Kay stood casually with one foot on the thin branch of a dying tree as he glanced tiredly at the old man in the tree across from him.

"Is all this really necessary?" Kay grimaced as he motioned at the shackles around his shins.

"In mastery of one of the principles of our family's Kung Fu, you must prove yourself to have strong legs, thus your speed will be great." the old man intoned as if reading from a dusty old book.

"I know that, grandfather." Kay grimaced again and spun around on one leg with the other held up high at his side. "But I've been doing this for over ten years." Then he smirked. "Just admit it, old man. You're getting too old to catch up with me so there's more of a chance you'll win while we spar with these weights on me."

"Such insolence!" his grandfather raged. "You've been in America for far too long, boy! These American children have no respect for their elders!"

"Hai, hai, hai." Kay yawned as he waved the old man off.

It was a common occurence during sparring actually, both knew that Kay respected his grandparents well for taking the trouble to raise him well and teach him their family's kung fu. Though he knew all the principles of their martial arts by heart, he could not help but feel that they weren't 'all' however.

"That's it! After we're done with this, you're going through the Drunken Fist forms with your bracers too!" gramps shouted.

Kay slapped his forehead, and once again, his arrogance got him into trouble.
 

Isle of Shadow . . .

Kay's eyes flickered open and he yawned, but quickly regretted that as a vile taste filled his mouth. Gathering his wits quickly, one thought went through his mind. *Zero1's damn socks . . .*

He would have stretched if he could, but he couldn't, strong elastic stockings were tied around his wrist, and then there was another problem . . . he was hanging upside down.

Now, any perverted man like the current writer is familiar with (I call them 'friends' by the way) would just LOVE the thought of being tied up by a hot looking young woman (writer refrains from using the sexist term 'chick' . . . oops). Not many might survive in the end with all the blood rushing to their heads.

Kay Lee merely felt bored as he swung side to side like a pendulum via the rope which held him upside down. For some reason, being hung upside down didn't bother him a bit. Now he wondered about that weird dream he was having . . . now he couldn't remember it, damn socks.
 

A battle between Yin and Yang ^_^v . . .

"Even though we've only just met, and I'm a girl, don't hold back!" Lilly winked as she flicked her hair back.

"Trust me, I've faced women before." Yang smiled as he bowed slightly with his head and got into his fighting stance.

"Round One . . . Begin!" the robed figure intoned as he brought his hand down, signaling the beginning of the fight.

The two slowly began to circle one another with Yang's hands steady in front of him, his front leg ready to utilize his speed at any moment. Lilly merely held a defensive stance close to her, her flute held in front of her chest, ready to deflect any attacks Yang would make.

And in one instant, Yang was in front of her, seemingly moved from one space to another, though his recovery with the technique was not as quick as Lilly's fist connecting against the side of his head. Yang flew to the side, but took the momentum in his flight to roll backwards and come to a standing position.

"You underestimated me." Lilly simply smiled.

Yang smiled and nodded as he began to slowly edge closer to her, his arms more firmly in place now than before.
 

Now back to the man we've left hanging . . . (literally)

Crimson walked along the halls, bored, out of his mind with absolutely nothing to do until his fight would come up. A good game of poker had been played, but that quickly got boring when Crimson found himself on the losing end thanks to his inexperience with actually playing the game.

Passing by the window of a room, Crimson noted the man hanging upside down by his feet swinging about a bit like a pendulum. Crimson shrugged and passed by the same scene, until he suddenly stopped.

*Huh . . whoa . . . wait a minute here . . .* Crimson thought to himself as he slowly backstepped to look again through the window at the man swinging about upside down.

When the Oriental man saw him, he started swinging side to side more frantically, hoping to somehow catch the other's attention, which was unnecessary, a guy hanging upside down and swinging around a little was enough to catch the attention of any half-retard passing by.

Crimson nodded frantically as he pushed the windows open and climbed his way into the room, good thing the room was on the first floor.

"Aaaahhh, that girl can get so violent at times." Kay said after Crimson managed to untie him and bring him back to the correct position a person should be, feet on ground. He grimaced as he felt at his wrists, then grinned. "Five stockings just to tie up my hands? I'm flattered . . ."

"You and your girlfriend were gonna go at it, and suddenly have a falling out or something?" Crimson asked slyly. Why else would a guy be tied up?

"Vat do you mwean?" Kay asked as he brushed his teeth of Zero1's stinky socks, then he spat the water out and turned to Crimson, wiping his mouth a towel. "The girl got mad all because I borrowed two bucks to buy a burger." he said bitterly. "Then she had to go nutso on me, and hung me upside down for-" he counted on his fingers for a moment. "-two hours, had a short nap."

