Hey there, my fellow writers and readers. Hope you're all doing great with your stories, and I wish you all a happy New Year's Day today and a great year in the months ahead, too. Without further ado, here's a new Cobra Kai ficlet collection I cooked up one day. Hope you like it as much as I did writing it. It's mostly inspired by Tumblr, as well as comments I find on my favorite YouTube videos, which I like to watch from time to time.
Disclaimer: Geniuses Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg own Cobra Kai. I own the fanfics I cook up from time to time.
01. "Yeah? Well, it's not too late for me to walk out the door."
His azure eyes narrowed in anger and his fangs itching to find and bite into the neck of a criminal, Hawk glared at his former master John Kreese, who'd wanted to get Hawk back on his side. With that, as soon as Hawk's guard was down and his back had been turned so Hawk never saw it coming, Kreese abducted Hawk.
With that, the chains around Hawk's wrists and legs opened themselves as if by magic and fell off, as Hawk was now seeing Kreese for who he really was. Sensei Lawrence and Miguel were right about Kreese; his methods are unhealthy, and he doesn't really care about me. He just wants to use me in order to win tournaments, rather than care for his students' well-being.
"I wanted to see if you would choose this life, apprentice," Kreese purred, although Hawk quickly took notice of how he didn't sound as confident as he usually did. "It's possibly too late for you to change your mind now — far too late."
Hawk shook his head in disagreement before Kreese had even finished his sentence. "Yeah? Well, it's not too late for me to walk out the door." He paused. "And good luck in finding another student you'd think would make a decent soldier to replace me, Mr. Kreese."
Kreese didn't really have an answer for that; Hawk, as he'd found out the hard way, could be quite stubborn when he made up his mind about something — or chose to make the right decision in this case. Now, no matter how much he didn't want to, it was for the best to let this Hawk fly away and find something he thought was better.
Having made up his mind, Hawk decided it was time for him to shed his skin as a Cobra by defecting from Cobra Kai forever and choose the kind of dojo which showed what karate was really all about in terms of self-defense instead of bullying and intimidating other people (since Hawk knew he'd been the bully he'd strongly disliked, and which wasn't really him at all).
With that, Hawk turned on his heel, stepped over the threshold and walked away from the Cobra Kai dojo — permanently.
As soon as he did, Hawk turned his face to the sky and opened his mouth, whereupon his bone-white fangs showed themselves. Altering his molecular structure, he transformed himself into a bat before finally taking off and flying through the air, his preternatural senses working hard at finding some criminals, so he could drain them of their blood and, if he was fortunate, their bank accounts as well.
Criminals, beware. This city's not big enough for the two of us.
Hawk let a grin cross his face as those words came back to him. From an ethical vampire's perspective, that line from the 1932 film The Western Code (except worded differently) definitely was quite something cool, as well as highly amazing too.