Yeeeaaaaah! 8th chapter's up, hope you enjoy this chapter as well. Oh and I also made some changes to Shizuzuka's goalkeeper uniform. It's now dark green with white marking and white shorts, you'll see why when you read the chapter. Sorry about that, I just thought it suit him better than white. And the imperial domain's uniform is light greyish peach (don't ask, that's just how I describe it) with blue shorts. I think I didn't mention it in the last chapter... oh well.
"Mark Domain. It will be a pleasure to play against you."
The Raimon captain glared daggers at him, refusing to shake his hand to which the captain of the other team scoffed.
"How disrespectful." He turned his back to them, "I won't even bother with the introductions, you already know us." He said haughtily, "But it doesn't seem that your 'additionals' do."
Omiwari threw a sideway glance at the group of four who looked up in mild shock before glaring at his back. One looked like she was about to run up and give him a good fist in the face introduction, but was held off by her friends.
They may be additionals to the team, but it was his cocky attitude that got them all riled up.
"You know, I can't even begin to believe we have to play against you!" The sandy haired boy howled with laughter at the Raimon team. Two of his teammates carried their smug smiles over to join him in his mockery, "I've seen you play and it's pathetic! Rank number 10, that isn't much of an achievement now is it?"
Omiwari narrowed his eyes at the boy. He was trying to provoke them.
"At least we're part of the Top 10 you little twit!" Miwana shouted to which she received a loud scolding from the Raimon coach.
Mark laughed again, enjoying watching them all easily provoked, "I mean, what good is it to be number 10? If you ask me, Tenton Academy is a much better opponent. At least THEY'RE soaring to number 1, just look at the ranking! They're unstoppable while this pathetic excuse of a team," He gestured to Raimon, "Is staying flat on the ground thinking that being number 10 is great! Tell me, when was the last time you actually-"
"That's enough," A heavy hand placed itself on the sandy-haired boy's shoulder. Mark looked up and scowled at the captain of the team, "We're here to bring them to the field, not to make fun of them."
Mark shoved the hand away and crossed his arms, "Tch. Whatever greeny. Just because you're my captain doesn't mean you can boss me around."
Most people would have widened their eyes at his words, but it looked like the opposing team reacted with little emotion. Like it was normal for them and not to intervene.
"I'd watch my attitude if I were you Domain." The captain threatened, cracking his knuckles to show his strength.
Sweating slightly from the intimidation of his captain, Mark turned away, going back to his usual arrogant self, "W-Whatever! Let's just go!" He hastily marched off to the entrance that led to the field along with the rest of the team following after. Their captain was the only one who stood alone with the Raimon team.
"I'm really sorry about my teammate's behaviour. He's always like this." The captain of the Imperial Domain apologized shamefully, "Shizuzuka Shiota, captain of the Imperial Domain." He offered a friendly smile to go along with his waiting hand.
Being taken aback by the sudden kind behaviour, Omiwari became wary. Shizuzuka sensed his discomfort and pulled back his hand.
"Come on, the coach is waiting for us. I'll bring you there! Since all my other teammates left me." He added mumbling. With his heel turned, the green haired captain beckoned for the team to follow him to the field of the school stadium.
Most were hesitant and looked at one another, unsure and expecting the other to follow first, but when the Raimon captain bravely followed after, the rest complied.
Like where Mark and the rest of the team members disappeared to, a dome-shaped entrance automatically opened for them to enter. When the last person stepped in, the doors trapped them in, causing the team to panic from the sound and lack of sunlight.
Suddenly, glowing blue lights lit up dimly, brightening the area which was revealed to be a hallway, "Come on. Follow me." Shinzuzuka called with a rather eager grin well hidden from sight. He led the bewildered team across the hallway after their panic had cooled down.
"This is really cool." Kuroyama breathed, his voice echoing as he looked around still amazed by the sudden light show.
