::ch. 8-some people you really CAN'T take anywhere::
Disclaimer: same as usual, lol.
However, i would like to dedicate this chapter to anyone who has been thoroughly embarrassed resulting from the antics of friends and/or family at a public dining facility. Or thoroughly pranked, as the beginning of this shows. Hopefully, this doesn't bring back TOO many memories ^_^
DarkFlame136
ps: PLEASE do not try any of these stunts at home, and remember to always buckle up and drive carefully. I also want to apologize ahead of time to any police officers ahead of time, and post a disclaimer for Grand Theft Auto (one of the best games out there!), though i think i made up some of the stats; i can't quite remember what's on the screen. And, if no one has guessed by now, I don't own the Saturn car company. also, i made some corrections to this chapter and the one after. hopefully i caught all the errors, especially the timing ones.
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~*~Part One: Driving Hazards~*~
Mia, Ryo, and Kento were piled in the Jeep while Cye had hopped in with Rowen and Sage. By the time Rowen woke up, everyone except him and Ryo were dressed and ready. Fortunately, all they had to do was change, though Rowen had decided to shower first.
Either way, since both drivers had more or less decided that the speed limit was actually the minimum, they weren't over a half hour late.
::in Mia's Jeep::
"Do any of you know which restaurant we're going to?" Kento asked from the back seat for the lost-count-after-tenth time.
"No, Kento, we don't." Ryo sighed. "Mia, could you PLEASE floor it? We're on his property, for crying out loud, not a residential area!"
"Ryo, he could have a younger sibling or something--what if a kid's around here playing? I doubt that I would be able to stop before running him over!"
"So?"
SPLAT!!!!
"WHAT THE HELL?!?"
Something had hit the windshield at a high speed and splattered, covering the glass with liquid. Mia, in shock, had swerved slightly off the path, throwing Kento against the other side of the car and Ryo towards Mia.
Then, the latter had braked. Hard.
"OW, FUCK!" Ryo's head had hit the dashboard.
"Whiplash," Kento groaned from the back.
"Sorry, guys," the driver, somehow, was unharmed. "What WAS that?"
"Hell if I know."
Kento shuddered. "Hey, Ryo, what if that was one of those big-ass bugs that are in the movies?"
All three of them stared at the giant splatter on the windshield. "Eewww!!!"
Mia turned on the windshield wipers. "Let's get out of here before anything else happens. Unless you guys want to take a look around--"
"NO!"
Satisfied with that answer (though she expected nothing less), she pulled back on to the road. Andros' mansion was soon in sight.
"Oh, wow! It's even better than--"
(through Ryo's window) SPLAT!!! "Dammit!"
(through both of the back windows) SPLAT!! KERSPAT!!! "HEY!!!"
Through all this, Mia rolled up her own window (just in time, too: SPLAT!) and kept driving. Right over the trip wire Dais and Rekka had rigged up before hiding in the trees.
**twang**
Ryo heard the subtle noise. Already wet and pissed off, he shouted, "Ok, now what the hell was THAT supposed to be?"
He soon found out.
(through the sunroof) **squeek** ~~SPLASH!!!~~
Mia braked even harder than before, sending her two now-soaking-wet passengers sailing forward; no one went through the windshield, though: Kento's flight path was stopped by the back of Mia's seat, and Ryo, well, he got to kiss the dashboard again.
"When I find out who is responsible for this," Mia started in a low voice that was just barely heard over the moans of pain and discomfort. Suddenly, she began shouting, "I'M GOING TO RIP OF THEIR HEADS!!!"
**BEEP, BEEP!!!!**
"YOU HEAR ME, YOU SONS OF BITCHES!!!"
This outburst was followed by an insane amount of horn-honking.
**BEEP, BEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!**
::from the trees::
*Rekka, I thought that the bucket was for the other car?*
From the opposite tree, Rekka made a sound of indifference. *Tsh, who cares? I sure didn't think THEY had a sunroof, too*
*So it worked, then?*
*Oh, yes. Take a look for yourself*
Using the binoculars, he did just that. He had looked just in time to see the redhead chick begin to vent her rage. He could see her lips moving, but could not make out what she said. The shouting was slightly incoherent as well, though her car horn sure wasn't.
