Ancient Future Chapter: 1
Our story begins.
In a faraway futuristic land closed off from the outside world, there was a continent called Fukanshu, and in this continent, there were 6 countries. Each one of these countries needs the other to support them in order for them to live on in peace. Among all, one nation stands as the only independent nation, Wenyang. To all, they're acknowledged as the heroes of the land for as long as these lands have existed.
Lee and Hango, sons of the captain of the police force in the Kuhai clan, Mingzhi, grew up in the village that ran the Kuhai clan. Lee was 14 and Hango was 16. Mingzhi noticed something wasn't right about the way things ran in the clan, but he wasn't able to dig deep enough in the conspiracies because he wasn't a part of the head council.
One day, the village was attacked from the inside out and Hango took Lee and ran from the village. Desperate and being hunted down by their own government, 3 months later, they found a remote village in the far-east part of Wenyang, where they stay in the orphanage of a nice middle aged lady named Shima.
Lee and Hango are waking up in the orphanage, and Lee has a nightmare about when he was escaping the village.
Lee: Ugh... AH!
Hango: Ugh... what's your problem Lee?! I was having such a good dream!
Lee: ... Hango... I... I can't... never mind, it was nothing.
Hango: Lee, you're so strange I don't even know how to explain it.
Lee: Well, there is one thing I need to ask you.
Hango:... I just know I'm goanna regret this one. What is it?
Lee: I... please, teach me Taichido!
Hango: And why are you so eager to learn all of a sudden?
Lee: I... I have to get stronger! I just have to!
Hango: Really, that's the only reason?
Lee: Uh, yeah...?
Hango: Okay then, why do you want to get stronger?
Lee: Uh...?! (Man, I didn't think he'd see through me!) I uh, wanna be able to protect you.
Hango: Okay, that's good and all.
Lee: (Fweh!, that was close!)
Hango: Now, why do you really wanna learn?
Lee: Ugh!
Meanwhile...
Zhanshi: (Sleeping outside is nothing I'm not used to, but this is just too much!)
Zhanshi is 17 years old; he was traveling when he saw Lee and Hango and helped them get to this remote village.
Zhanshi: Hey Iroka!
Iroka: Zhanshi, how's it going?
Zhanshi: I was looking for Chen; I left my AXES with him for repairs. Have you seen him?
Iroka: Actually, he's in his shop right now, I just came from there
Zhanshi: Well that's funny; he's not usually there this early.
Meanwhile...
Hango: Why am I not surprised?
Lee: I don't understand what the problem is, it's what you want too isn't it? You've been thinking about too, just like I have.
Hango: Lee, I don't want to do something that's going to get everyone killed. I want to get justice as much as you do, but you need to understand that we're in Kudo clan territory, we can't do anything crazy.
Lee: So that's it, we're just goanna run away?!
Hango: No, we're just trying to make the right move at the right time.
Lee: Eh, I'm sorry I woke up on the wrong side of the floor today; I really need to do some thinking. More importantly, I need to learn Taichido!
Hango: I won't teach you until I can tell that you're ready.
Lee: I don't think we exactly have time for that!
Hango: You don't cause you don't understand the gravity of the situation! We're right next door the Kudo clan, we can't afford to do anything stupid!
Lee: Tch!
Hango: Taichido works by manipulating the Chi of the person, and releasing it to do different things, it can be used to make you run faster, jump higher, hit harder, do anything a normal human can do and more, but once you've unlocked your first Chi gate, anything could happen. Some people dropped dead, some people were unable to control their power, and afterwards, destroyed almost everything and were unable to walk again, it's not something that can just be done like you think. Besides, you're not worthy, you're just too crazy.
Lee: Well then, all I have to do is get worthy right?!
Hango: Were you listening to a word I just said?! It's a matter of life or death! Opening that gate isn't as easy as it sounds, some people get psychologically destroyed from the process, you can't just jump into this.
Lee: Okay, so what do I have to do to open this gate thing?
Hango:... Ugh, you're impossible.
Lee: Believe me Hango, I can take any challenge you throw at me!
Hango: This, isn't one of those challenges you can just "pass".
Meanwhile...
Zhanshi then arrives to a shop where he speaks to a man he knows named Chen.
Chen: Zhanshi! How's it going?
Zhanshi: Sleeping on the sidewalk isn't what it's all cracked up to be.
Chen: Yes I know, I had to do the same thing myself before I got this shop.
