Vito's Anger! And Edith's Annoyance.
Vito and Dragon walked to another corner of the bar with Dragon leading the way. After going quite a distance from Mikey, Dragon then turned around to face Vito and said, "I think this is far enough-"
Not only had he not finished his sentence but he got punched in the face by a very upset Vito.
"Why am I not surprised?" Dragon said while lying on the floor. He positioned his back against the wall as he stared upwards toward Vito. "It seems you and your people are all barbaric. Not even giving your enemy the chance to fight back."
"And why would I give you that opportunity?" Vito asked.
"Ever heard of a fair fight? Or never hitting a man when he is down? No, I wouldn't expect you people to have morals or a care in the world. Nobody does nowadays," Dragon responded as he looked downwards with a sad smile on his face.
"Get up. I didn't hit you hard enough to knock you out so that much should amount to the fair fight you so desperately desire," Vito answered.
"Geez, thanks," Dragon replied not getting up from his position.
"If I can ask, why did you bother to attack us? I don't think we've had anything to do with you before. So this feels very impulsive," Dragon growled in a very harsh tone.
"Why did I attack you?" Vito repeated.
He took a moment to think about it as he looked around the room for a moment, he saw the multitude of bodies on the floor of people unconscious from his attacks and he could even see Edith and Terra segregated into their own little standoffs on the sides.
And eventually, his eyes came across Minty who was lying with her face on the bar counter. Sulking.
At first, when Vito heard that they would be attacking the Mafia, he was worried. He wondered which of the five families would they be attacking if they were to embark on this endeavor. And even if they were to attack a small mafia unit, it would most likely have some connections to one of the main Five families, and this, in turn, could cause another dispute to arise.
But due to the trust he has in Alex for how competent he portrayed himself to be. As well as Alex knowing that Vito is part of a mafia family, Vito decided to have faith and believe that whatever mafia they were talking about wouldn't be one that would have anything to do with the five families, and his deductions were true, seeing as how he was face to face with a self-proclaimed mafia family.
At first, Vito simply fought them because it was a mission assigned to him by Minty, as well as the fact that Terra was very enthusiastic about it.
But after hearing Mikey slander him by saying that he would have no idea what it would mean to try and uphold a name for one's own family. This. THIS. Made it very personal for Vito Gotti.
"Well, to answer your question," Vito responded. "You're an eyesore to society. So I decided that I didn't want to have to see you again. Ever!"
"Eyesore? Is that so?" Dragon said as he got up now and was still smiling. He placed his hand on a wooden chair to use it as a support item for him to stand up straight. "Someone like you doesn't know what we have been through to obtain this name, this title for ourselves! We are a family!! And I will show you what happens to anyone who tries to threaten us!"
Lifting the chair up, Dragon grabbed it by the legs and swung it towards Vito's head. Vito ducked under it, however... there was a sideways kick coming at him at the exact same time as it would take him to duck under the first attack.
He placed his hand to block the blow but part of the kick ended up landing on his face, and this left a bad taste in his mouth. He wasn't expecting two attacks in quick succession.
Vito was pushed sideways a little and this made him start to fall toward the floor but he stretched his hand out to prevent himself from hitting it.
Dragon then swung the chair downwards on Vito but Vito used his other hand to hold it and stop it in midair. Dragon was unable to keep pushing the chair downwards and in his confusion, Vito had enough time to use his leg to kick him backward toward a wall.
Dragon hit the wall with his back after being forced to let go of the chair, he then kicked the wall with his feet to push himself forward and then jumped in the air and fell down with a downward punch toward Vito.
Vito rolled out of the way and when Dragon saw this, he swung his arm sideways a bit in order to land on his arm and not punch his fist through the floor. He wasn't looking to gain any unnecessary injuries during the fight.
Dragon pushed himself off the floor and landed back on his feet. Vito rushed forward to try and counterattack and as he got close, Dragon launched a kick aimed directly at Vito's face. Vito ducked under it and was met with a punch coming forward right at him at the same time that he ducked.
Vito blocked the blow but was pushed back a little bit.
'This guy is annoying,' Vito thought. 'He fights in such a way whereby after blocking/dodging the first attack, you get roped into the second. I need to play around that somehow.'
Vito then considered pulling out his daggers but then he stopped as he remembered Terra's words. He put them back in place as he snickered, "He's right. They are gonna need every bone they can get."
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"Once I'm done with you, your friends won't even be able to recognize you under that mask," Mutt muttered loudly in front of the people.
"Yeah, Mutt! You get her!!" Someone shouted from the small crowd surrounding him.
"But it's a shame that a true man doesn't hit a woman. So this fight is pointless," Mutt muttered again for the crowd to hear as he took his pipe off of his shoulder and had it hanging lowly from his hand.
"He's right!! He is so right!!" Another person replied from the crowd.
"How could I forget that!!?" Somebody next to him agreed as well.
"But even then!! A man has to know when not to take any disrespect lightly from a lady and fight for his honor and his friend's pride!" Mutt yelled with his hand held high clenching the pipe.
