Sagat took his fight stance once more just as the creature called Purge took a mad dash at him.
Purge made a savage howl and then charged at Sagat like an angry rhinocarous.
And once the beastly creature got close enough,Sagat unleashed several hard punches and kicks at the monster.
Purge felt his face and head get pummeled by Sagat's sudden force,but Sagat found that was still standing.
"Eh?"said Sagat.
Purge shook it off and then suddenly rammed his very head into Sagat's face,knocking him backwards.
Sagat felt the full force of gravity pull him to the floor as he then crashed with a loud thud.
Purge laughed wickedly as he towered over Sagat.
"You-you-won't hurt-Puuuuurrge!"stuttered the creature. "B-But-Puuurge will-will hurt-YOU!"
Sagat was about to get back up again,but he suddenly felt the heavy and sharp blow of Purge's massive arms and fists swing down upon him.
Purge had him pinned to the floor as he continued to dish out a severe punishment upon his opponent.
"ALRIGHT!"said scientist 1. "He's down-we've done it-we've beated Sagat-the master will be so pleased!"
"Yes quite."said scientist 2.
Purge towered menacingly over Sagat and was about to close in for the kill.
All the while it happened,Sagat was experiencing one final flashback in his life as a martial arts warrior.
"This...wouldn't be the first time I ever experienced a defeat of any kind."he thought.
FLASHBACK-FINAL!
arose from his throne chair and approached Sagat.
"I..have a propsition for you,and you alone Sagat."he said. "And it would help a great deal with your pursuit as a fighter and hopefully a master in your own right."
"Hmmm..I see..go on."said Sagat.
"I just recently purchased the rights to an underground fighting club."said Bison.
"After recenlty viewing the battles of such events between street fighters both public and criminal,I was inspired to create a tournament of my own combining the two altogether.
I have named my contest the Street Fighter's World Warrior tournament. It shall be a contest where only the truly strong and skilled survive!
And you-Sagat-shall be my first reigning champion of the contest."
"Me..?"said Sagat. "Well ah..Mr..Bison-I am flattered...but..why me exactly?"
"Oh,I still recall seeing you in that King of Muay Thai contest years ago."said Bison. "I knew you had the full potential,but..I decided to wait until you made a true scarred warrior of yourself-and it seems that you have at that. You are bold,ruthless and truly powerful in the fight ring you call home."
Sagat smiled.
"What you say may be true."said Sagat. "But..can you provide me with a truly worthy fighter in this contest?
"Well..you know how it is with contests."said Bison. "The one who makes it to the finals is truly the strongest right?"
"Yes,true."said Sagat. "Very well..it sounds..very bold and brash in it's way-but I have been itching for new challenges.
I accept your-proposition."
Bison grinned wickedly.
"Very good,Sagat."he said. "Very good-together-we shall dominate the world of fighters!"
Within a couple of weeks,the first ever World Warrior contest was held in a public location.
A large abandoned warehouse in Hong Kong where a large fighting ring and bleechers were built within it.
Many spectators around the world came to watch as many international fighters duked it out for global supremacy in the fighting world.
Once the contest began,many elimination matches came and went between many skilled fighters.
In the end,only two remained,one was a large karate fighter named Udo and the other was a large and muscular american kickboxer named Keith.
In the final matches,Adon's star pupil faced Keith.
Within minutes,Adon overpowered Keith and left the fighter with a set of broken limbs.
The crowds cheered wildly at the display of rage and power within the ring.
It was then down to Sagat and Udo.
The bell rang and the match began.
Udo made his first move as he did a flying thrust spin kick that sent Sagat falling against the ring ropes.
Sagat shook off the impact and immediately fought back as he fired a large Tiger Shot at the karate thug.
Udo was hit several times by Sagat's Tiger shot barrage.
Sagat then saw his chance as he leapt forward and did a flying Tiger Kick right into Udo's head.
The fight then went on for several minutes until Sagat overpowered the karate fighter.
