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A Paige for the Web

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“Mam you have to run from the creature!” a young man with a ripped shirt and blue geans said before a giant tentacle wrapped around his torso and he was tossed off the ship.

“John!  Oh no!  I won’t leave you “ she screamed back as the monstrous tendril of the unknown breast reached for her and she closed her eyes with tears streaming down her cheek.

A young woman sighed while eating her Frosted Flakes and held her tender hand up to her cheek as she slowly chewed the cereal.  She blinked and started to nod off before she heard the end credits roll.

“Killer Squids from Planet Klorborp again?” she thought to herself while reading another bite of her cereal.
Slowly she inserted the spoon into her mouth and the screen went to black.  Channel 4 news anchor appeared in the right hand corner and gave a cheerful smile.

“Rush INC plant has found a new home.  More tonight at 10” she said with the picture of the abandoned chemical plant in the background.

"Hmm...." The girl thought and rubbed her eyes, sitting up a bit on the couch as a few warm beams from the morning sun shone through the curtains. Pulling the spoon from her mouth and setting it back in the bowl, she brushed a bit of her dark brown hair away from her face and a small smile began to form on her lips.

"Well well well, and here I thought that I'd be stuck at home doing nothing but watching movies all day." She said while setting the bowl on the table. She moved from the couch over to her computer and began to search up a bit of information about this abandoned plant.

She let her nimble, slender fingers do the walking while still chewing her morning breakfast.  The young woman went straight to Google and looked at the history of this tantalizing discovery.  With mouse in hand and curiosity peaking, she clicked on news article after news article before finally discovering what she had been looking for.  

In an article less than a few weeks old she read a story of the plant going bankrupt and all the staff being sent off without severance.  It continued to say the manufacturing division was somewhat a mystery with the new R and D department supervisor missing on the last day.

“Oh, thissm issm permmct!” she said with a mouth full of food and went to her Facebook to let her best friend Kimi know about her discovery before she did.

"Kimi! Found new place to explore! Want to come?  " She posted to her friend's page as she leaned back in her chair excitedly, eagerly awaiting her friend to respond.

"I was about to message you about that, it looks pretty interesting, but are you sure that it's safe going into a place like that? Kimi responded a minute later with Paige's fingers typing away busily as the two began to chat back and forth, trying to see if she could convince her friend to come with her again.  After a few minutes of chatting and a bit of bribing with some cake from Kimi's favorite bakery she agreed to come along.

"Awesome! Meet me at the place in a half an hour and we'll head on out that way! :3 See you soon! ^^ " Paige typed and giggled.

Paige rolled back in her chair and moved from it towards her bedroom to change out of her pajama's.

Flinging open the closet doors, she dug through a few piles of clothes until she found a clear plastic box labeled "Exploration outfit" and pulled it free.  A grin of excitement came across her lips once again as she moved from her closet and set the box down on her bed.

Paige was the name of this excited young woman and she had just gotten into urban exploration in the last semester of college.  She and Kimi were in a bit of a competition with one another.  Kimi was a former girl scout and was very much the polar opposite of Paige.  Kimi had very clear skin that was fair and always had a haircut that would fall just above her shoulder with two long bangs to cover the side of her face.  

Paige opened her box to reveal her favorite outfit.  There was an indigo head band that would hold her messy hair and her beautiful pony tail.  Her long sleeved navy blue shirt was the next thing to put on herself.  As it draped over her sexy figure the winkles piled up around her curvaceous hips and torso.   Next was a pair of neon green running pants and knee high white socks.  Last but not least was her duffle bag full of her survival gear.  Inside was a place for her cell phone, a map and several bottles of water.

She ran to the bathroom and grabbed the hairbrush on the counter and began to brush her hair back, working the hair into her hand and pulling it up and back into a ponytail.  Her hand was still holding her hair up, she walked to her dresser and picked up a lush red ribbon and tied it around the base of her ponytail. Tugging tightly on it once she had it tied in a cute bow, the remaining length of ribbon draping itself down over her shoulders.