Zhanshi: Sorry, I only came here for my axes.
Chen: Oh, right away. So, how are Lee and Ha... !
Zhanshi: What?
Chen the notices someone suspicious trying to spy on them; and then he stays quiet.
Zhanshi: Were you talking about L...
Chen: Shh!
Kuai: Hey you!
Chen: ... Zhanshi, just take these axes and go.
Zhanshi then walks away from the counter.
Kuai: You, at the stand!
Chen: Me?!
Kuai: You bit your tongue, you were talking about Lee and Hango weren't you?
Chen: No, I don't know what you're taking about.
Zhanshi: Hey!
Zhanshi then walked back to the stand
Zhanshi: I don't know who you think you are, but why do you feel the need to pick on people? He doesn't know, go look somewhere else.
Kuai: You, now that I get a closer look, you look awfully familiar.
Zhanshi: Huh?! I... have no idea who you are.
Kuai: Yeah, Lee and Hango can wait; I'll take care of you now!
Liang: Kuai stop!
Kuai: Huh?
Liang then comes and grabs Kuai's arm and stops him.
Liang: I'm sorry about all this sir. We'll be leaving now
Zhanshi: What the heck is this all about?!
Liang: Listen to me Zhanshi...
Zhanshi: Huh?!
Liang: Yes, I know who you are, you are getting caught up on something you need to stay away from, wherever they are, you need to give them up if you don't want chaos. Let's go Kuai.
Liang and Kuai then walk out of the store.
Meanwhile...
Hango and Lee walking across the street, and they are talking about Taichido.
Lee: Am I ready... now?
Hango: No.
Lee: How about now?
Hango: Lee, I'll discus with you how you need to be in order to open the gate over breakfast, and then I have to start working on the fields, for now, would you stop bugging me?
Lee: You always put stuff off for later dates and then never live up to your promises!
Hango: Oh God.
Lee: What's that supposed to mean?!
Hango: It means that I need to ask God to give me patients to keep me from hurting you. Listen, I have to go work in the fields, here's some silver pieces, go get something to eat or something like that.
Lee: Huh! Thanks Hango! Now I'll totally forgive the fact that you won't teach me Taichido!
Hango:...(This sarcastic runt!)... Go.
Lee: What?
Hango: Go and spend it already!
While they're talking, someone from a far distance is watching them and speaking to Liang through a com link.
Asami: Liang,
Liang: Yes?
Asami: I found them; I've confirmed that they live in this village.
Liang: Give me your location, and do not pursue them.
Asami: ... I understand.
They then turn off the com links and stop communicating.
Liang: Kuai, where the heck are you?
Liang then attempts communication with Kuai, but he doesn't respond to him.
Liang: That moron! I don't have time to wait for him.
Meanwhile...
Zhanshi is at the orphanage to see if Lee and Hango were there.
Kuai then comes out of hiding.
Zhanshi: Who are you, and why do you want me dead so badly?
Kuai: You'll find out soon enough. Now... time to finish this!
Kuai then rushes at Zhanshi and the two of them start fighting.
Meanwhile...
Hango is working in the feilds.
Shima: Good morning Hango, where's Lee?
Hango: Oh Lee? I gave him some money and told him to go buy something.
Shima: Hango...
Hango: Are you going to do teach him?
Hango:... Lady Shima, I don't know what to do here, its life or death process and I don't think he's ready even if he makes it out alive and well. And besides we...
Shima: You can't hold him back forever, especially in your situation, one day he'll have to learn.
Hango; Yes I know, but I don't think now is the right time.
Shima: Hango listen to me, and be careful, I think we're being watched.
Hango: Huh?!
Hango then leans closer to her to listen to what she's saying.
Shima: I don't think this place is no longer safe for you two.
Hango: Huh?!
Shima:... I think that the Hayate are here.
Hango: The Hayate! What are they doing here?!
Shima: This is only a theory. Don't look now, but there's a guy in the shed not too far away from where we are in the fields, I've never seen him before in my life.
Hango: Yeah, come to think of it, I've felt some strange Chis emitting here today, but they feel so familiar so I didn't pay any attention. Even that guy's Chi feels like Chen's, but I thought Chen was getting ready to go to his shop, what would he be doing here?
Then suddenly, out comes the young man they were talking about, wearing a black short sleeved cloak coat.
Aigao: Well, I guess hiding someone else's Chi signature was never a specialty of mine.