Sagat stood triumphantly over Udo,who was completely unconscious and bleeding inwardly from some very savage beatings that Sagat himself gave him.
It was over,Sagat was now the champion of the WW contests.
Bison nodded in approval.
"Good."he thought. "Sagat will be contact point for the attraction of many street fighters..and my true plans can begin through them.
Within the next several years and several WW tourneys later,Sagat maintained his title in the street fighter world.
But he also soon discovered that defeat can come for anyone when they least expect.
WORLD WARRIOR TOURNAMENT 87.
"Sir."said a dark suited lackey."The Final Fight of the World Warrior tournament is about to commence,do you wish to attend?"
Bison sneered in irritation. "These contests have begun to bore me lately i'm afraid."he said. "Sagat has made such short work of all his opponents."
"This could be different sir."said the lackey. "A lone Shotokan Karate fighter named Ryu has reached the finals convincingly. He could give the champion a decent match."
"Hmmm..very well."said Bison. "Very well."
Bison and his men watched as Sagat and a single japanese youth dressed in a white karate gi approached each other in the ring.
The match then begun and the two fighters duked it for several minutes.
At the height of the battle,Ryu went into his hurricane kick attack,but Sagat blocked it off with his massive arms.
"Ryu."said Sagat. "You are the greatest challenge this tournament could bring me?" Sagat then grinned wickedly. "PATHETIC!"
Ryu then landed on his feet and charged up and then fired his Hadouken fireball.
"HADOUKEN!"he cried.
Whilst simaltenously,Sagat fired his Tiger Shot at Ryu.
The two ki energy projectiles collided each other and a large explosion of ki energy erupted between them.
But to Ryu's horror,the explosion also caused Sagat's Tiger Shot to fire through and Ryu was knocked completely backwards by the force and impact of it.
Ryu skidded backwards on his very feet across the ring,but managed to keep himself from falling out of the ring.
Sagat then came charging at Ryu and attempted to do his Tiger Knee upon him.
"This fight is over!"he called.
But before Sagat knew it,Ryu unleashed his own inner ki within and launched a last minute suprise attack upon him.
"I-WILL NOT-LOSE!"called Ryu as he unleashed a fiery charged Shoryuken uppercut against the kickboxer.
"SHORYUKEN!"shouted Ryu as his very fist violently scrapped across Sagat's chest.
The result was so powerful it caused scarlet blood to erupt from Sagat's chest and abdomen.
Sagat then crashed to the floor and was out cold,and a single giant blood drenched scar was scrapped across his very chest.
The match was over,Ryu Hoshi himself was now the winner.
When Sagat awoke,he was in a single hospital room,his very chest was bandaged from what had happened.
"What-what happened?"Sagat said aloud. "Did..that-that boy do this to me?"
The next few days when Sagat was released from the hopsital he approached Bison himself once again.
"I..I have failed you,master."he said. Bison stared hard at Sagat with his pitch black eyes.
"For the moment yes."said Bison. "But...your-defeat has helped me make some new decisions about the current state of this tournament.
I suggest you return to your home and await further orders..for now. Is that clear Sagat?"
"Yes-yes quite clear."said Sagat.
"Good,now if you'll excuse me."said Bison as he turned from Sagat and entered through a single door in the shadows of the room.
Sagat just sneered at Bison's back,and then walked out of the very warehouse itself and then returned to his home and dojo in Thailand.
Once there,he was met with Adon and his other pupils.
"Master?"said Adon. "Will-will you be all right?"
Sagat said nothing and simply frowned,he couldn't even look at his pupils without feeling the shame of defeat.
But then,he made a decision.
"Adon..!"he said. "..until further notice-I place the care of our students to you."
"Me?"said Adon. "But what are you-?"
"DO NOT QUESTION ME,ADON!"snapped Sagat. "I..I have much to think about! Until then,I suggest you all leave me be-unless you forfeit your very lives!"