**BEEP, BEEP!!!!**
"What the hell is she doing?" he started laughing. The person sitting next to her ('looks like a wet Wildfire' he guessed) said something; 'must have been pretty bad, since she started aiming her death threats and her fists at him instead of some invisible foe.
Rekka's laughter could be heard from the other tree. *Oh, man **hahaha!!** this is priceless!*
*Shouldn't we be getting ready for the other car?* Dais radioed back. *It can't possibly be that far off.*
He thought for a moment. *And they probably heard the honking, too* With an insane giggle, he told Dais to ready the ammo and move out.
::in Halo's Saturn, a few minutes before the attack on Red Jeep (I know, bad attempt at humor O.o;;)::
Green Car was a little farther behind than planned, especially since Rowen had tried flirting with the cop who was writing his buddy up for speeding. So, to prevent anything else from happening, they had decided to let Cye drive.
Fifty-five. Sixty. Sixty-five. Seventy-five.
"Um, Cye..." Sage hazarded, "I don't think they will leave without us, so you can slow down a bit."
Eighty.
"I don't like being late for ANYTHING, never mind a whole half hour off."
Sage turned nervously to Rowen, who was still muttering about that female cop who wrote HIM up for harassing an officer. "Rowen, say something before we're dead!"
"Like what?"
"Like how it's unsafe to be going eighty in a fifty-five zone!"
"Eighty-five," Cye calmly corrected. Not even bothering to signal, Cye changed three lanes over to the other side of the road.
Sage was starting to lose his cool. "You don't even signal, man!"
Apparently, those two people he had cutoff had the same opinion.
**HONK, HONK!!** **BEEEEEPPPPP!!**
Rowen stuck his body out of the window and shouted back, "FUCK YOU, TOO!"
**WOO, WOO!!**
"SHIT!" Rowen promptly climbed back into the car. "Cye, floor it!"
"What?" Sage looked back. "Dammit, isn't that the same cop that got me the first time?"
"Are you serious?" Cye looked back, too.
"WATCH THE ROAD!!" Rowen grabbed the steering wheel when the car started speeding out of the lane. By some miracle, it jerked back into the center of the lane without any issues. Besides the cop on their asses, that is.
"Sorry, Sorry!"
Upon hearing the sirens, all of the other cars on the highway had got the hell OUT of the way, and not a moment too soon. This was turning into one of those high-speed car chases that are featured on the TV specials at ten. And, as fate would have it, Chopper 7 happened to be covering traffic at the moment.
::at Andros' mansion::
Andros, not really wanting to know what those crackheads were up to (he was sure to find out, anyway, one way or another), he went back inside to watch some TV. He flipped through the channels.
'Daytime talk shows. Hmm...'
Sure enough, just as this one broad was about to whack her cheating boyfriend who was really a woman with a chair, the show was interrupted.
*We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a special news bullitin*
"As usual. Wonder who escaped this time?"
*Good afternoon; Linda* Andros had talked over the first part of the news cast. *This is Sonja Hiru reporting live from Highway 18. We are near the scene of a high-speed police chase, which Chopper 7 happened to witness while covering traffic.*
*From what we have heard,* the reporter continued, *this madman has been flying down the road for quite some time now. Earlier, I had interviewed some of the drivers that were on the road at the time. Unfortunately, we cannot play any of these clips due to the use of language.*
*However, we can turn it over for some live footage. Chopper 7, are you on?*
*That we are* a male voice yelled over the noise of the craft. The cameras were focused on the cop car, with its sirens ablaze, going after a...GREEN SATURN?
::in Sage's car::
Trying to shake off the police chick, Cye had just pulled off the second consecutive 180 degree turn, except this time, it ended up a 360. Luckily for him, the cop thought that he was going to do another 180, so she ended up speeding off in the wrong direction.
"Not quite as I planned," Cye admitted, "but at least we shook her for now."
"Then let's just go. I think we can just take the next exit, since he said to go for it if we miss the first one," Rowen said.
Sage, though, was turning as green as his armor. He couldn't take roller coasters too well sometimes, so he wasn't doing too good with Cye's two-wheel turns and the like.
"Um, guys..." he trailed off.
"Now what?" Rowen turned around. "Woah! Cye!"
"What?"
"CYE!"
"WHAT?!"
"Sage's gonna spew!"
