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[color=green][size=1] Chi Boy laid awake on his thin pallet that he called a bed. He was a bit restless that night as he kept on thinking over the offer Robin gave to him. But his thoughts were interupted when a huge explosion occured outside his window, causing smoke and ashes flare up from the concrete ground outside up to Michael's third floor window. He jumped out of his covers and train of thought and threw on his jeans and scarf, grabbing his over coat as he jumped out of his opened window. Floating to the ground, He searched for a sign of damage to civilians and the cause of the explosion. Noticing the site of several hulking men walking threw the smoke, Michael caught their glowing, yellow eyes. [I]TRIDENT![/I] Him and 6 of his clones were scowering the street, causing damage and scaring off innocents. Chi Boy knew he had to stop them. Touching down, Chi Boy hid behind one of the wrecked cars and watched the monsters closely. Then when he caught one of them singled out, he jumped at him and pulled a flying side kick to his head, knocking the scaley beast to the floor. Chi Boy lifted him up and as the steam rose from his powerful fist, he punched him hard in the chest, causing the monster to fly into a building, this alarmed the rest of his breatheren and they all focused attack on Chi Boy. Posing a fighting stance, Chi Boy stood his ground and readied for an attack. The first one came fast, jabbing a javelin at him, Chi Boy side stepped and turning kicked the Trident clone in the chest, only to be caught by a quick javelin sweep to the lower calf by another Trident. Falling to the ground, Chi Boy rolled back, and as he recovered, he caught a group of 8 more of the Trident clones coming from the Harbor road. Michael questioned if he could take them all by himself....[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] My favorite characters are the unappreciated hero's and good guys who seem to never get the attention they deserve. Usually just below the main character in the anime, this characters yearns for the main love interest, fights well against the main character (usually not equal though), and has usually a cooler demeanor in my eyes than the main character. They are as follows. Koga from InuYasha, just a really cool guy that I love to watch fight with his hand to hand prowess. While InuYasha weilds around his bid, ugly Tetsaiga, he uses no more than his body and is still able to equal him in a fight. He refuses defeat with his pride and honor code. Ryoga from Ranma 1/2. Deserves Akane far more than Ranma and appreciates her more. He fights Ranma regularly, usually loses because of some mishab, and dislikes it when the girl he loves shows him pitty. He has a great amount of pride and refuses defeat. Sanouske from Ruroini Kenshin. At first, he is weaker than Kenshin, and then by the end, he could very well be just as powerful, but we never know. Sano is the helpful freind who's good with his knuckles and knows how to defend against most weapons. He has an extreme amount of pride, which often times almost gets him killed, Sano is just cool too me. Theres a trend here actually. The fist fighting, pride filled, sometimes cocky, supporter. Thats my favorite type of character.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] My favorite Boss' are as follows: M. Bison from the Street Fighter series, preferably Street Fighter II and Street Fighter Alpha III for being so near invincible. In A3, his special, the Psycho Crusher, is almost too powerful. It comes out extremely fast, it builds up quick, and its cover the whole screen, and when your hit, it takes off half of your health meter. He is also wickedly evil and just looks menacing. Metal Gear Rex/Liquid Snake from Metal Gear Solid. Never have I felt such gratitude (rivavled only by the following) of beating a boss battle as I have in beating Metal Gear Rex and Liquid as its pilot, aswell as its incredible arsenal and difficult defeat (took me about 3 days) it looked incredibly cool and alot of dramatic story regarding Ninja/Grey Fox took place. Great boss and greater boss battle. And what better reward than that diabolical stealth camoflauge? Solidus Snake from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Just a really cool look to him. He looks sly and kaniving, like a terrorist leader while still looking like he could kick serious a-- (and he does) by himself. He's final battle took me about 15 attempts and I had fun doing it. It was excellent. I loved the gratification after finally beating him and the game, which