Nights of Fire

CHAPTER 4 - Too Powerful

When morning came, I got a message from a Nokia phone Eve gave me. It's an unknown number who said, "R U single?" What the hell. The person who texted this is really terrible at making a relationship. What kind of human who ask that God damn question to a stranger? Well, I knew it must be one of our crew or other crew, so I just texted back, "no I have gf". "Better teach her a lesson," I continued.

Because in reality, I do still have a girlfriend, Tsugumi, who I hang out with often. Then the sender texted again. "Not in a relationship way dumbass. You're the owner of that mustang right? Do you have a crew?" The sender said. "Who is this? How do you know my number?" I texted. "I'm Tamade Chiyu, ppl call me Chu-Chu. I'm leader of V-Strom, I'll be glad if u joined my crew," She texted. "No thx, I join 1," I texted. "Is that so?" She replied.

I concluded with a "Y" as the (hopefully) final respond. A minute after, The phone sent me another message, " U R gonna regret if U don't join us,".

"Y R U forcing me btw? I said no," I texted back. After that she stopped messaging. Thank god. I went through college with Eve and drove together to the headquarter. From afar we saw a Shelby GT500 and a few other cars in front of our warehouse, talking with Shizaki.

"No, no, no. I don't know anybody who has this number," Shizaki's voice heard from a medium range. "Don't lie," A young adult with pigtails intimidated him, "Show me your phone". He casually searched his old phone on his pocket and handed it to her. "Hey, hey. What's going on here?" I came towards them and tried to comfort Shizaki. The woman with pigtails answered, "Someone rejects our crew invitation, and I want to know who dare to do such thing,". Oh no. She's the Choo -Choo gal.

I sighed. "Listen, I'm the guy, I'm that mustang owner," She must be interested because the last two night's race. "You? You own an SVT Cobra R! No way you own that green mustang like in that footage," She controverted. You don't believe me? "A shorty like you drives this GT500?" I scoffed as the result of her disbelief. "Hey! Don't talk about my height, at least it's all about skill," Her seemingly low temper said. "Does your feet even reach the pedals?" I teased her even more. Her tantrum spread, "Alright, enough! if you're really that guy, prove it, i challenge you a downhill battle down Akagi". I took my words back. She was salty as a Dead Sea.

"Alright, I acce-" "No, wait, " My leader of the pack stopped my acceptance, then whispered to me, "We don't know this woman's car performance yet. It might be way stronger than you," I agreed, "Yeah, you're right". So, I still insisted. "Yes, please. I accept your challenge". Shizaki held his nerves, making a "What have you done" face. I winked, so he knew that I had a plan. "HAHAHA! You dumb Brits. My vehicle will annihilate yours in a second," The train noise female signaled her followers to back off and retreat.

Me and the Shelby line up on top of the mountain. A crew member counted us down, and we accelerated down. As soon as she accelerated, i knew that my plan is not going to work. Her car is way too powerful for mine. I stayed on her tail every corner, but on straight roads, it outpaced me. I lost to the Shelby. As soon as we got down the mountain and i stepped out of the car, Eve pulled my ear. "Owowow!" I shrieked.

"That was a good fight, most fun one i had in a while, your driving style proves that you're really that mustang owner. But your car is lacking power. This 830 HP Shelby GT500 is no joke," Her soul intended to destroy mine with her tone. She hit me with a thumbs down, "Anyway, for now you may not challenge us, but you will soon enough, now if you excuse us," She and her crew drove off.

"A dark Acura Integra full of vinyls arrived at Eve's and my location. The driver opened the door and shoved me, "YOU! You just made our reputation against other crews worse. People will see us as an idiotic grup, thus nobody wants to challenge us, and, and..." Shizaki lost his breath. I attempted to calm him down, "Hey, It's all on me. Nobody will blame your crew. I get all the shame," His anger rose, "But YOU are the representation of OUR crew, Bushido. You get the shame, we all get it," I tried to suppressed his worries, "Chu-Chu said she wanted to challenge me PERSONALLY, which means it has nothing to do with our pack,".

"Tch! Whatever, just don't take challenges from people you are not familiar with, you'll ruin you, and your crew's reputation. Its all fun and games until you lose," Shizaki continued. He then drove off. "Don't worry, we haven't got much rep for our reputation to get ruined anyway," Hana sustained.