Once she had finished with her preparations she stood in front of the mirror hanging on the inside of the closet door and did a little twirl in her outfit, the ribbons flowing with her movements as she stopped and looked herself over once more.

“Cute and practical, just how I like it” Paige thought to herself, moving to her duffle bag and rummaging around inside to make sure that everything was where it should be.
Finding all of her gear in place she zipped up the bag and placed the strap over her shoulder and pulled out her cell phone.  She was so excited she could barely stand it.  

“Kimi, I am all set I will meet you at the plant in about a half an hour” she said through a text message and hopped in her car.

The town she was in was more a suburb then a city.  The most excitement the girls ever saw was when a new traffic light was being installed on the edge of the city limits.  She grew up in the suburbs all of her life and yet she had never been or heard of this new and exciting abandoned plant.  Her destiny was well over twenty miles away.  With traffic and her constant need to text she arrived at her stop an hour later and to the annoyed best friend that sat in her red tank top and jeans bitterly looking around for her missing partner in crime.

"You're late!" Kimi exclaimed, stepping out of her car and slamming the door behind her.

"Please at least tell me if you're going to be running behind next time around!"

"I'm sorry Kimi!! Will an extra cake from Rosatti's make up for it?" Paige asked, knowing
all too well her friend's weakness for the baked goods from that particular bakery.

"Hmm...I guess I can forgive you this time around, but only if it's one with extra chocolate." Kimi said with a grin, walking over to Paige and putting her arm around her shoulder as the two looked before them at their newest exploration adventure.

The main building of the plant still looked very new, aside from a few broken windows and a couple of graffiti marks along the lower part of the walls. Behind it lay a tall chain link fence with barbed wire at the tops and a big red "Authorized Personel Only" sign on display at every three posts.

Kimi looked around nervously at the sign.  It wasn’t the barbed wire that gave her the creeps but the strangely dead trees that wilted and shed all their leaves compared to the lush, trees in the front.  She bit her lip and nervously shook.  Oblivious to the possible dangers, Paige giggled with excitement and ran for the fence starting to grip the metal chain link and looking for any way through.  The air was moist and there wasn’t a sound but Kimi’s own heart beat and rattling of the fence of her friend.  She always had a sixth sense about strange places and this one was no exception.  The broken windows with the shattered glass on the ground and dead grass on the ground made Kimi swallow hard and then whimper.

“P Paige this use to be a chemical plant right?” she asked while bending down to look at some sticky goop that coated the side of the building.

“Yeah, they closed down a few weeks ago due to bankruptcy and had to let everyone go and just left this place as is. Why do you ask?" Paige inquired as she looked over at her friend.

"I...I don't think we should go in here, from what I can see with all the dead plantlife around it's definitely dangerous inside. Please can we just go back?" Kimi grabbed onto her friend's arm and squeezed it, trying to hopefully talk her out of what most likely was a dangerous expedition.

"Aww come on, this is the 4th time you've done this now Kimi! You always seem so interested to come along at first but then you chicken out!" Paige pulled her arm free and began to walk towards the chain link fence. "If you don't want to come along I understand but don't expect me to buy you any cake if you don't come with me." She said.

"Paige I don't care about the stupid cake! I'm worried that you'll hurt yourself!!!" Kimi shouted with her voice echoing around the desolate compound.

A small sigh left her lips as she turned back around to face her friend. "Look, I know you're worried, so how about this. Wait here for me, I'll just go and explore around the outside here for a little while and take a quick peek into the main building, then after that we can go home, okay?" Paige asked while trying to reassure her friend that all was well.

“Paige I am sorry but I can’t.  This place gives me the creeps and I I can’t go in” Kimi said with a stutter.

“Fine, go on and go home!   More cake and fun for me!” Paige said while moving away the chain link fence and climbing under it.  

