Eyeshield 21: The Remix
Chapter 7: Eleven Scarecrows
by: DC Coda -The Music of My Soul-
"What...?" the Cupids' captain remarked as Sena rushed past him. He was ignored.
'There are 11 opponents...' Sena thought as she ran, 'Here's the first one!' She dogged past them, expecting to be stopped at any time, counting the ones she got past off in her head. 'Two... Three, four...' she thought, still running at full speed.
"What the-?!" one of the benched players for the Koigahama Cupids' remarked, watching the game.
"No high school kid can be that fast!" another cried.
Hiruma grinned as he watched.
Kurita smiled, watching as well.
Mamori just looked, on astonished.
Ishimaru watched as well, rising to his feet unconsciously, before he fell down again, reminded that he had gotten hurt by the pain in his leg.
"What are you standing there for?!!" the captain of the Cupids' roared, "STOP HIM!" he ordered, pointing at Sena.
The Cupids' gasped, coming back to attention. Then they started running for Sena, intent to stop her.
Sena watched them come, paths opening up before her eyes just like lines of light, the best ones the brightest. Following it, she spun past 3 of the opponents. 'Five, six, seven...' she counted.
"Times up!" someone said from the sidelines.
"What? It's over?!" one of the Devil Bats substitutes asked, astonished.
"No, it goes on until the end of this play." someone else answered.
"If he's tackled, the game's over..." Ishimaru said, agreeing, "Or it's a comeback victory!"
Sena didn't hear any of this, still running down the field at top speed.
"CRUSH HIM!" the Cupids' captain ordered once again, "Everyone on him!"
As she was running, Sena suddenly found herself blocked by 4 of the opposing teams players, all of them looming over her. She watched as the line she was following grew thinner, dimming. 'I-it's gonna be tight!' she thought. Then the four players drew even closer together, cutting it off completely. Sena skidded to a halt, trying to find a different path. 'Ackk! No way, it's too narrow!' she thought, panicking.
Then suddenly, Kurita and Hiruma were in front of her, pushing the players back and opening the path once again.
Sena's eyes widened as the path grew thicker and brighter right in front of her eyes, the former sharply zigzagging line now straight. She focused once again, running off. 'Eight, nine, ten, eleven!' she thought. 'There's no one left!' She was almost to the end zone, now just right before it. 'No one can stop me now!' Sena thought, making a fist in triumph.
Sena crossed into the end zone.
The referee blew his whistle, "Touchdown!" he shouted, as behind him someone changed the scoreboard to reflect the new score.
"YA-HA!!!" Hiruma shouted, setting off some fireworks that he had gotten from who knows where.
On the other side of the field, the players for Koigahama collapsed.
"Our first victory!!" Kurita shouted happily, throwing his team mates in the air in celebration, "The Devil Bats' first victory!"
Sena started to turn so that she could celebrate as well, but then she slipped, and surprised, fell flat on her face. The ball slipped out of her hands and landed a few feet away. "Why does it have to be all wet over here?" she asked herself, then remembered. Hiruma had turned on the sprinklers over here when he had showed her the end zone. Sena suddenly looked behind her when she felt a strange ominous feeling.
Coming up behind her were all the substitute players for Deimon, all of whom were from other sports teams, trying to get her to join their team.
"Amazing... I'm impressed!" one of them said.
"Let's get you on the baseball team right now!" another exclaimed.
"I don't know who you are but you've got to join the soccer team!" yet another said.
"Ack!" Sena exclaimed, backing away from them.
"The track team...!" Ishimaru insisted, coming up beside her using a line marker to help him stand.
"Ack!" Sena said again, backing away faster, then turning and practically throwing herself at Hiruma's feet.
Hiruma looked down at her then back up at Kurita, who was standing in front of them. "Damn Fatlock! (Short for "Damn Fatty, block!")" he shouted, pointing at him. He turned around and walked back to Sena, who had kept on scrambling away, when Kurita did so.
Hiruma crouched down in front of her and looked back at the struggle. "If those guys find out who you are..." he started, "It'd be an all out battle to snatch you away. I bet."
Sena trembled at that. "I'll never get any rest. I'll spend my entire time at high school being used and abused..." she could just imagine it, being pulled in every direction until she broke, "But I guess that might not be all bad..." she added after a moment of thought.
"Amazing!" Mamori muttered as she stood where she had stopped when the play had started, rooted to the spot. 'There's a star player who's as small as Sena?!' she thought. 'So Sena really does have a chance...' Then she gasped. Sena! "That's right. Where's Sena?" she said to herself, running over to where Deimon was celebrating.
"Hey, Ishimaru!" Mamori called when got there, "Is Sena here?" she asked.
Ishimaru looked over at her then pointed behind the building. "He made a mistake as team manager..." he told her, "Hiruma killed him around back." Mamori gasped.
Hiruma looked over, listening in. "Hmph, this could spell trouble." he said to himself. Then he looked at Sena. "Hurry up and get back there!" he yelled at her, kicking her in the back, "If anyone finds out who you really are, then I'm really gonna kill you!" he told her.
"Aackk!" Sena screamed, running out the gate and then around the building just as the substitute players broke free of Kurita.
Once there, Sena quickly threw off her football gear and put on her clothes, struggling to get them on right before Mamori arrived.
