Finally didn't have work for a day B)
Chapter 23 – The Beginning
"Oh no, is he going to die?!" Sora could hear Demyx faintly whine. He felt the boys feet quickly pace back and forth across the cold tiled floor.
"If he does," Hayner began. "We all know who to blame." All the boys eyes began to focus on Axel.
They had rushed to the bathroom after Sora had fainted, lying the brunette down on the ground.
"Guys, don't give me that look! You take blame too," Axel yelled, fist in the air. "You were watching and you didn't stop me or him!"
"Yeah, as if you told us what it was!" Roxas snapped. Static began to build between the two as they retorted to each other over and over.
Their bickering stopped when they heard the bathroom door creak open. Riku stopped in his footsteps, eyeing the situation without one ounce of expression on his face. The moment was awkward until snow-head sighed and decided to turn around and walk back out.
"GET HIM!" Hayner and the other boys pounced, grabbing the startled Riku and tackling him back into the bathroom.
Pence, Demyx, and Zexion sat on the teens back as he lay on the floor in defeat.
"What are you doing…" Riku asked in annoyance.
"You're a witness to a horrible crime!" Demyx cried. He was quickly thumped on the back of the head by Hayner who shushed him. Demyx tightened his lips into a pout.
Riku looked over at the brunette, seeing him from his side. He saw his chest rise and fall. "I don't know what you guys did to him," Riku said. "But he's definitely well alive."
"We know that," Roxas tightened his fists at his sides. "But he's not getting up."
At this moment Riku would've face palmed, if not being held on the ground. "Get off." He said, beginning to try and push himself up.
"Are you going to help?!" Demyx asked, the boys trying to stay on him.
"Yes." The snow-head groaned.
The three boys quickly got off of the teen, watching him stand up and dust himself off. They eyed Riku as he went to the sink and turned the faucet on, cupping his palms together and filling them with water. The snow-head kneeled down, holding his cupped hands over the boys tanned face. He separated his palms letting the cold water drop on Sora's face.
His blue eyes shot open as if an alarm went off inside his head. "Where am I?!" He asked before jumping up to a sitting position, knocking his forehead hard onto Riku's. "Ow ow ow!" He yelped, the two grabbed their foreheads while the other boys cringed from the echoing noise of banging skulls.
Sora looked up at Riku. "What are you doing here," He asked. Looking around he realized they were in the boy's bathroom. "What am I doing here?!"
Riku stood up and backed away.
"Are you feeling okay, kiddo?" Axel quickly asked, being hopeful.
"Yeah," Sora furrowed his eyebrows looking at Riku. "Except for the headache that's beginning to come on."
"Don't blame me," Riku responded. "Watch what you're doing next time."
"Says the one who's supposed to have cheetah like reflexes." Sora pouted angrily.
"Hmph!" Riku huffed before walking to the door. "Don't die before try outs. You'll never surpass me if you do."
The brunette sighed as he watched the teen walked out. He stood up to his feet, moving them around a bit as if they had lost some feeling. "Your pill worked, Axel," He smiled brightly. "I don't feel tired anymore!"
"Glad to hear it!..." Axel nervously laughed.
"Do you even remember what happened during lunch?" Pence asked, approaching the boy.
"No," Sora scratched his forehead. "Come to think of it, I don't remember anything after Axel gave me the pill."
The bell rang.
"Well as they say, some things are better off forgotten!" Axel said quickly before grabbing his stuff and walking out the door.
"You were acting really delusional!" Roxas giggled, handing Sora his backpack.
"Whattt," Sora cried. "How delusional?"
"Let's not talk about it!" Roxas smiled, slinging his back pack over his shoulder.
"So," Coach Villiers stood out on the Blitzball field, the sun shining down on him and his main team players. "How many kids do you guys think are going to show up?" He was eyeing a list on his clipboard of people who signed up.
"Fifteen?" Selphie guessed, giving her coach a questioning look.
"More like fifty, ya?" Wakka smiled.
"That only happened once," Selphie said. "And that's when we had all tried out!"
"What if you don't find the type of person you're looking for, Coach?" Riku asked.
