Story: Cammy and Chun-Li - Memories (chapter 2)

Cammy and Chun-Li – Memories

Chapter 2

A cold wind blew down from up in the lush green mountains. It traveled down the soil rich hillside and into a small cemetery that stood on the rural outskirts of the Chinese city of Guǎnghàn. It then blew away the smoke traveling up from a few sticks of incense placed in an urn in front of one of the tall stone markers. It also sent a chill up the spine of the woman knelt in front of the tombstone, Chun-Li. For a moment she stopped reciting her Taoist prayer as if to acknowledge the wind. She felt this same kind of wind often when she visited her father's grave. It was almost like he was saying hello to her. She then continued her prayer.

Overlooking her was her was her companion, Cammy, dressed in a leather jacket and khaki pants. She stared down curiously at Chun-Li who continued to pray in Mandarin, not a word of which she could understand. Chun-Li then finished her prayer and removed a locally grown peach, her father's favorite, from her pocket. She placed it in front of the grave marker as an offering.

She then spoke in English, "Father, I have traveled here with my dear friend and companion, Cammy. In two days time, we will both be fighting in the World Warrior Tournament. I ask that you please give us both strength. I will be fighting M. Bison. I hope to finally avenge your death by putting an end to this vile, evil man and the nefarious criminal organization that he controls. I know I have made this promise before, but this time I pray I will be successful so you many finally rest in peace, father. Please forgive me for making you wait." Chun-Li then started audibly sobbing. Cammy peered down and could see the tears streaming down her cheeks from the corners of her closed eyes. "I also want you to know your daughter still loves you very much," she said before, sobbing even louder.

Cammy leaned down and placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. Chun-Li stood up, gripped on to Cammy's frame, and buried her head into her shoulder. "It'll be all right," Cammy said, holding her tight and rubbing Chun-Li's back in circular, soothing motion

After crying for a little while, Chun-Li raised her tear-stained face back up from Cammy's shoulder. "I'm sorry. I just still miss him so much."

"It's ok, Chun. That's a good thing I think. I don't really know what it's like to have parents. So I don't know what you're going through, but I'm sure losing one is really tough. And I didn't know your father, but I'm also sure he must've been a really great man to have raised a daughter as great as you."

"Thank you, Cammy. You're always so sweet," Chun-Li said wiping the last of the tears from her eyes. "And thanks for coming with me to the grave. I always have to come here alone. It was nice to have you here with me."

"It's nothing. You said you want to be here for me, and I want to do the same for you. And as far as I'm concerned, any family of yours is family of mine."

Chun-Li simply replied by closing in on Cammy and planting a very wet kiss against her scarred cheek.

Cammy blushed brightly and scrunched her lips together cutely. Chun-Li smiled at her. She had kissed her on the cheek several times now, but each time she had still gotten such cute reactions from her. Soon she hoped she could move on to her lips, but she was in no hurry. After last week's partially saké induced seduction attempt, she had made the conscious decision to take things more slowly with her. She didn't regret the decision at all. Cammy was so shy and awkward when Chun-Li showed her affection, it was utterly adorable to her. She treasured every moment of it.

Cammy suddenly frowned. "Well, I guess I should get going now if I'm going to catch that connecting flight home for my Delta Red mission."

"I wish you didn't have to go."

"Well, honestly, I'd rather stay with you, but I have a job to do."

Chun-Li took one of Cammy's hands and clasped it tightly between her palms. Cammy then surprised Chun-Li by placing her other hand on top of hers. "Well, thank you for coming home with me to Guǎnghàn. It's been wonderful having you here."

"Thank you for having me. I'd never been to this part of China before. It's really such a beautiful place," she then lowered her voice and shyly added, "and being with you so much was nice too."

Chun-Li gripped her hand even tighter. "It's always nice being with you. I love every moment of it. I wish we could always be together like this," Chun-Li told her, staring deep into her soul with those alluring brown eyes.

Cammy stared back as her face became even more flushed. She then turned towards the ground and stared at her boots. "I think I want to tell you something."

Chun-Li's interest was piqued. This may have been the moment she had been waiting for. "Yes, what is it, Cammy? You can tell me anything. I really mean that," she said, gently rubbing Cammy's fingers and palm in her hands.

