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Scroll One [let the bizarre-ness begin!]
Kem's half-lidded gaze rotated around the sun-scorched desert, waiting and watching for that cloud of dust to sail across the dull horizon. Sweat trickled down her suntanned face, and she could feel Hyrin's uncomfortable-ness behind her.
Hyrin moaned. "Keeeeem..." She banged her head against the driver's back to get her attention. "It's so hot out here, why do we have to sit in this stinking desert? And I’m hungry..." She whined, her eyes pleading behind a pair of too big orange tinted goggles. She shifted on the seat and looked up at the older girl as she turned to look at Hyrin.
"I'm waiting for something." A humid wind picked up the sand and billowed it thru the sky, glittering gold in the scorching sun. "I'm not leaving until I find it. There’s some pork buns under the Vespa seat."
Hyrin scowled, but pulled out a meatbun and began eating it. The wind acted up again and the small demon buried her nose and mouth into the high collar of her jacket that Kem insisted she wore even in the intense heat. She wrapped her hands, meanbun eaten by now, around herself and made a small unhappy sound as a blast of sand hit her cheek. "What are we waiting for?" She cried, getting some sand in her mouth in the process.
Kem looked back at her, mismatched eyes grinning mischievously under blue tinted motorcycle goggles. Her evil grin revealed unnaturally white teeth and her two fangs, glinting in the never-relenting sun. Without looking back, she pointed at a small puff of churned -up desert sand sailing across the desert horizon. "That." Kem violently snapped her hand on the accelerator on the right handlebar and the two demons felt the force of Newton’s first law push them back before the Vespa zoomed off down the desert with incredible speed.
Hyrin yelped and grabbed at Kem as the sudden acceleration nearly threw her off the vespa. She buried her fingers into the baggy coat the other wore and clung for dear life. The sand and wind bite at her bare skin, so unused to the conditions at this speed on a vespa. The white scarf ties around her neck blew behind her and snapped from side to side like an impatient tiger's tail. Kem obviously knew where she was going, but the ride was merely oblivion to Hyrin, trusting the other's skill completely and preying they wouldn't crash.
Kem narrowed her eyes needlessly behind her blue-tinted goggles, focusing on that small cloud of dust ahead of them. Forcing the motorbike into full throttle, she switched it into auto-pilot and slowly got up to stand on the vespa seat, hyrin slightly panicking behind her. "Keemm....what the hell are you DOING?!?!" Kem looked over her shoulder at the younger demon and smiled that smile that said quite clearly that something dangerous was going to happen.
"What i do best." Kem unslung her guitar and wielded above her head, grinning at that cloud of dust thirty yards ahead with the crave for danger playing across her tanned face.
The sand whizzed past as the Vespa made its way over dunes to the moving cloud. As the two clouds met, the one hidden by the other could clearly see the two young girls, one standing up, wielding a guitar, a manic grin on her face and another sitting on the seat, her hands behind her grabbing at the backing of the seat for balance, a worried, yet excited look on her face. Kem jumped from her Vespa, leaving Hyrin scrambling for the handlebars, shooting strait up into the air, snapping the guitar downwards in a single sweeping motion. She landed with it on a sand dune, and at that moment all sound immediately stopped. She'd missed the Jeep by two feet.
Hyrin yelped as she grappled with the handlebars, turning the vespa to the side and hitting the brakes, sending up a wave of sand as the vehicle slid over the ground. When it finally came to a stop, Hyrin pushed her goggles up, her eyes wide and panicked, and she whipped off a thin layer of sweat on her face with the back of her hand. Once she regained herself and the adrenalin wore down, the wolf demon marched over to her partner, standing where she landed, the wind pulling at both of them, sending sand clouds dancing over the otherwise still land. "What the HELL were you thinking?!" She cried suddenly, throwing up her hands, a pair of fangs showing as she yelled. "You could give me a little more warning before you give me the d@mn wheel!"
"There's no steering wheel on a Vespa, baka okami!"
" ... "
"Well ... heh...i guess I owe you guys an apology. I thought you were ... someone else."
"Which is ... why you tried to smash us with your um ..?"
"Stratocaster."
