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Chapter 25
The sumo wrestler's fall
FUJI-NION
14th JULY 2014
When Hwoarang woke up, he smiled at his girlfriend who was still sleeping in his arms. He kissed her forehead and waited for her to wake up.
-'Good morning…'-he said.
Julia kissed him and didn't let him leave the bed. Hwoarang had never succeeded when it was time to say «no» to her, but this time he didn't want to leave. When Hwoarang started to kiss her neck, Julia looked at the watch and she froze.
-'It's ten o'clock!'-she said.
-'So what?'-he replied.
-'Your fight!'
Hwoarang stopped and left the bed immediately. He started to get dressed.
-'Shit! I can't believe this!'-he cursed.-'I'm not going to let that fat ass win! I have to kick his butt!'
-'You have ten minutes! Go!'-Julia said when he was putting his goggles on.
-'Ok…I'll wait for you there!'
-'GO!'
Hwoarang left running. He didn't have time to wait for the elevator so he went to the stairs.
In the meantime everyone was expecting him. Baek was furious. He had repeated that Hwoarang was an irresponsible jerk at least ten times.
-'I'm going to look for him!'-Jin announced.
-'They're not in their room!'-Christie said arriving.
-'Where are they?'-asked Ling worried.
-'Don't worry guys…I'm here!'-Hwoarang said passing them by and jumping to the arena.
-'Are you crazy?'-Jin yelled.
-'We were worried!'-Baek confessed.
-'I'm here now!'
-'You fooled me!'-Ganryu complained pouting.-'You are an asshole! What did you do to her?'
-'Nothing that she didn't want!'
-'You…rapist!'
-'WHAT?'-Hwoarang protested.-'Are you crazy…she's my girlfriend!'
-'You have to start the fight!'-Ghastu Komeru announced.
-'Fine!'-Hwoarang stated taking his fighting stance.
-'I'm going to kill you!'
Julia was leaving the room and when she passed the reception the man from the counter waved at her.
-'You had a good night, huh?'
Julia left as fast as she could, blushing like hell. She just hoped that Hwoarang had arrived in time. For her surprise, they haven't started yet when she arrived. Ganryu was still provoking Hwoarang.
-'Kick his ass, babe!'-Julia yelled.
-'Hey…is everything alright?'-Ling asked.
-'Perfect!'-Julia answered, looking at Asuka.
Asuka tried to smile. She was happy for them, but not that happy. In the arena, Ganryu attacked finally. He tried an overhead smash, but Hwoarang was faster and hit him with a flying eagle.
-'That hurts you idiot!'-Ganryu said.
-'That's the point!'
Ganryu was with no doubt stronger and taller than Hwoarang, but he wasn't intimidated.
He hit Ganryu with a sweep kick and tried a spinning trip kick, but Ganryu blocked it.
Hwoarang couldn't get too close to the sumo wrestler because if Ganryu grabbed him he would lose. Ganryu had enough strength to throw him against the wall in the other side of the Stadium.
In that moment, Hwoarang allowed Ganryu to hit him with an uppercut and he fell on the floor. He could feel the taste of blood on his mouth. His head was a bit dizzy but he managed to role out of the way when Ganryu tried to stomp on him.
Hwoarang got up as fast as he could and shook his head. He put his hand on his lip and saw that it was still bleeding.
-'That's enough!'-he said and not wasting more time he attacked.
Ganryu was suddenly hit by several high kicks, followed by a double punch and finally a flamingo kick. And it was over. Ganryu was on the floor. He had underestimated Hwoarang because of his smaller size.
Julia met Hwoarang in the arena and hugged him.
-'Are you hurt?'
-'Nope…I'm fine!'
Ganryu was trying to get up, but he tripped on his dark kimono and fell. Julia approached him and offered her hand.
-'I'm sorry Julia…I failed you!'-Ganryu said taking her hand.
-'You didn't fail me…but there's one thing you should know…'
-'What?'
-'Even if you had won, I wouldn't love you…you know that, don't you?'
Ganryu looked at her sadly, but he didn't answer.