Cammy looked back up at her. Cammy had faced many dangerous opponents and near death many times, but Chun-Li had never seen her look this nervous before, nor had Cammy felt this way before either. She opened her lips like she was going to say something, but then swallowed her breath and blushed again even brighter than before.

Chun-Li's warm smile widened greatly in response. She could feel Cammy's pulse continue to quicken under the touch of her fingers over her wrist.

"Umm… maybe it should wait until I get back from my mission," she blurted out.

"You sure about that?"

"Yeah. I think I'll wait," she answered nervously.

Chun-Li's smile edged up into a sly smirk. "Well, I have sneaking suspicion whatever you're going to tell me is going to make me very happy." Cammy didn't respond and shyly smiled back before looking down again. Chun-Li closed in again and reached up to give her a gentle kiss on the forehead. "Come on let me drive you to the airport."

The two women got back into Chun-Li's blue and white unmarked sedan provided to her by her employer, Interpol, and started heading towards the nearby Chéngdū International Airport. On their way, they drove through some beautiful Chinese country side that included rolling rivers, rich green forests, and magnificent towering mountains.

Cammy's eye's remain fixed on the scenery, mesmerized by the beautiful landscape. That was except for the moments she took long glances over at Chun-Li in the driver's seat. Chun-Li coming from this place made sense to Cammy. She thought that she was the only person who could rival natural beauty such as this. As Chun-Li focused on driving, Cammy took in her gorgeous pale face, her enchanting brown eyes, and the cute cloth covered ox-horns on top of her rich brown hair.

Her eyes then moved lower and became transfixed on Chun-Li's curvy, round breasts, most of the cleavage of which was clearly visible in her low-cut cashmere top. While staring at them, she noticed some kind of green object was lodged deep between her two mounds. It was attached to a simple black string necklace slung around Chun-Li's neck. She couldn't quite see what it was though since it was being so tightly squeezed between her two melon-like breasts there, so she cocked her head down more to get a better look. She still couldn't see what it was, but for some reason she couldn't take her eyes away either.

"Breath taking, aren't they?" Chun-Li suddenly asked.

"Yeah…" Realizing then that she had been caught, Cammy's head suddenly flipped back up to stare straight ahead. "You're right, the mountains are quite lovely," she said before laughing nervously.

"Are you sure you mean the mountains outside?" Chun-Li asked teasingly. "I got the feeling you were looking at some somewhere else," she said with a devilishly wry grin.

"Well, um, I dunno…"

"Come on, Cammy. What were you looking at? I just have to know," she said jokingly yet seductively.

"Uhhh, I was curious about that trinket you're wearing. Yeah."

"Oh, you mean the amulet," she said, reaching down into her cleavage and removing a rectangular piece of jade inscribed with Chinese characters. "It's called a hùshēnfú. It's supposed to ward off evil and bring good luck. It belonged to my father."

Cammy rubbed her forehead. "I get a weird feeling when I look at that thing. It's almost like I've seen it before somewhere."

"Well, I wore it at the tournament last year during my fight with Balrog in Las Vegas. You probably saw it then."

"No, I missed that fight. I was on a mission in Liberia."

"Oh yeah, that's right. Well, you didn't miss anything worth seeing, considering I lost," Chun-Li said, still sounding angry about it.

"Yeah, but you kicked his arse this year, didn't you?"

"Damn right I did... Shadaloo scum." Cammy suddenly turned away from her, looking hurt. "Oh, Cammy, don't take it like that," Chun-Li said, sounding concerned, "I was talking about Balrog, not you." She then took her right hand off the steering wheel and gripped Cammy's hand. "You're not Shadaloo anymore. You're my beautiful best friend now."

"Thanks, love," Cammy said before squeezing Chun-Li's hand back. "I'm glad I'm not anymore. I just wish I couldn't remember anything from when I was. Stupid, bloody amnesia should work better."

"It'll be ok, Cammy, I promise."

"Hearing it from you makes me think it might be true."

"It will be. I'll make sure of it. You'll see." Chun-Li said, moving her hand up to Cammy's shoulder where she rubbed it a bit before putting her hand back on the wheel.

