Set Three
Positions:
Outside Hitters:
Girls: Jen(25) Temari(17) Sakura(28)
Boys: Renji(26) Ichigo(15) Naruto(50) Kiba(27)
Middle Hitters:
Girls: Risa(16) Amy(22)
Boys: Marcus(21) Shuhei(29)
Setters/Right Side Hitters:
Girls: Tenten(20) Rukia(13)
Boys: Jake(18) Jack(19)
Libero
Girls: Momo(5)
Boys: Toshiro(10)
~The Box~
"This is going to be the battle of the century," Lee #1 said. "I mean the girls get crushed 25-6 in the first set and then come back strong to beat the boys into the dust 25-5."
"I guess both of the teams are going at it full force," Dean said peering down into the court. "This'll be scary."
~The court~
For the final time Byakuya finalized the lineups for both teams and rolled the ball to Tenten the first server. Neither he nor Sarah was aware of the vicious stare down happening between Momo and Renji.
Sarah blew the whistle and Tenten served. Toshiro passed to Jake who set Renji up for an outside hit. Furious Renji slammed the ball down at Momo at full force. The brunette libero shanked the ball out and she knew exactly where her anger was directed at. She squared up her shoulders at the redheaded outside hitter.
"Fuck you Renji," she yelled at the other side of the court. Following her words was a barrage of whistles and both Sarah and Byakuya pulled a yellow card from their pockets.
"Final warning," said Sarah. "To all of you, one more infraction, first offense or prior warning, you're getting red carded."
1-0 boys
Jake served for the boys next. When the whistle blew he served only to have the ball passed by Momo, set by Tenten and slammed in Jack's face by Jen.
1-1
With a devious smirk Jen bounced the ball before serving. She hit a hard floater to Toshiro who passed to Jake who set Marcus a quick. Risa jumped blocked and Shuhei picked the ball up letting Jake set Renji who slammed the ball hard to the back corner causing Momo to dive and pancake the ball up. Jen dove across the court to pick up second hit after Tenten yelled "help". She put the ball high enough for Risa to free ball the ball over. Toshiro gave Jake a clean pass which was then set to Jack who hit the ball and was blocked by Sakura and Risa. Marcus made to pick the ball up off the block but he hit it into the net. Jake got low and popped the ball up high enough for Marcus to spike it back down. Risa jumped and blocked making Marcus twist his wrist to cut the ball to Momo. The girls' libero passed to Tenten who set Sakura and the outside hit into the net.
2-1 boys
Jake flipped the ball to Renji who had given the boys a heavy lead in the first set and were hoping to do the same. The whistle blew and Renji served at Momo. She passed to Tenten who set Rukia. The other setter buried the ball between Jake and Shuhei.
2-2 Risa's serve
The blonde middle hitter's dark blue eyes were lit up by an icy blue fire. The girls' loss in the first set had ignited it and she was determined to crush the boys into the dust. The one thing Ukitake prided number 16 on was her service consistency. She didn't have the fancy top spin jump serve like Jen, or the uncanny ability to spot serve like Amy. Risa's talent was getting the ball over 99 percent of the time.
The whistle blew and Risa put the ball over and by luck aced it off of Renji. Risa served and gained four more points off the boys before Jake got pissed and set Marcus a quick letting his middle slam the ball into his sister's face. Amy slapped her ass at him.
"Dick-face," she mumbled so that Sarah and Byakuya couldn't her. Sourly Risa rolled the ball under the net so that Marcus could serve.
3-7, boys serve.
Marcus had perfected the art of the jump serve and sent a perfect one over the net. Risa passed to Tenten who set Rukia up for a weak side hit. Rukia angry at the boys for various reasons buried the ball between Renji and Marcus bringing the serve back to the girls.
8-3 Rukia's serve, deciding set to 15, switch sides at 8 points
The ball soared over the net and Marcus passed to Jake who set Shuhei a slide. Amy knew how to block slides, slid over, took away Shuhei's only angle and sent the ball back down on their side of the net. Jack picked the ball up, Jake set, Renji spiked, Jen dug, Tenten set Amy hit, Marcus dug, Jake set, Jack spiked, Amy and Sakura blocked. The ball went behind them and Jen dug again, Rukia set after Tenten called help and Amy spiked the ball down hard. Marcus made to pass but the ball bounced off his arms. Jake, rather than call help like Tenten once again vaulted over his teammates, pulled off a spectacular backset and Marcus attacked from the back row. Amy attempted to block him. Risa dove across the court to pick up the ball and put it up for Tenten to set. Tenten set Sakura who put the ball over with an outside hit. The boys played it out so that Ichigo attacked from the outside and Amy and Tenten blocked him. Marcus passed to Jake, and the setter dumped it over the net landing just out of Jen's reach. (A/N**the girls run a formation called a six-two were the setter plays back row. Rukia and Tenten are the setters and Rukia just served from back row making her the new setter. Sorry)
Sarah blew the whistle ending the rally. Jen pushed herself off the court and threw Jake the dirtiest look she could muster.
"What the fuck was that Emmerson?" she yelled at him and instantly there was a whistle uproar.
"Red Card!" Both Sarah and Byakuya yelled. Jen looked at them.
"You can't be fucking serious?" she asked. Ukitake was ready to loose it.
"You have been previously yellowcarded and given a generic warning," Sarah said. "One more infraction would result in a red card. 25 please step off the court and your team now plays with one man down."
