PROLOGUE
In the eyes of some, real strength is defined as possession of extreme physical force. It is shallowly placated as the ability to overtake, overpower, and out-whit the opponent for the purpose of supreme domination. Then in turn this domination builds a sense of pride and confidence that lays the rather soluble foundation for a false sense of security.
It should be understood that one will not find strength through the ability girded behind a well chisel physique or through the abundant fibrous tendons that construct the muscle. Strength is made in the confines of the mind and it is naturally the mind that ultimately controls the destiny of its captor. This true strength lies within the conditioning of the brain, to achieve the ultimate purpose in life; whatever that may be.
Chun-Li Xiang is the only daughter of the world renowned first class detective Dorai Xiang of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency within the Department of Homeland Security. Originally from the Chinese Secret Intelligence service, he came to the United States to further his career, and in time gained a notable respect through his near flawless investigative capabilities. For the first few years, he worked in the Operations Investigations sector and from there was able to crack a number of heavy cases for ICE leading to the apprehension of a large amount of highly desired fugitives around the world. Such cases covered a variety of offenses in and around the United States that dealt in global terrorism to large worldwide drug cartels, political scams, fraudulent corporate conspiracy, human trafficking and exploitations, as well as child pornography rings. From there the list went on.
Dorai later took a panel position with the International Criminal Police Organization, known famously as Interpol. Located in Lyon France, the organizations primary duty was to house a number of Law Enforcement officials from a total of one hundred eighty-eight other countries around the world in and effort to exchange crucial information on the world's most wanted, notorious, and vile criminals as well as organized crime syndicates. Because of his high expertise and skill, Dorai was specially assigned to be able to sit in as one of the many representatives for both China as well as the United States.
Chun-Li was proud of her father for all of his many achievements in life. In being the daughter of a well-known law official she too had wanted to follow in his footsteps to come into her own line of achievements and accomplishments. She was born and partially raised in Beijing China. For the first part of her young life her father detailed the globe in his quest to make the world a safer place to dwell. He came in and out of her life, while she was raised by her mother. Through elementary school and part of junior high she attended an international school on her father's request. "You'll know the world better this way. This will be good preparation before you take up law enforcement like me," he stated as explanation for him wanting her to attend. Though her first language had been Mandarin Chinese, she learned countless other languages while attending the school. They ranged from English, French, Arabic, German, and even some Japanese. Additionally in much of her spare time she focally studied martial arts through a local trainer known by her father. In this she found she had had easily excelled in the art of Kung-Fu.
The year she turned twelve, Chun-Li's mother had become sick with an incurable and unknown bacterial infection. Her condition baffled doctors, who were unable to determine the cause and source of the infection. They worked endlessly around the clock, finding ways to stabilize her, administering different medications and antibiotics, none of which helped. Without much of a surviving chance, her mother later died on a Friday morning, only three weeks after her initial diagnosis. Chun-Li's heart was shattered and she became reduced to a voided heap of emptiness. Though he had tried to remain strong for his little girl, Dorai was equally, if not more, broken from the tragedy. He rushed home upon the news, taking the month off to spend that time with Chun-Li. From there, the father-daughter bond only grew stronger.
Afterward, while her father remained overseas, Chun-Li stayed with her mother's younger sister Lin, who was a single mother, along with her younger daughter Ming, for the remainder of her time in junior high. Her father frequently visited as often as he could during that time, however upon entering high school, they had decided that she should come to France alongside him as he worked and gave insight in on different assignments.
Living in a strange country in the later years of her post-childhood life was not an easy task however Chun-Li accomplished this feat none-the-less. She graduated with honors at the top of her class and enrolled at Columbia University a year later in the United States where she studied a five year masters program in forensic psychology.
Conveniently Dorai was able to be detailed back to the United States for the purpose of working more intimately with ICE. With the aid of Interpol, the agency had him set up in New York to work on a case that had him detailed right there in New York with his daughter. It had been an ongoing and very complicated investigation for a number of years and initially Chun-Li hadn't understood much of what it was about. What she has known so far was that the organization of interest was a crime syndicate possibly known as Shadowlaw. It was an operation that was so large, that Dorai was able to find that it had been closely tied to many of the other cases he had solved. They had been involved in a number of illegal activities like drug trafficking, money laundering, and weapon smuggling and as of yet Interpol hadn't known whom or even the number of countries across the globe that had been involved.
Through her years in college while her father worked the case, Chun-Li had spent all of her time concentrating on her studies and her training in Kung-Fu. The Shadowlaw case had been the least of her concern. She knew her father had everything under control and in fair due time, the case would be broken.
Or would it be?
Unbeknownst to Chun-Li, a spill of terror was already beginning to trickle its way down into the core of her life. It's venomous poison slowly seeping into the contours of her inner depths. In due time, she would find herself in the center of a rather twisted entanglement of both chaos and confusion. There she would later realize that true strength and God-given faith are actually one in the same.