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Ethereal wish

Sports festival (part 5)

Sports festival (part 5)

Dec 08, 2023

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After a short ten minutes break, the sports festival continued with the next activity "Capture the flag".

The game consisted in four teams that were put  in different parts of the school, the students were assigned in teams of five students, each one having a different color. The locations for the each of the teams was picked by the teams leaders in a short game of "pick a straw". Whoever would pick the longest one would be the one to choose first.

The teams were self named by the leaders of each of them.

Road Ragers was made by a really loud girl called Lisa-Lisa, a bulked-up guy named Byeok, a calm student named  Harmon, and two other students Catchphrase, Rohag!

May flower consisted of Hanah, Circa, her classmate, Men and another boy student with brand new designer shoes and and nails made out of metal.

Daimond heart was made out of Johan and Mikey, with one of them always yawning, the other one was always hungry, but they had something, the unkown introverts.

And lastly Jang's team. It consisted of him, Kallisto, Matheo, Hyoy and  the foreigner, Toppan Guys, the always active and joke-making person.

Somehow he is just good at everything he does, even  if he doesn't know it. Once, Guy beat a champion from our school to chess, after watching me and Matheo play some matches, Guy is crazy good.

These we're the startup teams, somehow, luckily, all of us got to play the first match before all the other students.

"Each match will be hold for twenty minutes, the rules are simple, after the location placement, all the teams will be put in the assigned location, where the teams need to protect their own colored flags, each team will have 3 colored flags. The players that are touched while trying to take the other's team's flag will be "freezed" in the location where they were touched and has to go back to the base for one minute before going back. The winner will be the first one to succed in taking one of the other's team's flags, red, yellow, blue and light green. It doesn't matter if you have only one flag, your team has to has a total of four different colored flags. The team that has a number of zero flags, will be eliminated from the game. 

"Let the game begin!"

We picked the short straw, so we are in the middle of the school yard, where all the teams can come after us, if that happens, we're out, since it's we are so open from every direction.

 The Road Ragers had a class from inside the school as their base. May Flower had the whole gym arena as their base and Diamond heart had the rooftop as their base, pretty tricky one, because you could clearly see anyone that comes in that way and since it is a really thin place.
I think that the cafeteria would've been better for them, but oh well, they chose their place.

"What's the plan?"

"I think it should be for the best if me and Matheo would be hunting for the flags and the rest of you guys will stay here and protect it"
With that sentence, everyone agreed, except Kallisto who wanted to run for the flags too. K. voted for him to go with Jang and Matheo, but everyone else voted that he should stay.

"Everyone okay with that?"

Asked Jang, wandering around the faces of his teammates.
Everyone nodded slowly, and Hyoy nodded a little bit faster

"Good, then Matheo, Kallisto, let's go"

First, we went to the weakest team, we went directly to the May Flowers, we just had the biggest chances there.

I wanted to play the "bait", taking my chances to trying to lure the nerds into running after me, since they had a pretty big chance if they freezed me off the bat. Matheo tried to sneak in from the windows that were really close to the arena's ceiling.
Lucky for us, Matheo was really steady on his feet and really quick with it, unfortunatly for us, the paint from the rock climbing walls didn't dry as it should've been, the sound that it made was sharp, like an octopus taking his tentacle off a flat surface, it sounded sticky and wet. The scratchy sound arrived to Matheo's ears too, knowing  that he has to hurry as fast as he could to get out of there, but he didn't knew that the May Flower assigned a team member to wait in the bushes that were outside of the gym arena. They may be weak but they sure are smart. Somehow they knew that the only way that someone can come out of the arena is by the high windows or by the doors.

"You have to be kidding me!"
Exclaimed Matheo from outside the gym room, outside the walls. It was a no go, he got caught by a student from the May Flower's team, by camping in the bushes.

"Hey, stop right the-"

Suddenly, with no attention from Jang, Hannah sat in front of him, trying to block the way with both of her hands, resulting in a head bump between the two of them

"My bad, didn't see you right here"

"It's cool, but (gently touches Jang's meaty chest) you're frozen."
Smiled Hanah with a slightly gentle look towards him.
 
