Seemingly all at once, heroes, adventurers, and vigilantes charged at the demonic arachnid as she loomed over Katelin poised to strike with its sharp black fangs. She lunged towards the defenseless girl only to be thwarted by a wall of green energy that had materialized between them. Confused, the fiendish spider struck at the wall using her clawed hands, attempting to destroy it. It took a step back but by that time, the ground that surrounded it had erupted into flames, replacing the area katelin was lying on the ground.

	Letting out a sinister hiss, the spider shuffled about to remove itself from the flames. Before it could make much progress at all, its body was hit with a wave of verdant energy. It could no longer look for what had happened to its prey, the energy blinding it momentarily. Even so, the spider was able to quickly scurry out of the flames. Clawing away at the residual energy, the spider’s attention turned to the girl adorned in leaves, but only for a moment. As soon as the energy dissipated, a heavy object had landed on its back.

	Like the sharp hairs that were more like swords that protruded from the arachnid legs, the hairs that covered the creature’s back were also sharp. Saria’s armor protected her from most of the spikes, but some of the shorter ones were caught underneath the steel hanging around her hip and groin, and some of the longer ones stabbing at her underarms and catching under the hanging shoulder plates. The needles like hairs were not pointed straight, so they weren’t able to cleanly pierce if at all.

	The horrific monster was not keen on being mounted. It raised its body, stretching it legs suddenly in order to get Saria to shift and perhaps scrape against the spike trap that was its back. At the same time, it was able to turn it’s human like torso slightly and reach at her using one of its clawed arms. While it attempted to remove Saria, it scampered around the fire pit, stepping into it on occasion the heat forcing it away every time. Eventually after enduring as many attacks from Saria as it could, it latched onto one of the webs that it had dangling from the ceiling, and climbed up, the shift in gravity forcing Saria off of its back. Drops of dark green blood dripped onto the ground as it quickly climbed from the wounds that Saria had inflicted. Unfortunately, it was not enough to dispatch the hellish monster.

	Back up on the ceiling, it shrieked once again. Too high up for any one warrior beyond a ranger or mage to reach, it was able to crawl along the ceiling relatively safe from the majority of combatants. Using the webs it was able to produce from its mouth it wrapped its body covering various parts of its legs. Once it was done it quickly descended from the ceiling once again, away from the flames and the warrior wielding the crimson blade. This time, it had positioned itself upon the other side of the dormant metal man. Natalia’s armor and those who gave it their attention were what separated it from the flames. Natalia’s armor and those who gave it their attention were the closest prey the fiendish spider from hell could consume.