Crimson merely grew a sweatdrop out of the off-handed way he was taking things. He also felt a little disappointed. "You mean . . . you and your girlfriend weren't . . ." He trailed off, trying to find the nicest way of saying it.

"Victoria?! My girlfriend?!" Kay looked quite uneasy at the idea. "Aiya . . . when she gets PMS . . ." Kay shuddered. "Trust me, only the strong can survive around her, I've been lucky so far. No, she's not my girlfriend." Then he looked at Crimson with a raised eyebrow. "Hey, what was it with that tone asking about what we were doing?"

Crimson grew a new sweatdrop and was forced to whisper into Kay's ears.

When he was finally done, all Kay could say was. "That sounds disgusting."
 

We now return you to our regularly scheduled battle . . .

Lilly breathed heavily as she held her shoulder, her knees sagging slightly as she looked across the battlefield towards her opponent, who looked to be in a similar state.

*He looks kinda cute with the sweat on his body, making the clothes stick closely.* Lilly grinned as she openly admired the Chinese martial artist.

That flew right over said Chinese martial artist's head however as he began to calculate some form of strategy against his opponent.

*Her techniques . . . they're similar to Chun Li's, but different.* Yang mentally shook his head. *I can't fight her as I fight Chun Li, that flute caught me off guard before.*

The referee beneathe his or her's dark robings was smiling appreciatively at how high a level these two were taking their martial arts abilities. With this much power to add to Naar's already powerful dark force, few would be able to stand against their dark god. Unknowingly to him and the two fighters present, he was emitting a dark aura in his present excitement.
 

At the house somewhere . . .

Victoria's eyes narrowed as she felt a sinister aura in the air, the aura was beginning to inwardly suffocate her being despite her outward appearance. Finally she felt herself black out . . .

*No . . .* was her final thought.

*Yes . . .* was a new, more sinister thought.
 

In the same house . . .

"Did you feel that?!" Kay asked sharply, a stabbing sensation in the front of his head.

"What do you mean?" Crimson asked, befuddled by his sudden change in attitude. Where before he had been relaxed and friendly, he had suddenly become tense and alert.

"Use your awareness of ki." Kay whispered fiercely as he held his forehead in frusration, a strain beginning to form in his voice. "Spread it out a little, feel the aura . . ." A frightening thought suddenly came to him as his eyes widened. *Oh no . . . Victoria . . .*

Crimson allowed his senses to reach out like in meditation and suddenly gasped at the uncomfortable cold grip in his stomach. "N-no way . . ." Crimson choked out, struggling to keep himself under control.

"Stop sensing it!" Kay said sharply, realizing Crimson's unfamiliarity with such a strong dark aura. This was his first time as well probably, but he didn't know he could stand to feel the taint of it. Kay's neck jerked back and his head glanced wildly over at the door, his eyes growing in terror at what he felt was about to come. "Run!" Pushing Crimson ahead of him and out of the first floor window, he shoved the Bushin warrior ahead, panic growing in the pits of his stomach.

*Where are you?* Victoria's sinister voice whispered softly into his mind. *Come out, come out wherever you are . . .*

Kay began letting loose a flow of curses in four different languages, the curses he understood from the suddenly mad Oriental martial artist behind him, made Crimson pale and wonder how this same man could not know a thing about the bees and the birds when he knew all these words.

Actually, Kay didn't know a thing of what most of what he said meant, but he had been around plenty of truck drivers, construction workers, and laborers to learn it and the proper tone of useage in different situations.

*Bad, bad boy.* Psycho Victoria's voice echoed in his head. *What a potty mouth you have, young man. You're going to eat some soap for that . . . among other things.*

Kay responded with another flurry of curses of what SHE should eat. He wasn't feeling so kind at the moment, the powerful dark aura seemed far too familiar and made him angry for some reason. It was taking all the control he could muster to prevent himself from lashing out at the nearest person. Which was unfortunately, Crimson.

"H-hey, man!" Crimson shouted as he ran ahead of Kay. "What's going on?!"

"Bad . . . bad aura . . . and Victoria's got PMS again." Kay scowled.

"Is it really that bad for her?" Crimson asked and he looked into Kay's serious eyes.

"PMS only roughly begins to describes it." Kay replied.
 

Somewhere on the Isle again . . .

"Do you sense it?" Guy asked Iwa.

"Yeah." Iwa nodded, then frowned. "There are two vibes now, and a faint one that's being suppressed at the moment."

