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"We didn't escape her this time either, did we?" asked his Lei.
"No," admitted Kokata.
His Lei, still in his hold, reached up a hand to his face. Kokata raised himself out of her reach.
"Don't touch me," he snarled.
Whenever his Lei touched him, Dark attacked shortly after. Mostly to cut his Lei.
"Don't let her get between us," begged his Lei and continued to reach.
"I need a rest," snarled Kokata and threw his woman to the ground. As long as he didn't treat his Lei as his woman, as long as he didn't show affection, or allow her to show affection back, Dark left them be.
"I'll kill her," said his Lei. Holding on to her bow.
"You can't," snarled Kokata. "You're weak."
"I don't care if I can't, that won't stop me from doing it."
"Pathetic fool," snarled Kokata. The meaner he was, the safer she would be. "You can't even fly anymore."
His Lei rose to her feet. Without her wings she looked more like Death than like a moth, except that she was heart-strikingly feminine.
"I don't need wings to kill," she said, raising her chin.
The worse off they were, the more drained, hungry, and exhausted they were, the harder shone her strength and pride. Kokata wanted to weep in her arms. He couldn't protect her.
"Don't you get it?" he snarled. "She is toying with us. She can kill us any time she wants to."
"If she had any wits whatsoever, she would have done it long ago," said his Lei. "Her stupidity will be her undoing. That, and me."
Kokata wanted to tell her not to provoke Dark, but it was too late. She was on them like a black storm. She took Lei.
Kokata wasted no air on screaming, he just chased after them.
He moved as fast as he could. Dark wasn't trying to hide, she just moved straight ahead, jump after jump. The distance between him and them grew with every one.
Kokata's insides were an empty hole. This time Dark would go through with it. This time she would kill his Lei. She was done playing.
They were further and further ahead.
Kokata jumped as far and fast as his legs were able. He was slow. He was exhausted. His legs wouldn't move as fast as he told them to.
They were so far ahead that they were just a small moving dot.
Kokata jumped again and flew through the air. He was fully aware that some of his legtips had slipped at the set off. He wouldn't get within reach of the branch he had aimed for.
If he died, no one could help his Lei. He released silk as fast as the wind of his jump would tear it out of him. He was too far from the ground to survive a fall and too close to it to release enough silk to properly slow his fall.
Kokata couldn't tell whether or not he would survive. He curled himself into a ball and hit the forest bed.
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The mad spider-woman landed on the forest-bed and threw Lei through the air. Lei's side hit the ground and send her into a sideways roll. Even while rolling she grabbed an arrow, but the spider gave her no time to put it to her bow.
The spider jumped to where she was and in one motion grabbed hold of all her limbs and spread them out. The act was so similar to something Black would do when they were playing, that for a split second, Lei expected to see his face upon looking up.
For that split second, everything bad that had happened was just a dream, and Black and her happily, safely, together was real.
But then she looked up and saw Dark's scarred face.
"So you will kill me?" asked the spider-woman and laughed.
"I will," stated Lei, glaring into the mad-woman's eyes. "You have my word."
The spider-woman laughed again.
"You know, you are really, really, pretty," said the mad spider.
Lei tightened her hands into even tighter fists. In one she held an arrow, in the other her bow.
"I like pretty girls. Pretty girls make such pretty screams."
A sharp pain hit one of Lei's upper thighs, and she bit her teeth hard together not to scream.
"You won't scream for me, pretty girl? How will he find us again if you don't scream?"
Another sharp pain hit. Lei held her breath till the need to scream passed.
"You can't have him," hissed Lei through gritted teeth. "He's mine."
"You're wrong," said Dark. "He was yours once. But then he met me, and I've changed everything."
"You've changed nothing," yelled Lei.
"He named me," whispered Dark. "That makes me his. If I am his then he is mine. He just needs a little time to understand it. Men can be so dense, don't you think?"
"You're mad."
"Everybody goes a little mad when they are in love." The spider picked up Lei and threw her across the ground. Sadly she threw her face first, so Lei couldn't shoot while flying through the air. As soon as she landed the mad-woman was upon her again.