Kimi reached out for her friend but before she could reach her the fence was shut and Kimi watched her friend enter the back yard.  

“At least text me later!” Kimi yelled and turned around with her back to her friend.  

“She will be ok… I swear there is no common sense with her” she said under her breath as she walked back to her car.

Paige’s eyes were looking all over the compound with wonder and bewilderment.  She had trespassed many times in abandoned house and her heart raced every time.  The thrill of evading capture from the authorities and discovering new and exciting adventures was what she lived for.  The trees continued to wilt and the gentle leaves littered the ground all the way down a path.  She gasped at the sight of a tunnel into the woods with dead trees all around but in the distance she saw lush green leaves and the sound of birds happily chirping.  

She sighed for a moment and reached for her bag, pulling out a flashlight as she started her journey down the shadow consumed path.

The flashlight's beam illuminated the path before her as she slowly took each step further and further down the tunnel. The ground was wet and very slippery, making the trek through all the slower as Paige had to watch each step she made. The lush green forest at the end almost teased her for how far away it looked. Paige could feel her heart beating in her chest as little noises in the tunnel would make her jump suddenly and stumble to keep her balance.

Just keep going Paige, it looks far but you'll get there if you keep going..." She said to herself, her voice echoing around her.  As she walked along, every so often there would be a little side tunnel where the floor gently sloped downwards off into darker parts unknown.  Coming closer and closer to the exit, Paige put her hand up to the wall to help keep herself balanced, much to her relief the walls dry to the touch, albeit a bit dusty.

After a few more wobbly steps, a couple of which she almost lost her balance entirely, she emerged out of the tunnel and into a beautiful clearing with a few trees and flowers, all of which were far enough away from the factory to remain untouched. It was absolutely gorgeous as her eyes darted around the area, trying to take in all the beauty and splendor of this place.

"See Kimi, this is why you should take a small risk now and again!" She said to herself. Reaching into her bag, she pulled out her phone and took a couple snapshots of the area along with a text to Kimi saying “Look what you missed out on :p

As Paige looked at the photo she took there was something that caught her eye once again.  She looked up to see the trees lush and green but had millions of white thread dangling from the branches.  The subtle noises from the tunnel started to skitter louder and the trees above rustled as though there were going to rupture.  She stood there in awe, taking in the sight and readied her phone to snap a picture of what was to immerge from the brush.  Her heart pounded as she watched in the camera’s viewer what looked like large wings of a bird flapping wildly.  The force of the wing shook the very branches of the tree and made Paige move her eyes from the camera phone to the commission of the bird.  The creature flapped harder and harder until a chitterling was heard followed by the wings flapping in a irregular motion.

“H hey what is that?” she asked herself as she pulled out her camera and zoomed in to see something moving around the wings of the bird and constricting its movement.
She zoomed in further to see a large eagle with the white thread soaking its feathers and struggling wildly as more threads seemed to come out of nowhere and continue to secure it.

“T that can’t be…” she said moving closer to have some of the white threads fall and land on her head.

“Ew g gross!” she shuddered as she felt the thread fall around her hair.  

She quickly dropped her phone and reached up to feel something tickling her wrist.
Slowly turning her head upwards, Paige's eyes widened in shock as she fell back onto her behind, her vision locked onto the sight of what just couldn't have been possible. Coming down slowly from the tree above her, was a banana spider about the size of her head. A chill went down her spine as she shuffled back away from the creature, her mind racing a mile a minute with various thoughts.

How can a spider be that big? No way this is real, I've just been here too long and now I'm hallucinating! Yeah that's right! Banana spiders don't get to be that size..." A sudden thought crossed through her mind as she looked over the spider once it touched the ground and continued to hear the rustling from the other tree. "Wait...this one looks like it's a male considering the size...but if this is a male, then...what about the female...."

Her eyes moved back to the rustling tree and Paige screamed in pure terror, forcing herself back to her feet and dashing back towards the tunnel, wanting to get out of this place and just go home.