"Say WHAT?" he didn't dare look over his shoulder to verify it. Not at over 80 mph and a cop on his ass. "Are you sure?"
His response was a nauseated moan from the back seat. "Ok...just, like, roll down the window. I don't think there's any bags in here."
Not wanting to mess up his own car, Sage rolled down the window, prayed to whatever God there was for mercy (whether he was more worried about getting out of this mess alive or the outside of his car is anyone's guess), and let her rip.
Around this time, the requested police backup was on the scene and joining in the chase.
::Andros' living room::
Feeling ever so slightly sorry for the Ronins, Anubis and Kayura had gone in to go get some towels (though not without a few more laughs). Now, everyone else, Rekka and Dais included, was in the living room watching reality TV at its finest.
"I'd just kill to know who's driving," Kale laughed.
"I know what you mean," Ryo agreed, "Who'd of thought you could get that bitch on two wheels!"
"RYO!!" Mia smacked him upside the head. "How can you say something like that?"
"Actually, I think he has a point," Rekka jumped in. "Hey, Andros, do you have any blank tapes?"
"Way ahead of you," he pointed to the VCR. "I threw it in as soon as I recognized the car."
"But...that could have been any car," Kento pointed out.
Andros shook his head. "Not unless more than one green Saturn has the same license plates. And besides," he looked hard at Kento, "you all seem to agree that your friends are inside."
"Well--"
"Um..."
"Yeah." Andros finished.
"Hey, look, it's a police cam," Rekka diverted everyone's attention back to the television.
Indeed it was a police cammie, from the inside of the cop car behind the fugitives.
"You can barely hear what's being said over the sirens," Mia commented.
Anubis waved a hand. "I don't think ANYONE really understands what the person on the radio's saying. Too much static or whatever."
Sekhmet leaned closer to the screen. "What in the world...?"
"Hey, Down in Front!" Kale complained.
"But...I think I see someone's head sticking out of the car--"
"Really?" Kale leaned in closer, too. Everyone else followed suit except the vampires. They figured that they'd just watch the shoot-out on tape later rather than get squished against the TV. Besides, rumor has it that sitting too close will make you go blind...and then, you'll have to wear these ten-inch thick glasses with the diameter of a coffee mug! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*Ahem* sorry about that; couldn't help it!!! ;D
Anyway, Rekka and Andros were sitting back watching everybody else watching TV. Ok, fine, they were making out, too, since no one else was paying attention to them.
"Hey, that kinda looks like Sage!"
"I think he's right," Kale affirmed, "there's only one person with hair like that!"
"What's he gonna do, though, start shooting?" Kayura asked curiously.
Dais laughed, "Oh, yeah, THAT would be the day!"
Ryo was curious himself about what his normally peaceful friend would do. Then he made a face.
Sekhmet noticed the same thing at the same time. "What's that shit flying ba--"
The answer to his question came before he finished. All of a sudden, the contents of Sage's stomach were filmed by the police camera inside the car.
"WHAT THE HELL?" the cop was just as surprised as Mia was when his windshield was splattered, with one major difference, of course, besides the fact that he couldn't see out of it at all.
"UGH!!!!" the entire crowd jumped back from the TV as soon as Sage's lunch hit the front of the car.
"THAT'S FUCKIN NASTY!!!" Kento yelled while the cop swerved off the road.
Kale, though, was having a blast. "That's one serious Technicolor Yawn!"
Mia herself was feeling sick. "I don't see how you can laugh at something like that, Kale."
"I do!" Ryo was doubled over on the floor.
Rekka and Andros had taken a break when they heard the shouting. "What's going on?"
"Did Sage use an elephant gun?"
They stared at Rekka in silence. "What? That makes a big mess, right?"
Dais rolled his eye. "No, Rekka, Sage used biological warfare."
"He has an Anthrax bomb?"
"No, dumbass, he puked out the window and it landed on the squad car," Andros explained. "If you were listening, then you would have head the guy radio in what happened."
"If that wasn't so funny," Rekka said with a straight face, "I'd be angry with you for not paying more attention to me."
"Hey, I just caught it, all right? And it was AFTER we stopped."
"Stopped what?" Kento asked.
Dais normally loved seeing people squirm, but he decided to cut them a break. "Betting on who's driving. I'm putting down twenty on Torrent."
