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Chapter 3: Sadistic Eyes
9:00 P.M. in Southtown. At an active part of town, full of food stands, shops and people just plain hanging out, the Psycho Soldiers waited for their opponents. Standing alongside from them was a slender black haired woman with a traditional business suit.
"Where are our opponents," Kensou stated impatiently.
"Maybe Iori really didn't enter the tournament," stated Athena.
"I doubt it."
"Uh guys they're here" Bao interrupted as the small boy pointed to their opponents nearby a stand. Iori along with his teammates caused a buzz from the crowd who gathered together for the fight due to Iori being presumed dead.
"Let's just get this over with," Iori growled. "I don't want to waste my time with weaklings like you."
"It looks like you've maintain your hateful attitude," Chin stated.
"Listen, Yagami's right. You should just forfeit before anything bad happens," Vanessa interrupted. Eiji sounded mute while Yamazaki was pumped up to fight.
"It doesn't matter. Now, shall we begin your reckoning day," Iori gruffly stated.
"Very well," the slender woman replied. "Ok, this is the first round in the 1999 King of Fighters Tournament. On my right is the Psycho Soldiers Team led by Athena Asamiya and on my left is the Yagami Team led by Iori Yagami. The rules have been explained to all of you and any violation of these rules may result in disqualification. So, select you're first fighter and let's begin.
"Yamazaki," Iori ordered," you're up first. I'll be the striker. "
"Well, someone's trying to boss us around huh," snickered a sarcastic Vanessa. Iori ignored the comment before clearing out with the rest of his mates.
"Kono zako ga....,"Yamazaki said as he took off his fur coat.
"Go easy on me," stated Bao.
"Round 1: Ryuji Yamazaki vs. Bao. Fight!"
Bao hesistates as Yamazaki quickly charges at the small boy. Bao evades some punches and then stuns Yamazaki with a Psycho Ball: Crush. Yamazaki falls to the ground but easily reaches his feet. Bao charges in with confident but that confident is suddenly stopped as Yamazaki kicked sand into Bao's eyes, and then brings him now with a kick to the shoulder.
"Give it up kid," Yamazaki taunted.
"Come one Bao, you can defeat him," Athena cheered.
Bao quickly reached his feet but quickly was knocked down by Yamazaki's Badda-Bing Headbutt. This time, Bao is slow to reach his feet and barely does so. Yamazaki grabs his knife and tries to end the fight with his Judgment Dagger. However, Bao jumped over Yamazaki before it happen and threw a Psycho Ball that landed on the back of his opponent. Yamazaki falls to the ground.
"Chin-sensei," Bao gave the signal as the older striker jumped onto the battlefield. The older man lands an effective Hourai Rakuen that sends Yamazaki to the ground. Now, the little boy soon charges his Psycho Ball MAX and sends the huge ball toward Yamazaki. Just as he reached a vertical base, the ball pierced through his chest and sent him into the air and onto the ground with a thud.
"Did I beat him," Bao asked.
"Hehehe, that attack actually was entertaining. You actually scared me. But now, play time is over!"
Yamazaki slowly reaches his feet with a sadistic grin on his face. Bao simply goes for a Psycho Ball Crash but he misses but a mile and Yamazki quickly sends him down with a middle Serpent Slash. His onslaught isn't over as he proceeds to stomp on the mid-section of Bao. The young boy screams in pain as Yamazaki manically laughs.
"Well kid you pissed him off," Vanessa just sighed as she was cringing. Both Iori and Eiji just stood there mute to the beating, not showing any hint of emotion.
"Someone needs stop that madman," Kensou pleaded.
"He's going to kill her," shouted Athena as she grew concern for her teammate.
Yamazki suddenly halted and grabbed Bao by his face and grabbed his neck. He uppercuts him with his left hand and lefts him fall to the ground before grabbing by the neck again and slamming him to the ground while maintaining his grip on his neck. Bao was already semi-conscious but that didn't stop Yamazaki from ending him off with a fierce uppercut drill like move. Yamazaki's infamous Drill was over and Bao fell with a sick thud and laid there motionless. All the gathering folks grew concern for the young boy as he was attended too by Athena.
