Eriya Masters

==Early Life==
Eriya Masters is the son of Mel Masters and Kozue Matsumoto. His Mother died when he was 2 so he doesn’t really remember anything about her. All he Knows of her is what his father and his grandmother tell him of her and what he sees in pictures. Although when he is in time of great peril he feels her presence trying to guide him. As a child his father participated in the King of fighters tournament and when his father did that he would stay at his grandmothers house in Japan. When his Father Mel took in Rock Howard, Eriya looked to him as a Big brother and they all watched each others back. His father remarried a woman named Mary Ryan who became his step-Mother. Soon he would play the big brother role when Mary gave birth to his Younger sister and Brother, Emi and Cade. Eriya was trained in Martial Arts by Mel and his grandfather Forrest and he became an exceptional fighter. When Rock left the family Eriya was mentally and emotionally overwhelmed with sadness and anger, that he could walk out on his family and not even have enough courage as a man to tell them.
==Mortal Kombat: Rebirth==
When Eriya was 20 he was thrusted into a whole new world he knew nothing about. He went to outworld at Letchku’s coliseum where he defeated Karbrac who was fighting his Grandfather Forrest and helped his father defeat the Nightmare that was Letchku. Even though he did not kill letchku himself his father Mel let him take all of the credit for killing him. Despite telling the world that he was simply trying to save humanity, Eriya was made a hero for saving Earth from invasion. He received both the key to city and the Congressional Medal of Freedom. Press and paparazzi hounded his every move. His biography spent a year on the best-seller lists. Eriya action figures flew off the shelves and into every young boy's hand. But when approached by Hollywood for the rights to his story, Eriya put his foot down. Never would he allow himself to be portrayed by Grandfather Forrest Masters.
==Dead or Alive==
His Key to the city was a key to every city in the world since he saved the world and Eriya decided that he was going to spend some time in every city of the world. He lived in china for 2 months and one day Eriya saved a young girl from a gang of thugs. Although she was very grateful for being saved, she felt that she could have handled the situation herself. This incident would start a strong obsession within the girl and a life being chased for Eriya. Later Eriya moved back to the states and he met and began dating female pro wrestler Tina Armstrong. One year later Eriya enters the Dead or Alive Tournament for the sake of the fight. Now, he seeks the thrill of battle whenever he can. During the tournament, he meets the girl that he saved - Lei Fang - who is ready to defeat him to prove that she is a great fighter like him. However, Eriya wins and Lei Fang goes on to train harder.
==Dead or Alive 2==
The next year, In the second tournament, Eriya fights his way to the final round by defeating his competitors like Ryu, Gen Fu and of course Lei Fang, who was waiting for him. Despite defeating Lei Fang, he doesn't make it to the final round.
==Dead or Alive 3==
The next year, Eriya enters the tournament and once again tries to make his way to the final round. Along the way, he fights Hitomi for the first time and Leon once again. Towards the end, he faces Lei Fang yet again, who tells him it was time for her to defeat “the dragon” within him. However Lei Fang once again loses the fight. After the tournament, Eriya returns to his beautiful home with Tina.
==Dead or Alive 4==
The next year, In the fourth tournament, Eriya faces Hitomi - even after saving her from a dinosaur - and Ryu once again. At the beginning of the destruction of DOATEC, he meets up with Lei Fang once again in the Great Hall and fight. However, in turn of shocking events he loses to her, meaning that Lei Fang has finally proven that she is a great fighter.
==New Love==
After the tornament, Eriya returns to his normal, everyday life in America. He stayed with Tina for 1 more year until they broke up. Later on within the year he met and started dating Mai Shiranui. When they met she was not only attracted to his Money, Fame, Power, and dashing good looks, she was also attracted to his uncanny fighting ability. On the other hand he was attracted to her enormous sex appeal and her inner and outer beauty. He was also impressed with her fighting skills. Even though she was still in love with Andy Bogard she also fell in love with Eriya and the next year they were married.
