Warnings: Probably blood idk yet... Just expect it just in case XD

     ~Rob's P.O.V~

     With that I've gathered all of their attention. Preston, Vikk, Lachlan, Jerome, and Mitch all slowly inch back towards me. Preston glances warily off into the nest of tangling white webs.

     "You're not actually thinking of going in there, are you?" Preston questions, as if I'm pulling a prank.
     "I agree with Preston, because I don't even feel anything... Like no motive to go in there." Mitch adds.
     "If it was a person wouldn't we all feel it?" Lachlan remarks, everyone else nodding.
     "But maybe..." I continue, "Maybe there's something in there for me."

     My friends all take turns glancing between me and the webs, me and the webs. I groan.

     "Look, I really feel like going in there so that's what I'm going to do. You guys don't have to come, but if you do there's a more likely chance I'll make it out alive. So in exactly one minute I'm going in there and you can do whatever you want."

      The five all simultaneously turn and start murmuring amongst themselves. I start counting silently in my head, and it's true that I'd go without them... But it doesn't mean I want to. Thirty seconds left. I pull out my two iron swords and start wondering how I'll go about doing this. I guess just slashing through the webs would be my best choice. Then I don't risk getting caught and being eaten alive... Then again though, I won't have my swords at the ready. Well... YOLO I guess. Ten seconds. It doesn't look like they are gonna join me. I sigh, stepping towards the jungle of webs.

     "Hey now, who said you could get all the fun huh?"

     My eyes widen and I turn around to see Jerome smiling confidently and crossing his arms. Mitch smiles uneasily and walks forward, placing a hand on my shoulder.

     "No man left behind Rob, if there is truly something in there that'll help us get out memories then we're coming with you."
     "Even if it's filled with creepy crawly spiders." Lachlan chuckles.

     I grin warmly, nodding.

     "Now, I'd use my flames to burn down his stuff but I don't wanna accidentally start a forest fire... So lead the way Rob." Preston states causally.
     "Sure you're not just scared?" I challenge slyly.
     "Shut up you little cactus."
     "Cactus?" Vikk inquires with a giggle, "Where did that come from?"
     Preston shrugs, "Just felt right to say."

     Slowly approaching the webs and raising one sword above my head I bring it down swiftly, slicing through the webs like butter. But when I pull my sword back up I shake it off in disgust at the multiple strings clinging onto it. Gross. I peer farther into the nest to see that from here on out it only gets darker.

     "Hey Preston I could use you up here, it gets pretty dark. Just don't heat up and burn me or the forest."

     A second later and I feel the slight warmth of Preston's presence behind me, and see the illumination of his skin reflecting off the webs. Hauling my sword up yet again I bring it down upon the webs, and we begin our trek into the nest.

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     "How much farther do you think we have to go...?" Jerome inquires uncertainly..

    We've already been trekking through this mess for half an hour.

     "Hard to say, this stuff just keeps on coming doesn't it?" Vikk replies, frowning and picking a stray cobweb off his face.
     "It shouldn't take too much longer... The feeling is getting really strong now." I reassure everyone.

      A few minutes later and my sword it breaking through the last wall of string, before opening up into a large clearing. All of us file into the space and glance around. The entire space is surrounded with thick walls of webbing, probably too thick to break through besides where we entered. It's also very dark and creepy, the only light source being from Preston and through small holes in the webs above, where grey light is filtering through. And in the middle of the space a bit nearer to the back, dangling by a few pieces of thick string from the roof, is a beautiful red rose. It's petals are fully bloomed out, and the volume looks to be about the size of your hand.

     The pull towards it is unimaginable, and every ounce of by being is drawn in that direction. Taking a cautious step forward, my senses flaring, I slowly approach the flower. With a hesitant hand I slowly reach out to touch it, my hand coming inches away from the petal. And then eight giant glowing red eyes are flashing from behind the wall of extremely thick webs. I jerk my hand away, backing quickly into my group of friends, who by now all have their weapons drawn.

The webs bulge violently outwards once. Twice and some of the strings snap. Three times and most of the strings fall limply to the side. Then there's a pause of tense stillness for a total of ten seconds before a ginormous spider lunges from the darkness. It's red eyes are glowing fiercely and it lets out a long, drawn out hiss, giving me just enough to time to evaluate its details. Of course, it has glowing red eyes and two sharp fangs protruding from its mouth, dripping with saliva and a green liquid. It's base colour is the same as an average Minecraft spider, but it also has multiple lime green stripes surrounding its entire body. It's size... That's another issue. It's about one and a half blocks tall, and four blocks wide... And that's without its legs spread fully out.

