My replies to questions in the reviews:

aquaanime – You ask me "who will kai be closer to like ray ruby or someone?" well, I'm trying to make it Kai and Ruby for the paring. But if it doesn't work out for me, I won't do it. (I've been thinking Kai and Hilary too…) I don't do yaoi but the friendship between Kai and the other guys I will do. Yeah, this is what I pretty much had in mind. If I didn't give a satisfying answer, ask as much as you want. Oh yeah, and thanks for reading!

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Chapter 3 – The Chase

Kai entered the house, tired of sitting around. Ruby is on one of the sofas sitting near the windows by the door. He turned around to her and sighed. She is playing around with her little round bell, acting really calm. He did not feel calm down as she was because he is in a hurry. He wanted to tell her something but then changed his mind.

"What?" she looked up at him. "You look anxious, Kai."

He sighed again. "It's… nothing," he replied. His eyes looked outside of the window of the front yard. There were green curtains covering most of the view. Even though it is a little bit, he could see someone outside. Those men in white… he glared. He could see them from afar as they were walking away, holding a cell phone to their ear. "Ruby, where did you go before you came back?" he asked her.

She tapped on her chin, looking around the room. When her eyes went back to him, he was still staring outside. Sweats appeared on her face, realizing what he met. "Are they outside?" she asked.

"They're not there anymore," he told her. "Where's Eve?" He walked around the house and Ruby followed. Kai found Eve walking down the stairs and he approached to her. "Eve, we need to leave now," he said. Eve gave him a confused look. "They found out where we are, thanks to Ruby who was careless," Kai explained.

"Hey, sorry," Ruby slapped his arm.

"That's not good," Eve rubbed her forehead, tired. She thought for a moment as Kai hurried to the back door, with Ruby behind him. "Okay…" Eve walked outside also. Kai and Ruby got in the garage, getting the motorcycle ready. "Since it came to this, here's the plan if you want to get on the ship."

Ruby grinned, "Shoot."

"You guys might get caught and thrown out if you tried to get on the ship all of the sudden before it sails," Eve said. "If you hurried now and talk to the people who owns the ship, you guys might be able to get through. Or just do whatever to get in. Do that before the people from the Silver Company come after you so let's hope the ship sails away by the time they get here." Eve gave a piece of paper to Ruby.

"What's this?" she asked.

Eve smiled, "The directions where the harbor is. There is only one ship that is leaving today so you two will be able to tell which ship to get on."

Kai looked at Eve while Ruby get the big door of the garage open. "What about you?" he asked.

"Don't worry about me," she winked. "I'll leave also, but I can't leave the things behind so I'll set a bomb on in here."

He looked at her, shock. "…Bomb?" He stood really still. "Isn't that a bit…?"

Eve laughed, "I can't leave anything behind for the enemy, you know. So I have to destroy them before they figure who I am and who you guys are."

"I see," he said. He looked at Ruby who walked up to him. He handed her the helmet.

Ruby chuckled, "You're the one who's driving so you'll be needing it more than I do."

He put it on, not wanting to waste anymore time talking about this again. If something gets in her eyes, he would just simply ignore her. "Get on," he told her. Ruby sat behind him. "Eve, be careful," he said, starting up the motorcycle.

"Got it," she nodded. "You two take care too."

Ruby turned to look at her friend. "…" She wanted to say something, but then turned back, putting her arms around Kai. He then drove off and started to go up the hill. Ruby looked at the piece of paper with right hand. "Keep heading this way, Kai," she told him.

He nodded.

Ruby turned her head to look back at the little house. Eve was standing outside, waving goodbye. "Just when I finally found her…" Ruby sighed. "It's going to be tough looking all over for her again."

"Did you say something?" Kai asked.

"Nothing much," she said. She looked back at the paper, which had a map. It is a map only part of the city. The red line that Eve must have outline for them goes all the way up in a straight line and then they will have to turn to the left where the harbor is. It is about ten miles from here. "Wow, this city is bigger than I thought it was," she smiled widely.

"What's so surprising about that?" he questioned. "Cities are always big."

Ruby chuckled, "Not where I have been to." She looked at the map again, thinking. "Hey, it's like about ten miles but we have less than an hour left. Do you think we'll make it in time?"