"The second one's growing in power, now if I can just sense where its coming from . . ." Iwa's eyes widened in horror and Guy nearly leaped into the air himself, if anything would get this stoic young lady going besides Kumori . . . He reflexively began praying to Buddha.

"Its here . . ." Kumori said, seriously now. "In this very cabin where we're at."

"I think I know who." Zero1 said as he looked up from his hand. "Victoria . . ."

A string of curses had been all the warning they had, as Kay and Crimson suddenly bursted in from the doorway, panting and breathing heavily as if all hell was at their heels.

"See? I told you that you'd get Victoria psycho on your ass again sooner or later." Zero1 admonished Kay. "And how inconsiderate of you to get the rest of us involved."

"Not my fault!" Kay shouted as he held his head.

Iwa quirked an eyebrow at the way Kay's power seemed to be increasing. Again, she felt that something about him like the time the two sparred at the courtyard of the Buddhist temple.

"Damnit!" Kay screamed as he held his head. "Why won't this noise stop?!"

*It can't be . . .* Iwa's eyes were beginning to understand, a thought which she did not want to grasp was coming closer to her, despite her reflexiveness to push it away.

"YOU!" Kay exclaimed when he saw Iwa, and walked over towards her, still with one hand holding his forehead. "I KNOW you know what's happening!"

Iwa merely rushed at him and punched him in the gut, and breathed slightly easier when his form fell limp onto his arm before she merely allowed it to simply drop to the floor.

"Now that takes care of one problem." Zero1 said simply as he leaned back in his seat. "But what about Victoria?"
 

The battle between Yin and Yang continues . . .

*This is taking too long.* Lilly thought to herself as she was again facing Yang after they had already traded various blows against one another. Lilly obviously seemed to overpower her opponent with techniques derived from her idol, Chun Li, but Yang continue to hold the element of surprise and his familiarity with Chun Li's style.

*Time to end this, we both obviously don't have enough much energy left to recover from one hit, its the one who hits first that wins now . . .* Yang thought grimly to himself as he clenched his hand into a fist.

*This decides it, one attack . . . any attack, and its al over.* Lilly nodded to herself as she raised her fists again for a final attack in thei match. Who would win?

*BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP*

Both fighters froze and glanced over at their referee who glanced at the electronic stopwatch at his side, his dark aura disappeared as if it had never been as well. He looked to the two fighters beneathe his hood, noting the conditions both were in and finally said. "Time limit has expired, fighters are in similar conditions, this is a draw match."

(Don't you just hate me? ^_^)
 

Now back at our cabin . . .

Victoria yawned and found herself with her daggers at the front door of the cabin. Blinking once and blinking twice, Victoria shrugged as she putted her daggers away and turned the doorknob to get back inside the cabin, where she would be greeted by several martial artists or street fighters in fighting stances facing her . . .

"Uuuummm . . . hola?" Victoria meekly asked.

The group facefaulted and most of them glanced over at Crimson and Kay increduously. The latter was fortunately unconcious, while the former shrugged helplessly.

"Its alright, the dark aura's gone." Iwa said apathetically as she returned to feeding chestnuts to Maru now.
 

A little bit later now . . .

"Hey guys, why don't we go out for a drink or something?" Cody yawned and twisted his neck around a bit, loud popping sounds emitting from the action. "I saw a pretty fancy bar in town on this island."

"Fighters' Inn?" Zero1 asked as he attempted to carve a piece of wood. All cool looking guys had to do something when there was nothing going on after all, and carving wood just happened to be one of them.

Too bad he didn't look so cool struggling to get his blade through the wood, or the fact that the wood looked . . . odd.

*Fighters' Inn?* Crimson blinked, was everything on this artificial island called Fighters' something or another.

"How about we go to Fighters' Theme Park?" Kumori chirped happily as she practically head stomped her way into their 'guy talk.'

*This island's nuts . . .* Crimson grew a sweatdrop.

"Uuuuuuunnnhhh, can someone get me the address of that mad woman?" Kay moaned from the side of the floor, finally waking up. "Because I'd like to tell the asylum they're missing one."

*Poor guy, must hang around too many violent women.* Crimson shook his head sympathetically.

"So, you're finally awake." Iwa said off-handedly as she carved a piece of wood herself. Due to years of trial and error, and because she was female, asked someone to teach her, Iwa's carving actually LOOKED like something. Iwa smirked as Zero1 looked down at whatever he had.

Zero1 bared his teeth at her.

Brand bared his teeth at him.

Zero1 edged back a tad bit.

Iwa smirked again.

