Saikyokugenryu Ch.13
Both Dan and Ryo boarded the next plane that would take them back to where this whole mess beagn-Japan!
While on the plane,Dan had popped the first inquiry. "So.what're we gonna do when we get back to Japan and that Wyler guy?"
"Dan.don't you ever come up with any real planning?"said Ryo. "In case you haven't noticed,I've been doing more planning than you have."
"Hey,there are times for planning,and there are times for action."said Dan. "I only plan how to strengthen my fighting arts and what to teach whatever students I get."
"If you say so."said Ryo. "But next time." "Okay,okay."said Dan. "..i'll see what to do the next time. Anyways,mind telling me now the origins of your fighting style..this Kyokugenryu?"
"Very well then."said Ryo. "It all began like this." "Many years ago,a man named Hiryyu Sakazaki learned the art of Kyokugen from a mysterious martial arts master who lived deep in the countryside of Japan. The master never revealed who he really was to my grandfather but he told him to continue to master and perfect the art for generations to come.
Through the years,my grandfather Hiryyu made waves in the fighting world,winning tournaments,crushing bad guys and winning fame and glory for the Sakazaki would begin under his reign.
Years later,he met a beautiful aikido warrior named Hasammi and they were eventually married. They then gave birth to the next heir of the Kyokugen legacy-my father Takuma.
Takuma was the first Sakazaki to be taught from his father to be a great warrior like his father was. He learned all he knows from Hiryyu,until they were both satisfied. Finally,just as Takuma reached manhood,he had graduated a full-fledged master,taking the place of Hirryu as both he and his wife retired from the fighter's circuit for him to weave a legacy of his own.
But.even though he prevailed in the end,my father had a lot of trouble getting off the ground at first,and it had quite a bit to do with Mr.Big.and Geese Howard.
Unbeknownst at first to his parents,Takuma took up a stage name for himself. The reason I think was that he watched a lot of proffesional wrestling back at the local wrestling ring back in our hometown of Osaka. So..inpsired by masked fighters no doubt,he made a silly looking tengu mask,a fake wig and called himself.MR.KARATE!"
Dan let off a huge sweatdrop on his side saying:"WHAAAT?!" "You heard me right,"said Ryo. "Mr.Karate. And before you ask yourself,who on earth would come up with a lamer than lame name than that---well--- that's my father for you.
Anyways,he took up the alias and venured off to make a name for himself just as his father did before him. And he did good at that as well,winning many championships and prize money amounts to plan to open a dojo of his own to carry on the Sakazaki fighting style.
Suddenly one day,some fight agents came to my father with an offer he couldn't refuse. Go to america and compete in it's tournaments. And that he did,he came to the city we were just in..Southtown.
While there,he continued to make waves in the fighter's circuit and eventually made the first ever Kyokugen Dojo as well as the home one in Osaka Japan. He even met and married a beautiful american woman named Ronnet and gave birth to two children,myself and Yuri. But,my mother gained a fatal disease and died a short time later. He was striken with grief but vowed to make his children into great fighters as both himself and his father who also along with his wife passed away some time ago before.
By the time both Yuri and myself were 10 years old,our father began to train us in the art of Kyokugen,as well as many other students who flocked to the dojo as well.
Life was good for awile,but many years later crime and corruption began to run rampant in the streets of the once peaceful city of Southtown and a man named Geese Howard was behind it all.
Takuma himself vowed to put an end to the evil crime lord as he ventured forth to Geese's hideout and challenged the evil crime czar one on one. Takuma fought well against the evil Geese,but he soon found out that Geese was a formidable martial arts master himself,learning the great arts of Tung Fu Rue and others,he defeated my father and then had his men capture my sister.
Geese vowed to Takuma that if he did anything rash,then he would have his daughter killed. My father had no choice but to oblige. So,before leaving for a business trip he placed his right hand man at the time,renowned crime lord Mr.Big and the reluctant Takuma in charge for a time in Geese's affairs.
However,both Robert,who also became a student under my father a few years ago had both began searching for both my sister and father and it was no easy task,running into and fighting many opponents like Todo and Jack which we both met. Finally,we learn of Big's whereabouts and Robert soundly trounces him while I dash to find Yuri.
