(A/N: I know that the story was originally called 'Reservation' but after
posting up chapter 5, I re-read the title and realized that I meant to call
it 'Resurrection!' Tee hee opps! *Blushes.)
Chapter Six
The fifteen men and their leader began running towards the seven fighters. They all stood in their fighting stances and were ready to go.
Jasmine grinned evilly. "This was just what I needed." She jumped up and did a scissor kick at two of the three men who went after her. "HIII- YAAA!!!" she cried as her kick connected. She elbowed the other guy in the face.
Three more men went after Veronica. She paced herself a little and then jumped at the men. She gave a few punches at one guy in the face and then kneed him in the stomach. She spotted the other guy coming after her from behind and did a quick back kick to his chest. The man fell back as the third man goes after her. He grabs her from behind. She elbowed his ribs and then moves her arm up to punch his nose with the back of her fist. He released her and fell back.
"WA-CHAAAA!!!!" cried Fei-Long kicking a high kick at one of the other three men going after him. That man fell back, but managed to stand. The other two men come after him. He kicks one square in the stomach knocking the wind out of him and doing kung-fu style punches at the other guy. He finished that guy off with a blow to the temple. The guy falls to the ground and lies unconscious.
Fei-Long laughs. "Ha! One down two to go."
While he, Veronica, and Jasmine fought three men at once, Ken, Ryu, and Wagner were fighting two men at once and Guile was fighting the leader.
Ken threw a few punches at one man and elbowed the other man to keep him out of the way. When he became impatient with the other man, he finally turned to him, punched him hard in the temple and knocked him out. He finished the other guy off by throwing him through the airport window. Everybody inside the airport jumped out of the way as the man crashed through the window. Ken looked at the security guards. "Sorry about that, I'll have that paid for as soon as we finish these guys!"
Two other men looked at Wagner and laughed. "Well, look who we go against, a military wannabe. What are you doing here anyway? It's a bit dangerous here right now for a scrawny weakling like you."
Wagner laughed. "I may be scrawny...." Suddenly, he jumps in the air. "BUT I'M NOT WEAK!!!!!!!" He manages to kick both men hard in the face. The men pulled back and then regained their balances. Wagner stood in his fighting stance with determination on his face. The men growled and run after him. Wagner does a roundhouse kick on one guy so hard that the man flies backwards and crashes through another window just next to the one that was already broken. Then, he puts out two fingers with both hands, sticks his fingers deep behind the man's collarbones and pulled forward really fast. As he pulls the man towards him, Wagner knees him in the stomach. The man cried in pain and fell forward.
Wagner smiled. "Don't worry, you'll only be paralyzed for at least ten minutes."
Meanwhile, Ryu fought his two men like they were both only one person. He would punch and kick both of them at the same time with one of those I'm- just-standing-here-enjoying-myself smirks. Finally he said, "I'm kind of tired today, so I'm just going to finish you both off right now." He jumps up in the air, puts one leg forward and begins to spin rapidly hitting both men in the face.
"Tatsumaki Senpu Kyaku!!!!" Ryu shouted out. The men fell back and lay unconscious.
Guile and the leader threw a few punches at each other for a while, not realizing that the good fighters have beaten all of the leader's followers. The six friends make a circle around Guile and the leader.
The leader, not realizing anything, narrowed his eyes at Guile. Then, he manages to attack Guile with his stick. Guile bends down, and then jumps up again performing his somersault kick. He hit the leader square under his chin and flies back, losing his grip of his stick.
That's when a couple of security guards came by with guns. "Hold it right there!" they shouted pointing their guns at the leader.
Jasmine looks at one of them. "Awe, but Guile was having fun!"
"Fun's over, kid," the man said.
Jasmine narrowed her eyes. "I'm twenty-one, I ain't no........"
Veronica goes behind her sister and covers her mouth with her hand. "Shut up! You'll cause more trouble."
The security guards pick up the leader and pull his mask over his head. He was a tanned man with black hair and glasses.
