"Where are we?" Sophitia asked as she swept back her blonde hair. Maxi stepped closer to her. "I have no idea, but all I know is that this place is strange." Maxi turned to Raphael, who was standing by Amy, and poked him in the shoulder. When Raphael didn't notice him the first time, he poked him again. After the fifth poke, Raphael turned to Maxi with an annoyed expression on his face. "What is it Maxi?" he yelled angrily.
"I just wanted to know if you knew where we all are." he said shyly as he slinked back towards Sophitia. Raphael covered his face with one hand as he let out a sigh. "Maxi, if I knew where we were, don't you think I would tell you all?"
Maxi turned back to him. "Well, excuse me, Mr. French guy. I didn't know you were so, so, brainless." he continued to speak, mocking Raphael's voice. "Oh, oh, oh look guys! I'm going to vampire bite you in the neck if you don't do as I say! Oh look, I'm a French guy, oh look you are all peasants."
As Maxi was mocking Raphael, little did he know that Raphael was losing his patience. As soon as Maxi said "You are all peasants," he reached forward and grabbed Maxi's hair, ruffling it and ruining the perfect look Maxi had worked all morning for.
"RAPHAEL!" Maxi lowered his head and tried to escape his grasp."You messed up my hair!" he shouted as he turned and pushed the French man's arm away. Maxi returned to Sophitia's side with a defeated look as he tried to fix his hair. Raphael smirked with a confident expression smeared across his face.
But he returned to the matter at hand.
"Ok, so across this road that is painted black with yellow lines is some weird futuristic town. Do you see that?" he pointed into the distance towards a group of black skyscrapers. "We all gather near the giant black rectangles. We will go in groups." Raphael pulled Amy to his side. "Father, what are we even going to do here?" Amy asked as she tried to pull away from him.
"Amy, we are going to explore." Raphael said as he stepped into the streets. There was the faint sound of a car in the distance. It appeared into the Calibur crew's view. It was a red Ferrari, one that had been used for years and was clearly broken down. A teen sat in the driver's seat. "Oh, cool. You're one of those cosplay dudes right? Yeah, my friend is pretty into those kinds of things." The teen slowed his car down as Raphael stepped closer to him. Gas sputtered from the engine and drifted towards Raphael, who immediately hated the smell and taste and choked in a coughing fit.
"What is this machine on four wheels? Remove it from my sight at once!" Raphael waited for the teen to drive his car away. "Dude, you've never seen a Ferrari or something? These are pretty cool. Listen." The boy reached towards the horn and..
BEEP BEEP!
Raphael reached for his sword and pulled it out, surprising the teen who immediately panicked and began to drive away. Before he was completely gone, Raphael swung his sword and slashed the back lights, sending a variety of different colored plastics everywhere. The teen then shouted something, but it couldn't be heard over the sound of hundreds of pieces of car shattering on impact with the ground.
Raphael turned back to his group, who were all staring at him with a shocked expression. "What?" Raphael said. "His machine on wheels was threatening me with poisonous air." Sophitia stepped up to him. "We are all going to die in this place aren't we, Raphael."
Ignoring her question, Raphael held his sword up and shouted. "Explore! We will all gather at the giant black rectangles in the distance. If anyone threatens you, take no fear in getting rid of them." He lowered his sword and crossed the street. After a few pauses, the rest of the Calibur crew followed. They had no idea what was to come in the city of Los Angeles.