A powerful game of soccer!

[ericjayrol]

Pyros had come out from class to see a group of boys playing a group of girls in a friendly game of soccer to see how their powers could be used appropriately on the field. Pyros was eager of soccer, he had often watched games on tv with his step father, Pyros had always wanted to be a midfielder for a world cup but he was always told he would make a better goalkeeper, he had never believed anyone and set his heart on being a midfielder until he found out about his ability and agreed it fit perfectly with being a goalkeeper.
He walked over to the group and watched as a girl kicked the ball over her head and then extended her leg up to shoot at the goal and score a fabulous goal. Pyros looked over at the scoreboard, the boy were losing 3 - 1. He went over to a few benches where a small group of fans were watching the game and then sat down with them. A boy had possession of the ball now and was dribbling the ball around all the players as he seemed to be able to let his legs go through the other players aslong as he let the ball go around them in some way. He came to the goalkeeper and shot at the goal, The goalkeeper suddenly shapeshifted his hand into a tennis racket and shot the ball back towards the other goal with a direct shot into the top left corner. In all the games Pyros had witnessed in his life, this was an impossible shot to block from where the goalkeeper was standing, Suddenly out of the earth sprung the rapid growth of the grass and caught the ball sending it back into the playing field.
Pyros looked over at the scoreboard again to see the time would be over in only seconds. He looked over and saw who the captain of the male team was and walked over as the game ended. "hey, i noticed your goalkeeper wasnt doing to well, what if i stepped in for the next game" He requested. The captain looked at him. "ok, but first i wanna see what you can do, go into the goal" the captain said as Pyros walked over and stood in the goal as the players made their way onto the field for the final game to decide the winner, at that moment the scores were a tie, meaning the team that won this game would be the winners.
The captain lay a ball down infront of him 11 metres from the goal which was the distance that a penalty shot would be taken. Pyros kept one eye on the ball and the other on the captains foot. The captain jogged towards the ball and kicked it, the ball seemed to fly at 100km/h as it aimed for the left side of the goal and as Pyros brought up his forcefield he noticed the ball in the goal on the right side. He looked at the captain confusingly. "how did you manage to get it so fast, and how did you manage a curveball that curved?" Pyros asked him as he kicked the ball out of the goal and back to the captain. "i have powers just like everyone else on this playing field, mine happens to be super strength in my legs, i also decided with this power to learn soccer for a few years, now, if you cant hold this shot, your off the team, we must win this match" the captain said as he struck the ball. It flew straight towards the right top corner, one of the hardest shots to block in the game, for your average man. Pyros jumped over to the corner and reached out his arms, he was so close to touching it as it came towards the goal, finaly, Pyros felt the ball on his finger tips and roll down the tips towards the palm where he held onto it hard and then landed using his other arm to commando roll to safety. The captain looked at him amazingly, as did a few members of the team. He stood up and rolled the ball back over to him. "What? Your other goalkeeper held a goal from the other corner..." Pyros stated as the captain then went over to him and grabbed his arm. "but, he used his powers, you did it, like an average person, that means you must be able to do so much better with your powers, you can definantly play as our goalkeeper!" the captain shouted as all players took their positions and the whistle blew beginning the kick-off.

[ericjayrol]

A girl had possession of the ball, Pyros noticed the captains band around her arm. Pyros made sure to pay good attention to her. he also kept an eye on the other goalkeeper noticing it was a shapeshifter from the previous game, it would be hard for them to score against her.
Pyros watched as the captain was now close to the goal and then passed to a player on the left flank of the goal as the captain moved closer to the goal the player passed back high. Pyros didnt give her the chance to shoot, he jumped up and brought up his field sending the ball back into midfield to a male player. The player kicked the ball up over his head and landed on his hands putting his legs up in the air and kicking the ball straight up in the air continuously as he walked on his hands towards the goal around all the players that were not able to reach the ball.
He passed to the captain who jumped up and kicked the ball with his strength towards the goal into the left middle, the goalkeeper shapeshifted a leg into a baseball bat and tried to kick the ball out of the way but missed and... Goal! 1 - 0 in the 40th minute for the boys!
Girls kick off and one of them dug into the ground and brought the ball with her. All the players searched around the floor not knowing when she would spring up, suddenly Pyros dropped backwards as she dove up into the air infront of him and kicked the ball into the right side of the goal. 1 - 1 in the 43rd minute!
boys kick off, the captain had the ball and dribbled around one player and then came to a girl that send a glacier of ice towards the ball knocking it away from him and towards one of the girls. The girls stood on both sides of the field and when confronted by a boy passed to the other and then back, quite a good strategy.
The 2 girls came within shooting range of the goal and one from the right shot towards goal, Pyros lept and knocked the ball away with his hands, unfortunantly the ball was knocked away towards the girl on the other side which quickly reacted and shot the ball back towards the goal, Pyros had no chance of blocking it, the ball flew towards goal and suddenly curved away from the goal and missed.
He wondered how that shot curved, it showed no signs of being a curve ball but he got his answer when he looked over to a defender that winked at him and put up his thumb.
The whistle blew for half time, the goals stood at 1 - 1 at the 45th minute and the game would continue in 15 minutes.

