Elysium: From Greek Mythology, the area of the underworld reserved for the highest among society. Akin to later religious versions of heaven.
Elysium: Fun. That's what Elysium is to me, mates. Now, Stark'll be telling you that its his favorite, and I can concur. The thingo is, mates, that the Elysium Stark rides today is not the Elysium that we rode that Christmas night.
Normally, Elysium is not to be riden except in the brightest of light. There are dangerous curves, and sharp jabs of ice that have gone through steel boards when they were putting up the advertisements. So of course, us intelligent boys and girls we were, voluntarily did the course at night. The lighting was pretty decent, and there was cushy steel fences to keep us from going out of bounds. Whenever there would be a crash, the camera would pan away for a nice bit.
I don't know what the others did. I started off, well. Scared. Riding the Elysium at day is one time, but the course at night, that was a bloody different thing, pal. Still, I went with the pack. When the others were coming to the place where we would all do the introductory jump, I saw that JP was also hanging back a bit. Well, we just couldn't have that uppity frenchy outdoing good old Moby Jones.
I jumped.
Honestly didn't mean to.
I kicked out. I was trying to grab something, anything, as the abyss looked up at me and I swear, the bloody thing called for me to drop. So I kicked out.
Earlier, Kaori had spun around, a funky way. She had accidently kicked off both her bindings, and reached out to grab them, spinning around in a flip as she connected.
I, however, had done my simple kick out, directly in front of the camera. To the millions of home viewers who were watching, it appeared as if I had tried to kick of my board and die. Instead, I reattached it and landed with a hard dump, and than jerked ahead again.
S T to rock around to rock around
Anyway, my doing that sparked the world. People said that I had done the first of those tricks ever, which isn't true. I had just done one of the first ever. Kaori did the very first. I had seen it, but the camera captured me, so I got the publicity. They made shirts of it, me in the army of noise outfit kicking at the camera with one boot, and sold 'em throughout the season. There's a new year's picture of me Mum and Pap holding out that very board while I stood behind em both, with all of us wearing that shirt.
Elise was not pleased.
The devolper, however, loved it. He had hundreds of rails set up that could be taken down really fast, and decided to have a totally different venue than the racers.
On new years, it was anounced we would be going to Japan to start the series during the Superbowl halftime show.
Right mates. No pressure.