"What a bunch of morons!" growled Linaly. "They just had to ruin a perfect day didn't they?"
Linaly was referring the group of some ten or fifteen biker hooligans who had arrived on the beach their motor-cycles drowning out the relaxing sound of the sea and filling the air with clouds of gritty sand.
However Cassie and Faris where a little more concerned about the bikers themselves rather than their obliteration of the tranquil atmosphere the girls had been enjoying for half the day.
Eighteen just stood and watched as the bikers approached kicking up a typhoon of sand in their wake.
Her face and eyes were calm and impassive as they came.
Eighteen could see that they were not the same bikers who had tried to accost Seventeen and herself some time ago before the battle with Cell.
This made no difference though.
Eighteen could see that these guys were of the same breed as the thugs who she and her brother had met before if not worse than them.
The girls were all on their feet as the biker gang arrived and pulled their black gritty machines to a halt.
Their leader a tough yob in a sleeveless leather jacket which showed his muscled arms and chains running down from his dark blue trousers adjusted his dark sunglasses as he scrutinised the girls.
Apparently he liked what he saw.
His opinion seemed to be followed by the rest of the thugs.
Cassie felt a deep sense of foreboding here but she refused to let it surface not wanting to give these guys the pleasure of seeing her alarmed.
"What the hell do you bozo's want?" she demanded with an uninviting snap in her voice.
The guy at the head of the bikers smirked in a way that made Faris feel cold inside.
"Don't mind us." He answered in a back-street drawl which suggested that he was the sort of guy who assumed that the world knelt at his feet.
"We can hardly do that with you and your festive friends kicking up a racket!" Faris cut in if only to seem as up to it as Cassie was.
Linaly was keeping near the back of the group with Eighteen.
Eighteen had said nothing at all and was the only member of the small party of girls who didn't seem perturbed by the arrival of these thugs.
"Oh this?" the guy in the sunglasses waved back towards his pals in a flippant manner. "Me and the guys are just keeping it real. We noticed you four honeys from a way off and thought we'd come over to chill with ya and ya know…this and that."
Linaly was now eyeing the cost-line looking for a way out of this.
Cassie and Faris however still stood their ground without backing down although they had to realise that they were in some pretty serious shit here.
Cassie spoke to him again with a hard voice although her heart was actually pounding.
"Well we're real flattered " there was an inflection of sarcasm in her voice that was not lost on them "but we just don't have the time. Time of day for you that is. We were in the middle of something so if you could just turn back and…"
"Civility cost nuthin." The guy growled his eyes gleaming behind the sunglasses. "I'm looking forward to teaching you some manners. There's so many things I could teach you kid."
"Actually I think that I'll save my virginity for something more worthwhile." Cassie responded scornfully.
The biker chuckled and his cohorts joined in though not a lot of them really got the punch-line at all.
Still they chuckled along with their leader since if they hadn't then they chanced being boiled in oil.
Man he was one mean dude!
"Come on foxy." He leered at Cassie's cleavage. "Wanna be my eve? I'll buy you a fig leaf."
Cassie and Faris backed off as the bikers started up their machines and circled them.
They came to a stop with them trapped in the middle.
Faris was grabbed by one of them who forced her to drink from his can of alcohol.
She screwed up her eyes as the burning foul-tasting stuff forced itself into her throat causing her throat to burn and making her retch.
Then it was time for it to end.
Eighteen had watched from the side-lines long enough and it was now right about time for her to step in.
It was true that she was not strictly speaking human.
A being more a thing than a creature.
She had no right to feel anything for anyone but Cassie Faris and Linaly had been kind to her over the last few hours.
Something no-one else but Him had ever shown her.
Eighteen was damned if she was just gonna sit tight and let these bastards misuse her friends.
It seemed strange for her to think this word and it had been harder for her to say it earlier but it felt right. It worked for her mind and so she could go with the flow here.
Linaly's eyes widened as Eighteen took a step forward her bare feet treading silently on the warm sand.
"Don't!" she nearly squeaked such was her alarm.
Linaly grabbed Eighteen's arm to stop her from leaving but she continued on regardless.
Something in the way Eighteen did this caused a great tide of shame to rise within Linaly.
If Eighteen could do it then why shouldn't she?
Following the example of this enigmatic beauty she had only known for five hours Linaly followed Eighteen.
The leader of the bikers stopped his machine as he saw Eighteen approach.
"Hey whassup?" he asked as Eighteen stopped in front of him. "You wanna play with us?" his eyes slithered down to her bikini only just covering what was necessary and accenting her natural line perfectly.
"You might say so." Eighteen responded coyly speaking for the first time in fifteen minutes. "So lets play!"
Eighteen disappeared.
Or at least that was what she seemed to do to the eyes of the bikers who froze in an instant but actually she was moving at the speed of light and so their untrained eyes couldn't see her.
The leader of the thugs didn't know whether he was coming or going.
