DOJOLAND (Elementary)

Chapter 18 - ON TO MIDDLE SCHOOL!

The rest of their year went on mostly uneventful, with few unknown delinquents showing up challenging the local thugs and getting the beating of the year by either Hei or Monky, who complained about being underestimated.

"We're just in 6th grade, though", Hei reasoned.

"You mean practically already in Middle school! My legend (and I guess yours as well) hasn't lifted off the ground!", Monky screeched.

"Then what? Do you want to go pick a fight with middle-schoolers? I'm sure you can hold your own against their 1st years as long as they come one at a time but for all we know, we'll get taken down fast and hard"

Monky closed his eyes in deep thought. Then he pounded his palm in realization as he had seen Hei do before.

The captain of the Softball team signaled , the team bowed to the teacher coaching them and clapped as they did at the end of every practice; then, he took his bag to go home and was surprised to find a couple of familiar faces.

Monky succinctly asked for a spar with the team.

Hei then explained that their 'gang of two' were looking for middle-school level experience in a fight.

The captain nodded as he listened to the explanation. He offered a light spar on his own and offered to ask the team should he lose a one-on-one against each of them.

After flipping a wooden penny Monky had carved during Summer Break, it was decided Monky would spar first.

The captain moved fast, had great reflexes and could strike hard with his bat at close range and could also strike from afar if given the chance to pull a softball from one of his deep pockets. Monky's guard switched to dodging once he tried to block the bat's swings. After a good 10 minutes, he still hadn't been able to launch a solid strike against the captain. Impatient, he ducked close to the ground and put his knuckles down. Hei's eyes widened. It had been almost a whole year since he had seen Monky get serious.

Five minutes later, the captain was swept off his feet and fell on his back, Monky's feet on his right wrist and on his neck.

"Ow, ow... ok... I give up. C'mon, get off me, kid", the captain complained.

Still looking a little under a frenzy spell, Monky stiffly removed his heel from the captain's neck.

After giving the captain some time to rest, it was Hei's turn.

Hei expected to use what he had seen from the Monky fight to fight off the captain but, surprisingly, he fought completely opposite as he had fought just before, taking a good distance and making sure his legs were safe from low attacks. Hei tried to stand still to provoke the captain into attacking but the captain merely stepped back and pummeled Hei with a hammering flurry of softballs from 3 meters away. Hei realized exactly why Monky had to get serious. Inwardly, he admired how much of a difference 2 years of experience there could be between an elementary schooler and a Middle schooler. But after one softball hit him in the forehead, Hei saw red for a second and dashed below the next ball, gripped the bat, twisted the captain's wrist and threw a wild uppercut, which the older boy dodged by a millimeter, but still managed to knock away the headgear he was wearing.

After the captain tried to make some distance, he realized Hei was still gripping the bat and tried to twist it into locking his elbow and making him submit but it was no use, Hei's eyes were glowing blue with angry battle spirit and his arm was impossibly hard to twist into what he expected. After some struggle, the bat was thrown off his hand and Hei punched the captain hard in the chest. The blow was blocked with the left shoulder and arm but the captain fell to the ground a good two meters away.