The teens went into the house but they kept the door open so they could listen. They were fighting for who could get to peek through the slit. "I don't know what padded room you crawled out of or what twisted games you two are playing but if you don't get off my property right now, I swear…" Daniel let the threat linger in the air.
"Your dad is pissed. Who is that?" Miguel asked.
"Terry Silver." Lee recognized him from her dad's parties.
"What? How do you…" Hawk wonders how she knew him.
"I'm trying to listen." She hushed him.
"Okay…okay I tried. We'll still hold our students to a moratorium on fighting before the tournament, for what it's worth. Provided, of course, you do the same." Terry pointed a finger at Daniel.
"Just remember our deal if Cobra Kai wins the All Valley you two are done teaching for good." Kreese reminds them.
"That's not going to happen 'cause you're not going to win now get the hell out of here." Daniel walked Silver out.
"Has it come down to this Johnny Lawerence playing second fiddle to little Daniel LaRusso?" Kreese steps in front of Johnny.
"Don't let him get into your head, Sensei. He is trying to break us apart because he knows that he'll lose." Lee stepped out of the house.
"I got this." He warns her to not get in between them. "No one is playing second fiddle. This is my dojo as much as it is his." He turned back to Kreese.
"Really? The sign out front says Miyagi-Do." He noticed it on his way in.
"Unless you want it crammed up your ass sideways, you'd better take off." He pointed to the front. Kreese took his leave. "Who the hell is that?" He asked when Daniel came back.
"Terry Silver. The former Head of DynaTox Industries. They used to be the only company that did toxic waste dumping so his family is mega-rich despite them getting shut down for illegal dumping. He was able to clean his family name by being a philanthropist. He makes most of his money from investments and stock." She listed everything she knew about him.
"How do you know that?" Hawk repeated his question.
"He's a business partner with my dad, helps him get his foreign models. He's at all the Christmas parties." She explained. "Has good teasing in jewelry." She tugged at the tennis bracelet on her wrist.
"Of course, he's friends with Cole." Daniel sighed.
Lee bites the side of her cheek. She knew he had every right to hate her dad. He went after his business and made fun of him every chance he got. He was still her dad. The man that protects and provides for her. "That's the fact that you want to stew on."
"Sorry." He tried to keep his hate for Tom Cole to a minimum around the girl.
"What do you have against Terry anyways?" She knew he wasn't a good guy if he was friends with Kreese but she wanted details.
"Trust me, this man is sick and calculated. He is worse than Kreese." He told her.
"Well, that is a frightening thought." Demetri sighes.
Demetri, Hawk, and Lee were walking down the school halls. "So, I looked it up and it turns out everything you heard about the guy is true." He showed them an article on Silver being a philanthropist on his tablet.
"The fact that you looked it up like you didn't trust me." Lee glares at him from under Hawk's arm.
"You said you didn't do any research. All your information was based on things you heard." He couldn't trust an unreliable source.
"From my grandma who heard it from the old biddies at the country club." Those old ladies knew about all the gossip from generations ago to tomorrow. "She got a small crush on him. She gushes about him at every party he comes to. It explains why she got all the information she could on him."
The guys were grossed out by that. "Does he seem like a bad guy?" Eli asks.
"Honestly, no but he does put on the charm 24/7. I thought he seemed kind of fake but he gives the most expensive gifts, so I couldn't hate on a man that I see a couple of times a year that brings Jimmy Choo." She shrugged.
"We'll see if that opinion changes." Demetri was hoping that Kreese only brought this guy in as a cash cow.
Yasmine and Moon came over. Demetri got pulled a couple of feet away by his girlfriend to make out. "I like the new hue." Moon pointed at Hawks' mohawk. "Purple's the color of the crown chakra. It symbolizes enlightenment."
"I can't take credit for this one, Lee chose it." He squeezed the shoulder his hand was on.
"You didn't go with silver." She was surprised.
"He wouldn't go for it so I went with my second choice." She knew Hawk would never.
"Silver is gray. I don't want to be mistaken for an old man even from afar." He also didn't want Lee fantasizing about anime characters while she was with him.
"So, why purple?" She asked.
"It was my favorite color as a toddler because of Barney." She explained.
"What?" Hawk shouted. He couldn't believe his hair was colored after a dinosaur.
The sound of a smack made them turn to see Demetri getting his ass grabbed. "Later guys." Moon laughed as she followed her friend who was walking away.
Lee laughed at his dazed expression. Hawk unwrapped himself from her to throw an arm around Demetri. "No offense, but I have no idea how you pulled that off."
