Me and dad finally pull up to the tournament place, I jump out quickly grabbing my bag
"Dad, come on, we're gonna be late. I know you had a late night with all the LaRusso bad, got your brother thing, but it's gonna start soon." He groans
"I know, I know." He grabs his bag out he back and we begin to walk to the front doors, once we get there I hear Eli
"Whatever. I mean, we're here. We're gonna have to do it without him." Dad responds
"Do what without me?" We walk up to them and Eli instantly makes eye contact with me, I look down, Aisha seems shocked
"Freya, Sensei." Eli adds
"I didn't think you were gonna show up." Dad looks at me, I give him a short smile, he looks back up
"We may not always win, but we never back out of a fight." I then realise dad told me to never bow my head to not look at someone, in his words exactly that's a pussy move, show them in better. I stand up straight, shove my hands in my jacket pockets and make direct eye contact with Eli, as he's staring at me, Miguel looks at us
"All right. Let's sign up." Dad shakes his head
"Not yet. There's one more lesson I have to teach you." We al head inside to join up with with the rest of the dojo, and dad finally makes his grand speech and circles around us
"You've all learned to strike first, to be aggressive, not be losers. I taught you to strike hard, put everything ounce of power behind everything you do. But I haven't taught you the third rule of Cobra Kai. No mercy. The older you get, he more you're gonna learn that life isn't fair. You wake up one morning feeling great, and then life throws a spinning heel kick to your balls, takes a bit steaming shit in your month." We all kind of get disgusted by it. Dad may not always say the right things, but it always has a meaning
"You get an F in a test, you get suspended. You fall in love with a girl or guy, and some other dude or dudette comes along and steals them away from you." Dad looks at me, I gulp slightly and think of last night, I try to brush it aside, dad adds
"Car gets set on fire. Just when you think things are going good, everything falls apart. That's how it goes. Life shows no mercy, so neither do we. We do whatever it takes to keep your heads above water. We do whatever it takes to keep moving forward. We do whatever it takes to win! Remember who you are. You're badass! You don't give a shit! You kick ass! You're Cobra Kai." Me and Miguel yell
"Cobra Kai!" Everyone yells back at us
"Yeah!" I chuckle and wrap my arm around Miguel, he does the same, dad looks at us
"All right, guys. Let's get down there and kick the shit out of everybody!" We all yell again
"Yeah!" Miguel takes his arm off me so I do the same, he takes his bag off his shoulder and takes out the gi, dad looks at him
"No. You're not wearing those." I look at him confused, he then gives us a smile, I smile back
"Let's see this new gi's then." He chuckles. We soon go into the changing rooms, me and Aisha got changed in a separate changing room as well, dad comes in and chucks are new Gi's at us, I look at them and smile
"Nice!" Me and Aisha get them on quickly and go to the boys, they join us and dad takes us out
"Welcome, everyone, to the 50th annual All Valley Under 18 Karate Championship!" They all cheer
"You'll love the new mats." He laughs and carries on
"All right. Let's start by welcoming all the local dojos competing today. From Granada Hills, All-Star Karate." I hear everyone cheer and applaud, they announce a couple of other that I didn't really care to listen for
