Summary: Sheltering in an old and abandoned house, (Y/n) stumbles upon a strange finding.
The rain pelted us with raindrops that just got heavier the more we ran in the open. Our legs carried us into an abandoned house for shelter. I pulled my soaked jacket off of my head and wrung it out.
"I told you we should've left earlier." I glared at my friend for his comment.
"How was I suppose to know it would start storming?" I fired back, wringing out my hair. I scanned our surroundings, "Oh," I noticed the dusty walls and cobweb covered areas. Jackson looked around as well,
"Where are we?" He questioned.
"That creepy old abandoned house no one goes into." I pointed out.
"Fuck that, I'm outta here!" He yelled and ran.
"Jackson! It's raining, you dick!" I yelled after him but he continued to run in the heavy rain. "Moron." I scoffed. I looked around at the house, the stench of rotting wood only hitting me then. Moss was growing on the corners of the ground. I walked further into the house with my arms wrapped around myself, hoping there was at least a source of heat for me to warm down. I pulled my wet phone out of my pocket and pressed the home button a couple times before realising it had died; most probably due to the rain. I groaned and slipped it back into my pocket as I continued to search the house. Is anyone even living in here? I thought to myself. A creak of the floorboards made me freeze in my tracks. In any other case, I would've darted out of the house saying the words Jackson blurted out minutes ago, but with the rain going on outside I was trapped inside the old house.
"What's a pretty thing like you doing in here?" A strange voice spoke up from above me. I slowly looked up and fell to the ground at what I saw. A huge spider. A HUGE ass spider looking down at me.
"What the shit?!" I exclaimed as I moved away from it.
"Scared too, well I can't expect it not to be." It muttered more to itself.
"Y-Yo-You can t-talk. O-Oh my god. Not only did Jackson bail on me but he l-left me with a g-giant t-t-talking sp-spider." I tried to calm my erratic heartbeat.
"I'm also kinda hungry." It droppe from the ceiling and crawled up to me, "Wanna be my lunch?" It hissed. "You don't really have a choice." It turned around and shot a string of silk at me. I was too shocked to scream and let it drag me to a giant web at the ceiling. It wrapped me in a silk casing and strung me to the top.The silk was so strong I couldn't even move. "I can finally eat a person after so long!" It gleefully opened it's mouth at me head in which I screamed at and closed my eyes.
"Mother," A frustrated voice spoke up from behind it. She turned her head around and I opened my eyes to see a blond boy glare at her, "I told you I don't like you eating humans." He said.
"Mum, please. The poor thing looks like she might shit in your web!" He pointed out, both of them turning to me.
"Oh alright." She swiped her leg up at the silk holding me and I fell out of the casing. I fell to the wooden floor with a loud thud. "Why do I even bother catching them anymore." I heard her grumble as she crawled away. The blond boy extended his hand to me,
"I apologise for my mother's attitude." He smiled warmly.
"It's okay." I took his hand, standing up but I paused when I saw that everything below his torso was the abdomen of a spider with 6 legs holding him up. I looked up at him properly and noticed a pair of white fangs sticking out of his upper lip.
"Oh, you've only now noticed me other half." He blushed lightly as I stood up properly. "Let me just," He ran into one of the rooms for a while before coming out as a human with quite long legs. He was really attractive which made my stomach erupt with butterflies.
"Wow, your legs are still very long." I said without thinking. My eyes widened at my own comment after a bit, "Oh god, that is the stupidest thing I've ever said." I blushed. He chuckled at me words,
"I get it a lot. I don't really mind either. I find it quite funny." He gave me a toothy grin.
"Huh," I breathed out a laugh, "You're much less terrifying than your mum - no offence." I commented.
"Yeah, everyone says that too. She just likes eating people sometimes and I don't like her to because my friends are people." He shrugged. "I assume you're taking shelter from the storm?" He said it in more of a question.
"Uh, yeah, my friend darted out after he realised that this was the old abandoned house." I rolled my eyes.
"I don't blame him. It's been abandoned for so long my parents took refuge here." He said, "Come with me. There's a fireplace above that I use when it rains just in case people like you come here." He smiled once again. I followed him up the creaky stairs and into an old bedroom with a lit fireplace on one side. "Sit." He sat down and patted the spot beside him. I sat beside him and let the warmth of the fire radiate onto me, a content hum escaping my throat.
"So how did you get to become a hybrid?" I asked him after a while.
"Well my parents were human but something happened while my mum was pregnant with me. Some kind of spiderman shit and they both turned but when she gave birth to me, I came out 50/50. I learned to control it, so after 21 years of practice, I can turn into a spider, a human or a mixture of both. Something like you saw downstairs." He explained.
"That's actually pretty cool. I've never met a hybrid before. I actually didn't know they existed." I chuckled.
