Eternal.Angel
July 11, 2007 to July 15, 2007 (EDITED August 13, 2007)

Disclaimers: I do not own any part whatsoever of Prince of Tennis, and some magical terms are Angie Sage's, so I do not own those words either.
Summary: Sleeping over at Fuji's house could be one of the worst choices that the Seigaku Tennis Club Regulars and Freshmen have ever made in their entire lives! Being sucked into a video game that was just being played with, the regulars and freshmen must find a way out by saving the entire world! But…how? Enjoy! And don't forget to review please!

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Escapade Six: Broomstick Bravo!
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The Nationals were certainly drawing very, very near, and yet two regulars were missing. Particularly, the captain was the most needed. The second year with the Snake techniques and all that…the tennis club could certainly use his help.

So when the weekend came by, the regulars seized their chance to finish their loads of homework as fast as possible before heading to Fuji's house again. But the tensai himself did not know that since he spent every Saturday morning well…er, looking over his cacti until lunch time.

"Syuusuke!" called Yumiko, "I'm going to go out now! Ja ne!" She closed the front door behind her.

"Aniki, I'm going to train at St. Rudolph now. Ja," announced Yuuta as he opened and then closed the door.

The house suddenly became very quiet. There were no sounds of sizzling pots and pans since breakfast was already made, and the shuffling of feet going crazily back and forth had come to a stop when they all made a direction out of the house. The silence was so still you could only hear the birds chirping happily and continuously outside (which seriously kills me), the obnoxiously loud sound coming from the air conditioner, and the breathing of Fuji.

Putting on a happy smile, he quickly finished his breakfast and headed upstairs to do his homework while watching over the beautiful plant. He had grown a new cactus ever since Echizen had knocked it down with his Ponta, and this plant was actually turning out better than the previous one; it was all ready to bloom at any time now, and Fuji had the chance to witness its transformation.

"Saa, cactus-san, you'll be the most beautiful one of them all." He gave it a smile and patted it on the tip (not being pricked or anything) and continued working when his train of thought was interrupted by the doorbell which rang many, many times.

"Hmm? No one usually comes on this Saturday morning. I wonder who it is," thought Fuji aloud as he headed down to the main hallway to open the door.

There was a sudden sabotage at the door, and a horde of people rushed inside as fast as their feet could carry them.

"Nya, Fujiko! What took you so long!" complained Eiji, who was sweating like a dog.

"Fuji-senpai, it's hot out there! Couldn't you prepare better?" whined Momo, whose shirt was covered with large spots of sweat.

"Hmm? I didn't know all of you were coming," said Fuji.

"Ii Data…it was a 70 percent chance that Fuji did not remember we would come this Saturday," said the Data Man, Inui.

"Well, come on in then," invited the tensai as he closed the door and headed directly to the kitchen for some cool drinks and snacks.

After handing out two trays worth of cold lemonade his sister had left behind to the regulars and freshmen (who were awfully tired from the trip since they did not have as much stamina), Fuji put on a confused look and asked, "What are you all doing here then?"

"We're here to play the Conquest game of yours in order to bring back Tezuka, Kaidoh, and Ryuzaki-san," said Kawamaru as he sipped some of the lemonade, feeling refresh.

"That's right, Taka-san," said Oishi, "We need the two of them back for the Nationals, and Ryuzaki-chan for Ryuzaki-sensei before she finds out." Every one of them nodded and shivered at the thought of the very-omnious-and-scary-and-kowaii-and-extremely-short-tempered-coach strangling each and every one of them to death.

"Let's get started then, nya!" ordered Eiji as he slurped his drink and placed the glass down with a sigh of happiness.

Credit to Fuji, he plugged in all the necessary things and such in order to run the game. Then the tensai asked, "Do you want to play inside or out?"

"Outside is better, 'cause we get to eat!" protested Momo.

"I think the inside is better, senpai-tachi," quietly said Echizen as he yawned loudly.

"Inside it is then," agreed Fuji, nodding. Momo could only complain and try to convince his senpai-tachi to change their minds.

