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Champions! (Open)
The gym is, perhaps unusually, half empty. The tennis nets aren't up, although one of the gym's assistants has disappeared to get the key to the equipment room they're located in (i.e., not the one that's open, with balls and various paraphanelia for the simplest of sword practices). There are a few students hanging out at one end of the gym, and Genevieve isn't with them. She has commandeered a basketball net and a basketball.
Her practice is going something like this:
V steps up to the line. Bounces the ball once. Bounces the ball again. Bounces the ball again. Bounces the ball again. Hesitates. Bounces one more time. Then shoots. The ball passes harmlessly beneath the net. The ball's shadow mocks her mercilessly. The net's shadow mocks her mercilessly.
V retrieves the ball. Bounces it once. Bounces it twice. Eyes the net. Shoots. The ball almost hits the net in the next court. But only almost. And she wasn't aiming for that one. The net's shadow mocks her mercilessly. The ball's shadow mocks her mecilessly. Her own shadow mocks her mercilessly.
V retrieves the ball, again. Bounces it once, bounces it twice. Shoots, again -- or would have shot, again, if the ball didn't fly out of her hands just as she lifted them over her head, and go bouncing mockingly behind her.
And so on and so forth. Yes, she sucks. She sucks more than it's possible for most human beings to suck at basketball. You shoot like a girl will be supplanted in insult status by you shoot like Genevieve Vendetta. She doesn't understand why she's so bad. She can get trash in the trashcan, sometimes.
And she refuses to stop until she gets ONE basket into the net. Just one.
WHOAdork Datu Jejomar Detective of the Gods
Posts: 137
(9/8/06 9:43 pm) Reply
Re: Champions! (Open)
On another court in the gym, Datu practices his most favorite sport of all: basketball. He dribbled quickly to the 3-point line, and shot, the ball going straight into the net. He smiled as he ran to get the ball, running to the bottom of the net. After grabbing the ball again, he went back to the three-point line, and sprinted towards the basket at an angle. After getting around four feet away from the basket, he jumped into the air, and dunked the ball with a huge slam. He remained on the rim for some time, and then landed down on the ground. He straightened up and picked up his ball again. People should play this more often...
Re: Champions! (Open)
Yakoutio was holding his leather ring binder he had just purchased by his side carefully, he knew Pytho was annoying but he had no idea that he could be such a bargain hunter and was almost angered enough to kill the man in the stationary shop where he had purchased this item for the grand total of twenty dollars. But it was a good ring binder and just the thing he needed for the work demanded of him in high school. He was currently walking down the corridor towards his dorm, as he had wanted to put his binder in his room safely, however nothing ever went as smoothly as he always wanted it to go anymore.
“I demand we turn this way” Yakoutio said out aloud as his eyes turned from their normal shade of green to black, Yakoutio turned almost immediately around towards the door to the gym as his eyes changed back to green, “No, that’s the gym why do you want to go there?”
Yakoutio walked into the door with a dull thud and a shrill yelp of sudden pain and at that he fell forwards onto the floor, the door swung to a slow close behind him. Yakoutio was saddened again however he didn’t want to show it, though somehow he knew that Pytho knew, what an idiot, why did Pytho never think about the consequences of his actions? And why if he was going to take control of his body at times did he never do it perfectly?
“Why did you take me in here Pytho?” Yakoutio moaned as he rose to his feet and looked around however suddenly his eyes changed to black at the very sight of V, “There, our victim. The one who protected our prey from before.” “What are you talking about that’s just V, she’s a friend.” “She protected the prey and she shall be purified.” “Oh shut up.” “…”
Yakoutio watched V for a while as she missed every net and Yakoutio couldn’t help but giggle at this, he wasn’t the best at basketball but he knew how to get an easy net. Suddenly he walked forwards and put his hands up to catch the ball as it bounced down towards him after V missed her next net, suddenly alerting her to his presence in the gym. Yakoutio laughed playfully and threw the ball towards the net; it bounced off of top and went strait in before bouncing across the floor for a while though soon rolling to a standstill.
“O-hayou gozai masu!” Jaiden said happily as he smiled and waved at V from across the court.