Guile looks at him in confusion. "(Why does he look so familiar?)"
The man looks at the fighters with anger. "I swear all of you will regret it!" About five guards pulled him inside.
Wagner wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Well, we were dragged to Paris for nothing."
"Not really," said Veronica. "Since we're here, how about we tour the city and shop as well."
Ryu growled. He hates shopping.
Jasmine heard his growl. "Don't worry, I'm not much of a shopper either." Then, she placed a finger on her bottom lip. "Although I could go for another ear piercing."
"Again Jasmine!" cried Veronica. "You already got four in each ear."
Jasmine put her hands on her hips. "Well look who's talking?! Don't you have a silver ball in your mouth?"
Veronica spit her tongue out revealing her tongue piercing.
"Whoa!" cried Fei-Long. "When did you get that?"
"Last year," Veronica replied.
"All right instead of looking at Veronica's tongue," said Ken. "Let's go around town."
"Good, cause I'm starving!" said Wagner.
All seven of them walked towards the city.
***
While Guile and Wagner went out to find a restaurant to eat at, Ken, Veronica, and Fei-Long dragged around Ryu and Jasmine at a Paris mall.
Ken smiled at Veronica. "Because of my appreciation in joining Ryu and I in our journey, I'm going to by you something."
Veronica smiled. "That's so sweet of you."
Fei-Long narrowed his eyes. "What about me?"
Veronica laughed. "Awe, Fei-Long want a little present?"
Ken smirked and shrugged. "I get you something too, Fei-Long."
"What about Jasmine?" asked Veronica. The three of them looked over at a bench where Ryu and Jasmine were. Ryu was dead asleep on the bench while Jasmine was sitting on the ground in a sitting position like she was meditating.
"Don't worry, I'll get her something too," Ken replied.
They looked around the store. Veronica spotted her favorite store filled with clothes of her three favorite colors; black, red, and orange.
Ken smiles. "So you're the gothic type, am I correct?"
Veronica shrugs. "Sort of, I just like the front designs here and the colors." She looked around at all the clothes. She tried on a lot of them. In the end, she said, "I can't figure out which ones I want to buy."
Ken smiles again. "I'll buy all of them for you."
"Are you sure?" she asked. "That's so nice of you."
Fei-Long started to get bored himself. "I'll be back," he said. He yawned and walked over to Ryu and Jasmine. Jasmine's eyes snapped opened.
"Bored?" Fei-Long asked.
"Hardly," Jasmine replied with sarcasm.
Ryu yawned and opened his eyes. "Are they done yet?"
"Nope, Veronica's one hell of a shopper," Fei-Long answered.
He sat on the ground next to Jasmine. "What do you guys want to do while we wait?"
Jasmine shrugs and Ryu just yawned.
Then, Ken and Veronica step out of the store. "Next!" cried Veronica.
Jasmine sighed as she got up. "Please, Veronica! No more shopping!"
Veronica grinned. "I can't help myself."
Jasmine sighed and dragged her feet towards her sister.
"If you, Ryu, and now it looks like Fei-Long are so bored, why not get out of here and tour Paris. We'll meet you three right here in three hours." Veronica went into a whisper. "Nothing's going to happen. Fei-Long and Ryu will be with you."
Jasmine sighed nervously and nodded.
They all went their separate ways.
Jasmine sort of trailed behind Ryu and Fei-Long and usually looked around Paris. She didn't really listen to Ryu and Fei-Long's conversation, but she was sure it was about martial arts.
Then, she saw a posted ad saying:
ROSE: TAROT CARD READER AND FORTUNE TELLER: VISIT TODAY!
On the bottom was the address.
Ryu and Fei-Long noticed Jasmine stopping in front of the pole. They walked next to her to read what she was reading.
Fei-Long laughed. "You don't actually believe in that stuff, do you?"
Jasmine turned to Fei-Long and raised an eyebrow. "You never know, but I was thinking maybe I could give it a try."
