Chapter 11 Mamodo ball
Authors note: I don't have internet at the moment so I might not come up with a good idea…maybe who knows…and I don't watch baseball very often so…Some of these figures will be off since I don't know what it is, oh well I want to make the field larger…much larger, and I don't know 'baseball talk' so bear with me please. The rules are similar to Baseball just for everyone knows and doesn't know what the heck I'm trying to explain. This will be my first time writing out a sports game so let's see how this plays out…pun intended.
A few days later after Zatch said he was going to put his plan into action
Zatch was gathering everyone he knew and more from across the mamodo city which was being overlooked by Zatch's palace.
There were around 200 mamodo children gathered slightly outside the mamodo capital. The large grassy field was being marked to play a new game invented by Zatch and Tia. It was also a clear day out.
"That looks great!" Tia said happily as she sat on a chair that rose 10 feet in the air so she could overlook the gaming field. Tia was wearing a referee outfit with a whistle around her neck
"Unu" Zatch agreed as he was sitting beside her in another large chair. He was wearing his normal blue cloak.
The field has 6 bases which took shape as an even 6 sided shape. Each running line to the next was 50 feet. The end of field line from the hitters base was 200 yards apart, and a brick wall that was 20 feet behind the hitter and it stretched to the first beginning side of the shape then stopped, the wall was only 30 feet away from the first base, then the other side of the wall stretched to the fifth base and was also 30 feet away, The wall was made by Eshros. Anything beyond that was a homerun or could be caught by a mamodo. (You know how baseball fields have those nets behind the pitcher to avoid the ball from hitting the audience; it's kind of like that. I just need this wall for no one dies)
"Ok! Here's the rules!" Tia announced while standing on her large chair. "Use the wooden club to hit the ball thrown by the pitcher, if you miss 2 times then you're OUT, whoever can hit the ball beyond the 200 yard mark is a homerun. You get points by running on all 6 bases. A homerun allows everyone on base to get to home. Teams are made up of 30 players, and teams switch sides when the hitters get 4 outs" Tia explained then took a deep breathe.
"You should've put the rules on a piece of paper and handed it out to everyone" Zeno pointed out as was standing in the group of 200 mamodo
Tia glared at him and noticed the players inside the group, she was surprised to find Brago, Zofis, Ted, Cherish, Penny, Erujo, and even Kanchomé, she just didn't notice. "Ok now it's against the rules to use your spells, if you use them it's one out for your team" Tia explained
Most of the strong mamodo were disappointed to hear that since it would give them an extreme advantage over most.
"You 'catchers' have to tag the 'hitters' with the ball to get them out, or the catcher can step on base to get a 'hitter' out" Tia tried explaining. "If the ball touches the ground then it's fair and you catchers have to tag or touch base to get a hitter out, if you catch it in the air then the hitter is OUT!" Tia explained
"Play BALL" Zatch yelled excitedly and jumped off his chair to join the players.
Zatch and Tia made the teams when two teams had to sit out because there was only one playing field.
Team one consisted of the of around 10 mamodo children who didn't participate in the mamodo battle for king, the other 20 were most notably Zatch, Zeno, Ted, Cherish, Bari, Kanchomé, Erujo, Danny, Rops, and Wonrei and another 10 mamodo who participated in the mamodo battle, in total there was 30 players.
The second team which already named themselves the Rebels consisted of 10 mamodo children who didn't participate in the mamodo battle and 20 mamodo who did. Most notably were Brago, Zofis, Riou, Rein, Kikupopu, Eshros, Ponygon, Penny, Purio, Yopopo, and Pamoon and another 10 mamodo who participated in the mamodo battle, in total there was 30 players.
"I say our names should be the Bells" Zeno stated
"What a stupid name" Bari growled
"Yellow tail!" Zatch said excitedly
"NO" Mostly everyone said
"Iron man Folgore!" Kanchomé yelled
Everyone just ignored that comment
"Team Blitz" Erujo suggested
"I have no problem with that" Ted said while giving up on a name
Around half of the other players agreed to the name
"Hey Zatch who's he?" Zeno asked while pointing at Erujo
"He's one of the mamodo from 1000 years ago" Zatch responded
"Oh" Zeno said
"Ok Zatch! Does your team have a name?" Tia yelled from behind the wall but she was still visible thanks to her large chair.
"Team Blitz" Zatch and the team proclaimed
"Ok Rebels is in the fields, the Team Blitz are hitting!" Tia shouted then blew her whistle.
Brago went up to the pitchers plate and looked at the first person to pick up the bat which was Bari.
Bari took up the cruelly made baseball bat which had metal rivets on it to keep it intact.