"Saa, is everyone ready?" asked Fuji as he went towards the PC, his back facing his teammates.

"Hai, Fuji-senpai," grumbled the second year angrily before joining the group.

"Saa, then let's go," declared Fuji as he pressed a button on the monitor, and a large, sucking wind drew the regulars and freshmen into the screen, the shatter of glass from one of the cups that sounded the entire room full of silence.

CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST!

Soon the Seigaku group landed gracefully onto the bare, brown, mossy, and full of dirt ground, a swirl of dust surrounding and hovering around their feet. But as the usual, Horio had his head stuck in the ground, and his two friends had to pull his legs as hard as they could in order to get him out of the dirt patch.

"Well, let's hurry up and register out tickets so that we can rent the brooms instead of buy them," suggested Oishi as he dusted off his shirt clean. The rest nodded in agreement, quite excited for the competition.

When they got to the desk, the regulars had noticed that the line was decently long. It stretched from wherever the registration desk was to as far as a couple meters added to where they had just been. What a distance to walk…

"Hn? This line is pretty long," said Echizen pointlessly.

"Oh really? I didn't know that at all, thanks for the information Echizen," sarcastically replied Momo-senpai, who was still grumpy about the sudden decision of going into the game instead of playing with controls while eating as much as you wanted. After all, the food in the Wicked Woodlands did not suit the appetite of someone who needed lots and lots of carbohydrates.

After who-knows-how-long-it-has-been-before-they-got-to-the-front-where-the-regristation-desk-is-in-order-to-sign-up minutes, the group walked towards the desk to find a ghost as the secretary.

"P-l-e-a-s-e p-u-r-c-h-a-s-e a t-i-c-k-e-t o-r g-i-v-e t-h-e-m, t-h-e-n s-t-a-t-e y-o-u-r n-a-m-e a-n-d r-e-n-t a b-r-o-o-m," stuttered the transparent being.

Fuji smiled at the ghost and gave them the tickets, and signed everyone up immediately. "T-h-a-n-k-s," thanked the ghost, "N-e-x-t…"

As the group walked away to rent a broom, each of them wondered how to choose the right one. "How are we supposed to choose the right broom, senpai-tachi?" asked Katsuo, who was quite curious of what was to happen next.

"Good question, Katsuo! With my two-and-a-half-days of Magyk Experience, I will tell you how to choose the right broom!" bragged Horio, who really knew nothing of this broom and stuff about the Wicked Woodlands.

"Shut up and don't talk when you don't know anything," muttered Tomoka, who was extremely annoyed with Horio's personality and show-off trait. Seeing the store, she exclaimed loudly for her senpai-tachi to hear, "There it is!"

The store was pretty worn down, just like the inn (it was expected anyway). Wood boards covered the broken glass windows. Dust was collected among the path and house, and there wasn't a roof at all to protect the place.

"This…is the place?" wondered Kawamura aloud as he scratched his head, skeptical about the area.

"Saa, let's go in and check it out," said Fuji happily as he walked right into the empty space of the door. For a moment, there was silence.

"Fuji!" they all cried, worried about the tensai, as they ran towards the opening. As soon as their feet took a step into the place, what looked on the outside was completely, and way different, from the inside.

Instead of all the broken boards that supported the place, the inside walls were boarded up more neatly, and the surface was very smooth. There was actually a ceiling inside (good thing too!), with small, dead bats mouthing a bunch of fireflies which gave off a dim glow in the room. Barrels of different brooms – according to their specific category – were arranged neatly around the room, and at the back of the place was a cashier's desk.

"Wow…" praised Momo as he glanced around the space, "It's so much different compared to the outside." Everyone could only nod slowly in agreement, busy touching the types of brooms that were stacked in each barrel.

"Y'all new here, no?" asked someone, as she began to Apparate in front of their eyes.

"N-nani?!" yelled Eiji as he sprang behind his Doubles Partner, "Don't scare us like that, nya!" Then he stuck out his tongue at the person.

