Darkness in my Soul

Disclaimer: I don't own Street Fighter 1, 2, 3 or the Alpha series or the freaking characters, but I wish I owned most of the chicks. Then again, what man doesn't?

Chapter one: Resurrection

It would have been simple to just turn down Guile's offer and go on living her stress free life, but something made Chun Li want to get back in the game. Maybe it was Urien giving her aide once in a while, his way of saying that he was interested in her. The man was ruthless sometimes, but he wasn't all bad and if it hadn't been for him. Chun Li didn't know what she would have done about the Illuminati threat. Then he was assassinated by order of his brother, Gill, and Chun Li lost another friend who could have been more. Maybe it was the fact that after all that protection from harm, she wanted to start dealing some damage than be taking it herself. Ever since she fought Urien, she started to train herself more and entered tournaments. She remembered running into Yun and Yang, the two sons of Lee, who had left them with her old master Gen, while he went off to fight in tournaments. He was never heard from again and when she talked to the two brothers, they informed her of her master's death.

Could that have been the reason, was she doing this hoping to find her master's killer or was there something else. Things were different than the first time her and Guile fought together. That time Guile was a family man, but now he was a widower with a lost child, another victim of the Illuminati. They were a more powerful version of the Shadaloo, but if Gill was tougher than Vega remained to be seen. They had killed his wife as a warning not to mess with them, but it had only helped to anger the man further and with it also brought Chun Li. They had become good friends while destroying Vega's operations, but they had gotten close to falling in love during the tournament. Chun Li had thought it was due to the fact that she had never had a relationship because she had also gotten close to two other fighters, Ryu and Ken. The two were like brothers and they also had a grievance with Vega, after Vega had kidnapped Ryu and twisted her mind. Ken was now married, but he still kept on fighting like he only knew how to fight and breath. Sean, the boy he trained to fight, had grown into a strong fighter and would most likely be participating in the upcoming Street Fighter tournament. Maybe Ryu's number one fan would be participating. Sakura had first appeared to Chun Li as some groupie, but when she first fought, she showed that she was no pushover and deserved the title of street fighter. Though college had appeared to occupy her attention, when she graduated she went straight back to the life of a fighter.

Chun Li snapped herself out of the past and concentrated on her present task of getting to the vantage point. The area she was in was a temple that had long since been abandoned. The meeting was going down in the garden and she needed to be in her vantage point before that happened. She had dressed in a tourist outfit with a white sleeveless mandarin shirt with matching white pants. The suspicious looking men wouldn't think twice after seeing her breasts that were clinging to her tight shirt. It was her idea to entice the men to follow her to a place she could stow their unconscious bodies. Like moths to flame, the hired muscle followed Chun Li, the world's strongest women, to where she wanted them. The first move was a punch to the stomach and was followed by a kick to the head. The next one was a gentleman who knocked himself out instead of hurting a woman, but she gave him a kiss right before she ran off. Getting to her vantage point, she found the suitcase that contained the sniper rifle and she quickly put it together. After that part was settle she opened up her comm. To Guile's frequency.

Guile heard the comm. ringing so he knew she was at her vantage point. Something just always got him when they split up, the fact that he didn't know if she was alive or dead. Maybe it was because he didn't want to lose another good friend like Charlie or maybe it was because he lost his family and he was now lonely. It would be a lie to deny the fact that he wanted to feel her close to him, under him as he thrust his heat inside of her. The fantasies wouldn't leave him and there would always be that wanting of her or anyone, whenever he felt the urge for company. It brings new meaning to "flesh and blood needs flesh blood."

"Guile here," said Guile flatly. He then decided to add some humor since if she or he died, he didn't want the last thing for him to have said to her to be something so machine-like. "What took you so long? Was there a shoe shop on the way?"

"No I was actually booking reservations for dinner instead of trying to survive your cooking," said Chun Li. She always hit him at his cooking since Guile strangely took pride in his cooking abilities.

"Maybe you could cook dinner some time," replied Guile.

"I would, but you never let me," said Chun Li with a cat face, nagging him again about his habits of being territorial on the kitchen.

