Ok, I wrote this chapter. For those of you who are waiting for the Next Niagara Falls chapter, I thank you for being pertinent. It will be out the first few days of June. Also, for this Chapter, I made it into two parts to keep up the intensity. So remember:
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' "I excel at pulling strings!" said Arachne. "I'm a spider!" ' - Rick Riordan
*Cafe Arisato, 11:56 P.M.*
The Cafe was nearly deserted. The Cafe girl was closing for the night. On the patio of the Cafe, a single customer sat. The woman in the black dress sat at the table, with a single cup of coffee on the table. The woman's pale skin was glowing in the full moonlight as she tilted her head so she could hear the majestic roar of the waterfalls.
"My, this is such a beautiful place." The woman said. "It's such a shame what these people have done to the area. It's lost all its magic."
The cafe girl then comes up to the table. "Excuse me, Miss, you need to-"
"Raquel." The woman said, pronouncing her name. "I have a name and expect to be addressed by it, you loathsome cur. Raquel Regina Succo"
"'Cur'? ! You need to leave, Ms. Succo" The girl told her. "We're closed."
"How insulting." Raquel said. "First, you don't have any decency to bring me a cup of tea and instead bring me this garbage. Now you're telling me to leave? Did your parents ever teach you any manners?"
"First off, we don't serve tea here." The girl stated. "Second, that's not garbage; it's coffee. The best coffee in North America. Now you need to leave before I call the cops."
Raquel tilted her head slightly and glanced at the coffee girl with the corner of her eye. Suddenly, all the glass in the building shattered, from the cups to the windows. The fragments of glass flew in every direction as if a bomb had been set off. The coffee girl covered the back of her head and ducked as the glass flew by them. Once it was safe, the girl got up and looked at the restaurant, broken glass everywhere. Raquel got up and began to walk away.
"Looks like you still have some cleaning to do." Raquel said.
The following morning, the sun rose over the beautiful waterfall mist. It was the beginning of another peaceful day at Niagara Falls Academy.
"I FORBID THIS RELATIONSHIP!"
(Well, so much for that.)
In the school's infirmary, Noel was confronting her older brother. Christian was sitting up in the bed with the blanket around his legs and he was shirtless, showing all the bruises and scars he had. Sitting on the bed next to Christian was Gabby who was leaning against him as Christian held his arm around her.
"I forbid you two from ever seeing each other!" Noel shouted. "There! I have spoken!"
Christian dug into his ear as if he was pretending to remove some wax.
"Gabby, did you hear something?" Christian asked.
"Hear what?" Gabby asked.
"Sounds like a high-pitched whining sound." Christian said.
"I am not whiny!" Noel whined. "Gabby, don't forget best friend rule #3!"
"Sorry, Noel." Gabby said. "Hoes before bros. Or in this case, it's the other way around."
"Oh my God." Noel put her face in her hands. "How long has this been going on?"
"Since New Years." Christian answered.
"You two have been together this entire time? !" Noel questioned. "Gabby, you mean to tell me the entire time you were asking me to hook you up with him, you've been seeing him behind my back? !"
"Yeah." Gabby said. "I got to admit it was fun teasing you like that without you knowing anything."
"This is a total betrayal of my trust!" Noel shouted.
"You know what, Noel? Get over it." Christian told her. "We're all adults here and it's time you started acting like one."
Noel sighed and looked down on the ground. "Fine..." Noel turned around to leave the room, but then turned back around. "I'M TELLING MOM!"
Noel ran out of the room. Christian sighed and rubbed his forehead.
"God, my head hurts." Christian groaned.
"Well, I have to get to class." Gabby said and gave him a quick peck on the cheek. "I'll see you later."
Gabby got up and left the room.
The students were in Class with Prof. Sten as he gave a lecture.
"-and therefore The Prima Firefly jelly makes an excellent lubricant to dangerous areas." Prof. Sten spoke...it seems he had gotten off track.
Prof. Sten would go on speeches like this whenever he got off track from the actual lecture. When this occasionally happened, students started chatting, doing other work or simply not give a crap. Noel was sitting in her seat, wearing her new headphones and listening to very bad music.
