"speaking"
"thinking"
On with the story
Natsu climbs up the mountain before he stumbled upon a wreckage of a campsite
He looks around and sees that everything was destroyed; tents shredded, ashes of campfire everywhere, and Climbing gear everywhere
"attacked, huh?" Natsu said as he bents down and picked up a strand of spider silk from the ground. He then stands up as he took a glance behind and sees that someone or something was staring at him from the shadows
"following me quietly…" Natsu thought before he started to make his way up the mountain path as he is followed by a shadowed figure with six glowing red eyes
Making his way up the mountain, Natsu reached a dead end
He turns towards the mountain wall as he patted the wall a few times, touching every part before he finds a part of the wall that pushed in when touched
A magic circle appeared on the rocky wall as it shines red before Natsu felt the ground rumbles
A stone door slides open as it revealed a pathway being lit with fireflies
Natsu made his way in as the shadowed figure followed him in and as the two got in, the door shuts close
Lucy was waking up as her vision focuses and she sees stalactites above her
"eh?" she said before she realized that her body is cocooned in spider silk and that she was being carried on top of something
Lucy looks around and finds out that she was being carried by a giant spider
"EEEEeeeepppp!" she let out a high pitch screamed before she fainted
Erza woke up next from hearing Lucy's scream as she was more calm in seeing the situation that they were in
Everyone was cocooned as they were being carried by giant red spiders who are crawling in some sort of cave
Before long, the spiders reached to a giant opening where there is a giant silk covered spider nest the size of a castle
"Erza" Kagura whispered as Erza looks to her
Kagura rolled her eyes as she pointed towards their front and they see Atlas standing in front of the spider nest
"Atlas-san? Why is he here?" Erza whispered before they all were dropped in front of the castle
"ow!" Lucy yelped as everyone woke up and sees the situation that they were in
"ah, am I drunk or are we in a cave, cocooned, and are surrounded by giant spiders?" Cana asked as she thought that she was drunk
"no, you aren't. but I really wish I were too" Mira said as the giant spiders crawls away from them and climbed up the walls
"this spider web..it's hard to get out of!" Ultear exclaimed as she tried moving but the cocooned didn't allowed her
"my my, you all brought the young ones, here?" Atlas said facing the direction of where Lucy and the other were at
"Atlas-san! What is going on here!?" Erza exclaimed "what are these giant spiders!?"
"in time, you will know the questions to your answers. Right now you all must wait" Atlas said "for them to come?"
"who?" Éclair asked before everyone heard echoing footsteps
They look to the side and sees Natsu walking out of a cave with a surprised look to them
"Natsu!" everyone exclaimed in seeing him
"I knew I should've left a copy of me back at the cabin" Natsu said rubbing his face before sighing
He made his way to his uncle who holds an identical whistle in his hand
"you knew of something that is happening here, Uncle?" Natsu asked
"I've heard of screaming in the middle of the night, so I went out to investigate and found myself here" Atlas said before he face towards the many giant spiders that were surrounding them "and I believe I know why were there screams
"humans enemy" "humans enemy" "humans enemy" "humans enemy" "humans enemy" "humans enemy" everyone hear voices as the voices were coming from the spiders
"looks to me that something had happened here" Natsu said as he took out his whistle and blows on it
The sound instantly made the spider back away as they crawled up to the walls
"what is that about?" Mira asked as Natsu keeps on blowing the whistle before stopping
"a high pitched whistle" Ultear said "Spiders detect soundwaves with their hair all over their body, the whistle must have a high pitched sound that confuses them or something"
"I should get me one of those" Cana said
"where is your queen?" Natsu asked "why did you abduct my friends?"
"humans attacked, queen taken!" "humans attacked! Queen taken!" the voices of the spiders echoed out as Natsu keened his eyes
"by who?" Natsu said before he tilts his head to the side when a spear made out of bones went flying past him and nearly hits Lucy
"EEEkkkk!" Lucy yelped out in fear as the spear nearly hits her neck
"don't you dare ask on who took our queen, human" a voice echoed out in the shadows as Natsu looks to the shadows and sees a figure walking in
The figure wore red armor that was designed like a metal spider, the helmet had six eye slots and they were glowing
"humans attacked us and taken our queen, it was fitting that we take revenge on all humans" the knight said as Natsu grabs the spear before throwing it back to the knight who caught it
"humans are all different, you should know that better than your brothers and sisters, Araneo" Natsu said as the knight walks towards Natsu before taking off his helmet to reveal his face
Lucy and the others looks in surprise as the man look like Natsu only difference is that the knight's hair is brown, has two human eyes with four red ones above them, he had an exoskeleton like face that of a spider
"it does bring me nostalgia and joy to meet you again after many years, but it does not change the fact that humans who promised to not cause conflict upon my people had come and inflicted a deep scar upon this domain" Araneo said as he glared at Natsu
"what happened here?" Natsu asked "what happened to the Queen?"
"come and you shall see" Araneo said as he turns and started walking towards the giant web nest "your friends will be supervised by my brothers"
"if they do not eat them first that is" Atlas said as Lucy yelps when a spider got near her face
Natsu blows on his whistle as the spiders backed away from Lucy and the others
He then snapped his fingers as Enryuo Yoroi appeared
"guard them" Natsu said as Enryuo Yoroi nodded and went to Lucy and the others, standing by
Natsu and Atlas soon leaves as they followed Araneo who leads them to the web castle
Somewhere near the mountain range, in a giant metal carriage; several men in black surrounds it while the sound of high screeching was heard in the vehicle
Inside, was a giant half woman, half spider creature that was chained down on all of its limbs while it was screeching
That's a wrap!
Bye bye
