"Come on, dude, you spilled a glass of wine. So what?" Hawk says as we all stretch. Miguel has been hooked on the whole dinner last night, it's all he's been talking about. Specially now we're at the dojo with Eagle Fang
"I don't know, man, you heard the way Mr. LaRusso was talking about Sam's future. I can't even afford a car, let alone college. What if they think I'm not good enough?" I take a deep breath
"Miguel, Daniel was you. Him and his mum could barely afford there flat, let alone food every month. He won't judge you just because you can't afford things." He nods a little, Hawk then bigs him up
"Plus, dude. You're El Serpiente. You're an All Valley Champion. Just show Mr. LaRusso what you're made of. You're gonna crush whatever he throws at us today." Mitch agrees and looks at us
"Yeah, compared to Sensei Lawrence's training, todays gonna be a vacation." I pull my leg back and hold the ankle to stretch it out and chuckle. I then hear Daniel
"Who's going on vacation?" I let my leg go and turn to see Daniel, Miguel shakes his head
"Uh, no one. What have you got for us today?" He smirks at us and gestures for him to follow
"Come on." We begin to follow him
"Now, I know you've all been taught to strike first. What do you do when your opponent is faster than you?" We stand by the koi pond, Mitch questions
"Are those real koi?" Daniel looks at the pond and smiles
"They sure are. Todays lesson is simple." He looks back at us
"Catch a fish. But since I know you Eagle Fangs like a bit of competition, we're gonna make it interesting. So the first to succeed will have the honour of leading class all week. And you also get to pick out what flavour of Gatorade I buy next." We all celebrate a bit, Mitch calls
"Aw, hell yeah! Hope you all like Glacial Freeze." Miguel seems ambitious
"Okay, we're are the rods?" Daniel has a sudden smug smirk on his face
"Back in my garage. Your bare hands are all you'll use and all you'll need." Everyone seems a bit shocked, I knew he was going to say that, I quickly chuck my jacket off and put it on the floor. Forever grateful I wore gym shorts today and my training trainers.
"On your mark. Gets set. Go!" We all run round the side of the pond and they begin to splash at the water to get one. That's when Miguel splashes and looses his balance, falling in! I begin to almost fall over laughing, I fall on my ass, backwards. Everyone else laughs as well. Miguel comes out and seems a little annoyed, Daniel chuckles
"Looks like you're a little wet behind the ears." Miguel sighs, Daniel smiles
"All right. Let's get you dried off." I offer him my hand, he then grabs it and pull me in. I feel the water hit me, I quickly jump out of the water and gasp. I hear everyone laughing, including Miguel who's still in the pond with me. I laugh and shake my head, Daniel calls
"Okay, let's go both of you." I push Miguel and hop out, laughing. He laughs as well. We head in and it takes us a little while to mainly dry off, thankful I took off my jacket. The others carried on trying to catch a fish for the rest of the session. Miguel and I are finally partially dry and ready to go home
"I was so close to catch one. I defiantly touched scale." Mitch complains, Hawk then adds
"I know this Chinese resident with a big-ass fish tank. We can go there and practise. You, uh, coming?" He questions Miguel, Miguel looks up and shakes his head
"Uh, nah. My mums picking me up." Hawk puts his hand out for Miguel to fist bump
"All right. Well, stay dry, my friend." They fist bump and chuckle a bit, I hug Miguel
