Issue 1: Fall of the Great Weaver
Many millennia ago at Universe-000
"Mother! I beg you a final time, let me be the first to attack. I'm eldest! It is my right!" The Inheritor named Daemos pleaded with his mother to attack the ruler of the Web of Life and Destiny, the one who controls all reality, the Great Weaver. The Spider-God slyly faces his opponents while hanging on the Great Web, appearing in a mixture form between his spider-like appearance with the multiple arms and his old mortal form, Kwaku Anansi, wearing a cloak with multiple markings and holding onto a black staff.
These totemic hunters, originated from Earth-001, also called Loomworld, are known throughout the multiverse as the Inheritors. Their main objective: Feed on the countless Animal Totems across the multiverse to keep themselves sustained for all of eternity, and their favorite totems to feast upon, are spiders. This immortal clan consist of the twins Bora and Brix. Their sister with human-beast pets, Verna. Mommy's favorite and the outcast, Karn. The mad scientist of the family, Jennix. The eldest of the family, Daemos and his large hammer to crush people's heads with. And the most loved and heir to the family, Morlun. Along with their mother, the family traveled to Universe-000 to take down the Spider-God of Reality.
"No, Daemos. Your father trusted me to lead," His mother reminded her eldest son. "Play your assigned part, and Karn will perform his. Isn't that right, my boy?" She turns to her brown-hair child.
"Of course, mother." Karn responded.
"Awww. Such a lovely relationship between mother and child." The great-old weaver chuckled with big smile, tinging his multiple hands on small strands of his resting web.
"The Great Weaver is focused on the Web of Life and Destiny. And not us," The Inheritors' mother pointed out to her children. "We just have one opportunity. Only Karn can…"
"Enough!" Daemos shouted, interrupting her mother while she was talking. "Always you favor Karn. Today I prove it misplaced!" He throws his mighty hammer straight at the Weaver, but the old god trolled him and casually said "Nope", snapping a strand of the web that instantly turn the inheritor's hammer into nothing but dust, leaving its former owner shocked. "What-? My war-hammer…"
"It is unraveled. He weaves the Web of Fate and Destiny. You foolish boy. You can't just attack him like prey in a hunt." The mother scolded the eldest.
"Probably should've raised him better, you foolish mother." The Weaver God mocked, chuckling with his own unique laugh, angering the huntress.
She turns to the other eldest in the family. "MORLUN! VERNA! Clear a path for your brother! Hmph. We could get through just as well." The mother of totem hunters said, holding onto her axe tightly.
"I like to see you try." The Weaver smirked.
Karn and his two other hunter siblings, Morlun and Verna, begin dashing towards the weaver as fast as they could before he pulls off wackier reality-shaping with that giant web of his. "Get through? Perhaps. As well? Never." Karn gives his thoughts on his mother's plans, thinking getting through is really impossible.
"Boastful pulp. I have the high ground here." Morlun boasted, seeing how he's in the lead of the group.
"No you don't." The Weaver casually snaps another strand of the web, causing the ground below Morlun to collapse and making him fall.
"Ha! And it unravels under your feet, brother." Karn said, running past his brother, then his sister, who gets crushed by a pillar because of the weaver and his Great Web. "Have a care, sister. The weaver will unmake his home to stop us…" The child jumps to the top of the staircase and lands face-to-face with the Great Web itself, along with its creator. "But he won't stop me!" The totem hunter holds out two pronged energy staff, getting his feet ready to pounce and look intimidating, but the weaver remains calm, still smiling even if it looks like he's in mortal danger.
"True, young chosen child. But I have nothing to fear from you," The Great Weaver spoke to Karn, staring as if he's searching through his soul for answers. "You are not like the rest of your family, hmmmm? You don't take pleasure in death, am I right? You prefer to build, not destroy? Strike me if I'm wrong."
Karn hesitates, even with his mother shouting at him to strike while he's talking. Even though he deeply wants to prove himself to his mother and siblings, he couldn't, because this totem god is speaking the truth. Seeing how her own flesh and blood is embarrassing her and the rest of the family, the mother runs up with her silver axe to finish the job her 'son' could not.
"I am disappointed with you, my boy. Now it must fall to-!"
"I'm sorry. Who?" The Totem Weaver nonchalantly asked, snapping another strand of the mystical web.
"ME-!" She shouted only seconds before turning into white-webbed dust, instantly dying while her once beloved child screams for her death. Karn kneels down to his knees almost in tears, as the only person who ever loved him in the entire multiverse has died, right in front of his eyes.
Meanwhile, the Spider-Weaver calmly wipes his hands clean. He sighed, because in his heart he awfully regretted taking a child away from his mother, "I'm sorry, child, but it was either me or her. So I should properly end this now to reduce all your suffering."
"NO!"
The Weaver and the Inheritors turn their heads to the source of the loud shout that shook the entire building. With a monstrous stomp that forms a massive crater to the ground, the big, bulky father of all Inheritors steps forward to face the Great Weaver. His name, is Solus. "Great Weaver! I bring you your end!" Solus quickly overpowered and subdued the Weaver with little effort thanks to his frightening strength. With the Weaver defeated, the family brought him back to Loomworld so they could harness his power to expand their totem hunt through the multiverse. The family also cast Karn to hunt Spider-Totems alone, placing a mask so they no longer see the face of a coward who got their mother killed. Unknown to them, there were five other Spider deities they somehow missed during the battle were left alive, hiding somewhere in the complex until the coast was clear.
