A young, blue-haired girl walked down the streets of Miracle City, carrying a grocery bag full of dairy products. She stopped in her tracks as she jumped up in the air from a loud crash. As she fell to the ground, she looked up, seeing a huge, skeletal monster rampaging through the streets of Miracle City, her hometown. The punk teenager shrieked as she saw the hideous creature stomping right in her direction.

This girl was known as Frida Suarez. She was the daughter of a police officer and a female court judge. But oddly enough, she had no interest in pursuing a career which involved the law. Instead, she was a wannabe rock star. And as a matter of fact, she had a best friend who happened to be the undecided super of the town. That boy happened to be the famous El Tigre, whose alias was Manny Rivera.

El Tigre used his legendary tigre spirit to claw into the chest of the beast before it could crush Frida with its foot. Frida smiled and her eyes sparkled. The poor little rock star was hopelessly in love with her best friend. But who wouldn't be in love with a super macho teenager who was so bad and yet so heroic at the same time? The fact that this warrior was her closest friend who was willing to do anything to protect her didn't help her little crush either.

The giant skeleton froze as green flames began to spread from its chest to the rest of its undead body. The strange creature screamed as it fell to the ground and began to incinerate. A skeletal woman appeared from the shadows, her mouth gaping at the sight of her fiend getting destroyed so easily.

El Tigre scoffed. "Is that the best you got, Santana? I've fought that thing too many times now so it's way too simple to defeat it."

"Fool!" Santana screamed, "How dare you mock me! I shall have my vendetta on you!" She vanished with a simple strum of her mystic guitar.

Frida ran towards Manny and hugged him tight. "Thanks Manny! I thought I would be crushed for sure!"

Manny hugged her back. "Aw, it was nothing! Santana is just started to get a little too predictable if you know what I mean."

Frida let go of her friend and laughed a bit. "Yeah, did you see her face when you killed that skeleton thing? She acted like this was the first time you defeated her! What an idiot!"

The emerald-eyed teen laughed along with her. "I know! And could you believe what she said? "I shall have my vendetta on you!" how much dumber can a person get?"

"She's not even a person, dude!"

"I know!"

The two mischievous children laughed at the failed attempts of the elderly dead woman. They couldn't stop, they just found it hilarious. When Frida finally stopped, she blushed.

"So, umm, you wanna go get some ice cream or something?"

She pretty much just asked him out on a date. However, the boy dressed as a tiger was completely oblivious to the love struck feelings of the blue-haired girl. Her request to get ice cream with him was nothing more but a sign of friendship to him.

"Of course! Why wouldn't I want to get ice cream with mi mejor amiga?"

Frida found herself rubbing her hand against the back of her short neck. "To be honest, I have no idea…"

Manny snickered. "Come on, let's go. I'll pay for it."

"With what money?"

Manny took out a 10 dollar bill. "From the money in my grandpapi's back pocket."

Frida's eyes widened, "you stole money from your own grandpapi?" Manny stared at her as if she didn't even know who she was talking to. Then, she cheerfully punched his shoulder. "And he didn't even catch you? You're a genius!"

"Yeah, I know." El Tigre grinned. He put his arm around the goggled-girl and released his grappling hook towards a building, fastening his grip on the rooftop with his claws. Instantly, he was flying through the sky. Frida's face was completely red as she felt Manny's arm holding her. In return, she wrapped her arms tightly around his chest and sighed happily. Lucky for her, Manny didn't hear her little lovesick sigh.

Manny, who was no longer in his El Tigre costume, walked out of the ice cream parlor with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a cone. Shortly following him, Frida had mint chip ice cream. Suddenly, the rock star bumped into something hard and fell onto the rocky sidewalk. Luckily, her ice cream didn't spill. She looked up to see what she walked into. Unexpectedly, she walked into Manny.

"Manny? What are you doing?"

However, Manny wasn't paying attention to Frida, completely unaware that she had knocked into his back. Instead, his eyes were locked on something. This particular thing Manny was staring at left him frozen.

Frida stood up and nudged him. "Manny?"

Manny jumped. "What?" He looked at his friend, confused.

"What are you doing? Why are you just standing there? You made me walk into you!"

"Oh, sorry…" Manny apologizing. "I didn't even notice."

