As Flonne kept struggling, more and more darkness surrounded her.
"Keep struggling meat." Said the demon spider with a simle. "I always like the feisty prey more." She said as she was starting to attached Flonne to a web.
Flonne didn't care. She didn't want to die, not until Laharl was nice again and back to his normal self. As she struggled, she began to get more and more towards the thought that struggling would be useless. A web capable to support a demon would obviously be strong enough to hold them inside of one as well.
She sighed as she finally gave up all hope of breaking free.
"It's so nice to finally have someone over for dinner. My babies are getting hungry." She said as she pointed to another web sac full of spider eggs.
But it didn't matter. Flonne was so far into the cave, all she could see was green glows that were coming from the spider and her sac. She couldn't even see the light anymore, she was so far in.
Tears started to roll down her face as she knew these were her last few minutes left alive.
Then, she heard a loud pop coming from the egg sac.
"Ah, splendid. The babies are awake." Said the demon grinning evilly, even though Flonne couldn't tell. All Flonne could see were green things heading towards her. She muffled loudly as she started to struggle more and more to escape the web, but with no success.
"Dig in, my children." Said the demon as she laughed evilly.
The spiders started crawling up Flonne, ready to eat her, starting with her head.
Suddenly, flame engulfed the entire room, spreading fire everywhere.
The demon screamed in pain as she was burning away into ash. "Gaaahhh! What's happening?!" she screamed until there was nothing left of her but ash. The babies spiders let out a squeal as well, but merely puffed into smoke when they burned to death.
Flonne was stunned. She thought she was getting eaten, now she was burning to death. But, even as the flame touched her, it didn't burn her. In fact, the only thing that was burning was the web that had her tied.
As soon as she was free, she ripped the web off her mouth. She was shocked and surprised that the flame didn't even hurt/burn at all.
"What…what's going on?" She asked herself. She looked everywhere the flame was burning. Even though it didn't burn, she was still a bit nervous.
Then, all at once, the fires went out. As Flonne looked around a bit, she saw light coming above her. But it wasn't a light, instead it was the phoenix she came to see.
"It's so beautiful." She said as she was awed by the stunning beauty of the bird. It was nearly 10 feet tall, having about three different shades of color on its feathers from ruby, garnet, and silver.
Soon, it made a crash through the tip of the mountain, letting in some light, before coming after Flonne. Flonne was a bit worried that she might get eaten again and tried to run.
At town, everyone saw the tip of the mountain come tumbling down, and thought it might be an eruption when they saw something large and red come out. But as it got bigger, they saw it was a giant bird. What they didn't see however, was the fallen angle being carried by it's claws.
"Put me down!" shouted Flonne as she was trying to break free. The bird flew back down to the bottom of the mountain before letting her go. Flonne was a bit confused that the bird listen.
"Um…can you understand me?" She asked curiously to the Pheonix's results.
"Yes…" The phoenix replied. Flonne was shocked that it didn't move it's mouth when it spoke before she finally realized what this was; telepathy.
"But, back there…" Flonne paused for a moment, wondering if she should even ask. "How come the flames didn't hurt me?"
"The flames are that of retribution. They determine whether the soul is good or evil, not the person themselves. If judged unworthy, they will be burned." The bird sniffed a bit. "But you have proven your worth , fallen angle, and therefore, it means your soul is pure."
"Well, thanks for saving me, but I got a favor to…" The phoenix interrupted before Flonne could finish her sentence.
"You came here for these feathers, correct?"
"Y-yes. I'd like some so I can get the statue of Laharl's mom for it." She said.
"I shall give you these feathers, but you must be careful." Warned the phoenix as he shook it's wings to release a few feathers, causing Flonne's hair to be blown a bit.
"Careful of what?" asked Flonne.
"For the evil within. It continues to grow inside of him with hatred. If it is not killed before it can be released, then doom will fall for all worlds."
"What evil? Within what? I don't understand." Flonned asked, questioning what the phoenix was talking about.
"Goodbye, Flonne." Were the last things the bird said before it flew away, into the clouds.
"Wait!" shouted Flonne. She was a bit disappointed that she didn't understand, but was reliefed that she made it.
As she picked up the feathers, a horrifying image started inside her head. It looked like Etna was laid flat on the ground, dead. She looked like she was stabbed with a giant sword. Next to her, Laharl was standing, blood dripping from his sword. He was all black, blue markings everywhere, but also a red and an orange color was around him. He screamed with great terror, as from his mouth, a black strange shadow was forming. Flonne couldn't really make out any form, but she saw eyes from the black shadow, yellow, shining eyes, staring right at her. The last thing she saw, the shadow was coming right at her before she snapped back into reality.
She found it strange of what she was looking at, but tried not to think of it. All she could think of was getting that gift for Laharl.
Meanwhile, Laharl was talking to the Judge, the one in charge of the senators.
"Assemble the senators at once!" he shouted. " We need to have a talk."