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Chapter one: Grease monkey.
“Ugh” I groaned as I fixed up my wrecked Audi R8 “I need to replace this damn thing! One of these days it’s gonna blow up in my face!” I yelled at myself until I heard footsteps (Ahh fuck) I thought as Raffia stepped into my garage. “ So you are awake after all” said Raffia in a snarky tone as usual “ Raff, Kindly shut the fuck up,” Blake said also walking into the garage “ Ruby we need to give you something important” Raff said bluntly “okay well why don’t you just give it to me in here”? I asked. I saw the gears turning inside of Raff’s brain, “yeah Blake why didn’t we bring it in here?” Raff asked, Blake shrugged and told me to follow her. When we got to the fourth Garage we saw Yang in a new shiny Audi R8 RWS with an actual solid spoiler. “We’ll leave you with the car, call us if you need any parts and we’ll give em to you.” Blake said, “okay” I called back as I grabbed the tools across from me. “ Okay princess let’s see here” I said to the car as I took out its engine and put an 8 cylinder in. I revved the engine but it didn’t sound quite right.
“ alright maybe you need a 6 cylinder” as I realized that I also needed to upgrade the tires as best I could. “Blake, Raff, I’m gonna need the engine from an old JDM car, they run enough power, Yang, I need you to get me some Gas, some better rims, a hacksaw, a tire iron, and a wheel wrench. I’ll fix up the spoiler and shave it down and also find some new lugs and some smoked up windows. Also I need stronger thicker tires so that they won’t shred as easily, as for the mirrors I’ll take the Caddy mirrors.” I said as I sent them on their ways and began working on my portion of the car. Blake and Raff pulled up in two cars, a black Honda Civic and a slightly resto modded RX7. “Nice” I say “but where the hell did you get an RX7 from?” I asked as I didn’t remember an rx7 laying around my shop. “ It was mine” Raff said, “I’ll be getting a new one soon so it doesn’t matter too much.” (Wow) I thought to myself (Raffia Palm just did something nice for once). “Rubes” I was broken from my thought as Yang rolled 4 68 Camaro wheels and tires to me. “Gee, thanks Yang! Aren’t these your rims from your camaro though?” I asked her. She looked at me nodded and showed me her stockpile of wheels and tires she had lying around in her shop. I walked out of Yang’s Shop into mine and grabbed my welding mask, and a blowtorch so I could cut and mold my own suspension for the car. “Okay let’s see here, Blake can I have the seats from that broken down Hellcat you have as well as the Steering Wheel and pedals please?” I asked, Blake got up to go get me the seats as I started shaving down the spoiler with my grinder and also took off the doors of the car as I was going to put a body kit in eventually. Blake came back with the seats and pedals from her own car. “There we go” I said as I modded the car with great speed, I cut off the mirrors as I grabbed the Cadillac mirrors and shift stalk. I finally stood back up covered in grease and oil and tired from carrying and using wrenches all day, I lifted the goggles from my face and put in the last nut to hold the wheel lug in place and got the doors on. (Tomorrow is just venting the hood and roof and reinstalling the Pedals, Brakes, and spoiler and then spray paint) I said as I went to sleep
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beating Yangs ass in a drift race: I looked down at the sparks flying up toward my face as I cut the hole for the venting to go on the roof. I sawed until I was able to fit in the Louvers and connected them up to the option on the shift stalk which I just decided to just grab from my old R8. “Aight” I said as I sipped my Coffee. “One vent down three to go, I quickly got the other 3 Vents done, installed a new inter cooler and sanded the wing a little more so I could have a more sturdy yet thin drift wing. I then grabbed the massive sheet of paper and a roll of old blue painter tape and covered the windows, mirrors, Inter cooler and windshield to spray paint the car in its first coat, then I covered up the emblem in tape and sprayed the hood black and inter coolers a small spritz of gold. I then put two smaller emblems this time in white on the doors and one on the drift wing, then did a rose petal design along the whole car and finally pulled the tape off from the windshield. I sprayed the skirt with Chrome and started the engine up. “Sounds great, for a loser” Yang said from across the room. “Try me Yang, I’ll race you” I said as I started playing some eurobeat. I looked to see yang start up her Camaro that was modded to be front wheel drive so it could drift. I raced forward as fast as I could my car becoming a red blur I looked over and saw Yang and Blake flying out of the garage after me. I nicknamed my car as all drifters do, my cars name was Crescent Rose, Yang’s were Ember Celica and Bumblebee, (she was in Bumblebee) and Blake’s car was called Gambol Shroud.