"Sorry 'bout that then," apologized the woman indifferently, as her entire physical appearance finally finished Apparating. "The name is Aula Tais, and y'all are?" she asked, raising a brow in suspicion.

After their introductions, and sharing their story of their origins (which were made up; very, very suspicious indeed), the lady could only snort and laugh, "I trust y'all that names are real, but those places? You gotta be kidding me, those don't exist in this world, nu-uh." Aula waggled a finger at the group and gave out a mischievous smile.

"Goin' back to why y'all are here, y'all are here for brooms, no?" she questioned, raising her brow again (it's a habit of hers). They nodded in unison, and she could not help but sigh and smile at them, placing her hands on her hips.

"I'll be glad to help y'all with that," offered the Broomstick Bencher, whose job was to design and make brooms in all various ways, "Since I am a Broomstick Bencher. Been in the blood for the family for generations back and to come," she shared as she stepped towards her customers.

"Well, what y'all waiting for?" asked the Bencher, "Go and choose a broom!"

"And how are we supposed to do that?" asked Echizen, folding his hands to his head and leaning on it, yawning. "You never said anything about that."

"Just explore the place. You'll know when the broom is just right for you," answered the female, smiling again and widening her arms as if an invite. The Seigaku people dispersed and explored the area.

As the rest of the group were looking for their brooms, Fuji and Oishi had a discussion.

"We have to find Tezuka soon in time for the Nationals, as well as Kaidoh."

"Saa, but we need to find the Corruptive Crone first in order to get Kaidoh back."

"And we have to win the Broomstick Bravo in order to get Tezuka back?"

"Saa, and we have to make sure they stay with us."

"Otherwise, I'll threaten them with my newest Potion, the Purple Perplexing Pumping Paralyzing Popping Potion, made from dead stuff in the Wicked Woodlands," voiced Inui, who appeared out of nowhere, holding a broom in one hand, and in his other hand was a stone-cupful of an obnoxiously smelly revolting bubbly purple steaming evaporating sizzling burning liquid.

"Inui! Don't scare us like that!" scolded Oishi, who placed his hand to his chest to prevent from catching a heart attack.

"Gomen, but I picked my broom. The Broomstick Bencher, Aula Tais, was right. I just hovered my hand over a pile of broomsticks, and one just zapped into my hand. The broom selection that was given to me was the Adjustable Acer, a broom which allows me to adjust its settings and properties however I want to. Fastest speed is up to one hundred branches in one second, or rather fifty feet in one second."

Ok…

Skipping over the process on how to choose a broom (thanks to the Ordinary Wizard who had to say everything), the regulars and freshmen successfully chose their brooms, except for Momo.

"Hmm…" wondered aloud the second year, rubbing his chin as if he had a beard (although I don't think one would grow in a million years), "Which broom should I choose? The polka dot green one, frilly pink one, or the black sleek one? All of them are good, but I just don't know which one would suit me best." He sighed in exhaustion and rubbed his chin more frequently.

"MOMO! CHOOSE SOMETHING!"

"All right, all right," he muttered under his breath and snatched the black broom from the barrel. He followed his senpai-tachi and kouhai towards the counter.

"Rent would suit you all, except for this young lasso here," Aula said, pointing to Osakada, "Since you're a Lite Witchling, it'd be best for you to buy it instead. But the price not that different." She gave an encouraging smile towards the freshman before calculating the price.

"For those who rent, you pay ten coins. Remember to return if after. If you wanna buy, show me your broom and I'll determine its value," stated the shopkeeper as one by one, each of them handed a coin marked with ten as its value. When Tomoka approached the woman, she carefully placed down the broom onto the counter and watched her as Tais inspected it observantly.

After a few seconds, she smiled at the girl and said, "It ain't much, don't worry lass. But it's worth every bit of it. Seventeen coins are all I need, ma'm." Fussing through the coin bag, she rustled out a ten, five, and three one coins.

"Thanks for shopping here y'all. Remember to return my brooms afterwards for those rent them, and good luck in the race," she waved them good-bye as the group stepped out of the shop to find themselves in the tattered areas again.

