Chapter 14

Supper woke up to find herself in an unfamiliar room. She could feel a dull pain in her head, and her back. As she got up from the floor, she put her hand on her head. She could feel a bump there. And her body was aching too.

Where am I? she thought. The last thing she remembered was being hit rather hard on the back by her opponent and losing consciousness. So I must've lost. But how did I end up here? Where is 'here' anyway? And where's Tea?

"So, you're awake." Supper turned around to face the owner of the voice. It was an old man with white hair and wearing dark glasses. Beside him was another man she recognized. It was TaoPaiPai, her opponent in the Boudukai.

"Who are you?" she asked the white-haired man. "And what happened?" she directed the second question to TaoPaiPai. Neither man answered her question. Instead, the white-haired man yanked her by the hair and pulled her close to him. He studied her face, particularly the third eye in the middle of her forehead. Supper winced. She didn't particularly like it when people stare at her third eye, but with this man it was more than that. The dark shades covered his eyes, but she could almost feel the man's piercing stare. It was as if those eyes were emanating pure hate directed at her and she didn't know why. She grimaced, feeling the pain of having her hair pulled, and shivered at the same time.

"So tell me," the white-haired man said. "Are you really Tenshinhan's brat?"

Supper couldn't help asking back. "How...how did you know my father?" Memories of her last few moments in the Boudukai before she blacked out returned to her. In confusion, she turned to TaoPaiPai, then to the white-haired man again.

"So it's true." The old man grinned, making him look even more evil. "Not that I ever doubted it for a moment . The third eye was a dead giveaway."

Supper asked again," How did you know my father? And what do you want with me?"

The old man snorted in disgust, and threw her to the floor roughly. Supper winced, rubbing her back as she slowly sat up.

"Tenshinhan was one my best students ever. The best in the Tsuru school of martial arts, in fact, next to myself and my brother TaoPaiPai, of course. I had such hopes for him." His voice turned cold. "But he disgraced me by defecting to the Kame school. In the middle of the Boudukai no less. Right in front of everybody. He dared to defy me, and for that I will never forgive him."

He turned to Supper who was still on the floor and kicked her roughly in the stomach. She gasped in pain, feeling tears well up in her eyes.

"Tell me brat," Tsuru said. "Where is he?"

"H...he's dead," Supper said, still gasping in pain.

"Oh?" The white-haired man said, a slight disappointment in his voice.

"Yes. He...he died fighting the cyborgs. Before I was born," Supper said, with some difficulty, as she was still in pain from the kick.

"Tsk. Too bad. I had hoped to kill him myself, or let my brother do it." He lifted his right hand, with his pointer finger sticking up from his clenched fist. It seemed to glow. Supper blinked.

"But I can do the next best thing." The grin on his face now was pure evil. "Kill off his line of descendants." He pointed his glowing finger at her and released an unbelievably powerful energy blast from it, straight at the defenceless girl, resulting in a huge explosion.

Chapter 15
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