A/N: Let us be silent for a minute for my beloved laptop, who has died a few days ago of electricity failure (-.-)

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Okay, now the 5 seconds are over I better start with the chapter. Though my laptop is dead, I got this really old (even slower so imagine how frustrating it was. It took me 10 minutes to start up Word.), old, old, old ancient computer. But it's a computer with Word and Moviemaker.

So, I'm proud to pronounce chapter 6!!

Disclaimer: I do not own Oban Star Racers!

Chapter 6

Eva closed her eyes in delight. She always like to fly. On a giant bug it was even nicer then in a Star-Racer. Because here you can feel the wind on your face.

She smiled.

"I take it you like it?" Prince Aikka said. Eva nodded and turned to him, grinning. He smiled back, looking over her shoulder for a brief moment. "So you would like to fly more times?"

Eva knew that meaning, but she only nodded and laughed. "I'd love too. What was his name again?"

"G'dar. It's pretty." He smiled and got back to steering G'dar a bit.

"Where do you want me to drop you off?"

Eva smiled. He'd been polite the all night. Like he was really trying to impress her, and the girly side of Eva did like it. Not that she would ever say that.

But, her problem at the moment was that she wanted her dad back. And a Nourasion Prince would come in handy. Not only for her father.

And if she didn't wanted to lose his interest she had to keep him occupied. Eva scowled when she accidentally thought of what Jordan would respond.

She sneaked a little closer, looking out in the direction G'dar was flying. She closed her eyes a bit. "You could just take me home, you know."

And she swore she saw him grinning.

"Nice place."

"It sucks, I know."

He chuckled and cleared his throat. "Well, trust me, it's better in here then in the Crogg palace."

Eva laughed, though a bit silent because the Croggs were still on watch.

Eva looked up to Aikka who was still in the saddle.

"I had a great evening."

Eva smiled. "Yeah. It was fun."

"Good night, Eva."

"Nighty-night!"

Eva closed her front door, and ran over to the living room, like she did every time she came home. Maybe, just maybe, her father would be sitting there, drinking coffee and smiling to her.

But he wasn't.

She grimaced and walked to the kitchen, looking at the clock. It was after midnight. She smiled. She probably should be on the look out somewhere now.

The good thing was, that you never had to call or something. It wasn't a regular job. If you didn't show up, they either thought you were sick, dead, busy or too lazy.

And she'd love a good night sleep once. Eva kept the lights out and walked over the sink, drinking a glass of water before glancing at the window.

After pulling the curtains closed, Eva walked upstairs while throwing her shoes down again. Don hated it when she did that.

Changing into a too large shirt, Eva lied down on her bed, staring up at the ceiling.

She felt.. weird.

"Heey heey heey! Rise and shine!!"

Eva groaned. She hated that voice in the morning. And it was probably something about 6 am.

"Noo.." Eva said, pulling her pillow over her head only to be taken away. Eva turned around. "Go away."

"No, we need you today. We actually needed you tonight but you didn't show up, so now you decided we did it in the early morning."

"Mhmmhmm." Eva groaned in response with her face still muffled by her other pillow.

"Where were you actually? It's not like you have anything better to do in this house. Were you spying on the Croggs?"

Idiot.

"Met up with some Nourasions to kill?"

He should shut up.

"Or did you got lost?"

Okay, one more word and he's getting..

"Maybe a date with your Prince of the Frogs?"

"JORDAN!" Eva yelled, sitting up so quick Jordan fell down of shock.

"You're awake!"

Eva got out of bed, made sure one foot landed on Jordan's private parts and walked over to the bathroom.

"And no peeking!" She shouted, knowing Jordan had a bad side with his love for her. Jordan, with tears still in his eyes and clutching his crotch, nodded and turned over.

Though even he had nodded, Eva locked the door and showered for a brief 10 minutes, and dressed in a green shirt and a beige pants. She walked downstairs, after she pulled Jordan with her on his ear because he was still lying there.

"I seriously wonder if you really ever killed someone."

"Ah, my first kill. I can remember it as the day of yesterday, the stinky Nourasion lying before me helplessly. Oh, how good it felt when I buried the bullet deep in his head."

