Disclaimer: I know I forgot it on the last two chapters so its better late than never right. Okay then the Mighty ducks do not belong to me, it'd be nice if Fulton did. The songs Also don't belong to me but rather to Hoobastank and Audioslave, good bands mind you.
Chapter 3: Tryouts, practice and Double confusion
Its been about three weeks since Fulton, Adam, Charlie, Goldberg, Connie and Julie came, they all took an immediate liking to Natalie now they think of Natalie as one of the Ducks even if she isn't one, at least not yet. Natalie and Fulton have been getting closer and closer since they have met and all the others notice it too but are waiting to see if they do anything about it.
Natalie got out of bed and put on some old ripped pants and a blue tank top with red skulls all over the shirt. She walked own stairs to the kitchen and saw Connie and Charlie talking about some play they want to try, Goldberg and Julie were talking about who would be goalie for the first half of the game when they got back to Minneapolis, Adam was just looking at Julie, has a crush on her and Fulton and Portman were talking about something or another; you never really know with those two.
Natalie looked at everyone who haven't noticed she was there, she smirked and whistled really loudly to get their attention. "Hey people, morning, what s up with you guys." She asked as she sat down next to Fulton and Portman. "We just want to play some hockey, but it looks like your town doesn't have any hockey players here." Julie complained.
Natalie laughed at that statement, since she was you know on a hockey team. Her brother knew he just wasn't sure where they practiced or else he would have taken them there.
Natalie sighed and looked at Charlie. "I'll take you guys there after I get some food. Is that alright?" she asked them and stood up to make her food. The others looked at her confused. "What do you mean by that exactly?" Fulton asked her, Natalie turned around and smirked at them. "I do play hockey you know. So if you guys want I can take you to the my hockey practice if you want." there were a chorus of yeas and yes.
"Kay let me eat and I will be ready to leave, how 'bout you people?" she asked as she turned around with her food. They nodded and then some of them looked at her oddly.
She shook her head at them not understanding why they were looking at her that way. "What, why are you looking at me." they shook their as if they were saying nothing, Natalie soon finished and told them to get their things since she was heading out now.
Connie was asking her questions about the team and if they knew any of them that were on it. "Well you know me, Zeke he was the one who asked for me when I performed a few weeks ago, and you know my cousin Nate. Those I think were the only ones that you met, at least that I remember." she said, Natalie looked up ahead and smiled to herself. She looked at the people besides her who were blading who didn't suspect anything. Natalie picked her speed up and went as fast as she could to get to her friends who have been waiting for ten minutes.
The others soon caught up with her; they were looking at all of the others who were there to play Hockey. "Man that's a hell of a scary group." Fulton said. Natalie nudged him with her elbow. "Why you scared." he gave her a look. "Me scared no way that could happen." Natalie looked over at Zeke and shrugged at him.
"What can I say I'm beginning to collect Hockey players." Zeke skated up to her and smiled. "Ya no kidding before you came along there was only four of us, now there are at least ten depending on which day's too." he looked over them and nodded.
"So yours against ours, or what?" he asked her, Natalie glanced behind him and smiled. "Yeah okay I think your team needs a bit of a challenge today." she then glanced back at the Ducks. "What do you say we kick their asses." There were yells and sorts in agreement to that. Zeke looked at his friends behind him. "Okay get ready and into positions." he yelled to his team, Zeke nodded and Natalie and took his spot.
The ducks and Natalie quickly got their equipment out and took their positions. Natalie was facing her cousin Nate family against family think of the things that may happen. Adam and Rebecca leading off, Adam thinking that this will be easy didn't try that hard to get the puck.
A friend of Natalie's, Kyle Nordby he was being an announcer for any of the people who may come by that may want to watch. "Banks against Rebecca, something is gonna go down. Banks is gonna be taken down!" he narrated. Zeke looked at Kyle with a questioning look but didn't yell at him.
"Becky gets the puck, passes back to Zeke, Zeke passes to dear god, Hayes, Holly Hayes Plainview Hockey's own personal cheerleader who sucks." Holly yelled out a 'hey' at him but went for a shot at the goal. "Oh is she gonna make it or is she gonna fail it." It dinked off of the side and went fly ingot the other side.
"The puck goes to Conaway, he takes passed it to Portman that's Natalie's brother, he passes it to Moreau She takes a swipe and score point for them. " there into the second period now and Natalie motions Connie over. "Yeah something wrong?" she asks Natalie shakes her head. "I have a plan but only the two of us can know about it okay." she proceeds to tell Connie what she has in mind. Connie nods and both of them skate back into the game.
"Before Natalie had a secret conversation with Moreau wonder what it was about don't you." Kyle begins. "Natalie passes it to Fulton, Fulton to Portman. What's this that's going on. Natalie and Moreau are circling the rink, Moreau going one way Natalie going another. Natalie goes back into the game right up to her brother and takes the puck and gets back into what she was doing again."
