A/N: This story is from an RPG I'm currently doing with my friend Soaker87.
Summary: After the great Mantid was defeated the invecteds and Turandots finally stopped fighting and decided that they would live among one another in peace. But little did they know, some invectids did not wish to live among the Turandots because of Mantids once great rule. They didn't trust the Turandots. They are now known as a group called The True Invectids. They are lead by Mothran. Who is Mothran? No one knows, or so that's what they think… One of the invectids knows about him, but how? Well I guess you'll just have to read the story to find out.
This is the original summary that I came up with before we started…. (I personally like the one above better.)
It takes place after episode 52. The spider riders arrived back at Arachna Castle. Invectids and humans are finally living together in peace, or so they thought. Some of the invectids aren't completely convinced that the humans can be trusted. They formed a group and are now looking to over throw the spider riders and take control of the kingdom. After they come across more spider riders wandering around the Arachnian territory, the former big four, team up with the spider riders to stop this new threat, but there's a problem... whenever they go out of town they are attacked by the group of invectids. How do they know where they are all the time? Is there a spy within the Castle?
Hunter, Igneous and Corona along with their spiders had just finished patrolling around the forest. As usual it was quiet; it was always quiet except for the occasional theif. Ever since the Turandots and Invectids started to live among one another, things have been quiet. Hunter was complaining that there's nothing to do anymore like usual.
"Come off it Hunter." said Igneous.
" But you have to admit it's been quite quiet since the Invectids started to colonate here." stated Shadow, from Hunters manacle.
"I agree but the peace is nice after we've been fighting the Invectids for so long." said Corona.
" I guess you're right..." said Hunter half heartedly. Hunter looked up at the sky.
'I wonder what things are like now in the outer world.' thought Hunter.
Meanwhile in the castle Aqune was sitting pondering. Aqune wasn't even sure why she was here. She was happy to finally have the chance to live in peace, around people she cared about, but somehow her life was still complicated. Living in peace didn't necessarily mean the two races were living together, and so she still technically had to choose between the Spider Riders and the Invectids.
As of now, she had been spending much of her time traveling back and forth between the two castles. She had been rather concerned about Buguese's injuries that he had suffered from his attempts to fight Mantid. He was lucky to be alive, but still needed help. Of course, being the way he was, he would never admit to that, and so she didn't want to bother him by fussing over him too much. Plus, he had Stags and Beerain to help him. So, she went back to Arachna castle for the time being. When she returned, she had been informed by Lumen that Hunter, Corona and Igneous had gone out. Deciding to wait for them, she found a quiet place to sit down. Portia wanted to see her brother, so she released her spider from the manacle to do as she chose.
Princess Sparkle was saying goodbye to uncle hop because he was going to see his family at mantid's old castle.
Sparkle called Hotarla out of her manacle and they were wandering through the halls. The Princess stopped outside of her brothers office. She opened the door to see her brother sleeping in his chair. She took a look at the desk and saw a huge pile of documents to be signed. Sparkle frowned, obviously he wouldn't have time to play with her this afternoon.
Sparkle and Hotarla kept wandering through the maze of halls. Once they reached the great hall she noticed Aqune and Portia.
"Hotarla do you think we could ask Aqune and Portia to play with us," whispered Sparkle.
"Ku, Ku." answered Hotarla nodding her head up and down.
Sparkle walked into the room, leaving Hotarla to follow her. Sparkle came up behind Aqune.
"Aqune," Asked Sparkle tapping the older girl lightly on the back. "Would you and Portia like to play with Hotarla and me?"
While she was slightly startled to be confronted by the child, Aqune didn't see anything wrong with playing with her. She wanted to get to know the other Riders more anyway.
"Sure, we wouldn't mind," she said, getting up to face Sparkle. Portia silently nodded in agreement.
"Great then," Sparkle said, happily. She always liked to make new friends, and had never really gotten the chance to talk with Aqune and her spider for long. "Come with me."
Aqune took her hand, and allowed Sparkle to lead her outside.
Sparkle led her outside to the court yard.
"I thought we could play tag..." said Sparkle shyly.
"Alright," agreed Aqune.
Sparkle smile and touched her arm.
"Tag, you're it!!" said Sparkle as she ran off around the court yard.
Aqune chased her around the yard laughing.
Suddenly Sparkle stopped Running.
"Is something the matter," asked Aqune.
Aqune looked in the same direction to see one of the main buildings in the city burning in large flames.
"Portia, we should check it out," she said to the Spider, getting on her back. Aqune wasn't sure if it was a good idea for Sparkle to come with them. She was a Spider Rider, but she was still little.
"Stay here for now," she decided quickly, heading off before Sparkle could respond.
