Villains High: Amanda Spins A Yarn

Narrator: The universe is full of stories. Stories of faraway places, fantastical creatures, action battles ranging from gladiator fights to car chases, and heroes defeating villains. These heroes have always been remembered for their courage, selflessness, and great services to the community. For saving their worlds, their legacies have been preserved...

* Radio scratch*

Yeah, well, see, we're not here to talk about heroes. No we'll be talking about villains and antiheroes (reformed villains, heroes lacking heroic skills, or people born from a villain and a hero). Actually, let me rephrase this. Camera!

*Camera zooms in on Villainapolis until it had a full shot of Villains High*

Let's be honest, people. If villains and antiheroes weren't involved in the plots and climax of every event in real life and stories, none of the heroes would have achieved their great deeds. Some villains are pure evil, some aren't, and some just don't know how evil they can be.

The good news is that in Villainapolis, the main capital of all villains (don't worry, they're friendly to tourists), there is an amazing place called VILLAINS HIGH. It's a high school for the children of villains and antiheroes, where they take evil classes and make wicked friends or foes as they learn to discover what kind of villain or antihero they are.

But I've said too much so far. It's time to let the characters tell their side of the story. Let us begin the first curse of Villains High. (P.S: 'Curse' in this series will be a way of saying 'Chapter'.

Amanda Spins A Yarn

"Where did I put it?" Amanda Von Stiltskin muttered as she scavenged the inside of her locker thoroughly and dug things out. "There's no way I could lose it!"

"Amanda, what are you doing?" Amanda pulled her head out of her locker and looked at Noir Du Feu and Florence Poison Isley, who glanced at both her and all the items she had dug out of her locker: textbooks, notebooks, pencils, gold strings, diamonds, jewels, and other valuable items.

"I'm looking for my spinning wheel!" Amanda said. "You know, the portable one that my dad gave me for my thirteenth birthday?" She used her hand to show the girls the approximate size of her spinning wheel, which was close to the size of a regular lunchbox.

"You mean the one that you use to spin straw into dollar bills because your dad is too lazy to start up his own bank account?" Noir asked skeptically. Visual images flashed through her head of Amanda's dad making dollar bills appear in a living room until it was flooded and became a pool for Amanda and her dad to swim in.

"What?" Amanda shrugged in defense. "My dad's Rumplestiltskin, he makes money. What's the point of starting a bank account when you could be saving money by spinning wealth out of straw in your own basement?"

"And you'd be saving the environment," Florence smiled as she stroked the cover of her Botanical Biochemistry textbook cover. Noir and Amanda sweat dropped just from watching the daughter of Poison Ivy caressing her textbook made of wood as if it were a puppy. "So many trees are killed just for making paper to print out dollar bills. That's why I prefer using credit cards."

Noir shook her head and went back to the main topic. "Your spinning wheel was in your locker the last time you saw it?" she asked Amanda.

"Yeah, I put it there before heading to my morning class somewhere around 8:30 am." Amanda pointed at the top shelf of her locker. "And when I came back after lunch to get my stuff for my afternoon classes, it was gone! I have to find it before my dad finds out I lost it! MY dad threatened to ground me for life if he finds out I lost it!"

"OK, calm down!" Noir held out her hands to make Amanda chill. "I have an idea of how to find your spinning wheel, but do you have anything that's connected to the spinning wheel? Maybe, something among the first results of your spinning?"

"Of course!" Amanda searched through her purse and pulled out a ball of golden yarn. "This, however, I keep with me all the time in my backpack."

"What is it?" Florence touched the yarn ball. "Hey, it's gold!"

"Yep. The thing is, in order to spin dollar bills out of my portable spinning wheel, you need actual gold like the one my dad and I usually spin from straw."

"OOH!" Noir realized. "To add real monetary value!"

"Yep. Otherwise it's as fake as dollar bills in a Minion-opoly game. I keep a yarn of golden straw in my bag at all times if I ever need to make more dollar bills when I'm not at home or if somebody dares to steal my spinning wheel."

"Perfect. Let me contact Tapidus Mole..."

Five minutes later

The girls walked through the hallways in the underground catacombs as they followed Tapidus Mole, who sniffed the air in order to catch the value-scent of the spinning wheel.

"Brr! The catacombs are creepy!" Florence shivered. "I never understood why they put parts of the Parisian catacombs under Villains High."

"Ask kids like Charles Frollo and Gitane Trouillefou, I'm sure they'll give you answers," Noir said. They stopped when they saw Tapidus sniffing the wood off a nearby door.

"The spinning wheel is behind that door!" He continued to inhale. "I can smell it!"

"OK, Mole Boy. I've got this!" Noir cracked her knuckles and created purple energy blasts out of her hands. Without wasting a second, she hit and destroyed the door, granting the group access to a room with a table at the center of it. But what really shocked them was that they found who the culprit was as she began to lift her huge clown hammer above Amanda's spinning wheel.

"JESSIE JOKER?" they exclaimed.

Jessie turned her head and threw away her hammer, breaking some sort of pot in the process. "Hi...guys!" She tried to sound cool. "What's up?"

"What's up?" Amanda's eyes nearly popped after she raced to retrieve her spinning wheel. "You stole and nearly destroyed my spinning wheel!"

"Hey, my daddy stripped me off my allowance for a week and I needed cash to get me new shoes!" Jessie protested. "I heard that your toy make bucks out of wool, so I sort of borrowed it, but it's not working so I thought I'd give it a little kick!"

"First off, it's not a toy!" Amanda snapped. "Second, I use straw, not wool, and it works, thank you very much!" Amanda's eyes glowed with a green aura, followed by her spinning wheel glowing in a similarly shaded aura and growing into a full-size spinning wheel. Everyone watched with intrigue as the daughter of Rumplestiltskin placed her golden straw yarn in the driving wheel and bobbin, stomped on the treadle, and spun the drive wheel crazily. In the process, freshly printed dollar bills came out of the bobbin. The spindle moved like a robotic arm and stacked the dollar bills in a neat pile on the floor until Amanda was done and set her spinning set back to normal.

"This is how it works," Amanda showed Jessie Joker her newly printed bills. "And I'm warning you, clown! I don't care if you're working for her, but the next time I catch you stealing my stuff, I'll be spinning your bones into charcoal and leave it in the Darts and Crafts room!"

"Fine..." Jessie Joker pouted.

Class bell rings, indicating the end of lunch break

"Thanks for helping me find my spinning wheel, you guys," Amanda said gratefully as they walked down the hallway of the third floor in order to get to class. "And to thank you three...FREE DOLLARS!"

Noir, Tapidus, and Florence cheered as Amanda handed each of them ten freshly spun dollar bills.

"Ooh, it smells like mint!" Tapidus sniffed the pack of dollar bills that he held in his hands.

"Uh, Amanda?" Noir flipped through her bills while Florence looked with equal shock. "Why are all the bills you've given us 100 dollar bills?"

"Eh, it's the value you get when you spin with yarn made of golden straw." Amanda winked.

*End of Episode*

*Characters Introduced:

Amanda Von Stiltskin, daughter of Rumplestiltskin from the fairy tale of the same name

Noir Du Feu, daughter of Blackfire from TEEN TITANS

Florence Poison Isley, daughter of Poison Ivy from the BATMAN comics

Tapidus Mole, son of the Mole King from THE ADVENTURES OF TOM THUMB AND THUMBELINA

Jessie Joker, daughter of the Joker and Harley Quinn from the BATMAN comics

To view these characters, search for VILLAINSHIGHROCKS on Deviantart*

*Next Episode: Martin Fiske' Heart Strikes*