INAZUMA ELEVEN : Beyond Science

Catalysis

The darkness still shrouds over the orphanage of Sun Garden as the silence is still veiled upon the place and utter peace is the message of the night. Of course, that is outside of Hiroto's room which could become a future crime scene, if all scenarios just go for the worst. As it is the situation was dire as who knows what the worm had done to Hiroto's brain.

Worm!Endou went closer to Hiroto who is still kneeling from the shear pain. But, he crouches down and reaches out his hand. Saying, "Hiroto-kun, are you okay?", he said this as he pulled out Endou's famous enthusiastic grin.

Hiroto was shock from this gesture and decides to sulk in a corner from the fear of whatever he is facing. While, Worm!Endou just ended his smile and tried to prevent a maniacal laugh.

"What's wrong, Hiroto-kun? You really thought your friend can take back his body." Worm!Endou said as he laughed insanely.
"W-why are you doing this?" Hiroto said while trembling in fear.
"I am a shard made to be a catalyst for chaos. What else, do you give me for? A mere parasite. I can destroy the world at any way you could possibly imagine with the help of a little thing under your bed." Worm!Endou said as he roamed the room..
"What?" Hiroto exclaimed..
"So, you do know, what's under here." Worm!Endou takes out a box under Hiroto's bed and takes out the content of the box as he mockingly waved the object at Hiroto's face. "What am I talking about? You did give me everything."
"Give that shard back." Hiroto charged with all his might at Worm!Endou. But, to no avail, he only gets lightly strangled with Worm!Endou's arm.
"Don't you worry; I won't kill you or anything like that but instead I'm giving you this back. I know that you know the dangers of this little thing." He said as he proceeds to cover Hiroto's nose and mouth. A few moments later, Hiroto faints from the lack of oxygen, Worm!Endou doesn't mind this and let Hiroto be unconscious on the floor. As for Worm!Endou, he goes of the room and leaves with the purple shard with him.

"Endou!" Hiroto wakes up screaming from whatever went through his mind at the time. "Right! He's not himself, right now... Wait! What the hell is the taste... The shard... No, I need to find that worm, I know he has it, at least, I know the shard isn't near me." He thought to himself as he jumped through multiple reactions with himself until a knock is heard and lets himself in.

"Hiroto, you okay?" Midorikawa said in a worried tone.
"Reize,I mean, Ryuuji, ah... Midorikawa, I'm okay." Hiroto said stuttering.
"Are you sure?" Midorikawa said as reaches out his hand to him. "You seem you had it hard with Endou, last night."
"About Endou... Where is he, now?" Hiroto asked as he took up Midorikawa's hand.
"Ah!" Midorikawa yelled as he felt so much heat from Hiroto's hand. "Are you sure, you're okay? You're stuttering, out of your mind and I felt your hand like it's burning into mine. Tell me the truth or I'll call Hitomiko-san."
"But..."
"I'll call." he said as he grabbed his phone.
"Okay. Okay. I'm not seeing you right..." Hiroto said as Midorikawa felt the floor heating up.
"Hiroto..."
"I'm not seeing anything right..." he said as the floor starts to emit a white smoke.
"HIROTO..."
"I feel like everything is burning." Hiroto ended as the floor starts to gain fiery red ember.
"HIROTO! The floor is burning!" Midorikawa screamed as Hiroto notices it.

Hiroto runs away from the spot as he runs around the room to avoid his feet burning anything else. As for Midorikawa, he jumps on Endou's bed to avoid the floor's heat.

"Reize..."
"That's not my name, anymore!"
"Whatever, we need to find Endou, he did this to me."
"What make you, spontaneously combust."
"I don't know."
"What, don't you know?"
"He has this worm in him which is controlling him, I don't get but it's there."
"You sure?" Midorikawa said as he thinks his friend went hysterical.
"I almost set the room on fire with my own body, didn't I?"
"Okay. He is at the soccer field."
"We need to get out now. Who knows what he is doing?"

As Hiroto and Midorikawa went out, the entire hallway was awfully silent, no one was there in the first place. Though, they went out to the living room and saw that the pieces of furniture were out of place, rumbled and tumbled even. They were worried about what happened and hurried to the soccer field as they heard a child's scream for help.

As for the ones in Okinawa, Fubuki, Gouenji and Matatatgi!Ichinose have recently got out from the mind space inside Ichinose's mind. Their faces were still unbelievably shock from the future vision; they've seen in there.

"Shirou-nii, what's wrong?" Atsuya said as he was apparently worried from his brother's unusual pale skin.
"Fideo, you can manipulate time and space, right?" Gouenji snapped out from his shocked trance.
"Yes...? Why?"
"Can you get us to Sun Garden?" Gouenji answered.
"I don't know."
"We need to try, everyone there is in danger."
"Gather up." Fideo said as he gathered the confidence to send all of them to Sun Garden.
"What's happening, here?" Tsunami demanded.
"Don't worry. We'll tell you everything, there." Matatagi said but didn't show hostility.
"Is this for real?" Toramaru asked.
"If this even works, is this safe?" Tachimukai interrupted.
"I'm not sure. I haven't done this since Atsuya and I transported to Raimon."
"Where did you meet,exactly?" Toramaru asked.
"Shut up! I need to concentrate." Fideo scolded as a portal open with the complete unknown. "Well, I can't hold this forever. Get in there."
"Get out of the way! I need to save Aki." Ichinose said as he took back control of his body and runs off to the portal.

Respectively, Gouenji, Shirou, Atsuya and Tsunami rushed into the portal but it soon grows unstable and Fideo rushes in as the portal shrinks as each second passes by. As for Toramaru and Tachimukai, they are left with Tsunami's house.

"What do we do here?" Toramaru asked.
"I have no idea. Wait! How about surfing?" Tachimukai said.
"I'll try it! My mother did say I need to relax so she agreed to this." Toramaru stated.
"You really need to get a life other than that restaurant and Gouenji." Tachimukai said as Toramaru got a bit insulted.
"You're the one who has a life only towards goalkeeping and Tsunami-san." Toramaru retaliated.

Both of them stopped from talking and instead glared at each other. They suddenly synced in their decision to get the surfboards and rushed to the beach.

---Zack---
I have entered this story to the Lightning Awards Season 2, I hope to get feedback from all of you so I can have the least of chance against more experienced writers.

Thanks for reading...