Super Science
Ch 86: A New Breed on the Island
"Oh, the shame! Oh, the shame!", Quelaag cried as he splayed himself over a large rock. After sobbing for a bit, he finally looks over to a giant spider beside him and asks, "Oh, Mistress Shelob! Did you see how mad and disappointed Lord Hankoyō was with us and Lady Ungolaint? Did you see the anger? The disappointment! Did you see it!? Lady Ungoliant was so embarrassed and so crossed with us for failing!"
The spider, Shelob, was far different from her other brothers and sisters. She looked far more like her mother and Quelaag's lower half not to mention her heightened intelligence. She was larger than Quelaag but far smaller than Ungoliant. Because of this, she was dubbed the princess and future ruler of the Spiders. She was sitting outside with her mother's servants as he wailed and moaned like a baby, listening to his gripping but not laying beside him and sharing his sentiment. Though his words did hold some form of truth behind them the recent events still stuck in her mind. The only person greater than her mother was her grandfather Hankoyō, who just so happened to visit them.
A Few Hours Earlier
Hankoyō walked through the dark recesses of the Black Veil Canyon. A geological structure that wasn't made by the island itself, but by Ungoliant and her many children digging it up. After finishing constructing the wide stretch of rock, Ungoliant decorated it with her web before eating every last bit of light within the area and reproducing exponentially. Thus the Black Veil Canyon was born with no life daring to enter apart from spiders and the occasional ballsy dragon that would never come back.
Hankoyō was riding the back of a giant spider, as he couldn't navigate the maze-like web structures and the advanced darkness. Finally, he came to the center where Ungoliant resided. The huge spider was sitting in an intricate bed of webs as she was brought copious amounts of food directly to her mouth by other spiders. Upon seeing her father, Ungoliant called off her feast to give him all her attention.
Walking close to the spider he told her, "Hey, uh, is everything going okay for you guys? I just got word that a truckload of criminals were dumped here a few weeks ago. Why didn't you tell me? Were you too stressed and couldn't say? I would've liked to know since I could have sent help or sent word to my boss to double efforts here that aren't exclusively yours."
Upon hearing this, Ungoliant curled into herself in embarrassment for not taking care of her duties and allowing them to go out of hand. She knew that more humans had been dumped and did nothing about it. Now they're mobilizing and adapting to the chaos of the island and that is causing problems since she never said anything the last several times Hankoyō had visited. For the first time, Ungoliant was embarrassed and ashamed.
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"Oh, the shame! THE SHAME!", Quelaag sobbed as he flopped onto the floor and created a huge puddle of tears and lava from his two halves while Shelob appeared to roll her many eyes.
After sobbing again he ranted to the giant spider next to him, "Oh Mistress Shelob, how are we going to rectify this conundrum? Lord Hankoyō is crossed and your mother, Lady Ungoliant, is fuming! How can I exonerate myself from this, and show my worth!", realizing his word choice he backtracks and says, "OH! I-I-I mean how can we exonerate ourselves? Not me. Apologies for getting carried away there."
After allowing the man-spider to indulge himself in his own over-the-top fantasy and emotional state, she hisses and clicks her fang to him. Perking up his ears, Quelaag asks, "What's that? You say you have an idea? Well, please tell me, Mistress!"
Shelob comes close to his ear and begins to say something in a language only they can understand. After listening for a few minutes, Quelaag exclaimed, "What an amazing idea! As are all your ideas Mistress Shelob….but there is just one thing. How are we to convince your mother, Lady Ungoliant, to help us? She is still so embarrassed she won't leave her den from the shame. I doubt she will even allow the thought of accepting this wonderful idea of yours, let alone giving up her precious and holy flesh.", Shelob says something else and after thinking about it, Quelaag replies, "I suppose you're right, and you always are, we must try. These filthy humans have been making a mockery of us in the last few weeks! Since their numbers have doubled overnight, they've set up strongholds, begun to learn about the island, learned to fight its creatures and us, and even have started to tame some of the friendlier beings! And worst of all, they all do this despite me! And whoever spites me spites you and your mother! Let us go see the goddess!"
With that settled the two spiders make their way back to the center of the Black Veil Canyon.
When they finally arrive they are met with the sight of Ungoliant performing her main duty as queen. After eating so much food, she has put all her body into laying more eggs. Normally many of them don't hatch due to not being fertilized, eaten, destroyed, or turned cold. Even so many more won't make it to adulthood due to predators and cannibalism.
