Chrysalis

[Damn spider! Get down here and face me!]

The house-sized arachnid, safe in her hole in the wall ringed with poisonous strands of webbing as thick as a car waggled her fangs at me in derision and pointed one leg at the hundreds of ants standing next to me.

[Oh? You'll come out if they go away? Somehow I doubt that you eight-legged coward!]

The spider clacked her fangs and by waving her front four legs managed to convey the message that I was an invading, leg-deficient fool who couldn't be trusted and I may as well scuttle away with my stupid pets and fellow ants because she wasn't coming out to fight. I think she also insulted my mother.

[COME DOWN HERE AND SAY THAT, BUG!]

I was so mad I was hopping on the coating of stone and dirt we'd covered the webbing in, causing trickles of the material to fall into the cavernous space below.

"Eldest, why are you so upset?" Emilia asks.

"She insulted our mother!" I roar back.

The smaller generals aura turns dangerous as she stares up at the giant spider.

"Oh did she…."

and within moments all of the ants are flinging scented insults up at the spider who gleefully waggles her legs back at us. The

Thissss creature wantsssss death. Not for itssssself,

glowed with insight as it stared up at the looming mother spider. I brought myself back under control and told the ants to stand down. It wasn't like us to lose control of our emotions. Actually, it was totally like me. It wasn't like my siblings to lose control of their emotions. This dastardly spider might be more clever than I've been giving

army of ants marching through here at

reluctant to leave, unwilling to leave the

but it took a long time before we were able to pin down the location of her lair. It was also quite a project to

all over for the arachnids. Turns out that the spider brood wasn't nearly as cooperative as the ants. Such an inferior species! Gweheheheh. With hundreds of cooperative ants working together with our advanced tactics, the hidden super squad and my pets and I, they never had a chance. Even so, there were so many

worth it, not really for me, but for Vibrant and her squad,

you go with the big one?! Was it big?

comes bouncing along the web from a

anything on your side?"

points alone though, just like you said. It's so empty here now, it's

territory. We've wiped out her army and cornered her once, if we come back with more

we'll head out into the tunnels. We've got a lot of ground to cover and we

levels though! My friends

Wait a sec…

say

tilts her antennae in

so?

mean,