Sarina and the jealousy 21

Chapter 21

The rest of the week seemed to go bye pretty quickly and ,  for the most part I was ok , sure I still missed my grandfather but  I knew he was always going to be with me no matter what.
"hey Sarina will you give me a hand with these?" Kitt called from the  trailer. A new shipment of good's and gear hade came in before the race today and we were all trying our hardest to put it away and to make it to the race on time.
I quickly ran over to help her,
"I've got it." I said tacking hold of the other end of the box  "is  this the last one?" I asked as we carried it over to the storage shed,
"yeah but we still need to put it away."
"I'll do that you guy's go on a head and get ready for the race I'll finish up hear and meet you there." I offered
Conner nodded
"Kitt , Artha Parmon and I will go a head, you lance and Alina will meet us there." I nodded as Kitt and I placed the box on the ground.
Ever since that afternoon I hade to have some one with me at all times where ever I went otherwise , we thought that girl would try to steal Torah again .
And although some one might have thought I was being stuck with the little kid's  I really didn't mind hanging around with Lance and Alina, there actually kind of funny to listen too. I gave a short wave as they went to get there dragons to leave. I started opening the boxes and tacking out the new gear and putting them away on the empty magracks when I finally opened up the last box it wasn't new gear like the rest this box was different instead it was a box of parts and wires tools.
"Lance where's that inventory list?" I called out   I knew if it was Parmons he would have came and given me instruction's on where to put it. I closed the box and looked at the shipping label, the letter's SS was who it was addressed to and the main address was totally off,
"I've got it here." he said with a mouth full of candy bar with Alina and fraction trailing not far behind him,
"thanks' Lance." I said tacking the packing slip form him , I examined all the number's and this one just didn't match .
"this box and our missing one probably got swapped. we'll bring it to the track with us and we'll return it after the race." I said closing up the box good and  leaving the paper in the shed.
 " I guess that means we can go now." I said walking up to Torah who was talking to Comet, about his old racing days.
"come on you guy's were ready to go to the track." I said with the box in hand, Torah looked up and maged me on,
"wait for me!"  Alina said climbing into comet's saddle
"you two ready to go?" I asked  making sure they hade there helmet's on and were ready. They both nodded and we too off.
Although I still hade a lot to learn about dragon city I hade become better at navigating the  street's and telling which street would turn into a dead end.
We traveled relatively quickly until we hit the packed street's of the mall , where we hade to go single file and watch out for the pedestrians and taxi dragons.
that was probably the worst part , about dragon city it was the traffic.
By the time we made it to the track the race hade already begun and almost over and everyone was in the stand's making it easier to get to the crew tents,
"well I'll just let them know that were here and wait at the tent until the race is over , cause I  know as soon as we get up to the crew look out we'll just have to come back  down."
They both nodded and disappeared into the tent with there vid games, I opened my comlink to Connor ,
"Hey how's the race going?" I asked as his face came up on screen
"Artha is not doing bad , but Kitt is in the lead." I nodded , she hade really been on her game the last few day's.
"well we did make it but I think we are just going to stay down here and meet up with you after the race." he nodded, and we broke connection, I  took the box and laid it on the ground at the opening of the tent and sat on an empty crate out side of the tent, and closed my eye's and inhaled the smell's of the track: fresh popcorn, thrusters broiled burgers, and dragon dung. I shook my head
"what an amazing run for Kitt Wann! With a 10 second lead!" I opened my eye's and looked at the large vid screen as it replayed her crossing the finish line, I threw up my arm's and cheered with the crowed,
"with Artha Penn tacking second, and  Moordryd taking third."
Torah came up next to me and watched the screen,
"I can't wait until we get to race!" I said  putting my hand on her shoulder.
"that is if you get to race." I turned away from the screen , and there was Justine on her Dragon,
"what are you doing here?" I snapped,
She only smirked,
"I was just registering for the next season  that will begin soon." she said pulling out a brand new racing licence ,
"too bad you don't have a crew to race with , I was really looking forward to kicking your tail's on the track."
"she dose have a crew , she's a part of mine." Artha said coming  off the track with beau and Kitt,
"haven't you heard, while your racing for the academy your not allowed to recruit new members until your out of the races or make it in."
"then what about you,  the same would go for the dragon eye's." Kitt growled
"that is true but I registered under my own crew the black shadows." she smiled ,
"which is a branch off of the dragon eyes"  she knew she won this argument,
"well then I'll see you watching from the side lines. Ta , Ta ." she said leaving us,
"oww she is really begin to scrape  my scales!" I said watching her ride off into the crowed
"I'm sorry Sarina that your not able to race ." Artha said jumping down from  Beau
"hey don't sweat it , it just gives me more time to get better." I smiled,
"what's this?" Conner asked I hadn't even noticed he arrived, I turned and saw what he was pointing at ,
"oh that box was shipped to you but it actually goes to." I picked up the box and showed him the address. "this place here, you were also missing a level 4 ramming gear, so I'm guessing the boxes got swapped. And I brought the box , I thought  we might as well return this to them and get your gear back." I said explaining my plan ,
"well I suppose we could , normally I just phone the delivery company and they go and do it." he chuckled " but since you already brought it this far , why not." he smiled
" well You'll have to lead the way , cause I don't know where this is." I said referring to the address.
"I think I could do that." he said taking the box from me and looking over the label,
"it's actually not too far from here." He said , looking at  address closely " but the S.S.  I'm not sure who that it."
"well I guess we'll find out once we deliver it." I said , mounting up .
He nodded and beau Maged him on. And we left the track.



