MOMENT OF TRUTH¹ eli moskowitz

peacetime in the valley

It was the first day back at school and life was absolutely great. Silver was in jail. Kreese was deceased. Amara's concussion was gone. Nothing couldn't be better. A start of a new year...senior year.

Amara watched as Johnny was holding up a small Eagle Fang onesie to Carmen's stomach. Her baby bump has definitely came in over her he course of a few weeks.

Rosa had made the kids lunches as she handed Amara and Robby's to her. "Gracias." Amara said, as she took the bag from her.

"Thank you." Robby said,

Miguel walked down from the hall with his bookbag as Rosa handed him his lunch, and kissed him on the cheek.

The kids headed out the door as Johnny drove them to school. As the kids walked in, Amara saw Hawk and Demetri as they were hugging their friends who were now Miyagi-Fangs...Eagle-Dos? The name was still in process.

Amara kissed Hawk as she touched his new light blue spikes. "I miss the baby blue mohawk."

"Oh, come on. Isn't this fitting?" Hawk questioned.

"Well, yeah, I just..."

"She was never a fan of the spikes." Kali said as she walked around the corner with Moon.

Moon chuckled, "She's not the only one."

Amara smiled, "Hey Moon." She greeted.

"Hey. Congrats on getting into the Sekai Taikai."

"Thanks, that means a lot." Hawk said to her.

"You guys, I can't believe we're actually seniors." Demetri told the four.

"I know. I feel like it was just yesterday I met Miguel at the apartments." Amara said, "But now we're back to normal. No more Cobra Kai."

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"Eagle Fang's going global, guys." Johnny said to the three kids in the car as they were taping up their hands, "Once we win the Sekai Taikai, people are gonna be lining up to put fangs on their backs."

"Don't you mean wings on their backs?" Amara questioned.

"Yeah, whatever." Johnny said as he continued to talk, "We're gonna need a second location, hundreds of gis, a training room with a couple of those ice baths."

"Isn't that a little aggressive?" Robby asked from the back seat.

"Hell, yeah. Gotta have ice in your veins to take over the karate game."

"What does Mr LaRusso think of all this?" Miguel quizzed, "You guys are supposed to be going like 50-50, right?"

"If LaRusso wants to open up a couple more dojos, he can be my guest." Johnny said as he passed the entry of Miyagi-Do. "At the end of the day, people are gonna have to decide if they wanna learn karate from a car salesman or an actual sensei."

"Uh, I think you missed the turn." Robby said, "Miyagi-Do is back that way."

"Nope." Johnny said, firmly. "Gotta make sure you guys don't go soft on me. We may be a combined dojo, but we're Eagles where it counts. So before we go singing kumbaya in Miyagi's backyard, we're headed to the warehouse to break some bricks."

Amara groaned as she looked back at the boys in the passenger seat up front, "You wanna pass that up here when you're done?" She asked the boys as Miguel had Robby slap on another piece of tape.

"Yeah." Robby said, handing the tap to her, "More tape, it is."

As Johnny pulled into the dojo parking lot, the kids saw how it was torn down. "What the hell?" Johnny questioned as he parked the car.