"That's gross."

"It's how it happened."

Eva shook her head. Jordan had a.. disturbing way of fantasizing sometimes. Or to explain things.

"Why did you guys needed me actually?"

"The scream he.. Oh," He scratched his head. "Some ruins in the outer part of our city. I don't know why, but they want us and the surviving rookie from Team H to walk through it."

"You give your teams letters?"

"Yes, and you have numbers for that."

"Really?"

"Yes really."

"Which am I in?"

Jordan sighed. "Probably Team 0 or something, you know with the best."

Eva grinned widely. "So you admit it."

"For this time."

Eva sighed and reloaded the gun for the rookie. She couldn't do that. She couldn't reload a gun. Eva figured she was one survivor in a family and found by one rebel. "And then you close it."

Eva said and gave it back.

"Oh." The girl said dumbfounded and Eva shook her head. "Why don't you stay here, on watch? You can beep us when something happens and then you'll hide in that building there."

"And what if it.."

"It wont collapse, you're bodyweight isn't as big as Jordan's."

Jordan glared over his shoulder, and Eva left the girl to go explore. "I hate exploring." She said after a while. "It's boring and to quiet for me. Nerves."

Eva smiled. "But if it's quiet and you know nothing is there you can imagine it was a place without war."

"Aw don't say that Eve, I grew up with war."

Eva glanced over at him, and imagined him standing helplessly somewhere when war is over. "So work with the army."

"Nah, there to neat with rules there."

Eva turned around and walked backwards a while, keeping up with Jordan. "You heard that rustle?"

"There aren't any trees or bushes here Eva, only stones."

"I did hear a rustle." Eva complained.

Stan should know that teaming Eva and Jordan together, would end up at with a fight, or they'd be too giddy to really work.

"Maybe your Prince Charming is stalking you."

Eva sighed and turned around again. "Will you stop that? Why do you think I'd hang out with such a guy."

"Because he's rich, and he has a beetle and you love to fly."

"Yes, because of that I will be his girlfriend. Of rather said whore. I even rather be your girlfriend, and NO JORDAN I didn't mean anything with that!" She said, seeing his eyebrows stop wobbling.

(A/N: Eeh, this old laptop is falling apart!)

Eva's beeper beeped (noooo), and she glanced at it. "Whose 4596?"

"No idea."

"Well, I know Stan is 2309. Jessica is 8394. You're not it. Koji is 1111." Eva continued the list in her mind, and thought it was probably the rookie, so she turned to Jordan.

"I think we proved with this walk that there isn't any secret meeting in here. Let's head back."

Jordan showed up from behind a rock. "Yeah." He glanced around the ruin they were in now. Eva climbed up the rock and jumped out of it, followed by Jordan and he yelped in surprise when something pushed him over.

Eva wanted to snicker at him when she felt something pointed in her back and she made a face.

That always happened when Jordan and Eva teamed up.

Eva looked at the.. creatures that were surrounding them. Eva thought she'd seen them in a child's book before, but she couldn't remember their names.

They were completely white except for their clothes (duh), they were all WAY smaller than them, and one of them had this HUGE tongue (she hoped it was his tongue).

(A/N: remember Lord Furter )

It wasn't until they pulled swords and sticks, when she smirked. "Look Jordan, it's Pirates of the Caribbean!"

Jordan didn't found it funny at all (his head hurt), but she said it to make them angry. Eva grinned when the leader (right?) started yelling things in their own language.

One of them sped up to Jordan, and before Jordan could react a gunshot was heard and the.. alien was lying on the ground, clutching his shoulder.

2 pulled the alien away and Eva leaned into Jordan's back, so their backs would be safe. "We've got a lot more bullets in there buddy." Jordan said. Eva shook her head.

"Are they even on their side? Maybe they just stranded."

"Nah, they tried to attack us."

"That's not enough reason.."

"It is."

"Pff. You do it."

Jordan hold up his shotgun and easily walked out of the group. Eva was left there. "JERK!" She shouted half amused. All she had was a small gun, effective, but small.

Jordan shrugged.