Well it's midnight, damn right! We're wound up too tight! I've got a fist full of whiskey, the bottle just bit me-
While Noel was listening, she felt a tap on the side of her headphones. She turned her head to see Gabby sitting in the seat next to her.
"-oel, -an -e -lease -alk?" Gabby spoke.
Noel barely heard her through the headphones, so she turned up the music so loud that Gabby could hear it next to her.
WE'RE GOING OFF TONIGHT TO KICK OUT EVERY LIGHT, TAKE ANYTHING WE WANT, DRINK EVERYTHING IN SIGHT! WE'RE GOIN' TILL THE WORLD STOPS TURNING WHILE WE BURN IT TO THE GROUND TONIGHT!
Gabby unplugged Noel's headphones from her MP3 player and the music died down.
"Stop that, Noel." Gabby told her. "You'll blow your ears out. This music doesn't fit you."
"No, but it's angry." Noel stated. "I find it very agreeable."
"You're being such a baby about this!" Gabby said.
"I am not!" Noel turns away, pouts and crosses her arms.
"Look, I'm sorry I'm dating your brother, but we actually care about each other." Gabby stated.
"That is not the point, Gabby!" Noel argued. "I am upset that you both have been practically lying to me for 9 months!"
"So what? After Winter Break, was I supposed to tell you 'Hey, I'm dating your brother'?" Gabby sarcastically asked. "Would that have made you happier?"
"No, I'd still be pissed off!" Noel responded. "But I would have been less upset then than I am now!"
"Well, I'm sorry you feel that way." Gabby said getting up from her desk. "These past nine months with your brother have been the happiest of my life and you'll just have to live with that."
Gabby then walks away, but quickly turns back and says. "Oh, and by the way, in those past nine months, you became an auntie! So nyah!"
"That is NOT funny!" Noel shouted.
Noel pressed her hands over her face and sighed, but then realized that everyone in the room was watching the two of them, including Prof. Sten.
"Ladies... would you like to take this outside?" Prof. Sten asked.
Raquel stood across the falls' basin, leaning over a railing and staring at the majestic waterfall's mist.
"Hah, those morons are late again." Raquel sighed.
She then felt two different presences and turned her head to see them. They were two young men kneeling down behind her. One was tan-skinned wearing a bandana and a leather vest that showed his muscles and ripped-up jeans. The other was pale-skinned, short-haired and wore a zipped-open long-sleeve sweatshirt with gray shorts.
"We've arrived, Lady Raquel." The tan-skinned man greeted.
"You're late, Jordan." Raquel said.
Jordan rises quickly and points at the other man.
"It was all Wes' fault!" Jordan said.
"Oh, you kiss ass!" Wes yelled. "We're late because you were so slow!"
"I was slow so you could keep up!" Jordan argued.
Raquel shook her head at them. "I should have gotten the girls. At least they are dependable."
"No, Lady Raquel." Wes said, breaking off the argument. "We can handle anything you ask us to."
"Yes, anything at all, just say the word." Jordan added.
"Wow, Wes was right. You are a kiss ass." Raquel said.
Jordan gritted his teeth and Wes tried to hold back his snicker. Raquel then pointed to the school.
"You know the ones Lord Sheh spoke of?" Raquel asked. "They are in there. Make their lives a living Hell."
"We allowed to kill anyone?" Wes asked.
"I don't care." Raquel replied. "Just get to it."
The two fellows snickered at each other as Raquel turned around to continue watching the waterfall. The two guys then disappeared as if they were shadows.
In the school workout room, Bronze was going through his usual routine. Right now, he was going to town on the punching bag, which was being held by Rice. Bronze worked up a sweat and stepped back a bit to wipe off his forehead.
"You know, Rice? You should try this sometime." Bronze told him.
"N-n-n-no thanks." Rice responded with a stutter.
Bronze then took his shirt off, showing off his nicely toned body, and tried to cool off.
"Wow... nice." A female voice said.
Bronze and Rice looked over and saw Topaz standing at the door of the room with a happy grin on her face.
"Ah, Topaz, uh, what are you doing here?" Bronze asked.
Bronze tried to reach for his shirt, but Topaz put her hands up.
"No, don't, I'm enjoying this." Topaz said.
