Nine Tailed Fox
Note ~
Part of the story is adapted from a Taiwanese television series called Westside Story. Most of the scenes are either in the Westside featured by Westside Story or in Domino City featured by Yu-Gi-Oh. The plot of the story does not follow Westside Story entirely. Sorry for any confusion to the readers.
Nine Tailed Fox: Thanks for your reviews! I'm very happy! ^________^
Shadow: (Sweatdrops) Either that or she's sugar high. Again. For the fifth time.
Nine Tailed Fox:
By the way Saturn Angel1, I'm sorry but I do not skateboard. A few of my friends do though, and I sort of got inspiration when I saw them practicing their skateboarding skills and I got the idea for the scenes when I watched Westside Story. Anyways, thanks for your review, please continue reading my Dance of Blood! Yay! Thank you all for those reviews! I'm eternally grateful… (Sniffs) Blood, Random_Person, Bakura-Fan, nightshade07, Black-Shadow, Dancer and Inspiration, thank you all…
Shadow: Nine Tailed Fox owns neither Yu-Gi-Oh nor Westside Story. She does, however, own her own characters.
Nine Tailed Fox: On with the second chapter! ^________^ Please review!! (Does puppy-dog eyes)
Dance of Blood
Chapter Two: Pursue and Escape
"Shimatta," cursed Bakura, recognizing the policeman, who had lately been trying to get into Ryou's divorced mother's good books. He was Williams, a rather failed policeman who spent nine years working at the police department with no promotions. He turned to his two companions. "Split and meet back at Base 203. Yami should be there already. That Pharaoh never tries to helps us get out of trouble…"
The other two nodded, and before Williams could even get close enough to them to catch them with his group of fellow officers, the three skated off in three different directions on their skateboards.
"Damn it," cursed Williams, as he glared at the three skateboarders splitting into three diversely different directions. He turned to his colleagues. "Concentrate on chasing the girl. The rest of us will chase after the blond and that Bakura." Williams had earlier on recognized the silver-haired teenager. It is hard for someone not to have a deep impression of Bakura, considering that Bakura had set fire intentionally to his pants when he dropped by Ryou's house to visit his mother.
Sera looked back over her shoulder and saw that more than half of the policemen were after her. She smirked inwardly to herself. She had already expected that Williams would send his men to catch her first, thinking that she'll tire out sooner or later.
I'll lead them through the alleys of Westside. It's been a long time since I was in for a bit of exercise on my skateboard. Sera turned her skateboard expertly down one of the many alleys of Westside which somehow or another linked up like a giant maze, with daunting forks and dead ends. As expected, the policemen followed after her, yelling for her to give up.
Sera laughed softly. They were falling right into her trap. No self-respecting skateboarder would even dare show his face in Westside if he had not mastered the art of dodging and swerving between the narrow alleyways of the Maze. She heard footsteps hurrying after her, trying to keep up with her speed.
She twisted in her direction, allowing her skateboard to take the left fork when she came to a two-way fork. Sera head the panting and gasping of several burly policemen behind her, but still they determinedly chased after her. She was not out of danger yet. Not until every single one of the policemen gave up. The game was still on.
Malik skated down the winding pavements, knocking over some other innocent pedestrians rudely, ignoring the shouts from both them and the police hot on his trail. He snorted as he made a swift turn into the Domino Park. There was a shortcut there he knew he could use.
He picked up his speed and swerved to a sudden stop directly behind a hot dog vendor, where a high fence was. He looked back and saw that the police were catching up with him. Malik crashed through a hole hidden by two aligning bushes just large enough for the 17 year old and emerged out of the other side of the fence.
As the police came up to the high fence, Malik added insult to injury as he playfully stuck out his tongue at them before continuing on his way.
Bakura skated along the pavement that had shops selling food on either side, maneuvering his skateboard with ease as he dodged the customers that were either entering or leaving the shops, as the policemen behind him struggled to get past the crowd.
The silver-haired tomb robber could almost feel Williams' insistent glare on his back, as he ducked under a waiter who was carrying a bowl of hot noodles, straightening up again as he turned to the right and started down another lane which would take him to Base 203.
Williams, not looking where he was going, crashed head on into the waiter, who yelped in surprise as the hot noodles was thrown onto Williams's face. Williams cursed vulgar words at the laughing Bakura, who made a sharp turn down Westside Pillar and was gone.
Bakura arrived first at Base 203, a vacant area surrounded by fences, claimed by his group.
