It was a rainy and dark night in the forest, thunders could be heard every few seconds and the wind was so cold it felt like it could freeze even your soul. In this night 3 men were running, looking for shelter, they had to run away from their camp due to a monster, but they couldn't pick up any of their things. After running for a long time they got tired and so they stopped… one of then yelled “over there” and pointed to the entrance of a cave. The group rushed to the cave, once in there, they fell to the ground, exhausted.
They stayed there for several minutes until one of them was able to stand up and light a torch, with it’s light they were finally able to see each other clearly again. In the center was a muscular man clad in heavy armor,a warrior, his name was John, at his left was Tony a thief clad in black robes, and finally at the right was Abel, clad in extrange robes full of runes and patterns, he was a wizard. They were bandits, attacking those stupid enough to wander alone in the roads that cross this forest, after each succes, they would go back to the nearby city and spend their money, restocking their supplies and throwing the rest on a burdel. They waited and waited for the storm to stop….. but it didn't seem to be stopping any time soon. So they decided, motivated by curiosity or maybe sheer boredom, to go deeper.
The bandit’s exploration trip was not an interesting one, at least no for the first 20 meters or so, although they noticed some interesting things about the cave along the way:
The roof was pretty high up, 5 meters at least, and the walls were at 7 meters or so from each other.
Even though there weren't any bug to be seen, they still could hear a crawling sound from time to time.
Abel felt watched the entire time, but the others didn't. John told him to stop being so paranoid.
After some time they noticed a dim light in the distance, so they unsheathed their weapons and advanced in a simple line formation. It wasn't long before they reached the light’s origin, It was a campfire -Such a lucky day- said Tony, who then pointed at the girl sleeping there, they closed the distance carefully, and then all 3 of then smiled. The girl wasn't carrying any weapons, even better she was extremely beautiful, she had long black hair and pale skin, and her slender figure make the 3 men extremely happy, John extended his hand toward the girl but then he noticed, he could no longer speak, no sound would come off his mouth. scared, he turned back to his companions, only to know true terror…
There were 2 centipedes wrapping around Abel, each as thick as a human leg and long enough to still be hanging from the roof. John wanted to help his friend but Tony stopped him. -What are you doing?- said John -look- said Tony, pointing at the roof, there he saw it, a giant monster, similar to a centipede, thicker than a human’s torso and several meters long. one end started going down revealing a humanoid torso, with skin pale as a corpse and long black hair, the creature seemed to lack any mouth or nose, only the 2 dark purple eyes were on it’s face, it’s tentacles slowly lifted Abel as it’s torso opened, revealing a gaping mouth full os sharp fangs, it swallowed Abel as a whole, then the mouth closed and disappeared, the creature, crearly not satisfied, looked at them, they would have cried for help but they were still under it’s spell. it’s face showed happiness, the sadistic pleasure of knowing that your prey has no scape.
Once the third and last was was devoured, only a few pieces of armor and robes were left, it stood there for a few seconds until it heard a mumbling, it was the girl -Scolopendra?- she said while her hand was moving, like looking for something, the creature decided to go near the girl, it leaned over her, watching …...
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