I had been playing for about 8 hours in that night. I hallucinated the quite a bit the next day, but it was worth it. The Devil from Devil May Cry. Jeez, I played for 3 days straight and never have I felt so much pressure or sure humongous size in a boss battle. I mean I was sweating and clenching the controller so hard I feared it would snap in half because of the pressure. It was just intense and I loved every second of it. Not to mention the cool look and weapons gained at that point. The Lava Spider who's name I forget from Devil May Cry. Just a fun guy to be the crap out of. Not extremely hard once you figure out how to jump on his back and launch grenades into his weak spot up close. I just have fun beating the guy up, twice at that. But I have to give it to the Big Bird for difficulty and coolness of minions, those lizard men just kicked so much a-- and I had fun kickin' their's with the awsome grenade too sword combo's I whipped out (try 30 something hit combo while facing about 8 of them at once). Just good fun both of them.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Michael returned to his small, ratty apartment, of which he paid for by working at a local chinese resturaunt as a delivery boy. Kinda humiliating, but he had to make ends meet. He sat in the middle of his room, trying to peel off the slime that Plasmus sucker punched him with. He could barely afford water, but if there was anytime to take a shower, now was it. He stripped of his close and got into the grimey, cold shower. As he looked into the nozzle of the shower head, he thought of Robin's offer to join the Teen Titan's. Michael was relectant to say yes or no. He didn't know what he wanted. [I]It would be nice...[/I] he thought, [I]to be close to others again. But... they'd just get in my way... or would they?[/I] Michael was confused. He was a moral kind of guy, but he never thought twice about taking the life of a villian who deserved it, such as Cinderblock, or Plasmus, and especially Slade, who death was too good a punishment for the sorrow he caused for so many. Michael stepped out of the shower and dried off his head. Looking into the mirror of his small, cubical sized bath room, he stared into his own green eyes deeply. "M-mabye its not that bad an idea...." he said to himself in the echoing bathroom. He had always yearned for something like a family ever since he had been rid of his own, and maybe the Titan's Tower would accomidate him better. But he still didn't know if he should get tangled up with their morals and ways. But the pro's seemed to outway the con's, and Chi Boy began considering catching up with the Titan's, and taking Robin up on his offer.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Michael sat quietly ontop a roof top, gazing down at the world and city below, thinking about his fate and life, aswell as his power. He felt depressed at the moment, and stopped his thought on sadness of life. He looked out a tried to smile and breathed deeply. His jade eyes searched the bumpy horizon of the city when he caught the sight of billowing smoke rising from the city's best pizzeria. That was strange, he thought, and he ran to go ivestigate. The young man jumped from building to building, gliding to the land in large bounds until he saw an opportunity he had been waiting for most of his previous years. Slade's hardest hitters, The Hive, Cinderblock, Plasmus, and several other members of Slade's army were battlind furiously with the cities local wonder kids, the Teen Titan's. Michael felt a bit hostile towards their goody-goody attitude towards dispatching enemies, but he liked that they were doing something. Michael stopped thinking and rushed down towards the battle, floating to the ground quietly and secretly, not trying to gain attention from either side emmidiatley. He rushed over to Cinderblock, who lost Robin's attention after being knocked down. He was slowly raising from the ground and Michael jumped to attack. "Take This!!!" he yelled in a loud and harsh voice, as his fist came down fast, gathering the steam-like chi around it, he knocked the stone behemoth hard in his rock-hard head, causing debre and cracks to result from the attack point. Cinderblock turned around quickly after leaning forward in recoil. "Nice to see I got your attention..." Michael said sliely, looking up from under his eye brows. "I break things like you for practice, you concrete-a--ed, moron." Cinderblock, inraged, swung his massive fist down at Chi-Boy, who jumped to the side quickly and unleashed a lightning fast combo onto Cinderblock's right leg, causing most of his leg to crack and break apart, the behemoth fell to the ground, growling in anger and pain. Michael lunged into the air, raising his fist, going for the finishing blow on his head when he was knocked into a building quickly by on of Plasmus' slimey discharges.