Chapter 33
YOLO… right?
2 week later…
"yo man lets go." Said tails as me, knuckles, silver, and sonic got out of the house.
"You know, we are going to show you around the city properly my tall, young friend. No bullshitting you on this." Said silver as we got into his car. It was a white 5-seater sedan, with chrome plates that had "AG" on the side. We got into his car and it was quite nice. It had leather seats, speakers on the front and back, wooden dashboard, and "AG'' on the steering wheel. Silver sat in the drivers seat, I sat in the passenger seat, Knuckles sat in the right side of the backseat, Tails in the middle, and sonic on the left.
"How come I have to ride bitch?" complained tails.
"Because you are the youngest one!" laughed Knuckles.
"No, Marshall is!"
"well Marshall is the guest of honor today, so he gets to ride in front." Said silver.
These guys never talk like this in front of the girls, I guess its out of respect for them, but I wonder how these guys will react to me since I don't curse.
"Yo, Silver we should take Marshall to the shooting range. You should see his skills with a gun." Said sonic.
20 minutes later…
We pulled up to a brick building, it had "RANGE" on the front in yellow with multiple painted bullet holes on it. we walked in and was greeted by a African American human with dark hair, and a button up shirt.
"Hello my friends how may I help you today?" he said.
"we would like to pay for our young friend here to shoot a few rounds in the target room." Said Silver as he put his arm around me.
"you came at the right time boys, its half off all target practice today." He said.
We followed him to a room full of guns and rifles. Some of them were M-16s, Glocks,9mms, Berettas, Remington pump action shot gun, etc.
"take you pick kid." He told me as he showed me the guns.
I looked at each one, holding it in my hands carefully, looking down the sights on them then I found the gun of my dreams. I looked at it with awe, it was a M-14 with wooden stock, chrome sights, rubber recoil bad on the butt of the gun and a black steel clip.
"I pick this one sir." I told him.
He then took it and said "follow me."
We followed him and I can hear the guys say, "yo man, I don't know if this kid can fire that thing." "relax, I know him, he can handle a lot of guns.
We went to the firing range and he gave us earplugs and eye goggles, he then gave us a button and said "when you boys are ready for a new target, press that big red button. If you need more ammo to shoot, press the green one." He then left us to shoot.
Tails pressed the button and a target fell down.
I took the M-14, took off the safety and aimed down the sights.
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
BAM!
4 rounds straight through the targets head. The guys just looked at it in disbelief.
"Damn it Marshall, you can handle a gun." Said Knuckles as he gave me a high five.
"thanks guys, you tell me where to shoot at on the target, and I will hit it." I told them.
They pressed the button and a new target came down.
"THE HEART!"
BAM!
"THE LIVER!"
BAM!
"BETWEEN THE EYES!"
BAM!
"THE NUTS!"
…
BAM!
After about 30 minutes of this going on we heard someone call to us. We turned around and saw 2 Weasels, 1 with black fur, the other with dark red fur.
"yo man, you can shoot." Said the red one.
"thanks guys."
"if I knew more niggas like you, with your skills." Said the black one.
" man your shots are insane man." Said the red one.
"well maybe because I am insane." I told them with a smile.
"Ok boys your trial is up, give me the gun and pay on your way out." I looked back and it was the owner, he came and I gave him the gun and we went to front. Silver paid him the money and we got into the car.
"where should we got next guys?" asked silver.
"lets show Marshall what are old neighbor hood looks like." Said Knuckles.
"The ghetto, man I don't know a lot of crazy people there now." Said sonic.
They lived in the ghetto when they were young? Man I find out more and more about them everyday.
We drove more inside the city, to the ghetto. To me, the ghetto looks like my own neighborhood. Houses boarded up, homes empty, empty sandlots, the occasional broken down car in the yard.
"old memories," said knuckles as he looked out.
I saw a empty movie theater, it looked like the own in my home town. I looked at the movie poster and it was a Chicken Little movie poster.
"Man how can you have pride in your neighborhood, with shit like that there." Said sonic.
"Which is why I live in 18 street." Said silver.
