Chapter 22

in front of them was a spider creature with eight golden reptile eyes staring at them, they looked disgusting with their black huge hairy bodies and ten spiky hairy legs. Zane frowned in disgust when he saw these creatures again. if not for the importance of their sticky web he could have wiped them out of existence. at least their queen looks cute and bearable.

''here are the licks.'' mischief flashed in Zane's eyes when he saw her disgusted expression, cyra forgot her fear at the moment, securitizing the creature from top to bottom, and looked at Zane's clothes. She looked again to be sure and thought Zane was pulling her legs how could these beasts be the sources of Zane's clothes? her lips twitched in disgust, she could not unsee these creatures, she felt her eyes were stained forever.

she was about to ask Zane to clarify, but the beast spat out a web towards her, and she dodged instinctively. She felt her fear spiked again when she saw the eight licks forming webs in their mouth,

''the webs are poisonous, a small touch and you rot away.'' cyra tensed, and from her side eyes she was stunned to see, Zane on his hawk back floating in the air.

''what! you leaving me here to face these things,'' she shouted out in anger, but her eyes never left the beast for a moment.

she heard the hawk wings beat in the air, landing on top of a tree as Zane watched Cyra intensely, he hoped he could witness her weird state. Cyra didn't know what was going through Zane's mind but now she was in a tough situation.

' It's just a humongous disgusting spider. you have killed a spider before; so it's nothing' She tried to instill her courage, she swallowed hard, and looked at the licks, and noticed a weakness, it takes them time to form a web. She sprinted towards the one close to her and kicked on the body.

''bang!'' cyra felt her legs numb and watched the unaffected beast spit its web at her. it was a close range, and she dodged it at hair breath, she saw the tips of her red hair falling off to show how close she was to her death.

She was not allowed to catch her breath before she was bombarded with webs from the seven remaining; she dodged scratching her hands on the tree branch. She hid at the back of the tree, her heart beating loudly, her mind spurned fast looking for the beast's weakness. the exchange she had with one, showed her their skin was iron like toughness to it. and she has to land them a finishing blow or she will get herself killed.

she looked at the licks shifting eyes and knew they had found her. She watched them and sprinted to one, attacking another part of the body, and was met with the same thing- she tried different parts on their bodies. her body felt pain and numbness, she felt herself reaching her limit, sweat dripped from her body, her breathes came out in pants.

Seeing it open its mouth to form another web, her eyes flashed with inspiration- she ran towards a falling branch, feeling its thickness and firmness, she clutched tightly to her as she prepared for the upcoming web attack.

she breathed in and out calming her breaths, she wiped the sweat trying to enter her eyes watched them with a calm gaze, and dodged, already fast in her reflex, she dodged these time without shortness of breath. Zane watched all this and was surprised and admired her persistence and he watched her in fascination with what she was about to do.

Cyra tightened her grip on the stick, and watched as the lick opened its mouth ''Now...'' she shouted in her mind, as she drove the stick towards its mouth, pulling out green liquid gushed out as the beast twitched and fell dead on the floor. ''hahaha...it worked, it actually worked.'' her lips formed a wide smile, her eyes glittering with joy.

''one down, seven to go,'' Cyra said as she looked at the remaining beasts, which were restless and had formed webs in their mouths already. This time, things turned serious. she saw the thing follow her like a tracker locked on her body.

''You got to be kidding me!'' she shouted dodging their attacks, using the trees as covers.

"Boom!!!" Their attack left holes in the trees, splinters, and dust mixed in the air.

Cyra lay weakly and bonelessly on the ground as she killed the last one, all her muscles were screaming from pain. Zane swooped down and carried her and two licks away before another pack of licks came.