There,in a basement-like lair with torches on the wall I fought Mr.Karate,and what I didn't know at the time was that was the alias my father had in the fighting arena. It was anything but easy,but I pounced him,and just when I was about to finish him off,Yuri came in telling me that the fighter was our father.
We were all reunited happily and continued the dojo's existence by expanding it to different parts of the world,like Robert's homeland of Italy where he and Yuri ran it and I ran the american one in Southtown as did my father in Osaka. A few years later back in Southtown,we were all invited by Geese Howard to attend the first ever King of Fighters martial arts tournament,this is where it all began for the KOF circuit.
We along with several other friends and foes attended the tournament and then fought once again in the streets of southtown. It was I who made it to the finals and defeated Geese Howard,winning the title as the first ever King of Fighters."
"Yeah,I saw that trophy you had up in your pop's place that said King of Fighters'78."said Dan. "I heard a bit about the KOF but I hail from the World Warrior circuit but I plan to enter if another one comes up."
"Geese of course escaped..but I soon learned that it was a mistake to not finish him when I had the opportunity.as many others beside myself soon learned."said Ryo.
"Anyways,many years later,while I was teaching some new students the Saikyo art when one day a pair of gangsters named Ripper and Hopper leading a gang of armed hoods broke into the dojo and kidnapped several of my students. They told me to met their head man Geese if I wanted to see them again.
And so it was just as my father was leashed,I was leashed also by the evil of Geese Howard. Geese told me that unless I wanted to see my students again that I would partake in the new King of Fighters as a secret challenger in case he was defeated. I had no choice but to agree,I even took up the once alias of my father and became the new Mr.Karate."
"You.became a Mr.Karate.?"said Dan,trying to hide his snickering and chuckling.
Ryo pulled Dan by the nose and it stretched like silly putty. "Laugh and I promise you I'll give you a face like a Tengu." "Ummm.mmmkay.!"said Dan unfazed but annoyed. Ryo let loose and Dan's nose went smack back into place. "Anyways,it was like being back in the KOF'78 once again,but I didn't have the thrill of being a contestant or punching Geese out like I did before. It all looked so hopeless at first.
..until he came out of the shadows and sent Geese Howard to what he we all thought was his death.
Terry the lone wolf Bograd had entered the KOF'91 for means of revenge against Geese for killing his father. And in the final match,Terry did a flying burn knuckle on Geese that sent him crashing over a railling that was affixed around his main office and training ground and he fell to his death..or so we thought at first..but to make a long story short after the events of KOF'97 Terry eventually did away with Geese..or so we all hope.
With Geese gone,I didn't have to take part in being his bloody back-up. I escaped from the main office,beat up both Ripper and Hopper who were guarding my sy students and we all returned to my dojo for a well-deserved rest. I owed Terry Bogard that day,and I would make sure that my fight with him one day would be an honorable and exciting one.
A couple of years later after Terry defeated Wolfgang Krauser in the KOF'93 and I attended a tournament called Buriki-one,I received an invitation to a new KOF under a man named Rugal Bernstein. I gathered not only Robert and father for our team,but both my sister and our old friend King gathered their team with a ninja named Mai Shirunai for the very first team battle tournament.
We didn't win the first one as others did,but have returned under many roster changes over the years,only Robert and myself have been together for the longest time through recent and current rosters.
But the journey was an exciting one against many evils like Rugal,Goenitz,the Orochi and recently Nests cartel. Hopefully,some day we'll win the next tournament just as I did many years ago-either way the stlye of Kyokugenryu shall live forever!"
Dan sweatdropped at the melodrama and cheesiness of Ryo's speech. "Uh.coffee tea or milk?"he said. "Huh---what?"said Ryo.
"You finished?"said Dan. "Oh uh-yeah sorry,got carried away there."said Ryo. "That's saying something."said Dan. "But what exactly were you and your sis doing before your dad got heisted?"
"Both Yuri and myself were going to see dad to celebrate the anniversary of our being a family of fighters and honor both the memory of our mother and grandfather for founding the art of Kyokugen. But..as you saw recently,things didn't go as planned.and we got those scumkings Wyler and Big to thank for that."
