"You want an interview?" Leo asked. "Yes, please." Leo looked the girl over. She seemed the typical Asian; black hair, slight tan, but her eyes were a soothing blue. Probably one of those Fil-Ams they keep talking about, thought Leo. "It's for the school paper," the girl went on. "We're interviewing the student body's favorite King of Iron Fist fighters."
"And I'm one of them?" asked Leo skeptically. The girl nodded. "Yup. You're popular because people like your fight style and because majority of the male population was hoping you were a girl."
"...they like my fight style?" The part about her ambiguous gender was the norm, but people really saying they liked her fight style was new. "Uh huh. Comments on your fight style ranged from," the girl flipped through her notebook. "'versatile' to 'badass' to 'fucking epic'." Leo had to laugh at that one.
"Alright. Interview all you want." The girl turned on her recorder.
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Q: What's you fight style called?
A: Baji Quan, aka Hakkyoku-ken or Kai Men Baji Quan. The name means 'open-gate eight-extremities fist'. It's more on defense and uses the elbows a lot.
Q: Where did you learn?
A: Honestly, I learned the basics from my dad, then after a while I joined a dojo. Formal training got boring after a while, so I quit. But I practiced by entering a tournament every now and then.
Q: I heard you're from Germany. What's it like?
A: In the winter, freezing. But it's a pretty nice place all in all. We also have strudel and Wacken.
Q: Wacken?
A: It's the annual music festival. Bands come in from everywhere. It happens around October; you should go if you're in the area around that time.
Q: Music festival, huh. Maybe I will go. Tell us a bit about this 'spelunking' thing. What do you do?
A: First of all, I do not spelunk. I cave.
Q: Oh, so there is a difference. Care to expound?
A: Yeah, not that many people know the difference. Caving is where you learn techniques for exploring, meet people who like exploring; it's basically like a martial art you train for at a dojo. Spelunking is the daredevil version. Nobody really like spelunkers; they tend to be a bit stupid.
Q: Define 'stupid'.
A: The last spelunker I went on an expedition with squeezed himself into a crack for a Facebook photo. He got stuck and we had to call off the expedition and stay there for half a day.
Q: Okay, the stupidity level on that one was a bit high. Have you been to any good caves lately?
A: I've been on caving trips with my friends in Palawan. It's beautiful there. Oh, and we may be going to explore the sewers in Rome. The sewers have a proper name, but I can't remember it. If I could remember it, I wouldn't be able to pronounce the Latin.
Q: I don't blame you. Latin's tough. There's a lot of talk about your mom. Think you can add some info?
A: My mom was a scientist for the G-Corporation. She did a lot of research on the properties of the Devil Gene. When she died, the police called off the investigation and said it was a suicide, an accident, meh. I didn't stick around for their explanations.
Q: Is your mom the reason you joined the last Iron Fist tournament?
A: Yeah. I know she was killed by someone from G-Corp, I won't say who since it's a school paper.
Q: It's okay. But tell me, do you have any suspicions?
A: Kazuya Mishima. No one else.
Q: Hmm. So your mom did research on the Devil gene. Is she the one who saved Steve Fox?
A: Yeah. Mom was very sweet.
Q: Well, what about your dad? Where is he?
A: He was a famous caver; he disappeared on an expedition when I was, what, eleven, twelve... I was young when he left and didn't come home. People said he died, some said he was to addicted to exploring to care about his wife and kid.
Q: What do you say?
A: Dad loved us. He would call a lot when he was away. He always brought me a memento of some sort whenever he left. I still have the rose quartz he gave when he came back from his last expedition.
Q: That's sweet, you keeping it like that.
A: Haha, thanks.
Q: Last question, what can you say about Steve Fox?
A: He's my best friend. Don't look at me like that, I swear, he's just my best friend.
Q: I really don't believe that, but I like you, so I'll put that down word for word. Anything you'd like to say to your fans?
A: I am a girl, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you.
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"Thanks for your time, Miss Kliesen." said the girl. Leo scoffed. "Please, my name's Leo."
"Thanks Leo." the girl said, smiling, as she got up to go. Leo couldn't shake the feeling she had about the girl; something was very familiar about her. "Wait." The girl turned around. "You know my name, what's yours?" The girl smiled.
"I am Elias."
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Steve Fox was punching the life out of one of his body bags when Marshall brought the letter. "Not again." he muttered while reading the print.
KING OF IRON FIST TOURNAMENT 7
Sponsored by G-Corporation and Kazuya Mishima.
Registration: July 3rd, 2013
"Will you tag team with us again?" asked Marshall. In reply, Steve removed his glove and used the technique Marshall taught him the other day on the body bag. The bag ripped in half.
"Definitely."
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The same letter had reached Leo that night, courtesy of Dragunov stoically knocking on her door and delivering the letter with a message from her rival Lili de Rochefart, sorry, Rochefort.
Come on, let's see you fight again, bishounen.
The phone rang and she answered.
"Hey." a voice greeted her coolly over the phone.
"Steve? Kinda late don't you think?"
"I know, but did you get a letter too?"
"Yeah." Leo stretched out on the bed. "It'll be a good chance to mess with Kazuya."
"I take it you're going then." She could feel his smile through the phone line. "Obviously, test-tube baby." she replied.
"Any time for noodles with me tomorrow?" Leo sat bolt upright. "Steven Fox, are you asking me out?" Was it just her, or did she sound a bit too hopeful?
"Well...uh...see...if you wanted to...but it's okay if it's just alone time with a friend...and I...uh...what do you say about l-lunch?" His cool voice was gone and his nervous stutter had taken its place. Leo smiled, grateful he couldn't see her through the phone lines.
"Sure. Alone time with a friend at lunch." Steve laughed over the phone and bid her good night. As she said said goodbye and put the phone back on the nightstand, Leo wondered whether Steve Fox really was just her best friend after all.
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A silent figure watched Kazuya Mishima pace his balcony. The figure stooped and stared intently at him, then disappeared into the shadows of the twilight realm.
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Helloooo, beautiful fans of Tekken and the LeoxSteve pairing~ Here I have a plot line and an OC. I couldn't resist just having a plain old love story; it may work for Nicholas Sparks but not for me. I'll be having a bit of work to do from now until Saturday, so I thought I'd leave something to mess with while I'm away.
Oh yeah, before I go, do you guys want any info on the OC right away or do I just build her up as the plot runs?
Read if you want, review if you like, flame me and be ignored. Ja ne~