Hyrin scowled at Kem "Okami tte una!" She muttered, rubbing the back of her neck. The group they'd run into was a group of men. They were all riding in a green jeep much like Saisu's, accept Saisu's was red. The one driving was a brown haired man with a monocle, he was smiling nervously and trying to laugh at the situation. The guy next to him was blonde, was obviously a Sanzo 'cause he hand a scripture like Ransa, and he just looked plain ticked off at the world. The two in the back were both wide eyed, obviously they had been more freaked out them the other two. One was smaller then the others and had brown hair, gold eyes, and a golden coronet limiter around his head. The other was the tallest, he had crimson hair and eyes, like Shi, marking him as a half demon. "Who..who the hell are you two?" The driver asked, a bewildered tone in his voice as they stared back at Hyrin and Kem.
"Why, I am Kem the Monsoon! Yes, the girl who commits evil deeds with the price of $$60,000,000,000 on her head! At your service!" Kem took a deep showy bow, not noticing Hyrin's huge eye rolling.
The small demon then stepped forth. "I'm Hyrin." she said simply. "I apologize for stopping you." She glared at Kem out of the corner of her eye. "It seems that the desert sun has roasted more then our skin..."
Kem fake-smiled, sweat dropping. "I thought your jeep was a motorcycle belonging to ... oh never mind." She whipped around, sauntering back to her Vespa. The men in the jeep stared blankly after her, all of them [except Sanzo, of course] arching an eyebrow. "what a strange girl ... "
It seemed that was the usual talk of the older girl, 'cause Hyrin made no comment about it. As she walked away, Sanzo looked up and his eyes narrowed. "Hey, kid." Hyrin heard a gruff voice hiss, she turned to look over her shoulder. The jeeps was gone, and all the men where standing, in the place of the vehicle was a small white dragon. "Nani?" Hyrin asked, blinking once. She turned her body so she was half way facing them, just looking at them over her shoulder was beginning to hurt her neck. "You're a demon, right..." "..." Hyrin didn't know what to say to that. "...hai hai..." she nodded slowly.
Kem coasted along with her feet on the vespa until she was next to Hyrin. "Hey, don’t forget me! Two rurouni youkai wandering the desert in the vespa ... make for a great manga, wouldn't it?" She slid off the seat and squatted next to the siding of the back wheel, studying it carefully. A yinyang was painted expertly there, twin to the one on the front. "Nope, no scratches...." she muttered, more to herself that to Hyrin or the four men.
Hyrin nodded, ignoring the men for a moment. "Hai, that's good." she then turned to face them. "Yeah, we're both demons, but we're under the protection of the Merciful Goddess."
Kem gestured to her white doggy ears that were pierced in three places for small silver bands. Heh, completely ignoring me as usual thought Kem, as she swept her fingers over the glossy metal. She stood up to her full height and mounted the Vespa, waving to the Jeep full of people who thought she was insane. "Well, it was nice meetin' ya." She turned to Hyrin. "Huh?
Coming?"
"Yeah...right." Hyrin nodded, walking to the vespa, yet her gaze was still on the group. She hadn't gotten to close, but from the distance and with the heat playing with her mind and vision, it seemed like it was the Sanzo Party, but they left right after the defeat of Gough-mough. The wolf demon shook her head, and pushed her goggles over her eyes again. Whatever, she'd forget about them again after they got to town and met up with Ransa and the others. Hyrin smiled to herself as she climbed onto the back of the vespa. She hadn't seen her old group in the two month she'd been traveling with Kem.
Kem smiled fangedly again, and just after Hyrin had settled onto the Vespa seat behind her she slammed the acceleration and zoomed off into the desert, but not before shouted "sayonara!" to the group of stunned men. Another four people in the world now think I'm insane! ... oh well.
The ride into town was long, only ending when the stars had splattered over the sky and the moon had risen from her long rest on the other side of the world to fall asleep in the skies above. Kem drove endlessly, the blurrrrr of the motor echoing endlessly through the serenity of a resting, cool desert.
Kem turned on the radio [another plus of being a mechanic --- you can custom install stuff!] and switched around, grimacing at the ugly pop and screaming death metal, until she found somewhere that played a song by her favorite artist. She turned it low, looking back at the sleeping Hyrin sharing the Vespa seat with her. Her lips moved with the lyrics, slowly bending into a real smile, unlike her maniac and fake ones. Her voice, oddly deep when singing, crooned out "But did you know, that when it snows, my eyes become alive and the light that you shine can't be seen." She raised her eyes to the star splattered sky, and took off her goggles, lifting them up onto her helmet. "i compare you to a kiss from a rose ... hehe...i love this song."
All the one behind her did in response was sigh softly and wrap her jacket around her tighter. The silent world was Kem audience as they drove through the wide expanse of nothingness, singing out the lyrics to the soft song.
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