Sagat then turned and left the dojo and went off into the nearby jungles to meditate his loss.
Adon grunted in disgust.
"Old bastard!"he spat. "Who needs him anymore anyways?"
Whilst the next few days in the jungle,Sagat meditated and healed his scars and loss.
He then removed the bandages and it had shown that even though his wounds had healed,he was left with a giant reminder of his loss at the hands,at the very fist of Ryu Hoshi himself.
Sagat vowed to face and defeat the one who stole his very title and honor at that contest.
He then trained day and night,learning new fight moves and even one that was similar the move that Ryu defeated him with-a sharp and powerful uppercut he called the Tiger Blow.
But whilst he trained,he was approached and defeated again by another karate fighter who was also the son of the man he killed years ago...Gou Hibiki.
He was even approached by Adon who now deemed Sagat unworthy to be a Muay Thai fighter.
But Sagat was able to defeat him in turn and sent Adon back whence he came from.
Unfortunately,Adon hated Sagat more than ever that day,and still vowed to be a greater fighter than he was.
Sagat may have had two defeats,but he vowed to still face the one named Ryu,and on that day it came at last.
Upon his travels,he encountered Ryu in a field in Australia and their fated rematch began.
The two fought again for several hours,until at last Sagat found that his new moves were more powerful than Ryu's ever were.
He had defeated him at last,but Sagat came to the realization that Ryu had let him win,for Sagat's mind was filled with a savage hatred.
His victory was hollow and Sagat felt he had won nothing.
Later on however,Sagat learned that Ryu's power was a result of the Dark Hadou which momentarilly possessed Ryu.
Sagat then came to the realization that true rivals must not be blinded by hatred or rage or be seduced by it.
He then discovered Bison's true intentions and went off to confront Bison to make sure he would not interfere with his true battle with Ryu.
But once he found Bison himself once again,he found that the evil warlord was facing off against what appeared to be Ryu under the control of the Dark Hadou once again.
Sagat witnessed Ryu overcoming the darkness and then overpowering Bison in the end.
The thai fighter was pleased that Ryu himself had come a long way,and he himself vowed that he would strive on to be a great fighter once more.
END FLASHBACK.
Sagat's eye snapped open just as the massive monster was about to come crashing down upon his intended victim.
"RRAAAGHH!"cried Purge as he then swung down his monstrous hands of destruction.
Sagat then side rolled out of the way and then sommersaulted out of harm's way just as the brute's fists came crashing throuhg the concrete floor.
Sagat then got back to his feet,and this time he was ready for the monster.
"NO-not now!"said scientist 1.
"My turn,monster!"said Sagat with a smirk.
Sagat then charged up a full Tiger Cannon blast with his very fists and launched it right into the creature's very eyes.
The projectile hit Purge in the face so hard that one of his eyes burst apart and blood erupted from it.
"AAARRGGH-Purge hit!"he cried.
"Good,because I have lots more where that come from."said Sagat as he rushed at the creature.
Sagat then launched a Tiger Genocide and slammed a very hard knee to Purge's chest and then followed it up with a Tiger Blow that sent the monster crashing backwards.
He then saw another opening and then launched a Tiger Raid and slammed Purge twice as hard with a barrage of flying kicks.
The last kick sent the creature flying into a large eletrical conduit box.
The resulting impact caused Purge to recieve a massive shock of electricity,and a giant flash of it erupted from it as well.
While back inside the hidden control room,the very lights went out at the same time.
"DAMN!"said scientist 2. "Quick-emergency power!"
Scientist 1 slammed a hidden button and the lights came back on again.
"Hell-now what do we do?"he said. "I..I think we'd better make haste before he finds out we're here!"said scientist 1.
But before they knew it,the very wall above them exploded in a fiery blast of ki energy,casuing chunks of debris to fall upon them in a giant cloud of dust.
"What-what the hell is going on now?"said scientist 1.
Emerging from the dust was Sagat himself as he stood atop their very control panel.
