IV: Slither


"Why are back in this shit hole?" said Bobby to his friend Takeshi. Bobby and Takeshi are two sewage workers for the town. They returned back to the sewer to unclog something stuff in the main line.

"Because business is business," said Takeshi flipping his flashlight on to take a look and then handing it to Bobby, "But if you complain so much about the job, why are you even working here?"

"Someone in my family as to earn a living somehow," he said to him, "But maybe I should stayed in college and not ended up in a crap job like this."

"No kidding," Takeshi replied, "Look, I forgot the map for this system, I'll be right back." He then climbed the ladder out and disappeared.

"Humph," mumbled Bobby walking away from the ladder. He walked down the tunnel waving the flashlight around to see if he can find the clog.

Then he heard something behind him. He turned around and looked around, no one. "Takeshi is that you?" Bobby called out down the tunnel, "I'm not into games. Just give me the map."

No reply came. Bobby walked down the tunnel to see who it was, but he saw no one. He turned around to face something huge with piercing yellow eyes.


"There it is!" said Takeshi pulling the map out of his truck, "I got to remember this or I'll have to keep coming back up here." He then heard Bobby scream loudly.

"Bobby?" said Takeshi turning to face the manhole, "Are you ok?" No sound emerged from the hole.

"This isn't good," said Takeshi grabbing his pistol he kept in the glovebox and raced down into the sewer. He looked around and saw his flashlight laying on the ground. He ran up and grabbed it. Then he saw Bobby laying dead on the ground. His eyes were shut tightly like he saw something horrible.

"What the hell?" said Takeshi looking at his friend dead on the ground. He then heard something up ahead. He shined his flashlight at it and saw something huge. It was ducking into another tunnel and looked like a giant snake's body.

"Holy crap," mumbled Takeshi watching it disappear into the tunnel. Then he heard a hiss down that tunnel and he took off.


"Hooray!" shouted everyone bursting out of the school doors. The week was over and Spring Break was as arrived.

"Ah Spring Break," said JD leaving the school with Sakura and Madison following him behind, "Nothing like getting away from it all for one whole great week of fun!"

"Now that your week is over," said Madison sadly, "You'll probably leave and return home right?"

"You kidding me?" he said to her, "I can't leave now. I feel partly responsible for unleashing these monsters on the town. After all, this wouldn't have happened if I didn't give Sakura the book."

"But it's really my fault," said Sakura, "I let the monsters loose. There is really no reason for you to stay here."

"I insist that I stay until the problem is over," said JD, "Plus you probably need all the help you can get with destroying these things."

"But you don't have any magic," said Sakura.

"Doesn't mean I can't try to help," he replied with a smile, "I'll help to the best I can."

"Any I'll be getting all of this on tape!" said Madison, "Another round of Sakura's Adventures to get on tape! I was getting bored anyways, we needed some excitement in this old place."

"Yeah I guess I could use some help," said Sakura to JD, "Eli hasn't still arrived yet, but are you sure your girlfriend would go for this? I don't think she would want you to put your life on the line here."

"My life was all about learning and teaching to others," he said, "My life needs some excitement otherwise I would probably be bored to death in a matter of years of teaching to others."

Sakura smiled and nodded. Both girls headed towards Madison's home for a sleepover and JD continued on his way back to the hotel. He entered the hotel and went to its bar before heading upstairs. "Need a quick drink," he mumbled to himself and called to the bartender, "One Mountain Dew please!"

The bartender handed him his drink and he turned his attention to the TV in the room. On it, there was a reporter from the news saying, "Is there a strange monster living in our sewer system? I'm here live at the manhole just next to Police Station. Today, a sewage worker called Takeshi Krause claims to have seen a giant snake in the sewer. Here he is now."

"It was huge!" said Takeshi to the reporter, "It had to be over 30 feet longer or something! It was green, I didn't see the head, but I hear it breath and hiss. I believed it killed my friend Bobby down there."

"But sir," said reporter, "There was no markings of any kind that could have said he was killed by it and there appears to be no sign of that thing."

"But I saw with my own two eyes," he said to the reporter, "My friend probably died from fright by that thing. He's all the proof you need to know."

"Is there a monster down there?" said reporter turning her attention back to camera, "Police are now beginning there search down into the sewers to find it. We will bring you more coverage as this story unfolds."

