The Path of the True Warrior Ch. 7
By Ryu-san

“………” Beads of sweat drop from Gen as he watches the spectacle.

Chun-li is hitting Ryu over and over with her cast as Ryu tries to explain.

“Chun-li, listen, I’m very sorry! It was an accident!” Ryu apologizes as he rises with multiple bumps popping up from his head.

“You idiot! That was my combat dress! How dare you spill food all over it! Look at it! Now it’s ruined!” she exclaims as she lifts her jumpsuit and vest that is now covered with various stains, its blue now permanently blotched with marks of green, red, brown and orange. She is wearing her traditional blue battle garb with the spiked bracelets.

“Uh, it’s looks more colorful that way!” Ryu says.

“…YOU DIE!” she screams as she continues beating Ryu with her cast.

*Hmm…It looks like she can’t get along well with him…Poor guy* Fei-Long thinks as he looks over at the situation.

“Poor Ryu, eh Fei?” Ken asks him.

“Yea, I mean, she’s violent but not this violent…OW!” Fei says as Chun-li throws the cast at him, hitting him squarely in the jaw.

“I’m going outside!” Chun-li yells as she stomps her way outside.

“Er, Ryu, don’t let that bother you. She’s a nice person once she learns to trusts you. Just give it time…er, hopefully you can survive that long. Ryu? Ryu? Are you ok?” Fei asks him. Ryu is on the ground with multiple bruises, bumps, and swirly eyes.

“That JERK! That was my favorite too! I’ll never forgive him!” Chun-li screams as she hits the training bag after each word.

She looks at the punching bag, swinging backward now.

“Heh, I hit it pretty hard…OOOFF!” she says after the punching bag comes back and hits her.

Ryu, after recovering, decides to go follow her. He can sense her angry chi from all the way in the dojo. He sees her get hit by the punching bag and decides to help her when she gets up and kicks the bag so hard that it breaks off the chain, hits a tree, and nearly explodes from the force it was hit with. Beads of sweat drop from Ryu as he decides that this is one very scary woman.

“Ryu, that stupid jerk…Hi-ya!” she screams as she begins kicking a tree.

*I don’t think that now is a good time to be near her, I’d better apologize later…* Ryu thinks to himself.

“What’re you doing here?” Ken asks him as he nudges him with his elbow.

“I was going to come here to apologize but now is not the best time…”Ryu explains, pointing to the bag.

“Ouch! I think that these next few weeks are going to be miserable for you. I pity you, Ryu,” Ken tells him.

“Oh well, at least she’ll forget sooner or later…right?” Ryu asks him.

“………” Ken says nothing as he raises an eyebrow.

“Uh, right Ken?” Ryu asks, feeling a little bit of fear.

“…sorry to tell you this but this time, you’re out of luck. Women never forget, my friend, and they’ll make you pay ten times over whatever you did to them…” Ken says as Ryu gulps.

“What should I do?” Ryu asks.

“Make it up to her somehow,” Ken suggests.

“How?” Ryu asks.

“Even I, the great Ken Masters, can’t help you out there. She’s a strange one, that Chun-li, maybe you should ask Fei,” Ken tells him.

“Yea. If I don’t I may not get out with my life. Chun-li, she’s so violent, I wonder if…”

“IF WHAT!” Chun screams from behind him.

“Yikes! She’s scary, like a monster,” Ryu tells Ken.

“I heard that! Get out of here! Stop following me and bugging me!” She screams as she kicks him so hard that he flies through the forest into the dojo.

“Oro……&_&” Ryu moans as he tries to get up off the floor.

Fei stops his training and walks over.

“It looks like you need help. I haven’t seen Chun-li like this my whole life…If we don’t do something soon, you won’t survive the end of this week,” Fei tells him, matter-of-factly.

*What did I do to make her so mad at me?* Ryu wonders.

“Fei-san, what can I do to remove her anger?” he asks.

“Maybe sifu would know…” Fei tells him.

“Let me go find him and ask,” Ryu says he as walks towards Gen’s room.

“HAHAHAHAHA!” Gen laughs very loudly as Ryu tells him the situation.

“Well, young one, I am sorry to say this but this is a different type of battle that you must face yourself,” Gen tells him.

In bed that night…

“Hm…what could I do…to make up for…that…” Ryu wonders as he gradually falls asleep.

Japan

Dan begins walking home and it starts to rain. All of a sudden, somebody kicks him, hard, from behind.

“Gr…What do you think you’re doing!?” Dan yells as he turns around.

“I will show you the strength of my saikyo style…!!!” Dan’s eyes nearly pops out of his head.

“Hmph! Then show me…Messatsu!” Akuma yells as he gets into his horse stance.

“Hm…I never give up, demon! Oyaji!” Dan yells as he performs his Dankukyaku.

“Weak…” Akuma says as he punches Dan into a wall.

“Ugh…” Dan immediately has internal injuries, his mouth full of blood.

“You don’t deserve to live! Shun Goku Satsu!” Akuma yells as he nears him.

A blinding light occurs as Akuma starts to teleport...