Lime (AST)

**Lime** is one of Herb's two bodyguards, who has served him since they were children, the other being Mint.

## Biography

Since they were raised within a society of male martial artists, Mint and Lime have never had contact with any women excepting their mothers. After they tried to eat Genma-Panda in revenge for stealing their lunch their lack of experience allowed Kasumi to defeat them. This also caused them not to realize that Herb had fallen in love with her even though the two caught Herb more than once brooding about her, and even talking in her sleep about her.

When they finally arrived in Japan they ended up losing the Chiisuiton after coming across Genma-panda again. Lime possesses astounding endurance and monstrous strength, this is shown when his group fought over the Kaisuifu with Ukyo, Frost and Kasumi. Lime pretty much ignored all of Ukyo’s attacks, and if it wasn’t for Mint coming to her rescue after developing feeling for her, Frost wouldn’t have had enough time to knock him out. Lime and Mint were forced to stay at the school dorm due to the fact that they had used up their funds and Herb’s curse meant they couldn’t send for more.

When Kasumi and Shampoo were kidnapped and held captive at Hotel La Bac. When it was discovered that the contained an anti magic field that also affected chi, Herb ordered Lime and Mint to go with the group to destroy its power source. The group led by Genma consisted of them Akane, Shin, Claigin, Frost, and Kodachi. Saki had keys that block the effect one of which she gave to Frost so that she could still use her magic, but even between that and Lime’s strength their progress was not as fast as they hoped due to the various traps the building contained.

Eventually Kodachi noticed a symbol, a pyramid with a single eye shining at its peak that kept popping up causing Akane to realize that it was the same one on the keys. With Lime’s help she was able to use the key to turn off the traps. Sadly it didn’t work on the first stone when they finally found it. Lime attempted to break it next only to nearly break his hand when he tried. Then Shin stepped up to deal with it. Frost told him to shut up, but he ignored her and not having anything better to do the others let him continue as he closed his eyes, apparently meditating.

Finally he told Claigin the place to strike and much to everyone’s surprise the stone turned to dust when he did. As Shin smugly started down the hall, Frost could only comment about how creepy he was. The snow globe didn’t work as well on the second stone they found. So as Shin and Claigin attempted to smash it Lime hands were bandaged by Akane, while Kodachi gave the Musk boy a good slap every time he tried to make a closer inspection of Akane's chest. Despite Shin’s claims that the Snow Globe was just dealing with more important matter, Frost realized this wasn’t working and told Claigin to give his hammer to Lime.

Afraid that he would break Claigin refused, luckily Akane came to the rescue and reminded him that he had come to help save Kasumi. Reluctantly he handed it to Lime who with a quick battle cry swung the hammer with all his might at the stone. An instant later a very loud snap could be heard as the hammer's handle gave way under the force of the blow.

Claigin quickly snatching the remains of the tool from Lime, before collapsing in grief on the floor. The others were distracted from the realization of just how much the hammer meant to him by the stone slowly cracking before exploding to dust. With that they regained their powers as the field no longer had any width. Mint returned a moment later having found the power source. As they were going to deal with it Frost having grown tired of Claigin’s crying fixed his hammer.

With that taken care of Genma’s team arrived shortly after Ranko and Chun Li defeated Shadow Lady. The devastation left in the wake of the battle was enough to give them all a short moment of pause before Chun Li called out to them. They were about to regroup and go find the others when an alarm sounded signaling that the building would self destruct in 20 minutes. Ranko initially thought it was a ploy to get them to leave, but Chun Li wasn’t so sure. Fake or not, they still needed to find Kasumi and the others. So Kodachi, Lime, Claigin, Frost and Shin were left to look after the injured, while the rest went to look for them.

Despite being left largely unsupervised, Lime and Mint surprisingly were staying out of trouble. Mint still moped over Ukyo's rejection, was a little resentful towards Herb, although he did not openly express such. Lime, on the other hand, was quite happy. His job at the school afforded him several encounters with the opposite sex, including the infamous Yotogi, although the latter's advances were enough to make even Lime nervous.

After Herb was officially engaged to Kasumi in order to save him from the Fox clan Herb moved into the San Cheng Huang in order to keep an eye on Lemon who was left in Kasumi’s stead. He also moved in Lime and Mint upon realizing that that since they don’t go to Furinkan High they couldn’t keep freeloading at the dorms. As Lime and Mint were moving in they were interrupted by the arrival of Ukyo. Mint quickly offloaded his goods onto the already overloaded Lime and rushed over, ignoring the other boy's annoyed call after him. . Herb’s order and a cold look from the chef put a stop to his awkward attempts at flirting.