Dinner Time at the Green Beast's Home
"Oh, where is he? He should have been here by now." Laura asked looking at the time on her IPhone.
Meanwhile, Blanka is seen in the living room talking with Meant about the pair's adventure so far.
"Wow, you guys sure went through some tough stuff." Blanka surprised.
"Indeed, but through each battle I face strong opponents, I become stronger as the first Successor of Hokuto Shinken as it has been my destiny since birth." Raoh said clenching his fist.
"Oh, I would like to spare with you sometime. I've been training hard too for fighting tournaments and to also protect momma from bad people." Blanka excited.
"Perhaps if I decided to stay in the country for a little while longer, but I'm also curious to see how your strength feels when you stopped the clash between me and Laura earlier." Raoh mentioned, remembered how surprise he and Laura were when Blanka interfered the fight.
"You like to travel a lot?" Blanka asked.
"Well, Raoh started traveling on his own for a while before I came along." Menat said.
"Yes, I've never been outside of the dojo I used to live in besides going the mountain for training." Raoh nodded.
"So, now you're traveling the world to get stronger like Ryu." Blanka mentioned the name that caught Raoh's attention.
"Ryu, you know the Wandering Warrior?" Raoh asked surprise.
"Yeah, we good friends and fought each other a few times whenever our path cross." Blanka nodded and something in his head pop.
"Oh, actually it was through two friends of mine that I know about Ryu. Be right back!" Blanka jumped from the couch and went upstairs to his room.
"Jimmy! What have I told you about jumping in the house!" Blanka's mom scolded.
"Sorry, momma!" Blanka apologized.
"I got to say, it must have been difficult to raise a son born with green skin and electric abilities." Raoh commented.
"Raoh, that's rude!" Menat slapped his arm.
"No, it's okay. Jimmy may look like he was born green, but he was never really like that as a child before the… plane crash." Blanka's mom said with a sad expression on her face.
Menat and Raoh notice this believing that the memory must be hard for her to talk about it, and the North Star boy think he might have accidentally brought back some painful memories.
"You don't have to talk about it, Miss. Selva." Raoh said, being concern for the woman.
"It's fine. Talking about the past always help the soul even though it is something that is never easy to talk about." Miss. Selva said as she sat the lid of the pot on and walk to the couch sitting next to Raoh and Menat.
"And please, you can call me Samantha." Samantha said.
"Jimmy has always been a kind boy even before he became a fighter, there were times when he would want to see the monkeys at the zoo and tried to scare the electric eels." Samantha remembered as she held up a picture of her and Jimmy as a kid.
"What about the father?" Menat asked.
"He was a kind man though it can be a little strict to Jimmy trying to teach him to behave, but the man knows when to hold back and let our son have fun." Samantha answered.
"Was? You mentioned something about Blanka being in a plane crash." Raoh recalled.
"Yes, my husband was with Jimmy on the plane crash when he was a child. When I saw the news and some policemen came to my house, I was almost a broken woman when I heard that the two people I love are gone." Samantha held the photo frame close to her chest.
"But one of the officers mentioned that my son was missing from the plane, meaning he was still alive and lost in the jungle, the search team tried their best to find him but couldn't find any trace of him. I also given up hope until years later I saw my baby boy on TV showing the broadcast of the second World Martial Art Tournament." Samantha remembered that time, how shock she was seeing Jimmy on TV.
"I'm surprise you were able to recognize him despite his new appearance." Menat commented on Samantha's motherly instinct.
"While it's true that Jimmly's form is something people would call him a monster, there was one thing I saw that I knew it was my little Jimmy." Samantha smiled as she sat the photo frame down.
"What was that?" Raoh asked curiously.
"The anklets I gave him before he and my husband went into that plane, I saw the anklets on his legs, and I knew right then and there that he is my son." Samantha answered.
"You were able to see your son because of one little thing?" Raoh surprised.
"It may not mean much to others, but that anklets where his birthday gift I gave him, and he told me that he would never take them off. You could say he made them his treasure." Samantha explained.
"Guess it the same of how I feel for this crystal ball, it was a gift from my master who taught me the art of Fortune-Telling, telling me that this path is something my life is and what I do on that path is up to me." Menat smiled at her crystal ball, remembering the day her master gave this to her.
"I may not have an object to cherish like you guys, but my fist and this power I have is from the hard and kind training from my master. That is something I will always remember." Raoh smiled at his fists, remembering all the training days he and his master did.
"How'd you two meet?" Raoh asked.