It all seemed like a horrible dream to him as Eighteen re-appeared behind him and buried her knee in his back felling him to the sand in a breathless state.
There was a breathless silence as Cassie Faris Linaly and the bikers stared at the fallen goon retching for breath.
"Cool!" breathed Faris.
"Make that frozen solid." Cassie responded.
Then the guy in the sunglasses (Now by the way covered in the sand until he gave them a poor rub-down) was up on his feet staggering but pretty angry!
His leadership of the bikers was at an end if he let Eighteen get away with this.
"Gotta hand it to ya!" he snarled clutching his back which he was sure must now have a dent in it. "No-one else ever managed to pull one like that on me!"
Eighteen sneered for the first time in what felt like eons. "It was easy!"
It felt good!
He made no response.
Only Eighteen noticed that his hand snuck into his pocket for a knife.
When he looked back up again she was nowhere to be seen.
Then a sudden weight on his back forced him face down in the sand.
Eighteen tutted from where she stood with one foot on his back.
She backed off as he flung himself to his feet his eyes full of the fires of hell.
"FUCK YOU!" he roared flinging himself at her.
He never made it within a feet inches from where he stood.
Eighteen came forward quicker than anyone could see her thrusting her knee into his gut and striking him quickly beneath the chin as he gasped.
The leader of the bikers collapsed hopelessly.
He was out of the fight.
A glance at the other bikers revealed to her that they were not all that inclined to join in on his behalf.
"I'd really recommend that you leave now." Eighteen said matter-of-factly.
It was all she need to say.
Having seen what she had done to their leader they couldn't leave fast enough.
Slinging him over their front bike the group of thugs took off along the beach again back the way they had come.
The other girls gathered around Eighteen as they watched them go.
"Bye! Send us a post-card!" Cassie called after them.
"Sweet dreams sucker!" Faris's called was directed at the leader of the biker.
Hearing Faris Cassie turned to her concern evident in her eyes.
"You alright?" she asked.
"I think so." Faris spat onto the sand and made a face. "Though I think I might have dragon-breath for the rest of the day. We got any water with us?"
Linaly kept quiet.
The others hadn't noticed her hesitation to join in the fight and she didn't want to draw attention to that fact.
Meanwhile Cassie's attention had focused on Eighteen.
"Eighteen you wild-girl!" she laughed. "Why didn't you tell us?"
"Tell you what?" Eighteen was confused as she had been expecting her to ask how the hell she had learnt to fight like that.
"The way you beat that guy. You moved so fast. You're a Z-FIGHTER right?"
Next chapter comin right up.
Linaly was referring the group of some ten or fifteen biker hooligans who had arrived on the beach their motor-cycles drowning out the relaxing sound of the sea and filling the air with clouds of gritty sand.
However Cassie and Faris where a little more concerned about the bikers themselves rather than their obliteration of the tranquil atmosphere the girls had been enjoying for half the day.
Eighteen just stood and watched as the bikers approached kicking up a typhoon of sand in their wake.
Her face and eyes were calm and impassive as they came.
Eighteen could see that they were not the same bikers who had tried to accost Seventeen and herself some time ago before the battle with Cell.
This made no difference though.
Eighteen could see that these guys were of the same breed as the thugs who she and her brother had met before if not worse than them.
The girls were all on their feet as the biker gang arrived and pulled their black gritty machines to a halt.
Their leader a tough yob in a sleeveless leather jacket which showed his muscled arms and chains running down from his dark blue trousers adjusted his dark sunglasses as he scrutinised the girls.
Apparently he liked what he saw.
His opinion seemed to be followed by the rest of the thugs.
Cassie felt a deep sense of foreboding here but she refused to let it surface not wanting to give these guys the pleasure of seeing her alarmed.
"What the hell do you bozo's want?" she demanded with an uninviting snap in her voice.
The guy at the head of the bikers smirked in a way that made Faris feel cold inside.
"Don't mind us." He answered in a back-street drawl which suggested that he was the sort of guy who assumed that the world knelt at his feet.
"We can hardly do that with you and your festive friends kicking up a racket!" Faris cut in if only to seem as up to it as Cassie was.
Linaly was keeping near the back of the group with Eighteen.
Eighteen had said nothing at all and was the only member of the small party of girls who didn't seem perturbed by the arrival of these thugs.
"Oh this?" the guy in the sunglasses waved back towards his pals in a flippant manner. "Me and the guys are just keeping it real. We noticed you four honeys from a way off and thought we'd come over to chill with ya and ya know…this and that."
Linaly was now eyeing the cost-line looking for a way out of this.
Cassie and Faris however still stood their ground without backing down although they had to realise that they were in some pretty serious shit here.
Cassie spoke to him again with a hard voice although her heart was actually pounding.
"Well we're real flattered " there was an inflection of sarcasm in her voice that was not lost on them "but we just don't have the time. Time of day for you that is. We were in the middle of something so if you could just turn back and…"
"Civility cost nuthin." The guy growled his eyes gleaming behind the sunglasses. "I'm looking forward to teaching you some manners. There's so many things I could teach you kid."
