Chapter 11

A week had passed since the Fudomine incident and everything had returned to normal. Well as normal as it could be for the eight angel tennis players. They had finally settled into an everyday routine that included both tennis and angel practice (which were becoming less frequent as they mastered their powers). They also were keeping in closer contact with Fudomine. But otherwise there had been no attempted attacks or anything for a week.

Tezuka was relieved because that gave his team a chance to fully heal and focus on tennis more. Fuji had finally fully healed, which was a good thing. He really didn't need one of his best players and chosen to be injured. Fuji had tried to hide it at first, but Tezuka saw through the mask and made him take it easy for a few days. Tezuka had also noticed their newly awakened angel sides seemed to have improved their endurance and strength in their normal forms as well.

Tezuka called everyone in front of him to give out the end of practice (tennis) news. He said, "Good work everyone. Tomorrow there will be no practice because the regulars have a practice match with Jyosei Shonan."

Everyone else replied, "Ok buchou."

Momo ran up to Ryoma and asked, "Hey Ryoma, want to go for burgers?"

Ryoma replied, "Sure, thanks for treating."

Momo gapped, "Wait I never said that. Let's see if we can get Kikumaru-senpai to come too."

Ryoma called out, "Hey Kikumaru-senpai, we're going for burgers. Want to come?"

"Sure!" Eiji replied as he glomped Oishi. "Oishi, do you want to come too?"

Oishi replied, "Sure."

Ryoma smirked and said, "Senpai's treat."

The golden pair called, "Hey, wait a minute." And with that the four made their way to the burger shop and left the others to head home.

Fuji said goodbye to everyone then left for home by himself. As he walked he thought about the events of the pervious week. He recalled that the answer to his earlier proposed question to Sakuno seemed to be a yes. All the fallen they had come up against they had know prior to their change. They were also all tennis players. He then started to wonder if Yuuta had experienced anything like the changes he had gone through. However he quickly shook the thought from his head. Surely Yuuta would have told him if something that significant had happened.

The next day the nine Seigaku players arrived at Jyosei Shonan. The first thing they noticed was that the courts were empty and only one net was up.

Inui turned to Tezuka and asked, "Who called to schedule this match?"

Tezuka replied coolly, "Kajimoto."

Just then Kajimoto and the Tanaka twins walked over to the Seigaku regulars. Kajimoto greeted Tezuka, "Welcome Seigaku. Unfortunately the rest of our team will be unable to join us today, but we can still have a couple of practice matches. Right?"

Tezuka replied, "Of course. What did you have in mind?"

Kajimoto said, "Well, Youhei and Kouhei requested that they play doubles against your golden pair."

Tezuka replied, "I have no objections to that."

Kajimoto continued, "Seeing as we only have one net up and there are only three of us we will only play one match at a time."

Tezuka turned to Oishi and Eiji and said, "You two will play against Youhei and Kouhei. Go warm up."

Oishi said, "Ok" at the same time that Eiji said, "K, nya."

Oishi and Eiji walked on to the courts. As they were preparing to play they failed to see the evil looks that the Tanaka twins and Kajimoto exchanged.

Kajimoto said to the twins telepathically, "You two know what to do, right?"

Kouhei replied telepathically, "Yup!"

Youhei added, "Slowly right?"

Kajimoto nodded as the twins entered the court and stood opposite the golden pair. The set started with Youhei serving. The game was going as expected. When the score was 3-0 with the Golden pair leading, Eiji went up to perform his signature Kikumaru beam. However he completely missed.

Oishi ran to his doubles partner and asked, "Eiji is everything ok?"

Eiji who was rubbing his eyes replied, "I think so. I just lost sight of the ball for a moment."

When Fuji heard this comment he opened his eyes. Eiji had amazing eyes sight and could track moving objects easily. He had watched the ball himself and had no trouble tracking it. He had also seen Kouhei make a small gesture with his hand before Eiji went to hit the ball. He shivered, sensing a strange energy in the air.

As the match continued Eiji started to make more and more unforced errors. Seeing this Oishi started to cover more letting Eiji take a break. Youhei made an easily returnable lob shot. Oishi went to use his moon volley, however he lost his grip when he made contact with the ball and dropped the tennis racket. The rest of the regulars, except Fuji, gasped as Oishi rubbed his arm like he had lost the feeling in it.

Fuji was glaring at Kajimoto and the Tanaka twins. He wasn't absolutely positive, but he knew something was defiantly wrong. This time Youhei had made a gesture with his hand prior to Oishi's attempted return. Youhei was giving Kajimoto a triumphant look.

After ten more minutes the golden pair was losing 5-3. Eiji was rubbing his eyes continuously and Oishi was doing the same to his arms and legs. Suddenly Oishi collapsed to the ground followed by Eiji.

Oishi was unable to move and screaming, "I can't feel anything. My whole body is numb and completely unresponsive."

Eiji was sobbing, "I can't see anything. I'm blind, nya."