"Well let's talk about it later," said Guile in a serious tone. "Our target is Gill, the Emperor of the Illuminati and the leader of this new crime syndicate which takes over a lot of what the Shadaloo once had. We have no visual contact on him, but now he seems to be doing a rare in person appearance."

"Okay, so I snipe while you take ground work with the team," said Chun Li. "How long will back up take and how many men do we have right now?"

"Back up will take ten minutes and we have a five man team armed with assault rifles," replied Guile. "The bad guys are armed with MP5s so we might not need back up, depending on whose running the show for the new crew."

"I have visual conformation on the Illuminati leader," said Chun Li as she got a bead on Gill. "Do you see the other leader?"

"We're going to need back up," said Guile sounding nervous, which was never a good sign.

"Who is it," asked Chun Li.

"You won't believe it, but it's …Vega," replied Guile.

It was then that the murderer of her father strolled into her sight, as big as ever and he seemed more menacing than before. Coming back from the dead had those effects, but no person should be able to come back from the dead. Chun Li had seen Vega die at the hands of a man named Akuma, who seemed to be an enemy of Ryu and Ken, but she couldn't decide what she thought of him. He had killed her father's murderer, but he had also killed the master of two of her friends.

"I can take the shot," said Chun Li.

"You that psycho drive will do you no good," said Guile. "I'm going in while you cover me; back up should arrive in ten."

"No I'm going with you, I want to send that bastard straight to hell myself," said Chun Li with rage and the intent to murder Vega in her voice.

"If you're coming then do it now," shouted Guile as the sound of H&K G36's tore through the peaceful atmosphere.

She broke into a sprint, taking out her PP9 while dodging a barrage of bullets. She fired at the shooters and then at the man she intended to kill. The shooters went down, but the bullets that went at Vega were stopped within a five inch range of him. Cursing that damn psycho power that he had, she leapt at him and drove her foot into his stomach. She then let loose a barrage of kicks that were testing his barrier that was around himself. Deciding he'd had enough of that, he swung his arm and knocked her back. Before she could recover, he caught her with a spin kick and drove his fist right between her breasts as he pushed her into one of the stones in the garden. The stones were set in a spiral that seemed to form into one black stone that symbolized the union of the inner mind to achieve total consciousness. Now they were being used for an act of violence, irony is a bitch. Vega would have continued with another punch, but a foot caught his face. The foot belonged to an old man in a purple quipao(anyone got the right spelling for the name of that thing he wears.) and black pants. She stared at the old man in astonishment; it was her old teacher, Gen, the one who was supposed to be dead. Now he was beating Vega back with a succession of quick punches and a brutal roundhouse kick.

"You've let yourself get soft, my old pupil," said the wise master Gen.

"But Yun and Yang told me you were dead," said Chun Li.

"And so I was and should still be," said Gen. "I'm sure Akuma killed me in our last fight, but it seems that fate would have things differently for me."

"Well it would seem like I should retire for the time being," announced Vega backing up. A helicopter flew over him with a ladder dangling down for him to hang on to as he flew away into the horizon.

"Why did you let him escape, master," asked Chun Li, pissed off that the murderer of her father had alluded her this time after nearly killing her. "He's the one who killed my father?"

"I thought I'd leave that to you," replied Gen in a calm tone indicating that the matter was of no consequence to him. "You should avenge your own, just like your friend is doing over there."

Gen was pointing at Guile fighting his nemesis, Gill. It was hard to tell who had the advantage, but Guile kept on the attack with Gill playing the defensive. Chun Li would have helped, but Gen held his up to stop her.

"It is his fight to avenge the death of his family," said Gen. "I have heard a lot about this Illuminati and there terrible deeds, but this fight is a matter of regaining honor lost from his inability to protect his wife. Even if he is on the verge of death you must not help, for if you do, you will forever have destroyed his spirit."

Chun Li felt helpless as she could only watch on as her closest friend took on a titan of terror and to her horror it looked like he was tiring.

Guile was on the ropes with his opponent, the tides changing from attack to defense. If he hadn't wasted his strength on pointless straight forward attacks, he wouldn't be struggling right now as Gill continuously knocked him around the garden. His strength wavering as he was knocked into a fountain, Guile felt pathetically weak. He failed at protecting his family and he was unable to avenge them. 'Why am I so pathetically weak," he thought.

