Chapter One: The Way of the Fist

The Cobra Kai dojo on Lankershim and Magnolia stood in silence as both Senseis Terry Silver and John Kreese addressed the class.

"Everyone, this is Sensei Terry Silver." said Kreese. "We will both be teaching class from now on, as he helped found this dojo in this very room together with me. He's here to help you hone your skills before the tournament. He has some of the best experience competing globally, and I guarantee you is an expert on fighting of all sorts."

Silver nodded. "It's an honor to be here. But with twice the lessons, comes twice the work."

Kenny Payne smiled and nodded as Kreese spoke. "You will receive two Senseis worth of training so you must put in two classes worth of effort per class but it will be worth it."

"This tournament will test you all greatly," said Silver. "I understand Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence have combined dojos."

"But it won't be enough, the way of the fist, is the best path towards victory." Kreese said.

"The first thing we need to address is what exactly we'll be training for." Silver then shrugged. "The answer's simple. Point sparring."

Silver explained. "While our style is Tang Soo Do, we'll be drawing primarily from Shotokan karate specifically the WKF style to perfect point fighting."

Everyone was confused, the words 'WKF' had never been uttered in the dojo until that very moment.

"So, let's start with your basics."

Silver made everyone break out into the combat square to watch him demonstrate with Kreese.

"During combat." explained Silver, "Your footwork is key. The primary mistake that's made."

Silver began to bounce up and down on his heel, jumping directly off the mat almost. "Is bouncing up and down."

Shawn and Rickenberger paid close attention, Lucas most of all.

"However, you're losing energy that way. What you want to be doing, is this."

Silver was bouncing very lightly on the balls of his feet in front of Kreese, jumping very lightly forward and backward.

"You generate more speed that way, more momentum. You generate momentum to move backward suddenly to retreat and defend, and forward to attack and score. Or."

Silver waved towards his chin to let Kreese know he wanted him to throw a forward strike.

Silver demonstrated something key, how he was able to shift his balance and suddenly end up in a better angle to score.

"Very important," Silver was faking a roundhouse kick directly to Kreese's now exposed ribs. "Moving laterally too. Understood?"

The class murmured in acknowledgment.

"Oss." a few students murmured.

"Yeah."

"Is that understood!?" Silver raised his voice slightly.

"Yes Sensei!" the class echoed.

"Break off into pairs and just follow each other." ordered Silver. "All we'll be doing today, and for the next month. Is purely fundamental values of point sparring. How to move around the ring properly, how to score basic attacks with your front and back feet and hands."

Hawk and Lucas moved towards each other to pair up and Kreese stopped them. "Uh uh, you're with Mr. Payne today. It's his first class."

The somewhat shy and small younger brother of Shawn Payne smiled weakly and waved as Kreese lightly shoved him forward.

The boys nodded and Hawk left to be paired up with Mikey.

Lucas bowed to Kenny and the much smaller boy bowed back awkwardly.

"How old are you?" wondered Lucas.

"Fourteen." Kenny muttered nervously, as if he was in slight awe of Lucas.

Lucas nodded. "Okay. Get into your stance, start moving how Sensei Silver said."

Kenny did so and Lucas nodded again. "Good. Just follow me around the mat, when I get too close you back away. When you get too close I back away, your objective. Is just to drive me around and control me okay, got it?"

"Yeah."

"You gotta say Oss, say Oss."

"Oss." Kenny bowed his head.

"Good, Oss. Ready? Go."

Lucas and Kenny shadowed each other's movements like the rest of the class.

Kenny didn't really know what to do, especially when Lucas started faking attacks using feints to control where Kenny would end up.

The entire class warmed up that way for three minutes non stop and then Kreese spoke. "That's enough of that. Add the reverse punch now, first to three points win. Then switch partners."

"Wait. Is that like, a fight?" asked Kenny nervously.

Lucas chuckled. "Not really. Your objective, is to make sure you land your rear hand, whichever it is at the time, left or right, right on my ribs or anywhere above my belt that's not my arms, hands, or shoulders. I'm only allowed to hit your chest."