Hango: Who are you and what do you want?
Aigao: I only want to talk to you and your brother alone.
Hango: (Who is he?)
Aigao: I don't have time to sum it all up, this'll be quick. I only want to talk.
Hango:... (Can I trust this guy? After all, he was trying to hide; maybe he was just worried cause he's on the run from someone too)
Aigao: Come on, we have to go somewhere private.
Hango: (What do have to lose? The only problem is I don't know here Lee is)
Alright, Let's talk.
Asami: Not so fast!
Hango: Huh?!
Shima: Huh?!
Aigao: Huh?!
Asami: Hango, he's a liar! Don't listen to anything he has to say!
Hango: Just what's going on here?!
Aigao: Don't listen to them, there're from the Hayate!
Hango: What?!
Flashback with Hango narrating while showing a slide show of things that the Hayate have done in the past...
The Hayate, a ruthless gang known as criminals throughout all of Fukanshu, but have been forgotten about despite all of the action they've done throughout their career.
But this village is remote and the people who run it don't just let anybody get in. So how are they in here; and what do they want? Come to think of it, yeah... I remember these guys, there're the ones who attacked Lee and I before we arrived to this village.
Flashback over...
Shima: Who are you?!
Aigao: Hango listen to me, your lives, and the lives of everyone you are in danger. Their lives hinge on you listening to me.
Liang: Let's not turn this into a fight; we just want to take you quietly.
Shima: Boy oh boy, this shed is getting crowded.
Asami: Liang do you sense that?!
Liang: What?
Asami: Kuai, his Chi is going ramped, like he's fighting someone!
Hango: I sense it too, it's Zhanshi!
Liang: (Well, there goes everything)
Suddenly, Liang charges at Hango and punches him in the face do fast that he didn't realize it until he was already hit, and then he fell down.
Hango: Ah ugh!
Liang: I'll be taking you first.
Hango: No you won't!
Hango then gets back up and begins fighting Liang. However, Liang is showing no signs of struggle in the fight, he's holding back.
Liang: Well, I'm surprised that someone as weak as you could get up after getting punched in the face.
Hango: Just shut up!
Aigao then rushes in to help Hango against Liang.
Aigao: Alright Hango, we can do this!
Meanwhile...
Lee and Lifen (A female friend of his that he met when he arrived to this village) are eating ice-cream in the park with Lifen.
NOTE: Jinhai and Lifen are one of the only people in the village that know about Lee and Hango's situation.
Lifen: Age: 11
Jinhai: Age: 19
Lee: I just can't stand him sometimes! He can learn whatever he wants even in these situations but I have to just sit back and watch!
Lifen: It's not as bad as you make it seem, you gotta realize that some people just can't pull it off.
Lee: Well, maybe if he would give me a hint or two, I could get it right. I mean after all, you and I both know that I can't stay weak forever.
Lifen: You're not weak; you're just... not as strong.
Lee: Uh... Hello, you already know about the situation we're in. Why would anyone settle in a remote village?! I have to get things done and return to the Kuhai clan.
Lifen: If you think you need to go back so badly, why do you hang around with Hango instead of just leaving the village and going by yourself?
Lee: I can't handle this world by myself, let alone without knowing Taichido, besides, me and my brother have been through everything together, I'd be stabbing him in the back if I did that.
Lifen: Well, I can't say I blame you, in fact I can relate to that. The truth is I want to leave this village, but Jinhai says he needs to be here in order to do some kind of work he needs to accomplish. I don't understand what's so important that we couldn't do it back at our old town but that's what he said. I'm not complaining though, I can wait.
Lee: Well, Hango does always talk about how the Kudo clan hates the Kuhai clan, and I can't quite remember, but I think we were attack by some guys when we left our village.
Lifen: You see? Not everyone can take on the world; it's all about making your move at the right time and place.
Lee: It would be easier to fight anything if I had some Taichido training.
Lifen: You just need to have patients, a good fighter waits for the right move to strike, you'd be helping your brother more if you would think about strategies you could use when you leave this village. Anyway that's not why I brought you here.
Lee: Why did you then?
Lifen: Jinhai was supposed to be coming here with us to talk about something, he also said he wanted to give you something, but he didn't tell me what it was.
Lee: Ugh, do you know anything about what he does at all?
Lifen: He's apparently really good at science; he studied under our father for his whole life, even before I was born.
Lee: Well, he doesn't really talk to anyone that much at all, in fact I don't see him outside his room except for if he's with you.
