Bloody Roar – A História de Long
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Chapter 1: Utility
Somewhere in China, a little boy approximately seven years old wearing great round glasses was training on the mourning martial arts at his home backyard. He had a great black hair which was stuck and he was with a worried countenance even while he tried to clear his mind. The door to the backyard opened and was possible to see a man's arrival at the place, he was wearing black social clothes to leave home.
"Dad, are you okay?" It was the boy's question after pausing his training and looking to his father.
"I don't have time now, son. I'm in a hurry, I have extra hour to do today." Said the man restless looking for something.
"Again, dad? I miss mother and Lin li..." the boy tilted his head looking down.
"Your mother and your sister died, son. It's no use in mourning the dead. Have you saw my suitcase?" The father wandered with no rest into his search.
"I might have seen this suitcase in the living room." Long said staring his father. "I have made the breakfast, I though you would wake up hungry"
"Why didn't you say it earlier? I will get the suitcase and go to work, if I feel hungry, I find a way outside home. You should have awakened me." The father went back inside the house slamming the door quickly.
Some hours ago, the cemetery was surrounded by mist and even so the boy did not leave easily his mother and sister's tombs, although that seemed like a horror movie scene. The boy which was kneeling and with his both hands facing each other praying, he stood up and took a different way from what he used to take to go back home, he was going into opposite direction until a man with suit and sunglasses approached him.
"Hey, you." The man was calling to the boy which stopped and turned around to see him.
"I know you; it's been shortly that your mother and sister have died. Your father is still working? Where are you going?"
"I ask you to let me leave, sir. Don't tell my father that you saw me, he doesn't have time for me anyway." He started to wander on the street without knowing where to go.
"I know you fight xingyiquán. I also know how you can be useful without seeing your father again and then having your own life." The man took of his sunglasses.
"What do I need to do?" Obstinate to leave his past life, Long was interested into the man proposal.
"Enter in contact with us through this number." The man said to him delivering a card written Tyron Corporation.
"I am from the Tyron Corporation; our expertise is to deal with zoanthrope warriors like you." Said the man to the teenager which was absorbed into his own thoughts.
"And what would be a zoanthrope?" Long asked the man.
"Zoanthropes are beings that like you they are capable to turn into beasts, and If I'm not wrong, you're a tiger, isn't it?" The man stopped talking and the boy drowned with such great knowledge which that man would have about him.
"Yes, but I'm not strong enough." Said Long with a melancholic voice.
"We will train you; we use zoanthropes like you to do our job." The man explained without giving too much details cautiously with what Long would answer.
"Very well, I'll go. Where is the place?" Long accepted the job and went to the individual which convinced him to go.
"Let's go to my car." The Tyron employee took Long, a boy of twelve years old to be trained and to execute Tyron dirty works.
14 years after...
In the middle of the night in a Tyron Corporation Building it was possible to see Long on the wall of the meeting room with his arms crossed, next to him was Hance Taubemann, more known as Hans or Fox. He was a narcissistic androgynous blond man who killed by sport, he had a temper that was hard to get along with. There was also a third zoanthrope inside that room, he was a short old man that wasn't neither fragile or weak, he was a ninja, a shinobi who shared the same function as the other two zoanthropes in the room. The room itself only contained three of them awaiting a master's order.
"I'm bored to death with this delay, my beauty doesn't resist it." Hans said to the other two. Ryuzou kept in silence for not like to talk while Long…
"Better for you to shut up Hans, you're not the only which needs to go through that." The Chinese man said to the British Hans.
"Who do you think you are to tell me to shut up?" The discussion between Hans and Long have been about to begin.
"I'll not get involved into a needless fight; I told only the necessary." Said Long without showing will to fight.
A man in suit and tie entered the room and brough some news to them.
"Your mission tonight is..." Before the man stop talking and alarm sounded, the reason was that Guinea pigs were running away the installation.
"Escape attempt alert, escape attempt alert." The mechanical voice said and the three presents at the room ran quickly.
Outside the Building and almost getting away from the installation were two girls, Alice and Uriko. Alice was a seventeen young lady while Uriko was just a nine years old kid. Both were jumping the fence to run away when suddenly Bakuryu (the ninja name from Ryuzou) entered the scene.
"We can't run away anymore!" Said Alice to Uriko which seemed carefree.
"You can go ahead; I buy some time for you to get away!" Uriko was willing to sacrifice herself to save her newly friend.
A smoke bomb filled the air and when Alice least expected, she lost sight of Uriko and Bakuryu and got away the installation, but with a guilty conscience because of her friend sacrifice.
Soon after, inside the Building, Long, Hans and Bakuryu met each other in the meeting room again, with Bakuryu carrying Uriko unconscious on his right shoulder. The master which was used to give orders reacted.
"Very well Bakuryu. But this girl needs to be taken immediately to the underground laboratory, she is the ultimate weapon." Hearing that, Bakuryu gave her to the master which warned the three that the mission from that night was canceled because of the turmoil which had happened in the base.
"I think that is a signal we can leave. Such a pity, I could not show my skills to anybody." Hans said naturally even with an insane mind.
"Don't be so annoying Hans, your killing pleasure can be your weak point." Long answered heading to his own room on the building.
"These Young people from today have a lot to learn, further from the one who will become the strongest." Bakuryu was speaking alone while watched each one to leave.
The night was to end giving place to the Dawn, Long lying down without get to sleep had in mind images from his beloved ones. He remembered his mother and sister which were already dead and his father without knowing what he would be doing at that time. He knew that being a zoanthrope would demand a lot from him and he seemed to see a choice unless working for Tyron for killing and other dirty works. The tiger inside him seemed to call him, it was like a wild instinct and he would need to learn to deal with it.
"You understand Long, your destiny is to follow your instincts." The tiger said inside Long with a green aura.
"My destiny will be decided by my own footsteps, not yours." Long said to the tiger.