i am really really REALLY sorry about this
i used the stupid 'review and ill be faster line'
and i failed so badly
2 months is not a good way to go...
but i still hope you like it, i really do
Chapter 15 – The Final Race
Everyone walked to the centre of the Avatar ship. Some of the racers were surprised, but others were not.
'Welcome back,' Canaletto said warmly.
They nodded and stood by the pool. Prince Aikka was silent. He knew something was wrong.
Canaletto was telling everyone about the final race. Aikka knew it wasn't meant to be this way and he wasn't leaving without answers.
'What is going on?' he hissed to Avatar Jordan.
Jordan knew Aikka was going to ask sooner or later. He just hoped it would have been later. He shrugged. Prince Aikka wasn't fooled though.
'You stopped them from learning what the Ultimate Prize is!' Aikka whispered angrily.
'Yeah well, maybe I didn't want them to know! It didn't exactly work out properly for us did it? I ended up with it not…well you know what happened in the end!' Jordan answered sharply.
'No I was unconscious for that time! I don't know how you managed to beat Canaletto or get the power!' Aikka said angrily.
Their voices were getting louder. Neither of them noticed of course.
'Yeah, well maybe you don't want to know! Maybe I just want something different for once. Maybe I don't want to hurt anyone,' Jordan yelled.
'Ha! It's going to hurt more than one person in the end!' Aikka shouted.
'Are guys done yet?' Molly asked.
Aikka and Jordan went silent and saw everyone staring at them. They both blushed and looked up at Canaletto.
'Uh, you can continue,' Jordan muttered.
Canaletto didn't speak for a moment.
'I was done. That was when you both started yelling. I suppose it does not matter anyway. Everyone now prepare for the final race. It starts soon,' Canaletto boomed.
He disappeared in an instant.
'What was that all about?' pilot Jordan asked angrily.
Prince Aikka shrugged but as he was walking off with Danny and Molly's Aikka, he glared at Eva's Jordan angrily. Jordan pretended not to notice though.
'Nothing,' Jordan muttered.
Eva watched below. She clutched the bars of the cage and gripped them tight. She didn't understand.
'How did that happen?' she whispered.
'It seems your little Avatar and Prince like hiding things, or am I wrong? It sure seems like no one truly knows who they are. I have a feeling they think the same way about you,' Satis smirked.
Eva shrugged. She didn't really care. The only thing that really mattered to her was getting out. Satis was driving her nuts.
'I am not that bad surely,' Satis smiled.
Eva scowled angrily. When Satis read her mind, it always gave him some chance to hurt her…or others. She knew her chance to get out of there would be soon but didn't know how much more she could take.
She just hoped that the new Avatar would accept would they would have to be. It was her only hope.
In the Avatar ships above, everyone was getting ready for the final race.
'Are you sure you don't have anything to say to us?' Rue asked Eva's Jordan.
'Yes for the last time! Can't we get ready for the race? It starts soon and we could win if we try!' Jordan muttered.
Molly stopped helping Stan and stared at Jordan.
'Oh yeah? Why race when we don't know what we get if we win? You all seem to know what the Prize is but you just have to keep it secret! Do you think Ruby would have wanted this?' Molly muttered angrily.
Jordan was about to answer when the race signal went off.
'Come on, we need to get in the Arrow,' he told Molly.
Molly's Jordan rolled his eyes.
'Fine, don't tell us. We will have a nice surprise if we actually win. That's if Sul or Kross doesn't beat us and we get in first and they get no points,' he sighed.
'So what if the odds are against us? My Molly knew what the Prize was and even though she did not want it, she still raced. She won the Prize. She beat Kross and well…let's not go into much with Sul,' Eva's Jordan quickly remembered what had happened to Sul by then.
Molly sighed.
'Yeah well it isn't the same. Ruby flew the Arrow then not you! You don't know what could happen today. It may just be different,' Molly muttered.
No one was listening to her though. Everyone was getting into the Arrow. Molly shrugged. She didn't really care. She just managed to get into her gunning turret before the Arrow dropped down into the sky.
