Chapter Two: New Initiations
"This is a great party Meilin." Exclaimed Sakura as she and the girls danced, not caring that people were looking at them strangely. They had met Syaoran and Shayla mentioned that his glare was scarier than Caitlin's. They all laughed except Caitlin.
"What's wrong Xiao Lang? Is there something that I'm not seeing?" Asked Eriol.
"They look like they'd shrink at the first sight of trouble." Syaoran said looking at the girls dancing and laughing at something that Meilin had just said.
"Don't worry, that Caitlin is strong and the others look like they would listen to her." Eriol replied. Not knowing how wrong he was.
"Meilin wants them to join." Syaoran said, turning to Eriol. "What could they bring to this gang?" Syaoran asked, not knowing that the girls had walked up behind him.
"Ask us and find out." Sakura said bluntly. Syaoran turned and glared at her, but she didn't falter, she match him glare for glare.
"Ok, what can you bring to this gang? And how are you going to join? Because you have to challenge someone in this gang to an event of some sort to join."
"I don't know what we can bring, but we could be good for this gang. I challenge you to archery. If you're up to it?" Sakura shot at him. Sakura and Caitlin had been doing archery for a while.
"Fine. What about the rest of you?" Syaoran asked.
"I'll challenge anyone to a motor bike race." Caitlin stated.
"I'll take your challenge." Eriol said, smiling at her.
"Meilin, do you know how to do gymnastics?" asked Tomoyo.
"Yeah!"
"All right then. I challenge you to a gymnastics competition."
"What am I going to do? And who am I going to challenge?" Asked Shayla.
"Li? Anyone around here a good swimmer?" Caitlin asked, making her sister smile.
"Yeah, there's Kat." He replied not know why he was helping them. 'Just to keep Meilin happy.' He thought
"You can challenge Kat to a swimming race." Caitlin told her sister.
"I'll take you to her." Meilin said, and she and Shayla walked off to find Kat.
"So when do the challenges occur?" Sakura asked Syaoran.
"When ever you want." Syaoran replied and then walked away.
"Cool. Eriol wanna go now?" Caitlin asked smiling. "I wish I brought my Bike."
"Why not." Eriol smirked. "Don't worry we'll find one for you. Follow me." He and Caitlin walked off leaving Sakura and Tomoyo alone.
"I've got my camera ready and waiting." Tomoyo said. "Let's go watch."
She and Sakura went to find out where the race would be held.
"No tricks. The first one to pass the finish line wins." Syaoran said as Caitlin checked over the bike.
"Yeah no problem." Caitlin answered absently.
"Caitlin, you have to win or at least prove that you are worthy to join this gang." Syaoran told her.
She turned to look at him. "Like I said Li, no problem." She and Eriol got on their bikes. Everyone crowded around. No girl had yet to join the gang by means of a bike race. Caitlin and Eriol revved their bikes. Syaoran shot his gun into the air and they were off.
"I can't watch." Shayla said and covered her eyes. Tomoyo had her camera fixed on the race, which was neck and neck and Sakura watched mouth opened as her friend drew in front of Eriol.
"She's winning." gasped Meilin, wide eyed. Shayla took her hands away from her eyes, just to see her sister cross the finish line half a wheel before Eriol.
** After the race **
"So that means I joined?" Caitlin asked smirking at Syaoran. Syaoran glared at her. Meilin threw her arms around Caitlin to give her a hug.
"Welcome to the gang!" she squealed. When Meilin let go of Caitlin, Eriol gave her a pat on the back.
"Good race Caitlin."
She smiled at him and Syaoran and Eriol left.
"You let her win didn't you?" Syaoran asked when they were alone.
"No. She won fair and square." Eriol replied. Syaoran saw Sakura walking over to them.
"When do you want to do your challenge?" He asked her coldly when she reached them.
"When ever you want to do it." She replied. He glared at her.
"You can stop glaring mister. I'm not going to back down. I live with Caitlin; she can't make me do anything by just glaring. What makes you think you can?" she spat, making Syaoran look at her in shock. Nobody had ever stood up to him except Meilin, but he always won.
"Fine tomorrow, I'll come and get you. Be ready and you can bring one of the others with you, if you want." He said and walked off.
"Oh you're so generous." she replied sarcastically, before turning away. Syaoran stopped in his tracks and whipped around, but she had already walked away. Eriol laughed silently watching the two.