Eva yelped when someone poked the backside of her knee and she fell down on her knees. She looked up and the alien with the huge tongue was very close to her. She made a face and murmured something in the sentence of 'Gross', before she stood up.

The leader smirked at her, and Eva suddenly understood why. She widened her eyes a bit. He'd just hid a communicator.

"Er, Jordan?"

"What?"

"I think we should go."

Eva was roughly pulled onto the ground near some bushes. She stared up blankly, right into the face of Koji. She raised her eyebrows in some sort of question, and Koji led her through some trees, and eventually came into a part of the forest.

"Bad, bad Eva. What have you done." The team's bitch, Karen said. Eva didn't really wanted to think about her, only that she was pretty good but not good enough. She knew how to get on Eva's nerves perfectly.

"Huh?"

Suddenly an enraged Stan stood before her, so quickly it made Eva took a step back.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING?" Stan shouted at her before she could speak. Eva helplessly looked over to Koji, but he didn't look at her but tried to silence some rookies.

"I don't,"

Stan lowered his voice a bit. "Why were you in those ruins?"

Now she really didn't understand it. "Jordan said you wanted us too,"

"I didn't say ANYTHING."

"But he,"

"Do you understand what you have done!"

"No I do not because,"

Koji pointed to his knee and then to her. Eva frowned and felt her own knee. She groaned when she pulled something off the backside, and Stan grabbed it.

Oops..

"You have led the Croggs right to our place! It killed 4 people!"

"I am,"

"You were so reckless! You idiot, have you never read about Lord Furter?"

"No I,"

"HE works for the CROGGS! He's specialized to attack US!"

"But I," (A/N: Stan, you're getting annoying.)

Stan crushed the metal in his hand and moved his hand to the others in a sign they should move again.

"It doesn't matter how good you are, Eva, you have a team with rules and you have to keep yourself to that, else I'll KICK you OUT!"

"WILL YOU SHUT UP ALREADY."

Koji looked back abruptly when he heard something fall, and Stan marched straight by him to his group.

He walked over to Eva, who was half sitting- half lying on the ground, holding the lower part of her cheek.

Her eyes were widened. Koji sighed when Eva looked around nervously, and back to Koji.

"Did he just.. hit me?"

Eva wiped the blood out of her lip. Stan never did that. Not with anyone of their team, how stupid their actions may be.

Koji hold out his hand for her so she could get up and examined her cheek. He motioned it wasn't a bad bruise, it would disappear soon.

That wouldn't cure the shock though.

Eva knew she was stronger then Stan. She was more determined, more agile and silent. But he had always been like a second father.

"I don't feel like walking. I'm going home. I'll see where our new base is, okay?"

Koji smiled and waved goodbye.

So the Croggs were getting smarter. They'd figure out it wasn't just a rebel action, but there were whole bases planning to kill them. Before, they never searched anyone. But now they were searching, and they were finding them.

Eva clutched her blankets.

She didn't feel like going to the base tomorrow. Koji or Jordan would probably come to get her and show her the new base (or no base), and she'd have to come with them.

Well, she'd just go to the market or so. They wouldn't wait for her all day.

Eva closed her eyes and lied down again. Better get some sleep.

Waking up at 9 (true, she'd been awake for one hour already but she stayed in bed), Eva got up, dressed, and ran downstairs. The streets weren't aloud to be walked on until 10, so Eva would move quickly over the rooftops. Eva got a quick breakfast and walked up to the attic and climbed out of the window. She hated rooftop walking.

Climbing up the roof, Eva stumbled across until it was 10, and she walked on the streets.

It sure felt a lot better to have some safe ground under your feet.

Smiling to some people, Eva got in and out of the market (there wasn't really much to do there), and sat down on the same branch where she made a bet with the Prince.

Closing her eyes, Eva heard the busy clattering of the market people.

She wondered about the option to stop with her team. Not because Stan hit her (though it did wake some unwanted feelings), Eva had thought about if for a while.

It never occurred to her that she could do way more things without the group. True, she had to find a way to get bullets and all..

Someone screamed and Eva felt her neck hairs stand up.

Because she was with the team she was only to attack with her bonnet on, she had to take care for others and preferred at night.

