It was an early quiet morning, a young martial arts master was standing at the dojo and practiced karate. Many martial artists would be able recognize it as Kyokushin Karate or Shotokan Karate, but his style was a mixture between them. He was practicing Haiku-Ken style Karate.

The man's name was Chiba, the creator of Haiku-Ken style karate moves. He remained standing at the dojo next to a wooden training dummy. Then, he holded out his arms and breathed. Then, Chiba ran, jumped and kicked the dummy twice. It was like a flying kick. The move was called "Kutei kyaku", the Japanese meaning of Airborne Leg, Then, Chiba sat down and delivered an uppercut, the move was called "Raijinguappa", the Japanese meaning of Rising Uppercut, the dummy was starting to break, so that the structure was now sagging. Chiba charged the chi into his right foot. He ran into the dummy and made kick spins on it, the move was "Hariken senpu kyaku", the Japanesse meaning of Hurricane Whirlwind Leg. Later, as the dummy was now broken, Chiba started to work on fixing it.

The next day, at early morning, Chiba was standing at the dojo next to the dummy. Starting to breath, he holded his hands, focused about his soul, emptied his head, closed his eyes, and made his stance. Moments later, Chiba opened his eyes and unleashed an flurry of powerful attacks, using his legs and arms. Chiba hit the dummy about seventeen times and ended the move by breaking it with an uppercut, causing the dummy to break, the move was "Haiku-Ken style eighteen hit combo", one of the most powerful moves of the Haiku-Ken style Karate.

Around twenty years have passed, and the Haiku-Ken karate was known around the world of martial arts and some of the karatekas in Japan practiced it. Chiba was now around fifty years old and had a beard. He took on a student named Shinhichiro Yuki, a twenty-one year old young man who was inspired to train at Chiba's dojo. Chiba looked at Yuki, proud at him. He saw Yuki performing the "Blowing Uppercut", in which to sit down and deliver a powerful uppercut. The uppercut destroyed the dummy Yuki was training. It was a powerful version of the "Rising Uppercut". After Yuki practiced the move, Chiba smiled and looked at him, looking at how Yuki became a young fighter after four years of training. Soon, Yuki graduated from Chiba's teaching and started his dojo at Osaka. Ten years later, Yuki heared that his master, Chiba, died from a heart attack, which left him devastated, losing the one who raised him when he was eighteen.

Nine years after Chiba's death, Yuki still remembered hearing his master's death. His dojo became successful and followed his footsteps for the last nine years. He was now grown up and forty years old, sporting a mustache, a beard and a long hair tied to a braid. Then one fateful day, Yuki saw a fifteen year old orphan at his doorstep of his dojo. He thought that the child would be somehow related to the Hasashi family. The family had owned a dojo in Okinawa for the Hasashi Style Martial Arts, which was the oppisite of the Haiku-Ken Style Karate and was combination of Aikido, Judo and Chito-ryu Style Karate. They were also rivals for Master Chiba and even Yuki. Unwilling to leave the child alone, Yuki took and adopted the child. The boy had a name; Ryo Takeshi.

For the next six years, Ryo had been living with master Yuki. He had no memeories about his fanily or his true origins. When he was seventeen years old, Ryo started training with master Yuki. During his training, Ryo learned about the secrets of the Haiku-Ken Style Karate and the Hasashi family from his mentor. The Hasashi family had owned a dojo in Okinwa and they were rivals to the late master Chiba and also master Yuki. Toshihiko Hasashi was the creator of the Hasashi Style of Martial Arts and soon became rivals with Chiba when the latter became famous for the Haiku-Ken Style Karate and owned a dojo. After his death, His son, Hamato, took over the dojo and became it's owner. The year was 1989 and Ryo was now twenty-one years old.

Ryo was training in the dojo at Osaka, Japan when master Yuki came. Ryo bowed to him.

"Master Yuki." Ryo said

"Ryo, my son, i am so proud of you, you are now strong, you are now focused. You are now a true master of the Haiku-Ken Karate. Your training is done, I assume you would participate in the World Fighter Tournament." Yuki said

"What is it?" Ryo said.

"It is a worldwide martial arts fighting competition that is held for the first time by a man called Hamato Hasashi, a legendary martial arts master. There is a one round in the tournament and the participant reaches to the next round after this. There is a trophy for the winner who can defeat Hamato and even prize money and fame. You have to enter to test and hone your skills." Yuki said. "I also heard that my old friend, Lee Yang, will participate in the tournament."

