AKBR - CHAPTER 3 - START! AKBR Year 1890
Beginning: San Francisco
Destination: New York
The next station is Nevada. Aki-p just announced that the first to reach the next station will be awarded with 20 minutes time of advantage. The winner of the previous round will be sitting in the car to travel 20 minutes of journey ahead from current station. Obviously there is two advantages from this reward. First, the winner could rest and preserves more stamina. Second, 20 minutes travelling by car could cover a lot of distance. AKBR is a survival marathon and also the biggest marathon of the history. This marathon attracted 5430 participants around the world including Japan, Russia, Germany, England and China. It was an unpredictable and tough event. Organizer could only sent people onto the hot air balloon to prevent people from breaking the rules.
5 minutes before AKBR
Mayu rushed to the supply camp to grab what she needs. But what she did was sitting down inside the camp and start eating the provided resources. The other participants has already gathered at the starting point. The audience was very excited as well, everyone of them couldn’t wait for the run to start. In this moment AKBR is the most famous sport in the world.
This is the match for the first run. From San Francisco to Nevada. It covered around 473 miles, estimated that it will takes 160 hours to complete the whole journey. The proper route has plotted in the provided map to prevent the participants to stray from the correct path.
Sayaka and Miyuki were standing at the first row waiting for the start of the marathon. Jurina was hiding in the crowd, waiting for the match to start too.
Dated back to the ancient age, there was a lot of myths and stories which tell about supernatural incidents and events. But this is truly exist. Abilities to control weather, fire and all sort of strange power is hidden in bodies of some people, some call it potential or talent because it wasn’t awaken but people who knows how to control it, they call it “SONG”.
Yes, it is “SONG”, don’t be surprise. It is a noun, it could be comprehend as vocal music or singing. And yes, there is SONG user within the participants.
“Miyuki, let’s don’t run first. We need to make sure Jurina is not somewhere waiting for us.” Sayaka whispered in Miyuki’s ear.
“Yes, my master. At least until all the crowd has gone and she is nowhere to hide.”
“That’s my smart girl.” She kissed Miyuki on her cheek.
The sun is burning the participants, hot weather is one of the biggest challenge in the match, but within 50 miles of the journey there is river water along the path. That could save the participants some hardship.
Miyuki was sweating like it was a rainy day. But Sayaka does not care much. She licked and taste the salty sweat on Miyuki’s cheek.
“Ewww, it’s dirty, don’t lic…” she try to push her face away.
Sayaka grabbed and stopped her hand. “You are my slave” then went for another lick, Miyuki closed her eyes. But she’s enjoying it at the same time.
“Here I announce, AKB RUN starts!!!” Aki - p shouted at the stage.
The participants started to run slowly to maintain their breath and stamina but there is one person who ran so fast into ahead leaving sand dust and all the participants behind. Her name is Matsui Jurina, before everyone turn into the next corner, she has disappeared on the route.
A lot of participants were provoked by her, they ran as fast as they can too, draining their stamina tremendously, to secure the first place for the first station. But ! There was two participants standing at the starting point, they were Miyuki and Sayaka! What are they planning to do? They were late 15 minutes behind all the participants already.
“Jurina is taking the lead, I guess it’s safe now.” Miyuki told Sayaka.
She nodded.
They started to run, but they didn’t make the turn! They ran straight toward the river! The audiences were surprised by what they did. Are they planning to swim?! It is going to consume more stamina than running! The river is very wide and quick, they are not going to make it. Before they could cross it, most probably they already flush to the sea!
Miyuki threw her big bag into the river and then jumped into the river with Sayaka! Are they crazy?! No! They both sat on the floating bag! Miyuki changed her bag when no one is watching, she replaced it with a balloon! No wonder the bag wasn’t burdening her, it was 3 times bigger than the usual one! They crossed the river with the power of natural! That could save them another 15 hours by crossing the river directly!
“We’ll be taking a lead of 10 hours ahead after we crossed the river.” they were approaching the shore after floating for 2 minutes.
“Master, I feel that someone is following us.” Miyuki was balancing so well on the big floating bag even when the river flow is very fast.
“You think too much, no one is as smart as us.” Sayaka observed, but no one is in her sight, it’s just water around them.
“Wait, something is following us, it doesn’t feels right.” Miyuki gave her a wary look.
“The wooden stick! it has been following us all the time!” Sayaka pointed at the stick beside their floating bag that surfaced half of it length above the water level!
Just before they reach the shore and react to the bizarre situation, their floating bag became unstable! The wooden stick has disappeared! Someone jumped out from the river to the shore! It’s Matsui Jurina! Meanwhile they lost their balance and fell into the water!
Matsui Jurina is smart. She ran ahead of all the participants to observe the environment and crossing the river is the first thing that came into her mind. She hid inside one of the bushes beside the river waiting for Sayaka. She knew they would take cross the river as the size of their bag and the weight applied on Miyuki was weird. As she saw Miyuki threw the bag into the river, she jumped and dived into the river too. Using the power of river to flush her under the floating bag of Miyuki and use a empty content wooden stick to help her breath under the water.
After 10 seconds of spinning in the river, both of them grabbed something and climbed onto the shore. Luckily Sayaka threw her bag onto the shore before she fell. But why didn’t Jurina took her bag, she didn’t bring anything along with her. This is because of the ability of Sayaka’s SONG! Labrador Retriever!
Whatever she throw out will keep flying to the direction she threw until she summon it back or until it hit something. This is Labrador Retriever, Sayaka’s ability.
“Damn it, she’s hiding under us all the time.” Sayaka retrieved her bag that is flying towards her.
“I should have noticed that, it’s my fault master.”
“It’s not your fault, she is too cunning.” Sayaka looking into the direction she ran. Jurina was running further and further, like an ant to Sayaka.
“We got no time to rest.” Miyuki sprint before Sayaka could react.
“Go!” Sayaka went after her.
Current ranking at the moment, the first three spot was secured by Jurina, Miyuki and Sayaka. Meanwhile Mayu was nowhere to be found yet.
I hope it is comprehensible and not boring haha. Thanks for all the replies btw
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