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Okay I know since the fic's only been here for a few days that's not gonna change soon*sigh*
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(Step by step I'm trying to make the chapters longer...it works!)
It was already dark outside and Keyla sat on the roof, watching the New York nightlife.
She was glad she came here, the city was… damn beautiful, that's what first came to her mind. Her hometown had been pretty small so it was truly fascinating staring at all the skyscrapers and neonlights from up here.
"So sweetie, you're with us?"
"-Huh?"
The girls dragged her out of her thoughts, sitting down beside her.
"C'mon, the battle? Kickin' the Samurai's ass?", Fly grinned, throwing an arm around the girl's shoulders.
Keyla blinked. What? "You seriously want me to join the crew?"
Oh damn, did she say that out loud?
…Apparently she had because the others were giggling.
Anala bowed forward to poke her forehead. "You still don' get it, do you? I thought Jacob already said he wants you to stay, silly!"
"Yeah, but-… but I thought it was…well…I dunno…" Crap, she couldn't stop stammering. Good it was dark so they didn't see her blush.
"Geez, don't make it so hard! You wanna dance with us or what?" Keyla felt many backslapping trying to encourage her and sighed. God, why did they even ask for it? It was like a dream coming true for her!
"Alright, alright, calm cown! Of course I want to!", she yelled, getting even redder. "But I swear if I wake up now and realize it was only a dream I'll find you and you'll find yourself with a foot up your asses!"
That earned her a lot of laughter and the girls ended up in a big group hug, cheering, squeaking, babbling.
You know…girls.
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"Where is everyone?"
They came back in and Keyla looked around, finding the Vault empty.
The others snickered. "Down at the club of course, partying! And that's where we're too gonna go now, so c'mon!"
Her eyes lit up. The club… she heard a lot about it, but since she's new she'd never been there. But sure always wanted to!
The club was stuffed, the girls having problems searching for the others.
Keyla's jaw dropped, staring at all the lights and people. Small circles had formed everywhere around someone dancing.
"Wheeeja, there you are, ladies!"
They turned around, seeing it were the Ticks who had called them. "Hey guys!" After they made their way through to the rest of the crew, Anala greeted them with a big smirk. "So guess who'll accompany us in kickin' some Samurai's butts?"
Hearing this the Pirates shrieked, hugging and patting every inch of her they could get.
"Yo, what's goin' on, Pirates?", Dazz, the DJ, shouted, turning the club's attention to them.
Their leader pulled a surprised Keyla on stage and took Dazzes mic, grinning at the audience who had stopped dancing and stared at him full of expectation.
"People, welcome our newest recruit – KEYLA!"
Said recruit had to cover her ears when the crowd lost it and went wild.
Jacob laughed at her wide-eyed expression and continued: "So, ya wanna see what she got?"
That got him deafening cheering.
The DJ got his mic back and changed the song. "C'mon, dance sweetie!", he yelled.
The girl blinked, feeling all eyes on her and seeing many people even holding up their mobiles, filming.
Oh god, she was gonna die for sure.
Dancing on the street when she was ready for it and doing it with the world suddenly expecting her to give 'em a show worth of the Pirates were completely different.
She shot a helpless glance at her crew standing with the crowd. They mouthed "Go girl!", giving her the thumbs up.
Damn.
Okay, go for it. You can do this.
Closing her eyes and sighing heavily she suddenly felt two arms on her shoudlers.
She looked up, seeing the twins who came up to her with a reassuring smirk.
"Eej guapa, screw the stage-fright!", Martin laughed and they started to dance around her. "C'mon move, like you did earlier!"
Keyla smiled, relieved. Now that she wasn't alone she could concentrate on the twins and not on the club staring.
As soon as both of them noticed her beginning to move, they stopped sliding in circles and took position on both sides of her.
The girl relaxed, feeling the insecurity falling off her with every move she made; soon she forgot about the audience and danced smoothly between the two boys who then stepped further into the background; she would handle it from now on.