==Final Fight==
A year later, When Mike Haggar is elected as mayor of Metro City, he vows to clean up its streets. However the powerful Mad Gear Gang have other ideas, and eventually Haggar's daughter Jessica is kidnapped to ensure his co-operation. However Haggar does not see the point in negotiating, and so together with Jessica's boyfriend Cody and Eriya, who is Cody's training partner, Haggar takes to the streets of Metro City and takes the fight to the Mad Gears. They split up, and soon Eriya encounters Sodom, one of the higher-ranking members of Mad Gear. They square up in an underground fighting ring, and Eriya easily defeats the large samurai wannabe. Eriya then continues on to the industrial district of the city in his search, and after defeating waves of goons encounters the military-minded Rolento, another Mad Gear higher-up. Rolento, impressed with Eriya's fighting prowess, offers him a position in Mad Gear, but Eriya refuses, countering that as a Bushinryu practitioner, he is sworn to fight evil. The two face off and Eriya wins, scarring Rolento with a kunai to the face. Eriya and Cody head to the bay area to confront the wrestler Abigail. Abigail taunts Cody, saying that the leader of the Mad Gear Gang, Belger, is having a 'good time' with Jessica, so Cody rushes off and leaves Eriya behind to deal with Abigail. Eriya defeats Abigail in an difficult fight, evading all of Abigail's punches and finallly knocking him down. Later he meets up with Haggar and Cody who are heading uptown where Belger and Jessica are. When they arrive, Cody uppercuts Belger out of a window with an powerful punch. Haggar embraces his rescued daughter, but Cody and Eriya disappear, knowing that the fight is not over and there is work to be done. Jessica chases after them and calls out Cody's name, but he tries to ignore her and keeps walking. Eriya, annoyed with Cody's behavior, punches Cody to the ground and leaves, leaving Cody to explain his decision to Jessica. This episode of Metro's history is long remembered, and years later flyers can still be seen posted in alleyways with the trio's smiling faces, proclaiming "The heroes saved our city".
==Final Fight 2==
1 year later, Just as predicted, Mad Gear returns, but biding their time. When Eriya and Cody are absent (Eriya having travelled to Japan for a vacation with his wife), Mad Gear strike and kidnap Cody's sensei, Genryusai and Rena, Eriya's cousin’s fiance and Genryusai's daughter. Haggar teams up with Rena's sister Maki and Carlos, a South American swordsman, to get them back. They are successful and when Eriya hears of the story, he writes to them and thanks everyone, stating that he will be back soon. The next year when Eriya is 28 Mia gave birth to twin boys.
==Final Fight 3==
5 years later and 6 years Following the Mad Gear Gang's defeat, a gang war erupted in Metro City with the Skull Cross Gang eventually reigning supreme. Eriya returns to Metro City following his training and meets with Mayor Haggar. The Skull Cross Gang then detonates a bomb and incites a riot in downtown Metro City, freeing their leader, Mr.Black, from prison. Joined by female police officer Lucia Morgan and a mysterious street fighter named Dean, Eriya and Haggar fight to take down the new gang of criminals. In the end, on the rooftop of the headquarters of the Skull Cross Gang, Eriya managed to defeat and kill Mr.Black by knocking him through the electric generator, ending the Skull Cross Gang.
==Kickboxer==
The next year Eriya moved to Italy and decided to join professional Kickboxing. In the kickboxing world, a new style is being created. A newcomer, Eriya Masters, suddenly appeared and won many successive victories. Because of his good looks, he has many female fans. What's more, he likes to go out with such girls at night after his battles and present a charming personality, which angers his wife to no end. In the ring, his manner is the opposite of his social self, and he overwhelms opponents with sharp attacks. Even though he never did anything with these “Groupies”, Mai thought that he should never be hanging out with them and she didn’t believe that he wasn’t cheating on her. The love in their relationship was soon rapidly dwindling. Eriya also knew that before she loved him more than Andy, but now she loved Andy more than him. So he decided to file for divorce because he knew that she wanted out of the marriage and he wanted to let her free. They gained joint custody over the children and after 10 years of marriage they were divorced. On a lighter note, with his Kickboxing, he was Quickly rising to the champion's seat. After becoming the undefeated champion he compiled a record of 12-0. There was nobody in his region left to do battle with, so he began to look for his next stage.
==Virtua Fighter 4==
About that time, a woman told him about the World Fighting Tournament. It is a different kind of martial-arts fighting, and he wanted the thrill of an especially heated fight. Thus, he determined he would participate in the tournament. Eriya had the time of his life in the fourth World Fighting Tournament. He faced many skilled, worthy opponents and met many beautiful women. When the tournament ended, Eriya was saddened to return to the kickboxing circuit, which he still dominated. Worse still, none of the women he had met at the tournament were returning his calls.
==Virtua Fighter 5==
When the invitation for the fifth tournament reached his doorstep, Eriya eagerly entered. He noticed the name of a young lady he didn't recognize. "Hmmm... Looks like I have to go meet her.", he says to himself. The Tournament was again stopped because of different events unfolding which interrupted the tournament. Although Eriya did not win he began a relationship with a woman named Aoi Umenokouji. He later marries her and they have 2 children the first one a Girl, the second one a Boy. He retired from kickboxing with an official record of 17-0.