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Chapter 65 - LXV ||| Annual Eclipseball Cup

Is any of the Kings and Queens going to show up to it?

"They have influence in everything, beautiful, especially when all of the Ministry strongest families' kids are here. Though they only come in special occasions such as the Academy's anniversary, graduations, and in the Northern Lights Festival in September, which is similar to the Lunar Starfall Festival that goes from the 7th to the 14th of September, and has the BAEC, the Belladonna Annual Eclipseball Cup. It's the main festival of the year, and also bigger than the Lunar one. That one no one misses, not even the seniors, and everyone trains the entire year for it, it's the one I mentioned a minute ago."

Damn, that sounds insane and exciting. "How does it work?"

"Thirty two groups at total. It's like a Football World Cup, but in the way of division and phases. The teams leaders are all decided by Mia and the Ministry, but it's not mindless, they make a camp study to decide the ones who have a better leadership and know how to work their teams to the best of their potential. As a leader of and eclipseball team, you need to have a great chemistry and team work with the other players."

"Felix is surprisingly good at that, despite everything, and so am I, so again, we ended up facing each other as team leaders. But I'm guessing," he grinned at me, "it will be you and me against each other this year. I'm actually excited about that. And I'm warning you that I won't go easy at all just because you're my mate." If I'm still his mate by then.

My thoughts exactly. "I would get furious if you dared to do that. You better prepare to get your arse kicked majestically, because I'm so going to get that crown from your beautiful head," I flashed my fangs. "It'll be quite the face off. Now, explain it to me how this BAEC works exactly."

He stole me a kiss first, "It's an eliminatory event. Thirty-two teams separated in group A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H. It gets decided on where the leader of the team is in the academy ranking that gets highlighted only with the leaders. Each group gets four teams, and your ranking can cause you a huge disadvantage as it might put you in a terrible matching. Group A is always formed by the teams whose leaders are of the 1st, 9th, 17th, and 25th positions out of the 32, just as group H has the leaders in the 8th, 16th, 24th, and 32nd positions."

"That means you've always take Group A and Felix took Group B, right? Since it's the only way for you to face each other on finals."

A nod, "Yes. That determinates that we only end up facing each other in the finals after we've defeated everyone else. There are two sets of teams. Set 1 has groups A, C, E, and G. Set 2 has groups B, D, F, and H. A faces C, E faces G, the two groups who win go against each other, the winner goes to the final. B faces D, F faces H, the two winners go against each other, and the winner of that match goes to the final for set 2. Last two teams play the final against each other, the team that gets the crown wins as the last one standing!"

"To get to that, there are the initial eliminatory phase, in which the four teams in each group goes against each other. I'll use group A as an example. As it's made by the 1st, 9th, 17th, and 25th groups, it goes like: Team 1 faces team 9, team 17 faces team 25, the two teams that win go against each other, the last one standing takes the position of team A. It goes from numbers to letters. Then, this team A that won their first two matches, goes against the winner of team C. If team A wins again, it'll face the winner of the match between teams E and G. And if team A wins their four matches, it'll go for the fifth that is the final as the sole winner of set 1, against the sole winner of set 2."

"First face down of the group eliminatory between the teams lasts four days. Three matches for each group, as I just told you. On the 1st day goes groups A and C, on the 2nd it's group B and D, on the 3rd it's groups E and G, and on the 4th it's groups F and H. It can be tricky for the team who goes winning, since they have to play two matches in the same day, and if you lose players for injuries there's no adding new ones, you will have to play either way with or without the player."

"The second face down goes on for two days, on the 5th and 6th. All winners of the first phase. 1st set of teams A, C, E, and G goes on the 5th day, while the 2nd set of teams B, D, F, and H takes the arena on the 6th day. Two games per day. The third face down is the semifinals and happen on the 7th day, and it's the star match between the two teams of each set, and the winning team not only goes to the final, as the leader can also steal a play from the losing team to help them on the final. 8th and 9th day are for resting winners, while the 9th day is also the day of the match for 3rd place between the loser teams of the semifinals. The final between the winners of set 1 and 2 happens on the 10th day, at midnight when the northern lights are high glowing on the sky."

"Winner team leader gets to keep the diamond crown, all the now fourteen players get trophies of gold, fifteen days off, tickets to the most luxurious resort at the time for a week with all paid plus any attractions you want to see, an individual check of 10 million euros for each player, and anything from the vault of the Ministry Royal family of their choice. Not to mention that the team leader gets ten thousand points and the winner players get five thousand points each. Again, team leader is the biggest spot and it's also a power play and display."

"Second place gets silver medals, seven days off, the team leader gets 5 million euros, all the other players get 1 million, and all of them gain two thousand points. Third place gets bronze medals, three days off, the team leader gets 1 million euros, the plays get half a million, and all also get one thousand points. Oh, yes, there's also more three things that the winners get: a photoshoot together and individual, an interview with the Ministry Official Magazine which allows you to get fame and be known worldwide and it's one as a whole group and one for the team leaders, and lastly, each player gets a sponsorship from a famous luxury brand of any thing you want."

That made me laugh, "Let guess, you got a sponsorship with Gucci, Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Louis Vuitton, and Saint Laurent?"

But he didn't laugh, which stunned me the most, "I did, actually."

"Oh my Lady… you're unbelievable."

"I'm pretty legendary in here, you know? I won against the seniors when I had arrived at 7 years old. It was an unheard feat, and it got me and the kids from the Circle the game we have."

"Who's your group?" Aside from the Circle.

"Me as leader. River, Rio, Irene, Nevena, Dimitry, Igor, as you may already know. And I always took Shiryu, Dorothy, Henrihk, Yuliana, Yumi, and Savannah. Igor with Dimitry, Shiryu with Yumi, both are twins, and twins always tend to have a power twin combo attack. Seven vampires, a dark witch, two seraphim, a shifter, a kraken, a demon. It's good to have a bit of the main races, even if not all. Believe me, it was a killer team."

"Sounds chaotic," I'm sooooo going to steal some of his players.

"Chaotic can be the winning key, beautiful. I know because I've been winning it all for 10 years, so, yes, a pretty unbelievable streak. As I said, I'm a legendary leader in here, and my group always wins," again, I'll be changing that. "Everyone knows we always win," condescending much?

"Than I'll gladly change that," I winked.

"Oh, yeah?" He whispered and provokingly brought his hands to my arse, inside my panties, grabbing my skin hard, making me gasp. "I want to see you try. I already know you will get Felix for you, but he's not really a winning fact, you know? He usually teams up with those who want to try defeat me, and those who want the second place prices, since he always get those," he whispered. "I'm still winning."

"Don't underestimate me, Oliver," I glared at him, pressing myself on his erection, making him hold his breath.

"I would never do that. I'm simply confident in me winning." And then the bastards took out his hard as a rock cock from his underwear and pressed me over it, over my panty, making a delicious pressure.

Hardening my grip on his waist with my left arm, I used the right one to push my panty aside.

"Too bad, I'll be winning the game this time," then I sat on him in one overwhelming slide quicker than before, only stopping when he was balls deep inside me, then I hugged him tight with both arms.

"Bloody hell, beautiful," he groaned out of breath. "If you sit on me like this I'll go insane," he said on the curve of my neck. "I'll never get tired of how deliciously well you take me in you, babe," then he sank his fangs on my neck.