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Chapter 2
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3 days later, somewhere in the Fox town (hey I can make up any names, right?)

"Ken, I always thought that you are a big city man type, how come you want to go to this town ?"

"Hey, I like the country sight too." replied Ken trying to sound being offended.

The two were still talking and joking while suddenly they heard some fighting sound. They quickly ran toward the crowd and joined in to see what happen, what they saw was interesting, there are a man about their age and a young beautiful girl surrounded by 7 men. The man and the girl stood back to back, and in their fighting stances.

"Hey what happened there ?" asked Ken to a guy in the crowd.

"Fighting. It seems that the girl purse was stolen by one of the seven guys there and they chase the thief here." replied the man without looking at Ken.

"I think we should help them." said Ken to Ryu.

"Just wait a moment, I think they are a good fighters. I want to see them fight." said Ryu.

Then the fight begins, two guys attacked at the man with punches which were easily dodged and then counter with a sidekick, knocking an attacker down. Then the man did the sweep technique, but did not succeed. The girl attacked at the thief first to get her purse back, but was blocked by other men. Then with an yell, she slapped at one man and followed by a hard straight punch on the stomach.

"Rogue, don't kill them okay" said the man to his girl while punching to one of the attacker's face.

"Like I will do that" replied Rouge and then kick to another man on the head.

Then another two guys attacked at RD (well you should have guessed who is the man) but RD easily blocked the attacks and grab an attacker and throw him to the other one but missed because the other one already move back. Seeing an opening, the fourth attacker then attacked with jump kick, but was countered by RD with a rising uppercut and scream "Ryuken" (Dragon Punch) knocking the attacker at his jaw.

"Wow, isn't that shoryuken ?" said Ken with a surprise look at RD tech.

"Its similar alright." said Ryu. He also surprised to look at RD technique that is similar to their shoryuken.

At last the fight ended with a kick from Rogue on the thief stomach. Then she walked toward the thief and took her purse back from the thief.

"Hmm, they are good fighters, I think I want to try them" said Ken.

"Ken, don't!" said Ryu, but too late, Ken already jumped out of the crowd.

"Hey you two, where do you think you're going eh?" said Ken to RD and Rogue.

"Who are you?" asked RD

"Are you one of them too?" asked Rogue.

"What if yes?" replied Ken with a challenging note in his sound.

"Then I will kick your ass too" said Rogue and moved toward Ken while throwing her purse to RD.

"Rogue, be careful!" warned RD, sensing that Rogue's opponent was not the same with the gang of thieves they fought before.

The fight started with Rogue doing a jump kick to Ken, which was easily dodged. Ken countered with a punch to stomach, which was almost connected, and hardly blocked by Rogue.

"Well, it seems you're a bit different, take this" said Rogue and then threw a punch to Ken's face and followed by sweep to Ken's feet, all failed. Then Ken attacked back with Shoryuken which hit Rogue's jaw, sending her fly back almost 1 meter.

"Crap ! so you want to play hard eh. Taste this, Typhoon Uppercut !!" yelled Rogue creating a typhoon in front of her. The typhoon sucked and knocked Ken away almost 10 meters just before Ken landed after performed his Shoryuken.

"Ouch, how did she do that?" thought Ken still feeling a bit spinning after he managed to get up.
Rogue came again with punch but Ken captured her fist. He punched back, but Rogue also captured his fist. Locking each other fist, they began to press each other with their energy. Both were equal, although Ken had more chi power, Rogue's two-power combination was enough to match Ken's power. The fight almost reached its peak and both can get injured or killed when suddenly...

"Shoryuken!"

"Ryuken!"

The two punches separated the two fighters and diverted their energy to the sky. RD's punch broke Ken's hold on Rogue's fist and Ryu's punch broke Rogue's hold on Ken's fist. The four of them almost fell back from the energy blow. Standing on their own fighting stances, they wait for each other reaction.

Ryu was the first one who closed his stance, then followed by the others, he then bowed toward RD and Rogue and said "I'm so sorry with all this fight and misunderstanding. My friend and I were watching your fight and he interested on trying to fight you, that's why he challenge you earlier."

"Is that so... then why didn't he said that before ?" asked Rogue still suspicious, and then continued to ask "And who are you might be ?"

"My name is Ryu Hoshi, and this is my friend, his name is Ken Masters. We're tourists here. We were just walking around when we heard fighting sound, and then we saw your fights, and we also get interested with your fighting techniques." explained Ryu.

"Hmm... if that so, its okay then, so we don't have anymore problems. But I see that you and your friend's fighting abilities are also marvelous." said RD.

"Okay, because we don't have anymore problems, and to honor two good fighters like you two, I would like to invite you two to a dinner how about that ?" asked Ken.

"I don't know, I never go to dinner with an opponent who punched me before." said Rogue with a naughty smile.

"Rogue, don't you ever heard about forgive and forget ?" said RD chiding Rogue. Then he turned toward Ken "Well, its okay for us, since we are now friends, my name is Ryu Dragon you can call me RD, and she is my girlfriend Rogue."

"Well, its good then, now shall we go together now ?" asked Ken.