A/N: A scene in here may or may not came from Ariza's Hybrid, since I couldn't resist putting something that involves Angel's shorty-ness.
Also, we got a name. The Butterfly by the amazing Ariza Luca. Don't know her? Check her out! Her stories are awesome!
Anyways...
Previously, on My Silver Story~
"Is Jesse here?" Gabriel asked, ignoring the blond's question.
Withered~
Axel and Angel's screams filled the air, before they landed rather painfully on the ground.
Adventures~
"BoomTown." Angel started, "this place you've built up and are known for... It's about to get destroyed. But if you come with us... We can still stop this."
Cannot~
If he hadn't turn around, he would of seen the flash of hurt in Angel's eyes - he almost did. But he didn't. "Ohhh this is going to be good. I'm actually excited about this! But we gotta make sure it looks legit." He turn back around. "The Death Bowl has never seen the carnage we're about to create!"
Be Safe~
"What's the Death Bowl?" Angel asked, going sickly pale.
~Will Angel defeat Magnus in the Death Bowl? Will the pain from the past years affect her?
Find out next time on My Silver Story~
WELCOME TO DA BEATH BOWL!
Angel scanned the area with wide eyes, Axel did the same, but with an excited face. "This is the Death Bowl!" Magnus loudly announced.
"Welllllcome, ladies and gentlegriefers," A griefer in a suit and 3D glasses shouted, 'to the DEATH BOWL!" He walk up to the three, "In one corner, we have Magnus, your king of BoomTown-" Magnus waved to the crowd with a cocky grin, "who is prepared to defend his title and crown."
"So, Tiny. Welcome to the Death Bowl." Magnus said, turning to the blonde.
Angel frown as she stifle a cough, "I'm not that short."
He just patted her on the head, before continuing, "The Grief-Off to end of Grief-Offs." He leaned in a bit, dropping his volume so no one can hear them, "How do you wanna fake this? What's your grand plan?"
Angel's face went completely blank again, before answering, "Just follow my lead. And try to make this real."
Magnus give her a thumbs-up, before 3D Glasses came up to Angel, "And you? What name do you go by?"
Angel blinked, "...pardon?"
3D Glasses dropped his voice to a normal volume, "I'm gonna need a name."
"Ah, I see." A pause, "The Butterfly."
"You heard the name, folks," 3D Glasses turn to the crowd, "Give a big Death Bowl welcome to the Butterfly!" Cheers grew to a deafening level, enough for Angel to wince and cover her ears. "Let's begin!"
"...Je commence à regretter cela déjà. (I'm starting to regret this already.)" Angel mumbled.
"Opponents will craft their own griefing towers, which they will use to grief each other." 3D Glasses announced, "The only rule is-"
A griefer interrupted, "That there are no rules!"
"... no eye poking." 3D Glasses finished, earning some boos from the crowd, "Other than that, go crazy. Seriously."
Angel gave Magnus a weak smile. He gave her a wicked one in return.
...Well, that certainly calmed her nerves.
Lilly lay on Lukas's head, careful to keep out of sight. Gabriel and Ellegaard both don't know about the Miraculous nor kwamis. It's better to stay hidden to avoid questions.
Once the two friends walked away to catch up, Lilly poked out of the strands of hair, alerting Petra, Jesse, Olivia, and Lukas of her presence.
"About time you popped out." Petra chuckled, reaching out to the kwami. "I was beginning to think that Lukas's hair is your home now."
"It might as well be." Lilly giggled as she flew over to Petra, ignoring the protests from Lukas.
Olivia walked up to her, curiosity shinning in her eyes, "Lilly, you said've been with Angel when she was 12, right?"
"Yup."
"Can you tell us how you met her?"
Lilly stayed silent for a moment, before answering, "I suppose so."
"OoO! Do tell!" Jesse said eagerly, rushing over to listen.
Lilly chuckled as the four began gathering around her. "I guess it won't hurt to tell."
Flashback~
"Leave her alone." A 11 (keep in mind, this was a few months before she turned 12) year old Angel frown at the sight of the other blonde harassing the little dark blue-haired girl. "She didn't do anything wrong."
"And why should I?" The other blonde put her hand on her hip, grinning cocky, "My daddy will hear about this~"
"And your daddy will hate to see his daughter bullying an innocent girl, hmm?" Angel held up her phone, which recorded everything to this point. Chloe's grin faded into a scowl, "You will regret this!" before stomping away.
