Love your enemy
Chapter 1: A starting race
Luna was laying in her bed, looking up at the ceiling. It was quiet on the Spaceship, her father didn't bother to say good night, he never had bothered to do so ever since she was born, and she was stuck in her room. Zoda had ordered Bio-Rex and Octoman to guard her door and only let her out if her father wanted to talk to her. She was lonely to say the least: no friends, no family, no one to talk to. Her father was a very strict man, who made it clear multiple times that he doesn't see a daughter fit of inheriting his legacy and doesn't think of her as worthy to try and find the Reactor Mights. Yes, Luna was lonely, always was and always will be, the only solace she has in her boring and lonely life is watching the F-Zero tournaments, wishing she was on that racetrack herself. Watching the races truly felt like freedom, F-Zero was her only escape from her lonely and cruel life as a tool for her father. She never bothered to ask him, why he hated her so much, she figured that it was the fact that she was a half-human girl without anything in common with her father, other than some physical traits. Like him, she hat bull like horns, not as big as the ones on his head, but big enough to be visible, her teeth were more like fangs, her nails like claws and her eyes a piercing white. It was enough to struck fear into anyone who dares to cross paths with her, which rarely happened because of the rule to always keep her locked up in her room.
Meanwhile in Mute City, it was a sunny day. Everyone was happy, on their way to work or school and with nothing to worry about. The owner of a cafe known by the locals as the "Falcon House" gets ready to open the shop for customers. He makes sure, that everything is where it should be and opens his cafe to the public, though not many people come to the Falcon House. There is a set of set customers that visit this particular cafe everyday, among them is Rick Wheeler, a former race car driver and police officer, who got in an accident while chasing his nemesis Zoda. Of course, this was a long time ago, like 150 years and he is still bitter about it. Also a regular customer is Jack Levin, a superstar and a bit narcissistic but generally a good guy. He helped Rick out a few times during races, and the two share a rivalry that is only shared by best friends. Then there is Lucy Liberty, a junior mechanic who isn't so bad at driving an F-Zero racer herself. She seems to have a crush on Rick Wheeler, who isn't over the loss of his girlfriend yet. Last but not least, we have Clank Hughes, a brilliant kid with a wast knowledge on computers and hacking in his quaint age of 10 years. He lost his father, during a mission he had to take. Those are the regulars that visit the Falcon House almost everyday. The owner of this beautiful and petite cafe is a man called Bart Lemming. He is the kindest man you'll ever meet, he always wears a smile on his face and always listens to your problems. He gives Jack, Lucy and Rick tips on how to drive during the races and is happy for them if they win. Bart is a very sweet guy, any girl who were to date him should consider herself lucky, but he doesn't have a girlfriend and he is very secretive about his past too, so there is no way of knowing if he ever had a girlfriend.
Than there is another guy, famous in the F-Zero community and among the pilots. Little is known about this particular pilot only known as Captain Falcon. Where did he come from? How did he become such an excellent pilot? Who hides under the helmet? And why does he always leave right after the victory ceremony? All they know is, that he is the best F-Zero pilot there is. Luna's father hates that guy and wants to see him dead as dust, preferably with proof that he was really killed by one of his man. Luna was raised to also hate Captain Falcon, she was told as a small child that this man is evil, that he wants the whole world to be corrupted and selfish, and that her father was the good guy trying to safe the world from the man know as Captain Falcon. She always believed that her father was a good person and that Captain Falcon was the bad guy in her story of life. She still hates him to this day, thinking he is an arrogant, selfish, narcissistic guy who shows up to the races he knows he'll win and leaves before his fans even get the chance to meet him and congratulate him on his victory. Luna wants to see this guy fail, she wants to see this pilot lose everything he holds dear, in his case his precious F-Zero racer, the Blue Falcon. It's a symbol for any F-Zero race, because Captain Falcon has a nearly spotless track record, becoming first place in almost every race he entered. Luna could pull out her hair when she sees that Captain Falcon won a race. She would be furious and would want to smash everything in her room, but doesn't, because most of her stuff is from her mother, who sadly passed away when Luna was just 3 years old. For the first three years of her life, she had lived a happy and normal life with her mother, who was such a kind woman that Luna never understood why her father would leave her mother. When she asked her mother about it, she always got the same reply, that her father was angry at her mother for giving birth to a girl instead of a boy. It was just confirmation that, despite the fact her mother still loved her father, Luna was a misfit, that she didn't belong anywhere. And when her mother passed away, her father took her in and started raising her to become a killer. It didn't quite work, as Luna started to act more and more like her mother, which in return caused punishments from her father, who locked her in a small room until she could 'behave herself'. Needless to say, this scarred the young girl for life. When Luna was 20 she got new companions, a man and a woman. The woman seemed nice at first, but soon she would make clear that she would kill Luna anytime if her father wanted the woman to: she was introduced by him to her as Miss Killer. The man however, already looked like some kind of criminal and Luna always had a weird feeling about him. He was introduced as Zoda by her father. Usually, she liked new companions, she was very lonely, but they actually didn't like to hang out with her, and who could blame them, her father was their boss and if anything happened to her she could report it to him and they would get kicked out. So long story short, Luna was locked in her room, but just as long as her father didn't need her. Though she managed to sneak out of her room once everyone fell asleep (easy if you live in space) and build an F-Zero racer. She always wanted to be an F-Zero pilot and with her racer she could be one, just like her father, Zoda and Miss Killer, Bio-Rex and of course Octoman. Before anyone noticed, she snug back into her room and did her stuff there.
No one would know that Luna's first F-Zero race would be the start of a wonderful romance. A love story like in the fairy tales, a love story of two people who were destined to stay strangers. A love story like Beauty and the Beast, but without the prisoner taking and another lover, but with reverse roles.
A/N: I don't own the F-Zero franchise, it is owned by Nintendo and does they have all rights to the characters, besides Luna, who is actually owned by me. If you liked it, please leave a review with constructive criticism, it would really help me improve.