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Brenden Dillon & Martin Jones | Dillon & Jones Play the Kings in NHL 17 | x |
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Encouragement, Through Play
Title: Encouragement, Through Play Series: Fairy Tail Pairing: Natsu/Lucy @nalu-week 2017 Prompt: Video Games (bonus) Rated: K+ Word Count: 1,273 words Additional Notes: This is based on a scene I wanted to write for my upcoming sports drama fic, Center Ice. However, I’m pretty confident that what you see in this story, will probably be in the actual fanfic as well. Also, this is set in a modern AU, with all that mentioned.
Settling herself down onto his sofa, Lucy kept an eye on Natsu, as he headed into the kitchen. A few clinking noises emerged from that room, followed by the sound of water being poured into a cup, and then into another. The young, pink-haired male emerged from the kitchen, holding two porcelain cups filled with water. He offered one of them to Lucy.
“Thanks, Natsu,” she quietly expressed her gratitude, taking a small sip from her cup.
“Anytime, Lucy,” he smiled slightly at her, before turning on both the T.V., and the PlayStation 4 that was situated below. “You want something to eat, as well?”
Lucy politely declined his offer, placing her cup onto the coffee table. “Thanks, but I’m fine right now.”
Her lips then creased into a small frown, as she focused on him. While Natsu retrieved the disc for the favourite video game he usually liked to play, Lucy couldn’t help but feel like she wanted to bring up the issues that arose with him, following his concussion diagnosis, from a few weeks earlier. Just seeing him struggle a lot—playing in the Fairies’ D-league team—a short while after his diagnosis, had seriously concerned her. It made her want to do something...something for him, for once.
Loading the disc into the PS4, Natsu settled himself down on the sofa, beside the blonde girl. Lucy glared at him, while he selected the video game he wanted to play, off from the console’s main menu.
“Natsu,” she quietly murmured, enough to bring the one she cared more about, to pay attention to her. “Can I...have a word with you?”
Taking his eyes off from the large screen in front of him, Natsu turned to directly face the blonde sitting beside. “Sure.” He raised his eyebrows. “What is it, Lucy?”
Her head bowed, and her eyes fell in the same direction. “Oh, it’s nothing.” She then slowly brought her irises up to his own. “I just...wanted to talk to you about what happened, in those last few days.”
Natsu frowned, and gave a dejected murmur, his eyes shifting away from hers. His attention then came back to the big-screen T.V., as it flashed the start screen of NHL 17, prompting him to press the corresponding start button on his DualShock 4. Going through the main menu, Natsu set himself up for a quick game, using the same rules that would apply in the actual NHL, and the pro-league he played for. Once on the gamepad selection screen, Natsu handed a spare DS4 to Lucy beside him.
“You wanna play, too?”
Lucy looked down at the second gamepad he offered her, for a moment, before she lifted her focus up to his eyes. “Uh...okay, I guess,” she accepted, gently taking the controller from him. “But, will you actually listen to me, when I’m talking to you?”
“Yeah,” Natsu nodded shortly. “I’ll try my best.”
Starting the match within the game, Natsu controlled the players on the Magnolia Fairies team, while Lucy controlled the players on Fiore’s national hockey team. Both of them began to battle against each other, on the big screen, as the first period commenced. Sounds of grunts, harsh crunches, and simulated crowd noises, had poured out of the T.V.’s speakers.
Lucy turned to him, while he maintained his best to focus on the screen. “Look, Natsu,” she spoke up, “I know how you’ve felt, after what went down in those games.”
Natsu tried to focus on the game, mashing at the buttons and sticks on his gamepad, at once. At the same time, however, he can definitely hear what she had to say to him.
“I understand what you’ve been going through,” she continued, “and it’s downright terrible—I get that.”
The pink-haired male sighed deeply, starting to become more frustrated at himself. He could feel the heat, and tension building up all over his body, again.
“But, what I really want to say,” Lucy revealed, in her more serious tone of voice, “is that you can’t keep being angry at yourself, just because you aren’t able to do well, as you have from before!”
The goal horn blared loudly through the speakers, as the Fiore national team scored the first goal, much to Natsu’s disbelief. It was at this point, when he finally opened himself up to her, as he slumped against the sofa.
“And you really can’t give up on what you’ve done, so far!” The blonde expressed to him, strongly, “You’ve gotten far enough, to make it to where you are, now...simply, because you’ve worked so hard for it!”
Natsu slowly turned to her, his eyes wavering a bit. A different horn sounded out, in the game, signalling the end of the first period.
“So, please,” Lucy pleaded to him, as the second period started, “Natsu...you have to keep trying.”
Natsu could see the light twinkling in her large, brown eyes, projecting the same intent, with such passion in them. Blinking a few times, the pink-haired hockey player turned back to the screen, as he kept playing.
