The Calm before...

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Sho...
After we managed to steal my MTB, hold on, it is my MTB, so after we managed to retrieve my bike, Ms. Yuki gave us some awesome news.According to her, a really famous MTB mechanic lived in a place called Volcano City. She said that, Flame Kaiser had taken some tough damage and needed repairing ASAP. Of course, I asked her why she couldn't do it, but she said that the damage was beyond her skills. Also, it this mechanic guy, namely, Mr. Rantaro could give us information about some divine MTB named Imperial X. By her description, I am sure it's an awesome bike, probably an idaten bike, but me and Flame Kaiser will leave it behind in the dust.
"All right, let's hurry up! Whoever's pedalling, pedal faster!" I screamed.
Kakeru and Hosuke simply stared at me from the back with a puzzled look, while the Great Makoto dropped a punch on my head and said,"You idiot, you're the one whose pedalling"
"Oh right!"
Kenji...
My sister and company, quickened their pace and so did I. My elder brother, was nowhere to be seen, so I took my chances and closed the distance. I was about a few metres away from them, when luck ran out. It was so quick I didn't realise it happened till it was over. A dark entity, later I realised it to be a rider, just jumped on my head. It was painful to have an entire MTB and it's rider on my head, now I knew how Shin the Shadow had felt.
Surprisingly as the pain engulfed me, so did another feeling, I don't really have words to express it. A bright yellow and grey riding suit and that bike, a reminiscent of thunder and lightning. The rider turned his head to face me, it's astonishing, but I could imagine his face, his eyes focused on me, currently in the uniform of his arch enemy. That angry expression, the one where he says nothing and makes me feel terrible inside.
"You can tell your leader, Team ST, won't be able to touch team Sho as long as I am alive. If he wants them so bad, he's gonna have to go through me."
That's it,after so many months, that's all I hear from someone so important to me. He rode away, which is when I realised, I had been knocked off my bike. Blaze Phoenix had collapsed to the ground, it's hard to believe though, he judged me because of the head and arm band, stamped with the Team ST symbol, yet he missed my bike.
It's hard to believe, but he didn't recognise my bike, I guess the emblem infuriated him so much, he didn't care to look at the bike or it's rider.
Anyway, remorse wasn't going to help me, it was almost a month so I decided I'd ask Taiga to send a medical kit this time. The bag of supplies was heavier than I thought. I guess, I should have asked for medicines than tasty burgers. You can't blame me though, I am picky with food. I realised that I was procrastinating and got on my bike to continue following them. I didn't have a choice, there was a high possibility I'd have to encounter that rider again, but this was my job, so I went on.
A while later, I take back all comments on my sister's choice, they stopped near a hot spring. I could do with a little hot water after that beating. I parked Blaze Phoenix outside, since I didn't think, Makoto or her friends would miss Blaze Phoenix. Guess what happened next....
HOT SRINGS, HERE I COME!
Kakeru...
That was one of Lady Makoto's best decisions so far, it was so relaxing, I was sitting beside Sho, that poor guy pedalled so fast he exhausted himself and was currently sleeping and drooling as we waited for our Mistress.
Makoto soon came out, she seemed equally happy as us, Hosuke was slightly down(since he couldn't join Makoto in the bath, cause bird or not he was a male species and Makoto kicked him, when he tried to follow her, so the poor shrieking creature joined me and Sho) but as soon as he saw Makoto,he flew onto her shoulder.
Sho woke up, only because Makoto grabbed his ear and turned it almost 180 degrees, that must have hurt. With all the commotion Sho made, two guys approached us. I assumed they'd ask us to shut up, but instead they asked, "Are you kids looking for Mr. Rantaro?"
We nodded and they most happily replied,"He lives beside the hill, that's his shop. You should be able to find him there."
As they left and we were getting on the trailer I wondered, how much nicer people in the X-Zone are, I mean of course there are meanies, but majority of the people are nice and kind. They help you out without asking, back in our world, there are very few who do so, people just don't bother to. They don't care what happens to anyone else, they don't have the time to be kind, people on Earth are mainly selfish.
Anyway, I guess it was my turn to pedal.
Kenji...
I relax for a few moments and look what happens, I had to enter after Sho and Kakeru left, I didn't take long, but I was outside, right now and they were nowhere to be seen.
"Hey, did you notice, that owl could speak"
My ears stood up, it's that owl, they call it Hosuke, I quickly went to the two people who were saying this and asked,"Excuse me, do you know which way the kids with the owl went? I was with them and I said I would catch up, but I don't know which way they went."
"You want know where they went?"one of the people replied.
I nodded, with my eyes hopeful,almost glistening.
He laughed and said,"So why are you making stories kiddo, they went that way", I thanked them, wore my normal clothes again, got on Blaze Phoenix and headed that way, that man didn't suspect me at all, obviously because I wasn't wearing the head and arm band.
I guess, I had become used to lying, people like Gabu don't give a word of information without good reason and I had mainly assumed people to be like that, I guess living on Earth can make you forget, how nice people can be.
I soon caught a glimpse of my sister's trailer and continued following it, but this time I maintained a safe distance. The last thing I needed was another encounter with that rider.

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