The Crane Kick

Walk

~ATHENA POV~

"Well I heard you got out of the hospital." Sensei said. "How come no one told me?"

"That was my fault." Miguel said. "Forgot to tell you."

Sensei shook his head before turning back to me.

"So? Can you walk?"

"No."

"What?" Miguel exclaimed.

"The doctor told her that she had a 5% of walking." Hawk cut in.

"Well that's better then nothing." Sensei said. "Okay, you ready to work?"

"Work? For what?" I asked.

"For what?" He repeated. "To learn to walk!"

"Sensei I won't be able to do it!" I exclaimed.

"Of course you will!" He replied.

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"I can't!" I shouted as I sat in Sensei's living room.

We had been working for a whole week. And I still wasn't walking.

"I will never be able to walk!"

"Enough with all the can't and never!" Sensei exclaimed.

"Why? I'm never gonna walk again!"

"You know what? Your right." Hawk told me.

"What?"

"You won't walk again. You're too weak to do it." Miguel continued.

I gasped as I looked down with teary eyes.

"I always knew you were a quitter." Sensei said.

I jerked up at that. I was not a quitter! Terry Silver did not train a quitter! Holy shit! What would he say if he saw me?

'Are you quitting? Are you a little bitch? Are you a quitting bitch?'

I shook my head and glared at the three in front of me.

"I am many things, but a quitter is not one of them! I was trained a winner! Not a quitter! I will walk again no matter what you guys say! I am not weak. If anything, you three are weak. Not me."

"Athena, look."

I looked down and realized I had walked from my chair all the way across the room to stand in front of them.

"I did it! I walked!"