𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐯𝐞: 𝐜𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭

𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐁𝐘 𝐖𝐀𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 in front of a dummy, throwing kicks and jabs at it. miguel and johnny were on the mat, the latter having punching pads over his hands while the former practiced jabs and kicks. scooby knew she should probably stop, feeling her knuckles start to sting from how much she had been doing it. she had been practicing on the dummy all week, letting miguel have his time with johnny since she had a little more experience with karate.

"what's the second rule of the way of the fist?" johnny questioned, gesturing to the wall where the rules were painted on.

"strike hard." miguel answered before he did a roundhouse kick.

"that's right." johnny nodded, miguel starting to throw punches at the punching pads. "there's only one reason to hit someone. to inflict pain. striking hard is about giving your all. just like scooby does."

upon hearing her name, the parker girl stopped what she was doing and looked over at the two. her eyebrows were raised, thinking that one of them was calling her. miguel just simply smiled at her confused state. he noticed that she easily got lost when she was throwing jabs. the dojo was one of the places where she was truly at peace with herself. the bell above the door jingling is what gained the two teens' attention, looking over at the door to see aisha robinson. scooby smiled at that.

"no yoga till five. no matter how bad you need it." johnny told aisha, earning a glare from scooby.

johnny had to sublease the place to be able to make ends meet since he didn't have enough students. so from five to six, a yoga group would come in and take over the dojo. scooby found it entertaining since johnny had worked so hard to make the place badass.

"um, i'm actually here for karate." aisha corrected, nervously playing with the hem of her shirt. "i saw your website. it said that there was supposed to be a session today."

"i appreciate you coming in but there are no girls in cobra kai." johnny said, miguel looking over at scooby with furrowed eyebrows. the shorter girl just shrugged, shaking her head slightly.

"why not?" aisha asked, not taking notice of scooby being to her right.

"same reason there aren't women in the army. doesn't make sense." johnny answered.

scooby narrowed her eye. "women are allowed in the army, sensei."

johnny looked at her, shaking his head slightly, silently telling her that she was wrong. scooby looked at him like he was crazy before she looked over at miguel. the diaz boy shook his head in disappointment, walking over to the blonde man. scooby followed him, the both of them saying that they needed to talk to him. they walked off the mat, bowing to show respect before they went inside of johnny's office.

"don't give me this sexist bullshit. i'm just saying women just aren't meant to fight. they have tiny, hollow bones." johnny quickly defended, making scooby look at him with furrowed eyebrows.

"then what the fuck am i doing here?" she questioned.

"you're different." johnny waved off.

"how the hell am i different?" scooby asked, the crease between her furrowed eyebrows deepening.

miguel placed a hand onto scooby's shoulder, looking at her with raised eyebrows. the parker girl rolled her eyes, but stepped back. "aren't you desperate for new students?"

"yes. but this isn't a knitting class. this is a dojo." johnny reasoned, which only made scooby angrier.

"dude. you seriously have to stop." she spat at him, which only earned her a shrug.

"look, the kids at school call her names, make fun of her." miguel explained.

"that's what happened when you eat an entire box of twinkies every day." johnny said.

scooby shook her head, placing her hands on her hips, like a mother scolding her children. "her dad is isaiah robinson. hall of fame lineman for the chargers."

"yeah, so you're saying it's genetic? her love for twinkies comes from her dad?" johnny quizzed, having this blank look on his face.

"no, she's saying her family's loaded!" miguel elaborated. scooby gestured to him in agreement. "and she's a paying customer. but you don't need the money, right?"

johnny hummed, finally understanding what his students were telling him. he got up from his desk and walked back out into the dojo, scooby and miguel following him. "okay, take off your shoes. hop on the mat." aisha did as told. "okay, after further review i've decided to allow female students. well. . . more female students. but if you wanna be in cobra kai, you can't act like a girl."

"what do you mean? how do girls act?" aisha quizzed, glancing over at scooby.

"don't give me that. you know, all emotional, loud, complain-y. never letting you finish a sentence." johnny listed, scooby sucking in a frustrated breath.

"well, i know a few guys who act just -" aisha started.

"quiet!" johnny interrupted. he then started to walk around the mat, keeping a close eye on aisha. "my students tells me you've been harassed at school."

