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Sorry Jordan doesn't appear in this chapter however he will be in the next!

Once Again

Chapter 4

The welcome

Molly awoke suddenly, finding herself on the cold stone floor of what appeared to be a large workshop. Shafts of light were cast across the ground from the high arch windows all around the circular room. For a few moments she sat watching the dust dance in the light before slowly standing up and brushing off her black jeans.

Looking around the room she saw that Dominic, Darren and John were still asleep, sprawled across the floor in an extremely undignified manner beside the two trucks.

"lazy bums" she thought to herself as she began walking around the large hanger to stretch out her legs,
"I feel like I've been asleep for days" she noted as she stretched her arms high above her head.
Casting her eyes around the room again she noticed an extremely unwelcome figure propped up against the opposite wall. Her face was hidden by her unruly red hair which swayed slightly in the breeze caused by her deep breathing.

"Damn" Molly muttered as she approached the sleeping girl. She considered giving her a swift kick but thought better of it. Sitting back on her heels in front of the girl she brushed the hair out of the petite red heads face and stared intently at her for several minutes.

"This will really freak her out" Said a evil little voice at the back of Molly's head, she tried not to listen to it most times but this girl really pissed her off.

Kimi woke with a groggy feeling in her head, keeping her eyes closed for a few moments against the bright light that seemed to be pressing against her eyelids. She felt a shadow fall across her closed eyes, blocking out the light and opened her eyes with a start. Molly had inched even closer to the frightened girls face and their noses were now only inches apart.

Molly continued to stare at Kimi without a word,

"Oh crap, why do I have the feeling she's gonna cut out my liver and eat it……….maybe with a glass of Chianti" Kimi thought nervously as she stared into the emotionless face of a girl she knew would kick her ass if pushed far enough. Kimi had the feeling she may have pushed too far. She had a scary vision of herself being lifted off the ground and flung across the room.

"Kimi" Molly whispered in a cold emotionless voice that would send grown men running in fear crying for their mommies "what do you have to say for yourself?"

"umm….hi?" was the only response Kimi could muster under the murderous gaze of the extremely pissed off star racer.

"where is everyone?" She asked

"their all still asleep" Molly answered with a smirk and a scary glint in her eyes.

"what are you going to do to me?" Kimi asked nervously

"Well there's nothing I can do about it now, I can't exactly sent you back" Molly said in a different tone of voice, she'd had her fun. Standing up she offered the cowering girl her hand,

"So how bout we have a look around?"

"Does this girl have a split personality or something?" Kim asked herself as she took the offered hand and was pulled to her feet with surprising strength "One minute I think she going to kill me and bury the pieces before everyone can wake up the next she's suggesting we take a stroll around Awass together….weird!"

Striding forward towards what appeared to be a massive set of doors Molly pressed her hands to the two edges and gave an almighty push. The door swung open with a creak allowing more light to flood into the room. The two young girls were soon standing side by side at the threshold staring out at the lush green lawns that stretched out before them dusted with bright alien plant life. A simple dirt track cut through the landscape and they could see several large domed shapes in a semi circle around them off in the distance.

"They must be the hangers for the other racers" Molly thought as she tried to count the number of buildings she could see to determine how many planets were participating.

Beside her Kimi whistled long and low before saying in an awed voice,

"wow…..just wow"

"Yeah impressive isn't it" Molly agreed as she heard the guys stirring in the room behind them. In seconds the whole team were staring out in awe at the beautiful landscape.

"Cool" said John.

"Big" added Darren.

"Beautiful" Kimi supplied,

"As much as I'd love to spend the day listening to you guys come up with one word statements to describe the scenery we do have work to do" cut in Dom.

John and Darren promptly turned back to the hanger to help Dom unload the equipment from the smaller truck.

"Oh and kimi?" Dom added turning back to the girls still standing at the open doors "Welcome to the team" he smiled at the girl and giving her a conspiratorial wink. Kimi gave him a wide grin in return.

Half an hour later most of the tools and parts had been unloaded from the smaller truck with the help of Molly and Kimi.

"Hey Dom" Molly called across the hanger to her guardian who was at that moment hooking up his personal computer equipment at a conveniently places table in the corner of the garage. He kept meticulous training records and other boring stuff on it. The more advanced equipment that would monitor Molly and the whizzing arrows performance during races would have a whole room to itself. It was currently lying in the corner in a mess of monitors and tangled wires.

"What?" He shouted back as he tried to get a stubborn bunch of wires to untangle, only succeeding in making them worse.

Seeing he was having trouble Molly crossed the hanger to lend a hand. Taking the bundle from him with a patronising look she began weaving the wires between each other before asking her question.

"aren't we supposed to have like a welcome party to come meet us? Then some kind of parade thing thought the city?"

"Maybe we're early?" Dom replied with a shrug.

At that moment a loud knock was heard and the group turned to see several alien beings standing at the open door. They were around two and a half feet tall, sandy brown in colour and had several small tentacles protruding from various parts of their bodies. They were wearing Purple and black robes and odd black crown like hats.

"Speak of the devil and he will appear" Dom whispered under his breath.

"Welcome to Awass" Began what Molly guessed was the leader of the little group judging by the fact his hat was bigger and more stupid looking than the others.

"The Welcome ceremony has begun" he continued. "Please enter your transportation vehicle and follower the other participants towards the city" with that the alien welcome part departed.

"friendly little buggers" John commented once they were out of earshot.

Molly sat hunched up against the inside of the truck. After the material covers were removed the truck resembled a parade float minus the bright colours. Huge openings ran down both sides, everyone could see the earth team and they could see everyone. Kimi, John and Darren were currently hanging out the truck waving to the populous like warriors returning victoriously from battle. Dom drove the truck, trying not to be distracted by the brightly coloured flags and ribbons waving in the air or what sounded like thousands of firecrackers being set off in a rambunctious welcome.

Molly….well Molly was just bored. And slightly disappointed that the avatar hadn't shown up. She spent most of the trip round the city scanning the crowds from her place on the floor looking for his black and blond head.

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