As the girl ran she heard the rustling stop suddenly as a few more leaves dangled gently to the ground.  She stopped for a moment and placed her hand on her chest wheezing and coughing from the sudden sprint.  The tree was still and the male arachnid anchored a silken thread on to the ground and started to ascend back up to where the struggle had started.  

“This must be a dream… yeah that’s it.  Those stupid chemicals have knocked me out and Kimi is probably giggling and writing all over my face as we speak” She mused to herself as she took a deep breath and a cloud passed overhead to reveal the tops of the trees coated with white thread with several of them leading from the green trees into the dark tunnel.  

“Kimi should see…” she began before reaching into her pocket and finding nothing but air.
Her eyes widened in terror at the thought of her cell phone under the tree with those large spiders.  She shivered and started to make her first step towards the tree only to see a large rat about the size of her shoe scurry by causing her to jump.

“A Rat!” she screamed as she hid her face from it only to hear a very loud squeak coming from the direction of the rat and a mound of dirt suddenly vibrate with two large spindly legs protruding from the hole.

“I have to get that phone” she yelled as she made a dead sprint for the phone.
Dashing past various strands of hanging silk Paige’s eyes remained locked on her phone, trying not to think about what lay waiting in the tree as the prize of her phone came closer and closer. A small buzzing came from the cell phone as her eyes fixed on the screen which displayed ‘1 new message from: Kimi’, most likely her saying that she should still be careful.

The world seemed to slow down for Paige as she reached out for the phone, her hand coming closer and closer to the phone. With her fingertips only inches away, the ground behind the phone suddenly rose up as another pair of spindly legs poked itself from the hole and snatched the still vibrating phone down into its lair.

Another scream coming from her lips, Paige dug her heels into the earth and began to force herself away from the lair of the creature that had just stolen her phone, running full speed back towards the tunnel. Every few steps another mound of earth would rise up just behind her and have a pair of spidery legs unsuccessfully swipe at the prey that was no longer there.

Tears streamed down her cheeks as she dashed into the darkened tunnel, the light at the other end looking so far away compared to before. Her mind in a panic, Paige neglected to remember that the floor still remained as slick and slippery as before, as she felt herself slip and fall to the ground.

Paige broke the fall with her hands but the momentum still caused her chest to smear against the slippery mud.  She whimpered a bit from the impact and slowly tried to get up but felt something grasp onto her leg from behind.  The earth around her seemed a bit loose as she felt a tug again with her shoe tossed off of her foot.  She turned around slowly and saw two large spindly legs gripping her foot and just to her side was another mound of dirt rising ever so slightly.  She tried to scream but found her terror bound her noise to a mere squeak.  Paige growled a bit and started to kick the mound only for a sticky film to stretch and pull her leg back to the mound with another pair of spindly legs coming to claim her further.  

Paige bucked her body and wormed as hard as she could against the elastic goo, digging her hands firmly in the mud she pulled with all of her might and finally the sticky material released her from its grip.  The mounds of earth quickly shut and Paige reached back for her shoe but found it was lost just like her cell phone.

Without a second thought she felt herself rise up and make a dead sprint for the exit of the tunnel only to find to her surprise the tunnel longer then she remembered.  Her movements started to become labored as tight semi invisible strands of thread blocked her from where she originally came in.

“No, w what is this stuff?” she bitterly growled as the thread added weight to her movements before finding almost a funnel.

As she worked her way back through the tunnel, it became more and more difficult for her to move along, her original pace now slowed to a few steps at a time before having to pull at her body to make the next few steps.

The sounds of the creatures behind her echoing softly throughout the tunnel gave Paige enough incentive to keep trekking forwards, lest she turn back to face all the horrors she just gave witness to. As she began to pass by one of the dark sloping pathways to her side, she felt something run across her mud coated sock, the sensation enough to make her jump in surprise and lose her footing on the slick ground once again.