"Catch him!"
Loudly exclaimed the designer shoes boy, from the May flower's, towards a person from another team. Jang turned his head around, out of curiosity, but he saw a pair of joyful eyes and a known face, it was Mikey, running with one of May flower's flag in his closed up fist.

Jang took a quick peek at Mikey's thin hands and tried to take the flag out of his hand while grasping the floating flag, but Mikey did not even flinch, it was like Jang wasn't even there to try to take it away. He left in a hurry with a wink and a peace sign made with two of his fingers.

After he left, heading back to his base in a jogging mode, something bothered his mind after seeing's Mikey's escape.

"He has one of our flags too, wearing as an armband?

Jang headed back to it's team's base, but he found himself staring at a three rounds of stolen flags and only one that remained there, along with the rest of the team waiting for him there, while protecting the flag.

Kallisto came back with 2 flags from the other team's, but he kept putting the pressure on Hyoy and Guy, with them not even talking, but just listening with an upset face, knowing that they could have done better.

Jang slowly sighted and pat they shoulders. He waited a few seconds while putting his palms comfortably on his hips and waited himself to find a good answer to give them

"For our last plan..."
Continued Jang, calmly elaborating a sentence.

"Yellow team - May Flower is out of the game, three teams remained"

They left Hyoy alone at the flags. It was a huge gamble, but there was nothing left to do. Agreeing that Guy and Kallisto should try to take the flags from the Road Ragers, everyone put their faith in this plan. It should be an easy job to bait them out. They knew that Byeok, Harmon and the rest surely wouldn't stay in one place and just protect the flag, they wanted the action, so only Lisa Lisa was left.

Guy sneaked up from outside the windows, while K tried to scare off Lisa-Lisa with some well thought sounds.

She turned around, heading to the exit of the classroom, the plan was going good. Guy had the chance to take the flag and ran out of the class, dodging her, without getting noticed, but the plan did not work as planned.

"LISA, WATCH THE WINDOWS!"
"Guy, run for it!"
Exclaimed K from the back of the hallways, echoing his voice.

Guy succeded in dodging Lisa Lisa in the last moment, heading to the exit of the class, running as fast as he could 

"Guys, I am coming!" 

"Dammit, Lisa, you two (looks at them) stay with her (points at Lisa Lisa), Harmon, let's go!"

With a flick of his fingers, Harmon headed out of the classroom with Byeok. In the meantime, Guy constantly peeked behind his shoulder but no one was there... he made it.

"Don't let him get away, Harmon, go!"

Harmon accelerated as a racing horse, but it didn't matter, Guy had already made it in his team's base. There was no way he could dodge three people and take their flag.
When Harmon realised that there was no point in trying to catch Guy now, he told to Byeok that it would be better to go after the Diamond hearts, since there were only two of them, unprotected. Byeok smirked at the thought of Harmon's idea, following his lead.

"I won't let some punks take away this prize, it belongs to me"
Whispered Byeok to himself, as he gets out of the scene.

Jang headed out the stairs that led him at the iron door of the rooftop. Stepping on to the rooftop's hard ground, flashbacks reminded him of the old times, when he was only a normal student, nothing extra, nothing bonus, it was a much simpler life. Is it better like this or before? Not even Jang knows this answer. 

The snoring of Johan had woken up Jang from his daydream, reminding him where he was with a slight panick in his heart.

"Is he sleeping?"
Whispered Jang to himself, looking at Johan who sat comfortably on a beach seat, with his legs high up on a small plastic table and a sports magazine on his face.

Jang went on his tippy-toe, trying not to wake up Johan from his sleep. Succesfully taking the light blue flag without waking him up, he headed back to the creaky iron exit door.

"I hope you don't think that you can take that flag with you. Something has to happen to you before that"
Exclaimed Johan, stretching his arms and yawning while the magazine fell off of his face, dropping 50 pages to the next article. Cracking the back of his neck with the help of his right palm, he continued in a staring contest with Jang, waiting for his next move or switch in his breath.