"No way!" Kale disagreed. "He's too much of a pacifist. My bet's on Strata."
Andros raised an eyebrow. "Anyone else?"
"Strata."
"Torrent. Anubis, the quiet ones are always hiding something," Kayura explained.
"Everyone's got twenty, then?"
"Rekka, that's harsh."
He eyed Mia. "What will you throw in, then?"
"Fifty, on Cye."
"Hmm, we have a high-roller," Andros approved.
"MIA!" Kento was shocked.
"What? She never told you about her casino addiction?" Ryo shrugged. "I think I'll put thirty on Rowen. Have you seen how they DRIVE in New York?"
::Back in the car::
Sage was truly gratified when Rowen said they should be there in a few minutes. "I recognize some of the landmarks Andros mentioned, and I think I've been in this area. It's really nice."
"That's great," Sage rasped. "I can't wait until I get out of this car!"
As fate would have it, though, the road ahead was police-barricaded.
"Dammit!"
"How are we supposed to get through?" Rowen sighed.
"Hold on, I saw this once on Grand Theft Auto!"
'Shit, what's he gonna do NOW?' Sage vowed NEVER to let him drive again, assuming they even made it in one piece.
As Cye approached the police-barricade, he increased his speed another 15 mph. Seeing that the speedometer was two away from 100, even Rowen was starting to wish he brought a second pair of pants along.
"What hell are you trying to PULL?!?!"
Cye only replied, "Tighten your seatbelts and hold on!"
That's all they COULD do. And pray like the end of the world was approaching almost as fast as the police barricade.
The officers were scattering by now, and the drivers of the four squad cars were in a panic.
"WHAT'S HE DOING?"
"HE'S GONNA HIT US!"
"I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE STAYED ON AS A CROSSING GUARD!"
"WAIT! I NEED TO FINISH MY DONUT!"
At the very last minute, Cye wheeled the car so the driver's side was in front as opposed to the front bumper. Then, with a metallic CRASH!!! the car flipped up and over the front end of one of the police cruisers.
"OH MY GOOOOODDDDDDD!!!!!!!!" Rowen screamed at the top of his lungs (Sage had passed out, along with the policeman inside the other car).
"YAAAAHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Cye shouted in exhilaration as the car spun in the air.
As soon as the car landed on the road UPRIGHT ON ALL FOUR WHEELS with a jolt, Cye floored it once again.
OBSTACLE CLEARED 512ft. 7in.
ROTATION: 360 #OF ROTATIONS: 5 INSANE STUNT BONUS: $1075
::Andros' livingroom::
Sekhmet whistled in appreciation as he checked the stats on the bottom of the screen. "That's some serious hang-time!"
"I have a new respect for the Ronin who's driving that car," Anubis acknowledged, "especially since he landed it!"
"I'd still like to know how a bunch of mortals could have survived that," Andros shook his head.
"Skills," Kayura shrugged.
"Hardly," Rekka snickered. "Does anyone have any idea where there at?"
Kento shifted. "Now that you mentioned it...Hey! they're on the--"
"--other side of town," Mia finished. "Oh, dear."
Rekka just laughed, with Lady Kayura and the other warlords joining in. Andros sighed, took his car keys out of his pocket, and headed out the door.
::somewhere on the other side of town::
Five minutes ago, Cye had pulled up to the gates of a rather large house. A rather large, old, empty house.
"Ro...I thought you said his house was modern in style?"
Rowen had barely succeeded in rousing Sage, who still looked worse for ware. "It is."
"Then where, may I ask, ARE we?"
Sage got out of the car and glanced around. He immediately recognized the old mansion. "I guess vampires really DO prefer the old, broken down houses!"
"What's that, buddy?"
"Isn't this the house the contractors are going to tear down at the end of this month?"
"Cye, I think your crazy-ass driving made him snap," Rowen laughed nervously.
"No, he's right," Cye got out as well. "I read about it the other day. But..."
"That house is on the other side of town." Sage glared at Rowen, who was outside by now. "Rowen, are you sure you had the right directions?"
"Well," he slowly began backing up, "I do think we took a wrong turn somewhere. And...um..."
Sage began advancing. "You held the map upside down, too, didn't you?"
"Maybe?" he squeaked.
Like demons from the blackest pits of Hell, both Sage and Cye sprang for the kill.