Natalie was nearing Connie this is what she was waiting for, she gives it to Connie as she went by. "Now Moreau has it, it looks like the Ducks are getting annoyed by not knowing what this is. Moreau passes back to Natalie and she takes a shot and she scores." Charlie called a time out, as they came closer he looks at Connie and Natalie confused.
"What was that?" Connie shrugged. "Its my Double confusion, I made it up a while back I wasn't able to show them yet so I decided why not use it against them. You do it so many times that they wont have a clue as to what you are doing then you go back into the game take the puck go around a few times pass to the other person then pass it back to the person who originally had it and skate out and shoot it to the goal and hopefully you score." Natalie said, Portman was smirking at his sister obviously proud of her and what she had done.
"Okay well, Fulton I want you to try and get your slap shot in." they went back out again. "Here come the Ducks again and the yare putting Fulton at the front and Portman is just abusing the other team, but oh here comes Nate here to defend his team and girl friend I bet." Breanna glared at Kyle for that statement but kept on playing.
"Breanna passes to Ashley, Ashley to Zeke, Zeke to Ashley, Ashley passes to Breanna and she goes for the goal and it barely made it with Goldberg's moves." Goldberg had to practically soar to the ground to try and make the stop, unfortunately it didn't work as planned and it went through.
Now its down to the last part of the game, hard decision on both sides with what to do. "Now were back to the game, Ducks 6 Plainview 2, are we going to catch up or are we going to lose it. Come on idiots at least attempt to get going in this game." he yelled at the team.
"Conaway passes to Moreau, Moreau to Portman and then Portman to Goldberg. He passed it to the goalie and for what reason. Goldberg is going for the goal he shoots he scores. The Ducks win." The Ducks cheer and congratulate each other along with Natalie as well.
"I told you there was a Hockey team here, but its farther into the woods." Natalie smiled at them and skated over to her friends who she had played against. "hey Nate, Zeke what's up?" she asked as the others were heading out and going home.
Zeke looked over at Natalie's brother and saw that he was looking at Natalie in a over protective way. "Nothing just chilling ya know the usual. How 'bout you, aren't you going to the Rec Center today for a try-out."
Natalie smiled at him and nodded. She looked over at the team. "Yeah I'm freaking out and I am really nervous I don't know what is gonna happen. I do hope I get the spot so I can be with Dean." Nate smiled at her and swung her around.
"Don't worry brat you'll do great besides you know how I am, some area teams want me and you taught me how to play so they better accept you or else I'm gonna beat their heads in." Natalie laughed and walked back to the team.
Fulton and Natalie flirted shamelessly on the way back to her house. "So do you play any other sports besides Hockey." Natalie shrugged. She did play some but not many. "I play a bit of soccer but I'm not that good at it and tennis and that's just about it. I really only enjoy playing Hockey, only thing I'm really good at other than my writing." Fulton smiled down at her and brushed his shoulder length black hair out of his eyes.
"Well I guess as long as you are good at one sport that you love to play its all good, eh." She smiled at that and nodded at him.
They got to the house and took their roller blades off and dumped off their equipment in Portman and Natalie's room for Hockey and other sport like things they have done in the area. Natalie went to her room and packed up her Hockey gear and her skates and took them down to her car.
After that was done she went to her brothers room. She peeked in and saw Fulton and Dean head banging to some music. Natalie Crept in and paused the music, Dean turned on her and glared. "hey what's the matter with you dude." she smiled at him. "Fulton do you mind if I steal my brother for a few moments I need to talk to him." he just shrugged, Natalie dragged Portman outside pf the room and into another one to speak to him without being interrupted by any person.
"I'm leaving now to go into Roch for the try-out." he widened his eyes, he obviously forgot about that. He looked her straight in the eye before he said anything to her. "Natalie you can do this remember concentration and that strength isn't everything even though you do have it. And by all means don't worry about what the shit heads think no one cares right." he said to her she smiled at him.
"Right." she gave him a hug. "Well I guess I'll probably see you tonight then." he nodded and went back to his room. Natalie went to her car and began the drive to Rochester.
Portman and Fulton went to the living room where everyone else was most likely. "Where's Natalie?" Connie asked him, obviously she became fast friends with her. "She went to Roch to get a scholarship for a school." he replied before he ordered some Pizza for all of them.
"What school?" Adam asked curious about it. Portman turned back to them once he was done ordering the food. "You'll just have to see when she gets back Banksie." they all talked waiting for the Pizza to arrive.
Natalie arrived at the Rochester Rec Center and sighed, she got her Hockey bag out of the car and walked into the building. "Well here goes nothing." Gordon Bombay was waiting outside waiting for her. "Natalie Portman, right." Natalie nodded. "Yes that's me, you must be coach Bombay." Bombay smiled and motioned for them to go inside.