"And the inside was so snuggly too," muttered Horio, who was not very happy to find that the broom chosen for him was rather an old one, with scratches and loose bristles at the end.

"Well, shall we get going then?" asked Oishi.

"Yea!" they cried, marching towards the arena where the competition would be held. It was an enormous place, but rather creepy, with all those dead bats and animals in the Wicked Woodlands as ornaments.

As the group stepped into the spotlight, and it shone on them, there was a sudden buzz before an announcement, "And our next contestants are the Sadistic Seigaku Students!" There was a hesitation among the crowds at first, but afterwards, slowly the audience began to clap.

"The Sadistic…Seigaku…Students…?" said Echizen slowly as he emphasized each word, raising a brow at his senpai.

"Saa, I thought of something that would represent us," proudly said Fuji, smiling back at Ryoma. The freshman could only mumble, "Mada mada dane," and tip down his white Fila cap.

"Fuji, just to inform you, you are the most sadistic one here, so that does not apply to everyone," informed Inui, feeling slightly cross about the name, "The rest are of us are pretty much normal."

"Fujiko, nya, if you were trying to aim for alliteration that we learned in English, you stink!" protested Eiji as he stuck his tongue out at his best friend. Fuji could only chuckle to himself before reminding them to turn their attention towards the referee.

"Everyone to the starting line. The capacity should be able to fit every player, from the skinny ones as thin as a stick to the fat ones as large as an elephant," droned the ghost, his voice barely audible but projected with the microphone. "Now I will explain the history of the Broomstick Bravo." The ghost continued to drone on about its origins, and the Seigaku people paid no attention to it all. Instead, they decided to let their eyes wander.

Kikumaru Eiji, who had sports vision, swiveled his head back and forth when he noticed a certain player which he had gone against during the District Tournament, "Ne, Oishi," called his Doubles Partner, tugging his sleeve, "Isn't that the captain of St. Rudolph, Akazawa?"

"You're right, Eiji," agreed Oishi as he squinted his eyes slightly, "St. Rudolph must also be in this game!"

Fuji, who overheard his best friend chatter about St. Rudolph to his Doubles Partner, tweaked his ears and perked his head to see his younger brother, Yuuta Fuji with a determined face. "Yuuta, Yuuta," called the older brother in a sing-song voice.

Immediately Yuuta turned his attention towards his brother, his eyes widening in disbelief. Hoping (yes and no at the same time) that he would get the message, the younger Fuji mouthed, "What are you doing here?"

The older Fuji could only smile the most-evil-smile-and-sadistic-one-that-Fuji-Syuusuke-could-ever-smile-to-which-means-doom-to-the-world at his younger brother and mouth back, "It's a secret."

Turning their minds back to the ghost referee, it had finally moved on to the rules, "Basically you race through the race, going over obstacles. You may use your magic or weaponry to shoot down your opponents and disqualified them out of the race, but if you kill them you will be brought to the Prison Pit and be punished. Whoever is first to cross the finish line wins the prize.

"Please take your positions. When I finish speaking, you go and race. Good luck to you all, now let me sleep," finished the referee, and he went into a daze. The contestants looked at each other with confused faces. So did the regulars and freshmen, except for Echizen. The swordsman simply yawned and sped his broom forward.

"OI WAIT, ECHIZEN!" screamed the regulars and freshmen, speeding their brooms as well to catch up to their Ochibi.

"OI WAIT, YOU SASSY SEXUAL STALKERS OR WHATEVER!" screamed the other contestants, speeding their brooms as well to catch up to the Sassy Sexu – er, Sadistic Seiga – er, never mind that, the Seigaku Students.

A loud cheer was heard from the crowds, as the fans of certain people were screaming their heads and lungs to the max so that they were out of breath afterwards. The audience shouted and cried with all their might, cheering on the participants.

Currently, our swordsman was in the lead. Until his senpai-tachi and freshmen friends caught on.

"Oi, Echizen! Couldn't you have waited for us?" asked Momo in a whiny voice.