Disclaimer: same as usual, lol.
However, i would like to dedicate this chapter to anyone who has been thoroughly embarrassed resulting from the antics of friends and/or family at a public dining facility. Or thoroughly pranked, as the beginning of this shows. Hopefully, this doesn't bring back TOO many memories ^_^
DarkFlame136
ps: PLEASE do not try any of these stunts at home, and remember to always buckle up and drive carefully. I also want to apologize ahead of time to any police officers ahead of time, and post a disclaimer for Grand Theft Auto (one of the best games out there!), though i think i made up some of the stats; i can't quite remember what's on the screen. And, if no one has guessed by now, I don't own the Saturn car company. also, i made some corrections to this chapter and the one after. hopefully i caught all the errors, especially the timing ones.
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~*~Part One: Driving Hazards~*~
Mia, Ryo, and Kento were piled in the Jeep while Cye had hopped in with Rowen and Sage. By the time Rowen woke up, everyone except him and Ryo were dressed and ready. Fortunately, all they had to do was change, though Rowen had decided to shower first.
Either way, since both drivers had more or less decided that the speed limit was actually the minimum, they weren't over a half hour late.
::in Mia's Jeep::
"Do any of you know which restaurant we're going to?" Kento asked from the back seat for the lost-count-after-tenth time.
"No, Kento, we don't." Ryo sighed. "Mia, could you PLEASE floor it? We're on his property, for crying out loud, not a residential area!"
"Ryo, he could have a younger sibling or something--what if a kid's around here playing? I doubt that I would be able to stop before running him over!"
"So?"
SPLAT!!!!
"WHAT THE HELL?!?"
Something had hit the windshield at a high speed and splattered, covering the glass with liquid. Mia, in shock, had swerved slightly off the path, throwing Kento against the other side of the car and Ryo towards Mia.
Then, the latter had braked. Hard.
"OW, FUCK!" Ryo's head had hit the dashboard.
"Whiplash," Kento groaned from the back.
"Sorry, guys," the driver, somehow, was unharmed. "What WAS that?"
"Hell if I know."
Kento shuddered. "Hey, Ryo, what if that was one of those big-ass bugs that are in the movies?"
All three of them stared at the giant splatter on the windshield. "Eewww!!!"
Mia turned on the windshield wipers. "Let's get out of here before anything else happens. Unless you guys want to take a look around--"
"NO!"
Satisfied with that answer (though she expected nothing less), she pulled back on to the road. Andros' mansion was soon in sight.
"Oh, wow! It's even better than--"
(through Ryo's window) SPLAT!!! "Dammit!"
(through both of the back windows) SPLAT!! KERSPAT!!! "HEY!!!"
Through all this, Mia rolled up her own window (just in time, too: SPLAT!) and kept driving. Right over the trip wire Dais and Rekka had rigged up before hiding in the trees.
**twang**
Ryo heard the subtle noise. Already wet and pissed off, he shouted, "Ok, now what the hell was THAT supposed to be?"
He soon found out.
(through the sunroof) **squeek** ~~SPLASH!!!~~
Mia braked even harder than before, sending her two now-soaking-wet passengers sailing forward; no one went through the windshield, though: Kento's flight path was stopped by the back of Mia's seat, and Ryo, well, he got to kiss the dashboard again.
"When I find out who is responsible for this," Mia started in a low voice that was just barely heard over the moans of pain and discomfort. Suddenly, she began shouting, "I'M GOING TO RIP OF THEIR HEADS!!!"
**BEEP, BEEP!!!!**
"YOU HEAR ME, YOU SONS OF BITCHES!!!"
This outburst was followed by an insane amount of horn-honking.
**BEEP, BEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!**
::from the trees::
*Rekka, I thought that the bucket was for the other car?*
From the opposite tree, Rekka made a sound of indifference. *Tsh, who cares? I sure didn't think THEY had a sunroof, too*
*So it worked, then?*
*Oh, yes. Take a look for yourself*
Using the binoculars, he did just that. He had looked just in time to see the redhead chick begin to vent her rage. He could see her lips moving, but could not make out what she said. The shouting was slightly incoherent as well, though her car horn sure wasn't.
