The male semifinals just ended, the good news is that Demetri Alexopoulos beat Kenny Payne and reached the final, the bad news is that Shawn Payne didn't just defeat Hawk and Robby, he also beat Miguel Diaz, Shawn and Miguel had a very close fight, but when Miguel makes the last point the referee doesn't count it, claiming that Shawn was out of bounds, after that, Shawn scored the third point and defeated Miguel, now everything depended on Demetri and the senseis Daniel and Johnny were already losing hope.


Daniel and Johnny: We're screwed.

Referee: The women's semifinals are about to start, the first fight will be Samantha Larusso from Miyagi-Fang against Piper Elswith from Cobra Kai!

Silver: Elswith, it's you against Samantha, you won't be humilhated like you did last year, will you?

Piper: No sensei, I admit I underestimated her last year, but this time I'm ready for her.

Mike: Great and remember, no mercy.

Samantha and Piper climb onto the mat.

Referee (while he was speaking they did what he said): Facing me, bow, facing each other, bow and... FIGHT!

Samantha starts attacking, just like she did in the last fight against Piper, but this time, Piper seems ready for all of her attacks, every time she tries to attack, Piper manages to block or dodge her attacks.

Samantha (in her head): Wow, she's gotten a lot stronger since I faced her last year, but not enough.

Piper tries to attack Samantha, but she dodges, Piper then tries to trip her, but Samantha jumps and kicks her in the face.

Referee: Point, Larusso! score 1-0, get ready and... FIGHT!

Piper tries to attack Samantha, but she grabs her leg and knocks her to the ground, Samantha tries to hit her, but Piper rolls to the side, she tries to hit Samantha with a sweep, but Samantha dodges again, Piper gets up and tries to push Samantha so she loses her balance, but she jumps over her opponent, grabs her from behind, knocks her to the ground and scores another point.

Referee: Point, Larusso! score 2-0.

Piper, seeing that there was no way she could beat Samantha alone, so she asks for time out to ask her senseis for help.

Referee: Go to your senseis.

Piper goes to talk to Silver and Barnes.

Piper: I don't know what to do, I can't beat her.

She expected Silver and Barnes to get mad at her or give her some hint that she hadn't been able to pick up on, but Mike Barnes' response was not at all what she'd expected.

Mike: You're right, you can't.

Piper: What?

Silver: He's right, I've seen that girl fight several times, Nichols is the only one of ours who has a chance against her, but remember, if she wins, the whole dojo wins, so if you want to help Cobra Kai winning there's one thing you can do.

Silver whispers something in her ear, she seems a little reluctant, but agrees to do what Silver said, she then goes back to the mat.

Referee: All right ladies, get ready and... FIGHT!

Samantha and Piper try to attack each other but all attacks are blocked, Piper tries to hit Samantha with several punches, but Samantha blocks them all, Samantha then starts attacking Piper with kicks, but Piper blocks several of them, Piper then tries to grab Samantha, but she breaks free and hits her with a punch to the torso, knocking her opponent to the ground.

Referee: Point, Larusso! winner!

As the referee announced Samantha's victory, Piper hits her with a kick to the knee, knocking her opponent to the ground, Samantha feels a lot of pain because of this kick, but she gets up normally.

Referee: Hey, what did you do? the fight is over, go back to your place.

Piper goes back to the other Cobra Kai and Samantha goes to her senseis.

Daniel: Samantha, what did they do to you? Are you okay?

Samantha: Yes dad, I'm fine, my leg hurts a little, but it's not something that prevents me from fighting.

Johnny: You know you don't have to fight if you don't want to.

Samantha: I know, but I really, want to fight in the final, whether it's Tory or Devon, I think I can win.

Devon: Sorry to ruin your dreams, but that's not going to happen, because I'm going to win this tournament and neither you nor Tory will stop me.

Referee: Let's find out who will be Samantha's opponent in the final, the fight that will decide that starts now, Devon Lee against Tory Nichols!

Silver starts talking to Tory.

Silver: What's up? Are you ready to crush this one and then win the two-time championship over Samantha?

Tory: Yes sensei.

But actually Tory's thoughts were completely different.

Tory (in her head): It's not her I'm going to crush Terry Silver, it's you, wait until the end of the tournament.

Tory and Devon get on the mat.

