Fly Like A Hawk

Chapter 5 - Miguel's First School Fight

I met up with Eli and Demetri in the hallway after Maths, catching them stood by their lockers engaged in a thrilling conversation about the latest issue of Dungeon Lord "No, I'm just saying, he was way better in the previous issue..." Demetri was arguing his point but Eli seemed to be somewhere completely different. When I slowed to a stop beside Demetri, Eli nodded at me in acknowledgement of my arrival.

"Oh hey Y/N." Demetri chimed before returning back to his argument and shutting up his locker, "I mean, the part with the dragon was pretty cool but I just didn't think that he would have taken that loot from the skeleton. You know what I mean?" Miguel joined us from a nearby classroom, "Hey." He mumbled and I nodded in return.

"Demetri's discussing the new issue of Dungeon Lord." I explained, gesturing to Demetri who was now completely absorbed in his explanation.

"Doesn't look like there's much discussing to me." Miguel joked and I chuckled.

"There never is with Demetri." We rounded the corner into the dining hall and joined the back of the queue for food.

"Mash or tater tots." The server droned and I blinked at her blankly.

"I literally do not care. Just put whatever on there." She loaded my tray up with some weird looking school food and handed it back to me before moving on to Demetri. I headed into the hall after Miguel but stopped short when he started forward towards Kyler, who was arguing loudly with Sam LaRusso.

"Hey Kyler!" He yelled, dropping his tray of food onto a nearby table and I sighed.

"Here we go again." I whispered as Demetri and Eli joined me with their own trays of food.

"Why don't you shut the hell up and stop being such an asshole?" Miguel was suddenly being surrounded by Kyler's goons.

"You want another beat down Rhea?" Kyler jeered, Aisha, a girl who had been a laughing stock for the majority of her life stood up behind Miguel, "I'm ready for your lame ass karate this time." Kyler sneered as he took a step towards Miguel and shoved him backwards into the table. He managed to catch himself and push back into a standing position.

"It's not lame ass karate."

Kyler threw a punch, I readied myself for the inevitable crunch of Miguel's nose but instead he caught Kyler's arm and pushed him back so that he had the advantage. "It's cobra Kai." He landed a punch square to Kyler's nose. I gasped, there was no way he just did that and yet I was watching it with my own eyes. Suddenly, they plunged into a fight and my view was cut off by the students jumping up to form a fight circle round the two of them.

Aisha screamed "No mercy!" From the side of the circle and I strained on my tip toes in an attempt to see over the students blocking the way. Kyler's goons appeared and Miguel slid across a table, grabbing a tray on the way past and smashing it over the head of one of them as he landed. All of a sudden it was over and Miguel was standing on a table with phone cameras in his face.

"Oh my god...that was awesome." I mumbled, letting my tray slide through my hands by accident and dropping my food across the floor, "dammit." I bent down and scraped the food back onto my tray.

Counsellor Blatt appeared, pushing her way through the crowd as I collected up my spilt food. "Hey! Get down from there!" She yelled, grabbing Miguel by the arm and pulling him from the table. The other students cheered, as Miguel tossed the tray back onto the table he had been standing on. He was then dragged away as the crowd booed Councellor Blatt. I turned to Demetri and Eli, who were just as shocked as I was.

"See Demetri, Confidence can get you somewhere other than a dustbin." I laughed and caught Eli smiling slightly.

"Whatever, lets just find somewhere to sit..." Demetri headed off with his food and I followed pursuit with Eli.