Friends worth killing....
Terry and rock went to master jubi's shrine and slept till noon the next day. Terry awoke first and packed up all his stuff. After rock woke up Terry brought him to the spot where Andy and joe had first sparred. 'Well guys....i think its time to go', said andy.
'Yeah, i got some more titles to win!' roared joe.
'I agree, me and rock got some things to do' replied terry.
'I'll go whever you go andy dear' said an excited mai.
'In eleven months i think we should all show up back here for the next "King of Fighters Tournament' commanded andy.
'OK!' said all four of them at once and put their hands together. Mai and Andy were going to stay at master jubi's temple. Joe took a cab to the Osaka Dome in order to find out what events were going on in the general area. Terry and Rock caught a plane to America, they were going back to 'Southtown'. The plane ride was quiet, rock didn't know what to say to terry. Terry was thinking hard about when he asked his father to teach him how to fight.
'Fighting for anything but justice will drain your body and soul...' Terry rememberd his father saying. And all the times Terry watched his father train, he wanted to be exactly like him. Wacthing the SEMPUKEN (equivilent to Terry's POWER WAVE), the HAKI NO FAI (same as Terry's RISING TACKLE), and the BURNING KNUCKLE ATTACK. Terry could do the technique perfectly, but while his father was teaching him he could never use his ki like his father could. Andy never had any interest in fighting, he only wanted to sit by the lake and talk to Terry about how he wanted to fall in love and get a good job and live an easy life. 'Its amazing how much he has changed since father's death' thought terry. Terry then looked down at rock...'i was 3 years older then him when i began to train under father' terry looked out the window of the plane 'but he can already channel his ki like i could and exactly like...' Terry decided to stop thinking about it, that was another bad memory that terry did not want to remember. He had killed Geese, ended the life of a man, a man who had loves, hates, fears, and joys. Is that what his father would have wanted?
When the plane landed in America it landed in New York City. Terry and rock needed to take Terry's motorcycle to Southtown. 'Alright kid once we get to Southtown your training can begin' terry said to rock with a big smile on his face. 'Yay!' rock said as he jumped up and down with joy. Terry rented out a hotel room for the next 5 months and he and rock began to train. The first part of their training was how to understand what fighting was about. 'To fight with no purpose will only make you lose', terry instructed to rock. Everyday they would start out by streching and doing their "everyday work-out" which consisted of as many sets of 50 push-ups and 50 sit-ups as you could do. Rock could do 2 sets of push-ups and 3 sets of sit-ups in the beginning. After the "everyday work-out" they would go play some basketball. Terry said this would build stanima and help instill rock with the winning spirit. After basketball they would go get some lunch, lunch was always big because they would both need their energy for the next part of training. The next part was the hardest, technique training. Going through each movement slowly so rock could learn the technique perfectly. They did this until nightfall, when they would eat dinner, terry would let rock attack him a little and they would go to bed.
After a little while Terry decided rock needed an education and sent rock to public schools. Rock started at 2nd grade because he was 8 years old at the time. Rock was very well liked by his teachers in the beginning. He was quiet and did his work without any problems, but rock was unhappy. The only friend rock had was terry, but for 7 hours terry was not around, and this made rock very scared. All of the other kids seemed to ignore rock for one reason or another. Rock had to spend all of his time alone in the school yard while all the other children were playing together. This went on for 2 months while Terry and rock spent the rest of their free time training. After those couple of months rock had made a friend. His name was Andrew, and he was a new student to the school rock was attending.
Andrew was not like most other kids, he dressed in mostly black clothes. He was obviously a blonde but dyed his hair raven black. He always wore his black trenchcoat and seemed uninterested in anything. But he did hang out with rock during school and kept him company, talking about things like music and his old life. Andrew had lived a hard life, kind of like rock. Andrew's mother had left him, his father, and his older brother when Andrew was born. Andrew's father was an alcoholic who didn't work, they lived off of welfare in a rotten little appartment. Andrew didn't go to school because he never had to, which would explain why he was 10 and in 2nd grade. Eventually Andrew's father had died of a drug overdose, and it was down to andrew and his 21 year old brother. Andrew's brother thought his only responsibility was to pay the bills and make sure Andrew didn't die while at home. Aside from that Andrew was by himself as far as responsibilities went, Andrew only came to school because he had nowhere else to go while his brother was at work. Andrew was a complete slouch when it came to learning and ignored his teachers for no apparent reason. He never did homework and failed every test, but he didn't care, those things weren't important to him. The only things were important to him were 'heavy metal', comic books, and his older brother. Rock thought Andrew was soo cool, rock wanted to be just like him.