"I guess its not surprising, you're a pretty strong young man, despite having that pretty boy look." Iwa said simply as she finished carving the wooden Brand, teeth and all. She smirked as she handed the carving to Zero1 who merely glared at her.

"Why thank you." Kay blushed.

"It wasn't a compliment." Iwa replied.

"Oh."

"So, how about it? Want to go grab a few drinks?" Cody asked, bringing the topic of the room's conversation back to where it was.

"Sure, why not?" Zero1 shrugged, trying to avoid glancing at the carved model of Brand, those teeth looked awfully real. "Been doing nothing anyway."

No one decided to point out his 'carving', it was just too easy.

"Hey, what is this?" Kay asked as he picked up the carving Zero1 had setted to the side.

Well, he was unconcious most of the time.

"Don't you have a litter box for your squirrel?" Kay asked distastefully, coming to a conclusion of what it probably was as he flicked it into the trash can.

"DIE!" Iwa and Zero1 shouted simultaneously as they both roundhoused him into the air, the serious look of it was ruined by a leaping squirrel trying to do the same thing.

"Oi . . ." Kay managed to choke out as he embedded the ceiling while the spectators grew large sweatdrops trailing down the side of their heads.

After the guys managed to pry Kay off of the ceiling, they finally agreed to go get drunk or something of the other. Basically it all ended up in getting drunk though. There was a problem though . . .

The girls wanted to come too.

"WHAT?!" the guys shouted.

After many threats which involved bodily harm to the lower anatomies of the male body and such while asleep, not to mention the girlfriends (for those are are paired of course) threatening to break up. The men didn't stand a chance.

"And after this, can we go watch Titanic?" Kumori piped up. "I hear one of the theatres is still playing it!"

Those who didn't like that horribly long movie cried.

"NOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Iwa wailed as she was dragged off by set-faced men who didn't want to possibly suffer alone. After all, she was Kumori's best friend.
 

Now at Fighters' Inn (I couldn't think of anything else @.@) . . .

"Come on, boy! Be a man!" Volpe hicked as he poured some vodka into Kay's glass, he then turned to pour some more into Crimson's. "You too, my young friend."

"Oh, Buddha . . . he's already wasted." Kay said as he looked on with wide eyes as Volpe downed his fifth cup. "You'd think they teach him self-control in the military or something."

"Ya know . . . I've never been to bars much . . ." Volpe murmured as he peered at the glass filled with amber liquid. "My buddies always go out, yet . . . they never invite me along! Wonder why . . ."

Crimson and Kay merely nodded as Volpe began going on about old war stories, investigations, how many donuts he grabbed during lunch when he could, the various pink clothes he had.

"*hic* Aaaah, this is great . . ." Crista said as she snuggled up against Wai Lim's shoulder, she was rapidly becoming intoxicated as well.

"Yep . . ." Wai Lim said, enjoying the closeness between him and Crista. He glanced down at her now. "You still not mad about before are you?"

"I'm still mad . . ." Crista snuggled closer to him. ". . . but I'm also really drunk, so I'll kick your ass tomorrow morning."

"Okay." Wai Lim smiled as he returned her snuggle.

"Another one." Iwa commanded the bartender.

"B-b-but that was your seventh screwdriver!" the bartender gaped.

Iwa grabbed the bartender by the scruff of the neck and glared at him deeply as her stinky breath cascaded over him with a deadly deep voice. "After this, I will be forced to watch a movie over three hours long which I utterly despise, I'll need to be as intoxicated as possible, got that?"

"Y-yes, ma'am!" the bartender quickly pulled out another screwdriver, in a bigger glass this time.

Iwa felt someone tap on her shoulder.

"G'way." Iwa muttered as she downed half of the big glass.

"Is that any way to talk to your sensei like that?" a voice said sternly from behind her.

The glass landed softly onto the counter again and Iwa turned on her stool to face Ryu. "Aiya . . ."

Chun Li and Ryu looked sternly down at her with their arms folded.

"Yep, this is the good life, eh?" Ryu Dragon bubbled as he took another swig of beer with his arm around Rogue's waist with the rest of his buddies. "Cheers!"

"Cheers!" his buddies intoned.

"And because there are so many talented fighters here tonight, let's all have a try at KARAOKE!" the innkeeper announced via the microphone. "Which one of our fighters wants to go first?"

None answered or replied.

"There's a prize!" the innkeeper announced hopefully.

Curious eyes looked up at him.

"A mug from this inn!" the innkeeper announced proudly as he held up a dirty mug.

They ignored him again.

"Okay, okay, free drinks for the winner tonight?" the innkeeper asked.

