"Listen up brats!" yelled coach Dreyar. He was a short, older man whose presence commanded authority. He could be intimidating, but he mostly like a father-figure to everyone on the team. Especially Laxus seeing as coach Dreyar is his grandfather.
"We are going to have to practice hard for our game against Omnibus University next week. They might have beaten us last year, but they sure as hell aren't going to this year! We've got a good team so as long as we practice we can for sure win this thing. And we'll really have to focus on teamwork this year. Natsu! Gray! No more fighting in the middle of a game. Or your asses are on the bench for the season. Alright everyone let's start with our warm up drills."
To start with they had to do 2 laps around the football field, just to get their blood pumping. Erza had gotten done with her first lap when she saw a group of girls walking onto the field. She jogged over to see what was happening.
"What is going on!" Coach Makarov marched toward the oncoming group of women, as if ready to defend his territory. He walked up to face a beautiful, but scary woman that towered over him. She had light blue hair and a look on her face that could easily scare away even the bravest man. Next to her stood a girl with long purple hair and a very serious look on her face. Erza stood behind Coach with her co-captain Laxus.
Erza had never seen this woman before, but guessed from rumors she had heard that this intimidating woman was the infamous Women's Study professor- Dr. Rius. Erza was planning on taking one of her classes as an elective last year, but later decided against it when she read the reviews. She had a chili pepper on , so many guys took the class without heeding the warning left in many of the reviews.:
"Dr. Rius will make you cry at least once."
"I had Dr. Rius for an elective class this semester. I found her to be hostile, condescending, and unhelpful. She made you feel bad about asking questions and then treated you like an idiot if you got something wrong. I understand that there's only so much you can do in a 1 hour class, but she made the experience awful."
"Teaches well, invites questions, and then insults you for 20 minutes. She is cool. Maybe the smartest person i know. One time she punched me, but we were cool after."
"If you go to her office hours, you will get to bask in her amazingly good looks. Which makes the class somewhat worth taking. One time, she joked about how my boyfriend was lying to me and he broke up with me the next day :("
The only students Dr. Rius seemed to remotely care about were the girls on the field hockey team.
"Can we help you Aqua?" Coach Dreyar asked looking up at the field hockey coach.
"Actually you can call me Dr. Rius. And the girl's field hockey team has the field reserved for practice at this time, so we would like to use the field."
"Well I didn't see it on the schedule and we're in the middle of practice. Can't you wait until we're done?"
"No we can't. You probably just couldn't see it because someone placed it a little too high off the ground for you. We shouldn't have to reschedule just because you can't reach average eye level. Besides this is the time that works for us and most of the girls make their schedules around these practices."
"Well the field-reserving system seems to be as useless as your PhD in Women's Studies. But we've got a big game next week so we need to practice."
"Well you know what so do we. And, contrary to popular opinion, just because you have dicks doesn't make your time more important than ours. So we'll take the field now."
Erza could see that Coach Dreyar was getting heated. His face was turning red. Just as he was about to say something back Erza stepped forward.
"I do apologize Dr. Rius. If you requested the field, you should be able to practice."
Dr. Rius eyed her, she seemed surprised, "Well at least one person on your team seems to have some common sense. No surprise that it's the only girl on your team. Alright girls let's go."
As the team turned away Erza caught the eye of the team captain, the girl standing behind Dr. Rius. She noticed that the eyes under the heavy violet bangs were a golden-honey color. There was something that Erza couldn't quite put her finger on, something that drew Erza's eyes to her and made her gaze linger, something inviting. But she pushed it to the back of her mind because she had Dreyar to deal with.
"So, Ms. Scarlet. Since you decided to surrender to do you suggest we do for practice?"
"Well, it's been awhile since we've run the stairs, I figure we can all use the leg/ cardio training."
The entire team groaned in protest. Magnolia University was well known for its football team, so it had a pretty big stadium with a lot of stairs. They had to run the entire thing twice, and by the end of it all their legs were like overcooked pasta, except for Erza's. She ran the stairs once a week to keep her legs in great shape.
A/N Sorry it's so short, I just have to write in short spurts, it works better for me that way. And sorry it took while to update but now I'm done with school so I should be able to more often.