Disclaimer:I do not own spider riders. I do own Nina, Ember and Zeronex and the reptilian race.
A/N: Well its been awhile since I last updated, hope I didn't lose any readers. I had this chapter written since early June, but I got into a car accident and my arms were broken. I'm okay and my friend helped me type this up. She even helped me type the next chapter so I will post that when she's done with it. So a big thank you to her. Anyway, this chapter was inspired by the army of lizards who decided to take over my backyard. Hope you enjoy this chapter.:)
"Freedom! Freedom!", the many shouts and cries of victory could be heard throughout the cavern. Rising from the shattered remains of the oracle statue were several reptilian monsters; some humanoid others not. All of a sudden the room grew quite as a large humanoid reptilian with bright red eyes and a strange sword at his waist emerged from the ruble.
"You have done well brother. You have successfully completed your mission. Now for your reward.", the large reptilian raised his hand and shot a beam of energy toward the other reptilian.
"This will only hurt for a little while then you shall feel nothing at all.", the large reptilian said with an evil grin as the other reptilian was on the floor shaking and rolling in pain as the beam was hitting him.
"W-what a-r-e you do-ing?", said the other reptilian who was on the floor in pain. He then started to feel strange as the pain started to gradually subside.
"I increased your strength by forcing your body to go through years of training in a matter of seconds. The pain you felt was all the pain you normally would felt by training all those years. You just got to experience that in just a matter of seconds. Think of it as your reward and punishment for freeing us and failing to eliminate the guardians and the spider riders.", said the large reptilian.
"Thank you master Zerk. I will not fail you again.", the reptilian bowed and took his place among the others.
"Brethren! The time has come for us to reclaim the Inner World again and make the Oracle pay for entrapping us in this prison. Once we release the others we will wage war on those who oppose us and when we conquer the Inner World, we shall then move on to the outer world and take over everything!"
"All hail Zerk! All hail Zerk!", the many chants of the reptilians started to wake Hunter from his unconscious state.
"What happened?" asked Hunter as he tried to stand up but fell because he was extremely tired from using the oracle keys.
"Well, you went berserk, managed to unleash monsters sealed by the Oracle, and got us trapped in this mess.", said Shadow in his usual condescending tone.
"I did what?!", yelled Hunter loud enough to interrupt the speech.
"Nice job Hunter. Now they know we're here.", said the ever sarcastic Shadow.
"Well well well; if it isn't the spider rider who helped free us. I really must thank you for releasing us so we could rule the Inner World. Why don't you join us? We could really use someone with your power and rage on our side. Join usss and you will have all that your heart dessssiresss.", hissed Zerk.
"I rather be dead then join you!", replied Hunter with animosity in his voice.
"Very well then. We will make an example of this boy and show the world what happens to those who dare oppose us!!", shouted Zerk. He unsheathed his sword and order his Reptilian generals to attack Hunter.
Lily(the lady with the crystal ball who is always looking after sparkle) was in her room attempting to see what the future would hold. Just then the little doll she uses to predict the future popped out of her box scared senseless.
"Something terrible is going to happen! The entire world is in danger! Oh no oh no!", the doll (I think she has a name but I forgot, if you know please tell me.) said and started to ramble about how the world was going to end.
"What are you talking about?" Lily asked confused as to why her future seeing doll was going crazy. Then she felt totally cold with fear as she sensed impending doom. "Oh my, what in the world is going on? Oh Oracle please protect us.", said Lily hoping her prayers would be answered.
Outside of the city, was Slate training with the guards to better protect the people of Arachna.
"Come on, you could do better than that", said Slate as he parried the guards sword attack. He was about to counter the guards strike when he heard someone calling his name.
"Who's there?", he questioned, pulling out his swords in case it was an ambush. The other guards followed his example and readied their weapons.
"Calm down. I have no intention on ambushing you.", said a voice from the top of a near by tree. A large battle spider jumped out and landed right in front of Slate.
"The name's Ember. I'm very talented battle spider, and I have been watching you lately to see if your good enough to be my partner.", said the orange-red spider with a flame patter over its body.
"Me, you think I'm good enough to be your rider?", said a shocked Slate.
"I only said I've been watching you to see if your good enough to be my rider. I am still not convinced yet if you are worthy. How about a dual against me to prove yourself worthy?", said Ember challenging Slate.
"I never fought a battle spider before; and this could be quite fun. Alright I'll do it. I accept your challenge Ember but be prepared to lose!", said Slate
"Excellent, but know this I will be a lot harder to defeat than you think human.", said Ember as he leap toward the arena with Slate running after him. As soon as both of them left, a very flustered Lily came out to see if Slate was here.
"Slate! Slate! Oh where his he. You there do you know where Slate is?", asked Lily.
"He left to the arena to dual with a spider to prove himself worthy to ride it.", replied the guard.
"Slate, a rider? This could be good news for the spider riders. But is it really necessary to do battle against it. Oh well at least I know where he is so I can tell him about the premonition of destruction I had. If only the prince hadn't left or if Hunter wasn't injured.", Lily sighed and headed toward the arena.
"Corona! Aqune!", Nina went to their side to check on the unconscious maidens. They both started to awake when she got to them.
"Thank the Oracle your all okay.", said a worried Sparkle.
"What I would like to know is what happened?", said a confused Prince Lumen.
"Well, the last thing I remember was a light coming from that cavern and then I sensed the Oracle in great pain. Oh no! The Oracle!", said Corona remembering everything.
"The Oracle is in danger. We have to hurry!", said Aqune getting ready to go to the Cavern.
"What about Hunter? We can't just forget about him.", said Corona worried about him.
"If the Oracle is in danger, that is our top priority.", said Zeronex Coldly.
"But Hunter...", said Corona still worried about him.
"I agree with him Corona. We should protect the Oracle first, then we could find Hunter.", said Magma and Igneous.
"Not you too.", said Corona who was in favor of finding Hunter.
"Listen guys, I have this hunch that if we go to help the Oracle we'll find Hunter and my hunches are almost never wrong. So please, no arguing.",said Nina trying to keep everything calm and organized.
"Almost never wrong? Yeah right.", said Zeronex laughing at his sister.
"Who asked you?!", she threw an angry glare at him. "Come on the sooner we go, the sooner we are to helping the Oracle and finding Hunter."
So the spider riders and the guardians left to the cavern. Not knowing what horrible things awaited them.
So what do you think? Questions? Comments? As always, your reviews our greatly appreciated. Even just clicking on this story is greatly appreciated. I decided to leave a lot of cliffhangers in this chapter. Also I know I said Buguese would make an appearance, but I decided to put him in the next chapter. My friend says I should pair him with Beerain, but I'm not Sure? Please tell me what you think? Something terrible might happen to Hunter in the next chapter so please keep checking up on this story. I swear I will update as soon as I can. I already have the next three chapters planned out.