Arachnids Infection

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This fanfic belongs to me, ChasmTheCaveWing, and me only. Grammar fixes welcome, but otherwise DO NOT EDIT. Or the spiders will come for you….
=== WARNING!! ===
If you have severe arachnophobia, or just don’t like spiders, I suggest that you do not read this. Also the typical warning that I do not know how to insert.
There is an AU, but it is a Wip so ya.
The main PoVs for this are Beetle and Firemoon.
This will be a shorter fanfic with shorter chapters, so bear with me.
 
= Prologue =
Sol
Sol flew across the desert sands to his oasis home. It had once been the home of Prickle, the sister to Palm. But with Prickle being dead for 12 years now, it was his. He plucked a coconut from one of the trees, and absentmindedly slammed it down on a rock, bashing it open. Sol picked up the half that had more milk in it, and chugged it down. Ahhhhh. He loved coconut milk. A flash of emerald green caught his eye. 
A small spider with strange green crystals literally growing out of it was scuttling across his coconut rock. He ran inside his hut and came out with a small glass jar. After quickly throwing in a few twigs, he scooped up the spider in the jar. I’ll study you later, he thought. 
Later, he awoke about midnight in a dizzy pain, his tail coating over in emerald stone. His head spun, and he didn’t move, but his muscles responded to some unknown command. 
His wings brought him to a odd place on the edge of the rainforest. It had looked like a volcano went off, but instead of ash and obsidian, there were emerald boulders and huge thick cobwebs everywhere. 
He entered a hidden small hut, the inside coated with sticky threads so you couldn’t even see the walls. Sol was plunged down through a hole, 
down, 
down, 
down… 
into a spiderweb of his nightmares. 
It was an emerald green barely lighter than the new crystals on his tail, and some now jutted out of his wings and back legs. 
In front of Sol looked like a huge, dragon sized spider….. 
but it wasn’t. 
It was a dragon, with a maniac, insane grin on his face. 
‘Oh, it’s you. I need SandWings the most because they are so helpful in spreading venom with their lovely tails.’ 
The voice echoed, seemingly coming from the heart of Sol’s skull. 
‘Mostly the transformation usually takes about two hours, but aren’t you lucky? You get helped along!’ 
Hundreds, thousands of spiders swarmed up through the floor, scuttling all over Sol, tiny scratchy legs shimmying up Sol’s spine. Oddly, they didn’t bite. 
’Are you ready Sol?’ 
No, no nononono… Sol’s remaining headspace thought, alongside an intrusive, slithering voice that was his spider part shouting ‘yessssss, yesssssss!’ 
The spiders bit down all over Sol’s scales. 
The agony was like nothing anyone has ever experienced. Pain seared through him as huge emerald fangs jutted out through his gums, the green stone forming a plated armor over all his scales. His remaining dragon consciousness was burned away, replaced by a pure instinct to spread, swarm, to capture and turn anything dragon into whatever he was now. The urge to kill and kill and kill. The urge to obey the Master. 
‘Go now Sol. Spread. Kill.’ 
Sol threw himself in the air, and he saw another dragon ahead. His wings swarmed him forward, and he shot out sticky threads from this new spinner on his wrist. They snagged the dragon, and she screamed while tumbling to the ground. His tail sliced a deep, jagged wound on her neck, and while she shrieked in agony, her eyes glazed over a deep shade of green. He bit her several times with his new huge fangs, his instincts saying the more the bit, the faster the transformation. 
She stood, shaking her red and black wings out that now had green stone growing at a rapid pace. Her front fangs enlarged, and her talons shot out sticky green spiderthread that drew out a snarling little red and black dragonet, of whom she quickly bit and bit and bit. Sol and the new spiders launched into the air, to take over the world for Master Spider. 
= Chapter 1 =
Firemoon
Firemoon was bored. 
The Night-Sky hybrid was watching a caterpillar shimmy up a stem. She didn’t realize that this day would change her life.
Her mother was a SkyWing, and Firemoon and Garnet lived in a small house on the edge of Possibility. 
