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Chapter Three

'Why is it, that no matter where I go, SOMEBODY is either chasing me, trying to kill me, or chasing me in order to kill me!' Sora mentally ranted as she ran down the back alleys of Ikebukuro. 'All I want to do in life is roam around and see the sights! Is that too much to ask? And yet time after time, I end up being hounded by someone or other!'

'Speaking of which,' the tourist thought as she glanced behind herself, 'I'm getting really tired of my current 'hounder'.'

The 'hounder' in question was none other than Ikebukuro's infamous Black Bike, who had been hunting down Sora for over two hours now-

And the rider was getting closer with each passing minute!

Right now, the two of them were in a part of the district that was full of seemingly abandoned warehouses. Sora was doing her best to lose the biker again, but Celty was foiling her at every turn.

Dashing down a new alleyway, the fugitive growled "Enough already!" as her pursuer rounded the corner. This alley was wide enough to fit a car through, had a dumpster, and at the end of it was an old piece of scaffolding, standing at the corner on Sora's right.

When she saw it, Sora considered climbing it to get away from the bike, but quickly discarded the idea. 'I seriously doubt that thing will support me weight, and even if it does, it only goes halfway up a wall that has no windows or ledges; I'd be trapped.' Staring at the giant scaffold, the strange girl got an idea, and without a second thought made a dash towards what might be her salvation.

Reaching the scaffold, Sora jumped and grabbed one of the metal bars that stood perpendicular to the ground. Twisting her body, she rotated around the support beam like a gymnast on the un-even bars.

Swinging around, just as the black bike was about to pass the scaffolding, the girl yelled "KNOCK IT OFF!" and kicked the rider on the very front of her helmet! Sora felt a slight resistance at contact, before it just 'evaporated' and her leg sailed through space, unimpeded.

Continuing her arc, the tourist let her momentum take her off the bar, and back down the alley from where she had came, sliding on her feet until she stopped. Straightening up, she looks puzzled.

'That was weird…I know I hit her square in the head…but, I barely felt anything.' Hearing a 'clank' behind her, Sora turns to see something bounce off the side of the dumpster and roll back towards her. Whatever it was, it was yellow and blue and looked an awful lot like a-

Helmet!

"It's that chicks helmet! But wait…that means…" Turning back around slowly, Sora's worst fear is confirmed when she sees the black rider standing at the end of the alleyway-

Without a head.

'Oh boy, here we go again,' Celty thought as she got off her bike to stand next to the scaffolding and look at her target. She watched as the girl looked at her helmet, and then slowly turn back around to face her.

Watches as she looks back at the helmet.

Back at her.

Notices her face as realization dawns on her.

And braces herself as she holds her head and opens her mouth.

"OHMYGODIKNOCKEDHERHEADOFF! IKILLEDHER!" the girl screams.

'Huh?' the surprised Dullahan thinks. 'What did she say?'

Seemingly oblivious to the face that Celty is alive and well, Sora began waving her arms and gesturing wildly, all while saying, "WAH! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to kill you just to knock you out! When I said "Knock it off!" just now I meant stop chasing me not I'm knocking off your head! I didn't mean to kill you just to stop you! I wasn't trying to knock your head off! WAH BUT I KNOCKED IT OFF ANYWAY I AM SO SORRY!"

Listening to her targets rants, and understanding about half of it, Celty was a little shocked to realize that this person was more freaked out by the idea that she had killed the rider rather than the fact that Celty was still walking around despite being headless.

'What a weird girl.' She thought to herself.

In the middle of apologizing for the umpteenth time, Celty's helmet, which was still rolling after hitting the dumpster, came to rest upside down against Sora's calf. After glancing at it, the girl stopped her rant mid-sentence and just stared at it for a moment before picking up.

"Ah, it's empty," she said as she examined the helmet. "And there's no blood."

As the girl began shaking the helmet as if that would make the head fall out, Celty thought, 'Here we go. Now she'll found out that I have no head and will really freak out.'

