When it came down to it, there was nothing that D'Jok liked better than playing football or Quidditch at school. Until she hit fifteen and was called a liar for trying to tell the truth about a former terrorist that had killed her mother not long after she was born on Akillian. She sighed as she made her way to the try-outs for the new Akillian Galactik Football team under the coaching of a former Galactik footballer named Aarch. His nephew Rocket had come, not to the pleasure of his father Norata.
D'Jok made a good impression on Aarch for her talents as a footballer, even more so with her easy-going nature with the team, but she knew she had to tell him about her schooling. Aarch knew she was a witch, but D'Jok had to return to Hogwarts before their very first match against the Red Tigers. Sinedd always sneered and bullied her, until she punched him in the face and told him to push off, that impressed the rest of the Snow Kids. Thran, Ahito, Tia, Mei and Micro-ice liked D'Jok and were always hanging out together until she had to return to school and away from their training sessions.
While D'Jok was away, she still trained for the match with her skills. For a football, Madam Hooch had given her permission to use the Quaffle as practice under Angelina's watch. But when she got word that Tia had been forced to return to her parents, D'Jok had to leave Hogwarts to properly train with her team. Unfortunately, the Snow Kids met D'Jok's unpleasant teacher Delores Umbridge as well "what is this Galactik Football?" She sweetly asked D'jok who was busy with a call to Rocket about Tia's absence "I'm telling you, D'Jok. Without Tia, we're done for" he said "Rocket, we're the Snow Kids. We can do this" D'Jok argued "(sighs) I hope you're right" Rocket said as he signed off.
"Sorry Professor, what was that?" She asked "what is this sport you play?" Umbridge asked "it's like Quidditch, similar to the players except it has a lot more sophisticated rules and if you foul another player, you're sent off the pitch. That and we don't use brooms, we have something called the Flux, it enhances our abilities. But my team's just lost the only player with our flux, the Breath of Akillian" D'Jok said, sighing in defeat at losing Tia and the only chance they had of regaining their own Flux.
The shuttle landed and D'Jok left for one last training session with the team before their game, the training proved to be fine except with Sinedd being a show off, and it was time for their first match. Meanwhile with Tia, she and her nurse were planning an escape from the camera that always watched Tia since she ran away to play football. Her parents were senators and didn't want Tia to play football. But she got away and went to Akillian, changing into her Snow Kids football uniform.
"Take me off the pitch and replace me with who?" Sinedd was challenging Aarch "how about me? You really didn't think I'd let you lose without me, did you?" Tia grinned as she walked into the locker room "Tia!" The Snow Kids exclaimed in joy, they were glad to get their player with the Breath back "what about your parents?" Aarch asked "don't we have a game to win?" Tia countered as they all went to their positions to go back onto the pitch "for once I agree with him" D'Jok muttered to Thran quietly, Thran snickered "you always have to agree with him, D'Jok. Rocket is your captain, never forget that" Aarch said, hearing what the Striker had said, Umbridge smirked in glee at the young girl who blushed furiously with a sheepish grin on her face at the Captain of the Snow Kids "sorry, Rocket" he apologised "you don't always have to agree with me, I'm always welcome to ideas. No matter how daft or suicidal" he grinned at the Number 9 player, D'Jok shrugged at him.
They returned to the pitch and Artegor Nexus wasn't pleased to see Tia back with the Snow Kids "listen to me, all of you. Watch out for number 4, she's very dangerous" he said, the Red Tigers looked and sneered at Tia as she looked in awe at the defrosted stadium of Akillian "go, Snow, GO!" The Snow Kids grinned at each other as they resumed play and all of them remembered what Rocket said about using headspace, they looked at that to their advantage. The Red Tigers didn't have a flux on their side, the Snow Kids had the breath of Akillian within Tia as their own secret weapon to use. Micro-ice passed to Tia who used the Breath to score their first goal of the entire match within minutes, D'Jok passed to Tia as she let her score again, Rocket was furious with the foul on Tia by two Red Tigers and took the free kick as it began to snow again "why can't the summer come?" He heard Thran moan as some of the Snow Kids shivered a little as Rocket scored the third goal for them. But for the Snow Kids to qualify for the cup, time was running out to barely a minute left.
Three Red Tigers surrounded D'Jok as Rocket tried to pass to her and he used the headspace strategy they had been using "gotta make this goal. Gotta make this goal!" D'Jok thought as the Breath of Akillian woke in her and she used the Breath to score the final and most crucial goal for the Snow Kids to qualify for the Galactik Football cup. The Snow Kids were going to be in the Cup, and it was thanks to D'Jok's final goal in the last few seconds of gameplay "well done D'Jok!" Mei screamed at the Striker with a large grin on her face as she hugged her hard "thanks Mei" D'Jok smiled back.
