Jesse bit her lip, clenching her fists. With that, she started thinking all thoughts related to spider. It was a bit strange, since she'd been trying to disregard the fact that she was half spider for the longest time now.

She felt her height shrinking, but it didn't really hit her, until her arms hit the ground. Looking back at herself, she spotted a faint reddish mark on her back. She looked down at the water pooling on the floor, and almost jumped at the sight of herself.

Her body was proportioned like a rather small human, but her eyes were starting to turn red, both of them, and the green one was a muddy color. And if she looked closely, she could see fangs.

Jesse did her best to tilt her head up- her face was only a little higher than where Reuben's head was poised above the ground.

Lukas was much smaller than he'd previously been. His hands were mostly fluffy now, furry and gold and more like paws than actual hands. His eyes were definitely more of a shade of green than before, and his face was beginning to look slightly fuzzy as he stood on all fours, ears flicking in agitation.

Olivia was so tall that in Jesse's new state, it actually hurt her neck to look at Olivia. Her eyes were violet (well, one was. The other was bright.) and more of her body had turned a shade of jet black, and her clothing was a darker shade than it usually was. Her hair seemed straighter, too, now that Jesse noticed.

Axel's skin was turning a shade of mottled green, and his eyes were dilated to such huge extents that the whites were lost. He was also on all fours, Reuben perched on his back. The only parts of him that didn't look green, were parts- patches, really- of his face, and maybe the tips of his fingers.

Petra's eyes were faintly gold, but the rest of her was more of a dull gray. The Blaze Rods around her were gray, and purple, and falling apart. They seemed to be disentegrating even as Petra wearily hovered into the air, her body shaking. Hopefully, if they had any luck, Petra would be able to make it to the trapdoor.

Jesse bit her lip. "Ready?" she hissed, her voice sounding horribly strangled from her new spider-vocal cords.

Everyone nodded and hissed, meowed, or warped their agreement. Soren had taken the cloak from Petra and wrapped it around him carefully.

So they continued forward.

Jesse could feel the gazes of all the Endermen fixed upon them. It was awkward, it was scary, and Jesse was pretty sure that everyone that was a human or at least half were terrified out of their minds by this little development.

Jesse maintained her gaze on the ground, which was easy, because her head was not in an awkward position so it was easier to keep her head down.

At least, it was until she heard the screech.

Jesse's head whipped around, and everything seemed to go in slow motion as Petra fell to the ground like a puppet with the strings cut, her eyes shut as the Blaze Rods vanished. The exertion had been too much. The Endermen around her were starting to screech.

"PETRA!" she hissed, voice rising into more of a human tone.

It gave her away. The moment of panic shocked Jesse out of her focus, and she found herself a bit higher above the ground now, more Endermen starting to screech around her.

Olivia bleeped into sight, scooping Petra up- giving off a harsh shiver as frost immediately formed on the Enderman hybrid's arms, before bleeping away again. Olivia had also reverted to her regular form, probably also panicked.

"Into the water!" Soren yelled, and everyone leapt in without hesitation.

Olivia treaded water even as she flinched, the water around her starting to freeze solid. "We have to-" she winced. "We have to get out of here!"

Jesse paddled over, grabbing ahold of the unconscious redhead, feeling the temperature change the moment she got within five inches of the redhead, shivering rather harshly.

"When I built this place," Soren started talking, "I was worrying about how flammable the building material is. So I built a fire suppression system to keep the whole place from going up in flames."

The cold probably was affecting Jesse, because she took a good five seconds to respond. "So- so there's more water?" she asked, barely able to keep ahold of Petra. Axel relieved her of the burden, shivering as he took ahold of the redhead. He looked as though he wanted to explode at Jesse and fire questions at her about Petra. He also seemed to get that now was not the time to do so, thank Notch.

"Much more!" Soren responded, "if we activate it, we could disperse all these Endermen while getting to safety. The lever's right up there," and he pointed.

Jesse turned, raised a hand, and fired a string at it. It caught, and Jesse retracted it, using it like a grappling hook to pull herself up. She still was really bad at controlling it, and found herself flying full speed at the wall. She barely managed to catch herself, and even then her palms stung. Reaching up the best she could, she yanked the lever.

"Okay, I have no clue how much water this thing's going to kick out, so-"

She was cut off rather abruptly as a huge wave of water slammed her off the structures, the building filling up as the water level rose steadily and rapidly.

Jesse took a deep breath before her head dropped into the water. Petra shook her head, faintly coming to, and Jesse and Lukas quickly swam over to the redhead and supported her as they kicked and swam for the trapdoor, everyone else going for it, no Endermen in sight.

Soren went through, then Olivia, who was moving rather sluggishly, then Reuben, then Axel.

Jesse felt her breath running out. Her chest pounded, her head pounded, and every impulse in her body was screaming at her to breathe.

She felt her hand graze the trapdoor, and, jolting herself back to reality, she tore it open, pushing Petra through, Lukas following, and slamming it shut behind her.

A/N: Stopping point!

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