As they approached, Ungoliant temporarily stopped her egg-laying to give her full attention. Once she has her man's eyes on them, Quelaag falls to his knees(?) And proclaimed while Shelob stood by and watched, "Lady Ungoliant! My goddess, my wonder, my savior. Your loyal servant comes before you, humbly, to ask-no-beg you for your assistance!", Ungoliant said nothing while Shelob sighed at his theatrics as he continued, "Your daughter, Mistress Shelob, has come up with a marvelous idea on how to deal with the human crisis in Pacifica."
Shelob casually approached her mother and began to click her fingers and hiss in different tones. Once she was done conversing, Quelaag asked, "What say you, my Goddess?"
In response, Ungoliant shifted her giant thorax up and over her head where it appeared huge sweat drops began to form. Quelaag acted fast and created a net made of webs that he used to catch the falling sweat. When the last one dropped he peeked inside to admire it. But instead of a normal liquid, it wriggled and writhed like many snakes. These were Ungoliant's sentient flesh blobs. Piece of her own body that held just a sliver of her consciousness that appeared like black leches.
Quelaag's eyes gleamed like the first-time excitement and nostalgia of a child. He giggled to himself, bowed deeply, and announced, "Oh thank you, my goddess. Thank you! I will not waste even one of them and guard it with my life! I shall see to your daughter's plan at once and by myself."
Quelaag left the center nest at once and began to make his way out of the Canyon. From there he he walked along the barren path to the nearest mountain. However, he quickly noticed someone following him and he turned around to see Shelob close on his tail.
"Mistress Shelob?", he said in confusion as the spider walked up to him, showing off their size difference. Shelob then said something in her spider tongue and Quelaag said back, "You want to join me? No no, you can't. This isn't the work for a demigoddess such as yourself. Only for a lowly servant. Please, allow me to-.", but Shelob made a loud and angry hiss, making Quelaag jump a bit at the harsh tone. Understanding what she wants, Quelaag bows and tells her, "As you wish my Mistress."
From there the two spiders make their way up the tallest and only active volcano on the island. Shelob takes the front and Quelaag takes the rear. As they continued to climb up, it was apparent that Quelaag was beginning to have second thoughts about this plan, especially since they had just fended off the 24th dragon attack as they scaled.
"Mistress Shelob. I'm never one to question you or your mother's methods or ideas, but must we go to such lengths? I don't know if the Dragon King will even agree to this, let alone hear us out. We've only been climbing this volcano for ten minutes and have been attacked by more of his kin than I care to count.", the man spider asked as Shelob replied in a series of hisses and clicks. So he gave a small sigh and replied, "If you are so sure, I will see it through to the end.", all before using his synth to cut the head off a diving Mountain Devil.
After a few more minutes they made it to the top of the volcano where a large and solid platform was formed around the base of the lava below it like a bowl of soup. Looking around the area, Quelaag questions aloud, "Sometimes I wonder how such a creature can live in a volcano so small. Mistress, you wouldn't happen to know how we can summon him from his volcanic bath? I don't think either of us could get his attention."
Shelob then used one of her legs to point to a very large gong that had been attached to the rocky edge.
Quelaag stared at it for several seconds before asking, "Oh. When did that get here?"
So he took the hammer and hit the gun with all he could! The gong rang loud and hard as it echoed through the air! Quelaag took his spot back next to Shelob and waited. And they didn't have to wait long as the ground began to shake and the lava started to bubble! Within seconds the gigantic head of Torch Wick emerges from the lava and snorts a red hit blast of air on them.
Quelaag looked on in amazement at the sheer size of this creature, as he said aloud, "So this is the legendary Torch Wick, King of Dragons.", Shelob bumped him with her thorax and Quelaag shook himself back to the present as he announced, "Oh right. Your majesty, Torch Wick of the Dragons! I am Quelaag, servant and warrior to the Goddess Ungoliant and this is her daughter, Mistress Shelob! We come to you to ask for your help! As you know our lovely island is overrun with vile humans, but all of our efforts have been fruitless. Although you may not like it, we must do something about it before they take over. Mistress Shelob has crafted a plan that can only work with you."
Once again Shelob spoke first with Torch Wick's huge eyes staring at her. When she finished her speech, the eyes lay on Quelaag who shivered under the immense pressure and power they held. He then took the web pouch and opening it up he showed the contents where he announced, "As you can see, here is proof from Lady Ungoliant of her desire to collaborate with you! Will you join us?"
Torch Wick snorted and then roared into the air for a long time. Not understanding the meaning, Quelaag turned to Shelob and inquired, "Does that mean yes, Mistress?"
Shelob nods in confirmation and Torch Wick suddenly takes the web pouch into his mouth and swallows it whole. He dives back into the volcano leaving the two spiders alone for a long time. After nearly an hour of waiting, Torch Wick reemerges from the lava and produces a clutch of eggs from his mouth onto the solid ground.
