Authors Note:
For those of you who have been reading thank you, sorry about the cliff hanger again, but it was late last night when I finished. Also thank you to so who have started following this story! For those who do not know, a kid who is playing for an Academy team means that they are on the, whatever age group they are, team of a professional team. The pro's generally pick up form their academy a lot. Also a kid playing for the pro reserve team, pretty much on the squad, is still allowed to play high school depending on his/her contract. Well I do not own Fairytail or any of its characters.
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Sting Eucliffe
Chapter 7
Uhhhhhh can't this English class go by any fatser?! I want to go to lunch to see who came to our school this year from the others! I know Sting is here, his nasty ass calone can be smelt anywhere. Oh, and because I get to see Luce at Lunch too! Natsu is now smiling like an idiot
"Heyt flame brain!"
Natsu turns to find Gajeel, Gray, Jellal, Laxus, and Loke there. Oh yea they are in this class. He now has a scold on his face.
"What do you idiots want?"
Laxuz glares at him "We wanted you to join in our group for the English project."
Natsu looks confused What the? "What project?"
They all give a varying slack jawed expression while staring at him, then Jellal spoke up
"The teacher literally explained it Natsu?"
Natsu then glares at Jellal, "No they didn't, so stop fucking with me."
"Flame brain, they totally did. So stop being a dumb ass and be in our group. Jellal will do the work, it's a totally easy project."
Jellal then tries to speak up "I didn- mmf!"
Gajell quick;y covered Jellal's mouth and put a finger over his mouth and pointed to Gray's and Natsu's conversation.
Natsu doesn't even notice this and just has a thinking face on. Hmmm… well I guess if Jellal wants to?
Natsu nods and Jellal could be seen crying while Gajeel covers his mouth.
"Yea, so what are we gonna do instead?"
Gray then smirk's "That's am easy one, we are gonna talk strategy for the scrimmage today."
Natsu's eyes widen "Wait what now?!"
"Dumb ass, if you bothered to go and look at the team roster this year, instead of assuming you made the team you arrogant asshole, you would have seen the notice."
It took Natsu a second to process, then he shot up out of his chair and yelled
"But Luce and I have our first date tonight! What am I gonna do?!"
Everyonr in the class was staring at him and then suddenly
"YEAAAA! Finally you 2 hit it off!"
"Finally took you long enough to get the balls to finally ask her out."
Natsu now blushing and realization hit him.
Shit! Luce will kill me… "Uh guys ahaha… that was just me practicing my acting for the project you know ahahah…"
Everyone rolled their eyes and got back to their work but the denser ones said
"Ohhhhhthat was pretty good Natsu!"
"Yea teach me too!"
Natsu just waved them off and returned back to his seat. Phew that was a close one. He then turns to his group.
"So the game is today I'll tell her about it at Lunch."
Gray then nods, and then Gajeel cleared his throat "Salamander you know who is the captains for this year?"
Natsu just laughed Ahahaha who is he kidding of course I know. "It's me, Laxus and Freed as planned."
Everyone just shook their heads. Then Jella spoke up "Yea you got you, and Freed right, but it's not Laxus."
Natsu's mouth stayed gaped and his is just baffled What who could be better at leading and a better player than Laxus?!"
Laxus just cleared his throat. "The kid is a senior like us, but he just transferred here from far. He is an amazing player with the mold of a leader. Natsu this kid was just something else, he would make you look like a 5 year old Natsu, word is this kid plays for the MUFC reserve team. He showed up for the try outs when you went with your bro and they took you home. That was the only one he could make since he is on international duty."
Laxus ran his hands through his hair, and Natsu then scoffed. Man they are defiantly punking me. "You guys are kidding right there is no way there is a kid our age good enough to be on international duty, let alone play on their reserve team, ha! Nice joke guys."
Gray the glared at him, "Natsu shut up, the kid is in this class! His name is Raiden Kilpatrick. I know it sounds like we made it up, but the kid is real Natsu."
Natsu rolled his eyes Alright so this and the game change is a punk, "Yea right as if there is a kid named-"
BAM!
