Chapter 10: Discovery of the Crypt Fiends' Hive
The next morning, everyone was at Caitlin's house. Gloria, Ashley, and Melissa didn't get to finish telling Caitlin and Jessica about what happened in the mall so they finished their story. "So Ashley helped us, which was a miracle, and killed the rest of the arachnoids. Then we got out and we caught up with you guys," Gloria said.
"So is that it?" Jessica asked.
"What?" Ashley asked.
"Is that all the arachnoids?" Jessica asked again.
"No," Melissa replied.
"It wasn't?" Gloria questioned.
"No," Melissa answered again. "There couldn't have been ten arachnoids without a nest. Earlier this morning, I went back to the mall myself before it opened. I got to study the dead arachnoids and looked for any evidence leading to where they might have come. I saw an arachnoid leaving the mall and I followed it. I'm assuming the arachnoid went to check on its comrades. Anyway, I changed into a crow and I followed it even further from the mall and I saw it go into a hill through a hole on the bottom. From my understanding, that hill could contain a hive. The hole was covered in spider webs. So we have to go there and destroy it. This is the only hive and the last arachnoids are there, hiding and trying to raise their population. Otherwise, we'd be hearing about them in the news all over the place."
"You're kidding," Gloria said.
Melissa cocked a brow in reply like she meant to say "Does it look like I'm kidding?" "I'll take that as a no," Gloria said.
"Today we'll have to go," Melissa continued. "If we wait any longer, we'll have more than 100 arachnoids. And I don't think Ashley wants to go through that again."
Ashley stared at them and shook her head. "Alright then," Gloria said. "We'll leave in several minutes."
"Ok," Ashley, Melissa, Caitlin, and Jessica replied in unison.