Living With The Game (Living Series #2)

Chapter 47

It's been a almost three months since we won at the tournament and we are now here at Singapore to represent the Philippines. Kasabay namin ngayon sa airport ang Indonesia. Ang ilan sa kanila ay kumakaway sa amin, but some of them are gossiping against us. Ganito pala talaga feeling kapag may kaharap kang ibang lahi tapos makakalaban mo pa sa tournament. Excited ako at masaya akong nandito to represent our country. Noong pinakita sa amin 'yung bracket ay hindi na ako nagtaka sa makakalaban namin dahil sila rin ang nakalaban ng Philippines last year if I'm not mistaken. As part of our practice, nakipaglaro kami sa Indonesia nitong mga nakaraang linggo during training, pati na rin sa team ng Myanmar. And I would say, panalo kami against Indonesia and talo against Myanmar. Indonesia asked us kung pweding best of three ang match, pero hindi pumayag si coach for security na rin. Pwedi kasi nilang ma-examine 'yung laro namin sa loob ng tatlong match. 

I'm a little bit nervous but I'm happy to be here as part of my dream. 

Siguro kinakabahan lang ako kasi nakikita ko 'yung makakalaban namin na sobrang chill dahil sanay na lumaban internationally.

"Wil, tara na! Makikita mo pa sila bukas h'wag ka mag-alala." Biglang usal ni Coach habang tumatawa. 

I didn't even realized I was looking at those Indonesian players for so long already. 

"Don't be nervous, hindi man sila bago sa pagtuntong sa international tournament eh hindi ibig sabihin palagi silang mananalo. They might be that strong, but I trust you guys." Usal ni Coach bago tinapik ang balikat ko.

Napangiti nalang ako bago muling sumulyap sa mga Indonesian players na ngayon ay nakasakay na sa sasakyan nila. Pumasok nalang din ako sa sundo namin bago bumuntong hininga. 

Nang makarating sa hotel ay nagpahinga lang kami. Some of us ay nag-live stream pero mas pinili kong magpahinga nalang to refresh my mind. I'm the only rookie here, tapos ako itong petiks lang. Pagod lang din siguro. I'll just wait for tomorrow to come. 

"C'mon, Wil!" Usal ni Andy bago kinuha ang jacket nito at lumabas ng hotel room. Although he's our sixth man, but he needs to come with us.

I took a deep breath before getting my jacket and went to him. 

Ngayong gabi ang unang laro namin and guess what unang kalaban namin sa bracket ay Indonesia. Kahit na natalo namin sila sa laro namin during training, hindi pa rin kami panatag na matatalo namin sila ngayon dahil sigurodo akong kahit sa isang laro namin na 'yon ay pinag-aralan pa rin nila ang galaw namin. 

Hindi ko mapigilang kabahan. A hand suddenly tapped my shoulder and it's Lex, our support in the team and our team captain. Hindi na rin siya bago rito. But then as a rookie, hindi ko mapigilang kabahan... thankful enough to have a team like them.

"We're here, just imagine this is a normal play just like what we did in the Philippines' gameplay." Tj added  before messing my hair and smiled.

"Alienation Philippines!" 

"Alienation Philippines! Let's go, team!" Our coach chanted before we followed as we circled and now pointing our index fingers above for him to guide us in this fight. 

We are now standing in front of so many people here in arena, we are also being watch by the people around the world live. I shake my hands to ease myself from being nervous and luckily I was able to relax for a bit. 

Isa-isa na nga kaming pinakilala ng mga emcee from me, Willow the core or jungler of the team, Billy a.k.a Billyb the tank, Lex a.k.a nLex the support and team captain, Tj a.k.a TiJey the offlaner, and Jarren a.k.a Reren the marksman user. 

Isa-isa na rin kaming umupo at pinaupo nila ako sa gitna para raw sila ang nakapalibot sa akin at maging kumportable. 

Picking na at as we expected, their target is me. They banned the heroes that I could possibly pick. Hindi na ako nagtaka pa dahil I practice all the heroes that I could use as a jungler. Itong mga kasama ko nagtatawanan tapos ako itong kinakabahan.