Alas my friends, I give you the second to last chapter. But don't worry. Because I took over a month to update, I shall give you your answer.

The next day, my ankles, thighs, and knees were swelled up. I could barely move and was in extreme pain from my back. I was exhausted. I had a heat pad on my back and ice on my legs.

"My God, I feel like I'm pregnant or something" I complained to Teresa, my maid.

She chuckled.

"Lets hope not" she said.

I couldn't even get out of bed. The pain of moving made me lay on my back all day. I had nothing to do but watch movies or get on my laptop. I slept most of the day. I recieved a phone call from a tuner I knew that was a Tool Toul Too.

"Hello?"

"Senritsu are you okay!?"

"Kururu? Yeah why?"

"Everyone has been talking about the fight some rider and the Fang King got into!"

"Yeah I know, but why are you asking if I'm okay?"

"Don't you understand?! You're famous in the AT World! Someone got it on camera and its on the Parts War page!"

"What!?"

"Yeah. They're calling you the Whisper Queen and I watched the footage too. It was awesome! I can't believe that was you! Speaking of which, are your AT's okay? That fight looked intense".

"You're telling me. I can't even get out of bed. I do only have one piece of that rock you gave me. I don't remember the name."

"I figured. I could get someone to pick you up and bring you here with your AT's."

"I can't move remember?"

"That's okay. I'll talk to the other tuners and see if they can get one of their kings to do them a favor".

"Okay I guess. Who is it though?"

"I'll text you the person okay?"

"Okay" I said warily.

"Bye!"

"Bye."

I closed my phone. Famous all over the AT World now huh? Great. Now I really needed to register for a team. And get team members. Not to mention Takashi was mad at me. And was I fired from my job? So much I didn't know. I felt my phone vibrate in my hand.

Leave your window open. Nue the King of the Rising Road is coming to pick you up.

I felt my jaw drop. He was coming to get me?! What!?

"Kururu" I groaned.

Agito

Why the hell was I even here? I couldn't stop asking myself that stupid question. I hated doing this. I was currently standing at the entryway to the battlefield of the Underground Coliseum. I owned this place. These people cheered for blood. I didn't care. I was only interested in my prey.

First of all, this wasn't even a serious battle to me. I mean yeah, I would take it, but this wasn't even worth my time. A girl with orange hair stood in front of me. She had actually dared to challenge me for my regalia. Pathetic. I could tell that one of her ankles was messed up so she couldn't even ride right.
Not only that, my gut instincts were going crazy. Something kept stirring under my ribs. I didn't like this girl. Almost like how an animal can tell something is foreign because it smells strange. I had seen her somewhere. Somewhere, somewhere...

"What are you doing!?"

I turned to look at the voice. It was Akira. The next part of what happened, simply failed to register in my mind. It didn't want to be accepted. It didn't want to be true. No, I didn't want it to be true. Deep inside me, I didn't want to be betrayed. I didn't want to lose a friend.

Senritsu

I couldn't get my cheeks to stop burning. I had barely managed to pull myself out of bed to actually put on decent clothes. By the time I was done and managed to grab my AT's, Nue was in my room.
He had actually carried me to Tool Toul Too headquarters. He was unfazed and simply left once we got there. The tuners there had teased me, but eventually something else had caught our attention. Supposedly there was a huge fight going on.

"Who's it between?" I asked.

"Oh the Fang King Agito Wanijima and Akira Udou. Now that should be good."

I didn't even hear the rest of it. My mind was constantly resounding the Agito Wanijima and Akira Udou part. And from the depths of my mind came one word. No. No, no, no, no, no. What happened!? They were just friends. This was a serious battle.

"Why are they battling!? What's it over!? Is it serious!?" I demanded.

"Of course its serious. They're at the Underground Coliseum. Its an A-class Parts War with the Fang Regalia as prize. Talk about intense" the tuner laughed.

I stopped breathing.

"Hey aren't Agito and Akira best friends though?" Kururu asked.

"Yikes. That's gonna tear up a relationship".

"Oh well, its going to be an awesome fight though".

In seconds I had forgotten the poison still running rampant in my body. I grabbed my AT's and had them on. I didn't bother going out the door, I went out the side window, ignoring everyone's yells. I hit the ground hard. I felt the pain numb almost immediately.

I could only focus on heading to the Underground Coliseum. I couldn't let them tear each other apart. I couldn't let them destroy each other. They were my friends. But what could I do? I couldn't interfere in their fight. That was a serious violation. Yet I couldn't watch them tear each other to pieces.

It didn't matter though. I only made it to the door.

"Woah slow down princess" the person stood in front of me.

I skidded to a stop. It was Takashi.

"What are you doing? Let me through!"

"What do you plan on doing in there?"

"It doesn't matter! Let me through Takashi!"

"And if I don't?"

"I'll fight my way through."

Snickers came around me, I saw people look over.

"Very well. Although you look a little worse for wear" he commented.

It wasn't my shorts I was wearing or the tank top with a shirt that revealed my shoulders, it was my body. The poison of my road still was in my system.

"How about we discuss that after I kick your ass" I snarled.

Oooooooooooo, cliffhanger. Just kidding, I hate having and reading them. So here's your answer as I said above! I even made a bonus chapter for you guys:)

~Kaori~