"Damn it silver, stop bragging about how you live in the rich part of the city. We all moved out eventually." Said Tails.
"18 street?" I asked.
"It's westopolis version of 8 mile. Well I live in the rich part of it any way." Said silver.
"wait isn't there that old field that we used to go to when we were kids.?" Said Tails.
"The one with parking lot?"
"yeah I think that one."
We then drove there.
5 minutes later
We pulled up to a green field with a parking lot in it. it looked unfinished because of there was bull dozers and concrete trucks still here. I saw a couple of hedgehogs, foxes, wolves, echidnas, and a few humans standing around a boom box. I can the instrumental versions of songs being played. We parked a few meters away from them.
We got out and joined the circle, but no paid any attention to us.
"All right, which one of you guys can bust a few rhymes?" said a brown echidna.
I can feel someone pushing me from behind.
"what the?" I said.
"Don't worry dude just do your best." I looked back and saw it was Knuckles. I gave him a angry stare, but he just laughed. I was already in the circle of them before I can say anything.
"Ok this kid will try then." Said the echidna.
"ok then if I'm going to try I need a good beat, DJ lay down a beat." I said.
Then a brown Hedgehog came up and laid down this beat.
Boom boom chuck, ba boom boom chuck.
I wait a few seconds. My heart started pounding because I never been in a situation like this.
"ok then…
Yo/ I may be a fox/ but you cant box/ you are worse than the white sox (Oh snap!)/ my name is Marshall/ do please don't be partial/ I may be young/ but I cant be won/ so now I will show you son/ just how it is down (Yeah!)/ I can rap/ so don't give me any crap/ this is freestyle/ so now go home and dial/ your mother/ your brother/ your sister/ and your father/ because I am so skilled/ you will get killed/ before I even get the gun/ because I am number one son/ so don't be so dumb/ and stop drinking your own come/pletly useless info/ cause I may be so sinful/ but you aint even carful/ so don't be so much of a wimp/ even though you aint a pimp (Hell yeah)/ Delano representing/ so this may be upsetting/ but I may be a kid/ but I can skills you cant ever get/ so go to the vet/ because my flows are so sick."
They just cheered as I finished.
"NIGGA BE TIGHT!" I heard one of them say.
"KID IS SKILLED"
More and more of them began to yell complements as me and guys left.
"we find out more and more about you everyday man." Said silver.
"yup well I don't reveal my self all at once."I said with a smug look.
"you know what I just noticed?" said tails.
"what?" said sonic.
"if this day was written into a story, the reader might say it has references from 8 Mile." He said. We all just laughed at that thought
Yeah about that…
10 minutes later
We drove to a tattoo shop near the end of 18 Street.
"Marshall if you want to hang out with us you have to get a tattoo." Said sonic.
"you sure about this guys?" I said.
A tattoo, these guys are cool, but a tattoo is permanent, but I will get a small one.
"don't worry we are paying for it." said Knuckles.
We walked in and it was the stereotypical tattoo shop, with all the image of tattoos and such on the walls.
"Hello there guys." Said the owner, he was a orange wolf with glasses, a dragon tattoo on his neck, and a small scar on his hand.
"Hey man, we are thinking of getting our friend a tattoo for his initiation." Said silver.
"ok then." He then looked at me and said, "pick which one you want kid."
"wait I get to pick one?" I said confused.
"yeah we don't pick one, its your choice." Said Tails.
I looked at the display case and I found one I liked. It was a Ace of Spades tattoo.
"that one." I said as I pointed at it.
"good choice." They all said in unison.
I followed him to the back room and found the Tattoo chair ready to go. I laid down on it then he said "where you want it at?"
"My arm." I told him.
"you are going to join the group Marshall, just get the tattoo and you are in." said Sonic.
"YOLO… right?"
I kept on thinking of YOLO, in my mind as I got the tattoo.
A couple of painful, tear filled, hours later.
At home I sat on the couch holding my right arm, man I heard tattoos hurt but not this much.
"don't worry, the pain will go away in a few days." Tails said as I held my arm.
Well now I'm part of the group, I sure hope it was worth it.