Angel turn around and send a gentle smile towards the girl on the ground, "Sorry about that." Angel said, helping the girl up. "Chloe's always like this."
The girl smiled weakly, "It's fine." She held out her hand to the blonde, "I'm Marinette by the way. Nice to meet you."
Angel smiled, "Nice to meet you, Marinette. I'm Angel."
Unknown to them, a blue butterfly watched over them curiously.
~A few weeks later~
"You made a little friend!" Marinette said joyfully, pulling out a mirror and showing to Angel.
The blonde blinked in surprise at the blue butterfly resting on her head. "When did that get there?" She wondered, peering at the mirror. It was kinda weird. To have such a shy insect land on her.
Marinette shrugged, before tilting her head slightly to look at the insect, "You know, I notice we've been getting a lot of these butterflies flying around you."
Angel just shrugged, "Maybe it's migration season for these guys."
"I see most of them around your house." Marinette pointed out.
Angel paused, her face going completely blank, before answering with a, "Maybe because of the flowers outside."
Marinette snorted, "You know, It's so weird seeing you think. Your face literally drops to a pure, deadpan look."
Angel playfully mimicked her thinking state, before the two girls burst out laughing as the butterfly circled around and land on Angel's sketchbook.
~A few months into the school year~
"Hey! Wait up!" Angel followed the butterfly ahead of her, panting a bit. The butterfly paused in it's flying, waving it's little legs at her, before continuing, "Come on! Slow down." Angel turned a corner and saw-
Angel stiffened up when she saw a familiar abandoned neighborhood. Granted, it was only that one time, but... It was as clear as day.
The shooting.
This was where it happened.
Why was she here?
Why did it lead her here?
Angel shook her head and continued running after the blue butterfly. No time to reminisce over painful memories. It's time to see why butterflies were flying around her. The butterfly circled around and beckoned her closer, before turning around and facing a-
Angel blinked. It wasn't guiding her to a park at all. It was leading her to an old abandoned building. Angel shallowed and took nervous steps forward towards the building. This was how people in horror movies die, she mentally pointed out as she work on loosening the boards so she could get in. It wasn't through following a butterfly but definitely going into a creepy building.
Once she snapped another board, she carefully opened the door and crept inside, only to freeze when she saw something. Something that was not a butterfly nor a human. In fact, it didn't look like a human at all. It was hideous, at least seven to eight feet tall, with milky white eyes. It exhibit spinal disfiguration, giving it a hunchback-like appearance. Its teeth are sharper and disfigured and their limbs are much longer. Its dirty-white skin is also taut against its body; pulled tightly around their lengthy frames - like a glossy, stretched armor. It has no hair and female or male characteristics and skeletal, with deadly claws to tear apart its prey. In short, it was terrifying.
There was a small creak, and it turned its head towards her and began running towards her. Angel tried to back away, but found that her feet were planted firmly on the ground. Angel watched fearfully as the thing went closer and closer...
And passed her entirely.
Angel slowly blinked as she turn around slightly to see the thing had disappeared in thin air. Slowly, her eyes lit up in realization. "They rely on movement and sound." Very quietly, she crept forward, careful not to attract the attention of the other monsters.
~After walking pass several monsters~
Angel crept into another room when she saw the butterfly flew in, and saw a soft glow on the bottom of the floor, instantly drawing her gaze down to it. Something blue gleamed back at her. Before she could move, the butterflies swarmed around her, urging her to the blue thing. A pause, before she walked forward and pick up the thing, only to be startled by a blue flash, causing her to nearly drop the thing.
A large blue sphere appeared in front of her, and Lilly appeared in front of a stunned Angel, her eyes closed tightly. She opened her eyes, and smiled. "Hello there."
"And then she jumped up and down and started attacking me with questions." Lilly chuckled. "Our bond hasn't been broken ever since."
"Bond?" Jesse wasn't the only one who asked that. "Does that mean I broke your bond?"
"Our bond can never be broken until we agree to break it." Lilly said, smiling, "So even if Angel gives her Miraculous to anyone, our bond isn't broken.
"Well, we learn something new everyday." Petra chuckled.
In BoomTown~
"Butterfly! Pick your building material! And Magnus, you-"
Magnus cut him off, "Nah, I'm good. Brought my own supply."
"Let the griefing begin!"
