Risky Business Chapter 2

	Rachael jogs through the city not bothered at all by the sweltering heat.  People amble along the sidewalk wearing pained expressions, and if it wasn't for their groaning and complaining about the midday heat, there would be an audible sizzle.  Except for Rachael, of course, she's keeping a swift pace that provides everyone a respite from the suffering with her passing breeze.  She even appears to be enjoying being outside in figurative Hell.  Some people are just weird like that.  Her phone vibrates with a message from Crystal saying she found a barrier and they meet up outside its entrance in between two buildings.

	"This one better not be another desert, any more heat is going to make me go insane." Crystal gripes.  "Or sand. I don't like sand. It's coarse, rough, gets ev-"

	"Gone with the wind!" Rachael loudly interrupts as torrents of wind kick up swirling clouds of...dust?  It completely obscures her for a quick second and just as quickly disappears leaving her in her magical girl outfit.  She wastes no time jumping into the barrier leaving behind a half bewildered and half amused Crystal.

	She simply sighs, and without making any particular pose or dramatic flair, intones "Checkmate." As if mimicking her lack of enthusiasm, her costume just kind of poofs into existence in a dull flash of light. It's over and done with in less time it took for her to say checkmate.  She picks up her bags and nocks a bolt into her gun-bow before making her entrance.

	It leads to a vast cavern.  It twists and turns into the expansive darkness broken up by spears of light from cracks in the ceiling.  The pitter patter can be heard all around from water dripping from the stalactites above.

	The cold cavern air weighs down upon both girls causing Crystal to suddenly shiver in place.  Her magical costume of a short vest cut just thin enough to cover her modest breasts, criss-crossing leather straps connected to short shorts with the zipper undone and laced up thighhighs does nothing to save her from the chill.  Her sweat from the heat earlier only compounds her misery.

	"C-can you not just jump in ahead l-like that without warning? It takes me time to prepare and I can't cover you if you jump into danger," the ice Crystal protests.

	"It's fiiine," Rachael drones, "I'm more than fast enough to get the heck out of dodge if I get in over my head."  She dismisses her concern with a wave of her hand.  "But you look like you can barely move with all those bags.  How many do you have, three, four?"

	"I only c-carry the bare essentials." Crystal replies while cocking the crossbow part of her weapon. "And I always come prepared for any situation."  As proof, she pulls out and lights a torch. Rachael shrugs at this and they set off in search of the demon.

	The cavern appears to go on forever.  They walk up rugged inclines, around giant stalagmites, and hug the wall leading around the occasional eerie pit.  Besides every noise they make echoing through the distant darkness and the dripping water, it's unsettlingly quiet.  After almost a half hour of impromptu spelunking, the girls discover a bright light at the end of a long stretch of tunnel.  As they walk through it, the torch light reveals webbing on the upper walls and ceiling.  It leads all the way down to the end which opens up to a spacious room.  There's a gap in the ceiling that floods the area with light.  The floor is mostly flat and part covered in moss; on one end of the room lies a large ball of web stuck to the wall.  Crystal sets down her bags, pulls out a knife and cautiously approaches it.

	"I've got a bad feeling about what's in it." She opines as she begins cutting it open.  Once it's cut from top to bottom, they both take one side and pull and out slides a girl in a pool of mysterious fluid.  She lies motionless on the ground. A sweet smell wafts off of her and makes their eyes sting.

	"She's not...is she breathing?" Rachael almost stammers out.  Crystal touches her slime covered neck with one hand while covering her own eyes with the other.

	"I think I feel a pulse, and she is warm still, but I'm not a doctor.  I don't know for sure if we can save her." Crystal remarks while getting up quickly to get out of range of the fumes.  "It l-looks like we're dealing with one or more spiders.  I'm afraid of spiders, they creep me out. I hate spiders more than sand."

	"Let's try to get her out of here.  I at least want to do all I can to-" Rachael freezes up for an instant before lunging at the wall and bounding off at an angle at extreme speed.  A large net made of web drops onto Crystal trapping her and pinning her to the ground as she screams.

	Rachael does a flip in mid air and lands behind the assailant.  Standing in front of her is a woman who's only human from the waist up.  The rest of her is a giant cave spider complete with 8 black legs and a swollen abdomen.  She has purple skin and long dark purple hair that almost looks black.  She turns her upper body to look behind her at Rachael revealing her extra sets of eyes on her forehead and large exposed breasts.

	"You're fast." she observes.

