Author's notes:Hey there. It's update time.
Here's the second chapter, enjoy.
Morning steadily approached with Lei Fang stumbling over to the darkened corridor of the hallway into the bathroom still feeling the effects of her recent workout the other day. After she was all washed up, she went downstairs for a healthy and nutritious breakfast that her mother had laid out neatly on the table before going to work. The bacon, eggs and other food items never smelled so good on such a hot spring morning. Before Lei Fang could dig into the plate of food, the kitchen phone rung, catching her attention.
"Who could that be this early in the morning?" she thought wonderingly.
Once she had answered the phone, Kasumi's voice came through. Apparently, she wanted Lei Fang to go swimming with her later on, but she couldn't, for she had studying and homework to deal with after her college classes were over. Lei Fang often had a real busy schedule that involved mostly schoolwork. As much as the young teenager was willing to hang out with friends for the day, she couldn't.
"I'm sorry, Kasumi. I have homework and studying to do."
"How about tomorrow or the next day?" Kasumi nervously asked.
"Thursday I can't, and Friday I'm going to go see a movie with Hitomi. I'll make it up to you though, I promise."
Once the two had said their goodbyes, Lei Fang went back to the kitchen table to eat. Before long, her stomach was full and unable to eat anything else. Quickly, she headed back to her room to get dressed for college. When it came time to leave the house, Lei Fang was shocked to see that her shiny, red automobile had been turned over the moment she stepped outside. The glass windows and headlights were shattered; the rubber tires had been ripped off, and the sides appeared to be badly dented.
"Who…who did this?" Lei Fang said, beginning to weep over the destruction of her precious car.
This was terrible. The only thing she could do was wonder as to who could do such a horrible thing to begin with. Lei Fang felt she was very undeserving of this, and many others would most likely agree. She didn't do anything to anybody that would cause them to totally damage her property. So far, things really weren't looking good.
Now, Lei Fang had to go take the bus, and she hated having to resort to doing such a thing. Buses were often slow, and seemingly took forever to reach their destinations. Not to mention the snobbishly rude people that usually rode them were a pain in the rear to sit next to. But there were no other choices available to choose from. Getting on the next coming bus unhappily, Lei Fang headed to the college campus, still upset over what happened to her car.
At the campus, class had already begun and a usually early Lei Fang was now considered to being late. She came in a few minutes later after the Instructor finished roll call.
"Miss Lei Fang, your late," he said, writing in his notebook.
"I'm sorry, sir. It won't happen again," she apologized. "My car was…"
"Please take your seat," he interrupted.
With a heavy depressed sigh, Lei Fang sat down in her chair feeling a slight bit of embarrassment for being tardy. Experiencing tardiness for the first time was not good. It was so unlike her to miss the beginning of class. As the Instructor told the class to turn their textbooks to page seventy-four, Lei Fang instead stared out the window, gazing at the courtyard. A few feet ahead she could see something standing alone in the distance. It appeared to be a person. Lei Fang squinted, and shockingly noticed he was staring straight at her trough the window, but couldn't make out the person.
"Miss Lei Fang, are you paying attention over there?" the instructor yelled, grabbing her attention.
"Um…yes," she said, while nervously turning forward.
When the instructor went back to teaching the class, Lei Fang turned her head back towards the window and saw that the person outside in the courtyard had vanished. A strange feeling went down the college student's spine as she tended to the class work laid out in front of her. Class lasted roughly three hours before she could go to the next. After her time at the campus was over, Lei Fang was finally free to go home. It had been quite an exhausting day with nothing but study sheets being crammed into her already tired brain. Calling the police and finding out who destroyed her car was the next objective. That was only thing on Lei Fang's mind, while she rode the bus home.
The police asked all the necessary questions when they arrived at her doorstep, but weren't of much assistance. Seeing as how there were no suspects, they felt there was nothing they could do. Lei Fang didn't have any insurance, and that made things even worse for her. It was time to get used to taking the slow turtle paced bus.
The next day, Lei Fang went out for an evening walk to take some of the gripping stress away. Walking was so relaxing and took her mind off of things that bothered her. There was nothing better than going out for a nice quiet walk. She started to feel much better after awhile. The clicking open toed heels worn around her feet came to a sudden stop when she saw Jann Lee coming from the other direction.
His appearance took her by surprise. Long tattoo markings covered his naked back and his spiky hair had been slightly trimmed. He was almost unrecognizable due to the goatee that happened to be growing around his mouth. Silence fell upon the two as they both halted their movements and took notice of each other. A minute later, Lei Fang decided to be the first to speak.
"Um…hi there, how's it going?" she said, checking up on him.
Jann Lee didn't utter a single word. He just mugged her as he stood frozen stiff like a statue. Seeing her bright and cheery face disgusted him more so than ever.
"Um…ok. I'm going to go now. Nice talking to you," she said in a sarcastic tone.
"How are you doing?" Jann asked coldly, stopping Lei Fang before she could walk past him.
"Not so good," she depressingly sighed.
"Why?"
"Somebody wrecked my car yesterday," she snorted angrily in response.
Jann Lee accidentally let out a soft snicker. He was very pleased to see something had upset her when a lot of times nothing did.
"What's so funny?" said Lei Fang, raising a concerned eyebrow.
"Oh nothing. Forget it," advised Jann. "Are you going to enter the Tournament next year?"
"No, not really."
The tone in Jann's voice suddenly shifted from smoothly gentle to a much deeper and meaner tone.
"Why not!" he growled surprised to see that she wasn't going to enter next years Tournament.
"I just don't feel like it. There's no reason to join. I'm through with Tournaments for now."
"I insist. I think you should reconsider," suggested Jann Lee.
"No, that's ok. Look, I'll be on my way now. Nice talking to you."
Lei Fang took a step forward only to have her path blocked by Jann's right arm as the other grabbed her.
"No, you join!" Jann barked.
"Hey, let go of me!" Lei Fang shouted, pushing the young dragon off of her.
She peered into his eyes and could see a fiery rage burning deep inside them. Never did they have that kind of look before. There was something strange about him. Something different.
"What's gotten into him?" Lei Fang pondered.
Jann Lee was extremely angry over the fact Lei Fang refused to join the Tournament. Her constant refusal drove him to do something he had never done before. Immediately, he grabbed hold of a small child that happened to be walking by.
"You either join or this kid will be hurt!" he ordered.
Lei Fang's eyes widened fearfully, wanting no harm to come to the little boy.
"Jann, put him down, he's just a child!"
Jann Lee squeezed the child's arm with the end of his finger and thumb. Soon, the kid started to whimper.
Every time Lei Fang attempted to step in closer to free the child, Jann increased the pressure even more. Watching the small boy getting tortured like that made her angry. She couldn't stand to see him cry anymore. Jann applied more pressure using his whole entire hand. The boy's soft whimper turned into horrid, crying screams that echoed through the streets.
"That does it!" Lei Fang shouted as she charged forward, attempting to strike the arrogant young male. Jann pushed the college student down the moment she was within breathing distance, and dropped the screaming child onto the cemented sidewalk.
"So you'll join?"
Lei Fang panted uncontrollably. Staring up at her rival with a psychotic expression and nodding, she agreed. This brought an evil twisted smile to Jann's face.
"As the Tournament draws near, so does your demise. If you choose to show up, you will die. If you choose not to show up or enter the Tournament… somebody else will get hurt, I promise you that."
After his threatening words, Jann faded into a moving crowd of people walking past.