Chapter 163 - When Others Fight (1/2)
The girls were both flustered, but Ruby recovered quickly. She immediately brought forth the knife and the small survival sword and went to work, hacking away. The small, awakening level spiders didn't prove much of a challenge for her to kill, but she noticed a problem right away. If she could hit them dead on, she could cleave them almost in half. The small spiders bodies were actually amazing tough and resistant, but she had personally sharpened her own blades to a fine point. The problem was that they were constantly moving and making it next to impossible to hit them. In fact, more ofter than not, she ended up getting the weapons lodged in the webs and had to fight one handed while she worked on freeing it. Seeing that she was losing ground, Ruby took a glance over at Leona and saw her still struggling to get herself under control.
”Lea! LEA!” Ruby yelled.
”WHAT? Leona yelled back.
'Lea?” Laz thought to himself. 'Did Ruby give her the nickname or did she already have it and I just didn't know?'
”You need to focus. These little shits are nothing, but there is too much webbing around here for me to kill them quickly. I need you!” Ruby yelled while taking another swing.
Leona looked over and saw that Ruby was killing the fist sized spiders, but was having trouble keeping her weapons free. Taking a few deep breaths, she clamed herself down. Seeing this, Ruby gave her a smile.
”Good. With your claws, you can do a whole lot better than I am. Just keep stabbing until they are all dead,” Ruby said after having stabbed another one.
Both girls seemed to change over time and become better at it. Although Laz had gone through this the first time, he had kind of cheated his way past so he never knew there were so many of the fist sized spiders roaming about. After almost a half hour of fist sized spider killing, Ruby was moving with a sense of grace the defied reason while Leona was quickly stabbing the spiders in the head with one or two nails before throwing them away.
Watching the girls do all the killing, Laz felt kind of refresh and started looking around. Strangly, he noticed a single small spider had landed not far from him. Although he had sensed it when it landed, he just figured it would attack the two girls, but it had instead just stood on a web and looked over. It had to be said that the spiders showed almost no interest in Laz up until this point. He briefly wondered as to why that would be but then he remembered something that Vivi had told him. Creatures were sensitive to predators. When the creature knew that something was very dangerous, it would generally stay away from it, almost like a sixth sense. As such, Laz quickly figured out that they avoided him because he was dangerous. That is, except for this little guy. Of course, the little guy wasn't attacking him either and was instead just watching on.
Seeing the little guy be so interested in the slaughter that Leona and Ruby were unleashing without jumping itself caused Laz to have a moment of pause. For some reason, he decided to sit down on the cave floor and reach his hand out, as though inviting the spider to climb over. The little spider ignored Laz at first but seeing that the fleshy hand wasn't going anywhere and was instead blocking it's view, the little spider finally climbed on.
Laz didn't know what had made him do this, but he was glad he did. The little guy was a bit on the smaller side but was actually quite fuzzy and slightly cute looking. Laz couldn't help but use a finger and rub it against the little spider's back as though he was petting it. The spider, still watching the fighting, stiffened a litte at the movement but then ended up relaxing it's body as though it enjoyed the attention. Laz continued to pet the little guy while taking a closer look at it. He noticed it had a strange mark on it's back, something that looked shockingly similar to the black tree Laz had on his chest. The way the black lines formed and ran along it's fur seemed to closely resemble the leafless black tree only quite a bit smaller. Laz was rather surpised by this discovery and couldn't help but think about it.
As Laz was lost in thought while sitting on the floor of the cave and petting a tiny spider, the two girls were panting for breath from the endless waves of the little spiders that seemed to appear out of nowhere. Laz had advised them to dress light, but be fully covered. Although they didn't understand it before, they did now. Both Ruby and Leona were wearing skin tight leggings, hiking boots and had their hair tied back. Leona's black leggings matched well with the long sleeve, grey shirt she had on. It was a slightly thicker material the was good to prevent abrasions, but that also meant it trapped in the head and didn't breath well. Ruby's dark green leggings matched well with her brown blouse she had dressed in,. The problem was that it wasn't thicker like Leona's so she had found that it had been torn in many places. Both girls couldn't help but look over at Laz who was comfortably resting on the ground while petting a little spider.
At this moment, if Laz wasn't careful, their gazes would have turned him to stone.
As it was, Laz was absentminded while petting the spider and thinking of things. He had kept his sense locked onto the two girls so that he would know if they go into trouble. But just like he had originally thought, both girls ended up being fine. Both girls were covered in sweat and gave off a rather charming appearence. The tight fitted clothes on Leona's well proportioned body were a stark contrast to the slightly looser clothes on Ruby's thin, althetic body. Both girls couldn't help but create an exotice scene of wild beauty and blood lust, like female amazons who could capture your heart or destroy your body with but a thought.
When Laz finally noticed they had stopped moving, he woke up from his thoughts and saw them both staring at him. Of course their deathly stares didn't detract him from enjoying the eye candy before him.
”What?”
”The hell are you doing?”
”Why are you petting a spider?”