Suddenly, a scream ripped from her house. 
Firemoon raced to her hut, hoping that it was nothing, just a scare. 
Garnet was writhing on the ground, covered in emerald green spiders. She saw Firemoon and her eyes widened. 
“GET OUT OF HERE, FIREMOON! GET FAR AWAY AND DON’T EVER COME BACK!” Garnet screamed. Then her eyes rolled back and became orbs of dark forest green. Garnet shot out spiderthread at Firemoon, and Firemoon fled. 
*** 
Fire has been living by herself for TWO WHOLE YEARS now. She hadn’t seen anyone in that long. 
She was walking to her garden when she heard a noise out her window. 
Firemoon froze, grabbing a spear she had scavenged. 
A dragon stumbled through her door. She was a RainWing, with sea-blue scales with swirls of gold. And her eyes were yellow. So not a spider. 
”Who are you and what are you doing here?” 
Firemoon’s own voice startled her. She hadn’t talked to anyone in so long! 
The RainWing looked up and glanced at Firemoon’s eyes, then answered, 
”I am Seablue. I was chased by around a dozen full grown spiders, and I eluded them a dragged myself here.” 
Firemoon was suspicious about the eluding part, but she welcomed Seablue with open wings. 
”You know, I’m actually a Sea-Rain hybrid.” Seablue said 
“Really? What part of you is SeaWing?” 
Seablue pointed to her tail, where a small strip of SeaWing bio scales glittered. 
“I know, it’s unimpressive.” 
”No, not really. What is unimpressive is all the animi failing to bring the spiders down.” 
”I KNOW. It’s actually really weird.” 
”Yeah, like it’s animus-inforced or something.” 
They talked for the rest of the day, and then Firemoon made a small bed out of moss for Seablue to sleep on. 
“Sorry, I wish I had something better, I just wasn’t expecting… like visitors…” 
”Oh no worries. Yesterday night I was sleeping in a pile of mulch wood chips. Like INSIDE the wood chips.” 
Firemoon said “O_O” 
The next morning, Seablue suggested that they try going to Possibility, where Seablue was from. 
“Uh… I’m not sure….” Firemoon started. 
”Oh come on. Every dragon needs other dragons,” 
Finally they decided to go anyway. 
“I’m still not sure this is a good idea…” 
Suddenly ten Spiders leapt out of the trees, claws outstretched. 
= Chapter 2 =
Firemoon
Firemoon shrieked and the spear from her back. One of the spiders impaled himself on the spear, breaking the tip.
Well there went that.
Then Seablue did something Firemoon wasn’t expecting.
Seablue’s jaw extended like it had hinges and sprayed black liquid over three Spiders.
Firemoon knew that Spiders still feel pain, but not the same pain that normal dragons do.
But the screaming would probably be the same.
The Spiders’ emerald plates melded into their scales, which almost instantly hardened, freezing that part. 
Seablue continued to shoot her venom until all of the Spiders were glittering statues.
”How did you do that??” 
“We RainWings can do that, yeah, it’s helpful.”
Firemoon felt faint. She wasn’t one to get queasy, but this one got her. She ran behind a bush, and when she was finished, Seablue was laughing out loud.
”Shush, you’ll alert some Spiders!” Firemoon warned.
They continued toward Possibility.
While they were in the woods, they encountered an abandoned house. Seablue suggested that they check it out.
”No, it might be a Spider ambush.”
”It’s FINE, you big old worry wart.”
”It’s not worrying, it’s BEING CAUTIOUS!”
This went on for a while, until they decided to see if there was food stocked in there.
They crept into the house, and the door creaked loudly when they entered.
”Oh fire butts…” Firemoon said.
Well, there was food alright, it looked like a dragon was just in here.
”We should go now. This might be an ambush.” Firemoon pleaded.
”It is an ambush.” Snarled a voice from the doorway.
= Chapter 3 =
Firemoon
Firemoon spun around, inhaling some fire breath in case it was needed. 
