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Charaters, places and team and vehcile names are of my own design.

Chapter 1

The Beginning

Rowan stopped by his brother's house to give Nathan, his nine year old nephew, his birthday present. He drove through the large gates and down the circular drive towards the Mansion.

He got out of his car and walked in through the front oak doors. He could hear loud noises coming from the back of the mansion and Rowan made his way towards them. He knew they would be in the Back Room, as his brother Graham had fondly called it.

The Back Room was a huge room dedicated to everything Graham thought important to him self. Everything Graham had every collected was found in this room along the walls. Every wall except the one running along the back of the room, that one was bare and stone white. When the projector was turned on the entire wall became its screen. Rowan smiled, Graham always loved his entertainment systems large, loud and expensive.

Graham was Rowan's only family and he always made an effort to drop past on birthdays. "Only on birthdays" Graham would tell.

As he went in he observed a group of people standing off to one side talking and along the large circular black leather lounge sat seven boys all Nathan's age watching the big screen. He looked at the screen to see what they were watching.

It was a digital animation with cars racing against each other. The graphics were amazing, the sound awesome and Rowan watched it until Graham saw him standing there and welcomed him in. That was the first time Rowan had seen Hot Wheels Acceleracers and he was hooked.