Butterfly Adam, beautiful, golden winged and pined after relentlessly by The Colony for his beauty and he bears extremely strong children, so if a fellow butterfly has a a clutch with him, they see it as having it absolutely made
(one just had to look past his glaring personality flaws and get past his walls, which is why he only has kids with like 2 others)
The silvery monarch of their colony, Sera, always has to corral him in and remind him to stay in their territory, afraid his filghtyness as such a pillar in their society will affect others and lead them astray
Adam, of course, does not listen
He craves the freedom, the lack of responsibility
And so he continues his unauthorized flights, recklessly fluttering outside their territory, and he gets stuck in a web
Even though his eyes in flight could pick up anything, they somehow missed the webbing, so fine and crystiline the look like little rays of light, he wouldn't even know he was trapped in every part of him wasn't immobilized
And then he sees it, large snow white spider with platinum hair and ruby eyes, his colors beautiful but harsh against the forest scenary
Adam notices though, as stunning as his fellow creature is, he looks downright emaciated
And it looked as if he were alone, Adam does not know much of the spiders, but he does know they travel in groups like his own people, he's scen them in passing from his aerial view
He tries to threaten, scream, escape, bargin, /anything/ but he rages himself into exhaustion, which is probably what the spider was waiting for
When Adam is panting, sore and nearly foaming at the mouth from exhaustion, his golden eyes track movement
The spiders legs elegantly skitter across the web, not disturbing a single strand until he is standing so close to Adam that he can nearly feel the spiders snowy setae touch him
But he just....sits, folds his elegant legs beneath himself and watches Adam with a pensive expression, like HES being the unreasonable one by not staying quiet and still
Adam, like always, is the first to break the silence
"What the fuck are you doing you organ sucking freak, didn't your mother teach you not to play with your food?"' he spat, golden eyes preheating as much defiance and malice as he could
It however, did not phase the spider, who merely blinked his crimson eyes at his captives display
"My kind eats our mother's.", he responded plainly
Adam laughed, a shrill sound, shaking his head
"Of-fucking-course you do!", he said
Sera had warned him 1000 times about the dangers outside butterfly territory, of the encounters he could have with all many of dangerous creature ready to tear his delicate wings from his back and take him but did he listen? Noooo, and now he's stuck with a starving spider ready to feast on him
Adam threw his hands in the air (metaphorically)
"Alright, get it over with, eat me, tear me apart, wear my wings or whatever the fuck you savages do to butterflies, I obviously can't stop you.", he hissed, hating the defeat more then he felt fear for his life
But when nothing happens he looks up and his captor looks deep in thought
"Do you have children, little sunflower?", he asked, the question sounding oddly genuine
Adam bristled at the nickname and the question, 'little' butterflies may have been known for their delicate beauty, but he easily outsize the spider a great deal, and as for his question...
"Why the fuck do you want to know? So you can hunt them down and get some sick satisfaction from hunting my bloodline?!", Adam growled, his tone nearly hysterical with anger
The spider did not rise to Adams anger, instead he looked lost in thought, the butterfly's anger could only mean one thing, he did have a child, possibly many, so maybe he would understand...
"I have a daughter myself, out there somewhere...", the spider started
Adam stopped his struggling and spitting for a moment, watching the spider
"I traveled with my colony for awhile, I had a wonderful mate and then later down the line, an amazing daughter...", he spoke fondly, but a deep sadness echoed in his words, he smiled for a moment, but deeply sighed and continued
"....but the colony agreed that I was too much of a liability, I could not camouflage, and though my webs are strong....", his fingers plucked at the strings to prove his point
"I am not, as you can probably tell, I am starving and alone, I have very little time left if I continue like this...", he whispered
Adam watched in silence, it was true, if you had no group, no strength, and no camouflage you were as good as dead, and this sickly spider basically was
"I will release you, sunflower, if you help me find my daughter, I need to see her, I need her to know I didn't choose this.", his voice and body trembling as he spoke
Adam contemplated what he heard, go with the spider and help him find his daughter or be eaten
"All right, IF I help you - and I say IF!", Adam quickly added when the spiders head shot up and ruby eyes sparkles with hope
"-you'll let me go and you won't hunt me down or attack my family afterwards?", Adam asserted
The spider nodded his head in agreement hopping up and skittering around his web in excitement
Adams body violently bounced and he winced as the spiders feet trampled his wings a few times
"Hey, hey!! Calm down! You're gonna draw attention to us!", Adam scolded
The spider stopped and made sure he didn't actually attract any predators to him and his newfound ally
He then started the delicate work of removing the web strings from the butterfly's body and delicate wings without causing trauma
Adam sat for a moment in silence, and realized he didn't even know this guys name
"Adam.", he said simply, about under his breath
The spider stopped, a blank confused expression was on his face
Maybe he didn't hear or care or maybe he just thought Adam was dumb, but he repeated himself regardless
"Adam, my name is Adam not,..not sunflower.", he murmured, suddenly feeling a bit embarrassed introducing himself while lying prone for the spider
A smile stretched in the spiders angular face
"I'm Lucifer, and I'm very happy to have met you."
Just a rough thought 4 an au, kinda clunky and prob bland but I had fun lol