The dragon in the doorway was an orange HiveWing, with lighter wings specked with light yellow-orange and black. His eyes were a light yellow, with brown irises.
”Who are you?” Seablue demanded.
”None your business.” He snapped. “Get out!”
Suddenly his expression softened and he folded his wings in, glancing to the left of him.
”Um…” Firemoon said.
”But they could be dangerous!” The HiveWing blurted to what seemed like no one. It was certainly not Firemoon or Seablue.
The HiveWing continued to argue with air until he said, “Fine. My name is Beetle.”
“Firemoon, and this is Seablue.” Firemoon said.
”Oh, and this is Brightwater.” Beetle said, again glancing to the left.
”Um… sorry, but we don’t see another dragon.” Firemoon said, feeling like this dragon was a bit nuts.
”O. Right.” Beetle said. “You won’t see her.” He looked at the ground.
”Why not?” Seablue asked.
”Um.… Why don’t you sit and let’s talk?”
= Chapter 4 =
Beetle
Beetle couldn’t move.
He wanted to, but he couldn’t.
The queen was in his head, his talons, his traitorous talons.
The dragon below him was writhing on the floor of the execution chamber. 
“Nice try, you pathetic worm of a dragon.” The Queen Wasp said with Beetle’s mouth, as he sliced through the dragon’s underbelly.
He screaming and wriggling cut off soon. 
The Queen marched Beetle to the wall, where his weapons were. He took them and started back to the Queen Wasp’s throne room to guard her.
***
The Queen was furious.
3 HIVES worth of SilkWings escaped somewhere on Pantala to help the LeafWings, who weren’t actually extinct. Beetle was part of the squadron that attempted to find them, to no avail. Wasp took out her anger on several HiveWings, luckily not him.
Brightwater, where do you think they went?
Brightwater, his only conversational companion, was a hybrid between two tribes of the Distant Kingdoms that he had learned about when he found some forbidden books as a dragonet. She was a SeaWing-SkyWing, and she was everything that Beetle was not.
Oh, and she didn’t actually exist.
Beetle didn’t really think anymore that she wasn’t real. She was as real as Wasp, real as Pantala, as real as everything.
”I really don’t know. Ooo, maybe the Distant Kingdoms! I WISH we could go there and escape Wasp!”
Me too, Brightwater. Me too.
***
War was here. 
The war between the mind control, Wasp, and Cottonmouth, a creature actually responsible for the mind control.
Against the Pyrrhians.
The Distant Kingdoms. And the dragons that lived there.
Suddenly, Beetle collapsed, unconscious.
*** 
When the mind control broke, Beetle had been under the thrall of Wasp for so long, he didn’t know at first how to go on without her.
But boy, an I glad I learned.
”Me too! Now we’re heading to PYRRHIA!!” Brightwater shouted enthusiastically next to him. Her glimmering blue scales shone like sapphires in the ocean sunlight.
Beetle built a house far away from other dragons to let himself recover, and be alone. Well, alone except Brightwater. “Come onnnnnn, Beetle. Why can’t we check out Possibility? It might not be that bad!” Brightwater pestered.
“It’s ALWAYS bad if there are other dragons around, Brightwater.” Beetle responded.
*** 
When Beetle finished his story, Firemoon and Seablue were staring at him with wide eyes.
”So, umm…. Uh….” Firemoon started.
”Can I say hi to Brightwater?” Seablue asked.
”Seablue!” Firemoon said.
”Yeah, whatever.” Beetle answered. 
“HI BRIGHTWATER!!” She shouted enthusiastically at the air to Beetle‘s left. 
Beetle bit back a chuckle while Brightwater was openly laughing.
”Umm, she’s actually right here.” Beetle told Seablue, flicking his tail to his right.
Seablue blushed and mumbled, “Hi Brightwater.”
”Nice to meet you Seablue!” Brightwater said.
Beetle bit his tongue. If I just say it fast….
”Can I come with you?”
