Defiled World

Chapter 2 - Tournament

Chapter 2 - Tournament“Ahhh…...” shouted Mikki as he punched another man with his bare hand, he then grabbed his cloth and threw the person to the ground over his body.

A referee inspected them; he raised Mikki’s hand, saying the winner. Behind Mikki was a board that read ‘All Martial Art Competition’.

They were competing for the tournament with both Rex and Mikki as a representative from their dojo. While walking to the waiting space, Rex congratulated Mikki for the spectacular win.

“Don’t get full of yourself, it's only the quarter-final,” Mikki Growled.

“Yes, I know but a win is a win, right even if it is semi-final or quarter-final doesn’t matter, you know you are supposed to say thank you right, not just explode at that person,” Rex advised.

“So, you do know how to behave like an adult, but you choose not to, and I am sorry for being an ass, it's all because of this day,” Mikki apologized.

The reason Mikki is having trouble controlling his anger is since today is the day the entrance result is going to be published, as he heard from one of the contestants he was unaware of it before coming to the competition, everything came out of the blue. So that made him hard to concentrate on the competition. He knew he would get a ear full of scolding from his master if they lose in this competition, it’s just that he can’t concentrate after hearing it.

The announcer called Rex’s name through the speaker for the competition. It was his turn, but Mikki didn’t bother to look at his fight as he knew who would be the winner, for some reason, Rex was too excited. And he was right, the speaker had already called his name as the winner within 30 seconds.

The semi-final and final will be conducted after lunch, and they gave everyone a break to have lunch. Both Mikki and Rex rushed to the food court to have their lunch. It was when they heard through the speaker about unique food in the food court. They behaved like child hearing those it’s as if they care more about the food than the competition, and all the thought which Mikki was having trouble with was no more, as they know the foods going to sell out quickly if they don’t get there first it’s a rare food called ‘Shawarma’. They reached there, and they could secure the food after waiting some time in a line. A strong aroma radiated from the food, with a watery mouth, they took a bite from the shawarma roll. It was one of the tastiest foods they ate because they are eating it for the first time. They were planning on having a second and reached the stall but were disappointed that the shawarma stall was closed. They stuffed their stomach with other food from the stall with tears from their eyes.

The competition started it was Rex’s turn the announcer called Rex to the arena where he was standing with his usual stance. His body was fine, but his face was not feeling okay Mikki suspected something was wrong from the start to one minute Rex was on the defence even though his opponent does not look that strong. While he was looking at Rex, he was talking to the referee in his ear, and after sometime from the speaker, they announced that Rex forfeited from his match, Mikki was surprised to hear it.

Rex was practically running from the stadium Mikki doesn’t know what’s happening. The next match was his, the announcer called Mikki through the mike. He entered the arena, made a stance, and was not feeling okay something is not right with his stomach. Suddenly he got an urge to go to the toilet, so he immediately understood the reason why Rex forfeited, he said in his mind that poor guy. Mikki didn’t lose any second, he immediately forfeited from the get-go and just rushed to the toilet. He slammed the door and got into the bathroom and did what he intended to do.

“Mikki, is that you?” came a voice from his right side.

“Yeah, it’s me, is that you, Rex?” Mikki asked back.

“Yep, I was afraid how to describe the problem to you, but I am relieved to see you too experiencing the same problem”.

“Now both of us are not participating you will be accompanying me to the punishment I am so relieved,” Rex added.

“Can you think of the reason why we are having this problem? We have to describe this scenario to our master?” Mikki asked.

“I don’t know, man, maybe the shawarma roll we ate,” Rex replied with a weird sound.

“It can’t be that if that was the case, we won’t be able to use the toilet with ease, it will be crowded like the shawarma stall”.

“I can’t think about that scenario, it will be a disaster, getting in line to take a dump,” Rex talked with disappointment.

“Focus you i***t, just find the cause, if the truth is not in our favour, we have to fabricate a lie which helps us to escape from his punishment”.

“Master will understand when we are lying?” Rex interrupted.

“Just let me do the talking, if you don’t want to fabricate a lie, then keep thinking, you i***t,” Mikki roared.

“Okay,” Rex answered.

“Were we poisoned by our enemy?” Commented Mikki.

“I don’t know,” replied Rex.

“Was it because we ate too many different dishes?” Mikki asked again.

“I don’t know” Rex gave the same answer.

“Then what the hell do you know?” Mikki shouted.

“We are going to get punished; do you remember the last punishment?” Rex replied unhappily.

“Of course, you don’t need to point it out every single time, okay, just do what I told you to do at least find a way to minimize the intensity of the punishment,” Mikki begged.

“Last time he asked us to run for four hours, which was followed by special forces survival exercises that he was doing during his services, it was pure hell,” Rex said in one of their nightmares.

“Yeah, he was a special force officer what do you expect the punishment would be? Now focus on the problem in our hand,” Mikki replied with fear in his voice.

While they were busy thinking, the phone rang it was Mikki’s ringtone he looked at the number it was not a number saved in his phone, It’s a private number. So he attended the call,

“Hello, who is this”.

“Are you Mr. Mikki Milton?” he heard a deep voice from another end.

“Yes, that would be me”.

“Congratulations, you got admission to Saint high School,” the voice said.

There was no answer, and it was complete silence.

“Excuse me, are you there sir,” asked the deep voice.

“Yes, I am here,” He replied with a happy and surprised voice.

“You just have to do the necessary paperwork and present your proof to the school, and we will proceed with the admission process”.

“Yes, I will do that, and thank you for the information,” Mikki said.

He ended the phone call and started laughing. Rex enquired who was on the phone.

“It’s from the school, and I got the admission”.

“Good for you,” answered Rex with an okay voice.

“Why are you not excited upon hearing the news?”

“Why should I get excited when you are the one who got admission?” Rex answered with another question.

“So, you didn’t get called by the school, and whose fault do you think that is” Mikki pointed out.

“It’s my fault, but right now, get to the problem on our hand, which is how to avoid getting punished,” Rex answered with a disappointed face.

Both Mikki and Rex were stuck in the toilet for five hours, they could have gone before, but they were afraid that they had to come again. So they looked for many reasons for avoiding the punishment, but in the end, they got punished even after they cooked a reasonable explanation.

Even though Both Rex and Mikki got punished, they were happy because they got admission. The amazing fact is that Rex luck hadn’t run out he was called from the school when they were in the middle of the punishment and informed him that he has survived the first round and asked to attend a special interview in the second round, people with a decent mark will be interviewed for the admission in the case of Mikki he got a higher mark at the test so he got admission straight away, so Rex admission depends on his performance at the interview.

This made both of them happy, and they overlooked the fact that they lost the martial art competition, and the punishment was nothing this time around.