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] I think I relate to Vash the Stampede, as in I have alot of innder complexity and pain due to my past, but I cover it up with my optomistic exterior, which I also hold on the inside so I don't have a break down. I'm deep into philosophy and such when I'm alone, but due to my alot of the times dumb and goofy attitude around my freinds, which is also myself, I sound like a complete idiot. I also feel like I relate to characters like Ryoga from Ranma 1/2 because I don't like accepting defeat or losing the girl I crush over. Same with Rock Lee and Koga from InuYasha. I'm sarcastic like Agent Sands from " Once Upon a Time in Mexico" and humbly cocky like Bruce Lee's characters. Know what... I'm just a weird-A-- character in my own right.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] [B]Name:[/B] Michael Lee [B]Code-Name:[/B] Chi Boy/Steamer [B]Age:[/B] 16 [B]Side:[/B] Free Lance, but is slowly gravitating towards the Teen Titans [B]Powers/Abilities:[/B] Highly skilled in the Chinese Martial Arts such as Wing Chun and Northern Style, he also studies Tai Chi. His name sake though, comes from his pure amount of chi (life energy) and his control over it, it is so great that is can manifest itsekf around his body (mainly fists) into a steam like percepitation which rises, and when stressed upon, can become aparent around the entire body. He is fast (not as fast as the Flash or nothing, but Bruce Lee-kinda) and very strong, contrare to his light-frame. He can control it to the point that he can float down to the ground on an emmense jump and temporarily walk on walls or water. [B]Gadgets:[/B] A short stick that clicks into a set of chain nunchaku. [B]Description:[/B] Usually has his identity covered by a long, brown scarf and a high collered trench coat and a pair of raggedy gloves. He has ragged, black hair, a bit short, and jade eyes. He has a slight tan. 5'10''/139 lbs [B]Personality:[/B] Around strangers, he is quite, and too himself, and seemingly scornful by appearence, but when people come to be freindly, he opens up to show his bright and optomistic personality. Very philisophical towards a postitive life, he tries to take from the teachings of Buhhda. He has a huge appetite due to his power, which requires him eat enough to supply his body. He is pure, yet has a bit of a perverted attitude, he tries to hide it. He has a good sense of humor and takes little seriously other than his mission to stop and destroy Slade, who wronged him so... which also causes a great and deep depression hidden away from those close. In a big fight, however, Michael brings up a new and usually hidden emotion, pure, untapped and unfiltered rage, in which he alot of the time cannot control. [B]Weakness:[/B] Michael's main problem is his stamina, he cannot fight for extended hours our he will slowly loose his Chi, which can only be regained by meditation and food (which explains his appetite). If he pushes himself too long and too hard, he may die of exhaustion, which he fears may happen when he finally faces off against Slade and his rumored army of minions. One last weakness Michael has is his deep depression that he hides under his at first cold extrerior, and then warmer personality. His emotional bounds often make him snappy and prone to outbursts occasionally. [B]Biography:[/B] Michael was born in New York to an American mother and a Chinese father, who owned a Oriental Antique Shop, who also taught him all he knew of martial arts andm otivated him to be the best he could be. Unknown to Michael, his father held a dark and beutiful secret. One day, a man nameed Slade Wilson came to the shop, requesting something called the "Dharma Flask" . Michael was in the back room listening when he heard a yell and loud thumping noises followed by the terrifing sound of a gun shot. Michael rushed out to see Slade and his men walking out. Running over to his Father, Michael was informed about his Father's secret and the "Dharma Flask". Given to him, Michael was told the legend by his ever so slowly dying father. Michael was told never to let anyone take the Flask for it contain's great power, and with a final good bye, Michael's father died, throwing him into a fury and soon after depression, just as his mother did, when she aswell died of a