Alderheart and Sparkpelt were exploring when they stumbled upon a section of the mountains they had never seen before. Or maybe they had been here and forgot? Even to experienced explorers the most familiar mountains could look the same. Padding quickly and carefully even though they had plenty of time to explore before returning home. Climbing and leaping through the rocky terrain. Alderheart followed close behind his excitable sister. Alderheart was one of three medicine cats in the clan.
"Okay, we've had our fun, Sparkpelt. We should think about going home." Alderheart sighed humorously.
"Already? We just started. I feel like we're going to find something really cool." Sparkpelt whined playfully, entwining her tail with her brother's as she pranced around her brother.
Alderheart rolled his amber eyes.
"Wow! Look at this HUGE cave. Helloooo!" Sparkpelt called out into the cave. Her voice echoing back at them between a labyrinth of ancient stalagmites creeping up from the cave floor and stalactites hanging down like teeth. She didn't expect anyone to answer.
Sparkpelt and Alderheart pressed on into the cave. Fearless. Their first mistake.
Unbeknownst to the duo of felines, there was an ENORMOUS arachnid perched up on the roof of the cave. Following the felines who were clumsily navigating the twisting geological passages. Food was scarce in the cave system, save for a few small, foolish lost animals like birds and bats. Two cats would be exceptionally delicious and easy to capture and digest. The spider rubbed its many legs together with its chittering fangs. The sticky platform acted like the strands of a web. The vibrations of two struggling cats alerting the spider that its prey were firmly trapped and were ready for consumption.
"Hey Alderheart?"
"Yes?" He replied. His voice muffled by the wooden torch in his mouth.
"Something feels...strange."
"Strange? In what way?"
He too started to feel the ground beneath their paws change. It was of...sticky? The goo squelching between their claws, toes and the pads of their paws.
"Ald- Ahhhhhhh!" Sparkpelt screamed as she lost her footing and fell deeper into the cave. When she hit the bottom, she tried to pick herself up, but she found herself stuck like a fly on a sticky paper trap. Leaving her underbelly, heart and private parts exposed.
"Sparkpelt?" Alderheart called out, "Sparkpelt! Where were you?" Where has she gone? She was in front of me a second ago. She cannot have gone too far ahead. Right?
Alderheart reached the edge of a deep, dark pit. He carefully descended down the pit. A flaming torch campy firmly between his teeth. He used his tail as a counter lever. However, even with his experience and carefulness, Alderheart's paws lost their footing on the slippery rocks that made up the walls of the pitfall trap. He plummeted into the darkness like his sister before him.
Sparkpelt heard the wet slap noise as her brother landed beside her in the goo. The more he struggled, the more trapped he became until only his torchlight, soft underbelly, privates and chest were visible beneath the thick layer of a viscous, 'gooey' substance.
"A-a-Alderheart?"
"Yes?" He recognised the tone of voice. It was his sister's voice. Muffled by goo.
"Are you hurt?"
"No-no. It's soft. Whatever we landed on."
"I'm scared, Alderheart."
"You'll be okay." It was strange. Alderheart never heard of anything like this. "I promise."
Alderheart cried out as a strand of long and sticky goo wrapped around his snout. Clamping his jaws shut so that he could not call out to his sister for help. Alderheart struggled. Kicking his legs. Starting to grow tired. The strands of goo pinning him to a platform at the bottom of the cave. It all happened so fast he had no time to react. He was spun up in a solid cocoon stronger than steel. At least he could hear his sister.
The torch fell from Alderheart's jaws and clattered to the ground. The flame extinguished as it landed in a sticky puddle. Plunging the cave into total eyes coated in a thick layer of goo, making it hard to see. Multiple eyes gleamed from the darkness. A giant arachnid scuttled towards Alderheart and cats heard the scuttling as it drew closer. Alderheart and Sparkpelt thrashed their whole bodies, desperately trying to escape their oncoming demise, but their efforts were fruitless. Every swipe sent them bouncing. The sticky platform acted like a trampoline. It had been a soft landing considering the distance of Alderheart and Sparkpelt's falls.
There was nowhere to run. No way to run. No one could hear Alderheart and Sparkpelt's mewls for help. Trapped like bugs immersed in tree sap. Their hearts pounding in their ears. Chests heaving. Lungs wheezing with each sharp inhale of thick goo.
The spider opened its mouth wide, swallowing the cats whole. One by one. Starting with Sparkpelt's tail and then her legs. She wriggled, sliding past a smooth tongue and the razor-sharp fangs. The sounds of being swallowed were deafening to Sparkpelt's ears. The muscles in the spider's mouth contracted and expanded as the spider chewed. Making wet suction sounds as it consumed Sparkpelt and the layer of squelching goo that encased the she-cat. She was tired from kicking her legs and trying to mewl for help. Her eyelids slowly started to grow heavy. The spider's tongue teasing the folds of her lady bits. Playing with her body. Making her feel hot and bothered. Distracting her from the fact she was sliding down into the spider's stomach to be slowly digested.
Surprisingly, Alderheart put up less of a fight since he was a peaceful medicine cat. The spider pushed Alderheart into its mouth with two of its slender legs. Its legs slipping since the spider had already handled stuffing a sticky she-cat down its throat. Its legs snagging in Alderheart's matted fur.
Alderheart landed on top of his sister in the belly of the eight-legged beast. Awaiting a gradual digestion while the spider scuttled away. Now too heavy to lurk on the ceiling.