**BEEP, BEEP!!!!**
"What the hell is she doing?" he started laughing. The person sitting next to her ('looks like a wet Wildfire' he guessed) said something; 'must have been pretty bad, since she started aiming her death threats and her fists at him instead of some invisible foe.
Rekka's laughter could be heard from the other tree. *Oh, man **hahaha!!** this is priceless!*
*Shouldn't we be getting ready for the other car?* Dais radioed back. *It can't possibly be that far off.*
He thought for a moment. *And they probably heard the honking, too* With an insane giggle, he told Dais to ready the ammo and move out.
::in Halo's Saturn, a few minutes before the attack on Red Jeep (I know, bad attempt at humor O.o;;)::
Green Car was a little farther behind than planned, especially since Rowen had tried flirting with the cop who was writing his buddy up for speeding. So, to prevent anything else from happening, they had decided to let Cye drive.
Fifty-five. Sixty. Sixty-five. Seventy-five.
"Um, Cye..." Sage hazarded, "I don't think they will leave without us, so you can slow down a bit."
Eighty.
"I don't like being late for ANYTHING, never mind a whole half hour off."
Sage turned nervously to Rowen, who was still muttering about that female cop who wrote HIM up for harassing an officer. "Rowen, say something before we're dead!"
"Like what?"
"Like how it's unsafe to be going eighty in a fifty-five zone!"
"Eighty-five," Cye calmly corrected. Not even bothering to signal, Cye changed three lanes over to the other side of the road.
Sage was starting to lose his cool. "You don't even signal, man!"
Apparently, those two people he had cutoff had the same opinion.
**HONK, HONK!!** **BEEEEEPPPPP!!**
Rowen stuck his body out of the window and shouted back, "FUCK YOU, TOO!"
**WOO, WOO!!**
"SHIT!" Rowen promptly climbed back into the car. "Cye, floor it!"
"What?" Sage looked back. "Dammit, isn't that the same cop that got me the first time?"
"Are you serious?" Cye looked back, too.
"WATCH THE ROAD!!" Rowen grabbed the steering wheel when the car started speeding out of the lane. By some miracle, it jerked back into the center of the lane without any issues. Besides the cop on their asses, that is.
"Sorry, Sorry!"
Upon hearing the sirens, all of the other cars on the highway had got the hell OUT of the way, and not a moment too soon. This was turning into one of those high-speed car chases that are featured on the TV specials at ten. And, as fate would have it, Chopper 7 happened to be covering traffic at the moment.
::at Andros' mansion::
Andros, not really wanting to know what those crackheads were up to (he was sure to find out, anyway, one way or another), he went back inside to watch some TV. He flipped through the channels.
'Daytime talk shows. Hmm...'
Sure enough, just as this one broad was about to whack her cheating boyfriend who was really a woman with a chair, the show was interrupted.
*We interrupt your regularly scheduled program for a special news bullitin*
"As usual. Wonder who escaped this time?"
*Good afternoon; Linda* Andros had talked over the first part of the news cast. *This is Sonja Hiru reporting live from Highway 18. We are near the scene of a high-speed police chase, which Chopper 7 happened to witness while covering traffic.*
*From what we have heard,* the reporter continued, *this madman has been flying down the road for quite some time now. Earlier, I had interviewed some of the drivers that were on the road at the time. Unfortunately, we cannot play any of these clips due to the use of language.*
*However, we can turn it over for some live footage. Chopper 7, are you on?*
*That we are* a male voice yelled over the noise of the craft. The cameras were focused on the cop car, with its sirens ablaze, going after a...GREEN SATURN?
::in Sage's car::
Trying to shake off the police chick, Cye had just pulled off the second consecutive 180 degree turn, except this time, it ended up a 360. Luckily for him, the cop thought that he was going to do another 180, so she ended up speeding off in the wrong direction.
"Not quite as I planned," Cye admitted, "but at least we shook her for now."
"Then let's just go. I think we can just take the next exit, since he said to go for it if we miss the first one," Rowen said.
Sage, though, was turning as green as his armor. He couldn't take roller coasters too well sometimes, so he wasn't doing too good with Cye's two-wheel turns and the like.
"Um, guys..." he trailed off.
"Now what?" Rowen turned around. "Woah! Cye!"
"What?"
"CYE!"
"WHAT?!"
"Sage's gonna spew!"