The Rebel players scattered across the field without a particular sort of unity, Pamoon was guarding first base, Penny was guarding second, Zofis was guarding third, Ponygon was guarding fourth, Rein was guarding fifth base. For some reason Brago ordered Purio to stand close to him. The rest scattered across the field.
"I don't really see the point in this…" Bari said annoyed that he was dragged into this game.
"GET A HOMERUN" Zatch shouted
"You throw like a girl Brago" Zeno taunted
"Oh Zatchypoo, I hope you come over here soon" Penny said happily while waving over to him
That statement scared Zatch and pissed Zeno off.
Brago took the baseball and took a stance hiding the baseball behind his back.
Everyone waited in silence waiting for Brago to throw the ball. Brago Then threw the ball at around 150 Miles per hour, the ball speed toward Bari who was holding the bat in a weird position.
Bari swung and missed as the speed ball crashed into the wall making a small crack on the outside of it.
"You idiot why did you miss!" Zeno shouted at Bari
"Shut up, I'm just getting started" Bari shouted back
Brago got another ball and took his stance again.
"Just throw it already!" Bari shouted in anger
Brago threw the ball at a slight curve at around 140 mph.
Bari swung with all his might.
The bat smashed into the ball and went flying into the sky.
In response Brago grabbed Purio
"What!" Purio responded
Brago turned around and threw Purio like a football toward the baseball that was screaming through the air
"CATCH IT" The Rebel players shouted
As Purio was screaming his lungs out, he realized that he was closing in on the ball and grabbed it in midair.
"Is anyone going to catch him?" Zatch asked he just watched Purio fly through the air with the ball in his hand.
"HELP ME" Purio shouted as he neared to the ground and his teammates just watched his descent.
Purio flew 180 yards until he smashed into the ground.
"Ouch" most of the team blitz responded, except Zeno, he was laughing about it.
"Bari's OUT" Tia announced as Purio was still holding on to the ball
"They cheated!" Bari shouted
"There's nothing in the rules saying that you can't do that" Brago responded
"I got the ball…I caught the ball…" Purio mumbled as one of the mamodo children dug him out of his crater.
"Bring him back here!" Brago ordered
Fein quickly dragged Purio back to Brago for another run.
"Don't do that again" Purio demanded
Brago glared at Purio and his stare alone put Purio back into submission.
"One out for Team blitz! Next up Danny!" Tia shouted
Danny stepped up to plate and picked up the bat and waited for Brago to throw the ball.
"Hey batter, batter miss!" Eshros taunted Danny from across the field.
Brago threw the ball at his top throwing speed which was around 170 mph
Danny timed it just right and smacked the ball just right to make it fly through the air about 10 feet above the ground, it's speed was going at an incredible speed and no one was in the right position to catch it.
Danny ran as fast as he could quickly passing Pamoon, the ball finally hit the ground at the 90 yard mark and kept on rolling through the grass.
By then Danny was on third base passing by Zofis and heading toward Ponygon who didn't know what to do…
Fein picked up the ball and threw it all the ways toward Rein, Danny then stopped on fourth base knowing he couldn't make it.
"He's fast!" Purio said in a worried fashion
"Next up ZENO!" Tia shouted
"Homerun coming up" Zeno proclaimed
Zeno walked up to plate and picked up the bat and waited for Brago.
Brago glared at Zeno then threw a 140mph curve ball.
Zeno timed it right and smacked the ball which went flying over the 200 yard mark
"Easy" Zeno said as he and Danny ran around the bases giving them two points.
Brago seemed unfazed but some players were disappointed
"Yea Zeno!" Zatch cheered on
"Two points for Team Blitz" Tia announced. "Next up Cherish" Tia yelled
Cherish walked up to plate and started to take a few practice swings.
"You can do it cherish!" Ted yelled
"She's going to strike out" Zeno said plainly
"WHAT no she's not!" Ted responded.
Brago threw the ball going around 100 mph
Cherish swung and missed completely
"I'll get it on the NEXT TRY" Cherish shouted and got ready
Brago trying to humiliate her gently tossed the ball underhand.
Once again Cherish swung and missed, of course she was embarrassed she had just missed a free homerun.
"You're out" Tia announced
Brago smirked a little but didn't say anything
"Don't think that I won't get back at you" Cherish growled and stomped back to the end of the Blitz line.
"Don't worry Cherish you'll get another chance" Ted tried to reinsure her.
"Two outs for Team blitz, two points for team Blitz" Tia announced
"Next up is the king of the mamodo world Zatch Bell!" Tia announced
"Go Zatch!" Zeno shouted
Zatch walked up to the plate and picked up the bat and waited for Brago to pitch.