The eggs were very strange looking as they had soft and nearly clear shells like they had been hard-boiled. A black liquid swirled on the inside and each egg was around the size of a gold ball. Quelaag smiles at the eggs, his wide grin showing off the gray teeth on his human half as his spider half grinning with equal excitement with glowing red teeth.
He giggled ever so slightly before saying to the dragon, "Oh thank you, your majesty, thank you!"
Before he could break out into full-blown maniacal laughter, a much smaller spider crawled up beside him and made its way up his thorax. Gaining his full attention Quelaag asked as the spider spoke to him, "What's that little one? Oh! What perfect timing! Mistress, I just got word that we can put your idea to the test. Our siblings have captured some new humans for testing. Shall we?", he offered to the larger spider beside him as he collected the many new eggs.
Later on in a deep cave hidden away from the wider island. Quelaag and Shelob stood by and observed the site of many spiders crawling around the walls as they restrained many human captives in silk. All of them were pathetically trying to free themselves. Quelaag approached one particularly squirmy one and he snapped at him in response.
"Let me go! Let me go, you eight-legged freaks!", he yelled at the man-spider.
Quelaag chuckled at his actions and petting his head he told the man, "Oh hush now little one. You should feel honored, not spew that nasty bile you call words. You and your friends are about to become a part of two of the greatest powers in all of Pacifica! And all crafted from the beautiful mind of Mistress Shelob."
"Go fuck yourself and your giant spider!", the man hisses at him with venom.
"I'd like to, trust you me.", Quelaag said back in a whisper making the man cringe at him. Quelaag cleared his throat and then told him, "Anyway, you are about to become impregnated with new and wonderful beings from both the flesh of the Goddess Ungoliant and the ovipositor of King Torch Wick."
"I'm a dude!", he yelled back after his mind went blank.
Quelaag laughs at his response and further explains, "Oh, I don't mean impregnate in the literal sense. I mean in theeeeeeeeeeee something growing within your body."
"What!? No fucking way! Like Hell, I'll let that happen!", the man refuses firmly as he tries even harder to break free.
Quelaag then takes an egg from the pile and says,!"I'm afraid you don't have a choice. Now, be a good little human.", he then grabs the man's jaw, squeezing it hard to force it open and tells him, "And say ah."
However, the man fights back with all his might to shake his head free, making it harder for Quelaag to insert the egg into his mouth. Quelaag tries many times but the man keeps trying to wiggle away and even if he gets the egg in, he spits out quickly.
"Oh for goodness sake. Please don't make this any harder than it has to be.", he demands as the man tries even harder. Eventually, he gets fed up with this and asks with a huff, "Very well. Mistress Shelob, would you be so kind?"
Shelob obliged and walked over to the man and with one swift motion she bit the man's neck and all at once he went limp.
Seeing this, Quelaag says, "Thank you, Mistress."
Approaching the limp man, Quelaag picked up his head, staring at his blink and rapidly moving eyes before letting it drop again to test. After seeing the results, Quelaag asked, "You can't move a thing. Can you? Good, it'll make this next part all the easier. And the best part is you'll lose the feeling of pain long before they hatch but just before the venom should turn your innards into soup."
He then took the egg into his hand once more and stuffed it into his mouth before forcing it down his throat where it lay in his stomach. Then, the only thing left to do was wait. It only took a few hours but signs of the process were on full display as the limp people all began to move about like uncontrollable puppets. Quelaag rubbed his hands in delight as he watched with both heads grinning at the sight.
"It's hatching! It's hatching!", he yelled as he laughed maniacally and Shelob observed in silent intrigue.
Suddenly the stomach area of the men began to tent and in a few seconds a small long creature burst out and screamed their first breath of air. Seeing this, Quelaag laughed in a manic way while announcing, "It's alive! And it's so beautiful!", he then walked up to the heart man where he held out his hands for the little scaly creature that slithered out of its hope while coiling itself in his hands. He cooed at the creature and said, "Hello, little one. Aren't you a little fighter? Now run along back inside your warm cocoon and eat. And don't stop till there's nothing left.", he told the little thing as it slithered back into the warm body where eating sounds could be heard from within.
After about a day of watching the worms ate their history bodies and grew exponentially until they had sextupleted in size. After they finished their meals they began to secrete a strange mucus around their bodies and once it was thick enough they began to change within them, growing a more complex body with arms and legs. Eventually, they broke free of their cocoons with their new limbs and tore out with their teeth.