And how she did!
With this start given nothing could stop her: Adjusting her steps to the twin's ones earlier she danced completely free now; giving an amazing performance including a lot of popping, locking, waving and breaking so that the dreads that escaped her bun flew around the moving body, she ended after swinging to a one-armed handstand from the floor. Freezing in this posture the song ended and she took a deep breath as the applause reached her ears.
The twins were back by her side, wrapping their arms around her waist and she shrieked in surprise when they twisted the girl back to an upright position.
"Madre mia, we told ya you can do this, didn' we?"- "Yea', we totally did!"
"Yo, thaaaaat was our Pirate rookie! Let's party, People!"
Her face grew red, grinning from ear to ear. "Thanks guys, you really saved me!"
Saying that, she gave them a hug when everyone swarmed on the stage, whooping, dancing and partying their hearts out.
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Sadly every great party had to end sometime, so next morning arrived and the Pirates came down for cleaning up.
"Oh god, you kiddin' me?", Keyla exclaimed seeing the chaos. Yesterday everything didn't seem so dirty… which could be because of the darkness and tons of people filling the space. Now with daylight flooding the rooms it looked teribble.
The others laughed seeing her shocked face. "That goes every mornin' dear", Shonnie snickered, throwing her a mob, "but with everyone helping it'll be done in no time!"
Well, everyone except for Moose and Camille who had lectures at this time, but instead they helped on weekends and with preparations.
"If you say so… well let's get things started, huh?" All of them began working, yawning from time to time since they only got up.
Keyla wiped the floor, humming a melody she catched yesterday and couldn't get out of her head.
Earlier others were running around her cleaning up but now as she wiped the toilet's floor she was alone. Being a little bored with only the mob as company she did little dancing steps, swinging circles along the floor.
The humming turned into quiet singing, her starting to dance to the song and somehow integrating the floorwiping in it.
Hey, this was actually kind of fun…!
…At least until she did another turn, facing the door now and noticing the audience she got:
Monster, Jason and Fly stood in the door.
Freezing, she stared at their amused faces in shock.
"Ho-how long did you stand there?", she squealed, paling.
Fly giggled. "Long enough, mob princess…"
They burst out in laughter, Keyla's face heating up out of embarassment.
"Easy, dude, easy!", Jason grinned and threw an arm around her, pinching her red cheek, "It was cool! In case ya didn' notice ya livin' with a bunch of crazy people now!" That made the 'mob princess' laugh too, re-tieing her hair into it's bun since too much of it had fallen out.
"So how's you're progress?"
Monster smirked. "Ready, that's why we're comin' for you", he announced proudly, looking around. "Looks great, let's go. Jacob wants to hold a meeting."
Putting away all cleaning utensiles and garbage they went back upstairs.
As soon as they had gathered the atmosphere turned serious; none of them had forgotten about Julien. Jacob stood up and cleared his throat before he spoke.
"So I think we all agreed on battlin' the Samurais, right?"
Everyone nodded in agreement.
"Good. We'll film our response then. I think he'll organize time and place since they're the one challenging. What we have to do is prepare - prepare a choreo that'll make them never forget who we are!"
He shouted the last sentence, the Pirates cheering.
When they calmed down, their leader continued talking: "So today I'm doing the video. Then we'll have to wait for the Samurai's response; and until that comes I want you to concentrate on your solos. Jason, you'll help me with the video and the rest of you: Practise."
The Pirates did as he said; first thing was to clarify who did a solo with whom – which itself didn't take long since most groups were certain. Even Camille and Moose missing the discussion was no problem since after seeing the Samurai's challenge yesterday they already started talking about that.
Keyla didn't say anything, observing the others as they builded smaller groups. She was new so she didn't really know who to join until Kido turned to her and said: "We wanna do something with the girls, you with us?"
