Chapter 18
Delta just barely dodged getting smacked in the head by one of Spider's paws.
"Missed me weakling..." Delta said, laughing insanely as he stuck back, striking Spider and causing him to lose his balance. But Spider recovered quickly and rammed into Delta, making Delta lose his balance completely and fall over. Thinking quickly Delta grabbed some dirt and threw it into Spider's eyes and rolled away.
Howling with fury, Spider struck at were Delta once was, but hitting nothing but dirt. Delta rammed him in the side, succeeding in moving him a few feet, but nothing else. Spider spun around and struck Delta with his tail, sending Delta crashing to the ground.
Shriek and the others looked on horrified as the fight went on; none of them had seen either of the two combatants like this before.
"We have to stop them..." Shriek muttered.
"Yeah right...I'm not getting into their grudge match...let them sort it out for themselves." Juk grumbled.
"No no you don't understand...Spider will end up killing Delta!"
"Huh!?" Hoth said shocked, "How do you know this?"
"He told me that the last time he was like this...he killed five people and all five were experienced fighters."
"So you mean...Delta has just been extremely lucky so far...." Kilk gulped,
"So...h...how do we stop them?"
"I don't know!" Shriek sobbed as they watched in horror as Spider managed to knock Delta into a tree, knocking him out.
"We have to so something!" Felth cried as he ran up and put himself between Delta and the advancing Spider, "Spider stop! If you kill him you will never forgive yourself!"
Spider glared at Felth and howled angrily at him, but Felth stood his ground looking at Spider with a look of steel resolve in his eyes. Spider looked like he was about to ram Felth, but then Shriek ran up beside Felth.
"Spider please stop!" Shriek cried, "Stop before you kill someone!"
Spider's look softened slightly and he backed away a step.
"Spider..." Shriek said softly as she approached him, "I know the real you is in there somewhere. You can fight this rage...I know you can."
Spider backed up more, looked toward the ground and crushed his eyes closed. They could tell he was fighting it, but they weren't sure if he was pushed so far that he would be able to fight it completely on his own. After a few tense moments, it was found out that he couldn't hold out, for he said with a strained voice:
"Knock me out..."
"Wha..." Shriek said shocked.
"Knock me out...its the only way...ter keep me from spilling blood. Hurry...I can't hold it back...much...longer."
They hesitated...they realize that they would have to succeed in knocking him out in the first blow...otherwise he could turn on all of them.
Fortunately they didn't have to, for a shot rang out and a trank dart struck Spider in the neck. Spider howled with fury and looked around wildly for the one that shot him, but the trank was a fast acting one and he staggered and fell, asleep. The rest of the group looked up and behind them so see Tilic jump down from a tree, walk over to Spider and pull out the trank dart.
"He'll be awake again in a couple of hours." Tilic said, "And a lot less grumpy."
"Thank Odd..." Shriek muttered as she curled up next to Spider.
"Yeah...the bosses noticed the fight and radioed me ter stop it. I was ready ter trank 'em both if I had ter."
"Good thing..." Hoth said, "Things looked like it would've gotten messy."
"Oh...jus' remembered," Tilic said, "they also told me ter tell yer that Invy is stable and will make a full recovery. She'll be back with yer in 'bout a week."
There was a cheer of joy at that news....
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