Terry still played an active roll in Rock's life, Terry and rock still trained every moment they could. It seemed rock's will to be stronger increased with time, Terry was happy to oblige. Rock didn't tell terry about Andrew, he didn't know if terry would like Andrew's "style". A year had passed, Rock had turned 9 and it was time for terry to leave for the 1999 King of Fighters Tournament. 'You wanna come with? This year there is an actual tournament instead of that underground thing we did last year.' offered terry.
'No, thats ok I think i'll stay here and continue going to school...' replied rock.
'Ok, i should be back in a about five weeks. Do you think you'll be able to take care of yourself?'
'I'll be fine'. And with that Terry left for Japan once again.
While all the crazyness of the 99' King of Fighters Tournament was going on Rock was having an interesting time as well. Rock was enjoying going to school to hang out with Andrew, who was becoming more open to rock telling him secrets and whatnot. They did silly things like look through Andrew's brother's porno. Andrew didn't play any sports, he said they were below him. Now that rock had the appartment all to himself Andrew came over a lot to hang out without any parental advisory. Rock still trained diligently on the heavy bag that Terry had set up in one of the rooms in the apartment. Andrew never wanted to hang around while Rock was training cause he said it bored him. One day rock and Andrew were walking home from school, they were waiting at a red light when rock saw out of the corner of his eye andrew's hand coming out of a business man's back pocket. Rock didn't say anything until the man was gone and they were almost at Andrew's house. 'What were you doing?' questioned rock. 'what're you talking about?' replied andrew.
'You took that man's wallet'
'ya and?'
'thats STEALING!'
'do you have a point?'
'I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THAT...THATS SOO WRONG!'
'uhh....no its not, its fun'
'well umm...no its not'
'come on, we can go out to dinner tonight now, i'll buy you whatever you want'
'well i...ok' rock went from a shocked look to an accepting smile. That night Andrew and Rock went out to dinner. On the way to the restaurant Andrew took the money out of the wallet and threw the wallet into a trashcan.
Terry and rock went to master jubi's shrine and slept till noon the next day. Terry awoke first and packed up all his stuff. After rock woke up Terry brought him to the spot where Andy and joe had first sparred. 'Well guys....i think its time to go', said andy.
'Yeah, i got some more titles to win!' roared joe.
'I agree, me and rock got some things to do' replied terry.
'I'll go whever you go andy dear' said an excited mai.
'In eleven months i think we should all show up back here for the next "King of Fighters Tournament' commanded andy.
'OK!' said all four of them at once and put their hands together. Mai and Andy were going to stay at master jubi's temple. Joe took a cab to the Osaka Dome in order to find out what events were going on in the general area. Terry and Rock caught a plane to America, they were going back to 'Southtown'. The plane ride was quiet, rock didn't know what to say to terry. Terry was thinking hard about when he asked his father to teach him how to fight.
'Fighting for anything but justice will drain your body and soul...' Terry rememberd his father saying. And all the times Terry watched his father train, he wanted to be exactly like him. Wacthing the SEMPUKEN (equivilent to Terry's POWER WAVE), the HAKI NO FAI (same as Terry's RISING TACKLE), and the BURNING KNUCKLE ATTACK. Terry could do the technique perfectly, but while his father was teaching him he could never use his ki like his father could. Andy never had any interest in fighting, he only wanted to sit by the lake and talk to Terry about how he wanted to fall in love and get a good job and live an easy life. 'Its amazing how much he has changed since father's death' thought terry. Terry then looked down at rock...'i was 3 years older then him when i began to train under father' terry looked out the window of the plane 'but he can already channel his ki like i could and exactly like...' Terry decided to stop thinking about it, that was another bad memory that terry did not want to remember. He had killed Geese, ended the life of a man, a man who had loves, hates, fears, and joys. Is that what his father would have wanted?