The next day Sakura and Caitlin were waiting for Syaoran to show up. Caitlin had Tomoyo's old camera. Tomoyo and Meilin were doing their gymnastics challenge and Shayla was taping that and that afternoon, Shayla would be doing her swimming challenge.
"Where is he?" Sakura asked a little nervous. The only person she had challenged in archery was Caitlin.
"You'll do fine. He didn't say what time he was coming. He just said to be ready today." Caitlin said rubbing her left shoulder blade. She had gotten a henna tattoo the night before. Sakura got out of her chair and walked to the window when she heard a car pull up outside. She saw Syaoran getting out of the driver's side of a McLaren F1.
"Why am I doing this?" He asked himself as he walked up the stairs to the door. The door opened before he could knock and Sakura was looking back at him.
"Are you ready to go?" He asked when Caitlin walked in and stood beside Sakura.
"Of course." Was all she could get out before Caitlin pushed her out the door. There was silence in the car. Nobody talked. Sakura made Caitlin sit in front of her, next to Syaoran, while she sat in the back and Syaoran would now and then look into his rear view mirror to look at her. Syaoran looked onto the rear view mirror again and saw a few black cars following his.
"Great. We have company." He started to speed up. Caitlin and Sakura looked out the back window, just to see the black cars behind them start to speed up. One guy came up behind them on a bike and started to shoot at them.
"Get down!" Syaoran ordered as he turned a corner. Sakura ducked lying down onto the back seat. Caitlin watched them come up beside the car through her mirror.
"Do you know how to use guns?" He asked.
"Yes." They answered in union.
"Sakura in the box under my chair should be two guns and they should be loaded." Sakura got the box out and found the two 9mm Glock's, fully loaded. She handed one to Caitlin. Sakura took out a guy on Syaoran's left side of the car as Caitlin took out another guy on her side.
"I've got one bullet left Sakura." Caitlin said. Sakura grabbed a clip out of the box and handed it to her. Sakura looked up just in time to see another guy pull up beside them and before she had a chance to fire, Syaoran put on the breaks, making the car turn , heading down an alley way.
"Are they following us?" He asked.
"No, they're not." Sakura answered.
"Good." He replied as they pulled out back onto the road.
"Who were they?" Sakura asked.
"Bear's. They're one of the Wolves major enemies. If you don't like it, you can back down now." Syaoran said shooting her a glare in the mirror.
"As if! I said that I'd be in this. And I stick to my word, whether you like it or not." she shot back. "I told you last night glaring doesn't work."
"Bear's. Were they the ones that attacked us at the club?" Caitlin interrupted, wanting to know about the other gangs around, and to prevent another argument between the two.
"Yeah they were." He answered.
"Do you think they were following because Sakura and I are in the car?" Caitlin asked remembering that the Bears were after them at the club.
"I have no idea." The rest of the way it was quiet.
"The usual Miss Kinomoto, Miss Thomas?" The man behind the counter asked the girls as they walked in, getting their gear ready.
"So you and Caitlin come here a lot, do you?" Li asked looking at Sakura. They were in a private area and Caitlin was watching and waiting.
"Yeah, well not all the time. We haven't been for awhile now." Sakura replied, checking her bow. He could see that she was waiting for him.
"You can go first, three arrows each." He said then stood back. Sakura got ready and fired, hitting the bulls' eye. Li growled his approval and pulled the bow string back. When he fired, it hit the target as well.
Back at the mansion Tomoyo finished her routine perfectly. Eriol was judging them, and Meilin had already finished hers.
"I think both of us won." Meilin declared. Eriol thought about it for a moment
"I agree with you Meilin. Welcome to the gang Tomoyo." He said, smiling. Meilin looked at her cousin talking to Tomoyo, and could see that he liked her, and she could see that Tomoyo felt the same way.
"They'd make a cute couple, don't ya think?" Shayla asked, coming over to where Meilin was standing. Meilin looked over at the girl beside her and was about to say something when her phone rang.
"What is it?" she asked when she saw it was Syaoran.
"That's no way to answer the phone." He shot at her. Meilin ignored him.
"I was just calling to tell you that Sakura has just joined the Wolves." Meilin gave a little squeal, Shayla covered her ears.
"She has, that is so cool! Just one more to go." she said looking at Shayla who was checking to see if she could still hear.
"Oh, and be careful. On the way over here, we were attacked by Bears." Li said.
"Got ya. Is there anything else?" She asked.