"Mada mada dane, Momo-senpai," smirked Ryoma, saying his usual trademark phrase when the end of his broom was struck by some lightning.

"Gak!" cried the rookie player as he jumped abruptly from his broom before landing back into his sitting position. He turned his head behind him to see Yuuta cast a Lightning Attack at his broom.

"We're going to win, Seigaku, dane!" cried Yanasigawa, who was riding a broom with ease holding one hand onto the handle while the other roamed free.

"I don't think so!" yelled back the second year, who pulled out his hammer and flung it in the air. No reaction at all though, which made all of St. Rudolph laugh.

"Hmph, Momoshiro! I expected something better," laughed Atsushi, when he felt a sudden shock in the air. All of St. Rudolph's brooms shook violently in the air while the Seigaku people sped on forward.

"Nice job, Momo!" complimented the motherly hen, who was going at an average but still fast pace.

"Thanks Oishi-senpai!" thanked Momo, who gave a bright smile to his senpai as a cloud above him that said "+5" appeared above his head.

The group had encountered the first obstacle – the Cave. The brooms flew in with a large whoosh, and they noticed that it was awfully dark inside. There was nothing but the pitch black emptiness that was only filled with silence.

"Is it just me, or is it really dark in here?" questioned Horio in a suspicious voice.

"Aren't all caves dark?" said Kachiro in a slight sarcastic tone.

"I was just checking!" retorted back the Messenger, stomping his foot in midair. It was just then that a huge group of bats flew directly at them, and were ready to make their swift attack.

"Horio, look what you've done!" complained Katsuo who tipped his broom just in time before a bat could bite his arm with its fangs. "You've woken them up with your foot!"

"Nani?! You can't even hear anything in the air! It's just…air!" cried Horio, fighting back to win the argument.

"There's no time to be fighting now, kouhai!" asserted Momo, who pulled out his hammer again and pounded another one of the creatures, having it spiral downwards down to the bottom with a CLUNK.

"This must be the Cave," noted the Ordinary Wizard, as his Notebook flipped open to the resource page, "Inside the Cave are the bats we also saw in the shop, which are the Effervescent Bats. They have exceptional hearing, and they can fly as fast as how fast a broom goes. Their fangs when pierced in a part of your body wound you badly, because it's made of poison."

"P-poison?!" hollered the riders as they continued flying against the bats, using their weapons and Magykal powers to deflect them.

"Nya, it's not that bad, right Inui? Nya? Nya? Your juices are much worse!" asked the Comical Jester, who was balancing on his broom perfectly which blowing away the monsters with his Kazoo.

"Actually, the adult bats have a deeper kill to the poison, so get bitten by those and you die on the spot," monotonously replied the Data Man. All the regulars and freshmen except for Fuji and Inui felt a sudden fright in their chests and turned extremely blue.

"Inui," spoke up Kawamura who was simply dodging the demons, "How much of these bats are adults?"

Once again he looked over his Notebook and found the answer to Kawamaru's question, "Usually young ones stay in their nests until they are ready to hunt, so the probability that these bats have young ones are 0 percent."

"If it's 0 percent that Inui-senpai says that there are no young ones…" began Echizen, his voice shaking.

"…then that means 100 percent of these bats are…" continued the second year, shivering.

"…ADULTS, NYA!!!!!!" finished Eiji, who screamed and lost his balance on the broom.

"Eiji!" cried his doubles partner, who tried to reach out a hand for him. But because of his quick reflexes, the Comical Jester made a speedy comeback, his fingers hanging onto the grip of the broom.

"Hoi, hoi!" he said, and Kikumaru flipped himself right back up. However, his hat came loose and fell down.

"My hat, nya!" he hollered, directing his broom to dive downwards when he felt a large pull back from somebody. Eiji turned around to see his smiling friend clawing onto the bristles of his broom.

"Don't," commanded the tensai, whose eyes were wide opened right now. The cheery third year could only gulp and nod his head slowly, listening to every word that the Physic said.

Soon enough, the hatless red head was glad that he had listened to his best friend. There was no CLUNK, or THUNK, or whatever sound a hat would make at all. It was just empty.

