Lost and Found

Chapter 11

I walk into the warehouse with my youngest brothers and cousins. It's the first day of training with group A. I called for an early practice seeing as it takes an hour an to get here and hour to get back and I have some new recruits for Chaos who's meeting up with me at 8:00 pm sharp. I take off my jacket and take out my notepad to do attendance. I know it sounds childish but I need to make sure everyone is here.

"Quiet! I'm going to take attendance. I don't care how childish it sounds it's going to happen every time we train. I don't really care that you're grown and if you must know why it's simple. If you're late for something it means you had something more important to do. So unless you inform me that you're going to be late or you have a good excuse then u get punished." I say and start calling out names.

Everyone's here. Good.

"Alright. We're going to start with learning the lessons of fighting, but first I need a volunteer." I see a couple people raise their hand and point to one of them. "You. What's your name?"

"James."

"Alright James, show me what you got."

He steps into the ring and when I give the signal for him to begin he runs towards me. Rookie mistake. I step out of the way last minute and grab the back of his shirt before he stumbles into the wire. I pull back so he's next to me and kick his knee and then his stomach making him fall backwards. I then grab his arm in a firm grip and put my foot on his neck. "Dead." I say. I let go of him and help him up and he steps out of the ring.

"I Lesson 1, element of surprise. You never advance towards your enemy first. If you do, you'll lose the element of surprise and you always want the element of surprise." I say and then point to someone else.

"You. Give me your name and come up here."

"Dez."

"Alright Dez. I'm going to swing at you and I want you to do what you would normally do." I say. I swing at him with my right arm and goes to block it but just before I punch him, I duck and swing my leg under his feet making him fall back. I help him up and continue to speak as Dez leaves the ring.

"Lesson 2, confuse the enemy. Make the enemy think you're going to do one thing, then last minute, switch it up. Make them think you're going to advance on them with a move then you quickly switch it up doing a completely different move.

Lesson 3, follow your instinct. Whenever you guys fight, you listen to your head and do the most reasonable move. However, the most reasonable move can sometimes get you killed. If your enemy goes to punch you, you would normally block it or move out the way. That can get you killed. In the time you move out of the way, you move your attention from their other hand. They can take out a knife and we all know what could happen. A better move would be to grab their fist and push back to them. Then do a roundhouse kick to knock them out." I say and look at the crowd who looks astonished.

"Lesson 4, follow your gut. If you have feeling that someone's watching you, following you, or you have any kind of feeling at all, don't push it aside. Listen to it and do something about it. The only reason I'm alive and here right now is because I listen to my gut.

Lesson 5, make your enemy angry. Act like you're bored when fighting. Make your enemy angry. It'll be easier to win any fight when your opponent is angry because they're not in their senses and won't know what they're doing.

Which brings us to lesson 6, don't ever lose your temper when fighting. If you do, it'll either be your downfall or your victory and it is very rare that the latter happens.
(If you don't know what latter means it means the second option)