Chapter three


"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" The girls screamed and turned to bolt down the hallway to the other end of the house. 'Try' being the word here. As Storm turned she tripped over her feet and Rogue, Jubilee and Jean all piled up behind her.

"OH MY GOD!! GET OFF!!" Storm yelled trying to shove the other three off of her, but all she succeded in doing was tangling them further. Storm became so scared she was close to crying as she struggled to get up.

"ALRIGHT!! EVERYBODY JUST CALM DOWN!!" Jean called. Everybody stilled, and silence fell over the house. Storm peeked out from under Jubilee's leg.

"GODDESS, THEY ARE COMING!!" Summoning a huge gust of wind she tossed the other women off her and took off running down the hall, never once looking back.

"RUN, YOU FOOLS!!" Jubilee went racing off after Storm.

Jean and Rogue were left alone in the rec room with the creatures.

"What do ya think we should do?"

Jean swallowed audibly. "I don't know. I mean, it's just a spider and spiders can't hurt you right?" Jean looked doubtful.

Rogue looked over at the spider. "Ah don't know, sugah. That's a pretty big spider." The spider was about 2 inches long, hairy and gray with lighter markings. It began crawling towards them. "EEEEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!" The two remaining girls screamed and ran down the hall the way Jubilee and Storm had gone.

"Jubes, Storm! Where are you?" Jean yelled, seeing no sign of them as her and Rogue neared the end of the hall.

"We're in here." Came a muffled voice.

"Where?" Rogue asked.

"Here," Storm whispered, poking her head out of a hall closet. "Are you alone?"

"Yes."

"Come in then. They can't get us in the closet." Jean thought that that didn't sound right but shrugged her shoulder and shuffled into the closet followed closely by Rogue. Anything had to be better than staying out there with that thing.

"Storm?" Jean whispered.

"Yes?"

"You keep on saying 'they' but there was only one."

"Oh no, there was more. They must have ran and hid."

Jubilee gulped. "Maybe there plotting against us." They looked around the small space, paranoid at being watched. Rogue shivered.

"Maybe we should just stay in here."

"Good idea."

"Hey!"

"WHAT!?!"

"Did anyone bring any beer?"

"Rogue!"

"What?" Rogue said innocently. Jean just shook her head and took a seat in the corner.





30 minutes later...


The front door to the X-mansion opened silently and the two figures stepped into the shadows.

"OW! You jerk. Quit stepping on my heels," Bobby hissed.

"Sorry," Remy whispered back.

"It's quiet in here. Wonder where the girls are." Remy shrugged his shoulders. They continued to walk in silence until they got to the rec room. "Holy crap, what the heck happened in here? Are those Logan's beer bottles?"

Remy grinned. "You betcha, mon ami. And dere still be plenty left for us." Remy reached into the minifridge and pulled out two bottles handing one to Bobby.

"Don't you think we should try and find the girls?" Bobby looked around at the scatter of bottles and the abandoned Monopoly game.

"Nah. Den dey'd want all de beer for demselves." Remy walked toward the couch and began to take a seat. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!" he screamed suddenly as he leapt backwards about two feet and cowered behind Bobby.

"What the heck is the matter with you?"

"Dere!! Over dere!!" Remy said pointing a trembling finger over by the couch.

Bobby raised an eyebrow. "...Okay. No more beer for you."

"NO! Just go look!" He pointed again. Bobby gave him an odd look but went to see what he was pointing at.

"Oh, for God's sake. It's just a spider." Remy whimpered. "Besides it's dead."

"Non. Remy not t'ink so."

"Here I'll prove it to you." Bobby grabbed a nearby pen and inched closer to the spider. He reached the pen forward and poked at the spider. "There, see it's def- AAAHHHHHHHH!!" Bobby fell backwards as the spider launced itself straight at his face. Remy screamed and took off at a dead run down the hall. "WAIT FOR ME!!" Bobby yelled running after him. They ran down the hall screaming until they got to a closet door and swung it open. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" *WHACK*

"Oh, shit!!" Storm said as she watched Remy fall to the ground unconscious from the blow she had just given him with a mop handle.Bobby stepped over him.

"What are you guys doing in a closet?" he asked.

"Hiding from the spiders."

"Spiders? As in, more than one?"

"Yes."

"Move over. I'm coming in too." He pushed his way into the closet and slamed the door behind him.

"What about Remy?" Rogue asked.

"I am most certianly not going out there."

"Every man for himself!"

"Ditto."

There was silence for a few moments. Rogue spoke up "So. Did you bring any beer?"

tbc



HAHAHAHA!!! Bet none of thought it was going to be spiders, did ya?? HA. Okay, originally it was supposed to be a mouse, well several mice, but my friend went to Florida and came back with all these freaky stories about these HUGE spiders and it gave me ideas. I am so never ever going down there now.*Shudder* I'll just stay up here in the quiet mountians with our LITTLE spiders. Yah, she said that the spiders even chased you if you bothered them and they were venomess. But don't worry the ones in this story are not. They're just Wolf spiders in case you were wondering. Oh, and I just had to bring Bobby and Remy in the story. I love those two. Ummm, I'll stop rambling now and let you get on with your lives. Don't forget to review:)