"There's always diamonds buried where you least expect to find them." Snow responded. He placed his hand as a visor on his forehead, looking out into the field watching the students approach from the distance for try outs.
"It's so hot," Sora whined. "What if I pass out from exhaustion!?"
"I'm sure you'll pass out from being nervous much quicker than passing out over that." Roxas responded, combing his fingers through his blonde locks. Though he had to admit, it was hot but nothing islanders couldn't cope with.
"Yeah, calm down man." Hayner suggested.
The group of students reached the coach on the field in a big blob. Sora began to shake his limbs, trying to calm down.
"It's good to see you here, Sora!" Selphie smiled delightfully.
Sora smiled back as Roxas gave a look of disapproval to the girl.
"I wouldn't expect to see you three here," Snow said, checking their names off on his list. "After locking me up on the roof!"
"Well, you got out right?" Hayner smiled nervously, the two others doing the same.
"Hmph," Snow gave a grin. "Everyone line up!" He yelled at the group. They all did as they were told, getting in a straight horizontal line facing Coach Villiers. He eyed them carefully. "There are twenty five of you, which is way too many. So we're going to have to cut some of you out." Snow felt superior as he saw the scared looks appear on the students' faces. "We'll have a race!"
"I'm not liking this already." Hayner whispered through his lips.
"Line up on the track," The coach ordered. The students quickly filled up behind the starting line. Snow peered over at his star players sitting on the sidelines. "You guys too now." Riku and Selphie glared at him. "Don't tell me my two fielders don't like running," Snow teased as he watched the four players' line up behind the other students. "The last five, not including the players already on the team, will not be able to tryout. On the blow of my whistle," They all got in a readying position. "Three, two," he blew his whistle loud.
Sora burst off, running his fastest and trying to stay ahead of the pack. Roxas and Hayner were right behind him, Roxas almost reaching Sora's speed.
"Riku," Selphie hissed. "Look at Sora go!" The four star players were jogging slowly behind the students, becoming farther and farther behind them. "Not bad for someone with two left feet huh?!"
"He shows promise!" Tidus grinned.
"It's only a race, that's much different from actually playing." Riku responded, trying to ignore their comments.
The brunette kept up his speed determined not to let anyone, except maybe his two friends, pass him. When he reached back to the starting line he let out his gasping breath, hands on his knees panting. Roxas and Hayner did the same, trying to catch their breaths.
Sora stood up straight, looking at his friends. "Good…job!" He said out of breath still. The two blondes held out a thumbs up, trying to smile through what felt like their dying breaths.
"Huh," Sora saw a girl stop her running next to him as she passed over the line. From what he could see her hair was short and blue and she looked as if she was to be tall, but it was hard to tell since she was crouched over. "Good job to you too!"
The girl looked up questioningly, wondering who was talking to her. Sora saw that her hair matched her eyes and her pink lips gave a lighted smile. She stood up straight. "Thank you, uh-"
"Sora Hibari!" Sora chimed.
The girl giggled. From what Sora could tell she seemed sweet, although very athletic at the same time. "Thank you, Sora," she said. "My name is Aqua Yano."
"Wow," Sora seemed amazed. "Even your name is blue!"
"Yes." She replied, a bit taken back by the boy's response.
Hayner put an arm around Sora's shoulder. "Sorry about him," He said. "I'm Hayner Finnlet!"
"Roxas Strife!" Roxas introduced himself.
"Nice to meet you!" Aqua bubbled.
The conversation was cut short by the Coach blowing his whistle as the last of the twenty people he needed came through. The other five that were left behind on the track stopped, trying to catch their breaths in defeat.
"To the twenty who made it through, congrats," Snow said. "But tomorrow will be another day more challenging than this. So be ready! You can all go home now."
The students were relieved to finally be able to head home, even though the first day of tryouts were short.
"It looks like you're the only girl who made it through, Aqua." Roxas noted.
"That's not too surprising." Aqua walked over to the water fountain near the entrance to the boys and girls lockers rooms, getting a sip of water.
"True!" Roxas lightly laughed.