PART 60

''Are you okay?''

''I need to catch my breathe - it feels like a repetition of the time I attended a game and there was a sudden upheaval and riot in the crowd.''

''I got a sudden and strong sense of it,'' she added.

PART 59

Suddenly, Zain was hit by a claustrophobic and overwhelming feeling. She sat down heavily with her eyeballs moving from one direction to another, dizzy and engulfed by a feeling that felt very much like vertigo.


She held the rail in front of them with both hands.

PART 58

Another sudden eruption in the Arena...

Peace breathed heavily,''Sweet Jesus.''

Magna giggled. Zain gestured animatedly and yelled,''that's my Geenie - way to go boy.''

PART 57

''Hey! Geenie, move up Geenie,'' this was Magna Squealing heavily as Geenie regained possesion.

Geenie slid the ball past a Rootugs and a Boomers offensive, clipping the ball with the tip of his right roller-boot.


The ball ricocheted off the knee guard of a Trenchmen defensive and off the right side of the Trenchmen keeper before lodging itself firmly in the Trenchmen's goal square.

PART 56

The Boomers were 8 goals to 6 for the Drones, 5 for the Rootugs, and 3 for the Trenchmen XC8 team.

PART 55

Wooh!

''This guy is getting to me - I wish the team would take a recess for a while... at least long enough for him to get a grip of himself.''

Peace was refering to the fellow behind her.

PART 54

'' But then you are one tough act to follow - I mean...your tastes in shoes and bags are frantically monumental...if ever there was such an expression.''

'' Hey ! Girls, whoever told you I overindulge in assesories? I only take what I need - I have a high sense of fashion you both would agree.''

'' Yeah Zain - but all that shoes,'' Magna exasperated in humour.

PART 53

Peace turned in a bemused sort of shock at Zain and in her good nature giggled.

''but he is very nicey'', she said.

''Even though he is not as matured as you are,'' she continued.

''I would say Austen was more of the proper kind of catch - if only he could make up his mind about me,'' Zain added, shouting above the sudden increase in din in the Arena.

PART 52

In between shouts and the sudden eruptions the three tried to catch up on a few. Magna turned to Zain to say something in digression.

''Fancy you leaving Geenie for Austen.''

''Austen has more brains on his fingertips than Geenie has in the whole of his head,'' Zain retorted.

PART 51

This said day, she attends an XC8 game on the 44th ticket, Geenie had been kind and hopefully pursuant enough to provide. He knew Zain did not really like to be this close to the game in an XC8 arena.

I guess it was his own way of saying: the game is rough and tough, but also very exciting.

PART 50

Peace... is an interesting person, so interesting that it is almost dissagreeable or largely unbecoming, to use the terms; interesting character to talk about her. But Zain chooses her words carefully when she talks and when she talks she chooses to use such words as to reveal a mysterious or at least a sophisticated side to her personality.

PART 49

Well, don't get me wrong - she loves Geenie...in a polite sort of way. I mean she respects him more than she loves him. She knows it takes hard work to be an XC8 player. It is physical thing - just like posing for a photo shoot.

She looks at Peace. Her name rarely symbolizes anything other than it's actual meaning. I mean she is in love. she married for love, and wealth was thrown in for good measure. If she decides it, she doesn't have to lift a finger to do a day's job - how boring...very boring.

PART 48

It was a while since Zain actually had this much fun and with two good friends for that matter. She knows Peace does not care too much for XC8 games...like herself...but Magna, that is another matter. she should be the one running after those stunt crazy players, not yours truly...you know.

PART 47

Again Zain was greatly taken in by the power of the atmosphere. It was as if someone had taken a 100mg size syringe and had pumped her full with adrenlin. But this adrenlin only manifested as a rushy excitement, which she shared with her friends and hundreds of other people in the Lightening Arena.

PART 46

But Geenie was knocked off the ball by a Rootugs offensive. Falling one knee he lurched forward for a penalty call.

The Umpire blew for a repossession by the Drones XC8 team

PART 45

Well, it is not a question of just defending your goal square - you have to stop the three other opposing teams from scoring any goal at any goal square


Geenie, the Drones XC8 second offensive finally got the ball from the Boomers' offensive. He made a swift turn and then stopped himself just on time to avoid clashing into a Trenchmen offensive. He made for the Trenchmen goal square.

The strategy was to avoid the Boomers' goal square, for a goal against the Boomers would give them the possession after the goal - a risky choice.

PART 44

What's more - any one player in any one team could score at the three other goal squares in the round or the field of hard wood, making it, at times a most chaotic affair.

Another...

Wooh! The boomers' number 27 man; the defensive had swapped places with the number 33 man. He was up against the Rootugs' first offensive. The two offensives of the Trenchmen XC8 team were tangled up with the first offensive of the Drones, who was very determine to stop the number 27 of the Boomers.


This was inspite of the fact that it was Rootugs goal square the Boomers' man was aiming for.