I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in forever. First I got writer's block; then I was banned from because I was in my senior year at high school. I was still writing though, I just had to handwrite everything before retyping them. I'll try to do better but it might be difficult as I am in college.
Again, I'm sorry!
Disclaimer: I do not own Prince of Tennis.
Wizard of Avalon
Prologue
Today had been a good day for the Prince of Tennis. Ryoma thought back on the day's events. He had been able to get up early, his mom had made a Japanese breakfast for the first time in months, the teacher had actually ignored the fact that he was sleeping during class and, best of all, Inui-senpai was sick. Just the fact that the data-collector-slash-mad-scientist tennis player, or current team manager, was absent was enough for Ryoma to consider it a good day.
"Chotto…won't Inui-senpai have more time to make a couple of new juices and make them taste horrible?" Ryoma asked himself before shuddering at the thought. Honestly, couldn't Inui-senpai make a concoction that was good for the body and didn't cause nearly the whole team to pass out from the sheer taste of it? Or if he didn't, couldn't he just give it all to Fuji-senpai, the only person at Seigaku that actually liked the taste and had only fainted from one concoction out of who-knows-how-many?
The youngest Seigaku Regular then shook his head to clear it. That was like asking Momo-senpai and Kaidoh-senpai to not fight or argue for a year or at least getting Momo-senpai to stop calling Kaidoh-senpai 'Mamushi'. It was not going to happen any time soon if ever. 'Oh well, one could always hope.'
Turning the corner, Ryoma heard someone yelling something about their house being on fire. Ryoma ran over to where the screaming was coming from and saw a woman yelling in front of a house that had smoke coming out the windows while others, Ryoma assumed that they were neighbors, tried to calm her down and called the fire department. Right after Ryoma had registered that, another scream was heard but this time it was coming from inside the house.
"Yuuri!" the woman screamed before trying to run past the neighbors that were blocking her from the house. The woman kept struggling but none of her neighbors would let her run back into the house. Another scream came from inside the house and Ryoma found himself dropping his tennis bag and running pass the woman's neighbors into the burning house.
All at once, the Prince of Tennis was surrounded by heat and flames. Following the screams of the child upstairs, Ryoma found a girl around five or six trying to escape the flames that were surrounding her. Ryoma quickly grabbed the girl, knowing that they had to get outside fast before they were severely burned. He ran back down the stairs as quickly as he could but the door was blocked by some fallen debris. Ryoma swore under his breath while looking for another way out. A moment later he heard something breaking before glass shattered and flew towards himself and the child. Ryoma stopped most of the glass from hitting the girl as best he could but he was cut everywhere he blocked and some of the glass still cut the girl.
Suddenly, eyes felt like there were needles in them and he screamed in pain. Seconds after he screamed two arms wrapped themselves around him and he felt himself and the girl in his arms being carried out of the burning house. People were yelling, but none of the actual words processed in Ryoma's mind. He was vaguely aware that the girl was taken from his bleeding arms and that someone was yelling for an ambulance before he fell into painless and blissful darkness.