The moment Kuroyama whipped his head away from the ceiling, he emitted a loud shriek that hurt everyone's ears.
"Aiyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"
"Kuroyama! What's wrong?" Victor asked, kneeling behind the fallen boy. He never knew Kuroyama could scream like a girl. Looking up, Victor couldn't believe his eyes at the sight.
"Woah."
A grand dolphin stared back with an innocent smile on its face. It then suddenly gave out a hearty laugh and swam freely in the water sealed above them.
"Cool." Hiromi breathed, admiring the dolphin swim all the way to the other side.
Minowari pushed up his glasses while in awe, "Amazing! I would never have thought there'd be an aquarium in the school!".
"Look at all the aquatic animals!" Kimiko squealed with excitement, rushing up to the glass with a pencil in her hand, ready to sketch.
While everyone was gushing over the aquarium, Omirawi felt wary about the sudden surprise and wondered if the opposing captain was trying to play mind tricks on them by acting all nice and friendly. Omiwari even bet he was showing off too. The Raimon captain stole a glance at the green haired captain next to him with his attention and palm resting on the glass.
The same dolphin came back while doing a happy little loop before coming to where the hand was. It rubbed its head affectionately against the other side of the glass.
"This is Dolly." Shizuzuka introduced the dolphin, catching everyone's uninvited attention, "Ex-professional circus performer."
"A circus?" Yamada questioned. Shizuzuka nodded.
"Yup. The best of the best before she retired from her day job," He explained, watching the dolphin laugh again and swim away to join her aquatic friends, "She resides here in the school's aquarium and is under our care. She currently belongs to Mark-"
"Hang on. Mark?" Yamada interrupted with a face of perplexion, "You mean that arrogant brat? He's her owner?"
Shizuzuka nodded again, only, this time, there was no smile, "Unfortunately yes. The coach's the one who gave Dolly as a pet gift to him. Their relationship is like father and son. Needless to say, he doesn't take good care of her, so it's my job to ensure she lives healthily."
Like that, he turned his heel and began walking with the team trailing closely behind.
"What about your other teammates?" Miwana asked, her arms folded and a few feet away from the leading captain.
"We take turns but I don't trust some of them to do the job well, sad to say." He replied with a sheepish grin.
"You don't trust your teammates?" Naomi wondered aloud, forcing everyone to look at the opposing captain's turned back.
"Not only the job but on the field as well." His voice carried a depressed tone that rendered everyone speechless, "It's what we call corruption."
For the entire trip to the field, nobody said a word, not even Kuroyama. Nobody felt at ease with the silence and tension in the air. Luckily it didn't last long as they carried on away from the aquarium to a bright light source in front of them.
"Well, we're here."
Numerous gasps sounded in awe, although their field was humongous, it greatly resembled a stadium field than a normal school field.
Shizuzuka spotted his team not far away on the grassy field, apparently waiting for him.
"I'll be retreating back to my team now, best of luck." He wished them and ran back to his team, leaving the Raimon team in a dust.
"I see you have finally arrived." The dark and looming voice of the Imperial Domain coach made everyone jump. Out of the dark, Giovanni appeared with a strained yet sinister smile like earlier. The light that entered from the glass roof covered only half of his face while an eagle was perched on his shoulder, holding a predating look, "I hope you are prepared to lose Raimon. But enough with the- what do you call that? Chit chat. Let us begin the battle!"
He dramatically swung his arm to behind him which sent the eagle flying as it's caws echoed loudly in the gigantic stadium walls.
"WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE FIRST MATCH OF PREMILARIES! RAIMON VERSUS IMPERIAL DOMAIN!" Getaku Larino shouted at the top of his lungs. His sudden appearance shocked Miwana and the other managers.
"What the hell!? How did you get here!?"
"A COMMENTATOR NEVER REVEALS HIS SECRETS! NEVER!" He yelled, "NOW LET US BEGIN THE MATCH!"
