"speaking"
"thinking"
On with the story
Araneo leads Natsu and Atlas into the web castle while being followed by some spiders from behind
"how is it possible for humans to come here? Only a few knows of the hidden entrance and the escape holes" Natsu said as they entered the entrance of the web palace
"I do not know, but the humans who came were precise in knowing our weakness and knew of the time" Araneo said as they reached to the center where there were dozens of spider eggs everywhere but in the center, there was a crimson spider egg that was larger than the others
"has the time truly come?" Atlas said while sounding a bit disbelieve
"those humans knew the coming of the next queen, they knew that the queen would be weak from giving birth to the Queen Egg, and they knew that we would be away when the time had come" Araneo said as they reached to the egg as it was glowing weakly "if we do not find the queen in time, the next queen will surely die…along with myself and my brothers and sisters"
"this doesn't make sense" Natsu said as he cups his chin and rubs it a bit "how does the humans knew of this place? All records of your kind were thoroughly wiped away from the records, the only ones who knew are my dad, Uncle, that witch, and…"
Natsu's eyes turned in a glare as red scales climbed up his neck
"that bastard!" Natsu roared out as his right hand turned into a crimson reptilian claw
"to think that he would not keep his word" Atlas said as he clenched his staff tight and opened his blind eyes that turned reptilian "unforgivable"
"the next queen needs the caring of the current Queen, if the egg dies, we, Arachnidsians will arise and take over the land as our sign of war amongst the humans" Araneo said as he looks at Natsu and Atlas "you two who once hold the oath with us, you must pay for your actions of betraying us"
"we didn't betray you, Araneo" Atlas told the Spiderlings "you should know that we would never go back on our oath, our pride won't allow such things!"
"yet the queen was taken, and you did not do any actions to prevent it!" Araneo exclaimed before he spins his bone spear then points it at the two "I do not care of our friendship that we once forged with each other! My duty is with my brothers and sisters! I must protect the future of my kind!"
"then let me forge it again" Natsu said to Araneo as the red scales on him disappeared "let me save the queen, I owe my life to her once, I have a debt that has to be repaid"
"in what word should I believe that you would do such actions? Humans were never trustworthy during the Age of Gods or Dragons. How I can I believe in you?" Araneo said as his eyes glowed behind his helmet
"in the code of Araqcarte Pact; I rief nardog ingk, weras no Ehart" Natsu said in some sort of language as his left chest glowed and a magic circle appeared
"very well" Araneo said "by the code of the pact, I shall take your word. But if you are to fail"
"I won't, and you know that" Natsu said as Araneo looks at him before nodding
"I shall stay behind" Atlas said as he made his way near the egg and place a hand upon it "my fire shall keep the Egg from the grasp of cold death, but I do not know how long will it hold onto."
"I know" Natsu said with a nod before looking to Araneo "is it still sealed?"
Araneo nodded before he leads Natsu to the further part of the nest
Lucy was in a bit of a scary situation as she and everyone were surrounded by giant red spiders who looks to be man eaters
"uh, guys. I don't want to be the one to point out the obvious and all" Cana said as everyone looks to her before above. On the ceiling, they see a big web that had cocoons in it, but at a closer look, they could see skeletal hands and legs poking out of the cocoon "they're probably old bones, right?"
"I really hope so" Lucy said as she was cared of being eaten by the spiders
Éclair looks to the giant nest as she looks worried for Natsu when she felt the magic flare coming from it
Reaching further into the nest, Araneo leads Natsu into a stone door that had a statue of dragon
Natsu went to the stone door as he places his hand upon it
A red magic circle soon appeared as it glowed red and so did the eyes of the dragon statue
The area rumbles and shake before the stone door slides up and revealed what looks to be a stone statue of a mechanical horse
Natsu went to the statue as he bites his thumb and draws blood from it
The blood drips to the floor before they flowed around in a circle around the statue
"Steel is thy body, and fire is thy blood. Thou have threaded the path of thousands. With the power of lightning in strength" Natsu chanted as the blood circle glows red and soon ignites in flames "thy is bathed in blood of thy foe…thy protects those who are innocent…thy charge for the sake of victory!"
The area soon rumbles as it was the entire mountain
"come to my call…" Natsu spoke out as his right eye turned reptilian "great steed of thunder and lightning…Catastoras Voltonoir!"
The flames raged around the stone statue before it had cracks all over its body and a crimson glow shined from the cracks
Natsu ignites his fist in flames as he punched the stone statue, causing the cracks to spread before shattering
Soon, the statue exploded in a big red flash and a loud horse' neigh was heard
"it has returned" Araneo spoke out as a Crimson Mechanical War Horse had appeared out of the stone statue
"with thy blood…thy soul of thunder and lightning…I Natsu Dragneel…reawakens the ancient pact…for thy to heed my call!" Natsu shouted as Catastoras neigh and flames rages around its head's mane
Natsu soon got on Catastoras' back as Araneo went near him and sees a transparent armored figure standing beside him
"it is like….the past has repeat itself" Araneo thought
Flashback
Everything in the land was burning in flames as Araneo stood in the burning land
His spider brothers and sisters were running away as a dark giant shadow was approaching
He holds his bone spear before hearing loud stomping near him
Araneo turns around to look and sees Catastoras running towards him with someone who don Enryuo Yoroi
"go the queen, Araneo!" the rider shouted out while riding Catastoras who runs past the Spider Knight "your duty is not in this battle!"
"But!" Araneo retorted as flames soon rages around everywhere
"go! your time for battle is not now! But! In the future!"
flashback
Araneo looks at Natsu who reaches a hand towards him
"let's go, Araneo" Natsu said as Araneo looks to the hand then to Natsu before nodding
Grabbing his hand, Natsu pulled the Spider Knight up and got him on the back
"Catastoras, let us see if you are as fast as you used to be" Natsu said as Catastoras let out a loud neigh before charging out
That's a wrap!
Bye bye
