The Path of the True Warrior Ch. 3
By Ryu-san

Meanwhile, back in China…

"Chun-li, calm down and tell me why you're so mad!" the man asks as he runs after her.

"Those jerks! I'll get them for embarrassing me like this! They undermined my authority!" Chun-li complained.

"Well, who were they and what happened?" Fei-Long asks of her.

She tells him what happened as they sit down in their Sifu's dojo. Fei-Long tries to hide a smile as she tells her story. He fails and begins laughing.

"Ha ha ha!" he laughs.

"What's so funny!?" she asks.

"Sorry, it's just that it's times like this that remind me of when you were young. You still act like the little girl I knew. Sticking out your tongue? I mean, what were you thinking? Seriously, though, let it go. Tell you what, if I meet either of those two while I'm shooting my next film, I'll beat them up for you! How's that?" Fei-Long asks.

"Hmph! Well, I want to fight them myself. Oh yea, that reminds me…"

"Oh my Gosh! I forgot that I left my headband with that woman!" Ryu exclaims as they reach the Master's estate.

"Oh! That's what was different about you! It's ok, next time we meet her, we'll get it from her," Ken told him.

"Hm…So, how's life treating you, my friend?" Ryu asks.

Ken begins that after the first street fighter tournament, he returned to America, inspired by Ryu. He began winning tournament after tournament easily and then one day he met Eliza at a celebration party. They have been dating for a few months and are really getting along well.

"Oh yea, Ryu, that reminds me. I've been sort of out of practice, so…LET'S SPAR!" Ken yells as he throws Ryu out of the car and into the Dojo.

Ten minutes later, they are both prepared for the sparring match. Ken and Ryu both bow to each other. Ken then starts off the match by running towards Ryu. Ryu anticipating Ken's attack, enters a defensive stance while lightly bobbing on the balls of his feet. Ken pulls off two light jabs -one high, one mid- and then a short kick followed by an axe kick. Ryu blocks all of the attacks and jumps over Ken's axe kick. He then waits for Ken's next attack. Ken then starts throwing a combo at him, starting with a high punch, followed by a left hook, followed by a sweep and a final roundhouse. Ryu gets hit by the punch, expecting a low kick, but he manages to recover in time to duck the hook, jump over the sweep and block the roundhouse. He returns to the defensive position when all of a sudden Ken leaps toward him.

"Hey! What the heck do you think you're doing? Why aren't you fighting back!?" Ken asks as he gets Ryu in a headlock and proceeds to give him a noogie.

Ryu throws him off and just smiles. Ken angered by Ryu's passivity then prepares to tackle him. Ryu finally sees an opening and proceeds to knee Ken as he approaches. He then combos into a two fisted hammer punch, a uppercut and a final snap kick. Ken hits the wall and mouth starts pouring out of his mouth.

"Ken! Are you ok?" Ryu asks as he runs to his friend.

"GOTCHA!" Ken yells as he grabs his friend and hits him with a shoryureppa. Ryu falls back, smiles and then he jumps toward Ken releasing a hadoken…fake. Then as Ken takes the bait he charges up his chi and then…TatsumakisenpuuKyaku! Ken falls.

"Whew! What a workout! Good to see that you're as good as ever Ryu!" Ken smiles as he gets up from the ground.

"You too, my friend. You have improved indeed. Shall we call it a day?" Ryu asks.

"Good idea, my butler's can cook us some grub." Ken tells him.

They race to the house and Ken leads Ryu to the food.

"Master Ken, your food is prepared for you and your guest." One of the butlers tells him.

"Great!" they both yell as they stare at the mountain of food before their eyes.

Turkey, Ham, Kung Pao Chicken, Sukiyaki, Salmon, Won Ton Soup, Daikon Miso Soup, are among the few dishes available. Both the fighters drool for a few seconds until Ryu realizing that the food is going to waste immediately starts eating ravenously. Ken though just as famished stares in awe as Ryu wolfs down a quarter of the food in record time.

"Mmrk mkre rghghg mrek? (Ken, aren't you gonna eat too?)" Ryu asks him between mouthfuls.

"Oh, yea!"