Hello fellow readers, writers, and those who are very bored! I am back and writing again, like I said in the last chapter. Anyway, Pipit's set a challenge for the group of ten. A dodgeball game, with the team leaders being Blue and Pipit. If Blue's team won, Victoria and Brittany would no longer be bothered by Pipit's constant flirting. However, if Pipit's team won, the girls would then belong to him. And not in a good way. Will Blue's team succeed, or will the binds of fate be broken, as DatLittleStar reviewed in the last chapter? Find out in this chapter!
Chapter 9: Pipit VS Blue (Part 2)
"WHAT?-!" They all shouted at the same time.
"You heard me, and I'm not changing the prizes." Pipit responded, smirking fiendishly.
"You've got some nerve setting a challenge like that!" Victoria exclaimed, her face red in anger. She absolutely despised people like Pipit.
"People like you disgust me." Vio muttered, focusing his glare on Pipit.
"So? What do you say?" Pipit asked. "Will you accept the challenge?"
Silence covered the entire lunchroom. The other students were watching, the suspense and tension rising by the tenfold with every second that oozed by. Their eyes were glued on the group of quarreling students standing before them, waiting for their imminent response.
"...Fine." Blue responded. "I accept your challenge."
"...I knew you would, Blue." Pipit said, smirking. "I will wait until the afternoon to settle this. Get your team ready, because if you lose, you know the stakes."
The lunchroom remained silent as Pipit walked away from the group of students. The others kept their intensified glare on the boy as he left the lunchroom entirely.
Time that had stopped finally resumed. People began to talk amongst their tables, either about the recent occurrence or any other topic. The only students standing plopped themselves down on the seats, their mood drastically changed.
"Son of a garo." Blue muttered under his breath, clenching his fist. Brittany crossed her arms, angry and frustrated.
"..." Vio and Victoria remained silent, their eyes closed and deep in thought. How would they win against Pipit? They were ten, sure, but what if the others did not want to be dragged into this? What if Pipit gained more players than they did? What if... They lost? What would they do then?
"Hey." Green spoke. The four of darkened moods lifted their heads, turning to their companion. "If you need people on your team, we'll help you!"
"Yeah! I'm not willing to lose both Victoria and Brittany to Pipit!" Grace exclaimed, banging her fist on the table.
"Me neither!" Rosie and Red said at the same time. Shadow and Samantha nodded as well, agreeing with them.
"...Thanks guys. I don't know what I would do without all of ya." Brittany replied, smiling genuinely.
"We appreciate your assistance, and are truly grateful." Victoria replied, her dark mood lifting slightly.
"The only disadvantage that we could possibly face is that Pipit's team will have more members than our team." Vio mused. They all nodded, realizing that one single blemish in a perfect plan.
"So? Who cares?" Blue said, smirking. "We've got the advantage in skill."
"...That is true. I don't think there will be any basketballs available for use there..." Victoria mused, chuckling slightly. The others joined, remembering that one dodgeball game...
"Yeah, haha!" Green laughed. The group at the table joined in joyous laughter, almost forgetting about the deal in itself...
Briiiiiiing! Briiiiiiing!
The final bell of the day. It was time. The game that would decide Victoria's and Brittany's fate.
They would not lose.
"Have a nice day, class!" Prof. Kafei said, dismissing the class. As soon as that was said, everyone in the class immediately left. Blue, Shadow, and Rosie left the class last, each of them heading to their lockers to get their things to head to the gym.
As Blue opened his locker, he could not get the thought of losing to Pipit out of his head. He hated Pipit, and there was no way that he would lose to him in a million years. He closed the locker, walking over to the gym where Coach Ganondorf would be. He walked out the doors of the school building, running to the gym.
When he reached his destination, he ceased his run. He simply walked up to the doors, inhaled, and opened the door.
"Blue! There you are!" Rosie cheered, already changed into the attire used for Gym Class.
