Future Rivals I

In the North America Continent, United States of America, North Dakota. There was a building three stories high, and Private Garden.

There was a logo of a Raven on top the entrance of the main lobby of the building. And below of that logo, there was a title said, 'Ravenwest.'

This place was the headquarters of Ravenwest team. There was also news about one of the driver went third in Japan's first race. Which went surprised most of the Ravenwest fans through out the world.

In the ground floor of the building, in the gym area. There was one girl with clear red eyes and black pupil. She had a long black hair, horse ears, and horse tail.

Currently, she was exercising in one of the machine in the gym, which was one for the legs.

She then said, "One more... 500!"

Then she exited the machine, and sat on one of the bench.

Another Horse girl came into the area. She had an orange faded pink hair and green eyes. She was carrying a 2-liter tumbler in her right hand, and a towel around her neck.

She wiped her face with towel and said, "Phew..."

She then looked at the black hair horse girl and said, "Arkham Warsaw!"

Arkham looked at orange-red hair horse girl, and replied, "Oh its just you, Memphis Fire."

Memphis expressed cheerfully to Arkham, and let the cold tumbler touched Arkham's left cheek. She then said, "Here you go! You better drink, better be hydrated for the next training in the afternoon."

Arkham grabbed the tumbler with he right hand. She then opened the cap and drank the water. After she finished drinking the water from the tumbler, she closed the lid with its cap.

Then Memphis Fire said, "Arkham, did you know that one of the motor sport driver went third place?"

Arkham's black horse ears perked up and then her red eyes gazed at Memphis Fire's Green eyes. Then she said, "Tell me the story about it. It is quite rare for them to lose below second place."

Memphis Fire mischievously giggled with her right hand covered her mouth. Then she thought, {This will interest you quite a bit.}

She opened up her phone and play the video replay of the race in Daiban Raceway. Arkham saw Speed Joker's Jetsun LP1440 passed at the last curve of the track.

This made Arkam mouth turned into a smile, and said, "They really did not knew that this was coming?"

Memphis shook her head as sign saying no. Then she continued, "Technically, they did their homework. Seems like one slip through the gap unnoticed."

Arkham then stood up, stretched her arms up, and then said, "It won't be unnoticed much longer since this mysterious driver showed up."

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At the second floor of Ravenwest HQ, Dave Justin looked at the replay of Daiban Raceway from few weeks ago.

That race was his first race, but unexpectedly lost to a new competitor in the track. He lost because there was lack of public information about that certain team.

McCane Thomas who was beside him. He then said, "There will be another time for us to be that guy again. We have just to wait the right moment later."

Dave then pressed the power button of his smartphone, and looked at Dave left the room. Not to much later, he also left the room. He went to the garage of the HQ, which was at ground floor.

There were many mechanics there, fixing some of the cars that was used after training in the South Dakota city. Most of them was drift tuned cars.

Ravenwest owned many cars through out its team history. They even own a Le Mans prototype car in their showcase garage.

Dave looked at the head mechanic, which his name was Liam Jay.

Liam saw Dave came through the door, and said, "What are you doing here, Dave?"

Dave looked at Liam, who was at the undercarriage of the car. He then said, "I just wanted to see other things."

Liam who was busy working turning on one of the bolt with the wrench. He then replied, "So you want to change of view? Why not go to the garden. Remembering that lost repeated in your mind is not healthy. Try to stay positive."

Dave nodded, and said, "Yeah, I should change the scenery. But I still need to remember the lost I did in my last race, so I can grow further."

Dave then went to the garden of the headquarters and sat at one of the benches under the tree. He looked around at the scenery, which was filled with natural surrounding of the garden.

Then sound of footsteps came from his right side. Dave turned his head to the left and saw Arkham Warsaw who was walking in the garden.

Arkham already changed her clothes into her daily wear. She was looking at the bushes that bloomed with flowers, butterflies, and bees.

Dave then thought, {A horse girl, huh? I wonder what she is doing here.}

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In the third floor of the Ravenwest headquarters, there was one person in charge of Ravenwest. His name was Kotlin Richie. A 50 year old man, who had many experience as a racing driver for many teams before joining Ravenwest.

He was currently sat on his office chair, and read the pile of report on his desk. He then sighed and thought, {Japan… I never thought they reopened their doors.}

Kotlin switched to another file report. This one had a picture of Kei Eida. The driver he was searching into was very fresh, almost no history at all. Yet, Dave somehow lost to a new driver.

Then Kotlin thought, {That is not possible if one of them hide from public view. But I need to afford of knowing more about the truth further.}

He continued read through more of the report, more vague reading written on them. The information was way to scarce to say this was a complete report for Kotlin.

A knock came from the door of his Office. Then Kotlin said, “You can come in.”

