Thread: Gates of Life and Death (Razgriz x Umbrale)

Flattery usually gets you no where, but it just so happens that I'm compliment-inclined, sly-lips. That strange feminine voice whistled out. It wasn't as if it was indiscernibly gendered, of course, as it quite clearly belonged to a female. However, the perfect pitch and low, almost melodic melody of it just seemed out of place compared any normal vibrations of the vocal chords. But that was the least of the two male's most prominent attention-grabbers, as the eyes began to shift closer. The only bits able to be seen at first, they bobbed, and slowly moved closer to the ground, as they grew larger the being enclosing on them. Me? I'm just a resident..., came the voice again, as it emerged into the dim, but still revealing light. Unlike anything they had seen before, as even in the exchange program, they had not seen such an entity. What first probably scared them shitless, was the spider-legs. As step-after-step brought them into view, shifting an arachnid abdomen and appendages into their sight. Surprisingly, it wasn't chitinous. Rather, it was furry a fluffy light-grey short floof that lay amongst the limbs like down on a bird. On the ends of those insectoid limbs had scaly black padded paws, two-padded, with wicked hooked claws. The coloring of the fur ascended the legs in darker-grey rings, with culminated in a patch among the back thorax. The lower it got, the more white and fluffy it appeared. But, as horrifying as that was, it was more exotic when compared the centaur-like appearance of the being. Where the spider's face and head might have been normally, extended a human body from what appeared to be the waist-up that connection hidden from view by a lingerie-like, lacy loincloth, whom's holes within the blinding-white material revealed pearlescent, smooth skin. But moving up from that was a smooth, athletic, but not muscular, stomach, leading to a bust that was only C-cup, at the maximum, also hidden within the bounds of a wonderful-tailord lacy bra, patterns of roses and spiders highlighted by the soft hues of the skin beneath. Dexterous hands on slender, smooth arms were folded just under that bust, while above it hung vibrant-black hair cut-short, ending just above the shoulders, in an almost tomboyish, but cute rogue look. Unnerving, but attentive, three pairs of red eyes slanted at intervals not perfectly aligned vertically--the middles offset to their respective sides slighty-- blinked with a vibrant crimson hue, while a small pert nose, smattering of freckles, and pouty lips completed her appearance. There was only one thing that played away from her intimidation value. She barely reached Adrian's shoulders in height. It was clear, however, that she was no child, by her demeanor and development. Rather, she was just short! And to answer the question of how her eyes had appeared taller than them in the darkness like a spider threatened, it could be presumed that she could rear back her front arachnid limbs, which would in turn raise her humanoid half rather high into the air. You're in the Grotto, right now. Just this little grove you find yourself in... But my... a tongue flicked out, and licked over those pouty, soft lips, as her eyes--only discernably pupiled by a more intense crimson glow in the center--cycled down both male's bodies to linger long on their crotches. ... oh, my, you look absolutely ravenou----- Before she could say another word, a sudden flame exploded into existence just behind the males, casting the area into a bright light of azure hue. Pulsating and glowing intensely, with a rather warm, but not hot aura to the senses, the flame's light was far more intense than the simple illuminating flora about them. This, immediately, caused the spider-woman to cry out in pain, and shield her eyes even going so far as to duck her face away between her arms. If that wasn't surprising enough, the flame spoke! With an echoing, soft voice it exclaimed, No!- No! Run Away!- Run Away! After the words, another flame burst into existence, a few dozen meters away, within the more massive leavy foliage that the males had seen farther on. This Way!- This Way! It called out now, a tone of insistent urgency apparent within its voice.