"I'm going to make you eat this" Brago growled
"Huh? Eat what?" Zatch asked confused
Brago threw the ball as hard as he could; he aimed at Zatch's face.
The ball screamed through the air at 150 mph toward Zatch
Zatch realizing he was going to get hit quickly dropped to the floor in order to dodge the ball.
"BRAGO" Zatch yelled as the baseball crashed into the stone wall behind him.
"Opps" Brago said with a grin
"You had to miss didn't you" Zofis said with a grin
"Zatch walk to base" Tia instructed Zatch
"Wait I don't even get to swing?" Zatch said disappointedly
"Sorry Zatch…but It's the rules" Tia responded
"Brago what you trying to do? Take my brother's head off?" Zeno shouted in anger.
"Calm down Zeno" Wonrei responded while almost restraining Zeno from running out into the fields to go kill Brago.
Zatch walked to first base disappointed.
"Hey Zatch don't worry about it, Brago will get what's coming to him" Pamoon tried to cheer Zatch up.
"Unu" Zatch said hoping for another try
"Is it me or is Brago playing dirty?" Kanchomé asked everyone
Everyone agreed
"He's taking advantage of the new game that hasn't been able to make its rules very clear to everyone" Wonrei responded
"Next up is Ted" Tia announced
Ted all too happy to try and get back at Brago for cheating
Ted walked up to plate and picked up the bat and took a regular stance.
Brago didn't take any chances and threw a fast ball at Ted
Ted matched its speed and struck the ball dead center, as the ball went flying the Rebel players chased after it while it was still in the air.
Ted and Zatch ran as fast as they could, running base to base.
Unfortunately when the ball neared the ground Fein was able to catch it and get Ted OUT
Meanwhile Penny was chasing Zatch through the bases
"ZATCH!" Penny yelled as she tried to tackle him down
"AHHHH" Zatch screamed as he was being chased by a mad woman
"Don't run away from me Zatch my Love" Penny yelled as she and Zatch passed through fourth base.
"Rein Catch!" Fein shouted as he threw the ball to Rein who was guarding fifth base
"REIN! Help me" Zatch cried out as he was nearing to his buddy
As the ball soared near to Rein and he prepared to catch it.
"Zatch we're on opposite teams" Rein tried reminding the blond haired child.
Zatch managed to step on base before Rein could get the ball yet he continued to run because Penny kept on chasing him.
"Rein throw me the ball" Brago ordered
Rein did as he was told and threw the ball to Brago, in turn Brago shoved the ball inside Purio's mouth and picked him up and aimed at Zatch again!
"AHHHH" Zatch screamed as Penny gave off an oni face while chasing him
"GET BACK HERE ZATCH!" Penny shouted with a near evil sounding voice
Zeno was getting a little restless, as he watched his brother run around.
"Calm down Zeno" Wonrei tried calming Zeno down but to no effect.
"Take this!" Brago shouted as he threw Purio like a football at Zatch.
Penny managed to get close to Zatch and tackled him to the ground.
Zatch fell to the ground and dodged Purio with the ball because of it.
Purio smashed into the stone wall and got knocked out.
"I GOT YOU ZATCH!" Penny yelled as she gripped Zatch's legs
"NOOO" Zatch shouted as he crawled his way to last base as quickly as possible
"YOU CAN DO IT ZATCH!" The Blitz team yelled
Brago started to run to the stone wall to get the ball for he could tag out Zatch.
"GO, GO, GO" the Rebels yelled for Brago to hurry up
Zatch only a few feet away from last base noticed that Brago was chasing after him with the ball clenched in his hand.
"HURRY!" Zeno shouted
"Penny let Zatch go!" Tia shouted
"NEVER!" Penny responded
Brago made a dive to touch base as Zatch was only near inches away from base.
"NOOO" Brago shouted as he slid across the ground.
The two teams went into silence as Zatch barely made it to last base.
"SAFE" Tia shouted raising her hands.
"Help me" Zatch cried as Penny now had her arms wrapped around Zatch's chest.
"LET HIM GO" both Tia and Zeno yelled in unison as they both went to help Zatch.
"Damn it" Brago grumbled as he went back to the pitchers post.
"I'll deduct a point from your team if you don't let him go!" Tia threatened Penny while trying to yank her off of Zatch
"I'll fry you!" Zeno shouted as he too was trying to pull Penny off of Zatch
"Nothing can keep me away from my love" Penny responded as she was finally yanked off of Zatch and thrown back into her position of second base.
Zatch hopped up off the ground and instantly started cheering. "I got a point, I got a point" Zatch said happily.
