Cero "LOL! It is so fun to make you all wait this long!"
Silvia/Eric "don't worry readers, we hate her too"
Cero twitching eyes "so desu ka?"
Silvia/Eric "…." too scared to speak
Change topic
Silvia "where have you been anyway?"
Cero "I was in…an incident…."
Eric "what kind of incident?"
Cero slowly turns to Eric and looks at him with a you-don't-wanna-know-if-you-know-what's-good-for-you look.
Eric/Silvia "O.O;;"
Disclaimer: gulps I-I don't own POT!
Notes: Demongirl13! I have found your reward! Email me and I'll tell you! The readers will have to wait patiently.
After school tennis is canceled due to the all-of-the-sudden storm, the regulars were waiting in the Tennis Club room for Echizen to finish talking to his couch. Actually, they're just eavesdropping on them when Ryoma is telling his couch about the murdered girl.
"Echizen, are you sure?" Ryuzaki asked.
"Ah, the missing girl that was showed on the news three days ago is the same girl that died here," said Ryoma.
"But we don't have proof"
"But we do have witnesses" Ryoma claimed.
Ryuzaki sighed and said, "As much as I like to find that girl's corpse so it would get rid of the demon living in this school, I don't think a bunch of kids would be able to convinced the police, especially on something so unbelievable,"
Ryoma protested, "But the nurse in the office is another witness! She can back us up! She knew what happened!"
"…I'll try and call the police…in the meanwhile, stay out of trouble" said Ryuzaki.
Ryoma nods and silently thanked her, then silently thought, 'Actually, trouble can't seem to get enough of me'
He opens the door then heard a yell,
"ITE!" shouted Momo as he rubs his sore forehead. Ryoma glares at him, was he eavesdropping? Wait why did he care? Ryoma shook his head and let out a sigh, the prince of tennis seems to be getting softer and softer.
Ryoma starts to head home. After 10 minutes, he noticed that his senpais are going through the same direction as he is. He got curious as to why were they following him but shrugged, thinking that in the next five minutes they will go to their homes.
5 minutes later, they were still following him. Ryoma had enough; his curiosity got the better of him.
"Ne, senpai-tachi?" Ryoma calls out their name and his senpais turned their attention to him.
"Why are you following me?"
The regulars, besides Tezuka and Inui (they're too cool for that), blinked and laugh at him, this made Ryoma confused even more.
"What's so funny?" Ryoma asked.
"Nya Ochibi's dense! We're escorting you to your house!" said Eiji, latching unto him.
Ryoma was annoyed, "Why do I need an escort?"
"It doesn't really matter! We get to hang out more than usual!" said Momo as he latched himself on the poor boy.
The annoyed freshman rolled his eyes as his two hyperactive senpais give him one of their big hugs (Somehow that gave me the chills). Thankfully, Oishi was there to the rescue. Ryoma shuffles away from his hyperactive senpais next to his respectful, honorable buchou.
Ryoma's mind suddenly stopped thinking; panic took hold of him though he didn't show it. He forgot he had a fight with his parents last night and he didn't really want to see their faces yet, he'll have to ask Kawamura-senpai for another sleepover. He sighed in frustration, he'll have to hope that his senpai would let him have another night and if he can't then he'd rather sleep in the streets.
'…Karupin! UGH! Oyaji! He won't feed him, even a little piece of tuna! Damnit!' Ryoma thought as he suddenly remembered his dear beloved cat.
The tennis freshman suddenly stops dead in his track as he noticed the streets were strangely familiar, as if he was been here before, somewhere, like a dream. Then it clicked in the little boy's mind. This were the streets were she was running that night.
"FFSSSHHH! Echizen, is there a problem?" Kaidoh asked, it seems he was the only one noticed that Ryoma stopped. Tezuka, who was behind the group, just suddenly noticed two of his regular team is missing. He looked back and saw Kaidoh talking to Echizen. The captain stops and heads over to his kouhais. Fuji noticed the Buchou's actions and motioned everyone to come over.
Kaidoh sensed a presence as he turned around and blinked, "Buchou?"
"Is there something wrong?" Tezuka asked. Ryoma looks from Kaidoh to his Buchou, then back to the streets.
Ryoma lowered his head and quietly answered, "This place…it's…familiar"
"Oi, oi! Echizen, what are you doing?" Momo asked as he put him in a headlock and starts to mess up his hair. Surprising part was that the freshman didn't mind. He simply pushed his senpai and heads over to that street.
The regulars blinked at him, they were confused of his actions, and what was he going to do? For now, they simply follow him; it's a pain to ask questions to the prince of tennis anyway.
Right now, Ryoma starts to remember this place. He silently whispered to himself to activate on of his powers, "Retro-dream…"
The background turns blue, everything was blue, the streets were blue, houses were blue, and people were blue, even the sky but the sky was full of stars. Ryoma was glad that he was able to peek inside the Shinkouteki Book, at a certain page were it has all level five spells for Shinkouteki.
