Ferret Twin And A Dragon (浣熊兄弟與東方龍)

[川崎大龍]

這是川崎發在國外的英文小說，算做是實驗性質的外文小說，文法中會有大量網路流行口語

文中的兩隻浣熊得感謝Banzai Jinto先生的外借，這是他的網誌。
http://banzai-jinto.tumblr.com/

這一篇尚在連載中，不過進度不穩定就是囉
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In a winter’s warming afternoon,away from big city,two raccoons searching inside the junkyard,one’s green while one’s blue,try to find some stuff that’s still usable for building their next machine.
“Hey Zee,take a look at this!"the young blue raccoon pick up a metal gear,waving it with excitement"We can use this on that generator.”,“OH Nice"just not far away,a green raccoon replys,looking for something useful,yep,here’s got more useful stuff than other scrapyard,he thinks.

They searching forward,pick up some stuff along the way,until….
"Bee,what’s that?"green raccoon stops,a shiny-new wooden box lying beside him,"Why there’s a wooden box this-clean here?”
Blue raccoon pick up the box,carefully opens it,theres a shiny red gem inside,Why this knid of stuff shows up in a junkyard? well this got our raccoon twins confused,“Why would somebody left this in here?”
“AH,you found it"a mysterious sound speaks,that scared the twins,"that’s MY stuff,good boy,GIVE IT TO ME"a guy with ninja cloth and a white ninja mask step out from shadows,speaking not-so-friendly.
putting his hand on katana on his waist,this makes our twins step back with fear,who is him? he don’t look like a good-guy,was this gem stollen? while green raccoon think about this,he suddenly pushes his brother run,Running toward the nearest exit in sight.

"BEE, RUN!"he yells,while the same time the white ninja chasing"YOU GUYS,STOP!”,yet suddenly,a team of black-ninjas shows up from the nowhere,blocking the way,spraying smoke toward the twins,making them lost their foot,tumble to the ground while coughing-unstoppably.
Damn! That’s paralyze smoke! blue raccoon just discovered what kind of smoke it is,but too late,they can only watching white ninja approach and fall to sleep.
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It’s so dark,ground’s shaking,there’s engine running,the blue raccoon find that he woke up in a small truck,and the only light he got,is light bulb on the ceiling, giving a weak yellowish light he can barely see stuff.
Groaning,he sit up with sore and pain everywhere,Where is this place? How long’s been passed since they got captured? And most important,where’s his brother?

Look around,moving his body,suddenly his paw feels another body,the familiar sound broke the silence“Bee? Is that you?”,there is,this makes our twins feeling whole lot better,at least they still got each other.
Hmm,seems like their hands got tied up,the green raccoon look into the wrist,those ropes seems not that thick,maybe here’s stuff can cut it? Look around the truck,maybe they’re lucky.
Suddenly, “wait,there’s somebody else” green raccoon take his brother hide into corner.

Raccoon twins finds that there’s a snake-like creature coiled in the middle,while his body seems as thick as twin’s,the scales covered the Creature’s skin…
Who is this?
“Hey Zee,is-is that…a big snake?” the blue raccoon lean against his brother terrified,Is this mysterious creature here to…hurt them…or even, Eat them?
“maybe…don’t worry,I’m here” though prentend like not scared,the green raccoon sure scared as hell, what will happen if HIM wake up,what should twins gonna do then? Here don’t got a stuff seems can protect them,actually,it’s quite empty here to be honest.

And then,just like the creature has heard the twins talking,his coiled body begin to slide,groaning painfully,uncoiled himself while scared the twins that they can only look at the long scale-covered body with terrfied looks,the green raccoon hug on to his brother,try to protect him from who-knows-what-will-happen-next.
All in that second,a claw stretch out from stacked-body,touches the ground while two horns pop up on the top,HEY,no,that’s not a snake…?
“Hey,Zee,His not a snake,HIS A DRAGON!” blue raccon said in surprise,no longer feeling scared,but curious,and the green raccoon got confused,if THIS is a dragon,why his body so long and skinny?
Finally,the horn’s owner raised his head,facing our twins with a blank look,blink a bit, “um…where is here? You two got captured too?”
that dragon looking peacefully,seems like he want no hostile with them,blue raccoon turn to his brother,hope he know how to answer in this akward moment,well,they thought HE could ate them.
“yea,we got taken,those ninja kidnapped you too?” looks like they just met a good guy, raccoons feels much safer now.

