Third day's here, and Gym class has taken an odd turn towards a sport, and it's not Baseball. Alexei's pre-duel talents show up in this episode of Yu-Gi-Oh GX: Twenty Years Later!
"Hey! What's with Jazz? Did he have a concussion?"
"Nah... I think he just passed out from that soccer ball to the head."
". . . it wasn't me, comrades. . ."
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Chapter Six
Showdown on the Field; Soccer Mayhem
Having already woken up, Alexei was pulling his Sliffer coat on while Sarah sat back giggling her cute little butt off. Eyeing the older of his two roommates, he put his hands in the Sliffer coat and immideately met wet glue. His eye twiched for a moment before he took the jacket off and turned the pockets inside out, spilling a great deal of the substance. Grumbling a bit, he went outside and used the water hoes to rinse the glue out. After a little while, finally getting the glue out, he walked off towards the main building to go to his homeroom class, when Sammantha came up to him from behind and tapped on his shoulder.
"Today we're going to gym class," she commented.
"Really? I wonder why there's a gym class at a dueling academy..." Alexei said off-handedly.
"Me too, but it has something to do with dueling not exactly being an 'active sport' or something like that," Sarah commented as she walked up to her two roommates.
"Hi, Sarah," Sam smiled a little as she greeted her friend.
"Sarah..." Alexei mumbled. If she pulls a prank tommorow, I swear I'll pull her jacket over her head and give her a wedgie... Laughing softly at his thought, Alexei paused for a moment, relizing he had forgotten his trenchcoat back at the room. Giving a slight curse he walked back to the dorm room and checked his trenchcoat pockets to make sure there wasn't glue in them- and thankfully there wasn't. Sighing, he walked back out, meeting up with Sarah and Sam about three quarters of the way to the gym.
"Hey, slowpoke!" Sarah said, laughing softly, causing Alexei to eye her cautiously. "What? I didn't do anything." Alexei rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything. He was wondering what they would be doing for gym class. "Well, everyone on the island duels, the whole gym thing just a side-product of government ruling saying all schools have to have something other then academic stuff."
Alexei blinks a little. "Well, that was a mouth-full, comrade... but I suppose your right." Shrugging it off he went ahead of Sam and Sarah and opened the door for the two girls as they walked up the steps and into the building. Following the two inside, Alexei closed the door and glanced around. "I wonder who the gym teacher is..." Alexei's question went answered immediately as the teacher appeared from around the corner in sweats, not very surprisingly a well-shaped woman.
"Morning class," she said. "Everyone's wonder what we'll be doing in a gym class, so let me tell you. First off, we can't duel all the time, otherwise we'd get bored of it! And no one here wants to get bored of dueling, right? So..." Mainly because government is making us... the teacher thought grimly. "Chancellor Kaiba has decided to mix things up a bit and remodel the gym area for soccer instead of baseball." Alexei glanced up at that, having been pretty much blocking out everything until the teacher mentioned soccer. "Apparently some kids got smacked with a bat or two before I took over as the gym teacher. Oh, before I forget again, I am Jezabel Fontaine, but you may call me Miss Fontaine." Alexei had to wonder about shifting to soccer from baseball. He had played a bit of soccer before he started dueling, even was offered a place in a regional pro team in Russia- even though he declined- but this seemed a bit odd. "Well, then, outside onto the field, and the team captains will be selected." Miss Fontaine announced and ushered the students outside onto the former baseball field, though turned soccer field.
Alexei gave a slight sigh as he glanced over the soccer field. It could be worse... No, not really. This is actually a rather decent field. Laughing mentally, Alexei shook his head to wipe the thoughts of his early days of dueling, when he was just starting, only dueling on the side. Miss Fontaine made everyone line up via their dorm colors, reveiwed everyone and nodded slightly.
"Alright," she announced. Jazz gave the teacher a slight look and she rolled her eyes. "Team captains will be..." she looked over her attendence list. "let's see... how about Mister Jazz Jackson, and..." she looked over the list again. "Alexei Krustev." Jazz smirked as Alexei gave a grunt and rolled his eyes. "Ahh... Mr. Krustev, please take the coat off. Not your dorm one, mind." Miss Fontaine commented, obviously about the Duel Academy trenchcoat. Shrugging slightly, Alexei took his trenchcoat off and set it aside, he didn't like leaving it in the hands of someone he didn't know, less then leaving it with someone he did know. Stepping up to Miss Fontaine's right side, since Jazz had taken her left, Alexei zipped up his dorm jacket and put his hands in his pockets, looking like he was somewhat bored. "Alright, then," continued the well-developed gym teacher, "Jazz, you start picking people for the teams."
"Yeah, sure," Jazz said with a smirk. "Rapp." Jazz pointed to one of the male students in an Obelisk uniform, who walked over with the same smirk as Jazz wore.
"Whatever... Sarah." Alexei nodded to Sarah with a small smile. There wasn't any stated rules against gender in the game, after all.
"Slackers should stay with slackers. Altrenia." This time a female student took place on Jazz's side, not to mention earning a slight glare from Alexei and Sarah- needless to say everyone in the Sliffer red jackets, adding Rachel to boot.
"Sammantha." Sam blinked and joined Sarah and Alexei.
"Come on over here, Rachel. Join the winners for once in your life," Jazz's words were not only an insault to Rachel, who grumbled as she joined the three other Obelisk Blue students, but a taunt to Alexei, who kept a tight reign on his anger.
It took Alexei a moment before choosing his neck teammate, pointing to a Ra Yellow student. "You look like you've had a game or two."
About ten minute later, the teams where decided. Jazz had choosen all Obelisk Blue students, while Alexei mixed both Ra Yellow and Sliffer Red dorms for his team. Miss Fontaine gave a slight frown at Jazz's selection, but didn't argue.