Kai drove fast and she almost let go. "We'll make it for sure," he said, determined. "Just as long we don't get astray. So, do I make any turns?"

"You see that ocean right there?" she pointed. "The harbor is always near the water, so keep heading straight until we see it. Simple, but I wonder why Eve gave a map when the directions are easy to remember…"

"Anything can happen," he said.

Ruby rolled her eyes. "Don't jinx it," she told him.

After five minutes of silence, something flew into her left eye. "Ah!" she shouted, rubbing her eye.

"What?"

"I got something in my eye!" she cried. "Ow, ow, ow, ow! It hurts!"

Kai smirked. His helmet had a sort of sunglass along with it so there is nothing for him to fear. She kept whining about her eye and started to hit him back and forth. "…Will you stop that," he glared, glancing at her.

She rubbed her eye on his shoulder back and forth. "But it hurts!" she whined again.

He sighed at her stupidity. He ignored her as she continued to hit him and rubbing her eye on him. All of a sudden a gun's bullet shot right pass them from behind. Kai then drove faster and Ruby looked behind them, covering one of her eye that still irritating her. "They got here pretty fast," Kai grumbled.

Ruby took out the silver gun, luckily it is all loaded but the amount in it is only seven so she had to be careful not to waste all of them. She would not be able to reload it in the position she is in since Kai is driving as fast as he can without having her falling off. "There are two cars behind us," she told Kai. She looked at the men in white. One in each car is driving and the other with gun. "I'm going to shoot at the wheels of the cars."

"Where did you get the money to buy more bullets?" Kai asked.

"Eve gave me the money."

Kai could not believe that. To him, she might have stole the bullets or money but not that it matters now. "Don't get too violent with them," he told her.

She laughed, "I might shoot at their hands if they keeping shooting."

"You better hang on tight too," he said. He started to drive around in zig zags and other ways to prevent them from being shot behind.

Her arm is tightly around his waist. One of the men fired again, but Kai managed to dodge that one. Ruby's eye started to ache again, but she concentrated on the wheels. She open fire, but missed and shot at the ground to car's right. "Damn! Wasted bullet!" she hit Kai's shoulder with the gun.

"What the hell was that for?!" he shouted.

"I just hit anyone who is closer to me when the one who I want to hit is too far," she said. "Now don't disturb me!"

Kai grumbled. Insane lady…More gun shots again. Kai glared when he saw more cars coming right in front of them. Two cars. "Tsk…" he turned to his right.

"You're going off the mark!" Ruby shouted. "I told you to go straight!"

"We have more company," he told her. "We need to lose them before they know where we're heading. It'll be a pain if they knew we're heading for the ship. There wouldn't be more escapes and no where to run if they caught us on the ocean."

Ruby silently pouted. He is right about that. She turned back and saw there were four cars now. "What a pain..." she glared. She shot another one, only five bullets left. She had successfully shot one wheel when she fired and the car that had a hole in one of the wheels spin in circles, coming to a stop in the middle of the street. "One down, three to go," she smirked.

Kai drove under the red light and rode pass the other cars. He went on the sidewalk where no one is walking and back on the road. "Do you know where we are right now?" he asked. He had drove a little too far and around the area, losing his sense of directions since he did not have a map.

She became silent for a moment. "…Um," she scratched her cheek. "I think I lost the map along our way here."

He slowly turned his head to her. "You… what?" he asked.

"Keep your eyes on the road!" she said.

"Damn it," he glared. "I'll just have to trust on instincts then…"

"Good luck," she laughed.

He glared at her. "Don't laugh about it!"

Ruby patted on his shoulder. "Hey, I said that I lost it, but I didn't say I memorized the map. I looked through it back and forth. Just trust me after I get rid of these assholes."

Trust… He drove around the corner. "Fine," he said.

She turned back and pointed her gun. The man fired at her and she quickly fired also. Her bullet defected it and one of them hit a young woman with black hair who happen just walk by like the other people. Ruby gasped and dropped the gun from the shock of hitting someone who had nothing to do with this chase. Ruby heard the young woman cried in pain, echoing as they drove away.