[Headmistress Exypen/Athalia]

Athalia stood on the girls' sidelines, she spent a lot of time around the soccer field. Actually she spent a lot of time around all of the sports areas. Not that she played anything. Well she played but not by the rules. Athalia had never been very good at any type of game involving a ball, she merely enjoyed watching the balls move. Usually she could keep herself on the sidelines and be good. But every now and then she would lose control of herself and the game would have to be stopped on account of a crazy cat-girl. Luckily most of the players would agree to play with her after a game. She was hoping that would happen here.

Even though she stood with the girls and congratulated them on a good job she watched the boys' side. She couldn't help it. She was a teen girl, they were guys glistening with sweat. What could you expect?

As the team captain started talking to her girls Athalia started marching across the field and to the boys' goal. Once there she glanced at the boys and then started studying the goal.

[ericjayrol]

OOC: nice to see you finaly on the site.

IC: The captain and the defender that had helped him came over towards Pyros as the other players went over to the sidelines to get some drinks.
"good work Pyros, that first save was good, you should never give someone a chance to shoot if they are that close, you know your goalkeeping" The captain complimented him.
"thanks, unfortunantly i wasnt able to hold the last shot, it was pretty strong but i was glad when i was able to knock it away form goal, ofcourse by then i was now lying on the ground and the second shot would have been impossible for me to block, if it werent for your good choice of defender here" Pyros said gesturing towards the defender.
"thanks, but if you had not blocked the first shot then i wouldnt have been able to help you, its your success" the defender replied to Pyros as he went over to the sideline and got a drink.
The captain and Pyros spoke for a while when the captain looked over to the sideline and saw the catgirl. "oh my god... hopefully she isnt going to go crazy this time, that girl over there, she has caused us to have to cancel 5 games this year" the captain explained to Pyros as he looked over at her. She looked like your average sweet girl, how could she have done anything like that? Pyros thought as the whistle blew and the game was to continue.
Pyros noticed the goalkeeper had been switched for the girls, Pyros hoped he would soon find out what her powers were.
The boys had possession, one boy was incredible with soccer, he out dribbled half the girls team and was now standing infront of this new goalkeeper and he then shot into the corner. The goalkeeper disappeared and reappeared infront of the ball and grabbed it throwing it back into midfield.
Pyros wasnt sure if she was teleporting of had super speed. the game spent a few minutes with a war in midfield for the ball, possession switched feet continuously, no-one seemed to have the ball too long.
Suddenly the ball flew out of midfield straight towards Pyros' goal. Pyros slid along the ground towards the right hand side as he noticed the ball was rolling towards the goal, suddenly the ball seemed to bounce off something on the ground that wasnt there and was going high while Pyros was still sliding on the ground, Pyros then put both his feet onto the post and ran up it backflipping so his legs would kick the ball and then it landed infront of the goal. The crowd was going wild, they had seen alot of good mutant soccer but Pyros tried as much as he could not to use his powers. He kicked the ball back into midfield.
A boy had possession but suddenly a girl appeared infront of him as if she had become visible from being invisible. She headed for the goal when a boy tackled her leg and she was injured. The ref came over and gave the boy the red card. He was sent straight off the field. Pyros saw the look in the captains eyes, they were now down a midfielder.
The game continued and the girl seemed completely fine as if she had faked it so they would get the red card. Pyros saw another shot come towards the goal, he brought up his field and flew towards the ball, his field just managed to catch it and send it towards a girl who shot the ball towards the other corner of the goal. Pyros dived once again and with the tip of his fingers managed to touch the ball but it seemed to continue towards the goal, it bounced and then just missed the goal after hitting the goal post.
Pyros was releaved as he picked up the ball and drop kicked it back into midfield. He looked out into the crowd and saw a particular girl that seemed to be admiring him. She was hot... and she was sitting right next to what the captain called 'the game ruiner'.

[Headmistress Exypen/Athalia]

Athalia watched the ball change feet, her tail twitching. Her friend, the girls sitting next to her, would occasionally turn to glare at the cat girl.