Re: Champions! (Open)
Walking through the gym Merciah is on his way towards the stairs to go to the lower level as he spots a few students enjoying their sports on the basketball courts. Not having ever played any sports before, Merciah watches the different students as they continue with mild interest as he makes his way to the stairs to the lower level of the gym. He recognizes a few of the students, but he is unsure whether it would be appropriate to say anything while they are playing their games, so, Merciah just remains quiet as he walks.
^Karrody's wheels
I don't make threats or bribes.
Promises and incentives are more my style
-M.Hart
WHOAdork Datu Jejomar Detective of the Gods
Posts: 139
(9/9/06 10:28 am) Reply
Re: Champions! (Open)
After a long while of shooting, Datu got a bit tired, and went down to the benches to rest. He looked around the gym to see more people coming in, most of them unfamiliar. He smiled gently as he got out his Gatorade bottle. Opening the cap, he drank out of the Gatorade, then put on the cap again. After that, he took a long, slow breath and got up again, and levitated the basketball towards him to get back to shooting. He looked at the three basketball racks, 7 on each one. He smiled, and decided to challenge himself to a three-point shootout, like what those all-stars do on the NBA.
He got two of the racks, and pulled one to one corner of the court, then pulled the other to the middle of the three-point line. He then got the last one and put it onto the other corner of the court, and ran back to the right corner of the court, where the players usually start. He then got out his watch and started timing himself, to see how long it will take him to shoot all the basketballs.
After he got everything set, he smiled with enthusiasm, and quickly grabbed the first ball, and shot it, sinking perfectly into the net. He quickly got another one and shot it, and, not even waiting to see if it will go in, grabbed another one, shot it, and repeated this until the rack was empty, then moved on to the next.
Re: Champions! (Open)
In the court beside her, Datu plays as if the air were his supplicant and the ball was his servant. If this were another kind of anime, there might be a tiny sweatdrop above V's head; but it's not another kind of anime, and she only looks calmly, untouchably -_-; about the entire thing. Why can't I...
Enter, Yakoutio. Before he even announces his presence, tension coils at the nape of her neck, and she pauses, briefly, to let her eyelashes touch her cheekbones, to rest her eyes. She bounces the ball. She bounces it again.
The ball, somehow, she doesn't quite know, escapes her hands and goes careening across the gym floor, and Yakoutio catches it, shoots an effortless basket. There is no justice in the world. "Yakoutio. Good morning," she replies, and lifts one hand. Her basketball has rolled across the court and into Datu's court, which is full of rolling balls, freshly shot, all coming to a stop at the edge of the gym, where Merciah has paused.
Re: Champions! (Open)
Yakoutio smiles and suddenly darts forwards sweeping in front of V’s path, a gust of wind would blow upwards against V and at that the ball would be gone. Yakoutio was throwing it up into the air and catching it again and again soon afterwards, a large grin on his face as he played with the basketball like any child would. He bounced it across the ground playfully before throwing it towards the net, it hit the guard, bounced off of the net, then onto the floor where it rolls to a standstill next to Yakoutio’s feet. He laughs and picks up the ball before rolling it across the ground to V once more.
“Well I can only shoot from the side” He laughs nervously, “Come on I’ll show you how to do it, it’s easy when you’re in the right area”.
Yakoutio suddenly appears next to V, tugging upon her hand gently, as if to get her to follow him closer to the net. He was smiling widely and looked incredibly happy and hyper in the situation, just like any normal kid of his age would be.
Her bright hair dances, strands pull across her face; sweep across her throat, thin as the edge of a knife. There's Yakoutio; with the ball. Tension coils more tightly at the base of her neck, and she lifts a hand to massage her shoulder, a casual gesture; such nonchalance!
Then, a nod. "Thank you." And she lets Yakoutio tug her hand (and we'll say he grabbed the one she wasn't using the massage her shoulders; that one drops away) over to the appropriate spot, still cautious, still wary; but she's always been that way with Yakoutio. She'd ruffle his hair, but she knows he doesn't like being touched.
Re: Champions! (Open)“People ask me that all the time but I don’t know” Yakoutio replied, “Pytho knows but he wont tell me”.
Yakoutio had pulled V to the side of the court, not too near the net but fairly close, at the side so they were both diagonally across from the net. He put the basketball in her hands and stood next to her before putting his two hands up in the air, his right was positioned so his palm was facing up into the air while his left was slightly left from it, facing towards it slightly.