Her inspections complete, and with no head or blood found, Sora just held the helmet as her head was cocked in thought. After a moment, she turned back towards the Dullahan and asked, with a calm voice, "Hey. Did I kick your head off or did you not have it with you to begin with?"

Surprised by the question, it was a second before Celty reached into her pocket, brought out her cell phone, and typed on it.

Walking closer so that she could read the screen when the rider showed it to her, Sora saw that it said, [I didn't have my head to begin with, although I do have one.]

The girl let out a giant sigh of relief, causing Celty to flinch.

"Wah, I'm glad! For a minute there, I thought I had become a murderer! Ha ha, that would've sucked!" The Dullahan watched, feeling more than a little confused, as her target held her sides with one arm and laugh.

'She's relieved to know that I didn't have a head? She should be freaking out!' Using her cell again, Celty typed a question and showed it to Sora, who wiped a tear from her eye to read it.

[Aren't you scared? I have no head!]

Scratching her own head, Sora replied, "I'll admit, I'm a bit surprised that you don't have a head, but I'm definitely not scared." Grinning and thumping herself on the chest, she proclaimed, "It'll take a lot more than a headless rider to scare me!"

Typing rapidly, Celty said, [But I have no head!]

Sora shrugs. "So?"

[THAT'S NOT NORMAL!]

Hand on hips, the girl smiles and says, "I'll agree with you that it isn't normal for someone not to have a head, but I fail to see why it is I should be afraid of that." She cocks her head, "By the way, how is it that you're still alive? And what's that stuff coming out of your neck?"

Ignoring her questions, Celty types, [Of course you should be afraid of someone who doesn't have a head! Especially if they're still moving!]

"Wow, you type fast!"

[FOCUS! I. Have. No. Head! I'm a monster who rides around on a possessed motorcycle in the middle of the night! Everyone who sees me without my helmet is afraid of me! You should be too!]

Shoulders heaving as if she had actually shouted that whole thing, the Dullahan watched as the girl read every line of her text. Finished reading, Sora looks where Celty's eyes would be and said with a straight face, "Do you want me to be afraid of you?"

Freezing at the girl's question, Celty can't do anything but stare at her. Finally she, almost hesitantly types on her cell.

[No.]

With a face like that of a scolding parent, Sora replies, "Then quit going on about how I should be afraid of you! I've seen a lot of scary stuff and 'a-headless-body-that-can-move' is not very high on my list of things that are going to scare me. If I'm not afraid of you now, the odds are I'm not going to be, so quit bugging me about it and just deal with it. 'Kay?"

Staring at this strange girl for a minute, Celty eventually holds out her hands. Guessing at what she wanted, Sora hands her over her helmet, which she takes from her gently and places on her shoulders.

When it's finally in place, the headless rider nods her helmet once.

Seeing that, the tourist breaks out into a huge grin and says, "Great!"

[You do realize that a person would have be out of their mind to not freak out about this situation, right?] Celty types.

Laughing out loud, Sora exclaims, "Guess I'm out of my mind then!"

Typing and holding out her cell phone as she shakes her helmet, Celty says, [You're a strange kid, do you know that?]

"Yeah," she replies, "But in my opinion, that's what makes me so fun!" They both laugh at that, albeit Celty did so silently.

Finally, Sora stopped laughing and said, "Well, it was nice meeting you," as she turned around and walked back down the alley. Looking at Celty and waving enthusiastically, she shouted, "See ya later!"

The headless rider waved back just as hard while thinking, 'What a weird kid…she reminds me a little of Shinra.'

It was when Sora reached the end of the alley, turned right, and out of her sight that Celty remembered why she was with the kid in the first place.

Cursing, she jumped onto her faithful steed and raced down the alley.

When Sora heard the sounds of tires on concrete behind her, she also remembered why she was with the headless rider and took off running again.

"DAMN IT! I FORGOT ABOUT THIS PART AGAIN! THAT'S THE THIRD TIME TONIGHT!" She yells to the streets of Ikebukuro, as she once again runs from one of its most infamous urban legends.

A/N: Chapter 3 is done!

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