On this chapter, you see Arizona trying to beat Musaki in a sparring match and you know Musaki always wins...and on this chapter, it's gonna change.


Chapter 2: Sparring Rematch

At the Training Hall

Arizona and Musaki looked up at each other, both determined to outmatch each other and for Arizona to redeem himself after being beaten many times by Musaki and it was his turn for a day of reckoning and a chance to win victory. Arizona gave out a very serious look on his face that he means business and he lets out a silent growl and balled up his fists and Musaki looked at him in the same way, but with an added smirk, brimming with confidence.

"I'm gonna wipe that smirk on your face the minute I win this match." Arizona said.

"Yeah, good luck with that." Musaki said, putting on his japanese headband.

Both of them got in their basic stances and each of them charged at each other and slugged them down hard with their fists and both of them kicked, punched, shoved, flipped and thrashed them down as hard as they could and with Arizona's quick punches, Musaki managed to block and dodge every single punch Arizona could give out and Musaki was smart enough to not let Arizona win this one, so he ducked down as the wolf did his swirling lynx round kick.

Arizona grunts in frustration that Musaki missed and he continued on sparring with him, but Musaki kept dodging him as it goes and the wolf started to get fed up with this and gave Musaki such a thrashing like he meant it, but Musaki fought back as well as he kicked Arizona in the stomach and in the chest as hard as he could and that sent Musaki to do a backflip.

Arizona gathered enough strength to get himself back up and went ahead to attack him quickly with every single move he got out of the book with his strengths and Musaki realized that he'd been training really hard and he went ahead to go all out and kicked-punched him down and then pinned him to the wall with a snarl and then shoved him down to the ground.

Musaki quickly got himself up and continued on fighting each other until finally...Arizona musters plenty confidence to finally knock Musaki out with one single blow and Musaki fell down to the ground, completely defeated. That moment completely brought Arizona to his stronger state that after losing out to Musaki so many times before, he finally won.

Arizona chuckled softly in surprise and he said, "I...I did it. I won. I finally won!"

Musaki opens his eyes and heard Arizona that won and he lets out a deep sigh, but he didn't bellyache that much as he got himself up, dusted himself off and said, "Congratulations, dude. You finally managed to kick my butt."

"I've been waiting a long time for this." Arizona added.

Musaki nodded his head with that and stook out his hand, hoping for a handshake and without any hesitation, Arizona accepts the handshake and he said, "You still fought good, Saki."

"Thanks. By the way, I let you win." Musaki stated.

That shocked Arizona after hearing that Musaki was gonna let him win and he asked, "You let me win?"

"Yep. I knew how much you wanted to beat me so badly, so I decided to just let you have a victory." Musaki answered.

Arizona wanted to get a little bit upset about it, but with him emerging victorious...there's really no need to as he lets out a smile and said, "Thanks, Saki."

Meanwhile, at the courtyard

Monkey and Max practiced some sparring with each other using the staff sticks and Monkey was very quick to spar with Max, but Max managed to protect himself from getting hit and he suddenly blocked and dodged every whack Monkey does and then he does this warrior-pose move where he got down on one knee and clacked the stick with Monkey's.

"You're good, kid." Monkey said.

"Thanks. So are you." Max replied.

They kept going and going and suddenly, Max's advanced moves completely blew Monkey away as they were staff-fighting when he threw the staff in the air, missed being attacked by Monkey by going under him and then rolling down on the ground, finally catching the staff in time and as he stood up, Max still held onto the staff like it was nobody's business.

Monkey chuckled softly and he came to him and said, "That was amazing. I'm so glad you ditched Tigress to train with me."

"He did what?!"

Both of them turned around and saw Tigress looking ticked after what Monkey just said and Max played it cool during this whole thing and he said, "That's not what he meant."

"You were gonna ditch me for Monkey?!" Tigress screeched.

Max still kept his cool and that made Monkey a little bit afraid for both tigers, yet surprised that Max is still keeping cool under pressure especially when confronted by Tigress and Max responded, "I actually had Shifu's permission to switch trainers."

When the answer was finally solved, it still didn't sit well with Tigress and she was gonna make him suffer from it and Monkey tried to break it up and said, "Let's just keep it cool. Max probably wanted to tell you that, but..."

Tigress gave Monkey one of her death glares and said, "You stay out of this!"

"Well...I'll just be going." Max said, calmly as he exists out, but gets stopped by Tigress.

Tigress comes towards Max and she got on his face and said to him, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't murder you."

As calm as as could be, Max looked at her in the eye and said, "Each time it's you and me, there's always trouble. And I'm not ditching you on purpose. I just don't think I'm right as your student or trainee, so I thought it's best to learn from another master."

Tigress just growled at him and said, "Fine! Do whatever you want!"

She immediately stormed off the court yard, but not before facing Max and lets out an angry snarl and said, "This is not over."

Max rolled his eyes in response to that and didn't take that seriously and only said, "You are so pathetically desperate for attention, aren't you? Two words; man up."

Tigress just didn't want to deal with Max keeping his cool because obviously scaring him didn't really affect him that much and just left in frustration and he turned to Monkey and said, "What do you do?"

"I'm surprised she didn't kill you. I wouldn't stand up to her the way you do. I respect and fear for her too much to even do that." Monkey added.

"Sometimes, there has to be a point where you say enough is enough and just not let anything she says and does bother you." Max replied.

Monkey was surprised that he's learning something from a nine year old and said, "And here I'm the teacher to you."


Wow...pretty weird, huh? Stay tuned for more life of Musaki!