I was sitting in geography. I looked up it was 11:20. Ten more minutes than I can leave and play some basketball. We were in the quarter finals. We made it so far. I was counting the seconds until 11:30. This could be the school’s winter inter-school basketball cup in 3 years. We were going to beat the all the other schools and win the cup.

I looked up once again. Yes. I shot up and said “sir need to go. Peace” I picked up my bag shoved my book in to it and walked out of the class. The moment I turned a corner I sprinted to my locker opened it and threw my bad in. I received my kit and bolted for the front of the school. I saw Deon “your late” he said nonchalantly “hurry up.” He didn’t look bothered but it was a front. I could see right through him. He was excited like us all. We gave it are all to get here. Now that were here we were going to win no matter what!

I shouted “let’s do this!” the entire team went up cheering. The whole team was beaming with excitement. In fact I could see it. Weird. I looked at my one hands they were releasing some blackish reddish colour. Everyone else’s was white apart from mine and Deon’s. He was emitting a yellowish orangish colour. Ok.

I put on my head phones and started to listen to some music while think of what I had dreamt about last night. Five people three men two women fighting a demon of some sorts. A guy blasted it with lighting while one set its eyes on fire as another cut it open with some wind. A mountain came crashing down on the demons arm. It sent the guy that hit it with lightning flying. He landed right next to me. He looked like me. No its like were are twins. A mirror image. I was drawn back into the real world when the coach came to a grinding halt. We were there. Finally lets do this!

When we arrived I was shocked at what I saw. This can't be real? It was the size of a small cliff. There were white pillars snaking from the ground and connecting to a jet black roof. There were already coaches there I noticed Elthorn high, Drayton manor, Carnal Wismon and Brentside.

This was going to be an epic tournament. The 15 and overs were to in the middle of the centre. I was in total amazement when I saw the gym. “Damn” Joe said. It was so big that you could fit thousands of Range Rovers in it. There were 4 courts. They were all the size of pro courts.

We were up against Drayton Manor first. They lost to us in the group stages but they were challenging. We went to get changed. This was the match I hated most. I was on the bench for the entire game. It was aggravating. Seeing our team play so sloppy. After the game it was 24:22. We won again. Yes. It was so close. The last game was against Carnal Wismon. The match seemed lost until the third quarter. We were losing 20:26. They were playing defence until one of them slipped up and stopped marking me Deon passed the ball to me and I shot a three pointer. 23:26 just three more points we would be in neck and neck. I intercepted a pass and I noticed Joe making a brake for it. I launched the ball and he caught it and shot immediately. He was smashed in the back by one of the retards from Carnal Wismon. It went in 25:26. It was a foul. “Come on you can do it Carl” I said.

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He sent the ball through the air. It went through the net “YES!” the entire team shouted 26:26. We were all tied up. In the fourth quarter the game got intense. The teams were marching and blocking each other. Then Carl was subbed out for Deon. This changed the whole game almost instantly. He tackled a tall blonde. He drove through the team and did a layup. 28:26, the score kept changing until Ali pushed through and jumped as high as he could and dunked the ball right through the net as the buzzer sounded. It took a moment for everything to sink in. We won. We did it. “We won!” I screamed louder than the entire crowd. “We won the cup!”

When we were returning the coach seemed to stop working. The driver told everyone that we would have to get to school by ourselves since it stopped working. Deon and I decided to bunk Games because we had just won a cup. It was time to relax so we went to our MMA gym. Your probably thinking that aren’t we going to be exercising that isn’t relaxing. Who said that we would be doing anything we were just going to chill for a few minutes.

While we were going to the gym we were shoved into some shady place. “Give me all your money.” A man in a hoodie said.

I laughed “or what?” Deon looked at me like “come on I don’t want to get into a fight.”

“Or I’ll put a knife in you” the man replied. This time Deon laughed his head off “Like that will happen.”

 “Oh it will and it will be painful.” He whistled. About forty people came from behind us. Deon said “I’ll take the twenty on the right you take the twenty on the left.”

“Fuck you. I’ll take twenty-one.” I replied simultaneously we dropped our bags and raised our arms. We went through them two by two. At the end there was only the first guy left. “Like I said “like that will happen””. The man grinned.

“Oh it will and then I will eat you!” the man grew five feet. His skin turned into the darkest void and his eye turned red. He was muscly and he had a tail. His nails turned into claws and his teeth into fangs. Horns grew out of his for head they too were black. Okay I like the colour black but that’s too much black even for me.