Okay, it's time for the fifth chapter to commence! We have been introduced to Tyrant-Ula and gotten to know that he is part of all this, targeting Gray Wolf and all the other goodies as his next victims in a line of so many from before, and just as many intended as targets after. The plot does indeed thicken, but wait till you find out the shocker at the end of this chapter which will be more than sufficient to knock your socks off! The sinister plan of Tyrant-Ula and his minions is put into a whole new phase now, and the goodies have a whole new problem on their hands!
Except for Tyrant-Ula, I own none of the characters. They belong to Monster Rancher.
Chapter 5-A Tyrant's Terror
At the cave the goodies resided in now, they had just finished brunch(it took them that long to get back after finishing up the more immediate matters and thus they'd had no breakfast), and were in deep discussion about a whole lot. It was all connecting to their new objective, the subduing of Tyrant-Ula. They'd talked of a great deal, and finally had come up with the perfect way to attack and do in both the monster villain spider in question and his terrible troops.
"Okay, so we've gotten the facts straight and organized the plan to take Tyrant-Ula down here." Genki told the others. "Yes, and any time to do it would be a good time for me." stated an eager to end his fear once and for all Gray Wolf. "Keep it cool, brother." Tiger told him. "I'd not mind getting rid of the bastard, either, but we have to keep it together until the time is right." An instant later, Gray Wolf nodded and Hare said: "So we know he's the one who's been plaguing us and we know he's the one who replaced the medicine meant to end Gray Wolf's fear with that horrible poison which gave him delirium, plus we know all the other crap he pulled."
"That," Pixie added, "and that he either has the real medicine meant to help Gray Wolf, or for whatever crazy reason, his downfall will be key to conquering the arachnophobia." "So what we need to do both to cure Gray Wolf of his fear and to put a stop to Tyrant-Ula before he can become the next Moo is to find him and put his spinneret-sporting ass out of commission. It won't be easy, however." Big Blue pointed out. "But it has to be done for two very crucial, vital and important reasons." Holly put in. "And it will be." Suezo said. "Chi!" Mocchi added on.
"First thing's first, though, we have to find out where Tyrant-Ula currently is, what he's up to and what his next move will be." Tiger spoke. "We lose track of him once, and we'll most likely all become his next meal." Gray Wolf cringed at the thought of dying again, and this time by his blood being drained out by a monster who was the embodiment of every reason why his fear and dislike of spiders was existent. But he kept cool and made sure his courage remained.
"Tiger is quite correct." Golem said. "We must plan ahead meticulously." "Which we will." Genki stated. "So here's how this works. Holly, you still have that amulet thing with you, right?" "Of course. I think we'll be needing it now more than ever." Holly responded. "We sure will." Genki replied. "We need to find out whether or not Tyrant-Ula is still where he was, or if he's gone somewhere else. Also, we must know about whether or not his troops are with him or have been sent to spread more terror and cover more ground." "Reveal coming right up." Holly's reply consisted of. Gray Wolf did not want to think about how hard it would be to deal with such a thing as coming across so many spiders and especially if they were with their king. The thought of it alone tied his guts in a knot and made him feel like puking them up.
He ignored his fright, though, and looked along with the others as Holly was able to find out where Tyrant-Ula and his other evil spiders were and what they were doing. "For whatever reason, Tyrant-Ula and his spider minions, drones and cronies are still in their tunnel home, and have actually gotten ready for us in one way or another. They've yet to resurface to the outside world, but we can't take any chances. So we must go and take them on now, but be ready for any and all traps they may have set up for us in that tunnel while looking for them. Further, we need to get ready for anything they may be packing to try and snare and devour us."
"All right, if there was ever an opportune time to try and stop this before it gets any worse, it's now. So, are we getting going or what?" asked Genki. "We sure are." Tiger said. "I can't wait to sink my claws into that bastard Tyrant-Ula." "Neither can I." Gray Wolf said, as he thought: "Especially since this will both put a stop to their evil and end my fear at long last." "I think I speak for all of us, even those who dislike fighting, when I say I'm ready to go." Pixie put in. "Okay, let's move it, people. We don't want to keep Tyrant-Ula waiting and increase such as the chances he'll attack the surface world out of boredom." Genki spoke.