"Hmm," said JD, "Looks like we found the first monster from the book already. I better call them about what I just seen."


Later that night, Madison was on her computer in her home while talking to JD while Sakura watched. "A giant snake?" she said typing something up on the computer, "Over 30 ft long? I think I might know what this thing is. Bingo!"

"What you find?" JD asked her.

"Do now what a Basilisk is by any chance?" she said to him.

"I remember reading one in a book something ago and in the movie based off it," said JD, "But not too much else."

"Basilisk is supposed to be King of the Serpents," said Madison, "A glance of looking into its eyes or breathing its breath is supposed to be fatal to anyone."

"Explains probably how the guy died down there in the sewers," said Sakura.

"According to another source that the snake is so venomous that it leaves a trail of venom in its wake," said Madison, "Also, there are said to be three forms of this creature, a huge lizard, a giant snake, or a three foot high cockerel with a snake's tail and teeth."

"But we know this thing is a snake," said Dot taking the phone away from JD, "Anything else important?"

"Some say it breathes fire or kill with sound," said Madison, "But this one can't kill with sound, but that guy would died if he heard that hiss. Oh yeah, this thing is supposed to be the guardian of the Swiss city of Basel."

"Maybe that's where Clow Reed found this thing," said Sakura, "I hate snakes."

"Now is there anything how to kill this thing," said JD, "Because I don't want to go down there without being prepared for this monster."

"Well," said Madison, "It can't be killed by touch of a human, but it can be killed by something touching a human. Like that sword from the movie that killed that one. It is also claimed that it can be killed by hearing the sound of a rooster crow or glazing at itself in mirror. But that's pretty much it."

"Where the heck are we going to get a rooster?" said Dot worried, "It's not like there is a farm around here or anything like that!"

"We need a big mirror!" said JD, "Tomorrow I'll go out and get one!"

"I do have the Sword Card," said Sakura to Madison, "I can use it to slay the beast if the mirror doesn't work. But I never killed anything before, and I don't want to."

"Ok then," said JD hearing her, "Then we'll just let the snake kill more people because you don't to. Don't chicken out now! People need you to save them from this thing they can't explain!"

"You're right!" said Sakura, "I got to stop it and the other monsters like it or this whole town and the world itself goes to hell."


"Humph," mumbled Takeshi walking down the ladder and into the sewers, "I show them, I'll kill this monster and prove there is something down here." He had recently just bought a deer rifle for the moment and brought back his flashlight to look around the sewer system.

He dropped down into the water that came up to his torso. "Now where are you?" said Takeshi raising his gun, "Come out you stupid son of…" There was a splash behind him. He got out of the water and back onto the concrete pathway. He looked around the water and saw nothing.

"Why don't you show yourself?" shouted Takeshi at the water, "I know you're in there!" Then something huge came out of the water and launched itself at him. He screamed in horror dropping his gun into the water and his flashlight onto the ground. Then everyone the light from the flashlight went out and everything was dark.


"Now how big do we need this mirror to be for this huge snake to see its self?" said JD to Madison. Both of them went down to a store with a bunch of mirrors for sale to see if they could find a big enough one.

"I bet something huge like this!" said Madison pointing to mirror, "I bet it can see itself in a mirror like this."

"That's 100 in on both sides!" said JD," We'll never be able to care that or be able to shove it down into the sewer!"

"Then we still have Sakura's sword," said Madison, "We don't need to be here then. Let's head back now."

As they both started to leave the store, a woman ran into the store and up to the woman at the counter. "Kasumi!" she said to the woman behind the counter, "I have some terrible news!"

"What now Liza?" she said to the woman, "I'm busy working this store."

"While police were looking into the sewers for that thing your husband said he saw," continued Liza, "They found a body bitten in half! They think it's your husband!"

"Takeshi?" said Kasumi

"We better stop this thing soon," whispered JD to Madison, "We have another dead person because of this thing!"


That night, everyone meet by the manhole in front of the police station. They were ready to enter the sewers. "Do we have everything?" said JD.

"My wand is transformed into a sword and is here," said Sakura showing her it to him.

"My camera is here!" said Madison raising it up.

"All the flashlights are here," said Dot handing one to everyone, "Do I have to come?"