"What about the first to three points?"

"Don't worry about that. Sensei Kreese already showed you how to throw the reverse punch before class started. So just relax, and do as I said. Ready?"

They bowed to one another and a very limited sparring match between Kenny and Lucas began. The only strike they were allowed to land was a rear hand shot to the chest or head, or chest only for Lucas.

Kenny only knew two things, how to throw the reverse punch, or the straight punch with his rear hand, and how to move around the ring, both of which he learned about an hour before.

Lucas meanwhile knew that for years, as well as dozens of other things.

He knew how to trap Kenny's front leg or hand with a fake or a leg stagger to set up an actual attack or to interrupted Kenny's own footwork or attack. He knew how to set up angle and even land with the only strike he was allowed to land. He could even trap Kenny in the corners of the small ring they were given quite easily with just footwork.

On top of all of that, Lucas was twice Kenny's size and had dozens of times his experience and physical speed and strength. However, he mostly took it easy on him to see what he could do.

Lucas easily walked away with the first point.

Kenny covered up at a fake face kick attempt, and Lucas lightly tapped him on the ribs with the knuckles on his rear hand.

Kenny now followed Lucas around the ring, and then surprised him.

His attempt to land a pair of reverse punches was unsuccessful, but Lucas was impressed.

Kenny was fast enough to drive Lucas towards the edge of the ring actually making him block. Of course he couldn't counter with his legs like he usually could but he was still impressed at it regardless.

Lucas walked away with all three points and Kenny none, but Lucas bowed to him in respect and spoke to him after Kenny was panting and sweaty and Lucas barely so.

"You've got really good hand and launch speed for a beginner. Lots of promise." Lucas patted Kenny's shoulder.

"What's launch speed?"

"You'll find out later." Lucas said before he proceeded to wreck everyone in his dojo three to nothing as well, which heavily lightened the blow for how badly Kenny knew he lost.

The class practiced throwing the reverse punch with resistance bands tied to partners. They practiced all the fundamentals of combat, just landing kicks and punches as fast as they could, while making sure their opponents didn't.

Pure cardio and speed work for strikes, Silver had insisted, much to Kreese's silent disapproval, that work on muscle strength and striking power was ultimately not needed if you truly wanted a point. To the body however, Silver found it greatly helpful.

Lucas quietly found this strange, but doubted Silver would reveal all the weapons in his arsenal for the tournament so soon.

The class found themselves actually tired for the first class in ages by the end of it and despite how sweaty they all were, none of them showed they couldn't keep going.

Silver and Kreese ended the class after an hour and a half of training, and Cobra Kai finished their first class ever with two Senseis.

"Charyot!" Silver called out.

The class slid their left leg in and slapped their hands to their side at the same time.

"Kyung-nae."

Kreese and Silver bowed back to the class.

"Good work everyone, but tomorrow we need better," Kreese said.

"Yes Sensei!" the class echoed as they began to walk off the mats together.

In the waiting area of the dojo, I organized the clothes in my gym bag as Kenny walked up to me.

"Hey." he said nervously. "I was wondering, what exactly is launch speed?"

"I said you didn't have to worry about that."

Kenny frowned, nodding quietly.

I sighed. "I mean. You don't have to worry about that yet. Launch speed is a cornerstone of point sparring, it's how fast you can launch at your opponent to combo or counter them."

Kenny looked like I was speaking Korean to him. I might as well have and I could have, but I didn't.

"You'll learn all of this I promise."

"It's just. Thank you, I know we met at the funeral forever ago and it's like. You're just so incredibly famous man, so much respect." Kenny said.

Shawn put his arm over his little brother's shoulder. "He knows you're a big fan little bro, now cool it."

The Payne brothers walked off and I wondered if I should pay more attention to Tory in class. Because the truth was, I really did like her.

For more than just hooking up though I think.

After practice, I picked up some pizza on my way to Tory's apartment.

