Duel Quest: Journey Through The Portal

By Golden Nekko

GN: Meow!Sorry to have left you with a cliff-hanger, but I felt that it was best to leave you that way, y'know, keep you wondering what happens to Keith. Meow! Anyhow, now we're going to meet Josie. Just a reminder to those of you who asked: Josie will NOT be a Mary-Sue. She's actually very erm... let's just say she's a bit crabby at times, shall we? Now one with the story! MEOW!!

Chapter Two: The BIG Discovery

Josie hated her name. But since she couldn't shorten it to anything, she was stuck with it. Josie looked nothing like her older brother, Keith. She had brown hair and brown eyes. She wore an army camouflage t-shirt, jeans, and combat boots--all the time! She also carried a silver sword in a sheath in her belt (quite abnormal for a teenaged girl to do). She had received it from her best friend who's father was the guy who ran the weapons shop at the swap meet.

In other words, Josie was absolutely NOT prissy. She hated dresses, make-up, and anything that represented what she liked to call a "Fluffy". A Fluffy was a self-centered, pink-loving, prissy girl that walked around talking like a valley girl.

Josie was a junior in high school and was interested in video games. She didn't take a liking to Yu-Gi-Oh like her brother did. She actually thought it was a trend that would die out like everything else did. Except that it was a boyish trend.

I might have said that she was an average teenager in the prologue, but that was to mislead you. Bwahahaha!

"GN! Hurry up with the story!"

Okay fine, Josie. Nobody appreciates narrators these days. Not even the stars of their fan fictions.

"GET ON WITH IT!"

Okay, okay. You don't have to quote Monty Python lines...

"GN... I'm warning you!"

Alright, alright! I'll get on with the story.

Well, now Josie was climbing the sheer rock face of mount Wallahwallah and she was in a very bad mood. She had followed her brother to this very location a few days earlier without his knowledge of her doing so. He was late for dinner and their mother had sent her looking for him. She felt that her mother often thought of her as her brother's keeper... Whatever that was. Ashe had just heard the term somewhere and used it, seeing as how it fit the situation.

"GN! Stop making it sound like I'm stupid. If you make me yell at you any more, I'll fall off the cliff!"

Sorry, just trying to do my job. That is how the story goes, isn't it?

"Yeah, but that does NOT mean that I'm an idiot. Don't make me get The Evil Cadet in here!"

WAIT! Don't call The Evil Cadet!

"Evil Cadet! Oh, Evil Cadet!"

Okay, okay! I'll stop making you look dumb... I'm sorry.

"Good."

Whatever... Like I was saying, Josie was climbing the mountain to find her brother who was missing and late for dinner.

When she finally got to the top, she noticed that all was not right. Now, when I say "wall was not right" I'm saying that because there's a big portal to another world in plain site! Now, when Josie saw this, she went absolutely ballistic.

"ACK!" she screamed. Her scream was loud, not girly. It was more of a yelp come to think of it. She was so startled that she almost fell off the mountain. Josie got her bearings again, and assumed that her brother was playing a joke on her. "Keith, come on. This is THE lamest joke yet! Come home, it's time for dinner."

Keith did not answer...

Keith fought with the spider's web frantically. The problem was it only made it worse. The more he struggled, the more tangled he would become in the web.

Suddenly Arachneye turned towards Keith and made that annoying, yet rather scary, slurping noise. She stuck a needle out of her mouth. It was the way that she stunned her prey. She made that noise again and Keith turned pale. Was this the end?

"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!" screeched Josie swinging her sword over her head like a madwoman. She looked exactly like the picture of the Amazon Swordswoman card! She leaped into the portal and came down on top of Arachneye's head. "GET AWAY FROM MY BROTHER!"

Arachneye swiveled around on her eight legs and tried to shake Josie off. But it was no use. Josie had stabbed Arachneye in the back and was holding on to the sword which was stuck in her flesh as she was swung round and round.

Josie began to grow dizzy. She grabbed the hilt of her sword and ripped it down in a jagged motion. It tore through the flesh of Arachneye like a knife through butter--But then you'd have to remember that Arachneye was just like any black widow spider: dangerous, yet easy to squish.

When Arachneye fell to the ground, she brought the portal down with her. It vanished into a puff of blue smoke. Why this happened, I'll leave up to you to ponder while I go play with my catnip ball and write the next chapter! Meow!

GN: Well how was that for a brand new chapter? Meow! I hope you liked it as much as I like writing. Oh, and sorry for the HUGE delay in updating. Meow!

PS: DHASN, thanks for reviewing the first chapter and the prologue. It is much appreciated. Meow!