And then a blast of cheers that made Angel wince again, before walking over to her side of the arena and began looking over the materials, "Hmm... Wood, stone, and... pink wool?..." Angel snorted, before walking over to the chest with the stone. "Stone it is."
After grabbing the materials, she quickly went back and build the tower. Once she was done, she look over to Magnus's tower, before exclaiming loudly, "Axel, what are you doing over there on his side?!"
Axel stop jumping excitedly and look at her nervously, "Yeah, though you might bring that up. It's just, um, it's a little hard to see you on that side, so I though I'd come over here to see you better."
Angel send him a deadpan look, before looking over to Magnus, who had an excited look coming over his face, "Take your best shot!" He shouted to her. The blonde roll her eyes, before picking up an egg and apurtly chucking it at Magnus. He dodged it, and it hit the ground and swarmed a tiny baby chicken. "Ha! You grief with me, you grief with the best!" and he turn to the crowd, putting his hands on his hips.
Angel immediately chuck another egg at Magnus, this time, it hit the back of Magnus's head and knocked him over. Another baby chick joined the other one, and Angel smirk slightly as Magnus climbed up to his feet.
"So, Butterfly. Taking an amulet isn't enough... you need to take my crown as well, huh?"
"Great job on the acting," Angel mouthed to him, smiling, before raising her voice to a normal volume, "Then, I guess your crown shall be mine!"
Magnus look over to the chickens, which were still running around on the platform, and kicked both of them off, and then turn back to Angel. "You are but a student! Prepare yourself! For I am here to give you your final lesson!" And he headed over to his TNT launcher.
Angel merely watched calmly as Magnus pulled the switch and causing the TNT to launch towards her. Closer, and closer...
And fell entirely. 3D Glasses watched in horror as it flew towards him, knocking him into a hole.
"Er, that was just a warning," Magnus cleared his throat awkwardly as the crowd booed at him.
"What? A warning that you need glasses?" One of the griefers taunted, making the crowd laugh.
Angel uncross her arms, "It seems the student has becomes the master, like how that even a butterfly can be a predator, which means if I play this right, I can win."
I don't know what that means, but I love it and I want to put it on a t-shirt!" Another griefer shouted.
Angel roll her eyes again, before pulling the switch to her own TNT launcher and sailed the TNT right to Magnus. But the Rogue turned around and stacked slime blocks in front of him, making the TNT bounce off and sailed right back Angel.
Angel let out a surprised shriek and dove out of the way from the TNT as it blew up a good portion of her tower, before grimacing at the growing pain in her arm, "Ok... that seemed a bit too real." She said slowly in a voice the was quiet enough so that the rest of the audience couldn't hear her (not that it was a problem, Angel's voice is pretty soft)
Magnus narrowed his eyes at her, "Nobody messes with the BOOM MASTER!"
"...Weep." Angel got up and sketched, her eyes glinting dangerously, "This has to look real, after all."
"Angel, you okay?" Axel called out as he rush over to her tower.
Angel waved him off. "I'm fine." She said, although it wasn't in a voice Axel was used to hearing. It was filled with competitiveness.
Angel glanced at him, before Magnus caught their attention, "Had enough yet?" Magnus taunted, "All righty. I think Noob time... is over."
Angel chuckled a bit dangerously, "Give your best shoot, Magnus!"
"Magnus! Craft a cannon!" A griefer shouted.
"Yeah, finish 'em with a cannon!"
Magnus agreed with a, "If it's a cannon you want, it's a cannon you'll get!"
Axel winced, "Yup, he's completely lost it, dude's going for the kill! Angel, you better craft... I dunno, the best thing of your life. Like, right now!"
Angel walk over to the chest and pull out some stone and starting building a thick wall with a hole. "It's pathetic. But it'll do for now." She crossed her arms and looked up, her silver eyes widening "...or maybe not."
Magnus was standing behind two levers with fire in his eyes in a cannon that was shaped like an open-mouthed skull with enough TNT inside to blow any town sky high in the mouth, and a double lava fall. Angel's face turned into a deadpan look, "Ah, craaaaappp."
Magnus cackled as he pull a lever, a block of TNT shooting out of the skull's mouth at Angel's tower. The latter let out a yell, before pulling out her whip and began smacking TNT away to the walls of the stadium. But because of her Wither Sickness, she didn't managed to smack away a TNT block in time and got knocked off the platform and on some surviving cobblestone.
