Lifted upwards toward the ceiling, I watched as faint streams of light mist made it through the growing gap between the Frostfangs appendage and the hole in the ceiling.
In fear of the destruction of my shell and ultimately my life, I froze. No, I didn't freeze, but I froze still. I didn't move. I knew that struggling and incurring further damage wasn't the answer.
Skewered through my body like I was a piece of fruit on a fruit platter, I knew I was probably dinner... mmm fruit I wish I can have some fruit right now. Do you have any?
Oh, sorry. Back to the story.
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'I didn't give up... I'm only waiting for an opportunity.' I replied in my head through the nearly unbearable pain that was still ravaging my stomach.
I looked upwards.
Streams of mist flowed downward inching through the gaps. It swirled around and was mesmerizing. Almost... beautiful in a way. Something about it seemed to call out to me as I stared further at it. I didn't notice, but the room seemed to fade out around me and turn black. Despite my situation, it became me and the mist as I continued to be drawn into its movements. White particles contrasted on a background of black. Swirling in some places, floating peacefully in others the mist continued to flow downward and against my body. Looking closer... it didn't actually touch me, but I felt it... light cold wind brushed up against my body as my mucus froze. Watching closely, I made a discovery. The mist only flowed around my body, but it had never touched me. Wisps of white and formless movement, the mist seemed so... free, yet it still couldn't touch my body. The more I thought about it, the unpredictable mist became more predictable. It blew away with a light wind. Like it looked for the lowest point, it was constantly being drawn downwards...
'There were rules in place...' I thought but before I could comprehend my sudden enlightenment, I was pulled back into reality from my mysterious mental world.
Back to the cold. A chilling cold enveloped me as I snapped out of my trance.
A white room. A clouded white room.
'Can't see.' I thought as my body was smothered by mist. Taking tiny breathes of cold air I looked around at the new environment.
Above.
Flashing through the mist, the appendage stuck out of my shell. I was still stuck. Below me, a whirlpool of white had formed. Like a drain, mist continually funnelled downward endlessly.
I jolted. I saw something.
'Nothing... nothing but white.' I replied, but I soon corrected myself. 'No. A box of light... no a door...' I thought as I noticed the faint outline of a doorway of light as the mist shifted. Sealed by a thin layer of strands I could see the shine of moonlight barely cross through the filaments before it was snuffed out by the mist.
'The way out.' I thought.
'Yes.' I replied as I felt the world shift.
We were moving.
With a swing, the Female Frostfangs appendage bent. Blurs of grey appeared among the flashes of white. It was drawing me closer. Shapes appeared suddenly through the mist. Round shapes. Pearls. Giant pearls appeared through the mist as I came face to face with my assailant.
Clear as day, it emerged through the mist as its body rose above it.
Eight giant segmented legs poked out from above the mist. Thick hairs run throughout its body.
It looked the same as the male, but it was thirty times larger. Up and down. I was raised up and down as it breathed. Each time it exhaled, plumes of white mist funnelled out from its sides like torrents of high pressured steam as it blasted outwards and the room chilled even more.
'The Reward System was right.' I thought as I felt myself gulp in astonishment.
Shining with intelligence, the Female Frostfang pulled me closer. Observation. I was observing me as it tilted my body around.
I stared back as well as I looked into her eyes.
Anger. It was anger that stared back. Anger mixed with curiosity.
As also noted her features. But as I looked, I grew hungrier. Reminded of how good the Male Frostfang's flesh was, it was almost like I could taste it once more.
'No.'
But I couldn't push the thought into the back of my head.
With the gigantic temptation before my eyes, I was slowly losing control of myself. Appealing like an expensive meal of buttered lobster, I couldn't help myself as I felt my mouth water and my body slowly move no matter how hard I tried not to.
I fought back against my primal instinct to feed.
My body fluttered back and forth like I was having a seizure.
The Female Frostfang seemed to take notice as the colour of its eyes seemed to shift from grey to black.
'Oh no.' I thought as I noticed its reaction. Curling up slightly, I braced myself as I prepared to be smashed into the floor once more...
But I was wrong.
Feeling the mist brush up against my body, I felt my body swinging upward.
Boom.
An impact as I felt my body break through a line of filaments - through a wall. Opening my eyes as I had closed them the moment, I hit the wall, I looked around.
Devoid of mist, I recognized a familiar site.
A room. A sealed room.
A sack. Another sack.
A body, dark and brown. Encased in a hard shell-like structure, a horn protruded from its head. Two eyes... two beady black eyes darted around. Our eyes met for a brief moment before I saw it struggle. But it couldn't move. It was tied down by a thick pile of white goop, it remained stuck to the webbing. A brown beetle-like creatures stuck to the web.
Before I could observe any further, I felt an immense pain as the Frostfang removed its appendage from my body. Like the cap being removed from a shaken pop bottle, I felt a spurt of blood blast out from my shell before it froze seconds later.
I was free.
Quickly, I acted. This was my chance to escape... Or so I thought.
I was stuck... stuck to the floor.
Creating as much mucus as I could, I tried to free myself... but I couldn't
In my peripheral vision, I saw the Frostfang's long hairs shimmer in the faint light. Hues of grey and white hairs shifted as it moved and left.
I continued to struggle.
Slowly freeing part of myself, I thought I was clear! But...
But suddenly, I felt a torrent hit my body. A torrent of disgusting white fluid flooded the room from behind me as it quickly solidified over my body and the body of the beetle.
I was truly stuck.
With helplessness, I watched the female seal me into the tiny room with more messy goop.
I was stuck and trapped.
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