It has been five months since Hwoarang and Juri said goodbye to each other and went their own way. Juri stayed in America to start her own life and Hwoarang went back to South Korea to continue his old life there.
Her life has been very peaceful, while she tried to forget her revenge on Bison and Shadoloo to start a new way of living. One day, she woke up in the morning and made breakfast for herself.
"I think I made my breakfast even better then he did." Juri said.
She turned the tv on and ate some of her breakfast, she watched the news and saw herself on the television as the American champion.
"Hmm, I'm so bored. I hope the tournament that is today has some strong opponents, the other ones were very dull." Juri said bored.
Then a newscaster appeared on the television.
"Today, Juri Han will fight in the tournament, and the winner of the tournament will receive a special price. You don't want to miss this folks, this was channel 6 news, I'm Stan Andersson, and have a nice day." the newscaster said when he ended the news program.
"A special price? I wonder what it is, it better be something useful." Juri said.
Then Juri heard the doorbell and answered the door, it was her neighbor and friend John Blake.
John moved in next to her two months ago from Japan and was a skilled karate fighter himself, but he stopped fighting for a long time.
"Hey Juri, have you seen the news already?" John asked excited.
"Hey John, yes I have seen the news. Do you know what that price is?" Juri asked curious.
"No, but somebody I know gave me a hint on what it is, the hint is traveling."
"That's the hint, that's the best that they can come up with? You know what, forget about that, I'm just going to focus on my opponents."
"Great, I'm going to watch you, but first I have to do something else."
"Don't worry, the tournament starts around 16:00 pm and ends around 20:00 pm, you have got plenty of time to do what you want."
"Okay, well see you later Juri."
"Hey wait, there is one more thing though. A friend of mine's birthday is coming up soon and I don't know what to do, can you help me with that?"
"Sure I'll help you, we'll talk about it later okay, I really have to go, see ya." John said when he left.
Juri the closed the door.
"It's still early in the morning, I think I'll go out for a walk and relax in the park a little." Juri said when she got ready to leave.
She left her house 1 hour later and walked outside.
"What can I do in the meantime?" Juri said when she was walking in the neighborhood and looked around while stretching out.
Suddenly, she heard a loud noise around the corner and decided to take a look. It were two guys who were harassing another man for his money.
"Give me all your money, or else!" the thug yelled.
"Please, I don't have any money. I'm broke, really." the man said who got harassed said.
"Don't lie to us, search him!" the thug yelled.
"No please!" the man yelled hardly.
"Hey you guys, you think it's fair to gang up on just one man?" Juri asked.
"Who are you, get out of here before you get hurt little girl!" the thug said.
"Oh no, you idiot don't you know who that woman is?" the other thug next to him who was watching the whole thing asked.
"Uhh, a girl who looks like she belongs in a freakshow?" the thug said proudly.
"No stupid, that's Juri Han, she is the fighting champion. She never lost a match, and even managed to defeat Ken Masters."
"You mean to tell me that she is The Juri Han, the so called fighting champion? Don't make me laugh, I can take her, she is nothing." the thug said.
He ran up to Juri and tried to punch her in her face, but she sidesteps immediately to the right and gave him a painful knee to the stomach.
"Oh that really hurts. It really is Juri Han, ugh." the thug said when he fell on the ground.
"I hope you learned your lesson sweety, you should have listened to your friend." Juri said.
She then looked at the other thug.
"You want some to buddy?" Juri asked with a 'come on' hand gesture.
"No please don't, I know who you are. Look I'm sorry okay, please don't hurt me, please!" the second thug said when was begging for mercy at her feet.
"Fine fine, let go of my feet before I change my mind." Juri said when she shug the guy off of her. "Now leave my sight and take your friend with you!"
"No way I'm out of here, he's on his own." the second thug said when he ran away.
The man who got harassed stood up from the ground and approached Juri.
"Thank you Juri Han, thank you so much. I can't believe I actually talked to you." the man said.