“Yeah,” the pink-haired male agreed, frowning slightly.
“You just have to put a little bit more trust in yourself, you know?” She smiled brightly at him. “You have to believe more in your own abilities.”
“Yeah,” he turned to her, smiling back. “That too.”
The goal horn blared again, as the Magnolia Fairies managed to tie it up, at one apiece.
Lucy watched the replay of the goal scored by the Fairies, before turning to him. “Just remember who’s right behind your back, always supporting you, the whole way,” she added. “You’ve got your teammates, you’ve got your fans...”
Natsu turned to her, right as the second period ended, in the game.
“Hey, even the ones who you care the most!” She then grinned at him. “Especially me, Natsu! You’ve got me, who’s always cheering for you...”
He chuckled quietly. “Well, yeah, I mean...you’re always there for me, as well.”
“Exactly,” she pointed out.
The third period began with the teams tied at one. Natsu continued to mash at the buttons and sticks on his controller, while Lucy just simply moved the sticks around—only pushing the buttons, when she needed to. With the dying seconds of the match, Lucy controlled one of the players on the screen, scoring the goal to win the game.
The blonde screeched loudly, raising her arms triumphantly. “YAY! I WON!”
Natsu was aghast, as he suddenly sat up straight. “Wha—,” he whipped his head to her, then back to the T.V., repeating a few times. “How did you—,” he sputtered. “No way! You actually beat me?” He raised his eyebrows, as he finally turned to her. “No one has actually beat me in this game, for a long time! How did you...?”
Lucy simpered, in response. “Well, little did you know that I play these kinds of games, with the other girls, too...”
“Ah,” he rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, “I can see that.”
“But, you get what I mean, by all that, right?” She raised her eyebrows at him. “You gotta keep trying, until you can find the best of your abilities, again.”
Natsu nodded. “Yeah, I know everything that you’re saying to me, Lucy.” He then flashed a bright smile at her. “And I want to thank you, for those encouraging words of yours.”
“It’s nothing, Natsu,” she adamantly stated, a slight blush on her face. “I just want you to feel better.”
The pink-haired male chuckled quietly again, followed by the blonde, as they sat closer to each other, both enjoying in the company of one another.
I bought NHL on the PlayStation store a few days ago (it was 10 euros) and although I know basically nothing about hockey this game is fun as hell
(I'm currently on be a pro mode playing for the Dallas stars after being drafted from the Calgary Hitmen who, by the way, probably have the coolest team logo)
Things I did in NHL 17 today:
Went 12-0 in the playoffs, beating the Wild, Jets and Ducks to get to the Final Purposely lost Game 4 2-1 so I could win Game 5 home at the UC Beat the Pens 35-0 in Game 5 to win the Cup on home ice Duncan Keith won the Conn Smythe Won a ton of a awards, including but not limited to: Hart (PKane), Art Ross (PKane), Richard (PKane), Calder (Auston Matthews, who I got in a trade from the Leafs for Niklas Hjalmarsson and a first), Lady Byng (PKane), Norris (Shayne Gostisbehere, who I got from the Flyers for Trevor van Riemsdyk and a third) and the Messier Leadership Award (Jonathan Toews). Traded Ville Pokka and two seconds to the Leafs for Mitch Marner. So you know, it was a good game day.
goodnight.. 😞😔
The Maritime Gamers Family #1
This is a small post or blog series that will cover a little bit about The Maritime Gamers YouTube Channel and some of our favorite channels of our community members. This first post is really just going to be about the main channel itself.
The Maritime Gamers channel was founded on June 25, 2014 and has been a gaming channel founded by a group of close knit friends from the Nova Scotia province in Canada. Hence also where the Maritime name in Maritime Gamers comes from. The channel has covered a wide variety of games mainly stemming from the First Person shooter genre as well as covering EA Sports’ NHL video game series. The channel has really come to shine more recently with almost daily live streams of the Call of Duty series and an NHL series by Heighton86 covering NHL 17′s Be A Pro mode where he is currently making his way as a member of the Minnesota Wild. The channel does not only feature live streams though. Sponge-420 one of the main minds behind The Maritime Gamers channel has pumped out some very witty and creative montage series covering some of the channels time on Call of Duty and Heighton has also began to make some highlight videos. Not only that the channel continues to cover the Weekend Warfare game modes on Modern Warfare Remastered and some of the temporary game modes that come out on Infinite Warfare. The channel has also begun to feature previous content from Guisso (another member of the MG family) and his time on some of the older Call of Duty titles. The MG family though has continued to expand though and has brought in players from outside of Canada including the US and across the pond. The channel continues to grow and would very much like to hear from its viewers about what new content and even games they might like to see the channel cover.
Channel Link: http://www.youtube.com/c/TheMaritimeGamers