"We prefer to stay hidden or stay human. Not everyone has your reactions." He shook his head, "A lot of people run or throw things at us, calling us freaks or spawns of the devil. I've gotten that before, so I'm kinda used to it." He sighed.
"I don't think you're a freak." I pointed out in which he turned to me and smiled,
"The first of many." He chuckled. "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself; my name's Luke." He extended his hand.
"Tell me about yourself, (Y/n)." He said.
"What about? I don't think there's much to know about me." I tilted my head slightly.
"Well, tell me about your interests, your hobbies, your likes, dislikes. Anything really." He shrugged. So, I told him about myself. I told him about my hometown, my friends, my interests, how obsessed I was with a certain band. Luke told me about himself as well, his life as a spider hybrid and how much time he spends in the forest behind the house until the rain stopped. I looked outside the broken window.
"I guess it's time for me to leave." I turned away from the window and noticed Luke staring at the fire sadly. "You okay?" I asked, going up to him.
"Yeah," He sighed, "I just, it's been so long since I've talked to someone and you have to leave already." He gave me a sad smile. I felt my heart drop a bit,
"I'll come back soon." I said, not believing myself.
"They always say that." He grabbed a bowl filled with water and splashed it on the fire, putting it out. "They forget about coming back, so it's okay." He smiled at me before turning around to walk away.
"I promise I won't forget," I grabbed his wrist, "Luke, I'll come back." I pulled him back to me. He looked into my eyes with a hard stare,
"I'll take you somewhere that'll guarantee you come back." He pulled his hand out of my grip and picked me up bridal style, catching me off guard.
"Woah! Dude!" I exclaimed.
"Hold on tight." He said and started running towards the window.
"Woah, woah, WOAH!" I screamed and closed my eyes as he jumped out. I opened my eyes when he landed and noticed that his legs had turned into the bottom half of a spider and were griped around the trunk of a tree. I looked up at him and he was looking at me,
"Are you okay?" He asked. I nodded,
"Y-Yeah, that was just a bit un-unexpected." I breathed heavily as I tried to calm my erratic heartbeat.
"Well if you're nervous now, hold on tight. I'm going full speed." His grip tightened around me as he started to jump from tree to tree with incredible speed. I held onto him for my life with my eyes closed, hoping it would calm me down a bit more. "You can open your eyes now." He said, amusement laced in his voice. I opened my eyes and he was looking down at me with a goofy smile on his face.
"Oh," I pulled out of his arms, "Where are we?" I asked.
"We're in the middle of the forest, but there's something that you'll most probably enjoy." He crawled to a mound of dirt that had broken shards of colourful glass sticking out of it. A beam of light was shining down right on it. He turned to me and stuck his hand out. I took it and stood beside him. He blocked the light from shining on the glass and started to move the shards around, "Look there." He pointed to an open space of the area without looking away. I turned to the open space and furrowed my brows,
"There's nothing there." I turned back to him. He responded by nudging my face back and looking up,
"Yet." He smiled as he moved away, letting the light shine on the glass. I gasped when I saw what reflected off of the glass. The light reflected was a mix of colours, almost like the aurora borealis or a galaxy without stars. "If you want stars." He adjusted the glass again and it was like looking into one of those high quality National Geographic pictures of outer space with more colour.
"Wow." I breathed out in awe.
"This is why this is my favourite spot of the forest." Luke smiled at me before turning back to the lights. "Nature directs and I help with the costumes," He moved to a tree trunk and climbed it all the way to the top until I couldn't see him.
"Luke?" I called out after a few minutes of him not coming down. He came falling down from the top of the tree with birds and butterflies coming out as reaction of his sudden movement. I gasped again as I watched him land, birds and butterflies filling the area. I looked around and just admired the colours. I heard something hit the tree and more birds came out from the trees. "Oh my god," I looked around.
"I learned that trick on accident. Tripped on a root and hit the tree and birds just came flying out. I was amazed at first." He chuckled. I smiled at him,
"It's beautiful. It really is." I turned to the lights just as my phone started ringing in my pocket. I pulled it out and turned to Luke, "Excuse me." I said as I answered the phone.
"(Y/n), where the hell are you?" Jackson asked through the phone.
"Uhm, still at that house you abandoned me in." I scoffed.
"I'm sorry, dude. I freaked, okay? And I freaked out more when I realised you didn't come out with me but I was too far to turn back."
"Well if you stayed, you wouldn't have to freak out, dick." I hissed.
"I'm sorry, alright. Text me when you get back." He said before hanging up.
"Ugh," I slipped my phone back into my pocket and turned to Luke, "I have to go. My friend almost shat himself because he realised I didn't leave the house." I explained. He nodded his head,
"I'll take you back." He picked me up bridal style and brought me back to the house. "You promise you'll come back, right?" He bit his lip when I was about to leave.
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