Cammy then took another curious glance at the amulet over Chun-Li's chest. "Do you really believe that stuff about that hoo-shin-foo," Cammy said slowly, trying to pronounce it correctly much to Chun-Li's amusement, "bringing good luck and everything?"

"This thing? Probably not. That's ok though. I've always made my own luck. I just like it because my father always wore it. It's like having a part of him with me. I think I'll wear it again when I fight Bison."

Sometime later, they arrived in the bustling metropolis of Chéngdū, the capitol city of the Szechuan province of China. The city's innumerous massive skyscrapers and endless streets and intersections filled with heavy traffic were certainly a stark contrast to the pristine countryside they had drove through earlier. The city, however, still held some of its own exotic Asian charm with much of the architecture being reminiscent of designs descended from ancient Chinese dynasties as well as the colorful signs and advertising in Chinese characters. They even drove past a busy marketplace, and Cammy peering out the window could see all the fresh produce and meat for sale there as well as smell the aroma of the spicy Szechuan cuisine being sold by a few street vendors.

Finally, they made it to the International Airport. The parking lots located around the airport had easily been some of the most massive Cammy had ever seen. The one they were currently driving through to find a space seemed to stretch on for infinity, yet it still managed to be seemingly completely full. After much searching, Cammy finally was able to point out an open space to Chun-Li. Just as she was about to pull into the space, though, a smaller compact car turned a corner from seemingly out of nowhere and cut off Chun-Li to grab the spot from right under her nose.

Chun-Li slammed on the breaks and put the car in park. She did not look pleased. "I'll be right back."

"Sure thing, Chun," Cammy said a little apprehensively. She had only witnessed Chun-Li in a similar state once, and that was moments before Fei Long had his testicles destroyed by her foot. She watched as the driver of the vehicle, a middle aged Chinese man in business attire, stepped out of his car. Chun-Li speed walked up to him and grabbed on to his shoulder as he tried to walk away.

Very curious, Cammy pressed on the button to lower her passenger side window further down and listened in as the two started arguing with each other in very fast paced and seemingly very heated Mandarin. At one point, Chun-Li stepped in front of him to prevent him from leaving and took out her ICPO police badge in an effort to convince him to move his car. The man apparently didn't take her badge very seriously and brushed past Chun-Li, knocking her to the side very rudely. Chun-Li looked like she was strongly resisting the urge to physically attack him, but then walked calmly back.

She however stopped behind his car and then turned around again. She quickly bent down and threw her two open palms in front of her together at a downwards angle. "Kikouken!" she cried. A large blue fireball burst out from her hands and impacted the compact's back right tire. The tire popped like a balloon, and the rubber instantly caught on fire.

Chun-Li went and got back in her car as the man ran back to his vehicle, screaming. Before he could even fan the flames out, the fire had spread, and the entire car was soon engulfed into a compact sized inferno.

"We'll have to find another parking space," Chun-Li calmly told Cammy.

"No kidding," Cammy said, staring at the flaming car and the man now trying to beat out the flames with his suit coat.

They drove away deeper into the endless parking lot, and a few seconds later they heard a thunderous explosion from behind them.

Nearly twenty minutes later, they found another parking space and then traversed the long trek up to the airport terminal. After making it through security and checking Cammy's luggage, the two women finally sat down next to each other in the waiting area near the gate for Cammy's flight. Chun-Li immediately grabbed onto Cammy's arm and held it tightly between both of her arms like it was her favorite stuffed animal. She then leaned over and snuggled her cheek into Cammy's shoulder to comfortably rest against her.

Cammy smiled. The feeling of being close to Chun-Li was always an incredibly pleasant one for her. She then noticed a number of curious spectators were gawking at their display of affection now, including an elderly Caucasian woman, some teenage boys, and a tall handsome man with long blondish brown hair.

"People are staring," Cammy said.

"Let them," Chun-Li said dreamily before snuggling into Cammy's arm and shoulder even more.

"Well, all right," Cammy said as she closed her eyes and comfortably snuggled into Chun-Li too.