"Neither do I. I guess I was just myself and somehow that worked." He laughs, not being able to believe it himself.
"It's not that odd. You were kind to her in her lowest moment. Most people were standing in line to take jabs at her. You didn't." Lee brushes past them. She needs to get to her locker to switch out her books before the bell.
"That's right, you girl-talk with her. What does she say about me?" Demetri ran after her.
"That's not my business to tell." She shook her head. Demetri kept pestering her. Eli laughed as he caught up to them.
They turn the corner to see Miguel and Sam. "Yo, you guys aren't going to believe this. Sensei got drunk and went on a Twitter rant."
"I believe everything except for the part where he knows how to tweet." Demetri grabs Miguel's phone.
Lee took her phone out to get on his page. "It's on Lawrence-LaRusso rematch hashbrown dead meat. It's time for the Valley to see what karate is all about. Tomorrow night Eagles reign supreme." She read the three tweets.
"Looks like he and Sensei LaRusso are going to have a rematch," Miguel told them.
"I'm kind of impressed that he was able to type a full sentence while he was drunk." Lee looks at his first tweet, How does this thing work?
"Are they going to do it?" Hawk asked.
"I should've seen this coming." Sam huffed.
"Who does he even think he's tweeting to? You two are his only followers." Demetri looks up from the phone.
"I don't know but he seems serious about it." Miguel points at the phone.
"So, Sensei and Sensei are going to fight, this is going to be awesome." Hawk cheered. They looked at him, not believing he didn't understand why this situation wasn't good.
Lee called Johnny and put him on speaker. "Hey, kid, make it quick. I'm going on a run to start my training for my fight."
"What happened at the bar last night?" She asked.
"LaRusso freaking out over the ponytail bastard. He said that his way is the only way. My style is never going to be able to beat Cobra Kai. He is going to find out how much better my style is than his tonight. Now, I gotta go try to find my workout cassettes." He hangs up.
"Did he say cassettes?" Demetri squinted at the phone.
"You need to talk to my dad." Lee glares at Sam.
While Sam agreed that she needed to do that, she didn't like Lee's tone. "I'm going to talk to him but you need to calm down Johnny." She pointed at her.
"I will." Miguel stepped between them, seeing how they were glaring at each other.
"Come on." Eli grabs her hand to drag her over to her locker. "I know you don't like either LaRussos but you can't pick a fight with them every time you're annoyed."
"Sam doesn't bother as much but Daniel likes talking down to Johnny. It's not right." She pouts.
"Well, Sensei is a big boy who is going to kick his ass tonight." He opened her locker for her. She didn't even ask how he knew her combination.
Everyone was at the dojo, excited to see the fight go down. Chris brought his go-pro to film the whole thing. "There he is, there he is." He ran over when Johnny entered the yard. "Anything you want to say to the camera, Sensei Lawrence? Anything you want to say before the fight."
Lee shoves him aside to step in front of Johnny. "What, you want to try to talk me out of this fight too?"
"Remember when you apologize for making this about you when it should be about us. That means nothing if you fight him. Everyone here wants to learn both styles." She crosses her arms.
"Hey, I was fine with that but Daniel only wants his way. So I'm fighting for my way." He points to his chest.
"How about if you win then it can still be both styles?" She went on when he looked disgusted. "I know that you feel like that's admitting he's right but it's not about him. It's about Miguel, Hawk, Sam, Bert, and everyone here."
"Fine, I'll change the terms." He walks onto the platform. "I think there might be a better way to…"
Daniel cut him off before he could finish. "There is, you just don't want to admit it."
Johnny let out a bitter laugh. "Don't you think you ever might be wrong about anything?"
"No, he doesn't." Lee snapped. Miguel covers her mouth.
"Do you want to rehash your baseless argument from last night in front of these kids?" Daniel pointed at them.
"No, I want what's best for them." He glares at Daniel for being childish.
"What's best for them is Miyagi-do, if fighting you is the only way I can get that then let's get this done." Daniel's indifference about fighting him pisses Johnny off. It was like beating him in a fight was an easy but annoying task.
"Let's finish this." Johnny nods.
Sam and Miguel got on stage to get them to bow and start the fight. "Where is Eli?" Demetri didn't think he would miss this.
"He got the mohawk on the hawk tattoo purple and retouched my lips, but he should be done by now" She looks to see that he didn't respond to her text asking where he was.
"Maybe his mom found out about the tattoos." He thought of the one thing that could get his phone taken away.
