I'm so happy I've gotten so many reviews!! I didn't think I'd get so many!! And no real flames yet!! –knock on wood- I'm so happy about it!! I'd get up and jump but I'm in the middle of the library right now so that's not a good idea. ; Time to give thanks to the reviewers!!

Anime Alex36- Thanks! I hope you like the rest of the story!

Schizo the Mentally Disturbed- Thanks, and welcome to the reviewing group! Hope you'll stay awhile!

Devil-Angel- Hehe, sorry for the cliffy. A couple of your questions will be answered in this chapter hopefully.

C.T. Saiyukily Twisted- Actually, I'm only in high school. I take college classes here at the school through what we call distance learning. It's a program where the teacher is at the college while we're in our school and teaches from there using cameras and things. We can see her and she can see us. That's how I'm taking the college classes. I passed them with a C at least!! So I'm happy!! Yeah, there wouldn't be much of a story, but then again there would be. It could be like they did die, and then the guys would go through guilt trips when someone comes and reminds them that they died and all. Hopefully this chapter will answer your question about the innkeeper!!

Steven- Thanks hun. Now you can stop bugging me about putting up the next chapter!!

Wow, that took a lot of typing. I still need yalls opinion!! Sequel, series, or leave it at that? You gotta let me know soon so I can start on the ending to this one and maybe on the next part!! Now, on to the chapter!!

Chapter 10

The guys' blood ran cold as they heard the words spill from the spider's mouth. How could they be dead? They had told them specifically not to leave the room. Though, even by just meeting them, they could tell that they wouldn't have listened anyway. They didn't seem like the type of people who would follow someone's orders or requests. How could they be dead? This severely pissed them off.

They did all of that work to help them and watched them be put through torture just to have them die anyway? Hell no. All four of them started to try their best to tear away from the sticky threads that bound them. They were going to kill this damn youkai if it was the last thing they did.

The spider turned back to her pray, who were starting to struggle again. It seemed the news of their dead friends had some effect on them. It made no difference to her. They'd soon be dead anyway, and their bodies would be fed to her eggs when they hatched. She'd feed upon the four dead girls after these four were dead.

As the demon turned towards Goku again, the innkeeper stood standing with the grin plastered on his pale face, two knifes impaled deeply into his back. A sword was raised, gleaming with the light from the flames. If this demon thought that she was going to get away with her plan, she had another thing coming.

"Now, time to feast on my prey," the spider said as she went to devour Goku headfirst. The others watched in horror as the spider brought her mouth down onto Goku. They were going to loose their friend. The others turned away, expecting to hear the crunch of Goku's skull and the tear of his flesh. But all they heard was the spider's cry of pain. Along the back of the spider was a long and deep gash that was pouring out green liquid. The spider quickly turned to the innkeeper. "Who dares to strike me!?"

The innkeepers body was dropped to the ground, lifeless as it should be. Hitach's sword gleamed in her hand, the glowing blue fading from her attack on the demon. "Opps. I'm sorry. It slipped," Hitachi said, with no amusement in her voice. Behind her stood the other three youkai women, all unharmed and in one piece.

"You're alive!" Goku yelled.

"Of coarse, was there any doubt?" Julin replied as she bounced on her heals. This was going to be exciting for her. "By the way, we're going out to eat after this."

"Yeah!" Goku yelled.

"Maki, get them down. We'll handle this bitch," Hitachi said, her eyes never leaving the spider demon.

"Right!" Maki said as she made her way towards the guys. She'd have to burn the threads to get them down.

This pissed the demon off. No one was going to take her prey. No one! She'll have to kill them all, starting with the sword chaneller. Though it wasn't going to be easy, she had to dispose of these four annoying youkai.

"Hm…now let's see. How to do this?" Maki said as she stood on her hip, crossing her arms with a thoughtful look at the guys.

"Will you just get us down!?" Sanzo yelled, annoyed as hell for being suspended in the air with no way of knowing how the hell to get down.

Maki grinned at this, which worried the guys a bit. "Okey dokey!!" she said as she contoured up two flames, one in each of her hands. Before she could set flames to the silver threads, she was knocked aside by one of the hairy legs of the spider. With its eight eyes, it was hard to do anything without her knowing, and there was no way she would let her prey escape.

"Mika!" Hakkai yelled. This was so not good.

Mika sat up rubbing her head. "Ow. Ok spider lady! You're gonna get it now!" she yelled as she curled her hands into tight fists, which were instantly engulfed in flames.

"Kirashi! Julin!" Hitachi yelled. They needed to distract the demon long enough for Mika to get the guys down.

"Right!" Kirashi yelled as she pulled out one of her many flutes.

