*flexes fingers*
"Right Glock, let's get this over with."
"Same guidelines as last time Kay."
"Of course! Who the hell do you think I am?"
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Name: Mayura Lee Labatt
Alias:
- KuroBlack
- BelkaBlack
- KiiYellow
- BelkaYellow
- “Kokou wa Awarashi” (Noble Eagle)
- Honest Heart
- Ebony Justice
Gender: Female
Age: 23 (as of MC0075)
Origin World: Cranagan, Midchilda
Birthdate: April 8, MC Year 0052
Height: 5” 5’
Weight: 112 lbs
Complexion: fair
Eye color: hazelnut brown
Hair color: Blonde
Theme Song: Just Feel It ~ Ashita No Tameni (For Tomorrow)
History:
Amongst the three Belkarangers, Mayura was the only one not born into the bloodline of wealth and luxury. She was born Mayura Lee, youngest of three siblings, and only female of the Haken Lee Dojo of Martial Combat in Cranagan. Their parents had died in a power-related struggle that had left the dojo in near ruins, and left to fend for themselves it was up to her elder brothers Garrod and Falken to restore and continue the family tradition. Without the restrictions that their conservative parents might’ve otherwise imposed on her as a female, Mayura was extensively taught the family arts by her brothers at a very young age, excelling in the ways of the ‘
Gaoleon’ style of hand-to-hand combat by 6 years of age.
The turning point in her life came at age 7, when their most hated rivals, the Ark Chen School, challenged them yet again to a match for their dojo’s name. Hoping for an easy victory with their underhanded methods, the Ark’s best mage fighter, Rio, had asked specifically for Mayura to represent the Lee’s in direct combat.
In an astounding moment that would shock her brothers and the Arks, the young Mayura managed to utterly own the taller and more powerful Rio in combat, using her own magic-enhanced fighting style. The defeated Arks could not take this overwhelmingly embarrassing defeat of their best adult fighter at the hands of a child, and in a fit had their minions proceed to have the Dojo burned and the Lees killed. Despite their best efforts the Lees could not overcome their enemy’s superior numbers, weapons and dirty tricks, and as the siblings lay exhausted and beaten they could only watch their Dojo razed to the ground. It was when all hope seemed lost for the Lees that salvation arrived, and it came in force with the mass of police sirens that accompanied Mr. Mason Labatt, head of Labatt Enterprises, and one of the most influential people in Midchilda. After months of surveillance the Arks were finally caught in the act, and were thus rounded up to face justice, including their leader Rio.
With the Haken Lee dojo gone, Mr. Labatt offered to take in the tired and battered children, because in his words “so he can clear his immeasurable debt”.
The Lees were thus adopted, which was a blessing to the long childless Labatts, as they now had legal heirs to their decades old family business. The now Labatt siblings would now be indoctrinated in the ways and responsibilities of the upper class elite, groomed in the decorum of luxury, a world once alien to them. Fortunately the siblings were still allowed to continue their Haken Lee martial arts tradition, but with the elder brothers having less and less time in practicing their art and dedicating themselves more to upholding the Labatt business it was left to Mayura to shoulder the burden.
For a while, the weight of this responsibility at such a young age, coupled with the isolation of being the only female around nearly left Mayura in despair… until the day Mayura met a bored Asagi Colwell at cocktail party, and casually started a conversation about the martial arts and fighting. This would be the simple start of an inseperable friendship between the both of them, and only a year later up her return from a family vacation on the 97th Administered World, Mayura would be responsible for introducing Asagi to what would later become their shared passion, and the latter’s obsession: Super Sentai.
And it was this passion that would lead to the two of them joining the TSAB Academy a few years later along with their new friend Julie Liu Ming to put their collective combat knowledge into good use. Like Asagi and Julie, Mayura would train as a Midchilda-type Mage for their first two years as cadets, before they were enlisted into the experimental class of 0061-Q, with their superior’s realization that their skills as close combat fighters would be better honed and utilized in the emerging style of Neo-Belka. As one of the newly formed Belkarangers, codenamed
BelkaYellow, Mayura displayed her impressive talent in unarmed martial combat, besting many of the cadets in hand-to-hand, and getting the personal approval and praise of instructor Quint Nakajima, whom Mayura had fought to a standstill in duels.
Graduating from the Academy with flying colors, Mayura served with Asagi and Julie in their assignment in the 79th Army Battalion under Hiram Maxim. It was while serving with the 79th that the Belkarangers would meet one of the most influential people in their lives: Private Shinobu Nakajima.
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"Did you say something Glock?"
"... no, it's..."
"It's what?"
"... just remembered something strange that's all..."
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As one of the rare TSAB servicemen to practice hand-to-hand combat, Mayura easily found a common bond with the young and fiery Nakajima, becoming an honorary Belkaranger dubbed “
BelkaBlack” who always went along on any mission assignments the girls would find themselves in for the rest of their time in the bureau. As sparring partners in martial arts the two complemented each other well, and Mayura found a sympathetic soul in Shinobu, who only too well understood the ordeal the young Lee had once undergone, and knew best how to lift the girl’s spirits from the burden of responsibility for her entire dojo.
Thus the news of Shinobu’s untimely death at the hands of a Lost Logia only weeks after the Belkaranger’s retirement devastated the trio, Mayura being the hardest hit of them all. Her grief was only quelled by Asagi’s creation of the Search Guard Successor Foundation with the intention of preventing a similar tragedy from happening again. And so as Asagi founded their current organization in memory of their fallen friend, so did Mayura honor her beloved friend by adopting Shinobu’s colors as her own, as The Ebony Justice BelkaBlack.
Currently Mayura is still serving with Asagi and Julie in search of their “Precious”, all the while continuing to uphold the family arts by teaching a new generation of young warriors in the way of the roaring fist.
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"You can always leave this to me, if it's alright with you."
"No, it's fine..."