broken heart, as the doctor's put it the crushed and emotionally unstable Michael. Michael soon became a street urchin, holding only one thing to his name, the "Dharma Flask". Michael examined it for weeks wondering what could manifest its power, and then, Michael realized it. a Flask holding the water blessed by Buhhda himself. Michael did not wish to tarnish the name of Buhhda or the artifact and eirloom handed down to him, but Michael new that what ever power given to himm would help him every bit to avenge the death of his parents due to Slade. Michael opened the Flask and drank from its cold, golden spout only to quickly be warmed up by its power, and as he slowly began realizing the power he has been given, he also realizes, he truely can defeat the man responible for the sorrow he felt. Michael immedialty left off on his journey for revenge, under the new name, Chi Boy... _________________ Hope that is acceptable and I know, a bit of a corny/clich'e bio, but what better motivation than revenge? Tell me if I need any changes please.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Name: DJ Crim Age: ??? Sex: Male Race: Alien Job: Club/Recording DJ and Peace Keeper of Worlds Weapon: A set of High-Tech, wrist carried Turn tables that, when scratched with enough beat and rhythm, can cause great damage to the area around, requires skilled Disc Jockey Hands to handle effectively and safely. Also good for blocking. Clothing: ::Attachment below:: [url]http://www.animeshrine.com/gallery.php?series=warofgenesis&image=19[/url] Method of Transportation: A strange personal space ship that highly resembles a silver-blue Ford Impala Likes: Music, Sleeping, MTV, The Invisbl Skratch Piklz, breakdancing, and life in general. Dislikes: Arrogance, Ignorance, and stuck up people. Biography: Born in the space station Compton in the far reaches of space, Crim came to love music at an early age, picking up the space sent signals by DJ Q*Bert and his amazing band of DJ's and several others. Interested in Earth and foreign affairs, it drove him to enter the Galactic Security Force, where he requested to be stationed on Earth. Stuck in a dead beat town where the pirate Haruko Haruhara tried releasing Atamisk, another infamous space pirate, he spends his days screwing around and hanging around in the local club scene breakdancing and breakbeating with the best of DJ's. He's hear to protect and serve, but he rather do it when convenient. All in All: Easy Going, Cool, Fun Loving and Out Going, but a Tad Bit Lazy. Allignment: Galactic Security Force ----------------------- Okay, I signed up, but whats the plot? I joined because of the title, so whats the 311?[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Actually, Home Star Runner owns my soul! Long story... But really, I have it as my wallpaper, its the "HAS" one. A pic of Home Star with a bowl ontop his head and a spoon held up like an Army recruit poster. It say: DO YOU HAS?! Do You Has What It Takes To Join The Homestarmy? The Guts? The Determination? The Five Bucks?! Join Today! Classic.... Also: "Hey Stupid! I brought you this stuff!" -Home Star to his girlfriend, Marzipan "Steiny?! What Kind of name is Steiny?! Tell you what, I'll add 'Man' at the end of my name if you'll be my little super villain side kick, Steiny. Strong Bad Man and his cohort, STEINY!" -Strong Bad E-Mail "IIII WAS RAISED BY A CUP OF COFFFEEEEE!!!" - Homsar Oh I could go on for hours speaking of Homestar. But I have to say, my all time favorite is "Three Times the Halloween Fun Job" with Home Star and his John MacEnroe glory and who could forget StinkoMan and the Akira vial? Classic....[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] I recently was strolling threw the public library of my small southern town and was suprised to find that their Young Adults section was filled with manga and comic books alike. At first I was only drawn to reading Ranma 1/2 and Hellboy, but then something caught my eye. Harlem Beat it was. I was very optomisitic about picking up this title and I'm glad I did because it is one of the best manga I've ever read (and the only sports one I have). It is excelent. Published by Mixx Manga and Tokyopop, and a very americanized manga, Harlem Beat is about a teen (15) named Nate Torres (again with the American) who is a compulsive quitter and under acheiver. Convinced he is good at nothing, he gets fed up and decides that he will make Basketball his game. One day he is taken to a dusty half-court in the red light area of Tokyo (it does take place in Japan) where he finds the huge entirety of the Street