Hello, my name is Sacha. Well my username is zuppercat.. but.. it doesn't really matter how you call me. ;) I'm new here sooo.. first story. :p
Oh and sorry for my bad English sometimes. I'm from Holland and I'm still learning English, but I decided to write it in English anyway. :p
This story will be about 'prince of tennis' so have fun!
The regular team is going on a training camp, but then something terrible happens to Echizen. (I prefer the name Echizen by the way. Since it's a lot easier to say then the name Ryoma. Yeah, yeah, I know Ryoma is his first name but.. well.. never mind. :p )
Oh yeah almost forgot: I'm not always using –kun, –san, -sama and stuff like that. I mean I like it but.. I'm not always sure who uses what for which person.
Oh and: When I read the stories of others there always stands this before the story begins. I don't know why, but I guess I'll do it anyway. (Who knows. Maybe you're not allowed to read it without it.)
So here goes.
I do not own prince of tennis or any of the characters. I also didn't steal the story of anyone. I thought of it myself.
So here goes.
Let's start the story!
# #
It's the first day of training camp. A week ago Tezuka and Oishi had announced that the regulars would be going on a camp trip in about a week. But only the regulars this time had the coach and Tezuka said. The coach was needed at the tennis courts, the five first years had some other trip going on and Tezuka would be staying at the tennis courts as well. (He apparently didn't need more training. It also wouldn't hurt to train the second years a bit. Have fun with Tezuka second years :p)
*'I'll leave you in charge of the training camp, Oishi.' Tezuka said. Oishi nodded and the training began. *
Well.. Echizen had to go on the first years trip as well.. but..
Well, let's say he got himself out of it. Somehow. I mean Echizen mode. So that just meant not going on the trip without the teachers knowing.
*In the first years bus*
Horio said annoyed: Echizeeeeeen..! Where are you?! You set us up didn't you?! Now WHERE in trouble cause YOU'RE not here!
'Calm down, calm down Horio-kun.' Kato said. 'It's not like he did it without a reason.'
'Yeah, that's right Horio-kun. I mean he had training camp with the other regulars. And that's very important to you know.' Said Mizuno.
Kato signed and said: 'And well.. it's not an exciting trip anyway. I mean Echizen would probably be asleep the whole trip. So it wouldn't really matter anyway.'
Horio's expression chanced to the '2 year's experience face' and said: 'Of course I knew that! I knew 2 years ago that you where planning this Echizen!' Then he began laughing.
The other two sighed, looked out of the window und mumbled: 'Then what where you saying a few minutes ago. You didn't even knew him two years ago.'
In case you were wondering. The first years were going to the museum that day. Watching the paintings was kind of ok but.. The thing was..The teachers.. They would go talk happily about the paintings for hours. The worst thing was that it was the history teacher who went with them. The most boring teacher of the school. Everyone was sooo exited. *Ehum, not.*
So they didn't blame Echizen. No that's not quite right. They would love to switch with him. But oh well. Not that they could do something about it.
'We'll endure it..!' they thought bravely and sighed.
# #
*In the meantime at camp.*
They had just gotten out of the bus and walked to the house they were staying in. 'Hoi, hoi!' Kikumaru said happily looking at the house they would be staying in.
'Whoaaa..' Momo said. 'So big..!'
'Tsssshhh.. Little child.' Kaidoh mumbled.
'WHAT DID YOU SAY! HUUUHH!' Momo screamed.
'I SAID LITTLE CHILD! TSSSHHH..!' Kaidoh screamed back.
'Come on, come on.. we just got here. So stop fighting ok?!' Oishi said trying to stop the fighting.
'Hmpf.' They both said. Getting even angrier at each other for saying it at the same time.
Oishi sighed and walked to the door.
Just when they wanted to go inside Oishi suddenly stopped. (Causing everyone to bump into each other and also a lot of complaining and yelling.)