So the lot of them took off from the cave and followed Holly's amulet-created guidance to the area of the ground that led to the tunnel of Tyrant-Ula. All the while, Gray Wolf was but of course doing his best to ignore how much his fear and frightened feelings about entering a spider tunnel was building up inside of him, though it was easy task. Eventually, they got to the part of the ground which was undoubtedly where the beginning of the tunnel which led down to the lair of Tyrant-Ula was. They stopped once the amulet signaled such a fact.
"Okay, I think we're here." Holly said. "Wait, however." Pixie pointed out. "Tyrant-Ula and all of his assholes are waiting for us and expecting us to arrive. That means this could very well be a trap to make us fall into their webs to be snared and turned into their next meals. We'll need to check first." "Good point." Holly told Pixie. "I'll do it." Tiger said, going over and then picking up a rock with his teeth. He tossed it with his mouth onto the area that looked to be the covered entrance of their tunnel, and sure enough, it immediately opened up and all the grasses covering it fell into the hole.
"Good thinking, Pixie!" exclaimed Genki. "We would have been spider food if not for your precautions." "Chi!" Mocchi said. "Thanks for that lifesaver, Chi!" "All right, so we're for sure going to need to find another way around." Golem said. "And that means a different kind of entrance." Hare said. "OOOOOOH, I really am not liking the sound of this." Gray Wolf said. "I must go through with this, but still…I don't want to think about what our alternative entrance is gonna need to be." "AAAAAAAAW, poor puppy…" Hare smiled.
"OOOOOWWWWWWOOOOOO!" Hare yelled in the next second as Gray Wolf bit his ass good and hard. "You never learn, do you, Hare?" asked Suezo. "Oh, shut up!" Hare said irritably as he rubbed his ass once Gray Wolf let go of it. "Anyhow, I do believe we want to find that other way so we can enter but not get caught." Holly said. "And thankfully, this amulet has a way in just like that!" "Okay, what way in is it?" asked Genki. Holly replied: "We go up that hill, and through that seemingly small cave, and the tunnel to where we should enter will be there as a part of it and lead us to the proper location to find Tyrant-Ula and his troops."
"Good to know." Tiger said. "By the way, are you sure you don't just wanna wait out here while we deal with things, Gray Wolf?" asked Suezo. "There's gonna be a lot of spiders in here, and aggressive, deadly ones, at that." "No way." Gray Wolf replied. "I have to overcome my fucking fear, and I will never get a better chance than this. Further, not helping take down evil like this simply because you're afraid of what contains it is a coward's answer. And I'm no more of a coward than my brother." "With the exception he doesn't fear spiders like you do!" a snide remark from Hare consisted of.
"SHUT IT, HARE!" roared Tiger as he leapt onto him and made him hit the ground hard. He then leapt back and Hare got up, winded and humiliated. "Like Suezo said, you never learn." Genki told Hare. "Anyway, we need to move it fast. Tyrant-Ula won't wait forever." Pixie told them. "So we go." Golem spoke. Everyone went up the hill and one by one entered their way in the tunnel/cave, with eventually everyone dropping down onto the ground of what they knew at this point was a region of the tunnel lair of Tyrant-Ula.
"So we're in here now." Big Blue observed. "Chi, it creepy, Chi!" Mocchi said. Gray Wolf overlooked how much he was trembling on the inside as he saw spiders galore crawling about as well as many rotting exoskeletons of dead spiders. "By the way, I can smell some of the troops and traps of Tyrant-Ula." Tiger told them. "He must either have thought we'd be here by now, or know we're here." "Either way, we need to make it through to him and watch our damn backs." Genki put in. "Let's go, but slowly and cautiously."