I didn’t know the name of Raff’s car but I assumed it was Demon, or something like that. I looked over and saw Blake’s Cat ears perk up as I realized she was trying to distract me. I zipped past Yang and Blake, and passed Raff in a corner. “Alright” I said, “time to burst” I said as my car flew off into a new drift. I yanked the handbrake so hard I thought it would snap. When I got back to the garage I jolted to a stop so hard my own seatbelt almost sliced me in half, (
OW)
I thought to myself. I got out of the car and grabbed a bite to eat and watched YouTube while my teammates slept waiting for the next race.
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I woke up, got dressed, and got in my car to drive down to Starbucks to grab a coffee. I talked with the worker a bit and she said that I was gonna be in trouble.
“Why”? I asked. “Well you’re gonna have some tough competition this year Rosie” she said to me “listen, they don’t call me the Drift Queen for nothing alright” I replied to the lady. I sat down at my usual table and pulled out my phone so I could see the championship pot for next week, as well as see which teams would be competing in the races. I looked up and saw a young girl around my age, hair the color of snow sit down next to me. She pulled out her phone and started looking at cars, I thought nothing of it until I saw my Audi posted for sale at $500,000 Lien. “Hey” I said to the girl as she turned around to find the source of my voice. “Oh hey” she said back in response, I told her that the Audi was my car and went back to the garage to find out who posted the pic. It was about noon when I got back, and I was PISSED I stepped out of my car and slammed the door so hard I nearly ripped it off the hinges. I walked in to the garage penthouse when I saw Raff standing by the door. Everyone on my team knew that when I disrespected any car, ESPECIALLY my own that I was ready to kick ass and take names, and that it was best to tell me what I wanted to know. I saw Raff get up and enter the garage so I chased her down. “RAFF” I yelled as loud as I could. She turned to look at me and said “Ruby, I can explain”. I was furious. “EXPLAIN, WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU”! I yelled at her. A few seconds passed and I saw her throw the first punch, I swung back and hit her hard in the stomach and kicked out her ankles, I saw her grab her keys and try to punch me with them. “ Raff, stop fighting dirty”! I screamed again, I punched her in the face, and then the stomach, and once again to the bottom of her jaw. She ran into the garage and grabbed an old wooden door stop. She tried to hit me with it, but I countered by elbowing her in the cheek. She and I grabbed a wrench at the same time, she swung first and I countered with a parry, however, I quickly threw the wrench down and grappled Raff, throwing her to the ground. She kicked and hit me so much that my entire face was covered in blood, however given that I could bench around 230 pounds she wasn’t going to over power me. I felt her headbutt me and I felt groggy but still I held her down punching her in the face over and over with the strength of ten thousand suns. ( an exaggeration but may as well have been true), I felt her reach up and choke me so hard I nearly blacked out, then she hit me with a doorstop and everything was black.
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When I awoke in the hospital I saw my x rays to make sure none of my driving parts were broken, Yang and Blake were in the hospital with me and Yang told me that Raff had betrayed us to join our arch nemesis team, team CRMN. I felt so disgusted and hurt and started to cry, “why”? I asked through tears as I didn’t comprehend what had happened. “Oh shit” I said as a realization came to me. “Yang, did she get my car”? I asked truly concerned, I was relieved when she said that she also beat the hell out of Raff for trying to sell my car.
I ran back through town until I found that Starbucks. I walked In just to plan what to do next as I needed a full team but found no one. I walked up to the manager of the store and asked if they knew the white haired girl I saw yesterday. “Yeah, her name is Weiss Schnee, why” they asked. I just thanked them and went to see if I could find her in the town
3 hours later
I eventually found her in a car dealership 3 hours after I left the Starbucks. “WEISS”! I yelled. She just looked at me and asked why I was so beat up.
“No time to explain, I need a new member for my drift team, can you drift”? I asked
“Kind of” she replied, she told me that she could drift just not well enough to be in a pro team. “Look I’ll teach you but we NEED a fourth member”. I told her basically on my knees pleading. “Fine” she said. “I’ll join your drift group”, I thanked her and told her to come by the garage and I’d teach her how to drift.