~The Mourning~

The following week had been nothing but motorcycle training at the yard, Bella constantly fell over causing many different road rashes everywhere on her arms. It was hard but she didn't want to give up, she had let what happened a week ago slip into the back of her mind. Bella hung out in the bomb bay while the turbokat zoomed to the canyon and once there, she got out feeling a little dizzy. "Even though I couldn't look down, that was still terrifying." She tried standing, falling to her knees.

Razor jumped out and helped her up, chuckling. "TBone sometimes goes a little crazy with the flying."

"Clearly," Bella said, looking at him as TBone dropped the cyclotron and her motorcycle.

"I heard that you two," TBone said through the comlink, closing the bomb bay and flew off to get ready.

Bella giggled, she examined the cyclotron and smiled. "Wow, so this is the cyclotron."

"Yup, it's one of the best vehicles we ever made. Next to the turbokat, of course." Razor got on, using his right heel to put the kickstand up.

Bella got on her motorcycle, starting it along with his and the engines were loud. "So where are we-." She saw him point to his helmet. "Oh!" She took off her helmet and pushed a button inside it, putting it back on. Razor had made a comlink inside her helmet to help with training. "So where are we going?"

"Just follow me and stay close, if you fall over just pick yourself back up," Razor told her, making his engine roar. "Now let's go." He shot off.

"Okay, I can do this." Bella kicked up her kickstand and leaned forward as she accelerated and tried to catch up with him when she got her first paycheck she bought herself a leather jacket to help protect against getting any more road rash. She was able to stay behind him, swerving a little.

"Alright we got some hills coming up, take it slow around them and speed up when you straighten out like at the yard," Razor told her, she nodded worriedly and followed him around the hills trying to do what he was doing and made it through. "Good job Bella now comes the tricky part. We're moving into evasive maneuvers, TBone drop the bombs."

"Bombs?!" Bella gasped.

"You got it, bombs away. Pun intended." TBone dropped a few flare bombs in their path, Bella swerved around them with a little difficulty while Razor passed by them with ease.

"That didn't seem too bad." Bella smiled, catching up to Razor again. "What's next?"

"We're headed downhill into the canyon, it'll be a confined space so you'll have to be careful with your steering. Follow me and ride your brakes." He told her, Bella nodded and carefully followed trying not to fall over. Looking at the large stone columns above her made her feel a little claustrophobic but it didn't bother Razor any, she took a breath trying to relax and went over a tiny bump managing to stay up.

"I don't like the looks of this canyon, Razor." She said, following.

Razor had no worries, smiling. "You've done well this far, let's see if you can go the extra mile." He sped off far ahead of her, getting out of the crevasse.

"Wait a minute!" Bella tried to catch up but completely lost him. "Razor? Razor, where are you?" She noticed a pile of rocks falling in front of her and she gasped quickly swerving out of the way, continuing to go down the crevasse. She figured they were testing her and smiled. "Is that your best shot?" She heard the thunder crack as some dark clouds started rolling in, making it rain heavily. "Apparently not." She went around every turn she found, trying to get out of it and finally found a hill going to the top of it getting out of the crevasse and looked around. "Guys the weather's turned bad, let's head home."

"Roger that," TBone said, the turbokat flew over her and she came to a stop, letting the sky claw grab her motorcycle and pull her and her vehicle up into the bomb bay. Once the doors closed, she carefully got onto the hull and sat down.

Razor had already been picked up and was in his seat. "You comfy down there?"

"About as comfy as I can get, and you guys weren't really gonna leave me all alone down there were you," Bella said, looking up even though she couldn't see them.

"We were thinking about it," TBone smirked, flying off.

"Very funny." She said, hanging on. Once back in the hangar she got herself and her motorcycle out, taking off her helmet and wrung out her hair. "I got completely soaked." She took off her jacket to reveal the many bandages from the road rashes she had, hanging it over a folding chair to hang dry, and least the cut on her cheek completely healed. "At least I did a whole lot better than I did at the beginning of the week."

"I'll say, your balance has improved and so has your turns," Razor said, taking off his helmet and mask to wring it out. He also shook his tail to get some excess water off.

TBone did the same, looking at her. "But you still got a long way to go before your half as good as us."

"Ain't that the truth." She said, walking away. "I'm gonna go change, see you guys upstairs." Bella threw her wet clothes into the dryer upstairs and put on her green shirt and blue jeans heading down into the office after drying her hair, turning on the tv.

"This is Havana Brown from the Purrsia News Network coming to you live from the previous destination of the Postskratch residence, just a week ago a series of unfortunate events have claimed the lives of David Emily and Bella Postskratch." The tv said as Bella looked down sadly, the guys came up and sat next to her. "For those of you who don't know, David Postskratch was a chief pilot of the police force and well known for taking down the most vicious thugs and thieves this and every other town has ever seen. When the explosion was investigated, firefighters have narrowed it down to an exploded radiator due to the metal shrapnel found at the scene."

"What?! It was a bomb, you idiots!" Bella teared, looking at the tv.

Jake and Chance looked at each other, continuing to watch. "At this time, we give a moment of silence for the brave hero and his family that were tragically lost to us," Havana said as everything became quiet and pictures of Bella's dad and family showed on the screen, Bella walked over to the screen and put her hand on it remembering the good times. She put her other hand on her eyes, trying to hide her face that started to sob. The guys walked over and surrounded her in a group hug to try and comfort her, she sniffled hugging both of them.

After a while, she wiped her eyes and blew her nose. "I need to go to Purrsia, maybe...just maybe I can find out exactly what happened and have some closure. But I don't know what's waiting for me there, can I count on you guys to be there with me?"

"Always." The guys nodded, she smiled a bit hugging them again. Though it wasn't safe to fly while the storm was going on, so they would have to wait it out.

Bella had herself some vanilla wafers for a snack, watching anything that was on tv. She smiled a little, remembering when her mom made banana pudding whenever she got good grades at school and for Thanksgiving and Christmas. "How are you doing?" Jake asked, looking at her as he sat down on the couch.

"I'm fine, I guess. Not really, I'm terrified if I'm being honest." She took a bite of the wafer, looking at him. "What if I find out something horrible? What if whoever took down my dad comes to take me down?"

Jake rubbed her head. "We got your back Bella, and you're stronger than you know. Whatever you find, we'll help you get through it."

"Right." She nodded, finishing off her wafer. "Then once this storm is over, we think of a plan and then it's off to Purrsia."

Looks like the trio are off to Purrsia, this will be some interesting vacation. And to answer your question Youkai Jake knows keeping the city safe comes first and Bella doesn't want to risk distracting him knowing how important his job is.

Anyways, this has been DoodleKatAnime~