“Put your hands like this, so the ball is on top of your strongest hand while your weakest hand keeps it in position” He explained, “You see the black box on that guard like thingy, well you need to aim for the top corner, the one closest to you.”
Finally Yakoutio flicked his right wrist forwards in the air while hopping up slightly, it looked, sort of queer but he seemed serious about it. He put his wrist back in the previous position.
“You don’t throw the ball, you flick it forwards, using your weakest hand to guide it on top of your hand up until the point where you begin to move the ball forwards.” He continued, “If you aim and hit the top corner of the black box, the one closest to you, you’ll get it in the net. It’s a mathematical equation, it can’t be broken”.
Re: Champions! (Open)
"Really," V says, and glances at Yakoutio from the corner of her lovely, light-through-amber eyes. Pytho may not tell Yakoutio much; however, while Pytho uses Yakoutio's body, they share a shadow. V wouldn't put child pornography past Pytho.
But she's too self-contained to do anything more then that single glance, which will have to stand for suspicious as well as contemplative. Then Yakoutio pulls V to the side of the court and directs her, and she's an attentive scholar, she is, and looks her youth. "A mathematical equation," she repeats, and V's favorite subject is mathematics, so she narrows her eyes at the basketball racket.
Takes a quiet breath. Then, perfectly!, executes!, the movements!, Yakoutio taught her. The crowd goes wild. Perfect shot! Perfect sho -
And that's when the music would slide down a scale. Because it looks like she forgot to actually throw the basketball.
Re: Champions! (Open)
Yakoutio laughed before guiding her weakest hand to the side of the ball, he tried to say something but found himself laughing again. He bent down forwards, gasping for breath finally managing to stand upright after he had got it all out of his system. V had mimicked his movements but forgotten one thing, which created an incredibly hilarious climax.
“You have to guide the ball with your weakest hand then let go as you’re flicking the ball forwards” He giggled, “Otherwise you’ll just end up keeping the ball in your hand.”“Now try again child this is quite entertaining.”
Suddenly Yakoutio punched himself in the side of the head, he shook his head from side to side afterwards, finally giving out a weak laugh.
"Oh." Oh, she says, as if she hadn't just forgotten a key aspect to the game of basketball: let it go. Let it go! Got to let it go. But then Yakoutio's voice deepens and roughens (and the hairs on the back of her neck prickle, again).
He explodes into violence, against himself; V watches this out of the corner of her eye, shoulders slightly lifted, mouth a thin line. Yes, she seems as composed as any priestess ever was, surrounded by gibbering spirits and the damned; still. Appearances often lie. Then again, they often don't. What to believe?
Re: Champions! (open)
Yakoutio suddenly smiled weakly and waved his hand up and down in a nervous fashion. Suddenly he disappeared and reappeared on the other side of V, putting her hand so she was holding the ball in the correct way once again.
“Nothing just that Pytho keeps saying things when it’s my day to take control” He said nervously, “And for some reason punching myself in the side of the head works so I do that a lot.”
All of a sudden Yakoutio darted to the other side of V, crouched down to make sure she was in the right position to throw the ball, she was.
“Come on you can do it V!” He yelped happily as he hoped upwards in joy, “Throw the ball! Throw the ball!”
Re: Champions! (open)
He had mistakenly walked into the gym trying to find his way into his dorm. Yeah, he was definitely lost. His gaze landed on the hoopster shooting like the pro what was the name of this sport. Thinking to himself what was the name of the sport...um... Basketball. Back at home it was call NetBall and he was good at it. One of the balls happened to fall and roll towards his feet he stopped it with the tip of his toe.
Dropping his book-bag, since he was already at the gym might has well have some fun. Slipping his foot underneath the ball chucking it into the air it landed in the open palm of his hand. He bounced the ball exactly three times it helped him focus. Positioning himself for a long distance shoot his target the end of the court. His knees bent slightly, before his heels bounced from the ground into the air. The black-stripped orange ball cut through the air with ease.
It hit the tip of the rim the ball rolling around the edge of it several times building with suspense stopping at the back of the rim lingering briefly, then it just simply fell through the net. He took a small stride to his ball picking it up had been a while since he played NetBall, "Anybody up for a game of HORSE?"
Edited by: VxChronicles at: 10/4/06 9:29 pm
Re: Champions! (open)
Yakoutio's, too suddenly, at V's other side, and it's only due to the control she has of herself that she doesn't flinch. Yakoutio's not harmless. Still, the honey-eyed teenager lifts an eyebrow, and looks grave. "Hmm. Did you make a deal with him?"
