Nothing to Lose: SVC Style
(A/N: Hope you enjoyed the appetizer, cause were going on to the platter. And then a little drink with some bread, probably a little wine, then the main course! But first this get-the-truck-rolling ditty, once again Street Fighter is Capcoms' and King of Fighters is SNKs. Enjoy!)
Before we begin, I think a bio is in other for my characters so you can get to know them a little.
Shorty
Age: 14
Description: African American, light skinned with bage hair. Usually wears all red overalls with a light red shirt underneath. A red cap worn backwards on her head, and sneakers with a yellow stripe design down the middle, the sneakers are also skates BTW. Not to mention orange fingerless gloves on her hands.
Personality: Tomboyish at the most though not afraid of to show her feminine side. Very aggressive when in fights, sometimes cocky but a good person if you treat her well.
Fighting Style: Self-taught, nothing legitimate.
Moves (so far):
Arrow Missile
Phoenix Shotgun
Train Wreck
Seyal8r (get it?)
Endgame
Rich
Age: 14
Description: African American as well but much darker skin. His clothes were already described in the first chapter.
Personality: Easy going and laid back most of the time. But when trouble appears he takes more of an adventurous side, being a bit more aware as well as a little sarcastic.
Fighting Style: None…yet.
Moves:
Illusion Draw (taught from King)
Once again, in a forested area of Japan
"Faster, faster, must…must…get away!" The person huffed as she commanded her legs to pump harder. She had no idea where she was or how she got there but she had to get away…but from what? The girl looked back to face her pursuer and was greeted to a great fireball that was headed straight for her, which explained why she was on the move from the get go.
But it didn't seem to be doing any good; it was starting to close in. The girl could feel the heat of the ball as it threaten to engulf her "I …can't outrun it! But I won't go down like this!" She commanded all the strength in her and leap forward, twisting around to come face to face with the ball. The moment she landed back on her feet, she rushed forward, energy at the maximum. "PHOENIX SHOTGUN!" The attack hit the ball full force, the strike resulting in a massive explosion.
When she came to, she found herself still in the middle of the forest. But now everything was now ablaze. Fire coated the leaves of the trees blanketing every square inch of her surrounding. Immediately the girl sat up "What happened? Did I…do this?" she continued to look onward, dread growing as look on at the scene horrified "No! No! No! NO! I…I JUST MEANT TO CANCEL IT OUT! I DIDN'T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN!"
Laughter started to echo behind her drawing her attention suddenly. But there was now one there though now it was coming from the left. No, the right! It seemed to be coming from all directions! As she continued to search franticly she yelled, "Who's there! Show yourself! Are you the one responsible for this!" But the laughter continued, growing manically, further placing the girl on edge with each "Ha"!
"SHOW YOURSELF!" the girl screamed out but was answered with another explosion forcing her to shield herself. When she looked up, a very grizzly sight laid before her, people on the ground, blood surrounding them indicating there that they were….
But what was really shocking was that the girl knew most of the faces on the ground, people she just met recently. " I-I know them Terry….Ken…..Kim….Maki." among the list on the ground along with a few more. She trembled, backing up, only for her foot to hit something. The girl knew it was another body and she didn't want to look. But there always that edging feeling you can't fight, even in fear, and the girl could not deny her instincts.
She looked down.
And totally regretted doing so.
"Rich! Sakura!" she cried, the name of her fallen friends echoing through the area. The laugh really reaching a high pitch around this point and this was enough to drive the girl over the edge. With a scream she tore through the area with her moves, reducing the trees to splinters in a matter of microseconds "SHOW YOURSELF! COME OUT!" She raged as she took another tree down.
Suddenly a figure bounded out from it, landing directly beside her. "What is it that you fear?" the person asked her in a rather cryptic voice, in the same tone she recognized from the laugh. The girl swung her foot at the person's direction but only caught air. Before she knew it the voice was now coming from the other side of her "Is it the power that lies inside you or perhaps your future now that you've discovered this way of life?" "SHUT UP!" she cried sending a ki blast behind her. But once again nothing there and laughter once again echoed from every which way.
Rage, panic and fear swelling up inside her to the breaking point, hearing the laugh again finally took a toll on her mind. The girl crouched down then jumped into the air, firing off her ultimate move, Endgame, everywhere. The flash covering every square inch of the forest.
By the time she hit the ground, there was no forest left. Just a barren wasteland as far as the eye can see, where the bodies of her friends and opponents laid were now nothing more then skeletons. But the girl had yet to notice as covered on her hands was that that once laid on the ground by her friend's blood. She stared on them in silence, not knowing what to think. Lest until she heard the voice say "Maybe your your own worst enemy." She looked up and saw the figure, standing on a rock amongst the skeletons. She couldn't really make out any features but what was noticeable about him was his calm smile amongst the chaos as if it never happened.
"Relax child…" he than motioned his hands upward to the sky where millions of lights in two colors, dark red and a brilliant white, were rushing toward each other. In the cloud were gigantic silhouettes both about engage against each other. One silhouette looking human but with wings brandishing a sword, the other a looking more of a hulking beast with bat wings. As the lights moved closer so did the shadowed figures. Until eventually they collided, causing a great big energy to emerge. Growing larger and larger until it was almost to the girl and her company. Speaking of whom was smiling even more as he watched the sight like a kid on Christmas morning. He turned back toward her, his sickening smiling never wavering "…For peace will soon be here."