When the plane landed in America it landed in New York City. Terry and rock needed to take Terry's motorcycle to Southtown. 'Alright kid once we get to Southtown your training can begin' terry said to rock with a big smile on his face. 'Yay!' rock said as he jumped up and down with joy. Terry rented out a hotel room for the next 5 months and he and rock began to train. The first part of their training was how to understand what fighting was about. 'To fight with no purpose will only make you lose', terry instructed to rock. Everyday they would start out by streching and doing their "everyday work-out" which consisted of as many sets of 50 push-ups and 50 sit-ups as you could do. Rock could do 2 sets of push-ups and 3 sets of sit-ups in the beginning. After the "everyday work-out" they would go play some basketball. Terry said this would build stanima and help instill rock with the winning spirit. After basketball they would go get some lunch, lunch was always big because they would both need their energy for the next part of training. The next part was the hardest, technique training. Going through each movement slowly so rock could learn the technique perfectly. They did this until nightfall, when they would eat dinner, terry would let rock attack him a little and they would go to bed.
After a little while Terry decided rock needed an education and sent rock to public schools. Rock started at 2nd grade because he was 8 years old at the time. Rock was very well liked by his teachers in the beginning. He was quiet and did his work without any problems, but rock was unhappy. The only friend rock had was terry, but for 7 hours terry was not around, and this made rock very scared. All of the other kids seemed to ignore rock for one reason or another. Rock had to spend all of his time alone in the school yard while all the other children were playing together. This went on for 2 months while Terry and rock spent the rest of their free time training. After those couple of months rock had made a friend. His name was Andrew, and he was a new student to the school rock was attending.
Andrew was not like most other kids, he dressed in mostly black clothes. He was obviously a blonde but dyed his hair raven black. He always wore his black trenchcoat and seemed uninterested in anything. But he did hang out with rock during school and kept him company, talking about things like music and his old life. Andrew had lived a hard life, kind of like rock. Andrew's mother had left him, his father, and his older brother when Andrew was born. Andrew's father was an alcoholic who didn't work, they lived off of welfare in a rotten little appartment. Andrew didn't go to school because he never had to, which would explain why he was 10 and in 2nd grade. Eventually Andrew's father had died of a drug overdose, and it was down to andrew and his 21 year old brother. Andrew's brother thought his only responsibility was to pay the bills and make sure Andrew didn't die while at home. Aside from that Andrew was by himself as far as responsibilities went, Andrew only came to school because he had nowhere else to go while his brother was at work. Andrew was a complete slouch when it came to learning and ignored his teachers for no apparent reason. He never did homework and failed every test, but he didn't care, those things weren't important to him. The only things were important to him were 'heavy metal', comic books, and his older brother. Rock thought Andrew was soo cool, rock wanted to be just like him.
Terry still played an active roll in Rock's life, Terry and rock still trained every moment they could. It seemed rock's will to be stronger increased with time, Terry was happy to oblige. Rock didn't tell terry about Andrew, he didn't know if terry would like Andrew's "style". A year had passed, Rock had turned 9 and it was time for terry to leave for the 1999 King of Fighters Tournament. 'You wanna come with? This year there is an actual tournament instead of that underground thing we did last year.' offered terry.
'No, thats ok I think i'll stay here and continue going to school...' replied rock.
'Ok, i should be back in a about five weeks. Do you think you'll be able to take care of yourself?'
'I'll be fine'. And with that Terry left for Japan once again.
While all the crazyness of the 99' King of Fighters Tournament was going on Rock was having an interesting time as well. Rock was enjoying going to school to hang out with Andrew, who was becoming more open to rock telling him secrets and whatnot. They did silly things like look through Andrew's brother's porno. Andrew didn't play any sports, he said they were below him. Now that rock had the appartment all to himself Andrew came over a lot to hang out without any parental advisory. Rock still trained diligently on the heavy bag that Terry had set up in one of the rooms in the apartment. Andrew never wanted to hang around while Rock was training cause he said it bored him. One day rock and Andrew were walking home from school, they were waiting at a red light when rock saw out of the corner of his eye andrew's hand coming out of a business man's back pocket. Rock didn't say anything until the man was gone and they were almost at Andrew's house. 'What were you doing?' questioned rock. 'what're you talking about?' replied andrew.
'You took that man's wallet'
'ya and?'
'thats STEALING!'
'do you have a point?'
'I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU DID THAT...THATS SOO WRONG!'
'uhh....no its not, its fun'
'well umm...no its not'
'come on, we can go out to dinner tonight now, i'll buy you whatever you want'
'well i...ok' rock went from a shocked look to an accepting smile. That night Andrew and Rock went out to dinner. On the way to the restaurant Andrew took the money out of the wallet and threw the wallet into a trashcan.