Eva didn't complained with a bonnet. It was good they didn't knew how you looked like.

If they did, and you walked them by at the street, you'd be in big trouble.

Eva's lingered smile disappeared. She hated the war. She didn't knew how much longer she could live with it, because it was getting to her.

She started to think like a human who couldn't do anything, with thoughts such as Why don't we just all agree.

She drove a hand through her hair, messing it up only more.

"Where'd you get that bruise?"

Eva opened her eyes and was almost glad she saw the Nourasion Prince. He may be her enemy, but he did talk normally with her.

"Obvious I got hit, don't you think?"

She noticed the glint in his eyes and moved her eyes to the market before her.

"Who hit you?"

"I didn't say someone hit me."

"Who hit you?"

"I'm not telling." She replied childishly, sticking out her tongue. "Besides, it's not a life threat."

He glanced at her, then back at the bruise, and eventually sat beside her. Eva threw herself back, her knees to her chest.

"So, aren't you supposed to be working on some princely stuff?"

He woke up from his stare at the bruise and grinned. "Don't tell anyone." And Eva smiled.

"I'm cutting school too."

Eva turned to the market again and there was a silence. She heard him shuffle, and closed her eyes again.

"Seriously, who hit you?"

Eva remained quiet. She didn't needed to tell him. Nor anyone. Even her father never needed to know everything.

Eva groaned when she saw Jordan sitting on the couch comfortably. He grinned up at her. "How did you get in?" She asked.

He shrugged. "I still have a key, remember?"

Oh yeah.

"You're avoiding you're group. Why?" He questioned. Eva glared at him and his eyes travelled to her bruise.

"Why did you told me Stan wanted us to explore when he didn't?"

"Did I said that?"

"Yes!"

"Sorry."

Eva groaned. "I cant do anything with a sorry. Why were we there?"

Jordan shrugged. "James (a rookie) gave me a note saying we needed to explore that, signed by the sign of your team. I figured it was Stan or Koji, maybe you."

"With our sign?"

"Yep."

She shook some bangs out of her face. "Well, because of that stunt I'm officially the piss pile in my team."

He chuckled. "I heard. You were very reckless, young grasshopper."

Normally Eva would have chuckled, but Eva glared and ignored him, opening her front door.

"Get out of my house."

"What? What did I say? I didn't mean it!"

"Get out."

"Aw Eve, come on."

"Go away." Eva threatened.

Jordan now reached the wall that separated the hall and the living room.

"We can talk about this you know."

"GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" Eva screamed, and Jordan ran off immediately. She shut the door with a loud bang, and lied down on the couch. Stupid team.

Eva woke up from knocking on the door. She groaned. "Go away Jordan, I hate you for a few days so don't come back!"

In he came.

"GET OUT IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!"

A hand on her shoulder.

Eva cried out in frustration, only to see a confused Koji.

"Koji." Eva said. "Sorry."

Eva looked at Koji sadly. "Really?"

He nudged the note closer to confirm it. Eva's head went in her hands. "Oh."

She read it again.

I want to apologize for Stan's behaviour. I wanted to explain earlier, but you ran off so fast. The 4 that died, included Vanessa (A/N: Stan's wife). I think that is the reason he was to mad, no, I know.

Eva rubbed her bruise. "Then I can better apologize to him. It was my fault after all. And I think we got a traitor, or someone who knows of our sign and group."

Koji frowned.

"Jordan said a rookie of his team gave him a note with the message we needed to go to the ruins to explore. It had our sign under it, so he thought it might be Stan or you, me.."

Koji's frown got deeper and he motioned with his hands that only team 0 knows how to draw the sign.

"Since when do we name our teams?" Koji raised his eyebrows to her. "Pff. I guess so, I didn't knew about team 0, just that there was a small group who knew it. Good to know there are names though. Way easier."

Koji sighed and motioned that Jordan was already going through all his people.

Eva nodded in response and looked outside absently, while Koji drank his tea.

"Say Koji, you ever thought of leaving the team?"

Koji gulped and coughed, getting the tea who got in his lungs out. He looked at her with a shocked expression.