"S-Sagat!"he said.
"None other."said Sagat in a very upset and menacing tone as he then stepped down.
The cowardly scientist looked over to see his fellow crony sprawled out on the floor and unconscious to boot.
Sagat then grabbed the remaining scientist by the throat and lifted him upwards to face him.
"WHO-ARE YOU PEOPLE?"he shouted in the little man's face. "And why did you send those-cretins after me?"
"Gahh-you-you won't get anything outta me,bastard!"said the scientist as he struggled within Sagat's grasp.
Sagat saw that he was trying to reach for what appeared to be a tablet of some kind.
He then threw the cretin against a wall.
"Bah-if you think you're going to waste your life because of me-think again!"he said. "I grow tired of this debacle!
I might have gotten a good workout from it-and then some-but I must return to my home-to rest. And whoever you are working for-Bison or otherwise-tell them I am not interested!"
Sagat then leapt back down through the hole he made and landed safely on some stacked crates.
He then found a pair of double doors,pushed them open and he left into the darkness of night.
Scientist 1 breathed a sigh of relief from what had happened.
"Ughh-whatta bastard he truly he is."he thought. "But...what I am going to tell the boss about this-and how we actually failed in obtaining Sagat's DNA?"
Suddenly,the little coward heard something crack behind him.
He then swung around to see that his fellow scientist now laid dead,his very neck was broken.
"Lou?"said the scientist. "GAAAAHH-he's dead!"
"No shit,sherlock."said a voice behind him.
The researcher turned to see someone standing atop the control panel just as Sagat did.
It was another street fighter,except that this one was female.
She had dark brown hair fashioned into a pair of odd ponytails and she wore a strange battle costume of dark purple and white.
The scientist knew who she was.
"J-Juri-Han."said the scientist. "But-what are you doing here?"
"Well,I hate to tell you this,Fred."she said in a mocking tone. "But the boss man saw all that occured-and since you failed-I gotta kill ya."
"What?"said Fred. "No-no please-I swear I didn't tell Sagat anything,and I won't tell anyone anything-I SWEAR!"
"Aw,quit yer baby bawlin'will ya?"said Juri. "Now-be a good boy and take a run already will ya?"
Fred didn't plead for another word,he simply jumped up and ran for the exit.
But before he could make it,he felt his very neck snap in two from Juri's massive kick move that she unleashed on him.
"Feh-too damn slow."she said as she saw Fred fall to the floor and simply die.
She then looked over at the monitors of the control room and saw where all the fighter clones that Sagat had fought with.
With Purge and the others defeated,their very forms began to fall apart and lose form.
They all decomposed into a gooey and hideous mess of chemical substances.
"EEEYUUUCK!"said Juri. "The boss man and his men sure know how to make'em-unstable that is."
Juri than was about to leave and saw the letters S.I.N emblemized across one of the metal doors.
"Feh-if I didn't get paid for this outfit and what they did for me to begin with."she thought. "Ah well.."
Juri then exited from the warehouse and saw Sagat walking off far into the distance.
"Like it or not, ."she thought. "We'll met again with you,Ryu and the best and worst of the rest.
My boss will see to it,personally."
Juri then walked away from the warehouse and then took out a small pocket detonator from her belt.
She then pressed the button on it and the entire warehouse blew up in a ball of flame.
Days later,and back in Thailand..
Sagat continued his training deep within the jungles of his homeland.
He then also came to the realzation full well that his scars are not a disfigurement but marks of his experience in the battle arena.
And he knew that experiences,especially good ones can led to a better form of enlightenment for anyone.
THE END-TILL THE NEXT TOURNAMENT THAT IS.
I hope you all enjoyed this short fic,just as I did writing it.
Also,I promise you all that I will continue with my other SF WIP fanfic entitled "STRONGER"
Not to mention another new fighting game fic once I get some new chapters of it established.
What will it be you ask? You'll see later this summer. See you all again.