A kid that didn't look much older than Natsu busted the door open panting. He had light brown hair and dark blue eyes. He had a fairly stocky build. His uniform was untucked and didn't look like it's been ironed. His tie is all loosened and his jacket unbuttoned. He wore the right pants. However, he had red low top converse on instead of the school shoes.
What the hell who is this guy maybe the guys know Gajell and the rest are staring at him, they haven't flinched since he got in. The teacher gets up and goes to talk to the student, and everyone else goes back to what they were doing.
Gray and the others had huddled closer and all were staring at Natsu,
"Flame brain, so what you think of him?"
"Who the new kid? He looks like a loser mess to me."
They all glared at him and Gajeel said "Watch your mouth Salamander, we are friends and team mates, but that doesn't mean you can insult the-"
Gray and Jellal cut him off with their hands and Jellal shook his head. Then Gray spoke up
"He will figure it out." What is he talking about?
"Ahem! Class!" Everyone turned to the teacher to see the new kid with a toothy smile on his face and rubbing the back of his head
"This is the a new transfer student to our school, he will be in our English class. Please introduce yourself." He just nodded
"Well my my name is Raiden, Raiden Kilpatrick-"
Natsu shot up out of his seat with his finger pointed at him This kid? This unorganized kid is better than me? HA in his dreams!
"Um can I help you… I don't know your name sir so I don't know what to call you?"
He is polite too?! Natsu just shut his eyes and then shot them open getting very serious.
"The name is Natsu, Natsu Dragneel, your co-captain on the team. Nice to make your acquaintance. However, you still gotta prove you deserve that title to me."
"Ahahaha alright I'll meet your challenge, but it will have to be at lunch. Alright, Salamander."
The kid smirked, and Natsu and the other were a little shocked. I thought that kid never met me?
Natsu took his seat, and Raiden kept speaking. "Um, so yea I play soccer and the reason I'm late today is because I just got back from playing for the Fiore National Under 21 team, so I had to rush to school. Ahaha Oh and my dad wants me to get a college degree instead of playing football so that's why I'm here… Any questions?"
Everyone just stared slack jawed at him. Damn this kid either doesn't know how to not take a joke too far, or he is serious.
He quickly rushed to a desk in the corner of the room by the door. The teacher spoke "Well I guess, welcome Mr. Kilpatrick, and everyone please make sure he is welcomed. Speaking of which. You need a project group… The teacher looks and sees Natsu's group, why don't you join Natsu's group. They are all from the team so you should all get along. Okay back to work!"
The teacher went off to her desk, and Raiden just looked at Natsu nervously.
What the hell?! I don't really even like the guy that-
"Raiden come sit with us, don't worry about flame brain he is just not used to new people is all."
Natsu turned and glared at Gray What does he think he is doing?! "What you sayin' icicle face?"
Gray just ignores him and makes room for Raiden, then everyone turns to him when Laxus asked. "Raiden how was the match?"
Raiden laughed nervously "Ahaha well you see, it was close since we played the USA and all. "
"What do you mean, they are still developing unlike us." Came Jellal
What the hell is this guy saying, there's no way.
"When the game finish?" Gray asked
"Hmmm about an hour ago?"
That's great that means the highlights are still on ESPN! Natsu spoke up "That means the highlights are coming up about now right?"
Raiden then nodded
"Alright then let's watch them!" Raiden suddenly looked shocked meanewewhile the others where shouting in agreement
"How about we don't? You know guys we should work on this project?"
Everyone turned to eachother than back at him. "Nah!"
"Guys seriously!"
"Why? Because we won't see you there?"
"No it's just… " His eyes now foreshadowed
"Okay then let's watch…" Huh I knew it, he doesn't play.
The guys gather aroung Natsu's phone to watch the highlights.
Gray spoke up "What this isn't close we beat them 5-0. Raiden that's not a close score, nice try being humble though ha."
The highlights started, It was on mute so no volume, but Natsu noticed that the number 17, had scored 2 goals already. He then slowly turned up the volume.
{AN: "Commentator speaking"}
"The roar of the fans for their star player can be heard for miles, and he has scored two today so it is understandable. Wait! Look the ball is given to 17, megs one, two and rainbows a third"
Everyone is astonished and Raiden still has his eyes foreshadowed. Gray says
"Damn Raiden who is he?"
