"Come on Nathan. You're meant to be stronger than me." Molly complained.

"Sorry for being tired." Nathan apologised sarcastically as he gave Molly a piggy back ride to the arena.

"You're too slow." Molly slid off his back and ran ahead.

She collapsed on the grassy hill looking over the arena. It was too full to find any seats now. The local team was racing so everyone had turned out. Nathan sat next to her and rubbed his shoulder. It was still aching a little.

"I forgot to ask, how did you go to school and stuff, being famous and all. Wouldn't of it been hard?" Molly asked.

"Easy, I didn't go to school."

"Then where did you learn to build racers?"

"I taught myself. I got all the sources from the internet and books. I bought the parts with my money and never let my dad know. I've known Allie for 2 years. Her Uncle let me use his garage to build in, as long as I let Allie help too."

"So you're pretty much useless at algebra and other stuff."

"Hey, did I say I was dumb? I said I didn't go to school. I still learnt things from books and something called an older brother and his old books."

"If you don't like what you do, then why don't you just stop?"

"Nah, how else am I going to buy parts? It's not like my dad is going to pay for them. Besides, sometimes it has its pros." Nathan grinned thinking to himself.

"Like what? Free junk you get paid to advertise?"

"Nope. The chance to meet tons of old bands and visit loads of places you could only dream of visiting. Plus 3 months away from your dad."

"Don't you ever miss him?"

"Nope. He hasn't really appeared in my life much. He's always been away managing races. I hate to say this but Eva's been in my life more that him."

"Wow, so he's not around much."

"When I was first born, I didn't actually see him until I was 4. Well, what I can remember."

"That's a shame. I've never known my dad. All I know is he came and left like that. But he still keeps in contact with my mum."

"Like I said before, it's defiantly that Jordan guy."

"He is not my dad! Can't you get that through your thick skull?" Molly pushed Nathan into a rock next to him. He curled up into a ball holding his stomach.

"Nathan? Are you ok, if I hurt you I didn't mean it!" Molly panicked.

She spun him over and he burst out laughing.

"Oh my god! You should have heard your self!" Nathan laughed uncontrollably.

Molly looked ticked off and folded her arms and legs in protest. Sometimes Nathan really got on her nerves, other times they got on almost too well for it to be natural

"Hey guys!" Kara called waving at them.

Nathan glanced around and waved, still laughing slightly.

"Hope I didn't miss anything. I came alone. My brother didn't want to go in the end. He said he wanted to clean his racer instead the big bore."

"As most brothers are." Nathan replied, understanding where Kara was coming from with older brothers.

"So what where you guys talking about?" Kara asked.

"Just our family nothing too big." Nathan replied.

"On my planet, family is the most important thing in our lives. Most people live in poverty so they have nothing else. I heard there was a prize and I want to give some of the money to the poorer families on our planet."

"How do you know that it's money?" Molly questioned

"What do you mean?" Kara asked sitting down with them.

"When I was little, my mum used to tell me a story about a great race on Oban of a young girl and her partner. She was racing to bring her mother back from the dead. But before the last race, she found out that the prize was to become the Avatar and in the end during a fight with a great evil, her partner sacrificed himself to be the Avatar, to live for 10000 years. She also said that her partner liked her. There was also a Prince involved and something about the Kroggs, but I can't remember that part." Molly summed up a story her mother used to tell her.

"I doubt that. Everyone knows the latest Avatar was enthroned only 25 years ago. So they won't be after a new one for a while, well, not in our life time."

"Maybe it's for an assistant." Nathan guessed.

"Why would the Avatar need an assistant Nathan? He can be in multiple places at once, he possesses the greatest powers in the universe and controls everything."

"He's not the only greatest magician in the galaxy." Nathan muttered.

"What? Nobody is as great as the Avatar!" Kara told him strictly.

"What about Sul? He was powerful. There where rumours that his powers where equal to the Avatars. But he disappeared. Some say he disappeared on a trip to Oban."

"Well he's gone now, so there's no need to worry."

"Yes, but if he is gone, who's using his powers? Things just don't disappear. They searched the planet for years but never found him. I say a dark force was at work. Like the one Molly described in her mothers story."

"Yeah, like that story really happened."

"I think it did. The next Avatar is chosen by a race, and you're describing what a race on Oban is like, or so I think. I think Eva raced on Oban, and I think that Stan and Koji were there too. How did the Whizzing Arrow become number 4? Why has my dad, Eva, Stan and Koji and Jordan all been to Alwas at the exact same time? I'm not as dumb as I look and I think there's something about Jordan." Nathan argued.

"The Whizzing Arrow became number 4 because my mother crashed all the rest or another racer did."

"Please stop fighting. We all have our theories about the Avatar and let's just say every ones theories are right."

"Hey, isn't that Allie?" Molly pointed to a figure running towards them.

"Yeah, it is!" Nathan waved to her. She stopped and stood over them.

"Nathan I need to talk to you, pronto!" Allie gasped. She had just ran from the Mars pit to this hill.

"Why? What's wrong?" He asked standing up.

"No time, get moving." She pulled him away from Kara and Molly and into a hiding place that was almost like a cave.

"What do you want?" He asked, making sure he sounded annoyed.

"There's a mutiny Nathan. They say you're cheating. If you carry on winning like this they're going to dispose of you."

"What! I'm only doing what I do best."

"Yes, but people know that you blacked out in the racer on your first race and know how long it takes before someone is fit to fly. They think that you faked it. They think you're here to take over the universe. Some mad nut in a hut told everyone you where a reincarnation of evil itself! You have to watch out."

"But what about my dad?."

"For your sake, I hope he never finds out." Allie finished.