Chapter 43: Chase-ing

Running.

Step after step after step after step.

Pain.

Holding left arm close to the chest.

Burning.

Muscles of the legs are giving in.

Noise.

It's getting closer! Run faster!

These were the thoughts passing through her head as she ran. Adrenaline coursing through her veins, helping her ignore the pain she was feeling from her left arm and legs, her left arm was bitten by that monster that she hated deeply, the creature was having fun chasing her down... Hunting her. She needed a plan if she wanted to survive, but there was nothing she could do! She tried everything she could do while running, if she could stop for some time maybe she could come up with something that could help her killing the monster chasing her down but she had no time to even think properly.

With an air-cutting sound, she felt a signing pain in her right leg, she makes the mistake of looking down to see a black spine that went through her leg, making her scream in pain! She cried as she fell to the ground, no longer able to walk with one leg like that, all he could do was struggle to try and drag herself away from the monster slowly walking behind her, but she couldn't even do that as a thin, silver thread wraps around her right leg and pulls her, making the spike inside her leg twitch and hurt her even more.

"Ah... Don't run~" A sickening sweet voice whispers from behind her, making her tremble in fear. "Oh, are you cold? Don't worry~ I will keep you warm and cozy." Whispered the monster, if the sickening female voice was creepy enough, the appearance would make you wet your pants. Eight red eyes, a hairy spider lower half and female upper half, eight hairy legs, and thorn-like spikes growing out of her spider back... This was Arachne, and she has been hunting another child of Athena, this time a daughter of Athena by the name Annabeth Chase. The poor girl was in tears as the female monster slowly wrapped her in soft yet resistant silk threads that came out of her mouth like spit, her long human arms pulled the thread as her fingers danced supernaturally, controlling the silk threads almost with her mind. Well, maybe she was, Annabeth couldn't focus on that as she was trying to come up with a plan to escape this.

"Ah, a daughter of Athena... Let's see, trying to come up with a plan to escape? How adorable." Arachne mocked her as the threads wrapped Annabeth in a complete cocoon of white silk thread, as white as Arachne's human hair, her hair was long and went all the way down to where her waist would end to give way to her legs, well, it still does, but her eight legs. Arachne's eight eyes were spread around her face, two on her human sockets, one above and below her normal human eyes, one on each cheek, one on her forehead, and the last one on her chin. "You cannot escape from this even if the Gods themselves came to help you, not that they would come, they don't care enough to come~"

The half-woman-half-spider mouth split open sideways, revealing rows and rows of saw-like teeth that moved inside Arachne's mouth, she would just close her mouth around the victims' head and spin her teeth fast enough to tear the flesh and bone, decapitating the prey. Annabeth could also see some green liquid slowly dripping out of the monster's mouth, so even if the person survived the bite, they would die from the poison that soon came after. "I must thank the Gods for my next meal~" Arachne whispered as she clapped her hands and closed her eyes, saying: "Oh, ~mighty~ Athena, I thank you oh so much for this next, wonderful meal that I'm about to have~" However, soon as she finished her mocking prayer and was ready to bite down the little girl, an arrow hit her forehead eye, making Arachne screech in pain and back away from the kid three steps.

Following the arrow came a bunch of vines and roots that wrapped around her, she tried to get away from them by using her strength, but it was not enough as the vines and roots glowed in a black aura as she felt weak, her human arms whitering and turning black and rotting as she felt lots of pain. She turned angrily to look at who dared to attack her, but she saw a blur pass by as half of her legs were cut off of her lower half, she shrieked louder as she felt another two of her legs being ripped out of her massive body. No kidding, her lower spider-half had the size of a very big, fat rhinoceros. She looked down to see another monstrosity like her, a werewolf with bat-like wings and a scorpion tail pulling two of her left legs, leaving her only with 2 legs from her right side.

"How dare you!?", She shouted angrily as her mouth unhinged and she chomped down to attack, the werewolf did not react as suddenly Arachne felt something around her neck, soon enough she felt something grabbing her tightly by the neck, almost breaking it, and lifting her. She began to struggle to try and break free, but more vines and roots just wrapped around her whole body, lower half and upper half, she was now standing up on the air. She looked at where the girl she was trying to eat was, and she was still there lying on the ground completely unable to move, so if she's going down she is going to take another person with her! She gathered her poison and spat it out in a ball of acidic poisonous green liquid that would kill the child instantly if it hit.

In the next few seconds, a series of events happened.

First, after she spat out a ball of acid and poison towards the girl, an arrow hit her straight inside her throat.

Second, a blur passed by the girl on the ground seconds before the ball of green liquid could hit her, taking the girl with him, Luke sighed in relief.

Third, the girl could gasp for air as the threads on her face were removed by Luke's fast use of his Celestial Bronze Dagger.

And fourth, Annabeth, freed from her silk bounds, looks up to see her savior, golden sunlight of the rising sun reflecting on his sandy blond hair, making it look like it was golden... His blue eyes looked at her with worry, making the girl blush slightly as she got her first crush.

And her first heartbreak too.

-Scene Ends-

Author Note:

I don't drink. i don't like alcohol for reasons. But sometimes I feel pike I'm drunk AF