-'I have feelings for Hwoarang and they won't change…I'm sorry for you…but there's nothing you can do to change how I feel.'
Julia left with Hwoarang.
-'That was sad.'-Christie commented.-'Poor guy…'
-'Now that everything is alright…I think I need to talk to you!'-Baek said to Hwoarang.
-'What?'-he asked.
-'That was really irresponsible!'-Baek yelled.
-'What was?'
-'Arriving late to your fight! You were almost disqualified!'
-'But I wasn't! Besides, I'm sure I was not the only fighter to do this!'
-'I came here to watch you fight! To see if you can be considered a Tae-Kwon-Do master! And you almost ruined it!'
-'Come on, Baek…it wasn't so bad! And I won!'
Baek left with an angry face.
-'Look!'-Miharu announced pointing to the screens.
Hwoarang's name was on the winner's side, he had joined Asuka, Steve, Kazuya, Julia, Miharu, Katsumoto, Jin and Ling.
-'You'll be next, kid!'-Eddie said to Christie.
-'I know…and don't call me kid!'
-'I'm thinking about going to see that King guy…who wants to come?'-Hwoarang asked.
No one was expecting that, not even Julia.
-'What are you doing?'-she asked.
-'Making things right! I didn't want to help him that night…so I guess I owe him this!'
-'Ok…I'm going.'-Julia said.
-'Me too…'-Ling announced.
-'And me.'-Miharu agreed.
The four of them entered the hospital and waited for Dr. Otsuri.
-'You're here to see Mr. King?'-Dr. Otsuri asked.
-'Yes.'-Julia answered.
-'Well…only two of you can go in!'
Julia and Hwoarang took a few steps forward and they followed the doctor.
When they entered the room, King was putting his mask on.
-'Hi.'-Julia greeted.
-'Hi…the doctor said that you helped me…'
-'Yeah…my friends and I were passing by…'
-'Thanks.'
-'Why didn't you listen to me?'
-'I needed to do that!'
-'And do you feel better now? Was it worth it?'
King didn't answer. He wasn't feeling better just by attacking Marduk.
-'Did you really want to kill the guy because he murdered your master?'-Hwoarang asked.
-'Yes.'
-'That shows that you're human and that you can feel pain! But it doesn't mean you are right!'
Julia looked at Hwoarang surprised with his words.
-'It's not right to take away someone's life!'-he added.
-'You almost killed each other…I think you should talk instead of fighting…'-Julia said.
In the meanwhile Ling and Miharu were outside waiting for Julia and Hwoarang.
-'So…you told everything to Asuka?'-Miharu asked.
-'Yes…I did…she needs to know.'
-'Even about Steve's problems?'
-'Well…yes…I mean she's one of us…Why? You don't trust her?'
-'It's not that…it's just that I think that Steve's problems are a bit too complicated to tell to other people!'
-'I just couldn't lie to her…but you're right…'
-'Did you tell her that his mother was an experimental subject?'
-'Sort of…'
Unfortunately for Ling and Miharu, someone was hearing her conversation. Anna was having troubles sleeping and she was constantly going to the doctors to get a stronger medication.
She had watched Julia, Hwoarang, Ling and Miharu enter the hospital and her curiosity led her there. Now she was hiding in a room listening to those girls talk about Steve.
Anna had seen every single fight until then. She wanted to be ready to face all kind of opponents. And she remembered Steve Fox. She knew he was a very popular boxer, but now she knew more than that; now she knew he was her nephew. Steve Fox was Nina's son.
Anna sat down on an empty bed, thinking about what to do with that information. She decided to wait because first she needed to know if Nina knew the same, but she could ruin her sister's relationship with Lee. Since she had lost Jin Kazama for Ling Xiaoyu, her sister didn't have the right to be happy.
A couple of days ago, after seeing Jin's fight, Anna remembered that before Nina's awakening in 2009, Heihachi Mishima had told her that he wanted Jin to marry her. At first Anna didn't want to. She didn't even know Jin, but when she met him the first time, she felt that she could easily learn to love him. He was a strong and quiet young man and very attractive too.
