Battle Athletes: Out of Africa
Chapter 1- 'Labiwa'
Many critics doubted Morocco in terms of sending a contender to University Satellite. That all changed when a young Olympic skeleton sledder from Erfoud, Morocco entered the competition, and changed the perception on how University Satellite looked at Moroccan Athletes. Her name was Jun Amaq, but she is best by her nickname, 'Labiwa'.
A village girl working as a student, Jun Amaq saved her money to train in France for the Winter Olympics. She was the first in her family to enter the competition for Cosmo Beauty. Jun is gentle and kind with fluffy dark brown curls of hair and wire frame glasses, but when she got on the ice she had a job to do, go faster than you, "You can do it, Akari!"
Jun was not the bragging type, never overconfident but confident in her own abilities. Jun learned those things the hard way when she first started competing in the Winter Games. Her gentle nature made her more of a teddy bear than a fierce lioness out on the ice going 80mph headfirst. it was her strength and stamina that gave her the nickname.
Standing 5'7 and weighing 150lbs, she had brawn as well as beauty. Her long legs, broad shoulders, and large powerful thighs gave most people the notion that she build for power and speed. While not hanging up the suit and skeleton sled forever, she entered the competition as training for the Olympics so she can compete against the world's best.
Jun has beautiful brown eyes, and calls her waterfall of curly dark brown hair her 'lion mane'. Jun is fare-skinned with a good hint of tan to it, and a very small mole on the lower left corner of her left eye. Her strong and well-built thighs and legs brought up controversy as she was accused using steroids, but it was proven false rather quickly.
While she does just that on the oval ice track, Jun is an inquisitive person. She is willing to go out of her sport, and try new things. Her mother and father were killed in a car accident when she was five, and Jun was raised by her grandparents. Jun became the first Moroccan athlete to enter the skeleton event, and win a bronze medal.
Now 17, she was ready for University Satellite, and the Cosmo Beauty Competition. Like the two silver medals she has under her belt, she knew she had to earn her spot which started in Antarctica. The ice was gone, and now a desert took it's place. The ground shook with the sound of young female athletes pursuing the same dream as her.
Jun smirked, and gave Akari a wink, "Yalla (Let's go!)!" Jun said going down the drop into the canyon below as the last 1500 meters were coming up, and she treated the downward ascend like a skier on a slalom course keeping control of her breaking, and moving in a zig-zag motion down into the canyon below, and was catching up to Jessie.
Clouds of dust rose up from the clouds as hundreds of athletes from around the world, and the solar system came rumbling through like human steamrollers with bike brakes. Jun was stuck in the pack, unable to make a move on the leader, Jessie Gurtland. That was until the pack entered the minefield, and then that Jun made her move.
Using her speed and skills she learned, she used her powerful legs and shoulder muscles to dodge the explosions by leaning to the left and right and keeping her footing level, but at an angle as if she were on the track. Jun managed to maneuver around corners to dodge the mines like a supercar meaning this Moroccan was no pushover.
"You're all a buncha pussies, first place is mine!" Ichino boasted, sideswiping an unfortunate competitor that got in her way. Jun dodged it, and powered on through. This was the mid-term exam, and Jun's nana taught her to give it her all in every challenge life gives her, "Huh? What the hell?!" Ichino blasted as gust of wind blew passed her.
"Come on Ichino, it has only the beginning!" Jun said blasting off after Jessie,
"Come back here, Jun so I can rip your legs off!" Ichino blasted at the Moroccan
"Awww...no fair, Big Butt!" Tanya whined amidst as they crawled out of a pile of injured athletes.
Jessie looked behind her to see 'Labiwa' Amaq on her tail, "You'll never catch me, Hijab!" Jessie taunted to the glasses-wearing Moroccan, bashing her to the side but Jun is a hard nut to crack. Her experience in the Winter Olympics taught her to never buckle under pressure. Jun lost her balance for a moment, but quickly recovered.
"Hey, I am non-practicing!" Jun said as the two of them went at each other in a fight for first place. Meanwhile, the University Satellite was monitoring the exam as 'Labiwa' made her special move on 'Golden Jessie', and took the lead away from the American from New York City. There was no way Jessie was going to let a Moroccan overtake her.
"Sir there has been a change in the first place position, the student's name is Jun Amaq, 17 years old from Erfoud, Morocco in Africa," said one of the computer observers watching over the race as Jun's student profile was put on the screen for the headmaster, Grant Oldman. The headmaster seemed intrigued by the Olympic skeleton athlete.
"Hmm...'Labiwa' Jun Amaq, watch how she uses her techniques she learned in skeleton to her advantage in the way she leans into her turns and uses her speed wisely, her experience gives her everything to be a top athlete, speed...technique...power," Grant Oldman said in observation of the new arrival on the Cosmo Beauty scene.
'Don't hold back' Jun thought neck-in-neck with the great Jessie Gurtland. Just then to Jun's surprise, Ayla came up from behind them like a silver bolt of lightning looking back at the Moroccan and the American. They were nearing the last leg of the competition heading into the narrow final canyon in a three-way battle for first place.
With Jessie running along the side of the canyon, and poised to make a move on 'Silver Ayla'. On the other side, Jun was making her move, but Ayla has seen this before, and was not going to let Jessie get the best of her. So like Jessie, she moved up on the canyon wall, not letting Jessie get the better of her. This proved to be a costly mistake.
'Shit' Ayla thought, seeing 'Labiwa' put on the afterburners of her strength which she was saving for the last leg of the race. They leaped down from the walls with Ayla taking the lead in front of Jun. The Moroccan looked up at saw Jessie coming down, and sped up to not let her overtake her. In the end of the struggle, Ayla won first place.
At the finish, Jun saw Ayla standing by the special training apparatuses and approached her, "Hey, that was quite some race we had back there," Jun said with a genuine Moroccan smile. Ayla looked at her, and looked away. Jun may have lost the race, and finished in second but it did not seem to effect her overall composure.
"You lost, shouldn't you be ashamed?" Ayla asked,
"Hey now, it doesn't matter if you come in first or last place, as long as you finish and try your hardest, that is what really counts," Jun said wiping the sweat from her brow, and taking a drink from her water bottle. Jun had earned her place to go to University Satellite, and she knew she was stepping into a new kind of competition