'Oshiii...' Said kikumaru with kitten eyes. 'Don't stop so suddenly.. It was just getting fun..!' He said again with kitten eyes. (Normally puppy eyes but since it's kikumaru I'll chance it to kitten eyes. :p )
'What's wrong, Oishi?'Said Fuji calm as always.
'Seems like someone is skipped his museum trip.' Inui mumbled writing on his notebook. (Notebook right? I'm not sure..)
Kikumaru, Momo and Kaidoh looked confused around. Not getting it of course.
'I don't get it..' Said Kikumaru with his whining and sad voice. (I just love that about him ^_^)
'Echizen, weren't you supposed to be at a museum trip?' Said Oishi.
Echizen: 'Well.. Yeah.. I guess.. But.. I thought.. I'd skip it.'
Oishi sighed and aid: 'Well, I guess it's ok. Since this training camp is quite important.'
Kikumaru ran to Echizen, gave him a big hug and said: 'Yeah, it's no fun without shorty! (Ochibi)' Echizen looked annoyed and tried to pull kikumaru away from him. (What took a few seconds.)
They stepped in the big house and looked around. After 2 minutes Kikumaru and Momo had already scanned all the rooms.
'WHOOAAA! WHAT A BIG BADROOM!' Kikumaru yelled from the room at the left. And then another voice came (Momo) from the room at the right: 'Hey look, a spider!'
'Whoaa, let me see! Let me see!' Kikumaru said at the left side of the house and then suddenly at the right side of the house. 'Whoaa, so big!' Kikumaru said 'Do you think it would become a ghost if we killed it?'
Kaidoh's face became pale.
'Don't know' Momo said 'we could try it!'
Kaidoh became even paler and said 'I.. ehh..I-I'm going t-to the t-toilet!'
Before Kaidoh could escape Oishi said: 'Kikumaru, Momo, were not here to play! Today we got a training schedule as well. Inui made it for us.'
Everyone except Fuji and Oishi looked with a frightened look at Inui. Scared for his special Inui juice.
'Don't worry. No Inui's juices for the first 3 days.' Inui said. They all looked relieved.
# #
*Later on the tennis grounds*
They played some matches and did a lot of running through the mountains. (Sorry didn't mention that. They are in the mountains with a lot of trees and rivers and stuff like that. Animals to of course. :p )
They sat on the ground tired of all the running and all the other exercise. They had walked what seemed like hours.
'We're done running right..?!' Echizen said. 'BURNIIINNGG! I COULD RUN FOR TEN MORE HOURS AND...' Said Taka-san. He stopped talking and let himself fall tired on the ground. His racket fell on the ground and he said: 'Never mind.. I can't take another step...'
They lay there tiredly for another 5 minutes until Oishi and Inui stood up.
They all looked at the two and then said:
'Well let's get to the next part of training.' Fuji said with a smile.
'Eeehh.. no more training please..' Said Kikumaru.
Echizen: Annoying. (Sorry that he isn't too much in the story yet. Don't worry it's almost his spotlight time. ;) )
Taka-san: No..burning... (Well I guess he wouldn't say that but he had to say something.)
Kaidoh: Tssshhhhhjjjj...
Momo: ... X_X ... (had to do that one :p )
'Sorry but we aren't done with training yet. There is one last thing on the schedule.' Said Oishi.
Inui (with is emotionless voice) : Always do what the schedule says.
They looked annoyed at the two but stood up anyway.
'Ok, let's see. The last thing on the list is ball practise. I'll throw a ball at you and you hit it as high as possible and into the basket standing over there.' Inui pointed at a basket standing 20 meters away.
A few meters at the left of the basket we're a few trees standing. You couldn't see what was behind the trees.
They started practise, it wasn't so hard. Echizen looked bored standing at the side of the basket. They said he had to pick up the balls who went behind the baskets.
'Why me?!' Echizen had said annoyed.
'Cause you're still a first year. And first years still have to pick up balls.' Said Momo with a smile. Well it was more like an evil smile.
'Fine..' Echizen had mumbled.