"I would be honored to compete for such a prize, master Yuki. I accept the invitation." Ryo said.

"Then good luck to you, Ryo." Yuki said.

It was the big day; the chosen ten fighters for the tournament were now gathered at the tournamnet stadium. There was al a large audience gathered at the stands. Ryo stood at his own stand. He had immediately registered for the tournament. He had a black medium length hair and blue eyes and was wearing a white headband, a white karate Gi with the sleeves ripped off, black gloves, a black karate belt tied to the waist and no footwear. Ryo started to look at the fighters who participate in the tournament, one of them was Johnny Eagle, a mixed martial artist and a street fighter who hails from America. He was twenty-two years old with a blond spiked short hair and blue eyes, he was dressed up in a red jeans, a black belt and black shoes.

He also saw El Tigre, a professional wrestler who hails from Mexico. He was thirty years old and he was wearing a tiger mask along with a dark blue tights with a black trunks. He also wore a black elbow and knee pads, black wrestling boots and white wristbands, and even Billy Kang, an American martial artist originally from Hong Kong. He was twenty-five years old with a black short hair and brown eyes, he was dressed up in a black Kung-Fu pants, white socks and black martial arts shoes.

The next fighter came to the room. The fighter was Goukentetsu, a ninja shrounded in mystery and a leader of a Japanesse mysterious ninja clan named the Hakuri-ryu clan. He had a black shoulder length hair and black eyes and was wearing a light brown sandogasa (straw samurai hat) with a black kanji word on the top of his hat, a white hayana mask that covers his face, a silver torso armor, gauntlets, shoulder guards and shin guards, green pants and traditional Japanese shoes. He wielded an ancient samurai sword called the "Shira-Saya" sword. Also present were Roberto Lopez, a thirty-three year old Capoeira master from Brazil with a brown shoulder length hair and brown eyes, dressed up in a white Capoeira pants with a green rope tied to the waist, green wristbands and no footwear, Adam Bronson, a twenty-eight year old professional boxer and heavywieght champion of the world from America with a black short hair with wide cronrows and black eyes, dressed up in a blue boxing trunks, red boxing gloves and blue boxing shoes with white laces, and even Takenobu Okabe or simply T. Okabe, a thirty year old sumo wrestler from Osaka, Japan with a black hair in a chonmage hairstyle and black eyes, dressed up only in a purple Mawashi.

The last two fighters came to the room. The first was Vanessa Tucker, a twenty year old CIA assassin from America with a blonde long hair tied to a ponytail and blue eyes, wearing a black sleeveless catsuit with black boots and fingerless gloves. The second was Lee Yang, a forty-two year old Kung-Fu master from China with a black long hair tied to a braid, a black mustache and black eyes, wearing a red long Kung-Fu jacket, a black belt tied around the stomach, black Kung-Fu pants, white socks and black martial arts shoes. Ryo looked at Yang and recognized him as his master's old friend. Now, there were ten fighters for the tournament and the first two fighters would head to the arena for the first fight.

A man with brown hair and black eyes, dressed up in a black tuxedo with a white collared shirt and black necktie walked into the arena with a microphone.

"Ladies and Gentlemen!" the announcer said excitedly. "Welcome to the World Fighter Tournament!"

The crowd cheered wildly as the announcer continued speaking.

"Sponsored by the Hasashi Corporation, which led by the legendary martial artist and buissnessman, Hamato Hasashi, this tournament has been held for the first time to show who is the strongest fighter in the world. The winner would have a 100,000,000 dollars, a trophy and the title of the world's #1 fighting champion of the world. There are now ten fighters for the tournament, but there is only one fighter for the final match against Master Hasashi. Now, let the tournament begin." the announcer said.

The crowd continued to cheer wildly as the man continued to speak.

"Now, each fight will begin when i say." the announcer said.

The announcer just took a paper out of his pocket.

"After saying the first two fighters, the versus screen will show the fighters." the announcer said.

The versus screen was rolling to decide the fighters. The announcer had called the names of the first two fighters and the versus screen showed the fighters.

"Johnny Eagle VS Roberto Lopez in the first round of the tournament!" the announcer said.

