A street racer and a cafe

Ch.68 beginning of the end

*Royal's point of view*

Time was 10:00 pm, Coconut had the idea of going out for a night of racing on her own and as usual I had my concerns.

"You sure you wanna go alone?" I asked.

"Of course, as much as I love you and Azuki being there I need to learn to handle racing on my own, you never know when it might come in handy." Coconut replied.

"Yeah, you're right, but be home by 2 AM ok?" I said.

"I will."

And with that she walked out closing the door behind her. 

huh, what now? I thought.

I took a seat on the couch and noticed an odd book. "What's this?" I asked myself picking it up. The title of the book read "Evelyn and Qrow, Two Vampires, one body."

"Oh, this must be one of Vanilla's books." I said to myself. I hesitated for a moment before I opened it and began to start reading. minutes turned into hours as I glanced up at the clock. It read 3:20 AM. I heard the door open thinking it was Coconut only to be met with Ox.

"Hey, I thought you were Coconut, has she come back yet?" I asked.

"No, Kashou and Azuki are wondering where she is." Ox replied.

I instantly expected the worse, how could I just let her be god knows where for an hour and a half? "Ox, come on, we're going out looking for her." I said.

"Ok, we'll take my car."

Ox and I ran down stairs, nearly knocking over Azuki. "Oh, sorry Zuz." I said.

"Hey, where are you guys running off too?" Azuki asked.

"To find Coconut." I said.

"Please, bring her back safe, I.......I can't go through what happened a few months back with F8." Azuki said on the verge of tears.

I hugged Azuki. "Hey, hey, its gonna be ok, and I'll deal with it."

"how will you deal with it?" Ox asked.

I let go of Azuki. "Same way I always deal with it." I said holding up my VRT badge.

Ox and I headed to the garage and got in Ox's car. We pulled out of the garage and made our way to the highway the race was being held on, at this point you're probably wondering how I knew where the race would be tonight, just because I focus on legal racing now doesn't mean I don't hear about street races. Ox and I arrived on the highway and to our surprise found little traffic, which was odd considering highways are always full of traffic.

we continued for a while before noticing thick streaks of skid marks. "This must have been the starting line." I said pointing.

Ox slowed down the car. "If that's the case....where are the other racers?" he asked.

I paused for a minute. "You're right, doesn't make sense." I added.

I started my racing career with three years of street racing and I knew for a fact people hung out for hours, sometimes till sunrise at street races. So, why'd they all suddenly disappear, then it hit me.

"Ox......this wasn't a street race." I said.

"Why do you think that?" Ox asked.

"Look at the evidence, the race was supposedly at 11pm tonight, Coconut was told to be home by 2 AM, come 3:20 AM she's still not home, we come to the race location to find it deserted and no traffic, plus Coconut would have called us if something was wrong." I said

"Yeah, also you wanna know what else?" Ox asked.

"What?" I replied .

"Where's Coconut's car?" Ox asked.

I looked to the left and right trying to see any signs of where it might be, that was until I saw something off to the left, a faint shimmer from the headlights reflected off it as we passed. "Ox, stop the car." I said.

"What's up, see something?" Ox asked stopping the car.

"I swear I saw her Mustang." I said grabbing the flashlight under the seat. I threw the door open and slammed it shut.

I turned the flashlight on and shone it in the direction of whatever I saw. sure enough, it was her Mustang and the Rouge Speed logo only confirmed my discovery andmade me more furious than I already was, it had to have rolled at least four times with the amount of damage done to it.

"Hey, easy on the door." Ox yelled.

"Fuck your door, she could be hurt." I yelled back.

I ran over to the driver side door and it opened with ease. I turned my head away and took a few deep breaths before opening the door any further. I shone the light inside the car only to find it empty. Ox soon joined.

"She's not here, that's a good thing right?" I asked.

"She could have been taken." Ox said.

"True." I said as I started searching through the car for anything that would help us.

I didn't find any signs of blood or injury, and not much else.

*cling*

"What was that?" Ox asked.

"That's what I'm wondering." I said.

I moved my foot and heard the cling sound again, hearing it more clearly this time it sounded like keys clinging together. I paused and shone the light down on my feet and found a set of car keys with.......with a BMW symbol on them.

"These keys are to a BMW M3 GTR, wait.....in fact....these are my keys, to my old M3 from my days in Rockport." I said.

"Who would have your keys from back then?" Ox asked.

"I don't know." I replied.

as if on cue my phone rang, I pulled it out and looked at the caller ID, Unknown caller. "Who you suppose that is?" I asked.

"Well answer it." Ox said.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Hey, you know who this is, I'm back in the game, I hope you enjoyed your vacation."

"Razor, how was jail?" I asked.

"Meh, I'v had worse."

"You're Mustang will look great in my garage once I'm done with you." I said.

"Yeah, and Coconut will look good tied up as our hostage."

"Where are you?" I asked.

"You'll never find out, best you just move on, Coco and I have lots of catching up to do, I'll be seeing ya."

"So, what do we do?" Ox asked.

"We go back to the bakery, and we organize a plan, we call everyone." I said.

"Everyone?" Ox asked.

"EVERYONE!"