Ryu shrugged. "As long as it doesn't involve shopping, I'll go."
"Me too," replied Fei-Long.
Jasmine ripped the ad off the pole. She stared at it for a minute. Then, she looked around the streets. She was surprised when she found the street she was looking for. "It's down this way." She began to walk towards the street. The two men followed her.
They reach their destination and enter the place. It was a colorful place filled with flowers, artwork, and glass menageries. Beads hung from the ceilings and each entrance of the doors.
Then, they heard a woman cry, "Come in Jasmine, I've been waiting for you."
Jasmine stopped in her tracks. "How do you know my name?"
The woman did not answer.
Jasmine, Ryu, and Fei-Long shrugged as they entered the back room.
Sitting in front of a round table was a woman, maybe in her thirties. She wore a purple dress and a yellow scarf over her shoulders. Her purple hair was up in a pony tail with a couple of strands lose, one of them falling over her face.
"Sit down," she said with a warm smirk. "You have come to learn about your past."
Jasmine stopped in her tracks again. "(Whoa! I guess she's going to save my oxygen today)" She sat down then, Ryu and Fei-Long following her.
The woman looked at all three of them. "My name is Rose." She looked at the men. "You two must be Ryu and Fei-Long."
The men were speechless.
The woman put out a card. Coincidently, it was a blue monarch butterfly, but in front of it was a woman in what looks like an armor battle uniform from the 1500's (it looks like something out of 'Xena: Warrior Princess'). She held a sword high in the air.
"A Princess Warrior you are," Rose said.
"A Princess Warrior?" Fei-Long asked. "Didn't that weird guy back in Hong Kong say that to you when he saw the butterfly on your back?"
Jasmine nodded.
"This will be hard to believe," Rose continued. "You, along with your sister Veronica, were brought here by a time machine when the war in Ireland has worsen. A Princess Warrior is a young woman who fights for peace for a male warrior named Faxon. Any woman who was born with the blue monarch butterfly with green eyes is meant to be a Princess Warrior on her sixteenth birthday. Your real parents believed that it was safer for you and your sister to travel to the future and live a safe life. Enemies of Faxon were killing off any babies with the butterfly and their sisters."
Suddenly, Jasmine stood up. "This is crap! What makes you think that I would believe all that?"
Rose stayed quiet. She looked at the men. "May I speak to her alone?"
Ryu and Fei-Long stood up. "All right," said Fei-Long. They walked to the front room.
Rose looks at Jasmine. "It is all I know for now according to my tarot readings. There is one other thing that I wanted to tell you." Rose stood up.
"(Well, she did find out our names before she even saw us)" Jasmine thought. "(Maybe if I asked her one more question before I let her continue)"
"You wanted to ask me another question," Rose said. "About your stepmother."
Jasmine's eyes widened.
"She died of cancer, yes?"
Jasmine lowered her eyes and slowly nodded. She now began to believe the psychic.
Rose continued. "I wanted to tell you something before you go. I could read that something has happened to you and now you don't trust men. Don't ever let that get in the way. Your heart will be alone forever if you do. I've looked into both of your friends' hearts as well."
Jasmine looked up at her. "You did?"
Rose nodded. "I know you trust Fei-Long, but not Ryu, at least not yet. Ryu is a fine young man, someone anyone can trust. Let yourself trust him. Something special will come if you let yourself trust him, and of course the other men you are with through your journey."
Deep inside, Rose was freaking Jasmine out, but she only bowed her head and closed her eyes.
"Will you do that?" Rose asked.
Jasmine looked up again. "It's pretty hard not to," she replied.
"It won't be hard if you try." Rose sat down. "I'm sorry if I'm interfering with your personal life."
Jasmine smirked. "It's okay, I'd do the same thing if I knew something about everyone."
Rose smirked. "Very well."
Jasmine turned to the exit. "Thank you for your help." Then, she exited the room.