Tia returned to her large chair still slightly annoyed at what Penny did. "Three points for team Blitz, and three outs for Team Blitz" Tia stated. "Next up Kanchomé" Tia announced
"How didn't she get kicked from the game?" Zeno asked annoyed
"It's only a practice game Zeno" Zatch responded as he returned to the back of the line and chatted with his brother. Zatch watched as Kanchomé slowly eased himself up to the plate and pick up the bat.
"Saifojio!" Tia shouted as she brought out the healing sword and slammed it into Purio and healed him
"What? Who? No wait I don't want to play this game anymore!" Purio shouted
"Stop crying and get back out there!" Tia yelled and kicked Purio back into the game.
"You can do it Kanchomé!" Zatch yelled trying to encourage Kanchomé.
"No he can't" Zeno replied simply
Brago didn't go easy on Kanchomé and threw two fast balls both of which Kanchomé couldn't hit.
"Strike one! Strike two! You're OUT!" Tia announced. "Teams switch sides" Tia instructed
"OK EVERYONE FORM UP!" Zeno yelled and made everyone gather around him. "Here's the plan, Ted will be pitcher, I will be on first base, Danny will be on second base" Zeno stated, he then pointed to a 10 year old mamodo who's arms nearly touched the ground called Gen "You'll be on third base" Zeno instructed. "Rops will be on forth base and Bari will be on the fifth base, and last base will be guarded by you Zatch" Zeno instructed
"Unu" Zatch responded
"What about the rest of us?" Kanchome asked
"Everyone else will get into groups of two and work together! Space out every 30-40 yards" Zeno instructed.
"So who made you team captain?" Bari asked his usual tone.
"And an idiot like you has a better plan?" Zeno responded
"WHAT YOU SAY?" Bari shouted
"Enough! Start already!" Tia demanded
With that everyone got into the positions that Zeno instructed and got into orderly spaced positions.
"Score 3 for Blitz and 0 for Rebels!" Tia announced then blew her whistle. "First up is Riou" Tia stated
Riou walked up to plate and picked up the bat and waited for Ted to pitch.
"First strike out" Ted shouted as he threw a fast ball which went 130 mph.
Riou swung and missed
"Strike one!" Both Tia and Zatch shouted
"Shut it!" Riou growled and waited for Ted to pitch again.
"And you're OUT" Ted shouted as he threw his fastest fast ball which was 140 mph.
Riou swung and hit the ball sky high into the air
As the ball was about to pass over Wonrei's and Erujo's head…
"Erujo!" Wonrei shouted as he instructed Erujo to use him as a boost.
Wonrei put his hands together as Erujo jumped on Wonrei's hands, Wonrei then threw Erujo into the air toward the ball.
Erujo used his wings to fly quickly and catch it in the air.
"Riou is OUT!" Tia said with a happy voice
"Damn!" Riou shouted as he walked back to the end of the line.
"Next up is Brago!" Tia announced
Cherish instantly had a flame like aura surround her. "TED!" Cherish shouted as she ran over to him.
"Yeah?" Ted asked
"LET me pitch" Cherish demanded
"Are…" Ted was cut off
"Just give me the ball already!" Cherish demanded and took the ball away from Ted.
"What you doing? You're messing up my plan!" Zeno said angrily
"Be quite!" Cherish shouted as she took a pro like stance.
"What kind of joke is this?" Brago asked as he picked up the baseball bat.
"I'm going to make you regret embarrassing me!" Cherish exclaimed
Brago waited for Cherish to pitch…
Cherish stretched out her body slightly and threw the ball at an insane speed of 200 mph which shocked even Brago
Brago still tried to swing fast enough but he missed and turned around to see that the baseball incinerated when it smashed into the stone wall behind him.
"What the fu…" Brago was slightly stunned to how fast Cherish threw the ball.
"I'm just getting started" Cherish said as she got a new ball.
Brago got ready again and so did Cherish.
Cherish again took the same stance but threw the ball even faster, the ball seemed to disappear in the air as it went soaring at 250 Mph toward Brago.
Brago once again totally missed, and he looked back to see there was a hole going straight through the stone wall.
"You got to be kidding me…" Zeno said in a stunned voice
Zatch just stared slightly scared that he was almost near the path of a death ball.
"Brago is OUT" Tia shouted
"Next up is Ponygon" Tia said in a soft voice since she felt bad for the horse.
"Sorry Ponygon…but I'm not letting anyone hit this ball" Cherish said as she tossed the ball up and down repeatedly.
