Helu!
This is my first Galactik Football story, so be nice!
Aarch and Artegor both had a female teammate of which they both fell in love with.
They thought she died.
Now, her children enter their lives, soon leading them to her.
Will any of them win her heart?
Who will that someone be?
''Welcome back, Snow kids!'' The grey haired coach says happily, ''It's so good to see you!''
The nine teammates all walk into the big and familiar training room. The kids, now not so much kids as young adults, are already seventeen years old. They have grown both mentally and physically since the first cup they attended, when they were only fifteen years old. Now, two years later, they are up for the difficult task of defending their title as champions for a second time.
The coach, Aarch, notices that Micro-ice and D'Jok are as close as ever. Ahito is still as sleepy and Micro-ice is acting like a clown. Tia and Rocket are still both as shy. Yuki still laughs and blushes at Micro-ice's jokes and compliments. The 'no worries' attitude Mark always had, is still there and Thran seems to still be his brothers' regular pillow. Mei is still as sweet, caring and supportive.
Aarch smiles happily, everything is still the same. As the whole team finally settles down, he speaks up, ''Last year I noticed some flaws with this team''
The Snow kids begins to grumble unsatisfying sentences. Aarch laughs lightly and says, ''Not flaws with you as players, but with the team itself''
This doesn't please the team, it only makes them confused. He sighs and continues, ''If something would happen with Ahito, we have Yuki as a substitute. If Tia or Rocket would get hurt in any way, we have Mark. But we don't have a substitute for a striker or a defender. This is the flaw''
The team now understands their coach. As he receives understanding glances, he decides to continue, ''So the reason I called you here a week earlier is because of this. I am holding try-outs for these two positions and I want you all to help me choose. I will pick out the best of them and then you all will select the two you can get along with the best''
Everyone in the team nods and then Clamp, who has quietly been leaning against a wall all this time, opens the doors. In comes around fifty aspiring football players in their late teens.
''This morning I am only hosting try-outs for defenders, this afternoon I'll go for the strikers. Snow kids, get into the holo-trainer with all the defenders and give them a hard time. Yuki and Ahito, you both defend a goal each''
The Snow kids walk over to stand on a large dark square, together with all the defenders. As they all are inside the lines, the holo-trainer starts to form. First small squares and then into one giant cube surrounding them all.
The Snow kids all make their way to the half-line, except Yuki and Ahito, each awaiting their balls. The seven balls soon materialize in front of them. They all take control of one ball each and start to head for the goal, determined to not go easy on the newbie's.
Standing in the middle of the defence line is a girl with waist long chestnut brown hair. She has her hair up in two braids and her eyes are, weirdly enough, closed. She seems to be concentrating.
Then suddenly she smiles a soft, almost invisible, smile to no one in particular. She opens her eyes, but they seem lifeless. Her eyes aren't focusing on anything or anyone, yet still she goes into a light sprint. The girl moves so lightly, every step flows with her.
As she is only five feet away, she slides into a light tackle, knocking the ball away from Marks feet. She stands up and giggles, ''Sorry''. Her voice is as soft and flowing as everything else about her.
Mark decides to tackle her and take the ball back, his pride won't have this. As he moves to snatch the ball, she avoids his feet. He tries again with no luck. As he tries a third time, she pulls her legs together and frog-jumps over his sliding body.
She sends the ball flying high up in the air. Mark jumps after it, blue flux swirling all around him, and to his surprise, so does the girl.
Outside the holo-trainer Aarch gasps, ''This girl has the Breath!''
Surprising everyone, the brown haired girl reaches the ball first and kicks it right against the goal. The orb zooms past Yuki and into the goal with blue flux surrounding it.
The girl lands with a thud, sending Mark an apologetic smile, ''Sorry''. Mark smiles and says, ''You're good, really good''
She giggles and says, ''Thank you'', before turning around. They both seem to watch the struggling rookies as they poorly attempt to snatch the balls from the other six Snow kids.
''Mark, take this ball'' Aarch says as an orb materializes in front of Mark again, ''and give the kids more of a challenge''
''Will do, coach!'' Mark says with a smile and sends the new girl a wink, before running off to join his team mates.
Six of the new kids had managed to snatch the balls from the Snow kids. None of them had managed to keep possession of the balls or avoid any tackles.
''Sir'' The chestnut haired girl says slowly.
''Yes?'' Aarch inquires, curious as to who this girl is.
''May I try to tackle the other Snow kids as well? It seems so fun'' She asks softly.
''Yes you may, but first tell me your name?'' Aarch asks kindly.
''Velvet Hale'' She says before going into a sprint, targeting Rocket this time.
Aarch gasps, ''Hale... Velvet Hale... It can't be!'' The shape of her face, her soft voice, the way she moves and her football style. Pandora Hale... But she died, didn't she? But they're so similar, like mother and daughter...
Aarch turns back to the game, watching the girl intently.
Velvet sneaks in between all the players. Rocket soon finds himself standing opposite of the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. Her stunning brown, almost golden eyes make him gulp.