Jasmine spots Fei-Long and Ryu in the front. "(Ryu)" Jasmine thought. "(Of all people, why does Rose want me to trust him most?)"
Chapter Six
The fifteen men and their leader began running towards the seven fighters. They all stood in their fighting stances and were ready to go.
Jasmine grinned evilly. "This was just what I needed." She jumped up and did a scissor kick at two of the three men who went after her. "HIII- YAAA!!!" she cried as her kick connected. She elbowed the other guy in the face.
Three more men went after Veronica. She paced herself a little and then jumped at the men. She gave a few punches at one guy in the face and then kneed him in the stomach. She spotted the other guy coming after her from behind and did a quick back kick to his chest. The man fell back as the third man goes after her. He grabs her from behind. She elbowed his ribs and then moves her arm up to punch his nose with the back of her fist. He released her and fell back.
"WA-CHAAAA!!!!" cried Fei-Long kicking a high kick at one of the other three men going after him. That man fell back, but managed to stand. The other two men come after him. He kicks one square in the stomach knocking the wind out of him and doing kung-fu style punches at the other guy. He finished that guy off with a blow to the temple. The guy falls to the ground and lies unconscious.
Fei-Long laughs. "Ha! One down two to go."
While he, Veronica, and Jasmine fought three men at once, Ken, Ryu, and Wagner were fighting two men at once and Guile was fighting the leader.
Ken threw a few punches at one man and elbowed the other man to keep him out of the way. When he became impatient with the other man, he finally turned to him, punched him hard in the temple and knocked him out. He finished the other guy off by throwing him through the airport window. Everybody inside the airport jumped out of the way as the man crashed through the window. Ken looked at the security guards. "Sorry about that, I'll have that paid for as soon as we finish these guys!"
Two other men looked at Wagner and laughed. "Well, look who we go against, a military wannabe. What are you doing here anyway? It's a bit dangerous here right now for a scrawny weakling like you."
Wagner laughed. "I may be scrawny...." Suddenly, he jumps in the air. "BUT I'M NOT WEAK!!!!!!!" He manages to kick both men hard in the face. The men pulled back and then regained their balances. Wagner stood in his fighting stance with determination on his face. The men growled and run after him. Wagner does a roundhouse kick on one guy so hard that the man flies backwards and crashes through another window just next to the one that was already broken. Then, he puts out two fingers with both hands, sticks his fingers deep behind the man's collarbones and pulled forward really fast. As he pulls the man towards him, Wagner knees him in the stomach. The man cried in pain and fell forward.
Wagner smiled. "Don't worry, you'll only be paralyzed for at least ten minutes."
Meanwhile, Ryu fought his two men like they were both only one person. He would punch and kick both of them at the same time with one of those I'm- just-standing-here-enjoying-myself smirks. Finally he said, "I'm kind of tired today, so I'm just going to finish you both off right now." He jumps up in the air, puts one leg forward and begins to spin rapidly hitting both men in the face.
"Tatsumaki Senpu Kyaku!!!!" Ryu shouted out. The men fell back and lay unconscious.
Guile and the leader threw a few punches at each other for a while, not realizing that the good fighters have beaten all of the leader's followers. The six friends make a circle around Guile and the leader.
The leader, not realizing anything, narrowed his eyes at Guile. Then, he manages to attack Guile with his stick. Guile bends down, and then jumps up again performing his somersault kick. He hit the leader square under his chin and flies back, losing his grip of his stick.
That's when a couple of security guards came by with guns. "Hold it right there!" they shouted pointing their guns at the leader.
Jasmine looks at one of them. "Awe, but Guile was having fun!"
"Fun's over, kid," the man said.
Jasmine narrowed her eyes. "I'm twenty-one, I ain't no........"
Veronica goes behind her sister and covers her mouth with her hand. "Shut up! You'll cause more trouble."
The security guards pick up the leader and pull his mask over his head. He was a tanned man with black hair and glasses.
Guile looks at him in confusion. "(Why does he look so familiar?)"