Jang did not know what Johan was talking about. He was too personal with Jang. There was only one thought in his mind. Gazing a quick peek at the flag, he changed his sight at the exit, knowing what he has to do.

Jang ran towards the exit, firmly grasping the flag between his fingers, like a crab's clench, not taking any risks of losing it.

"Creation, concrete wave!"

As Jang was running back, the hot sun was covered by something dark and cold, covering the sky. He didn't even need to look behind him, since the wave of concrete almost swallowed him wholly.

Succeding in outrunning it, imagining himself at the marathon, outrunning the numbers of meters assigned for the winning of the competition. The creaky sound of the iron door, welcomed the shadow of the last member of the Diamond hearts, it was Mikey, Johan's brother. The iron door have closed behind him, with a loud metallic thud, like it was being closed  forever.

Jang put down the flag from his hands, continuously looking at both of them, turning his head a few times.

"I'm guessing you guys are Dimes, right?"
Asked Jang with a shakey breath.

"Dimes, what are you talking about, (grunts eyes and lowers voice) Star user"

His eyes widened, whispering to himself

"So it really was personal, but how did he know what I am?"

"We will end the bloodline this day. It ends here!"
Exclaimed Johan, while putting stretching his arm with the use of his other arm, flexing the muscles on their own.

Jang tried to take out the spark from earlier, trying everything he could with his fingers, from rubbing against them, snapping, but nothing worked.

"--- -- ---- --- -----, - --- ---- ----"
Murmured Mikey loudly under his mask. On the drop of the last word, that was louder than the other, both of them ran towards Jang

"----- ----- ----- -----"

"Creation, concrete shield"

Jang knew that he was outnumbered, while his power was still questionable, having his mind made up. Changing his steps, crushing the dust under his shoes, Jang ran towards the exit, having made up his mind, to take out Mikey, who thought that was a long-ability-effect user.

Johan followed Jang's footsteps, trying to barge into him with his articifial stone shield, but while he was too slow to catch up, wanting to approach him more and more. The wind that came out of Mikey's palms was enough for him to make him stay in place while Johan was catching up.

From Jang's lack of attention and awareness, with one tired lunge of Johan's hand, a thick concrete cube had quickly flown towards Jang's hand.

Before the point of impact, Jang put his arm in front of him, blocking the slab that was directed towards his facial features.

"Yaarggg!"
Screamed Jang out loud while firmly grasping his wrist and holding it as tight as he could. The hit caused him to a few seconds of cooldown, not being able to do anything for a few seconds.

The thick concrete long slab impacted Jang's arm, creating a small crack in his wrist bone.

Mikey stopped the usage of his wind, happily thinking that they already had won the fight, but Jang put himself in a bigger imaginary gear, his feet got lighter, more and more speed came from his calves, almost dashing all the way to Mikey. His eyes widened, freaking out, he could only use a small sharp breeze cutting Jang's eyelid, but that was  not enough for Jang to stop him. On arrival, Jang landed a side punch into Mikey's left cheek that made him lose his sense of thought, putting him to a sentence of unwanted sleeping schedule.

"(Shaky voice) MIKEY!! (grunts eyes). I'll get you for that. (Drops shield and puts both hands down on the ground) Creation, Castle wall!"

Kneeling down with one of his knees to the ground, placing both of his palms down, from the concrete floor, two huge walls were created, with Jang in the middle of them. The walls were giving a cold wind for Jang's exposed body, while covering the sunny day and giving away a cold panick inside Jang's mind.

"This is the final, Jang Ho, (whispers loudly) I got you!"

The walls rapidly closed with a loud thud of the concrete and a sudden silence. Only the dust falling down from the concrete rubbles could be heard, and Johan's shallow breath, taking quick breaks for his breathless body, while avoiding his sweat with a flick of his wrist.

"After all this time, I won, I can go back!"
Joyfully laughed Johan with his hands exposing his pre-thought win.
Todoyama
Todoyama

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The last game of the sports festival is here, will Jang and his team be able to win this one, even if something unexpected happens close to the end of it?

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Proofread by: Denis

#Action #Fantasy #Highschool #slice_of_life #character_development #comedy #supernatural

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