Her mom again was occupied and her brother out of the house at a friends so we had her apartment to ourselves.

She had a surprising amount of free time for someone working two jobs to support her family.

After we ate some food together watching some TV, Tory picked up the tomato sauce stained plates from her living room and carried them over to her sink.

As she began to wash them, I slunk over directly behind her.

I pressed myself against her from behind, moving aside her slightly curly long blonde hair in a ponytail to kiss her neck tightly.

I listened to Tory exhale hotly and quietly.

She reached behind herself, hands still wet from the sink and drew them around me, drawing me closer to her.

Tory gasped suddenly, I had latched on to her chest with my hands. She wasn't wearing a bra, just a light blue shirt with the yellow number '49' on it.

"Like that?" I gripped those large, round, beautiful melons tighter through her shirt.

She nodded. "Yeah." she whispered against my lips, wriggling her ass more onto me.

I still had no idea what she ate to get these gorgeous tits so much larger than those of any other person I knew, but she had the largest rack out of anyone at our school. I knew she was proud of them, and she had every right to.

Nichols was incredibly curvy, but until recently I didn't notice how large her rear end was. It was larger and rounder than any girl's I've been with, it always looked fantastic in yoga tights or whatever she tended to wear during training.

I rubbed it through her shorts, placed my hands on her hips muttering against her mouth and neck while I kissed both. "Hey Tory, during practice I know I focus on the class. But your body is really goddamn sexy."

She smirked. "Knew it, I like yours too." she smiled, raising my shirt slightly.

We kissed for a bit, Tory always enjoyed using a fair bit more tongue than I was used to and then I took her out of her clothes, and we had sex against her kitchen counter.

Basically completely naked, Tory laid sweaty against her kitchen counter looking back at me. "Never keep forgetting." she panted slightly. "How good you are at that."

I smirked. "Please don't."

I drew up my pants from the floor with Tory brushing her hair back, smiling at me from the counter as I rebuckled my jeans and left her apartment.

I was getting a call on my way back to my motorcycle.

"Sensei Silver."

"Smitty's Diner, one hour. Be there Schwarber."

"Yes Sensei."

"How was it by the way?"

I finished my fries quietly looking at Silver uncomfortably. "How was what?"

"Training, at Miyagi-Do."

"Mostly useless. It only gave me good counters, there's no footwork, no sparring, no strike work. Grew apart from it."

"Good." Silver smiled. "About what I said about the WKF, it's my intention to hopefully make Cobra Kai the number one karate dojo in the Valley."

"Sort of already is after I took two All Valley titles."

Silver chuckled, crossing his hands together after he sipped his coffee. "We need to start thinking bigger. A third All Valley title would be huge, but there's a much wider horizon out there than just the Valley you know."

"What do you mean?"

"I knew a man back in the day called Mike Barnes. Reminds me heavily of Nichols, but he was brutal, effective. But above all, fast and powerful."

"You think I could be as good as Barnes? And Johnny Lawrence?'

Silver shook his head. "No I think you can be better than both of them ever hoped to be. If, and only if you're willing to put in the work. And trust my teachings that is."

I was still a little unsure of what to think of him, but international glory as a karate champion on the grandest stage of all sounded great.

"I think I will. Sensei."

The voice of Daniel LaRusso was something I didn't miss.

"You both just really like faking your own deaths don't you?"

Silver smiled and turned. "Danny boy. My, it's been decades hasn't it? Sit, chat with us."

"I don't think so."

"Mr. Schwarber, give me and your old Sensei a moment please."

I bowed my head to Terry Silver slightly when I left the booth, I refused to so much as look at Daniel.

Daniel inched closer to the diner booth where Silver sat.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"Getting coffee and seasoned fries with my favorite student. I hear this diner all but sponsored the kid anyway, gave him free milkshakes and everything."

Daniel scoffed. "You shouldn't be allowed near kids, any more than Kreese should. Wanted to see for myself if it was true, that you were back. I heard Lucas had two Senseis now."