Basketball Sub-Culture. After scoring on one of the best ballers in the area and the owner of the court, Nate quickly gains popularity despite his still lacking skills. He makes freinds with the only other two players who scored on him. Kyle "Oz" Ozman, a warm heart with a cold, gangster exterior (and a little bit of a pervert) and Masawaru (Masa) Taku, a money loving, pretty boy street hussler. Nate also makes freinds with the basketball queen and the girl who introduced him to Streetball, Mizuki (Mizzy). Together, they form a rag-tag streetball three on three team called "Scratch" and meet several different street ballers from all different backgrounds and races while also Nate seeks a standing on his own high school team. Published in 2000, Harlem Beat is very modern and has alot of influence from movie's like "White Men Can't Jump" and has alot of NBA stuff (like one guy was modeled after Trace McGrady). Basically, if "White Men Can't Jump" were a manga, this would be close too it. Harlem Beat is packed with humor, drama, and cool b-ball action. I love it and suggest all who like sports, coming of age stories, cool art, modern drama, or just a good laugh check this book out. I am currently on volume 7. I'll post more when I read the rest. But please, discuss, and tell me that I'm not the only one here who has even heard of this hidden treasure.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] I'm pretty popular at my small town Juniour High. I have alot of freinds, everyone knows my name, I do well with girls, I get complements, I play basket ball with the hip hop crowd (which my best freind is in) and I hang with goof around with the skaters/punks (who my other two best freinds are in). I hang with everyone and everyone pretty much likes me except the "preppy crowd" at school, and even then, my girl freind, and two of my ex-girl freinds belong to that group. Its mainly the guys that dislike me. I mean, I don't like to gloat or lie myself, so I don't. I'm just telling to truth. I'm only really popular with the punks/skater and the hip hop/black kids cuz that mainly what I am. The Hip Hop Punk Nerd. I love anime, I love to draw and write, I love to rap, I love to play basketball, I love too dance, I love to just good off, I love martial arts, I love philosophy, and everyone know's that who I am, and I guess they like me because I don't try to act like anyone other than myself.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Martial Arts is probably the thing that has changed my life the most that I've had control over. It gave me confidence, self esteem, made me physically fit, made me more active, and most of all, more in touch with philosophy, spirituality, and my own soul. It began when I wanted to get into Tae Kwon Do cuz I loved playing as Hwarang on Tekken Tag Team. When I moved back to the States (then I was in Germany), I found a Tae Kwon Do School and immediatley signed up. By the time I left the state, I was a Green Belt, which I still am, although that is because one, I couldn't afford to test in my old school, and two, because I hadn't really practiced for the time of about 3 months. I'm now a high green belt, about to test, and I have learned alot more about sparring, grappling (which is due to the fact our teacher's teach us some JuJitsu) and more artistic and powerful kicks, like the jumping 360 turning kick (a bombshell). Aswell as being taught TKD, I have also learned traditional boxing, wrestling, and Nunchaku-do from my Dad, and Goshinjutsu from one of my Dad's co-workers. I also studied alot of Bruce Lee's performances in Movie's and biographies and tried to mimic a few Wing Chun in-fighting techniques and a hidden kick attack, which both worked out quite well! I got into Philosophy of all types. Ranging from Buhhda, to Jiddu Krishnamurti, to Confucious, to Mohammed, to Jesus (I'm Christian, but I havn't read the bible nore do I go to church. I beleive in God, Jesus, and living a good life has its rewards), and one of my fav's, Bruce Lee. I saw one clip of his movie and fell in love. I read everything I could on him, watched his movies (all of them) and I'm still inthrauled and hope to someday equal his ability. So many things have become of me because of martial arts, I can't even say. BTW- I'm a virtual encyclopedia of martial arts history now, aswell. And I do beleive you are right, Shiguru about the Shotokan thing. It was I beleive a japanese who took Jujitsu and peiced it with Karate, which was introduced into Japan in around the 1920's. I'm still trying to make sure if it was the one created by a monk or if it was Goju-Ryu. Do you know Shiguru?[/size][/color]