The moment she wanted to say yes an arm appeared around her waist and she turned her head, staring right at one of the twins – she had to learn how to separate them somehow! – who grinned at the girls. "Sorry my wonderful ladies, but this beautiful Pirate is gonna dance with us!"- "What?" Her eyes widened. "B-but-… but I thought your solo was always like a Santiago-thing…?"
"No…nonononono." He shook his head and lifted his index finger. "Never said that. And we already said we wanna do somethin' with you didn' we?"
The girls giggled and left them, deciding that was a discussion they were not part of anymore.
"Yeah, but… not for a real battle I thought, you know, just for fun…" Keyla's voice went fainter and fainter, almost turning into a murmur in the end.
"C'mooon~", the man sing-songed, "You know you want tooo~"
Oh man.
She laughed and pattet his shoulder. "Okayokay, let's do it. By the way, where's your brother?"
"Fucando?" Ahhh, so this was Martin here. "He's already warming up, left me to get you. So let's go."
They found him in the attic since every other place was occupied by other's practising, stretching on one of the wooden steps. As he noticed them he stopped, greeting: "Yo brother, I see you convinced our mob princess?"
WHA-WHAT?
Keyla's cheeks immediately turned tomato red.
What the fuck? Did everyone already know about that or what?
The twins laughed at her priceless expression. "Eeej, just kiddin' sweetie!"- "I'd give everything to've seen that, man…"- "C'mon, you see she's embarassed, huh?"
The girl listened to them babbling and looked around in search for a distraction, noticing something. "You don't have music up here, do you?"
The twins shut up, Martin scratching his head. "Bam, knew I forgot somethin'… Be right back!" He jumped away, searching for a boom box downstairs.
"So, which jerk told you 'bout the mob?", Keyla asked, still a little red in the face.
Facundo grinned, seeing he really found something to tease her with. "You know, it spread quite quickly~…"
The girl shrugged. Of course he wouldn't tell her who it was, knowing that certain someone would get his butt kicked. What a bummer!
"Geez, that's what they call loyalty, huh?" She punched him in the arm and both laughed.
Suddenly loud music was heard and turning around they noticed Martin coming up, carrying the boom box he was looking for. He put it on the highest step and came back down to them, slightly swinging back and forth to the sound.
"So, any ideas?"
Keyla looked from one to another, biting her lower lip.
"Well, I-...uhm…" Should she really ask?
The twins smiled encouraging, gesturing her to go on.
Darn, why not just go for it.
"What I always wanted to do is somethin' like a… fight…?"
Without saying anything both looked at her, so she continued: "You know, dancing which looks like fighting each other and-…" When she felt herself blush again 'cause of her lack of words she sighed and took a step backwards for more space. "You know, somehow like this!"
The music still played so instead of babbling around she just showed them, making a few moves angling her arms and punching the air. She then came to the ground, rotating like you would when breakdancing, but suddenly shooting her foot up and stopping right under Martins chin, who didn't even have time to react.
"I like that…!", he said, pushing her foot from the proximity of his face.
The girl rose back to her feet, a sheepish smile on her face. "I often thought of doing that but without a partner it's kinda impossible…"
Facundo was in thought, trying to imagine what it would look like in a battle when something struck him.
"Waiwaiwait, better idea! How about the Pirates do somethin' like this in the end and we like – bam! – punch each other when the music stops and fall down?"
The others thought about it and nodded.
Yeah, this could definetly be cool; but first they had to concentrate on the solo part.
"Okay, so what about us then?", Keyla asked and looked up to them again.
"Well, we actually have somethin' up the sleeve we could use, just have to add you somehow", Martin mused, glancing at his brother, "Let's show her!"
She stepped aside and watched as they danced off what they got, torn between just staring in awe and concentrating on what to make out of it.
God, she'd never get enough of the Pirate's dancing; seeing them move made her smile and she felt pride growing in her chest: She was part of it now!
"You up there?", a voice suddenly shouted and seconds later Cable's head popped up at the door. "C'mon, we're filming on the roof!" Gesturing them to come with him he left.