It was quite a tall person at 200cm tall. He had a light gray hair and brown eyes. This was Kotlin’s secretary, Hammond Lavista Sannis.

Hammond was carrying another bunch more papers on his arms. And he said, “Sorry for coming through about it boss. More work popped up.”

Kotlin looked at the papers that Hammond placed on his desk. This time, it was the training for the drifting team that just returned training from South Dakota. Then he said, “Thing are progressing nicely.”

Hammond then looked at Daiban Raceway report and said, “Should I clean this up, Sir?”

Kotlin get a glimpsed at the previous report, and went back quickly reading at the Drift training report. He replied, “Go ahead. The report has no use currently, for now. Keep it at the archive. It might be useful for future use.”

Hammond nodded and said, “Will do, Sir.”

He grabbed the Daiban Raceway report and left Kotlin’s office. Kotlin now, he only can just sighed and thought, {I just hope that driver won second race is just a fluke. Or he is going to be real threat.}

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In the garage of Ravenwest Headquarters. The head engineer of Ravenwest, Konada Forest, he was looking at the two drift cars. Which were BMW M5.

One of the mechanic opened the hood of the car, inspecting the V6 engine. Then the mechanic said, “Sir, the engine is slightly leaking oil below.”

Konada gave a confused look, and said, “Didn’t we change the oil seal pan not to long ago?”

The mechanic nodded, because he already read the maintenance report, and said, “We did, the problem might be something else.”

So, the mechanic went to the undercarriage of the BMW M5. He found something shocking. He quickly said, “This is not good.”

Konada slight frown at hearing that statement. He then said, “What is wrong? Tell me!”

The mechanic hands touched at the small cracked of the engine block, and said, “The engine block had small cracked in it.”

About few minutes later, which they disassemble the entire BMW M5 engine, which was named the S66V5.

Konada can only sighed at the spot. There were some damages heavily inside the engine as it was being disassembled. He then said, “This engine can’t be used anymore. We have to find a candidate engine later.”

The mechanic, who held the engine on the engine crane, he said, “Aye, Sir.”

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In the second floor of the Ravenwest headquarters, in the north office. There was one man had papers on his desk. All of them was related to Horse Girls training. His name was Clayman Trace.

He was in his 30’s, wearing a green checkered shirt, and a long sleeve black pants. He had one of his arms holding the report exercise of Memphis Fire.

What the words written in the paper report. Memphis already done all the usual daily training for the day. Then Clayman thought, {I should get ready for the training in South Dakota, and later Debut Memphis at Texas in June. She still needs more work on her Stamina.}

Clayman switched report paper from the previous one. This paper revealed the performance of an another horse girl, which was Arkham Warsaw. The numbers were impressive. He just slightly smirked and thought, {My decision was correct in choosing both of them. Their performance met my expectation that I had in mind.}

Then he put the papers back together, piled into stack after he read on all of them. Clayman placed them back in one of the shelves with many reports like this one in his office. Once that was done, he left his office.

At the ground parking lot. Clayman had his jacket hung behind him with his left hand. Then he saw the two horse girls near his truck.

Akrham Warsaw and Memphis Fire saw Clayman walking towards them. Memphis then said, “Trainer, you took quite a while.”

Clayman stopped near his car, and looked at Memphis. He then said, “I was busy looking at your performance report, all two of you did well.”

He unlocked his car with car key. Then he opened the driver side door and sat inside the car. He looked at two of them and said, “Why are you staring? Get in the car.”

Memphis Fire and Arkham Warsaw looked at each other, then they both sat at the rear passenger seats of the truck. Clayman started up his car engine by pressing a single button.

His car was a Ford F150 with a V8 B780 diesel engine. His car was one of the special edition of Ford’s F150 series of truck line up.

Clayman drove the truck out of the parking lot. Then he turned to the right as he entered the main road.

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In their way to South Dakota. Memphis stared at the window of the door near her. She then said, “Akrham, what do you think you will do in your first race?”

Arkham who had been daydreaming quite a while, she then snapped out of it. She turn her gaze toward Memphis Fire and said, “I don’t know. It would be my first time. I’m not really nervous.”

Memphis can only smile at Arkham’s reply. She then said, “That is quite a straightforward way of saying it things. You know, you are quite merciless?”

Arkham gave Memphis a raised eye brow and said, “Me? Merciless? Since when you thought of me like that?”

Memphis then replied with a slight smirked at the edge of her mouth, “Ever since you were in the audition of joining Ravenwest.”

This made Arkham pouted, both arms fold each other of her arms into opposite side, and said, “It is not Merciless, its my competitive spirit.”

Clayman who had both of his hand on the steering wheel. He looked at the rear view mirror and saw all the interaction on both horse girl. He can only smiled at their interaction, because he felt again the right choice on selecting both of them.

There was still a long road ahead of them. He can only what he can do to them, as a trainer.