When General Cooper is told his son is missing, men are dispatched to search. In a flashback a wounded man says rebels crippled him and he has less than ten years; he orders men to find his son and the woman who took Kayden in, promising to marry her. At home a mother insists her boy master martial arts and enter the Grants' tournament, whose winner becomes family head. They plan he act weak in spars then reveal true skill to win. He vows to win and avenge her; the search and the coming tournament remain unresolved.