Note: I got Dead or Alive 3 when I got X Box. I don't know anything about the previous Dead or Alive games. Everything written here is based on the knowledge I got from the latest installment. Also, the characters with an "*" at the end of their names are characters that I have created for this fic.
Together They Fight
----D...O...A----
"Kasumi," a calm voice calls out to a beautiful woman in a deep sleep. She clenches herself tighter as the voice begins to speak throughout her head.
"Kasumi. You have failed!" the last words are slow and they roar like thunder. Kasumi wakes up screaming and sits up on her bed. She looks around her room and notices her tarot cards and dirty laundry scattered everywhere. She gets up from her bed and walks over to a light. She tries to turn it on. But it doesn't work.
"They cut off my electricity?...again?" Kasumi walks towards her window and opens the blinds. Some of the sunlight comes into the small, cramped room. Kasumi hears a thud on her floor.
"I'm okay Mrs. Hui*," Kasumi says to the floor. "She was probably concerned after I screamed. At least I know my landlady cares for me."
Kasumi hears another thud coming from Mrs. Hui's apartment.
"I'm okay Mrs. Hui! No need to be concerned," Kasumi says one last time. There is another thud. Something is wrong. Very wrong. Kasumi runs to her window and jumps through it. She arrives in front of the small apartment building. She breaks down the door and runs into Mrs. Hui's apartment.
"Mrs. Hui?" Kasumi calls.
"That broken door is gonna come out of your rent...which is already 3 months late," a voice says.
"Mrs. Hui?" Kasumi looks around the sunlit room and sees no one.
"No...not Mrs. Hui. I'm her daughter, Melani*."
"Melani? Mrs. Hui never spoke of a daughter. Where are you?" Kasumi searches for the mysterious voice.
"I'm right behind you," Melani says. Kasumi turns around.
"How'd you do that?" Kasumi asks. "I would've seen you when you came in."
"Ahh...but you didn't. I'm swift like that," Melani answers. "My father took me away from my mother at birth. He sold me to something called DOATEC. Then he abandoned my mother. I escaped DOATEC, and returned to Japan to see her. She recognized me right away." Melani walked closer into the light. She looked much like Kasumi. Except her hair was dark purple with some black streaks. It was pulled back into a ponytail.
"Where's your mom?"
"A bunch of goons came in looking for you. They took my mom away from me. I tried to save her, but I failed," Melani took a dagger out from her pocket and pointed it at Kasumi. "But I'm wrong. You failed!"
Kasumi recognized that voice. It was the voice from her dream.
"I failed? You're the one from my dream! What do you want?!"
"You told my mom you would protect her and that you wouldn't let anything harm her! You have highly skilled assassins after you ever day because your broke the code of Shinobi! But my mother had to pay the price!"
"How do you know all this?" Kasumi asks.
"DOATEC gave me some telepathic abilities. I read your mind and found out all this information. My telepathy also allowed me to enter your mind while you were sleeping. Will you help me rescue my mother or not?"
"Of course I will."
"Good. I already contacted your brother, Hayate, and your half-sister, Ayane. They will be joining us," Melani answers.
"Hayate? He swore he would never speak to me again-"
"Because you broke the code of Shinobi, I know. But his best friend, Ryu Hayabusa convinced him," Melani says.
"Will Ryu be joining us?"
"Later. He set out to find Jann Lee and Leifang."
"Why?"
"We need all the help we can get. We also know that Jann Lee is in a continuous search for stronger opponents. He will accept our offer."
"How does Leifang get involved?" Kasumi asks.
"You were in the D.O.A. 3 Kasumi. You know the answer to that," Melani says. "Where Jann Lee goes, Leifang follows...especially when it is danger and combat that he seeks!"
...to be continued