(Part 17)

Elias crouching beside Alan pulled him up as he took deep breaths, "Are you alright, Alan?" asked Aigou and Noah together worried.

Alan opening his eyes which would close a second after hitting against the raindrops whispered, "I'm fine… just tired…"

Kazuna pushed his hairs up, resting his hand on his forehead he whispered, "He isn't feverish."

"Then what is it?" asked Aaron confused.

Orion checking his pulse sat dumbfounded, "His pulse?!"

Suddenly Alan murmured, "Isa… Isa… call… Isa…"

Rauf eyeing Isa headed down from the first floor, "Go Isa."

Isa hearing him rushed to the ground, "I would've gone even if you hadn't told me to." Rauf staring the file grim made his way towards the pitch as well.

"What's wrong?" Seraph inquired standing before the high schoolers.

"It's nothing to worry about. Alan's just tired and collapsed. Even as a world ranker twenty overs at once are indeed a hard job." told Elias.

Kenzo sheltered his umbrella over Alan.

Isa heading towards them called out, "Let me see…" grasping Alan he took a deep breath whispering, "Inner Realm… Respite." A transparent light surrounding Alan comforted him immediately.

"Isa… Thanks." Alan thanked him one last time before drifting into a slumber. Isa sighed.

"You little brat! Find a more appropriate place to sleep next time. Scaring me out of nowhere…" he scolded anxiously.

Glancing at Kenzo who stood before him and Alan with his umbrella Isa smiled. Kenzo evading his gaze rolled his eyes suddenly handing the umbrella to Heber who blinked puzzled taking Kenzo's position.

"Don't worry now, he's alright. This isn't the first time he has done that." Aaron assured. Xavier breathed a sigh of while Poseidon patted his shoulder. The highschoolers relieved stood up.

"That scared me." freaked Senri.

Zach picking up Alan stood straight. "He has become way too light…" he thought worried gazing at his figure.

Rauf reaching the highschoolers gazed at the middleschoolers grave. "Augh… I hate his face." Adam rolled his eyes. Seraph lightly smacking his head hushed him down as Cassiel whispered blatantly, "And, I hate his guts."

Seraph hearing him join Adam slapped his own forehead in disbelief. Evan and Haruf standing beside Zach eyed Alan nervously in his arms. Zach assuring them nodded.

Grasping Alan's sleeping sight Rauf commanded, "Haruf, Senri, Zachariah, Isa, Noah, Elias and Nagi. Take Alan back to the infirmary and get him checked. Ask Seles to do what I asked him to."

Haruf nodding along with the others walked outside the ground. Zach peeking at Alan hurried up. Helios tracing Alan leave shifted his gaze towards the rest who stood alongside Rauf.

Kenzo walking forward stood eye to eye against Rauf seriously. Xavier, Poseidon, Azazel, Feng, Ryan and Gabriel all stared grave. Clutching the file tightly Rauf raised it up, a disdained grin resting over his face, "So this is all what you had to show me after everything?"

"What do you mean?" asked Seraph stern.

"What do I mean hun… fourteen of you with different abilities and skills couldn't even send a single opponent back to the pavilion and here you are asking me, what do I mean?" Rauf mocked.

His eyes revealing disdain, scorn and anger he glared at the middleschoolers amid the heavy rain.

"Hey… what the hell do you mean by that?!" Gabriel clutched his fists in anger as Poseidon stopped him.

Looking at Rauf Poseidon inquired, "Do you intend to say that you were not satisfied with our performance and you're disappointed we didn't outclass Alan?"

Hearing his words, Rauf suddenly laughed. "Haha!! Not satisfied? Disappointed? These words are way too good to describe your performance which was equivalent to the mud on this ground." he scorned.

Kenzo hearing his words shot up in rage as Xavier glared dangerously. Seraph on the other hand, stood with his expression blackened. Kazuna and Aaron eyeing each other stared anxiously. Aigou startled by the conversation hid behind Orion who stood baffled. Evan too stood grave before the middleschoolers.

Helios walking forward smirked treacherously, "Is that so? Well it was something at the very end, though only mud. Rauf… you are way too full of yourself. How dare you humiliate the mud you're standing on right now? Don't you fear it might rip apart under your feet and drown you in?"