So there he was now standing bored next to the basket. It was Taka's turn. They gave him his racket and he got the BURNINGGG passion. But he was a bit too excited about it, cause he missed the first one. The ball flew over the trees and Echizen looked annoyed and a bit angry at Taka and the trees.
'Sorry, Echizen.' Taka said. 'Nah.. it's okay.' Echizen said.
Momo shouted: 'Hey Echizen are you going to look for the ball or what?!'
'Yeah, yeah, I'm going, I'm going' Echizen said annoyed.
He walked over to the bushes and trees. 'It's not here.' He said barely looking. Momo sighed and said: 'Well, it got to be somewhere.. Look around more.'
'Ochibiiiiii! Hurry hurry!' (Kikumaru)
'Okay, okay, I'm going, I'm going!' Echizen said annoyed. 'Gees so annoying. It's just a tennis ball.' He thought.
Looking around a bit more he saw the tennis ball laying on the branch of a tree. What he didn't see was that he was standing on the etch of a cliff. Underneath the cliff was a streaming river flowing to the right. It was a pretty rough river, with rocks and branches sticking out of the water.
When he tried to reach the tennis ball (standing on his toes) he heard something crumble under is feet. Surprised he looked down. 'Did you hear that?' Echizen said to the others. 'No, what's wrong?' Oishi said. 'Don't know.. that's what I'm wondering right now. I heard something crumble under my feet.' (crumble. Did I get that right? Like.. little rocks falling down.)
Oishi frowned and said to Echizen: 'Maybe you should get back.. What if it's dangerous..' Echizen got a bit annoyed of the Oishi mother talk and said: 'Well the tennis ball is right in front of me so I'll just go and get it. I don't see what could be so dangerous about it.'
Echizen had never been so wrong before. Again he heard something crumble under his feet. But this time he didn't even get the time to look down, because he was already falling down. He fell into the water what all made a lot of sound. He didn't yell of course that was just to childish.
'Echizen..? What's wrong..? Are you alright..?' Taka-san said worried.
They heard nothing. It was silend for a few seconds and the rest also called his name.
'Ochibi? Ochibi come on this is no fun...' (kikumaru)
'...' (Kaidoh)
'HEY ECHIZEN!' (Momo)
'Looks like something happened.' Fuji said calmly. But if you looked closely you could see the worry in his eyes.
Oishi walked closer and could now see the cliff and the river. His eyes widened. He looked shocked. 'Oh no.. Echizen.. Fell.. down...the cliff...In the river...'
'Calm down Oishi, we'll get him back..!' Fuji said also looking worried. They didn't know what to do until Inui broke the silence.
'Well, it won't help him if we stay standing here. We better call the police, school and his parents.'
'Inui's right.. We..we should get some help..' Oishi said still a bit shocked.
# #
*In the meantime in the river.*
Echizen was barely able to keep his head above water. 'What a strong stream..' He thought with a bit of fear. He was never afraid but.. this was something else.
His head hurt a bit and his left arm was stinging as well.
After a while it looked like the river was ending. He tried to see what it was, until he shockingly found out that there was a big waterfall ahead. He started panicking a bit when he saw the waterfall. While trying to get to the side the waterfall came closer and closer.
10 meters
8 meters
5 meters
2 meters
0...
It was too late, the waterfall was just too strong. He fell down what seemed like forever. The waterfall was like 10 to 15 meters high.
Luckily the river had stopped here. It was just a little lake of 10 meters long. He swum to the side and got out of the little lake.
He took a few steps and then fell down unconscious. A small stream of blood flowed from his face. On his left arm you could see some blood too. A few hours went by as he lay there unconscious. It was starting to get dark when he finally woke up.
'Where..am I..' Echizen said confused as he looked around. There where trees standing everywhere and in the middle of it there was a little lake and a waterfall.
No human's to be found..anywhere...
Well that was it for the first chapter. Hope you liked it ;) :p Let's see how he'll survive in the woods.
Bye! See ya next time!