Referee (while he was speaking they did what he said): Facing me, bow, facing each other, bow and... FIGHT!

Devon charges towards Tory, but her attacks are blocked, Tory tries to counter with a kick, but Devon dodges the attack, Devon attacks with a kick and hits Tory in the chest.

Referee: Point, Lee! score 1-0, get ready and... FIGHT!

Devon: Oh no, I won't lose to you this time.

Tory goes towards Devon and tries to hit her with several attacks, Devon dodges the attacks, she then ducks and trips Tory, Devon tries to attack Tory, but Tory trips her and while Devon is on the ground, Tory hits her with her foot.

Referee: Point, Nichols! score 1-1, get ready and... FIGHT!

Devon tries to attack Tory, but all attacks are blocked, Tory tries to hit Devon with several spinning kicks, but Devon dodges them all, she tries to hit Tory with a punch, but Tory dodges the attack, pushes her to the ground and hits her with a punch punch.

Referee: Point, Nichols! score 1-2, get ready and... FIGHT!

Tory starts to attack but Devon blocks several attacks, Tory tries to hit Devon but Devon knocks her down, Devon tries to hit Tory but even on the ground, Tory blocks her attack, she then hits Devon with a kick, knocking her down.

Referee: Point, Nichols! winner! That's right ladies and gentlemen, last year's female final will be repeated.

Devon goes to her place and starts talking to Johnny.

Devon: DARN IT! I can't believe I lost to her again.

Johnny: Look, you don't have to feel bad, you fought a lot better than last year.

Devon: I'm not feeling bad, okay, I'll admit that Samantha and Tory are better fighters, but give me a break, I've been training for like a year, they've been training since they were in diapers, but next year this tournament is mine.

Daniel: So it's Samantha and Tory in the finals again.

Johnny: Yeah...

Daniel and Johnny: Now we're really screwed.

Daniel and Johnny were scared because... please Shawn beat the three best students in their dojo (even with a little help from the referee) the guy knocked out Hawk, Robby and Miguel, what could Demetri do to him? their only chance would be if Devon reached the finals of the female tournament, so she and Samantha would win the final points and even with Cobra Kai winning the male tournament they would still have more points, now the only chance was that both Samantha and Demetri win the tournament, to make matters worse, Samantha would definitely be a match for Tory if she was 100%, but considering she was injured, the odds weren't in their favor, but Chozen calmed them down.

Chozen: I think you are underestimating your students, I saw Demetri fight, he can surprise and even though she's injured, Samantha-San trained for this tournament more than anyone else, it will take more than a kick to the knee to stop her from winning.

Demetri on the other hand wasn't so confident.

Demetri (in his head): What now? Really, Is it really up to me to put an end to Cobra Kai? but how am i going to defeat that guy? even our best fighters couldn't.

After some time the finals begin.

Referee: Ladies and gentlemen, now it's time for the male final between Demetri Alexopoulos from Miyagi-Fang versus Shawn Payne from Cobra Kai!

Daniel: Alright Demetri, now it's up to you.

Demetri: Mr. Larusso, do you really think I can defeat that guy? Did you see what he did to...

Johnny: QUIET! if you continue with this attitude you will certainly not defeat him, be a man.

Demetri: Mr. Lawrence, are you looking at the same guy I am? he must be a Demetri and a half tall and weighs about two Demetris and a half, he's like the Hulk and I'm like... well, me.

Hawk: Come on man, it's ok for you to lose if you give your best, but to lose because you didn't try? This is unacceptable.

Miguel: You know, sometimes the greatest heroes come from the most unexpected places.

Robby: When I met you I never thought you would make it to the semifinals in your first tournament, let alone make it to the finals in this one, you exceeded my expectations, everyone else's I think.

Chozen: You train hard to get here, no give up now.

Demetri: Okay, I'll fight.

Shawn: Any advice for the last fight?

Silver: Crush that bug.

Mike: No mercy.

Demetri and Shawn get on the mat.

Referee (while he was speaking they did what he said): Facing me, bow, facing each other, bow and... FIGHT!

Shawn tries to attack Demetri, but he dodges the attack and tries to hit Shawn with a punch, but Shawn blocks the attack, Shawn then trips Demetri and hits him with a punch.

Referee: Point, Payne! score 1-0, get ready and... FIGHT!