"No," said JD, "You can stay here, but you get help as soon as you can if you hear screams. Ok?"

"Please be safe," said Dot hugging JD, "I don't want to lose you down there."

JD blushed and nodded. He lifted up the manhole cover and started to climb down the ladder. Sakura and then Madison followed the behind him.

They all flipped on their flashlights and started to walk down the sewer system. "Eww," said JD, "It's smells like horse crap in here."

"Well," said Sakura, "What do you think it would of smelled like down here? Did you think it would smell a meadow of flowers?"

"I knew it would smell bad," said JD put his shirt up over his nose, "Just not this bad." They kept walking down the sewer line, hearing no noise.

They walked for about an hour when something hit Sakura and she shouted out making everyone turned their flashlights on her, "Oh crap! I forgot Kero at home! He probably could of help us out here!"

"Too late," said JD flashing his light away from her and on the water, "Hey what's that?" He jumped into the water and dived down. He soon dived back up holding a rifle.

"Man does it sink under that water!" said JD getting back onto the platform, "But looky what I found! A deer rifle with a scope! I found who left it down here?"

"Does it have any bullets left in it?" said Madison. JD checked and showed one bullet in it.

"I guess this will do it," said Sakura, "You never know it we'll need it." Then they heard something splash in the water, they turned to look. Something huge was moving through the water and towards them.

"No it's time to run isn't it?" said Madison. But JD had already taken off. Then the girls chased after him.

"What's the plan?" said Sakura to JD.

"You're the one with magic!" said JD speeding up, "I hoped you had one!"

"I hoped you did because you are the one with the college degree, not me," said Sakura, "We can't even face it down in a battle with out dieing. All are we going to stop it?" All of a sudden, JD slipped and crashed down onto the hard concrete.

"Crap," he mumbled looking at the girls far up ahead and then hearing the giant snake emerge out of the water. He looked up and saw the shadow of huge beast moving closer to him.

"JD catch!" said Sakura tossing him a mirror, "Use it!" JD quickly spun around facing the creature, closing his eyes, and put the mirror up in front of him, letting the creature see itself.

Madison and Sakura closed their eyes as well and heard the beast cry out in pain. JD slowly opened his eyes and looked at the Basilisk. The beast had closed his eyes and was starting to fall towards him.

He dove out of the way with the mirror still in hand and as the creature smashed into the concrete. He turned around and looked at it. It was facing away from him, but he heard it breath. "I think we just knocked it out!" said Madison hearing the beast breath as well, "Sakura, now finish it!"

JD then saw the mirror disappear from his hands and turned into a card. It floated back to Sakura, she took it, and then she charged at it. She jumped up onto it's head, her sword reappeared, and she struck it down into the beast's head.

The Basilisk woke up and roared in pain after being struck in the head. It fling Sakura off it's head and into JD. But it was too late; it soon collapsed to the ground dead. "That seemed so unreal," said JD, "But still cool! Wait a minute, what happened to that mirror I was holding?"

"It was one of my Clow Cards," she said to him, "It changed back after it was no longer needed."

Then the body of the creature started to glow and disintegrate. After a minute, it was completely gone except for a single card that floated to the ground. Madison walked over, picked it up, and looked it over. It was the card that seal the monster away.

"I thought it wouldn't change back into a card," said Madison. Then the card then caught on fire on its own making her drop it. Soon it was engulfed in flames and was disintegrated like the creature itself, nothing was left off it.

"That it?" said Sakura, "It's gone forever?"

"I hope it is," said JD tossing the rifle into the water, "I don't need this anymore. Now I have to get back to my room and change clothes. I smell horse crap."

"You have a funny way of putting things," said Madison with a small laugh, "But let's get out of here, before someone comes to investigate." They all looked around one last time and headed back to the surface world.


Author Notice: Like one of my other stories, my battling writing skills are probably a little weak. But I hope to get better with each chapter and monster.

Considering the difficultly in writing this story, I might not update as fast as you people would probably like me to. I will try hard to update fast.

Next chapter, Sakura's father surprises her and her brother with a trip into the countryside for Spring Break. Madison comes along, but JD and Dot stay behind in town. While out in the countryside, one of the escaped monsters appears.


Next to Come: V: The Hills

Date: 7/26/06

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