“Ahhhh!!!” Paige screamed as she felt herself fall onto her behind, the way she fell forcing her down one of the dark sloping tunnels like a water slide. The rat that had skittered across her foot dashing off into a large crack in the wall, the screams echoing throughout the whole tunnel as Paige continued her slide down into the unknown. Her eyes closed tightly, she screamed until she felt herself come to a stop on a patch of drier ground.

She sighed in relief for a moment and even cracked a small smile at the thought her ride was over and she was in the clear.  Paige slowly tried to stand but found her body already starting to rise as several hundred strands of sticky material bowed.  With an elastic sound around her, she was quickly lifted off the ground with her right wrist tightly entangled and her right ankle glued and entangled on top of her other ankle.

“mmm….” she heard just slightly above her as the reality of the situation slowly sunk in.  

The strands of thread that covered the tunnel were similar to the ones that she felt pressed against her but this time it was as though they were coated in super glue.

“mm mmm…PPHM” she hear a whimpering again in the dark as the threads vibrated all around her.

She slowly looked up to see what looked like millions of thread with droplets of glue shimmering in the daylight with squirming masses in the center and around her leading to a long strand leading into a dark funnel of a tunnel with debris of leaves, twigs and other plants that were woven together.

"Oh my god..." Paige began to pull and tug at her ankles, the threads wrapped around them holding her in a strong grip. Reaching up to her wrist, the moment her fingers touched the thread wrapped around it she found that like her ankles she couldn't pull them away from each other. Panic starting to set in, she began to struggle around wildly as she rose up higher towards the squirming and wimpering masses.

The sticky threads that held her forced her body to thrash even more with her free hand now feeling a few strands sticking to her figure tips.  To her shock the strands of thread were just as sticky as the ones that tightly bound her ankles and only allowed her to pull so far before the elastic thread stretched and retracted back to its original form.  

“M MMMPH!” she heard above with a woman’s figure reduced to an hour glass watched through a thin silken veil.  

With some strands of thread not wrapped completely around her the name badge of “Jasmin” was clearly visible with the company’s logo imprinted.   The cocoon wriggled and thrashed along with the tightly wrapped other guests that seemed to collect in the center.  

"Help!! Someone!!!" Paige shouted while her body pulled with all its strength against her silken bindings.  As she saw more of the wriggling cocoons above her she whimpered with the thought that she maybe be in more of a sticky situation then she thought.

She cried and out and whimpered with her hair swaying in the breeze with each struggle.  The cocooned woman finally stopped moving for a bit as to keep up her strength.  

“Jasmin, Jasmin.  You poor thing, I I will get us out of this somehow” Paige tried to reassure her the best she could with the cocoon starting to wriggled even harder then before with her trashing with all of her might.  

To the side of her was a bird-shaped cocoon.  It would try to flap its wings only to cause the web to vibrate and shake.  Paige slowly took in the rest of her surroundings as the web finally brought her to her final destination.  To the side of her was a hollowed out cocoon of what might have been a boar or a deer but it was so masticated it was impossible to tell.

Paige quivered in fear at the sight of what could very well be her if the owner of the web would happen to come by.  Her fears were slowly realized even further as a large body, about half her size climbed on a silken strand of thread that bowed with its weight.  Below the large abdomen, that was about the size of her chest and torso, was the large eagle that she saw in the camera of her phone before.  The spider’s long spindly legs were just as large as her legs with it moving the still cocoon to the rest of its prizes.

Paige’s eyes widened and her mouth fell slack as she watched the large spider reach under itself and pull more strands of sticky thread adding to the eagle’s bindings and anchoring it to the web.

“T That must be the female…” she whimpered as to try not to squirm too much to get the host of the web’s attention.

She remembered that the spider is very sensitive to vibration and tried to remain calm.  

“MM MMPH!!!!!” Jasmin screamed in her gag and started to thrash her body all the more.

“Shhh ss stop Jasmin” Paige tried to reason but was still watching with her head tucked into her shoulder.