"What did you do?!" Kai shouted angrily.

Ruby rubbed her left eye on his shoulder again and wrapped her arms around Kai. She did not want to answer him since he should get what just happened. Tears came down her face but she hid them against him.

Kai felt her shivering and he did not say anything. He looked down at her hands around him and knew she no longer is holding onto the gun. He turned his attention back on the road. I guess it's just up to me to do this. He thought to himself, driving as fast as he can. The chase went on for a long time and there weren't a lot of reinforcement from the men in white. It was just three cars chasing after them.

"Kai, turn right," Ruby said. He glanced at her. "We don't have time to run around. Who cares if they know we're going to be on the ship. I'll think of something after we get in the ship."

"…What are they after?" he questioned. "It's that chimera, right?" She nodded. "What is your reason for stealing it in the first place?"

She sighed, "Can I explain you that later? Turn right after this whole block."

The gunshots had stopped now. Kai thinks it is because they do not want to shoot like what Ruby had did to the woman earlier. Are they good guys or something? He asked himself. Does that make Ruby the bad one…? There really is no use thinking about it. He had got himself involve with her already so he mind as well just stick with her.

Kai drove pass another red light, turning to his right. The harbor is right in front of them now, but the ship had already left out for the ocean. "It's leaving!" Kai said.

"What?!" she glared. "It's leaving so early!"

"Great…" Kai tightened his grip on the handles. He made a turn, driving along the road next to the harbor. He looked ahead of him. There is a cliff up the high hill and the ship is heading near the huge cliff. "We're going to have to jump on it!"

"Huh?" Ruby blinked. Kai drove even faster and she grabbed a hold of him. "We're going to what?!"

Kai ignored her. The men in the cars were firing again because no one is around and there is nothing to worry about getting anyone else hurt. One bullet went right next to his right ear and he smirked. "They don't know how to shoot," he said.

"As if you can do it better," Ruby chuckled.

"Whose side are you on?" he lightly glared. Kai did not wait for an answer when the cliff is just right in front of him. He turned to his left and went straight towards the ocean. The ship is sailing right by the cliff and Kai picked up the speed. If I make it in time… with this much acceleration, I'm sure I can land on the ship. Let's just hope we land where there is a big space for us to crash on. He thought.

Ruby nervously smiled. They were really going to jump off the cliff while they are on the motorcycle. She does not know how it feels to be falling down from the sky before so this will be a good weird experience for her. While she breathed slowly, it felt like it was in slow motion. The motorcycle reached the end of the cliff and they were in the air. More gunshots shot their way and then she felt a great pain in her right upper arm. The bullet burned into her arm and her arms weaken, letting go of Kai.

"Ruby!" Kai shouted, turning to look at her. He grabbed her right hand and noticed the wound on her arm, blood dripping down from her hand and his. She just smiled in pain. He turned to look at the ship. "Damn… we're not going to make it."

The ship was sailing faster than he thought and it had already passed under them. Kai and Ruby were going to splash into the water. He got off the motorcycle and pulled Ruby close, the both of them were falling with the backs downward. Kai…? She slightly blushed. His arms were around her and he is holding her rather tightly. She could not see his face since he is holding her from behind. "Kai… You're hurting my right arm!" she shouted furiously.

A powerful gust of wind wrapped around them out of the blue and they were in mid air, floating a bit. Kai looked up at the sky and saw a falcon flying down towards them. "Hey…" he looked at the bird. "I know that bird…" The falcon's claw grabbed the two of them and the other claw grabbed the motorcycle. "Aren't you… Falborg?" he questioned. Seeing the falcon from up close, it seems to be in the size of a… garage?

"Geez! Why did you have to save Kai's damn motorcycle for, Falborg?!" a familiar voice to Kai asked angrily.

Kai and Ruby looked up. The guy riding on Falborg's back had silver hair and light blue eyes. "…Bryan?" Kai's wide eyes stared with disbeliefs. "And Falborg? How…?"

Bryan smirked, "Sup, Kai?" Falborg flapped its wings and rapidly flew out towards above the ocean, away from the city. "Mind if I take you where Tala and the others are?" Bryan asked.