From a hi-rise building Justine looked through a pair of binocks , watching the Penn racing crew , and Sarina as they left the track.
"very good Morgan she found the bait, and now is heading straight for our trap! Now to just  let the plan work itself out." she smiled pulling away and leaving them to head into her set trap.



"are we there yet?" Lance complained  "I want to get some lunch"
I only shook my head ,
"how can you eat so much and yet not  be as big as a bull class dragon?" I chuckled , Cyrano grunted and looked at me,
{//hey what is that supposed to mean?//}
"no offence." I looked down at him and laughed
As we rounded a corner I looked back to the street in front of me .
From where we were you could see a lot of dragon city. there was stable situated like Connor's totally away from the street's seeming to float in mid air , And surrounded by a racing track. I could only imaged that is what Peen stables looked like before it was nearly destroyed.
"that place look's drack!" I commented, as we continued down the street
"well by right's that is where this belongs."  Conner said getting off of beau, and walking down the long drive way. As we approached the Gate there was no sine like Conner's only  the two "S" on the door.
"this is defiantly the place." I said.
as soon as we were a dragon's length away the gate opened revealing stalls and a house the main office , a bridge that led to a garden and where the track was,
"wow." I could only image that this is what Conner's stable looked like before it was destroyed,
"that's funny I've never been to the stable before." Conner said thoughtfully looking at the  gate.
"look there is the gear shed maybe some one is in there." Lance said  
I dismounted Torah and walked over.
"hello?" I called out looking into the shed, Parmon and the other's came up behind me,
"oh my!" Parmon marvelled,
"look at all those spare part's. and the gear." he trotted in and examined it like lance dose when he's in a candy store.
"it's not only been re-modified to be maged to a lower density and bone colors , but it's been re wired to  add more power while using less." he explained looking at the thrusters gear.
"well that's the idea any way." a girl's voice came from behind, we all turned to see a young girl looking to be Parmons age, standing at the door. She hade dark colour skin just like he did and a dark blue black hair that was pushed back by the pink bandana she wore.
"sorry I just couldn't help my self." Parmon said setting the gear down,
"no it's ok , I'm actually surprised you were even able to get that out of what I did to it.." she said coming and standing next to him , she picked up the gear and passed it back to him, it only took him a moment to figure out what it was and how it worked,
"I've tried to re work it so that it will be able to be used by lower draconium beeryant of dragon's who would normally have trouble maging a level 5 thrusters on , like for instance a earth class dragon." she hit the button activating in , he flinched for a moment but then pulled out his computer and started to read the draconium usage.
"amazing!" he marvelled, but just as you thought it was working it spitted sparks and closed up ,
" although I haven't gotten all the bug's out of it yet, on a couple test run's it's back fired on me." she frond and put the gear back on the work bench.
"well I can see the problem for here!" he said pulling out his sawtering tool ,
"if I may?"  he asked, she curiously passed him the gear he put his visor down on his helmet and  moved around the gear. With precision, within moment he was finished,
"there that should do it." he said passing her back the gear, she looked at it,
"I cant believe I didn't see that before!" she said turning and walking past us out of the shed she walked up to a brown earth class dragon , and it maged the gear on, and activated it fiering the ground infrount of it.
"it work's!" she stood there astonished
She turned back around and was about to tell Parmon something when she spotted Beaus saddle,
"are those vidd game controller's?" she asked trotting up to the saddle to get a better look
"you've modified it to work like the vidd game , giving the rider more precise control and…did you do that?"   she asked
Parmon face lit up  
"I did!"
"it's marvellous!" then she spotted Cyrano
"is that your dragon?" she asked walking over to him and scratching above his eye, she looked over the gear he hade on she spotted the thruster pack
"lever 5 thruster gear, that doesn't throw him off? I don't think I have ever seen a bull class dragon use a level five before." she asked so many question's at once I wasn't sure if he could answer them all,
" that's' Cyrano never go any where with out him, and the thruster was a gift form a friend, not my choice but it has helped in so many instances."
"I never go any where with out Solyn my earth class. I  don't know what the crew would do with out me an her strength, I think every crew should have either a bull class or a earth class, I also have been petitioning that there be special races healed just for them."
"she is your's" he said pointing back to the earth class the hade  maged the gear "I totally agree, with everything you just said! it's nice to be able to talk to some one with an understanding of gear and  draconium energy for once." she smiled at him
"my name is Gwen Parker." she haled out her hand,
"I'm, Parmon Sean"
"do you mind if I pick your brain for a bit?"
"no of course not." they were about leave back into the shed when Conner cleared his throat,
"I believe this belongs to you." she spun around as  if just noticing us, she looked at the box,
"yes that's' mine, and you must be from Penn stables? I have your ramming gear in the shed, I did open the box  but I didn't tamper with the gear." she said in a panic,
"oh I believe you." Conner  smiled
" you guy's can have a look around while I go get it." she said as she darted away, I looked around. Me and Torah sat there for a moment  before venturing around the corner.
Stall's lined the wall's creating a fenced in aria where some dragon's were lazing about in the sun,
{//this is my kind of place.//} Torah said watching some dragon's who were eating an afternoon meal, I chuckled and shook my head. Of course Torah would  be the one to think about food. I looked a crossed the yard where a young boy was working. from the back I could tell he hade short brown hair and he wore a purple vest over a white sleeve shirt, and blue pant's, and jugging by his height he could possibly my age.
I sat there watching him lift a large crate, it seemed he was having trouble with it ,
"you think we should…" but before I could finish Torah walked over and maged the box, and placed it on top of the rest. I quickly ran over and joined her.
"thanks." he said wiping his for head before turning around to face me.
His brown eye's met mine and for a moment I thought I recognised him, but it couldn't be,
"I'm Shawn McCloud." he said extending his hand to me.
I smiled and shook his hand.
"I'm Sarina." I gave my name, he looked at me giving a funny grinn,
"what I don't get to know your last name?" he lightly joked, 'if only I knew it my self' I thought,
"so are you just a stable hand here?" 'oh great move Sarina, what a way to make un impression of your self.'  I could feel my face turn red.
he smiled  and brushed his hair out of his face, with a cute sheepish grin on his face.
From the back his hair looked to be all one color brown but now from the front I could see he had a dark brown streak in the front.