"Well, I quickly packed up some things and made my way to where Jimmy was before he could leave the country. Of course, Jimmy remember me at first until I told him about the anklets and we were able to bond together as a family though there were people who didn't like his appearance thinking he was a monster, but soon he started making friends with them." Samantha explained.
"Wow, now that is an incredible story of a great fighter." Laura complimented as she walks to them with a guy behind.
"I take it you're her younger brother?" Raoh guessed.
"Yep, the name is Sean. Nice to meet you." Sean nodded and shook hands with Raoh.
Sean is a young man with slight dark skin with brown hair in a dreadlock style and brown eyes. He wears a modern outfit consisting of a yellow hoodie jacket with the sign of "S" at the center, black outlines in each sides of his sleeves, yellow jogging pants, his signature red sparring gloves and red sneakers with two white linings. He also has a bandage on his nose.
"Looks like Laura isn't the only fighter in the family." Raoh noticed the red sparring gloves on Sean.
"Oh yeah, my bro is totally a strong fighter though not even close to my level of strength, and still needs for training." Laura explained while roughing up his head.
"Hey, cut that out, sis! Not cool" Sean pushed his big sister off him.
"I hope she hasn't caused you any trouble, miss." Sean said to Samantha.
"No worry, she actually made our home quite lively even when we have guest coming over from time to time." Samantha assured.
"You are too kind." Sean bowed in respect.
"I found the photo!" Blanka shouted as he carefully run down the stairs and show Raoh the photo of two people with him.
"The girl on the right is Sakura Kasugano and the man on the right is my dear friend, Dan Hibiki, two of my best friends." Blanka pointed at each person in the photo.
Sakura is a young girl with short brown hair and brown eyes. She appears to be wearing a high school uniform that looks like a sailor uniform with the collar popped and red bloomers underneath. She also wears red Converse-esque shoes, a midriff-baring red top under her uniform, red sparring gloves, a yellow neckerchief, and a white headband. Her fuku is blue with single white linings in each sides and white socks.
Dan looks like a sort of handsome young man with brown hair tied in a small ponytail and brown eyes. He wears a traditional karate gi that is similar to Ryu's except all is pink with a blue shirt underneath, purple fighting and sparring gloves, and doesn't wear any shoes.
"Aw, you three looked like you've been friends for a long time." Menat complimented.
"Yeah, sure felt that way too." Blanka nodded as Samantha got up to check up on the meal she is cooking.
"I first met Dan, my first true friend ever since I found myself out of the jungle and made my way to Japan to explore the world and wanted to find my momma." Blanka explained.
"How did you even get to Japan in the first place?" Sean asked as he already tell that Blanka didn't have any money at the time.
"I snuck into a plane without any notice, I learned stealth in the jungle." Blanka explained.
"I wonder if I can add stealth to Matsuda Jiu-Jitsu?" Laura asked herself.
"You and stealth in the same sentence? The End of the World is coming people!" Sean joked.
"Haha, I forgot how to laugh." Laura laughed sarcastically.
"Anyway, I came to Japan hoping to find some clues about my mamma though the people gave me strange looks and tried to stay away from me." Blanka remembered how scared most people were when he was in Japan.
"People can be easily scared to the things they don't understand." Menat sighed.
"Yeah, I was worried that I wouldn't at least make one friend." Blanka said.
"Before you continue your story, I just got to ask: how did your skin became green in the first place?" Raoh asked making Blanka laugh a bit.
"People have been asking me about that quite a lot. When I was trapped in the Amazon jungle, I was scared about the dangerous animals that would try to eat him, so used some green leaves on my body to camouflage myself and skin became as it is after many years of using the same leaves." Blanka explained.
"I also had to eat electric eels as my main food source before I could fight off predators." Blanka added.
"Huh, guess that explains why you are a living buzz zapper." Sean commented.
"So, my journey in Japan was rough until I met someone who saw me as a person and not because of my appearance, Dan and I became friends after he let me into his home which is also his dojo though he never got any students to join." Blanka mentioned.
"Because the guy is a totally weakling and his ego is too big." Sean insulted.
"Hey! Dan is no weak! Dan is strong and won a fight against Sagat!" Blanka angered pressing his forehead against Sean, and Laura pulls her brother away.
"You'll have to excuse Sean, he's sensitive when people call him weak and being compared to others who are weak too." Laura explained.
"Right, so you were saying about you and Dan?" Raoh asked to continue the story.
"Dinner's ready!" Samantha called out.
"I'll tell you about it during dinner." Blanka said.
Soon, everyone gathers at the dining table first praying to the Gods for the food and then they started eating as Blanka resume the story.