Now Anna knew that her meeting with Jin and the plans for their wedding weren't true, it had all been orchestrated by Heihachi. Some of her memories were also a lie; Heihachi had changed her true memories for fake ones to make her work for him. But now, nothing of that mattered anymore. Her only goal now was to have her revenge against her sister.
-'Don't let your heart be consumed by your hate! Deal with things…don't let your hate do it for you!'-Julia said to King.
-'Thanks…I will.'
Hwoarang and Julia joined Miharu and Ling and they all left the hospital.
Slowly, Anna got up and she was going to leave when she heard a voice.
-'Can I have a glass of water?'-Marduk asked from his bed.
-'I'm not a nurse!'-Anna answered opening the door.
-'Please?'
Anna turned back and gave him a glass with water. Then she looked at him with an inpatient look.
-'Looser!'-she said and left.
In the meanwhile, everyone was having lunch and three hours later it was time for Christie and Kazumi's fight in the Stadium.
-'Lets see if we can give the audience a good show, huh?'-Christie said.
-'I guess we will…'
Kazumi was right. Their fight lasted almost an hour. Kazumi didn't know much about Capoeira, but since she was an experienced fighter, she managed to hold on quite well. Even Christie was surprised, especially when Kazumi blocked a carnival sweep.
Eddie was trying to instruct his pupil, but it was hard for Christie to follow his advice since Kazumi was really fast.
In a certain moment, Kazumi hit Christie with a double kick. Christie fell back and tried to rest a bit. On her feet again, she hit Kazumi with a swirl kick followed by a punch. When Kazumi was going to fall, Christie grabbed her from behind and locked her into a tight hug from which Kazumi couldn't get free. With no other option, Kazumi slapped the floor with her right hand announcing that she wanted to quit.
Eddie was proud of Christie and Christie was happy for that. At least he was forced to admit that she was strong enough to take care of herself.
-'More celebrations!'-said a happy Eddie.
-'Christie…can I speak to you?'-Hwoarang asked. Christie looked at him surprised and followed Hwoarang.
-'What's up?'-she asked.
-'I know you want to celebrate by going to the bar…I mean you really enjoy that…but the thing is we both won today and we have to pay the drinks…and to be honest I'm broke…'
-'So you want me to pay the drinks?'
-'Can you? I will pay you back…'
-'Leave it…I'm just glad you and Julia are alright again…'
-'Are you sure?'
-'Yep!'
-'Thanks!'
Christie shook her head and smiled.
Hwoarang, Jin, Yuu, Eddie and Steve were all in the bar waiting for the girls to arrive but they knew it could take a few hours.
-'Women…'-Steve complained.-'Why do they need so many hours to dress up?'
-'Yeah…I would like to know that!'-Eddie agreed.
-'Me too…besides they are quite the opposite when it's time to undress…'-Hwoarang said with a smirk.
-'You bet…'-Steve said.
-'How many minutes, does Miharu take to undress?'-Hwoarang asked.
-'It's none of your business…'
-'Julia and I are pretty fast.'
-'Stop that!'-Jin asked.
-'Why? Do you do it with your clothes on?'
Yuu, Eddie and Steve laughed when they saw Jin's face turning red with embarrassment.
-'Lets play something…'-Yuu suggested to prevent Jin from attacking Hwoarang.
-'Such as…?'-Hwoarang asked.
-'Pool.'
-'Ok…Steve and me against you and Eddie or Kazama…'
-'I'll just watch!'-Jin announced.
-'Sissy…'-Hwoarang said.
-'Go to hell!'-Jin replied.
-'Lets go guys!'-Eddie called.
Everything was going fine until a police squad arrived in the bar. They wanted to talk to Hwoarang.
-'What have you done this time?'-Jin asked.
-'Nothing…'
-'You have to come with us, sir.'-one of the officers said.
-'Why?'-Hwoarang asked.
-'We'll talk in the station…come on…'
-'No way! I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what I'm accused of…'
-'Please, sir…don't make us use force…'
-'Force!'
-'Yes…Now lets go!'
