Southern Knights

Ok this is a continuation of Southern Drifters Trail… To recap Kenneth, Richard, and Brandon had brought back their old team known as the Southern Knights After defeating the Akina Speed Stars the Southern Knights have taken the title of Akina's fastest team.

Disclaimers:Shigeno, Toykopop. Car Companies: Chevy, Lancia, Nissan, Mazda, Toyota, Porsche, RUF, Tom's, and Buell

Here we go…

Chap. 1: Alliesor Enemies

After Winning against the Speed Stars Kenneth and then other members of Southern Knights were enjoying the spot light but had only gotten a few challenges by sub par teams who lost without every giving a challenge.

The summit of mount Akina…

"yo Kenneth what's with the Challenge from that Emperors team?" said a 6'1" 195lb white American with black hair wearing a USC Gamecocks Hoody, jeans, and Nikes as he leaned against the side of his gold 1967 Chevelle Malibu SS.

"yea I'm with Richard on this one Kenneth." Said a 5'11" 215lb white American with black hair wearing a gray hoody, and jeans as he leaned against his black with racing strips 1967 RS Camaro.

"I'm not sure about these guys but the tried to sweep the Gunma Prefecture at the same time the Anacondas tried to sweep the Low Country." Said a 6'2" 125lb white American with dark brown hair wearing, Dark Green baggy pants, a black hoody, and Rebook Midtown Low tops as he sat on the hood of his black 2003 Camaro SS with old Dodge Viper Style wheels.

Suddenly a pack of Mitsubishi Evos pulled up infront of the three Chevy muscle cars.

Out of the Lead car and Evo 3 stepped out Kyle followed by an Evo 4 and Hawk.

"I'm Kyle of the Emperors" said the man as he stepped toward Kenneth.

Kenneth stepped forward from his 03' Camaro SS and said, "I'm Kenneth of the Southern Knights."

"so I have a little race type for you to consider." said Kenneth with a grin.

"and what's that." Said Kyle apprehensively

"well its three on three downhill. My team verses your top three drivers in a one shot downhill." Said Kenneth as he looked at Kyle with a cold grin

"well that sound like it would be interesting." Said Kyle with a cocky grin.

The three Chevys were soon lined up Kenneth then Brandon then Richard.

The three top drivers of the Emperors next to them.

The sound of the V8s and Turbo fours was something few got to hear like they were now.

"10…9…8…7…6…5…4…3…2…1…GO!"

the six cars tore off the line the three Knights only separated by one Evo. The Evo 3 had slid in between the SS camaro and the RS camaro.

Behind the Chevelle the two Evos struggled to pass but couldn't find an opening. "damn it!" screamed Hawk as he realized attempting to pass was futile.

Back at the front Kenneth in the SS Camaro battled with the Evo 3 of Kyle as the Knights defended their current positions behind the Evo 3.

The SS Camaro suddenly swung in and began to use groove drifting. The sky suddenly started raining heavily.

Everyone on the slope including Nik and the Blak Nites, Sagara and his Toyko Battalions, Ryosuke, and the Redsuns. Knew that the rain would work to the Emperors advantage.

The third turn is were things got interesting. As the three Knights did the exact opposite of what everyone thought they would do. They pored on the power!

Every turn was taken faster than the next 6 turns later they were on the first real strait.

The three Chevy V8 muscle cars powered ahead leaving the Evo 3 in their wake. As they entered then next turn the Chevelle and two Camaros drifted door to door their side view mirrors touching.

"What in the hell!" said Keisuke as he saw the drift.

"touching mirrors in a 157mhp drift in the rain. I must say they know their stuff and aren't afraid of anything." Said Ryosuke in his normal calm voice.

They are all insane. They are doing things that shouldn't be done by anyone with any sanity left. Thought everyone who saw this. Eixting the turn was as smooth as the drift itself.

The three Chevys took corner after corner with this drift. At the 5-point hairpins Sagara stood waiting for the Camaro SS to round the corner but when he saw the three Knights exit the corner together he was genuinely impressed.

As the Knights entered the turn Kenneth dropped into the gutter followed by Brandon and Richard in the groove-drifting move in the rain.

The Evos weren't far behind but it was far enough. After Every Hairpin the Knights gained ground.

Finally the cars exited onto the short strait. The three Chevys used all the power in their V8s to push forward on the strait at an amazing 225mhp.

They entered the turn doing 145mhp but the rain was starting to affect the road underneath the cleared section.

At the Last ditch turn Nik, Mei, and Al stood waiting to see what would be the outcome.

Suddenly the Knights rounded the corner using the groove drift once more.

As Nik saw this time seemed to freeze around him. Wait a sec the SS Camaro is ridding the road of water right along the path of the RS Camaros tires and it's doing the same for the Chevelle.

"amazing" said nik as the three American muscle cars passed.

And jetted down the strait the three cars swapping positions now a drag between the members of the winning team.

The course record was beaten by 1.5 seconds.

The Emperors were beaten by over 3 seconds.

"wow that was even more enlightening then the first race." Said Ryosuke

back at the 5 point hairpins sagara was talking with is battalions when someone said, "these guys are serious they use cars that are big overpowered FR and Heavy but they still attack the turns like that in the rain! They are crazy!"

Sagara nodded in agreement and said, "They aren't crazy did you see what they did?"

"yea of course I did. They drifted so close their rear view mirrors touched in a drift."

Sagara shook his head and said, "the Car in front cleared the road of water in his tire marks for the second car but only partly the second car finished clearing the water and the largest heaviest car got road without any water."

The Southern Knights were soon meant by Sagara and his Battalions, and Nik, Mei, And Al.

"So Sagara what did you think?" asked Kenneth with a smile. "Kenneth you are Straitjacket quality work." Said Sagara as kindly as he could make that sound.

Suddenly Kenneth felt two evil grins on his back. He turned around to find Richard and Brandon grinning ear to ear with the Grinches smile. "thanks for the idea Sagara." Said Richard and Brandon in unison.

Kenneth turned back to Sagara with the funniest look of terror Sagara had ever seen. "help me…" said Kenneth.

"anyways Kenneth you are fast and your friends seem to be the same way." Said Sagara as Nik walked up

"Kenneth you need to get some more members you know." Said Nik as he looked at the Three Knights and their cars.

"so I guess the Southern Knight have officially won their first race as Akina's number one team." Said Sara as she walked up with Salina.

"hey Sara long time no see." Said Kenneth with a smile.

"Well Sagara we were wondering if you guys might be up for a little fun run on wangan some time." said Kenneth as he turned to Sagara and the Lancia 037.

"why not I think that might be fun." Said Sagara

And with that the Southern Knights had become a team to watch.

OK there is chapter one of Southern Knights. Some of the characters will seem to just appear without a background unless you read Southern Drifters Trail OK this is the beginning of the Southern Knights story so keep tuned the battles get better more intense the opponents gets stronger and faster so stay tuned.

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