Chapter 3
By a spider fang…
But now the time has come to set others upon that path. Guide them to follow in your steps.-Sage Yulyana, Bravely Default
Disclaimer: I don't own digimon.
Nina groaned. Somehow, the traffic Ace had deal with in chapter 1 was now something she had to deal with at the moment.
"Author, what have I done to be worthy of the punishment you have gifted upon me?" Nina questioned, forced to stop her sports cycle do to the mass congestion. In the background, many people were cussing into their phones or honking their horns in the misguided notion that would somehow help in this situation. This time, the traffic was caused by a crowd people recording a video. This normally wouldn't be much of a problem, but they were all standing in middle of the road. "Seriously, that's what has all the traffic stopped?!" It just didn't make sense to her.
"Maybe it's one of those extremely funny videos!" Arana chimed in, Nina looking down at her HDA to see her response.
"Whatever kind of video it is, you'll have to wait for the traffic to subside before we can get through." Celestia added as Nina groaned.
"That pretty obvious, stupid!" Nina shouted into the HDA as Celestia gave her a stern look.
"Young Lady! What have I told you about responding to my instructions with a snarky comment?" Celestia accused as Nina flinched, tears falling from her eyes. "Stop crying! Do not allow your opponent to any weakness from you at all!" She tried to hold the tears in and muted the HDA. She wasn't in the mood for all of this scolding. She started the bike back up and weaved the bike through the traffic and pissed off the cars in front of her.
"Young Lady! What you're doing at the moment is brash and illegal, so stop at this very instant!" Celestia scolded as Nina ignored her order. She was the one in charge, not her. When would that stupid, gambling cat get that through her head?
"Fuck off, Celestia." Nina answered as she fully muted her HDA. Thankfully, it only took her a few minutes to get onto the sidewalk and see what was happening. She stopped the bike and removed her helmet. The crowd of people was now at least 20ft away, right next to a liquor store. As she approached, it became very clear why the people were filming. Some teenage girl in a bikini and shorts along with a bunch of skeletons were stealing liquor. The craziest part of all this was they were loading it all up into some armored vehicle. Driving that specific vehicle was an actual troll driving it. He stood about 4'3 and looked to have been in his late 20's. His hardened light green skin contrasted with his blue police uniform. For some reason, the only weapon on him was a pair of Kukuris'. They hadn't been there long, but they had already had all the booze in truck. The troll motioned for the girl and skeleton's to get into the truck as he approached her.
"Miss, I'm Officer Epic Mustache Troll or Officer EMT." Officer EMT explained, pulling a pair of handcuffs out of thin air."And you're under arrest."
"For what?" Nina questioned, pulling out her butterfly swords in the process. She stabbed at her opponent, knocking the handcuffs to the ground.
"For not acting like a stereotypical teen!" Officer EMT exclaimed as Nina facepalmed,
"Really?" Nina questioned as she looked at Officer EMT.
"Yes." Officer EMT answered."By order of the Story and Fanfic Police department, or SFPD for short."
"I don't have time for you." Nina responded coldly, running over to her cycle and headed off.
"Just what I thought." Officer EMT responded, returning to his armored vehicle."Let's go and steal from some more liquor stores." Nina ignored him and went around the crowd of people. She was done with all this time wasting. Then she started to feel dizzy as her eyelids became heavier and heavier.
"Must stay awake…" Nina thought as the dizzy feeling started to feel stronger. Her eyelids became much heavier. A few seconds later, she drifted into sleep…
That man…That man with the blonde hair and the fisherman cap…
He would pay for what he did to mommy and daddy. She had waited long enough. It was time to do this. She grabbed her weapons of choice, two daggers. Both daggers had been made from fangs from a giant spider. Both weapons were hollow, allowing for a special surprise to be placed in there…
Nina's eyes opened. She was in some cave-like place, possibly. The walls were a dark brown with a wood-like texture. The ground of this place, a similar color to the walls just slightly lighter than it. She was no longer on the street next to the liquor store. Wherever she was now, she either got there on her own two feet or somebody brought her there. The weirdest thing was why was her left high heel on something? She looked downed and her face froze. She was standing on a body. It was no longer alive, but hadn't been dead for long. The cold realization of that caused her to black out once again.
"What? I'm home now?" Nina thought as Celestia, Arana, and Krystalia ran up to her as a girl approached. The girl approached slowly, as if something was wrong. She was young, around 12 years old. She looked to be 4'1 and was a little pudgy for her age. She wore a simple brown t-shirt with matching shorts and leather jacket with two holsters around her waist. She wore cowboys boot and a cowboy hat that finished off her look. Her big auburn eyes were filled with curiosity as she looked at Nina.
"Where were you, Young Lady?!." Celestia responded, Nina's hands balling up into fists."That is not how a lady is supposed to respond to a question."
"Well… I never was planning on being one at all for you." Nina responded cockily, dragging Celestia outside.
