BUG OF THE PAST

9.EXTRA PLAYER

Zayd kicked the ball furiously.

All of them were playing more than one position due to the lack of team members

Aslan was playing the goalkeeper for now.

On the otherhand,Aliyah was playing all positions and yet her every move was fabulous.

Both Zayd and Aliyah were moving and running at superfast inhuman speeds.

Aslan was no exeption.

He was on his college football team.

He'd won every match during his college.

But now the energy and stregnth he felt within him was different.

Somehow he'd never felt so powerful earlier & very surprisingly the speed he had while playing the game was even more faster than Zayd and Aliyah.

It almost felt supernatural to him.

This astonishing power was only felt when he played with the Khans.

It was his first time playing with them and yet it felt like a reminiscing memory.

A memory he never experienced in real life.

After 40 minutes,Zara blew the whistle indicating that the first half was over.

It was a tie obviously, since both Zayd and Aliyah had been playing real hard,including Aslan who contributed just as much to their raging game.

After a five minute break of drinking water and drying up a bit from the cold rain,Zara whistled again,this time with greater force.

Such force that she choked a little.

Aslan thought she was calling them for the second half,but the contorted rage on the the faces of all three Khans said something else.

They all looked ready to fight something horribly strong rather than playing a simple game of football.

Aliyah and Zayd stood up from the backyard bench they were sitting on.

Yet their faces were plastered with alertness.

Aslan stood up too,he knew  that they were preparing themselves, for another game.

But this time even he knew,this game had more players.

Not just the Khans and him,but someone more.

Someone whose strength was perhaps more than all the Khans and him combined.

This game was not against each other,but against that one extra uninvited player.

It felt like he and all three of the Khans were on the same team.

The sky had turned dark grey,despite of it just being afternoon.

The rain had stopped,but the winds were blowing in an abnormal speed.

The nets that they had attached on either sides of the large backyard had become loose and now they flew from their positions and got stuck up on tall tree branches.

The thundering in the sky echoed louder than ever.

It wasn't safe anymore to even step out in the backyard.

Aslan called after Zayd loudly since the howling wind would have muted his voice.

''WE SHOULD GET IN I THINK, THE STORM LOOKS DANGEROU--''

A fat tree branch came flying towards his face.

But he narrowly missed it.

Aliyah,Zayd and Zara were not moving from their spots.