= Chapter 5 =
Beetle
He didn't know what happened. One minute it was all normal, the next he was following strange dragons to a town TEEMING with dragons.
"Are you absolutely sure that Possibility is the ONLY way to go?" Beetle asked.
"Yeah, we can find my parents and they can help us." Seablue said cheerily.
Beetle muttered ominously under his breath.
Is this a good idea?
"I think so!" Brightwater said. "We NEEDED to see other dragons because you're a grump!"
"Excuse me???" Beetle said aloud.
Firemoon and Seablue gave him twin confused looks.
"Never mind me over here..." Beetle mumbled.
"Oh wow, look at that tree! It's huge!" Sealue said, pointing.
It WAS a big tree, very tall and in a corner of Beetle's mind, very familiar.
Oh no...
"Umm, Beetle? Look out!" Brightwater whispered, but her voice was already getting more distant.
Beetle's eyes shut suddenly and he collapsed on the leafy ground.
***
His talons raking through scales and flesh.
His wings propelling him to Wasp Hive, a looming shape in the distance.
Wondering what the queen wanted with him.
Thrusting his wrist stingers through so many HiveWing hearts.
The queen controlled all.
all..
all......
***
When Beetle awoke, Firemoon was watching him with the most concerned expression he had ever seen on a dragon other than Brightwater.
Speaking of which. Brightwater, where are you? I NEED you!
"I'm right here." She appeared next to him.
"Oh, thank the shining moons." Beetle said, pushing himself up.
"You're up!" Firemoon jumped to her feet excitedly.
"Where am I?" Beetle asked Firemoon.
"A cave in a cliffside. We had to drag you here. Soo, what was THAT?!" Firemoon demanded.
"Flashback." Beetle answered.
Firemoon's eyes widened and she sat back down. "Oh, I-I didn't realize..."
"No, it's fine." Beetle said. "Wait, where's Seablue?" 
"Guarding, just over there." Firemoon said.
"Is he awake?" Seablue asked sticking her head around the corner.
"Sorta." Beetle grumbled, rubbing his head.
"Let's get moving then." Firemoon said, then jumped into the sky.
= Chapter 6 =
Firemoon
Poor Beetle. She hadn't known that the strange dragon would have flashback problems as well. She didn’t know what to think of him anymore. 
After the reached the border of Possibility, Beetle began to twitch nervously. 
"I'm really not sure that I should go in..." He began. 
"Oh, don't be a smoke-breather. Let's GOOOO!" Seablue said, flinging herself into the air. 
”I don’t even have fire…” Beetle muttered. 
Possibility was probably the best place if you wanted to survive a spider attack. Well, there’s no cure, not even animus magic. But Possibility itself is a well-defended, peaceful place. 
”We can go meet my parents and they can keep you safe and feed you and defend you and…” Seablue’s voice rambled off into nonsense. 
Beetle was lagging behind, and Firemoon slowed her pace to match his. 
”Are you ok?” She asked. 
Beetle didn’t answer. 
”Are you ok?” Firemoon we again, a bit louder this time. 
Beetle jumped and said, “Yeah, I’m fine.” 
“You looked a million miles away.” 
”I was talking to Brightwater.” He snapped. 
Firemoon rolled her eyes and sped up to catch Seablue, but she had soared down to a hut in the thick of the buildings. 
”Mom? Dad? Are you in here?” Seablue called. 
A scream pierced the erie silence. 
”1000 SPIDERS ARE HERE! ITS AN ATTACK!” 
= Chapter 7 =
Beetle
I knew it.
”Oh come on! It’s just a bad taste in your mouth!” Brightwater protested.
Nonono.
Beetle lunged out of the door, running past Firemoon. “Wait, Beetle!” She cried, but Beetle didn’t stop.
Firemoon and Seablue were running behind him, glancing around frantically for Spiders.
”I knew this would happen…” Beetle said to Brightwater.
”No you didn’t!”
”I did! I told you it would!” 
Beetle growled and continued.
Behind him, he heard Firemoon scream. He skidded around, looking for Spiders.
