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| By: James Webster |
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The cool stench arose from the canopy treetops on
Monster Island. The sounds of birds, silenced at the approach of
a giant. The ground quaked as the black form trampled through the
foliage. The deadly god, Kumonga, with its eight ruby-like eyes
gleaming with hatred, moved forward. Mimicking a machine, the grotesque
spider crawled. The black pole legs, spearing into the ground like
daggers. The arachnid had felt the presence of another. The tainted
smell of blood flew through the air. But the prey was nowhere in
visible sight.
Yet Kumonga knew better. He could literally taste
the essence of the beast. Each corrupted though of feeding flesh,
and spelt blood, threw the tension into frenzy. The meal would be
soon. Great ribbons of foam dripped from its hollow bony fangs.
It's sense of bloodlust rising like crashing waves on a shore. Adrenalin
now coursed in its veins. The kill was near.
Suddenly the giant spider's thoughts were broke,
shattered by a loud beastly roar. Kumonga quickly turned its body
just in time to see the tyrant charging. The jade green scales,
glimmering in the sun. The ivory teeth, flashing with savoring drool.
Powerful strides on ropes of muscled bone moved the titan's mass
in blinding speed. The might of Gorosaurus was met.
The mammoth spider was in momentary shock at the
sudden appearance of the creature. But even more so when it leapt
into the air. The taloned back legs, pulled against its oily skin,
as the chiseled stone body lifted higher and higher. Fear bored
into the eight-legged behemoth when it realized the true nature
of the agility.
A loud bone cracking sound shattered the air. The
saurian landing full force upon the exoskeleton back of Kumonga.
The arachnid screeched a banshee cry of maddening pain as its body
slammed into the ground. The huge dinosaur then began to violently
stomp on the flatten foe. Stamping, raking, and clawing with its
powerful three scythe like clawed feet. And with each step and each
cut, another shriek of torture bellowed.
Systematically and mechanically, Gorosaurus began
to crush the spider at different places. It was trying to find the
weakest point on the armored form. But it was useless. The hard
exoskeleton plating held fast.
Gorosaurus roared in frustration and quickly jumped
off the battered arachnid. Howling again, the leviathan swung its
massive tail into the mutant spider's lifeless shell. The fevering
whack sent the spider hurtling through the stale air. Moments of
ebbing sands of time ticked by, before the many-limbed foe landed.
Tearing through the earth, sliding on it's back, Kumonga plowed
through. Leaving only an open stretch of wounded earth in its wake.
Dust and dirt hovered in the blue sky, surrounding and blinding
the spider's half glazed view.
Then, without warning, another tonnage of weight
bashed against the mutant. A sharp, numbing pierce of icy torment
raced through its body. Following soon by another and another. Waves
of pain flooded the arachnids tattered mind, only the cries of screeching
horrible rage seemed to relief what little it could. The dinosaur
though, continued to beat the spider's soft underside with it fleshy
tail. Kumonga's legs flailed wildly at the attack. Sneering a fence
of ivory sword teeth, the emerald lizard placed one of it's massive
clawed feet upon the prone body. New flashes of horror assaulted
the downed black creature as Gorosaurus took hold of one of its
legs in its massive serrated lined jaws. The giant dinosaur craned
back its powerfully sculpted head, the neck muscles literally ripping
with power. Tearing from side to side, the beast sought to rip free
the clamped appendage from its socket.
Death raced through the spiders mind in the next
few precious seconds. Willing its body, the creature moved every
limb it could. Only by luck of the slimmest chance, two of the arachnid's
dagger like legs struck the enraged leviathan. Gorosaurus howled
in pain and immediately released its hold. The creature's legs were
like swords, slicing deeply into his upper leg. Weeping wounds now
graced the tyrant lizard's thigh, wounds that were too much for
the animal to stand on. Roaring in utter defiance, the being fell
to its side, loosing its balance.
At last, the tide of battle had turned, and Kumonga
summoned its strength to flip back over. The sky next, was filled
with the sound of a low hissing noise, as Spiega began to spray
the fallen titan. Thousands of sticky white strands leapt from the
beast's fanged mouth, extending hundreds of feet. Gorosaurus watched
in pain as the sticky eggshell wisps of silk floated down and made
contact with his pebbled skin. The milky gossamer substance was
cold and dried almost as soon as it touched him. The huge dinosaur
fought back fiercely, but it was fruitless. The web was too strong,
and far too thick.
Hours ticked by before the gigantic spider finally
stopped. Stepping forward on the motionless saurian, the creature
finished the job. Extending from its mouth, a small needle like
barb plunged into the tough skin. Injecting the helpless creature,
the spider had won. The venom clogged the veins and arteries of
Gorosaurus, running through its blood stream like light across the
voids of space. Great gouts of air blasted from the lungs, and the
stone idol like mountain of bone cracked. Cold flesh now covered
the beast. The monster lashed its armored tail and twitched its
snake jaws, then laid still. A fount of blood spurted from its throat.
Somewhere inside, a sac of fluid burst. Sickening gushes of drenched
blood, flooded the parched earth like rivers of insanity. Red and
glistening the plants remained, their surfaced, tainted by the loss
of Gorosaurus. The dinosaur was a hill of dead meat, the organs
all but shutting off, one by one.
And moving forward, the spider Kumonga feeds. Its
hard fought meal warming its mouth with the cup of victory.
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