The
cold winds blew around the buildings of Metro City. The snow slowly fell down in the busy streets in light flakes. Pedestrians
and drivers tried to make it through rush hour despite the cold, harsh weather.
A young woman stopped and looked up
at the skyscrapers on top of the buildings. She had just moved into the city only a couple of days ago and is now trying to
memorize every detail of the city in order to make it feel more like home.
She soon began to walk down the street and
wrapped her arms around herself. She wore a brown knee-length jacket over a black shirt, black leather gloves, blue jeans,
and black knee-high boots. She also wore a black wool hat and she let her long black hair down.
She walked down a few
blocks before she saw a small store filled with Christmas supplies. 'Well, maybe I should buy a few things for the apartment,'
she thought. 'After all, Christmas is only five weeks away.'
She entered the store. Only a couple of other
people were looking around the store. She looked at the small trees on the high shelves. Some were two feet some were only
a foot. Some were decorated some were left with nothing. She then found the perfect one, one of the non-decorated, two feet
ones. She managed to get it off the shelf safely despite her small height.
She them looked around at the different
ornaments. She saw a set of glass angels and decided to add them to the little tree. Then, she tried to find the perfect angel
for the top of her tree, but couldn't find one. She sighed with disappointment and went up to the register counter.
"How
do you do, miss?" the man behind the counter asked her.
The woman smiled. "Fine, thank you," she replied with her warm
Japanese accent.
As the man typed in the prices in his cash register, he said to the woman, "Pretty cold out today,
no?"
The woman nodded. "Yes, it's quite cold. I'll be heading home after this."
The man nodded with a smirk.
"That will be ten dollars and ninety-six cents."
The woman nodded again and gave the man the exact change.
"Thank
you," the man said. "You have a nice day now."
"Thank you, you too," the woman replied. She took her bags and walked
out back into the cold weather. She looked up at the sky. It was getting dark. She decided that it was best if she headed
home now knowing how dangerous the city can be when the sun is not out. She looked at the nearest street sign and sighed.
She had another twenty-minute walk.
***
When she was only two blocks away from home, the woman decided to stop
at the café. Her long walk has left her freezing and was in the mood for some cappuccino.
She walked inside to café
and waited on the long line. She looked at her watch. '6:19.'
Ten minutes later, she was the next customer to be served.
She ordered her vanilla cappuccino. After paying for it and receiving it, she sat down next to the window. On the small table
was a newspaper. She didn't get a chance to read the newspaper this morning and decided to take the opportunity to do so.
What
she wasn't aware of was that just across the street, three muscular men were watching her from a bar.
"Look over there,"
the first man said pointing to the café across the street. "Ain't she the fox?"
The men smiled in agreement as they
stared at the woman. She drank out of a small cup and read the newspaper.
"Hey Walter," the second man said to the
first man. "How about we go, well, 'talk' to her when she's done with her coffee?"
Walter rubbed his chin followed by
a drink of beer out of a beer mug. Then, an evil grin spread across his face. "Not a bad idea, Roy. We'll go talk to her all
right." He looked at the third man. "What do you think, Mike?"
Mike grinned showing off his yellow teeth. "It's a great
idea."
That's when they noticed the woman walking out. She threw out her small cup and then made her way down the street.
"Let's
go," said Roy. The three men walked out of the bar and began to follow her.
The woman decided to take a short cut through
the alley since her apartment was on the other side. She slowly walked through the narrow alley. Garbage was everywhere and
it, of course, smelled.
Suddenly, the woman could hear footsteps following her. She turned around and noticed three
men behind her.
"Hey baby," one of them said. "Why don't you come over here and make me happy."
The woman gasped
and broke into a sprint.
"Where are you going?" one of the men asked. They ran after her. Unfortunately, her heels
couldn't bring her to run fast enough so the men were able to catch up to her. One of them grabbed her by the waist and threw
her against the brick wall. All three men leaned against her and one of them held a pocketknife at her neck. She managed to
scream before one man covered her mouth.
"Now let's have some fun," the man said pressing the knife into her neck.
***
A
young man was walking down the street after a long day at a nearby dojo. He wore a leather jacket over a white sweatshirt,
blue jeans, and white tennis shoes.
The man yawned and fixed up his dark hair, which fell in front of his face. 'All
I want to do is get home and go to sleep,' he thought.
The man did love going to the dojo. He was known as the
Bushin Ninja, always working on his skills. On this particular day, he was sparring with a friend and his friend managed to
knock the wind out of him pretty good when he kneed his stomach. It made him pretty tired for the rest of the day.
He
looked up into the dark sky. Snow fell down slowly. 'Hard to believe Christmas is in five weeks,' he thought. 'Other
than Cody, Jessica, and Mr. Haggar, I won't be sharing it with anyone special. Oh well.'
That's when he heard
a loud shriek coming from one of the allies. The man looked straight ahead and narrowed his eyes. He ran as fast as lightning
until he looked into one alley and saw four people in it. He ran closer to them and saw three men holding a knife at a young
woman's neck.
"What do you think you guys are doing?" he shouted.
Two of the three men turned to him. "We're
just having some fun," he said.
"I'll give you fun!" Then, the young Bushin warrior jumped in the air, jumped off the
brick walls a couple of times before landing a few kicks at one of the men's heads.
"Mike, Walter, fight this guy off,
I'll take the girl somewhere," the man said.
The young man kicked the knife off the man's hand. "Not on your life."
He threw a few punches at the man and finished him off by elbowing him in the chest. The man fell back in pain. The woman
rolled over away from the man.
Then, the young man turned to the other two men. He ran towards them and took both of
their heads and smacked them together. He managed to knock one out, but not the other.
The young man did a somersault
kick and hit the man under his chin. He fell back into one of the garbage cans and was knocked out.
The young man looked
around, still in his fighting stance. All three men were knocked out. The young man then turned to the woman who was curled
up into a ball and shedding tears.
He slowly walked up to her. "Miss, are you all right?" he asked.
The woman
looked up at the man. She slowly nodded.
Then young man helped her up.
"I'll be fine," the woman said. He looked
into his dark eyes. "You saved my life..."
The young man nodded. They walked out of the alley. When the young man felt
that the area was safe for the woman, he began to walk down the street.
"Wait!" the woman cried out. "I didn't get
to know your name."
Then a crowd of people walked in front of her. When it cleared out, the young man was gone.
'Who
was he?' she asked herself.
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