The final race had begun.
They had decided on doing what they had done last time for positions on the Nurasian and Earth star racers. They just hoped it wouldn't be like the time before.
'Where are we?' pilot Jordan asked.
Everyone was looking around. They were in a dead city, with strange lights coming from the ruined temples around.
Molly didn't know why, but she shivered.
'Come on! We have to win this race!' Maya's face appeared on the screen.
Molly's Jordan quickly twisted the Arrow and went off into the city. They needed to find the gate.
One of the Stan's face appeared on the screen after a minute.
'There is only one gate. Find it and make sure you beat Sul and Kross and hope they don't finish or take too long. Good luck,' Stan's face flashed off again.
'Great. Now we beat them or surely lose,' Rue muttered.
'Uh, but you may not even want the Ultimate Prize anyway. It could be a blessing in disguise,' Eva's Jordan quickly added.
Molly rolled her eyes, but saw Kross in the distance.
'Look, this is the final race. Competition is going to get tough. Do you really want to be next to him?' Molly asked.
They quickly got out of the way of Kross before he could spot them or do anything to them. They moved over to a quieter area, where they thought no one was around to harm the Arrow.
A cannon blast hit the Arrow. It was flung slightly to the left but it was alright apart from that.
'Now I will win the Ultimate Prize and well, you will see!' Lord Furter cried out.
'I have to admit its kind of funny seeing as he is going to lose. There is no way he can win,' pilot Jordan grinned.
'I heard that!' Lord Furter said angrily.
His crew fired a huge cannon. A huge blot of energy came hurtling towards them at a very fast speed.
Molly fired her gun at it. She managed to find the weak spot and blew it up. It was quite close to a rock formation. There was a small avalanche and Lord Furter's ship was covered in rocks.
Everyone stared at the heap of rocks.
'Not a nice way to go, is it?' Rue commented.
'There is no nice way to die. We should go,' Avatar Jordan sighed.
As they flew off, nearby, the Crog ship was facing Sul. It had been what Kross was waiting for all this time.
The two star racers flew off, trying to find the gate and conquer each other at the same time. G'dar had to swerve quickly out of the way to avoid being hit.
Prince Aikka cursed and rubbed where G'dar had been hit.
'He will be ok,' Molly's Aikka told him.
All three of them looked around. Danny finally saw a star racer. He couldn't tell which team it was, but he thought he should warn the others anyway. He wasn't going to risk it.
'Over there,' he pointed.
Everyone looked over and were relieved to see it was the Arrow. It slowed down and stopped next to them. Pilot Jordan put down the hood.
'We had some trouble with Furter but we managed to sort that out…in a way we suppose,' he said.
'We had problems too. With Ondai. He had to…let's not talk about it. Just finish the race. We will try and get someone else to finish second and we will go in third. Just try and get there!' Prince Aikka said urgently.
Jordan nodded and put the hood down. They flew off. After a few minutes of following the directions of the arrows showing the way, they saw it. The gate.
They also saw Sul and Kross.
'We are never going to win!' pilot Jordan yelled.
'Yes we are. Now just fly already!' Molly shouted.
The Arrow swung to and fro as they got closer to the gate. When it looked like they maybe could win, Kross bashed into them. Jordan accidentally moved the Arrow in a completely different direction.
It looked hopeless.
Molly then saw something. It was like the weak spot she had seen a few minutes before with Furter. She fired one single beam just hoping it would be ok.
It entered a small hole in the Crog ship that led to the main control system. It shut down as soon as the beam hit it. Kross and his ship just dropped out the air into the spiraling darkness below.
Sul just watched from the side lines. He simply stood there for a moment and then went off. And he was right next to the gate.
'What?' everyone yelled.
Sul had been so close; no one could understand why he went off like that.
The Arrow went up to the gate. After a moment of waiting, pilot Jordan flew it through the gate. The gate lit up.
The Earth team had won the Great Race of Oban. The only problem was that no one understood why.