Oh well, if this is as much review as this story can get, then let it be… I decided to continue this story until the end, whether you like it or not. This story appears to be a failure after all.
Chapter 6: Giant Spider"I've never seen such a gigantic spider in my life!" exclaims Tokageroh.
"Neither have I!" says Ryu.
"You humans are now trapped in my domain," Arich tells them. "You have no escape!"
The two shamans look around them, and Arich is right: Their surroundings are covered by a large dome-shaped web, and there is no way they can get out. "Oh no! We're trapped!" says Lyserg.
"You will be trapped here and die, like all that happened to my preys!" says Arich as he crawls down from his web and towards the ground.
"We'll have to fight him, Lyserg!" says Ryu, readying his weapon. "There's no escape now; plus, we have to get to the switch or something!"
"You're right. We should never escape from an enemy!" agrees Lyserg, readying his pendulum as well.
"You have no options left. Be prepared to die!" roars Arich.
"Like I'll listen to you!" Ryu oversouls Tokageroh into his wooden sword and jumps at the giant spider. Arich quickly hops back onto his web to avoid the blow and Ryu strikes the ground instead. He faces the spider and jumps towards him for a second attempt.
Arich shot out a long sticky web that latches onto Ryu's weapon, and then swings him around and around.
Ryu screams wildly as if one is riding a roller coaster as he gets swing around. Finally, Arich disconnects the web string and sends Ryu flying towards the web on the sides of the battlefield.
Lyserg quickly shoot his pendulum and wraps it around Ryu, pulling him onto the ground before he touches and gets stuck on the sticky web. "Thanks a lot, Lyserg!" Ryu thanks him happily.
Lyserg turns to Arich and shoots his pendulum at him. Arich quickly hops into the air and shot a string out of his spinneret, latching into the web ceiling above and then swings around like Tarzan.
While swinging around the air, Arich opens mouth and spit out several green balls, which bounces off any solid floor it touches. One of the green balls hit Ryu in his arm and burns through his clothe. "Ow! It's acid!" he cries. "It's going to burn through my skin! Help!"
"It's just a little bit, so it's not a big problem," Lyserg tells him. "But still, if we get hit by several of them, we can be done for!" He turns to the giant spider and attacks with his pendulum again.
Arich isn't able to avoid the pendulum in time, and it caught one of his legs. Lyserg lifts him up into the air and then slams him back down roughly.
THUD!
Arich lies still on the ground, not moving at all. Ryu slowly approaches it to see if it's still alive. "You did well, Lyserg! You sure got this…" Suddenly, Arich lifts a leg and knocks Ryu backwards with it. "Ow!"
Arich gets up and crawls towards Lyserg. "You're pretty outstanding for a human, kid." Lyserg slowly takes some steps back in fear, and then he fires the pendulum at Arich again, but to his surprise, Arich grabs the tip of the pendulum with his mouth and locks it there.
Lyserg tries to pull his pendulum back, but the giant spider's strength gave him a hard time. While he trying to pull back, Arich lunges at him with mouth wide open and catches his body between his jaws!
"Lyserg! Let him go, eight-legged freak!" Ryu shouts at Arich.
Lyserg struggles around in between the spider's jaws. "Let me go! Help!"
Ryu readies his weapon and runs towards Arich. "Let him go, or else I…"
Arich closes his jaws together tightly with Lyserg still in between, and then a sickening crack is heard. Now we switch to an x-ray scene of Lyserg's body, and we see a crack appearing on his backbone.
CRACK!
Lyserg instantly stops moving, and Ryu froze in his track. "No… How dare you…" Ryu charges at Arich while screaming at the top of his voice, and whacks the spider on the head hard. The spider roars in pain and lets go Lyserg and then backs off several steps.
Ryu quickly picks up Lyserg and says, "Lyserg! No! Don't die! Talk to me!"
Lyserg painfully and slowly mutters out, "Am… I… dead…?"
"No! Don't say that! You're still alive and you'll never die! Even if you can't move any longer, I still will not let you die!"
Arich gets up and glares at Ryu. "I will kill you!"
Ryu gently places Lyserg onto the ground and turns to the spider and glares him with an even more frightening eye. "THAT SHOULD BE MY LINE! RAAAAAA!" He charges at the spider and whacks him hard in the head again.
"RAAR!" roars Arich as he gets hit, and then Ryu continues to whack him over and over and over and over…
Arich quickly hops onto a web and fires several acidic green balls at Ryu, but he clears them all with a single swipe of his wooden sword. He swings his wooden sword horizontally in air and it shot out 8 snakeheads. Each of the head bites on the 8 legs of Arich and, with tremendous strength, pulls him onto the ground with a crash.
CRASH!
Before Arich can get up, Ryu slashes him his abdomen hard. Arich shrieks out in pain and drops limp onto the ground.
Ryu runs back to Lyserg. "Lyserg! It's all right now! I defeated the vile arachnid! Can you still stand?"
Lyserg tries to move his finger, but has a hard time. He tries to get up, but feels great pain in his body and drops back onto the ground. "Ah! It hurts… I think… I'm para… lyzed… for the rest… of my… life…"
"Don't say that! I believe there is a great doctor out there somewhere who can heal you!"
"The… switch… Ryu… The switch…"
"Oh yes! The switch! You wait here while I go activate it!" And then Ryu runs towards that large hollow tree and cuts down the web around it, creating an entrance for himself to go inside.
Morphine flies next to Lyserg and looks at him with a face of concern and compassion. "I'm not sure… how long… I can… still live…" says Lyserg slowly. Then he feels a slight rumbling on the ground, and then Ryu steps out from the tree.
"It's all done," he says. "I pressed the large switch inside and then the rumbling came. I believe something must've happened to the crocodile-shaped mountain. Come, Lyserg, let's go back to the others. I'll carry you."
He picks up Lyserg and carries him on his back as they both leave the forest of dead trees.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Ouch, Lyserg broke his back… Don't worry; nobody is going to die in this story. The heroes, at least…
So review and wait for the next chapter!