"Come on, men! Free booze! We can't let this opportunity go!" Volpe declared as he dragged the reluctant Kay, Crimson, Zero1, and John up to the platform where the karaoke machines were.

"Hey, wait just a minute there-" the innkeeper said worriedly, with so many men winning this . . .

"Shove aside, soldier!" Volpe said, a gleam in his eyes. "We got a mission to complete!" Volpe peered through the songs and counted how many of them were there. "Uuumm, hey, this looks good." He signals the D.J. and hands microphones to his reluctant soldiers, giving them their parts.

Their eyes widened when they realize what song Volpe was asking them to do . . .

"I can't sing this!" Zero1 shouted.

"Oh geez . . ." Crimson stared.

"Do or die, men! This is war!" Volpe growled, it was very much evident he was drunk.

The men gulped as Volpe signaled the music to cue. The song was definitely evident when the music started playing as Kay and Volpe started singing, with the help of Volpe's glare of course.

"~/It's tearing up my heart when I'm with you. But when we are apart, I feel it too. And no matter what I do, I feel the pain with or without you./~" Kay and Volpe sang 'N Sync's "Tearing Up My Heart."

"~/Baby I don't understand. Just why we can't be lovers? Things are getting out of hand. Trying too much, but-/~" Kay was singing solo now with his part.

"~/-baby we can't win./~" Crimson joined in with with Kay's singing. "~/Let it go./~"

"~/If you want me/~" Kay sang.

"~/girl, let me know/~" Kay and Crimson sang, the two were really beginning to get into the song as they waved and winked to the squealing girls.

"~/I am/~" Kay sang.

"~/down on my knees/~" Kay and Crimson sang.

"~/I can't take it anymore . . ./~" Kay sang.

"~/It's tearing up my heart when I'm with you. But when we are apart, I feel it too. And no matter what I do, I feel the pain with or without you/~" the whole group was singing now as they smiled towards their fans.

"~/Baby don't misunderstand/~" Volpe sang solo now.

"~/don’t misunderstand/~" Kay echoed softly.

"~/What I'm trying to tell ya/~" Crimson and Volpe sing together now.

"~/In the corner of my mind . . ./~" Kay echoed softly.

"~/Baby, it feels like we are running out of time. Let it go/~" Crimson and Volpe sang again.

"~/If you want me/~" Volpe sang.

"~/girl, let me know/~" Volpe and Crimson sang.

"~/I am/~" Volpe sang.

"~/down on my knees/~" Volpe and Crimson sang.

"~/I can't take it anymore . . ./~" Volpe sang.

Now, this was quite a long song, and the writer doesn't really want to waste your time by giving you the whole song, so the group finished their song with a big flourish! The girls of course, cheering wildly and madly for our male fighters. And this author has ripped off enough of the words of their song anyway, and please don't sue.

Victoria was up next, after much urging by friends to do so and she stood at the podium now with her karaoke microphone, browsing through the songs and the artists. Finally she picked one out. The music began, and she began singing Jennifer Lopez's "If You Had My Love."

"~/Now if I give you me, this is how it's got to be. First of all I won't take your cheating on me. Tell me who can I trust if I can't trust in you. And I refuse to let you play me for a fool/~" Victoria sang as she danced to the beat of the song, causing some nosebleeds in the front row.

"~/You said that we could possibly spend eternity. See, that's what you told me, that's what you said. But if you want me you'll have to be fulfilling all my dreams. If you really want me baby/~" Victoria sang before a chorus came up from the machines.

Now, we get alot of casualties here, immense loss of blood and all, and I don't want to go into all the details of the song. Its a solo act anyway ^_~v.

Now Kumori goes up to sing for all of us, and will obviously, much to Iwa's chagrin, sing "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion in Titanic.

"~/Every night in my dreams I see you, I feel you. That is how I know you go on. Far across the distance and spaces between us. You have come to show you go on . . ./~" Kumori sang, almost frighteningly like Celine Dion herself.

"AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!" Iwa screamed as she suddenly passed out in on the bar.

And now for our final song of the night, since most of the later singers we don't know a thing about, and those whom we know, refuse to sing even for free booze. (Actually, I've pretty much run out of songs to try posting. @.@)

"~/And caaannn you *SCREECH* FEEL the *SCREECH* LOVE tonight!/~" Crista and Night (tried to) sing. Being the last and under the heavy influence of many alcholic beverages, people have gotta start singing bad.

*GROAN*

"Stop killing the cat!" Zero1 shouted in irritation admidst the people in fetal positions covering their ears as best as they could.

