Fu-King 'Iron Belly' Hynes

Fu-King 'Iron Belly' Hynes
AKA The Shaolin Monster Hunter

===  Early Life  There are no records that currently exist which state Fu-King's birthdate, but it guessed to be around 600AD. Born into poverty to a Chinese mud farmer, Fu-King was swiftly carted off to the Shaolin Temple as his family couldn't support him due to the bottom falling ut of the mud market and Fu's ravenous eating habits (it is estimated that Fu would consume over a ton of rice in a single month). The Shaolin Monastery he was sent to, was built on the north side of Shaoshi, the central peak of Mount Song, one of the Sacred Mountains of China, by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty. === For many years Fu dedicted his mind and tubby body to the Buddhist teachings and learnt how to hit things really REALLY hard with a stick and his enormous gut. It was here he was given his nickname - Iron Belly. ===  Becoming the Monster Hunter  For many many many years, Iron Belly protected the lands from ghosts, demons and the occasional mystical pissed off monkey spirit. One day reports came in of a Jade Dragon terrorising the area and Iron Belly went off to investigate. However every time he stumbled upon a lead and close din on his quarry he would mysteriously black out and wake up stark bollock naked (a monster trait if ever there was one). And so this went on for the next 50 years, Fu-King getting older, balder and longer in beard and the Jade Dragon still attacking villages and the Emperor's palace eventually. Iron Belly entered martial arts tournaments on mysterious islands, rescued careless damsels from towers populated by karate experts and doing that 'wax on wax off' shit so favoured by masters of the art - yet was still no closer to slaying the jade dragon. === ====  Revelations and Death  It seemed, as mentioned, that every time Fu-King neared the wherabouts of the dragon he would mysteriously pass out. Deciding to document this, he acquired the services of a local peasant Long Dong Paul to accompany him and note what occurs.Whilst staking out a cave in a forect one night, Fu-King began convulsing and shaking and morphed into a giant, albeit whispy beared green dragon. It had been him all along over the last 50 years terrorizing the land and chomping down on pagodas, cherry blossom trees and hapless peasants. Long Dong, who was secretly a shaolin monk himself fired a firework into the air and within seconds 20 shaven headed, double hard and heavily armed monks descended from the tree line. Whilst Fu-King took out several of his attackers he was ultimately over powered and was soon dead at the end of a pike. ==== ===  Aftermath  The monks decided to keep Fu-King Iron Belly Hynes' secret just that and all records of the forest battle were destroyed. However, his good deeds just about outweighed his bad deeds and a statue was erected in his honour in the forest where he was slain. In time this was destroyed when a car park was built over it ===