"Sena?!" Mamori called, walking behind the building looking for her friend. "Sena?!"
She turned a corner and gasped as she saw Sena. She was lying against the fence and looked pretty beat up. Mamori felt tears run down her face when she saw her little sister figure looking like that. "...I'm sorry..." she said, bringing her hands up ti her face, "I was the one who told you to join a club..." she cried, as Sena opened her eyes to see why her friend was crying.
Mamori knelt down and gave her friend a hug, smashing Sena's face into her chest. "Sena... you really tried, didn't you?!" she asked, her tears calming a little, "I'm so sorry!"
Then Mamori let Sena go, turning with a determined look on her face and going back to the field, dragging Sena with her by the hand, where the Devil Bats were trying for a bonus kick. They failed.
"Game over! The Devil Bats win, 6-3!" the announcer said.
"Hiruma! Darn it!" Mamori shouted at the football captain who was packing up his things. He turned, and she glared at him, hard.
Hiruma looked back disinterestedly.
"Mamori-nee, wait..." Sena called weakly, trying to calm her friend, "You've got it wrong... it's not..." but she couldn't find anything else to say, and her friend could be scary when she was mad.
"This is the first time I've seen Anezaki Mamori get mad..." Ishimaru muttered from behind some lockers, "She's picking a fight with Hiruma..."
"I can't look..." another of the players said, peeking around the
edge of the lockers as well
TBC...
A/N: And that's the end of book one! Yay! Now for book two! As a side note, can anyone tell me what suffix's the different characters use to refer to other characters is? It doesn't have it in the English manga. Also, from now on, in the authors notes, girl Sena will be referred to as Sena-chan, and boy Sena as Sena-kun.
And now, as promised, the extras in book one, remixed:
Kobayakawa Sena
First Year Student
Deimon Devil Bats 21
Power: 1.5 starsSpeed: 6 stars
Technique: 2 stars
40 Yard Dash: 4.7 seconds or 4.2 when chased by Cerberus
Kurita Ryokan
Second Year Student
Deimon Devil Bats 77
Power: 5 stars
Speed: 1 star
Technique: 2 stars
40 Yard Dash: 6.5 seconds
Hiruma
Yoichi
Second Year Student
Deimon Devil Bats 1
Power: 2 stars
Speed: 2 stars
Technique: 5 stars
40 Yard Dash: 5.1 seconds
Hatsujo
Kaoru
Second Year Student
Koigahama Cupids 19
Power: 1 star
Speed: 2 stars
Technique: 2 stars
40 Yard Dash: 5.1 seconds
Ishimaru
Tetsuo
Second Year Student
Deimon Devil Bats 30
Power: 2 stars
Speed: 3 stars
Technique: 1 star
Anezaki Mamori
Second Year Student
Sena's Childhood Friend/Protector
A Thankless Task
Deluxe Biographies
of the Supporting Cast
(Or: Hiruma's got the goods on everyone!)
The Juvenile Delinquents
This Trio has been together since junior high school. They seek out
timid-looking students (like Sena-chan!) in class, and enslave them.
By the way, Hiruma will enslave anybody, no matter who they are.
Mr.
Furuya
Disciplinary
Committee Adviser
Whenever
Mr. Furuya spots a student wearing earrings,
he will zealously shout out "Take them off!" (but only in his
imagination ).
Satake
Back in his perverted junior high school days, Satake couldn't
control himself and stole some underwear from the girls swim team.
Later, he discovered that they belonged to the 50-year-old cleaning
lady. Satake spent the summer of his second year in junior high
sobbing out in agony, "Hey lady, you can't just swim in the pool
whenever you want! And how the heck could you forget your underwear
in the locker room!?"
Yamaoka
A
closet Morning Musume
otaku,
Yamaoka is especially taken by Ai Kago. The money
he pours into photo collections and concerts amounts to 98 of his
allowance. He refers to this as his "Angel Fund." Even if
Ai's band breaks up or she retires, he has
pledged to follow her for his entire life. What he doesn't realize is
that he's really nothing more then a stalker.
Hatsujo's
Girlfriend
Her level of
stupidity is 300.
No matter
how often he tells her, she still thinks Hatsujo's on the rugby team.
So he's given up trying to correct her.
Fainting
Girl
One of
Sakuraba's stalkers. Her room is completely filled with Sakuraba
goods. She rushes to wherever Sakuraba is scheduled to appear, but
inevitably, she faints as soon as she catches a glimpse of him. So
she's never actually had a good look at him.
Main
Characters
Height
Comparison
(Tallest to
Shortest)
Kurita: 195 cm (6'4")
Sakuraba: 186 cm (6'1")
Shin: 175 cm (5'9")
Hiruma: 176 cm (5'9")
Hatsujo: 169 cm (5'6")
Ishimaru: 168 cm (5'6")
Mamori: 162 cm (5'4")
Sena: 147 cm (4'8")
Cerberus: 60 cm (2'3")
Well, that's all! And yes, I shrunk Sena-chan! Sena-kun is 155 cm (5'1").
Devil Bat-sama is open for most questions, though some he does not have permission to answer, so ask away!
After this I think I'm going to take a nap, even though I need to work on my research paper... I just stayed up so late typing chapter 5 for you guys!
Ivan
