SuperNatural Paradox
Volume 8 Chapter 2: Dodge Ball Day
"Sophia," Gwen and Tina came into her room at night. "We can't sleep."
"What is it?" Sophia asked.
"I keep getting the feeling someone's watching us." Gwen said. "It's been happening for a few nights now."
"You're probably just scared because Takuya disappeared. You two can sleep with me tonight." The two girls walk over to her bed and crawls in with her. "Don't worry, nothing is out to get you." the lightning flashed and the two girls quickly saw Takuya through the window and screamed. "Calm down you two, it's just lightning. You're safe in here with me. I promise you."
"Dodge Ball Day?" Shin and Surina stood at a poster on the school entrance door. "And it's being held today. I think we should do this Shin."
"But aren't we in a middle of an investigation?"
"Sure we are, and this is just the lucky break that we need. Come on, let's go grab the other club members to form a team." she grabbed ahold of Shin and pulled him inside. "Ok, everyone's here," Surina began. "We are going to join that dodge ball game today."
"Dodge ball game?" Sophia started to get nervous. "But I never played dodge ball before."
"Don't worry!" Surina patted her on the back. "It's just like throwing up, but just with your hands."
"Throwing up?" her face began to turn green. "I don't want to throw up!"
"It's nothing like throwing up Sophia." Shin said. "Surina isn't explaining it very well," her heel flew back and hit him in the shin. "Ow!"
"Don't worry Sophia." Koto pushed up his glasses. "I'll explain everything how the game works. But I'm just curious, how will this help us with our club activities?"
"It's very simple." Surina pointed at Kunai's name on the chalkboard. "We're going to have to ask Kunai to be a member of our team. This'll give us a chance to watch him carefully to see if he's capable of doing anything suspicious."
"That's actually a good idea." Koto pushed up his glasses. "It makes us less suspicious if we have a reason to be around him, and to think all we needed was at least one more member to take part in this game."
"So let's go everyone!" Surina started marching out of the room. "Let's go get Kunai before it becomes too late to sign up."
"Grrr." Megumi watched through a window as they left the room. "So they weren't going to ask me? I guess I can use this to my advantage to win Shin over." She turned around and began laughing.
"You want what?" Kunai asked. "No way, I don't play sports."
"I think he's scared." Koto pushed up his glasses. "I understand the embarrassment if you lost, but it's even more embarrassing to think that all the girls finding out you being chicken to playing such a sport."
"What?" Kunai began getting angry. "You're not going to intimidate me into playing." He turned back around in his seat.
"Please Kunai." Sophia began to ask sweetly. "I would really like it if you would play dodge ball with me." Kunai turned around quickly and his eyes turned into hearts.
"Why Sophia, of course I'll play." He said without thinking.
"Then it's settled." Surina grabbed ahold of his hand and started pulling him. "We have our sixth team member! Let's go and sign up."
"Wait!" Kunai began yelling as he got dragged. "I didn't want to play!"
"And now," Miss Tohsaka held a microphone and wore a cheerleading outfit. "We finally are starting our dodge ball game today!" the kids in the stands went wild. "We have sixteen teams competing today. Now let's decide who gets to face who."
"Ha!" Megumi stepped out in front of Surina and the others. "Hello Surina. I see that you've entered the dodge ball game too."
"Yes, and what do you want?" she said without paying much attention to her.
"How about we make a bet?" Megumi began giggling.
"What kind of bet?" Koto asked.
"If we win, then I get to go out on a date with Shin." She continued to giggle. "Also, a few others want something in return. Such as Big Marley wants to go on a date with Shin as well." Big Marley came walking out in her bikini.
"What? No way are we accepting!" Shin yelled while looking at Big Marley
"Why not Shin?" Koto pushed up his glasses. "I think it's a fun idea, it'll make sure you give everything you got so that you try to win."
"You're just saying that because you don't have anything to lose."
"Oh Koto!" Shirley waved her hand. "I'm on their team too, and if I lose then you and I are going on a date."
"I take it back." Koto started to get nervous. "We aren't accepting at all."
"We also have Brian." Megumi added. Brian came out wearing big glasses, with a huge nose and big buck teeth.
"Hello, Sophia." He spit as he talks. "I'm Brian; if I win then I want to go on a date with you."