The spider stopped wrapping the eagle only for a moment.  The web went still but fear and shock filled Jasmin’s eyes when the spider sunk its fangs deep into the eagle’s cocoon next to her.  Her eyes were fixated on the site as she wriggled her body from side to side causing the weight around Paige to bounce the web.  

“MM MMMPH!!!” she cried out with the spider releasing its fangs from the cocoon and moving its long legs towards where the vibrations were coming.  

The spider quickly ran to Jasmin and ran around her body, reinforcing the strands of silk across her chest and covering up the name tag that was still visable.  

“Jasmin!” Paige screamed and started to thrash in her bindings herself as the spider quickly ran around Jasmin one last time.

The spider turned around and gripped the web pulling and bouncing it as Paige’s body instinctually started to shiver and squirm.  The web continued to bounce as the spider anchored a drag line from its spinnerets and started to climb towards the frightened woman.

With what moments Paige had left before the spider reached her, she tugged and pulled at both her hand and her ankles with all her strength, hoping to break free some part of her body from the silk as the spider grew nearer and nearer. However, what strength she could muster failed her as the silk pulled her ankles and hand back into place, Paige letting out a frustrated cry which quickly changed to even more fearful as she felt one of the spider’s long legs reach out and clutch at her side.

The course hairs of the spider brushed her side gently, almost like a massage, as the
spider reached out with another leg grabbing both her sides.  The spider paused for a moment to assess its catch before slowly reaching under its abdomen and pulling a ribbon made of sticky fibers of its own silk.  It stretched and pulled it away from itself as it placed the sticky silk across her ankles and wrapped it around them down to the balls of her feet.

“Agh!! Noo!! Stop it you big spider thing!!” Paige shouted at the creature, tugging at
the silk only to find now that it was almost impossible to pull her ankles apart now.  

Her body wriggled and struggled around in the spiders grasp as it continued its work of wrapping up its newest prey.   The silk continued to flow as the spider turned its prey ever slightly with another ribbon wrapping tightly around her knees loosely at first but quickly cooled and constricted locking them together.  Another lasso of silk was added to her calves as the spider moved its prey with its third pair of legs while the back lets pulled more silk from its spinnerets and wrapped tightly around to overlap her lower legs like a tight silk stalking.

Paige shuddered from the sensation of the silk against her bare skin, her struggling becoming more difficult as the spider continuously worked its silk tightly to her struggling form.  She helplessly looked down at her silk bound legs, the sticky substance not yielding to any of her movements as the spider continued to spin the silken dress that many others in its lair had already adorned.

With the silk tightly overlapped from feet to knee the spider flipped itself upside down and reached for her shoulder.  Anchoring the sticky tether to it, the spider gripped her arm and forced it to her side with the other legs grabbing for her other arm and moving it to her chest.  The spider turned her while pulling back on its abdomen and wrapped it tightly in an “x” across her chest and again around her arms to pin them to her side.  

Paige was turned until several cooled tethers of sticky silk wrapped tightly across her chest and over her wrist.  The spider’s fangs quickly nipped her butt and pulled back to continue its spinning.

“Ow!!! Hey!!” Paige cried with her eyes widening in surprise from the sudden pinch from the fangs with a light numbness forming around where she had been bitten. With more of her silken dress being threaded together, Paige’s difficulty struggling only grew harder with each rotation adding a new strand of silk that would be tightly forced against her.

Her breathing grew quicker as her continual struggling began to take its toll, her adrenaline beginning to fade with her movements becoming ever more limited.
The spider felt its prey thrash around while it held on like a cowgirl at a rodeo.  With each thrash it flicked more silk from its spinnerets at a slight distance and moved the silk around her figure towards Paige’s hips.  The sticky silk continued to cool the longer it was exposed to the air but the droplets of its glue fused the threads together even tighter around her figure.

Tears began to flow down Paige’s cheeks as she could see and feel her silk dress becoming more and more complete, regardless of how much she struggled.  “Kimi!!! Someone!!