"What's wrong with her?" The Girl asked as Arana looked at her.
"I don't really know." Arana responded. "I suspect Nina just has a little anger issue with Celestia, Aurora."
"But this looked like more than a little anger." Aurora added and headed towards a nearby window. She quickly glanced out the window."Author, can I ask something of you?"
"And that would be?" The Author excitedly asked.
"You're not going to show what's out there, are you?" Aurora questioned. "Because that isn't appropriate all, even for a T-rated fic." In the background, the hard thump of a hammer could be heard.
"Fine, I won't show it to the viewers." The Author exclaimed as Aurora smiled.
"Does that mean that's the last M-rated joke in this story?" Aurora added.
"No, because we're just getting started with this fic!" The Author shouted as Nina walked back in.
"Is everything all right, Nina?" Aurora questioned as Nina walked right by. She didn't even get a response to her comment. It was unlike Nina to be so cold to her or her creatures.
""It's probably 10am and I'm already worn out from all this excitement." Nina explained."For now, I'm going to be up in my room." Aurora glared at her, suspecting something wasn't right with her friend. Nina headed up the oak stairs and entered the first door on her right.
"Just out of curiosity, what did you see out that window?" Arana asked.
"If I told you, this fic would go M-rated." Aurora answered as she headed towards the dining table. Lying on the spruce table was a pair of wild west-style six shooters. The guns were coated in a silvery metal and shot modern-day bullets for some reason. She fitted the guns into the holsters and headed over to the brown armchair in the living room. She needed to take a minute to clear her thoughts.
"Why do I feel so strange?" Nina thought as she sat in her bean bag. She had switched out of her regular clothes into something much more regal. She now wore a bright pink princess style dress with bright pink sleeveless opera gloves that went up to her elbows. Finishing off her look was a pair of bright pink high heels and a "golden" crown on top of her head. For being dressed so regal, all she was doing was watch season 1 of digimon on her TV and pretending to be a royal princess. She knew something wasn't right with her, but she couldn't figure out what it was. Out of the corner of her eye, a shadow approached. She turned around, and then it was gone. She soon felt a queasy feeling, and blacked out once again…
She was back in that cave place again. But this time, things were different. She was hanging up in the air and surrounded with white sticky stuff. She went for her butterfly blades, but found just an empty belt.
"There is no use trying to escape." A voice explained as a spider was suddenly dropped in. Nina squirmed and tried to stay away from the spider. That turned out to be a hopeless battle when the cage you're in has no room to hide. The spider almost immediately bit down on her right arm. After releasing its "poison", the spider withered away.
"Now things are getting really weird." Nina thought as a weird green liquid funneled into her cage. By that point, weird messages were in her mind. She pushed the messages away and started to resist. She knew escape was her only option. After swinging the cage about a half dozen times, the liquid finally stopped funneling in. And then the cage crashed down onto the floor. Nina dusted herself off and noticed her butterfly blades right in the wreckage. She casually picked them up and ran forward… right into a brick wall. After moving away from said wall, she walked through the exit on the right.
"Not so fast, little girl." The voice from earlier remarked."The Empress wouldn't be happy if I just allow you to just easily leave." Finally, Nina could actually sort-of see who was shouting.
"Who are you and what do you want with me?" Nina accused as the voice laughed.
"You can call me… Arachne." Arachne explained as she approached Nina." And you were going to be the commander of my spider people!" Arachne looked around, and found that Nina was gone. "I'll get you!"
"Whatever, Spider-b****." Nina responded as she found her motorcycle and drove away…
"It all comes clear to me." Nina thought as she quickly changed into her usual outfit and turned off the TV. She then grabbed her butterfly swords off of her nightstand and placed them in their hilts on her belt. She quickly ran down the stairs and out the door. Before she could really go anywhere, she had to do something first.
"So I'm guessing you're ready to act properly, Young Lady?" Celestia said as she gazed at Nina.
"Yes Celestia, I will act more responsibly next time." Nina apologized as they both headed in, but not before noticing The Black Cat.
"Coincidentally when we got home, I found a piece of paper for that thing's capture." Celestia added and showed Nina the piece of paper.
"This kind of thing just seems too good to be true." Nina responded as she placed the paper on the dining room table. "Aurora, we have a job."
"Just give me a minute" Aurora added as she performed a little target practice on a dartboard mounted to the wall with live ammo. "Okay, now I'm ready to do this." As she said that, she quickly holstered her guns.
"Let's do this." Nina shouted as the threesome headed into the garage. She grabbed her motorcycle helmet as Aurora mounted onto her vehicle, a mechanical horse named Lightning. Its entire body was silver and could easily keep up with her sports cycle. As Nina got on, fitting her helmet on her head as Celestia got on. Is everybody ready?"
"Yep!" Celestia and Aurora shouted simultaneously. She started the engine and they headed off. The roads were empty now, with the sound of the wind the only one around. The silence didn't last long, as the Empress's airship hovered overhead.