"No!" Sophia started to scream. "No way!"
"Don't forget about me." Shino came out with his friend. "If we win, I want the free opportunity to beat up on Tsuno."
"Not the bully!" Tsuno panicked. "No way we're going to accept right?"
"Of course not, especially since almost all of us have something at stake." answered Shin.
"I accept!" Surina said. Everyone on her team fell to the ground in shock except Kunai.
"What the hell Surina!" Shin yelled. "If we lose to them then we have to do what they say and if we win we get nothing out of it."
"Don't worry." She smiled at them. "We're going to win. I'm sure of it."
"Oh boy!" Big Marley said with her manly voice. I can't wait until I finally have the opportunity to be with Shin all by myself. I need to start writing some ways that I can seduce him." She pulled out a notebook and pencil and started to write.
"I think I'm going to be sick." Shin turned green.
"Ok!" Miss Tohsaka began to say. "We finally have our matching pairs. We have divided eight teams on each side of the board; each team will face another on the first round. When the first round is over there should be four teams left on each side of the board. We continue until we get one team on each side of the board left. Then those two will face off to decide the winning team. The first game is team Supernatural vs. team Art. Wow, it's two of the clubs in the school, The Art Club and our SuperNatural Paradox club."
"The SuperNatural Paradox club?" Kunai sat there thinking. "What kind of club do they have? It's the first I ever heard of it."
"Now that we matched everyone up, let's start off with our first game. Now begin!" Miss Tohsaka threw the flag to the ground indicating to start.
Shin and Koto raced up to the line as fast as they could to grab a few of the balls. Each of them grabbed one and the other team grabbed the rest.
"I uh, don't know what to do now." Sophia panicked.
"Don't worry Sophia, just stick back here with me." Kunai smiled.
One of the other team members threw the ball and hit Tsuno right away. "Ow!" he said as he got hit in the gut.
"And it looks like the first person out of this game is Tsuno Tariyoko. He now has no choice but to go back to the bench and wait on the rest of his team members to either get out or for one of them to catch the ball. Shin raced forward to throw his, but one of the other team members caught his ball. "Out!" Miss Tohsaka yelled. "It looks like it's too bad for Shin Rento, it was a nice throw."
"Nice throw?" Koto pushed up his glasses.
"Shut up. You better win this or else we all are going to be in big trouble." Shin said as he past him.
"Yes, I know what the stakes are." He looked over at Shirley and saw her waving at him. He started to get shivers down his spine.
"Don't worry!" Surina ran forward and threw the ball at someone in the gut as hard as they could. "You see, I got one of them out."
"Oh! What a lucky break." Miss Tohsaka began speaking. "Surina threw one mighty throw and managed to get one of the other members out, but not just out, knocked out as well."
"Grrr." One of the art club members started to say, "How dare you throw a throw as powerful as that and hurt one of our club members. We'll get you all out surely!" he threw the ball as fast as he could, but Surina quickly dodged and hit Sophia on the head.
"Foul!" Miss Tohsaka blew her whistle. "Not allowed to hit other people in the head. That makes it an automatic out in this school!"
"No way!" he said in his French voice. "I didn't know of any such rule. This isn't over missy." He glared at Surina.
"Good job Sophia." Surina smiled at her. "You helped us out."
"I did?" she stood up feeling really dizzy. "I thought I got out there for a minute."
"No," Kunai smiled. "You were doing such a great job, you got someone out. If you keep letting the ball hit your head like that then we'll win."
"Really?" Sophia's face began to blush.
"Look at Sophia." Shin said to Tsuno. "She's turning red; don't tell me she's falling for that guy."
"Maybe that bully is affecting her in some way." Tsuno suggested.
"Maybe, but we can't rely on evidence such as that. This is our chance to keep a close eye on him while he's playing and we're here stuck on the bench."
"It looks like so far each team is tied. It's four vs. four, who is going to be the winner of this match?" Miss Tohsaka announced.
"Look at him," one of the art club members pointed. "He's just standing there near that girl. He's not paying any attention, he's an open target."
"Got it!" he ran forward and threw the ball at Kunai.
"I don't think so!" he quickly grabbed the ball as fast as he could.
"Oh look at that!" Miss Tohsaka began to say. "Kunai Ichijo has just caught the ball and now one of their members gets to come back in, and one of the other's out. This game is now three to five."
