Ultra Fighter (story)



Ultra Fighter is a story inspired by the Street Fighter series and the Tekken series. It was published on FictionPress in July 22, 2014 by Aboodash56 and later published on SparkaTale in July 28, 2014. As of 2015, it remains in progress.

Setting
Originally, the story was set in 1992, but Aboodash56 later changed it into 1989.

Story
A martial arts tournament is held worldwide, to determine the supremacy of the strongest martial artist. The contest is sponsored by the giant financial group, the Hamashi Corporation. The best ten fighters of the world have beem invited to compete in the contest. The winner of the tournament will receive the title of the world's 1# fighting champion. Only one warrior will have a chance at defeating the sponser, Hamato Hamashi, and taking home the prize money and fame. This martial arts tournament was supposed to be called "The Global Fighting Tournament".

The protagonist of the story is Ryo Takeshi, a Japanesse martial artist. The style he practices is Haiku-ken Karate, an old karate technique. He competes in the tournament to test his skills. What Ryo does not know is that he is Hamato's son and he has an evil power inside him.

Characters

 * Ryo Takeshi -- Birthdate: Feburary 11 -- A martial artist from Japan and the story's main protagonist, fights with Haiku-ken Style Karate (A combination of Shotokan and Kyokushin Karate). Aged twenty-one.
 * John "Johnny" Eagle -- Birthdate: April 13 -- A street fighter from New York City, fights with Kick boxing, Karate and Street Fighting. Aged twenty-two.
 * Hakutomaru -- A mysterious leader of the Hakuri-ryu clan from Japan, fights with Advanced Ninjitsu.
 * William "Billy" Kang -- Birthdate: Feburary 12 -- A martial arts master and cook from San Francisco, CA originally born in Hong Kong, fights with Jeet Kune Do. Aged twenty-five.
 * Alex "Rampage" Williams -- Birthdate: January 9 -- A professional wrestler from Canada, fights with Professional wrestling. Aged thirty.
 * Adam Bronson -- Birthdate: July 17 -- A boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world from Beverly Hills, CA, fights with Heavyweight Boxing. Aged twenty-eight.
 * Roberto Lopez -- Birthdate: January 2 -- A capoeira master from Brazil, fights with Capoiera. Aged thirty-three.
 * Vanessa Tucker -- Birthdate: March 9 -- A CIA assassin from San Francisco, CA, fights with Assassination Arts. Aged twenty.
 * Takenobu Okabe aka T. Okabe -- Birthdate: September 11 -- A sumo wrestler from Japan, fights with Sumo Wrestling. Aged thirty-two.
 * Lee Yang -- Birthdate: November 5 -- A Kung fu teacher from China, fights with Kung Fu, Chinese Boxing and Bajiquan. Aged forty.
 * Hamato Hasashi -- Birthdate: March 7 -- A legendary martial arts master, the leader of the Hasashi Corporation, the sponser of the tournament and the story's main antagonist, fights with Hasashi Style Traditional Martial Arts (A combination of Judo, Aikido and Goju-Ryu Karate). Aged fifty.
 * Shinichiro Yuki -- Birthdate: May 15 -- A master of Haiku-ken Style Karate and Ryo's master and father figure. He was also Chiba's student. He owns a dojo in Osaka, Japan. He does not participate in the tournament. Aged forty-two.
 * Chiba -- The creator of the Haiku-ken Style Karate, Toshihiko Hasashi's rival and Yuki's master and father figure. Died of a heart attack before the story started.

Themes
Like many of Martial Arts stories, the theme of the story is about Martial Arts, but it focues about a fighting tournament, like many fighting games and some of the Martial Arts movies. Many fighting style of the fighters in the story are real life martial arts style, for example, Billy Kang fights with Jeet Kune Do, Johnny Eagle fights with Kick boxing, Rampage fights with Professional wrestling, Roberto Lopez fights with Capoeira and Adam Bronson fights with Boxing. Haiku-Ken Style Karate and Hasashi Style Traditional Martial Arts are a fictional martial arts techniques made for the story that are based on realistic martial arts styles. As such, Haiku-Ken Karate is based on Shotokan Karate and Kyokushin Karate, making it a mixture of a normal karate style and a freestyle karate style, and Hasashi Style Martial Arts is based on Judo and Aikido. Like the Haiku-Ken Karate, Hasashi Style Martial Arts is also based on a normal karate style, Goju-ryu Karate. Some of the fighters in the story are based on real life martial artist, for example, Billy Kang is based on the late martial arts icon, Bruce Lee, Johnny Eagle is based on the late kickboxing legend, Joe Lewis, Adam Bronson is based on retired professional boxer and former heavyweight champion of the world, Mike Tyson and El Tigre is based on Luchadors Rey Mysterio and Fray Tormenda.

Infleunce on fighting games

 * The Hasashi family tree in the story is based on the Mishima from the Tekken series.

Trivia
Originally in the story, a projectile named "fireball" was going to appear in the story as Ryo's powerful move, but it was later left out, so the story would follow it's realistic approach of martial arts.

Originally, the Hasashi martial arts was to include Jujitsu, but was replaced with Judo.

Originally, Johnny was going to use a collection of mixed martial arts, but it was changed later, making him using Kick boxing and Street Fighting to reassemble Joe Lewis (1944-2012).

At first, the ninja in the story was going to be called Gokentetsu, but since Aboodash 56 found the name silly, he renamed him Hakutomaru.

Originally, there was a wrestler named El Tigre was going to appear in the story, but was replaced by a Canadanian wrestler, Alex "Rampage" Williams.

Originally, the tournament's name was going to be The World Fighter Tournament or The Global Fighting Tournament, but it was renamed The King of Warriors Tournament.

Links
Ultra Fighter on FictionPress (FictionPress edition)

Ultra Fighter on SparkaTale (SparkaTale edition)

Ultra Fighter Character Bios on FictionPress (Character bios)