"Can someone light a torch of some sort?" requested the tensai, his tone and voice sounding serious.

"Sure," answered Inui, as his Notebook flipped through many pages before rustling slowly to a stop. He peered over the parchment and cleared his throat before commanding, "Let There Be Lite!"

There was a spark that hovered about the Notebook, but then it died out. Just like that.

"Wow…Inui…"

"Shut up."

"Maybe I should try," suggested Tomoka, "I have a wand, right?" Her senpai with the glasses nodded and repeated the instructions for her to follow. "Let There Be Lite!" she cried, as she swished her wand in a wavy motion.

A large blue spark appeared at the tip of her wand, and the Lite Witchling could not help but to smile at her success. Meanwhile, the bats had scattered away, hiding themselves away from the brightness. The regulars were cheering at first in victory, and all of a sudden began to snicker and laugh silently to themselves at Inui who failed.

"For those who continue to laugh, I will pour you a cup of the Purple Perplexing Pumping Paralyzing Popping Potion, my newest Potion made from ingredients according to the Wicked Woodlands."

The laughter stopped immediately, and all of them placed on serious or frightened looks to prevent from being harassed with Inui's newest concoction.

"Saa, anyway," continued the sadist, "Osakada-chan, can you point your wand downwards?"

"Hai, Fuji-senpai!" said the freshman as she tipped her wand, keeping a steady hand on her broom. The light made little contact with the darkness at first, but afterwards, it began to expand more and show more of what was covered behind the pitch black area.

There was a large whirlpool, which swirled and hurled violently, and yet, there was no noise to be heard at all. The group were confused and puzzled at first, but when Fuji shot out his claws and broke off a stalactite, then throwing it to the pool of whatever-it-was-made-of, the rock was instantly sucked inside without a sound.

"So, if we fall we would get suck into that thing?" confirmed Oishi uneasily.

"Saa," answered Fuji, which meant yes.

"Let's just keep on going, then," suggested Kawamura nervously, who scratched his head before returning his hand back to the broom.

The members of the Sadistic Seigaku Students…er, Seigaku Students directed their brooms forward and successfully passed through the first obstacle with ease.

CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST!

A dark, horrific place draped with fine, woven spider web was resided none other than the Corruptive Crone. But also inside was…Kaidoh Kaoru, the Summoner.

Currently, the Crone was watching over the Broomstick Bravo that was currently taking place from a crystal orb with a rotten hand supporting the sphere. Noticing that all the contestants and riders were zooming by with ease, she stood up from her skeletal chair and banged her fists on the table. This had disturbed the possessed second year from his sleep as he tossed in his bed, his back facing the woman.

"Damn them!" cried the elder one, "Those stupid Sexual Sadistic whatever people messed it up! Now my Darke Vortex is of no use…Return!" In one swoop, the Darke Magyk that created her insidious trap inside the Cave flamed in her hand.

Bringing her left handed fingers to her chin and stroking it little bit, her disappointed, angry frown slowly changing into an evil, devilish grin. She turned around, facing her possessed assistant as her cape perfectly swished in the abrupt turning.

"Kaoru-kun, would you mind stopping these pests for me?" requested the Crone sweetly, voicing a high and sweet pitch like a little girl.

"Hai, Kitta-san," said Kaidoh, as he threw the covers off the bed and stood up. He grabbed his Trinx from the shelf and made his way out, bidding his mistress farewell.

"Fssshh…"

CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST! CONQUEST!

As the regulars and freshmen flew freely, yelling and hollering random things about their victory over the first obstacle in the Cave (which was not the whirly-twirly-sucking-thing), Kachiro and Katsuo turned around to see behind them…

"OI YOU SSS PEOPLE! YOU'RE NOT GONNA WIN THIS!" screamed the other people who were in the race as they threw their fists in unison, rallying, "WE PEOPLE ARE GONNA WIN! NO FOREIGNERS ARE GONNA WIN!"

"senpai-tachi, Ryoma-kun," called Kachiro, "There are people behind us."