They did so, but suddenly they heard the voice of Tyrant-Ula say: "Welcome to my lair, goodies. I see you made it into a part of it so that trap I set for you to fall into our webs wouldn't do what I meant it to. A shame, but no matter. Your single moment of cleverness will not be able to stop all of my spider cronies and my countless other traps from doing you in. And when you all have been done in, tonight we will feast. Both on your flesh and your blood, which we truly hunger for." "Dream on, Tyrant-Ula!" Pixie shouted.
"We'll find you and we'll take you out!" Tiger roared. "Right after we do the same to all of your slimy little soldiers, that is!" Genki added on. "Big words, but I'm not impressed, nor do I believe any of that bullshit in the least bit." the voice of Tyrant-Ula replied. "I can see where all of you are at all times, and I can easily transmit my voice through the whole of this lair. There's not a single area you can go to that won't be literally crawling with my minions."
"Then we will face them!" Gray Wolf snarled. "And then we will face you after we've gotten through all of them!" He did his best to keep his courage up, but being in any tunnel of spiders, let alone one where the worst spider of his nightmares was ruling, made it hard not to tremble on the inside and be turning slightly white. He did as much as he could to keep it under control and ignore it, but it wasn't easy. Thankfully, it was at least enough so he could keep on going with the other goodies through these tunnels. And Tyrant-Ula replied: "Suit yourself. I'd warn you, however. No victim has ever left my tunnels alive before. And my drones play rough."
"So do we!" Holly shouted. "Let's go!" Genki went, and they moved forward, making sure not to take their eyes off of the spiders even once. They got ready for any moves they'd have to make, when suddenly they saw hordes of black widows coming towards them. "Oh, my God. Black widows…" Gray Wolf gasped, trying not to lose it. "Black widows, indeed." the top head honcho of this group said. "We're here to take you out, poison you fatally and bring you to our master for a magnificent meal tonight." "This will be just the start of our new terror mission and our eventual conquest that comes from it." his second in command added.
But Tiger showed how much he begged to differ on that statement. "Like hell, spiders! TORPEDO ATTACK!" Tiger yelled, and the lightning hit the first line of black widows. Gray Wolf did much the same and in the next instant they were using their ice breath as well. Pixie also flew about and blasted them with various projectile attacks. Sure enough, there were much fewer of the black widows, though still a lot, and one said: "Holy shit! I had no idea we were facing such a tough force this time!" "We can still win, however!" another stated. "ON THEM! LIKE RED ON BLOOD!" shouted their leader.
Gray Wolf could not believe it. He was actually facing his worst fear and starting to show hope of winning. However, when he saw several black widows coming right for him and all the others, he virtually pissed and shitted with fright. "NO…" he gaped. "Oh, lord! They're trying the fast, frontal approach!" yelled Pixie. "Tornado attack!" Golem said, and he did his tornado attack on them while Big Blue clapped his hands to crush flat as many as possible. Mocchi said: "Blossom cherry blizzard!" and unloaded that onto the spiders, while Hare yelled out: "Dragon punch!" and smashed quite a few to pieces. Gray Wolf, in the meanwhile, regained his courage and it was just in time for him to leap back and dodge the spiders jumping for him.
"Dammit! He dodged us!" yelled a black widow. "Yeah, and now I do you in!" let loose Gray Wolf. He unleashed a wind attack at them and literally blew them to pieces. He saw a second later that Tiger was doing much the same. There had been nothing quite so frightening as seeing so many black widows leap right for him, but Gray Wolf has overcome that and felt like he could conquer his fear for real this time. "Wanna try that with me again?" he asked the other black widows who hadn't jumped at him or any of the other goodies yet while Suezo hit those still jumping at them with his tail attack repeatedly and Holly used the amulet to repel them.
"Is that a challenge or what?" asked one black widow as the lot of them crawled at Gray Wolf. "Okay, steady now…" thought Gray Wolf. "Blast them with everything you have all while keeping your distance…" He unloaded all his long range attacks on them and managed to take all of them out, while the others were either knocked back or destroyed by all the other goodies, this time with Golem stepping on them, Hare using his dragon kicks and Tiger zooming in to slice at them and bite them dead. Genki also skated around and tossed them against the walls with force enough to break them to bits, and he did so speedily and almost tirelessly.