A referee appeared on the field and with a whistle in his hand. The sound rang loudly in the enclosed field.
The game had begun.
"THE IMPERIAL DOMAIN STARTS OFF WITH THEIR KICKOFF!" The commentator began, "OTONASHI IS COMING IN HOT WITH THE BALL IN PERFECT POSSESSION!"
A forward with orange hair and electric blue eyes dashed passed Nishiki and Victor before they could reach him and in a blink of an eye, the other two Imperial Domain forwards rushed passed them too.
"Otonashi!" The girl forward yelled. She had striking blue hair with different colour eyes; magenta and amber. Her fellow teammate nodded and passed the ball to her who advanced further on the field.
Ichijuu and Hamano slid in to tackle the ball away, but she easily jumped over them with the ball between her feet and kicked it over to the third forward with crimson red hair and green eyes.
Hiromi stopped running, noticing something strange going on on the field. With a whip of her head, she looked at their goal to see the rest of the team standing there doing nothing!
'They're not even playing!' Hiromi thought, watching the sandy blonde haired boy send her a smug smile. At that moment, Victor had reached her.
"You noticed too?" Hiromi nodded, "Right, we'll deal with them later, for now, we have to stop THEM from scoring." With another nod from the brunette, the two players sped off towards the crowded goal.
"No!" Yamada shouted as the ball flew above his head, "Kuroyama! Block it!"
Kuroyama didn't have to be told twice. He had the ball right where he wanted and ran back with open arms ready to catch it.
"I got it!" He alarmed, leaping from his spot. He was so close to grabbing the ball when Akiyama, the third forward jumped from his side and sent the ball zooming towards the open goal right before his very eyes.
"GOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! IMPERIAL DOMAIN SCORES THE FIRST POINT IN JUST SECONDS!"
Kuroyama who had been shocked from the goal fell and landing on his backside instead of his feet. Hayami who was standing close to him, offered his hand, "Thanks, Hayami-san. Ow..." Kuroyama rubbed his sore spot before noticing Hiromi and Victor near him.
"I guess we lost the first point," Hiromi stated, glancing at the scoreboard that turned Imperial Domain's zero to a one. She shifted her gaze onto the three forwards returning back to their side of the team, "And they ended it so quickly too."
"That's the Imperial Domain for you." Ookami said, walking up to the bemused group, "They end their games quickly and swiftly. One of their advantages is ball keeping. They have perfect possession of the ball in all of their games."
"Looks like it," Hiromi said, never leaving her gaze on their opponents.
"But I've never seen THAT kind of teamwork before." Kuroyama said a bit degraded and annoyed, "It strikes me weird they would send their forwards to play only."
"It's not exactly a foul play either." Yamada explained before sending a smirk, "But their definition of teamwork is different from ours."
For a minute, he left the trio clueless until their captain alerted them that the next round was about to start and shooed them back to their positions.
"NISHIKI BRINGS THE BALL UP CONFIDENTLY! JUST LOOK AT THAT SMILE!"
Nishiki broadly grinned at the compliment as he outran one of the midfielders of the other team and passed the ball to Hamano who received the ball with ease.
But the moment he looked up from the ball, Hamano instantly panicked at the sight of his opponents; he could see their sadistic smiles as clear as day from the closing the distance between them. Fortunately, a plan escalated quickly in his mind.
Hamano began to run towards his opponents with a confident look. In seconds, water began to form in front of him and ball, stretching itself all the way to the back like a gust of wind blowing the water strongly until Hamano and the ball was enveloped inside the jet of water. Water currents began to form and spin rapidly around the jet of water due to the speed Hamano was quickly picking up.
"Current Dash!"
Hamano instantly passed his opponents before bursting out from the rapid water currents, completely dry and unharmed.
"Hiromi!" He shouted, kicking the ball to the brunette from afar while their opponents were distracted.
However, once Hiromi received the ball and brought it up, a blur surpassed her and a sandy blonde boy with goggles appeared to stop her in her tracks.
