Up on the northern part of the bamboo forest, a clearing widens onto an obscure land
There are a couple giant pillars like the ones at the beach, but these are spread far away and many are torn to pieces around one.
In the middle theres a tower, like a giant hand reaching to the sky. Is not as tall as the pillars around it, this one appears to be an old structure, as if someone used to live there. But now is all covered in spider silk.
There are many big doors and windows that are barely visible
A couple spiders can be seen crawling around the top part
Suddenly a bird singing is heard
The spiders reach out to the front part and crawl on top of each other to see where is that coming from
Close by, out in the clearing close to the tower, there is a figure standing, it wears the vine camouflage the bamboo guards whore. And its stand there with a sword on its hand
Several spiders jump towards it, they fall on top one after the other like a football pile. Then you can see their spider strands tensioning, on the top of the tower other spiders have the opposite end, and they just jump from the tower towards the back to quickly pull the spiders and their newly caught pray up to the roof. The spiders get away from their caught prisoner and a big ashy spider walks towards, its eyes also with a misty haze look at the bundle they just caught, but to their surprise is just a dummy made out of sticks and leaves.
“So thats how they do it” Says Who, and from in front of one of the pillars rubble she appears, she was covered with the red fuzzy creatures who cloaked her and now fall to the ground and run “thank you Helpers!” She yells as she starts running towards the tower, she raises her arms and shes holding a huge Bee, A spider guarding notices her and jumps from the roof towards them, the bee starts to glow to defend itself but Who jumps and rolls towards the towerbase, making the spider miss,
“Im here!!” Yells Who as she lets go of the flaming bee and hops onto the towers front wall
The spidersilk quickly lights up, and a rapid flame runs through every wall, window and corridor, cleaning the webs from everything and sending a huge dark cloud of smoke into the night
From the top several spiders fall as they try to shake the flames and their pull lines are consumed
“Thank you! Please fly away fast!” Says Who as she grabs the bee and throws it away from the tower for it to escape, she grips her mace and starts running up the tower stairs
A spiders is twitching as its web covered body smokes from the blast, who runs towards it with her huge yellow hammer ready and up in the air, but the spider sees her and it gets scared, her dark eyes glow with a purple shade and the spider scurries backwards towards a window
“Come back here!” Yells Who but the spider stands on the window opening and throws a silk strand up in the air, you can feel the strong wind as you go up the tower and the spider gets pulled out, Who looks out the window to see the super long strand just got pulled by the wind itself, taking the spider with it. But towards the west, the mist starts to thicken and fall onto the land. She looks down and sees the mist slowly crawling on the floor.
“The mist in her eyes was gone” she says “the fire must have woken it up from that trance, theres no time!” she says as now she knows that mist they encountered up in the mountain has something to do with the creatures behavior.
She continues going up the tower, the spiders seem to be on top of it of crawling on the outside as she goes up several level without encountering one. The tower is about nine levels high.
She is almost reaching the top when she encounters three spiders at the exit door, they seems also a bit charred and are confused, Who lifts her hammer and runs towards them, paying attention to their eyes. Two seems scared and their eyes don’t seem misty and they quickly jump away from the door towards the windows. But theres one looking at Who, eyes lost and misty and it prepares to attack.
Who is afraid, but she knows Burt should be nearby. There might be many more enemies but someone has to do something, and here is just her and the spider.
The spider jumps at Who, but she swings her big yellow hammer so hard, the spider head bounces around when it hits it and it falls to the ground completely knocked out.
“I’m strong! I’m strong!” Says Who to herself as she keeps her eyes on the door and sees the commotion of spiders outside.
“Come on! Im here!” She yells noticing that the door and the closed space can give her a better chance to fend the jumping spiders. She cups her hands and whistles as hard as she can.
The whistling sound seems to eco through the building, like an opera hall, and for a moment that seemed and eternity, everything fell silent.
The wind started to blow stronger outside and several spiders seemed to scramble, as if some were awake and the others under that mist spell.
Two spiders crawled side by side on the door.
“I see your blurry eyes!” Yells Who “I don’t know what is controlling you but I’m here to save my friend!”
The first spider jumps at Who, but again she is ready and swings her hammer just in time to knock it out and away. The second spider sees this and lifts it’s behind to throw a silk line up towards the outside, and it gets pulled out and away as the air turns their long spider line into a kite.
“Oh No!” Says Who as she can see the other spiders imitate the other one and start leaving the roof. She doubts it for a second, but she grips her hammer and runs out of the room towards the open roof.
Its is a big open area but is still crowded by over a dozen spiders that start coming at her. On the other end, she can see a couple guarding several web cocoons, and there is a sword on the floor nearby.
“Burt!!!” She yells as she starts fending the attack and running around. “Burty wake up its meee!!!”
Courage drives us to explore what awaits out there and who we are inside, to face our questions and our need for wonder.
Who awakes in an unknown world and starts exploring to find out where and who she is.
There are creatures, secrets, mysteries and the search for Who’s in charge in here?
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