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Chapter 17: Nami and Robin in Danger Part 3

When Kid awoke she was surrounded by darkness, she realized almost immediately where she was and listened carefully. After some time of complete silence Kid stretched out her index fingers, pushed it through the hardened spider silk pulp and opened the cocoon from the inside. As Kid stepped out of her cocoon she looked warily around; in the moonlight, which entered through the entrance of the cave, she could see two cocoons across the cave. Sneaking towards the cocoons every step felt heavier than the one before. When Kid reached the first cocoon she tore it open and looked right into Robins wide opened eyes before she collapsed to the ground. "Pull yourself together… we aren't save yet…" Kid exhorted in a low voice and noticed that it felt difficult to speak clearly, "try to become clear while I free Nami." Kid added in a mumble while she pulled a water bottle out of her messenger bag and gave it to Robin before she turned to the second cocoon.

As Kid walked towards the cocoon her senses suddenly screamed alarm for a second, so she turned around and looked warily into the semidarkness of the cave. `Damn! I can't concentrate well… that's bad… My Haki isn't working properly… is something there or did I hallucinate!`

"Is something wrong…?" Robin asked weak as she saw that Kid stopped.

"Hold your eyes and ears open… when you see or hear something odd, tell me right away." Kid imposed wispering, because she couldn't depend on her Haki at the moment so she had to use her sensory organs, which needed under this circumstance concentration as well.

"Sure." Robin answered in low voice and tried to bring herself into focus while Kid continued her way to Nami's cocoon.

After the cocoon was torn open by Kid, it was revealed that Nami was completely standing upside down and her back side was shown. As Nami fell legs-ahead towards Kid, Kid griped them and stepped out of the way so that she could put Nami, whose head was very red, to the ground. Kid cocked Nami up into a sitting position and started to pat her cheeks. When Nami opened her eyes she looked hectically around, as she looked upwards her look of inquiry changed into a horrified gaze. Nami opened her mouth to scream but Kid covered it with her hand and Nami lost her consciousness again. As Kids eyes followed Namis previous gaze upwards she froze: above them was a net on which five smaller (about the size of a Chihuahua) and four bigger (about the size of a Bernese cattle dog) were crawling every which way.

"Robin… what ever you do, don't do it rash… above us is a spider net… we have to be careful", Kid wispered quietly (she almost only formed the words with her mouth and gave only a bit of sound to her words) still looking upwards, "I'm carrying Nami out of the cave… then I'll return to help you… understood?" Kid asked looking to Robin.

When Kid saw Robin nodding she crouched down facing the back towards Nami and placed Namis upper arms on her shoulders. When Kid held Namis legs in the crook of her arms she leaned forward to get Nami onto her back. As Kid pressed herself, with Nami on her back, up to her feet she felt a bit dizzy and stepped a shaky step forward, but she gritted her teeth and managed to brace herself and tiptoed slowly to the entrance of the cave. When Kid stepped out side she took a deep breath of fresh, cold air what helped her to clear her head even if it was just a bit. She looked around and she figured that they weren't at the mountains, but she couldn't clarify how far away they were from the mountains at that point, even though they were standing at a cliff and that the cave they were in was a construction of rocks. Kid set Nami down to the ground and went back to the cave. Robin already had managed to get up on her feet but she still leaned against the wall with closed eyes, trying hardly to blind out the spinning in her head.

Kid approached slowly Robin, carefully watching the spiders above them. "Robin… Can you walk when you brace on me?" Kid asked as quietly as before.

"I think so…" Robin answered weakly and Kid placed Robins arm around her shoulder and tried to shift Robins' weight at herself as much as possible.

Halfway through the cave Robin suddenly stumbled over her own feet and felt to the ground. Kid looked to the spider net and saw that every spider stopped in their movements. "Robin, get out of here! I'll buy you some time!" Kid yelled when she saw the smaller spiders coming down from the sides of the cave and the bigger ones roping down from the net with their silk threads while Kid drew her dagger.

While Robin lumbered herself out of the cave Kid kicked the spiders away and when ever one of them passed her she killed it off with her dagger.

When Robin reached Nami outside the cave she fell on her knees and inhaled the cold air it took some time before Robins realized where she and Nami were, at first Robin tried to wake Nami up but there was no use. Suddenly Kid came running out of the cave while she rushed from one side to the other to ram the rocks with her whole weight and loosen them so that the rocks would fall together while Kid run out of the cave. When Kid came to a hold at the edge of the cliff she leaned forward and breathed deeply through her mouth. "…Are you okay?" Robin asked when she saw that Kids' shoulders looked pretty chaffed.

"I managed to kill off most of the spiders but then the mother showed up, we have to hurry…" Kid panted when she returned into an upright position and walked towards Nami to lift her up at her back again, "It won't last long until they figure out another way out. You think you can climb down." Kid asked.

"I'll try." Robin said honestly.

"Alright let me go first so I could catch you in any case." Kid explained and went back to the cliff.

