Meet Alina

As the car crossed the finish line, the car came to a stop as well as the purring of the engine. The crowd started to gather around, blocking the driver's way. As the man walked toward the driver's door, a path opens up for him. He was 5'8 in his early 30's with a bald head and fit. The street lights illuminated his dark, tone chocolate skin. As he reached the door, it opened. Out came a woman that didn't look any older than 20 years old. She had black hair that was pulled up into a messy bund at the back of her head, with a few stragglers framing her face. Her eyes were light brown. It was noticeable that she worked out she is lean. The man looked down into the driver's face and smiled, "You did good, Alina," He said, putting his arm around her shoulder.

"Thanks, Sabro, I told you it would be a piece of cake," Alina said, smiling at him.

From the excitement of the win, most of the spectators had forgotten about the second driver. Once he had pulled in, he turned off his engine and stood next to his car, observing. Waiting for the moment to introduce himself. Sabro looked up from Alina, standing next to him, and locked eyes with the driver.

"Alina, come with me. I want to introduce you to the driver you went up against." He moved with determination and protectiveness in front of her.

"Hello, Luis, what brings you around here?" the man asked.

"Nothing much, Sabro, just looking around trying to get a feel for things. You know me always on the lookout for trouble." Luis said a man that had power radiating from his body.

Luis is a guardian in charge of protecting an ancient power that some supernatural beings would take advantage of. "Do you see any heading our way?" Sabro asked as he kept his frame relax. The only way you would be able to tell that there was something wrong would be to look into his eyes. He could manipulate the rest of his body, but not his eyes. They always gave him away.

"You have no idea," Luis said, putting a hand on Sabro's shoulder.

Alina cleared her troth to get the attention of the two-men that appeared to have forgotten she was there. "Sorry, Alina." Sabro said, "Luis, this is Alina Luna."

Alina extended her hand toward Luis, expecting him to shake it right away. "Come on. I don't bit." She said, motioning for him to take her hand. He was cautious about taking her hand at first because he didn't want to get all of Alina's memories all at once. Since Alina's powers had been repressed, there was no way to know how his energy would react to a touch of her raw power.

Luis put his hand in hers, and nothing happened. He was shocked for a few minutes since it was the first time somebody had been a total blank. "I am Luis Melenza." He said. He returned the smile as he removes his hand from hers.

"It was nice to meet you, but I have to go; Brenda is waiting for me," Alina said as she started to make her way back to her car.

"Be careful, and don't let her get you into much trouble," Sabro said, watching her go.

"Don't worry so much. We never go out looking for it," Alina said, turning around to speak to him and gave him one of her innocent smiles as she walks away.

As Alina faded away into the crowd, Sabro asked, "When is she going to awaken? I thought it was impossible for her since her mother binds her powers."

"That was what I believed as well, but then again, I also believed that they were truly dead until you called me," Luis said, moving his gaze away from the crowd and up to the sky.

It was a clear night, and the moon and stars shining brightly in the sky projected tranquility and peacefulness. Nothing compared to what had gone on three years ago.

"That was a terrible day. I would have given them all up for dead if it wasn't for the fact that she turned up 4 days later looking lost but with the bravery to spare." Sabro said, remembering that day clearly.

*****

Sabro had been organizing one of the races for the night when here comes this girl that looked lost and out of place with her hair, all tumbled and dirty just like the rest of her and her torn clothes. She looked like she had been living in the street for months. But when she saw one of my cars, her personality changed. A sparkle came in her eyes, as well as determination that she lacked when she had arrived.

Everybody that was there that night took notice, a soon as she saw the car, something came over her, and the energy around her changed. Her powers screaming for respect and acknowledgment. Brenda, a beautiful Fay with short blond hair and sparkling green eyes and two inches taller than Alina's, went over to her and extended her hand, "Hi, my name is Brenda, what's yours?'

Alina acknowledges her hand and smiled at her, her eyes clearing, "Hi, I am Alina." She let go of her hand and turned back to the car.

