6 HERO BIG DISNEY The Junior Novelization Adapted by Irene Trimble
Chapter 1 Not quite a big city and not quite a small town San Fransokyo had always been a mysterious mix of old and new On foggy nights the bright skyscraper lights and the neon of the modern city softened giving the old Victorian pagodas and forgotten alleyways of the past an inviting glow One such night a young teenage boy named Hiro Hamada was making his way down an old brick alley He was looking for a place where grown men came to fight The boy felt a little nervous when he finally approached a rowdy crowd Men were jammed around a fighting ring chanting Ya ma Ya ma Mr. Yama a large sumo sized man strutted into the ring and held up his huge hands in victory It had been a fight to the death and Mr. Yama's tricked out eighteen inch robot which had claws for one hand and a spinning 1