"We're doing it!" Genki shouted. "We're winning!" "We've got to retreat! They're too strong!" cried out one black widow. "But we can't! Tyrant-Ula will have our heads!" said one of the others. "Like they won't if we don't scram?" asked a third one. But Gray Wolf roared: "Who the hell said anything about retreating? You abominations are history!" He ran in, forgetting his fear, and slashed, bit and stabbed the rest of the black widows dead, though the feeling of them in his mouth when he bit them dead was anything but easy to endure for obvious reasons. Soon enough, they were all dead, and Tiger said: "My God, Gray Wolf…look what you did."
"Wow…I never would have guessed even he could do that…especially with his fear…" put in Hare. "But were we wrong or what?" Holly asked. "Chi!" Mocchi added. "Congrats to Gray Wolf, Chi!" "Congrats, indeed. Golem agree." Golem said. "Wow. I guess I did pull that feat off, didn't I?" Gray Wolf asked. "Man, I'll overcome my fear yet…" "WATCH OUT!" Pixie yelled, and they all turned to see she was referring to a great many brown recluse spiders crawling about the walls and they jumped back, especially Gray Wolf, since he didn't count on this due to being caught up in what seemed like a step in the direction of no longer having his arachnophobia. Pixie flew up and unleashed her forest wrecking projectile attack at the lot of the brown recluse spiders, blowing them all to hell.
"Phew. That was too close for comfort." Gray Wolf sighed. "To think they would have taken us from behind, the cowards!" growled Tiger. "Well, they are brown recluse spiders. They tend to be shy and timid, so that shouldn't be a surprise." Hare said. "Whatever, I'm just glad we got to see Pixie smoke them." Tiger panted. "Just like the rest of us are." Suezo said. "Chi!" put in Mocchi. "They gone now, Chi." "But not all of my spider troops are gone." said a very, very, very unmistakable voice. "Tyrant-Ula!" exclaimed Golem. "What do you have in store for us next, you bastard of a tyrant?" Genki snapped.
"Whatever it is, we'll do to that just what I just did to those brown recluse hellspawns of yours!" Pixie warned him. "Oh, no you won't. For those black widows and brown recluse spiders were only my welcoming committee." Tyrant-Ula's voice replied. "This is where we go to a new level, and a whole new one, at that. You seem to be quite a helpful aspect of this group with such attacks as the one you used to kill the brown recluse bunch I sent to kill you from behind, Pixie." Tyrant-Ula told her. "Therefore, I can't have you helping them anymore."
Suddenly, a hole opened in the ground, and Pixie's foot was grabbed by a trapdoor spider very quickly. This was a big trapdoor spider, and it pulled her down, going: "You should be quite a tasty little morsel, what with your good looks and everything, bitch!" "WHOOOOOOOAAA!" screamed Pixie as she was pulled down. "Go on! I can get myself out of this!" she yelled to the others as she disappeared from sight. "Oh, God. PIXIE!" Gray Wolf exclaimed, starting to get a little scared after seeing this done by a giant trapdoor spider of all things, and so suddenly, too. "I think she said she can get herself out of it!" Tiger shouted. "No! We have to save my master!" an angry cry from Big Blue consisted of. "There's no time! If we try to, we'll get captured too, and it will ensure she dies along with the rest of us and Tyrant-Ula will be able to do as he pleases!" Genki cried. "I don't like having to leave her behind, but she's found her way out before and she will do so this time! In the meanwhile, we have to keep going to stop Tyrant-Ula!"
"Fine, but if she turns out to have died, I will never forgive anyone here, myself included. Understand?" Big Blue said. "We do." Golem replied. "Now let's go!" Genki shouted. They ran across the tunnel and soon found a chamber to the next tunnel, which they realized could lead to a way to find something beneficial, or could lead to a death trap. "Okay, we have got to see what our best bet would be here!" Holly said. "This could be death's door, or it could be a way out of here and into an area that could hold the key to the downfall of Tyrant-Ula!" "Yes," Golem said, "but how can we…" He suddenly was snared by several webs, which wrapped him up and made it so he was immobilized. "NOOOOO! Golem is trapped! Go on before you get trapped!"