[color=green][size=1] I'm pretty good at pop n' lock, which is the only style me and my freinds practice other than doing the See (yes not C as in Crip, See as in Tennessee) Walk and Heel Toe. I'm good enough for someone to invite me to a party just to battle someone, which I plan on doing next week. Me and my freinds are always coming up with different moves and sets. We even have a double team move were we pull our arms (without using the other hand) into our big ole shirts and come together and do a wave and stuff like that. We get alot of our stuff from Missy Elliot video's. Sadly, one of our idol's is a 10 year old actress who is excellent at pop 'n' lock. You know the one. The funny thing is, I'm white and my freind is black, I wear alot of white, he wear's alot of black, so it looks really cool when we do our team moves. Break dancing is a big part of my life really. Best Pop and Lock Songs: Brush Ya Shoulder's Off - Jay Z Shake That Thing - Sean Paul Anything, and I do mean anyhting, by Missy Elliot[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] The newest manga I've read is called Harlem Beat and I LOVE IT! I mean, its just a great manga in my eyes. Its about a compulsive quitter who isn't good at anything until he finds an old, run down half court in the back alleys of the red light area in Tokyo were he discovers the sub culture of Street Basketball. Never have I felt so close to a manga in relatedness. I love it. I suggest anyone that likes sports or humor pick it up.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] I like to say I'm a varied music listiner, but most of my tastes run in Hip Hop and Classic Rock, with a little Punk in there.. I like upbeat songs and musicians, once in a while something agressive and when I'm a bit bumbed out, I either listen to the dark stuff like Nirvana or something to cheer me up, like Kanye West. I mostly listen to up beat, dance Hip Hop and such though. I love music. Music is me. I'm nothing really without my Music. I love to rap and sing in the shower, on the sidewalk, in my mind, basically anywhere. So music means life for me. Its emotion basically. [/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] OOC: Its cool, Hatake IC: Gen shook in pain as he yanked the kunai from his own stomache. He then clasped his stomache to stop the small amount of blood flow. He looked up furiously. "That coward!" he yelled in anger at Enishi, who had fled from their battle. Gen then looked over to Mistress Zeng, who had a strange and bewildered expression on her face. "That man.... you know him well?" Gen asked in a straight forward way. "More than you know, Gen." she said solemnly and then followed up with a smile. "I won't ask from were.... but I hope he means nothing important to you. Because... he will be dying by my hands..." Gen said with a snarl as he looked down. Mistress Zeng was left with a blank expression on her face and her eyes lowered a bit... OOC: Sorry for the short post.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Isn't "Secret of the Necronomicon" as hentai anime? Just saying. I don't think you should post something and a person goes out to get it expecting a really cool action/horror anime and in turn get a 20 minute sex scene which then reverts to monsters sacraficing people for power in brutal and disgusting ways. Just saying.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] And to think that your club used to be "Yaoi/Shounen-ai Fan Club". Huh. You of all peole know my stand point on this situation. And your right, its pointless to flame, that why I have reframed from it and posted my opinion. Now, on the note of the Sephiroth/Cloud thing.... yeah, lovers tend to impale blades threw each other, kill their ex-lovers, and kill each other before going steady. Now, if their was a shounen-ai pairing I didn't mind and maybe even liked, its the Shinji/Kaworu pairing. Probably because one, Shinji never said he disliked him, two, Kaworu is a hermaphrodite being an angel and all (so technically, its half gay, half straight) and three, [spoiler]Shini pops his "lovers" head off like a pez dispenser[/spoiler]. Wow, what a way to end a relationship, huh? As for the Gundam Wing pairings, I could care less because I hate that show anyways. I mean, I do dislike the Heero/Duo pairing because Duo strikes me as the womanizer type (guess he a manizer) and that Heero is pretty much in love with Relena Peacecraft (I know why the fan girls hate her, she stands between Heero and the rest of the shounen-ai fantasies they beg for). But, I don't really care anyways.