"Say WHAT?" he didn't dare look over his shoulder to verify it. Not at over 80 mph and a cop on his ass. "Are you sure?"
His response was a nauseated moan from the back seat. "Ok...just, like, roll down the window. I don't think there's any bags in here."
Not wanting to mess up his own car, Sage rolled down the window, prayed to whatever God there was for mercy (whether he was more worried about getting out of this mess alive or the outside of his car is anyone's guess), and let her rip.
Around this time, the requested police backup was on the scene and joining in the chase.
::Andros' living room::
Feeling ever so slightly sorry for the Ronins, Anubis and Kayura had gone in to go get some towels (though not without a few more laughs). Now, everyone else, Rekka and Dais included, was in the living room watching reality TV at its finest.
"I'd just kill to know who's driving," Kale laughed.
"I know what you mean," Ryo agreed, "Who'd of thought you could get that bitch on two wheels!"
"RYO!!" Mia smacked him upside the head. "How can you say something like that?"
"Actually, I think he has a point," Rekka jumped in. "Hey, Andros, do you have any blank tapes?"
"Way ahead of you," he pointed to the VCR. "I threw it in as soon as I recognized the car."
"But...that could have been any car," Kento pointed out.
Andros shook his head. "Not unless more than one green Saturn has the same license plates. And besides," he looked hard at Kento, "you all seem to agree that your friends are inside."
"Well--"
"Um..."
"Yeah." Andros finished.
"Hey, look, it's a police cam," Rekka diverted everyone's attention back to the television.
Indeed it was a police cammie, from the inside of the cop car behind the fugitives.
"You can barely hear what's being said over the sirens," Mia commented.
Anubis waved a hand. "I don't think ANYONE really understands what the person on the radio's saying. Too much static or whatever."
Sekhmet leaned closer to the screen. "What in the world...?"
"Hey, Down in Front!" Kale complained.
"But...I think I see someone's head sticking out of the car--"
"Really?" Kale leaned in closer, too. Everyone else followed suit except the vampires. They figured that they'd just watch the shoot-out on tape later rather than get squished against the TV. Besides, rumor has it that sitting too close will make you go blind...and then, you'll have to wear these ten-inch thick glasses with the diameter of a coffee mug! MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
*Ahem* sorry about that; couldn't help it!!! ;D
Anyway, Rekka and Andros were sitting back watching everybody else watching TV. Ok, fine, they were making out, too, since no one else was paying attention to them.
"Hey, that kinda looks like Sage!"
"I think he's right," Kale affirmed, "there's only one person with hair like that!"
"What's he gonna do, though, start shooting?" Kayura asked curiously.
Dais laughed, "Oh, yeah, THAT would be the day!"
Ryo was curious himself about what his normally peaceful friend would do. Then he made a face.
Sekhmet noticed the same thing at the same time. "What's that shit flying ba--"
The answer to his question came before he finished. All of a sudden, the contents of Sage's stomach were filmed by the police camera inside the car.
"WHAT THE HELL?" the cop was just as surprised as Mia was when his windshield was splattered, with one major difference, of course, besides the fact that he couldn't see out of it at all.
"UGH!!!!" the entire crowd jumped back from the TV as soon as Sage's lunch hit the front of the car.
"THAT'S FUCKIN NASTY!!!" Kento yelled while the cop swerved off the road.
Kale, though, was having a blast. "That's one serious Technicolor Yawn!"
Mia herself was feeling sick. "I don't see how you can laugh at something like that, Kale."
"I do!" Ryo was doubled over on the floor.
Rekka and Andros had taken a break when they heard the shouting. "What's going on?"
"Did Sage use an elephant gun?"
They stared at Rekka in silence. "What? That makes a big mess, right?"
Dais rolled his eye. "No, Rekka, Sage used biological warfare."
"He has an Anthrax bomb?"
"No, dumbass, he puked out the window and it landed on the squad car," Andros explained. "If you were listening, then you would have head the guy radio in what happened."
"If that wasn't so funny," Rekka said with a straight face, "I'd be angry with you for not paying more attention to me."
"Hey, I just caught it, all right? And it was AFTER we stopped."
"Stopped what?" Kento asked.
Dais normally loved seeing people squirm, but he decided to cut them a break. "Betting on who's driving. I'm putting down twenty on Torrent."
