Your Adolescent Street Fighters Ch.13
By Silvercane

“Ken, are you positively sure that they’ll let us in?” asked Guy worriedly as he surveyed the large guard standing outside the entrance to the underground arena.

“Trust me”, said Ken casually as he walked up to the entrance with the guys close behind.

“Sorry pal, but this ain’t know place for kids”, said the guard as he gently pushed Ken back.

“We’re all adults here”, Ken replied. “And we’re taking part in the tournament”

“Nice try”, said the guard as he pushed Ken’s attempt to advance. Seeing that the guard wasn’t going to change his mind without a bribe, Ken whipped out a hundred-dollar bill and handed it to the guard. The guard took it and let the four gi-wearing guys in: Ken, Guy, Dan, and Ryu. They walked into the noisy, crowded dark arena. A light was lit over three rinks. In each of them, there were two people fighting and many people cheering them on from the crowd.

“So how do we enter?” asked Ryu as he checked out the techniques of the people battling in the rinks.

Ken walked over to a man who was sitting down in a chair in the back of the arena. He was smoking a cigar and there were two bodyguards beside him. Ken said something to him and came back. “So what’d he say?” asked Dan impatiently, wanting a piece of the action.

“He said that we’ll enter 3 rounds from now”

“Aw, how long will that take?”, Dan whined.

“About an hour,…let’s check out the competitors”

Other side of Arena

“I can’t believe that the guard thought we were adults” said Cammy.

Cammy, Chun Li, And Honda had decided to come together. Elena and Pullum had gone to a concert that they won tickets to, on the radio. All three of them were dressed in their fighting outfits, Honda, though, was wearing a robe over his sumo cloth. “Ew, look at those men”, Chun Li said as she pointed to a couple of men whistling and blowing kissy faces at them. Some were missing teeth and some looked as if they hadn’t bathed for awhile.

“Since we’re fighting in about half an hour, I’m going to drink some water”, said Honda as he went towards the bathrooms.

‘Ugh! I can’t imagine how filthy the bathrooms must be” said Cammy as she and Chun Li walked around.

“Oh mmyyyyy Goooddddd!” Chun Li stopped in her tracks and stared straight in front of her.

“I can’t believe it! Vega’s here!” exclaimed Cammy. “Hey, I never knew that the rich preppy boy knew how to fight” “Me neither,…I don’t want him to see me here” “Oh don’t worry, you’re here to test your skills, don’t let him discourage you”

“Oh sh**…Fei Long’s here” said Chun Li as Fei Long approached them.

“Hey Li, Cammy”, greeted Fei Long.

“I should have known that you would enter this tournament” said Chun Li annoyingly.

“I wouldn’t miss something like this for the world, so I guess you’re fighting” replied Fei Long as he noticed she was wearing her Chinese blue fighting outfit.

“If you’re going to mother me again…” started Chun Li, but Fei Long cut her off.

“Hey, don’t worry, I know your martial arts is good enough. If Master Gen knew what we are up to right now, he would punish us till dawn”

“What would he do?’ asked Cammy.

“Well, whenever we got into fights with others or did anything immoral, he would make us get into a stance and we’d have to stay like that until a whole incense stick finished burning. But Li and I used to help each other out”

“Yeah, I remember” said Chun Li as she giggled to herself, thinking about the past.

“Listen Li, I’m sorry about ruining your date with Vega that time”, said Fei Lon apologetically.

“That’s all right, I’m over that now”

“Looks like he’s entering the tourney”, Fei Long mentioned as he looked over at Vega, who was seated, with an iron mask on his lap and a long glimmering sharp iron claw. He was watching the fights and had a somewhat evil stare.

“Next up, from Spain, Vega Fabio de Cerna”, announced the rink master. “And from Mexico, Thunderhawk”

The crowd cheered as the two opponents made their way to a rink. Vega’s claw shone on his hand as he slipped on the iron mask.