And here's where it all goes down! The action is here!
Chapter 4: After School Brawl
3:00 pm
The bell rings and everyone in class is heading to their homes or to their after-school activities, but this time around...Jojo and the others walked their way to the gymnasium to face off the six japanese gang members that began making most of their lives starting to be a pre-living hell and after this, it might get worser from there.
Cyrus looked definitely scared and anxious to even face them in person and he asked them, in a worried tone, "Do we have to face them?"
"We have to fight them so they won't kill you. Just remember, we're protecting you." Diego said.
At the gym
Ren began looking at his watch and it's about 3:02 and he's starting to get a little impatient for their arrival and he said, "What the hell is taking them so long?"
"Maybe they didn't want to show up." Yue answered.
Ren got into Yue's face and he shouted, "They're going to show up! And we're going to finish the job!"
But Lief seemed very uncomfortable about actually planning to finish what they started because he's not one to start fights or even participate in fights like this, but has to do whatever Ren's says to avoid showing fear in front of the leader.
"I expect all of you to fight them! Show them no mercy for they are not one of us! Any outsider of this gang will be kicked out if they do not go with my plans." Ren explained.
The door opens and the gang sees Jojo, Diego, Marcus, Max, Cody, Mike, the Mosley brothers, Brutus, Manny, Zeke, Frankie and Stephen coming in along with the other members and Ren seems shocked by the number of back-up they brought in. Marcus looks up at them and he said, "What up?"
"It is about time you showed up!" Ren shouted.
Zeke seemed a little irritated with Ren's shouting and he said, "Can you like yell any louder?"
"I am the leader of this gang! What I say...goes." Ren said, with zero emotion.
Diego stepped up to them and he said, "Why don't you shut the hell up and let's cut straight to the fighting?"
Ren lets out an angry smirk and said, "I'm glad you asked and accepted this challenge."
All of them stood firm as they kept shifting glares with each other and the gang members were not shy to begin fighting and as they were about to go, Diego became the first one to punch Ren's lights out, but Ren will not be outnumbered by them as he kept punching, kicking and throwing some martial arts action towards him as he jumped through the air, but Diego did a backflip and used some kung-fu moves and kicked him straight in the face and then grabbed his wrists and flipped him down to the ground hard.
Ren looks at Diego in anger and he said, "Impossible!"
"Yeah, I've been doing martial arts since I was 7. Even back then, I had to teach self-defense." Diego sneered.
Ren lets out a smirk and used his leg to trip Diego's and as he fell down to the ground, Ren snickers and said, "I guess you've never taught the basis of karate."
"Oh do I?" asked Diego, also smirking.
Diego raises his legs and kicks Ren in the face multiple times and then threw him across the gym and kicks him in the face and headed to the wall. Ren looks to his gang and shouted, "ATTACK!"
All of the other members charged at them, but the rest of Jojo and the gang fought back and they fought him hard. Mike, Cody and Marcus took on Yamato and punched him straight in the face, chest and his sensitive parts. Yamato bellowed loudly and came charging at them, angrily raising his fists and punched Cody down, but Cody bit him in the arm, leaving Marcus room to slide down under his legs and kick him in the butt.
Mike then wrestles him down to the ground and twisted his arm and flipped him across the floor very hard. Cody comes in and kicks him in the face, head and stomach while Marcus beats him in the legs.
Yue and Izumi went after the Mosley brothers, Jojo, Stephen, Manny, Zeke and Brent as they spread out to take them down individually. Jojo went after Izumi first because he saw some of them attempting to beat up Travis and shove him through the window and Izumi chuckled menacingly saying, "This is gonna be fun...like Donkey Kong."
"You're such a jackass." Jojo scoffed.
Izumi angrily ran towards him and Jojo does a backflip and goes straight behind him and he punches Izumi in the face and stomach while Zeke, Stephen, Manny and Zeke made a group kick and punch as they shoved him down to the floor and Jonah bodyslams Izumi down to the ground, beating his face down while Cyrus and Hawk pick him up and shove him down to the wall and Sam gave him a headbashing.
"Great way of using your head, Sam." Zeke said, impressed.
Sam chuckled and said, "I try."
Yue wasn't gonna let that go down without a fight as he ran towards Brent, Brutus and Frankie to start up another round of fighting and Yue made a cocky chuckle and said, "You all are not that smart."
"And what makes you think you're smarter than us?" asked Frankie.
Yue flipped all three of them down and slammed them to the floor and he responded, "Smarter than any one of you."
Brutus disagreed with that remark and just completely tripped him from behind and punched him in the face and then he got to his face and said, "Have you ever heard of 'never lower your eyes to an enemy before'?"
"Yeah, maybe you're not that smart." Brent added.
Yue sparred with them as he doles out every single kung-fu move he could possible use against them, but Brutus and Brent dodged those moves pretty quick and did a double punch to Yue's jaw and both of them kicked Yue in the nuts.
"How do you like those nuts?" asked Brutus.
Lars, Noah, Seth, Ryan, Jared and Austin continued fighting with another member; Takeru and they never realized how quick he had become, but Noah figured that he wasn't that too quick and as he came behind him, he flipped him down and just slammed him on the ground six times and Seth and Ryan had their turn by just slamming them down on the back and twisted his legs.
"Bet you ain't that faster than any of us!" Seth shouted.
"Yeah, this is what happens if you plan to mess with us!" Noah added.
Jared, Austin and Lars helped Seth and Noah out by giving Takeru enough punches and kicks as they could possibly get all while Diego pinned Ren down to the ground and as he looked to the stands, he looks at Lief and he said, "Lief! Get that kid!"
Lief turns around and sees Cyrus still standing there and he turns back to Ren and said, "This time...do not disappoint me!"
He then gives Lief the knife and he looked mortified that he was actually doing this, but he knew he had to do whatever his leader said and when he walked towards Cyrus with that knife, Lief could see that he seems completely terrified as Cyrus was.
Cyrus backed away from Lief and he said, "Get away from me!"
Diego looks over and sees that one of the members is actually planning to kill Cyrus and he immediately sprinted out of Ren and stops Lief mid-way and got in front of Cyrus and said, "You better get away from him!"
Lief could sense that Diego wasn't gonna back down and with that, he just said, "I have to do what Ren says."
Diego balled up his fists and he said, "I dare you to try."
"Lief! What are you waiting for?! Kill him already!" Ren shouted.
Lief could tell that he didn't want to do this and that he would risk enduring Ren's constant jabs at him for not following orders and he just said to Diego, "I can't do this."
Suddenly, Ren angrily gets up and he abruptly stops the fight and glares at Lief and said, "Weak and pathetic!"
Ren shouts the orders in Japanese and everyone left the gymnasium and he stares at Lief with an angry and disapproving glare on his face and as they left, Diego looks over at everyone and asked, "You guys okay?"
"We're cool." everyone replied.
Cyrus sighs in relief as he gets himself up and he looks to Diego and said, "Thanks for saving me...again."
"Anytime, Cyrus. They'll learn a thing or two because they even think of messing with us." Marcus added.
Jojo seemed a little intrigued about why Lief didn't kill Cyrus and wanted to know that is he really following his orders or does he not want to be one of them anymore. He then thought to himself, 'I need to see what's in this Lief's character's mind.'
You've gotta see Ren's reaction to this on the next chapter!