Last Born Second Alive

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Previously on Last Born Second Alive:

"Impossible! No being could do that except... the Morningstars... No! What are you delinquents standing around dumbfounded for? After her! Capture her, and bring that Morningstar back to me alive! We can't have that vampireling escape and reach the citadel!"

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This chapter will have mentions of blood. Please be advised.

The spiders swarmed from every direction like hornets buzzing in a nest. Obstructing every other nook, cranny, and passageway I looked to, rendering them inescapable of exit or entry. The more that arrived, the more my worry grew. I had to escape this place, no matter what price there was to pay.

I was getting desperate for an entry, any directions I had passed were in vain. I know my curiosity has always gotten the better of me but still, I have no self-control of the impulse. Running to some kind of exit is my only choice at this point if I can ever reach one. I was so sunken in my thoughts, dazed in the panic dwelling in my mind. Adrenaline pumping on overdrive in my heart.

An immense entrance laid bare amongst the most and webs up ahead, one that needed my dagger key to unfurl. My escape from this spider web of madness was at last within reach.

One of the spiders descended on me from behind blocking my path in turn. More of these critters soon ganged up around me, and quicker than a lightning flash they sprang. Then their leader descended shortly after.

"Heh, you thought you could escape me? You? A punny human? You know you can't outrun us. But imagine the freedom you could have had. But Dallas, this is where your path crawls to a close." he picked.

I looked around fearfully. Surrounded by thousands of hungry spiders, some got close to nearly snapping at my heels. The space between me and him was shrinking fast.

"What will you do now, morningstar?"

Encircled and entangled as if trapped within a mouse cage, with me as that mouse waiting to be put through experimentation. Or worse, as a spider's main course meal. My fear and worry crept up on me as if bees defending their colony from invaders.

"In all honesty, I'm not sure. " I said with an evil giggle.

A strange tingling sensation chilled throughout my body before turning fully transparent, as if invisible to the naked eye. The spiders and their leader were utterly perplexed. Their leader was more perplexed than the rest and stunned. He veered around in every direction in disarray. It seemed so funny seeing him in this bewildered state of mind. With him now scurrying around in a frenzy, I quickly took flight and sneakily glided past the spiders until I was above them.

"What's the matter, darling? Spider mangled your web?" I cackled. "what was that about me being at the end of the road?"

The leader scowled in frustration, but it came out shakily. Darting every which way in a bid so desperate to seek me out. It felt so satisfactory to stand on top of the chase for once. So adrenaline pumping and heart racing. For an instant, I thought I heard the music from before ring in my ears. I brushed it off focusing back on the present moment.

With this opportunity, I descended at a vicious pace and brought out his legs from under him, hearing him hit the ground with a painful thud and a bloody snap, breaking at least two of his spider legs. He screeched out in pain as I reappeared on top of him, holding him down by the chest with ease. Even though he was in shock and utter agony, I would his soul leave his body. Eyes wide as if he had just seen a ghost appear before him.

"I-impossible. H-how did you... How?" he snarled. A fuming rage showed from within in his eyes. Oh, how he wanted to kill me, although the fall rendered him immobile to some extent.

"I don't know. I might have been teaching myself in my slumber or something" I shockingly answered. His expression soon changed from a furious and serious one to a scared and fearful one, seeing genuine fear screaming from within him, and hearing his heart quicken sent me giggling with joy.

I began to release my hold on him until my attention was on his neck. My gaze magnetized to it like a flame attracting the attention of a moth. I tried to fight the urge but it wasn't enough, no matter how greatly I attempted to resist. My vision blurred in and out, and the color illuminated brightly at the concept to feed on him. I needed to feed, more so blood than anything, and I was gonna get it one way or another. I could hear the hissing of the spiders, each one louder than the other. Until I heard one sound that didn't sound like a hiss, more like a growl than ever. I soon realized that the noise was coming from my stomach.

"Well, looks like someone needs to feed. Heh," he whimpered.

"Oh yes, and you are the prey that will satisfy it" I cooed evilly. "Now don't fret and don't move an inch, I'll only take a little and will merely hurt for an instant."

His expression had frozen with such terror it was intoxicating. His skin turned the palest shade of white, one would consider him to be the first spider ghost to exist on this side of the known cosmos.

I could hear the faint sound of music once more, their melodies sealed the chamber with elegance. Enchanted gusts encompass us with their slumberous embrace. Sorcery of my own clouded my mind, overflowing my senses. I felt more in control of it, taking back something that had been long stolen from me.

"Please, let's not be so hasty now. I-I'll do anything, just let me go" he pleaded. But I could not hear him, his voice was drowned out by the melodies. Starting into his eyes for a moment, I leaned in and whispered something into his ear.

"Cheri cheri lady. Like there is tomorrow, grasp my heart don't free it, listen to your heart."

"Cheri cheri lady. To love you is to know you. If you choose to seek me, then let your mind go."

His eyes turned a phantom shade of pale white in a matter of seconds. Any vision he had retained faded into a blur. His body relaxed into a loose and limp state. I then leaned his head to the left, thus exposing his neck for me to leave my mark on him. Soon, my eyes shifted to a dark shade of black before I leaned into his neck and sank my fangs in. He gasped and attempted to get me off him. No matter how hard he made the struggle to move, he possessed no dominion over his limbs.

Once I was pleased with my feed, my fangs were then rescinded. I grinned gleefully with undying satisfaction. The cries of spiders halted me out of the tranceful state, bringing me back down to the cold earth of reality. Like a gray veil that had clouded my mind being lifted for the first time. Glancing about at the thousands of creepy crawlies, my hearing stands now deafened by their blood-curdling screeches of distress and ear-piercing screams of grief.

A sensation of accomplishment surged profoundly within my soul as I severed my hold from the body and took flight once more. Without a second to look back, I continued my pursuit of the giant doorway. Though I should be proud of what I had done, the result was more than what I was bargaining for.

I caught myself peeking back for a wink at the spiders grouping nigher to their supervisor. Some nudged him in the side to awaken while others wept at the loss, some were even enraged by the downfall that they had to bear to observe from the sidelines. I could feel the remorse begin to boil within my being, but I looked ahead and kept going onward.

Coming to another panel, I inserted the dagger key into its keyhole on the panel and let it toil its mechanical enchantment. The clinking of the machinery yelped and creaked as the door folded into the surrounding walls of flesh, tearing the entrapments that had held the entrance shut with ease.

Releasing my hand from the panel, I made the quick dash through the door. Hearing the eerie voices of mourning arachnids snagging up from behind.

To be continued...