Catse: Okay! I updated! Yays!!!!! I think you'll like this chapter but don't worry, everything will work out fine in the end! That's all I'll say other than my hands hurt from all of my inspirational typing. Well, on with the chapter I guess!
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Disclaimer: See chapter one....
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Seika didn't like how this was looking. Yoru was gone. Arune was missing. And they were all stuck in a web. They the team, one four year old and an ally that was as of that moment fighting with the web as she curiosly worked her way to her double hatchets.
He noticed that when she had just gotten her fingers on them, they fell out of her back pockets and tumbled to the floor, quick notice of the drooling spider demon that was still debating which of them would go first.
To say the least, he didn't like this situation, and Shadow reminded him several times of what he could do to survive.
"If you let me out I could tear through this web and kill him! Not to mention save your friends!"
'No! If I let you out you'll go berserk on me and never allow me to take my body back! I won't let you!'
"So you'll let your own fears and pride hold you back from saving your friends and getting out of this place."
'Unless I'm am so tangled that there is no other choice, then yes. I will.'
"Fine then. Die for all I care. I will merely leave this body and find another one."
'That'll take you a long time. Boys like me don't come everyday.'
"I have patience."
Seika looked up from his argument with the phantom cat demon, to glare at the huge spider before him in disgust.
As of that moment he was collecting a large amount of his webbing into his claws so as to make sure his catches were well fitted in the net.
"Now…let's see….Which is the tastiest…? The little girl looks good…" He dragged the S's in his voice so as to give himself a sly appearance. Then, turning to look at Haku, he smirked. "But so does the little boy…Hm…which one to eat…?"
"I won't be him! That's for certain!" Suki shouted, spitting as best she could at the spider from her distance.
"What…why not? Is he poisonous or something?" The spider snickered. "Then maybe I should eat you?"
"You won't be eating anyone Long-Legs! If you even open your mouth wide enough for me to see your tongue I'll break out of here and kill you myself!" Katai threatened, keeping up the tough act even in the moment of peril. Much like her father.
"Then maybe you'll be first, tough one." The spider hissed, chuckling to himself.
All the while, Satou cried and screamed for someone to get her out of the net, otherwise she would suffocate with how close the netting was holding her.
Kenya glanced around as well, apparently looking for a way to free him and his friends.
Seika knew Kenya would come up with some idea. He was just the kind of guy that always did. Not to mention that he also had a pack load of tricks. Seika did too…unfortenately, he was sure none of them would work with the web. Teleporting required that the body be completely free from restraint, and illusions could only be done if it were possible of him to move out of the way, so that the illusion could be believed. As of the moment…he was as stuck as everyone else. So he was positive and hopeful that Kenya would come up with a plan that worked. If not him, Haku or Suki at least.
The spider turned to Kenya, and strode up to him, placing one fine claw on Kenya chin to lift it up.
"Too old." He hissed, dropping it before he turned to Satou. "But you might be just right. I believe I'll eat you first." He inched over to the little girl, in which Kenya's little sister began to scream and fuss wildly, doing whatever she could to fight the webbing.
The spider merely grinned. "Yes. You first. A wise choice indeed."
The spider reached over and snatched Satou's hand, drawing it to him through the web, and sniffed it. Then, as if he approved, he licked her hand, forcing her to kick even harder then she had before to escape.
Everyone began to scream at the spider to stop. Everyone except Kenya.
And at first, they weren't sure why. It was his sister. His flesh and blood. Why didn't he cry like the rest of them.
Then it hit them.
He wasn't screaming for her safety because he was concentrating, and the breath from their mouths began to float out as steam as the area became colder to their skin.
He was changing the atmosphere! Kenya was changing the warmth of the area to an icy wonder land! They weren't sure why…Perhaps he figured that spiders didn't like the cold, or maybe, that if they were cold enough, the spiders senses might confuse him and tell him they were dead. After all, a blood sucker usually doesn't want dead meat…he wants it lively.
The spider immediately leapt away from Kenya's younger sister, glaring at the set of them from a good distance. Then, his eyes again landed on Kenya, and he strode forward like some great god of the forest.