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] "There are few instances when I am truely inraged, and get angry, assassin." Gen muttered to him from afar. "And this is one of those instances" Gen said, looking over to the injured Ayami, barely able to stand upright due to the emence amount of poison in her system. "Well, then use it!" the assassin yelled rushing quick at Gen with his blade, laughing insanely as he ruhsed towards Gen. He cut tried cutting down at a whistling speed on Gen, but his body stopped and his face rose with suprise and anger when he saw that Gen had clapped his hands down on the blade. His hands were dripping with blood as he quickly twisted it and kicked Enishi in the rib cage with amazing force. "Don't underestimate me assassin. You say I use no weapon, but my body is the grandest weapon that could suit me." Gen said to the slowly recovering assassin as he rose from the ground shakily. He lifted down his mask shortly to spit out the blood in his mouth. Gen began to perform a strang, flowing form with his hands and then he took a low lying stance with his arms covering his upper body and his hands reached out like a claw. "Tiger Style of Southern Fist.... Come at me..." Gen said smoothly to the assassin across the room. Ayami was watching from afar, waiting for a moment to strike. Gen found it a bit of a liablility for her to be there, she was far too injured to fight effectively, and if it kept on in thi fashion, she may have to be protected... The assassin burst into a sprint at Gen with his Dachi forward. Gen readied himself....[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Ugh.... God..... "UR FORCE ONEZZZZ" I hated that song. If you want something that is much, much better that rechid song and still has primarily the same members and one better (Freeway) then check out "Rock the Mic Remix" on his album. That has the same flavor, but better subject matters and more... what can I say... soul to it. Its more lively. And Freeway is excellent in the song. I suggest you check that out. And where have you been anyways? Air Force Ones has been on the radio for nearly two years and your just now hearing it?[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] "You know.... I'm going to enjoy this..." Gen said, looking up at Enishi with a smile. He ran at Enishi quickly an stopped right in front of him and was in his best range, close range. Gen took a low, bent leg stance and used Wing Chun style punches to Enishi's upper body, which were blocked, but that was a mistake by Enishi. Gen got Enishi's arms tangled in the close range battle and Gen landed three quick back fists on Enishi's throat and jaw. Enishi stepped back and was angry a bit. Enishi ran at Gen quickly and tried a flying side kick, but Gen saw it coming easily and did a low split, and jabbed Enishi in the groin. He fell to the ground quickly and Gen began to laugh a bit. He really was enjoying the fight. "Listen, the only way you will win is if you use your weapon, my freind. I invite you too." Gen said with a smile. "SHUT UP! DIRTY OKINAWAN!" he spat at Gen from the ground and jumped from the floor and punch Gen in the stomache. Gen rolled back, taking the blow well, alowing him to absorb it by rolling back. Gen got up into a bouncy fighitng technique to see Enishi in a solid, unmoving stance. "Seriously, use your sword." Gen said with a smile, kicking the blade that was at his feet at Enishi. Enishi watched as it came and stopped it with his foot, then he looked up as Gen punched him in the jaw, but as Enishi fell back, he caught Gen in the jaw with a kick. Enishi rolled back onto his back and held the sword in his hand. He got up and performed a quick form slash and held a fighitng stance. "Thats more like it..." Gen said, grinning.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Okay, 11-13 is the average age to hit puberty, and puberty is when your body goes threw major changes. Thats all I meant. Before he dismisses her/himself as short, I was saying, don't say that because you havn't hit your major growth spurts yet. I hit puberty at 10. I was just saying, he/she may no have or may not be into it all the way. I wasn't giving him advice to say what he could do because he was short, I was saying that he still has some time to grow, so don't worry that much. You kinda jumped on my back there. Okay, if you want advice on what to do, then what you gotta do is make yourself known. Don't be cocky or arrogant, just likable. Make people like you. Don't let people diss you. You gotta come back at them. If