Life On Helghan.
OK here's chapter 18 for ya, this is turning out longer than I initially expected just so you know.
Chapter 18.
As we were getting closer it moved again and we stopped dead in our tracks waiting to see what it did next, we couldn't tell what it was since it was covered in webs, suddenly it burst up from the floor and we got a clear look at it.
It was the nest's female and the bitch was big, really big, the men just stood there with their weapons aimed at it, I signalled at them to hold their fire and stay quiet, she couldn't possibly see us in this pitch black chamber, I told them to follow me in silence and we began moving around her as she was moving around the chamber looking for the source of the smell she was getting, I knew we had to move quickly before she found us.
I failed to watch my step and stood on the bony remains of a previous kill which made a loud crunch, she heard and came straight at us as the men opened fire, I ejected my arm blade and dashed at her, she swung one of her huge legs at me and I dodged it as I leapt over her, I drove my blade deep into her abdomen and she made a horrible sounding scream, she forced her abdomen into the air with my blade still buried deep within it, I was launched into the wall and dazed, she then went after the men who were still laying down a hail of bullets and impaled one of the them on her mouthparts, then swung her head and launched him away, I pulled myself to my feet and ran at her right side, I swung my blade with all my strength at two of her legs, I managed to cut right through one of them and deep into the second one, she certainly felt that as she lurched her body into me, I was launched into the wall again and hit the ground with a thump, she then charged me again, when she was close I thrust my blade straight into her mouth as she bit down on my arm, it hurt like nothing I'd ever felt but it did the trick, she fell limp as I'd managed to pierce right into her brain and killed her, the weight of her body as it fell to the ground pulled my arm, I called to the men to get her off me, with their help I managed to carefully remove my arm from her jaws with only minor injuries which surprised me.
"Let's get the fuck out of here boys."
I led them through the opening on the opposite end to the side we entered on, we kept moving through the nest and I realized why we hadn't run into any males, not even nest protectors, she'd killed and eaten them all, I suppose we'd arrived while she was waiting for her brood to hatch then she was gonna move house, so to speak, to find more males. we walked past a lot of egg sacs and I crapped myself as we passed each one expecting to get swarmed by spiderlings, it never happened which I thanked Visari for, never back when I first met the captain did I think I'd end up in a creepy dark cave with a giant freak spider in it to save him, I wasn't about to give up though and carried on until we saw a light up ahead, we began running and I could tell we were all thinking the same thing: 'finally'.
It lead us into a crevice, there were still walls on either side but they weren't too tall to climb, I chimney-jumped between the walls and then began pulling the men up, were all SO glad to be finally out of the fucking caves, I asked the comm operator how close we were to the signal.
"Not far now sir, should be 2 miles west."
We moved out.
End of chapter 18.
Short I know but I'm finally out of ideas lol, I've had the ending planned ever since chapter 12, now this is about to run it's course, it'll probably be a nice round 20 chapters, you know when I started this I never thought it would get this long, I thought it'd be 8 chapters at a push, suppose I should give myself more credit, I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you're looking forward to the coming end.