"I'm back in!" Tsuno cheered.
"Good luck Tsuno, you're going to need it." He looked over at Kunai who was twirling the ball on his finger. "He has great ability to catch the ball that fast, and he didn't even flinch. Is he a soul eater? Or is he really that good at sports?"
"Wow Kunai! You're really good." Sophia began praising him.
"That was nothing. I have many more talents if you wish to see at my house later on tonight?"
"Hm, just because you caught the ball doesn't mean anything." Koto pushed up his glasses. "Don't fall for this guy Sophia."
"I wasn't." Sophia said. "He was just being nice to me. You don't have to be so rude Koto!" A ball flew and hit him in the back, knocking him on the floor.
"Ha," Kunai picked up the other rolling ball. "You should be paying attention more to the game then lecturing me." Koto's face turned red in embarrassment as Sophia began to giggle at him.
"You're right," he stood up wiping his pants. He walked over and sat next to Shin. "Something is strange about Sophia." Koto said to him.
"What kind of strange?" Shin wondered.
"She's starting to get flirty with Koto just like all the other girls that are always hanging around him. It's like something is luring her to get close to him. I can sense it." He pushed up his glasses.
"Look at that! It's now three players left in team Art and four left in team Supernatural. I wonder who is going to be our lucky winner for this first game of the day." Miss Tohsaka said excitedly.
"Come one, let's team up on that little guy over there." One of the art members said. They all agreed and ran up to the line and threw the balls as hard as they could at once at Tsuno.
"AAAAH!" Tsuno screamed as the balls hit him all over the body except the face. "I ache so much." He lay on the ground.
"Come one Tsuno," Shin said as he and Koto picked him up to move him off the court. "It's back to the bench for you."
"Oh Sophia," Kunai knelt down to her. "Will you go out with me?" a ball hit his back and he fell to the floor.
"Oh Kunai! You're hurt!" Sophia got worried.
"Don't worry about him," Koto grabbed ahold of his arm and pulled him off the court. "Just stay focused on the game."
"Oh right," she looked over and a ball hit her in the face again. Miss Tohsaka dropped a yellow flag and declared him out.
"Good job Sophia," Surina said. "You managed to get two of them out. I guess it's just two on two now."
"Let's go Sophia and Surina!" Tsuno yelled. "Put those bullies in their place!"
"It looks like we have the upper hand." The art club member said. "Yes, because we have all the balls on our side. You guys were all so busy chit chatting amongst yourselves you all failed to realize that the balls were all rolling back to us."
"Ok Sophia," Surina began to smirk. "Just dodge them as fast as you can."
"Dodge? What? But I don't know how to dodge!" she screamed in fear. The two art club members began throwing the eight balls all at once. Surina dodged them perfectly like she was a ballerina, but Sophia got hit everywhere and fell to the floor.
"Sophia Katatsuin is out!" declared Miss Tohsaka. "It's two vs. one now. Who will be the winner?"
"It's very simple; it's going to be us!" Surina picked up the balls and threw it as hard as she could at the remaining two until she had no more. The balls bounced off them. "How was that?" Surina posed.
"How do you like that?" Miss Tohsaka announced. "The Supernatural team has won. It looks like they'll make it to round two."
"Phew, that was a close one." Shin sighed. "It's a good thing Surina is unusually strong and fast otherwise we would have lost." He looked over at Big Marley and she waved at him. "And I would have ended up on a date with her."
Team Supernatural started their second match soon. They won when Surina bombarded the whole team at once with all the balls. As the day went on Sophia got closer to Kunai. Then they won their third match, leaving them as one of the top two games in the tournament.
"Look at this!" Miss Tohsaka continued to announce. "We have finally made it to our final round, and team Supernatural and team Deal are about to face off." The whole stands cheered loud.
"It looks like this is the game that decides all of your club member's fate." Megumi smirked at Surina.
"I don't think so, we're going to win and that's that." Lightning flowed between each other's eyes in sign of rivalry.
Shino punched his fist into the palm of his hand at Tsuno. Tsuno took a quick gulp and looked at Surina. She gave him a thumb up indicating that it'll all be fine.
"And now," Miss Tohsaka began saying. "We begin our final match! Who is going to be the big winner of this game?"