Third Chronicles of Illumination by C. A. Pack

Author:C. A. Pack
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: coming of age, magical realism, paranormal fantasy
Publisher: C. A. Pack

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Each Bullaroot team captain simultaneously hurled a ball in his team’s color toward their target to signal the beginning of the game. The Juveniles cheered, stamping their feet in approval, and the mayhem that typified any Bullaroot game ensued.

Before Bullaroot, Juvenile sports usually pitted two teams against each other, but in many of those games, there were long scoreless stretches of time that bored the spectators. Then, someone got the idea that double the teams would mean double the excitement, and Bullaroot was born. Having one team defending itself against three others kept everyone on their toes and entertained the crowd. Today’s game was no different, and there wasn’t one Juvenile who wanted to be associated with the losing team, so they all cheered their teams to score and booed their missed chances.

Marbol played especially hard. He had been in the tunnels and didn’t want to return. Duddu, Pollo, and Guffle wanted to win but didn’t have that extra impetus to avoid losing at all costs.

Marbol’s red team scored first with a double-rebound play. The captain himself rocketed the ball toward his team’s red bullseye, where it hit dead-center for the highest number of points and bounced back toward the field with the maximum force provided by the spring action loaded behind each target. Pye was ready for the rebound and forcefully kicked the ball in an arc that missed scores of other players on the field and descended gracefully into the red team’s net to double their point score.

The other teams scrambled, but three of Marbol’s defensemen had been instructed to thwart scoring by the competition at all costs. So instead of trying to gain control of their own ball and score, those three players roamed the other teams’ quarter fields, and they did whatever they could to disrupt the flow of competing games.

The red team scored a second time, hitting the target. Moments later, Duddu’s blue team scored when they successfully kicked their ball into the net. This caused frenzied action by Guffle’s green team and Pollo’s yellow team, who didn’t want to lose the day. But their nervous energy caused them to make mistakes, while the red and blue teams each scored additional points.

Marbol focused all his energy on scoring. He threw hard, intercepted with agility, and kicked ferociously. By the end of the first tri-match, the red team was firmly in first place, while the yellow and green teams had failed to score.

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