"WHAT?!" Wai Lim shouted blearily in the midst of intoxication. "Thwat's mwusic! Not shome, dumb cwat!"

Meanwhile in another corner where Kay was blearily taking another chug of whatever alcohol he was drinking now, he looked at the woman across from him.

"Hey . . . you look cute . . ." Kay mumbled as he leaned forward across the table. "Kwinda familiar, but cute . . ."

"Thwanks . . ." the girl replied blearily. "You dun lwook so bad yerself! How about coming closer and gimmee a kissie?"

"Kwissh?" Kay asked blearily. "I dunno how to kwissh."

"Weally?" the woman replied. "Here, just put your face closer to mwine and . . ."

Kay did so, and merely fell on his back to the floor. At closer inspection of the woman's face, his eyes widened slightly through the fog. "Hwey . . . zat you, Vicky?"

"Uuuhhh . . . dun call me Vicky." Victoria took another chug of beer down from her mug, then she squinted her eyes at the man on the floor. "Hweeeeeyyyyy . . . zat you, Kway?"

"Yep . . ." Kay paused for a moment as he struggled to get up, then placing his elbows on the table as he peered at her. "Ya know . . . I always knew I had to be drunk to think you were purdy."

"Aaaawww, how sweet . . ." Victoria hicced. "I'll beat you up tomorrow morning if I remember that though."

"I tell ya, its cwap!" Zero1 shouted bitterly as he and Wai Lim both tried to prove one knew more about music than the other.

"Oh yweah?!" Wai Lim retorted drunkenly. "Shwow me shome mushic then!"

"I will!" Zero1 delcared and began sing. "~/Oh give me a home . . ./~"

The people whimpered and curled up some more, and drank more alcohol too. The innkeeper was ecstatic however, with such bad singing he was selling more booze than he ever had! It didn't matter that everyone else thought they were singing bad, both songs were music to his ears. (You'd think they were music to your ears if you were paid to listen, wouldn't you? Alot I mean)

"You shuck!" Wai Lim shouted.

"Oh weah?! Well, eat THIS!" Zero1 shouted as he leaped to tackle Wai Lim.

Instead, he tackled a very drunk Iwa.

Iwa began spouting a strong of curses in Mandarin as she uppercutted Zero1 at Shock Wave.

"RIOOOOOTTT!" someone shouted, and to the innkeeper's horror, glass started breaking, tables were overturned, stools raised high to clobber others . . .

"Geez . . . such violence." Volpe stared from his seat, which just happened to be behind Kay, and a beer can just happened to hit the back of Kay's head.

"Hey! What did you do that for?!" Kay yelled as he backhanded Volpe, toppling the military man to the ground. Giving him no chance to recover in his drunken rage, Kay leapt on the pink-shirt fighter and started throwing punches everywhere on him.

"You swuck!" Wai Lim shouted as he punched at Zero1.

"No, YOU swuck!" Zero1 shouted, attempting to kick Wai Lim.

"People, people . . ." Lilly Yin stumbled about a little. "Can't we all . . . just get along?"

A beer can beaned her on the head.

Managing to get past Kay's attacks, Volpe now held Kay up by the scruff of his shirt. "Wat ho, varlet! Why dost thou dare to attack in such an unmanly way by pushing one to the floor and giving him no opportunity to-urk!" Volpe doubled over as Kay kicked him in the gut, but Kay suddenly went flying to the other side of the room, crashing into a fight between Wai Lim and Zero1.

"WAAAAAHHHHH!!" Kay cried as he crashed in between them. Seeing the interference, Wai Lim and Zero1 letted out their frustration on Kay, swing their staffs at him.

Aaaahh, what better way to end the day for a street fighter than a good ol' bar fight to bring the adrenalines pumping in our veins, right? Them being the mighty fighters they were, they would recover quickly. And also since the most of the fighters of the tournament happened to be IN that bar fight, the tournament was delayed for several days to let them heal. Its not very big business to show people fighting in bandages and crutches after all. Enmity brought forth from that night was forgotten of course, no hard feelings besides that which existed before the bar fight were still around. The media group were still happy however, they got footage of the whole bar fight after all and could show it. And the fighters were happy, once they got over their hangovers of course, they knew they had a great fight that night, if they could remember any of it. Yet there was one person who WASN't happy . . . the innkeeper.
 

When everyone has recovered now . . .

"I got a fight this afternoon." Kay said as he looked at the piece of paper indicating the time and location of his fight.

"Good luck." Zero1 said as he attempts yet again to carve a piece of wood.

"Are you in the business of making fake feces?" Kay inquired as he watched Zero1 struggle through it.

