Nightmare I

Arachnophobia.

If any of you doesn't know what that is.. it means intense fear of spiders or any other type of arachnids. As for me, that phobia reserved specially for spider cronies. My second fear would be xarantaphobia-especially that black millipede. It has a lots of legs. A Lot of unnecessary f***ing small legs. God should have created them with bigger & lesser legs, oh! like a pair only! But then... I shivered, just imagining how it would look like-milipede with two big sexy legs like ostrich, chasing her-

Damn. Not gonna go there. I raised my palm and lightly brush it over my face to get a hold of myself.

Nobody, not animal nor critters should be born with legs more than two, unless its delicious when its cooked -like squid or octopus. Whats more, it has hairy legs that had touch god knows what! And those eyes, who need eyes more than two? Spiders!

Back At The earth, spiders were among one of my mortal enemy. They make it as if it is their mission to scare the living shit out of me, by jumping here and there, where I could see them.

I swear I could zoomed in their faces and saw arrogant smirk on their face that keeps on telling me, 'How do you like that, ha! I'll make sure to visit you, all the time just to see that scaredy cat face'. Let me tell you, it didn't end well for the Mr. LOTS-of-hairy-legs and googly eyes. They will always meet their definite doom with my reliable anti-spider superb and legendary weapon: my trusted, 10-years-old broom.

In this case, that ten years old broom ain't gonna cut it. At all. The monster was the size of an adult elephant. It's legs was slender and long like the giraffe's legs with extra protuding thorns around it. That eyes.. ughhh. Did I mentioned its big, black and too many for its own good? Oh yeah, I did.

And right now that big black eyes was currently staring back at me. I made my own research back at earth. When i actually say research, i mean online research through Mr. Glasses-you-know who. Do you know what their pincher mouth called? Its actually Chelicera and the tip of that mouth, there's a pair of teeth called the fangs of chelicera. What a waste of a beautiful name. Who would name something so scary and hideous with a beautiful name? It should be called caracula, or kurks. Something that would make one remember, its dangerous.

Snap. Snap.

That chelicera was humongous, it could cut a 70years old tree like a lumber mill. And there are six of it. Ugh. A pair was enough, but must Kuro tripled it than the original.. then a thought suddenly intrude her mind..

As far as she seen or read so far, this world shouldn't have spider in it.. if it was that Uric creation, no one would even bat eyes since he is a lazy god with a tendency to copy cat other people works.

Where did Kuro see this creature that 96% of its characteristic was similar to the original?

Snap. Snap. Snap.

The sound of the Chelicera exercising its mouth, before crunching some bone & meat.

Prakkk.

One of its legs, punch few inches away from me. Looking at the monster right now, with some question buzzing around my mind... My fear toned down a little bit, as if I was standing in the middle of a tornado. The eye of it. Peace settle on me and...

'Heyya! Bad timing huh?'

My half closed eyes suddenly snapped wide open. What the f**k? I thought that familiar and annoying male voice was already gone for good.

'Shut it, Uric'

Uric laughing voice echoed inside her head.

'Yeah. You weren't actually planning to be killed by that, were you?'

'And how do you expect me to beat that thing?! Its huge, plus the limitation on this world'

'Tsk.tsk. There you go again. You keep on complaining and overthinking. It's just a monster with too many legs, too many eyes and too many hair'

'You forgot something. I'm scared of that!!!' I flail my hand toward the spider direction and it hissed.

'It still doesn't change the fact that you need to beat it.'

That stopped me. Well, stupid me. That really helped a lot.

"I hate to admit it but, yeah.. you're right. Thanks for that" Fear can make one lose their rationality or even cloud their judgement. How was it any different than when I was facing all of these uncertainties? I just have to marched forward and paved my path.

But the monster had enough of waiting. And the next one, it punch two of its legs forward. I took out my paralysis pill bomb and threw it to the monster. But it screech out loud, and its body started to glow red for few second before fading.

Uric hummed in admiration.

'Nice, it activated poison & paralytic resisstance. So, what you're gonna do now?'

I took out the Devil Seeds. Throwing three seeds under the ground of where the monster's belly was exposed. Two wrapped around the spider monster and one shot toward the monster belly. But the big thorn broke as soon as it met the spider skin.

"Dafuq! What kind of spider have a tough skin!" I was flabbergasted! Thankfully these thing didn't exist back at eart or I would already died thousand times.

'The nightmare kind' I rolled my eyes and wished that god could stop being a commentator and just shut up. The spider screech again and this time it jump high and shot a white spit that suspiciously look like a web. Nuh, uh. I am not gonna be a baby cocoon. I shot a little bit mana to the seed on my palm and let it shoot toward the web. It cut through some but still didnt stop it from catching me. I summoned a blaze of fire and let it burn the whole web. It was surprisingly flammable, like it was doused with kerosine. I tuck that little information inside my mind for future references.

I jump out of the way and saw how the leftover web swept away by the hot wind. Soon, I almost had forgotten about the spider until I heard a thud behind my back. Quickly, side stepping and turning my body side way,I was an inches away from my death!

Its pointy leg was stabbing right where I was few second ago. If I was even a second late, I would be a shish kebab.

'Where is spiritual weapon?' Asked Uric lazily, he was nowhere to be seen. Just a voice echoing inside my mind. But I could almost imagine his lazy face, staring at her like she is not facing a life and death battle.

'Not with me'

'Try summoning him'

I gritted my teeth and almost scream. I would if I can hit the pause button here and make the spider stop for a moment! Sheesh.

'You know what? If you're not helping, then bug off'

'Nahhh. I'm free right now.. wait.. where is my popcorn... ahhh there it is. You know, since I saw you eating one, I suddenly crave for it. I had to go behind the door and find the admin of inter dimensional to sell me one. It was quite tedious and hard bargain.'

Oh for god sake! He is just driving me mad!!

The spider keep on advancing and attacking me. The next thing I know, acidic black spit came out from its mouth. The spit was the size of basketball and as soon as it hit the stone behind me earlier before I evade the attack, it instantly hissed and sink into the puddle of acidic spit.

Woah. I had learn chemistry but I dont know what kind of acid could make stone melt just like that! Like it was an ice cube thrown into a hot spring. I look at the spider monster, my fear intensified and my muscles start to lock itself again and I'm starting to breathe faster.

'You are just making this complicated, Iiana'

'Can't you f**king see I am in a tight spot right now?!! I am trying my best'

That is what you call your best? Heaven! Did you leave your brain somewhere?

Ohhhhh I just wish he manifest in front of me right now. To hell with this.

I open my spatial ring and took out a lot of things and start to brush my hands. Looking at the things on the ground, I grinned. Glancing back look at the spider and suddenly thought this was not so bad afterall.