Angel clenched her eyes tightly. This was suppose to be real. A bit too real. Maybe she should- no, she can't give up now. Lilly needs her. Angel got up and leapt to the left to avoid another TNT block. "Angel, look out!" Axel shouted as another TNT block flew towards the blonde. Angel dove to the side, watching the TNT sail over her head. During this, Axel ran to a chest and rooting through it as he tried tried to find something to help Angel, who was dangerously getting weaker and weaker.
"You're going up against the Kind of Grieferes and you pick stone?! Ha!" Magnus taunted Angel, who weakly got up, barely able to stand. Angel lifted her head a bit, revealing wary and tired eyes, before pulling out another egg and throwing it at Magnus, making him fall on his back. Angel gave a weak grin at that, before turning to Axel, who was still digging through the chest.
"Stuff! I got cool stuff coming your way!" Axel shouted to Angel, pulling out a bow and four arrows, running back to Angel, "I got you some arrows and a bow! I think it's enchanted or something!" He shouted as he threw the items to Angel.
Angel catch the items and look at them, confused, before realization crept over her face, "TNT plus arrow..." Angel mused, a grin replacing her confused look.
Axel put his hands on his hips, grinning, "Oh, yeah."
Magnus finally regained his senses and got back to the levers.
"Hey, Magnus!" Angel shouted, climbing on top of what's left of the platform.
"Yeah, short stuff?"
Angel pull back the bow at full draw, fingers pulled back to her cheek, a smirk tugging at her lips, "Boom." With that, she let go of the arrow, launching it all the way towards Magnus's build and going though the lava, before hitting some TNT.
The fire left Magnus's eyes as they widened, "Oh, crap!" was all he could say before the TNT exploded, triggering more explosions, knocking Magnus the tower with a yell. The griefers gasped, Axel's mouth was wide open, and Magnus slammed onto his back on the ground.
Angel landed on a single block of cobblestone and sat neatly, with her foot dangling on the side of the block, she said, "Looks like you didn't realize the Butterfly was a wasp." Then she gave Magnus a grin, "But GG."
Magnus glared at her before a smirk came over his face and shook his head slightly, "You're even more competitive then Lydia."
Angel's grin was wiped off as soon as she heard that. He still didn't know his old friend is dead. That's what hurts her.
Partially.
3D Glasses finally climbed back up and saw that Magnus was on the ground and Angel still on a block in the sky. "We have a winner!" 3D Glasses bellowed, "the Butttterflyyyyyyy!"
The crowd exploded into cheers and Angel jumped down, wincing in pain when she landed on the ground. Axel quickly ran over, grinning at Angel as 3D Glasses said to Angel, "You gonna say something, champ?"
Angel open her mouth but then her pupils and irises to shrink to pinpricks in the whites of her eyes in horror. She shakily pointed ahead of them, and they turned around.
There, in all it's glory, was the WitherStorm.
"Holy, CRAP!" Magnus said, his eyes widening, "Is that your Wither Storm?!"
"No." Angel whispered as she took a step back, making Magnus and Axel turn to her. "No." She repeated, taking another step back. The blonde was actually shaking from terror. "Not again!"
"Angel, come on!" Axel shouted, tugging the girl's sleeve, "We gotta run! NOW!"
Angel didn't move, and Axel groan, before literally scooping her off her feet, and after blinking at the lack of weight in his arms, and began running away, with Magnus following them as the tractor beams started roving over the tower and lifting things up, griefers, buildings, anything.
"No! No no no no no NO NO no NO!" Magnus looked around at the screaming griefers, "STOP EATING MY KINGDOM!" Magnus screamed at the Wither Storm, coming to a stop and making Axel, who was still carrying Angel, jolt to a halt as he tried to get him running again.
"Magnus, come on!" Axel yelled, tugging on the Rogue's sleeve.
He grumbled and ran after them, only to stop after a few paces, "YOU'LL REGRET MESSING WITH BOOM TOWN!"
"Go!" Axel yelled, and they both began running again. Angel, who snapped out of her terrified state, jump off of Axel's shoulder and began running as well. There was even more chaos than before, with the terrified screams of the griefers ringing out in the air, more and more explosions going off, and griefers getting sucked into the Wither Storm left and right.
Angel grabbed Axel, who grabbed Magnus, before pulling out her whip and flick it at the portal, the strip sailing straight through the mouth of it, "Hang on!" She nearly screamed, before the group got jerked off their feet and thrown straight through it.
To Be Continued...