"Hey,no worries,Sakazaki."said Dan. "We'll kick their butts and get your kin back." "I hope so."said Ryo. "It's been awhile since I faced either of them."
Finally,arriving back in Osaka,both Dan and Ryo take a cab for the location they were told to go to. The cab had arrived near some parking garage building and they were left off there.
Ryo looked at the written instructions on where to met Wyler's men,but as they looked around they found that no one was there to greet them.
"Well."said Dan looking around. "where is anyone or anyone we were supposed to meet?" Suddenly,as if in answer,a group of black clad ninjas came jumping around both men,surrounding them.
"Does that answer your question senior Hibiki?"said a voice. "Who the---?"said Ryo.
Emerging from the entrance of the building were a pair of hired assassins. One was an muslamic woman dressed in purple and white and carried a large scimitar. The other was a lean and muscular young man with long blonde hair,also wearing a pair of purple short pants,a long dragon tattoo,a steel mask over his face and a razor sharp claw with foot long blades.
"SINCLAIR?"said Ryo. "VEGA?"said Dan.
"In the flesh so to speak!"said Vega bowing. "Nice to see you again..pink one." "Sinclair what are you doing here?"said Ryo. "If you're working for Wyler again,then don't you remember the evil that he did to you and others? Sinclair-answer me!"
Sinclair's eyes were a stone blank,she seemes to be in another world or something. "I'm afraid she can't hear you senior."said the spanish ninja. "She has been..shall we say.coerced into employment by her master,senior Wyler,in the most mental of ways."
"He must've found a way to brainwash her into doing his dirty work!"said Ryo. "Don't they always?"said Dan.
"As for yours truly,"said Vega. "you know the usual motivations,money,power,fame and maybe a nice face-lift for myself when this is over. Either way,I give this offer to the both of you---hand over the vial of aquired blood samples---or my team of ninja killers take them from you! So,which shall it be?"
Ryo and Dan were almost at the end of the gauntlet that was set by Wyler,but they still had some obstacles and tasks to overcome,would they make it in time to stop Wyler before something terrible would happen to Ryo's family.
More to come in ch.14 as the action heats up and comes to a head.
Both Dan and Ryo boarded the next plane that would take them back to where this whole mess beagn-Japan!
While on the plane,Dan had popped the first inquiry. "So.what're we gonna do when we get back to Japan and that Wyler guy?"
"Dan.don't you ever come up with any real planning?"said Ryo. "In case you haven't noticed,I've been doing more planning than you have."
"Hey,there are times for planning,and there are times for action."said Dan. "I only plan how to strengthen my fighting arts and what to teach whatever students I get."
"If you say so."said Ryo. "But next time." "Okay,okay."said Dan. "..i'll see what to do the next time. Anyways,mind telling me now the origins of your fighting style..this Kyokugenryu?"
"Very well then."said Ryo. "It all began like this." "Many years ago,a man named Hiryyu Sakazaki learned the art of Kyokugen from a mysterious martial arts master who lived deep in the countryside of Japan. The master never revealed who he really was to my grandfather but he told him to continue to master and perfect the art for generations to come.
Through the years,my grandfather Hiryyu made waves in the fighting world,winning tournaments,crushing bad guys and winning fame and glory for the Sakazaki would begin under his reign.
Years later,he met a beautiful aikido warrior named Hasammi and they were eventually married. They then gave birth to the next heir of the Kyokugen legacy-my father Takuma.
Takuma was the first Sakazaki to be taught from his father to be a great warrior like his father was. He learned all he knows from Hiryyu,until they were both satisfied. Finally,just as Takuma reached manhood,he had graduated a full-fledged master,taking the place of Hirryu as both he and his wife retired from the fighter's circuit for him to weave a legacy of his own.
But.even though he prevailed in the end,my father had a lot of trouble getting off the ground at first,and it had quite a bit to do with Mr.Big.and Geese Howard.
Unbeknownst at first to his parents,Takuma took up a stage name for himself. The reason I think was that he watched a lot of proffesional wrestling back at the local wrestling ring back in our hometown of Osaka. So..inpsired by masked fighters no doubt,he made a silly looking tengu mask,a fake wig and called himself.MR.KARATE!"