Shawn grabs Demetri, but he manages to break free and dodge Shawn's latest attack, he then manages to hit Shawn with a kick to the torso.

Johnny: Yeah!

Referee: Point, Alexopoulos! score 1-1, get ready and... FIGHT!

Unlike the other times, this time Demetri starts attacking, he tries to hit Shawn with several kicks, but Shawn blocks them all, Shawn then grabs Demetri's leg and throws him to the ground, but then Demetri trips Shawn and when he falls Demetri hits him with his foot.

Referee: Point, Alexopoulos! score 1-2, go to your senseis.

Shawn goes to talk to Silver and Barnes and they look disappointed.

Silver: What is this? don't tell me you're no match for that skinny guy.

Shawn: Don't worry, I'm not done yet.

Mike: That's good to hear, you won't be forgiven if you lose to this guy.

They return to the mat.

Referee: Get ready and... FIGHT!

Shawn tries to attack Demetri repeatedly, he manages to block several attacks, but Shawn manages to hit him with a kick to the chest.

Referee: Point, Payne! score 2-2, go to your senseis.

Demetri goes to Daniel and the others.

Daniel: You are fighting very well, one more point and the fight is over.

Demetri: I... I don't know if I can go on, that last kick hurt a lot.

Johnny: Swallow the pain, are you a man or a mouse?

Demetri: No, I can't, it hurts a lot.

Suddenly Yasmine comes out of the stands and goes to him.

Yasmine: Don't give up, you have to keep fighting, we're cheering for you, show everyone how good you are, show me.

She kisses him and he kisses her back.

Yasmine: Come on, defeat this guy for me to see.

Chozen: Trust your instincts, use everything you know.

Yasmine: And most importantly, believe in yourself.

Demetri felt so much better just knowing that his girlfriend was with him, he was ready to fight again, no matter what he wasn't going to give up, he would only fall when all his strength ran out.

Referee: Very well gentlemen, next point wins, get ready and... FIGHT!

Shawn advances towards Demetri and tries to hit him with a punch, but he blocks the attack, Demetri tries to grab Shawn, but Shawn breaks free, Demetri then runs to the edge of the mat and waits for Shawn to come to attack him, when Shawn does, Demetri ducks under him and grabs him from behind, knocking Shawn down and hitting him with a punch.

Referee: No point, out of bounds.

Demetri: What?

Johnny: HEY YOU REFEREE, he was on the mat, I saw it.

Referee: Get ready and... FIGHT!

This time Shawn grabs Demetri and tries to throw him to the ground, but Demetri manages to free himself, Shawn then pushes him away and jumps towards him, but at this moment, Demetri jumps too and hits Shawn with a punch in the chest, Shawn falls to the ground. floor and Demetri lands on his feet.

Referee: Point, winner! and the male champion is Demetri Alexopoulos!

Yasmine: Demetri!

She runs towards the mat, knocks Demetri to the floor and kisses him.

Shawn gets up from the mat, looks at Demetri and says:

Shawn: Congratulations man, you deserved to win.

Hawk: That's my Binary Brother!

Referee: Here's your trophy (he says handing the trophy to Demetri).

Demetri takes the trophy and celebrates, so Hawk and the others get on the mat and hug him.

There were no words to express how happy Demetri was at that moment, never would he expect he would make it but everyone believed in him so he had to believe him too and he succeeded, his opponent was a giant but using everything he had he emerged victorious.

Demetri (in his head): I feel like I've finally become a real member of this dojo, thank you all, thank you very much.

Johnny: But who would think of attacking like that?

Hawk: Demetri would, sometimes we need to come up with a creative solution.

Referee: And with that, Miyagi-Fang takes the lead, now everything depends on the female final, in a little while.

Samantha: Demetri, you fought really well.

Demetri: Thanks, now it's up to you, if you defeat the Queen Cobra we win the tournament.

Yasmine (in Demetri's ear): Tonight you will get another prize, my champion.

Meanwhile, Silver was angry with Shawn.

Silver: WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT? you complimented him when he just beat you.

Shawn: He beat me in a fair fight, the least I had to do was congratulate him on that.

Mike: Forget him, Nichols won't lose to her.

