One Good Reason

A Not-So-Typical Night

As Daniel LaRusso's Miyagi-Do students — currently consisting of former Cobra Kai student Eli "Hawk" Moskowitz, his friend Demetri Alexopoulos, Robby Keene and Miguel Diaz — watched from afar, pretending to be puzzled over the scene that caught their eyes while getting an idea of it all along, their fangs were hidden behind red lips. They wanted to express the kind of smile showing a combination of excitement and arousal.

The excitement was because they wanted to see their sensei in battle, as well as learn from the martial arts moves they'd seen him use once on some muggers, whom he'd stopped from mugging an innocent person one night (although they figured that was probably two to three days ago). To them, it was kind of similar to a karate tournament, and yet different because there was no point system involved.

As for the arousal... well, that was an entirely different tale in and of itself. Hawk, Demetri, Robby and Miguel had the desire to see a combination of fear, horror and shock the girls would feel when they realized that besides being trapped, they also had no place left to go but to their sensei. After all, their sensei had once explained to them, for an ethical vampire, whenever a criminal got scared, fear made his or her blood get a certain spicy kick to it.

(Also, through Demetri, Miguel, Robby and Hawk's eyes, there was the idea of the three girls screaming in horror and pleading for Sensei LaRusso to stop Hawk, Miguel, Robby or Demetri when either Sensei LaRusso or one of the four boys would bed their leader — although Sensei LaRusso had suggested that Hawk, Demetri, Robby and Miguel go for that kind of thing while he simply took the opportunity to watch from afar.)

Their sensei tossed a cool smirk at the shocked 17-year-old female criminal and her three 16-year-old fellow students, while showing off his own bone-white fangs in the process. "So, you seek to resist me and cook up that plot to kill one of your fellow students, whom I know happens to be an innocent young lady — and over a guy you both like, too." His smirk disappeared as he narrowed his eyes at them, causing fear to run through their veins. "You do realize that, being an ethical vampire, I won't condone such a thing like murdering an innocent, kind-hearted person myself."

Upon hearing his words, the four would-be female killers then exchanged looks of surprise, which then changed to realization when they saw what kind of vampire he was. Of all the vampires they had to be abducted by, it was one of the ethical ones — the kind who only hunted and fed on criminals, such as the ones whose bodies the girls had found with bite marks on their throats that looked similar to that of a vampire's fangs. (Of course, there was also the shock they were currently experiencing when they discovered he was behind those criminals' deaths, which they'd heard of through putting together pieces of grapevine gossip.)

Daniel then locked eyes with the leader of the four girls. "You need to learn your place." He then turned his gaze to her three fellow students, who were as equally as shocked as she was. "And these three fellow students of yours need to learn their place as well.

"I am Daniel LaRusso, and you will submit to my students and I, my dear girls — or face the CONSEQUENCES!"

The last was shouted as Daniel bared his white teeth in anger at the girls. At that moment, Hawk, Demetri, Miguel and Robby initially winced a little at their sensei's temper (which he once admitted to them was part of his Italian heritage). But then they turned to each other and exchanged secret grins.

Mr. LaRusso sure is awesome when he gets mad — as long as we aren't the ones to be the focus of his anger, that is.

Simultaneously, they busied themselves with savoring the moment when they saw what happened right then. Basically, the 17-year-old would-be female killer and the other three girls had backed away a few steps, but then stopped and clutched the sides of their heads. 

At that moment, they felt an almost overpowering compulsion to submit to the will of the Miyagi-Do sensei, to kneel and abase themselves before him, begging his forgiveness for even daring to think of not conforming to his will, as well as wishing they'd never plotted to have one of their fellow students killed in the first place (and over a guy the two girls liked, too).

After all, if we'd known the Miyagi-Do sensei-slash-ethical vampire had been spying on us and had effortlessly read our intentions, we would've been more careful.

When Tory and Sam heard about it later from Hawk, Demetri, Miguel and Robby, they showed they were good listeners; they gasped in all the right places, and when Hawk did his best to describe how the would-be female killer and her three friends did their best to throw off Sensei LaRusso's spell, Sam and Tory exchanged shocked expressions.