chapter seven !
❪ payback time. . . mohawk ❫

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HER LOCKER was abruptly slammed, causing Gwen to look at the person who startled her. Her eyes rolled when she was met with Diaz boy, "What do you want?"

She began walking away and Miguel huffed as he trailed behind her. "Why are you in Cobra Kai?" He inquired with a frown.

"Because I want to be," She shrugged. "By the way, nice move you pulled on me and my friends last night."

"Oh come on. That was nothing." Miguel responded with. "Just please leave Cobra Kai."

"You were in Cobra Kai once. What's the big deal?"

"It's bad! Kreese will get into your head and you're gonna do things that aren't gonna be like you."

"Oh please," She scoffed and turned the corner of the hallway. "I'm not gonna let some old karate sensei's brainwash me."

"Gwen, please." Miguel grabbed her wrist, stopping her from walking further away. Gwen glanced at his hand before giving him a pointed look.

He slowly let go of his grip. "I know that Hawk and a couple of kids from Miyagi-Do were messing with your brother but-"

"Yeah, my brother." Gwen confirmed. "So tell them to back off or they'll be sleeping with one eye open."

She turned around to leave this conversation with Miguel but was met with his girlfriend, that had a disgusted glare on her face, standing in front of her.

"Great," Gwen groaned. "What do you want?"

"You need to leave Robby alone." Sam snarled.

Gwen raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?"

Miguel sighed. "Sam-"

"No," The girl stated, glancing at her boyfriend before looking back at Gwen. "He would've been in Miyagi-Do right now if it wasn't for you."

"And why do you need my boyfriend so bad?" Gwen cocked her head. "Because your dojo is training a bunch of weaklings?"

Sam felt her face getting red from a jealously feeling in her chest when she heard the word 'boyfriend' leaving Gwen's lips.

"You're looking a bit red, LaRusso." The Payne girl smirked. "Goodbye now." She walked past the couple with a taunting wave.

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GWEN HELD the punching bag that Kenny was sending punches too, Robby standing beside them in case of any correcting. "That's all she said?"

Gwen nodded. "She's jealous." She grinned. "We still need to give them payback for what they did to us last night."

Tory walked up to them. "We need to get them somewhere no one else is around."

The trio nodded in agreement. "Listen up." Silver walked into the dojo. "Gather around."

The students lined up and faced their two sensei's. "We just had a little powwow with the sensei's at Miyagi-Do. From here on out, there'll be no more fighting until the tournament."

Tory scoffed. "Our enemies humiliate us and we're just going to back down and take it?"

"Of course not." Kreese stated. "We should always show our enemies no mercy."

"But there's a time to fight." Silver answered. "No need to waste a punch if it's not gonna score a point. So if your enemies do something to mess with you or laugh in your face, good! Take all that anger and store it. You're gonna need it when the time comes. Is that understood?"

"Yes, Sensei!"

Silver looked at Kreese before going into the back room. Robby and Gwen, sharing a glance after hearing that order.

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"DISMISSED." Silver stated. Gwen sighed and walked out of the line, wiping the sweat off of her forehead. She walked to her bag and took a sip of her water bottle.

"Second sensei's working us hard today," Kyler exclaimed. "Guy's going beast mode!"

Gwen rolled her eyes. "Sucks we can't give a beat down before the tournament."

"Just because we can't fight doesn't mean we can't get payback." Robby smirked, glancing at the group.

"So," Gwen stretched out. "What do you have in mind?" She asked, receiving a grin from the Keene boy.

"Miss Payne!"

Gwen turned around, looking at Silver, who held both his fingers up and signaled for her to walk towards him. "Be right back," She told the others.

Gwen made her way towards the man. "Yes, Sensei?"

"You did very good this practice," He complimented. "The strong kicks... punches, what has you frustrated?"

Gwen sighed. "Just a lot of stress at home and some Miyagi-Do kids at school."

"They bothering you?"

"Annoying me," She corrected.

"I see." Silver hummed. "I see a lot of potential in you, Miss Payne. A strong, hardworking girl. You can reach a higher level than Daniel's daughter."

"Sam?" She confirmed.

"Yeah." He nodded. "She's been taught all that Miyagi crap her whole life that she's not gonna get the hand of learning offense from Lawrence. But you... you're already getting it."

Gwen smiled. "Keep up with the good work." Silver said before walking into the small office with Kreese.

The Payne girl felt a grin creeping up on her face. Someone finally acknowledged her for her hard work.

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THE TEENS heard Robby's whistle, signaling for them to come out of their hiding spots. They came out of the back room, seeing Hawk lying on the tattoo table while typing on his phone.

He heard the door open. "Hey, Rico. You good?"

"Tattoo shop's closed for the day," Gwen called out, her and the Cobra's walking into the room.

"Hey," Kyler greeted. Hawk quickly stood up. "Where'd you think you're going?" The Korean questioned.

The guys started to lunge at him while Tory and Gwen stayed behind. Hawk kicked the table towards Kyler and the others but they easily circled him and tied him down to the tattoo seat.

"You weren't that hard to find, you little bitch." Kyler growled in his ear. Gwen went around them and stood in front of the boy with the mohawk.

"Shouldn't have done those sprinklers." Gwen glared. "Took me a very long time to do my hair that night." She gave him a teasing pout on her face.

Hawk groaned. "You assholes just ignoring the no-fighting rules?" Tory went to Gwen's side and held him down.

"Oh, we're not here to fight." Robby announced before walking towards Gwen's other side and showing the blade to the nervous teen.

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mars speaks!

authors note: i fear silver ate this one time and only time in this book... 'cause he's not gonna do pretty things to our girl 😞

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