Thus, the fights for the first round had been decided; Johnny would now fight Lopez, Kang would fight Adam, Ryo would fight El Tigre, Goukentetsu would fight and Yang would fight Vanessa.

The World Fighter Tournament was about to begin.

The first match of The World Fighter Tournament has began. Johnny and Lopez, the first two fighters, arrived at the arena. The arena for the fight was to be a beach located in Rio De Janerio, Brazil, which was Lopez's stage in the tournament. Many people from around the world had to watch the fight on TV and the crowd were cheering for Johnny and most of the crowd were cheering for Lopez. Meanwhile, at the arena, Johnny and Lopez looked at each other.

"Nice place." Johnny said.

"Yeah, it's my hometown." Lopez said.

"You live here?" Johnny asked.

Lopez nodded his head yes.

"Well, prepare for the defeat, 'cause i'm gonna bring you down." Johnny said.

"Fine, bring it on." Lopez said.

The two then assumed their fighting stances. The announcer called for the fight to start. with the fight began, Johnny immediately charged to attack. He ran fastly and raised his right fist to punch Lopez, but Lopez leapt back and the attack was missed. Then, Lopez spined his legs on Johnny, bringing him down to the floor. Johnny got up and countered the attack by a powerful strike that hit Lopez's stomach, it was Johnny's infamous "Stomach Kick" technique. Then, Lopez got up and standed on his hands, spinning his legs and bringing Johnny down. Johnny, however, got tired from the fight and decided to end it immediately.

"That's it. I'm taking you down." Johnny declared.

As Lopez was spinning to attack Johnny, Johnny dodged every of Lopez's attacks. Then, Lopez jumped and spined his right leg to knock out Johnny, but Johnny leapt back. Then, Johnny used a flurry of powerful attacks, punching Lopez rapidly. These attacks Johnny was using were inspired by Boxing, Kickboxing, Karate and Savate. When Lopez was dazing, Johnny used his right leg and kicked Lopez in the face, knocking him out.

"And the winner of the fight is... Johnny Eagle." the announcer said.

As Lopez took an hour to recover, Johnny went back to his locker room in triumph. After recovering, Lopez returned to his locker room to watch the other fights and was disappointed that he failed to prove himself. Later, the announcer had called the names of the next two fighters.

"Adam Bronson VS Billy Kang." the announcer said.

Adam and Kang headed to the arena, the arena was Forbidden City, located in Bejing, China. It was Kang's stage for the tournament, although Kang is a half-American and half-Chinese. The two fighters confronted each other.

"Are you ready for this?" Kang said.

"Out of my way, Bruce Lee guy. I'm gonna be the world's #1 fighting champion of the world." Adam said.

"Well, if you want to be number one, you'll have to face me first." Kang said.

Kang taunted Adam.

"Okay, bring it then." Adam said.

Adam and Kang assumed their fighting stances and glared at each other and the match began. Both fighters charged at the same time. However, Kang launched a flying kick on Adam and Adam fell to the ground. Adam got up and charged a powerful attack on Kang, but Kang leapt back and Adam missed. Kang used his Back Flipper on Adam, kicking him and sending him to the air, then, he delivered an uppercut, sending Adam towards the edge of the arena. Adam got up and declared to end the fight.

"Is that all you got?" Adam said.

Kang launched a flying kick again, but Adam dodged and countered it with an uppercut. As Kang got up and went to attack Adam, Adam unleashed several attacks on Kang. He wasted no time and brought the fight to a stunning end as he attacked and rapidly punched Kang until he knocked him out of the ring. Declared as the winner, Adam smiled and walked away to his locker room as Kang was recovering. Kang was helped back to his feet and went to his locker room.

Meanwhile, at the grand box that held the sponsor's chair, the sponsor and host of the tournament, Hamato Hasashi, sat down on his chair. He was fifty years old and had a black hair and mustache and black eyes. He was wearing his black suit with a white collared shirt. His assistant, Hoshi, came into the room.

"Sir, i think this tournament is proving to be a quiet impressive." Hoshi said.

"Don't worry, Hoshi, i will be more impressed when Ryo comes to the arena." Hamato said.

Hamato and Hoshi turned their attentions to the arena as the next fighters, Ryo Takeshi and El Tigre, were ready to head to the arena.