Youhei and Kouhei were smiling at each other when Fuji stepped on to the court as the rest of the team rushed to their teammates. Fuji said very angrily, "I know you three are fallen. Show your true forms."

Kajimoto walked leisurely onto the court and stared into Fuji's eyes. He replied, "So you figured it out did you."

Fuji asked angrily, "This whole thing was a trap wasn't it? And what did Youhei and Kouhei do to Oishi and Eiji?"

Youhei popped up behind his captain and answered, "My brother and I can control other people's senses. We can turn them off at will. Obviously we turned off Oishi's sense of feeling and Eiji's sight."

Fuji glared at the three fallen and said in a menacing tone, "I will only say this once more. Transform now. Whether or not you were looking for a fight or not you found one." To show he was serious Fuji transformed in a brilliant golden light. His golden sword was out as well.

At the same time the rest of the angels, minus Oishi and Eiji, transformed. Ryoma was at Fuji's side when the light subsided, with his sword out. The three fallen also changed after the angels did.

Kajimoto laughed, "So you think that you can beat us. That's funny. Youhei, Kouhei, you two take the four over there. Leave the chosen to me."

The twins replied, "Ok buchou!"

The twins flew at the other four who all leaped into the air over the tennis courts. Taka was really angry and was in complete burning mode. Flames engulfed his entire body. He shot a pillar of fire at Kouhei. The blast hit dead on. However Kouhei had turned of his own sense of feeling. Next Youhei turned Taka's sense of feeling up to a very sensitive level. So his own power was unbearable to him. He fell to the ground unconscious from the fire that had engulfed his body.

Kajimoto laughed again, "You see we have far more control over our powers. We won't lose to the likes of you." With that said Kajimoto waved his hand towards Taka as Inui was rushing to try and help him. Suddenly Taka was trapped in a metal box.

Fuji said, "So you can manipulate metal."

Ryoma looked at Fuji and asked, "Are we going to try and convince them to rise?"

Fuji replied coldly, "No, they went too far. We are going to beat them and strip them of their powers."

Ryoma looked at Fuji and decided it was better not to argue. While this little exchange happened The Tanaka twins had managed to take down Momo as well.

Kajimoto flew straight at Fuji, whose back was turned, with a sword drawn. However Fuji heard him coming and took off and avoided the slash. He also countered with a blast of light energy that managed to hit Kajimoto in the stomach. Ryoma also shot a blast at Kajimoto and hit him in the arm. Kajimoto was knocked to the ground.

Youhei saw his buchou fall to the ground and started to make a gesture in Fuji's direction. However Kaidoh saw him and fired an intense blast of ice at Youhei until it encased him completely. Youhei who had been distracted by Fuji had forgotten to defend himself.

Kouhei saw his brother become an ice statue of himself. Enraged he flew at Kaidoh and turned off his sight. Kaidoh now disoriented fell to the ground. However Tezuka saw this and brought up several pillars of earth and knocked Kouhei to the ground. He focused his power and managed to bring forth a very large rock and hit Kouhei in the head with it knocking him unconscious.

Kajimoto watched his doubles team fall and flew at Ryoma who was watching Tezuka beat up Kouhei. His sword ripped across Ryoma's stomach. Fuji screamed and flew at Kajimoto with his own sword glowing with pure light. His sword made contact and Kajimoto was blown backwards. Fuji concentrated and sent out a circular blast that hit all three fallen directly in their hearts. All there were forced to rise in one swift attack. Inui gapped at Fuji who was surprisingly still conscious after the blast. Inui checked to make sure all three fallen were unconscious from the forced rising.

Fuji flew to Ryoma's side. Ryoma was bleeding a lot and was unconscious. Fuji held his hands out over Ryoma's stomach and focused all his energy into healing the quickly paling boy. After a few minutes Ryoma looked up at his senpai, who was very pale. Ryoma tried to thank him, but Fuji flew off to heal the rest of the group.

As soon as Fuji had healed the last of the angels he collapsed on the ground in his normal form. Ryoma looked at Inui and asked, "How did Fuji have the energy to forcibly rise three fallen and heal all of us?"

Inui shook his head and replied, "I honestly don't know. However he just proved his strength and right to be the angel of light. The angel of light's power reflects his emotions. Fuji being angry with his friends being hurt must have stripped away the limits on his powers. I would guess he will be unconscious until tomorrow now."

Ryoma nodded and asked, "What should we do with these three?"

Tezuka answered, "Leave them here. I'm sure someone will find them."

With that the angels and Inui left. Taka carried Fuji since he was the strongest. Eiji was happily glomping Oishi happy to be able to see again. Oishi didn't mind Eiji glomping him. He was just happy he was able to feel it.

Unbeknownst to the angels a figure was watching them from the roof of the school. This figure said to himself while twisting its hair, "Well that makes seven who failed. Let's hope the next we send to try to fight the angels doesn't fail. nfu nfu nfu."