"Stop hitting me with that thing," she said. Jenna was a small girl of fifteen with the power to make a sonic scream.

"Sorry," Lia murmered, not really paying any attention to anything but the ball.

"Look at their goalie, isn't he cute?" Jenna waved a little when she saw him look in their direction.

"Yeah, sure, whatever," Lia didn't even look in Pyros' direction.

Jenna groaned, "You haven't been able to look at another boy since you fell in love with James from the movie theater. He's not even that good looking." Lia opened her mouth the respond but was cut off by Jenna, "Yeah, I know, he's nice and funny and smart and blah, blah, blah. If you would open your eyes you would nitice that the guy on the sidelines keeps looking your way, not my way, your way."

Lia rolled her eyes, but she did flick her eyes to look at the sidelines. Blech, he isn't much to look at, she thought, and went back to watch the game.

[ericjayrol]

Unfortunantly Pyros had kicked the ball towards a girl and she was now heading for him, she kicked the ball straight towards Pyros. Pyros put out his hands and caught the ball. Pyros had no idea why the girl would shoot the ball straight towards him without any power attached. Pyros looked at the girl wondering what her idea of getting a goal was. He looked at her blue eyes, you could get lost in them for hours, suddenly another girl came from next to Pyros and kicked the ball from his hands into the goal.
Pyros broke out of the trance into her eyes and looked over at the ball lying in the goal. Pyros grabbed his head and looked over at the girl that winked at him.
"i guess that was a powerful power" Pyros said as he grabbed the ball from the goal and sent it over towards a boy that was alone near the other goal with no defenders around him. He watched the ball coming with his back towards the goal, he then stretched his leg up and wrapped it around the ball as he spun around and pulled the ball down, he released it like a slingshot towards the goal, the female goalkeeper disappeared and reappeared a few centimetres away from the ball as it hit the back of the net. Goal! 2 - 2 with only 5 minutes left.
A girl took possession of the ball and outdribbled 3 players, she was now close to the goal and with only one defender left infront of her, if she scored there wouldnt be enough time for the boys to score, the last defender then kicked her leg injuring her badly.
The boy was given a red card and was sent off the field along with the girl who was leaving on stretcher. The girl was given a free penalty kick from 11 metres away from the goal, she was unable to take the kick so the other captain took the kick instead. She stood behind the ball studying what to do exactly for the kick. Pyros looked over at the other goal keeper and noticed she was standing at midfield seeing as the moment the ball touched the ground the game would be over.
Pyros had an idea, the captain shot the ball into a corner, Pyros jumped and brought up his leg, he blocked it with a kick, the ball had not yet touched the ground and was flying over to 2 teams which were in rows watching the penalty, the goalkeeper for the girl looked up as the ball flew over her, she turned around and disappeared, the ball flew at great speed as all the players turned around to watch the ball flying towards the goal, Pyros had dropped to the floor and stood up to watch his kick.
The ball flew and hit the crossbar of the goal and rebounded off it into the goal striking the net. The goalkeeper of the girls reappeared on her knees in defeat. The whole boys team ran around the field punching the air and kissing their jerseys in victory as the girls team went down on their knees in defeat or lay on the ground.
Pyros walked slowly out of the goal and smiled as he watched the shows of the players. Pyros looked over at the girl that had been admiring him the whole time and winked at her as the whole team came back together and picked up Pyros throwing him in the air and catching him again like you saw in world cup matches. This was the second time in history a goalkeeper had scored from goal to goal and the other time was a world cup player for poland.

[Headmistress Exypen/Athalia]

((Not that your bragging at your soccer abilities or anything, right?))

Jenna smiled and ran down onto the field, Athalia followed close behind. But whereas Jenna ran to Pyros to congratulate him Lia went for the ball. Once the cat-girl had it in her hand she started tossing it in the air watching it, her tail twitching.

"Don't pop it, please," she heard from behind her. The girls' captain was walking off the field with her team, looking upset but pleased to have played so good of a game. The captain called back as they left, "Exypen would not be happy if we have to buy a new ball. Again."

Lia smiled and held up her hand, "Look," she said showing her human fingernails, "no claws. I'm safe. Mostly."

Jenna tossed back her dark brown hair from her blue eyes and smiled at Pyros, "That was a really good game!"

[ericjayrol]

OOC: oh no, no ;D. To tell you the truth im pretty bad at soccer, but i make up for it with my good goalkeeping although im not as good as Pyros.