"Uh, s-sure." Bronze responded. "You need something?"
"Yeah, Christian promised to move some boxes from the Ra dorm to the Slifer dorm today." Topaz informed. "Since his accident, he can't fulfill that promise, so I was wondering if you boys would lend me a hand."
"Uh, w-w-well, uh, why us?" Rice asked.
"Well, everyone else in in class right now." Topaz stated. "Plus, uh, a big, strong guy like Bronze could handle a couple of boxes, right?"
Bronze blushed and smiled at the compliment.
"Big?" Rice asked. Rice stood next to Bronze to compare their heights and Rice was a full foot taller than Bronze.
"We'd be happy to help." Bronze said.
"Great, I'll see you at the Ra dorm." Topaz said before she left.
"Uh, w-what do you m-mean by w-w-we?" Rice questioned.
"It's only a few small boxes." Bronze stated. "How much trouble could they be?"
Upon entering the Ra Yellow dorm basement, the boys discovered a mountain of large, heavy boxes just waiting to be carried out.
"Just a f-f-f-few small boxes, right?" Rice asked.
"Uh, yeah, doesn't look too bad." Bronze replied. "Come on, let's get to work."
Rice shrugged and walked toward the closest box. He picked it up, struggling to keep his arms on the box. As he lifted it up, he felt something crawling on his hand. He leaned his head forward and saw a yellow and orange-colored tarantula.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" Rice screamed as he dropped the box and tried to get the spider off if him.
When the box hit the floor, machine parts scattered all across it. Rice kept shaking his arms until the spider fell off, landing on the side of another box.
"Geez, Rice, it's just a little tarantula." Bronze said. "Those things don't bite."
Bronze then went to reach for another box, but another tarantula of the same species crawled up on the side of the box and Bronze stepped back a bit.
"Uh, B-b-b-Bronze?" Rice stuttered.
Rice pointed at the boxes and there were those tarantulas crawling everywhere. And they seemed to be crawling in their direction.
"Ho. Ly. Crap..." Bronze muttered.
Rice quickly turns around and runs out of the basement and Bronze quickly followed and the clattering sounds of those spiders' little legs indicated they were being chased out of the basement. Rice burst through the door, followed by Bronze who slammed it shut. The door led them into the kitchen and was right next to the fridge, so Bronze took the fridge and placed it diagonally in front of the door. Bronze held the fridge as the clattering sound was on the door until it stopped.
"Wow, did stress get to you guys already?" Topaz asked as she came by.
"Sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-sp-" Rice stuttered.
"Spiders!" Bronze shouted. "Lots of hairy, disgusting spiders! What the hell did you have in those boxes? !"
Topaz put her hands on her hips. "Just a bunch of machine parts. Don't tell me you guys are afraid of a couple little spiders."
"Not JUST a couple of little spiders!" Bronze panicked. "Hundreds of large, disgusting, BLUGH!" Bronze threw his arms up in the air when he said that last word.
"BLUGH!" Rice mimicked Bronze.
Topaz just glared at the two of them. "Move it." Topaz moves the fridge back into its original position, turns on the staircase lights and there was nothing there. "Wow, look at all the scary spiders!"
Bronze and Rice poked their heads in and saw there were no spiders.
"I don't understand." Bronze said. "Where'd they go?"
Topaz knocked on the wall. "Maybe they're just hiding in the walls." She snickered. "All right, boys. Hurry and get to work."
Topaz walked away.
"... If sh-she could m-m-move that fridge, why c-can't she move th-th-those boxes?" Rice questioned.
Bronze just shrugged and entered the basement to do the work.
Off campus, Prof. Edge decided to show a movie in class so he could go to his favorite cafe.
"Today's special is the Kamakari cream cake." Prof. Edge said with delight. "Ooh, I just can't wait!" As Prof. Edge arrived at the cafe, he saw yellow police tape blocking off the cafe. As he got a closer look, he saw that all the glass windows had been shattered. "Oh, no cream cake..."
"Uh, sir, you need to step away please." The police officer told him.
"What happened?" Prof. Edge asked.
"There was someone working late last night and all she said is some crazy lady in a black dress blew the glass with her mind." The officer stated. "Probably just some vandal. I recommend the girl go see a psychiatrist."
