CHAPTER 3: LIZARD LADIES REVISITED
The next day, Gertie brought the Lizard Ladies to the abandoned house where Tarantula was laying low. They all came sporadically due to Tarantula being in hiding and not bringing attention to the house she was hiding in. Though, to be fair, hardly any resident was living in this area. Aside from some poor folks that couldn't leave, no living person was living in that neighborhood.
As the Lizard Ladies gathered where Tarantula was sitting, Gertie said to her, "Heh are all the ladies, chief. We is ready to heh what ya hafta say."
"Lizards," Tarantula began, "first of all I heard about how hard you've been working. I am proud of you girls and I implore you to keep up the good work. Because this summer, we're going to be pretty busy wreaking havoc! First, I need three girls to seek out the members of the Serpent Sisters, Cobra the leader, Rattler the small one, and Mamba the crabby one. If you locate their homes, DON'T do anything yet until I say so. Just keep an eye on them. If they find out I've escaped, that's okay. I WANT them to know. I want them to sweat, wonder what I'm going to do next.
"When the time comes, we will finish what we started in Gertie's fathers salvage yard, but here in this cesspool of what used to be a neighborhood. I heard that Gertie has found someone that has held our weapons so that the cops wouldn't find them. We will reach out to this good Samaritan, pay them handsomely, of course, and grab out weapons of mass chaos! Because before we go after the Serpents, we will destroy EVERYTHING that they hold near and dear to them! We will kidnap any family that they may have that we can grab, outside of older siblings or parents. Then after we destroy the Serpents, we go after my old gang, The Spiders, and do the same thing! This summer in Sparkyville will be a SUMMER OF CHAOS!" And all of the girls cheered. They were ready to do Tarantula's bidding.
"I need three volunteers to scout those three Serpents," Tarantula announced. Three girls stepped forward.
"State ya names fer da boss," commanded Gertie.
"They call me Gecko," said a girl who sported a platinum blonde mohawk.
"I'm Iguana," announced the second girl, who had no hair and a patch over one of her eyes.
"And I'm Chameleon," stated the last girl who had long green hair and was slightly taller than the others.
"Good," said Tarantula. "Gecko, you look for Cobra. Iguana, you go after Rattler. And Chameleon, Mamba's your girl. Like I said, just study and get intel at this point. Don't do ANYTHING right now besides that until my say so. Though we may start wreaking havoc even before we do anything to those Serpents. You have your orders, GO!" And the three girls went to look for their targets.
"As for the rest of you," Tarantula finished, "wait until either Gertie or myself give any orders to start destruction. Right now the cops are looking for me and we can't do anything without arousing suspicion. So wait until further notice. You are dismissed!" And the girls began to leave gradually so not to arouse any kind of suspicion.
Later, Lucy was with Linus, Eudora, Schroeder, Rattler, Thibault, Cobra, and her new boyfriend Dominick, at Joe's Café enjoying lunch. All were getting to know Dominick.
"So how did you and Cobra meet, Dom," said Eudora.
"Well I also went to Freemont," said Dominick. "I always had a crush on Sylvia, even when she was leading the Serpent Sisters. She didn't want to get me involved in her gang activity so we didn't date until now."
"I never wanted anything bad to happen to Dom," said Cobra. "So I remained friends with him until I finally said let's go out to the movies a few weeks ago."
"Well you two look happy," said Linus.
"Where's Charlie Brown and Frieda?" asked Lucy.
"Don't you remember, Lucy?" said Eudora. "Charles, Frieda, Sally, Michael, Snoopy, and Woodstock went to Frieda's family cottage for a few weeks."
"That's right," Lucy said, now remembering. "They're the lucky ones. They're not stuck in town like us!"
"Hey we're still going to the amusement park," reminded Linus.
"Oh yeah, so we'll have plenty of fun," said Schroeder. And the kids continued to talk about all of their summer plans, not knowing what chaos awaited them in the process.
NEXT CHAPTER: RETURN TO THE OUTSIDE WORLD