"Retro-dream" is a spell that shows the person a recent dream or nightmare and makes them blend with reality. The blue is reality and the pink is the dream/nightmare. Since the recent dream Ryoma only had, was last night's nightmare. That would mean that the little girl running through the street would be all pink.
Ryoma's eyes scan everywhere, finding the color that doesn't fit in the background. He gives up the streets and starts walking through a nearby neighborhood, maybe he had to go to the beginning before the little girl went running that night.
'There she is!' Ryoma thought as she saw the pink colored girl running. Ryoma quickly activate another power, "Beginnings"
The pink girl froze and then starts running backwards. It seems awkward but actually, the picture just went backwards. Beginning is a kind of power that reverses time. It doesn't affect reality since our dear samurai focused only the dream world.
Suddenly, the picture starts to move reversibly fast and Ryoma was forced to run in order to catch up. The regulars, whom are obviously blue, were confused but decided to follow. Intense excitement and worries start to grow in their bodies, the situation was way too confusing for the regulars but they knew they had to be there for their freshman, they had to be strong.
Ryoma's legs were starting to give out but he ignored his tired legs and keeps running. The little girl turns to the corner and Ryoma made a sharp turn but then-
WHAM!
The regulars got there and saw their little pillar of Seigaku on top of their two toughest regulars in Hyotei, Atobe and Oshitari.
"Well, this is unfortunate," muttered Oshitari since he was the last person. He starts to feel lightheaded when he felt Atobe's butt on his manly-hood. (That must've been nice…xxx Silvia/Eric "CERO!").
"Ore-sama will sue you for tackling me!" shouted Atobe. "Now get off!"
Ryoma quickly gets off and jumps on his feet. Atobe as well quickly gets up and was about to yell at the young freshman but stops, realized that the brat was scanning for something and not paying attention to the great Ore-sama! This action causes Atobe to fume; meanwhile Oshitari maturely gets up and dusts himself.
"You little brat! Watch where you're going next time!" said Atobe. Ryoma just shot a glare at him. The monkey king broke his connection to the dream realm and lost the truth about the girl.
The tennis freshman quickly goes over to the wall and leans on it before he falls dramatically then everyone has to be all worried and jumpy, gosh that's annoying.
"Gomen Atobe, it won't happen again," said Oishi as he steps up to apologize before it gets out of hand.
Oshitari eyes them suspiciously and asks, "Why are you all here? There isn't a single tennis court nearby here".
"It's none of your business," said Ryoma. Oshitari was offended, why was he cold to him when he didn't do anything?
"Nya! Ochibi! That's not nice!" said Eiji as he goes over about to hug the young freshman but ceased when he saw the furious dark golden eyes in the pillar's eyes.
Suddenly, a camera snaps and everyone glanced around to find the source of the light. They saw none other than Gakuto with a media camera.
Gakuto then took out a small notebook and a pen then starts writing, "Seigaku's ace player, Echizen Ryoma ran into Hyotei's Tennis Captain, Atobe Keigo, both squash Hyotei's tensai, Oshitari, Gakuto's partner! I'm so good at being Hyotei's reporter!"
Atobe rolled his eyes and snaps at him, "You know! The news had to be related to school's tennis!"
Gakuto retorts, "It is! We're all in Tennis! And this news goes to Tennis Gossip!"
Everyone sweat dropped, Eiji groaned and thought, 'why is he here?' The acrobatic cat turns away then felt a sharp cold wind strode by. Eiji felt the sensation none other, his playmate, Echizen.
Soon, they all began to noticed Ryoma's anger besides Gakuto who was obviously still bragging how good of a Tennis photographer he is. The one thing that caught Inui, Tezuka, Fuji, Atobe, and Oshitari was that, Ryoma wasn't glaring at Gakuto; he was glaring at the camera.
Finally, Gakuto began to realized the cold atmosphere, he scans around and saw Echizen glaring at his camera as if he wanted to break it but since Gakuto didn't care, out of nowhere, he took a picture of Echizen. Big mistake. Ryoma pounced on him and starts to choke him.
Everyone was surprised by the unusual strength Ryoma possessed but then their minds registered and quickly gets the raging Ryoma out of the poor Gakuto. Everything happened too fast.
After Ryoma calms down he started shouting, "erase the pictures you took now!"
Gakuto, who was scared out of his wits, quickly deletes the pictures. There was a moment of silence then Ryoma turns around and walks away, the regulars soon followed after looking at the Hyotei regulars with apologetic looks.
After they left, Oshitari, Gakuto, and Atobe were still confused as hell. Did something happened?
"Now what the hell was that all about?" Atobe asked.
"I don't know…' said Oshitari.
"Phew, good thing I have a recycle bin in this camera," said Gakuto as he opened the pictures but was shocked to find something that wasn't supposed to be on the picture. "Hey! Oshitari! Atobe! Look! Look!"
The two regulars just go over, curious to see what was in the picture. Their eyes widened in fear when they saw…
Cliffy! Ha! And you think I was nice enough to make this chapter long! By the way, I was truly in an incident…a secret incident…and I was released from the hos-ahem! From somewhere this morning, please show support and review!