Dan let off a huge sweatdrop on his side saying:"WHAAAT?!" "You heard me right,"said Ryo. "Mr.Karate. And before you ask yourself,who on earth would come up with a lamer than lame name than that---well--- that's my father for you.
Anyways,he took up the alias and venured off to make a name for himself just as his father did before him. And he did good at that as well,winning many championships and prize money amounts to plan to open a dojo of his own to carry on the Sakazaki fighting style.
Suddenly one day,some fight agents came to my father with an offer he couldn't refuse. Go to america and compete in it's tournaments. And that he did,he came to the city we were just in..Southtown.
While there,he continued to make waves in the fighter's circuit and eventually made the first ever Kyokugen Dojo as well as the home one in Osaka Japan. He even met and married a beautiful american woman named Ronnet and gave birth to two children,myself and Yuri. But,my mother gained a fatal disease and died a short time later. He was striken with grief but vowed to make his children into great fighters as both himself and his father who also along with his wife passed away some time ago before.
By the time both Yuri and myself were 10 years old,our father began to train us in the art of Kyokugen,as well as many other students who flocked to the dojo as well.
Life was good for awile,but many years later crime and corruption began to run rampant in the streets of the once peaceful city of Southtown and a man named Geese Howard was behind it all.
Takuma himself vowed to put an end to the evil crime lord as he ventured forth to Geese's hideout and challenged the evil crime czar one on one. Takuma fought well against the evil Geese,but he soon found out that Geese was a formidable martial arts master himself,learning the great arts of Tung Fu Rue and others,he defeated my father and then had his men capture my sister.
Geese vowed to Takuma that if he did anything rash,then he would have his daughter killed. My father had no choice but to oblige. So,before leaving for a business trip he placed his right hand man at the time,renowned crime lord Mr.Big and the reluctant Takuma in charge for a time in Geese's affairs.
However,both Robert,who also became a student under my father a few years ago had both began searching for both my sister and father and it was no easy task,running into and fighting many opponents like Todo and Jack which we both met. Finally,we learn of Big's whereabouts and Robert soundly trounces him while I dash to find Yuri.
There,in a basement-like lair with torches on the wall I fought Mr.Karate,and what I didn't know at the time was that was the alias my father had in the fighting arena. It was anything but easy,but I pounced him,and just when I was about to finish him off,Yuri came in telling me that the fighter was our father.
We were all reunited happily and continued the dojo's existence by expanding it to different parts of the world,like Robert's homeland of Italy where he and Yuri ran it and I ran the american one in Southtown as did my father in Osaka. A few years later back in Southtown,we were all invited by Geese Howard to attend the first ever King of Fighters martial arts tournament,this is where it all began for the KOF circuit.
We along with several other friends and foes attended the tournament and then fought once again in the streets of southtown. It was I who made it to the finals and defeated Geese Howard,winning the title as the first ever King of Fighters."
"Yeah,I saw that trophy you had up in your pop's place that said King of Fighters'78."said Dan. "I heard a bit about the KOF but I hail from the World Warrior circuit but I plan to enter if another one comes up."
"Geese of course escaped..but I soon learned that it was a mistake to not finish him when I had the opportunity.as many others beside myself soon learned."said Ryo.
"Anyways,many years later,while I was teaching some new students the Saikyo art when one day a pair of gangsters named Ripper and Hopper leading a gang of armed hoods broke into the dojo and kidnapped several of my students. They told me to met their head man Geese if I wanted to see them again.
And so it was just as my father was leashed,I was leashed also by the evil of Geese Howard. Geese told me that unless I wanted to see my students again that I would partake in the new King of Fighters as a secret challenger in case he was defeated. I had no choice but to agree,I even took up the once alias of my father and became the new Mr.Karate."
"You.became a Mr.Karate.?"said Dan,trying to hide his snickering and chuckling.
Ryo pulled Dan by the nose and it stretched like silly putty. "Laugh and I promise you I'll give you a face like a Tengu." "Ummm.mmmkay.!"said Dan unfazed but annoyed. Ryo let loose and Dan's nose went smack back into place. "Anyways,it was like being back in the KOF'78 once again,but I didn't have the thrill of being a contestant or punching Geese out like I did before. It all looked so hopeless at first.