"Is it over?" The small child who looks no older than ten walks out of the shadows, along with the four divine spiders. This divine spider is known as the "Scion". The child's appearance looks similar to that of a Spider-Man. He has a magenta skin tone with the crest of a white spider plastered on his chest. Engraved onto his chest is a blue crystal.
"Yes, Scion. The danger has passed." The next in line to weave the Great Web, the Master Weaver, replied to the divine spider child. His appearance looks surprisingly human but with a golden mask and his lower torso replaced with golden ball with spider legs to walk with.
"The Great Weaver foretold his own defeat to the Inheritors. That is why he created us and told us to hide when they arrived." The Gatekeeper, controller of the mystic forces across the web, said, taking a humanoid body with the help of million tiny black spiders.
"Still, it pains me that he had to fight alone. Wished we did more than simply run and hide." The Spider-God known as "The Bride" puts her hand next to her left cheek, feeling really guilty for not helping out their creator. Her appearance is similar to that of the Scion, but a lot older and more feminine, ranging between the 20s. Her design is similar to the costumes that the Spider-Women across the multiverse wears, with hers being a part of her body and looking more like a dress, having chalk-white skin and a tiny red spider emblem on her chest. Her white skin dress has blue and gold pieces, with large white shoulder pauldrons and gloves. She also has red marks on each side of her cheeks, a jeweled diadem with a gold net over the back of her hair that is adorned with green and red jewels that also has a green teardrop jewel hanging over her face. Her sacred job is to make sure Spider Totems are born through chance, magic, curses, or just plain unwanted luck.
"Then it's a good thing we're going to rescue him. Right now." Said the "Other", the last of the divine spiders-totems, created to be the strongest of all totems in existence. His deific appearance also looks similar to a Spider-Man but with six arms. His skin design is just like wearing the black suit with white markings and red gems all over his body. He has spider-like fangs and multiple arachnid-style, but also heterochromic eyes, with one side being luminous red and radiant blue.
"Other, are you mad," The Master Weaver asked his associate. "These Inheritors are some of the strongest beings in the entire multiverse. Beating them is almost next to impossible."
"So you say we rather stay here while the Great Weaver and countless other Spider Totems suffer and perish by those hunter's filthy hands?" The Other asked his spider friend when he turned to face him. The Substitute Weaver didn't reply and stood silent. "Just as I thought. We're going."
"Do you have a plan, Other?" The Gatekeeper asked when he sees him walk away.
"Of course I do." Other replied.
"Does it involve being extremely reckless that could get us killed the moment we arrive?" Bride sassily asked, with her hands on her hips.
"When have I ever been reckless?" Other asked her.
Bride takes out a piece of paper from out of nowhere to show him, "I have a list."
"What? You've been keeping score for the past century?" Other narrowed his small, eight eyes at her cheeky face.
"Totally. We almost have enough to play web bingo." She said.
"Yeah! Web bingo!" Scion said with excitement.
"I hate you," Other bluntly told her, but that only serves to make her smile behind her mask, or skin. "Anyways, let's go. I'll inform you all on the plan as we get there."
Earth-001
The climactic battle at Loomworld was just very hectic to say the least. The Sacred Spider-Totems fought their best to defeat the Inheritors and save their leader from eternal abuse. Half of the city they battled in was completely devastated thanks to all the carnage and destruction brought from the fight. The Other transformed to his massive man-spider form to formally take on Solus and Morlun, while the others fight evenly with the other spider hunters. In the end, Solus was killed by the Other's stingers and erased from existence thanks to the Master Weaver hijacking the Great Web while everyone was distracted in the fight.
"FATHER!" Morlun shouted in agony for his father's death.
"Impossible…" Daemos whispered to himself before he and the rest of the Inheritors all get encased in a giant cocoon made of extremely thick webbing thanks to the combined efforts of the Spider Totems. They threw the hunters far, far away from plain sight, leaving the Master Weaver to use the Great Web and teleport them underneath the Earth, leaving them to starve while completely buried in the planet.
Unfortunately, the Great Weaver was gravely injured during the chaos, something he too expected to happen. His creations, who he likes to see as his sons and daughter, walk up to his injured body as he coughs badly and lying flat on his back on the ground.
"So…this is how death feels like…Not fun at all…" The old weaver joked, even in his final moments he still finds ways to lighten the mood with his unmatched humor.
"Great Weaver…" Other calmly looks at his creator, doing his best to hide his emotions and the pain that's tugging his heart.
"Don't be sad, my children…Even if my body dies…my spirit will live on in all of you…and a certain child…whose heart and will is as pure as an ever-lasting flame…" The Great Weaver said between coughs, losing more and more of his health with every passing second. "Protect the world I have left behind…Continue to watch over the other Totems for me, please…And look out…for the "Fell" Totem…I know you, Other, can handle…that task…"
The Other slowly nodded, "Understood, Great One."
"You can drop the formalities…It makes…me…blush…" And with his dying words, the once Great Weaver that weaved the Web of Life and Destiny succumbs to his wounds and disappears into dust made of thin webbing, leaving the Master Weaver to carry on his task in weaving the Web while everyone else perform their own positions maintaining the Web for the rest of time.
KFX here: Another prequel story, telling the small stories about the Great Spider Totems among the multiverse, mostly focused on the Other, later nicknamed "Ero" in the series. I may have retconned a thing here and there about which universe the God Spiders resided and changed the origin story of the Inheritors a bit to fit this continuity. Don't expect a Spider Verse story anytime soon, if ever. If an Inheritor is going to appear, it's most likely going to be Morlun. And yes, this story ties in to a future crossover story with Spider-Man (and the D-Avengers) with the cast from Fire Emblem Awakening.