As soon as the officer grabbed Hwoarang's arm, he immediately kicked the man's stomach.
The other officers tried to help his friend but Hwoarang took them out with Jin's help. The confusion only stopped when more officers arrived and they shot to the air.
Everyone stopped and Hwoarang, Steve, Jin and Yuu were taken to the police station.
-'Great! Now I'm going to have a criminal record thanks to you!'-Jin complained.
-'Hey…I didn't ask for your help.'
Eddie was in the men restroom and when he returned there were broken tables and chairs, and no Hwoarang, no Jin, no Steve and no Yuu.
In the police station, while Steve, Yuu and Jin were taken to separate cells, Hwoarang went to talk to the chief.
-'I'm chief Nakata…you must be Hwoarang…'
-'Yeah…and if you don't want to end up like your boys, I suggest you take my handcuffs off now!'
The chief took out Hwoarang's handcuffs and ordered him to sit down.
-'Do you know why you are here?'
-'No.'
-'Were you with a girl recently?'
-'Yeah…why? What happened? Is she alright?'
-'You tell me…because we got a call accusing you of rape!'
-'WHAT?'
-'Did you do it?'
-'NO! Who the hell said that?'
-'We don't know…a man…he didn't say his name but he described you and he said he knew the girl.'
-'There's no girl!'
-'Yes there is…he gave us her name…Julia Chang…'
-'WHAT?'-Hwoarang started laughing.
-'What's so funny?'
-'Julia is my girlfriend you moron…I didn't rape her!'
-'She's your girlfriend?'
-'Yes.'
-'Where is she?'
-'I don't know…in our hotel room or maybe she's in the bar already…'
-'So…you are telling us that the person who called us was lying?'
-'Duh!'
-'I'm going to talk to your friends…stay here!'
-'My pleasure!'
Chief Nakata met Steve, Yuu and Jin and he started to make some questions. All the three of them said that Julia was indeed Hwoarang's girlfriend.
-'Must be Ganryu joking with Hwoarang again…'-Yuu said.
-'Who's Ganryu?'
-'A guy who has a huge obsession over Julia…'
-'Oh…so this was a misunderstanding?'
-'Probably.'-Steve said.
-'Aren't you Steve Fox?'
-'Yes…why?'
-'I have a son who is your fan…can you give me an autograph, please?'-Chief Nakata asked.
-'Sure…'
Minutes later Steve and Yuu were leaving the police station. They hadn't hit any officer, so they were free. As for Jin and Hwoarang they were both still in jail.
-'Mr. Kazama and the others said that Julia Chang is your girlfriend.'
-'He is an asshole, not a rapist!'-Jin said.
-'Thank you very much…jackass!'
-'You're welcome!'
-'I'm taking down the charges against you…but we still have a problem…you two assaulted my men!'
-'They assaulted us first!'-Hwoarang said.
-'Shut up. You're making things worse!'
-'I'm sorry but you'll have to stay here!'
-'Shit!'-Hwoarang said.-'Look here…I have things to do, alright?'
In that moment, the girls and Eddie were joining Steve and Yuu. They told everything that had happened to the girls.
Julia decided to go there to speak with the Chief.
-'I'm going too.'-Steve said.
While Jin and Hwoarang were in their cells, Julia was trying to convince Chief Nakata to free them.
-'Look I can assure you that my boyfriend is innocent…'-Julia said.
-'We know that already…but they assaulted my officers.'
-'How much to bail them out?'-Steve asked.
-'What?'-Julia complained when she heard the answer.
-'I'll pay!'-Steve said.
-'You what?'
-'Hey…that's what friends are for…right?'
-'But that's too much money…'
-'Don't worry about that…'
Julia shrugged.
Minutes later Jin and Hwoarang were leaving the police station.
-'If I find that Ganryu, I'm going to kill him!'
-'Well don't expect me to bail you out then!'-Steve said.
-'Where's Asuka?'-Jin asked.
-'Oh…she said she was feeling tired…'
-'Lets go and have some fun!'-Christie said, pulling Eddie.