Araña #3: Arachnophobia Part 3:

Manhattan, New York—Central Park (Lucas Narrates)

Okay, so right after we left last issue I seriously kicked these Weapon X guys #$, but it looks like they want more. This guy called Spidercide took Anya away from here. She left because he insured her that these guys wouldn't kill me if she went with him. Of course you can never trust a madman's word, but there are no worries here. These guys are nothing compared to what I've faced in my past.

Who am I you ask? Well, if you read last issue you'd know my names is Lucas Garcia, but I go by another name. The criminals on the street know me as Llamarado, the ninja of fire.

I figured I was the only one getting into fights with evil groups, but Anya seems to have her things too. How nice, the first girl I have a thing for in this city is a superhuman and she has an arch-enemy. I knew I found someone good when I went up to talk to her.

Well, back to reality and it's me facing five Weapon X agents and one of the leaders. I would use my fire powers, but my identity is supposed to be secret. Damn it I want to help Anya. Make this quick Lucas.

"Let's go," I yell.

The five agents come at me, but I take them all down one by one. The first I toke down with a kick to the side and punched another on my other side. The third agent came from head on and I grab his arm tossing him over my shoulder. The last two stand before me unsure of what to do. They signal each other to go, but they both hesitate.

"Oh, for the love of," I yell. "I don't have all day!"

I charge both and hit them with a double clothesline, with both my arms extended out. They fall over, one gets up and I ram his skull into a nearby wall, the other gets up and I punch him in the stomach and uppercut his face.

"Ew, bloody nose," I laugh.

Five bodies lie on the ground as I stare down the one called John Wraith. "So, what's so special about Anya," I ask.

"Well, that's secret son," says Wraith. "But since you're gonna die anyway… Miss Corazon is a failed project of ours, codenamed Spider-Girl."

"Spider-Girl," I mutter. "You mean Araña?"

"Well, that seems to be what she's going by these days," says Wraith. "She was given superhuman powers by some Mayan temple located in Mexico. We took her and used her, made her better."

"That seems to be the story with you people," I say.

"Now you know, time to die," says Wraith.

A Distance Away (Araña Narrates)

It's me and Spidercide all by our lonesome, oh joy… I have to beat him to make sure Lucas stays alive.

"Umm, sexy. I love it," laughs Spidercide. "I love the new costume."

"…," I keep silent.

"What's with the silent treatment," asks Spidercide. "Spider-Man isn't like this when he fights one of his arch-enemies."

"This isn't a game Spidercide," I say. "We could hurt people."

"I have no intention of hurting other people, only you," he yells as he jumps for me.

He uses his powers to make his fingers extend out to look like claws. He swipes his claws at me and I dodge every swipe.

"You've gotten faster," he says.

"That's not all," I say.

I give him a right hook straight to his jaw. He steps back and laughs, "Ha, ha, ha. I actually felt something. You've been working out! Let's see those muscles."

"Will you stop talking about how my body looks," I yell.

I swing again at him, but he dodges me. I turn to face him and he hits me in the center of my face.

"Ow," I yell.

I fell to the ground in pain. My vision became blurred.

"Ahh, you're already down," says Spidercide. "I was hoping for more out of you."

"I'm not done yet," I mutter.

While on the ground I move my left leg to try and trip him up. He falls, but rolls back on to his feet. Back on my feet a leap from the ground and hit him with my shoulder to force him back. We both get up to our feet.

THWIP!

I shoot out a strand of webbing at a statue nearby and pull it towards Spidercide. He is hit and falls with the statue.

"Ahh," I take deep breaths. "Ahh…"

"Vandalism," says Spidercide. "That's not good. Not good at all."

Anya's Home

It was getting late. Lynn was sitting down to eat dinner with her father. Her father is still a cop and her mother, well her mother left. Things weren't working out between the two of them and she left, it was a rough time for them and awkward for me. Well, like I said it's late and they're getting ready to eat dinner.