"Well you better believe it, I'm leaving. I want to enjoy my day until the next tournament starts. Try to stand up for yourself some more often." Juri said.
"Thank you, I will try. Bye, I'll watch your matches in the tournament."
"Yeah, do whatever you want to do." Juri said.
Juri went to the park to relax before her tournament starts. She saw a guy who sells soda's and walked up to him.
"Hey, give me an orange soda would you." Juri said.
"It's you, Juri! Sure, I'll give you a soda." the salesman said.
"Yeah I know who I am, just give me my drink would you."
"Here you go, your orange soda, good luck at the tournament."
"Yeah yeah I know, here is your money." Juri said when she through her money towards him and walked away.
She went to the grass courtyard and laid down, she was relaxing in the park until the tournament started. Eventually she fell asleep.
After hours of sleeping in the park, Juri woke up by a man with bikergoggles on his forehead.
"Hey Juri, wake up Juri." the man said while shuffling her around.
She opened her eyes slowly and looked at the man.
"Hwoarang is... that really you?" Juri asked.
"Hwoarang? No I'm not Hwoarang, who in Gods name is that?"
She looked shocked and backed away a little.
"I thought you were... Nevermind. What do you want from me?" Juri asked shocked.
"I don't want anything, I just wanted to let you know that the tournament was about to start in an hour, aren't you supposed to fight?"
"One hour, man how long was I sleeping? Damnit I'm late!" Juri said when she ran away from him.
While she was running, she grabbed her phone and called up John.
"John it's me, no time to explain but pick me up from the park, you know which one. You have to bring me to the tournament, now!" Juri said hasty.
"Okay got it, I'm in the neighborhood so you are lucky, I'll be there in ten minutes." John said.
"Good, I'll wait but hurry up!" said Juri.
John arrived and gave Juri a lift to the tournament.
"What were you doing in the park?" John asked.
"I was relaxing until the tournament started, then I took a nap and I overslept." Juri said.
"Typical you Juri hahaha, and how do you think the tournament will play out?"
"Like always, boring and weak opponents, of course I'll win for the millionth time."
"You are pretty confident about yourself, don't you have atleast one person to match your incredible Taekwondo skills?"
"Hmmm..." Juri said while thinking out loud. "Alright listen, what I'm about to tell you is strictly secret, can you keep a secret?"
"We know each other for months, you know I can keep a secret. Now tell me, what is your secret?"
"Look, before I knew you, I met this guy in a street fight, his name is Hwoarang. He is just like me a Taekwondo practisioner."
"Hwoarang huh, and what's with this Hwoarang fellow?"
"We fought countless times, I won a fight and he won a fight. The other matches ended up in a draw or we got interrupted and didn't finished it."
"Really, so Hwoarang is your ultimate rival and the only one who has ever beaten you, the fighting champion?"
"Yeah, I hate to admid it, but he is just as strong as I am. We have said goodbye to each other five months ago and he went back home to South Korea."
"If he is as strong as you say he is, then I would love to see you two fight. Could be an epic match, the fighting champion vs her rival."
"Uhuh... I sure do miss fighting him, it was so much fun, and I didn't had that much fun in years. Don't tell anyone I told you or else...!"
"Don't worry I wont tell anyone, promised. By the way, I know something you can do for your friends birthday."
"What is your plan?"
"You can make a video of yourself and send it to him as a gift, he'd appriciate it a lot."
"A video huh? Sounds pretty good, let's work on it after the tournament okay?" Juri said.
They eventually arrived at the tournament and stepped out of John's car. Juri walked up with John to start with the tournament.
The announcer of the tournament walked up to Juri and John.
"Juri baby you are here, thank God I thought you wouldn't show up." the announcer said.
"Of course I showed up, what do you think I am, a wussy?" Juri asked offended.
"No not at all, I'm sorry I said that. Look, we have your dressing room ready, so you can do whatever you want until the tournament starts."
"Great, I'm gonna get ready for my first fight, how many opponents are there?"
"With you we have 12 fighters, we don't have that many people because the fighters are getting scared of you, but all of that will change for the one who wins this event."
