Angry People

Chapter 14

California Division I High School Soccer Final

Patterson Memorial Stadium

Domino High vs. MacAuthur High

Welcome soccer fans to today's Division I soccer championship between Domino High and MacAuthur High. The fans from both schools have come out in full force to support these two soccer powers who have combined for 34 district titles and 12 state championships in boys' soccer. It's a bitter rivalry divided right down the center of the city: your cousin, sibling, or best friend could go to one school, and you the other. It's a rivalry that sparked a brawl at the end of a controversial MacAuthur victory in 1987, where Domino fans swore up and down that the winning score was pushed in with a hand instead of a legal header. It's a rivalry that produced a double-overtime classic Domino victory in 1999. It's a rivalry that has produced 20 College Scholarship recipients, 5 US National players, and even the city's mayor. Today on this hallowed ground...they battle yet again. Here comes the MacAuthur Marching Knight Band...

The band, a little on the smallish side but dressed very well in extravagent purple uniforms, marched onto the field and formed an entrance tunnel for their squad. As the band began to play, the MacAuthur studends sang their school's fight song:

Douglass, we're all behind you

Raise High the Purple bold

For there is nothing near as glorious

As to see our Knights victorious

We've got the team, boys

You've got the steam, boys

So keep on fighting, don't give in...

D-O-U-G-L-A-S-S

MacAuthur will win!

On the other side of the field, next to the Domino cheering section, the Domino High band followed the same procedure, and as their team took the field played it's own song...

We are the mighty wildcats!

Bow to the mighty wildcats!

Year after year we go to (where?) DOMINO!

Cheering for our cats to go, go, go! (DOMINO!)

Proudly we wear our colors

Strength and Loyalty we share

Sure from far and near

You'll always hear

The wearing of the blue

For its the blue and white of Domino High!

Tea, Joey, Tristan, Duke, and Yugi were sitting in the stands, waiting for kickoff. Joey and Tea were sitting close enough to each other so that they could whisper...as they had decided to plan it out.

"Where's Serenity?" Tea whispered as she waved at her brother who had managed to spot her in the stands and give her a thumbs up. It was a pregame ritual of his to find his sister or other relatives who were in the stands.

"She went to go grab some popcorn and some drinks...where' s Marik?"

Tea shrugged her shoulders."He said he would be here. So how did you plan on hooking up your couple?"

Joey snickered as he recited his plan. "I planted anonymous love notes in both of their lockers! They'll met at the concession stand at halftime, and the rest, as they say, is the future."

Tea rolled her eyes. "First of all, that is the most cliched, overused hook-up idea in the world. Second, the saying is 'the rest is history'."

Joey put on a smirk of a grin. "And what do you have planned, little miss perfect?"

Tea stammered as her face started to turn a light shade of pink. "Um...I'm not sure, actually."

"Hey, look down on field!" Joey pointed as one of the Domino High players pushed the ball towards the opposing goal.

The sophomore Van Gardener pushing the ball quickly down the field. There are no defenders near him, just him and the keeper...he takes the shot...TOO TALL...it had the ability to get past Luske the keeper, but it went just above the goal. Luske the keeper will kick it back in play...

"Tough break...he had a nice shot."

Tea nearly wet herself as a pair of hands gripped her shoulders from the row above her. After looking up and seeing Marik standing behind her having the laugh of his life, she began a stream of profanities that would have earned her an eternity of detention time had a teacher been in earshot.

"Take it easy, Tea. Where's your sense of humor?" Marik teased. Joey was standing beside Tea nearly laughing his head off.

Tea turned away in a mock fit of anger. "I don't have one. And if you're not careful, you'll find my foot up your ass!"

"Whatever. It's about halftime...do you want anything?"

"Diet Coke...easy on the ice."

"Yes, your majesty." Marik bowed, as best he could considering his cramped confines, and headed for the concessions stand.

After the annoying prick that was her boyfriend had disappeared into the crowd, Tea turned her attention back to Joey. "Hey, if you said they were supposed to meet at halftime, that means you have to seperate them so that they don't know what's going on."

Joey seemed to be lost in thought for a second, then mumbled a curse at himself under his breath. "You're right...but how do I seperate 'em?"

Tea smiled. "You're a smart guy, figure it out."

And that will do it for the first half of play. Domino and MacAuthur are tied at 0-0. Comming up in just a few moments, Big and Rich live in concert!

As the two teams headed for the locker rooms, Van felt someone bump hard into him with their shoulder from behind. He looked around and realized that it was the same guy whom Tea told him harassed her earlier.

"Oh, it's you Gardener. How's your 7-11 of a sister, now that she's dating that loser?-"

Van clenched his fists, but walked on, trying his hardest to ignore the taunts.

"You do know why we call her 7-11, don't you? For starters, anybody can get lucky with her! Get it? 7-11, lucky numbers? And another thing, her mouth and her legs never close...just like the store! That Arab bastard was lucky to find such a sexy piece of a-."

Before Van could even think twice about it, he had dropped the MacAuthur player to the ground with a right hook not of this world. In a blur of action, he had the older boy pinned beneath him as he pummeled him into the ground. The two teams saw what was going on and jumped into the fray. When all was said and done, five players had been ejected from the game, including Van. His antagonist, however, was allowed to come back for the second half.

A bewildered Tea had run out of the crowd to try to get down on the field to at least speak with her brother, but security stopped her in her tracks. She begged and pleaded, but to no avail. They couldn't let just anyone onto the field, kin to the players or not.

Meanwhile, at the concessions stand...

Joey looked around, his mind frantically thinking of a plan. How the hell am I going to get those two alone? Tristan and Duke won't leave her alone for a damn nanosecond, and that little brat Rebecca found Yug and won't turn him loose! Dammit, how do they pull this off in all those sappy love movies? Tea...I hope you're having better luck than I am.

Back in the stadium...

Tea returned to her seat in a huff. She didn't even notice that Marik had held her drink for her and was waiting for her when she sat down. Great. Just fucking great. First my brother gets kicked out of his game, now I'm totally blowing off the guy I came here to invite to the dance. Joey...I hope you're having better luck than I am.

Next time: Will anyone's luck get better? And can the Wildcats overcome the loss of one of their star players? And where are Ishizu and Kaiba?...

I want to thank all of you for your patience and for your kind reviews. If it wern't for you, I'd have cut this short where I said I would, at about 8 or 9 chapters. Anyway, if you have any questions, feel free to email me or ask in the reviews. Also starting this chapter, I'll post my review responses on my profile page, since "the man" doesn't want you to put them on the fic. So a day or two after you review, chech there and I should have something there to say. Well, thanks, and I hope you all had a happy Halloween. Special shoutout to my lil sister who turns 12 today, I LOVE YOU JAZZ! Next time people...

BDB...out.