"yeah. mostly online. um, i get mean texts and emails sent to me. makes me not wanna go." aisha explained.

"and who sends you these messages?" johnny questioned, still walking around the mat.

"well, they're mostly anonymous. these kids create fake accounts, and they tell me things like i'm ugly and that i should kill myself." aisha answered. scooby looked down at the mat, her jaw clenching. she knew the feeling.

"oh, my god." johnny mumbled, stopping in front of aisha. "what a bunch of pussies. back in my day, if you wanted to tease someone, you did it to their face." he continued, starting to pace the mat again. "there was honor, respect. these geeks hiding behind their computers, what a bunch of spineless losers. you're not afraid of these losers, are you?"

"no." aisha replied.

"you gonna take shit from these losers?"

"no."

"good, because when i'm done with you, you're gonna be sending a message back. only it's not gonna be with your keyboard. it's gonna be with your fists." johnny told her, holding up his fists. "mr.diaz, step onto the mat, please."

scooby raised her eyebrows, thinking that johnny would've asked her to be the one to do so, considering the fact that miguel was a boy. but she didn't say anything, thinking that this would be interesting. aisha was a sweet girl, but she had a lot of spunk to her.

"okay, let's see what you got ms.robinson. face me. bow. face each other. bow." johnny instructed, the teens doing as told. "mr.diaz, show her everything you've learned."

miguel's eyebrows furrowed. "wait, wait. i don't think this is right, sensei. shouldn't scooby be the one doing this?"

"you don't think what's right?" johnny asked.

"she's a girl. i'm not gonna. . ." miguel reasoned, his voice trailing off.

"and? i thought you said women were equal to men." johnny reminded, earning a small smile from scooby.

miguel looked at scooby for help, silently begging her to switch with him. but all she did was shrug from her spot. "he's right. you did say that."

he deflated at that, watching as scooby sat down on the floor. he then turned back to look at johnny. "i did say that. i didn't mean it like that. i meant -"

"then show her women are equal, and give her everything you got." johnny said.

"wait. i just wanna remind everyone this is my first day." aisha chimed in.

"your enemies don't care what day it is. they prey on weakness." johnny shot back. "if you wanna beat them, you gotta conquer your fear and jump face-first into the fire. are you ready, ms.robinson?"

"i guess." aisha mumbled, sparing a glance to scooby. the parker girl gave her a thumbs up.

"mr.diaz." johnny said, looking at said boy with an expectant look on his face.

miguel opened his mouth to say something, but nothing came out. scooby chuckled at this, used to the boy always having something to say. but right now, he was at a lost for words, and she found it very amusing.

"fight!" johnny yelled. he stepped back, expecting the two to go at it. but instead, they just looked at him, miguel silently begging him to not make him do this. "don't just stand there. fight!"

miguel let out a long breath, getting into his fighting stance. "i'm sorry."

without any warning, he jolted forward, raising his leg into a kick. scooby winced as miguel's foot landed right into aisha's stomach, the robinson girl flying to the mat with a groan. scooby sat up straight, her hands going to her stomach as a slight pain appeared.

"oh, my god! aisha, are you okay?" miguel immediately asked, worry taking up his features. he offered his hand out to her to help her up. "i'm so sorry. come on."

instead of grabbing miguel's hand, aisha picked herself up from the mat before she lunged herself towards the latino. she threw him to the ground, letting out a scream. miguel grunted as his back came in contact with the mat. but before he could recover, she stuck her knee out and dropped on him, landing on his stomach. scooby let out a sound of pain, her face scrunching up as she watched miguel roll around on the mat, holding his stomach.

"my ribs." the diaz boy wheezed out.

"girl's a natural cobra." johnny mumbled, looking between aisha and miguel. he then turned to look at scooby, the curly haired girl sending him a nod.

the sound of people arguing filled the air, both scooby and johnny turning towards the doors of the dojo.

"all right. students, wait here. parker, you're in charge." the blonde man instructed before he walked towards the doors.

scooby smiled, walking over to where miguel was still on the mat. she reached her hand out for the boy to take, him weakly grabbing it. scooby pulled him up, a smile pulling at her lips as he groaned, still holding his stomach. she then ruffled his hair before she walked over to aisha.