"Good thing you made it here in time. We can't do this without our team leader." Green said, giving Blue a thumbs up.
Blue nodded back, smirking. "So? We ready or what?"
Victoria nodded, as did Brittany. Green and Grace gave him two thumbs up. Rosie cheered, clapping her hands as if she could face anything. Shadow and Samantha smirked, nodding in response.
"What should our team be named? We are a team after all!" Rosie asked.
"...Well... I'm not sure." Victoria mused.
"It obviously needs to be something catchy." Brittany said.
"How about 'Blue Blitz'? Since our team leader is named 'Blue'." Vio suggested. Blue's ego boosted very much.
"Yeah! Perfect!" Blue exclaimed, throwing his fist into the air.
"Oh, celebrating defeat, are we?"
The cheerful and happy atmosphere instantly faded as that same, low-pitched, awfully familiar voice spoke. Pipit had arrived with his team...
... Of twenty people.
"Oh my goddesses..." Victoria muttered softly as her eyes fell upon the large crowd of people. In the center stood Coach Ganondorf, ready to judge the game as fair or not.
"So, I hear we're having a dodgeball game here, eh?" Coach Ganondorf asked. "Well then, no dodgeball game goes without a referee!"
"Of course not." Pipit answered, putting his hands on his hips. "The best one being you, of course."
"Sucking up to anyone won't get you anywhere!" Coach Ganondorf yelled. Once he calmed down, he turned to both teams. "This is going to be a fair game. No one runs to the balls until the first whistle. After the second whistle, the game begins! Are you ready?"
Each team took their places, stomachs on the ground, ready to pounce for the dodgeballs.
"Then let the dodgeball battle begin!" Coach Ganondorf announced, blowing on his whistle once.
As if a cannon was fired, each team roared in shouts of war as they ran to the dodgeballs. Pipit managed to grab two, while Victoria, Vio, Blue, and Grace got one each. The other team got most of the dodgeballs, and they looked like they were going to kill the other team.
Then, the second whistle was heard.
"Come on guys, spread out!" Green ordered, and the others followed instantly. However, dodgeballs already began flying through the air. Victoria dodged a few by using some difficult maneuvers. Vio stayed in the back in case he was needed for later.
"Take this, retard!" Grace shouted as she landed a bulls eye on one person in the crowd of twenty. Unfortunately, as she was not looking, she too was hit straight in the face with a dodgeball.
"Grace and Saria, you're both out!" Coach Ganondorf announced, beckoning them to the bleachers.
Grace exchanged a saddened look with the nine remaining on her team. They nodded, allowing her to relax and sit as she was told. All she hoped was for them to win, not for her to just stay in.
"Ha, this will be easier than I thought." Pipit commented, angering his opposing team.
"Shut up, retard!" Blue shouted as he threw a ball straight at Pipit's face. However, Pipit simply dodged it by tilting his head.
"You really think I was stupid enough to get hit by that?" Pipit asked. However, out of the corner of his eye, he saw someone move swiftly. He quickly turned his head and saw that a ball was aimed straight at his face. Quickly, he ducked and allowed another teammate to get hit.
"Damn it." Victoria cursed under her breath. However, she couldn't stand around and be bothered by her miss, as she was already targeted by many on the other team.
"Now!" They shouted, throwing about fifteen dodgeballs at the team at once. Green got hit straight in the face, Samantha in the arm, and Shadow in the leg. Vio and Victoria jumped, spun, and did what they needed to do to dodge every single projectile. Brittany and Blue hit the objects thrown at them with their own dodgeballs in their hands, catching a few in the process. Rosie and Red cowered behind the two in blue.
"You three, you're out!" Coach Ganondorf shouted, pointing to Shadow, Green, and Samantha. The three looked at the team of six, exchanging looks of understanding. They needed to win this, or it was all over.
"Pathetic. Only six members, and we have nineteen. Just give it up, you know you'll lose." Pipit mocked, smirking. The others on his team snickered, pointing at the opposing team mockingly.