"Alright, onto the field, and keep in mind I want a fair game, no fouls and penalties," Miss Fontaine nodded and joined the students in the middle of the field. "Now, call heads or tails, Jazz."
"Heads, of course. Tails is for losers," Jazz's taunting was annoying Alexei a bit.
Miss Fontaine flipped a quarter into the air and catch it as it fell infront of it. Placing it on the back of her hand she looked at the result. "Heads it is. Ball's yours for now, Jazz." Miss Fontaine handed Jazz a soccer ball.
Zelda watched from the sidelines, not caring much for the game. Let the game begin. I wonder if Alexei is as good in soccer as he is in dueling, or just plain lucky.
Jazz threw the ball in and ran back onto the field, one of the Obelisk Blue students got ahold of it and began to rush down towards Alexei's side of the field. Alexei himself was watching the ball, running off to the side of the student, waiting for his chance. Jazz's mistake is his pride... not everyone he choose can play, and I doubt any of them can play as well as I can. The thought came with a smile, but it didn't last long before the student make a slight slip up- almost tripping, actually- at which Alexei made his move. Cutting off the student, Alexei stole the ball and began towards the other side of the field. All the Obelisk players where on him the moment they relized they lost their chance to score the first goal. Alexei kept an eye on the ball, and an eye on Jazz and his two 'friends'. Alexei got half way to their goalie before Jazz tried to kick the ball, and Alexei's legs, from under him with a slide, but Alexei made the ball jump and did so himself, then kicked it straight up into the air. The move stunned most of the students, Zelda wasn't phased- then again, being the daughter of Zain, why would she be?. Alexei jumped a bit higher when he landed from the hop to dodge Jazz's attempt to injure him and steal the ball, did half a flip before the ball returned to kicking range, and threw his leg at it. The soft sound of a punt came as his foot connected with the ball, both Alexei and object in mid-air. The Obelisk goalie jumped out of the way as the ball nearly struck his head, and the ball stuck the goal, causing the thing to lift back a little from force of contact. Alexei landed on one knee as the ball went into the goal, looking up to see if the goalie had the gall to try to stop, he gave a smudge smirk as he saw the blue-jacketed student on the ground with his hands over his head.
"Not everything can be won, comrade. Then again, not everything can be lost if not won," Alexei commented to Jazz as he stood up.
Rachel blinked a bit as she saw Alexei's move. Holy... shit... Now that's skill. I wonder where he learned to do that... Her thought came as surprisingly toned as she knew her face was. The students that couldn't play today stared, they were obviously as surprised as Rachel was, not to mention the Obelisk Blue students on the field. Sarah's jaw dropped a little bit and Sam closed it. Even Miss Fontaine was surprised by the move.
"Ahh.. well, then... One and O," she said. "Obelisk's ball."
Jazz growled and grabbed the ball, going off field. Throwing the ball out, he ran towards it. Unfortiunately, for Jazz and his team, Alexei intercepted the ball, headbutting it away from it's intended recepitant, and towards Sam, who blinked slightly and began slowly towards Jazz's goal. She didn't get very far before Rachel stole the ball and was dashing towards the goal. Everyone was on her, figuratively speaking anyways, even a few of her own teammates. Alexei laughed on the inside. Obviously those few had never played before- either that or just didn't like the idea of a girl getting the glory of first score then one of them. Smirking slightly Alexei went in to try to steal, but was evaded with a small grin from Rachel. She got a bit closer before kicking the ball hard towards the goal, one of the Ra Yellow students was the goalie, but the goalie just barely missed it and the ball went in, bouncing off the inside of the bar and straight into the goal. Alexei raised an eyebrow and smiled a little bit.
Moving off-field Alexei caught the soccer ball thrown to him by his team's goalie. Glancing around the field he smirked and signaled high out field. Dropping the ball he punted it across the field, almost to the goal- everyone went for the ball. Sarah tried to get it into the goal, but was blocked and the goalie, who kicked it as far as he could, which wasn't very far, about five yards or so. Alexei was on the ball like a starved dog on a slab a meat. Kicking the ball up, Alexei decided not to show off too much and instead do a half back flip to kick the ball in. Needless, the goalie was on his knees with his hand over his so the ball went in without any resistance.
The game went on for a few hours more before Miss Fontaine called it for an end, with a final score of fifteen to five. Jazz's friends stormed off immediately, scowling and cussing under their breath and carrying Jazz, who had been knocked out from trying to block one of Alexei's shots with his head.. With a small yawn, Alexei grabbed his trenchcoat from the stands and walked off alone, tieing his sliffer jacket around his waist by the sleeves and carrying the trench coat. By the time Sam and Sarah had gotten back to the dorm, Alexei had already showered and was reading a book in the top bunk. Sam noticed it was Michael Crichton's Prey. Yawning a little bit, Alexei marked his place and looked up.
"Oh... didn't notice you guys come in," he commented. Shifting so he was laying facing away from the girls, Alexei closed his eyes and fell asleep after a while.
"Sarah, don't even think about it... I don't think his reaction will be very good..." Sam frowned as Sarah took out a pair of scissors.
"Don't worry, I'm not going to do anything..." Sarah replied. Too serious, that is... was the thought that followed, and Sarah gave a mental giggle.
Wow! That was a great game, don't you guys think? I mean... just wow... What does the Duel Academy have in store next for our friend Alexei? Find out in the next episode of Yu-Gi-Oh GX: Twenty Years Later!
"Sarah... you know he's going to kill you if you mess up anything of his, right? Sarah. . .! That's my book report!"
"What are you so worried about, Sam? I'm only going to make it 'snow.' Heeheehee..."