"You forgot," Mark mocked, the ends of his mouth curling into a sly smile that made Hiromi narrow her eyes, "We're the Imperial Domain."
With a loud whistle he made, Hiromi turned around to see four or five more people surround and trap her.
'Not again!' Hiromi thought, the events of Whirlwind Tornado flooding into her mind. With her quick and thoughtless thinking, Hiromi angled herself to kick the ball at Victor who was running towards the goal, ready to receive her kick.
"Victor!" Much to Hiromi's utter confusion and dismay, the ball didn't reach Victor like she thought it would. Instead, the sky repelled the ball back to her while shedding light to the trap she was stuck in.
Hiromi whipped her head at Mark who was overflowing with purple energy around him. Before Hiromi could blink, Mark snapped his fingers as a signal to his teammates who all ran towards a defenseless Hiromi.
"Invisible Barrier!"
As they frighteningly neared her, Hiromi felt the roof of the said invisible barrier shrink and was forced to her knees due to the quick and forceful pressure applied on her head and body. Hiromi gritted her teeth in pain.
"Hiromi!" Shingestu yelled in worry, watching their opponents purposely walk towards her, to make her first experience suffering and painful.
Giovanni smirked at the sight on the field.
"Hiromi!" Omiwari shouted, running towards her but was blocked by their opponents.
Hiromi felt the sounds of footsteps stop, but with what little space she had, Hiromi only could crane her neck slightly to meet the demonic sandy blonde haired jerk.
"We thought we'd make the experience more painful for you." His voice dripping with venom that made Hiromi want to do nothing more but than to choke him. Hiromi's head was bowed down due to the increasing force of the roof, but her eyes never left him, "Heh. I'll be taking the ball now, thank you very much."
And what seemed to be a miracle and a disaster, Mark stole the ball away with ease and the entire barrier shattered before Hiromi knew it.
"Ijimaru!" Mark sent the ball flying towards a white haired boy with red eyes. Ijimaru smirked and along with his teammates close to him, they advanced towards the goal. Mark sent the brunette one last mocking look before chasing after his teammates to assist in their second goal.
For a second, Omiwari's blockers suddenly dashed away, leaving him with only a minimal amount of time to glanced at the floored brunette.
"Are you alright?" Victor asked, he and Hamano standing above her.
"I'm fine." Hiromi once again lied, "It's just a headache, that's all." Omiwari seized this opportunity to send commands to his teammates.
"Block them! They're going to score!"
"Minowari! Go left! Hayami the right!" Ookami barked, "Bara! You and me in the middle!" Like commanded, the defense team split to occupy the 2 players of the team. Minowari had one of the players with the ball in their possession.
"Chemical X!" Stomping his foot on the ground, in a blink of an eye, a large circle of green substance appeared and spread out, increasing the size. Though is was made to trap his opponents, however, they seemingly had predicted it and before their feet could touch the green, Ijimaru sent a flying kick to the ball across the field onto Hayami's side.
"Mark!" He passed Hayami while he was distracted. His other teammates were unfortunate.
"Kuroyama! Stop him!" The sounds of the Raimon team echoed, but Kuroyama didn't have to be told twice. It was clear he had to stop the ball.
"Static..." Kuroyama withdrew his hands that began crackling with static electricity, ready to thrust them forward.
Mark held an arrogant smirk that meant trouble. He suddenly screeched to a stop in seconds, something along the colours of blue, black and purple energy sprouted out of his back and gradually grew larger until it took form of something horrendous.
"Goddess Medusa!"
The form was a woman from the waist up and wearing a purple dress with the bottom being a sort of tail connected to Mark's back. The woman was green-skinned, her deadly eyes in the colour of bright red, wide-mouth and her long tongue dangling freely. What caught their eyes was the monster's head, instead of normal hair, it was replaced by thousands of snake heads hissing at everything they laid eyes on.
