Chapter 12: The Arrival Of The Tourament

AU: Sorry for the long wait for those who stook around long enough for this. I was having a hard time figuring out how to write this chapter. And for the one who posted a review saying it was silly asking for reviews: The reason I ask for reviews is because they give me more inspiration to write my chapters even more it wasn't because I was out of ideas or anyhting! And for those who do post reviews I'd aprreciate it if you wrote more stuff besides "Great Story" it kind of doesn't say much XD.

It was night time, the boat was to arrive at the tournament in the morning so all the fighters rested up well so they could be well prepared for their upcoming challanges.

Jiro was awake however as he kept thinking to himself: His nightmares have lead him this far but how was he to gain his answers, how do they all connect, and how is he to figure all this out with his best friend now in the tournament? "This is proving more difficult than I thought..." Jiro thought to himself. He got up and went outside on to get some fresh air, he looked up at the moon and smiled knowing his mother was most likely watching over him. He than looked at the pendant his father gave him before his depature, he opened it up and looked at the picture of him and his fmaily "Mother, Father, I know I can do this, I will figure everything out and win the tournament, I promise." Jiro than walked back inside and went to sleep.

Next Morning

The boat had finally arrived on a large island and everyone seemed prepared for a fight. "Dude this island his huge, whoever owns most be loaded!" Yosuke said in awe of the island, "Remember Yosuke, this isn't a vacation, we're here to fight in a competition." Jiro said reminding his friend of the reasoning for being here, "I know, I know, I'm just saying it's awesome we're gonna be here for a while this will be awesome!" Yosuke said with enthusiasm. "Hey, you both better be ready when the time comes for us to fight. Espically you Kazama!" Shinji said appearing behind the 2 and ready for a battle, Jiro looked back and nodded in response.

The fighters all arrived on the island and were instructed to walk a long flight of stairs and made it to one large open area that looked like a large battlefield. Jiro and Yosuke looked and examined the area, "I wonder who is hosting all this" Jiro thought out loud, "I'm not sure, I never heard about that either." Yosuke responded. Suddenly the large doors infront of everyone opened and out came a man who was wearing a black karate gi, he had a long mustache and appeared to be balding with white strands of hair sticking out. Jiro gasped at the sight of the man and held his head as if he was having a headache and begun to have flashbacks of his nightmare that showed this same man infront of him. Yosuke looked at his friend to see if he was ok "Jiro what's up? You alright?" Jiro calmed down and replied with a somewhat tired voice "Yeah, I'll be ok...I just didn't sleep well last night." Jiro looked at the man with a cold stare as the man began to speak, "Hello fellow fighters, I am Heihachi Mishima, the host of this tournament! You all came a long way to fight in this tournament for many personal reasons, some of you just wanted to riches. But now it is time for you to prove that. You will be selected carefully to decide on who your opponent shall be and you may proceed to the finals." A large screen was hung over and it displayed all the fighters and it began to shuffle around. Jiro and Yosuke looked nervously hoping now to fight eachother, Shinji was elsewhere looking rather anxious and hoped to get a tough challanger. After some time the screen stopped and displayed everyone's opponent: Jiro was to fight a man named Marshall Law, Yosuke was to fight Baek Doo San, and Shinji was to fight Steve Fox. Shinji scoffed at the sight of next opponent not thinking he would be much of a challange. Yosuke was looking forward to his match, while Jiro was not focused on that at the moment and was wondering who this Heihachi Mishima really is and what role he has to do with his nightmares.

In a distance, Ling Xiaoyu was observing Jiro along with Alisa Bosconovitch, and Panda who were all sent there by Jin to watch Jiro, "Xiaoyu, I'm really worried about Jiro, what if he gets hurt?" Alisa expressed her concern. "So am I, but we need to have confidence in him, he'll be ok." Xiaoyu said.

The participants were instructed to go to different parts of the island that had many stadiums for them all to fight, Jiro and Yosuke wished eachother luck, Yosuke was really getting excited to fight, while Jiro kept his cool and put his nightmare thoughts on hold so he wouldn't get distracted during his fight.

Jiro vs. Marshall Law

The 2 arrived at their distination at the same time and both bowed down to eachother out of respect, "Nice to meet ya, I'm Marshall Law, I'm not only a martial artist but I'm also a chef too." Law said introducing himself, clearly trying to break the ice before they fight. Jiro seemed calmed and introduced himself "I am Jiro Kazama, a junior high student. It's nice to meet you." Jiro wasn't sure what else to say about himself, but there was now to time to talk as a bell rung, signaling it was time to fight, the 2 took their repsective fighting poses and were ready to fight. Marshall Law dashes forward at Jiro and swung his leg up real high and fast, Jiro narrowly avoided it. Law than throw very fast punches at Jiro, which he managed to block, Law crouched down and tried to trip Jiro with a kick, but Jiro jumped backwards and landed on his feet "Ok given his movements, it's Jeet Kune Do!" Jiro thought after analyzing his oppenent's movements and attacks. "Hey, if you keep avoiding my attacks and running away you won't win." Law said from a distance, "Don't underestimate me." Jiro said as he launched at Law with an uppercut, which sent him into the air, Jiro than spun around and sent a strong puch Law to Law that sent him flying. Law fell to the ground, but got up quickly "So you can fight huh?" Law said with an impressed look, "I'm full of surprises." Jiro said. The 2 than clashed with many blows to eachother both landed good hits and impressing eachother, "Your really strong, but you couldn't have done all this without some form of training..." Law noted, "I was trained by my father, who is a great and loving man who has taught me everything." Jiro said with a smile, "So your father trained ya huh? I have a son of my own, and I taught him myself." Law said, Jiro jumped backwards and ran towards Law and perfomred a cartwheel without his hands kicked Law. Law regained his balance and wasn't ready to give up yet, Jiro than tried to kick Law, but he grabed his leg before he could hit him. Law smirked and spun Jiro around for a bit and threw him. However Jiro managed to regain balance and landed on his feet, Law had a surprised look on his face "This boy was trained well" Law thought to himself, "It is time I won" Jiro declared, he began to move very swiftly around Law and punched him repeatedly in the back and moved forward to Law's front and kicked him, he than spun a bit and delieverd a forceful push sending Law flying and tumbling over. Jiro stood his ground quietly and Law layed on the ground, a bell rung with an announcer "Jiro Kazama, winner!" Jiro smiled and went to help Law up, "Thank you," Law said now on his feet "You fight with a strong heart my friend." Law explained, "Thank you very much sir." Jiro said. Jiro began to walk away, "Hey is there a reason your in this tournament by any chance?" Law questioned, Jiro stopped and shited his eyes to the side "It's a deep reason, I can't discuss it with anyone." Jiro explained, he than began to run off.