Anybody who knew who they were would automatically know how to find this secluded place that acted as their hideout. The entire ground was covered in graffiti, as in a far corner which was not occupied by either ramps or quarter pipes was a miniature abandoned warehouse. Bakura burst through the door of the warehouse and found Yami patiently sorting out his deck of Duel Monsters, seated on a used leather sofa. Yami looked up at Bakura.
"What is it?" Yami asked, seeing Bakura so worked up.
Malik and Sera walked in, both carrying their skateboards.
"We were almost caught by Williams and his dogs," Sera said simply, as she sat back down on a black leather sofa. Malik nodded. Yami then turned to Bakura.
"Isn't Williams the one who's been trying to woo Ryou's divorced mother?"
"Ha! As if he'll succeed," Bakura snorted. The tomb robber was in fact very protective of the family he had been destined to guard over, and he didn't like Williams one bit. "I would have sent him to the Shadow Realm earlier if my Hikari hadn't stopped me from doing so…"
"Obviously that Williams thinks that all the teenagers on Westside need to be reformed," Malik said, spitting out the last word like it was something poisonous.
"Reformed? Ha! What did we do? Steal?" Bakura said. All three pairs of violet crimson, lavender and sky blue orbs immediately glared at him. Comprehension dawned on the tomb robber as he realized what they were on about. "Oh. You don't mean that baseball incident…"
"We do mean that baseball incident…" Malik said indignantly, crossing his arms over his chest.
"What do you expect me to do? Stay in school like a good kid like Ryou? I am a tomb robber you know…"
Yami sighed, and went back to re-organizing his deck of cards, as the others argued heatedly about how Bakura was supposed to stay out of trouble, at least in Domino High. Suddenly, there was a hoarse shout outside the warehouse. All four of the skateboarders looked up from whatever they were doing.
They sprinted outside and saw Williams, covered in hot noodles, his uniform dripping wet. Once they saw the hilarious sight before them, Yami, Sera, and Malik and in particular Bakura, all burst out into peals of laughter. Williams seemed angrier at their outburst.
"Bakura! Wait till I tell your mother about this…" Williams roared.
"She isn't really my mother. And anyway, Ryou and she are used to this kind of things happening already. Especially when I get you into trouble…" Bakura said coolly. "How are you supposed to report to your superior now, Williams? Will he be exactly pleased that you failed to catch three teenagers? I think not."
Williams flinched at the mention of his superior, which only caused the three others to laugh louder than ever. His superior was a young hotshot, who shot to promotion after only a year in the police force. Nicknamed "Killer", Jonathan Kinomiya was fierce to those who worked under him, and had already considered many times to give Williams the sack.
Williams had no choice but to retreat out of Base 203 slowly. Those teenagers were unbelievable. Rude to their elders and no respect for the law… Spending every minute of their free time on those ridiculous looking skateboards… he thought. But he had no choice. One more complaint against him, and he would be out of job, as sure as the sun would be rising tomorrow.
Bakura glared at the retreating back of Williams and shot him a dirty look.
The silver-haired teenager turned back to look at Yami, Sera and Malik. "You all got the e-mail from her? That she'll be coming back from America tomorrow?"
Sera tilted her head to one side. "Duh. She's finally coming home to Domino." Her lips quirked into a small smile. "Seto's going to be ecstatic."
"Haven't you told him yet?" Yami asked curiously. It was rare that Sera would want to keep anything from her own twin brother.
"She wants it to be a surprise and swore that she would kill me if I ever leaked the secret out," said Sera. "Nobody except us knows that she and her family are coming back. It'll definitely add a little more spice to life from now on, now that's she's here."
"Yeah. She said that she would be transferring to our class in Domino High in the e-mail she sent," Malik said.
"Till tomorrow then, she said she'll be meeting us here at Base 203," said Sera, bidding a hasty goodbye to her friends as she leapt onto her skateboard and pushed off with a thrust of her foot. As much as she dreaded the night to steal sleep from her once again, the arrival of her best friend who had left a gap in their lives two years ago made her slightly happier.
Spotting a uniformed figure with hot noodles splashed down his back; Sera brushed past him rudely and intentionally, as the policeman yelled insults after her. Sera looked back with sky blue eyes and gave him an innocent smirk as she rounded the corner and disappeared.
End of Chapter Two: Pursue and Escape
Nine Tailed Fox: Another chapter done! ^________________^
Shadow: Please review and tell us what you think of this chapter! ^_^
Nine Tailed Fox:
Please please please please review! (Does puppy dog eyes again) In the next chapter, one of the four's long-time friends are coming back to Japan from America.