AN:/ I don't own Street Fighter, Capcom does.
Raven finished his chapter up and looked over at the clock. 8:18. He knew that after seven p.m., his writing sucked, so he decided to read other people's work. He loaded up his favorite website, World Warrior . He liked to see what other people said about the now well known international fighting tournament.
He decided to look up Ken's discussion page, it'd been awhile since he'd talked about Mr. Masters. The topic was about his record with Ryu. The tension was already pretty obvious. A person by the name of Ryu_is_Awesome123 was the head of the Ryu is better committee and Ken_Masters_Fire_Fist was their main opposition. They both sighted different matches between the two, Ken_Masters_Fire_Fist sighting the second World Warrior Tournament where Ken beat Ryu in the top eight. Ryu_is_Awesome123 argued that in the S.I.N. held tournament, Ryu beat Ken in the Semi-Finals. Raven snorted at their hilarious arguing and typed a short message.
"You realize that the record for each other is dead even, Ryu with 2 and Ken with 2 as far as we know. I think what you don't realize is that they don't care who's better. They fight for the sake of fighting."
Both of the two stopped typing posting. Nothing happened for about ten seconds while the typers all just thought about the fact. Then a person by the name of Sakura_Kasugano typed the following.
"Well put, Ryu-san doesn't care about if he is better or worse then Ken, he fights for the sake of fighting." Ken_Masters_Fire_Fist replied,
"OH THAT'S B.S. WHAT DO YOU KNOW? UNLESS YOU'RE THE REAL SAKURA KASUGANO, YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING!" Raven got irritated,
"Hey, at least she's being thoughtful and not just caps locking everything. Chill out, ok?" Raven then privately asked Sakura_Kasugano if she wanted to have a voice chat about the fact, especially since she made a good point. She agreed.
"Hello." Raven greeted.
"Hi." Sakura_Kasugano replied.
"So, how about the next World Warrior Tournament? You going to watch?" Raven inquired.
"Yes, but I'm not watching, I'm participating!" Sakura_Kasugano proudly exclaimed.
"Really? Me too! I'm Raven Baker. I'm on the roster. Wait, you're the real Sakura Kasugano?" As he said this, he looked up the people signed up to the tournament and saw, sure enough Sakura Kasugano was signed up for the 5th World Warrior Tournament.
"Yes, I'm her. I'm glad I got to talk to you, but it's about four A.M. here, so yeah I should probably go back to sleep. See you at the tournament!"
"Yeah, see you then! Good night." Raven closed down the chat and continued scrolling through the website. He decided to watch again the legendary boxing match between Balrog and Dudley. He loved the skill at which the two fought, masters of their respective paths of boxing. Dudley, the clean, polite, skilled boxer, and Balrog the dirty, brutal, and powerful fighter. He watched five rounds, then got bored. He watched a match between Makoto and Yun, as they battled on a T.V. show, both trying to prove that Kung Fu/Karate was the stronger martial art.
"Hope you like this!" Yun shouted, after two minutes of hard fighting, as he performed his famous You Hou technique. He had won the first round.
"Seichusen Godanzuki!" Makoto yelled, after an equally long and gruelling round, as she launched Yun sky high. He came back down hard. He was down for the round. The final round started, and the two were wary of each other, both moving back and forth, not wanting to commit. Then both jumped into the air. Yun did a dive kick and Makoto executed an aerial axe kick. Both hit each other. Both fell back and it was a draw. And a great rivalry was born.
Raven shut down his computer, turned out his lamp, and lay down, visions of Dragons and Dragon Punches dancing through his mind. He fell asleep, with the ring noise of punches and "Kyas" in his ears.
"I must know my opponents well, or I will surely fail." he thought as sleep came over him.