Sabro had been in shock when he had first seen her, but as she talked with Brenda and looked over the car, he had to talk to her, and he had to know if it was her or not. Sabro made his way toward them. By this point, everybody had gone back to what they were doing but still keeping an eye on Alina. "Hey, Brenda, who is your new friend?" He asked as he stopped at Brenda's right side.

"Sabro, this Alina, my new friend." Brenda is one of Sabro's oldest friends, and he had been talking to her about what had happened to the Luna family. Ricardo, Alina's father, had gone to Sabro some years ago when he notices that Alina liked cars. He had asked Sabro to instruct her and teach her as much as possible but still keeping her safe. Nobody besides the family and Sabro knew that the oldest daughter of the Luna's was into cars. Her father had wanted her to have a safe place to be herself and release some of the stress that life carries with it.

So when Brenda said, new friend, Sabro knew there was something wrong. Brenda and Alina had met before this, and in truth, they were friends. Four days ago, when Sabro had told Brenda that Alina was dead, she had cried that whole day and had been sad and depressed until now. Sabro hoped that whatever was causing Alina's memories lost was just temporary. "I am Sabro." He said, putting his hand out to her to shake. For a minute, he thought he saw recognition cross her eyes, but she just smiled.

"Nice to meet you. Is this your car?" Alina asked, turning back to the black beauty next to her.

Alina had named the car so because she said it was beautiful as its black shimmer combined with the street lights and how it delivered death to all its opponents that didn't see her coming up from behind them at the dead of night. "No, it used to belong to a good friend that we all loved and are going to miss dearly."

"What happened to her?" She asked, turning back from the car. She looked into Sabro's and Brenda's broken down faces, "Sorry, I shouldn't have asked." She said, looking down at her hands.

"No, is not that it's that you just said her; what made you think it's a girl and not a guy?" Sabro asked to hope that whatever was wrong with Alina wouldn't last long.

Alina got a thoughtful look in her eyes, "I don't know?" Confusion and agitation clearly forming in her face.

"It's okay, don't worry about it," Brenda said, patting her shoulder and smiling at her. Alina smiled back, coming down.

"She was attacked along with her family," Sabro said, hoping that it would bring some memory to her, but nothing, just sadness in her eyes for what he was telling her.

"I am sorry, but why would they do that to her," Alina asked, looking back at black beauty.

"Her family was now for having courageous and strong vampires and Halflings and was consider a powerful family in our community," Sabro said, hoping that the shock of knowing that there was a supernatural creature in the world would get a reaction out of her.

"So what are you going to do with her car?" Alina asked, not even blinking at the mention of their being supernatural creatures in the world.

"Nothing, but as I see you eyeing it. I will make you a deal. I will organize a race for you. If you win, you get to keep the car." Sabro said, smiling at her.

"Are you serious?" Sabro nodded his head. "Man, if I were this chick, I would come back just to kick your ass for giving my car away to a stranger like this," Alina said, rubbing the side of the car.

"Aren't you a little bit cocky? You haven't even won the race yet?" Sabro said, smiling at her laughter in his voice.

"I will," Alina said.

*****

"It's a good thing she made it back to us," Luis said, bringing Sabro back from his memories.

"Yeah, but it would have been better if we would have known what happened to her sisters as well," Sabro said, looking back at Luis.

Luis looked over at him and smiled at him, "I have a feeling that we will soon have news about the rest of them. After all, they are the descendants of not just one but two powerful ancient bloodlines."

"That, my friend, is true. I hope that Alina's past doesn't end up breaking her. I am worried that whatever happened in those four days that we all believed she was dead will end up breaking her spirit." Sabro said. Every time he looked back at the memories of how she looked when she had arrived, he wanted to punch the person that had mistreated her.

Luis knew that there would be more than just Sabro that would want to get even when the truth became known. "I will see you tomorrow. Take care of them," Luis said, patting Sabro's shoulder and turning toward his door.

"Luis, when aren't you working on something? It would help if you took a vacation. You have never taken one since I have known you." Sabro said, moving away from Luis's car.

"There will be time later, but for now, there are too many things to get done." Luis waved one last time and got into his car, making his way toward his next destination.

Sabro watched him leave, and once the car wasn't visible anymore, he made his way toward Brenda and Alina, where they were already causing rucks.