"He shots from over 35 yards out after going around a fourth player, it's going! It swerves into the top corner by a reverse curve what a shot! And that's the third the hat trick for the young 17 year old Raiden Kilpatrick! He was surely won the game!"
Natsu dropped his phone on the desk. They all look up to see Raiden averting their eyes. The phone kept going and they heard
"And that's two assists and 3 goals for the number 17 striker Raiden Kilpatrick at the end of the game, surely winner of man of the match."
"I'd have to agrre with you there."
The commentators went on, and the guys just stopped and all staring at Raiden. Natsu is so surprised he doesn't he go to stop his phone playing.
Man, this kid is in a totally different leafgue as to me. No wonder Gildarts placed him as captain instead of Laxus. God damn, this kid is way better than I ever thought.
Gajeel spoke up and got everyone's attention. "So guys, what's the plan for the scrimmage today?"
Jellal furrowed his brow "Well first off who do we play?"
That's a good question, I don't even know that one.
Everyone turned to look at Gray, and he just sighed, "Man you all are useless without me, we play some small school starting up in Magnolia, it is getting really popular with the rich kids though, but anyways yea that's our opponents. The school is Twilight Oger, weird ass name and I want them out of Magnolia s the rest of you."
Natsu just smirked "Well I guess it's about time we show these guys who really runs Magnolia! We are gonna beat them 10 to nothing!"
All the guys yelled in agreement, except Raiden.
"Um excuse me Natsu, sir?"
Everyone stopped and looked at him
"Well I was thinking, and maybe running up the score super high won't be necessary."
Everyone turned to him kinda baffeled except Natsu who was smirking, Raiden noticed and smirked back.
Dang we came up with the same idea. "Great minds think alike you know!"
"Why don't you tell them your plan Raiden? It was your idea after all I just got there from common thinking process."
"Well alright if you say so Mr. Natsu."
"Please just call me Natsu"
They smiled and high fived I guess he is kinda cool after all.
"Okay well my idea was to not just run up the points, but to decimate their morale by playing tiki-taka."
Loke who hasn't said much but has been keeping up "Of course!" He smacks himself in the forehead "That is brilliant, they won't even have a chance to touch the ball with the people we have. However, how do we get the chemistry working Raiden, Natsu?"
Gray and the others suddenly interrupted. "Wait, wait, wait, what is 'tiki-taka' anyways, and can it really make it so the other team doesn't touch the ball."
Natsu steps up to answer "okay guys pay attention because it gets complicated and very fast. They all nod. Okay 'tiki-taka' is a strategy when playing football in which everyone on the team attacks and defends as one. The play in which one attacks, each player passes and then moves to get the counter or intial attack going. Each player shouldn't have the ball for more than a second. Also at times the wing defenders will make runs up the line to spread the field even more. However, when defending, everyone defends. And when we get the ball back we start the quick counter. This is all kinda simple in theory but on the field it requires the best chemistry a team can muster. So we gotta be able to work together amd work well if we want to pull this off."
Everyone nods, and Natsu smirks. Gee this is gonna be good! "Let's kick some Ogre ass!"
This time everyone, all the class mates, and the teachers cheers and raises there arms in the air
"Good luck boys!" Was what everyone in the classroom yelled.
Well now that that is ov-
DING-DONG DING-DONG
Yey! Lunch… Wait there is something I have to do now… what is it? Hmm…
Natsu stamds up and grabs his stuff, he walks outside still thinking,
Wait what the? That smell, vanilla and strawberries, that's Luce she's coming here to walk me to lunch again… sheesh that wom-
"Hello, Natsu Dragneel…"
Natsu turned to the side, What the? How did he get outside my classroom without me noticing?
Sting was on the opposite end of the hallway
Damn what does he want now?!
"What's with the worried expression Natsu? You seem a little bothered?"
"Shut the fuck up Sting, what do you want anyways?"
"Oh you know what I want, I want to prove to everyone at your school that I'm better than you."
