A New Master ch1

Chapter 1

"You have got to be kidding me," Rin scoffed as she opened the trunk of her car that night and found herself looking at the trunk the man she'd bumped into that morning had been holding.

"What's wrong?" D asked, looking over her older sister's shoulder, "wow, is that the same trunk from this morning? How did you get it?"

"How should I know?" the older snarled, "the only other time I opened the trunk of my car was this morning before we left so I could put that box of old cloths in so I could donate them if I got the chance."

"Might as well take it inside," Echo called from the front door of their apartment building, "it wouldn't do any harm to see what's inside."

"I hate it when junior is right," D sighed, "come on, big sis, lets get it inside." Together, the two blond girls carried the heavy trunk into the living room of their three bedroom apartment.

"Damn, this thing is heavy," Rin complained, rubbing her back, "just what is in this thing? Bricks?"

"Let's open it up and see," D grinned, green eyes sparkling with mischief.

"Oh, no you don't," Rin scolded, stopping the seventeen year old from advancing on the trunk, "you're going to your room and getting your homework done. Then you can see what's in there." With a few choice words muttered, D retreated to her bedroom, backpack slung over her shoulder.

"I'll be in my room, too," Echo sighed, "I have a new piece of music I have to practice and my room's the only soundproof one in the apartment. Come get me when dinner's ready." Rin sighed as she watched her youngest sibling leave the room before turning her attention to the trunk that was lying on the living room floor.

"Alright, let's see what's inside," Rin sighed, sitting cross-legged in front of the box before opening it. The blue eyed blond gasped as she looked at the six puppets inside.

"What was in it?" the sudden sound of D's voice caused Rin to jump and left out a loud scream.

"D, don't do that," Rin huffed, "you could have given me a heart attack."

"Sorry," her sister replied, "but I've finished my homework and I want to know what's inside the trunk."

"It's just some puppets," Rin told D dismissively as she stood up, "strange yet oddly cool puppets, but puppets none the less. I'll turn the trunk into the cops in the morning, see if they can find the owner. Want to help me with dinner?"

"Sure," D grinned, picking up on of the puppets, a jester, before putting in back and following Rin into the kitchen, "if I help, then the food isn't going to get burned." Rin playfully swatted D's arm before turning her attention to cooking dinner.

"Something smells good," Echo voiced a few minutes later as she entired the living room, violin in hand, "for once."

"Now don't you start," Rin sighed, bringing two plates of food into the room and setting them on the coffee table, "just because I'm not as great a cook as mom was doesn't mean I can cook at all."

"We're just playing around, big sis," D giggled, bringing her own plate of food into the living room as Rin sat on the couch.

"Oh, I'm going to be late tomorrow," Echo said, sitting beside her eldest sister, "I booked a practice room at school so I can work on the new piece of music my teacher gave me."

"Alright," Rin nodded, "will you still need me to pick you up, or are you getting a ride home with someone?"

"Sari said she could drop me off at home," the small sixteen-year-old said, turning her attention to her food.

"I can't wait to hear this piece," D grinned, "you just keep getting better and better on the violin, makes me wish I could play some musical instrument."

"If it makes you feel any better, I can't play sports to save my life," Echo told D, smiling slightly.

"True," D laughed before turning to look at the still open box of puppets, "those things are pretty cool, why can't we keep them?"

"They aren't ours, kiddo," Rin grinned, ruffling her sister's short blond hair gently, "you can't just keep things that don't belong to you."

"But the guy who had them put them in your car," Echo said, siding with D on the matter, "he must have wanted you to have them."

"Or he could have stolen them and needed to get rid of them," the oldest of the three tried again, "we can't keep them if they were stolen from someone else."

"Fine," both teenagers sighed finally, "but if nobody claims them then can we keep them?"

"Alright," Rin told them, finally giving in, "now if you excuse me, I'm going to move the puppet's into my room." With that, Rin put her plate in the sink and started dragging the puppet trunk to her bedroom.

Rin's room was small, not real small, but small enough to be noticed. Every wall was covered in posters and so was the ceiling, something that put emphasis on just how small it was. What little wall could be seen between the posters was black and the ceiling was painted a dark blue. The bed was a couple different shades of red and every piece of clothing that covered the floor was gothic or punk.

Rin herself had chest length, bleach blond hair (natural) and sky blue eyes that were off set by her black eye liner. Black arm bands, torn in certain areas, covered most of her arms and red and white stripped leggings accented her long legs. Like always, knee high black boots covered her feet, kept up by several black belts, and two white belts with sliver chains hung around her hips. Around her neck was a black lace choker and a sliver and gold cross necklace that was wrapped around a black dog collar. A short black skirt that looked as if it had once been a longer skirt hid her undergarments from view and a black tank-top covered Rin's large chest completely. In all, it was kind of hard to believe she was twenty years old.

"Man, you guys are cool, creepy, but still pretty cool," she muttered to herself, picking up a puppet with a knife for one hand and a hook for the other, "defiantly my style. If you didn't belong to someone else, I'd totally keep you." Gently, she put the puppet down before grabbing her cell phone out of her left boot and dialing a number.

"Yo, what's up?" a male voice answered after the first three rings and Rin put it on speaker phone.

"It's me, dude, so what do you think?" she laughed, starting to change out of her stockings and into a pair of pure crimson red leggings, "any races going on tonight that the queen of street racing needs to know about, Chase?"

"Nothing tonight," Chase answered after a pause, "everyone's lying low after nearly getting busted yesterday."

"It's not like we were in a public place," Rin grumbled, "we only race in underground parking lots and places we know for sure have nobody around."

"That isn't good enough for the cops, babe," he replied, "and it shouldn't be good enough for you either, considering."

"On that topic," she said, glancing up at the cell phone, "you find anything on that matter?"

"Sorry," Chase said, sighing deeply, "it looks as if he, she or they skipped town or are just laying low. They might not have been on the racing scene in the first place, they might have been collage or high school kids racing for fun."

"Well, keep looking into it," she sighed again, "I'll be at the shop in a few to work on my car." With that, she hung up the phone and fell onto her bed. From the box of puppets, she heard a small hiss that made her look up before shaking her head with a laugh.

"I must be going crazy," she smiled to herself before dropping her purse by the door and slipping into the bathroom. While she was gone, the puppet with a knife and hook for hands slipped into her purse. By no means was he happy about this girl being the new master, but it was better then the man who had passed them off to her.

"Where are you going this late at night?" Echo asked as Rin exited the bathroom.

"I've got some stuff to do," she replied, "make sure you guy's get to bed on time, I'll try to be back before midnight." Before Echo could respond, Rin grabbed her purse and was out the apartment door.

"She's still racing," Echo sighed, moving into her elder sister's room and sitting on the bed, "if I didn't know any better, I'd almost think she was trying to get herself killed. She still might if nothing comes along to stop her." The small child was unaware that five beings had heard her words, five beings that had just been given the job of protecting Rin from the danger she put herself in daily.