Those were his last as the energy took him, completely evaporing him into nothing. The girl watch in wide-eyed horror as the every expanding energy destroyed everything in its path. She tried to run but her legs wouldn't obey, all she could do was watch as the ball got closer.
And closer
Until it was almost upon her that she had to close her eyes from the light it emitted.
And then she remembered something very crucial to this kind of situation.
She screamed.
"SHORTY! SHORTY! WAKE UP!"
The girl, now to be known as Shorty, opened her eyes to the sight of Rich standing over her. A very worried expression on his alive and well face, everyone else on the plane seemed to be sharing the same facial. "You alright? Looked for a moment like you were going to jump out the window with all the thrashing you were doing." Shorty took in a couple of quick gasps, unable to answer, as the images were still fresh in her head. It was only until the stewardess came by with a cup of water did she calm down and started to remember where she was "Ugh, oh man. I don't…ugh…that...that…"
"…Dream again?" Rich said finishing her sentence. "The second time you had it since the tournament ended. Still think it post fight jitters?"
Shorty turned toward him with a tried expression on her face accompanied by a frown. "Don't start with that "dreams being messages" stuff again. I had enough time hearing it from Sakura after I told her. I just think this is all a coincidence." Rich put a hand under his face as if in deep thought "Hmm lets see, you were a fighter in the Millennium Fight. You fought a lot of people with some crazy firepower, one of which at the end who had enough to set an entire city of Osaka on fire. And now you tell me of a dream, which also includes destructive amounts of fire, where this big bright light wipes out everything. Yeah, seem like a pretty convenient coincidence. Hey maybe you can sell it to James Cameron and let him think up the rest. If he can get something like the Terminator from his dreams maybe he can work another world wonder with your material."
"And your point being, Mr. Floating Soda?" She asked, returning the sarcasm. Rich shrinked back with a scowl " I saw what I saw, okay! How do you explain the cola being all over my face, huh?"
"A pretty convenient coincidence. Now if you're done playing psychologist. Let just drop it right now, it's a six hour flight and I don't have the strength for imagining blah blah blah." With that Shorty turned away from him to return to sleep "Bet you can't go back to sleep." Rich said grinning.
"Watch me." Was Shorty's reply as she rolled over and looked out the window.
Noticing the plane was flying right over a forest.
"HADOUKEN!"
A fireball whizzed over Kyo's head thanks a quick duck under. He rushed forward and connected a jump kick at Ryu's head. But he recovered and nailed Kyo's gut in a counter, the two quickly jumped back from each other before going at it again.
Kyo ran into slide hoping to trip up his opponent in a swipe kick and go from there. But Ryu saw it coming and jumped toward him, grabbing his collar and throwing Kyo into a tree. Ryu didn't expected for him to bound back from it and certainly didn't expect a R.E.D Kick coming his way.
The street fighter was knocked back from the force and thrown into a group of trees. Kyo, meanwhile, landed on his knees taking a moment to catch his breath before moving forward cautiously. His hand aflame as he got closer "C'mon out Ryu, I know that little move isn't enough to finish you off." Kyo then caught a glimpse of rustling in the trees, but didn't turn in it direction, trying to keep focus in cause it was a trap.
After a minute, he whipped around, firing a fireball to his left yelling "I don't have all night!" But his target turned out to be targets as they were nothing but owls. "Damn-" he then heard a martial arts cry followed by cracking of wood. "IT!" Kyo yelled as one of the trees almost came down on him. The KOF champ flipped onto his feet and turned toward Ryu's direction very miffed "You cheap…!" But he stopped himself as he noticed his opponent running toward him "Just keeping you on your toes. NOW SHOURYKEN!"
"SERPENT WAVE!"
The two attacks collided, causing major damage to both parties but once again ended in a draw. The two quickly rolled away from each other, breathing heavily. Ryu's outfit a mess of burns and bruises, Kyo's with energy marks covering his leather clothing and his body too a share of bumps. Considering both men skills, it was a brutal fight in their latest of battles.
And yet, they were enjoying every minute of it.
Kyo gave a wary smile as he stared toward his second rival "Not bad, a improvement over the things you were doing earlier. I especially like your fireballs. Always accurate and hard to dodge." He then straighten his gloves for the second time that night before really grinning "Mind showing me again."
Ryu just grinned back "Only if you show me yours."
The two charged up their attacks, a fireball quickly materializing in Ryu's hands out of nowhere. Kyo once again setting his right hand in flames, the two reared back ready to finish it.
Until a "BOOM" resounded throughout the area followed by cloud of dust.
Only it didn't come from neither Kyo or Ryu.
That boom was someone new entering the area.
And after Kyo was able to see again once the dust cleared, he caught sight of him. A black tattered gi at the sleeves, beads around his neck, and hair that look as if it was made of fire, But what really stuck out about was the Japanese symbol on his back that seem to glow even through the cloud of dust.
The symbol that stood for "TEN".
"Akuma." Kyo gritted through his teeth as he saw him, steeling himself for the inevitable conflict "Just what I don't need". Ryu could only watch with a stern expression seeing his master's killer right before him, knowing what was to come.
However, he felt yet another energy in the area besides the people before him. Sensing it out, he turned his head upward toward the temple where he and Kyo were fighting by and caught sight of a figure standing directing on top of it. The full moon illuminating his clean white gi such as the one Ryu was wearing. The only difference was the red ogre on his face with it long nose protruding out it, making him look rather silly.
If not for the fiery, glowing red eyes that were coming through the eyeholes.
Mr. Karate had arrived.