"But Golem…" shouted Holly. "GOLEM WILL SURVIVE!" Golem shouted, which he rarely did. "But you can't risk it! Go!" "We have to listen to him." Tiger sighed. They realized it and took off, with Golem seeing that several tarantulas were suddenly crawling on him, though he did not let it frighten him despite being essentially helpless. "All right, that's two we've just lost!" Big Blue cried. "I'm not liking the looks of this at all!" "Neither am I, but we can't just give up! That'll make it so Tyrant-Ula wins for sure!" Genki reminded.
Gray Wolf thought: "My God, am I being tested for how long my courage can stay with me before I break under all this fear from these spiders or what? I can't let that mar my tenure. I have to get over it and keep fighting, no matter how horrible or scary it gets for me!" "Look!" he shouted out loud when he saw a giant Sydney funnel web spider coming for them. "Enemy alert, everyone!" "Good sighting, Gray Wolf!" Tiger said. "Wish I could say it was out of something aside from shock and sudden fright…" thought Gray Wolf to himself, embarrassed. Genki did a leap at the giant killer spider, kicking it in the face with both feet.
"So, thought you'd make a meal of us, did you?" asked Genki. "Well, not if I have any say in the matter!" He then punched him repeatedly, but the spider hit him with one of its legs and said: "You're tough, boy, I'll give you that. But me, I'm invincible." Genki went: "UUHH!" and hit the ground hard, then he got wrapped up in webbing. "NO!" Tiger yelled. "TORPEDO ATTACK!" He blasted the spider with his lightning, and Gray Wolf did the same to aid him, but the spider sprayed webbing into his eyes and that of everyone else, then made off with Genki.
Once the others got the webbing off of their eyes, they realized Genki had disappeared. "Oh, no! Genki!" Holly exclaimed. "He's gone, Chi! NO!" Mocchi cried. When Tiger heard "Genki" and "gone" in the same sentence, he tensed up. But then he undid that, realizing this was no time to panic. "We have to find him!" Gray Wolf said. "Yes, but we also have to find where the hell Tyrant-Ula could be!" Tiger told them. "And save Genki, Chi!" Mocchi wailed. But just then, the voice of Tyrant-Ula told them: "Well, what do you know? The group's down to seven out of the ten it once was already. But I'm getting a little tired of picking you off one by one."
"Tyrant-Ula?" exclaimed Holly. "If you've hurt any of our friends, especially Genki, we'll dethrone you in the worst way imaginable!" "Chi!" Mocchi yelled out. "And that's not a threat, that's a promise!" added Tiger. "You can be sure of that, motherfucker!" Gray Wolf put in as a bark. "Please. Do you really think I care a whit about your petty threats and empty talk?" asked Tyrant-Ula. "I'm just going to switch to having all my spider drones capture you at once, with the exception of you, Gray Wolf, since I've got something special in mind for you, my little arachnophobic foe."
Just then, Holly saw webbing fly onto her arm and went: "What? UGGGHH! Gross! Get it off me!" But she was snared by more webbing, and then Hare was grabbed from behind by an enormous orb spider. "HEY! GET OFF OF ME!" Hare cried, but he was subdued and pulled in by the spider, just like Holly was pulled into a tunnel. After that, Big Blue was pounced on by gigantic weaver spiders, the leader of them going: "Here's a big one! He'll contribute well to the much needed roughage in our diet!" "PIXIE! I'M SORRY! I'VE FAILED YOU!" Big Blue let out. Suezo and Mocchi suddenly got pinned to the wall by fired webbing, then two huge-ass bird eater spiders came crawling towards them.