"No way!" Kale disagreed. "He's too much of a pacifist. My bet's on Strata."
Andros raised an eyebrow. "Anyone else?"
"Strata."
"Torrent. Anubis, the quiet ones are always hiding something," Kayura explained.
"Everyone's got twenty, then?"
"Rekka, that's harsh."
He eyed Mia. "What will you throw in, then?"
"Fifty, on Cye."
"Hmm, we have a high-roller," Andros approved.
"MIA!" Kento was shocked.
"What? She never told you about her casino addiction?" Ryo shrugged. "I think I'll put thirty on Rowen. Have you seen how they DRIVE in New York?"
::Back in the car::
Sage was truly gratified when Rowen said they should be there in a few minutes. "I recognize some of the landmarks Andros mentioned, and I think I've been in this area. It's really nice."
"That's great," Sage rasped. "I can't wait until I get out of this car!"
As fate would have it, though, the road ahead was police-barricaded.
"Dammit!"
"How are we supposed to get through?" Rowen sighed.
"Hold on, I saw this once on Grand Theft Auto!"
'Shit, what's he gonna do NOW?' Sage vowed NEVER to let him drive again, assuming they even made it in one piece.
As Cye approached the police-barricade, he increased his speed another 15 mph. Seeing that the speedometer was two away from 100, even Rowen was starting to wish he brought a second pair of pants along.
"What hell are you trying to PULL?!?!"
Cye only replied, "Tighten your seatbelts and hold on!"
That's all they COULD do. And pray like the end of the world was approaching almost as fast as the police barricade.
The officers were scattering by now, and the drivers of the four squad cars were in a panic.
"WHAT'S HE DOING?"
"HE'S GONNA HIT US!"
"I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE STAYED ON AS A CROSSING GUARD!"
"WAIT! I NEED TO FINISH MY DONUT!"
At the very last minute, Cye wheeled the car so the driver's side was in front as opposed to the front bumper. Then, with a metallic CRASH!!! the car flipped up and over the front end of one of the police cruisers.
"OH MY GOOOOODDDDDDD!!!!!!!!" Rowen screamed at the top of his lungs (Sage had passed out, along with the policeman inside the other car).
"YAAAAHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Cye shouted in exhilaration as the car spun in the air.
As soon as the car landed on the road UPRIGHT ON ALL FOUR WHEELS with a jolt, Cye floored it once again.
OBSTACLE CLEARED 512ft. 7in.
ROTATION: 360 #OF ROTATIONS: 5 INSANE STUNT BONUS: $1075
::Andros' livingroom::
Sekhmet whistled in appreciation as he checked the stats on the bottom of the screen. "That's some serious hang-time!"
"I have a new respect for the Ronin who's driving that car," Anubis acknowledged, "especially since he landed it!"
"I'd still like to know how a bunch of mortals could have survived that," Andros shook his head.
"Skills," Kayura shrugged.
"Hardly," Rekka snickered. "Does anyone have any idea where there at?"
Kento shifted. "Now that you mentioned it...Hey! they're on the--"
"--other side of town," Mia finished. "Oh, dear."
Rekka just laughed, with Lady Kayura and the other warlords joining in. Andros sighed, took his car keys out of his pocket, and headed out the door.
::somewhere on the other side of town::
Five minutes ago, Cye had pulled up to the gates of a rather large house. A rather large, old, empty house.
"Ro...I thought you said his house was modern in style?"
Rowen had barely succeeded in rousing Sage, who still looked worse for ware. "It is."
"Then where, may I ask, ARE we?"
Sage got out of the car and glanced around. He immediately recognized the old mansion. "I guess vampires really DO prefer the old, broken down houses!"
"What's that, buddy?"
"Isn't this the house the contractors are going to tear down at the end of this month?"
"Cye, I think your crazy-ass driving made him snap," Rowen laughed nervously.
"No, he's right," Cye got out as well. "I read about it the other day. But..."
"That house is on the other side of town." Sage glared at Rowen, who was outside by now. "Rowen, are you sure you had the right directions?"
"Well," he slowly began backing up, "I do think we took a wrong turn somewhere. And...um..."
Sage began advancing. "You held the map upside down, too, didn't you?"
"Maybe?" he squeaked.
Like demons from the blackest pits of Hell, both Sage and Cye sprang for the kill.