Chapter 9 The Kungfu Master

Those days many people were learning "kungfu" the Chinese martial art of self-defend especially after viewing many Chinese fighting movies.Everyone were learning it.

Francis and Fabian were no different.So every evening they gathered in front of their house where there were a couple of logs having been left there by neighboring sawmill.They were also playing and shallow fighting with each other imitating the heroes of films.

Sometimes other friends also joined them.When tired they will sit or lying on top of those logs and started talking and yearning about Chinese art although they have no idea what it really were.

However their dreams soon materialized,because a Carpenter's apprentice whose name was Ah SoL,they called him Ah Sol Ko or brother Sol.He was a funny guy who like to tell us crazy jokes and talked big about his art of self defence,Kungfu.

Nonsense or what,they did not bother,all of them requested his service to teach them the art.Well,he pondered like most "Si Fu" or Master,then gave a broad smile to respond."Okay,I be your Si Fu".Ha,that does it they now had a kungfu master.

So next evening both of them met our new kungfu master and thus began their learning the martial art.He showed up bared bodied showing off his muscle.Yes,he was good at it.He taught the basic how to defend themselves and to attack in the simplest ways.He apparently practices the shoalin type of kungfu.

Both brothers practiced for nearly two months and they wandered it was really good.What ever it was they shadowed boxed at times to find out.Anyway it was like child play.That did not prove anything.

Somehow Fabian was never tested when one fine day Yam Head,a very much bigger guy than him picked up a quarrel with me and challenged Fabian to a fight.When Fabian stood up against him he seem like a giant,taller than him by at least a head and well built.

That nearly scared the wits out of Fabian but he took his stand like a man.Suddenly Yam Head raised up his fists in a stunt ready to fight.Seeing this Fabian quickly administered an right upper cut to his chin.

That did it.The punch was quick as lightning and he struck the chin of Yam Head right on target.A well planted punch and off felled Yam Head to the ground.All the friends gathered around Fabian,hailing him as a hero.Yes,a one punch hero.

Poor Yam Head was send sprawling on the ground,when he finally stood up he could not attack Fabian anymore because everyone was around him,claiming him as a hero and a good fighter.That poor guy just stood up and cried.

A big guy like him stood up and cried like a child,just imagine.He could do nothing but turned away walking with head bowed down.Fabian felt sorry for him.He never knew after some training he could so fabulous as to deliver such a powerful punch.

Two months of kungfu training paid off,otherwise Fabian would be as timid as can be.They continued training under that master for sometime.