While everyone had their eyes on the monster, Mark raised his leg and gave a powerful kick to the ball.
"QUEEN OF THE SNAKES!"
As the ball headed towards the goal with a white streak being it, the giant woman suddenly and scarily chased after it. The deadly snakes on her head hissed loudly as she emitted her own ear-deafening screech making everyone put their hands over their ears.
"CHARGE!" Kuroyama yelled, thrusting his hands forward. The silent burst of crackling bolts impacted with the ball just in time. Kuroyama felt himself being slowly forced back along with the soil from his shoes. Gritting his teeth, Kuroyama dared to stare past the bright bolts at the woman's terrifying blood red eyes who screamed at him. And in seconds, Kuroyama felt something from the ground crawl up his legs.
It felt rocky and slightly jagged.
The moment Kuroyama looked down at his feet was the moment when he let his guard down. The ball penetrated through his block hissatsu and hit the goal before Kuroyama could realize what happened.
"GOOOOAAAAAAAL!" Getaku hollowed, "THE IMPERIAL DOMAIN SCORES THEIR SECOND POINT THANKS TO QUEEN OF THE SNAKES!"
Kuroyama winced in pain as he watched the rocks slowly crawl back to the earth. The sudden penetration had made him arch his back, resulting in him to cut himself from the back of the knees.
The whistle blew and Getaku's voice rang again, "THERE GOES THE WHISTLE! THE FIRST HALF OF THE MATCH IS OVER!"
With the help of his fellow teammates, Kuroyama slowly limped over to the bench.
"What kind of hissatsu techniques was that?" Sora inquired in hopes of getting her answer by anyone. Kuroyama was sat as Kimiko applied the medicine on his wound.
"One of Domain's famous hissatsu techniques." Ookami answered, "If anyone stares into that woman's eyes, they'll get petrified from the legs up unless they stare into the eyes long enough to turn completely into stone." He rubbed his chin in thought. Sora gasped in horror.
"You mean like petrification!? Wouldn't they suffocate in that body of stone?" Ookami opened his mouth to say something.
"The cuts were very deep, I don't think you'll be able to play for the second round Kuroyama," Kimiko spoke and stood up, revealing the short boy's bandaged knees. Kuroyama looked at the ground sadly.
"I understand."
Namayaki offered a reassuring smile and a hand on the shoulder, "Don't look down yet Kuroyama. I'll make sure they don't score. Scout's honour." Kuroyama smiled weakly.
Miwana turned to Hiromi, "How's your head kid?" To which the brunette shook her head.
"Just a minor headache. It's gone now."
"It's time." The captain announced before glancing back at his team, "And Namayaki, don't get yourself killed." The albino haired goalkeeper gave a sly grin.
"Whatever you say... mom."
Not a second later, the whistle rang again.
"AND THE SECOND HALF STARTS OFF WITH RAIMON'S KICKOFF!"
Victor passed the ball to Nishiki.
"AND OFF THEY GO! DETERMINED TO SCORE THE NEXT GOAL AFTER BEING CRUSHED TO BITS BY THE IMPERIAL DOMAIN!"
'Thanks so much for the support.' Hiromi rolled her eyes as she stole the ball back from a forward named Mizusaki who stole the ball from Nishiki. But it felt easy. Way too easy. Like she was letting her have the ball. Hiromi shook her head, 'Now's not the time to think about that. It's the second half, we've got to score!'
"Victor!" Hiromi passed the ball up front to the sprinting boy. Victor received the ball and brought it up with the captain and Ichijuu tagging behind him. Hiromi suddenly slowed down, her eyebrows rose up in realization and confusion.
'Why aren't they moving?' She thought, watching the midfielders stand frozen on the ground and let Victor pass them.
"What?" Victor whispered, distracted by their actions.
"Victor, don't let your guard down!" Omiwari warned but by the time the navy haired boy realized their situation, it was too late.