Kid turned around and made her self ready to climb down, once her feet purchased a good footing on the stonewall and had a save grip with both her hands she yelled. "Robin, watch your steps and get a move on!"

Robin followed Kid slowly yet still a bit dizzily. Slowly but steadily the two made their way down safely.

"What's going on? Where am I?" Suddenly Nami, who had woken up mumbled drowsily and began to move and her arms slipped from Kids shoulders and she fell.

"NAMI!" Kid yelled in shock because she didn't know how far it would have been to the ground.

"Ouch that hurts!" Nami howled when she landed on her buttocks two meters farther down on sandy soil.

"What a lucky girl" Kid mumbled almost relived, before she jumped from the stone wall to the ground.

"What was it!?" Robin asked from five meters above too afraid to look down in her condition.

"It's okay. Just keep going!" Kid said while she helped Nami to stand up.

While Robin slowly climbed down Kid explained Nami in two short sentences what was going on, before a weird sound caught her attention.

"Robin! Jump!" Kid yelled when she saw in the moonlight the silhouette of a grown spider right above Robin.

Robin let herself immediately fall and avoided to be decapitated by the spiders forceps. As Kid heard another hiss from the spiders she caught Robin and let her down on her feet. "Everyone run!" Kid commanded and the three run straight into the dessert.

Kid made sure that she would fall a bit behind, but since the spider was about to outrun them Kid turned around and made herself ready to fight suddenly the spider stood still and lowered itself at first Kid thought it wanted to attack her, but then another even bigger Spider run from left towards the female spider and attacked it. While the two spiders were distracted Kid turned around and hit the road (she knew that in this condition she wouldn't stand much of a chance). As Kid caught up with Nami and Robin she saw that the two of them where completely exhausted. "Kid where are the others?" Nami panted weak.

"I don't know!" Kid said panting as well when suddenly Robin came to a hold and leaned forward while she breathed heavily.

"I can't run any farther…" Robin gasped wearily while pressing her hand against her hurting side while Nami and Kid also stopped.

"We don't have time! We could get attacked any moment!" Kid yelled while suppressing the urge to lose consciousness and wanted to carry Robin on her back, but when she stepped towards Robini, her legs suddenly felt heavier and numb.

"Robin! Kid!" Nami screamed and pointed in the direction where they came from, there approached them another huge spider, while the other two spiders were still fighting.

`Not know…` Kid thought alarmed and slapped her hands against her legs to wake them up but there was no use she even felt to her knees.

Nami screamed in fear while the spider came closer, suddenly Kid draw her dagger and rammed the blade into her upper leg, so that she got back the feeling in it. "Nami! run ahead!" Kid yelled while she stabbed her other leg, but Nami was frozen in fear.

Kid got back on her feet and ran towards Robin but it was already to late the spider had reached them it turned around quickly and shot that cocoon pulp towards Kid and Robin and buried them under it. The spider turned around swiftly and ran the last meters towards its prey while Nami picked up courage and ran towards Robin and Kid to help them. When Nami reached her friends she heard a shout from far away: "Gum Gum!" and suddenly she felt how an arm entangled her body.

"Cling on tight Kid!" Nami yelled as she could only get a grip on Robins shoulder when she heard Luffy yell already: "Grab!" Kid managed it just in time to stick her hand out and grabbed on Luffys arm before the three swung backwards through the air. "HERE YOU ARE!" Luffy yelled laughingly as he saw what he caught. Before the three collided with Ace, who was running next to Luffy, Kid jumped of and fell heavily to the ground, while Nami and Robin dashed against Ace. "You bubblehead!" Ace scolded as he jumped back at his feet and ran towards Luffy and took him into a headlook.

"Kid I was so worried when I couldn't reach you anymore!" Nami gasped with teary eyes in relive, she was happy that the three of them were now out of danger, after some time when Kid rose totteringly and took a deep breath.

"Kid thanks so much for saving us." Robin said leaning forward again.

"Don't mention it." Kid said in an almost soft tone after she coughed while Luffy managed to free himself out of Ace grip.

"Why not mention?! I'm sure you were awesome!" Luffy said after he ran towards Kid and slapped keenly on her back.

That was the moment every thing turned black around Kid and she felt unconscious to the ground.

Hey guys I hope you liked that chapter. I thought I should give you a measuring of the spiders different sizes. By the way, the sizes of a grown male spider is about the size of an African elephant (approximately 3.20 meters) the female become only 3.00 meters high. If some body needs more explanation to what I meant by certain parts please, please let me know and I'll see what I can do to fix those parts (not only meant for this chapter, also for future ones or even past chapters) Because I really want you guys who like the fan fiction already to give me advice which parts need a little fine-tuning or even If you don't like it (that would be actually even better) but please don't swear or just write stuff like "I don't like your story you should delete it." like that I can't improve the story.

P.S. By the way I think some reviews would be a pleasant Christmas gift so leave a comment.