As the wind grew colder and their breaths thicker in white, the spider snatched Kenya by the throat, stopping all of the cold at once.
Things warmed up and suddenly and the spider was snarling.
"You…You little bastard…!" He hissed, drying in closer to Kenya with a fist held up near him in a way that he would attempt a thrust at Kenya. "You attempted to kill me!! You bastard!!! For that! You will go first!!!"
Katai began to shout at the spider, wildly trying to catch his attention for she knew what was going to happen. She did her best to prevent it. "Hey you! Long-Legs! How about you take a bite outta me! I'm young! I'm fresh! I'm—"
But she was cut short.
In a moments time of ignorance from the spider, he had reached in next to Kenya's neck, and bit down, causing the whole net to vibrate with his force.
Kenya's eyes widened in shock for a moment, but as the spider slowly drained away his life, he glanced at Seika, and smiled bitterly.
Then he turned his eyes to Satou, unable to move, and at her frightened and horrified face, and smiled to her as his eyes began to grow heavy, and his cheeks pale.
When his eyes closed Satou wildly began fighting, like she never had before.
Katai began to growl and grunt in anger as she thrust through the web. Suki snarled and kicked, forcing the whole web to wobble once more with her strength, and Haku, unusually with surprised eyes, lowered his face in rage, glaring at the web.
Seika himself was horrified. The spider had actually bitten down! The spider had actually managed to cut into Kenya! Their leader!
To say the least, he was in a rage he had never before felt in his life. Not even when his own life was in danger did he feel this amount of anger like he did now.
The fact that Kenya had performed that little display in order to make sure his sister wasn't hurt; it was much more than they were doing. They merely shouted. He sacrificed himself.
But then again, there had to be another reason for using his ice instead of his fire. Fire would have easily scinged the spider and saved them all.
Then again….
Seika glanced at the web and nearly smiled when he noticed what was there. The web was partly ice: not enough to make it entirely stiff, but enough so that it could be broken with enough force.
So he began to fight…and kick…and punch…and throw all of his strength into it. All of his power.
When the others noticed what he was doing, they followed, fighting with just as much might and anger as he did.
In a matter of moments the web had shattered completely, leaving all of them free of their binds, and the first thing they did was attack that spider demon and send him flying into the trees.
When the spider was out of the area, they immediately ran to check on their leader.
Satou was the first there, and she wept openly for him, clutching his shirt and burying her face under her long black hair.
Suki kneeled to pull him up to her lap, in order to check his pulse and respirations.
It was Katai that noticed the large cut in his neck.
"He practically tore Kenya's neck out!" She shouted, stomping her foot as she forced her tears to remain at bay.
There were two massive shreds in Kenya's neck, from what they were certain was the spider's fangs. The huge rips in the flesh were most likely from their eagorness to get the spider off.
"He's barely living." Suki reported, tearing off a shred of her pants so as to use as a bandage. "If we don't get him help immediately, he will die."
"What's the full situation?" Seika inquired, glancing down at his friend.
Suki shook her head, fighting back her own tears. "He's got only about a pint or two of blood in his body and the spider left venom. He needs a blood transfer and some poison andidote, or he's as good as dead."
Suddenly, there was a hissing from behind, and they all glanced back to find that the spider had returned, and as fisty as ever.
"I'll will kill you all for that!!!" He shouted, shooting a spray of web from his thorax.
They growled at them and prepared to fight off the web with all they had. When it hit, they quickly thrust it away with their energy to prevent it from sticking to them.
Then one by one they each dove in towards the spider, attacking them with what they had.
Katai took the chance to use her new gloves on his abdomen. Seika pulled his staff up with him and began peircing at him, as Haku brought to life his father's whip and attacked the armor in his best, trying to break it.
Apparently this was not the ordinary spider.
It seemed like a D-class. But as they fought, they came to discover that it was more powerful than that. Much more powerful.
"It must be an S!" Katai shouted openly as they performed what they hoped was the finishing blow. "That's the only reason we can't kill him!"
"Lord Rioko must have left him as a trap for us! We better finish it, and quick!!" Seika replied, jamming his staff into the belly of the beast.
The spider grunted, and instead ended up knocking them away, to hit various trees and rocks.