"Fight!" Sam yelled. Johnny was able to jab Daniel in the ribs. "Point, Lawrence." Sam holds up the flag. Her dad shot her an annoyed look. Lee scoffed, did he want her to be biased so that he would win?
"Sensei Lawrence Strike First!" Chris screamed for the camera.
Mitch put on an announcer's voice. "True to the motto painted on his former dojo walls and carved into his very being." Chris looked at him wondering what he was doing. "What? I'm trying to capture the spirit of the thing."
He nods before going back to the fight that was about to start again. Daniel was able to land a kick to Johnny's stomach. "Point, LaRusso," Miguel yelled quickly. Johnny didn't like the enthusiasm he had. So, when the first started again Johnny went all in making him not able to stop the punch to the stomach.
"Point, LaRusso." Sam didn't sound that excited about it.
"Hell yeah, Two to one. LaRusso in the lead." Chris cheered.
"All he has to do is get one more point and LaRusso wins." Mitch was still playing announcer.
The fight went on, and LaRusso grabbed Johnny's arm to hit the two nerve points to stun him. "What the hell, man?"
"Use your legs, Sensei." Lee thinks this fight was stupid, but she'd be damn if Johnny went down so easily. He was able to use his legs to take Daniel to the ground.
"Point Lawrence." Miguel put up his flag.
"Any more dirty trick up your sleeve." Johnny got up holding his arm.
"This next one is for everything." Chris was getting excited along with the crowd.
They were going all out, not wanting to lose to their arch-enemy in front of their students. In a weird turn of events, Daniel delivers the knock-out kick at the same time Johnny lands his hard right hook knocking them both to the ground.
"Point, LaRusso," Miguel yelled.
"Point, Lareences." Sam put up a flag.
"Are you sure?" Miguel asked.
"Are you?" She asked.
"Let's go to the replay." Demetri points to Chris. They gather around to see the tape, from the video it looked like it was at the same moment.
"Go to another angle," Johnny told him.
"There is no other angle." Chris looks at him wondering how he thought that was possible.
"Why weren't you filming too?" He asked Lee.
"Because I thought the whole fight was pointless. It's not like Demetri going to stick around if you win or Mitch is going to stick around if LaRusso wins." She rolled her eyes.
"That's true. I respect your teaching but the meditation and riddles, I can't deal with that daily." Mitch admits.
"I can't deal with those crazy dangerous lessons all the time." Demetri nods.
"Maybe we need to find another way to compromise. A way where you two don't have to see each other all the time." She looks at the senseis.
"Hawk?" Miguel recognizes the figure limping toward them.
"Babe, have you been crying?" She saw his wet cheeks and red eyes.
"What happened, Eli?" Demetri was shocked that his friend, whose normal strut was filled with confidence, seemed to be curling into himself.
Eli took off his hood to reveal his mohawk had been shaved off. Only two misshaped trails of purple were left on either side. "Who did this?" Johnny pushed his way to the front.
"Cobra Kai." He looks down at his feet.
"Kreese and Silver need to pay for doing this." He put his hood back on.
"Jeez, Johnny please." Daniel sighes. "Kreese tried to kill you last time. Do you want to fight them both?"
"Damn right I do, look what they did." He pointed at Hawk.
"Dousing the fire with gasoline, that's your answer? Why am I not surprised?" He shook his head in disappointment.
"Stop, Sensei." Miguel scolds.
"Johnny is not being a narrow-minded asshole right now. He's the one that wants only his teaching all of a sudden." Lee didn't know why Miguel was sucking up to Daniel.
"You think your way is the only way. You were so proud when they pulled their little sprinkle prank, which is why this happened. If they stood their ground and kicked ass as I taught them this wouldn't have happened." Johnny shook his head in disgust.
"If they fight every time they provoke, where does that lead? The hospital, jail, just because you spend your time in both…" Daniel glares.
"Hey! Low blow." Lee cut him off.
"Enough, Dad." Sam grabbed his arm. "Johnny's right. It doesn't matter how many times we stand up to Cobra Kai if we don't strike back then they keep messing with us because they think they can get away with it."
"And you were worried about my influence on your kids?" He couldn't believe how Johnny got into Sam's head. "Is this what you want Johnny to have my daughter and the rest of my students acting like you?"
Johnny scoffed, realizing that Daniel never saw him as an equal. "You don't have to worry about that anymore because we're done."
"Fine by me." Daniel threw his hands up.
"Let's go Eagle Fangs." He walks by Hawk's side. Lee and Mitch went over right away. Bert follows after them with the rest of their dojo. They looked over at Miguel who didn't move from LaRusso's side. Miguel hung his head as he walked with them out.