Frida raised an eyebrow. She opened her mouth to question her friend when something also caught her eye. It was a girl who was the exact same height as the two, only she was a year older. She sported black clothing and had crimson eyes, which matched her crimson lipstick. Her skin was pale and she had purple streaks running through her raven-colored hair.

This girl was Zoë Aves, the sworn enemy of Frida. These two young ladies had a burning hatred towards each other.

"Zoë Aves?" Frida growled.

"Save it, Suarez." The goth walked directly past the two pranksters. "As if I want to hear anything come out of your mouth."

"Shut up!" Frida yelled at her insult. "What the hell are you out of all the 7th graders in Miracle City doing here at an ice cream parlor?"

The loner quickly spun around to face the punk girl. "Even I get hot sometimes, Suarez. I didn't realize that a girl like me getting ice cream was such a problem for a blue-haired freak like you."

As Frida opened her mouth for a comeback, Manny interrupted her. "Hey Zoë!"

Zoë giggled. "Hola Manny. ¿Cómo estás?"

"Estoy bien, gracias. I see you've been working on your Spanish."

Zoë raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean working? I am almost completely fluent in the Spanish language."

"Oops… Sorry, I didn't know…"

"It's okay." Zoë shrugged.

Believe it or not, Manny and Zoë were friends before Frida came along. Manny was forced to choose between Frida and Zoë as his best friend. Much to Zoë's dismay, Manny chose Frida. However, this didn't stop Manny from thinking of Zoë as a friend. As for Zoë, she developed a crush on Manny after deciding to use El Tigre in order to destroy Frida in her alter ego, Black Cuervo, but in the process she ended up breaking El Tigre's heart. In a strange turn of events, El Tigre ended up breaking Black Cuervo's heart in return, but this didn't stop her crush on him. Before the heartbreak, El Tigre gave the raven-themed girl a necklace. She kept this necklace as a reminder of his affection. Unfortunately, she forgot to hide it on this particular day.

"Hey Zoë, where'd you get that necklace?" Manny wondered.

Zoë looked down at her neck and realized she forgot to hide it under her dress. She had to come up with an excuse fast before Manny and Frida discovered that she was secretly Black Cuervo.

"Yeah… That looks an awful lot like the necklace El Tigre gave Black Cuervo…" Frida glared at Zoë, "Are you hiding something, Aves?"

"Who? Me? Of course not, stupid girl! Since Tigre here broke Cuervo's heart, she decided to give this little necklace away. Fortunately for me, I happened to be the one Cuervo sold it to. I had no idea Manny made it. And what a lazy job he did, I might add."

"Lazy? Manny is not lazy!" Frida argued.

Manny placed a hand on Frida's shoulder, "nah, she's right Frida. It's just a nut on a chain. If you ask me, that's pretty lazy."

Zoë smirked at Frida. "Gracias, Manny."

Frida's hands tightened into fists. "Why you dirty little…"

"Easy, Frida…" Manny held her back.

"I'd better get going." Zoë began to walk away. "Adíos, Manny."

"Bye!" Manny waved at her.

Frida faced Manny, giving him an angry look. "Why were you talking to that witch?"

"Come on, Frida! Zoë isn't as bad as you think! You should at least try to give her a chance!"

Frida scoffed. "Me? Give that demon a chance? As if!" She licked her ice cream cone.

"Well, if you really feel that way, I won't make you. Come on; let's go throw water balloons at Señora Polná's cats!"

"You had me at water!"

Manny and Frida ran off, throwing their ice cream behind them. Little did they know that they were being followed by none other than Santana of the dead, who was still seeking revenge.

"Foolish children… Soon El Tigre will feel my wrath…" The undead woman turned her attention on Frida. "And what better way to get revenge then to turn his best friend against him? Sure, the flock of fury already attempted that, but the young raven was foolish to give away her plot. This time, it will be different. And it shall also be something that stupid tiger will never see coming…" Santana let out an evil laughter. Suddenly, she cut her laughter short. "I should really stop talking to myself… It's unhealthy."

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Sure, it doesn't seem very dramatic or suspenseful yet, but it will be soon enough. By the way, the first four chapters (unless I get around to writing more) will be submitted daily. But it'll only be the first FOUR since I already wrote them. I'm very busy with school and what not, but since I'm on break I'll try to write the next few chapters soon. Until then, R&R!