Shaylynn
Review Responses:
Rose Akaichou- it's only funny until the vampires get you:P
Smoke- Indeed, it is a collection of obscenely short, to the point one-shots.
Ryu-Chibi- Thanks! To answer your question, it was a Rahabim because drowning is high up on my list of "scary ways to die".
SammyBlack- Thanks. I doubt this is going to knock sense into anybody, though.
And now, your scheduled "snuff fic".
Shaylynn hated spiders. When she was younger and her family had lived in a two-bedroom apartment, her older brother had had a tarantula. Once, when she had been home sick, she had rolled over on her bed to find the tarantula, whom her brother had named "Bob," staring right at her.
Of course, she screamed bloody murder and jumped out of bed, running straight for her mother.
Bob the spider was evicted from the apartment the next day, despite all the protesting Shaylynn's brother did.
Years later, when Shaylynn had discovered video games, in particular, Soul Reaver, she had always been most irritated (and most disgusted) by Zephon's clan. She found herself feeling a bit sorry for those poor cocooned humans.
And now, having found herself in Nosgoth by one of those strange miracles that occasionally befalls humankind, she didn't know what she was going to do. Shaylynn was an athletic girl, a track star, and she was sure that if she'd only landed in the Nosgoth of Blood Omen, or of Blood Omen 2 that she would, undoubtedly, have a chance at survival. But she didn't have such fortune. No, poor Shaylynn had found herself in the Silenced Cathedral.
Fortunately, there was no sign of Zephon's brood...other than the occasional cocooned human she stumbled across every now and again. She hadn't slept for a while...terrified she's wake up to find herself cocooned...or worse, that she would not wake up at all.
She heard stones clatter slightly to her left. She looked around, but saw nothing.
For a moment, she thought she thought she saw something in the corner of her eye, and she whipped around. There was nothing there...
click...click...click...
Shaylynn knew that sound all too well...it was the sound she had imagined spider legs making on a stone floor...it was a sound she had heard only in her nightmares, and her instincts told her to run.
But she couldn't! Fear rooted her to the floor. She could hear the creature creeping up behind her...closer...closer...
She knew her death was inevitable. This creature was going to kill her.
But she had a choice. She could give in to her fear and stand there, allow herself to be killed...or she could go down fighting. She could die well.
Shaylynn chose to run.
She took off down the corridor, running as fast as she could. She knew it was chasing her, anticipating its meal...
She tripped over her own feet and fell, striking her head on the hard stone floor. By the grace of whatever God Nosgoth had, Shaylynn was rendered unconscious by the blow.
She remained so throughout the cocooning process...
Someplace else, Shaylynn might've stood a chance.
