Arachna Gray

Chapter V: (The End): Arachna Gray

Standing here in this desolate field that is devoid of color, ahead of me was Charlotte Angela. The very being who wants her body back yet I, Arachna Gray, will not allow it. This is now our body, and I'll make sure to keep it that way. Unless she proves me wrong otherwise. Underneath us stood the reflecting waters that ripple and shake with her trembling legs barely able to keep her aloft.

The reflection of Charlotte Angela: She was exhausted, beaten, and furious. The energy that would've sent shivers down my young and weaker spine, but not this time. Are you going to send it down my spine as well? Not anymore, not anymore.

She has evolved while being here, regardless of how time works in this plane of existence, I will still come out on top. This bitch won't be able to land a scratch on me. The scythe she holds next to her, her posture, reading her fighting stance, either waiting for me to strike first or just doing nothing. Pretending to be menacing while cowering in fear behind that facade she wishes to pull. What a pathetic attempt if it were that, a facade.

In the distance, I could still see the person that was shown in her reflection, and that person was not either one of us. Yet it was rather a combination of the both of us.

"Van...Shi...Amiz...AOia...Lo--" she began to chant to herself, though there was a distance between us, her voice was spoken as if she was next to me. A swirl of icicles began to form above her, and take the form of a copy of her scythe. Once it had finished, she grabbed hold of it and glared at me, with an ice copy of her scythe in one hand and the actual one in the other.

"Are you just going to stand there or--"

She threw the ice scythe in my direction, though it never made it to me. Landing at the center of us, it had exploded into ice shards. Freezing the waters surrounding it. I had dashed away from it, the freezing touch of the shards grazing my skin nearly sent me toppling on the watery surface.

Behind a large ice chunk, came Charlotte, furious, she slashed at me recklessly. With one of her endless attacks, I grabbed hold of the blade and slammed it against the watery surface. Sending my own counterattack, she grabbed an ice chunk that was flying toward us and used it as an improvised shield. Knocking her off-balance, she released her grip on her scythe.

Closing the distance between us, Charlotte charged ahead, and when I slashed at her with my scythe. She grabbed hold of the tip of the blade, blood seeping from the palm of her hand. Smiling at me with her normal teeth that I oh-so remember. She bashed her body into me, creating distance between us before spitting into her hand and placing it in the water before thrashing water toward me. Yet, instead of water, it was a cone of webs instead.

Slashing through the webs that attempted to entangle me within its sticky nature, I only managed to save myself from a portion of it before it had taken me. Charlotte smiled at me once more from outside the web field, and this time her teeth were different. They were sharp, and aligned in a perfect manner that would be seen in a horror novel.

Conjuring that same ice-scythe, she threw it into the field of webs and leaped alongside it. A pathway would be opened to me, and when the scythe had cut a limb of mine free, I attempted to break myself free from the webs.

An arm grabbed hold of my left arm, then Charlottes' head peered into my vision. Her silver hair covered my vision and was met with her sharp teeth sinking into my arm. The crazed eyes stared into me, searching for a way, a key, some other alternative to escaping from here.

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Dangling the keys in front of my eyes, yet when I tried to reach for them. He lifted it high above me. Chuckling to himself, I knew that he was enjoying himself watching me suffer from being shorter than him. Sami knew that I hated it, but I also knew that I loved playing with him at the same time, so I wouldn't say upset about it regardless.