The man looks at the fighters with anger. "I swear all of you will regret it!" About five guards pulled him inside.
Wagner wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Well, we were dragged to Paris for nothing."
"Not really," said Veronica. "Since we're here, how about we tour the city and shop as well."
Ryu growled. He hates shopping.
Jasmine heard his growl. "Don't worry, I'm not much of a shopper either." Then, she placed a finger on her bottom lip. "Although I could go for another ear piercing."
"Again Jasmine!" cried Veronica. "You already got four in each ear."
Jasmine put her hands on her hips. "Well look who's talking?! Don't you have a silver ball in your mouth?"
Veronica spit her tongue out revealing her tongue piercing.
"Whoa!" cried Fei-Long. "When did you get that?"
"Last year," Veronica replied.
"All right instead of looking at Veronica's tongue," said Ken. "Let's go around town."
"Good, cause I'm starving!" said Wagner.
All seven of them walked towards the city.
***
While Guile and Wagner went out to find a restaurant to eat at, Ken, Veronica, and Fei-Long dragged around Ryu and Jasmine at a Paris mall.
Ken smiled at Veronica. "Because of my appreciation in joining Ryu and I in our journey, I'm going to by you something."
Veronica smiled. "That's so sweet of you."
Fei-Long narrowed his eyes. "What about me?"
Veronica laughed. "Awe, Fei-Long want a little present?"
Ken smirked and shrugged. "I get you something too, Fei-Long."
"What about Jasmine?" asked Veronica. The three of them looked over at a bench where Ryu and Jasmine were. Ryu was dead asleep on the bench while Jasmine was sitting on the ground in a sitting position like she was meditating.
"Don't worry, I'll get her something too," Ken replied.
They looked around the store. Veronica spotted her favorite store filled with clothes of her three favorite colors; black, red, and orange.
Ken smiles. "So you're the gothic type, am I correct?"
Veronica shrugs. "Sort of, I just like the front designs here and the colors." She looked around at all the clothes. She tried on a lot of them. In the end, she said, "I can't figure out which ones I want to buy."
Ken smiles again. "I'll buy all of them for you."
"Are you sure?" she asked. "That's so nice of you."
Fei-Long started to get bored himself. "I'll be back," he said. He yawned and walked over to Ryu and Jasmine. Jasmine's eyes snapped opened.
"Bored?" Fei-Long asked.
"Hardly," Jasmine replied with sarcasm.
Ryu yawned and opened his eyes. "Are they done yet?"
"Nope, Veronica's one hell of a shopper," Fei-Long answered.
He sat on the ground next to Jasmine. "What do you guys want to do while we wait?"
Jasmine shrugs and Ryu just yawned.
Then, Ken and Veronica step out of the store. "Next!" cried Veronica.
Jasmine sighed as she got up. "Please, Veronica! No more shopping!"
Veronica grinned. "I can't help myself."
Jasmine sighed and dragged her feet towards her sister.
"If you, Ryu, and now it looks like Fei-Long are so bored, why not get out of here and tour Paris. We'll meet you three right here in three hours." Veronica went into a whisper. "Nothing's going to happen. Fei-Long and Ryu will be with you."
Jasmine sighed nervously and nodded.
They all went their separate ways.
Jasmine sort of trailed behind Ryu and Fei-Long and usually looked around Paris. She didn't really listen to Ryu and Fei-Long's conversation, but she was sure it was about martial arts.
Then, she saw a posted ad saying:
ROSE: TAROT CARD READER AND FORTUNE TELLER: VISIT TODAY!
On the bottom was the address.
Ryu and Fei-Long noticed Jasmine stopping in front of the pole. They walked next to her to read what she was reading.
Fei-Long laughed. "You don't actually believe in that stuff, do you?"
Jasmine turned to Fei-Long and raised an eyebrow. "You never know, but I was thinking maybe I could give it a try."
Ryu shrugged. "As long as it doesn't involve shopping, I'll go."