"You sound jealous."

"Excuse me?" Daniel raised an eyebrow.

"You had your chance with Lucas, now he's with us."

Daniel scowled. "You and Kreese are in for a rude awakening. I hope you enjoy going back to your days as a depraved lunatic and not a Sensei after the tournament."

"Oh." Silver sipped his coffee. "We're the ones in for a rude awakening? Alright." Silver rested his coffee cup on the booth table. "Lucas has been slipping in these past few months with his training." he swallowed, waving a hand while shifting the coffee cup on the table and shrugging at Daniel. "Something about family trouble and from what I heard, some peace and love hippy girlfriend that took his mind off his crown as All Valley Champion."

Silver smiled. "But now that he's back in, one hundred percent? What can you possibly bring to stop him beyond the apex of his training? There's Miguel Diaz," he nodded slightly. "Fine fighter admittedly, but. In point sparring, sparring for points specifically, is there anyone faster or better than Lucas?"

"I've proved twice with a bit of heart and the right moves, you can make anything happen on the mat."

"Oh please." Silver chuckled. "Those kids in your dojo stand less of a chance than you ever did. Last I checked Johnny and Mike never knew any Miyagi-Do much less knew how to cross train with other styles. Or even had enough knowledge of it to teach it as well."

Silver smiled again.

Daniel balled his fists. "He's turning into a monster as bad as you and Kreese. You two should be proud."

"We always will be. It was nice seeing you again, we'll take good care of Lucas." he said slowly and tauntingly at Daniel before he stormed out of the diner.

Silver sipped his coffee watching him leave.

After practice, I popped by Tory's apartment like always with some takeout to find her laying on her couch on her stomach.

She was wearing nothing more than lingerie, showing the vast majority of her perfect beautiful body. Every inch of her curves and gorgeous smooth skin.

"Starting off early are we?" I asked seeing she was reading a book.

I rubbed my hands down her legs to massage her large bare ass and Tory purred.

"Mm. Maybe."

As I sat near her, Tory raised one of her legs, I slipped off one bra strap and kissed her. I moved the book she was reading on the nearby coffee table, I wanted her full attention.

Tory moaned quietly against my lips, and then spoke when I messed with the small velcro latch holding her bra up on her back.

"Luke. I won't let you take off more than what I'm currently wearing." she exhaled out almost in a moan.

"Why's that?"

"I haven't minded being a shameless rebound from Moon for you until now."

I shrugged. "What's wrong with what we got?"

"I like you, I like how we talk, I like how good you are at fighting. I like all of that, but just quick sex and Chinese food isn't enough for me. I want to date you."

I smiled. "I like you a lot too, but it might be a little soon that's all."

"I get that, but what you see is what you get, okay?"

I nodded but that wouldn't stop me from trying to change her mind. I raised her up in my arms sitting on my knees right behind her on the couch. I kissed my way from her jaw bone to her shoulder, slipping my hands around her hips and then across her stomach.

She was moaning quietly against my neck when I hugged her tightly to me, squeezing almost every inch of her incredible body.

"But Tory, you want this, you want us right?"

"Definitely, but that won't change what I said," she muttered, kissing me on the cheek.

She gasped suddenly with widening eyes when I spanked the side of her huge beautiful butt strongly.

"Sure about that?" I bit into her neck and she chuckled.

"Yup." she hissed, digging her nails into my shoulder as I was still behind her.

We didn't have sex unfortunately, she stayed true to her words, and wouldn't let me undress her more than she already was. I couldn't get any more nude either, Tory wouldn't let me, physically that is, she grabbed me and pinned me to her couch when I tried getting my jeans off.

That was an aspect of her I truly liked, because of how bold she was. I never hurt her physically, but Tory never minded us being rougher intimately, nothing serious, but still she enjoyed a bit more aggression so long as it was appropriate.

The rest of the week, I had to watch who looked at my phone.

Because Tory was doing everything she could to remind me of what she had told me.

