WM Day 7 - Tuesday as the Wingman

The day starts with banging.

Tiff marches into the cabin, full of energy, literally banging two pots together. She keeps banging them even after everyone is awake and covering their ears.

She finally stops.

"Get dressed and get to the dining hall," she says. "Eat light, then go to yoga room 5 for warmup."

"What kind of drills today?" you ask. It can't be anything difficult because you have that practice game this afternoon.

"No drills," Tiff says, and the girls all murmur to each other in confusion. No drills?

"I'm not allowed to tell you. You'll see. You're on TV now, remember? You knew it was going to be crazy. They warned you. Quit acting surprised. Remember what I said. Eat light."

"Do we know who we play later?" Lara asks, raising her hand.

Tiff grimaces.

"Blue Team," says.

That's Adella's team.

You feel sudden apprehension. And then you feel relief. Playing against Blue Team today means you will NOT play against them in Friday's much more important game.

You all get dressed and eat a small breakfast, where the Blue Team watches you, and you watch them. There is very little interaction between the teams at the dining hall, and even less as you all go to different yoga rooms at the gym.

Tiff doesn't do yoga. She leads you through quick stretches, and then you have to change into your... uniforms? The uniform is not a soccer uniform. It's more like what olympic runners wear: like skimpy bicycle shorts and an extremely tight crop top. Confused, you and the others all put them on. It's not very modest for the girls like you, but everyone is too nervous about the day to be distracted by some bulges. You wish you weren't too scared to enjoy the view...

You wave at some of the cameras as all the girls in the camp walk out to the path into the woods, where half the teams split off and take another path. You wonder where they are going.

Your team arrives at the beginning of an elaborate obstacle course. It's long, with a LOT of obstacles. You can tell by looking at the map that it will be totally exhausting. So you will all be tired and sore for this afternoon's match.

"Cheer up, it'll be fun," you tell some of the girls who are complaining. Other captains are doing the same thing with their teams.

It's as long and difficult as you fear, but you are good at this. You are an athlete, even if some of the obstacles require a lot of upper body strength, which is not your strong suit. You still do well! You are fast and have good balance...

...until you get to the final obstacle. You are at the lake, and you have to cross a lot of spinning logs to get to the other side, but there's like this fog out there...

Someone hands you a staff with pads on the ends.

"What's this for?" you ask.

"For balance," she replies.

Oh no... You carefully go out, balancing... until you see that there is someone else in the fog up ahead, coming toward you.

So THAT is what this is about. That is why they split up the teams... part of this course is getting past this other player.

You see that it is... Athena, a Japanese girl from White Team that you automatically like because she has huge boobs. She looks confident, though... You attack! She is ready, and not afraid of you at all. She is super fast and knows exactly what she's doing... you barely even get to swing at her before you are in the water.

It kind of hurts your pride. You swim to shore, where your team is waiting. Elena pats your shoulder to comfort you.

"Don't feel bad," she says. "You don't have a chance against the martial arts girls."

"You won," you point out. Elena is mostly dry... she clearly didn't get knocked into the water.

"I'm one of them," she says, grinning at you and pointing at her face.

"Wait, really?"

Chun is next... and she's up against... Shep from the Green Team. Shep is a weird name for a girl, but she's a redhead like you, and she looks positive and confident. Shep fights Chun head-on, and for a second she looks like she is doing well! Then Chun kicks her into the water. Chun didn't even really use her staff!

Martial arts, huh?

You take a shower and go to lunch. Adella gave you the lead with making a move on Chun, so you have to figure this out. You look at Chun every chance you get, and watch her at lunch. She looks cheerful, and she is really beautiful... She is her Team Captain, but she seems to be really nice to everyone. Well, you do that too... being a mean captain won't win games, right? Though... Adella kind of treats her players a little scary...

For the practice match, of course you have to play against Adella's team. It's tough! They're good, but so are you. You end up tying, 2-2.

When Adella shakes your hand after the game, you hold on and speak to her: "Chun is one of the martial arts girls. They practice at night." You heard about that... some of them gather in one of the gyms to exercise together.

"What do you think?" Adella asks.

"I think we should join them," you say.

Adella nods. You two are going to learn to fight.