"that was fucking amazing." she said, holding her hand up.

aisha smiled, slapping her hand against scooby's. "thanks."

"welome to cobra kai." miguel wheezed, holding out a fist.

aisha gave him an apologetic look before she fist bumped him. the two girls watched as he limped to the bathroom, scooby having to stifle a laugh. she did feel bad for the boy, but it was still funny to watch.

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𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐎𝐁𝐘 𝐇𝐀𝐃 𝐆𝐎𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐑 food a few minutes before the boys, so she was already sitting at their usual table. she was eating away at her chocolate pudding, humming quietly as she did so. can you tell that she loved chocolate pudding? she looked up slightly when sam larusso walked past her, going to her usual table. scooby decided to keep watching her since there had been rumors spreading about her like wildfire. it was something about her giving kyler a blowjob in the movie theater. scooby didn't really keep up with school gossip like that, but she did appreciate it when she heard things. especially when it involved the popular crowd.

she watched as moon and yasmine basically shunned sam away, a small smile on her face. she turned back around to focus on her food. this went on for about two minutes before the sound of a tray falling echoed throughout the cafeteria. she turned back around, seeing that sam was now in front of kyler, his stray of food on the floor.

"hey, guys." kyler yelled, grabbing everyone's attention. scooby sighed, knowing that the boy was about to embarrass sam even more. "you know that billboard with a big-ass dick on it? i guess sam takes after her dad."

this made the students in the cafeteria laugh, a small scowl taking up scooby's face. it wasn't even funny. actually, none of this was funny.

"hey, kyler!" the familiar voice of miguel appeared.

scooby dropping her head. "oh, no."

the diaz boy came into view as he walked past the table she was sitting at. she watched as miguel dropped his tray onto aisha's table, continuing to walk towards kyler. "why don't you shut the hell up and stop being such an asshole?"

scooby stood up, seeing that kyler's minions stood up behind him. if anything went down, she wasn't gonna let miguel take on all those idiots again. especially not after what happened at the dance.

"want another beatdown, rhea?" kyler questioned, shoving miguel. scooby stepped forward, but didn't get too close. "i'm ready for your lame ass karate this time." kyler continued, shoving miguel harder.

miguel caught himself, grabbing onto the table behind him. he turned once he saw scooby come into view, seeing the look on her face. "it's not lame-ass karate." kyler went to go throw a punch, but miguel quickly grabbed his arm, stopping him from doing so. "it's cobra kai." he finished before he sent a jab to kyler's face.

scooby didn't do anything just yet, knowing that miguel would be able to handle kyler by himself. she was just waiting for kyler's goons to try and jump in to help him. the parker girl watched as kyler basically threw miguel around before he put the smaller boy into a headlock. miguel looked at scooby, the taller girl raising her eyebrows. miguel then elbowed kyler in his stomach before he grabbed the arm that was around his throat. he twisted it around, making kyler bend down to try to reduce the pain. miguel then threw a punch at the older boy before he kicked him, sending him flying into a table.

"no mercy!" aisha yelled from her spot.

miguel didn't move, looking at what he had just done to kyler. brucks moved towards him, miguel dodging the punch he was throwing before he bent down and did a sweep kick. he stood up, readying himself for brucks to pop back up. but another one of kyler's goons grabbed him instead. that was when scooby stepped in, quickly grabbing one of the goon's hands before she twisted it upwards. a smile pulled at her lips as he screamed in pain, but she didn't stop there. she quickly punched him in his stomach before punching him right in the nose. both miguel and scooby backed up, stopping once their backs came in contact wit hone another. they looked at each other before they started to fight again.

scooby punched the goon in his face, watching as he went down. before she could do anything else, another goon came up from behind and wrapped his arms around her. without a second though, she lunged her head back, feeling the goon let go of her as he yelled. i guess she had a thing for hitting people in the noses today. she quickly turned around, noticing the blood that was seeping from his nose. she went to go throw a kick towards him, but the other guy from earlier grabbed her. she pulled her arm out of his grasp before she did a spinning hook kick.