"Whoa calm down. I'm just thinking it. Not doing it."

He motioned if she wanted to leave.

"I don't know. I mean, it is way easier and you are my friends. But on my own.." She said, getting absent again.

Koji motioned to her that if she would leave, she didn't had the chance to get back and the group will always keep her in sight in case she'd betray them.

"I know. I could also move to another team with another city. Look how that goes.. Jordan has been pledging for years."

Koji shook his head in sarcasm and motioned to the curtains. They were still closed, and that wasn't aloud at day, so Eva quickly opened them and sat down again.

He asked her how she was doing without her father. Eva smiled a little, at least Koji would never change.

"I'm fine. It's not like I cant manage on my own."

He motioned if she was thinking about getting in the dungeons and get him out.

"He'd kill me if I do that."

Koji smiled, and motioned Good old Don.

Eva smiled. It had been a while before she finally discovered how gesture language, but now she did she could understand it perfectly. Along with Stan, Vanessa, Jessica and Jordan.

Well, cut one from them.

A few hours later, Eva said her goodbye to Koji and went to bed, again a night of doing nothing, even though Koji told her where the new base was. But, as it showed to Eva's wide eyes, she couldn't get any sleep. Eva wasn't used to much sleep, she slept it all the last two nights.

After cleaning up her room (what else was she supposed to do?) Eva read the clock to read it was only 2 AM.

Eventually, Eva got dressed and pulled her bonnet on, putting her gun on her belt and her dagger on the strap on her ankle.

Climbing of the roof, Eva walked down the street quickly. Walking straight past the place where the base was, and too the forest.

She'd remember something the Prince said once, and she'd like to see him again, in her bonnet or without. Though it'd be probably better with bonnet, because else he could be really interested in why she was outside in the middle of the night.

Sadly enough, he wasn't there, and Eva lied down. It hadn't occurred until now that she was actually searching for him and it disturbed her. Sure, he'd been nice to her.. but not thát nice, right?

Eva got out of the shower in a bathrobe that reached above her knees and walked downstairs. Making the ropes a bit tighter, she yelled 'Come In' to whoever was at the door. Probably Koji, Jessica or Jordan, and maybe even Stan. Though she wasn't expecting that.

Walking in the kitchen, she put the water to boil and opened the curtains. "Nice legs."

Eva yelped loudly, brought her hands to her ropes and turned around wildly.

"WHAT are YOU doing in MY house!" she yelled, standing behind the table because he really was staring at her legs.

"You said I could come in."

"Yeah but I didn't mean you!"

"How am I supposed to know that?"

Eva sighed. "It's not like I expected a Nourasion Prince to waltz in my house."

He smiled. "I apologize. I already thought it was weird I could just come in."

Eva smiled back. "True. Why are you here actually?"

He now grinned his fangs bare, and Eva always looked at them when he did that.

"Paying a visit to my beloved Earth Princess."

She shook her wet bangs out of her face and chuckled. "Princess? Wait until my dad hears that!"

"I thought you lived alone? I could not sense another presence when I dropped you off?"

Eva breathed in. "True. I live alone."

"You do not live with your father?"

"Oh well.. actually I did, but um.." She silenced. "you know.."

He walked over to her, so that Eva stepped back a little. He frowned. "You're not afraid of me, or are you?"

Eva shook her head, crossing her legs while she stood. "Of course not."

Thank god she wasn't naked under the bathrobe, because she'd never liked the feeling.

He took a step closer again, and Eva decided against walking back, so she'd proof her point, but he was really close, and it really felt to close too.

He briefly touched the part where her bruise was, and Eva closed her eyes a bit.

Really to close.

She felt her neck pulse, and it was probably from the energy he was radiating, since humans were quickly affected by it (they did not have a thick skin). She heard, that if you were really vulnerable for it, vampires could as much as control you.

She put her hands on his chest. "Don't.."

"The Croggs took your father?"

Eva nodded and before she even knew it, tears flowed from her half open eyes. "Yes.. they did.."

Eva felt two strong arms encircling her, and he stroke her hair while Eva clutched some fabric of his shirt.

"I don't even know why.."

Woo woo. R&R people!