"We may be six, but you know as well as we do that we surpass you in skill." Victoria replied, smirking as well.
"Surpassing some of us in skill won't help you, Victoria. You know it as well as I, after all, you are the smartest one." Pipit continued, smirking wider.
Victoria's smirk vanished. It was true, only four of all ten had a good athletic ability. But it didn't matter, they had to win, no matter what it took.
She would never belong to such a person as Pipit.
"Victoria! Watch out!" Vio shouted, snapping Victoria from her thoughts.
Victoria blinked, seeing a dodgeball aimed straight for her face. Suddenly, she leaned back, using her arm to hold the position until the dodgeball had passed over her.
"Damn it!" A familiar voice called from the crowd. Swiftly, Victoria picked up a dodgeball and threw it at the source of the voice.
It hit Zelda square in the face.
"OW!" Zelda shrieked.
"Zelda, you're out!" Coach Ganondorf announced. Zelda facepalmed, sauntering over to her seat on the bleachers.
"Nice dodge, Victoria." Brittany complemented. Victoria nodded, keeping her focus on the game.
"One at your ten o'clock, Vio!" Victoria warned. Quickly, Vio dodged the dodgeball, but someone got hit.
"Gah!" Rosie squealed as she felt the ball hit her arm. As soon as she figured out what happened, her face saddened immensely.
"Rosie, you're out!" Coach Ganondorf announced. Rosie's head hung low as she walked over to where the others were. However, as soon as she sat, she began cheering for her team.
"Go Blue's team! I-I mean Blue Blitz!" Rosie cheered, waving her hands high in the air.
Victoria smiled slightly, happy that someone could help from the sidelines. Red stayed behind her, so she couldn't dodge that abruptly or else he'd get hit also. BUt there was no way she would get out in this game.
"Watch your left, Vio!" Blue shouted. Vio dodged to the left...
...But it was a trap.
As Vio dodged to the left, two more dodgeballs flew at him. It was unavoidable, so he got hit twice in the face.
"Vio!" Victoria shouted, turning her attention to one of the four who were actually athletic.
"Vio, you're out!" Coach Ganondorf announced. Vio stood up slowly, rubbing his face.
"Victoria, just win for us, please." Vio muttered before walking over to the bleachers.
Victoria nodded, putting her focus into the game.
"Even Vio was rendered out. What kind of hope do you have?" Pipit asked. This enraged Brittany to no end.
"Shut up, you annoying prick!" Brittany shouted as she threw dodge balls at him like a machine gun. However, none of them hit him.
Instead, one hit her and Red.
"What the-" Brittany shouted as she felt something hit her shoulder. She could hear Red run to catch the ball, but he failed and it dropped from his grasp.
"Brittany and Red, you're out!" Coach Ganondorf announced again, crossing his arms. He knew that the odds were against Blue's team, but surely, they would notice, right?
"Two against eighteen of us. What hope do you have?" Pipit asked, smirking widely. It was inevitable, he would win and get what he desired.
"Correction: Two extremely skilled athletes versus a bunch of morons." Victoria corrected, smirking. Pipit's smirk was wiped clean off of his face.
"You know, you barely have any flaws in your creation. You're smart, cute, and sexy as hell. The only problem anyone would have with you is dealing with this side of you." Pipit explained. Then, his smirk returned. "I know that will change when you are officially my own to toy with."
That was it. The strings that held Victoria's wrath were broken.
"SHUT UP YOU STUPID PERVERT!-!" Victoria yelled as she threw dodgeballs at him. As quick as he was at dodging, Pipit could barely escape the speed and accuracy of the projectiles thrown at him.
"Yeah, sicko! No wonder Amelia didn't like your stupid ass!" Blue shouted, throwing dodgeballs with her.
Pipit snapped like a twig.