"Dan let me stay at his dojo for a while and he told me that I could become a great fighter even though I never fought other people before, then he told me about the World Martial Art Tournament thinking I could gain some respect if I enter there." Blanka mentioned.
"He trained me how to fight with some of the basic of punching and kicking though I've always kept going for my own wild move which he complimented that it is my perfect style to fight." Blanka said.
"Interesting, what fighting style he practices?" Raoh asked.
"It's his own he called Saikyo which he mixes it with several techniques from his late father, some Muay Thai, and added some teaching from the same fighting style Ryu uses. Dan practiced this stye a lot to avenge his father." Blanka said looking a little sad.
"His father was killed." Raoh clutched his fist, remembering Akuma who killed his adopted father.
"Dan trained hard to fight against Sagat, the guy who killed his dad, and managed to defeat him in battle avenging him and decided to open his own dojo. But he hasn't gotten any students and even had trouble paying his phone bills until later." Blanka mentioned about his dojo.
"(I get the feeling that if I were to meet Dan in person, he will be annoying.)" Raoh thought.
"What about Sakura, did she join his dojo?" Menat asked before eating a piece of meat.
"Yeah, though he only trained with him because he saw the resemblance of his fighting style to Ryu's. Sakura is a really kind girl and looks up to Ryu a lot, as a role model to become a strong fighter and even traveled with us sometime to find Ryu and challenge him to a fight to show how strong she has gotten." Blanka started talking about Sakura.
"I can tell she might be a worthy fight to test my strength on." Raoh smirked.
"Oh man, just hearing about those fighters make me want go out and fight them myself!" Laura excited throwing her arms in the air.
"Easy sis, you're eating, remember?" Sean reminded her.
"So, has those two kept up with their training?" Raoh asked.
"Hmm, I think Dan is though he is still struggling to get any students to join his dojo. Sakura, I'm not sure since we haven't talk to each other for a while, last I heard from her was that she had graduated from high school and studying at University." Blanka recalled.
"Huh, I wonder what it's like to go there?" Raoh wondered.
"You sound like you never been to school at all." Sean said before drinking his juice.
"That's because I never went to school at all." Raoh said.
Sean's eyes widen and immediately spray-spit the juice he was drinking onto Blanka's face much to his annoyance with a growl.
"For real?! You never went to school?!" Sean gasped.
"No, I was trained in the dojo with my master. But he did give me some education studies being homeschool for most of my life, if I were in school right now then I would be… probably in the second year of high school." Raoh said.
"Dude, just how old are you?" Sean asked.
"16." Raoh answered shocking Sean.
"Hey Blanka, want to have a match after dinner?" Raoh asked.
"Huh?" Blanka puzzled.
"I wanted to see how strong you are at your best against my strongest fist, just one clash between us." Raoh explained.
"Well, if mamma is okay with it being near the house." Blanka looked at his mom.
"Sure, just try not do too much damage in the yard." Samantha nodded.
"Okay, you got yourself a deal." Blanka excited as Raoh smiles of excitement.
(Later)
Raoh and Blanka are now standing in the backyard 25 feet across from each other while Menat, Laura, and Sean are standing close to the house watching of what's about to be epic.
Raoh hold his hands up from both sides gathering energy in them while releasing his mighty red aura, Blanka roars emitting his electric aura before he jumps up and start rolling fast like a ball being rolled by a powerful arm though staying in place like Sonic perform his Spin Dash Attack.
"Go! Show us a good fight!" Laura cheered.
"Lightning Cannonball!" Blanka rolled change straight at Raoh.
Raoh clapped his hands together channeling his Ki into one strong attack to meet against Blanka's electric attack, and his instinct alerted him to unleash the attack now.
"Kiriki Soushi (Joint Dual Palms)" Raoh thrusted his hands clashing against the electric rolling beast man.
The clash as caused a strong shockwave that can be felt where the others are and the trees near them are shake as some of the leaves are being blown away, neither fighters are giving in from the struggle for over a minute and half, and then the power clash ended with both fighters blown away from each other.
"Looks like it's a draw." Raoh chuckled.
"Yeah, you are awesome!" Blanka chuckled too, and it was then that these two fighters have become rivals and good frieneds.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
The dinner time at Blanka's home with his mother was good and Raoh even got to see and feel the strength of the Electric Green Beast Man in their short battle, he also got to learn about his two friends probably thinking of meeting them some day.
I also decide to give Blanka's mom, Samantha, the last name Selva which means "Jungle" in Portuguese that fits good for her and Blanka consider he's a jungle man.
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