The Dragon nods,lay back on to ground,sigh,“Do you know who those ninja is?” He asking,the twins shakes head,They never seen this guy before, “We were just picking stuff in a junk yard,then that guy showed up with his ninjas,we got paralyzed,now,we are here” blue raccoon shurgs,that’s all he remember.
“Anyway,But…hope you don’t mind, you got a really long body to be honest” can’t take his eyes off this snake-like dragon,green raccoon start to questioning,what kind of dragon is him?
“OH , ‘cause I’m an Eastern dragon,that’s why I don’t looks like MOST dragon here,there’s only few eastern dragon I know live in this place” wagging tail,he suddenly raise his head “Oh sorry I forgot, I’m Kawasaki Dragonno,just name me Kawasaki,that’s how everybody say my name”
“Well,I’m Buttons”the blue raccoon wave his hand smiling,while green raccon reply “and I’m Zippers,we’re twins”
In that moment,our raccoon twin meet a dragon never seen before,together they were being taken to a unknown place,and the journey begins.
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Rubbing own eyes,Zippers find it’s awfully quiet,sometimes later he realized one thing,the truck’s engine stopped. “Hey,Buttons,get up,come on,truck stopped.” till now,still don’t know how long they been in that place, or where they’re now,but the only thing can be sure,is peaceful journey has ended.
Iron door opens in a sudden,Super bright make them unable to open their eyes,nor make clear what’s happening now,a ninja climb up the truck,yelling rudely “Hey you lazy guys,GET UP” ,holding a katana,drive them to get down.
the Twins jump down first,look around,it’s a japaness garden,surrounded by Eastern style buildings,with some apartment mixed,this makes Buttons confused “did we leaved our country?”

“No,it’s china town,east side of the big city”Kawasaki jumps down,standing with his rear feet,this place just like his old friend “I lived here before,almost perfect as my hometown,If not for that freaking high crime rate.”,“Uh,well you know where is here in china town?” even through Zippers can see what’s outside now,he still have no clue where they are.
Maybe cause ther’re surrounded by the high walls? No one knows.
“Hey,you there,stop wasting wasting time,boss is waiting!” ninja from the back pushed them,taking them walk pass through the gravel road,thought there’s lot’s of old japanese style here,the twins still finds that there’s bunch sensors and surveillance cameras going,Well,looks like these ninjas still got some new things.
Crossing the garden,walk through the bamboo forest,they’ve come to a japanese-style building,this ninja house make raccoon twins open their eyes,almost forget they’re actually being kidnapped,but for Kawasaki,he’s not that happy,not so willing to see familiar things in such condition.
Two ninjas appears at fron door in a sudden,pull the heavy door open,stare at raccoons and dragon while them walking in,then,they being taken through some hallways and rooms,stopped at a much larger room,as white ninja sits in there,some more ninjas appear when they walk in,lock the door,atmosphere begin to freeze,things not so right anymore.

“Ah,good,you are here.”the white ninja stands up,walks up to a wall and push a hidden door open, “Don’t worry Kids,I’m not some crazy bloody…brutal sadist,don’t worry your arms and feet they gonna be fine….” he speaks calmly,which makes it even more terrifying,in fact,our twins and dragon start to wonder if they will see some not-so-comfort stuff,like…a torture room.
But,they were wrong,after walking down the stairs behind hidden door,they’re in a big training room,many ninjas here are training,fighting,this makes theme relieved a bit.

“Well,Let’s say I considered your situation a bit,Kids,But of course not you,Dragon.”white ninja begin to explain,which makes Buttons and Zippers want to complain about their age,but the ninja with katana behind makes them shut the mouth,let’s better not to make them angry for now.
“I can understand why you in junkyard want a nice lookin’ gem,I’m a reasonable person,SO,i want to provide a better environment…” just as he’s speaking,they passed by some young ninjas,they’re under harsh training,and,fighting.
WAIT,white ninja’s talk and young ninja’s training combine toghter,this scared Kawasaki, “Woah woah woah,wait-wait,so you kidnapped them just for train them into your private ninja!?” the dragon’s talk shocked the twins,they look each other with surprise.
“OH my god,no no no,geez,You easterns are so good at gossiping” the ninja shakes head “I’m just extract them from bad environment,take them to a better,and give a better future.”

