Achromatic Overture


It was just like any day in Seigaku Gakuen, classes went as scheduled and tennis practice too. Kikumaru and Oishi teamed together against some of the reserves, Kaidou and Momoshiro bickered, Fuji kept observing with the pleasant smile that gave everyone a great fear, Ryoma played against another reserve.

The Nationals were over and they had just won it, despite all the elation from the victory they all knew they had to practice, especially Kaidou, Momoshiro and Ryoma, after all they were certainly part of next year's team.

Running to the court, Sakuno Ryuzaki, the young freshman, granddaughter of the coach, held a strange letter in her hands. Reaching the courts, she watched Ryoma play for a few seconds before remembering that she needed to give the stoic captain of the team the letter. Coach Ryuzaki approached silently Sakuno.

"What's that in your hand Sakuno?" asked Coach Ryuzaki, startling her granddaughter.

"I-It's a letter for Tezuka-kun. It says something about a tournament," informed Sakuno.

"Tournament? That's strange, I've never heard of a tournament after

Taking the letter from her granddaughter's hands, Coach Ryuzaki observed the open letter and read the contents, frowning; she entered the court and handed it to the captain. Sakuno silently observed the two as they seemingly discussed about entering the tournament.

"The strangest thing is the time of year. Right after the Nationals, something doesn't seem right," said Tezuka.

"It's still a good practice, and also it's another tournament," said Ryuzaki, turning to the rest of the practicing regulars "You young fellows aren't even in High School yet and you have all won the nationals. Something that Seigaku hasn't done in 25 years. And this tournament, the Inter-4 seems like a great way not to lose your competitive edge."

Tezuka stared at the paper, reading over and over again. Something did not feel right about it, but he had to admit that Coach Ryuzaki was right. It would be great practice for them and they wouldn't lose competitive edge.

"Call the other regulars."

"Hey! Everyone! We received an invitation to a new tournament!" shouted Ryuzaki to call everyone's attention.

"Wait?" said Eiji, stopping in the middle of the match and getting hit by a tennis ball in the process.

"Tournament? This time?" asked Momoshiro.

"Peach's such an idiot that he probably never heard about it, fshuuu."

"What the hell did you say Viper?"

"I said—" and there the two was, grabbing the collar of each other's shirts.

"Um… Guys, you two better not fight," commented Kawamura, trying to calm down the two.

Behind them appeared Sadaharu Inui, the data player from the team holding two jugs, filled with a black viscous liquid that seemed to bubble at the top. Inui wore a sinister grin, as if he was happy that the two were bickering again, maybe they would become the perfect test subjects for his new Inui Juice.

"Sa… Inui's new juice seems to be good," commented Fuji, seeing the juice.

That caught the attention of the bickering teammates that quickly let go of each other and scrambled away from the area, both hiding behind Fuji, the only one that was immune to the infamous juice's effect.

"Everyone! Pay attention! Seigaku is one of the four selected team to enter the Inter-4 Competition," informed Ryuzaki "Tezuka and I discussed it between over ourselves and decided to enter the tournament."

"And what teams are going to lose to us there?" asked Ryoma.

"There's no information on the other teams as of yet. The tournament started in one week and it's in a tennis complex up in the mountains."

"Isolated?" asked the mother hen of the team.

"Isolated," replied Tezuka "We will all have to do our best there and win this competition."

"We already won the Nationals, who'll say that we won't win this one?" boasted Ryoma.

Ryuzaki nodded. Tezuka also nodded, yet there was a vague, unsettling feeling in the pit of Tezuka's stomach. As if something ominous was going to happen to them during this Inter-4 competition. Shaking the feeling away, Tezuka ordered the regulars a good 20 laps around the court.

"Sei-Ga-Ku Fight!"


Author's note: Quite smaller yet very much improved prologue. If anyone read my rewritten Locker Confusion will see that I had the possibility of rewriting Tournament Horrors. This is your answer dear fans, yes, I will be rewriting and changing a few elements (one being the total removal of Miyuki), but the deaths will be in the same order and in the same fashion. You all must be wondering where are the rest of the schools? Where is their introduction? They'll be introduced in the next chapter. It has been a long time since I've seen PoT so forgive me if the characters are a bit or wildly OOC.