Venno Rapter - The Hellish Series Returns - Series Two

The Former Claws of Anger (Story 15 - Chapter 1)

At this point, about three months have passed since the last story.

In New Strip City, midnight.

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The streets of New Strip City were flooding with pouring rain that seemed almost never ending. The darkness was filled with a thick and heavy fog that blinded anyone, even those with the best of eyesights.

The only denizens who dared come out during this type of weather were prostitutes and drug dealers looking to meet with their clients in order to make ends meet.

But there was one other denizen who was forced to be outside during this type of weather.

A young female Spider Crab around the age of seventeen was walking down the streets, her clawed hands hugging herself as she shivered due to the cold rain that was drenching her simple yet tattered black dress that she was forced to steal perhaps two years years before due to the fact that she had outgrown her old dress. Around her waist was a rope that she had managed to find in the garbage, and her light ginger hair still remained in their upwards pigtails, only at this point they were a tangled mess.

She had been living on the streets for a little over five years, maybe, ever since her home got flooded and she was forced to leave.

At this point, she had long outgrown her little crush on that Anglerfish, having given up when she read in the paper about his and the Velociraptor's wedding.

It was newsworthy, the story telling of how the former netorious thief turned a new leaf and became a Bounty Hunter instead. He even began returning everything he had stolen, at least everything that had been claimed back by those who answered his articles in the newspaper.

The Spider Crab sneezed, her claws coming up to cover her mouth before quickly wrapping around herself once again, letting out a weak shiver as a chill ran throughout her body.

"Come on Debby, why did I have to be so stupid and spoiled?" asked the Spider Crab, Debby, as she continued walking slowly throughout the streets in search of some proper cover to sleep under.

That day, everything that had happened leading up to the flooding of her home, played out in her dreams every night whenever she went to sleep.

She couldn't be mad at anyone but herself for being so spoiled and rotten. At first, for the first two years, she had been angry at everyone who had been there that day. That Velociraptor for catching her 'crush's' eye, her 'crush' for falling in love with that Velociraptor, those two Spiders who had been there backing the two up, even her own father for failing her and not giving her what she wanted.

During the third year, she had started to do some serious thinking when her luck only grew worse, as though she was finally getting what she deserved after the way she had acted and treated everyone. And then, for the last two years after that, it had finally sunk in that she was only in this situation because of her own greedy misdeeds.

She deserved living on the streets, a nobody who had nothing, her greed, envy and rage blinding her to what really mattered most, and that was the love and care her father had been trying to give to her in order to raise her right.

Debby sighed, the Spider Crab's head lowering even further.

Wherever her father was, she didn't deserve to see him again, to have his arms wrapped around her in a warm, loving hug. She didn't deserve a father like him, having done his best to raise her after her mother had died, and she never even cared. She had remained a heartless, spoiled brat who wanted only what she was unable to have.