Marcus sat on his bed extremely paranoid from what happened back in the ocean ruin. Was Tex really coming after him? Marcus looked out the window at all the mobs out during the night. "M-Maybe spending time with the mobs will take my mind off of these horrible thoughts..." He said getting up and walking to the door. He walked outside and he was immediately greeted by a familiar skeleton, he gave Marcus a hug and he hugged back. "Oh! It's you! It's been awhile!" Marcus said, sliding his hand down the skeleton's spine, tickling him. The skeleton broke free from the hug and started laughing. He retaliated by tickling Marcus' sides which made him burst into laughter and fall to the ground. The skeleton didn't stop and sat down on Marcus' back, tickling his sides more. Marcus couldn't move or tickle back, he could only laugh and cry as the bone fingers kept attacking his sides. Marcus was having a hard time breathing and felt extremely lightheaded. "Plehehehease... Stohohop..." Marcus begged. But the skeleton didn't stop his assault. Marcus looked over at the skeleton and saw that he was talking to a spider. He couldn't hear anything they were saying over his laughter. Eventually, Marcus couldn't breathe anymore and passed out. After a little while he woke up, he found himself in a dimly lit cave. He tried to move but he saw that his body, except his head, was wrapped in spider webbing and attached to a giant spider web. Seeing this, Marcus panicked. He was really afraid of spiders, and seeing that they wrapped him up and kept him on a web, he's worried that they might eat him. He tried struggling desperately as hard as he could, but the web cocoon holding him was too strong. In his attempts to break free, he heard hissing coming from a big dark entryway in front of him. From the darkness, a single spider crawled out and saw Marcus awake. Marcus panicked more as the spider climbed up the web towards him. The spider made it to Marcus and crawled on him causing him to giggle a bit. It sat in front of him and stared at him. Marcus cowered in fear and tried to get away. The spider saw his fear and tried to calm him down by giving him a small lick on his cheek. Unfortunately, Marcus mistook the friendly gesture for a small test to see how he would taste, causing him to cry in fear. The spider looked down in sadness and got off Marcus, crawling back into the dark entryway. Marcus sighed in relief, but then heard some sort of roar down the entryway. Then, a spider the size of the ender dragon came through the entryway, climbed on the ceiling of the cave and stared at Marcus. Seeing this, Marcus' heart stopped. The giant spider came down from the ceiling and sat in front of him, staring down on him with all eight of its eyes. Marcus burst into tears in fear. "Please... Don't eat me..." Marcus begged and cried. The giant spider shook its head and told Marcus he wasn't gonna eat him. Hearing this, Marcus calmed down a bit. The spider said that he just wanted to finally meet him and play with him. "O-Oh... A-Are you like... the king of the spiders...?" Marcus asked, still a little on edge. The spider nodded and laughed a bit. He told Marcus that he heard that he was extremely afraid of spiders, but the spiders would never hurt him, so he had nothing to be worried about. "W-Well... T-That's relief...~" Marcus said, giggling nervously. Then, the same little spider from before crawled back up to him, a little sad from before. Marcus looked at him. "I'm sorry little spider... I was just really scared..." Marcus apologized. The spider hissed happily and gave Marcus another lick on the cheek. Marcus blushed. "Hehe~ Thank you~" He said. The spider king gave a wink to the little spider and the little spider crawled into the web cocoon holding Marcus and started tickling his sides and tummy with all its tickly legs. Marcus immediately started laughing and struggling on the web. "No please! No tickling!" Marcus begged. But the spider kept tickling, taking advantage of Marcus' inability to move. With a lot of legs, the spider was able to tickle Marcus' armpits, sides, and belly at the same time leaving him in a ticklish agony. The spider king then took off the webbing covering Marcus' feet and licked its lips, seeing his feet. "Plehehehehease! Dohohohohon't!" Marcus pleaded. But the spider king went on and started licking his feet, causing Marcus to laugh harder. Marcus did everything he could to try and escape the web, but the tickles weakened him. The king kept licking and started nibbling at his toes with its fangs. The fangs poking on his toes were too much for him and Marcus started feeling out of breath, worried he might pass out again. But then, the king spider nibbles on his feet a bit too hard and accidentally bit Marcus with its fangs, injecting a special glowing venom into him. The king looked at the bite mark, he knew that it's venom was a lot different and more special from normal spider venom. It was worried to tell Marcus that it accidentally put its venom in him. He saw that Marcus didn't feel the bite, seeing he was a little overwhelmed by the tickles and seemed like he was gonna pass out soon. The king called off the little spider and it stopped tickling and crawled out of the web cocoon. Marcus gasped for air and wiped his tears against his shoulder sleeves. The king freed him from the web and put Marcus down on the ground. "Hehehe~ That was... really fun~" Marcus said, on his hands and knees, still gasping for air. The king laughed a bit and stared at the spider king sized bite on his foot, watching the glowing venom possibly entering his blood stream. When Marcus got most of his breath back, the king told Marcus that it was night time and asked him if he would like to rest in the spider cave for the night. "S-Sure~!" Marcus said. The king grabbed Marcus and laid down, putting him on his belly and wrapping him in his soft and warm legs. Marcus blushed deeply and yawned sleepily, curling up in the soft spider king. Slowly falling asleep, he would never be afraid of spiders again.