A Tale of Two Snakes

Disclaimer: I do not own any Riverdale and Cobra Kai characters. This story is purely written for fun, not for any kind of profit.

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Chapter 5: Enter the Cobra

Jughead Jones was messed up and pissed off today morning. Having an alcoholic estranged father, his family life was far than perfect. His mother and sister already left home. After sometime, he also followed his mom's path and left home. Since then, he was living at the 'Twilight Drive-In', where he was the projectionist.

Then yesterday night, he got the news of closing of the drive-in. The drive-in will not only be closed, but also demolished later. That means he will be officially jobless and homeless. Jughead felt the demolition as a personal loss to him. He had many fond memories surrounded by that place. He frequently visited that place with his family members. His little sister, Jellybean loved that place. Jughead had a picture of him and his sister, both flashing careless, toothy grins standing in front of the drive-in.

"Hey Jug...it's time to go to the class.", He saw Archie standing in front of him. Now he had only one place of solitude, the school. Then he saw Betty and Veronica coming towards them.

"Hey, Jug," Betty came to him and gave him a light smile. Veronica also smiled at them. Then the four of them went to the classroom. The first class was history.

Miss Haggly, the history teacher came to the class. Typical of her, she took out a book and start dictating about the civil war when a voice echoed in class.

"May I come in, madam?"

Every single head in the class turned towards the door. And then an eerie silence clouded over the class.

Jughead turned his head and saw Miguel Diaz at the door. He was sitting on a brand new electric wheelchair. A school bag was on his shoulder. He was wearing a black jacket and blue jeans.

"May I come In, Madam?" He said again.

"Yes, yes, please come in.", Miss Haggly somehow broke out from her trance like situation.

"Thank you." The wheelchair entered in a swift motion and stopped in front of the teacher. Miguel took some papers and handed over the teacher.

"Okay class. Today we have a new student joining with us. Mr. Diaz, please introduce yourself."

"Good morning everybody. My name is Miguel Diaz. My family just moved in to this town from Reseda, California. I like reading books and listening 80's rock music, specially 'Guns n Roses'". Miguel said with a smiling face.

"Man, what a disgrace!" Jughead heard Chuck Clayton muttering,"Weatherby's gone mad. He entered a cripple in our school. What after him, some nutcase or on spectrum bastard?"

His mind was filled with anger, but he somehow controlled himself. Then he saw Diaz's wheelchair coming towards him. An empty table was beside him. Diaz positioned himself beside the table.

The class went on smoothly. The teacher asked some question to Miguel. He correctly answered all of them. After the bell, Archie came to Miguel.

"Welcome to Riverdale high, Miguel." he gave him a fist bump.

"Thanks, Archie. This school is nice." Miguel said.

"What is your next class?" Archie asked him.

"Chemistry, with Mr. Flootsnoot."

"I have biology next. See you at the lunch."

Veronica Lodge was angry.

No, actually the word 'angry' could not sum up what she was feeling right now. Anger was burning inside her like the eruption of Vesuvius. She was literally seeing red.

Yesterday night, she went to a date with Chuck Clayton, the high school's football star. The date was moderately good. They went to 'Pop's chock-lit shop'. They actually kissed in Chuck's car.

Though Betty tried to convince her not to go, but she did not listen.

Now she knew why Betty said that.

Today at school, she found that Chuck was literally slut-shaming her on the social media. He had posted a picture of her, with a 'sticky maple' on her face. The sticky maple was Riverdale's own slut shaming logo. She, along with Betty, confronted Chuck in the boys' locker room. But Chuck did not agree to take down the picture.

At the lunch break, Veronica, along with Betty, Archie, Jughead and Kevin were sitting in an empty class room. Veronica was still fuming from all the anger inside her. Betty and Kevin were trying to coax her. But they did not have much success.

"I am going to make him pay. Nobody can walk away with shaming a Lodge."

"We need to find all the dirt on him, with concrete proof." Jughead said.

Suddenly the heard the door slammed open. It was Midge Clump.

"Guys, you have to come to the ground right now. You should not miss the show." Her voice was literally dripping with excitement.

"What is it?" Archie asked her.

"Chuck and his gang cornered the new boy in wheelchair....oh sh*t. I have to go to call the others. Go to the ground." Midge literally ran out from the room.

Then they heard loud cheering from the outside.

"Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!"

"Oh man! We should go and check. Chuck is not bullying that new student, is he?" Kevin said.

All of them literally ran towards the ground. A big circle of students was forming in the field. All of them were cheering for Chuck. Archie somehow pushed the students along with Betty, Veronica and Jughead.

In between the circle, Chuck was having an arm-wrestling match with Miguel. Miguel was clearly loosing, but his face was hard. Chuck had a smirk on his face.

Then suddenly Archie saw Miguel's arm grab Chuck's arm a little more tightly. Then his hand started getting up slowly. The crowd now also saw this.

"Come on Chuck!!" Reggie Mantle shouted.

The smirk on his face was gone. Chuck was now pushing all of his energy in his hand but no avail. Miguel's hand was going up and up and in a moment, Chuck Clayton's hand was pinned down.

The whole ground was silent now. Not silent, actually pin drop silent.

"I think now you know that you are not qualified enough for teaching me respect." Miguel's voice was hard, "Do you want to know what I had learnt from California?"

His voice, Jughead thought, now can be compared to only one thing. The angry hissing of a snake was a perfect comparison.

"I had learnt that fear does not exist; pain does not exist; defeat does not exist. I also learned to strike first; to strike hard and do you know what the greatest thing that I learn is? That is No Mercy and Know Mercy. Now if you will excuse me, I have a class to attend."

Miguel started his wheelchair, and headed towards the classroom, leaving behind a group of dumbfounded teenage boys and girls.

At that very moment, Jughead Jones realised that the boy on the wheelchair was not what he looked like. Miguel Diaz was a mystery himself, and Jughead Jones vowed to solve it, along with the murder mystery of Jason Blossom.

He had calculated his way. Today he would take the first step. There was one person at the river at the time of Jason's 'drowning'. Nobody seemed to interrogate him a bit more. Jughead would start his investigation by interrogating him.

The man was noneother than Dilton Doiley, the scoutmaster. He and his scouts found CherylBlossom at the riverbank. Jughead would start his investigation from him

A/N: I have taken the name of the teachers in Riverdale High from the Archie comics universe.

So this is chapter 5. How do you feel about the first day of Miguel? Feel free to give me tips so that I can improve my story.I will update Next Week. Adios amigos.