"Nani?!" cried Eiji, "How'd they get here so fast?"

"Must be because the Cave has been cleared, Kikumaru-senpai," answered Kachiro.

"We must hurry then!" instructed the motherly hen who was in front of the group right now, leading them. He sped his broom forward, and the rest followed suit (including the other contestants).

It was at that exact moment which the fuka-buchou led his teammates forward that a sudden root sprouted out from the ground, blocking the path to cross any further.

"What is that?" cried Tomoka, who nearly had a heart attack from the abrupt happening.

"Fssshhh…" hissed a familiar one.

"That hiss, it couldn't be…Baka Mamushi's!" said Momo in shock, as he gasped when the other second year made his appearance next to the tall plant that reached up to the sky.

"Fssshhh…you will not pass any further…" said Kaidoh in a low voice, "Destruct!" he commanded, and soon different types of creatures emerged from the stalk and began attacking not only the regulars and freshmen of Seigaku, but the other players as well.

"Kya!" cried the other players as they tried their best to fight back against the Darke Monsters, but to no avail, most of them were wounded badly or fell off their brooms, disqualified from the race.

Fuji's eyes once again widened and his expression was much more serious. He ordered his broom to turn to the opposite direction, and it did as he asked to as it flew the other way.

"Nya, Fujiko! What are you doing?!" cried the Comical Jester.

"No time to explain," said Fuji for a moment before he continued to fly into the mob of people.

Soon Fuji returned with a trail of St. Rudolph students flying behind him, while the tensai carried his younger brother, Yuuta, who fainted, in his arms bridal style. Some of them were seriously injured or wounded in some parts of their body.

"Thank you for taking us out of the mob, Fuji," thanked the captain, Akazawa, as he bowed while sitting on his broom.

"Iie, it was nothing," said Fuji smiling, "I just hope Yuuta is ok."

"I can help with that, hopefully," offered the Male Spellcaster as he approached the third year carrying the second year, "I'll try my best to heal him with my powers."

"Arigatou Oishi," thanked Fuji as he shifted Yuuta's position in his arms.

"Iie, it's my pleasure. And all those who need to be treated as well, I'll be glad to help," said Oishi as he hovered his hand over Yuuta's injury on his right shoulder.

"Nya, Oishi, won't you run out of power?" asked his doubles partner in a worried voice.

"Yes he would," answered in the Ordinary Wizard, "Which is why I have formulated a plan to keep the monsters from coming, while one distracts Kaidoh and brings him back, and another takes the prize."

"So how's going to go against Mamushi and get him back?" said Momo cheerfully, glancing around for volunteers. Fortunately, no hands went up.

"Fine," he grumbled lowly, "I'll go and get that baka mamushi…" He tapped his broom to head towards the other second year, and soon the flying object somewhat reluctantly flew to the Darke Side.

Yes, come to the Darke Side…

We have er, DARKE MONSTERS with cookies!

Not that a broom would like that anyway.

"Now, who's going to get the prize and signal us to escape afterwards?" asked Inui, looking up to see no hands until a small freshman girl raised hers.

"I'll go, Inui-senpai," volunteered Osakada, who actually spoke in a normal voice for the first time. It was music to their ears, until they realized what she had just volunteered for.

"Osakada! Are you nuts?" protested Horio. "A girl like you couldn't do anything like that, and getting through Kaidoh-senpai too!"

"Umm," agreed Kachiro, "Osakada-san, Kaidoh-senpai is kind of scary…"

"Maybe you should let one of us go," suggested Kachiro, but the girl only nodded in rejection.

"First of all, Kaidoh-senpai is not scary," she stated, turning slightly red at the thought, "Secondly, I will be fine. So don't worry about me." Then she smiled at the three and said, "Thank you for worrying though." Her smile actually wasn't so threatening but rather nice and heavenly… thought the Ichinen Trio when their senpai shook them back into reality.

"You three! Help us cover up these monsters and protect the other contestants!" ordered one of the senpai-tachi, and hastily they made their way to the mob of creatures and began attacking, using what they learned from Fairee Tezuka's Tough Training Session.