Firemoon and Seablue were surrounded by them, snarling and biting. Beetle stood, frozen.
Drakness pressed in on his vision.
Nonono, not now…
Beetle ran pell-mell into the nearest house, slammed the door and locked it, then immediately fell unconscious.
***
His small claws, breaking out of his egg. Watching as his mother smiled down on him.
A forbidden dragonethood.
His summon to Wasp Hive.
Being surrounded by mind-controlled HiveWings.
Wasp as she stabbed a tail stinger into his neck.
Controlled forever…..
***
Beetle was in the air, with Firemoon, Seablue, and an unfamiliar dragon lugging him along.
”Drop me right now!” He roared.
He hovered in the air as they explained what happened. Brightwater helped too.
”And this is Lunar, a NightWing-SilkWing. She saved us with her animus magic.” Firemoon finished.
Beetle nodded at Lunar, wary. “Thank you.”
She smiled. “Anytime.”
= Chapter 8 =
Beetle
Beetle suggested that they take refuge in the woods outside of Possibility.
And thankfully, the others listened.
“I think Possibility is decimated.” Lunar said. By all the shining MOONS, this dragon never stopped talking. “I mean, that was a HUGE attack.”
Beetle groaned. “I’m cold.”
”Oh I can help with that!” Lunar said. She gathered some twigs and shot flamesilk from her wrists and set them ablaze.
”Beetle? Beetle look out…” Brightwater started.
But Beetle was already out.
***
HiveWings dying left and right.
Dying in piles of flamesilk as the queen took out her anger.
Fearing that he would be next.
His wrist stinger in his sister’s heart, unstoppable tears rolling down his snout.
Killing so many…..
***
”Beetle?” Lunar’s voice said.
Beetle jerked awake.
”You’re alive!” She shouted.
”Why wouldn’t I be?” Beetle grumbled. “Just a flashback.” 
Firemoon and Seablue were here too.
Brightwater? Hello?
”Right here.” She said, touching his nose with hers.
Good.
”I can help you with those!” Lunar said enthusiastically.
”With what now?” Beetle said warily.
”With the flashbacks! I could enchant something or you even if you don’t want to lose it!”
”What? N-“ Beetle said, jerking up.
”It could stop the pain or lose your memories or start you over completely-“
“NO!” Beetle shouted, now standing.
”I’ll do the enchantment now! I enchant-“
”NOOOOOO!!” Beetle howled, then he took off into the woods.
= Chapter 9 =
Beetle
”Keep going Beetle. They’re not chasing you.” Brightwater assured him.
”This was a horrible idea.” Beetle said, heart pounding, feeling sick.
”Why?” Brightwater prompted him.
”I just-“ Beetle sighed, slowing down. “I don’t like it when other dragons try to treat me and others differently, try to control us. We’re dragons, like them, living our lives.” 
“I agree. That dragon was bonkers.”
Beetle’s emotions caught up to him and he collapsed on the leaf litter, sobbing.
”There, there, now Beetle. It’s over now.” Brightwater said.
”I-I want to be home.” He sobbed. 
“We can start when you have sorted yourself out.” She stood to leave. 
“Brightwater, please don’t leave me.” Beetle said, still crying.
”I will never do that.” She said.
Beetle slipped into sleep.
***
Firemoon.
”What was his problem?” Lunar asked.
”WHY DID YOU TRY TO ENCHANT HIM?!” Seablue yelled, while Firemoon stood in shock.
”All I was doing was trying to help!” Lunar shouted back. “It’s his problem that he didn’t want it!”
Firemoon found her voice again and said, “Let’s all sleep and we’ll think about this in the morni-“ 
A Spider jumped into sight and pounced.
Seablue hissed and opened her jaws, while Firemoon readied her fire breath.
The Spider pounced on top of Lunar.
But instead of Lunar defending herself, she stared in shock at the Spider’s face.
”D-Deja vu?!” She exclaimed. “Is it really you?”