"I can understand that, well I'm going to my dressing room, later."
"Good luck Juri, hell you don't even need luck." John said as he went to the tribune.
When Juri was in her dressing room, she sat down and grabbed something out of her pocket, it were the goggles Hwoarang gave her when she saw him for the last time.
"Let me wear this around my neck, those guys are no challenge at all, so I'm just going to think about the fights you and I had. I'll do this together with you... buddy." Juri said to herself.
The announcer called out all of the fighters on a speaker and told them to gather at the stadium, Juri puts the goggles around her neck and stood up.
"Now let's kick some butt!" Juri said when she left her dressing room.
She gathered with the other fighters at the stadium and stood there until the tournament started. One of the fighters even talked about here.
"Psst hey look, that's Juri, the best fighter around." one of the competitors said to another random guy.
"I know, I heard she is totally unbeatable, but I'm pretty sure I can take her, I have trained day and night." the second competitor said.
Juri overheared their conversation and focused her sight on the two guys.
"Hey you, if you think you can take me on, then I'm taking you as my first opponent... and victim." Juri said to the second competitor.
"Fine little girl, it's you and me, today I'm going to be the champ." the second competitor said.
The announcer called the first match between Juri and Duncan Smith, the Kung-Fu master from Texas who spoke with Juri a couple minutes ago. The two fighters walked up to the stadium and prepared to fight. While Duncan was getting ready to fight, Juri looked uninterested around with her arms crossed and just waited for the announcer to start the fight.
"Fight!" the announcer yelled.
Duncan ran up to Juri and attacked her head on.
"You are mine Han!" Duncan yelled.
Juri ducked down and kicked him easily out of the stadium and didn't move anymore.
"Heeheehee." Duncan said while he knocked out.
"The winner is Juri!" the announcer yelled as the crowd went wild.
Juri waited for her next opponent to fight, her next opponent was the guy Duncan was talking to called Max Holyville, a Vale Tudo fighter who has won all of the tournaments he has been in.
The second match between Juri and Max was about to begin, Juri started her first attack and with her great speed, she kicked Max immediatly into the air with her Senpusha. While he was in midair, Juri thought about a certain attack from long ago and decided to use it in this situation.
"To finish this, I'll use this nostalgic attack." Juri said when he did Hwoarang's Triple Thrust spinkicks and kicked him into the tribune.
"Juri Han is the winner of the match, give her a warm of applaus folks." the announcer said.
Juri eventually won the tournament and stood in the middle of the stadium with the announcer.
"Here you go Juri, a check for $ 1.000,- dollars." the announcer said.
"Thanks, another check, whooptiedoo. I'm going home, it's so boring and not fun, at all." Juri said very unsatisfied.
"...But wait, there is still one more thing, your special price for winning the tournament."
"Okay then tell me, what is the "special price" you have for me?"
"Well Juri, with cooperation with the tournament direction, you get to fight in another tournament as a finalist... in South Korea!"
"So, what's so special about being a... Wait, what did you just say about a tournament in which country as a what now?" Juri asked very curious.
"Because you won to many tournaments here in America, you get to fight in an upcoming tournament in South Korea, where you can fight against the Korean Taekwondo masters, fighters and more!"
"So let me get this straight, I'm going to South Korea and fight in a tournament there as the finalist with the other Taekwondo fighters?"
"Yes that is all correct."
Juri took Hwoarang's goggles off and looked at it with pride in her eyes.
"Well Hwoarang, looks like I have another chance of beating you, I'm so looking forward to it. But first I'm going to make that video with John and train for my match with you." Juri said when she walked away with her plane ticket and a participation card to compete in the tournament.
John walked up to Juri to congratulate her with her victory.
"Congratulations Juri, that was a great tournament, now let's make that video as promised." John said.
"Yeah, let's do it in my house." Juri said when she left with John to her house.
After a long while, she was all done with the video and puts in the mailbox, the video will eventually arrive in Korea.
