Chapter 5: Bombardment!
The groups of lucky prizewinners had finally finished the flight to Mexico and were checking into their hotel. Their guide who was showing them around mentioned an activity in the morning so they all turned in early… that is all of them except for one person.
Kairi was lying in bed thinking about her boyfriend Tidus. She hadn't really thought much about boys until about two years, and then all of a sudden she started to have a strange attraction to Tidus. Their relationship had picked up in the last few months, not that anything completely serious had occurred. Meaning that she was still a virgin.
Then those three new boys had arrived. Roxas Riku and Sora. Selphie seemed to think that Roxas was good-looking and Kairi had observed that Yuffie seemed to like him as well. Riku seemed to be normal enough, cool and laid-back. But Sora… Sora was a different matter. Whenever she was around him it seemed that a shadow passed over his eyes. She saw him sneaking glances at her when she thought he wasn't looking. He was either mildly stalking her or there was something else.
Then for a split second Kairi knew why Sora looked troubled around her, why he stole glances at her with troubled eyes. Why he gave up his heart for her. In that moment she remembered it all.
Then that moment passed and Kairi went back to thinking about her boyfriend, oblivious to the pain that she was causing to the boy she forgot, the boy she loved.
Sora.
Riku looked up from his bed and saw what time it was, 6:48 am. Groaning and rolling over he closed his eyes and tried to get back to sleep. Riku shared a room with Sora and Roxas seeing as how they came as a group. Riku was almost asleep when he heard a shout and was rudely awakened.
"Bombardment!"
A hard rubber ball hit Riku in the abdomen and he rolled out of bed in pain. Looking up at his attacker he saw a pretty girl about 17 years old grinning at him holding another round ball in one hand.
"You ready to play?" She said cheerfully smirking at him.
Riku took a second look at her and noticed she was wearing a light blue top with a small white vest and a pair of jeans.
"What are you talking about and why did you wind me with that dodge ball?" Riku asked still on the floor. The other two boys had woken up and were trying to piece together what had happened with their sleep-ridden brains.
"You and the other winners have bombardment today." The woman exclaimed happily. "I'm on you're team!"
"Team??" Roxas asked sleepily.
"Yes, your team. T-E-A-M" She spelled it out for him. "Each team has to have four members and as you are one member short I was randomly picked from the people on Destiny Islands too! My name is Emiko."
"Why are we up so early?" Sora asked groggily.
"Well you have to get up early to prepare for bombardment!"
"What is bombardment anyway?" Riku asked her while slowly getting to his feet.
"What's bombardment? What's bombardment! Bombardment is the best sport ever invented in the history of the entire world forever! You may know it by the name of murder-ball, or dodge ball." Emiko said hurriedly "now get dressed we have to be down at the gym soon!"
Grumbling under their breaths the boys got dressed (After Emiko left of course.) and walked down to a bus that was waiting to take them to a gym to play 'bombardment'.
"The rules are simple." Emiko explained as they walked through the entranceway and into the main gym. "There are three teams in play at one time. That is how it is played in Mexico at least. The court looks like a big triangle and has a lot of rules. First off if you hit someone with a ball then they are out for that round. If someone catches a ball that you threw you are out and one of you're teammates comes back in. If you step over the line separating you from the other teams then any balls you threw are automatically null and void."
"Umm. Okay." Sora said trying to remember all the rules. "Can you repeat the part where you said the stuff about all those things please?"
"Don't worry, the referee will explain it all to you again before the game starts." Emiko said cheerfully. "You will be playing the other two teams soon so be prepared. I'm not as good as you'd think. I'm only average."
"I've a feeling that she is better than she says she is." Riku whispered to Roxas.
When the four got to the court they found that the other teams were already there. Which was confusing because they were an hour early.
"The game time got moved an hour ahead." The ref told them "A large party booked a game at the same time as you originally planned to play so you were bumped forward."
As the teams got ready to play Emiko gave them some last minute advice.
"Always remember to catch a ball when you get the opportunity. Oh and always look for someone who isn't paying attention to you. Oh and keep moving, also if you can't catch it dodge it. Also, I forgot to tell you-"
She was interrupted by the referee starting the game with the a blast on his whistle and his yell of:
"Bombardment!"
Everyone ran up to the starting line and tried to grab one of the eight balls there. From their team only Sora and Emiko got a ball, although Riku got one after nicely dodging a ball thrown by Selphie.
Emiko threw her ball and nailed Vivi in the back of the head while he was looking the other way.
"You see, never take you're eyes off of someone who has a ball." Emiko said smugly as she neatly caught a ball thrown by Tidus. Emiko turned around to tell Sora another tip when he noticed another ball being thrown by Kairi at her while she was distracted.
"Heads up!" he yelled, when he saw that she wasn't going to duck in time he launched his own ball at the one already in mid-air. It ricocheted of Kairi's ball in mid-air and went straight towards Seifer who was dropped to the floor by his ball.
"Wow that worked out nicely." Sora murmured completely astonished he had saved one of his teammates and taken out Seifer in one throw. However his surprise was cut short when he felt a ball impact on his head turning his neck far to the side and knocking him out.
When Sora woke up again he was on the bed in his hotel. He got to his feet and looked into a mirror on the wall and immediately noticed a large bruise on the side of his face. He also had a large cut behind his ear, and one beneath his eye. All in all he looked a mess.
"Oh you're awake." A voice said behind him. Sora turned around and saw Emiko standing behind him, her arms crossed. "I got stuck watching you while Riku and Roxas went down to the dining room for lunch."
Her face brightened for a second. "Did you know it's free?"
Sora shook his head and sat down on the bed. He had a bad headache and felt he needed to lie down.
"Hey Emiko." Sora started "How did I get so hurt? The ball didn't do this." He said pointing to the cut.
Emiko winced and answered him. "Seifer volunteered to take you to the medical room and since he was the only other one eliminated we had to let him go. When Roxas was eliminated next Seifer hadn't come back yet, so he went looking for you." She paused for a while to think, "He must really hate you. Roxas found you still unconscious on the floor with Seifer gone and your face a bloody mess."
"Damn that Seifer." Sora said angrily "Didn't he get arrested or something?"
"Not really. There was no way to prove that he did it at all."
Sora was about to lay down when a wave of pain washed over him. Nothing compared to being sat on by a large body, but still a lot of pain.
"Are you okay?" Emiko asked him.
"I think I broke a rib." He said " But I think I can handle it if I don't try to overexert myself. I'm definitely going to kill Seifer when I get better."
"I'm going to call room service to get us some food, I haven't had lunch yet and I'm starving." Emiko said as she stood up and walked over to the room's phone.
As she ordered some food for them Sora closed his eyes and thought about his situation.
"Okay. I'm stuck in a hotel room, with a pretty good-looking girl until my friends finish eating and have the decency to come upstairs and see me. Which could be in about five hours. Damn it Kairi if you don't remember me soon then so help me god I will just give up and start dating others!"
After that Sora became a little depressed and didn't talk to his new friend until the food got there. He began to eat his food and started to talk to Emiko. They talked about Destiny Islands, about the others on their 'team', about pretty much everything.
Mexico was starting to turn out pretty good.
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