”LUNAR!” Firemoon screamed. “Get it!”
The Spider fell back, hissing as a metal cage sprung up around it.
Lunar panted hard. 
Seablue came up and touched Lunar’s shoulder. “Who’s Deja vu?”
”My sister.” Lunar’s voice broke.
More Spiders lunged out. One leapt onto Lunar, jabbing at her with his fangs and venomous tail.
Firemoon screamed as the Spider bit Lunar in the neck.
”LUNAR!” Firemoon yelled. “Fight back!”
Lunar screamed in agony as emeralds jutted out from her gums and scales.
”TELL BEETLE THAT I’M SORRY-” Lunar said before her eyes rolled back and became green pits.
Seablue and Firemoon were surrounded.
***
Beetle
Home.
”I will give it to you, this wasn’t a good idea.” Brightwater said.
”Oh really?” 
A scream sounded through the woods.
That sounded like Firemoon.
”It did!” Brightwater agreed.
Beetle was running before his legs even knew where he was going. Spiders must have attacked them! But why wouldn't Lunar-
A horrible, sick feeling swirled in his stomach.
No. Nono.
Lunar must be infected now. 
"Oh no! I wouldn't wish that on anyone, even her!" Brightwater said.
Darkness pressed on Beetle's vision, and his legs grew weak.
No, no, NO anytime but now...
Beetle was out before he hit the floor.
***
A swarm of HiveWings, white-eyed and mindless.
Beetle, a dragonet, hiding in terror of them finding his secret.
I can't be controlled.
A HiveWing head perking up as the queen inside him heard the slightest noise.
The swarm suddenly surrounding him.
All their voices monotoning, "What a dumb little worm. Thought you could hide, did you? Well now you don't."
His terrified screams as the queen appeared and plunged her tail through Beetle's neck, feeling the worming, malicious voice of Wasp in his head as his eyes became orbs of white.
His wrist stingers in his mother's chest, killed for treason by her own dragonet.
Desperately hoping for escape one day.
***
Beetle woke with a gasp, for a second not remembering anything. 
Then he was running again.
How long was I out? 
"About half an hour." Brightwater answered.
"WHAT?! We need to keep moving!" 
Beetle's tracking skills came in handy when he followed the trail to the in between part of the Rainforest.
He gasped softly as he saw Firemoon and Seablue being taken away be a horde of Spiders, including Lunar.
= Chapter 10 =
Firemoon
"LEMME GO YOU STUPID SONS OF A SPIDER HEAD!!" Firemoon shouted in a rage.
"YOU ARE TWO FACED SONS OF JACKELS!!" Seablue shouted as well. (Didn't quote Aladdin, no no no)
A flash of orange caught Firemoon's eye. Its Beetle! Her mind cried. He was hiding behind a slightly see-through emerald.
Firemoon didn't THINK that Spiders can understand Dragon, but she didn't want to risk calling out, just in case.
She wasnt sure where they were going, but she would soon find out.
Firemoon and Seablue ripped matching screams as the Spiders plunged her down into a hidden hole.
What they saw was horrific.
A huge Spider, with an insane grin on his face, looked gleefully pleased to see us. Lunar, still a Spider, escorted us to him and bowed. 
'Ah, thank you for bringing us your friends, Lunar.' The Spider rumbled. 'You may go.'
The Big Spider took them to a tiny enclosed cave to infect them by himself. 
He bared his fangs and leaned closer.
Suddenly a blur flew past them, aiming straight and true for the Spider's heart, and reached his destination.
It was Beetle.
= Chapter 11 =
Beetle
Beetle's heart beat wildly.
He had to do something, but what?
He knew that he knew the answer, but it was terrible and his mind didn't even want to think about it, much less do it.
"Beetle." Brightwater's voice was soft. "You know what to do."
Beetle readied his stingers and leapt,
Soaring, 
Soaring,
Falling,
Crack.
The impact knocked the breath clear out of Beetle as he went tumbling on the floor, his wrist stingers still firmly plunged in the Spider's heart.
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