"No. Bye."
"Bye." She replied and hung up the phone.
Sakura and Caitlin were waiting by Li's car, while he talked to Meilin.
"Why does Li have to be so cold?" Sakura asked Caitlin.
"I don't know. I asked Meilin, she said he's always been cold." Caitlin replied. Li was walking over to them with a not-so-happy look on his face.
"You might like to know that Tomoyo passed her challenge as well." He told them when they got into the car. He looked at Caitlin.
"I hope you're sister's a good swimmer." He said and got in the car. Sakura and Caitlin looked at each other and smiled, then got into the car as well.
"So where to?" Li asked, looking at Caitlin. She was sitting in the front again. She looked at Sakura.
"To our place." Sakura said. Li didn't like it, he thought about when the Bears attacked them on the way to the challenge. These girls had a death wish, especially the girl sitting next to him. He looked at Sakura again, the innocent on the back seat.
Mean while back at the mansion Shayla eyed the girl curiously, that was glaring at her from the side of the pool. She turned to Meilin. "So, that's Kat?"
"You betcha." Replied Meilin.
"Ok then. Why is she glaring at me?" Shayla asked.
"Kat thinks she is one of our fiercest members. She a force not to be reckoned with and she can be the world's biggest bitch when she wants to be, which is practically all the time." Meilin replied. "In other words, she's......"
"Just like Caitlin when she's mad, but three times over, right?" Shayla interrupted.
"I guess you could put that way. I've never seen Caitlin mad." Meilin said. Shayla sighed.
"Well in that case, I can handle her. I put up with Caitlin don't I?" Meilin laughed.
"Go get 'em Shayla."
"So." came a sickly sweet voice. "You're Shayla? You've got guts to challenge me, but -" she looked Shayla over. "You're nothing that I can't handle." she smiled coldly. Shayla looked her over. She was young, had pale blue eyes that were like ice, and had dark brown hair. Shayla couldn't get over the resemblance to Caitlin and herself. But was too busy trying to knock this girl off her pedestal before she got too happy sitting up there all on her own.
"Pleased to meet you too Kat. It's nice to know that people are friendly around here." Shayla smiled sweetly at her and arched an eyebrow mockingly. Kat laughed coldly.
"You're in with the Wolves now Shay. We don't have friends. It's every girl for her own." Kat returned the smile. Meilin growled.
"That's your theory Kat! Unfortunately, you're the only one to agree with it!" Meilin spat.
"Down girl, down." Kat replied. "We're forgetting that we're here to part take in a challenge. Let's get to it, so we can stop wasting my time." She dropped her towel, revealing her two piece swim suit that was black. Shayla dropped her towel revealing a light blue two piece that hugged her figure perfectly. She smirked at the look on Kat's face, but ignored her.
"Ok people. This is an initiation challenge. The winner will be declared as the first one to complete the minimum of ten laps. Shayla good luck." Meilin yelled. Kat and Shayla finished their stretching and got ready.
"On your marks . . ." Meilin yelled and fired her gun.
'This is going to be easy.' Thought Kat as she took off.
Underwater, Shayla smiled. 'Keep thinking that you're winning Kat. But you' haven't seen anything yet.' Meilin, Eriol and Tomoyo watched as the race rushed by. Within minutes they were past the half way mark.
"Come on Shayla." Tomoyo breathed as she filmed.
"She's got something up her sleeve. I can feel it." Meilin said.
'Now it's time to put my little trick into play.' Thought Shayla and stopped holding back on her reserved energy, and took off.
'No!' Kat's mind screamed and went all out, trying to catch up. They all watched as Shayla touched the wall and heard the yell of frustration from the other end of the pool. Meilin screamed along with Tomoyo, deafening poor Eriol and rushed over to a drenched Shayla.
"You did it! I knew you'd do it!" yelled Meilin hugging her. Shayla looked over at Kat, who was giving her the death glare.
"It was nothing that I couldn't handle." Shayla said loud enough for Kat to hear. Kat threw her head in the air and stormed off.
"Stupid bitch. I don't race dogs anyway." She spat, and went to go inside, but someone tapped her on the back and she turned around, only to have someone's fist connect with her nose and all she knew was darkness.
Jiro cringed as he was slammed against the wall. The hand around his throat tightened.
"How hard can it be to do as I ask? It's simple enough." Came Bears pissed off voice.