"YOU SHUT UP ABOUT HER, YOU GOOD FOR NOTHING, LOW LEVELED, BLIND MORON!" Pipit yelled as he threw one, significant, dodgeball. This specific one was thrown with perfect accuracy, not allowing the target to escape.
Blue was rendered out of the game, leaving Victoria alone to deal with the situation.
"Blue, you're out!" Coach Ganondorf announced. Those in the bleachers gasped. Only one was left on the team, and the other team had eighteen.
"...No." Blue muttered, his face dejected. He turned to Victoria, who nodded her head.
Something told him that she was better off without a team.
As Blue approached the bleachers, he heard someone stepping down quickly. The next thing he knew, he felt arms wrap around him tightly.
It was Brittany.
"..." Blue remained silent, not returning the hug.
"Hug me, damn it." Brittany said, her voice sad and gloomy. Blue did as he was told, putting his hands on her back.
"...Sorry." Blue apologized, feeling as if he had let everyone down.
"...It's okay. We wouldn't have won anyway." Brittany commented, her voice still gloomy.
"Go ask the coach for a time out. Just so we can talk before all the craziness goes down." Blue suggested. Brittany nodded, releasing from the hug.
"Coach Ganondorf, since it's the last round, can we have a small timeout?" Brittany asked.
Coach Ganondorf pondered it for a moment. Then, he answered, "Okay then. But twenty minutes maximum. When you're done, just come and get me in my office." He walked away from the gym, allowing the teams to talk amongst themselves.
Victoria walked up to the rest of the team, dodgeballs in hand. Her face revealed no emotion, as if she didn't care about the situation at hand.
"...So." Grace started.
"..." Victoria remained silent, her eyes closed in thought.
"...I guess we should just say goodbye, since I know we won't have time to do so later..." Brittany spoke first, speaking as if she was holding back tears.
"...Yeah." Blue agreed. The team was silent.
"...Who shall go first?" Vio asked.
Blue raised his hand.
The others were surprised, as if they had never seen him volunteer in his life.
"I... I will." Blue said. The others nodded, looking at him and wondering what he would say.
"So? Go ahead, I'm not gonna be here with you guys for much longer." Brittany spoke. However, as she opened her mouth to say more, it was soon covered by Blue's own lips on hers.
They were kissing.
The others' jaws dropped, with the exception of Victoria. They had never expected this in a million years, especially from Blue of all people.
When they broke apart, Brittany's face was one of sheer surprise. She looked at him, her sapphire eyes glinting in the light from the gym.
"I figured since I may never be seeing you again, I should just do it now." Blue stated, walking away from the group and up the bleachers.
Brittany blinked, pulling herself from her thoughts. As the others walked to talk to the coach, saying they were ready, Brittany walked up to a thoughtful Victoria.
"Victoria, I need your help." Brittany spoke. Victoria blinked, snapping from her thoughts. Also from unexpected confusion.
"...You want my help?" Victoria asked. Brittany nodded, disproving any thoughts Victoria had in her head.
"If there is any possible way, please win for us. I know you're awesome at this, so show them what you've got. Try your best out there, and don't hesitate to use anything up your sleeve." Brittany said, encouraging Victoria.
Victoria smirked.
"I think that can be arranged." Victoria replied, leaving a confused Brittany.
Victoria walked back onto the court, being greeted by the same, familiar boy.
"Well, ready to meet your fate?" Pipit asked.
Victoria smirked.
"Sure." Victoria said, preparing herself. She jumped back a few times, making sure she was at a good enough distance.
"And begin round two!" Coach Ganondorf shouted, blowing the whistle to start the final round that would determine fate and destiny.
"Go! Plan A!" Pipit shouted. From seemingly random areas, dodge balls flew straight at Victoria.
Smirking, Victoria used what was up her sleeve.
Or more accurate, on her back.
Unfurling her purple tipped wings, she jumped high into the air, dodging every single projectile thrown at her.
Pipit's jaw dropped, as did many others. Even her teammates were shocked.