"He gets so sad when I cut you," whispered Dark, into Lei's left ear, while pressing her to the ground, front down. "I don't like when he is sad. That's because I love him, isn't it?"
"I'm going to kill you," hissed Lei, spitting out forest soil.
"No you aren't," stated Dark. "You can't. You are weak and slow."
The spider pulled her onto a wide rock and again spread out her limbs.
"I'll kill you," insisted Lei, with one hand clinging on to her bow, with the other clinging on to her arrow.
"Your back looks so bare without wings." Dark ran a soft legtip down Lei's spine. "Moths have so much soft skin. No armour anywhere. You remind me of Death. No armour. No wings. Would you like to be with Death, pretty girl? Oh look, he is here."
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The spider raised Lei's face and pointed it forward and sideways. It hurt nastily and for a second Lei thought the spider had broken her neck. It was only for the not dying part that Lei understood she hadn't.
"Don't you wanna play before you kill me?" snarled Lei, not to have her head torn off.
"Yes. Yes. I want to play. You can't have her yet. You will have to wait till I am done with her."
The spider-woman released Lei's head and her chin banged hard down on the rock. Lei gritted her aching teeth not to make an exclamation of pain. Dark would take pleasure in listening; Lei wouldn't give her the satisfaction.
Dark webbed her hands and feet to the rock.
"The skin on your back is so perfect. So soft and white." Dark tore her shirt to pieces baring all her back.
Lei held on to her arrow in one hand and her bow in the other.
"Sometimes the anticipation is the best part," said Dark, and ran a soft legtip across Lei's back.
"Don't," sounded Black's voice. "Please don't."
Lei's head was pulled back and she felt a sharp edge against her throat.
"Dark, please wait a moment," sounded Black's voice.
Something lashed Lei's back and she held her breath not to make a sound.
"If you harm her we can't have a relationship," said Black. "Don't you see that?"
"YOU'RE MINE," screamed the spider-woman from behind Lei.
"I can only be yours if you don't harm my friends, Dark. You see that don't you?"
"If you try to stop me I will kill her," snarled the spider-woman.
"I want to be with you, you stupid woman," snarled Black right back at her.
"You do?"
"Of course I do," snarled Black. "You're just like me. Except I don't treat your friends badly."
Lei was bleeding from her forehead into her eyes, and blinked to keep her vision clear. She wasn't sure what Black was trying to do. He sounded exactly like he did when she and he were having a fight.
"I don't have any friends," said the mad spider.
"I do," snarled Black.
"But you're treating her like a lover," whined the mad spider.
"I was lonely," snarled Black. "And so was she. So we've been helping each other out. You don't really think I still want her now that you are around. Do you?"
"It makes me so angry when she touches you," whined Dark. "It hurts inside and I get so angry."
"If you hadn't kept trying to hurt her, I wouldn't have had to keep carrying her around and comforting her," snarled Black. "I've done nothing more than what you have forced me to. Please don't force me to avenge her too. It'd break my heart if I had to kill you, Dark."
"I don't understand," whined Dark. "Why can't we just kill her?"
"It's a man thing," snarled Black. "She was my friend when I was alone, now it's my duty to protect her while she lives and avenge her if she dies. Men do that."
"But I want her to be dead," complained Dark, taking the sharp edge away from Lei's throat.
"You can't have everything, Dark," snarled Black. "Sometimes you have to choose. Right now you have to choose whether you want to make love to me, or kill her."
"Make love to you?"
"I'm all wound up, Dark," snarled Black. "I need release. Whether I'll get that from sex or from mortal combat is all up to you. No more games. Make up your mind."
Lei lay absolutely still. She had never thought Black to be so devious. He would seduce a woman to get a chance to kill her? It was a wrong thing to do, but Lei made no move to interfere. If Dark slit her throat then the baby inside her would die. Even worse, Black would fight to the death and lose.
Lei could die for her principles, but she couldn't let Black die for them, nor her unborn child.
