King Cobra

Chapter 3 Part 2: Frights and Fights!

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Next part to my AU story. This chapter will be broken into 3 sections.

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King Cobra Chapter 3 Part 2

Warning: Minor language usage

~○ Part 2 ○~

Payne couldn't breathe, he couldn't scream, he couldn't think, and most vital: he couldn't swim. At least not with his hand tied together. As he was plunging deeper and deeper into the water, he flailed around as he attempted to push himself to the surface.

He attempted to use his hands, but with them tied together they were inefficient in doing any swimming motion.

Though his thrashing around only seemed to slightly raise him up, he still was ultimately sinking. Finally, a hand grabbed him and pulled him back up.

As Aaron had been watching Payne in the water, he found himself muttering under his breath, "You can do it..you can get through this..survive.."

As he was saying it he wasn't sure if he was referring to Payne anymore. This activity wasn't one Aaron selected at random. If anything it was something he strongly connected with. He was thinking back to his daughter. What had happened to her just some years ago.

So as he had been looking into the water, for a second he saw his daughter struggling to come up.

He wasn't there for her. He needed her to survive. She didn't survive without him. She wasn't prepared. He should have prepared her.

"What the heck?!" Payne gasped as he inhaled a large hunk of air. He looked at Aaron incredulously, "Seriously, what the heck was that?!"

"I believe that was drowning...which I assure you was not supposed to happen," Aaron noted, frowning as he then pulled Payne onto the pool edge.

"I know that! I mean why did you do that!" Payne fumed as he adjusted himself to scoot away from the edge of the pool.

"Look Payne, I'm not a big fan of extreme measures..but if you want to learn to kick it's a good exercise to get you there. Additionally, in this dojo you need to learn to survive any situation..you never know what situations you can end up in..." With the last sentence Aaron seemed distant, like he was somewhere else. He recalled all the exercises he had used to train his daughter. She had been a great karate student and bright young lady, but when it came to a real world situation she couldn't make it.

There were survivors from the incident, but as noted she wasn't one of them.

"If you want me to survive, then don't push me into pools with my hands tied!" Payne snapped as he then stood up. "I'm not-"

Aaron then shoved Payne in again, once again without caution.

"I need you to be strong enough to get out. Strong enough to kick your way out. Sometimes you'll be in life or death situations..you need to be able to get out of them."

Once again, Payne struggled in the water and he screamed as hordes of bubbles came from his mouth.

He tried to remember Aaron's words, but his panicked state caused his mind to blank out.

What had Aaron said?

Calm. Payne told himself he needed to stay calm. He needed to focus. All those steps though were washed from his mind as he felt like he was being devoured by the vast pool of water.