She sent me many nudes and sexy pictures as if to say 'tik tok Lucas.'

Pictures of her naked ass through her bathroom mirror in selfies, her bare breasts, holding her phone free hand in her hair with her tongue out at the camera. She wanted me, wanted me to notice her, I liked how much Tory wanted me and knew I wanted her. In fact I really really liked it, but that was something about Tory I noticed early on.

Tory was physically aggressive in the sense she got what she wanted tending to use her body. Her fists if someone pissed her off, and, other parts of her if she wanted something from me. Mainly attention, like brushing her hands or her feet over certain parts of me when we watched TV together on her couch.

She was rough, a bit cruel, and certainly merciless. I loved that, I knew it was her upbringing that made her this tough, and I enjoyed being with her for it.

I needed someone right now who matched what I was, which was purely Cobra Kai.

I just needed some time to think about it, and the daily pictures Tory sent to my phone certainly weren't helping. But for all her conniving and cruelty, there was one part of Tory I truly respected, and that was that she did retain a certain code.

For all of our shenanigans, and there were plenty, at her house, sometimes in my car, even in Shawn's house one time when everyone in Cobra Kai was just chilling at his house one day after practice. Again, she didn't want us to have any true sexual contact, but everything else like making out and stuff was fine. But there was one place we both considered sacred, and that was the dojo.

The dojo was where we trained, we didn't have any "sparring" sessions there because we just respected both Senseis that much. Well at least Sensei Kreese, we didn't know what to think of Sensei Silver yet.

Besides that one time right before the country club fight where Tory all but flashed me her tits through her GI, we never so much as dared to lightly brush our hands on each other's bodies accidentally while on any mat, in the back room or the main dojo.

Still, besides how hot she was and how hot our time together was, for the time being, I mainly focused on training and school when it started up again right after winter break ended.

I was just off my game in the weeks of last semester. I stopped focusing on my basics, my fundamentals.

Footwork, spacing, timing.

Point sparring was my thing, everyone knew that. I was naturally quick and strong, even with how much muscle I packed on but that launching speed, that timing to land points, that never went away.

Except when it did.

Last semester I was not in the right head space, I don't know what it was. Miguel Diaz was in my opinion a great fighter, the only person I think should reasonably be able to land any points on me at all in the upcoming tournament.

But he wasn't Pat Johnson or Terry Silver, men who studied karate for damn near fifty years and were basically founders of American Karate.

Now I felt focused, I felt strong, I felt right.

It was going to be one hell of a semester.

After some contemplation, I invited Tory over to my house.

Initially, I made it out to be another relaxed make out session with snacks and video games in my garage, but wanted it to be planned to be another thing.

Tory walked into my open garage and then I closed it behind her.

"So what's up?" she shrugged.

"I wanted to give you an answer. I've given it some thought, and despite it being early. I've decided." I nodded slowly. "I'll be your boyfriend, I'll date you and only you. With real dates."

Tory smiled brightly. "Okay! Sweet."

"I'll hit up Hawk and let him know, sure Sensei Kreese and Sensei Silver won't be happy-"

"What? Luke, I didn't mean we had to let people know right away. I just wanted us to be committed to each other, that's all."

"Really?"

Tory nodded. "Yeah. I know you just broke up with someone, I just wanted to know if you'd actually date me and not keep me as just some fuck buddy."

"Awesome, so are we cool now and-"

Tory answered by wrapping her arms around my neck and kissing me.

"Sweet." I smiled.

We sat on the couch in my garage and played Halo together. Tory really wasn't one for video games despite being admittedly a bit of a tom boy but we enjoyed it.

"Holy shit I don't think I've ever won that quickly." I said.

She was a natural at Halo. A part of me wanted to tell Hawk and Shawn and the guys that she was better than all of us, but then they'd ask how I knew that.

Capture the flag, slayer, all of them, we won. She was so good at the game, she picked up on it within ten minutes and somehow better than I was.