"Actually I think that I'll save my virginity for something more worthwhile." Cassie responded scornfully.
The biker chuckled and his cohorts joined in though not a lot of them really got the punch-line at all.
Still they chuckled along with their leader since if they hadn't then they chanced being boiled in oil.
Man he was one mean dude!
"Come on foxy." He leered at Cassie's cleavage. "Wanna be my eve? I'll buy you a fig leaf."
Cassie and Faris backed off as the bikers started up their machines and circled them.
They came to a stop with them trapped in the middle.
Faris was grabbed by one of them who forced her to drink from his can of alcohol.
She screwed up her eyes as the burning foul-tasting stuff forced itself into her throat causing her throat to burn and making her retch.
Then it was time for it to end.
Eighteen had watched from the side-lines long enough and it was now right about time for her to step in.
It was true that she was not strictly speaking human.
A being more a thing than a creature.
She had no right to feel anything for anyone but Cassie Faris and Linaly had been kind to her over the last few hours.
Something no-one else but Him had ever shown her.
Eighteen was damned if she was just gonna sit tight and let these bastards misuse her friends.
It seemed strange for her to think this word and it had been harder for her to say it earlier but it felt right. It worked for her mind and so she could go with the flow here.
Linaly's eyes widened as Eighteen took a step forward her bare feet treading silently on the warm sand.
"Don't!" she nearly squeaked such was her alarm.
Linaly grabbed Eighteen's arm to stop her from leaving but she continued on regardless.
Something in the way Eighteen did this caused a great tide of shame to rise within Linaly.
If Eighteen could do it then why shouldn't she?
Following the example of this enigmatic beauty she had only known for five hours Linaly followed Eighteen.
The leader of the bikers stopped his machine as he saw Eighteen approach.
"Hey whassup?" he asked as Eighteen stopped in front of him. "You wanna play with us?" his eyes slithered down to her bikini only just covering what was necessary and accenting her natural line perfectly.
"You might say so." Eighteen responded coyly speaking for the first time in fifteen minutes. "So lets play!"
Eighteen disappeared.
Or at least that was what she seemed to do to the eyes of the bikers who froze in an instant but actually she was moving at the speed of light and so their untrained eyes couldn't see her.
The leader of the thugs didn't know whether he was coming or going.
It all seemed like a horrible dream to him as Eighteen re-appeared behind him and buried her knee in his back felling him to the sand in a breathless state.
There was a breathless silence as Cassie Faris Linaly and the bikers stared at the fallen goon retching for breath.
"Cool!" breathed Faris.
"Make that frozen solid." Cassie responded.
Then the guy in the sunglasses (Now by the way covered in the sand until he gave them a poor rub-down) was up on his feet staggering but pretty angry!
His leadership of the bikers was at an end if he let Eighteen get away with this.
"Gotta hand it to ya!" he snarled clutching his back which he was sure must now have a dent in it. "No-one else ever managed to pull one like that on me!"
Eighteen sneered for the first time in what felt like eons. "It was easy!"
It felt good!
He made no response.
Only Eighteen noticed that his hand snuck into his pocket for a knife.
When he looked back up again she was nowhere to be seen.
Then a sudden weight on his back forced him face down in the sand.
Eighteen tutted from where she stood with one foot on his back.
She backed off as he flung himself to his feet his eyes full of the fires of hell.
"FUCK YOU!" he roared flinging himself at her.
He never made it within a feet inches from where he stood.
Eighteen came forward quicker than anyone could see her thrusting her knee into his gut and striking him quickly beneath the chin as he gasped.
The leader of the bikers collapsed hopelessly.
He was out of the fight.
A glance at the other bikers revealed to her that they were not all that inclined to join in on his behalf.
"I'd really recommend that you leave now." Eighteen said matter-of-factly.
It was all she need to say.
Having seen what she had done to their leader they couldn't leave fast enough.
Slinging him over their front bike the group of thugs took off along the beach again back the way they had come.
The other girls gathered around Eighteen as they watched them go.
"Bye! Send us a post-card!" Cassie called after them.
"Sweet dreams sucker!" Faris's called was directed at the leader of the biker.
Hearing Faris Cassie turned to her concern evident in her eyes.
"You alright?" she asked.
"I think so." Faris spat onto the sand and made a face. "Though I think I might have dragon-breath for the rest of the day. We got any water with us?"
Linaly kept quiet.
The others hadn't noticed her hesitation to join in the fight and she didn't want to draw attention to that fact.
Meanwhile Cassie's attention had focused on Eighteen.
"Eighteen you wild-girl!" she laughed. "Why didn't you tell us?"
"Tell you what?" Eighteen was confused as she had been expecting her to ask how the hell she had learnt to fight like that.
"The way you beat that guy. You moved so fast. You're a Z-FIGHTER right?"
Next chapter comin right up.