Despite having already overcome her defeat and having defeated Tory the last times they faced each other, that fight from last year's tournament was still a ghost in Samantha's life, not only for losing to her biggest rival, but also for the importance that that fight had, so she was more determined than ever not to make the same mistake again.

Samantha: It's me against Tory again, no matter what, I can't lose this fight.

A few minutes later the fight between Samantha and Tory begins.

Referee (while he was speaking they did what he said): Facing me, bow, facing each other, bow and... FIGHT!

Samantha goes towards Tory and tries to hit her with several punches, but Tory blocks the attacks, Tory tries to counterattack, but Samantha dodges the attack and hits Tory with a kick to the torso.

Referee: Point, Larusso! score 1-0, get ready and... FIGHT!

Tory goes to Samantha, but she dodges the attack, Samantha grabs her and throws her to the ground, but Tory dodges the attack, gets up and hits Samantha with a punch.

Referee: Point, Nichols! score 1-1, get ready and... FIGHT!

Samantha goes to Tory and tries to push her away, but when Samantha is about to knock Tory down, she punches Samantha.

Referee: Point, Nichols! score 1-2, get ready and... FIGHT!

Samantha doesn't give up, she waits for Tory to attack and when Tory tries to hit her with a punch she dodges the attack and hits Tory with a spin kick.

Referee: Point, Larusso, score 2-2, go to your senseis.

They go to their senseis.

Chozen: Samantha-San, you fought very well so far, win or lose you're a winner.

Johnny: Go out there and crush her.

Daniel: You'll make it, I know you will.

Samantha: That's right, I can't lose to her, I'll use everything I have, EVERYTHING!

Meanwhile:

Silver: Hit her leg.

Tory: What?

Silver: If she can't stand, she can't fight.

Mike: Do you have any objection?

Tory: I...

Referee: Okay, time is up, back on the mat.

They get on the mat.

Referee: Next point wins, get ready and... FIGHT!

Tory starts attacking Samantha, but she blocks some of the attacks, she tries to hit Tory with a punch, but Tory dodges the attack, she then tries to knock Samantha to the ground, but Samantha dodges the attack, she then grabs Tory from behind, throws her to the ground but Tory manages to get Samantha off her, Tory gets up and tries to hit Samantha with a few kicks, but Samantha blocks them all, Tory ducks and tries to hit Samantha with a kick, but at that moment, Samantha counters with a Flying Tornado Kick, hitting Tory in the face.

Referee: Point, Larusso! winner! and the female champion is Samantha Larusso (he hands the trophy to Samantha)!

Miguel: You did it Samantha!

Daniel: That's my girl!

Referee: And with this victory, the champion dojo of the 52nd Under-18 All-Valley Karate Tournament is Miyagi-Fang Karate!

He hands the trophy to Chozen.

Mike: That shouldn't have happened.

Silver was FURIOUS! even with the referee's cheating Cobra Kai lost, his best student showed respect to the student from the rival dojo and Tory didn't follow his order, so he takes the microphone from the referee's hands and says:

Silver: I demand that this tournament be redone.

Referee: We can't do that.

Silver: You have to, I'm sure there was a cheat.

It was then that Tory, who was still lying on the mat, got up from the mat, she was willing to carry out her plans, even though she lost the tournament, so she took the microphone and said:

Tory: Yes, there was a cheat, but the only cheater here is you Terry Silver!

Everyone is shocked to hear this, including Samantha and the other Miyagi-Fang students.

Tory: Yes, I have evidence, check this out (she shows her cell phone with a video of Silver bribing the referee) plus he made Piper Elswith hurt Samantha's leg in the semifinals just so I could beat her in the final, besides he and you too Mike Barnes told me to purposely hit her leg, but I didn't because I wanted to beat her fairly and it's not the first time this has happened, that's right, in the finals of last year's tournament against this very same opponent, when I accidentally elbowed her in the eye, he told me to do the same with the other eye and why did he do that? because he wanted to win but had no confidence in me, this man is a disgrace to the world of karate.

Silver realized that Tory knew his secrets, he was toast already, he just hadn't admitted it yet.

Silver: Tory, it's not like that I just...

Tory: Don't believe what he says, he even betrayed the one who was considered his best friend, John Kreese, this is the real sensei of Cobra Kai, but Silver beat up a man, Raymond, some of you know him as Stingray, and made this guy blame John Kreese for something he did, you don't believe me? okay, then check this out.

