Opponent's Ride

Opponent's Ride Ch-3

"What are you doing here." Shadow asked as he walked past the garage door and got closer to Julie, awaiting an answer. Julie backed up a bit, she was definitely nervous, especially at the fact that Shadow popped out of nowhere, at the worst time. "Shadow! I-I-I, I... Um, I w-was, I didn't mean to- I-" Shadow's eyes bored right through her, "Calm down. Clear your voice. And speak normally, I can't understand a word you're saying." Julie pulled out his jacket and grasped on to it, "...S-sorry, I was just trying to return this to you, "ahem" She gave him the jacket and Shadow looked over it, his eyes then switched over to the bike behind her, "Returning the jacket hm?" He turned around and hanged the jacket on a small holder near the wall, he didn't look at Julie, "Then why where you prancing around Dark Rider like a five year old in a toy shop." Julie blinked, "Dark Rider"?" She asked to herself, then she stopped as Shadow looked back at her, his arms crossed ones again, how did he know i was around his bike? I didn't see him by the door... She thought, "Wait, how did-" Shadow didn't let her finish, "I saw you as I entered my yard." He frowned at her, his tone was cold, "I'm not going to ask you again, Why where you around my motorcycle?." Julie swallowed, she felt embarrassed that he had to see her acting like a child. Other than that she was worried to what he was going to do to her. "Well, I was just- I like bikes and I thought I..."sigh",  It's no use there's no talking out of it, "... I will accept any consequence that you may have in mind..." Shadow stood there, he thought for a second, He couldn't beat her for touching his bike, yelling at her would be pretty pointless. He touched his chin trying to come up with something, he got an idea. Shadow looked up at her again and then scanned the bike, "You said you liked bikes?." Julie raised an eyebrow in confusion, is he trying to change the subject?, "Well, yeah.. Especially this one. I've never seen a bike that is so well made, it's almost as if it's used for battle or something." Julie chuckled at the thought, "It is." Shadow walked past her and checked on the bike, looking over it, "Did you touch this spring?" He kneeled down and pointed at the the air pressured spring under the seat, Julie laughed awkwardly, "Ha ha.. Yeah, I didn't know what it was used for so I got, uh... Curious." Shadow fixed it up and tightened it a bit, "Hm." Shadow walked around the bike to the left side. Julie scratched her head and watched him, "Would you like to find out?" Julie's eyes widened a bit, "Really? I mean... That would be pretty cool.." Shadow gave the tiniest or smirks, "Perfect." He patted the bike seat, "Have a seat." Julie walked up cautiously to the  right side of the bike, "Are you sure?.." Shadow crossed his arms and frowned a bit, still smirking, "Oh I'm quite sure." Julie blinked, "Mkay... Whatever you say I guess" She got on the bike, more like hopped on it, it was a bit high but not too much. Shadow walked up to the motorcycle and checked her position if it was correct, "Place you feet on the side pedals." Julie did as he said and watched him as he walked a bit behind her, she frowned questionably as Shadow pressed on her back carefully until she was bended forward, like a jockey on a horse. Shadow got back a little and made sure she was sitting correctly, How is this showing me what the spring does? Julie thought to herself. She turned her head at Shadow, "So?.." Shadow backed up a little more, "So now all you have to do is press that little red button on the handle.", He answered simply. Julie looked for the button and found it on one of the handles, "This one?" Shadow nodded. Julie shrug her shoulders in a "meh" type matter and pressed the button with her thumb. Tsst! Pssh! The sound or released pressured air below Julie surprised her, "Wh-" Too late, the seat she was sitting on and the pedals jerked up at incredible force sending her flying to the top of the small garage, "Oof! Argh! " Julie made a little yell as her back slammed on the hard ceiling, then after, crashing down on the floor near Shadow. She groaned a little, That hurt. Shadow just smiled a bit and went back to the bike to reset the spring, "Are you nuts?! What the heck was that for?!" Julie yelled as she slowly got up, luckily nothing was broken. Shadow pushed down the bike seat, "Consider that to be your, "consequence" Julie huffed, that made sense by why so dangerous? "Consequence?! I could have hit my head and cracked it open if I didn't face-" she stopped, now she knew why Shadow bent her forward, so she could hit her back instead of her head. She dusted herself off, "Okay fine. But you didn't exactly show me what that stupid spring is for." Shadow moved away from the bike and dusted his hands, "I did. And you had the lucky ticket of being part of it." Julie walked over to Shadow and frowned, "So the point of this thing is to smash people on a ceiling huh?" Shadow glanced at her and moved farther away from her, "No, that spring is used for emergency ejection in case you're about to crash into something." Julie walked over to stand next to Shadow, she looked at the bike and crossed her arms, "Yeah sure okay." She frowned a bit, confused, "Let me ask you a question. Why do you even have this bike? I've never seen you use it. And besides, I know you can travel much faster than this motorcycle." Shadow didn't look at her, they both studied the bike, "It is required that all G. U. N. agents have to have some sort of vehicle for use." Julie chuckled, "I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't even know how to use this thing. Do you even know how to drive it?" Shadow stood there for a second and turned around, he walked over to his jacket, Julie looked at him and turned back to look at the bike, "Oookay... Nevermind." She huffed and rolled her eyes, "You know you've really gotta work work on your social skills, I mean imagine if-" "Shut up" Shadow interrupted her as he took the jacket off the hangar and looked through it, he took it with one hand and shook it a bit, a pair of keys fell on his other hand. He put his jacket back and walked over to Julie, she raised her eyebrow as Shadow threw the keys in the air and caught them again. He walked past her and sat on the bike, "I prefer to show, rather than speak." He tweaked the mirrors of his bike, "You asked if I knew how to drive it? Am I correct?" Julie raised her eyebrows, was he going to show her how he rides the bike? She blinked, "Uh, yes?" Julie stood there, expecting him to rev up the motorcycle and drive off.  Shadow frowned, he looked as if he was waiting for her to do something. Julie turned her head, "What?" Shadow simply bent down on the handle with his elbow with an annoyed look and showed with his hand to the empty seat behind him. Julie uncrossed her hands and got closer, "You want me to join you?" He rolled his eyes, "No, I'm going to drive away about five or more miles away from this place while you magically watch me from this garage." He said in a sarcastic tone. Julie's eyes widened, "So you do want me to join?" Shadow turned around and positioned himself on the bike, "Well, I guess if you don't want to that's fine by me." Julie walked forward, exited bit, "No no no! I do want to, I was just making sure" Shadow didn't look at her, he just raised his hand and snapped his fingers pointing to the back seat. Julie tried to keep calm but she couldn't help but to give out a little giggle. As she sat down on the bike she tried not to be to close to Shadow, but heck, it's a freaking motorcycle and she was edged at the end of the seat, almost falling off. She had no choice but to scoot over closer to Shadow. She swallowed a bit as she slowly wrapped her hands around him for support. Shadow seemed to have flinched a bit at her touch, he wasn't used to such close contact, but he couldn't turn back now. He shook his head, Rouge sat with him sometimes like this and he was used to it by now. But this felt, different. He ignored the thought and started up his motorcycle. The engine revved loudly as Shadow turned the handles to check if it worked fine. Julie was exited but still nervous, she had never ridden one of these, what would it be like?. After Shadow was sure the bike worked fine glanced at Julie, his eyes were no longer burning into her, but he still had a serious expression. Julie held on a little tighter as Shadow said the last two words before readying himself, "Hold on."