Two chapters in the same week? O.o
Yay! about 1.5k words too
Yes, I named it something different (you'll find out in the text) but that'll be explained about 20k words later
By the way, I do have about 20,000 words written, but I'm at a halt with that progress, because I need to let the manga end the Nationals first, so that I can let about every character be updated up to the manga.
"Wait, what are you thinking, Echizen?" Momoshiro was yelling. Inui put a hand on his shoulder.
"Relax, he should have no problems," Inui said.
"Tezuka, prepare yourself," Riki thought to himself.
"Echizen. Here's how we're going to do this. The first game will be your serve, and the second game will go to me, and the last game will go to the loser of the first. Alright?" Riki asked.
"Whatever," replied the arrogant midget.
"You're okay with this Tezuka?" asked Oishi.
"Yes," replied the single-expression captain.
"Hey, Inui..." started Momoshiro.
"Hm." replied the creator of the penal tea.
"How much data do you have on these guys?"
"To be honest. He was right to a point. I don't know much more than the individual members."
"No way!" replied Oishi.
"All I have is that Seishiren is making its first national appearance since three years ago, which they lost in the first round. There's a rumor that their captain Riki, after taking over the supposed "Golden Years" and leading this team into the "Koharu Dynasty," has failed lead his team into Nationals. However, there are other rumors that this was on purpose..."
"Wait, how'd he do that? and WHY!?" asked Eiji.
"I don't know, but I have to catch up on a lot of data. After all, it's true..." Inui replied
"Impossible... they really did that the other day," Kaidou said. A picture of the crushing scoreboard appeared in his head, with sixes going across the bottom row, and zeros at the top.
Ryoma prepared himself, with his right hand to test the captain. He prepared a truly familiar stance, and hit his serve across to the other side. Riki recognized the serve immediately.
"Sorry, but I've hit this too many times!" Riki responded. He jumped into the air, and braced his body slightly away from the serve. "Since the serve bounces up at an angle directed at my face, then angling my body and jumping would create the same situation as a super rising," he thought. He moved accordingly to his thoughts.
"A super rising?!" Eiji yelled.
The shot went across to the other side, and Ryoma was going to respond this time with his left hand.
"Cool Drive," he said. The shot went back across.
Riki's thoughts raced again, "If the cool drive carries enough spin and power as to move even against the face of the racket, then I'll simply hit it without giving it anywhere to go, except for the other way. In other words, a hit using only a part of the full racket face should do the job."
"SNAKE!?" yelled the annoying twig known as Horio.
Ryoma quickly went to it using split-step, and returned it back again. Riki decided to use the snake again, and the rally continued for another seven hits, but when the ball was sent back to Riki, he initiated the same stance. However...
Ryoma arched his eyebrows, "Eh?"
"STRAIGHT SHOT?" Kaidou thought. "The stance didn't change either. He... is good... There's no way the rumor's aren't true. Ryoma, don't get too cocky, you might even lose."
"0-15," said Riki.
Ryoma decided that he didn't need to fool around. He kept to his left hand. Next, he served. After that, Riki responds with a jacknife, drawing the eyebrows of Momoshiro and Inui. Then Ryoma decided to sneak to the net with a Drive B, but on the 2nd arc, at the peak, Riki dunk smashed it.
"I hope you're used to the way your teammates play, because I don't want Inui to get any of my data, but I certainly don't mind Inui getting the data of his teammates again," Riki said. "Now then, the score was 0-30?"
"Tch," responded Ryoma. A bright aura began to appear around Ryoma, and it began to flare around his body like fire, and made him look godly almost.
"Oh my," Riki said.
"$20 on the captain," said the older Whim brother.
"Wait, why is he messing around with the other team?" asked Corian.
"He's going to play for our courts," was the older's response.
"Why doesn't he tell us this stuff before charging into it?" Corian asked again.
"Who cares? $20 on the captain, result... hm... 2 games to 1," Zenke said.
"We refuse," the rest of the members said in unison. After all, they all knew, that after Riki, Zenke was next in line in the game predictions.
