Chapter 136: Clinging match (1/2)

Dan could see this decision was hard for Kyle to make. He didn't want it to come to this but if he didn't, Ruman would control the whole town. Not only that but there was a risk of a gang war between the two.

Dan started to look at the room at all the members that were currently inside, most of them were young adults who were made homeless. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, they had decided to join Noir.

At first, it was just a place of shelter for them, but little by little they started to feel like a real family that looked out for each other.

”What happens if I lose?” Dan asked.

”Then we have agreed to submit to the Ruman family, you know I am a man of my word. If they lose we expect them to do the same.” Kyle answered.

Dan could feel the pressure mounting on top of him. Last time a long ago he had been asked to fight, it was against the same Ruman family back then as well. He had backed out of it and the Noir gang suffered and ever since there had been high tension between the two gangs. Yet still, Kyle had decided not to punish him for it.

After coming back to Noir again, there was no chance he could leave the gang with no consequences a second time. The trust between the leader and the other members would have been lost.

Dan took a deep breath in, he had made his decision. If either way, he might have taken a beating, then he might as well have done it trying to save the gang.

”I'll do it,” Dan said.

A soft smile appeared on Kyle's face, he couldn't exactly feel happy about it, after all, he was sending his brother into battle.

”Thank you Dan. The fight is in two days on Thursday night. We will meet here.” Kyle said.

With the fight all set, Dan now had two reasons to concentrate more on his fighting skills. One was for the semi-final match on Saturday and now for the gang fight on Thursday.

It was late in the afternoon and school had already finished, there was no point for Dan to go back so instead, he decided to head for his training spot with Tony. By the river underneath the bridge.

When he arrived, Dan was an hour early before there meeting time, so instead Dan decided to some practising of his own. He started his warm-up routine with a few spins. Then went into a brisk jog.

Once his body was heated and warmed up he proceeded to shadow box but as he did something felt off. He then realised something.

Whenever he was in the boxing club and had a match coming up, he didn't have a problem shadow boxing.

That was because he knew who his opponent was going to be. When you shadow boxed you usually had the image of the opponent in your mind, you would know there fighting style and imagine them hitting you and you hitting them back.

For now, all he could do was push away to get a sweat going.

”Looks like you're all warmed up,” Tony said.

Tony was in what looked like a teachers P.E uniform and by his side was a large Gym bag. ”Well, you ready then?” Tony asked.

”Ready, for what?”

”Don't you remember, I booked a flight for today so you could practise.”

With everything that had happened today with Kyle, Dan had completely forgotten what their plans were for the day.

****

The two of them walked around town until they had eventually stopped just outside of a centre. Outside was a large sign that had the words Thai kickboxing written on it.

When the two of them entered, they could see the gym in full swing. At the entrance of the gym was a boxing ring, then spread around the room were several boxing bags. There were around twenty different people inside the gym each doing their own thing.

Some were skipping, some were shadow boxing, two people in the ring were currently sparing and the rest were busy hitting the bags.

The sight of everyone working hard brought back memories for Dan, it reminded him when he used to be in the clubs at school. They would just be as active, each of them trying to reach their dream.

Although the VSW club was no different, every day the club would spend their time training without fail. The sight of the others working hard only reminded him why he was here in the first place.

As Tony walked forward with Dan behind him, the other members respectfully bowed to Tony before continuing their training.

”Do you go to this gym or something?” Dan asked.