The New Kid

After Lyra agreed to my little plan we all rushed back out to the field. I took up position next to Rainbow on offense.

"You ready Storm?" Rainbow asked, staring straight ahead at the opposing team, who were just now getting to their positions. The same fear evident on their faces.

A thought crossed my mind before I could answer, and I looked down at her knee. Being so close, I could see her putting weight on her uninjured leg, lifting the other slightly off the ground.

"Rainbow are you sure your good to play?" She looked back at me with an annoyed expression about to say something. "Like your doctor said you were good?" I cut her off.

Her eyes widened briefly. "Y-yeah, of course" She averted my gaze. "Why wouldn't he say so?" She let out a nervous laugh. She must have seen my staring at her leg, as she slowly began to put weight on it... she couldn't hid the small grimace of pain though.

I closed my eyes and sighed. "Rainbow your good at a lot of things.... but you really suck at lying"

She turned back to me and glared. "How would you know?! Your a doctor now, huh?!"

I cocked an eyebrow at her "Really?" I said, unimpressed.

She dropped the glare and looked away from me again. "Yeah, yeah fine. I may have lied just a teensy-little bit.... but I'm totally good to play! Plus, I need to play or we'll be forced to forfiet!"

I shook my head and facepalmed "How did you even manage to play to this point?"

"I guess I'm just that awesome" She said, pointing to her self and smirking. I gave her a look that let her know I wasn't buying it. "Ok, ok..... I may have used some painkillers. I think they wore off though" She grimaced and rubbed her knee.

Before I could argue further, the whistle blew; resuming the game.

"I'll be fine" Rainbow said as she ran off.

I sighed and followed behind her, I looked ahead seeing an opposing player dribbling the ball. Looking to the scoreboard, I saw the score still at 5-0. We were of course in the lead. As long as we kept the ball out of our goal it would be an easy victory.

Suddenly my leg caught on something. "Shit!" I swore as I tumbled to the ground. Rolling onto my back I looked up to see one of the opposing players looking at me with a hurt expression.

"Sorry" he whispered before running off. I quickly pushed myself up and looked over to the sidelines. There, standing with a smug expression, was Sar. His friend right next to him using his phone to snap pictures.

Narrowing my eyes, I shook my head and ran back to the game. I could see Sparkler dribbling the ball, and Rainbow running in front of her. I didn't notice a limp or any pain on her face, but I knew that knee had to be hurting. I sighed, looking back on what I'd just thought. Rainbow was tough, she wasn't some little kid. She'd be fine, but after the game I'd be bringing her straight to a doctor. I looked back at our goal. Lyra, who was leaning on Rose, looked a little dizzy; but as long as she doesn't exert herself she'd probably be alright.

"Storm!" I heard Sparkler yell. I looked over to her and saw the ball coming straight for me. Reacting, I took the ball and began dribbling towards their goal. I saw their defense rushing towards me. I couldn't see any opening, I'd need to get the ball to someone else. I saw Rainbow rushing up to my left waving her arms at me. I quickly kicked the ball to her. Taking the ball, she rushed towards their goal.

"Hey!" I heard a voice to my left, I turned, only to get thrown back as something hit my chest. I hit the ground with a thud, and began coughing as the air was knocked out of my lungs. I frantically tried to suck in air, only to be thrown into a coughing fit. I heard a whistle blow, and footsteps running towards me.

"Storm?!" I looked over, seeing Rainbow standing over me. "You alright?" She reached her hand towards me.

I nodded, still coughing "Yeah- ugh, just got the wind knocked outta me" I took Rainbow's hand and she pulled me up.

"Yeah you can thank Sar for that one. I can't believe he did that! This isn't like him...." She said with a worried expression. I looked over to the sidelines. I could see Sar being told off by a ref. He had his hands up shaking his head, probably saying it was an "accident" or something.

I shook my head. "Well maybe hes changed. Either way, this game just got a lot more complicated."

" Yeah, you can say that again"