Another early updated, because of my goneness this weekend

But the third update will be on it's regular Sunday, hopefully. . .

Part 4

I awoke to a sudden cold feeling. Opening my eyes quickly. I realized that Corn wasn't there, and must of gotten up before me. I groaned and sat up, and learned that everyone else was up before me

"Finally up sleepy head?" Yoyo grinned

"No, you're mind's just playing tricks on you to make you think I'm awake" I glared at him and stood up, stretching my arms and yawning softly

"We were going to go without you if you slept any longer" Beat sighed. I just replied with a glare.

"Come on. We should get to Rokkaku-Dai Heights as soon as we can"

"I second that" I nodded

"What's the rush with you two?" Combo raised an eyebrow

"Ummm. . ." I faked a smiled "PoisonJamreallyfreaksmeoutandIwanttogetthisoverasfastaspossible" I said it as quickly as I could so no one would be able to understand me

"O. . .kay" Combo blinked

"Well, might as well go now if you guy are so excited" Beat rolled his eyes and got up, then skated off to Rokkaku-Dai Heights, and we followed him.

I swear every time I go here, this place seems more and more depressing. Old houses that haven't been touched for decades were stacked on top of each other, and the sky was painted a thousand different shades of red from the pollution. This was the turf of Poison Jam, and they never really took good care of it. I glanced over at an abandoned playground with rusted horses and broken swings, and I wondered if any kids used to play there before it rusted up. I pushed the thought out of my head and focused on keeping up with the 4 boys.

We eventually split up after we covered up the graffiti on the southern side of Rokkaku-Dai Heights. Corn and I would go to the west side, Combo would go to the east side, and Beat and Yoyo would go to the northern side.

I sighed as I heard I was going with Corn. I really didn't want to talk to him today. I love him and all, but I just really didn't feel like being with him today. Though he did help keep my mind off of Poison Jam. But, I still felt awkward being alone with Corn.

As we covered up a tag, I noticed something from the corner of my eye. I turned around, but it seemed to had disappeared

"What is it Gum?" Corn stopped spraying as well and turned his head towards me

"I thought I saw something. I'm going to go investigate" I skated farther down the railroad tracks until I could see the part that the fence had blocked before

And gasped

It took me a bit longer than usual to recognize her, but it really was her

"Mew!" I called, and the short blue haired girl turned around and smiled

"Hey, Gum! You fulfilled your promise" Mew grinned

"Yeah, I told you I would, didn't I?"

"True" Mew nodded "Though I changed my name to Rhyth"

"Rhyth? Mmmm. . .I guess it suits you" I nodded

"Gum?" Corn skated up next to me "Who's she?"

"That's my long time friend, Rhyth" I pointed to Rhyth, then turned to Rhyth and pointed to Gum "That's the Corn guy I talked to you about before I left, remember?"

"Yeah, totally" Rhyth smiled again "You're right, he does seem nice" Rhyth peered closer at us both "Are you two going out?"

"No" Corn and I said at the same exact time quickly.

"Just making sure, because it totally looks like it" Rhyth gave a cheesy smile "So, has it been just you two for a while?"

"Well kinda. We started our own gang and we have three other members that we're supposed to meet up with in an our or so" Corn shrugged

"Cool, can I join?"

"Well. . ." Corn made a bad decision turning towards me, since I was giving the puppy-dog pout. He sighed and turned back to Rhyth "Sure"

"Awesome!"

From what I saw after that, Rhyth had been practicing a lot. She was pretty good, even though she was about the same age Yoyo claimed he was. As we were heading back to where we said we'd meet up, we ran into the people I had really been hoping not to run into all day.

Poison Jam

They were around where I had first saw Rhyth. But when they saw us, they fled like kittens

"Hey! Come back here!" I growled, skating after them, Corn and Rhyth following close behind me. But, we came to a path that split up into many different ones, too many for us to even try to look for them

"They got away" Corn sighed "Come on, lets go back with the others"

"Yeah, he's right" Rhyth looked down

I sighed heavily and skated back to where we came from and mumbled under my breath "Stupid pussies"

We finally got back to where we were supposed to meet, and everyone was waiting for us

"What took you guys so long? It's been 20 minutes" Beat raised an eyebrow

"Poison Jam detour" Corn shrugged

"And who's the new girl" Yoyo tilted his head down slightly so he could see Rhyth more clearly

"I'm Rhyth" Rhyth smiled "Gum and I were friends when we were younger"

"No wonder you look like your as annoying as Gum" Beat sighed

I leaned over to her and whispered "Don't listen to him, he's a total ass to girls"

"Why?" Rhyth looked up a me

"You tell me and we'll both know" I shrugged

"Did you find out anything about their hideout?" Corn asked

"Nothing" Combo shook his head

"Nada" Yoyo sighed

"Nothing here either" I crossed my arms

"Well. . .we could always ask Rapid99" Rhyth suggested

"I'm so stupid" Corn's face met his palm "Rapid99 and Poison Jam are total rivals, of course Rapid99 would know where they're hideout was"

"Well, come on then! What are we waiting for?" I grinned and skated off. It wasn't more of my excitement of going to 99th Street that made me skate fast than normal, it was more of my excitement to get out of Rokkaku-Dai Heights. But, 99th Street, unfortunately, wasn't going to be any better.

Yay! Mew's back, except she's Rhyth now!

Yeah, I know, I kinda fail for tapping for Jet Grind radio for some of the stuff, but it helps a lot

Oh, and icingsugar, your paitence will reward you. . .soon -evil laughter-