Anyone!! Please help me!!!!” She cried out, her wailing only met by the ears of Jasmin and the other captives that she would soon share the same fate of. The numbness from where the spider had bit her earlier had begun to spread slightly in her body, bringing forth another obstacle to which added onto her already hopeless situation.

The spider felt its prey starting to weaken with her thrashes becoming wriggles.  It moved in slowly and gingerly gripped her side, kissing her hip with its spinneret and gave her another few spins with the silk overlapping across her lap and tightly around her thigh.  Jasmin blinked and barely wriggled in her tight silken prison with the eagle stopping its flapping with the only vibration remaining being its current captor’s host.  

It reached back and pulled wider ribbons of sticky thread and gently knitted its prey’s cocoon, pulling away to tighten it around her form with each rotation.  The cocoon wrapped tightly around her arms and hips with only bunches of her clothing bulging from the web.

Her eyes closed, but tears still continued to stream from them.  Paige sobbed and kept crying out which echoed around her and the others.  The silk was so strong that she could hardly move now, the world around her spinning and the silken dress tightening against her body.  More of the light numbing sensation flowed through her as all she could muster up now was a pathetic attempt to wriggle.   On top of the exhaustion from all her previous attempts to break free of the cocoon, all she could do now was just lay there and cringe as the spider continued to pull the wide ribbons of silk around and around her helpless form.

The spider pulled Paige closer and ran over her body, trailing a long sticky ribbon of silk while continuing to rotate its prey.  With another layer of silk forming around her chest, Paige could barely move her hand more than a few inches before the tightly wove strands of silk pulled her limbs back to rest on her breasts.   With another rotation Paige’s hair flapped in the breeze as she was brought horizontal with the spinnerets releasing the sticky silk around her chin and over her lips to seal them tight and muffle her cries.

“Nrrrr!! Mmmmph!!! Pllsh!!!! Hrrrrp…..” Panting through the silken gag around her lips, her head began to feel slightly fuzzy as the numbness worked its way through her body fully, effectively making the spider’s job a lot easier now that she could barely move.  

Her tears stained the silk around her mouth and chin as she tried to take her mind off
the situation at hand, thinking of Kimi and wishing she had heeded the warnings of her friend instead of foolishly rushing into this place.

With another pass the silk wrapped around the bridge of her nose and over her eyes, the thin veil reminded her of the wedding dress she would never wear as she prepared herself to be the main course of the large arachnid.  Paige’s head feel limp as the world around her started to dim.  The spider climbed over her body once more and snipped the few strands of silk that entangled its prey to her web.  With the prey barely squirming the spider anchored its silk to her side and slowly rotated her horizontally.  With each flick of its legs Paige’s hair flapped about with the silk overlapping and tightening around her chest and going down towards her hips.  

The light around Paige’s eyes dimmed as she started to black out from the exhaustion and the venom.  Slowly she blinked her eyes as she felt the spider’s silk compressing tighter and tighter.  Each blink seemed to last an eternity for Paige and time slowed down as her fears continued to haunt her with regret.  

“Paige…..”

Paige let out a soft whimper, thinking for a moment that she had heard someone call out her name. As it became harder to keep her eyes open, she pushed it aside as wishful thinking, her cocoon hugging her form in its strong and sticky embrace as the world around her started to fade more into the warm embrace of sleep.

“mmmph” Paige replied in a moan as her world felt like a tight knit dress about ten times to small of her.  

She blinked slowly and the world was blurred all around her as though looking through a silken veil.

“P Paige….Please…”

“W mmwaht?” she tried to reply to the voice but the world was still blurry and the world
spinning.

“Paige… come now”

The silken bindings of her cocooned felt strange and went from a tightened prison to a soft and delicate feeling on her bare skin.  She blushed a bit at how smooth and silky her cocoon had become with the veil starting to become less clouded.

