- Illusion -
"So...how does that work?." king asked, the man turned towards her and replied - "As long as i don't pull on it, it doesn't hurt that much." said iori.
It had been a strange day for the french woman, she had dealt with the usual customers and some extra things, but nothing could of ever prepared her for was about to happen. Kyo Kusanagi and Iori Yagami walked in and ordered some drinks, king had to double check to see if they really just came in, she blinked repeatedly and pinched herself, but of course it was true, them coming in was indeed real.
"W-what...no fuckin' way..." she muttered to herself, she looked from behind the corner again and saw them both speaking in a unusually friendly way - "y'know that was fucking crazy yagami, hell i thought i was actually gonna die right then." - "stop being a drama queen, your dumb ass always survives crazy shit.", king then stepped from behind the corner and stepped up to the counter, of course she was only doing it just for an answer about this.
Both kyo and iori continued to talk, until king cleared her throat and caught their attention, they both looked at her with a surprised face and kyo began to greet her - "hey king...how ya doing." - she cringed internally from the man's broken attempt at english - "i'm doing fine kusanagi." - she replied - "that's nice...say how much for something stronger?.", she brought her finger to her chin and rubbed it slightly, she then replied - "well since you two spent your money on something cheap...i guess i can give a recommendation.".
King stared back at the menu board before looking back at the fire users, she then recited some prices for some of the good stuff - "well if you want to get buzzed...i'd recommend this, it's only 60$." - "oh...i might try that out, whatcha think yagami?." kyo said - "i guess i'll try it...", kyo then put his money on the counter and then king poured the drink into some glasses for the fire troops.
"Damn, that's pretty good." kyo said softly after taking a sip, iori took a drink and made a strange expression before replying - "not the usual, but i guess i like it." - "well shit 'bout time you finally said something about your likes.".
'Those two definitely aren't as hostile as usual...it's...strange.' king thought to herself, of course most of the interactions she saw between them both was usually very hostile, or at least very passive aggressive, but here...they weren't like that at all, it was like they were old friends. - "hey yagami, you like it?, i heard you only liked whiskey." - "hmm.. why should i tell you anything." - "because yagami!, you've told me so many other things, yet you can't tell me about your favorite drinks.".
"So, how did you both get to this point?." king asked - "Well, we finally learned that we were wasting our damn lives because that damn rivalry!." kyo replied - "hmm, you sound rather mushy kusanagi." iori said - "ey fuck you yagami." - 'heh, looks like it's breaking apart' king thought to herself. After the three began to talk to each other more, iori said something rather strange - "yeah, my finger can fall in half, why else do you think i'm wearing this ring." - both kyo and king were rather grossed out, sure iori was already a disgusting person enough, however this secret made them both gag internally, even more then when the yagami heir brutally murdered vice and mature.
"So when i pull on it, it can turn into a throwing knife, well in a way it can." - "s-so, how about some more drinks." king said, all three went back to their drinks.
After the trio enjoyed their drinks, both of the fire wielders left illusion, king was out of it a bit, 'too many drinks damn it' she thought.
When iori finally got into his new house after fiddiling with the lock for a bit, he sat on his couch and turned on the television, only for a new thing to make his life worse appeared on the channel, *hello there everybody, we are here at the southtown stadium, the weather is nice, and the people are excited as always, so chet how is it at the stadium right now?, well it's pretty good, at least 300 people have sat down in their seats at this point, of course the wait is for more fighters to join this mma tournament, now to ricky miguel for the weather.* - "christ, can't even rest after that other bullshit.".
- At The Stadium -
"So!, who do you think is gonna get knocked out by my skills first!." joe higashi said, of course his teammates were right infront of him, however andy bogard was not very happy to be around him, he had gotten too close to mai, too close.
Of course andy swore up and down that he didn't really care for mai, however deep down inside of him, he truly cared about her, he tried not to notice his internal anger whenever some other man got too close to mai, but it was becoming harder to ignore.
Terry was happy as always to fight, of course he was never the rude type, so he didn't really have much against joe's behavior.
"Well, i'm sure we'll make it to the finals as always...then mess up." joe said in a rather angry defeated tone - "there's no reason to be negative joe, i'm sure we can win this time, i don't see those weird elemental dudes anywhere." terry replied in a calm tone.
The three legendary southtown heroes walked to their stations, it was nice that most tournaments adopted the three versus three rules, if there was one thing to thank those bastards geese and rugal for, it would definitely be the king of fighters tournament, and the new rules.
~To Be Continued~
A/N: I'm really happy on how this turned out, i really hope people enjoyed this first chapter, also i really love playing as kyo iori and king, all three of them are fun enough, but combining them all is even better.