On the roof? Well, okay…
The trio turned down the music and followed, finding the rest of the crew was already outside.
"The camera's on? Yea'? Okay!" Jacob gave them instructions on what to do while Jason was hopping around them, filming.
Most of it consisted in running and jumping from housetop to housetop when their leader stopped and made them go inside to film some dancing.
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After spending the whole afternoon shooting everyone was finished.
Wiping sweat off their faces they stood still for a minute, staring at each other.
"I'm first!"
-And suddenly they started running.
Keyla didn't as she had no idea what was going on. Jacob and Jason who were the only ones left because they sat at the laptop, working on the video, just grinned at her irritated look when they explained: "Too late. Now the line to the shower's gonna kill ya."
Oh, that's what that was about.
"Damn." She laughed and went to grab her stuff; it didn't matter she was the last one to shower since she could use the time to fix her hair. Her bangs were getting annoying, being uncut since she left home and the coloured strands had lost intensity. So she grabbed scissors, dye and rubber gloves and searched for a mirror somewhere.
"Yo, wat'cha doin'?" The sudden voice made the girl jump, almost miscutting the strand of hair between her fingers.
Anala just came out of the shower, her hair still wet and on her way to the living room.
"God, don't scare me like that!", Keyla laughed, continuing her work, "I'm cuttin' this stupid hair off my face."
When she finished she shot herself in the mirror a last look, pleased with the now shorter bangs. The moment she turned around she noticed Anala still watching her, leaning against the wall.
Anala smiled, whistling when she saw the result. "I don' get how you can do that so accurate, if I tried to cut bangs that would be epic fail", she said, making the other smirk. "Yeah, I'm kinda good with hair."- "Can you cut mine, too? I dunno when I did it last time…"
Keyla giggled, drawing the scissors out again. "C'mere, We'll do it now. What do you want?"
She pushed the girl in front of the mirror and began brushing the bright red hair.
"Just the edges, an inch or so…"
They stood in silence while cutting.
"…So, the shower's free now?"
Anala gave a shrug with an unknowing face. "I think there were one or two after me, so it should be soon. You need a towel?"- "Nah, I have one. By the way, I'm ready."
The girl looked at herself in the mirror, fumbling her now fresh cut edges. "Thanks!"
"You're welcome, girl; and I'm off for shower, bye!"
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Ten minutes later Keyla stepped out of the bathroom, sighing happily. She felt great, being all clean and out of the sweaty clothes.
Not bothering to tie up her hair it fell loose over her back, leaving water stains due to its wetness.
As she came closer to the living room she noticed a smell. Sniffing, she smiled.
Lunch!
"Great, I'm so hungry I could eat a mammoth!", she exclaimed, throwing herself on a free chair before anyone even reacted to her presence.
"My, my, look at that!"
Shonnie, who happened to sit on her right, took some of her dreads and held them up. "Never knew how long they really are with you always havin' that bun!"- "Yo Shonnie, wanna go rope skipping?" The Pirates laughed at that comment.
Keyla plucked her hair out of the boy's hand, smirking. "So Captain, how's the video?", she asked, helping herself with some spaghetti.
Jacob swallowed the food before he responded: "Jason is editing some last details, it'll propably be ready 'til eve."
"Good, I can't wait to punch some Samurai's in-their-face!", Monster yelled, slamming his fist onto the table. All of them agreed, though they hoped he didn't mean that literally – he's Monster after all.
While they continued eating the subject changed to outfits.
Yeah, beside dancing their appearance was important…
Thinking it was best not to wear uniforms this time, they decided on red and black clothes since it were their flag's colours.
Keyla quickly recalled what she had brought with her. Okay, black's no problem, she'll find something. But red?
Did she have anything red?
The girls seemed to know what was going on in her head; they all grinned and grabbed her arms when they shrieked in unison: "Shoppiiing~!"
Oh dear god.