IC: Pyros watched her come closer and then the cat girl walk over and play with the ball. "thanks, im actually pretty impressed myself, thats probably my best game ive ever played, so, whats your name? how old are you? whats your power?" Pyros questioned the girl getting off the subject of soccer not wanting to sound like some stuck up soccer player that thinks he is better than everyone else.

[Headmistress Exypen/Athalia]

"Jenna, Jenna Mackenzi. I'm 15, and my power is a little difficult to explain. To put it simply and dully I can-" She was cut off by one of the boys, "Difficult, I'll tell you what she can do. She screams and it can kill you. She's our little siren!" He moved to ruffle her hair and she ducked, moving away, it was apparent she didn't like the boy. She gave the jerk a glare before shaking it off and looking back to Pyros, "He's right. That's my power in a nutshell. I would ask yours but it is apparent, forcefields. That's cool! So what is your name and age?"

[ericjayrol]

Pyros looked over at the boy evily as he walked off. Pyros turned back to the girl with a more sweeter look on his face.
"my name is Pyros Shadow and im 16, and you think my power is forcefields? no its great soccer skills" Pyros joked as one of the soccer players came over. "Pyros, what are you doing with this girl? come over with the popular soccer players, dont hang with the unpopular fans" The boy had remarked, Pyros remembered him, he was the player with the extendable legs. "no, thats alright, you can go with them, im going to stay here and get to know these fans, whats more important to a player than his fans?" Pyros asked the player as he walked off with disgust.

[Headmistress Exypen/Athalia]

"I would think that would be his sponsers!" Jenna joked before glancing down at her watch. She groaned, "Dang it, I have to go. I have power lessons in a few minutes and I need to get to the school or else I'll be late. Tell you what, my room is G23, call my room and we'll get together to hang out. I'm really sorry about having to go." She turned around and ran off the field, before she disappeared around the bleachers she called back jokingly, "You had better call me! I'd hate to have to track you down!" Then she was gone. Off to work on mastering her sonic scream.

Athalia however was laying on top of the soccer goal. Her shoes were kicked off and her legs were wrapped around the goal. Her head rested on her right arm while her left one dangled down, as did her tail. Her eyes were closed, soaking in the warmth of the sun, but she was by no means asleep.

[ericjayrol]

Pyros looked over at the cat girl who was hanging from the bars. 'with her cat reflexes and ability to keep her eye on the ball she wouldnt be a bad goal keeper, i know... ill see if she is any good...' Pyros thought to himself.
Pyros walked over about 11 metres from the goal like a penalty shot would be and began to do tricks with the ball suck as kicking it over his back and then letting it bounce once on the floor before picking it up with his foot and bouncing it on his knee. "hey, do you want the ball?" Pyros teased hoping to get the cat girl to pay attention and keep her eye on the ball.
Pyros decided maybe if he began to shoot she would notice. Pyros shot the ball towards the goal and waited to see if the girl would try and stop it and if she would be successful.

[Headmistress Exypen/Athalia]

Athalia cracked her eyes open when she heard Pyros' voice the first time. It would have seemed like she hadn’t heard, except that her tail started to twitch and whip around as she watched the ball closely. Then he kicked it. She waited until it was almost below her before she rolled off the top of the goal, curled around the ball as it went under her and landed in a crouched position on the ground, the ball held to her chest. She stood, smiling and showing of sharp and long canine teeth. Then threw the ball up and volleyball spiked it. Okay so maybe she liked to play a little bit of volleyball. The girl squatted to pick up some sunglasses that had fallen out of her back pocket in the catch and put them on. She changed her eyes from human to cat eyes, which meant she would be able to focus on the ball better, careful to keep her face turned away from the sun which was to her side. Bright lights limit a cats’ eyesight, they see better in the dark than humans but not as well in the light. But they could focus on things better than humans.

The girl’s tail twitched as leaned against one side of the goal, watching the ball and waiting casually.

[ericjayrol]

Pyros watched as she blocked the ball. 'very interesting... but now for a little bit of a step up' Pyros thought as he watched the ball bounce once and then come towards him, it was perfect height for a volley shot, Pyros struck the ball with a volley strike and it was heading for the middle of the goal which was half goal length away from the cat girl.

[Headmistress Exypen/Athalia]

The girl smiled, grabbed onto the goal over her head and swung up and sideways, at the same time she let go with her hands letting herself fall, catching herself with her knees and catching the ball in her hands. She hung upside down held by her knees. She tossed the ball back and brought her hands up to beside her knees. Then she flipped her body over and let go to jump on the ground, quickly she spun around to face Pyros again. She had her hands into a claw like look and part of her mind warned her that she needed to calm down or something would happen, but she ignored it, watching the ball instead.