She shows the video of Silver beating up Stingray.

Tory: I stayed by his side for personal reasons, that was my biggest mistake, however after a while I realized that I could use this mistake to do the right thing, so I collected some evidence of the cruelties he committed, just to destroy him.

Silver seeing that he couldn't buy his way out of this, does something desperate.

Silver (grabbing Tory and starting to choke her): Nichols you traitor, now you're going to see what happens to who betrays Cobra Kai, how second place feels now huh?

At that moment, Chozen get on the mat.

Chozen: Hey, let girl go, now.

Samantha: Exactly, let her go.

Silver simply pretended not to hear, but then Chozen uses the pressure point technique and paralyzes him, Mike Barnes tries to attack as well, but using that same technique, Chozen easily defeats him.

Samantha (seeing how Tory was): Are you okay?

Tory (after taking a breath): Yes, thanks to your sensei, there are a few things I wanted to say to you, the first few times we faced each other I was so focused on beating you that I kind of freaked out, I just want to say that I'm sorry and... you deserved this victory.

Samantha: Tory I... even though you tried to kill me several times the truth is that I always respected you as an opponent, I mean, you were my toughest opponent, I always had to use everything I had to defeat you, even though you didn't win here, you're a great fighter and I'm proud to be your opponent and now that you did the right thing and helped us finish off Terry Silver I'm even more proud.

They shake hands and respectfully say goodbye, later, Tory went to the prison where Kreese was being held, as after her testimony, his innocence was proven and Kreese was released.

Kreese: Nichols, it's good to see you again, this time outside those bars, I saw what you did in the tournament, I can't believe you did that.

Tory: Well, Silver offered me money for me to side with him, but after that day I came to visit you, I knew I had to do the right thing, just like you did for me in the last tournament.

Kreese: What about Silver? what happened to him after that?

Tory: After Samantha's sensei saved me he ran away, I believe the police is on his heels, I think you won't have to worry about him.

Kreese: It's good to hear that, somehow he has to pay for everything he's done.

Tory: Yeah and... do you plan on going back to Cobra Kai?

Kreese: I don't think so, after everything that's happened I think I'll move out of the Valley and retire for good, but you can talk to me whenever you want... you know, I bet you'd be a great sensei in Cobra Kai, maybe one day...

Tory: Maybe, but now I think I'm going to focus on my mom and my brother, she's getting better from her illness and Brandon is doing really well in school.

Tory and Kreese hug and Tory goes home.

Some time later the Miyagi-Fang dojo had a party to celebrate their victory over Cobra Kai, Samantha was there, when suddenly she looks up to the sky and says:

Samantha: We won Mr. Miyagi, you were watching, weren't you?

A few days later, it was the day that Chozen was going back to Japan, he went to the airport, and Daniel, Johnny and the other students went with him to say goodbye.

Chozen: Daniel-San, Johnny-San, yesterday we won a hard battle against Cobra Kai, and I have to say I learned a lot from you two, I hope the same thing happened to you.

Daniel: Of course, not only you taught me to respect different fighting styles, but you also taught me that sometimes there is no choice but to go on the offense.

Johnny: Yeah, and you also helped me reconcile with my former sensei, and of course, taught us that technique that paralyzes our opponents.

Samantha: You helped me pull myself together when I thought everything was lost.

Anthony: You taught me to fight so I could defend myself against Kenny.

Demetri: I wouldn't be a champion if it weren't for you.

Miguel: What they mean is that you taught us a lot, and we'll never forget everything you've done.

Chozen: It was a pleasure my friends, I'm sure we'll meet again one day.

Chozen hugs them all, gets on the plane and leaves.


End of story, for those who don't know, the sequel of this story is already out, as we see, Samantha and Tory said goodbye with respect, but will they be like this when they meet again? find out in my other story '30 years later'.

About that story, yes, Demetri was the champion, why? well, he's my favorite character and let's be honest, he DOES deserve to win the tournament, after all he has evolved a lot in season 4 and i think he can evolve even more with training with Chozen.

My next story may take a long time to come out, as I've been quite busy, I haven't decided yet if I'm going to do about the events before this tournament, mentioned in the first chapter, or about what happened after the story '30 years later', anyway, i hope you liked it.