"Well this is f****** great." Aurora responded as the cargo ramp came down and The Empress made her appearance.
"What's your grand plan now?" Nina taunted as she noticed that The Black Cat was in front of her cycle and Lightning.
"This time, I'm going to obliterate all of you!" The Empress announced as her airship started to fire off beams of energy at them.
"Really? That's the best plan you could think of?" Aurora questioned as she looked at The Empress."Who are you anyway?" The Empress looked down at her.
"Fine. I'm your future ruler, The Empress!" The Empress added as Aurora. "I sort of expected you to know that, you little rat." Nina quickly glanced at Aurora before turning back to her view of the road. She knew she could trust The Empress, but something about this information seemed truthful for some reason.
"Nina, The Empress is trying to trick you! I'm not a rat to anybody!" Aurora shouted as pulled her pistols out while trying to avoid the energy beams being shot at them.
"You can never be too sure, Nina." The Empress accused, making a sad crying face."She could be lying to you at this very moment!" Nina gave her quick glance and then flipped her off.
"All that matters to me, Aurora is my friend." Nina shouted." Along as that's settled, you can say whatever you want. Because the friendship between Aurora and I is strong enough to hold off your attacks!" The Empress only laughed.
"Don't tell me you actually believe in that cliché?" The Empress shouted as the cannons started to fire even faster. "If that was true, we wouldn't be in this f****** mess right now!" Aurora loaded both of her pistols and fired full-auto at The Empress. For whatever reason, her target stood still and took the brunt force of the bullets. There wasn't even a scratch on her body.
"You were just hit with 12 bullets!" Aurora shouted as The Empress looked down at herself.
"Really, you did?" The Empress responded."If you did, I would be dead."
"Well, somehow you're not." Nina responded wondering when this road would finally turn.
"Where was I?" The Empress asked and quickly realized where she was." Even then, that cliché is from digimon no less! I thought this was a story that at least kept up with the times!"
"Can you please remove The Empress's ability to speak?" Celestia asked as she almost fell off the bike.
"Naw. This is kind of fun to watch." The Author answered as Celestia facepalmed.
"This conversation has gone on long enough." Celestia responded as she pulled out a deck of cards as Nina quickly turned and looked at her. "Shouldn't you be driving right now?"
"Yes, but what do you plan on doing?" Nina asked as Celestia jumped off her motorcycle.
"Card Trick: Grapple!" The deck of cards then elongated into a hookshot and propelled Celestia up onto the ramp of the airship.
"I should have known." The Empress muttered as she pulled out her glock's.
"Well too bad." Celestia taunted."Card Trick: Blade!" The Hookshot in her hand then reformed into a saber."Are you ready to fight, coward?"
"Bring it on, nekogirl." The Empress remarked as a battle of steel and lead began.
"I believe now, we can probably leave those two to fight." Nina responded as a girl jumped out into the road. She wore a red top and matching pants. The only weird thing about her outfit was the fact it had been made entirely of spider silk.
"So the captive has returned to her master..." The Girl responded as Aurora and Nina stopped their vehicles.
"Who the heck are you?" Aurora questioned as The Girl laughed.
"I am Arachne, The Spider Queen and The Empress's second assassin." Arachne announced as Celestia was thrown out of the airship."Now my slaves, attack!"
"What slaves? I don't see any slaves!" Celestia added as a mob of people with weird black headsets covering there heads ran towards them."And you look too young to even be the queen of spiders!" Arachne turned and threw a web out of her hand. At that moment, both Nina and Aurora equipped their weapons. They stabbed and shot their way through, making sure they didn't kill any innocents in the process. While they did that, Celestia distracted Arachne by throwing cards at her.
"Man, this girl is dumber than a brick." Aurora whispered as they reached Arachne. As they were about to strike her, Aurora, Celestia and Arachne's "Slaves" were punctured with short whitish-gold needles.
"You have a choice little Nina." Arachne explained as she turned around and looked at Nina."You come with me and nobody get's hurt. Strike me and everybody will get hurt.
"Screw you." Nina responded as a purple outline appeared around her."One must always take a risk no matter the consequences! Gambler's Stab X2!" Unlike before, A cat appeared holding up two cards and threw them at Nina's opponent. Nina then promptly slashed her opponent multiple times before hearing a satisfying crack.
"You win, Nina. But time isn't on your guy's side at all and soon, you will be begging for mercy." Arachne remarked evilly as she ran to the rope leading up to the airship.
"Time to head back, I guess." Celestia added as they got back on their vehicles and headed off.
The Empress looked at Clara. Somehow, what one would think would be a huge goldmine of information had only rewarded her one thing. A set of coordinates with a date. However, that was what she had been looking for the whole time. She then removed Clara from the giant tube and threw her out. There was much work that needed to be done before she could get to her next objective...