"Victory." the announcer said quietly on screen after another game 3 to 0.

"We won again!" I laughed. "Wow."

"Mm." Tory smiled at me. "We make quite the team. Think you've earned a little, reward. Cause this was really goddamn fun."

Before I could react she moved into my lap and rather forcefully shoved her tongue into my throat. I squeezed her ass through her short shorts and I heard her moan into my mouth with a tiny breath. I also held those golden blonde locks tightly as we made out, both of us holding on to each other tightly.

"I know it's only been a few days since we last had sex but." Tory panted. "I missed it already."

"Same here."

She kissed me again.

I had missed it a lot, so it was very nice to hear she missed it too.

Since the start of last summer I had been having sex pretty regularly, but ever since properly starting to with Tory the night of the country club fight. I hadn't ever wanted someone this much, and I think a part of Tory felt the same way, at least I hoped.

As soon as I took off her shirt and then her bra I felt my heart racing. After a week and a half of teasing me and hiding all of herself from me I was finally going to-

"Luke!?"

"Jesus ma!"

I barely had enough time to cover Tory's chest before Tory laughed embarrassedly in surprise.

I expected Mom was used to seeing people my age relatively naked even though I doubted she did breast exams, but after knowing Miguel and Sam were probably caught in Mr. Miyagi's house a decent bit by Daniel it lessened my embarrassment too.

Mom wasn't shocked or embarrassed at all when Tory slipped her sweatshirt back on and cleared her throat.

"Doctor Mills."

Mom nodded slightly in return. "Just Ms. Mills is fine now sweetie."

"Yeah." Tory said weakly. "Got it."

Tory smiled towards me, and awkwardly pecked me on the lips right in front of my mother before she walked off towards her car. Although again considering what we were just caught doing it was next to nothing.

"How often have you had girls in the garage?" asked Mom.

"Eh…just a few times."

A complete lie.

I saw the look on her face. "I know, bad influence on me, she's dangerous and crazy. Yasmine would've been a better pick, whatever."

"No honey it's not about that. It's about the tournament, and the country club."

"What about it?"

"Because you can't be banned from the country club. As a, very well known legacy member being part of our family. The country club board will take action against karate, they are very mad some sort of karate gang war was started on club property. They want to send a message of sorts."

I shrugged. "So? Sensei Silver already talked to them. Matter's closed."

"Yes but they identified you as being the main person responsible. You let in the boy you fought, and then all of your friends followed you two and broke in to fight as well."

"So what are they going to do?"

"They have enough influence and, namely, evidence to go to the City board and try to cancel the tournament."

That probably wouldn't work but the headache of them trying on its own would be painful enough.

My eyes widened. "What?"

"Unless, you go and explain what happened. And apologize. The Club director is an old friend of the family's, this could've been far, far worse honey."

I sighed. "Thanks ma."

"We expect to see you with him in his office this Friday at seven."

"Alright."

"Also your little sister's moving with us here next week."

My eyes widened. "Ava's what now!?"

"Ava will be moving in here in a few days." Mom said calmly.

As if it wasn't hard enough trying to sneak in some private time with Tory with my own mother in the house as well as both my grandparents I had to worry about my own sister now too.

"Luke I have to ask, did you use protection?"

"Mom!"

"I'm too young to be a grandmother, and sexually transmitted infections aren't fun-"

"Mom get out!"

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Author's Note:

So, this is the fifth and final book.

Because I am still getting comments on the pairings heading towards the finale of the entire series, I need to set the record straight to save people some questions.

Lucas will be paired with Tory, Miguel with Sam, and Johnny possibly with Ali. The rest are just all canon pairings too, like Daniel and Amanda and so forth, people who were already together at the start of the Cobra Kai series.

The next chapter will be focused a little bit on Miguel Diaz, and again, this is the very last book that covers what would be season 4. I will try my very best to make it the best possible as even though there will be other to continue this one, this is the book to end the entire series.

Anyway, I'll see you all next time in the next chapter.