The sequel and conclusion of the "No Longer a Game" story. I suggest you read that one first. Thank you.
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Prologue -
Natalie cringed on the floor, watching Lolth. The goddess was in her spider form, her body a glossy black, her eyes a burning crimson. She dangled upside down in the web choked room slowly spinning in place. Natalie made occasional faint whimpers and her eight spider legs that protruded from her chest drummed rapidly against her body in fear. Natalie kept her head bowed; she dared not look fully upon the goddess.
Natalie could see Lolth out of the corner of her eyes and she watched as the hourglass shaped pattern on the underside of the goddess's abdomen shrank as her body contracted. A crack appeared beside each of Lolth's fang tipped jaws; with a loud cracking sound until the skin peeled from her face. The goddess shuddered and she contracted more, tearing the rest of her head free from its hard coating of chitin. The cracks spread to her abdomen, releasing her. Lolth tumbled onto the cold iron floor, leaving her molted skin behind; the empty husk sill dangling from its strand of web.
As she stood, the goddess assumed her hybrid form; her lower body was still that of a spider but her upper body and head that of an extremely beautiful and voluptuous drow female. Her lower body was enormous. Although now transformed into the Lady Penitent, Natalie stood over ten feet tall but she could have walked underneath Lolth's spider legs with room to spare. The goddess twisted her head back and forth to work out the kinks in her neck and flicked her hair out of her eyes. Her face was the epitome of beauty, velvet smooth black skin, perfectly arched white eyebrows, delicately pointed ears, and full red lips.
Lolth's crimson eyes shone with malice. "Natalie, I hunger. Attend me."
Natalie gave a loud whimper and crawled to her mistress, trying not to reveal the loathing she felt, and prostrated herself before the goddess. Lolth moved over her, claws clicking against the cold black iron floor. Her cheeks bulged as two palps emerged from them, they probed Natalie's bare back. Natalie screamed as two great fangs sank into her skin.
As the digestive juices entered her body, Natalie gasped; there was a moment of warmth then pain comparable to be scalded by acid. The pain bore deeper into her flesh of her back, she could feel her flesh dissolving, sloughing away from her ribs and backbone. She could smell the reek of bile and hear Lolth taking the digested flesh up in great greedy slurps.
Natalie collapsed; the sudden weight of her body snapping two of the eight small spider legs that protruded from her chest; yet the pain of the breaking of those appendages was nothing to the raw open mess that was her back. She lay barely conscious, the jaws protruding from her cheeks gnashing weakly as Lolth loomed over her, eating her fill.
Natalie had once been a very pretty young girl, intelligent and charming. Then one night her girlfriend talked her into playing a Dungeons and Dragons game with a group of fellow college students and Natalie found herself in another world. Transformed into a beautiful moon elf sorceress her and her friends looked for a way back to their world. They found it but left Natalie behind. Now she was the Lady Penitent, doomed to suffer forever at the hands of the evil goddess Lolth. Due to this unholy pact she made with the Spider Queen, Natalie was now the Chosen of Lolth, no longer human or even elf she was now part of the Lady of Chaos.
The slurping noises stopped. Lolth laughed, a gloating laugh, and Natalie found herself gathered up off the floor by arms - drow arms - and cradled against a women's chest. Lolth had assumed her drow female form. Despite the differences in their sizes, she rocked Natalie back and forth like an infant; one hand caressing the half dissolved flesh of Natalie's back as it regenerated. Lolth then kissed Natalie's lips. A hard, long brutal kiss; the kind of kiss a rapist would give his victim.
Natalie tore her mouth free and retched.
Lolth stood and dumped her to the floor. "Weakling." She said in disgust.
Natalie whimpered and hung her head. After nearly three years the word still stung.
For seven years Natalie had been the goddess's Lady Penitent and for the first four she served her mistress well. Lolth sent her deep into the Underdark where Natalie hunted and her prey was the drow heretics who served either Lolth's god son Vhaeraun or her goddess daughter Eilistraee.
Vhaeraun, the Masked Lord, the son of Corellon Larethian (creator of protector of the elves) and Lolth, born before Lolth rebelled and led the drow deep underground into the Underdark, and twin brother of Eilistraee. When Lolth grew ambitious and craved power and rebelled against her consort Corellon her son Vhaeraun choose to side with the Spider Queen while his sister Eilistraee choose to remain faithful to her father. Unlike Lolth Vhaeraun believed both male and female drow should be equal and was often in conflict with his mother and Lolth allowed her son to live and even gather followers from the drow males of the Underdark; she encouraged her son's rivalry with her, for it appealed to her love of chaos but after thousands of years the fate of all the drow would soon be decided and Loth had every intention of claiming them all and both her son and daughter needed perish. She sent her Lady Penitent deep into the Underdark to hunt down the followers of both her son and daughter.
For four years Natalie roamed the Underdark never fearing the predators that lived deep under the surface world above, she needed not to fear for she was not prey she was the hunter. As the Lady Penitent she served her mistress well and killed hundreds of priests of the Mask Lord and his followers as well as hundreds of priestesses and followers of Eilistraee. Rumors soon started to flow in the temples of the drow pantheon of a new demon unleashed by the Lady of Chaos who roamed the Underdark killing any drow who did not serve Lolth. Priests of Vhaeraun sent out Nightshadows, warrior priests, and priestess of Eilistraee sent forth Darksong Knights, priestess trained and gifted with special abilities to combat demons, to hunt this terrible creature who killed without mercer, but none ever returned. In the temples of the Spider Queen priestess praised Lolth for the new horror sent to destroy the followers of her son and daughter, and soon Lolth was going to release her Lady Penitent on the world above. Then Natalie betrayed her mistress.