"Hey Zeno I think she should keep on pitching" Ted suggested
"Uhh…" Zeno was still dumbfounded into how Cherish could pitch that fast. "Yeah…I don't think either of us could pitch that fast…" Zeno said with an impressed tone, it sounded like a weird voice since it was rarely heard from him.
Ted went to take over Cherish's former position until Zeno stopped him
"That's a nice girl you got" Zeno said taunted
A blush came over Ted's face but he didn't say anything, he didn't want to deny it yet he didn't want to announce it to everyone on the field.
Tia blew the whistle making everyone regain focus and begin the game.
Ponygon picked the bat up with his mouth and tried to keep it level.
"Maybe you should go easy on him" Zatch suggested while being slightly worried about Ponygon's safety
Cherish took a look at Ponygon
"Meru?" Ponygon responded
"Fine" Cherish responded and tossed the ball underhand at Ponygon
"Meru!" Ponygon responded as he swung his head trying to hit the ball and missed.
"You can hit it Ponygon!" Zatch tried cheering his friend on.
"Zatch we're on opposite teams" Zeno reminded Zatch
"One more try" Cherish said as she tossed it underhand again at Ponygon
"MERU" Ponygon shouted as he spun in a 720' and caused the bat to smash into the ball sending it flying.
Everyone was shocked at how he had just con everyone including his best friend Zatch.
As Ponygon ran through first and second base…
"Way to go Ponygon!" Zatch still kept on cheering on.
"Get the ball!" Zeno ordered
The ball landed near the 100 yard mark as a mamodo child quickly picked it up and threw it to fourth base where Rops was waiting and caught it to prevent Ponygon from going any further.
With Rop's ropes he threw the ball back to Cherish
"Next up is Zofis" Tia announced
Zofis walked to plate and picked up the bat.
"No Mercy!" Cherish shouted as she did her fast ball and easily creamed Zofis into two strikes.
"Two outs! For team Rebels" Tia announced. "Next up Riou!" Tia announced, she then blew her whistle to tell Riou to hurry up.
Riou walked up to plate and picked put the bat and waited for Cherish to pitch.
"You're going to pay for what you did to my partner in the Human world" Cherish stated
"Oh really?" Riou responded giving out an evil grin
Cherish threw a 200 mph curve ball which was going so fast Riou couldn't tell which direction it was going in.
Riou took a random swing and missed completely
"Don't underestimate me, I can make anything a projectile" Cherish stated then prepared to pitch again
"If there was a major league for this game she would be in it" Zeno mumbled
"Glad that she's on your team huh Zeno?" Ted asked
"If she was on the other team…we would lose…and she would probably chuck that ball into my groin" Zeno admitted
"Is this even fair?" A rebel player asked
Zatch pulled out a notepad and started to write some things down while the game was still going on.
"Are you ready Riou?" Cherish asked
"Just pitch…" Riou was cut off by a ball zooming by his face and the sound of an impact against the stone wall behind him
"Riou is OUT" Tia stated. "Three outs, no points for Rebels" Tia announced. "Next up is Rein!" Tia announced
Rein walked to plate and transformed into his human form so he could hold the bat with both hands.
"And more bats, standards…" Zatch was talking to himself as he was still writing stuff down for next time
Cherish got ready again and made sure that she would strike Rein out.
"Ready?" Cherish asked
Rein didn't respond he just waited for her to pitch.
Cherish pitched once again a 250 mph fast ball which zoomed by Rein and crashed into the wall making another hole
"I'm going to have to fix that!" Eshros complained
"Strike one!" Tia announced
Cherish got ready again and so did Rein.
"Strike OUT" Cherish shouted as she threw another fast ball
Rein swung the bat as fast and accurate as he could and made direct contact with the ball causing both the bat to smash into pieces and the ball to disintegrate.
Everyone was stunned to see the bat had actually broke because of the impact.
"It's a homerun!" Tia announced as Rein and Ponygon made their rounds around the bases giving the Rebels team two points.
Zatch looked up then gave Tia a worried look.
"What is it Zatch?" Tia asked
"We're out of bats" Zatch stated
"I guess that's the end of the game" Ted said plainly
"Team Blitz wins due to lack of supplies!" Tia announced then blew her whistle to end the game.
"Wait What?" Zeno asked
"It's only a practice game" Zatch responded
"First of many" Ted laughed
"Unu…and I still got to get the rules write" Zatch said as he put the notepad back into his pouch.
As the children started to walk away from the fields and go home.
"ZATCH!" Penny shouted as she was nearing closer to him
"Quick Zeno RUN" Zatch shouted as he made a mad dash back to his palace.
Zeno just watched Zatch run, and just walked back to the castle.