~The box~
"Oh, my god, Jushiro is not going to be happy about this," Dean said peering down onto the court.
"Bletchley got carded," Lee #1 said with a nervous laugh. "um yeah."
"Aren't they going to implicate a penalty or something?" said yet another voice.
"Who are you?" Lee #2 asked.
"Emmett," the voice said. "Emmett Cullen. So Bletchley got carded?"
"Yeah," said Dean. "Don't know why though."
"She cursed out Emmerson," said Emmett. "After several warnings."
"They gonna bench her?" Dean asked.
"Most likely, she's been carded she can't go back in now," Lee #1 said. "You called it Dean this is turning into a dirty battle for the end.
"The boys can catch up 4 points with no problem though," Emmett said. "After all, when they have Marcus Flint, the king of Hogwarts Sports…is victory that difficult?"
"The boys had their asses handed to them Emmett," said Dean.
"It looks like they're benching Bletchley for the remainder of the game, that leaves a huge hole in both the girls offense and defense," Lee #1 said.
"Can they not put in Temari in place of Jen?" Lee #2 asked.
"Nah, Bletchley's been carded, they're playing a hoedown," Emmett snickered.
~The Court~
4-8 boys serve
Risa and Jake were staring each other down. Jake's cheap shot had caused the girls to loose their best hitter. Somebody was getting six-packed. Jen sat on the bench grumbling to herself as Jack picked up the ball to serve. Before the whistle blew, Amy, up at the net, flashed four fingers, a peace sign on each hand to Risa, Risa looked at Rukia and flashed her two peace signs. Rukia nodded getting the message.
Jack served the ball and it went right to Sakura. She passed to Rukia. Rukia began to set the ball and Amy began her approach. She swung and missed completely, faking out Shuhei who had gone up to block. From behind Amy Risa began her approach from the back line. As Shuhei was coming down Amy ducked and Risa spiked the ball from back row straight down at Jake.
Needless to say, they got the point.
9-4 girls serve.
Amy had on the hugest cockiest smile as she looped the ball to Sakura so she could serve. Amy high fived both Risa and Rukia after they delivered their fake-out so flawlessly.
Sakura served the ball into the net and Momo and her switched places.
5-9 Boys serve.
Ichigo served a simple serve to the spot where Jen would have been. Since the spot was open, the girls scrambled to pick up the slack and were aced by the orange haired soul reaper.
6-9 boys serve
Ichigo served and managed to tie the score when he served into the net. Amy was the girls next server.
10-9 girls serve.
Amy like Jen was an analytical player. When Toshiro stepped into pass for Ichigo, Amy drew a big red "Uh no," on him in her mind. Her best option was to force the setter to pass the first ball. Jack was their current setter. This would be easy.
"Sets back, three hits," Marcus yelled trying to be obnoxious as Amy was serving. "Balls up!"
Jack passed. "Help me!"
Jake set Shuhei hit.
10-10 boys serve.
"Sugar chocolate cupcakes," Amy snarled instead of her usual slew of curse words. Jen had already been carded, they couldn't loose another player.
Shuhei was the boys next server and like Amy was an analytical player. He looked for the holes and deliberately put the ball there.
That was how he brought the boys to game point.
At 14-10 the ball was in Shuhei's hands and he sent over an easy serve and the girls took full advantage of it. Risa at the net played just as dirty as Shuhei and put the ball in a corner that nobody could get too. Not that they didn't try. Renji turned and bolted as did Jack and the two collided with sounds that bodies are not supposed to make.
Jack coughed holding his ribs and Renji was rolling on the floor grabbing his ankle. John called time out.
~The box~
"Dude, Abarai and Emmerson just went head on!" Emmett yelled watching the two of them collide on the court.
"Are they alright?" Dean asked.
"No," Lee #1 said. "Emmerson's panting and Abarai's grabbing his ankle."
"John called time out!" Lee #2 said.
"This looks bad," Emmett said. "They're calling down a stretcher and everything."
"Emmerson looks fine," Dean said. "But they're carting Abarai off."
"This is the battle of the century," Lee #1 said
~The court~
Risa was torn.
Left side: the girls kept the boys from winning by her ball placement.
Right side: it was done at the expense of Jack and Renji colliding.
Carlisle Cullen came down to examine Renji as well as several members of Division four and some medics from Konoha. John himself was an orthopedic surgeon and Sarah worked in the ER.
The boys watched as their coach patched up their hitter.
"This looks bad," John said examining the swelling around Renji's ankle. "I think it's broken."
The girls huddled in the middle of the court and looked at each other. Jen had even snuck over when Sarah and Byakuya weren't looking.
"Do we win by default?" Tenten asked. Amy shook her head.
"He's got two more players, he'll manage."
10 minutes later Renji was on the bench with a bag of ice taped to his ankle and Kiba was in for him. Jen sat on the bench in a huff. She could have played around with the boys positioning and scored a bunch of points off of Kiba. Jen had to trust that Risa would do the same.
Tenten was nervous, she couldn't afford to mess up now. Before Sarah blew the whistle she noticed Jen jumping up and down like a monkey on the sidelines.
"27!" she kept motioning. Tenten eyes lit up. Serve to Kiba.
She did and was able to bring the score to 14-14.
For the lead Tenten served again but Shuhei took the ball and Jake dumped it over the net on two gaining a point. Momo dove and missed.
"CHOCOLATE SUGAR MONKEYS!" the brunette libero yelled.
15-14 boys serve.
Just then Ukitake called time out.