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"what the hell is she doing here?" kyler park questioned.
they all knew that gioia had been a member of their rival dojo, so her presence at cobra kai's training session was unnerving. the group was sat in a circle and with all eyes on her, she bowed to the mat and made her way over to silver.
"careful, mr park." silver warned. "i invited miss barbusca." he turned to her. "i'm glad you've been able to notice your talent."
she stayed silent. tory was staring at her, hard. but gioia kept her eyes on the ground.
"i pick barbusca for the final round." silver announced.
kreese was surprised that the girl had willingly come to the dojo. he wondered what silver must have said to her to make her drop all of her morals and betray her team. "keene, are you up for another go?"
robby hesitated before nodding and standing to his feet. he walked over to kresse to discuss the fight that was about to begin.
"what is this?" gioia asked silver. she had just entered the dojo and he expected her to fight robby? "is this what you meant by-by a little spar?"
"this is just a friendly warm up." silver shrugged. "no points, you hit the mat and you lose."
"but why do i even have to fight him? at the tournament girls and boys don't have any matches." gioia reminded him.
"but this isn't the tournament, is it?"
gioia was skeptical, last time she fought robby, he kicked her off a staircase before kicking her friend off the balcony. silver caught the fear in her eyes.
"just pretend he's food." silver advised her.
gioia couldn't believe her ears, her head shot up to look the much taller man in the eyes. "what did you say?!"
"i said: pretend he's your worst enemy." silver repeated himself, making her frown. this was a bad idea, she clearly wasn't okay and this whole situation was just going to make things worse for her. "you must put aside any friendship you once had and use his weakness against him."
"i don't know his weakness." gioia sneered.
"yes, you do."
"on the mat." kreese ordered.
the two stepped away from their corners and into the middle of the mat. robby was staring at her with a look of remorse in his eyes. he didn't want to fight her but he knew he had to. gioia however, had no emotion behind her eyes as she bounced on the spot.
"ais!" kresse shouted, signalling them to begin.
robby struck first, gioia knew he would. but she also knew not to use anything new johnny and daniel had taught her, she wouldn't betray her team completely. as he threw multiple strikes at her, she blocked and countered them away. one of his punches aimed right for her face and she quickly caught his fist, stopping it mid-air.
