Empyrean Iris Story Collection

Football

Sunny lifted her head to the Earth's Sun allowing the warmth to seep into her skin. Despite what Krill said, Earth was very nice, and it didn't have so much ash in the air as her planet did. It was nice, and bright, and warm. It smelled nice too, mostly from the brightly colored flowers that made her mouth water. Adam looked at her a little funny every time she turned to quickly snack on one as she walked by, but she didn't mind. It almost surprised her that the human didn't eat them since they seemed to eat everything else.

Granted, she hadn't taken to these walks simply to eat the earth flowers, but because she thought it would be good for Adam. It had been a month or two since the prison fiasco on Noctopolis, and he was slowly returning to himself. She had been reading up on the proper way to help a human heal mentally and determined that he needed sunlight, friends and something to do, so walks with her and Krill were the best option. Plus it had the added bonus of being something Krill liked, which was a miracle since, when it came to earth he often didn't like anything.

They turned onto a road shaded under tall over-arching trees. To their right, the ground behind the trees was manicured grass with a playground covered in tiny humans, and a surrounding park dotted with blankets and other human lounging in the sun. It was a truly alien scene to her, and the atmosphere was like nothing she had experienced. They received some wide eyed open mouthed states as they walked past, especially from the children, who ran over to get a closer look trailed by their equally curious but somewhat worried parents.

Adam greeted them politely as they passed by the park, and onto the stretch next to a chain link fence behind that being a set of bleachers which looked out onto a diamond-shaped filed Adam said was used for baseball. After that was a soccer field covered in more human children, one group wearing bright green and the other wearing purple. Adult humans cheered their spawn from the perimeter of the field.

They passed beside another wide open field.

That's when her attention was diverted by a sound. A human voice barking a sharp guttural call. SHe turned her head just in time to see a group of humans crouched in two parallel lines facing each other. As the call was given, the man in the middle front tossed the ball backwards to a teammate standing behind him. The rest of the human responded violently and quickly bellowing war cries and slamming into each other with violent force knocking each other to the ground when possible.

A human at the end of the line raced out behind their opponents ducking past a larger human barreling towards him. The human with the ball fell back and then lobbed the thing into the air brown highlighted against eggshell blue. It flew in a tight spiral before arching towards the ground. The running human reached out with both hands and leapt forward arms wide. He caught the ball, though sloppily, and cradled it against his chest just in time to be plowed into by a human from the opposing line. There was a sharp burst of blue around the man's head and shoulders as the two men hit the ground, the rest of the human came to a grinding halt

"Jackson! What did I say about head shots."
The human without the ball staggered to his feet, "He has a force field, so it's not like it matters."

"Just because he has a field doesn't mean a concussion isn't possible." The leader explained in annoyance.

Adam had come to a halt ahead realizing that Sunny wasn't next to him anymore. She felt him rather than saw his as he came back to stand next to her watching as the humans returned to their lines once more, "Should have known you'd like it." He muttered to himself a slight smile tugging at the corner of his mouth.

"Which human game is this one." Sunny wondered.

"A dangerous one." Krill determined wincing as the humans plowed into each other for a second time."