"Me too," replied Fei-Long.
Jasmine ripped the ad off the pole. She stared at it for a minute. Then, she looked around the streets. She was surprised when she found the street she was looking for. "It's down this way." She began to walk towards the street. The two men followed her.
They reach their destination and enter the place. It was a colorful place filled with flowers, artwork, and glass menageries. Beads hung from the ceilings and each entrance of the doors.
Then, they heard a woman cry, "Come in Jasmine, I've been waiting for you."
Jasmine stopped in her tracks. "How do you know my name?"
The woman did not answer.
Jasmine, Ryu, and Fei-Long shrugged as they entered the back room.
Sitting in front of a round table was a woman, maybe in her thirties. She wore a purple dress and a yellow scarf over her shoulders. Her purple hair was up in a pony tail with a couple of strands lose, one of them falling over her face.
"Sit down," she said with a warm smirk. "You have come to learn about your past."
Jasmine stopped in her tracks again. "(Whoa! I guess she's going to save my oxygen today)" She sat down then, Ryu and Fei-Long following her.
The woman looked at all three of them. "My name is Rose." She looked at the men. "You two must be Ryu and Fei-Long."
The men were speechless.
The woman put out a card. Coincidently, it was a blue monarch butterfly, but in front of it was a woman in what looks like an armor battle uniform from the 1500's (it looks like something out of 'Xena: Warrior Princess'). She held a sword high in the air.
"A Princess Warrior you are," Rose said.
"A Princess Warrior?" Fei-Long asked. "Didn't that weird guy back in Hong Kong say that to you when he saw the butterfly on your back?"
Jasmine nodded.
"This will be hard to believe," Rose continued. "You, along with your sister Veronica, were brought here by a time machine when the war in Ireland has worsen. A Princess Warrior is a young woman who fights for peace for a male warrior named Faxon. Any woman who was born with the blue monarch butterfly with green eyes is meant to be a Princess Warrior on her sixteenth birthday. Your real parents believed that it was safer for you and your sister to travel to the future and live a safe life. Enemies of Faxon were killing off any babies with the butterfly and their sisters."
Suddenly, Jasmine stood up. "This is crap! What makes you think that I would believe all that?"
Rose stayed quiet. She looked at the men. "May I speak to her alone?"
Ryu and Fei-Long stood up. "All right," said Fei-Long. They walked to the front room.
Rose looks at Jasmine. "It is all I know for now according to my tarot readings. There is one other thing that I wanted to tell you." Rose stood up.
"(Well, she did find out our names before she even saw us)" Jasmine thought. "(Maybe if I asked her one more question before I let her continue)"
"You wanted to ask me another question," Rose said. "About your stepmother."
Jasmine's eyes widened.
"She died of cancer, yes?"
Jasmine lowered her eyes and slowly nodded. She now began to believe the psychic.
Rose continued. "I wanted to tell you something before you go. I could read that something has happened to you and now you don't trust men. Don't ever let that get in the way. Your heart will be alone forever if you do. I've looked into both of your friends' hearts as well."
Jasmine looked up at her. "You did?"
Rose nodded. "I know you trust Fei-Long, but not Ryu, at least not yet. Ryu is a fine young man, someone anyone can trust. Let yourself trust him. Something special will come if you let yourself trust him, and of course the other men you are with through your journey."
Deep inside, Rose was freaking Jasmine out, but she only bowed her head and closed her eyes.
"Will you do that?" Rose asked.
Jasmine looked up again. "It's pretty hard not to," she replied.
"It won't be hard if you try." Rose sat down. "I'm sorry if I'm interfering with your personal life."
Jasmine smirked. "It's okay, I'd do the same thing if I knew something about everyone."
Rose smirked. "Very well."
Jasmine turned to the exit. "Thank you for your help." Then, she exited the room.
Jasmine spots Fei-Long and Ryu in the front. "(Ryu)" Jasmine thought. "(Of all people, why does Rose want me to trust him most?)"