"AND WHITEMAN STEALS THE BALL WITH A SLIDE!" Victor hit the ground as the defender's foot 'accidentally' tripped him when he stole the ball. The defender with white hair and teal eyes smirked at the fallen boy. He gave a powerful kick that sent the ball flying over everyone's heads and across the field as the defenders raced to stop it.
"I got it!" Hayami yelled, jumping from his spot. The ball was right in front of him and while in the air, Hayami swung his leg over the ball, creating a green forcefield. Like a bowling ball being dropped from the hands of a bowler, the ball half-buried itself into the soil due to the heaviness of the forcefield.
"Hamano, catch!" Hayami shot the ball out of the ground with one sweep kick after the green energy glowing from his foot passed on to the ball. The force field disappeared into green smoke and Hamano received the ball and immediately kicked it to Hiromi who was nearer to the goal.
"Score the point Hiromi!" Nishiki shouted enthusiastically. Hiromi nodded in affirmation.
With the ball in front of her feet, a golden plate appeared from underneath and shot out pink petals. Hiromi wanted to make the shoot quick before anyone could steal in away from her. With a powerful kick, in seconds, the ball was whirled towards the Shizuzuka.
"Oh no, you don't. Disaster Break!"
Shizuzuka slammed his fists on the ground, making it shake and tremble. From his spot, a large crack opened up in the ground and stretched itself. Suddenly, lava and water erupted out of the crack like geysers in an order.
"What!?" Hiromi gasped in shock as she watched the ball collide with the lava in the row. Lava flew everywhere from the strong rolling process of the ball. The ball started to slow down and not a second too soon, it bounced off the ground just at the geysers of lava and water sunk back into the crack the earth immediately sewed back together.
"AND SHIZUZUKA STOPS THE BALL WITH DISASTER BREAK! TRULY A DISASTER IN ONE GO!"
"Don't let them get the ball!" The green haired captain shouted as he noticed one of his teammates come to pick it up.
"We know that you dumbass." Hishikawa, a midfielder with gold hair and orange eyes mumbled bitterly, "Otonashi! Bring it up!" He kicked the ball to the sprinting orange haired forward, who advanced further without question.
"Mizusaki! Akiyama!" He shouted, about to the pass the ball to either one of his fellow forward when he noticed that they were blocked off by Hamano and Ichijuu.
"You're not going anywhere." The voice of the Raimon captain broke through his distracted mind.
"AND OMIWARI STEALS BACK THE BALL! WELL PLAYED! VERY WELL PLAYED!"
"Don't you think he's overexaggerating with the whole ball stealing thing?" Miwana whispered to Kimiko while she eyed the currently glowing commentator. The greenette could only chuckle in reply.
"Nishiki!" The Raimon captain kicked it across the field to the grinning forward. Some of the players from the other team failed in stealing the ball during his pass.
"Gotcha! Come on Vicky, let's go!"
Victor fumed, "Vicky!? This is serious Nishiki-san!"
The Raimon captain chose to ignore them but watch from afar as they advanced towards the goal. He later found himself running beside a certain puzzled brunette,
"Don't look too surprised." Hiromi whipped her head at him, brows furrowed and ready to explode.
"Oh I'm sorry, maybe I wasn't sure which face I should have put on for the occasion," Hiromi growled, screeching to a stop. The Raimon captain followed and was staring into her indignant eyes with a serious face.
"Don't forget. You're the prize of this game and we're doing our best to win." Hiromi balled her hands into fists and watched the Raimon captain speed off to assist the team. He was right, she was the prize, so what was she getting worked up about? Maybe because she just hated his guts?
"Asshole," Hiromi muttered bitterly before the commentator's voice echoed loudly with excitement along with the cheers from her team.
"AND NISHIKI SCORES THE POINT WITH DRAGON NIGHT! IT'S 1 - 2 ON THE SCOREBOARD AND THE GAME CONTINUES WITH THE IMPERIAL DOMAIN'S KICKOFF!"
