimitsu hanging over his right foot, then he let go and kicked him with his left. (Orbiting Moon)
Yoshimitsu quickly rolled sideways did a forward somersault and ended by helicoptering mid-air right in front of Raven. (Poison Wind to Manji Dragonfly)
Surprised by the sudden shift Raven was head scissored by Yoshimitsu's legs as the latter made a half screw somersault throwing Raven into the ground and sitting on him. (Spirited Away)
Yoshimitsu tried some continuous spinning low kick attacks as Raven got up and parried everyone of them. (Manji Spin Low Kicks)
Raven laid on the ground and performed a breakdance-like kick that swept Yoshimitsu of his feet.
The "Talon of Death" kicked Yoshimitsu whilst mid-air. (Quicksand)
As Yoshimitsu got up Raven came in with a right punch, a right turning high kick and a seemingly cloned version of himself doing a high and low attack simultaneously.
That being a low sweep and a jumping dive kick. (Double Vision)
Yoshimitsu parried the first two hits, spinned away from the last double hit and grabbed Raven from behind.
As if they were two entangled starfish, Yoshimitsu cartwheeled him across the room, wrecking the pool table in it. (Wheels of Hell)
Raven put his arm over his head to prevent it from receiving damage.
Yoshimitsu charged his ki as he held his blade high with the intent to strike downwards as Raven was summoning ki to unleash a deadly blow. (Death Slash/Dead End)
Just as the two shinobi were about to hit each other they both vanished in dust...