Arachnid

Chapter 8

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Yugi whimpered hearing the scurrying that he heard earlier. Yugi opened his eyes to find he was in a large cave and as he tried to move he found he was wrapped from his neck down only part visible was his head. Yugi sobbed and looked around finding spiders sitting on the walls or one webs. Yugi looked up and saw that there were large webs holding other things that were wrapped up before looking below him seeing the same.

Yugi recognised one of the people below him as a crew member. Yugi watch, crying, as the crew member started to scream and cry out in pain before the area where their belly was split open and small spiders came crawling out and started feasting the body that had housed them. Yugi sobbed now fearing that was what was going to happen to him.

Yugi noticed that there were other webs at his level and looked at them to find Ryou and Malik on one side of him and the woman he’d first met. Yugi noticed that all three were unconscious and he looked down to see the spiders crawling up the walls and crawled onto his web and surrounded him.

Yugi sobbed more before something landed on his web and Yugi noticed it was the large spider he met earlier. Yugi noticed the small hatchlings crawl off the web and back down through the other webs that were there. Yugi watched as the large spider crawled behind him and what he guessed was sat down.

Yugi tried to break the silk only to get nowhere and he heard angry, what he guessed was chattering and looked to where the spider was to see it watching him. Yugi sobbed, his whole body now shaking. His phobia was kicking in now.

“Huh? What the hell?” Yugi heard someone speak and look over to see Malik awake.

“Malik.” Yugi cried out.

“Yugi...” Yugi heard as Malik trailed off seeing the spider resting behind him. “What in the...”

“Help Malik. Please help, my wrist is hurting so bad.”

“Yugi listen to me carefully; ignore what is around you ok?” Yugi nodded, still sobbing. “Can you tell me how your wrist is sitting?”

“On an angle.” Yugi sobbed out.

“Shit!” Malik cursed loudly and Yugi flinched and the spider behind him moved forward a little. “And double shit.”

“Huh? What’s going on Malik?” They heard a sleepy Ryou say.

“That’s what.” Malik said nodding his head towards the top of the cave.

All three of them looked up and saw two more large spiders, the same size as the one behind Yugi descend down on to each of the webs Ryou and Malik were on. Ryou screamed loudly waking up any of the passengers or crew that were in the cave and making the small spiders recoil and run down to the bottom of the cave while the other three large ones moved back a bit at the scream. As Ryou finished screaming the three spiders climbed back to them and sat behind them. Ryou had gone extremely pale and so had Yugi.

Yugi looked over and saw the woman was shaking and sobbing. Her head was thrashing from side to side in pain.

“Oh no.”

“Yugi?” Ryou and Malik asked.

“Look away.”

All three did but as soon as she screamed Ryou and Malik looked back to see the area where her stomach the silk split open and small spiders climbed out and surrounded her body. Ryou paled even more and Malik joined him in paling before both of them started to try and struggle. The spiders saw them thinking of an extra meal and climbed over before the three larger spiders made them run off.

“Malik stop its useless.” Yugi said, his body hadn’t stopped shaking.

“I won’t stop till we get to the Caribbean.”

Yugi gave a small smile at this and tears still made their way down his face. Yugi jumped slightly when the spiders that were on their webs got up and disappeared somewhere into the top of the cave and the other spiders in the cave started following. Yugi looked to the others, Ryou and him jumping as some spiders had to crawl over their wrapped up silk bodies to get out. When the spiders had stopped and it looked like there were none left Yugi looked at the two.

“Were either of you bitten?”

“I don’t think so. Something grabbed me and pulled me into a cave and then it was lights out. I don’t know what happened to the man with me.”

“Me neither. I was talking with Bakura and then I just fainted I guess. I don’t even know if he caught me.”

“What about you Yugi?” Malik asked.

Yugi bit his lip. “I was talking with Yami and he called for Bakura and when he didn’t get a reply we looked around to find neither of you or his friends there. He told me to wait where I was he was just going for a quick look and he then ran off in the direction you guys were to be. I heard something behind me and saw a spider the size of a small dog and took off. I ran before falling over and winded myself. It caught up with me. It kept me down and sounded like it was chattering I guess with something before it bit me.”

“Where?”

“Oh my side. It still hurts. It then let me go and when I got up and looked around and saw the spider you saw behind me earlier. It shot silk at me and wrapped me up and I fainted. You don’t think that will happen to me do you?” Yugi asked nodding his head where the woman had once been.

“I hope not Yugi.” Causing Yugi to whimper.

“It won’t Little One.”

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 End of Chapter 8