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Title: Back to the Roots
Character: Daniel LaRusso
Word Count: 350
Prompt: Asia
Finished: 07.04.2023

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The moment Daniel left the plane at the airport in Okinawa, he knew it had been the only right decision to come here. It felt like coming home, to the country of karate, to the homeland of Mister Miyagi, his sensei, his mentor, his friend.

Even if Mister Miyagi was not around any longer; he died about two years ago. It had taken a while until Daniel was ready to accept that his grief about losing him would never go away completely. But with the help of Amanda, his wonderful wife, and his two great children, he finally learned to move on. After the long days at his car dealership, he had even started to do karate more often again. And it had felt good.

But his life came apart at the seams during the last months. He had never thought that Cobra Kai and his former enemy, Johnny Lawrence, would ever play such a decisive role in his life again. Threaten his family, the business he had started from scratch some years ago, all he did believe into.

Feeling tired and broken, he was sitting on the porch one evening, let his eyes wander to the small pond, taking in the ruined surrounding which had still been his dojo only a week ago — an eon where he still had believed in karate, in honor and respect. Everything gone. Even Amanda, who had never hesitated to go through thick and thin together with him, started to doubt his decisions lately.

Finally, his eyes stopped at the sign on the wall, the rising sun with the bonsai in front of it, and the label Miiyagi-Do Karate. Suddenly he heard a voice in his head. „Daniel-san, you need to go back to the roots, and you will find out what to do next!“

For a short moment, he closed his eyes, breathing in deeply, before going over to the baggage claim area to grab his small suitcase. Already now, he could feel the tension inside him vanishing. Where, if not here, he would be able to get a clear head again?

Title: Respect and Honor
Character: Daniel LaRusso, mention of Mr. Miyagi
Word Count: 122
Prompts: moon
Written: 20.03.2023

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Daniel stepped onto the porch, looking up at the sky. The full moon bathed the surrounding in a mysterious light, which made him smile. Even after all the years, he could picture Mr. Miyagi doing his kata in the garden of his beloved dojo at night. „Best way to get rid of evil thoughts, Daniel San,“ he would tell him now, „and to remember respect and honor.“

Daniel sighed silently. After all that had happened lately, it was necessary to remember this. Cobra Kai was out of control and a real danger to the people he loved. All he wanted was to protect them at all costs, and it was so easy to forget everything his old sensei had taught him once.

Two 3-Sentence-Stories

Title: Killer Machines
Character: Johnny Lawrence
Word Count: 102
Prompt: family
Finished: 17.4.2021

Johnny was shaking inwardly when Robby suddenly stepped beside Kreese, staring at him with cold eyes. He had thought to be ready for the fight against his old sensei, after he finally had to admit it, that all the years hadn't changed the man in the slightest; rather the opposite, back then he had taught his students to fight hard and merciless because every fail was out of question. Now he seemed to be resolved to make killer machines out of them, and it got Johnny choked all up to realize that his son had decided to be one of them.

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Title: No mercy doesn't mean no honor
Character: Miguel Diaz
Word Count: 182
Prompt: misery
Finished: 17.4.2021

Miguel turned his head away when Johnny Lawrence entered the hospital's room; the last one he wanted to see, he was the one responsible for the misery he was in now; as his sensei, he had taught him from the beginning the three mottos of the Cobra Kai Dojo: strike first, strike hard, no mercy; and Miguel had taken it in like a dry sponge the water.

Then he did win the All Valley Championship, but instead of celebrating sensei Lawrence had suddenly changed his position to point three and told him that fighting hard was okay, but some lines one should never overstep because there was a difference between no mercy and no honor.

Today Miguel wished he hadn't listened to him; the tiny bit of hesitating when he did remember his words during the probably hardest fight he had ever had, had brought him here, into the hospital, and when he did read the considerate looks of the doctor and the tears of his mom right, the chances one day to stand on his own feet again were not very good.