"A woman in a black dress you say?" Prof. Edge asked. "Go figure..." He turned and walked away.
Over the next two hours, Bronze and Rice moved the boxes from the Ra dorm to the Slifer dorm. At one point, Bronze came into the Slifer basement and noticed that Rice had opened one of the boxes and looking through the machine parts individually.
"Rice, what are you doing?" Bronze asked.
"Bronze, check this out! These are old Duel Runner parts!" Rice said clearly. "The old X1 series I think. Still in pretty good condition. It might still work."
Bronze chuckled as he placed the box on top of another box. "If you like Duel Runners that much, why don't you ride one?"
Rice's hands began to shake. "M-m-m-me, r-r-r-ride a D-D-Duel R-R-R-R-Runner? I-I-I-I-I can't."
"Fine, forget I mentioned it." Bronze said. "There's only one more box at the Ra dorm. I'll just go grab it, okay? You just stay here and... fondle your machine parts."
"All right." Rice began pulling pieces out of the box.
Bronze shook his head and left the basement. Rice began to organize the pieces as if he was planning to use them later.
"If I can just find the right frame, I could make one hell of a Runner." Rice said.
As Rice reached for a capacitor, a piece of white string fell to the top of his hand.
"Hm?" Rice took a closer look.
It wasn't a string so much as... webbing. Rice's hands began to shake as he looked up and saw all those tarantulas crawling over the ceiling, completely covering it up. At one point, the spiders completely stopped moving and shot webbing at Rice.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!"
Bronze was carrying the last box across the campus when Topaz came up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder before catching up alongside him.
"Hey, thanks again for doing all this." Topaz said.
"Oh, anytime." Bronze told her. "So, uh, what's in these boxes anyway?"
"Ah, just a bunch of machine parts." Topaz answered. "Apparently, some scientist left 'em in our basement years ago. Left a lot of crap behind and Prof. Edge wanted to see what he could do with it."
As they entered the Slifer dorm, all the lights had been burnt out. Topaz tried flipping the switch, but the lights wouldn't turn on.
"Well that's strange." Topaz said.
Topaz tried to turn and move forward, but she bumped into Bronze from behind.
"Oh, sorry, I-" Topaz was about to say, but noticed Bronze has a petrified look on his face and leaned to look at what he was looking at.
Webbing. Lots of spider webbing, with lots of spiders on it. There was even a cocoon wrapped up in the middle, prominently displayed.
"Elgh, spiders!" Topaz groaned.
Bronze tried to step back, but Topaz was kind of blocking his way a little bit. Topaz then noticed a spider on the floor crawling toward him, so she stepped in front of him and smashed the spider under her boot.
"Take that, you little bastard!" Topaz exclaimed.
"AH, SON OF A BITCH!" The spider she stepped on started to morph into a human being and her boot was on top of his face.
Topaz quickly jumped back and the guy stood up.
"Gah! Who the hell are you? !" Topaz asked.
"Jordan." He answered. "Wes, get out here!"
One of the spiders on the webbing turned into Wes, who was sitting on the webbing like a swing.
"Haha, she nailed you good!" Wes laughed.
"Oh, shut up!" Jordan said.
"What the hell are you guys?" Topaz asked.
"We're spiders, duh." Jordan replied. "Beautiful arachnids."
"Disgusting bugs more like." Topaz said.
"No, we eat the bugs." Wes contradicted. "Well, we don't eat them. We suck the blood and leave a lifeless corpse. And we just found ourselves a good little bug."
The cocoon shriveled open and revealed a pale white Rice, all wrapped up.
"And boy does he look delicious." Wes smacked his lips.
"Ugh, you guys are sick!" Topaz stated.
"Don't worry, he's the dessert." Jordan told her. "You're the main course, sweetheart!"
Jordan snapped his fingers and the spiders began to surround her. Topaz was too frightened to move, so when the spiders got real close to her, Bronze took his box and throws it at a patch of spiders, crushing them under the weight. Bronze then took Topaz's hand and hop over the box he threw, break through some webbing and into the kitchen. The spiders quickly followed them in and Bronze looked around frantically.
