9: The return

After dwelling on my situation, I managed to dig myself out of my slump, it was only going to be one game, I'm sure the boys can pull through. But that doesn't change the fact I hate feeling useless

But my feelings got to me, feelings I was trained to never get the better of me came out. A mix of emotions where spreading through my body but things like this have happened before, players have been injured but they still came back some stronger than ever.

So just now I had arrived at the gym, the doors opened upon my arrival revealing to me all the important equipment's, dropping my crutches I limped to the treadmill, in my idiotic eyes I thought walking on my bad ankle would quicken the healing process.

So hopping on the treadmill I felt immediate pain, my ankle felt like it was going to explode but I grit my teeth and tried walking through the pain, currently the setting it was on was walking, but my struggle was clear, it had only been 10 minutes but I was sweating bullets.

I gripped the handles of the treadmill hoping to stabilize my movement, but one miss step had me slipping planting my head on treadmill before rolling down to the floor.

"NO!" Refusing to take defeat he stood up ready to go back on the active treadmill, blinded my his hard headedness he stepped on the treadmill and returned to the ground. This time not getting up, no matter how hard he tried he couldn't defeat this obstacle, he couldn't surpass this wall. His dream were beginning to weigh on him.

{JUST BEFORE THE GAME VS TEAM W}

"Your aunt, she's passed away."

Ego was telling Zachary Ibrahim the news about what had happened outside of blue lock.

"She had lost the battle to cancer, I truly feel for you."

Overwhelmed by sadness Zachary was ready to quit, quit blue lock, quit football, quit everything he loved.

"That sadness you feel, turn it into your strength, take out that sadness on your opponents."

Turing back around Ego walked away, tears ran down the eyes of a crazed Zach ready to unleash his rage.

{BACK TO THE GYM}

"Zach!! You okay." The voice of Reo awoke the dreaming Zachary, "I figured you would be here."

Wrapping his hand around Zachary he dragged him to a bench, "Trying to exercise in your current form is pretty dumb, you should really take some time off."

Zachary was still fazed out, but Reo understanding the situation began brainstorming, "okay then if you really want to be in here then you should pick out different workouts. Mostly upper body workouts would be good."

Looking at Reo Zachary couldn't help but be surprised, he's going out of his way to help a saddened Zach who is injured.

"Then maybe we should-" "Thank you Reo." Looking up Reo couldn't help but give a smile.

{TEAM V VS TEAM X}

Currently Zachary has been through 2 weeks of rehabilitation, but he was still unfit for matches, Reo's training plan has been really good though and he should be back for the next match.

The main man of team X was player similar to me, Barou shoei was a physical monster, with both monstrous strength and speed. Zantetsu was definitely the best player to mark him and he was doing just so. But his charging power was to much to endure. "You think your puny speed is enough to mark me?!" He left Zantetsu in the dirt but luckily enough backup arrived.

 Reo came in with a slide tackle stopping the charge, but the tackle was also a pass disguised to connect with nagi. "Damn that was crafty." Was all I could say from the sidelines. "Your little charge ends here king of no one." Reo said with a smile on his face. Barou on the other hand was pissed and immediately makes a charge for the ball. But the ball already had reached its target, Nagi using his trapping skills managed to play a pass back to Reo who had just caught up and smashes it in the back of the net for 1-0.

"Gooooaaalllllll!!!!" Zach was the first to yell out in support of his teammate. as our team celebrated the other team where bickering, they where unsatisfied with Barou's selfishness, though it was good for us. But Barou caught my attention, with his actions, he viewed himself as a king and his teammates peasants. 

The ego that he was talking about, he seemed like the embodiment of it.

So at the kickoff team X decided to play without their best player, they linked the ball up well, but on paper we had the better team, so one of our defenders stole the ball from them giving a pass to Zantetsu who sprinted down and scored our second goal. Then the third came from Nagi. Barou at this point was as pissed as you could imagine.

 The king had enough, he intercepted a pass from Reo to Nagi exclaiming he was finished with his peasant teammates, but in his attempt to get the ball back nagi was burned, and the king charged through.

Though Zantetsu and Reo managed to get in front of him, though not for long since Barou accelerated burst through, then making it into our ox he unleashed a strike into the back of the net. Making the score 3-1. "It's about time you peasants start listening to your master."