"Yeah!!" People were shouting.
"You get her Mutt!" One yelled.
"You can do this!" Another screamed!
"You are so cool!!" Two boys said in unison with tears in their eyes.
"I wanna be like him when I grow up," a short boy who had stopped growing whispered as he watched from the crowd.
"Hey! Are we fighting or not?" Edith asked annoyed and with her arms crossed as she tapped her foot on the ground in rhythm.
"Heh! Don't be impatient now. We have a lot of time to take care of this fight, so don't be so eager to receive the beating you so desperately deserve," Mutt said as he pointed his pipe at her.
"Beat her up Mutt!" A girl yelled from the crowd.
As Mutt was making a show of himself, in his mind he was crying and screaming in turmoil. 'Mikey!!!! Dragon!!!! Help Me!!! This Girl is Insanely Strong!! I Can't Beat Her!! Please hurry up and finish your fights so we can fight her together. I can't keep stalling like this forever!!'
Mutt then looked around as he thought to himself, 'One of them should almost be done, right?' As he looked at Mikey, he saw that his arm was stretched out to his opponent and that they weren't even fighting but talking.
'Nooo!!! Mikey!!!! HELP!!! Don't talk!! Please beat him and come save me!!' he cried in his mind as he pictured himself biting down on a pillow.
Then he saw that Dragon was seriously fighting with his opponent and he screamed with joy and relief in his mind, 'Woohooo!! Dragon!! Win!! Win!! WIN!!! You can do it!! Come and save me, Dragon!!!!'
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Dragon threw an open-handed karate chop sideways at Vito's head but Vito placed his hand to block it, and as he wanted to use both hands to block, he noticed some movement from Dragon that prompted him to keep his other hand free.
Before the first attack could make contact Dragon had already launched his next one to come as a fist from the other side of Vito, but Vito used his spare hand to block that as well.
Dragon then kneed Vito in the stomach and advanced the knee into a kick as he pushed Vito back a bit.
Vito didn't pay enough attention to the legs at first so he couldn't see that attack coming. He made a note not to repeat that mistake though.
Coming forward, Dragon rushed Vito again as he swung wildly to the left. Vito dodged to the right.
Dragon then swung right and Vito dodged left.
After the swings, Dragon tried to kick Vito three times with his leg, aiming at his lower area, then moving on to his stomach, and then his head. Vito blocked these blows, but they were each powerful in their own right and put him off balance a little bit as his hands were left in the air.
The offset of balance was exactly what Dragon was going for as he now had a clear shot at Vito's abdomen. He prepped his punch and shot right at Vito but Vito threw his arms down that were in the air and redirected the blow to miss and aim towards the floor.
This act had put Dragon off of balance and then Vito followed up with an uppercut to his jaw.
Dragon stumbled back a little as he clenched his jaw with his hand a little bit and then redirected his eyes back at Vito.
"Is this a joke?" he asked as he checked to make sure he was not bleeding.
"Is what a joke?" Vito asked for clarity.
"You had daggers earlier. I saw you use them on my men. And yet you put them away for me? Is this some sort of display of pity, arrogance... or perhaps you are not taking this fight seriously enough," Dragon explained.
Vito was left silent.
"If you are not going to fight me seriously, then that means that whatever you were trying to prove by fighting with us earlier up until this point was just a joke you came up with to try and make yourself feel better," Dragon replied.
*Sigh* Vito expressed as he pulled out his blades from underneath his sleeves.
"I was hoping to make this hurt for a little while longer, but I guess I will be going home earlier than I expected," Vito replied as he prepared for his attack.
Dragon prepared himself likewise and guarded himself with a nearby chair.
Vito rushed forward and was met with a downward swing from the chair that Dragon was holding. Vito used his daggers to try and block the attack but he felt the chair slide off a little towards the edge of the blade and he contemplated as he said, "I guess she was right. That other pair was better suited for defense."
As Vito blocked the attack he saw some movement from Dragon's leg and he spun himself around to get out of the position that he was in. Dragon had tried to knee Vito with his left leg after trapping him for a while but that attack didn't work this time around as Vito was now on his lower right side.
Vito stabbed Dragon in his right thigh and this attack had caused Dragon to stumble and drop the chair. Vito then spun around again and stabbed Dragon from the backside of his leg, causing Dragon to now fall down to one knee.
Dragon launched an attack on his right side but he expected Vito to block that so he launched another attack on his left shortly after by swinging his arms backward. Vito ducked under the left side and grabbed the dagger from his right thigh as he used it to stab into Dragon's left arm making it incapacitated.
After which Vito wrapped his arm around the injured arm of Dragon and then used the same arm to grab onto Dragon's uninjured arm to restrict his movement and prevent him from trying to counterattack.
As Vito placed the blade of his dagger from his free hand right beside Dragon's neck, he asked him in a whisper, "Hey. Since I got to beat you with these, does that make me, the Dragon Slayer?"