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“Yeah, I know.” He smiled again. While Takeo and Dai talked, L and Raven were working on flipping the spider to get her daggers out of it. They weren’t making much progress considering it weighed a ton…

After they had finally managed to flip the spider over onto its’ back, the daggers were buried into its’ chest; they had to dig them out. When they got them out they were filthy with spider blood and other unknown liquids; they washed them off and all four decided they needed a rest.


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Raven was the first to wake from their unbidden sleep. They had slept through the afternoon, and it was starting to get cooler. She hit Ls’ shoulder to wake him up. He jumped up looking around.
“Holy Crap!” he exclaimed. “Did we really fall asleep?” He ran over to Takeo, who was lying back to back with Dai, and started to shake him; reflexively Takeo’s hand shot out and punched him in the stomach. He fell over gasping for air. Takeo’s eyes suddenly snapped open; when he saw what he had done he got up on his knees and leaned over L.
“Oops, sorry mate…reflexes.” He smiled down at him weakly. Then he realized how low the sun was, “Oh…” And then he realized something. The spiders’ body was no longer where they had left it. There was a long blood streak going from where they had left it into the darkness of the building. When he pointed there was a sudden chill in the air.
Why didn’t whatever it was kill us while it was taking the body? Takeo thought to himself. He looked around to see if there was any evidence of what had taken it, but he found nothing. He looked over at L, who had the sharpest eyes, and nodded at him and he nodded back. He stood up and began searching near the blood streak, his head going from left to right until he stopped and crouched down next to the streak. He waved them over to him.
They stood around him as he pointed out a huge clawed footprint.
“Well guys, I don’t think whatever took it was human…just an idea…” Dai’s hand tightened on her falchion’s hilt, Raven looked around nervously, L just looked into the hole where the door had once been, and Takeo stood there looking at the sky.
After a length of time Takeo sighed and started walking towards the hole, startling them all out of their trances. Dai started walking after him, soon followed by L, leaving Raven standing there frightened. As soon as L realized that Raven wasn’t following he ran back to her, grabbed her hand and pulled her with him.
As soon as they had all entered into the reception area, they found that they could only go to one other area, due to the fact that the other paths were blocked by the collapsed ceiling that just “happened” to fall only in the doorways. So they went the only way they could; into the Arena itself.