I Am Alone

Chapter 31: The End: Part I

"The massive spider that lives under the island?" I ask, and I shiver when he nods his shaggy grey head.

"Of course it is." I sigh and groan, and Aphmau stirs from her seat.

"Ugh....My head......" I smile and chuckle, and lean down to rouse her further.

"Come on baby. Wake up." She smiles and opens her caramel colored eyes, and I help her stand.

"What happened?" She glanced around a few seconds before her eyes land firmly on Armin, and her eyes are filled with rage.

"You!" I hold her back from pouncing on him, but she still doesn't calm down.

"Let go! He's the one that brought us to this place-" I bite the back of her neck and she suddenly goes limp, and holds onto me.

"Why'd you do that.... you know I'm sensitive there...." I nuzzle the place a bit, because I did bite down hard.

"We have bigger issues, remember that giant spider I talked to you about?" She gulps and nods, pulling away from my grip.

"Guess what we have to fight?" I ask, with a tone of fake excitement and she sighs disdainfully.

"Great! Just what I needed, Millions of massive spiders." She sits back into the chair, holder her head and sighing.

"So, what's the plan?" She asks, and I look at her curiously.

"We flush it out, we kill it. Then we leave." I smile and add a line on the end.

"But we're gonna need some bait." We look at Armin and he gulps and laughs nervously.

"Oh dear."

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We tie him to a strong tree and lower him down into the nest of spiders, just because we have to fight this thing, does not mean I have to deal with four billion spiders.

"Guys, Guys! Come on! Your seriously not going to do this are you?!" Armin screams loudly, and I finally get fed up.

"You, Shut up, or I will drop you." He shuts his trap almost immediately, and I lower him deeper inside the nest.

I hear a loud girly scream, we hit our mark.

"Pull him up!" I hear Tribute and Dune land behind us, and I pull Armin up, well, what's left of him.

His leg had been completely ripped of, and he's unconscious, blood spewing out his stub of a leg.

I wrap it in bandages, and the earth rumbles as we both get on Dune and Tribute.

We take to the sky as Dune picks up Armin in her talons and sticks him safely in a tree, and then from the ground, a roar of epic proportions.

The ground cracks and shatters, eight huge legs emerge from the hole, collapsing the tunnels that lay underneath.

An unholy screech escapes it mouth as we pepper it with arrows. But nothing seems to be working, it shoots webs at us that we barely dodge, and its pulsating acid green body is horrid to look at.

I dive bomb it's black head and Tribute scratches out an eye or two, before we fly back up to evade the queens drones.

Starting to get impatient, I set the tip of my arrow on fire and shoot, and Finally, I see some damage.

It screams but the other spiders refuse to go near the flaming arrow now stuck in the beasts body, I grin at Aphmau as we send a barrage of flaming arrows up into the sky.

As they hit the ground, all the smaller spiders scatter, a weakness, Finally, and I will use it well.

Using a canister of crude oil from nuts and berries, I dump the entire canister onto the Broodmother, and with one flaming arrow, it combusts into a living flame.

It makes a horrible, strangled, and helpless sound as the rest of the spiders scurry back inside the demolished nest, their queen is dead.

I land close to the beasts corpse, and underneath the charcoaled body is a very large Implant, though light, and bright acid green.

I see Aph, who has hopped on Dune, pick up Armin from the tree and fly to the blue obelisk.

It's time for us to go home