When they stood up to attack again, they were almost horrified to find that Satou was up close to him, hitting his abdomen with a childish rage that didn't seem to be doing anying.
"Satou! No! Get away!!!" Seika shouted, but it was too late.
The spider had picked her up into the air and tossed her away so as to not have distractions during his fight.
She landed a good couple of feet away from Kenya, and Suki immediately stood to help her.
Seika, Katai, and Haku didn't turn to check on her. Their only thought was that this spider demon was going to die and die soaked in his own blood, which was probably stolen from everyone else that had intruded into this area.
They attacked and they fought, and no matter how angry, or how poweful they were, they couldn't beat the spider.
It finally came to a point where Seika, Katai, and Haku were forcing themselves to stand. Drained of energy, spirit, and strength, they sat together, glaring at the spider with the hopes he would pop onto his side and die so they could cut his guts out.
The spider, knowing his victory, stepped over to them smugly, trying to choose the one he would bite into.
Suki did her best to attack him, but from his spinner lept a thread of white that pinned her to a nearby tree, paralyzing her there with her double axes in her hands on opposite sides of her head.
When the spider was certain nothing else could attack him, he turned to the three before him.
"Now you will die. And you're blood will flow through my vains. But don't worry. It won't hurt…much." He snickered, leaning in to snatch Katai by the neck and pulling her up, defeat in her eyes. When the other two tried to object, he pinned them, too, with web to a tree. "And you'll be first now. And there will be no surprises."
He reached over, opening his mouth close to her neck so as to bite.
A sudden blast of energy nearby though caught him off guard, forcing him to drop his meal.
He glared over at where it was coming from at the same time everyone else was.
The light was coming from Kenya's body…No…Wait…Not him…
It was coming from someone in front of him.
Some one small…and very mad.
"You hurt my brother!!! I HATE YOU!!!" Satou's voice echoed over the area, and the few birds left in the trees flew away in fright.
The light dimmed a little, revealing that Satou was the once glowing, her eyes glowing an intense red that seemed to leave l ittle trails in the air when she turned her head from side to side.
Slowly, she advanced on the spider, a look of true despise in her face.
In fright, the spider attacked her, hoping to kill her and stop the light play in his eyes.
But it was foolish. Just touching near the aura of yellow light blew off his arm, sending it in bloody chunks behind him.
Slowly he backed up, trying to put as much distance between him and the little girl as he could, but she wouldn't allow for it. She kept coming close to him, and finally, when his back was against a tree, she stopped.
Slowly, almost wickedly, she glanced at his abdomen, and thrust her tiny hand at it, hitting the heavy sheild of natural armor that was non-existant to the normal spider.
Leaving her fist were it was, she watched as the armor slowly melted revealing the flesh underneath. She scinged a hole through it, contented from the cried of pain that spilled through the demon's mouth. Then, when her hand met the tree behind him, she stepped away, her eyes peircing through his head. "You hurt my brother. Now I hurt you." She whispered dangerously. Then, in one quick moment, she thrust her hand into the ground, and waited.
They all thought there was something wrong. Seika wasn't sure what Satou was up to. It seemed perhaps her plan was to melt the ground beneath his feet and submerge him in the soil.
But that thought changed when the ground split beneath the spiders feet, and in a matter of moments, swallowed him whole.
Satou stepped away and turned, her red eyes still leaving their impressions in their skulls, before she smiled and fell to the ground, unconscous.
Katai ran around cutting the webbing so everyone could be free, and, doubtful, Seika stepped over to Satou and picked her up.
They all had been trying to figure out which of them would win the battle. Which of them would be the hero and destroy the ugly beast! She had been stuck there and they had thought of her as a nuisance that was going to slow them down. Yet…by some strange motion of fate, she had beaten the spider. She had been the hero. She, the youngest, yet the most powerful of the team.
Suki picked up Kenya in her arms, and the group, silent in wonder, departed for the edge of the field.
They're parents were not going to believe the fight they had had over a False Mission.
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Catse: There, what did you think? Send me a review on your thoughts and I'll read! Well, got to go. My brother wants to hear the latest chapter of this story, so, I got to read! Ja Ne for now!