"Don't let him get the ball Namayaki-san!" Kuroyama roared from his seat. The outburst was enough to startle the poor coldhearted redhead beside him.
"-AND HISHIKAWA IS ABOUT TO SCORE- BUT WAIT! YAMADA INTERJECTS IN AND STEALS THE BALL!"
"Ichijuu!" Yamada alarmed, sending the ball zooming towards the mute boy who gave an 'OK' sign.
Mark stomped furiously over to his fallen teammate, "What the hell was that!? You just let him steal the ball? Are you blind or something!?" Mark exploded, throwing his hands in the air in frustration. Hishikawa wiped the dirt off his nose and scowled at him.
"Hey dude, it's not my fault!" Hishikawa defended as he stood back up only to be kicked in the stomach. Some members of both teams turned their attention to the duo to see what all the commotion was all about.
"Well, you better rethink that, cause it sure as hell was your fault!" Mark glowered and marched away, ignoring the eyes of his peers and opponents on him.
Ookami smirked, "Looks like we have ourselves an advantage." He told his fellow defenders at they watched Hishikawa pick himself up and dust his shorts free of dirt while mumbling under his breath.
Minowari nodded, "Agreed. I predict we'll end this game with a score of 3 - 2," He pushed his glasses up and winked at his teammates, "Raimon's win."
Namayaki clapped his hands loudly, "Then let's do this." He proclaimed with a determined smile.
"AND ICHIJUU PASSES THE BALL TO HIROMI WHO KICKS IT TO VICTOR!"
The captain had ordered them to make short passes across the field and their opponents were getting aggravated when they failed to steal the ball from them, Hiromi noted.
"Hamano-san! Over here!" Hiromi shouted. Hamano quickly passed the ball and nearly missed being injured by a furious defender who tried to claim the ball for her team.
The ball rolled over to her feet, but before she could kick it to someone else, Mark roughly pushed past Hiromi, causing her to lose her footing while he successfully stole the ball and advanced towards the goal with his teammates on hot pursuit. Hiromi growled under her breath.
"AND MARK STEALS THE BALL FROM HIROMI!"
Mark glanced behind his shoulder to see Hiromi far away but chasing after him. When he turned back, he noticed his teammates occupied both his sides.
"Pass the ball, Mark! We're going to shoot!" Mizusaki ordered, but Mark snorted in response.
"In your dreams! I'm going to make the shoot since none of you pathetic idiots can even steal a ball from short passes!" He scowled back which rendered her speechless
Otonashi cut in before angered bluenette could protest, "Mark, there's no time for arguments! Let us have the ball, we'll score for sure!"
"Oh, getting ahead of yourselves huh? Why don't you piss off Otonashi? I'm making the shoot and that's final!" He left his shocked teammates in a dust as they slowed down their pace.
"Ahead of ourselves!?" Mizusaki fumed, "That little arrogant brat's going to make us lose!" She exclaimed. Otonashi frowned in agreement.
"All we can do now is knock some sense into that thick skull of his." He said.
"Ugh! That asshole and his big ego." Mizusaki complained before the two forwards left their spots to assist him just in case. Most, unfortunately, Mark turned around and saw them coming. His eyes lit up indignantly.
"I'm making the damn shoot!" He grumbled irritatedly to himself. He wasn't aware he was blindly running with the ball.
"Distracted much?" A voice asked mockingly. Mark felt the ball slip from his grasp when Yamada effortlessly tackled the ball away from him. Mark screeched to a stop and was left widemouthed.
"Omiwari! Make the shoot!" Yamada yelled, giving the ball a nice powerful kick that sent it flying above everyone's heads until it reached the captain's feet. The Raimon captain looked back and nodded. He shifted his attention back to the goal and involuntarily caught sight of Victor running ahead of him and glanced at Shizuzuka who had his eyes on him like a predator. A plan suddenly formulated in his head and decided to test it.
