As Flonne made her way to the mountain, it grew tremendously as she got closer. It took about half an hour for her to even reach the base of the mountain.

"Phew, we're finally here." Said Flonne exhausted from all the running. "You guys ready?" She asked the prinnies.

"No way dood! We're not going up there." Said one of the prinnies.

"But we have to if we want to get a gift for Laharl." She replied.

"Dood, we're demons! If that thing judges us we'll just be gobbled up!" Stammered another prinny.

"Oh right." Said Flonne as she remembered what the salesman said about the phoenix. "Fine, I'll go, but if I get in trouble will you guys come to help me?"

"Of course dood! We'll be waiting right here in case you need it." Said a prinny as they all began to salute.

"Oh thanks guys. You're the best." She said as she started climbing her way up the mountain.

When she was about half a mile up the mountain one of the prinnies spoke. "Let's bail!" He said as all the prinnies began to run away in fear.

Flonne had climbed for about an hour before coming to a ledge. "This seems like a nice spot for a break." She said as she climbed on it. "I wonder if Laharl will be nicer even if I get the statue for him." She said a bit worried. "It is his mother, so either he'll be a little happy to see a gold statue of her, or get mad for seeing his mother again." She shrugged it off best she could even though she was worried. She rested for about another 5 minutes before starting to climb up again.

A while later while climbing, one of the edges she grabbed onto suddenly broke off. She screamed as she was now only hanging on by one hand only, scared of what might happen if it broke off. She tried looking around for another thing to grab on to before she saw a tree branch growing from the mountain. But in order for her to reach it, she had to jump from the ledge she was on and grab onto the branch.

She was getting more and more scared as she started to hear cracks from the ledge she was already hanging on to. She knew she would have to jump now if she wanted to make it in time.

"Ok, on 3." She said. As she counted down she could feel the ledge give out more and more. "One, two, three!" She screamed as she jumped to the tree branch. As she jumped, the ledge she jumped from came off, followed by a couple rocks that were above her.

She kept flailing her arms as she tried to grab the branch. She missed with her first arm, and caused her to go in a panicked state. Fortunately, she caught it with the tip of her other hand just in time. She sighed as she grabbed it with her other hand and pulled herself up. She was surprised it was able to support her whole body.

"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea." She thought to herself as she was breathing hard from the sudden jump. But, to her relief, she saw a huge white vine coming from the top of the mountain, or what looked like the top. She couldn't see all the way to the top, because there was a huge fog covering the upper half of the mountain. She was very happy to see this as she grabbed on.

The vine felt weird however. It felt slimy, sticky. None the less, she grabbed on to the vine with both hands and started climbing. She got closer, she thought she could feel the vine vibrating, almost like it was breathing. She didn't care though as she kept on going.

Once she got into the fog, she couldn't really see anything other than the vine. She stopped climbing for a minute to catch her breath, as it began to get a little bit harder to breathe. After a quick break, she tried climbing again, but something was wrong.

"What? What's going on? Why can't I move my hands?" She said as she was trying to move them. Her hands were stuck to the mysterious vine.

She couldn't tell if she was hallucinating, because as she struggled she could swear she was being pulled up. She kept trying to struggle free, but to no prevail. As she looked down, she saw something that shocked her. The bottom of the vine was still behind her, which meant she was being pulled up the entire time.

As she kept struggling, she knew that she was now hearing breathing. As she looked up, she saw something shocking. She saw a giant half woman half spider demon on hanging on the cliff of the mountain looking right at her. Her tounge swept between her lips, as an animal does getting ready for their next meal.

"Well well well, what do we have here?" said the demon spider as she came closer. "It's been awhile since I had some fresh meat!" She continued pulling up the vine as Flonne got closer and closer to the demon spider.

"Please! Don't eat me, I'm just up here trying to find a phoenix! I didn't mean to disrupt anything!" she said as she was right in the face of the spider, causing her to become extremely nervous.

"Phoenix?" questioned the demon.

"Yes. I came to get a feather so I could trade it for a gold statue at the market." Replied Flonne.

The demon just laughed at this as she heard what the fallen angle had just said. "Little girl, there hasn't been a phoenix here ever since King Krichesvkoy came!"

Flonne was now shocked even more. She thought to herself about whether the salesman was lying to her or not. "But that's impossible! The salesm…" she tried to finish her sentence before the spider spat a web across Flonne's face, preventing her from talking. All she could do was muffle as the spider demon began to tie her around in a web sac from her feet to her neck, leaving only her eyes left un-webbed.

"It's been awhile since I last had dinner. I insist you stay around." She laughed as she pulled the poor fallen angle into a giant hole the size of the demon. All she could do is muffle more and more as she went into the darkness…