"Let's see! Let's see! … Got it!" Bronze muttered.
Bronze improvised by turning on the gas on the old gas stove. He then opened the silverware drawer, takes out a basket of forks which he piles into the microwave and sets the microwave on high.
"Quick, out the window!" Bronze shouted.
He hurriedly pushed the window up and pushed Topaz out the window. The spiders quickly surrounded them as Bronze hurried and jumped out the window. Jordan peeked his head into the kitchen and saw the microwave starting to spark. He then heard the gas from the stove spewing into the room.
"Oh, FU-!"
DING!
The kitchen exploded, killing all the spiders and blowing a huge section of the dorm's kitchen and main lobby. Bronze and Topaz had hidden behind a tree nearby, which was not within the blast radius of the explosion. Once the debris had all landed, Topaz peeked her head from behind the tree to see the huge hole in the wall and the flames burning.
"A little drastic, don't ya think? !" Topaz asked.
"Everyone's in class right now." Bronze told her. "Nobody got hurt. Let's hurry and get Rice out of there."
Bronze ran head-first into the fire, crossing over the debris to get to Rice. Topaz took the long way by taking the front door. When they both got to the debris of the main lobby, most of the webbing had been burned away, but the cocoon Rice was in was still intact. Wes was still sitting on his web swing while Jordan was coughing from the smoke.
"Wow, that was extreme." Wes said. "Don't you think you should have thought that out before you destroyed the building?"
"I'm a soldier." Bronze stated. "I was trained to react."
Wes jumped down from his swing and helped Jordan to his feet. "You are such a dumbass." Wes said to Jordan. "Because of you, all of Lady Raquel's pets were just murdered."
"It was your idea to use those things!" Jordan argued.
"Well, that's a moot point now." Wes stated. "We need to take care of these two before people start coming around asking questions. And as always, I'LL do all the work."
Wes' hand turned into a venomous fang claw as he pointed it toward Topaz and showed what appeared to be very poisonous teeth.
"Ugh! That's very freaky!" Topaz groaned in disgust.
"You die first." Wes said.
Wes' venomous teeth shot out of his mouth and flew right toward Topaz. Bronze tried to run across the room, but he wouldn't be able to make it in time. But the fangs hit what appeared to be a light blue field of energy that repelled the fangs.
"Huh?" Topaz reacted.
"What? !" Wes shouted.
As Wes retracted the fangs back to his claw, the field of energy took a spiritual form right in front of Topaz. The spirit was a great white wolf with a necklace of gemstones around its neck.
"Ratohnhake:ton... How..." Topaz muttered.
"She has a Spirit Messenger." Wes spoke. "That damn thing. I can't kill her. But... I can take her soul."
"What? !" Topaz reacted.
Wes holds out his arm and the shadows around his arm turned into a black Duel Disk. The Duel Disk was designed so the Deck holder was a crescent moon and the Life Point counter was an eclipsed sun.
"A Shadow Duel." Wes said. "A Duel for your soul."
Jordan then goes up next to Wes wearing the same kind of Duel Disk. "I want in on this!"
"Screw you!" Wes told him. "I unleashed her messenger! I get to kill her!"
Bronze ran to Topaz's side and readied his Duel Disk. "You want to get to her, you got to go through me!"
"There, you see? One for each of us now!" Jordan said.
"Fine, but the girl is mine!" Wes stated.
Bronze glanced over at Topaz, who seemed very confused and frightened.
"Topaz..." Bronze spoke. When he said that, Topaz snapped out of it and looked up at him. "We need to Duel."
Topaz then looks down at her Deck and with a heavy sigh activated her Duel Disk.
"Let's Duel!" They all shouted.
(To be continued...)
Cast
Cristina Vee as Noel Kennat
Mike McFarland as Christian Kennat
Colleen O'Shaughnessy as Gabriella Mustang
Caitlin Glass as Topaz Foster
Dave Wittenberg as Bryan "Bronze" Lewis
Micah Solusod as Rice Chudzinski
Henry Dittman as Jordan
Benjamin Diskin as Wes
Eric Vale as Prof. Roger Sten
Travis Willingham as Prof. Ryan Edge
and
Mela Lee as Raquel Regina Succo