Then he's at her other side. She moves her gaze, obligingly, to him; and then lifts it to the net. Drops it to the ball. Briefly, her attention is snagged by the new student, and then she inhales, quietly, and bounces on her toes to launch the ball. This time, she actually remembers to throw it.
Asks Yakoutio, "What does HORSE mean?" Without even looking to see if she made it into the net.
Re: Champions! (open)
Yakoutio puts his hand on his cheek and taps it softly with his finger while he tries to think of an answer, though he cannot think of any for definite he does have a theory. He takes his finger away from his cheek, steps forwards, raises his finger into the air, and gets hit in the face by a basketball. The ball bounces away from Yakoutio as the boy holds his face afterwards, for a while he just looks shocked, but after bringing his hand up to his nose in order to feel his bleeding nose he now looks incredibly upset.
“Ball… face… how…you threw it at the net and… it was at a side angle?” Yakoutio stammers before sniffling and crying sadly, sitting down on the floor and tucking his legs into his chest so to put his head between his knees, “My face huuuuurrrrtttss!” He sobs as he begins to rock back and forth.
Lucian thought the question was directed to him. Glancing over to the Girl and Boy, then he said in a matter of fact voice, "It means to to take shots around the court and if you miss one you get a letter, like H. If you spell HORSE you lose it's simple as that. So, if you miss five shots your out pretty much."
Watching the ball make impact with the boy's face wasn't something he expected. At first he didn't think to much of it kind of a short pause, then he heard. “My face huuuuurrrrtttss!” Blinking a couple of times as he raised his brow walking over to the poor fellow out of concern. Watching the blood pour from his nose it might be a break. "Hey, you alright there man? You got hit in the face pretty hard.," tilting his head over to V. "You know where to find any napkins or something to stop his nose from bleeding? I hope it isn't broken that can lead to surgery." Wasn't trying to sound morbid with that comment, but it came out that.
Edited by: VxChronicles at: 10/12/06 5:34 pm
Re: Champions! (open)
Before Yakoutio can speak, a basketball hits him in the face; V gazes, mild, but with slightly wider eyes. There's a moment of silence (. . .) and then the younger boy bursts into tears.
"It will pass," she says, and she sounds so cool, without empathy. Whether she is or not is her little secret, isn't it? But, by then, Lucian has arrived on the scene, and is ministering to Yakoutio. By the time he turns to ask V the question he asks, she already has a handkerchief (yes, linen; white, and monogrammed, too) held out for him to had Yakoutio.
Her warm-as-melted-honey eyes aren't on the accident anymore, however. "Thank you," she says to the new boy, and then lifting her voice (efficient, strong enough to carry), "Do any of you have an ability to heal small cuts and scrapes?"
The other students in the gym freeze, a few of them having, of course, been attacked by Yakoutio's alter-ego. . .
OOC: Hey! You students with healing powers! Step right up!
Re: Champions! (open)
Yakoutio quickly stood upwards and wiped his nose with the handkerchief V had given him, he shook his head from side to side and took the handkerchief down from his face but it was still bleeding a little. His eyes would cross as he tried to look at it before he reached upwards with his tongue, licking the blood though shuddering and making a sickened face afterwards. He put the handkerchief back onto his nose and looked back from V to the other boy and then back to V again.
“Are you sure you’re ready to play a game of horse?” He asked curiously. His nose still hurt but he had to learn to not cry all the time and this was a fine chance to prove that.
Re: Champions! (open)“Are you sure you’re ready to play a game of horse?”
A raised brow to the both of them, taking a step back. "Well, I'm certainly capable of playing horse. I don't know about the girl over there." He hooked his thumb over to the girl who had whacked her in the nose. "I think she's kind of learning the basics of the game. It might be fun I'm sort of new in the school I've met a couple people, since I've been here. Glad, to see your ok. "
Picking up the basketball drumming it on the gym floor. He quickly put his hand under the bouncing ball holding it there. A soft sigh escaped his lips, then he said," If you're up to play I'm more, then willingly. I might be able to teach her a few moves or atleast help her shoot better. Maybe, hit some more net instead of noses. My name is Lucian Wilheard freshman student. What are your names?"
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