CHALLENGE #8: WON'T BACK DOWN

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Title: The Makings of a Fighter
Challenge: Won’t Back Down

“Hey, freak!”

“Where ya goin’? ”

“You can’t escape from us. There’s nowhere you can hide.”

Bullshit, Gojyo thought.

Thanks to his Mother, the streets were his second home. He knew every hidey-hole and everyplace he could get patched up. He had been noting these spots since he was five.

Gojyo was ten now. He knew he could take these older boys.

He led his pursuers on a zig-zag chase to a dead end alley he prepared for such an eventuality.

“We gotcha now, freak?”

Gojyo grabbed a pipe from its hiding place.

“Which one of you dumbasses is first?”