Flash back

"Come on, Sarina!" my grandfather yelled.

"Coming!" I yelled back. "Come on, Torah, this is no time to think about food!" I said, trying to pull her away from the draconee-yum bar stand.

"Is Torah giving you a hard time again?" I turned around to see my grandfather. He kneeled down in front of me.

"Yes, she wants to eat, like always." I giggled. "But I don't want to be late to watch the race."

"Well if you can't beat them, join them," he said, standing up. "You two wait here." Then he took off towards the stands.

"Hi." A voice came from behind me. I turned around to see a boy. He had short brown hair with a darker brown streak in his bangs, if you want to call it that. He wore a blue T-shirt with a red dragon foot print on it.

"Hi." I replied. Being a girl who lived most of the time in a temple where her best friend was a dragon, I was pretty shy.

"What's your name?"

I was about to answer when Torah stepped in front of me and growled at the boy; she thought it was her job to protect me. I could see over her back as the boy stepped back, looking scared. When he didn't run, she put her head down low and showed her teeth. Then the boy took off away from us.

"Thanks a lot, Torah."

end of flash back
 
" you , I've seen you at the track before." I said thinking back to the day I met the kid.
"well I am  a rookie racer." he said , as if it was an every day occurrence.
"no back when you were a kid, you stopped to talk to me then…" I was about to tell how I knew him when a voice called out,
"Shawn ! Shawn, oh there you are I've been looking for you and ….. oh who's your friend?" my heart stopped , I knew that voice, it hade been year's but it sent a chill down my back, I spun around,
"Grandpa?" I called out
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