Omiwari steered himself to the middle of the field. Once he felt he was far enough from the goal for his plan to work, he abruptly crouched down on the, his arms spread out and eyes closed. He summoned his daggers to shoot out of the ground and circle the ball until in was brought up to his face. Omiwari's eyes shot open and with a strong kick, he caught the attention of many incredulous players by propelling the ball straight at a certain navy haired player.
"Victor!" Victor looked over his shoulder at the sound of the captain's call and went pale the instant he saw the ball hurling and daggers pointing dangerously at him. His mind planned to run faster or jump out of the way, but his body thought otherwise.
Victor screeched to a halt and subconsciously lifted his leg, without knowing, his foot lit up with orange flames. With one powerful sweep of his leg, he set the ball and daggers on fire and directed them towards the goal.
Shizuzuka who went agape at the blazing ball didn't react in time to stop it from entering the goal missing him by his ear.
"GOOOOOAAAAAAL!" The commentator screamed joyously while punching the air, "AN AMAZING COMBINATION OF DAGGER ARK AND BLAZING FIRE! THE SCORE IS NOW 2-2! WILL RAIMON SCORE ANOTHER POINT, OR WILL IT GO TO THE IMPERIAL DOMAIN!?"
Shingestu smiled proudly as he watched his players on the field celebrate in triumph of their second point. They only needed one more point and Hiromi would be safe. The Raimon coach shifted his attention to the other team and much to his astonishment, the Imperial Domains' coach was biting his thumb agitatedly and had a dark look on his face as he watched the field. Shingestu sensed something suspicious and looked at the benched players who all wore stoic faces.
"He's up to something isn't he?" The coach turned around to see Naomi with brows furrowed at Giovanni.
Shingestu turned back to look at the coach who suddenly wore a sinister smile, "It may seem so. Let's hope he doesn't pull out any cheat tricks from under his sleeves."
While Raimon was busy celebrating, the sound of the whistle suddenly blew out, disrupting their cheers.
Whipping their heads, they saw the referee hold up a player change board with the number 1 in red and a number 16 in green. Almost everyone's eyes bulged out in disbelief.
"IT LOOKS LIKE THE IMPERIAL DOMAIN HAS CHOSEN TO SWITCH GOALKEEPERS. AND THE SUBSTITUTE GOALKEEPER IS- WHAAAAAAAAT!? SHIZUZUKA'S YOUNGER BROTHER!?"
All eyes landed on the green haired goalkeeper who stood frozen in shock and staring at the board with the glowing numbers that were more than real in his shrunk and disbelieving eyes.
Shingestu whirled his head at the Imperial Domain coach, eyes slightly shrunk. Giovanni spotted the look he was being given and curled his lips back into a wicked smile.
The player that was the current goalkeeper's younger brother stood proudly from his seat while he tightened his gloves. His looks resembled Shizuzuka as he waltzed right towards the field, a broadening smirk on his face.
He wore a snow white goalkeeper jersey with green shorts, his hair green but duller than his brother's and grey eyes that shone with nothing but power and winning.
"Shizuzuka Seiji." Hiromi heard Hayami speak in a dark tone. She whipped her head at him to see him wear a serious look on his face. His eyes solely on the younger brother who took his place in front of the goal.
"The Demon of the Imperial Domain."
Hiromi turned back with furrowed brows at the substitute goalkeeper.
'Demon, huh?' She thought, watching the goalkeeper tighten his gloves again and hunched slightly in alert. Hiromi swore she saw an evil glint in his eyes when he glanced at her, 'Let's see how you do your job, Shizuzuka Seiji.'
Audience be like: "Shizuzuka has a brother!? WHAAAT!?"
Ehehe... I may have gotten too caught up in the story. I promise you Part 3 is the last chapter, I PROMISE. If I break it, you can send a thousand daggers to kill me because I am trash... Yup :p
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