Azazel and Heber gulped.

"Afraid? Of mud like you? Haha!! The first one of you got out on the last ball while you got your own pinnacle countered. The game changer couldn't even change the game while joker himself became a joke." Rauf sneered.

"What else do you want to hear? The prince who couldn't even overcome Alan's batting with the king unable to score the last six while the genius doesn't even know what he has to do. What have you learned after all this time?" he continued to ask disappointed. The middleschoolers hearing his words brimmed up with anger every passing second. All of them clutching their fists hard and gritting their teeth endured the clatter of ever falling ridicules.

"I wonder what's happening out there?" asked Xander making out amid the foggy rain. "I wonder if they're alright?" whispered Jonah worried. Damian sighed, "The thing which worries me the most, I'm afraid is completely something else…"

Rauf glancing at the file threw it towards Kenzo's feet. "You wish to take the world on with this? You aren't worthy!" he derided.

Kenzo eyeing the file which struck over his feet getting wet in the endless downpour picked it up. Opening it up, at a first glance his expression widened, he stared at his name written on the top with the others soon following below.

As if a hidden devil woken up, his eyes went blood shot red while he glared in rage. Clutching the file ever so tightly he whispered with his expression blackened, "My name was written over it…"

The middleschoolers unable to hear him stared puzzled. "Captain…?" Azazel suddenly halted.

"You bastard! My name was written on it!" Kenzo shot up at Rauf in rage soon laughing crazily, "Haha… Haha… Haha!!" He then glared the file grave, "How dare you hun?" One by one tearing off every single sheet held within. Xavier stood perplexed as Adam hid behind Seraph. Ryan and Feng too faced the situation restless. The highschoolers behind Rauf looked at the middle schoolers serious, none daring to utter a single word.

Throwing all the papers along with the file back at Rauf's feet. Kenzo grinned sadistically, "You think you've read and now know everything about us just by collecting all our data and witnessing our overall change in a single over? Haha! You're gravely mistaken!"

"Our real strength… is so great, that it will crush you all into smithereens! Sheets and files as small as this can't dare to even measure it!" he added.

The middleschoolers glared back furious. Seraph walking forward alongside Xavier and Helios sneered, "Rauf~ seems like you've really misunderstood us. Before we came here, we were called 'Monsters of cricket'. That little file of yours doesn't hold even a quarter of our veracity. If you have the guts, then face us all by yourself."

Rauf eyeing the file and pages, stepped over them with a mile wide sneer. "Is that so? Too bad you aren't worthy of standing against me. Get lost! All fourteen of you right here and right now! Facing the world? That honor doesn't belong to the likes of you!"

Poseidon smirked, "You're right, it doesn't belong to us. It belongs to the likes of you. The ones who were humiliated two years ago. Crushed completely! At the verge of despair, before you could even stand against your rival."

Evan hearing those words clenched his fists tightly while Orion, Kazuna, Aigou, Ren and Aaron glared grave.

Kenzo turning around disdained, "Oh great Rauf~ we are getting lost. However, not because you said so. But, because I… no… We, don't give a damn foot in facing the world alongside a bastard like you!"

"Remember one thing, you stepped over this king's and his knights designations. You'll definitely pay back for it!" he threatened walking away. The middle schoolers too headed back. "Go get humiliated once again under the insulting laughter of your so called world." Feng jeered.

"After all, you deserve it." added Heber. Gabriel suddenly halting in between grinned, "And the names you just crushed under your feet… get ready to be haunted by them starting this second for the rest of your life!" "Come on, everyone. Let's go back! Scoundrels like these don't deserve our mighty presence." smiled Helios.

"Captain…?" Azazel uttered puzzled while Ezekiel looked at Poseidon anxiously.

Ryan smirked at Rauf, "Did you really thought we could face the world only beside you? Then, you're hella full of yourself. The world is too vast to even wait for you. Don't you know that?" he headed back.

Orion hearing their words clutched his fits tightly while Aaron stared grave.

"For middle schoolers, they sure are foul mouthed." Ren commented enraged.