Chapter 7: Changing Sides

Mikel sat in the cell, bored and feeling like an idiot-he should have known this was going to happen. "I should have made a backup plan to this. Oh well." Mikel said as he paced around the cell. He looked everywhere, but could not find any weak spots. "What's the point? I'll never get out." Mikel groaned as he slumped to the floor, reducing to tears at the fact of his fate.

Suddenly…

(door opens)

"Huh? Edwards, what do you want?" Mikel said as he got up, trying to hide any feelings shown just now. Edwards, saying nothing, showed Mikel his purpose-both guards guarding the door were knocked out. "You serious? I never thought you had it in you." Mikel said, being impressed with Edwards. "What? I wrestled in college-no big deal, really." Edwards gloated, which brought Mikel memories of himself.

"You know what will happen when the others know…" Mikel began, starting to worry of the consequences for Edwards. "Bullshit. I'm tired of those assholes taking advantage of this shit. I'm also tired of this tension between us-I'm your physics teacher." Edwards said calmly. "True. Well, why don't we take them down together?" Mikel asked, extending a hand. At first Edwards hesitated, knowing of what happened the last time Mikel had his hand like that. "Not this time." Mikel said, asserting that he was telling the truth. Edwards agreed, and with the handshake, a new partnership formed.

"Alright, now the odds are even. You have a cell phone? Mine went dead about an hour ago." Mikel said, thinking of a plan in his head. As he got the phone, he called his backup to know of their plan, and as he hung up the phone, he looked to the hallway, dragoned up, and said "Which way to the ass-kicking?"

Ten minutes later…

"Where the hell is Edwards?" Barrow said impatiently as they waited in the main room. Him, Rotwood, the DD (I'm not going to point the obvious here), and the Huntsman were there waiting to finish their plan of revenge. Unfortunately, for them…Edwards didn't come yet.

As they waited, Edwards finally came in. "Well, I thought we would never get started. What took you?" The huntsman said angrily as Edwards looked at them. "Nothing, just thinking is all. Oh, and going to the bathroom." Edwards replied as he went for a drink. "And the dragon?" Barrow motioned as Edwards took his time to drink.

"Oh, you mean me?" a voice said as the door flew open. "Or all of us?" another said as they barged into the room. Mikel, Jake, Nerk, Rose, Callie, Branden, and Lao Shi were there, and from the looks of it, they were pissed.

"What is the meaning of this?" the Dark Dragon said, showing signs of anger in his eyes. "Edwards, I'm starting to like this plan already." Mikel said as Edwards came to them.

"Edwards, you betrayed us?!" Barrow said in shock as he saw his fellow teacher and "friend" turn on them. "Let's just say I finally found the winning side." Edwards said as he left the room. "Oh, Mikel. The lab is due on Monday." He added as he left.

"Finished it Friday." Mikel said to himself as he got his sword out, ready for battle. As everyone came for battle, Mikel looked around one last time, then took a deep breath. Finally, he crouched into a fighting stance, then charged.

As the fighting ensued, there were no signs of Mikel's injury-in fact, it was like it never even happened at all. Barrow and Rotwood were easy, so Branden was the one that took care of them. Rose and Callie took the Huntsman, since they said there was "unfinished business", which Mikel and Jake agreed was best for them. Nerk went out for the Council, leaving Jake and Mikel to the DD.

"Jake, I want you to do something for me. Leave him to me-this is something I have to do myself." Mikel said, as if this was a death wish. Jake hesitated, then nodded. They all left the room, leaving Mikel to his battle.

"You are very brave to face me alone, but also very stupid. Which do you prefer: slow and painful or quick and easy?" the Dark Dragon said in confidence.

"My choice? Neither." Mikel said as he charged at him. Despite his past encounters, it was not enough to get a secure victory as Mikel kept going down punch after punch after punch. In short, Mikel's pride got in the way of Mikel's chance for his life.

Mikel laid there, almost motionless from the beatings. As he struggled to get up, the Dark Dragon came closer to him, ready for the kill. Mikel saw his sword close to him, knowing he had one chance at this. As his opponent left out his weakness to go for the kill, Mikel gathered all his strength, grabbed his sword, then stabbed him right where his heart was.

As the Dark Dragon watched in horror and shock, Mikel glared at him, and said "Payback's a bitch, aint it?" Mikel released the sword, and his opponent fell to the floor, motionless and dead.

As he got up, he looked out to the hallway as he saw the Council's SWAT come in to take the prisoners. Mikel looked out across the room, smiled, then left-he knew what was coming tomorrow.

Last chapter coming up. Wow, that one was pretty long-according to me.