"I'm getting there Bear." Jiro forced out his closed throat. "But it's impossible to do it on my own. I need backup. The Wolves aren't exactly easy to defeat as you well know." Bear growled.
"You have your last warning Soto. If I don't get what I want. I will hunt you down. But for the time being, since you've proved that you can't do this on your own, I'll grant you some of my reserves. Lose them. . And you lose." He threatened quietly, and released Jiro, where he fell to the floor coughing and gulping for air.
"Now get out of my sight, before I change my mind." Bear spat then turned away.
Sakura and Caitlin were relaxing in the pool and Li was sitting on the patio at the table when Shayla came running outside.
"I'min, I'min, I'min, I'min!!" She screamed. Sakura and Caitlin looked at the younger girl lost. Shayla sighed belatedly.
"I said . . . I'm in! I beat Kat!" Meilin, Eriol and Tomoyo came out behind her.
"Then they had a fight." Meilin grinned. Sakura, Caitlin and Li looked at Shayla.
"What? Kat was pissed at me for kicking her arse, then she called me a stupid bitch and that she didn't waste her time with dogs, so I hit her." Shayla stated proudly. Caitlin got out of the pool and grabbed Shayla and threw her into the pool. Shayla came up gasping.
"Ok brat, what have I told you?" Caitlin glared at her sister, everyone just watched in amusement. "Don't let stupid remarks get the better of your temper."
"But sis." Shayla smiled sweetly up at her sister. "That's what you always do. I'm just following in the bad example of my sister."
"Don't turn it back on me! You're -"
"Caitlin leave the monster alone." A voice came from behind them. They all turned and looked and saw Touya standing in the door way.
"Speaking of monster's, where's mine? " He asked. Shayla, who had just pulled herself out of the pool, smiled and did a low sweeping bow towards him.
"How goes it your protectiveness? Keeping in good graces good sir I hope, tis been a long time since I last saw thee." she called, trying not to laugh.
"Charmed as always my lady." retorted Touya dryly. "But where's my monster?"
"I'm you're little sister, not a monster." Sakura spat from the pool. Then Touya spotted Li looking at Sakura and saw that Sakura was only wearing a two piece swim suit. Touya walked over to Li.
"Who are you and what are you doing here?" He asked coldly, glaring at Li. Li just stood there and glared back.
"Hoe!" Was all you heard from Sakura before she dunked herself under the water. Touya glared at the brat in front of him and wondered why he was looking at his sister like that.
"Are you going to answer me?" Touya asked.
"I'm Li, and you are?" He asked
"Kinomoto Touya, Sakura's big brother." Touya looked at his sister who was finally out of the pool.
"Touya where's father?" She asked coming over to him.
"Inside with Sonemi." He replied. She nodded and walked inside. Caitlin followed her in.
"Touya give it up. He's not going to hurt Sakura". Tomoyo said, putting her hand on his arm. He gave Li another death glare, then followed Sakura and Caitlin into the house.
"Sorry about that Li, Touya's very protective of Sakura." Tomoyo said then walked off with Eriol.
"Do you think that Li like Sakura?" Tomoyo asked Eriol, when they were alone.
"Yeah, but he's not showing it. You should ask Caitlin what happened today." Eriol smiled t her. Eriol had a great smile, Tomoyo thought. Eriol started to lean in to kiss her but. .
"Eriol we need to talk about what happened today." Li interrupted them.
"You know you have lousy timing Xiao Lang." Growled Eriol. Tomoyo spotted Shayla and walked off. Li ignored him and went on. .
"Caitlin's got a death wish; she was actually hanging out the car window taking out cars behind us." Li said, he looked at Eriol, who was half listening, half watching Tomoyo muck around with Shayla and Meilin, who had joined them in the pool.
"Eriol, Sam and his boys are coming down in three days time. We have to get the test girls before they get here." Li stated. Sam is Li's best friend back in China. Eriol turned to look at Li.
"I can test two tonight." He stated. The test is to see how good they are and to get their ranks.
"Good you can do Sakura and Caitlin." Li said.
"What are Sakura and I doing?" Caitlin asked from behind them.
"You're going to be doing some tests tonight." Li answered turning around to face her.
"That is if you can get Touya out before seven. After seven he usually spends the night." Caitlin said and walked down to the pool.
"You know, Sam might take that one off our hands." Eriol said then followed Caitlin to the pool to talk to Tomoyo.
'Or someone else!' Thought Li looking at Caitlin tattoo.