Yosuke vs. Baek

Yosuke and Baek had begun their battle, Yosuke was a black belt in Karate and Baek was a master in Taekwondo, both were evenally matched and just couldn't seem to beat eachother. "You have much talent my boy, but you are somewhat lacking." Baek declared, "Thanks for the tip, but I'm just fine, and I will prove it to you." Yosuke said with detirmination, Yosuke ran and jumped high in the air and flipped several feet and came flying down with a strong punch to Baek's face, which caused Baek to fall on his backside. Baek got up and had an impressed look on his face, "Very nice, now, let me show you my skills." Baek came with a flying kick to Yosuke's gut and they both went flying across the field, Baek thought he had dealt a good blow, however Yosuke lifted his head up and smirked, "Got ya!" Yosuke declaired, "What the?" Baek had a confused look on his face, it turns out, Baek didn't hit Yosuke at all, Yosuke was able to grab Baek's leg at the last second and was holding it under his arms the whole time. Yosuke spun Baek around kicked him into the air, Yosuke jumped up high and delivered a strong karate chop to Baek sending him flying down to the ground. The same bell and announcer went off, "Yosuke Fujiyama, winner!" Yosuke smiled brightly and and cheered, he helped Baek up and made sure he was ok, "I hope I didn't mess you up to badly, sorry about that." Yosuke said, "No, you did far better than I expected my friend, I may be a teacher, but I have much to learn by the looks of things." Baek said with a smile, Yosuke backed up, bowed, and left.

Back at the entrance, the remaining fighters all gathered along with Jiro and Yosuke who congratulated eachother. "Yosuke, I bet that creep Shinji lost his match, what do you think?" Yosuke asked Jiro. "I doubt it, he's very determined to fight with me, I don't think he'd go down that easy." Jiro declaired, and as if on time, Shinji appeared with a few brusies, smiling victoriously as if he won a gold medal. "Yeah, that's right boys, I won my match and he was so easy, he should've surrendered before the match started." Shinji said bragging, both Jiro and Yosuker shook their heads in disbelief, Yosuke looked more close at Shinji and began to laugh at some of the bruises he had "You sure you didn't get hit that bad in the head or something?" Yosuke laughed out loud. Shinji had an angered look on his face as if ready to attack Yosuke, but Heihachi appeared and began another announcement: "You all did well to win your first matches, don't worry about your former opponents, they fought with pride and dignity and will always be great warriors. Tomorrow will begin your 2nd and 3rd matches and you will fight your next opponets. Now retire to your rooms and train and rest well." Heihachi began to walk away and all the participants looked at eachother and all wondered who their next opponents will be. As they walked away, Jiro noticed the same girl he and Yosuke saw on the boat, Jiro felt something was bothering her and went to ask her. "Excuse me, miss?" Jiro said gaining her attention, "Oh hello, who are you?" she asked in a polite manner, "I am Jiro, I'm sorry if I'm bothering you, but I can't help but notice...you seem upset about something, something very sad and dark. Whatever is the matter? I wish to know." Jiro explained. The girl had a surprised look on her face and was amazed at how such a young man could tell what was going through her mind "My name is Julia Chang, and...yes...something is wrong. You see...I am an archeology researcher and I wish to rejuvinate Arizona, where I grew up with my mother, and I was once close to accomplishing that dream, but sadly the Mishima Zaibatsu attacked the company I worked for and I have lost all data." Julia explained, Jiro was shocked and felt sorry for her, "Why do you ask by the way?" Julia questioned, Jiro looked up with a straight face and explained "I can't stand the sight of others sad and being miserable, I want to live in a world where everyone is happy, and I do what I can to make sure others feel that way, it's a tough thing to do, but it's what I believe." Jiro stated. Julia was amazed to hear such a speech from a young man and she smiled "That's such a lovely thing to say, it does sound like a tough thing to accomplish, but maybe you will get there." Julia explained, Jiro smiled and nodded in agreement, the 2 walked away and wished eachother good luck. "Dude what was that? Did you get any digits?" Yosuke asked acting like a total geek, Jiro laughed a bit and shook his head "No Yosuke it's nothing like that, I was just being nice to a fellow competitor." Jiro assured Yosuke, "Aw come on man, you should've asked her out or something." Yosuke said in dissapointmnet, "She's clearly older than us, why would I do something like that?" Jiro questioned, the 2 walked away to their rooms to rest. Jiro now sees how determined others are in this tournament as it is not just for money, he now vows that if Julia were to fail in this tournament, he would win it for her, to not only because it will help him in accomplishing his dream of a happy world of happy people, but forher dream as well...