"You want to be in top form in your fight?" Zero1 scowled as he held up his carving knife.

Kay scurried away at that.

"Making fake feces indeed . . ." Zero1 mumbled as he setted to carving it, then his eyes widened. " . . . but hey . . . he's right, kids like anything that looks like crap!"
 

Now, at Kay's match . . .

"You-you're my opponent?!" Kay exclaimed as he watched the man in the red military outfit floating slightly above the ground before him.

"Why yes, I'm here to see if you've gotten any better than when we last met, boy." Bison laughed Evil Mad Dictator Laugh #68.

"What do you mean?" Kay's eyes narrowed. "I've never met you before."

"You probably don't, your memories were sealed by your grandfather after all." Bison mused as he floated around Kay in a perfect circle. (My math teacher said that anyone who could make a perfect circle on their own was crazy. A wise man that math teacher was.)

"Grandfather?"

"You might as well know now anyway." Bison shrugged beneathe his mantle. "I killed your parents, your grandparents raised you, then I killed them, now I'm gonna utilize your power by brainwashing you and turning you into a soldier of ShadowLaw. Get it? Got it? Good." Bison nodded at the referee to begin the fight.

"ROUND ONE, BEGIN!" the referee signaled the beginning of the match.

Now, we all don't need to go into much detail of Kay getting his ass whupped (badly) by Mr. Bison here. But I'm sure alot of you are itching to see or have this writer's character get himself a good beat down. Soooo . . . Kay doesn't stand a chance really in this match.

"PSYCHO CRUSHER!!!"

See? And that isn't even the same move as it was in Street Fighter Alpha 3 when Bison was boss. Oohh . . . watch out for that head stomp now. Ouch, that Double Knee Press has to hurt. Well, at least he didn't do TOO badly, Instant Step Attacks seem to be working out fine for now, yikes, not anymore. Give up?

"I'll never give up!" Kay shouts.

Now Kay, as a good guy, goes into all that thing about family and how he wants Bison to tell him everything. And wow, can you believe who was the one who invited Kay into the tournament and had that attack on Po-Lin and Wong-Mei? BISON! Now Kay here is getting mighty pissed off that Bison's been pulling his strings all along now. Yet he STILL doesn't understand why Bison wants him or his family's school of martial arts. And after another Psycho Shot, Kay's down on the ground, barely concious as it is to hear Bison's final speech (notice how this guy seems to like to talk alot in almost every appearance he has made?).

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Bison laughed triumphantly with his arms folded across his chest as he looked down at the beaten Kay. "Let me tell you why I killed your family and what's so special about you and your family's school of martial arts. Your school is a hidden school of martial artists which hides itself well in the midst of several other Kung Fu stances, so people would merely shrug you off as another Kung Fu practicioner. But besides speed, the 'true' emphasis of your martial arts is the MIND. Yes, your family has been one of the last practicioners of martial arts which utilized the power of the mind as well. And I am POSITIVE that you are one of the Nine Essences, I'm not sure which, but I will find out. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

(*YAWNS* See, he likes talking too much.)
 

Now back at the place where our beloved fighters are residing . . .

"Kay's taking too long, the match should be over already." Crimson said worriedly as he glanced outside the darkening skies, thunder rumbled in the distance.

"Looks like rain." Zero1 said flatly as he worked on making more pieces of feces.

"He should be alright." Victoria said as she came out of the shower, toweling her wet hair, covered in a robe. "Kay's tougher than you think."

"I guess you're right." Crimson nodded as he sat down to try out weaving, since Zero1 seemed to have monopolized all the available wood for arts and crafts to go into 'business' with the fake feces.

*But why do I have this bad feeling in the back of my head?* Victoria wondered as the first drops of the rain began to appear.
 

In Bison's big airplane now . . .

"No . . . father . . . mother . . ." Kay mumbled as the scientists watched him passively as he tried to fight it all.

"Unlocking your memories is the first step." Bison grinned. "Once unlocked, your teachings will be unlocked. Then we can focus every being of your memory onto those teachings combined with giving you more power and unlocking the mental restraints placed upon your power."

"Shut . . . up . . ." Kay gritted his teeth. Enough that he was remembering his parents' and grandparents' deaths, but this big mouth had to explain the relevance of the whole bit to him. He straightened out as if in a seizure as he remembered the final moment with his grandfather . . .
 

Ooohhh, look at the purdy flashyback . . .

"Kay . . . you're not ready . . ." his grandfather said softly as he touched the sides of Kay's forehead, before Kay realized what his grandfather was doing, he was already beginning to lull. "And I don't ever want you to be ready for the horrible destiny which awaits you . . . I hope when you wake up that you will find yourself in a better life."