"Why is Anya out so late," asks Mr. Johnson.

"She was out on a date with a new kid at school," says Lynn. "I thought she would be back by now."

"Do you know where she went," asks Mr. Johnson.

"Yeah, she went to the café with hangout at," says Lynn.

"Maybe I should call the place," says Mr. Johnson.

"Well, she can't be there," says Lynn. "I tried her on her cell phone."

Lynn's father went to the phone and called the café after looking up the number in the phone book.

"Yes, I'm looking for Anya Corazon," says Mr. Johnson. "Could you ask if she's there?"

"Sir, I'm sorry, but there was an incident here and all customers have left," said the café worker.

"They've left," questions Mr. Johnson.

He hangs up the phone and walks back over to Lynn.

"Something happened over there," says Mr. Johnson. "But Anya isn't there and I'm not sure where she is."

Central Park (Lucas Narrates)

It's me John Wraith all by our lonesome. It's getting late, better hurry. We stare each other down waiting for each other to move. Wraith pulls out a hand gun and begins to fire at me. Dodge the bullets one by one and move in closer on him. I kick the gun out of his hand and we begin fighting with our fists. I throw two punches, but he blocks both of them and holds my arms up following up by hitting with his face. I take back two steps and shake off the pain. He comes after me throwing punch after punch I block him as well. I kick him, making him go back a couple of feet. Then I run towards him and up his body, and then I kick him at the side of his head. He falls a distance from me and I land on my feet. I look down at him waiting for him to come back up.

"Well," I say.

He doesn't move. I don't know whether he's out or not, but I take my chance on leaving. I follow the path that Anya took with Spidercide. As I run I start to ignite my body in flames, no one was around so I had no problem doing it. The flames transform my clothes into a leather costume. The costume is black with orange lines running across my chest. I have knee and elbow pads that are orange and blue and my boots are also blue and orange. The flames disappear as I move in on Anya. I see them fighting. Spidercide has his fingers extended out as claws and he's swinging them at her. Anya runs out of space to go and is forced up against a wall. Spidercide grabs her by the throat and morphs his hand into a blade of a spear. He then strikes Anya in her right arm with it.

"Ahh," she yells.

"No…," I say.

I pull out one of my katana swords from behind me and run towards Spidercide.

"Urr, yah," I yell as I strike Spidercide in the back.

"Ahh," yells Spidercide.

He pulls his spear-shaped hand from Anya arm and steps back.

"All right Spidey step off," I say.

"Who the hell are you," asks Spidercide.

"I'm Llamarado," I say. "And this is my sword…"

My sword ignites in flames. Spidercide looks in shock.

"Let's see those claws of yours in action," I say.

"Not now," says Spidercide. "You surprised me, struck me from behind. Next time we meet I won't let you off the hook so easily, her either."

Spidercide puts his hand on his back and walks off. I wanted to go after him, but Anya was hurt. I walk up to her and grab her arm, which is bleed pretty badly. She's out cold, must of went out when Spidercide was choking her. I had to get her to safety and stop her arm from bleeding, but there's no way to take her to a hospital not like this in her Araña costume. I decide to take her back to my place.

Lucas's Apartment

It's late at night. I wrapped Anya's arm in bandages and let her rest in my bed. The wound was pretty bad. I had to use a special treatment to heal it, one I learned back when I was learning to be a ninja. Seeing all the blood come out of Anya's arm reminded me of the day my family was taken from me. Seeing my father dead on the floor of our old house, blood everywhere, Victor Von Doom killed him and kidnapped my mother and siblings. Now Anya is in a fight for her life against a man who did the same to her family. All I know is this madman, Spidercide, will be after Anya and a lot of innocents maybe harmed. That's why I need to stay by her side for the time being. I saw how Anya was shaking when she saw him at first. She'll need me to help her get over her i fear of spiders /i .

To Be Continued…