Meanwhile, both second years had come to face each other and glared. "Let's get this over with, Mamushi…I don't even want to look at you anymore…" complained Momo as he turned his head away.

"Fsssh…get out of my way you hammer dude…fshhh…" said Kaidoh as he rolled his eyes. "I don't even want to get to know you…fssshhh…"

"You mean you don't remember me, Mamushi?" he questioned in a confused manner, although he didn't sound like he cared much.

"Nope, and you can die right on the spot…fssshhh…" he hissed, commanding the Darke Snakes to poison his enemy with his fangs.

While the started to attack one another, the first year made her way through the enemies, targeting them with her newly upgraded weapon, the Mahogan. Using a few spells that came to her mind as if it were natural, easily she drove her broom through until she met a detour.

Her Kaidoh-senpai and Momo-chan-senpai were fighting against one another, poising attacks on each other from time to time. This seriously irritated her, because she definitely did NOT like fighting at all.

Damn it, Tomoka! Focus! First you need to get the prize! Then you can somehow bring Kaidoh-senpai back to his senses! annoyingly thought the female as she whacked her head with her wand. Passing through as if she were invisible, Osakada swiftly passed the two fighters until the possessed senpai realized the plan all along.

"Damn! You were just a decoy, you weird-looking head!" he fumed as he directed the Darke Monsters to distract Momoshiro while he would try to catch the Lite Witchling. The demons did as they were commanded and Kaidoh at the same time ran off to catch Tomoka.

"Eeek!" she shrieked when she noticed that Kaidoh-senpai was trailing her from behind. And yet, it feels so wonderful to have a man like him catch after you…WHAT THE HELL AM I TALKING ABOUT?! IF YOU DON'T SPEED UP GIRL YOU'RE GONNA GET A LOT OF HISSINGS FROM KAIDOH-SENPAI…not that I mind though, hehe…JUST GO ALREADY!

Shaking her head violently out of blushing and turning red so much just thinking about Kaidoh Kaoru, she had not come to notice that in fact, her senpai was just a bristle away from catching the end of her broom. Tomoka felt a sudden tug behind her and screamed, "Ittai!"

"Fsssh…you're coming back here and not getting that prize…fssshh…"

"Let go, Kaidoh-senpai! Don't you remember us? Snap out of it!"

"Fsssh…a girl like you deserves to die…especially those who are sneaky…fssshhh…"

"KAIDOH-SENPAI! LET GO OF ME OR…or…" she thought for a bit while being caught 'red-handed' before finishing her statement, "…OR I'LL GIVE YOU INUI-SENPAI'S PURPLE PERPLEXING PUMPING PARALYZING POPPING POTION AND YOU WILL NEVER PLAY TENNIS AGAIN!"

At this point, our lovely and possessed Summon loosened his group from Osakada Tomoka, the Lite Witchling's broom, the Pimic V235, headed full steer ahead, and with fast agility, she easily snatched the prize off of its stand.

"The plan worked, da ne!" cried the Dane Duck, Yanasigawa, as a bright light shone not too far ahead.

"There's something wrong here, if I'm not mistaken," spoke suddenly Mizuki, who twirled his bangs nonstop during the fight.

True to the genius of St. Rudolph's words, indeed there was something wrong. Just as the girl snatched away the claws from its protective stand, an obliterating and awfully bright light blurred her eyes. "Kya!" she shrieked, covering her eyes with her arm.

And soon the light expanded its horizons, and entirely swallowed up the Seigaku people, leaving behind a bewildered group of St. Rudolph people and other players in the midst of fighting nothing but air now.

"Da ne?"

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A/N: Sorry this one took a long time to update, and now this story will be placed on HOLD in order for me to complete Ryoma is Married Continuation! Thank you for all my respective readers…please wait, thank you! Please review and give me any feedback! I am very happy to be criticized because there is always room for improvement. Arigatou!

Ja ne, and I do not own any part of Prince of Tennis!

Eternal.Angel