CHAPTER 8. THE UNLUCKY SPIDER FINAL PART
(Damien's POV)
[Still Now]
"A million bucks say: the succubus is about to stomp me." I made a quick bet with myself as my spider-sense berserk right after I had just survived from crashing into a pavement face-first.
I don't know whether I chose to roll or did a crazy ballerina stunt, but what happened next was me taking things very seriously as I shot webs at the succubus and made fierce swings at her.
We started in a well lit street, and from the light, I could make out her transformation.
"What are those made of? Dragon scales?" The scaled, red and black armor that covered all her fingers, and pretty much all her body, made it really hurt when I hit her with a leg and fist combo.
Although she appeared to feel the blow, I was not intending on repeating something that hurt so bad.
She was very agile and seemed experienced in combat that even my spider-sense couldn't keep up with her moves. She was setting it off nearly ten times per second as she tried to grab me or desperately consume me with her elongating, but still human-like tongue.
I could smell the pleasant pheromones that she kept on discharging, but I was secure with my constant webbing. All I had to do was web my suit up every now and then as our battle continued, and less and less pheromones would find their way into my brain.
"Her canines though. I wouldn't mind a bite from those beauties." Every time I found myself spewing such nonsense, I knew that I had to do something to reduce my infatuation with her, and I added another web to my suit.
Focusing on long-range attacks, I tried webbing her and binding her, but somehow, she could dissolve my mystic webs, even if it took several seconds.
Using more of my gold-colored webs didn't seem to increase the time, however.
Hurling cars and other objects at her from every street we crossed proved that she was impossible to defeat with brute force. Most she dodged, and some she tore apart as if they were made out of toilet paper.
However, I survived her longer than I expected, as her teleportation made my life more difficult.
I managed to keep myself from her grip with how I swung around and away from her, but I was beginning to feel that sooner or later, my fate would be in her hands.
"Dammit! What does it take to defeat a succubi without getting eaten?" I voiced my frustration as I crawled and hopped with a swinged roll to evade her once more.
Eventually, I got tired of being bullied with no clear sense of escape.
"Wait wait wait! Let's take a time-out." I gestured with my hands in front of me. "I'm tired of this chasing around without no real hope that I will defeat or escape you."
"Finally, the meal comes to its senses." I did not like how she kept referring me to as an 'it'. I mean, what had happened to the girl I couldn't get my eyes off less than an hour ago?
There was so much striking difference between the two versions.
"Is there any way we can come to a truce?" I asked. "Or forget this entire thing ever happened?"
"A truce?" She sounded amused. "You think I'd want a truce after using up all that power I've been accumulating over the years just to get a taste of you?"
"I seriously doubt I'm worth that much." I sallied.
"I've been watching you spin your webs from nothing but the insignificant ley lines around us, and it still amuses me that you don't understand the much power you have." She almost guffawed.
"Devouring you is like ravening a large proportion of existence in one hearty bite." She said longingly. "And I shall finally have the power I need to exact vengeance for my kind."
"Wait. There was an agenda?" I was legitimately both surprised and intrigued at the same time.
"Forgive me but, despite everything you've put me through tonight, I still think of you are insignificant because, I've never heard of you in my entire lives." I said defiantly, but genuinely speaking the truth.
Whoever this Jenny was, I didn't know her until I mistook her for a perfect one night stand.
"Who said your opinion mattered." Her reply stung. "You are nothing more than a vessel to an ultimate goal. One that I so luckily stumbled upon."
"Luck?" There was so much power in just hearing that word.
"And who are you going to exact revenge on again?" I stalled while my mind digesting a brewing thought. "The avengers? Doctor Strange? Scarlet Witch? An Ex?"
"Odin, son of Bor." She said with a reignited fury as her eyes literally got more blood-thirsty. "Now, stay still so I may feast." She lunged at me ferociously while looking more vampire than succubus.
"Oh god! Even the tone-!!" I lamented as I prepared to dodge her. "I liked it better when it was Jenny speaking."
"Strangely, I kinda miss her." I swung and flipped to a wall. Almost immediately, I had to jump again to evade her follow-up attempt, but I did it strategically. I then landed a whip from her tail despite my best effort to misdirect it with a swing.
"We had a connection. I can still feel it." Suppressing the pain, I didn't stop blabbering, even though it wasn't part of my plan.
I feigned a miss and allowed her to collide with my ribs with her locked horns and it made me groan in immense pain. However, I didn't stop as I catapulted with two webs back to the building our fight was revolving around.