Tia's parents came during their celebrations and were convinced by Callie Mystic to let Tia continue playing for the Snow Kids after she showed them what their daughter had done in a football match for a planet that had a major catastrophe occur on it fifteen years previously "I'm proud of you, son" Rocket turned and saw Norata behind him "thanks Dad" he smiled, Norata smiled as he pulled Rocket into a hug and apologised for being too harsh on him. D'Jok saw the small scene and smiled. What she wouldn't give to have her biological parents there with her, but she always had Maya to be supportive of her, even Umbridge was pleased with the fifteen-year-old witch and football player.
She gave her a free pass to come and go from school whenever she had a match, but D'Jok said she would do her studies while she was travelling with her team, she was more comfortable around them instead of her own people. The only subject she refused to do was the crap she was forced to call Defence Against the Dark Arts, Umbridge's own subject that she was teaching very poorly in Hogwarts. The students were protesting and rioting in the school and D'Jok grinned smugly as she heard from Hermione about that "did you have something to do with this?" She asked her friend.
"With what?" D'Jok laughed as she said goodbye and re-joined her team as they saw Sinedd had joined Artegor with the Shadows "damn, luckily we got a few tricks up our sleeves" Micro-Ice said "you said it, Mice" D'Jok hi-fived him as she jumped onto the couch next to him and a dozing Ahito "AHITO! Wake up!" She yelled in his ear, Ahito barely looked up at her "I can hear you all, I look like I am sleeping" he mumbled. The Snow Kids laughed as they continued to have their games and personal problems on and off the pitch, that last straw was when Micro-Ice had left and came back.
They then played their first game against the Shadows and Sinedd used his love for Mei against her "Coach, what'd we do? He knows our weaknesses. One went after D'Jok and fouled her on her sore ankle" Ahito said "use the breath to counter the Smog" was all Aarch told them to do, unlike the Shadows, the Snow Kids played as a team. After they won the match, they were all still laughing at the save a sleeping Ahito had pulled off on the field "nice save, Ahito!" they all cheered the dozing goalie "thanks" he sleepily said as they were through to the final Sixteen of the Galactik Football Cup. Before their match with the Technoid team, the kids learned from Clamp and Sonny Blackbones that they were infected with a synthetic flux that had caused the ice age on Akillian fifteen years ago when they were all born. D'Jok was sceptical about it, but agreed with her teammates about that.
As the team made their decision, D'Jok was gazing out into space from one of the windows in their new hotel, she was glad to have come to Genesis, but she wanted to win the GFC since she was a kid. Sonny came up behind her "beautiful, huh?" He said, D'Jok smiled "all my life I've wanted to come to Genesis, but to actually play here?" She said, her white jacket sleeve slipping a little as she pulled her hair back into a ponytail and placed her hand onto the window, showing her bracelet.
"D'Jok, that bracelet. Where did you get it?" Sonny asked, D'Jok looked at the beloved bracelet of her late mother "it was my mom's. She gave it to Maya, my foster mother, before she was killed when I was a baby" she said "killed?" D'Jok noticed the colour had gone a little fron Sonny's face "you knew my mother?" She asked "D'Jok, there's only two medallions like that. One your mother had…and this one" Sonny said, turning his back to her and slipping the left sleeve of his red jacket up a little "your mother gave this to me on our wedding day" he added, that clicked in D'Jok's mind.
Sonny's identity to her, it couldn't be…was he…her father? "You're…" She stammered, vaguely remembering her mother had been a redhead like herself, but D'Jok's hair was a little blonde in a few places and had the exact same shade of hazel in her eyes like Sonny's "I am, D'Jok. I just wish things on Akillian had turned out differently and I had seen you grow up" he said to his newly discovered and stunned daughter "did you know I was a…?" She began "I knew your mother was, Lily had always been special. Even when she and James split up and she married me, James would have raised you if something happened to myself or your mother. But he had been killed by the same man that killed you mother, Voldemort wasn't it?" Sonny said "unfortunately, he's after me as well" D'Jok's face contorted into a scowl as she absently rubbed at her cursed lightning shaped scar.
D'Jok and the Snow Kids did badly in the first half of the match "how can we do this?" She growled, kicking a ball in anger and seeing the Breath around herself "come on, we can beat a bunch of tin cans" Rocket said, Mei agreed "time to use the Breath against them" she grinned at her teammates as they left back for the pitch and used the Breath to defeat the robot football team and advance to the final. But there was someone who wanted to hurt Sonny badly and would use D'Jok for revenge.