“HEY,who lives in a junk yard? We had a greater life before you get us!”Zippers argues,seems like that ninja just seen raccoon twin as somebody poor homeless living in junk yard.
“No need to explain,I understand,life outside is better,yeah,i know…” Well,looks like he ran into his own mind.
Raccoons and dragon looking at each other,can only shrugs.

they walk down another stair,arrived at a cell layer. “You guys stay here,i want a answer tomorrow, join us or not,and for you dragon,i have another job for you.”the white ninja finished,make ninjas throw three into cell,walk away and leave two ninja guards them at some distance.
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“Hey,Zee,you think we still got chance to get out?”Buttons asking,while lying on the Dragon’s body, its’ been a while since they’re in,if don’t get out now,there’s almost no chance at all getting out after white ninja arrive,iron doors and iron cells looks harsh,hard to destroy,plus once they have odd moves will alert the guard ninjas,what now?

Kawasaki lays on the ground,letting raccoon twins laying against him,now the dragon asks “Hey Buttons,how long’s been since we got here?”
“Ah,wait a sec’ ”the blue raccoon carefully pull out his phone,took a peek “well it’s almost an hour,its so bored…HEY,wait” he begins using phone with excitement,like he just discovered something.
“What?”Buttons’ move draw other two’s attention,look at his phone together, “They got FREE Wifi!”
Uh huh,good,now they won’t bored to death,but this got Kawasaki a bit confused,what’s with a free WiFi actually? “um…wha-what? I mean theres a lot of free wifi out there,it’s nothing strange if they got one here…”
“n-no no,look at this”Buttons put his phone at Kawasaki’s face,just a few seconds look makes the dragon blew his mind,the blue raccoon already got the whole building’s map.

well now THAT’s something, “I hacked their system from wifi,this ones got from their database,thought I think I can do even more than just download something.”
This map cheers up the three,so now if they got the map,maybe there’s chance getting out,but,first things first,how about iron cell?
Kawasaki raises his head,observing two ninjas in the distance,at the same time use his long body as cover so the twins can figure out how the map works,and where are they.
Looks like that two ninjas’ just talking,if they’re not the order-follower types,maybe there’s some chance tricking them open the door? The dragon turn his head back,saying “Hey,I got an idea.”

few minutes later,two guards hear a wired noise,something like a radio malfunctioned,this attracts ninjas come closer to it’s source,the cell three is in.
“hey,what you guys doin…HEEEEY! WHY YOU GOT A CELLPHONE?”one ninja point at Buttons’ phone as another one pull out katana, Threatening “you guys hand it up,and nobody will ever know”
Buttons shrugs with innocent face,stand back to the wall with Zippers “But I did nothing,why don’t you just get in and take it yourself?”
“ALRIGHT,you guys stay where you are,after I got in,you will have a big ass trouble,same as you,dragon!”the ninja took his keys out in anger,insert it,open the door.
All in that moment,Kawasaki jumps toward,Headbutt the ninja so hard he fainted,the dragon than strikes the other ninja with his tail,swing like a whip,sending other ninja to the dream,things happen so fast they’re incapable of taking action,Well this is easier than expected.
However,after the strike,white ninja suddenly shows up at the stairs,with his ninja teams like they’re about to have a big fight,Are they monitoring the whole place from beginning?

The dragon turned to Buttons,looking for help,they’ve got big trouble now.
The green raccoon took his cellphone,press the screen,the whole cell went in dark in a second,when ninjas find the switch again,those three have already long gone,just like a real ninja, “Hey Boss, what we do now? They are gone.”, the white ninja replys,while looking at open vent on the ceiling “Well,don’t waste our time here,they’re better than I thought, Damn it”

As for the other side,in the hidden room between first floor and basement,the three are staring at a extreme complex map on Buttons’ phone,filled with comments and ninja-trap’s explanation, everything seems a total mess,this got Kawasaki and Buttons confused, Well now that’s what a ninja’s house looks like,so complicated.
“Hey Zee,can you read this?” the blue raccoon hand the phone to his brother,maybe his understandment in engineering will help?
Zeepers took the phone,begins seeing around the map, “hmm…let me look…” ,look around,sure its super complex,but there’s so many useless stuff, let’s ignore them,look again,it turned into a simple map in a sudden,hey.
“Alright,I know how it works.” Zippers walks forward,push open a hidden door,this door leads to another hallway.
What just happened surprise Buttons and Kawasaki,Woah,he’s really good.
Can’t help but Kawasaki also surprised how good these ninja copying japanese builder’s works.