"Well it looks like you've run out of spark," laughed gill as he gloated over his enemy. "My my, what did you expect? You couldn't save your wife as the men I sent, raped her before killing her and you couldn't save your daughter as she was killed in one of my experiments. Poor child, she cried for her father as the chemicals changed her body and her lungs puffed up, stopping all intake of oxygen into her body. That's a painful way to die if you ask me."

There is a time when the human mind can snap and all unconscious limits our bodies put on us are broken casing for all thought to boil down to pure animal instinct. That drove Guile to leap up and punch Gill. It also made his punch much more; it gave it more force so that it actually affected Gill. The punch actually hurt Gill and the next one made Gill cough up blood. Gill threw a punch to knock Guile back, but Guile seemed to move faster and he went for the weak spots, aiming at the legs. Gill took his time waiting for Guile to comeback and attack, but even though he would always land a blow on Guile, Guile would also hit his target and something told Gill that those targets were important. Soon the repeated attacks had taken their toll on Gill and he was unable to move his legs properly. Now all he could do was throw a punch until his left arm was caught and twisted until the bones in it shattered like glass. The bones tore through skin allowing blood to spray out like a mist and Gill was howling in pain at this new sensation of discomfort filled his body.

Then a kick knocked him onto his back as Guile stomped hard on the other legs breaking them like he had broken Gill's arm. He was now on top of his victim, beating him senselessly as the blood gushed from his nose and formed a puddle on the ground. This was unlike anything that Gill had experienced before in his life, not even his first death by the hands of Akuma was this painful. Guile just kept on punching and head butting until his fists and forehead were bleeding. All the while Guile was cursing Gill and the illuminati calling them every dirty word he knew and then his words were slurred so that no one, not even himself could know what they meant. He didn't even realize he'd snapped Gill's neck until he felt a hand on his shoulder telling him that he had finished. The warm touch of Chun Li's hand quelled the animal instinct that was driving Guile and reason and logic slipped back into his consciousness.

"It's over," said Chun Li softly.

"Not for you," replied Guile. "Not while that bastard Vega still breathes and until then, it won't be over for me either."

It was then that guile noticed the old Chinese kung fu master standing behind them.

"Who the hell is that," asked Guile in surprise.

"That's my old teacher, Master Gen," replied Chun Li with a smile to calm Guile knowing what the response would be.

"Wait isn't he dead," asked Guile in shock.

"Correct, I was dead, but it seems that I should thank my life to a man named Urien," said Gen in amusement at Guile's response to his name.

"Urien brought you back," asked Chun Li, her eyes wide open.

"Yes, you know him," asked Gen.

"We once had a run in when he kidnapped one of the adopted children that I have, but afterwards he helped me out a lot. He was assassinated by order of his brother, the emperor of the Illuminati."

"Then I did have good reason for destroying that complex," said Gen in a curious tone. "I wondered why I felt that way, but now I get it."

"You wouldn't happen to be talking about the Illuminati operation in Venice," asked Guile.

"Yes I remember waking up in Venice and being told about my recovery by Mr. Urien," replied Gen. "I was then pointed to the direction of the complex. The men there were very rude to me because I was a foreigner so I thought to teach them a lesson. One thing leads to another and I wound up destroying the entire place."

A shiver went down Guile's spine at the account of Gen's power to destroy an entire operation in just a few hours that would have taken more than one man. Guile could see him teaching Chun Li and now he wanted to learn from this man.

"So why are you here," asked Chun Li wanting to get that question out of the way.

"It's about a friend of yours who I met at one of the Street Fighter tournaments," said Gen. "I'm sure you both know Ryu."

"What happened to Ryu?"

"Are you familiar with his fighting style and its dark secret," asked Gen his face had a stern expression.

"If you're talking about the Satsui Hadou, Ryu already Renounced it," replied Guile.

"I'm afraid it still lurks inside of him and now it has taken control of him," said Gen in a sad tone.

"But what about Ken," asked Chun Li. "He's Ryu's closest friend, and he's like a brother to him. If anyone can reach Ryu it would be Ken!"

"That is, regrettably, the problem," replied Gen sighing bit. "Ken, I'm afraid, is dead."