The new jet black legs looked like black holes that absorbed all light coming from his back he stared at them it was strange how hard it was to see they were a three-dimensional object and not a two-dimensional image as he could not distinguish any depth as no light was reflected from them.
jumping into the air he opened the new legs that when being grown had torn throw his clothes now leaving a hole in the back of his once white ti shirt in mid-air the black legs around his body as he was flying throw the air looked like shadows had attached to the white shirt and in starch contrast made a beautiful scene as the light filtered down onto him from the tops of the trees.
Landing on the ground he moved even faster with the four legs moving across the uneven terrain like it was the flattest piece of land and so easy what had taken him about half an hour to move before only took him fifteen minutes as his strides were double as long as before and now moving if something got in his way he would still have more legs and even if his spider ones failed he could land on his human legs, ' maybe that's why I only got four legs instead of eight as I already have four human limbs so it must have counted them as well and gave me four new ones' he had been wondering why he had only got four spider legs when he had mutated and what he assumed was fangs and position from the spider and he was not sure why it had changed him so little.
With the extra changes, he was faster than the old wendigo and more dangerous as he had so many legs to attack and unlike the other limbs his spider limbs were already extremely sharp when they were thrust forward making large holes in the ground as he ran, they had his strength and speed so they became dangerous weapons just by unleashing any sort of stab and they felt so natural he only had to familiarise himself with there movement and it would be like he was born with them already attached.
As he was approaching the edge of the forest he was a man just on the outskirts of the forest with a bow and arrow, moving closer he noticed how old this man was as he was wrinkled and looked like a worn-out handbag but he moved to throw the brush like there was nothing impeding him.
William retracted his spider legs and stopped on top of a tree he watched him and noticed how he moved to throw the forest as if he had walked throw forests for almost all of his life, as he was watching him the man looked in his direction and their eyes locked that is when he fired a shot towards William.
William was not sure why he was shot at but he jumped back and fell to the ground as the branch was not thick enough to move around on he thumped when he hit the ground under the watching eyes of the huntsman, jumping up William prepared to ran and activated his spider legs to give him a chance to outrun this manic with a bow and arrow as if it had not been for the shadows moving the arrow to the left he still would have been hit in his chest as he was about to run.
"STOP" the man called out
William looked back and noticed the man was wearing a high vis vest that indicated he was a hunter that's when he remembered he was in a forest that was used for hunting he had known that when he had entire as he chose this forest for that reason but after all that had happened he forgot that by hiding he would look more like prey than a human that was here to hunt and it was his mistake so he decided to run anyway as he had shown his legs and did not want anyone to know so he ran.
"I KNOW WHO YOU ARE" yelled the old man
This made William stop in his tracks as he freaked out "how did he know who I was did he get a good look at my face" he wondered.
Flustered he turned to face the old man staring at him in his eyes. His new shadows though covered his face as he did not want to be seen and the shadows listened to his every command not just the conscious ones but they did not have the self-awareness as shadow did and just followed to all to the letter creating a weird moving mask of darkness on his face which stopped the man from seeing any depth in his face and only the piercing white of his eyes.
The man seeing this bowed to him putting the bow on the ground " I am sorry Anansi" he yelled.
William was taken aback as he wondered who he was calling as he surely could not be talking about him right, as he could now see his face and the spider legs were retracted he wondered why he did not just think he was seeing something.
" I am truly sorry for shooting at you great trickster god, you don't have to hide I was born in the was raised on the stories of your greatness, so may you remove your mask of darkness," said the old man.
' i don't have a mask of darkness what is this old quack talking about after he tried to shoot me, well while he is kneeling I may as well run" William made up his mind he would run anyway, it was only then that he realised that the mask of darkness must be the shadow souls he had and put his hand in front of he face and saw the darkness move to his hand.
'Anansi must have been here to see if i still believed I am glad i missed that shot now when he was hiding in the shadows, knowing i still remember and believe he has kindly answered my request' the old man was so happy as it had been years since he had preyed to the old gods but he remembered them all the same ever since his mother taught him when he was little.
William saw the old man look up and noticed he had taken the shadows off his face meaning the old man could see his face he quickly put them back on but he thought it was to late so he unfurled his four spider legs and began to run going as fast as he could he ran towards the old man wanting to get past him as fast as possible.
Seeing this the old man misunderstood as he though that Anansi was coming to talk to him so he stood up and face the incoming half spider half man.
'what is this old man doing is he trying to stop me from moving past him, well its not going to work' thought William.
"Anansi why have you come here" asked the old man.
For some reason this made William stop as why did he come to the forest early in the morning he was not sure but he was not going to stop to explore this thought with the old man like he was a therapist so he continued to run as fast as he could and soon left the old man as he lost sight of him.
"Anansi" whispered the old man making up his mind to find him again as he was sure that's what the trickster god wanted as he knew the truth even though people call him a trickster go that's only because they did not know the whole story.