Oban Star Racers: Season 2 – Rebuilding our lives
Chapter 1 – Planning
It was a warm sunny day in Kansas City. On the outskirts of this remarkable city was a large mansion house. Inside one of the occupied bedrooms were three girls, completely lost in conversation. One was seated on the bed, another on the chair that accompanied the large desk and the third was seated in a beanbag on the floor.
The girl on the bed was no ordinary girl, and parts of her outward appearance bore signs of this. Her hairdo, jet black with a splash of red dye, was completed by a pair of racing goggles perched atop of her hair. Her face bore odd markings, a star and a stripe on her cheeks. She had three piercings in one ear and none in the other, which was not the usual fashion with girls her age, and she wore a choker around her neck. Her clothes were normal enough, for she was wearing white denim shorts with a lilac vest, over which she wore a checkered shirt with the sleeves rolled up. This girls name was Eva Wei.
Her friends seemed no more unusual than her, in fact, compared to Eva, they looked perfectly plain. Her friend in the desk chair had long brown hair that she had plaited, except for a long colourful brain that hung down one side of her face, intricately woven and finished with two light blue beads. She wore a white floaty vest, which was decorated with a flashy slogan, and she wore dark denim high waisted shorts that showed off her tiny waist well. She wore black converse that were open and untied.
In the beanbag was Jenny's Sister Hannah. Hannah wore skinny fit jeans with a brightly coloured belt. Her shirt was long sleeved and white, with black sleeves. She wore white high top trainers and on her head she wore a purple woolly hat, artistically perched so that it did not put a lock of her short brown hair out of place.
These girls were having an animated discussion about the new school term, as the summer holidays were almost over, with school resuming in just two days.
"Wonder what old Finnigan will be making us study when we go back?" said Hannah. Eva rolled her eyes. Mrs. Finnigan was the elderly teacher of Languages and Cultures, and had been hinting at the end of the last term that they would be moving on to cultures from other planets.
"Wonder if it'll be Nourasia, now that they're out of that messed-up alliance with the Crogs," Jenny piped up. Hannah and Eva looked at her, lost in thoughts of the endless news features that had plagued Earth television systems a few months ago, telling stories of the brave soldiers that had gone to assist the Nourasians in expelling the Crogs from their planet. Exclusive pictures had been released, leaked through day by day, showing the usually magnificent planet in complete ruin, by the hands of the Crogs ravaging the planet of its natural resources, and the fighting between the Crogs and the Nourasian and human soldiers. Eva had searched news constantly, waiting for snippets of news or maybe a photo of the Royal Family, and had got her dearest wish, as when Nourasia and Earth had come through victorious, she had seen an image of Prince Aikka, clustered with a group of his fellow knights, in the midst of repairing a part of the palace and looking at the camera. They all looked battered and bruised, but they all had the expression of joy on their face that meant that they were just happy they were free of the crogs and could re build their planet in peace.
"But aren't the Nourasians really secretive about their culture?" asked Hannah, snapping Eva out of her reminiscing. She shrugged.
"Can't be that secretive, if they were willing to pose for all those photos that were on the news," she pointed out. Hannah nodded her agreement. Jenny opened her mouth, but the sound of a car horn stopped her dead. Hannah rolled her eyes.
"That's mother, come to drag us home," she muttered, "Well Eva, guess we'll see you Monday, all psyched up and prepped for another year of slaving over the books," she added, winking. Eva grinned. Hannah had never willingly done a day's work over the book in her life, and Eva hadn't been made aware that she planned to start now. With a last wave and calls of farewell, Hannah and Jenny showed themselves out of the house. Eva watched their car pull away towards the city, and when the car was completely out of sight, she sighed and got to her feet. There were preparations to be made for the new school term.