“Hey Zee,look at this” as they walk down the hallways, Buttons finds that the left wall’s actually a huge one-way mirror, this can let them see the whole training room,but for the other side, no one’s gonna see them.
So this is how white ninja watching the whole training process? Wow.
“Woah,that’s cool” Blue raccoon can’t help but like it,but as they arrived at the end of hallway,theres only a storage room,yep,nothing else.
Kawasaki look back unsurely, “dead end?” ,well,it’s sure only this way.
Zippers looks again the cellphone, suddenly,he go forward pulling open a cabinet,theres a hidden stair inside goes up, “dude,only ninjas can came up with this.”

Opening the trap door at the end of stairs,take a peek,seems like now they are on a entresol.
There’s another entresol on the other side,between them are beams connected,and under them,some ninjas are doing meditation,now they need to think a way to cross here…
“Um…thats really high,can we walk on them?”Zippers keeps his voice down,avoiding alert the ninjas beneath, but there’s no webs or protection under the beams,what will happen if falls down? “looks like if we want to reroute,we got to get back to cells to do that,and other than that after here is almost outside…but now these beams…”.
Kawasaki touches the beans with his claw,grab it,nod and says “Hey,maybe I can do it,climb on my back, my claw can handle it…one at a time” Well,the dragon do have a really thick claws,this makes Buttons want to take a shoot,as Zipeprs begin to worry.
“careful there” ,while the green raccoon helping his brother get up the dragon, all of them begin to nervous, “Alright I’m ready” Buttons hug tight the dragon’s neck,they set off.

Every step’s like walking in the mine field,the dragon grip the beam so tight the claws’ almost stuck in the wood,Kawasaki slowly going forward,with full concentrate maintaining his balance,mean time Buttons look down under, ninjas’ still doing their meditations,let’s hope them never moves,nor look up,maybe they fell in sleep already?

Half a minute passed,fells like a year,this make Zippers so nervous,hopes nothing goes wrong.

“Almost….there…” The front claw get on the floor first,than the rear,finally they got to the otherside without being noticed,but,this is only first part of it.
Let the raccoon get down,Kawasaki turn around,set off back on to the beam again,as he get all the nerves again, he actually goes much faster this time,without those extra weight.

Just at that moment,some noises pop up from beneath,scared the dragon so deeply he stuck on the beam right there, what happened? They don’t even dare to look down,the ninjas stood up,all looking forward,seems like somebody’s talking but nobody can’t see it.
Waving hand,Zippers hints Kawasaki get back fast with gesture, this makes our sweaty dragon start moving forward again,with his claw’s shaking,NO ninja looking up? Great.

Back at the entresol,looks like the ninja’s talking won’t end soon,they decide to take some risk and make the walk, The dragon carry up the raccoon and step onto the beam again,but this time,even Zippers can feel the dragon’s shaking body, “you alright?” he asks scared.

“I’m alright don’t worry,we’ll make it”Kawasaki answers scared too,He’s not even sure when will any ninja look up and finds these run away guys.
With sweaty claws,every step’s like an adventure,suddenly the talk’s finished,The dragon scared to jump that he made it onto the floor dangerously,take the tales back,to their luck nobody noticed.

Reliefed,they’re still remain unnoticed, Hey,maybe they can be a real ninja now?
“Goosh,that was crazy.” Buttons pets dragon’s head,his long body still breathing up and down with his panting, “Hey,Zee,how far till we get out?” “um…looks like outside the door is their parking lot,get out there and we’re out”Zipper pointing at the edge of map,now they can finally leave these odd ninjas behind.
“What we gonna do after that?”Buttons raise his head,look at the other two,but nobody got an answer yet, “How about Let’s get outta here first and find some other map later,hey, they’re still under us”Zippers points at ninjas under floor.
Three nods,open the door.


At that moment,strong light almost blind them,so bright that they had to use the hands to block the light, What happened?

“Ah,look who’s here” that annoying sound again.
White ninja now stand in the three’s way,with bunch of ninjas stand behind,they were surrounded.