Natsu scoffed Ha he's kidding right?! "Sting you are years ahead of yourself there. But I can tell you've gotten better. But you have a while before you can match me."
Sting then smirked, "Alrighty then Natsu, after lunch is free for you right? So Me, and Rogue will go up against you and Gajeel to see who deserves the title of best player."
Natsu just nodded "Alright then see you then." Natsu walked down the hall way a bit, just before the corner he stopped. Man, she swears she can hide so well. Natsu smirks as he see the edge of a frilly skirt sticking out of the edge of the wall.
"Sooooo, Luce why you hiding?"
Lucy jumped, and slowly came out from behind the wall. She's laughing and rubbing the back pf her head.
"Well you see… I was just walking around and needed a rest is all…"
She is honestly the worst at lieing. Natsu took a step towards her, they are now inches apart. Natsu slowly moves his hand towards hers and starts running his hand along hers.
"Come on Luce, I know you're lieing. What's really up with the whole sneeking up on me thing?"
Lucy's eyes averted his, and she is slightly blushing now.
"Well… You see… I heard that, that guy Sting was here for the visit day, and he brought his friend Rogue too, and I know you guys have some sort of history, so I just came by to make sure no fists were being thrown."
She then looked down, "Sorry, for not trusting you…"
Natsu just smiled his giant grin, "Well why you apologizing for Luce? I should be thanking you, because now I know you actually worry for me a lot."
Lucy just blushed and hit his arm, "You damn dummy, of course I worry about you… Sometimes a little too much for your own good… Well we should get going, the others are waiting."
Lucy and Natsu began walking towards the lunch room, when Natsu slung his arm around Lucy's shoulders.
"Natsu… What if someone sees?" She's blushing furiously now.
"Well I don't care anymore! And by the way, our plans for tonight will have to wait til after the game." He just smiled at her
Lucy rolled her eyes "Well okay fine, it's not like I'm pretty much living at your place anyways."
"Thanks Luce! Come on we gotta hurry I'm hungry!"
"You're always hungry Natsu…"
"So what?"
Lucy rolled he eyes and laughed.
5 minutes later
The lunch room is full of people busiling and talking amongst themselves.
BOOM!
"What's happening everyone?!"
The pink haired soccer star walks in with a very blushing Blonde girl, and he has his arm wrapped around her.
The entire room went silent. Natsu then walked over to his table and took his seat and Lucy right next to him. Everyone wtill silent and staring at him.
"What's wrong guys?"
Gray looks around at everyone at the table and then speaks up. "Look at this flier Natsu."
The flier was a white paper with black writing on it, and could easily be determined as a copy of the original.
The flier read:
TODAY AFTER LUNCH!
ALL SENIOR CLASS, SOCCER
PLAYERS, AND ANY SOCCER
FANS ARE INVITED TO COME
AND WATCH :
SABERTOOTH TWIN DRAGONS
TAKE ON THE FAIRY TAIL DUO
IN AN ALL OUT 2v2
PANA BATTLE IN THE BASKET
BALL COURT AT 1:30PM KICK OFF.
*be there Natsu or else*
Natsu just smiled and handed Gray back the flier. "So flame brain who you gonna choose as your partner?"
Natsu just shrugged his shoulders "Maybe Gajeel because Rogue has a score to settle with him."
Gray just looked at him "Wait what? Gajeel has like zero foot work though?"
Natsu shrugged his shoulder sand looked around for Gajeel, "Speaking of metal head where is he?"
Jellal spoke up "He is busy talking to Raiden about something, and said he would be back later."
As if on cue, Gajeel and Raiden walk in talking up a storm.
"You remember the last 'El Classico'? Oh my god what a teeth clencher?"
"Oh yea, that one was good!"
"Hey look Gajeel Natsu's waiting for us let's go,"
Gajeel and Raiden walk up to find Levy and Lucy talking up a storm, Jellal feeding Erza cake, Gray trying to get Juvia off his arm again, Mira and Laxus mad at eachother again, Loke flirting with a random girl, and Natsu Glaring daggers at them.
Damn took his sweet ass time.
"Hey metal face look at this."