"Bao is unable to continue so the round goes to Ryuji Yamazaki!"
""Che, kudaran." (Hmph, you ain't shit)," Yamazaki stated as he raised one hand slightly.
"How could do that too him," asked Athena who began to cry.
"Annoying, annoying, you're just so bleeding annoying," stated Yamazaki as he was thrilled to watch Athena sob.
"You sick freak!"
"OK Psycho Soldiers chose your next fighter," the women soon interrupted.
"I'll go Kensou; I'll make him pay for what he has done."
"But Athena, this man is crazy," Kensou warned. "He won't hesitant to kill you."
"Listen Kensou," she responded as she held his hands. "Believe in me on this Kensou. I must do this. So have faith ok?"
"Just don't die on me."
"Hurry up weaklings, you can't stall death," shouted Iori as he grew impatient.
"Round 2: Ryuji Yamazaki vs. Athena Asamiya. Fight!"
Yamazaki once again charged at his opponent. Athena quickly charged as well and when they were going to collide, Athena halted Yamazaki with a Shinning Crystal Ball. Yamazaki flew into the air but landed on his feet.
"Psycho Ball," she called as she launched a Psycho Ball across her body. Yamazaki sidestepped and the ball actually lands on a bystander.
"Gomen," Athena apologized as she was unaware that Yamazaki was standing behind her.
"Athena, behind you," Chin called out as the inevitable occurred. Yamazaki quickly lashed a barrage of Judgment Dagger before Athena hit the ground. His top was now stained with blood and she felt weaker than before.
"Hehehe. Come one pop star, entertain all of your fans and fight," Yamazaki laughed as Athena slowly reached her feet.
"Your turn Yagami," Yamazaki called as Iori quickly jumped from the sidelines and charged at Athena. The Yagami scion grabs Athena and begins to execute his infamous Maiden Musher attack.
"Nake! Sakebe! Soshite," Yagami yelled as he reached to the point where he grabbed Athena's neck with his two hands. As he goes for the final blow, Chin sends Iori up in the air with his Hourai Rakuen.
"Thanks sensei," Athena stated as she collapsed to one knee.
"Psycho Ball," the pop star called as she sent one flying toward Yamazaki. Yamazaki stumbles back due to the power of that move as Athena charges in.
"Psycho Sword," she whispered as Yamazaki fell to the ground again. For once, Yamazaki was losing control of the fight and now the pressure was on him.
Athena didn't waste time and soon summoned her Super Shinning Crystal Ball. Unlike the other one, this one was much bigger and more psycho power was being used. Soon, she took the tip of her finger and held the Psycho power. As Yamazaki reached a vertical base, Athena pounced right away and blasted the larger man in the chest. Yamazaki was out and he stayed out.
"Winner is Athena," the woman announced as Kensou and Chin cheered on.
"Didn't see that coming," said Vanessa knowing that it was her turn to fight.
Round 3: Vanessa vs. Athena Asamiya. Fight!"
Otano shimi wa kora korai yo!" (The fun's going to begin.)," Vanessa stated as she commenced to throw shadow punches.
Athena quickly dodged the blows before firing a Psycho Ball that land cleanly on Vanessa. The impact of the move forced Vanessa to stumble, but in a blink of an eye, Vanessa went on the attack.
"One two," she stated a she connected on her One Two Puncher that sent Athena to the ground. The pop star quickly reached her feet.
"Get em Yagami," Vanessa gave the "leader" of the team the signal.
Vanessa landed another One Two puncher and as Athena was going to the ground, Yagami perfectly executed another Maiden Musher and that was it.
"Winner is Vanessa," the woman announced.
"Li pai yaritai kibune..." (I really need a drink...)," Vanessa stated as she crossed her arms and sighed.
"It's all up to you Kensou," Chin told his young pupil.
"OK master I won't disappoint," Kensou stated as he grew confidence.
Round 4: Sie Kensou VS Vanessa: Ready? Fight!
