THE BEGINNING OF DESTINY

Adam had been faithful to his word with Zangief. Showing up each day his father was in Moscow to learn Sambo from the Russain giant.

Of course he always did have problems when training...

"Crap" Adam yelled running in the waist deep snow trying to escape the bear behind him, he had seen this particular bear in action before, somehow it was the only bear he had seenable to withstand the move Zangief called his 'Final Atomic Buster'. And given the fact that Adam was willing to acknowledge that said attack could take him down he was unwilling to let the bear get near him. "Okay...to...tired...and way to cold..." He said turning around to see the charging bear, and just as it came within striking distance Adam quickly sent a burst of electricity through his hand as he punched the bear's muzzle stunning the bear as Zangief came to Adam's rescue taking the bear and piledriving it into the ground for a k.o.

"How do you do that" Adam asked in Russian as well as awe of his current 'sensei's brute strength. In truth although Zangief had impressive skill, it was really his raw power that made him great. Of course he had learned a bit more Russian as well, although was not really considered 'fluent'.
"Lots, and lots of training." The Russian strongman laughed looking at the unconsciousbear.

Adam sighed looking at the bear. "Too bad I can't stay here any longer, but those grappling moves you showed me...eheheheheh, I'd hate to be the guy who messes with me now." Adam laughed a bit at the end of the comment.

"Da, I hope you return soon though. It will be entertaining to face you once more."

Adam shook his head as they parted ways again, Zangief going likely to find a new challenger, Adam on the other hand was taking a last stroll through Moscow looking to buy a souvenir for Blanka.

"Hmmm...what would he like..." Adam asked himself looking through a few things.

"Adam Honshi..." The boy looked around, startled when he heard the voice. He searched in vain as he heard it again. The voice was soft, alluring, distinctly feminine. Although he was unable to locate it in the storehe quickly left and searched outside. Upon leaving he saw something else, a woman in a red dress with a shawl, fairly long purple hair. She fixed a stare at him that Adam felt drawn too. He found himself quickly crossing the street to her, rushing to catch up as she walked around a corner into an alleyway.
"Good, you have come." She said finally as she made a graceful turn finally acknowledging his presence.

"D-do...I know you" He asked curiously.

"No, but I know much about you Adam Honshi." The woman said holding a tarot card in her hand. "Soon it will occur, your strength will aid in saving the world. Or destroying it." She said as a bluish fire engulfed the tarot card, death. "Your old life will come to a quick end as you find new friends new allies. This is to be your destiny. Walk it as you must. Find your own truth." She said then the woman's form began to fade away, leaving a very confused teenager.

"What the hell was that all about" He asked himself walking away from the alley he was in.

"Quickly" He heard another shout as he left, a woman, likely Chinese, was shouting in English to a man next to her. She wore a light blue jogging suite with a vest. Her hair was held in buns. The man next to her wore a pair of jeans, andan open vest without any shirt under it and sported an odd hair style, the front lock almost in a pompodour with a slant coming down over his forehead and glasses. Both were running in towards Adam's direction. "If we hurry we can catch her"

The man nodded and continued running. Looking ahead Adam saw who they were talking about. It was a woman wearing a mask, with two claws on her hands, leaping over tables as she ran.

"Damnit" The man yelled holding a gun in his hand. "There are too many civilians in the way"

Adam noticed the woman ahead of them and figuring she must be a criminal of some sort, of course this assumption was made due toher mask, he quickly got into her path and launched himself forward in therolling attack. He slammedinto her chest and knocked her to the ground. Soon after that the Chinese woman and the man quickly got next to her, the woman pulling a pair of handcuff's from a hidden pocket in her jogging suit and placed them around the masked woman's wrists just after the man had removed the claws from her.

"So your an agent of Shadowloo" The woman asked the other female "Good you can tell us where your boss is."

"Go to hell" The masked lady shouted.

"Chun-li I really don't think this is going to get us anyplace." The man said. "But we already know where the Shadowloo base in Thailand is we might as well see what we can find there."

"Shadowloo" Adam asked.

Chun-li slapped her forehead with her palm. In her exitement she had forgotten that the boy had been there. "Nothing. Go away." She said curtly.

"No way, I helped you capture her I wanna know what this is all about" Adam shouted in English.

"Look kid, all you need to know is we're Interpol agents and that lady we have in custody is a wanted criminal from an organizationcalled Shadowloo, now why don't you just go find something else to do." The man said hoisting the masked woman to her feet.

"Alright Charlie." Chun-li finally said. "Lets drop her off at the station and head off to investigate the base."

Charlienodded and the two started walking with the woman to take her into custody of the police.Naturally curious as too what was happening Adam drew on his training with Blanka as he climbed a drain pipe onto the top of a building, he quickly jumped from one to the next with an ease that most gymnists lack. Through this method Adam followed the two agents, dead set on figuring out more about this 'Shadowloo'. He remembered his father talking about it, he had assumed it was another company as it had been making demands on the Kanzuki Zaibatsu as of late causing much stress for his father. Or course Adam didn't much care about his father's stress, the two of them were very diffrent and rarely saw each other outside of the odd occasion his father demanded Adam to attend a trip with him. In truth he was much more comfortable being on his own, or at least in a small group then with his father. Adam's thoughts were broken as he saw the two of them walking towards a pure white van, the boy watched, waiting as they said a few words and then got into the van. Adam quickly took his chance and leaped off of the rooftop of the police station, grabbing a lightpole and swining lightly onto the roof of the van.

"This should prove interesting. And maybe a good chance to see how my trainings been going." Adam said to himself spreading out so he'd offer less wind resistance, and thus hopefully not get blown off of the van. Had the young man known what he had just gotten himself into he might have chosen to stay behind rather then search for a thrill.

Authers (authors) note: For those who don't know the woman in the mask is one of the doll project known as 'Decepre'