"Oh ho ho ho! It's growing! It's growing!", Quelaag exclaimed in excitement as he watched the hat hatchings break free. As they stood up on two feet, Quelaag announced, "It's beautiful! Beautiful! It looks….like a dragon…."
He trails off his excitement as fast as it came when he sees the result looking more like a small human-sized humanoid dragon rather than what they expected. They were all different colors but had the same appearance. Bipeds with digitigrade fingers, long tails, wings, and a full dragon head complete with sharp teeth, horns, and ear fins.
Seeing the new creations, disappointment took over Quelaag as he stamped his feet and moaned, "Aw, man! I was hoping they'd come out looking like spiders! I was expecting something like the Jorogumo or Ushi-oni that's created from your mother's flesh when mixed with humans! Then again we do use dead bodies for those and King Torch Wick's main attribute is to manipulate the genomic structure of the things he makes, thus making them very susceptible to even the smallest of changes. So I guess his genes won over the Goddess. What a bummer."
As he sighed at this revelation he decided to take it in stride nonetheless.
He observed the human dragons as they looked around the dark cave and began to test their new hands and legs. The only one not doing anything was a larger red one that was staring directly at Quelaag and taking in every word he spoke. This one came out of the person Quelaag impregnated first.
Tilting his head to the side, watching as the red one copied him, he admitted, "Still though. They are everything as you said they'd be, Mistress, and just as handsome. I wonder if they'll pass this next part?", Shelob said nothing but from the air, she gave off next to him, he could feel as though she agreed.
Quelaag stood before the human dragons and announced loudly, "Right hand up.", when they obeyed, he said, "Left hand up.", again they obeyed and Quelaag told them, "Spin around.", one time more they listened, and once more they are told, "Wings spread and tail straight."
Quelaag smiles at this and says to Shelob, "They listen to commands perfectly and their motor skills are already so advanced.", he straightened himself up and said, "Let's see the next part. Now, morph."
This time the human dragons paused as if trying to figure out what he meant or what to do. Soon they all closed their eyes and balled their hands as they appeared to be trying to take a huge poo! But instead of defecation they began to change shape and color, and before you knew it they all took the forms of the people they were when first born, only naked.
Quelaag clapped his hands in excitement, a huge smile on his face as he told them, "Perfect! Now speak! Let me hear your voice!"
"L-L-L-L-L-Let.", the dragon began to speak in a raspy tone. "Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.", they all tried to sound out the wires more precisely. "Let. me. Hear. your. voice.", they all said each word one at a time to pronounce them correctly.
Only for everyone to be shocked when the larger red one spoke in a perfect copy of the man's voice, "Let me hear your voice."
"Perfect! Perfect! They came out even better than you imagined, Mistress!", Quelaag praised the giant spider behind him who also appeared proud.
He then turned to the red one, as he morphed back to his natural form and ran up to him while trying to hold its face. Only for the dragon to try and bite his hands. An attempt that wasn't reciprocated with punishment but praise as he held the dragon's face anyway and stated, "And you! Let me get a good look at you. Oh ho ho ho! Aren't you handsome? Strong, bold, and quite vicious. If I'm not mistaken, I saw you trying to eat your other siblings' food. You're quite dominant. I say we should make him the leader. What's say you, Mistress?"
Shelob clicked and hissed in response as Quelaag answered, "A name? Oh, you're right! If he is to be the leader then he should have a name!"
Quelaag stepped back to look at the new creature and after a bit of thinking he said with a smile, "How about….Alpha. The first of the Half Dragons.", he told the dragon, who appeared to like the name alongside Shelob as Quelaag looked back over to the small pile of unused eggs ready to be implanted.
Hey everyone I just wanted to give a quick update on something in the story. Now as you know, Doctor Genus is setting up a Dragon Hunting team making four people in total. But theses just one problem. I have no idea who I should make these characters whether they should be Oc's or characters from another property. So that where you all come in. I need some idea and I'm open to anything with a few exceptions. So you can consider this a quiza SYOC/suggestion box. So heres what Im looking for or need in the overall character.
The first one is a despite, aka a loser, who has a quirk that allows them to use any weapon they pick up like they have been training with it their whole lives.
The second one is an ex criminal with a quirk that allows them to see and hear through the eyes and ears of there Owl companion.
The third one is an old dishonored war veteran with the ability to control any kind of dog.
the forth one has nothing left to lose, aka terminal illness that's cured later on, and has a quirk that can reflect any effect done onto themselves, pain or healing.
The only other thing I need is that one has to be a girl cause that's the thing with team groups. So yeah, that's all I have to say, please Review and have a Plus Ultra day.
