'Hey dad what's up?', Eva Wei is walking through the door of her fathers house. It's been a long time since the Great race of Oban and Eva turned into a woman now. Though at the age of 20 she could start with a great job at a great company or go into racing with her fathers company, she chose for studying a bit more. It had surprised everybody, well except Rick Thunderbolt of course. She was now studying intergalactic relations at an well known university in the big city. That meant that she had to move and get her own apartment. Of course Don wasn't happy about that. He had still spend too little time with his child was his opinion and the big city wasn't that good for a good girl like his little Eva. And again it was Rick who came to the rescue and made it all happen. He would search for a place close to his own house so that he could drop in any time when necessary. This was a bit of a comfort for the great manager Don Wei and so things were settled. Now after almost 3 years of continuous study in the city Eva Wei came home for a longer time. There was interesting news she heard and of course she want to know everything about it.

'Dad? Where are you?', Eva is still yelling for her father but there is no responds. Irritated the young woman starts walking to the big glass doors leading to the backyard of the huge house. And there in the back of the even greater garden is her father. He sits in one of the comfortable chairs next to the pond. Everything is green in the garden and the different colours of the flowers makes the garden look beautiful. 'There is my daughter finally!', Don Wei shouts from next to the pond and when the woman reaches the chairs she sees somebody else. 'Hey Rick! Good to see you too again!', Eva cheers while she is hugging the man. The maid is coming and Eva sits down with a cup of tea in her hands. 'But I still don't get it. Why am I here? What's the big news? Everybody is talking about and nobody knows what it is', she is damn curious about all this mystery and she wants to know always. Don straighten his back and take a deep breath. 'The king of Nourasia died a few days ago', he explains. His daughter looks at him in silence. He can almost read her thoughts. 'That means that Aikka is on the throne now or will be soon...', is crossing her mind. 'That can't be all dad, come on', she is almost begging for more news. 'That means that the coronation of prince Aikka will be very soon. They are trying to arrange everything for Saturday next week. At his coronation he will wed his fiancé and together they will be our new allies in the fight against new threats. He sent you an invitation and the president wants you to act immediately as the Earth's representative. Next to that he want that Rick and I go as well to escort you.' Eva is staring at her father with great confusion. Coronation?Aikka king? Aikka getting married? Fiancé? The only thing she wants to do right now is screaming. She worked her ass of for three long desperate years to get her degree in Intergalactic Relations too meet her best friend, probably even after all these more, and now he will get married...

'So now we're going to Nourasia for his coronation and his marriage', Eva is at the moment back in Tokyo to get her stuff. They leave tomorrow afternoon and will spend a week before the official stuff will happen. Eva feels jealous and that doesn't happen often. Now she wants only really to get that fiancé in her hands and beat her up. That stupid Nourasian girl gets to spend each minute with prince Aikka. 'Eva, Eva?', she is brought back to reality by the voice of her best friend here on Earth. It's also a young woman with the name Linya. She is also 23 years old and from a small village in Japan. She is studying Intergalactic Relations because her half brother is from the planet Targan. One of the newest allies of Earth. 'What is it Linya?' Her friend starts to laugh hard and it takes a while for her too cool down. 'You look like one of those Harpies form the myths! I have never see someone so jealous before!', she grins. Eva throws her pillow at the young woman at the other side of the room. 'Shut up you witch!', she teases. With a look at the clock Eva gets serious again. She grasps her stuff and heads for the door. 'I really have to go now! We keep in touch by the new communication devices we got!', and she has left the apartment.

'Hey little mouse! Do you got anything?', it's Rick waiting for her at his car. They decided that was easier to drive together to the great airport of Tokyo. The ride itself is a quit one. Eva refuses to speak about Aikka and frankly about everything. Rick doesn't push and so they drive with some soft music in the direction of the airport. 'You know little mouse. You aren't the only one that is invited from the Great Race', Rick is telling her. This draws her immediate attention and the I-don't-speak-about-Aikka-mood is gone in a second. 'What do mean? Why didn't you tell me this earlier? Who is invited?', the questions keep rolling out her mouth and the ex-racer can only laugh about her old curiosity. 'Well for all I know, Rush is invited and so are Ning, Skun, Sul and Spirit', he informs her happy. 'You rest you have to see for yourself!' Quit and peace is returning in the car and Rick is hesitating for a moment to ask the question. 'Why did you ever decided to go study Intergalactic Relations little mouse?', the man asks. Eva looks confused next to her. 'You mean you didn't know? You didn't guess? Of all people I always thought that you were the one who would understand it in a second', she is saying softly. 'Well..', Ricks starts at the disappointment look on her face. 'I always suspected that it had everything to do with the young and charming Nourasian prince you met during the Race. I thought that you had fallen in love with him during that great event', her friend is speaking. 'Well, maybe I did fell in love with him indeed Rick', Eva whispers. Then they reaches the great departure hall of Tokyo airport and intergalactic space travel.