"WHAT?-!" Pipit shouted, looking enraged.
"Looks like the tables have turned so the odds are in my favor." Victoria said, smirking. Pipit gritted his teeth, throwing a single dodgeball at Victoria.
Simply, she caught the dodgeball. Quicker than a blink of an eye, she threw dodgeballs at the opposing team.
Three were thrown, about five got out.
"The five of you, you're out!" Coach Ganondorf announced. Astonished, the five on Victoria's opposing team sauntered over to the benches.
Swooping down quickly, Victoria picked up any leftover dodgeballs that were on the court in a flash. As she was beginning to fly upwards again, people threw more dodgeballs.
Which she caught.
"Damn it! Stop giving her more ammo!" Pipit shouted. As he looked back on his team, he saw that not a single one had a dodgeball in their hand.
They were screwed.
"Take this, rain of death!" Victoria shouted, throwing the dodge balls with such a high velocity. Some were only hit once, others she hit twice, killing two birds with one stone.
It all ended with Pipit being the last one standing.
Victoria lowered herself to the ground, looking at Pipit in the eyes. He had no team left, and not a single dodgeball on his side.
"Prepared to meet your fate?" Victoria asked. Pipit glared at her, expecting him to get hit by a ball.
Instead, it was a hand.
Victoria slapped him across the face, leaving a bright red mark on his cheek. Then, she threw a ball at his face from a distance, rendering him out.
"...Umm, Pipit is out. Blue's team wins!" Coach Ganondorf announced, raising an arm on Victoria's side of the gym.
"VICTORIA!-!" Victoria turned her head, expecting the others to be coming toward her.
Well, she was half right.
She was pulled into a very strangling hug. The air was knocked right out of her, and she struggled to breathe.
"G-guys... Can't breathe..." Victoria muttered. Instantly, the others let go of her, allowing her to breathe.
"You're amazing!" Rosie praised, staring at her wings. "How come you never told us about these?"
"It was supposed to be a secret, but this was a life or death situation." Victoria answered, closing her wings.
"I'm glad you did!" Brittany spoke, shaking Victoria's hand roughly. Victoria smiled warmly back to her.
"You're welcome." Victoria said back to her. Brittany blinked, then nodded.
"Ahem."
The team turned to the coughing sound. It was Pipit, standing with the team already leaving the building.
"So? You're keeping your side of the bargain. We won, so you cannot bother us anymore." Brittany said, walking up to him with Victoria next to her.
"...Obviously." Pipit said. "I wish you good luck with your later endeavors. This is good-bye." Pipit turned around and left the building, his head hung low.
"Serves him right." Blue muttered. Vio nodded, agreeing.
The rest of them walked to get their bags, as did Victoria. However, as she did, she carried her backpack on her arm, which was too heavy for her to carry.
"Hey, why don't you just put it on your back?" Brittany asked, observing Victoria's actions.
"Hm? Oh, I don't want to end up with... Back issues." Victoria replied. Brittany seemed satisfied with the answer, and left with everyone else.
Victoria put down her stuff, opening the bag quickly. She pulled out her first aid kit and opened it, pulling out the bandages. She opened her right wing, exposing a bleeding wound.
"Gah..." Victoria muttered as she placed a new bandage and medicine on the wound. It stung like Din's fire, but she could manage. Once she was finished, she closed her wing and headed to the bus.
She prayed to the goddesses that she wouldn't receive any more wounds once she arrived home...
Most likely expected victory! Even though the odds were against them, Blue's team- I mean, Blue Blitz still prevailed over Pipit's creepy plans! And oooo~ Some romance between Blue and Brittany *super duper double bubble OBVIOUS, especially so if you've read Elements and Prophecies and The Forgotten Element*
Review if you like the story, even if I'm not really good at writing high school stories. I'm trying! Anyway, stay tuned for chapter 10! I shall bid you amazing readers adieu *sorry for the late post again! SSAT!*
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