they make fun of your height, then say "do I look like I care, pal?". Just act like you don't care and they'll eventually stop. Just say "And your point is" and they won't have much to say in return. Thats all I can really say now. [/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Gen was sitting and meditating when he heard the assassin from afar yell his introduction as the Shogun's assassin. He was in the East Wing entrance, this was something Gen had been waiting for. He got up, and grabbned a small bag, about a foot in lenght and another about 2 feet in lenght. Gen carried them as he walked towards the entrance to meet the assassin. He walked into the large and finely decorated entrance hall to see the tall assassin carrying a bloody sword in his hands, and staring not at him, but at Mistress Zeng who stood in front of the door way. He ignored Gen, who was standing directly behind her. Gen was ready to fight as he walked forward, but Mistress Zeng's weak posture caugt his eye. She was trembeling and holding herself up with her weapon. Gen looked at the assassin angrily, who finally noticed him as Gen began stomping towards him. "No, Gen..." Mistress Zeng said, trying to stop him, but Gen countinued without a hint to note he heard what she said. "You, must be an assassin. Hear to assassinate the Shogun no less, I trust." Gen said loudly as he stopped several yards away from the assassin with the black mask. "Your a perspective one." the assassin said sarcastically, "You must be a caslte guard. Well, your in my way, freind." "Well, theres only one way to go. And thats threw me..." Gen said confidentally, he dropped his bag and slowly, he dropped the top of his kimono and let it hang from his belt. This revealed several battle scars and his ripped body. Gen struck a light footed fighting stance, bobbing back and forth, he motioned his hand for the assassin to come at him. The assassin just lifted his chin with a smile and motioned the same way. But before he could even drop his hand, Gen had burst into a sprint at him much to the assassin's dismay and stopped his fist at the face of the assassin, who had was too late to raise his forearms to guard. "This will be interesting..." the assassin muttered.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] Kinda young there, aren't ya? Well, its okay. I mean, you only 11. You havn't hit puberty yet, or, havn't gotten into it yet. Don't worry, your growth spurts will happen soon, and will go on for sometime. I used to be kinda short myself in 6th grade, at 11, around 5'1", and now I'm 14 and I'm 5'10" and still growing according to a doctor. Just wait and it'll come, don't rush it.[/color][/size]

[color=green][size=1] I have a reputation for my posting at these kinda threads. Mainly because I get in arguements about the rightness of fan fic shounen-ai/shoujo-ai pairings against the shows pairings of lovers. I'll just say this. I'm a fan of one shoujo-ai manga that I actually havn't read, but seen several panels of. Its called HEN and its about these too girls in college who both have boy freinds, but when they meet each other and threw several mishabs and situations, they end up falling in love with each other. The main reason I like this is because I feel for the Ex's. I mean, they play a major role in the story and they go threw alot of pain, and its like a feeling of "I feel for you man". Thats really why. But I'm not really a fan of any of the others. In fact, I havn't even read HEN, I just like the story that was told threw the panel's in japanese I saw. Its just not my thing really. I like a good love story just as good as anyone else, but falling in love with some one of the same sex isn't something I can really relate too, and the reason I like most anime is because I relate to one or more characters in the show (InuYasha I relate with Miroku or Koga)(Ranma 1/2 I relate with Ryoga). So, its not that I'm homophobic or against it. I just don't relate to it. So, I really just can't comment on fandom. My only other opinion is that I very much so, HATE made up pairings in fan fiction using straight characters. I don't know why, it just really gets under my skin. I just hate though's Miroku/InuYasha or Vash/Wolfwood pairings so. Mainly because they are taking the characters I love so and can relate to so with their girl problems, and then making it to were they fall in love with each other after they prove their own heterosexuality and in some cases, homophobia (Vash displays this once when a drunken man clings to him, asking for a drink). But I won't get too deep into this.[/color][/size]