"Oooh! LOOK AT THAT, DUAL TEZUKA ZONES!" yelled Corian.
"I TOLD YOU! CALL IT THE NUCLEUS, IT'S NOT HIS ZONE!" returned Riki
"Swift like wind..." Ryoma said.
Riki eyes bolted. "Not good," were his first immediate thoughts. He quickly tried to react to the speed and the lack of swing, but he knew his racket was hindering him from making a straight shot with Nucleus spin applied, but it turned out to be a worthless lob.
"Chance ball Ochibi!" Ejii yelled.
"Invade like fire..." Ryoma said again.
"Damn it Sanada, why do you have such powerful moves?!" Riki thought to himself. He tried to use Higuma Otoshi, but his racket got knocked out of his hand. "Tch, racket's in the way," he thought again. His racket was preventing him from returning Ryoma's upgraded moves.
"So, I won the first game right?" asked Ryoma. His eyes were shining, already filled with the cocky manner that he's going to win. His aura was still surrounding him, and he wasn't a bit tired yet...
"True..." he murmured just loud enough for it to be audible. He was walking to the bench to obtain another racket. "But, I get to serve." He put his hands in, and replaced rackets.
"My turn," he said. He bent back, threw the ball up, and hit Inui's own Waterfall... However, Ryoma's only reaction was to bolt his eyes open in an unusual shock. Riki hit the serve again, and this time all the Seigaku members knew it was no fluke... the serve was faster than the Waterfall, that or it looked weirder. The ball's bounce would become angled out to the side or up or down because of extreme spin. This Inui could do too, just like any other player, but the angles on these serves looked far too abnormal.
"Tch. Those are my serves..." Saito whispered.
On the 3rd ball, Ryoma got his racket on the serve and was actually capable of returning it clean to the other side, which was followed by the Nucleus. Then... the rally ended just as it began.
"Oi... Inui," Momoshiro began to ask,"isn't that the Laser Beam?"
"True," he answered. "However, the speed is frightening."
"Wait, what?" Takamura threw out in surprise.
"Ever since he changed rackets... Everything got faster, stronger... and Ryoma is being pushed back even with the State of Self-Actualization," Inui commented.
"Look! Inui-sempai!" Momoshiro shouted. The ball started to return to a section of the court.
"Is that the Tezuka Zone?" he asked.
"No way. Tezuka Zone doesn't need the user to move at all, besides the pivoting of the opposite foot," Inui answered. "That must be some variation. I heard about it in the last match they played. It was called the Quadrant Force."
"That man is simply frightening," Saito said to himself. "If you really want me to play against him so badly, then just tell me. Jeez."
The match continued, and Ryoma was being overwhelmed by the placements of Riki's shots. Every time Ryoma tried attacking using the combination of "Invade like Fire," and "Swift like Wind," Riki simply matched the power, and on the next shot, overwhelmed the shot completely using his faster-than-Yagyuu's laser beam. Tsubame Gaeshi only gave Riki room to attack, for he was too quick on his feet to fall prey to that. A lob would only be quickly swiped from the air, and before Ryoma could use Higuma Otoshi, the ball would take over Ryoma's control on his own racket. His exhaustion was getting to him, and every threat he tried to pose, Riki would use a different one...
... Some half an hour or two later
"Impossible... Ryoma," Oishi began.
"Lost," finished Ejii.
"If you really wanted to win, then you would've stopped using the State of Self-Actualization," Riki said to Ryoma. "Exhaustion plus trying to overcome unusual power is quite the bad combination. Anyway, no hard feelings. Take a court, preferably the one closest to where you guys are, cuz I don't feel like moving all my guys." He went over to the bag, and lifted it up, and when he got to the other court, he dropped it, and it made a huge noise as it dropped...
"That racket he was using had to be at least 10kg (22 something pounds... go lift a new rice bag if you don't know how heavy that is.). The one he used to beat Ryoma weighed probably only 100g... I have to tell Renji this... I'm afraid we can't win against them," Inui said.
