Southern Knights
Last time Kenneth won insuring that Shadow Striker would never bother him again. And Ryosuke finally got fed up and has chosen to collect on Kenneth's promise for a race.
Chapter 22: learning the legend…
Ryosuke, takumi, and Keisuke sat watching the TV. More specifically watching clips of Kenneth's Races back in South Carolina.
"Well this is going to be tough." Said keisuke as he leaned back and watched as the 914 passed a red RX-7 FC3S on one of the Stratford Sprints blind corners. The 914 was slower out because of the lack of power but the way it ran the full throttle turn was amazing. The 914 was inches form the side of the FC.
"I must say that Kenneth is very talented and we are going to have to get very serious if we want to win this thing." Said Ryosuke with a sigh.
"Wow Ryosuke I have never seen you this tense about a race." Said Takumi as he watched the video and noticed on one turn after the light the 914 flowed throw the turn no problem while the FC seemed to be distracted for a moment causing him to loose speed.
"Did you see that?" asked Takumi with a slight bit of surprise in his voice.
"Yes the driver of the FC got distracted for a moment nothing unusual about that." Said Keisuke.
"Wait look at this…" takumi popped in another video of Kenneth against a bright red supra.
"Look the supra driver did it too." Said takumi slightly worried about this.
"I wonder what is so interesting?" asked Ryosuke as he watched intently.
On another race the camera got a different angle and something in the shadows catch ryosuke's eyes. "I wonder what that could be." Said Ryosuke before opening the laptop on the table and pulling up the course.
"Well the course here is a lot different then what we are used to." Said Ryosuke as he looked at the course from different angles and also looked at the other two runs that made up the Southern Knights home course.
"Why do you say it is so different?" asked takumi before thinking about where this was located.
"The course is not a downhill or an uphill but gently rolling hills. The turns here are great for full acceleration but the blind corners would be deadly if not taken right. And the weather conditions. There it is almost always very hot and can cause havoc if you are not used to running the conditions." Said Ryosuke as he pulled up the stats on the three cars driven by the Southern Knights.
"Well I want to know brother who will be racing who?" asked Keisuke as he looked at the laptop and then at the TV. This time the Camaro was racing a GT-R on the Industrial circuit.
"Well Takumi will be racing Kenneth on both turfs. You will race the Camaro in Akina and the Chevelle in SC. I will be racing the Chevelle on Akina and the Camaro in SC." Said Ryosuke as he looked at the power advantage that the Southern Knights had.
"If Kenneth runs the 914 then Takumi's AE86 and the 914 will be on an equal power level. You and I have a serious power disadvantage on all of our races…" said Ryosuke before turning of the laptop.
Takumi stood and exited the house to go and think. He got into the AE86 and sat. "I wonder if we will win. I mean the Southern Knights on akina will be hard enough but on their home course…"Takumi's talk was ended by a tap on the window. It was Kenneth.
"What are you doing here?" asked Takumi.
"Well I was wanting to talk to you actually." Said Kenneth before motioning to the BTR and then to the mountain.
"So you want to talk alone. Ok that's cool." Said takumi before starting his engine and heading up Akagi with the BTR right behind him.
The two cars began to pick up speed and were eventually racing to the summit. The BTR was powerful and able to get all the power to the ground but was holding back.
As the two cars came to a stop and the summit parking lot Takumi exited the 86. Followed by Kenneth exiting the BTR.
"So what did you want to talk to me about?" asked Takumi calmly.
"I know that Project D watches its opponents videos of past races and I know you saw the other drivers get distracted. I want to warn you." Said Kenneth as he sat on the hood of the BTR.
"If you do like they did you will die…" said Kenneth as he looked at Takumi's expression change to show a slight ting of fear.
"for someone from SC that is not as bad but for you you couldn't pull out your skill is for that of the downhill not the demon claw turn..."
Kenneth got into the BTR and pulled out of the lot and back onto the mountain heading home.
Takumi stood there replaying what kenneth had just told him in his head. "if i make the same mistake i will die huh.." said Takumi as a smirk crossed his face.
"we will se who trully is better kenneth you or me. The Lowcountry 914 or Akina's 86..." and with that Takumi headed back to tell Ryosuke about the encounter.
"if kenneth told you this then i would take his advice that is his home course after all." said Ryosuke
"yea it's not like he said go slow on that turn all he said is don't get destracted at all while taking it." said keisuke as he sat down.
Takumi soon left got home. as he rolled down the highway he just couldn't figure out what kenneth meant by you will die at Demon's Claw Turn if you get destracted. it seemed so strat foreward but it wasn't at all.
Kenneth has given Takumi a warning and now the question will takumi lisin to Kenneth's warning or….
I'm not telling you aren't I horrible.
Signed SouthSideSlider