She began to play a slow, soft song, concentrating mostly on her illusion. Julin began to sing, her voice was like a mist that slowly spread across the room and joined together with Kirashi's flute. Their song seemed to drift towards the spider and surround the demon, capturing it into the illusion.

The spider was not in the chamber anymore. She found herself in a dark place, no longer with her prey or her nest of eggs. She could faintly hear the sound of someone singing with the tune of some instrument, but she couldn't turn away from it. She knew something was wrong, but she couldn't turn away from the song or shake herself from the illusion. She found herself back home again. Back where it was dark at night and plenty of food to prey upon. The sun was warm during the day while the nights were nice and cool. She couldn't help but feel relaxed here. She very quietly moved towards one of the shaded and high trees and crawled up into it to begin to make a nest for herself.

The guys watched in confusion as the spider demon crawled up one of the columns in the room and began to make a nest. Why in the hell would she be doing that at a time like this?

"Good job, you two. Keep it up. Make sure she stays that way while we get them down," Hitachi said as Julin and Kirashi kept up the illusion on the spider. It was their specialty to create an illusion based upon the person's emotions and desires. For the spider, it was her desire to be home again. With that desire, Kirashi played her flutes to create the illusion that she was home while Julin's singing slowly drove her to insanity.

Maki slowly stood back up, her fists still blazing from anger. Though a lot of the time she was very polite and kind, if you pissed her off be ready to be burned. Hitachi made her way over to the guys, who were still suspending in the air and were looking either very annoyed, very confused, or…very hungry. She quickly made due with the threads, letting them either land on their feet or uncharacteristically on their heads.

"Quite a predicament you four got yourselves into," Hitachi said.

"So you have a death wish?" Sanzo replied. He was not in the mood for jokes.

"Whatever. You four take care of the spider while Julin and Kirashi are keeping it busy," Hitachi said as she turned around and started to walk deeper into the dark room.

"And where are you going?" Gojyo asked. The spider was on the other side of the room, so why was she heading in the opposite direction?

"Maki and I are going to find out exactly why she kept us alive. There has to be something in here that she was protecting. Else she would've attacked the town by now, and we're going to find out what it is," she replied as Maki and her walked further into the darkness, their only lights being that of Hitachi's sword and Maki's burning fists.

"Man, she reminds me of Sanzo," Goku said as she watched their receding backs. Sanzo warningly loaded his gun, a vein throbbing on his temple.

"Now, now, let's not be fighting right now. I'm not sure how long Kirashi and Julin can hold the spider in their illusion. We'd best dispose of it before things turn ugly," Hakkai reasoned, his smile back in its place again.

"Yeah, I'm ready for some serious ass kickin," Gojyo said as he retrieved his shakujou staff.

"Yeah!" Goku yelled as he held onto his Nyoi-Bo.

"Let's kill this damn thing," Sanzo said as he cocked his gun. All four men quickly jumped up and attacked the illusion caught spider.

Maki and Hitachi both looked back as the cry of the dying youkai rang out through the darkness. The guys must've done their job. Hitachi continued down into the darkness, Maki close at her heals. There has to be something down here. Something that youkai spider was protecting.

"EW!!" Maki screamed. Hitachi turned around to see her friend dancing around shaking her hand as though to rid herself of something. "It's nasty! Something gooey landed on my hand!"

Hitachi blinked a bit. Maybe that's why they couldn't find anything. They were looking on the ground when what they wanted to find was on the ceiling.

"Maki, make a long tower of fire so we can see what's up there," Hitachi said.

Maki blinked but did as she was told. She concentrated her anger and feelings into her powers, creating a long tower of burning flames that reached high into the room, sending its light in every direction. What it revealed made both girls sick. There, hanging from the ceiling everywhere, were small bundles that were dripping with a green, slimy substance.

"EW!! What are those!?" Maki yelled. Those were about the most disgusting things she'd ever seen.

"Those things are the spawn of that spider. That is disgusting," Hitachi replied. She then turned to Maki and pointed to the eggs. "Charcoal their asses." She then started to head back, trusting Maki to do the job well.

"You got it!" Maki said as he began spread the fire in the tower to catch fire to the eggs. They burned quickly because of the green slime. Each egg fell from its location and splattered on the ground, become dead unborn spiders. Maki made sure to get each and every one of the disgusting things. After making a quick check of her work, she quickly turned and ran after her friend.

Ok, I know that chapter really sucked, but I am absolutely no good at writing battle scenes. I'll try to get better at it, but who knows really? Anyway, IMPORTANT!!! I need to have yalls opinion now. The next chapter will most likely be the LAST CHAPTER!! So yall need to tell me: Sequel, series, or leave it at that? Your choice will decide the ending to this one and I can't start it unless yall tell me what it is you want. So review and tell me!!