The man with the long hair who had been watching them walked away. The two fighters knew his identity, but would never recognize him like this since he always fought with a mask to protect his gorgeous face from harm. He was Vega, feared Spanish street fighter and known hired thug for Shadaloo.

Vega stopped and stood near a back corner where he could keep an eye on the couple from a far. He then extracted a modified Blackberry mobile phone from the breast pocket of his stylish Gucci suit coat. Searching through the contacts list, he found the number he was searching for and pressed the button to dial it.

It took a while for the call to connect. The frequency being sent to and from the phone had to be decoded on each side of the line as a security measure. Soon though, a dark, evil voice emanated from the other side of the line, "What is it?"

"Master Bison, I've tracked down Chun-Li and Cammy White to the Chéngdū Airport . They're now waiting for Cammy's flight to depart, just as that information I acquired said they would be."

"Everything has gone according to plan?"

"Yes. I've just made one very peculiar observation."

"And?"

"They're holding on to each other like lovers. Strange, I would've never guessed it about those two. Too bad they're still not nearly as beautiful as I am," he said, his vanity nearly dripping off his tongue.

There was an eerie silence over the phone. Vega couldn't tell if Bison was annoyed with him or thinking something over.

Finally, Vega decided to break the uncomfortable silence, "Should I wait until that former guinea pig of yours leaves before I kill Chun-Li as you ordered me to?"

"No. I've changed my mind. You killing her is no longer necessary. Return to Spain. You are no longer needed."

"Why not?" Vega whined. "Please let me, sir. I've been dying to sink my claws into that slut all week."

"It almost sounded like you were questioning my orders. Did I hear correctly, Vega?" Bison asked, his voice sounding even fiercer and darker than before.

Vega suddenly sounded very nervous, "No, of course I would never question your orders, sir. I'll do as you command."

Vega heard Bison hang up on the other side, and he breathed in a sigh of relief. He then gave the two cuddling women one nasty glare before he stormed off.

Cammy opened her eyes back up when she heard an announcement over the loud speaker in Chinese. It was then followed by an English translation, "Connecting Flight 3775 to Beijing and then to London, England now boarding." A long line immediately formed in front of the loading area.

Cammy looked sad to break away from Chun-Li, but did so and stood up. Chun-Li stood up next to her. "You really have no idea when you'll be back tomorrow in Bangkok?" Chun-Li asked.

"No idea. Hopefully I can finish the mission in less than twenty four hours though. I want to be ready to knock out Bruce Lee bloke."

"I need to prepare too. I'll probably be training all day. Maybe we should meet up at the gym. The tournament reserved one for use by the fighters. It should be in the information they sent you."

"Yup, saw that. No problem."

"Then I can take you back to our hotel room I reserved for us," Chun-Li then got a mischievous look on her face, "Sorry, but they only had rooms with single beds. It must be busy because of the tournament," she straight out lied.

"That's ok, we can sleep together."

"I certainly hope so," Chun-Li said.

The same old lady who was giving them nasty looks earlier gave them another one. Cammy gave her a perplexed look back. The connotation then finally dawned on her. "In another sleep over, that's what I meant," Cammy said before laughing nervously.

Chun-Li giggled. "Of course."

Cammy looked sad. "Well, I guess this is good bye."

''It's only good bye until tomorrow, silly," Chun-Li said before snickering some more.

Cammy rubbed the back of her head, "Oh yeah. You're right." She then smiled again.

Chun-Li then moved in towards Cammy's face and again planted a very wet smooch across her cheek and then moved over and placed an even wetter and longer one against her other cheek, leaving both of them blushing bright red. "Good bye, Cammy."

Cammy then nervously moved her face foreword, parted her lips far apart, and awkwardly pressed them against Chun-Li's right cheek. This pleased Chun-Li very much, and she placed her hand over her cheek as if to hold the kiss in place. "Good bye, Chun-Li."

"Thank you very much for the kiss, dear. I'll cherish it. See you tomorrow," she said before squeezing her hand and then walking away.

Cammy got in line to board the plane, her face still completely flushed due to what had just happened. A few minutes later, she walked into the cabin of the plane and found her seat. She sat down next to the window, and stared out at the run way. She thought for a few moments about her life.