"So you want to play Hokey at Eden Hall is that it." Natalie smiled at him and sighed. "Not all of it, I love to play Hockey but as you may know Plainview is a small town and we won't really get to play the big teams of the state or nation just some locals around the area. And after a while it gets boring if you've been playing the same people for years and you know them well enough to predict what their next move is even before they do." Bombay nodded in agreement.
"Yeah I know how that goes." Natalie walked on with him. "I also only get to see my brother on occasion, Christmas is one and a few weeks out of the summer each year and that is it, so I would love to be closer to him, but I really would love to play Hockey."
He nodded and led her down to the changing rooms. "Change into your Hockey gear and then I'll take you to meet coach Orion, he's the coach at the school." Natalie nodded and went to change.
Her team had Jersey's made and just decided to go with Plainview's mascot the Bulldog, the colors were black and silver instead and black and gold like the school's traditional colors were.
She walked out with her helmet and Hockey stick in hand and followed Bombay as he led her to where Orion was apparently. "Don't be scared of hi, he is really good at intimidating people but ignore that, if you can." Natalie gave him a look.
"That just helped boost my courage just to let ya know Bombay." he laughed and led her over to where Orion was. "Coach Orion this is Natalie Portman." Natalie nodded at him and waited to see what he was going to ask her.
"What is your specialty or what is your position on your team?" Orion asked her. She smiled at him and shrugged. "Usually I'm an enforcer but I do play any area that I can too. The others on my team only played certain positions because dude they totally suck badly at anything but what they liked." she shrugged and looked over the ice. Orion looked at her seeing how she held herself.
"Portman do fifteen laps." She went right to it and when she finished she went over to them. "You're fast but not as fast as Luis." Natalie smirked in a 'what can I say' way. "Do you have any certain things that would be of use to our team?" he asked once again.
Natalie smirked at this of course she did, her Double confusion was her favorite to do as well as backwards bend. "I have the Double confusion play." they looked at her confused wondering what the hell that is. "What is that exactly?" Bombay asked. Natalie smirked loving every second of being able to show off to the two coaches. "Its where you have two people going in opposite directions, circling the rink a few times then one player goes out into the game gets the puck and circles a few times and as the other player passes the one with the puck that one passes it to the player that is passing." Natalie was obviously remembering the game earlier in the day.
"Then they keep circling two more times and the person who had the puck originally gets it passed back to them and they keep circling a few times and finally goes back into the game. Shoots and scores, bam point for us. Since they never really know when you will shoot they don't know when to expect so therefore you have the upper hand in the game for a while." she said and leaned against the side of the wall to keep the players in their area.
"Okay, I think that is a really good play." Natalie smiled brightly at them for that. "Can you go and try some plays while we discuss some things." Natalie nodded and headed off to the ice. "So what do you think of her?" Bombay asked him, Orion sighed but nodded nonetheless.
"I like her she would be great with the team and from what you said she is fitting in like a Duck or at least from what her brother said. Right." Bombay nodded. "Yeah Portman said her and the Girls are getting along great which is good since the whole team except for two are boys, they need some other girls other than themselves." Orion smirked at that.
"She is a great player and she loves the game, she taught a lot of her team mates how to play. She and Portman always played this when they were younger, but their parents got divorced and he went with their dad to Chicago and she stayed in Minnesota." Orion nodded and thought a moment.
"PORTMAN!" Natalie immediately skated over to him and waited for instruction to do something. "Do you have anything else that would be useful to us and the team?" he asked, Natalie smirked at that, did she have anything else.
"Yes I do, I can flip." she stated pain and simple, she knew it would confuse them and from the look on their faces they are beyond confused. "Maybe I should show you. Can one of you go near the end but before the goal post?" Orion went out and stood where she asked.
Natalie took a deep breath and started skating towards him her speed picking up on the way, and when he thought he was going to have to skate out of the way she flipped over him stick and all and she landed a few feet behind him on her feet. He was very impressed with that, he's quite tall at least six feet and some inches.
"That is something I've never seen done in Hockey, its amazing." he stated to her as they skated back to where Bombay was. "So can I be on the team and have a Scholarship to the school?" she asked hesitantly. He went over to a bag that he had and handed her a folder.
She took it and looked up at him surprised. "I thought the dean Principal guy had to make the official okay for it." Bombay smiled at her. "I showed him tapes of you and he agreed to take you in, but he wanted Orion to see you and have a try out of the team." Natalie laughed and shook her head.
"Go figure trying to make this harder on me as always." Bombay opened it and gave her a pen. "Sign here." she did so and smiled happily. "Well I gotta be home so Dean doesn't go ballistic that I was so late, an I also want to grab a bite to eat. So I'll see you later I guess." she went to the changing rooms and changed into her clothes and packed her Hockey gear back up and went to her car and stopped by Dairy Queen to get her food. She was so excited that she was practically bouncing in her seat as she drove home to where the excitement takes place.
A/N: Hey all I recently fell in love with this movie again and if you people couldn't figure it out Fulton is my favorite Character. Natalie is my character and that is my name as well, I know how cliché but what can I say its how I am.