"That's probably why I'm gonna miss her when this actually works." I concluded as she pranced on me, but I evaded by swinging above and beneath her with a web-line attached to a pivotal node, like a compass drawing a circle. "But in he light of things, I'm only doing one-night stands with people I know and have verified my entire life."
"Worry not, you will become one with her pretty soon." The succubus said as she withdrew her missed claws from one of the many holes made on the concrete building.
"I'm afraid that won't be happening." I said confidently from directly above her, my legs and one hand purposefully stuck to the wall and my free hand holding a web-line.
After a night of being incapable of defeating a succubus, it felt reassuring to see the frustration on her face as she tried to grab me, but something barred her.
I was just within reach, but she couldn't reach high enough to grab me.
"What is this? What have you done?" Her raspy voice got raspier with uncertainty.
"Nothing you shouldn't already be aware of." I gloated.
"You know, I should have been listening to you all night because, you had some interesting points." I was sure soliloquizing could backfire easily, but I had several seconds before she could dissolve my webs.
"You said I was inexperienced, and that's not far from true. I couldn't defeat you fast enough even when the method was right in front of me all along." I continued.
"The first time I- Oh, you're breaking free." I couldn't depict my soliloquy fast enough, and the succubus dissolved my webs. However, I had had her unknowingly trapped in a magical gamble.
Quickly, I connected the web line on my hand to an already used node, and magic flowed along it, and around her, permanently blocking her in a circle.
"No." I could tell that she understood what was happening.
"Yes." I said. "I should be thanking you for enlightening me to that possibility." I gloated. "You said I was spinning ley lines, and I realized I wasn't spinning them in the only effective way that can take a demon down."
"That's why you kept dissolving my webs by absorbing there powers." I explained my reason.
"Please..." I didn't understand why she was on the verge of gloating. "I can fill the banishment intent in the flow of this ether. But there's nowhere you can take me that I can't come back to find you."
"I'm a demon living among men for a reason." She vaunted.
"Even Asgard?" I stated more than asked, and the expression on her face was priceless. "To Odin, son of uh..what?"
"You didn't!" The connection was almost completing as she rued.
"Not sure." I replied, before the last connection was made and the magic made it's sparks. I was honestly impressed that it even worked, despite me being nearly clueless of what I had done.
A golden glow ignited from the side of the building, and before I could finish my gasp, it dissipated along with the body of the succubus. Only her screamed threats of 'You will pay for this' were left in the air.
"I'm poor at drawing, but after all this time, I should be aware that my powers come with a great deal of luck." I explained to the dissolving cries. "All I had to do was visualize and believe in my lucky web-spinning and, lastly, make a wish."
"As for what I drew," I swung into the air to observe the symbol. The symbol was glimmering as it's energy dissipated, but I mastered it's intricacies before it fully disappeared.
It was made of my web-lines. The parent shape was a perfect circle, and there were three triangles within, with each of their edges linked to nodes, not necessarily within the symbol's area.
[Summary] Luckily (literally), I had drawn a rune with webs, and allowing magic to flow all around it with intent had translated to a banishing spell.
Except, there were consequences, and throwing a web to where the symbol had once been confirmed my suspicions as a web-line failed to form.
The flow of (insignificant) magic in the reaction area had been severed, since all the nodes used in the process had been destroyed.
Regardless, it had done me a solid, and it was an advancement in understanding my abilities.
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[Later]
I'm Damien Dark, and I'm not your typical spider-guy.
I was bitten by a magical spider, and that somehow makes me really precious that a succubus would waste all her stored up magic just to have a bite at my essence.
I spin the magic around us into webs using an innate ability to sense the insignificant ley lines that it flows through.
And with those webs, I'm starting to think I can do more things than I'm yet to figure out.
However, I'm pretty sure things will get much much worse going forward, but I'm not worried. Call me cocky, but I believe my spider powers pack a lot of luck with them.
And just like I was about to explain to Jenny...
The first time I intended to swing with a web-line, I made the intent very clear but ended up missing magic nodes in all my webs' pathways. However, when I became reckless and relied on luck, it worked out pretty well.
Same goes for nearly every impossible act I've had to do. But, I don't think it's that easy; and when it'll be time to Let Me Down, I only hope it will be Slowly. (P.S. Imagining that song in the background doesn't really work for this narration. I tried.)
Magic is always a precarious subject, despite its glamour and appeal.
But I'm pretty sure I'll figure out all I need to know, as my story unfolds.
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A/N: And just like that, we have brewed the perfect Deadpool crossover story arc for a future, deadly, crossover. Jenny is one of those characters that don't get used twice in Marvel, but happen to have some explore-worthy backstories.
But that's as far as I go with her. I think.
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