Even though she was a completely physically mature woman, truthfully, she had only really lived for a short five years. The beginning point of her life had really been the start of her amnesia. Due to the memories that had surfaced back up from her subconscious recently, she now realized that during the years before her amnesia she had been more dead than alive.

Remembering back now, it felt like she had been more of a robot than a human being. That had indeed been M. Bison's intention in creating Cammy and the other "dolls." He wanted to raise the perfect female killing machines from his own DNA with no self-awareness and no will-power to do anything other than his evil bidding mindlessly. Bison though had trouble repressing Cammy's self-awareness in particular. Even with a mind-controlling implant in her head and Bison's brutal physical intimidation, glimpses of her humanity occasionally rose to the surface such as with her theft of that China doll. However, any signs of humanity had been beaten out of her immediately. Thanks to that and the implant, it had seemed her self-awareness had disappeared forever.

But the truth was that she had always been self-aware at some level. Her true consciousness had just been metaphorically bound and gagged. It was forced to watch helplessly as evil deeds were committed against her and as her body was forced to do more evil things with absolutely no ability to control her own actions or decline from anything she was commanded to do. She realized now that she had often wanted to scream out in pain, agony, fear, and guilt, but it had always been completely repressed.

Those emotions though had been coming back to her now. Finally unsuppressed, her screams would escape from her lips mostly during horrific nightmares that were actually nightmarish visions of her past. It had happened a few times again while she was staying in Chun-Li's home during the past week. Each time she would wake from these terrible visions, screaming and covered with sweat, Chun-Li would come and take her in her tender arms, comfort her, and let her know that everything would be all right. She would make the pain go away, and it would be replaced by a wonderful feeling of being able to share that loving closeness with Chun-Li.

Cammy leaned back in her seat on the plane and removed her wallet from the back pocket of her pants. She opened the wallet and stared at a small picture she had placed in it. It was from several months back in March during Chun-Li's twenty fifth birthday party, which Cammy had flown from London to attend. There they both were with their arms slung over each other and cheeks scrunched up against each other. Chun-Li, who was holding a beer in one hand, had a pleasant yet strangely sneaky expression on her face that almost said, "Mine!" in regards to Cammy in her other arm. Cammy had an extremely wide smile on her face. Cammy thought she had never looked happier. She then realized she had in fact felt that happy many times, but it was only when she was with Chun-Li.

Cammy took the wallet and the picture and pressed it against her chest above her heart. She had never felt this way about anyone before. For a long time she didn't quite understand what her feelings meant. She was still trying hard to understand people and what she felt about them as she tried to salvage a normal existence in such a short span of time. She of course had her Delta Red team-mates, who had discovered her shortly after the beginning of her amnesia. Her bond with them grew after they allowed her to join their elite British paramilitary task force after they discovered her incredible fighting skills that she had but couldn't remember where she learned. While facing danger and looking out for each other, they had formed a close bond. The bond was even strong enough to survive the revelation that she was formerly Shadaloo.

However, her feelings for them were completely different than the ones she held for Chun-Li. She didn't feel the same for any of the other minor friends and acquaintances she had met during those five years either. For a while, she had thought it was just the feelings of friendship, but she had begun to feel those feelings ran much deeper than that. She didn't just want to be Chun-Li's friend.  She wanted to be with Chun-Li in a much deeper, closer, more intimate, and profounder way. She had only recently been able to get a handle on what these feelings really meant.

The turbines of the plane's engines started spinning, and soon the plane began to move forward. Cammy took one more long look at the photo before she closed her wallet and put it back in her pocket. She then looked outside and watched the ground disappear below her. She couldn't wait to tell Chun-Li how she felt, but the possibility of losing one of the most important things in her life scared her, much more so than any danger she had faced on any mission or in any fight.

She also couldn't shrug off the feeling deep down that the wonderful time she got to spend together with Chun-Li could come to a sudden halt soon due to something. She didn't know what it was exactly, but it felt as if there was some evil thing lurking deep down in her past that could come back to come between then. She just hoped that it wasn't so great that they couldn't overcome it. To Cammy, a future without Chun-Li was just too bleak to imagine.

To Be Continued