Meanwhile...
In the fight between Zhanshi and Kuai, Zhanshi is winning, but he's making a scene and people are starting to watch them.
Zhanshi: This is kind of disappointing. Is this the best you can do?
Kuai: (That does it!)
Kuai then activates a homing beckon so that he can compromise the location of the remote village. Liang notices this and rushes to them as fast as he could to cut it off.
Asami: (Oh no, he did it. Why can't these two ever get along?)
Liang: (That fool!)
Asami: Hey... what are you doing?! I can't take these guys on by myself!
As Liang is running he is talking in his mind, he is arriving to Zhanshi quite fast.
Liang: I told him not to do this. Does he want me to kill him?!
Meanwhile...
Kuai: (That does it!) I won't let you think you can live your whole life escaping what you did!
Zhanshi: Escaping what I... hold on... you're...!
Liang arrives
Kuai: Oh, I wasn't expecting you to... hey, what the...?!
Liang then grabs Kuai's homing beckon and throws it far outside of the village.
Kuai: What did you do that for?! Ugh!
Liang Then grabs Kuai by the back of his neck and twists a nerve that knocks him out. Then he outs him on his shoulder.
Zhanshi: You're the guy from before. I'll ask you again, what do you and your buddy here want?
Liang:...
Liang then walks away.
Zhanshi: Hey, I'm talking to you.
Zhanshi then rushes at Liang, then Liang uses the side of his hand and hits him in the face, then he pokes him in the head with his index finger and he falls on his back.
Zhanshi: Ugh ah! I... I can't move!
Liang: Zhanshi, I'll say it again, stay out of this business, don't have anything to do with it.
Zhanshi: Ugh! (What did he do to me?! (Why can't I move?)
Meanwhile...
Lifen: Man, what on earth is taking Jinhai so long?!
Lee: Does it always take him this long to come into civilization?
Jinhai: This time isn't too long, it's just that I'm not in the mood for it right now.
Lee: You know, I think I'm goanna go see what's up with him
Hango: Well, what should we do? I don't fight girls.
Aigao: I think we should capture her and do some interrogation.
Liang then comes back to where Asami is in a flash.
Liang: Asami, we have to go now.
Asami: What?! Liang, you can beat these guys, we shouldn't have to run. Just because Kuai...!
Liang: Asami!
Asami: Uh... fine... let's... let's go.
Hango: Hey wait!
Asami: Liang, not again...!
Liang then grabs Asami and runs outside of the village so fast that Hango and Aigao couldn't see them.
Hango: How did he run away so fast?! More importantly why?
Lee: Huh, what happened here?!
Lee arrives to the fields where they see Hango beaten up, and most of the area is destroyed.
Hango: (I can never get that brat to leave me alone!)
Later that night...
Lifen is talking to Jinhai in their room inside of Shima's orphanage.
Lifen: What happened? Why didn't you show up today?! You had Lee and I sitting there the whole day!
Jinhai: I was held with a conversation I had with Yantai. He told me, he thinks it's s way we can return, and he's given me the schematic for, something new.
Lifen: Are you serious, we can finally return!
Jinhai: You know how things there work, it's not gonna be and easy task.
Lifen: Whatever, as long as we can get out of here, I'm so home sick!
Jinahi: Don't get your hopes up just yet, I'm not fully sure if I can get it to work, but I will continue working on it.
Lifen: Despite all good times and friends we've made, it'll be nice to go back after all this time.
Jinhai: Lifen...
Lifen: Huh?
Jinhai: Do you still remember our promise?
Lifen: Huh? Of course I do, never tell anyone. And we... Have to redeem ourselves. I...
Jinhai: Hm?
Lifen: I... I'm goanna miss Lee and Hango.
Jinhai: Well...
Lifen: Well what?
Jinhai:... nothing... it was nothing . I'll keep on this all night if I have to.
Lifen: Okay...
Jinhai: Well, there is a favor I need from you.
Lifen: Well, what is it? (She says confusingly)
Jinhai: The next time you see Lee or Hango, give this to them, it's important, they'll know exactly what it is when they see it.
Jinhai then hands a sheet of paper to her folded up in a folder.
Lifen: What is this, a gift?
Jinhai: It's made just for them, and it might actually help with us in a way, but a lot is unsure right now.
Meanwhile...
Shima is talking to Lee Hango and Zhanshi in her room on the top floor of the orphanage.
