Chapter Eleven: Johnny vs. Derby
Johnny chased Derby up the stairs with Tad creeping up behind them unnoticed. Derby started throwing marbles behind him trying to slow the greaser king down. Occasionally, Johnny would slip and fall but got up and kept running. The blonde prep began tipping over tables and chairs but, Johnny jumped and hopped out of the way effortlessly. When they started to reach the top floor, Derby turned around quickly and landed a fist in Johnny's face. The greaser stumbled while Derby continued running until he reached the room on the top floor. He got ready to fight as he saw Johnny walking up the final set of stairs.
"You ain't got know where else to run Derby," said Johnny calmly.
"Running, I just wanted us two alone so that you can't have your boys to help you," Derby spit out like a snake.
Johnny wiped the blood away from his lip, slipped his hair out of his eyes, and put his left hand out with his right tucked near his chin.
"Lets do this chump," he said after spitting.
"Not on the carpet you filthy primate! Its on now!" yelled Derby.
The two leaders came rushing into one another. As they closed in on each other, Johnny side stepped and put his foot out and tripped Derby. The greaser giggled a little when his victim hit the floor with a big thump. Derby got up and removed his aquaberry sweater. He formed it into a ball throwing at a nearby closet door with great force. The impact woke up Peanut who was tied with tape over his mouth.
Through a crack he saw Derby lock the door to the room he and Johnny were in. Peanut then went unconscious again. Tad was hiding outside in the bushes with the key to the door in his possession. Thunder boomed as it began to rain. "Aww man I'm going to be soaked but, it'll be worth it. I have hundreds of aquaberry attire." thought Tad.
"Alright Vincent, here are the rules. No biting, spitting, shots to the groin, or killing. We fight until knockout. No one gets in and no one runs away. Plus its raining cats and dogs out there and I don't want to hear it from Crabblesnitch about the carpet. Fair enough?" asked the prep.
"I ain't got no desire to kill anyone, I ain't runnin' away, I could care less about the carpet, so okay." said Johnny.
Derby nodded in agreement and got into his boxing stance. Johnny ran at Derby and attempted a punch. Derby quickly jumped out of the way. Left, right, uppercut. Johnny blocked all of the punches carefully. He knew that he shouldn't play around with Derby. Quickly he landed a hard left side kick. Derby took the blow as if its were nothing and kept his stance.
Johnny threw some hooks that connected with Derby's head. Derby then grew agitated and threw one of his furious, most feared combo. He slipped in a short jab knocking down Johnny's guard. Uppercut to the stomach, hook to the ribs, another blow to the stomach. Johnny stumbled to the ground grabbing his stomach in pain. Derby then came down with a deep right cross to Johnny's jaw knocking him on his back.
"Can't take it Johnny boy?" asked Derby teasingly.
"Where the hell is Peanut?" Johnny asked angrily.
"I don't know," said the top prep.
Growing more angry, Johnny jumped up, grabbed Derby's collar and punched him so hard that the blonde boy fell backwards and doubled over onto his stomach. "I SAID, WHERE THE HELL IS PEANUT!" screamed Johnny at the top of his lungs. His voice could be heard all the way outside and downstairs where the rest of his comrades were struggling against the preps.
"Ask your mother!" replied Derby. This statement made Johnny lose control. He rolled Derby over and started punching him in the nose repeatedly. CRACK! The prep had a burst of adrenaline when he felt his nose break and picked up Johnny. When Derby got to his feet, he threw Johnny into the large vases with plants in them. BOOM! Johnny's body broke one of the potted plants. Derby hopped onto the brunette greaser and started pounding him furiously.
Tad saw this from the bushes and darted to the door with the key in his hand. As he unlocked it he rushed and pulled his leader off of the Johnny.
"No interferences!" yelled Derby.
"You looked as if you were going to kill the boy," said Tad.
"I wasn't. That fool broke my nose. DAMMIT! This hurts!" yelled the prep leader.
His voice awoke Peanut again. The second in command came to his senses and tried to wiggle free of the ropes. He saw Tad and Derby lift Johnny up onto his feet. Tad held him as Derby started to slap the greaser. Finally Johnny stopped seeing stars and flipped Tad off of his back and jumped on Derby. The echo was so loud that the bloody and tired teenagers down on the first floor stopped the fighting. Immediately they all ran upstairs to see what all the commotion was about.
When they got up to the top floor they tried to unlock the door and stop the two equals from fighting. It was useless. They couldn't help their leader. Tad and Derby had Johnny right near the glass pane. Tad was about to give the final blow to the greaser king when suddenly… CRASH! Shards of glass and wood went flying everywhere.
Peanut had speared Tad through the wood and glass door. Tad yelped when he saw the splinters and glass in his arm. Peanut looked at his left hand in horror. A three inch long wood chip was stuck in his palm. He stood up and carefully pulled the piece of wood out. Then he ripped part of Tad's aquaberry sweater and wrapped his hand really tight. Tad freaked out about his sweater, felt the wood chips in his back, and saw his arm bleeding. Out of retaliation, he quickly got to his feet and attempted to punch Peanut. The greaser caught Tad's arm an tripped him with his right leg. As the brown headed prep fell down the stair case in the rain, he manages to grab Peanut's jacket. Peanut falls down the stairs with Tad.
As the two youths tumbled down the stairs rolling, they try to fight each other and their own tears of pain. When they reached the bottom they both struggled to stand up. Both of them were crying but you couldn't tell in the rain.
"Dammit, lets finish this once and for all. I'm tired and I want to go to bed." said Peanut.
"Your going to wish that you hadn't ever messed with me Peanut!" said Tad.
"Okay, we'll see pretty boy," Peanut shot back.
Author's note: Intense right? Reviews people! There's more to come. Violence isn't the only thing this story contains!