She noticed a man running out, looking slightly charred. There was a crowd of others out there, watching.
"Are you alright?" Aqune asked.
"Yes," he said, "but there might be others still inside. I think something attacked this place."
Right after Aqune left Sparkle decided she would follow her. After all she was curious about what happened.
Back in Lumen's office, he had just been awakened by the page telling him that one of the main building was aflame. Lumen contacted Igneous, Corona, Magma, and Hunter and told them about it. They were only 10 minutes away from the town, so they would be there in about 15 minutes.
'Where is Sparkle...' thought Lumen. 'Last time I checked she was saying her goodbyes to Grasshop... Aqune's in the castle too, I wonder if they are out in the court yard playing.'
Lumen looked out the window just in time to see Sparkle heading toward the fire.
"SPARKLE!!" Shouted Lumen, but it was no use he was too far away for her to hear him.
Lumen dashed out of the room and headed to the main entrance. He called out Ebony. Ebony knew what to do, he took off at full speed headed toward the burning building.
Aqune wondered to herself why anyone would attack a building in Arachna and harm innocent people. There was no longer any fighting going on, and she trusted that now that the Invectids had what they needed, they wouldn't have to try and steal land from the humans anymore. Either way, destroying buildings wouldn't accomplish anything, because then nobody could have it, unless, it was meant to frighten people.
She hoped that everyone was safe, but couldn't be sure. She would have no other choice but to go inside. As long as she was careful, she wouldn't get hurt. The Oracle's power could keep her safe. Cautiously, she went into the building, and tried to visually scan as much as she could.
"Is anyone here?" she called.
When Sparkle finally reached the building she asked a man that looked like he had been hurt.
"Excuse me, have you seen a girl with a blackish outfit, short purple hair and a purple battle spider, by and any chance." Sparkle asked the man.
"Yes, she went into the building to see if anyone else is in there." answered the man.
Sparkle gasped. Suddenly Ebony and Lumen appeared right next to Sparkle.
"Sparkle why did you come here," Asked Lumen putting his hands on his sisters shoulders.
Sparkle didn't answer; she just let out a small sob.
"Sparkle..." said the Prince in wonder. "What happened?"
"One of the Spider Riders ventured inside of the building." reported one of the soldiers.
Lumen thought for a moment. He looked down at Sparkle.
"Aqune went in there didn't she?" asked Lumen.
Sparkle nodded.
"Ku, Ku." added Hotarla.
Lumen knelt down and hugged her comfortingly.
"She'll be fine." comforted Lumen.
"Help!" came a cry from the distance. Because it was getting harder to see through the smoke, Aqune had to estimate the distance to its source. Holding her breath, she headed in further, and discovered a small girl trapped under a wooden panel, which must've fallen from the ceiling. If the roof was collapsing, this only added to the danger, but it didn't matter to her. She had always believed that the lives of others were more important than her own.
"Oracle's light!" Aqune yelled, transforming herself.
"You're a Spider Rider!" She heard the child exclaim. "I knew they would come to help."
Nodding, Aqune bent down to lift the board from the ground. It was heavy, but manageable. "Run!" she called, sensing that the roof was about to crash further.
The girl did so, and Aqune hurried behind her to the exit.
Seconds later, Igneous, Corona, Hunter and Magma along with their spiders came rushing towards the burning building.
"What happened?" asked Igneous.
"We don't know. But one of the survivers thinks they were attacked." replied one of the soldiers.
Magma looked at the flames.
'Mom, Dad, Sister... who ever started this fire beware.' thought Magma.
Brutus knew what Magma was thinking. It was of the day Brutus rescued Magma from the fire at his village.
(OOC: I just had to put
this in because I know everyone loves fillers, especially
since Naruto has them all the time. So here's a filler brought to
you by popular demand.)
FLASH BACK...
"Mommy, Daddy, Sister." sobbed Magma.
He was leaning against what was left of one of the wall surrounding the village. Brutus came swinging in from a tree. With one of his webs he picked up Magma and carried him out of the flames to a near by forest.
"Are you alright?" asked Brutus.
Magma nodded still sobbing.
"Believe it or not I know how you feel, for not long ago I was seperated from my family along with my sister."
Magma looked at the spider, and then looked down at his arm.
"Would you be my battle spider?" asked Magma.
"Alright." agreed Brutus.
"I vow to help you find your lost sister..." said Magma.
"Thank you, I am forever grateful."
END FLASH BACK.
A/n: So what do you think? Review!! I know I probably won't get many for this because Spider Riders isn't exactly what I'd call popular. But it's fun putting it all together so I don't have to look all over the forum just to find all the posts. I hope you enjoyed the first of many chapters.