Natsu passes Gajeel a flier, he quickly reads over it.
"So, that's your problem not mine." He then goes and sits across from Levy and hops in her and Lucy's conversation.
What…. Who can I pick then?! Natsu begins looking around frantically.
"Gray, you will play right?!"
"Nope, not interested."
"Laxus." He just looked at Natsu, glaring "Alright no then, Jellal?" Jellal just shook his head.
Natsu turns "LoK-e? Where did he go?" He looks up to see Loke taking the girl outside.
That damn playboy, he needs to understand football comes before girls.
Natsu was still thinking when,
"I'll do it." Everyone turns to look up at Raiden still standing there.
"What don't you need a partner?"
Oh for the love of god! Of course him! With him we can defiantly win.
"YES! Raiden you're in! Okay sit down and let's talk strategy."
He just shrugged his shoulders and sat down, "Okay if you say so?"
1 hour later at the basketball court.
The crowd is roraring, and there are two figures standing in the middle of the court. The court has two small goals on each side. The two figures are Rogue Channey and Sting Eucliffe. Rogue is wearing his old school's soccer uniform, while Sting is wearing his Academy team uniform, called the white dragons.
"Okay okay the blonde guy with blue eyes and the arrogant attitude is Sting, he is a kid about a year younger than me and he has set his life goal to surpass me. The guy with pale skin, black hair, and red eyes is Rogue. I don't really know anything about him, but Gajeel said he was kinda a weirdo. Anyways onward!"
The basketball score board was lit with the home and away names of Fairytail and Sabertooth.
"I guess they're not coming ey Rogue?"
"I don't care if they show up, I'm just here to settle things with Gajeel."
Sting just laughs "Well they only have 5 minutes before they for-"
"The Sabertooth team is talking smack right before the match?! Oh how confident!"
"Since when was there a commentator?" Rogue just shrugged his shoulders.
BOOM!
The gymnasium doors slammed open revealing silhouettes of two similarilly shaped figures.
"And here the Fairytail team has made their arrival! Who could Natsu have picked to play by his side?! Is it Gajeel or a mystery player?! Let's find out right now!"
As the commentator finished the two began walking forward almost in sync, one was revealed to have a Pink head of hair on the jumbo tron, and the other an alien mask that covered his whole head. They are both wearing a gray track suit.
Sting and Rogue started laughing, Man let them laugh just wait til you see this guy.
"So Natsu, who is your 'out of this world' friend of yours?"
"Well you will get to see just how out of this world he actually is."
They all nodded. The Gildarts appeared as the ref, and started to explain the rules.
"Okay, for those of you who don't know, an 'all out pana battle' is different from a normal 'pana battle. The one you guys are about to play includes goals. If you just score a goal that is 1 point. However, if you do a meg before you socre you will receive additional points depending on how good the pana is. The judges will decide that. He pointed to the table of 5 people. The meg can be rated anywhere from 10- 100, and anything in between. Any questions?"
The four boys just shook their heads no.
"NATSU!"
Everyone turned to the entrance of the gymnasium to see a panting Lucy, she locks eyes with Natsu, and the Jumbo tron is on her as well.
"Who is this daring young women to stop the match?!"
"Natsu, you better not lose, I believe in you. I have all my faith in you, and you will prove Fairytails might!" She thenmade her right arm point up while her pointer finger was pointed up and her thumb pointed out. Then all of the people on Fairytails side stood up and made the same sign. Then,
"Natsu,"
Everyone looked to see the master of the school standing with Laxus and them in the crowd. Granted he is on a stool. The jumbo tron zooms towars him and he is on speaker.
"Natsu my boy, make Fairytail proud, make them wish they never came here! Make your father Igneel proud, wherever he is watching this!"
Natsu then used his arm to cover his eyes, people could see the tears coming out. He then wiped them away and made the same sign everyone else is.
You got it! Gramps, everyone I'm gonna do you proud! Yea, even you dad wherever you are.
Author's Note:
Sorry about the cut off but it was getting a bit long. So I picked a good spot to end it. Any suggestions as to what happens? Any soccer moves you wanna see? Anything I can improve on? Anyways thanks for reading!