"One Two," Vanessa fired right away, barely missing her target. Kensou used his speed to confuse the brawling tactics of Vanessa.
"Sliding Puncher," Vanessa used her low attack to take Kensou to the ground. Kensou quickly reached his feet and countered back with an attack.
"Ryuu Renda," Kensou stated as she landed his move in order to take Vanessa down.
"Don't underestimate me," Kensou reminded his opponent. Vanessa quickly reached a vertical base.
"Machine Gun Puncher" the woman fired back unleashing some swift yet powerful strikes at Kensou.
"Chin-sensei," Kensou called as he was recovering from the blows.
"Hourai Rakuen," Chin's attacks failed as Vanessa paced back.
"One Two," Vanessa once again hit Kensou with her strikes. Vanessa sensed the end of the battled and went for the kill.
"Crazy Puncher," Vanessa's DM was blocked by Kensou as he launched a counter attack.
"Chouryuu Renken,"Kensou's DM also missed.
"SDM Crazy puncher," Vanessa responded and this time, landed a barrage of punches. By the eight punches, Kensou already lost!
"Winner is Vanessa. The Yagami Team has advanced to the nest round."
"Let's do this again. If you butch up a bit, that is," Vanessa stated.
"One team down, more to go," Iori replied. "It doesn't matter how many clowns I face or how I'm going to destroy the people who cloned me, I wil kill you Kyo."
"Looks like you've keep you end of the deal Yagami," Eiji stated.
"I don't care about those karate masters, if you stay out of my way, I'll stay out of yours."
"Don't forget our deal."
"Same to you."
As Vanessa sensed the tension between Eiji and Iori, her phone rang.
"I must take this," she stated.
She quickly walks to a nearby alley and then answered.
"Hello," she stated.
"I see your team has advanced to the next round," the voice of a man responded.
"This group isn't the friendliest trio but their battle data is impressive."
"Have you kept an eye on him?"
"Yeah and he's determined to take us down."
"Good. We'll let him fall in our laps and then our plan will begin."
"And K'?"
"His team is getting ready to fight. I've decided to personally keep an eye on him. After all, I want to see if my clone was a success or failure. Continue to watch out for him. "
"OK."
She hung up the phone but once again her phone rang again.
"Hello?"
"What's the battle data of your targets," a man's voice asked.
"Pretty good Seth," Vanessa answered her partner. "I'm surprised they didn't assign you to this tournament."
"Apparently Ling wants me to stay back and keep tabs inside. Has he caught on to you?"
"No. For now, he believes I'm a money hungry assassin with a certain fighter to kill."
"Who was that," Seth questioned.
"I had to make up a fast lie so I said Terry Bogard."
"And he believed you?"
"Hook line and sinker."
Seth gave out a laugh on the phone.
"So, have you found out anything about their plan," Vanessa continued the conversation.
"I haven't had the time to investigate without blowing my cover. But from what I'm hearing around here is that all these data files are being recorded into something called the Trigger Data."
"Trigger Data; that sounds familiar. Whatever there doing with that thing can't be good. But at the same time, we haven't had enough to take them down."
"I know you want to avenge him Nessa but all we need to do is to be patient. Anyway, I got to go. I'll keep in contact with you."
"Later," Vanessa closed her phone and finally regroups with her "team."
"What the hell took you so long," Iori questioned as if Vanessa was up to something.
"I was talking to the men that gave me the orders to kill my targets."
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Notes:
Another short chapter. Really this chapter was testing out a format as well as set some things in motion later on.
If you notice, the battle scenes where close to the fighting game. That's international because for all my stories, I want to make them different in a way. My Naruto story is supposed to be like TV episodes, the Street Fighter story is supposed to be an anime movie. However, this format will disappear entirely as the story moves forward.
Basically, this chapter was strictly about the Yagami Team's alliance and how they acted toward each other. Hope you enjoyed it. Rave and review, good or bad, I want to hear it.
Next chapter: The Japan Team battles the Korea Team, well, they were supposed to and meet new foes. The "sponsor' of the tournament gathers two intelligence agents to increase the battle data process and the Ikaris further investigate NESTS.