"A bird and some wacko thing. How lucky can you get?" asked one. The other said: "Don't I know it? I think the fact they're bite sized makes it all the more fun! ""You back off right now!" Suezo shouted. "Chi, get away, Chi!" yowled Mocchi. Finally, Tiger was hit by lots of weblines and wrapped up so he couldn't move. "WHAT THE HELL?" he exclaimed. "GET THIS CRAP OFF ME!" But then several wolf spiders landed on him and their leader went: "So, a real wolf eaten by his spider counterparts! How about that?" "RUN, BROTHER! IT'S UP TO YOU NOW!" Tiger howled. "YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE OF SURVIVAL OR OF TAKING DOWN TYRANT-ULA!"
Gray Wolf, as terrified as he was after seeing all this and all these nasty spiders, realized the severity of this situation. Still, he protested: "But I can't leave any of you behind to die! Especially you, brother! There must be some other way!" "There isn't!" Tiger shouted. "We may be killed, but you have to risk it! It's either that or fully ensuring victory and continuing evil reign for Tyrant-Ula!" Understanding these deadly words, the ability to cope with his fear skyrocketed in Gray Wolf, at least for the time being. He gave a quick lick to Tiger, just in case this was the last he'd see of his brother, and took off.
Unfortunately, this was just what Tyrant-Ula wanted. As Gray Wolf took off to try and find a way to locate Tyrant-Ula, destroy his troops and save his friends, he heard the voice of the evil spider king of a monster tarantula say: "Ah, ah, ah! I told you that I only didn't have my tons of troops capture you because I had something special in mind for you, Gray Wolf, due to your fear of my kind!"
"Stick it up your spinneret region, Tyrant-Ula!" Gray Wolf barked. "I really couldn't give less of a shit how terrified I am of you and any other spiders right now, because I only want to save my friends, my brother, and take you and all the other slimy atrocities in here down for the count!" "Not wise to insult me like that." Tyrant-Ula. "Given I am the ruler here and was already planning this for you as the special way to die even before that remark."
Gray Wolf suddenly realized he had just run through two doors, and they slammed right behind him. Tightly and loudly. And they locked after that. "You will now pay the penalty that anyone pays for invading on and/or insulting the king." Tyrant-Ula's voice said. "Both of which you have done. It is time for you to die like the dog that you are, but they way you die will be not from physical force, but from emotional torture."
It was incredibly dark in the area and Gray Wolf sniffed about for any signs of anything he could find, because right now, he'd be lucky to even know where he was. But soon, he picked up the scent of big, killer, monster spiders, and he also saw several flashback images of horrible memories of his life, spider related or otherwise, and up to and including his time as a baddy for Moo, who made him one against his will, plus his temporary death, form in front of him. Not only this, but the scents he'd picked up were of several big spiders of various species crawling all around the floors, the walls and the ceiling. And he saw them as much bigger and scarier than any of them actually were due to a special mist in the place which created hallucinations.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Gray Wolf screamed. "AAAAAAAA! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" He was more terrified by spiders now than he had ever been in the past few days, which was quite a statement. And the other flashback memories, along with several loud, blaring noises and weapons flying at him and narrowly missing him, did not help matters at all. He was helpless with fear and unable to go anywhere, and once Tyrant-Ula said: "Farewell, Gray Wolf. How ironic a brave wolf like you would meet his end with such a thing as a heart attack from fear, which means he would die of fright." it was clear he had made it so he locked Gray Wolf in here deliberately.
Locked him in here deliberately so his fear of spiders would combine with his worst of memories being resurrected, and his knowledge that his friends all had their lives on the line, his brother included, along with the numerous weapons and real killer spiders in the area. IT HAD BEEN DONE WITH THE INTENT OF DRIVING HIM INSANE, AND THEN MAKING IT SO HE EVENTUALLY WOULD BE KILLED FROM HIS BEING BOTH SCARED, BADLY CONFUSED AND BESERK ALL AT THE SAME DAMN TIME! SO UTTERLY FIENDISH!
TO BE CONTINUED…
So, what did you think? And of the end of the chapter in particular? Pretty scary and gripping, huh? And quite a cliffhanger, too! Ratings and reviews, please!