Okay, thanks for the suggestions to keep going. I added to this first chapter, and will be posting another soon. I don't own any of the Peanuts characters. I hope I don't offend any Peanuts fans...

The Fiery Queen

Lucy had been beating her brother again when a loud screech filled the air. A flaming arrow shattered the glass window and ignited the kitchen table, closely followed by a big ugly Orc. Its fierce orange eyes and black skin were barely perceptible in the darkness outside.

A well placed throw from Linus put a dagger in the brute's throat, ending its life quickly. Lucy grabbed a heavy mace and smashed the next Orc in the groin, then the head. Linus' ever resent blanket lashed out a third Orc, curling around its neck.

With a swift jerk the beast's neck snapped. A door between the pair crashed open and in ran Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Schroeder. Shroeder's sword was shaped like a piano key, but was quite deadly, as another Orc found out quickly.

Charlie Brown howled in glee as his kite shaped chain mace bashed in a skull and backhanded another one. A machine gun rattled off as Snoopy flew through the room on his dog house, wreaking massive damage on the Orc battalion.

Snoopy cackled as he peppered an Orc relentlessly until it fell. His round black eyes gleaming mischievously under his aviator goggles…

Finally the orc's dwindled and with three left the five close friends surrounded their enemies. Seeing defeat the orcs dropped their rudimentary weapins and raised their hands in the air.

"Why have you come?" asked Linus, a pair of fine twin daggers poised in his hands, wrists slightly cocked and ready to snap forward and launch the deadly projectiles.

"To kill you," an orc stated simply.

"Why? Who sent you" asked Charlie Brown.

"The fiery queen! She want you dead, like big bugs. You cause too much trouble!"

"Who is this grouchy woman?" asked Lucy thrusting her mace out threateningly.

"I am!" came a beautiful, yet terrible voice. Through the door came a young woman with long red hair. Her eyes were like sapphires. She wore an ankle length black dress, split to her upper thigh on one side and fishnet leggings. The front of her dress was cut low on her chest and the sleeves went down to the tip of her middle finger. She was cloaked in black flames and wore a black steel crown.

"You were the little red-haired girl!" cried Charlie Brown. "How'd you get so big?"

"Foolish child," came the voice again, ringing in their heads, her lips never moving. "You have killed my minions, something unforgivable. If I were you I would bow to the queen before your death."

Charlie Brown's mouth was moving soundlessly in silent shock, then the words hit him. The kite mace began to whir as it started springing on its chain. "You'll not kill my friends, !"

He sprang forward fiercely, his mace coming forward and cutting through the air, slashing where the queen had stood a second before. She was gone, but her voice came drifting to the four living friends. "I'll not stop until you're all dead. You four will come to me. I would expect nothing less. And when you do…"

A/N: This began as a fifteen minute writing done in a small group. I got as far as Snoopy cackling, his black eyes gleaming mischievously. Everything else from there on out is what I'm adding later. Ask me about 15-minute writings. It is a good way to start your creative juices flowing.