"WHAT KIND OF A SPIDER IS THAT?!?!" Lachlan shrieks, retreating back a couple of steps.

Before anyone can answer about twelve mini spiders that looks exactly like it are darting out from behind it, rushing towards us. They are about 2/3 the size of a cave spider.

"SCATTER!!" Mitch shouts, all of us instantly breaking apart as the tiny spiders divide themselves onto us and the large spider lands just where we were a second ago.

The large spider hisses in frustration, momentarily getting caught in the webs in accidentally launched into. During this time I growl and slash off a baby spider that's trying to bite through my pant leg. But while distracted by the first small one I don't notice the second one sneaking up behind me. With a hiss it springs onto my head, using its legs to cover my eyes. I cry out in surprise, dropping my swords and trying to pry the spider from my head.

     "Hold still Rob!"

     Although in a panic I obey the voice and plant my feet. Not a second later and an intense heat is passing right over my head. Like you know when you sit too close to a fire and it becomes uncomfortable? Hotter than that. I open my eyes just in time to see the spider withering away behind me. I turn around to see Preston, his skin glowing brighter than before.

     "Woah... Thanks Preston." I express in gratitude, reaching for my swords.
"VIKK, BEHIND YOU!" Jerome screams, all of us turning to see the large spider griping Vikk with its front two legs and chucking him up into the air where he gets caught in the sticky webbing.

     While Preston runs to finish burning off the small spiders Mitch and Jerome work together to get Vikk down, Mitch climbing on top of Jerome to reach him, Lachlan tries to fight off the spider. I start dashing to aid Lachlan in his struggles but just as everything seems to be turning in our favour... The balance shifts.

     Mitch manages to rip Vikk from the icky prison but in turn Vikk ends up accidentally knocking Jerome over on the way down. This leads to Jerome collapsing and Mitch falling from his shoulder, knocking into Lachlan. Lachlan, now off balance, becomes vulnerable for only a second. But that second is all the spider needs. In a blur the spider tackles Lachlan to the ground, pinning him down and not wasting a second to sinks its fangs into the intersection between his neck and shoulder.

     He lets out a shriek of pure pain, blood instantly spurting out of his neck. Vikk, Jerome, and Mitch all cry out in anger. Jerome hacks at the spiders leg, completely severing the limb and causing it to stumble back. Mitch notches two arrows and effectively lands both of them in two of the spiders eyes. It hisses in agony, stumbling off of Lachlan. Vikk then leaps onto its back, furiously stabbing at it with his sword. It spits and bucks Vikk off, but before it can attack I lunge at it with both swords, slashing it repeatedly. And finally I step back, turning to face Preston who is finishing off the very last baby spider.

     "You're up Preston!" I call over my shoulder.

     Preston, his lava skin dripping due to the immense heat radiating off of him, charges at the spider. With a leap he jumps onto this back, bear hugging it from around the neck. It hisses, scuttling everywhere and trying to stick Preston to webs. But every time Preston nears a web it instantly disintegrates. Eventually the spider stops bucking around, and falls limply to the ground, disappearing into a pile of ash a few seconds later.

"YEAH PRESTON!" Jerome shouts, waiting for Preston to cool off before giving him a high five.
"That was intense..." Mitch comments, shuddering.
"You're right but it's not over yet Mitch, Lachlan is still poisoned and he just passed out a few minutes ago..." Vikk reminds him.

Everyone turns to see Lachlan lying on his back, blood flowing from his neck with a hint of green lacing it. His face is pale and beads of sweat are collections on his forehead. While he's out his face is twisted into that of pain and his breathing is fast and ragged.

"We need to get him back to the house and patch him up. Luckily poison can't every kill you but it'll bring you real close..." Vikk mumbles.
"You guys go ahead, I'm going to go see that rose..."
     "I'll stay with you in case any more spider decide to say hi." Preston volunteers.
     "Okay be safe guys, we'll take Lachlan from here." Mitch states, him and Jerome working together to gently lift him in their arms.

     With that they start through the webs, to go and save Lachlan. Preston looks at me, then to the flower, and tilts his head briefly towards it. I nod, taking a deep breath as I slowly approach the flower.

     Last time I tried to touch it we were ambushed by a huge spider... So naturally I'd be nervous. So this time without hesitation I reach out and carefully grip the stem, being mindful of the thorns. Then with a quickly tug it's released from the webs and two seconds later everything is black.

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