She suddenly frowns and softly says, ''You're shocked'' That statement seems to snap him out of dreamland and into the game. However, that doesn't seem to last for long as she leans forward, shocking him once again. Only an inch between their noses, she smiles slightly wider.
He has nothing in his mind except one thing, this girl. He tries to establish eye-contact and she looks at him, but only at him and not into his eyes. Her eyes are as lifeless as before, looking at him as if she is looking right through him.
Then she says, ''Thank you for the ball'' and with one move, snatches the ball from under his feet. Rocket turns around, just in time to see the ball go past Ahito and into the goal.
''Alright kids, that's it for the defenders'' Aarch says as the holo-trainer slowly disappears.
When the holo-trainer is gone, Aarch starts to laugh. All the teenagers are staring at one single person, Velvet Hale.
''How old are you Velvet?'' Aarch says as he approaches the teenagers.
''Fifteen. Mom said you'd recognize me...'' Velvet says softly.
Aarch eyes widen, ''Then you really are the daughter of Pandora. How is she? How did she survive that explosion, she was right in the middle of it''
Velvet giggles and answers, ''Why don't you ask her yourself? She'll be here this afternoon with my sister, Silk wants to try out for striker''
He nods with a smile, pulls his arm around her shoulders and turns to the rest of the kids.
''I've already chosen my substitute defender. Can you all work with her?'' Aarch says with an arm around Velvet's shoulders.
The Snow kids all cheer and shout many enthusiastic 'yes', 'definitely' and 'of course'.
Staring into no-where, Velvet says, ''Thank you, I appreciate it''
''Hey, how come you never look at any of us?'' Micro-ice asks slowly, a question everyone wants an answer to.
Velvet smiles softly and answers, ''Because I'm blind, Micro-ice, and no, it doesn't hurt me that you ask''
Everyone watches her with stunned expressions and Micro-ice asks, ''How did you know I thought that?''
''I've been blind all my life. My other four senses are twenty-five times better than the average being. I can hear the difference between the footsteps of you and Mark. Your footsteps from before tells me that you're 163 cm and weigh 78 kilos while Mark is 186 cm and weigh 97 kilos. I can smell exactly what ingredients are inside your cologne and I can sense emotions. When you asked me why I wasn't looking at you, you were feeling three emotions. You were scared, embarrassed and curious. It's not hard to realize what's on a person's mind when you have my gifts. My mom trained me well''
Velvet can't see it, but she can sense that they are all staring at her with mute admiration.
''Just because I'm blind, doesn't mean I can't sense you staring at me'' Velvet says with awkwardness. Her new teammates shake their heads with embarrassment and mumbles some quiet ''sorry's''.
Velvet then frowns and says, ''Now that wasn't very well mannered, leaving like that''
''What? Who left?'' Micro-ice frantically asks, confused.
''The rest, Micro-ice, the rest of the teenagers who came. They just left'' She giggles and answers.
''I think they felt slightly inferior to you. You're amazing!'' Tia says with enthusiasm. ''If your sister is as good as you are, then we'll have the best team in the universe''
Blushing madly, Velvet turns her head in another direction and says, ''Silk is better, more aggressive. One of those moves I used in the holo-trainer, mom said she learned from Aarch''
Clamp, Simbai and the team, excluding Velvet, all turn to look at Aarch with curious glances.
He sighs and says, ''After the beginning of the Akillian Ice-age, Artegor and I switched what was left of the Breath for the Smog. We started playing for the Shadows, where we met Pandora Hale. She had everything. Footballing skills, beauty, intelligence, speed and amazing control of the Smog. She was sweet, loving, caring and was always fair to everyone. Everyone loved her''
He sits down on the nearest sofa and continues, ''Artegor and I were into football and training to much to notice all the girls flirting with us, trying to get our attention. Pandora literally smacked us on the head and told us to go get a life. She taught us how to have fun again, how to be social. She became our best friend''
Reminiscent of the old days, he sighs and closes his eyes, ''She knew so much more than us. All together I taught her four moves, Artegor taught her eight, but she knew hundreds of moves we could only dream of. And then came the time when she wo...''
''Did you get the spot?!'' A girl with strikingly similar traits to Velvet runs in through the doors and shouts. Her chestnut brown hair is shoulder long and hanging in a high ponytail. She has lively golden eyes and a huge grin plastered on her face.
Behind this girl, a young woman and a third girl strolls in. The girl has boy-short chestnut brown hair and bored golden eyes. The woman has beautiful and soft violet hair that is hanging loosely down to the middle of her calves. Her stunning cerise eyes quickly finds Aarch and softly smiles, ''Hello Aarch''
''Pandora'' Aarch stutters, shocked with her appearance. She looks as young as she did twenty-one years ago.
''Mom, I got the spot'' Velvet says proudly as she walks over to her mother.
Pandora smiles softly and says, ''I'm proud of you, sweetheart''
She turns to her other two daughters and says, ''Why don't you two go with your sister and her new friends, Aarch and I have some thing's to talk about''
''Okay'' They all say with different smiles. One soft, one goofy and one almost invisible.
That's it!
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