Blinking slowly, Paige’s vision was blurry for a few moments before starting to come into focus. A white tiled ceiling coming into sight rather than the veil of silk that had been around her eyes moments ago.  To her side she could hear the sound of a machine beeping with her heartbeat, and on her lap she felt a bit of weight pushing down on her.

Slowly she lifted her head up, moving her hand to rub her eyes and surprisingly finding that she could move her arm again. Looking down at her lap, she saw Kimi with her head buried in her arms, lightly sobbing over her.

“Kimi?” she asked softly.

Kimi’s eyes shot open and she slowly rose her head to see the beautiful highlight in her
friend’s eyes.

“Paige!  Y...you're alive!” she exclaimed with great joy and reached out her arms and embraced her best friend as tightly as she could while tears streamed down her cheek whetting the pillow of the hospital bed.

Paige reached up and wrapped her arms around her sobbing friend, feeling a bit disoriented and confused to where she was, and the events that had been happening to her what felt like only moments ago.

“Where am I? What happened?” she asked.

Kimi only hugged her all the tighter in response.  Her wails echoed throughout the hospital halls.  

“Paige I sent you a text message but you never responded to it” she began to explain.  

“I knew something had happened to you because, let’s face it, you never go more than a few minutes to respond to a text message especially when it came from me” Kimi said now pulling back and sitting up in her chair, wiping the tears from her eyes.

“Don’t you remember what happened to you?” she asked in a bit of surprise.

"I...I remember seeing a whole lot of giant spiders....then running away from them after one stole my phone. I slipped and fell down into a web and from there I was being wrapped up to be a giant spider's meal...but now I'm here..." Paige explained, still feeling confused about her sudden change of environment.

“Wait, you must have been stabbed and drugged more than I thought” Kimi said with a giggle.  

“I went back to the beautiful meadow you mentioned but I found you wrapped in some sort of clear panty hose all around your body.  I was surprised when I saw three more girls all wrapped by the same material” she explained and tilted her head in confusion.

“When I found you the authorities came and found the girls had syringes in their pockets and all were hallucinating about these giant killer bugs that wrapped them up for their supper like out of some crappy Science Fiction story you keep watching” she finished while trying to hold back her laughter.

Paige shook her head, trying to think back to the field when she first arrived. “But it felt so real…Ah! What about Jasmin? Is she alright?” she asked.

“Jasmin is fine, she went home hours ago.  You were the last one we found in the strange tight panty hose junk” Kimi explained.  

“I never saw anything more than some large tree branches protruding from the bushes and some strange white thread.  But now that you mention it there were some eagles’ feathers covering the ground where you were” she said deep in thought.

The girls continued their conversation long into the afternoon, while the authorities searched for the whereabouts of the girl’s former kidnappers.  With the majority of the police gone two young private detectives snuck into the back of the facility.  They slowly came to an opening in the dark path where it looked like the brush and limbs were perfectly learned out with strings of thread dangling from the ground to the tree tops.  

One woman tilted her head as she used her flashlight to shine on the strange fiber that glistened.

A mount of earth slowly rose from the ground as the other walked past.  Two strange looking branches protruded from the mound.

“Hey Christian what do you think this is?” the young detective  asked while pulling on a white thread before two screams echoed throughout the meadow as the girls would not be reporting back for duty the next day.

The End?
A Co'op story between :iconsolidzesnake: and myself! :3

Paige is just your ordinary girl. She loves science fiction and dreams of being a famous explorer. Her latest discovery, however; may bring her into a sticky web of danger as she chooses to trespass on an abandoned chemical factory.

This was a lot of fun to work on with my best friend and sensei in art, and I hope you all enjoy the tale we spun together! X3

Let us know what you think!!

Lady of Mud

P.s. If you haven't yet, go and visit :iconsolidzesnake:'s page, he has a lot of wonderfully drawn peril themed artwork! Nya! ^w^
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Sounds like an episode of "The Twilight Zone".