that sent the guy right to the floor, his body going limp. she turned back to the one that she had head butted, seeing that he had went to go and try to jump miguel with kyler and brunks. she was quick to go over there, whirling brunks around so that she could send a few jabs to him. brunks was a bigger guy so she had to put a little more effort into them so that they could actually affect him. but the only thing that was playing in her head was "the bigger they are, the harder they fall." so after sending the older boy a few jars to the face, scooby took a few steps back before she set herself up to do a spinning back kick. she spun around as she jumped up, sending her left leg back so that it could hit brunks.

the curly haired boy stumbled to the floor, holding his stomach in pain. scooby let out a huff, turning to where miguel was. she saw that he was now on a table, a tray in his hand. the diaz boy turned to look at her, the both of them looking at each other. they were pulled out of their moment when the cafeteria erupted into cheers and claps. scooby looked over to where eli and demetri was, the former having this look of amazement on his face while the other had an unreadable expression. then, the guidance counselor came out of nowhere, grabbing both scooby and miguel before she dragged them away.

they spent the rest of their lunch in detention, also being told that they had lunch detention for the rest of the week. scooby was used to it, having gotten in trouble before. as long as her father wasn't contacted, she should be alright.

now, the two students were in the johnny's office inside the dojo, explains to him everything that they had did at lunch. miguel was the one that told most of it, scooby jumping in to correct him on a few things.

"all four of them?" johnny questioned.

"yeah." miguel and scooby nodded in unison.

"even that big dumb one?" johnny asked.

"well, scooby took him down, but, yeah." miguel answered, sending a smile towards the curly haired girl. "it all happened so fast. everything just came together. i was blocking. i anticipated. i slithered."

"i felt like a fucking superhero." scooby mumbled, earning an eager nod from miguel.

johnny scoffed as he looked between his two students. "your mom's gonna kill all three of us."

"well, she would if she knew. when the school called, my yaya answered. never seen her so proud. she won't talk." miguel explained.

"what about you, scoob?" johnny asked.

"dad gave the school the house phone instead of his phone, so the machine got it. i'll delete it before he gets to hear it." scooby promised, sending the blonde man a small smile.

"all right, so let me get this straight." johnny started, standing up from his desk. he slowly walked around it. "you took all the lessons i taught you. . . and you used them to straight up beat the shit out of those punks?"

scooby and miguel shared a look, not being able to tell if they were in trouble or not. they turned back to their sensei, nodding their heads.

"follow me." johnny instructed before he walked out of his office.

the two teens did as told, following the man outside and to his car. they were confused to say the least, wondering why they were outside. johnny opened up the trunk of his car, revealing two gi's that had the cobra kai logo on the back. scooby furrowed her eyebrows as she looked at the two gi's.

johnny pointed to one of them, "i wore this when i was training for my first tournament back in '81. i want you to have it." he informed before he grabbed it.

"a - are you sure?" miguel asked as johnny handed it to him.'

"hell yeah. you earned it." johnny nodded. he then turned to scooby, who was still looking down at the other gi. "that one is your father's, scoob. that's the one he wore when he was training with me."

"how'd you get it?" scooby questioned, her voice barely above a whisper.

"back when. . . the cancer first hit your mom, when you were younger, your dad tried selling it to help with money. back then, people in the valley still knew what cobra kai was, had heard stories, was still obsessed. your mom had promised him that she would sell it, so i bought it off her. i didn't want some nobody to have something that important, so i grabbed it. planned on giving it to you at some point in time. today's the day." johnny explained.

scooby gently grabbed the gi, almost like it was a delicate artifact. she then looked up at johnny, the blonde man sending her a genuine smile. before he could react, she was wrapping her arms around him, taking the man by surprise. miguel joined in on the hug, the both of them thanking the lawrence man.

daij speaks!
heyyyyyyy. i haven't touched this book in a long time. sorry everyone, i felt like no one was reading it so i just stopped thinking about it. but thanks to the last season, especially the last part, of cobra kai, i've regained motivation for this book. and just in case it wasn't obvious, scooby and miguel will be such a power dynamic. platonic soulmates. all that shit. also, just incase this isn't clear, scooby's love interest will be tory. i know tory won't be in the show until season 2, but i simply like giving origin to my characters so i have to start in season 1. i apologize.

i hope you guys enjoyed🫶🏼