Shima: I can't believe this; they now know where you are now.
Lee: Can someone tell me what the heck is going on here?! I leave to go around town, come back, and this happens?! What was that, who was that?!
Hango: I didn't expect this!
Lee: Are you ignoring me?!
Hango: I wanted you to go out somewhere because I suspected that there was trouble in the village, I thought I could handle it!
Lee: Well this is all the more proof of why you should teach...!
Shima: Lee!
Lee: Huh?
Shima: You're brother went out of his way to protect you, show some appreciation!
Hango: What about you Zhanshi, who was that weakling you were fighting?
Zhanshi: ... (Ugh)... (Ugh)... (Ugh)... (Ugh)...
Hango: Zhanshi!
Zhanshi: Huh?! Oh, sorry, I was zoned out for a minute, what was the question?
Hango:... Who was the guy you were fighting?
Zhanshi: Well, he wasn't exactly strong, I kinda kicked him around for a little bit, but he wouldn't stop coming at me, ehe he!
Hango: That's all that happened?
Zhanshi: I mean, he activated some homing beckon, then another guy came in and threw it far outside the village, it was strange, as if he was trying to protect it.
Hango: Him, protecting the village? He seemed like he had a bad intention to me.
Zhanshi: Then he took me down; I was unable to get up after that.
Hango: How?
Zhanshi: Do I need to tell you everything?! I don't wanna talk about it okay?!
Hango: Okay okay, man, I don't see you the whole day, then you get beat up, then you wanna get mad at me?
Zhanshi:... Ugh... I'm sorry; I'm just, thinking really hard about something.
Hango: Well, I'll leave you to it. Well, I have to get to the bad news now.
Shima: Yes.
Lee: What is it?
Hango: We're goanna have to leave now.
Lee: What?!
Hango: We have no choice, whoever those people were, they know where we are, because of that, this place is no longer safe for us
Lee: (Sigh) this is happening all over again. I'm tired of running!
Hango: We have no choice!
Lee: Huh?
Hango: If we stay here, we'll put everyone's lives in danger, in this kind of situation, dad wouldn't want us to do that.
Lee: tsk, I'm sick of this!
Shima: I've grown so fond of the two of you in the past few months, I've thought of you as my own, I hate to see you three in such pain. There is always another way, you'll still be able to stay, please, give it some time!
Lee: Yeah Hango, give it some time, we don't need to rush to conclusion.
Hango: Lady Shima, you have the capability to go anywhere you want, why do you stay here, why is this village remote in the first place?
Shima: That's a good question. This world is full of cruelty, someone I knew a long time ago left this place to try to fix it, and this place itself was founded by a group of people who were exiled from many different clans, those people who were driven out never told anyone why they were banished, but they made a place cut off in a secret location. However, because of this, they're very cautious about who comes in, and only allows those whom they know personally, the only reason I was able to let you three in was because I said I knew you personally.
Zhanshi: But you didn't.
Shima:... It took a lot of time to convince them, but it worked eventually.
Lee: Lady Shima... Thank...
Hango: That's all the more reason we can't stay here.
Lee: What?!
Hango: If we stay here after what just happened, lady Shima will definitely be blamed for it, and she'll either be kicked out or punished, we can't allow that to happen.
Shima: No, that's not what I meant! Please, I don't want to send you through that pain again!
Hango: Lady Shima...
Shima: Huh?!
Hango: We appreciate everything you've done for us, we really do, and we don't know how to repay you right now, and we don't have the means. But we'll make this up to you somehow, I promise.
Zhanshi: Our minds are already made up, we're leaving, but we'll be back one day.
Shima:... Ugh... (Sigh) Alright, you three really are special.
Meanwhile...
Liang and Kuai are talking to thir unknown master
Liang: My lord, we have found them, but the location is unknown.
Kuai: (What?!)
Liang: The homing beckon was not working correctly, so we were unable to pinpoint to you exact coordinates. Kuai almost compromised the mission and got the Kudo clan on us.
Kuai: (He's lying right through his teeth, and what I did was fallowing basic prodecal!)
Liang: So far, to our knowledge, they have no connection to any other organization, and they're cut off from their clan.
Wang:... This confirms all of our suspicions, good job Liang.
Liang:... Thank you my lord. I also have
Wang: Excellent, you've done well, Liang. We will backtrack where you two were tomorrow, and find them before the Kuhai clan does.
End of Chapter: 1