The Hero of Metro City 01
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Chapter One

 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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