"No . . . can't leave . . ." Kay mumbled as he fell forward in his grandfather's arms.

"Good bye, grandson . . ." his grandfather said softly, as he translocated him elsewhere. The last thing which Kay would see was a large man in red with a flowing cape barging in through the wall of his grandparents' hut and the sound of his grandmother's scream.
 

Aaaawww, purdy flashybacks go bye-bye . . .

Kay's eyes were vacant now, and Bison was laughing even harder at the pleasant surprise. Brainwashing him seemed to be no trouble at all for one that was supposed to be a master of utilizing the power of his mind.

"Sir, something's wrong! The readings in his mind! They're going haywire!" a scientist shouted out in panic.

"WHAT?!" Bison then blasted away the messenger of the bad news (you know those guys always get killed).

"Bi . . . son . . ." Kay breathed emptily, and his vacant eyes took on a death-like look. "Die . . ."

Sparks bursted forth from the machines, and the locks placed on Kay to secure him to his seat were suddenly blown away. Kay eerily stood up and floated slightly above the ground as he slowly rotated, everywhere his gaze met was blown to pieces, and his gaze finally centered upon an astonished Bison.

"YESS!" Bison laughed loudly. "I KNEW you were one of the Nine Essences, though I would not have minded the Essence of Power or Wisdom to be in my grasp, the Essence of Nature will do nicely enough! But it seems like you won't cooperate easily, I'll just rough you up a bit, don't worry, I won't get hurt."

"Die, Bison!" Kay Lee Unleashed shouted as he gathered the kinetic currents trailing over his body, centering it all into his hands as he letted loose a HUGE wave of kinetic energy.

"What a waste!" Bison sneered as he appeared behind Kay Lee Unleashed. He reached out to grab him, but Kay Lee Unleashed was suddenly gone and Bison felt himself raised high into the air and tossed to the side. A suddenly appearance of azure light and he looked up to see Kay Lee Unleashed holding a shining blade of light. Kay Lee Unleashed touched his head for a moment as he allowed the blade to blink away as he struggled against the pounding headache in his head.

("Advil . . . must have . . . Advil . . ." are probably his subconcious thoughts at the moment. ^_^)

Bison got up quickly and was about to rush at Kay Lee Unleashed until Kay looked up wildly at Bison and raised his hand. "No!" Kay Lee Unleashed shouted, and Bison felt himself raised into the air as a barrage of invisible attacks slammed against him. He slid limply to the floor, supposedly unconcious (he's smart, he's playing 'possum).

Kay Lee Unleashed staggered to a wall and blasted a hole through it, hoping that the rushing cold air would relieve him of the throbbing pain in his head. Bison saw his chance.

"PSYCHO CRUSHER!" Bison screamed as he rushed at Kay Lee Unleashed. Kay Lee Unleashed suddenly fell from the hole, and Bison stared increduously as the young man skydived downward.

"S-s-shall we apprehend him, Lord Bison?" a scientist meekly asked, being careful to not step into the shadow of his lord, the big guy didn't like that.

"No, he's too wild." Bison shook his head, then he suddenly started laughing. "Either he's dead or he'll go on a rampage, it does not concern me!"
 

On a hill now . . .

It was raining . . . he barely noticed that, except his bangs stuck to his eyes more firmly with the obvious moistness of haveing been soaked in some liquid. He was outdoors, and the sky was grey, so he assumed it was raining. He waited patiently for the being with massive power to appear before him.

"What a waste . . . you traveled around the world just to face my front?" Kay Lee Unleashed said in a hollow voice as he faced the infamous Ma Man Sei. "Would it not have been simple enough to appear at my back? I would have turned around to face you. Or if you so desperately wish to appear before one, why not go around me?"

"You . . . I feel your power . . ." Man Sei whispered cruelly, a voice which promised of pain he wished to inflict on anothers. "I cannot allow you to live any longer, I smell the odor of Wai Lim around you, you have been around him! ONLY I MAY FACE WAI LIM! ONLY I MAY DEFEAT WAI LIM! You are strong . . . let us see who natural selection chooses in this battle, I have not found Wai Lim yet . . . but I will kill you as a message to him!"

"Are you so eager to take another's life?" Kay Lee Unleashed whispered, barely able to control his speech now with the pain beginning to dominate his mind. He floated slightly above the ground as the cold wind blows by his clothes, ruffling them and his hangs, revealing the empty look in his eyes. He points at Man Sei. "Are you sure you can free me of my pain? Then come at me if you can, I am ready . . ."