..until he came out of the shadows and sent Geese Howard to what he we all thought was his death.
Terry the lone wolf Bograd had entered the KOF'91 for means of revenge against Geese for killing his father. And in the final match,Terry did a flying burn knuckle on Geese that sent him crashing over a railling that was affixed around his main office and training ground and he fell to his death..or so we thought at first..but to make a long story short after the events of KOF'97 Terry eventually did away with Geese..or so we all hope.
With Geese gone,I didn't have to take part in being his bloody back-up. I escaped from the main office,beat up both Ripper and Hopper who were guarding my sy students and we all returned to my dojo for a well-deserved rest. I owed Terry Bogard that day,and I would make sure that my fight with him one day would be an honorable and exciting one.
A couple of years later after Terry defeated Wolfgang Krauser in the KOF'93 and I attended a tournament called Buriki-one,I received an invitation to a new KOF under a man named Rugal Bernstein. I gathered not only Robert and father for our team,but both my sister and our old friend King gathered their team with a ninja named Mai Shirunai for the very first team battle tournament.
We didn't win the first one as others did,but have returned under many roster changes over the years,only Robert and myself have been together for the longest time through recent and current rosters.
But the journey was an exciting one against many evils like Rugal,Goenitz,the Orochi and recently Nests cartel. Hopefully,some day we'll win the next tournament just as I did many years ago-either way the stlye of Kyokugenryu shall live forever!"
Dan sweatdropped at the melodrama and cheesiness of Ryo's speech. "Uh.coffee tea or milk?"he said. "Huh---what?"said Ryo.
"You finished?"said Dan. "Oh uh-yeah sorry,got carried away there."said Ryo. "That's saying something."said Dan. "But what exactly were you and your sis doing before your dad got heisted?"
"Both Yuri and myself were going to see dad to celebrate the anniversary of our being a family of fighters and honor both the memory of our mother and grandfather for founding the art of Kyokugen. But..as you saw recently,things didn't go as planned.and we got those scumkings Wyler and Big to thank for that."
"Hey,no worries,Sakazaki."said Dan. "We'll kick their butts and get your kin back." "I hope so."said Ryo. "It's been awhile since I faced either of them."
Finally,arriving back in Osaka,both Dan and Ryo take a cab for the location they were told to go to. The cab had arrived near some parking garage building and they were left off there.
Ryo looked at the written instructions on where to met Wyler's men,but as they looked around they found that no one was there to greet them.
"Well."said Dan looking around. "where is anyone or anyone we were supposed to meet?" Suddenly,as if in answer,a group of black clad ninjas came jumping around both men,surrounding them.
"Does that answer your question senior Hibiki?"said a voice. "Who the---?"said Ryo.
Emerging from the entrance of the building were a pair of hired assassins. One was an muslamic woman dressed in purple and white and carried a large scimitar. The other was a lean and muscular young man with long blonde hair,also wearing a pair of purple short pants,a long dragon tattoo,a steel mask over his face and a razor sharp claw with foot long blades.
"SINCLAIR?"said Ryo. "VEGA?"said Dan.
"In the flesh so to speak!"said Vega bowing. "Nice to see you again..pink one." "Sinclair what are you doing here?"said Ryo. "If you're working for Wyler again,then don't you remember the evil that he did to you and others? Sinclair-answer me!"
Sinclair's eyes were a stone blank,she seemes to be in another world or something. "I'm afraid she can't hear you senior."said the spanish ninja. "She has been..shall we say.coerced into employment by her master,senior Wyler,in the most mental of ways."
"He must've found a way to brainwash her into doing his dirty work!"said Ryo. "Don't they always?"said Dan.
"As for yours truly,"said Vega. "you know the usual motivations,money,power,fame and maybe a nice face-lift for myself when this is over. Either way,I give this offer to the both of you---hand over the vial of aquired blood samples---or my team of ninja killers take them from you! So,which shall it be?"
Ryo and Dan were almost at the end of the gauntlet that was set by Wyler,but they still had some obstacles and tasks to overcome,would they make it in time to stop Wyler before something terrible would happen to Ryo's family.
More to come in ch.14 as the action heats up and comes to a head.
