Lydecker Plural

Part twenty

I wake up by a sound. Five guys not too far away, and it was only about one o' clock in the morning and those four guys were probably wasted or hi. I started to drift back to sleep ignoring the sound of something rubbing into the dirt...wait; rubber digging into the dirt was a better description.

I jump up and almost literally fly right in front of them. "Don't think about it." I growled at them.

While giving me the Birdie everyone's gotten at least once in their life the told me to sit on it a twirl. I think they were drunk or stupendously stupid.

"I wouldn't take it if I were you." I warned.

"What 'choo gonna do 'bout it?" A big beefy man slurred stepping forward.

"Abotstjrytx laini quasahooty pamoja." I said making up some weird words.

"I think she's making fun of you," Said some other dude from behind him.

"Really? You guys are so smart I don't know what to do about it!" I smiled slapping the beefy man on the chest.

"But all the same I have to ask you guys if you could just leave me and my ride alone. I mean, it's very rude to wake someone up and try to steal their bike!" I added on.

The Beefy man grabbed my wrist and pulled it away from him that had I been a normal person it would have hurt bad.

"Let go of my hand." I said icily.

"No. Why should I?" He asked so sloppy that I could barely understand him.

"Because..." I whipped my hand and grabbed his wrist and squeezed so hard he began to let go of my hand. The drunken guy took his other hand and put it around my arm.

"Let go of me!" I hissed. He didn't so I decided to do something about it. Before he knew what had happened I had kicked him in the nuts and he was down on the ground.

His friends stepped forward and stepped over him getting in my face.

"This is our turf and we're willing to share but if someone is mean well, we're not going to allow them to come here anymore." A guy sneered.

"I don't see your name on it." I shot back.

The guy pointed to my feet and when I looked down I saw red spray paint on the ground spelling out a few words:

Geisbreght, Pino, Strong, Courier, Ebeling

"And I'm guessing that's you guys. Right?"

"You got that right." A blonde guy with blue eyes and lots of freckles on his face.

"Okay since we try not to be to rude, I'm Geisbreght." The guy with the freckles said.

"Pino." Said a very short black hair guy.

"That's Strong, I'm Courier." Said a semi-cute guy with brown hair and hazel eyes. Strong was the big guy who I gave a sack shot to.

"Dude, we told you our names what's your name?" Geisbreght asked.

"Geneva." I said foolishly trusting them with my name.

"Okay, Eva."

"It's Geneva."

"No, we say its Eva. Eva, hold on we'll be back in a second."

They picked up Strong and drug him over to where I supposedly wasn't supposed to hear him.

"I kind of like her. Should we let her join?" Geisbreght said

"No." Strong said immediately.

"She is kind of hot." Courier said looking my way.

"I don't think it'd be a problem. Do you think she can fight? What if she doesn't want to?" Pino said.

"If she can fight that's great if she doesn't want to we'll take her bike and make sure she stays off our land." Geisbreght said.

"You guys she's really strong..." Strong said then passes out.

"She is cool enough and is defiantly built right." Ebeling said looking my way and licking my lips purposefully letting me see it.

I roll my eyes.

"Okay, I think she can join but we test her and see if she can fight." Pino said.

They broke up their little meeting and stood in front of me (except for Strong).

Courier and Ebeling, easily the strongest of the group came and attacked me without warning. I blocked every one of their punches. They began to change the way they fought from gang banging style to martial arts style. I was easily blocking every single hit or kick they aimed at me and was being very easy on them.

One of them, Courier, grabbed a hold of my arms and the other one kicked me in the chin. I got mad enough to kick some butt but not mad enough to cloud my mind. I jumped up, flipped forward with Courier still attached to me, and landed on him. When I got up Courier was on his back and slightly knocked out of wind.

I got in a defensive stance and faced Ebeling. He stood up straight and started to laugh. I relaxed and pretended to look confused and wonder what was going on.

"Hey, you want to join our little gang?" Pino asked picking Courier up.

"Just like that? You want me to join after I won my place?" I ask.

"Yeah. You're good looking, you can kick as$ and your not afraid of anything. It's like what my dad saw when he was alive. I still don't know what happened to him." Ebeling said.

"What did he see?" I asked pretending not to be worried of what he said.

"A young soldier, a girl younger than thirteen. Blonde blue eyes, she had a barcode on the back of her neck. He was her doctor or something."

Holy shit. I had to play it cool. I am not that little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes with a barcode on the back of my neck. And so what if my doctor who used to do experiments on me is dead.

"That's whacked." I said.

"Yeah he sent me a picture and she should be about my age now. She ran away or something and my dad told me, before he died, to keep an eye open for her. But now that's not going to do much good now is it? Dad's dead and I don't know where his work number is."

Good luck. There's no way that Manticore is listed in the Yellow Pages.

"Great here it comes." Courier said rolling his eyes.

"They don't believe me. But she was genetically engineered and she and thirteen others are out here in the world." Ebeling said.

"Don't worry he's always telling some horse shit stories about his dad working on secret government projects." Courier said.

"Oh yeah? Look at this. What do you call this?" Ebeling asked waving a picture in his face.

"Can I see?" I asked getting a little curious.

Ebeling handed me the picture and I swear I almost passed out. It was a picture of me when I was little. Down in the corner of the picture was the letter 'M'. I flipped it to the back and there was a light outline of a Manticore and under it was the word Manticore. I handed him the picture back and wiped the sweat off the palms of my hands off.

"That is such a nice story you have there, but this is just a picture. You have no other proof that this 'Manticore' exists." I said smiling.

Geisbreght, Pino, and Courier were laughing at him. "Meet me here tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. I'll bring the whole information I have. I have some on all fourteen escapees. I like to study them." Ebeling said.

"Only if I get to bring my friend."

"Can they kick as$ like you can?"

"Yeah. We went to the same karate instructor."

"Ooh." Courier said.

They all exchanged a look a lot like getting ready to score. I laughed. They thought that my friend was a girl.

"Okay, but I'm going to crash out here for a while.probably all night so.... If I were you I'd get Strong out of here. He's pretty wasted." I smiled.

They started to laugh at me. Ebeling and Courier stayed behind. "Dude, you guys coming?" Geisbreght asked.

"No were going to make sure none of Tai's guys come here." Courier said.

"Tai's guys?" I ask.

"Our rivals. They want Cap Sante and we won it fair and square. They don't mind anyone up here either unless it's us. Then we...well we don't get along much." Ebeling answered.

"That and we don't want to leave you here all by your self...Tai's people have way more people than we do." Courier said.

"Okay. Just trust me if you do anything sneaky I'll find out and I'll hunt you down no matter who or what's out there." I warned as I laid down on my rock.

"Deal." Ebeling said.

I began to fall asleep once more and when I finally fell asleep I finally had a good dream and not a nightmare.

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