	"You don't even know." taunts Rachael as she crouches then springs forward picking up speed in an instant.  The Spider demon smiles wickedly but doesn't bother moving out of the way.  Instead, she whips out a strand of web from her spinnerets with one of her back legs and quickly passes it to one of her front ones to cut off Rachael's charge.

	The spindly limbs work the web with deft dexterity and speed into a quick defensive web ready to stop any attack the rabbit girl can come at her with and trap her.

	"Hmpf, don't think a little silly string is going to keep me from getting to you!" she exclaims with gusto and redoubles her efforts at trying to slip by the sticky ropes.  She rushes forward, then hops back to avoid the lashing counter attack.  Dashing to the side, she hopes to close in for a hit before the web can be swung around to meet her, but the spider legs are just as fast and she's forced to back off. This exchange goes on for a while until the demon smiles another dastardly smile and surprises Rachael by suddenly flinging all of her web she was spooling up at close range.  It comes within inches, but Rachael's speed matches the spider woman's dexterity and she escapes the trap.

	"Hah, you're faster than I thought, but still not faster than me!" she pants as she looks for another opening.

	"It's you who can't out run me.  You see I haven't even moved, and you're about to run out of stamina.  There's no where for you to run, either; you're in my lair." replies the woman in a smooth velvety voice.

	Rachael tries to stare down the spider demon, but she's unsure which eyes to stare into, so it fails.

	The demon, without losing her smile, suddenly lunges at her with her arms and front pair of legs raised intimidatingly.  Rachael instinctively jumps back and gets stuck on a web near the far end of the room!  The demon laughs at this and her struggle to break free.

	"Like I said, you're in my lair, you were trapped the moment you entered.  Honestly, who jumps into a spider's web?  Are you a bug?  You may be fast, but you can't out run stupid."

	Rachael struggles violently in frustration and anger. "I will kill you so fast, I'll bring you the newspaper with the headline of your own death, roll it up and beat you with it!" she snarls.  This only gets another chuckle from the demon as she turns back to Crystal.

	"And now, what should I do with you." She rests her cheek in one hand with its elbow cupped in the other hand.

	"What, again? Why me? Can't I go second?" Crystal complains at her captor.  She struggles against the web, but it won't yield.

	"I don't care for rabbits, they don't have much in the way of nutrition.  If I don't get my nutrients, then I'll have to eat my own web, and that's just plain dry and tasteless."

	"She's not even a rabbit, she's a girl like me."

	"She has rabbit ears and a tail.  Sure looks like a rabbit to me." She nods, satisfied with her flawless reasoning.  "You, my dear, look more...appetizing." She examines the prone girl on the floor feasting on her body with her eyes which is 4 times as intimidating.  Then she notices something and brings her arm behind Crystal's body to pull away her knife and carefully extracts the rest of her bags.  "You won't be needing this, now."

	The demon tears away at her clothes while tying her limbs down to the floor.  The cool cavern air sweeps across Crystal's naked body once again.  The air passes over her exposed sex causing her to shiver again.  "Should I start from the top," the demon touches her lips then runs her finger down her goose bumped skin and to her lower lips, "or the bottom?"

	Crystal squirms in her restraints in an attempt to pull away from her touch, but this causes the demon to tease her in response by circling around and running her finger up and down her slit.  Turning her head to the side, Crystal clenches her teeth.  The demon comes up and pulls her face towards hers and locks eyes with her.  The other eyes will have to wait their turn.

	"Now now, don't look at me with such an unhappy face, I'll be sure to be gentle~"  she coos.  Crystal can't look away; fear colors her expression, but so does a hint of defiance.  She inhales, bites down on something in her mouth, and spits a spray of yellow mist right in the spider woman's face.

	She rears back and screams while rubbing at her face trying to remove the burning liquid. After a few moments of yelling in agony and writhing in anguish, the spray wears off, and the spider woman is left with her face in her hands.  She holds it there for a few seconds, then smiles behind her hands.  Then she starts laughing; quiet at first, then louder, growing into maniacal uproar.

	Turning back to advance on Crystal, she sing-songs, "Look who just volunteered to by my egg sac~"  She advances like a stalking predator, which is convenient because that's what she happens to be.  Straddling her, she leans down and covers her mouth with a wad of webbing. Then bites her on the neck.  Crystal tries to shout, but can only hum violently with her sealed mouth.  The venom immediately starts relaxing her muscles and sets off an inner fire in her gut that travels down to her crotch.  Her eyes grow wide when the helplessness of her situation dawns on her.

	"That's better."  The demon moves back down between her legs and spreads her lips wide.  "I'm going to make sure you're nice and slick down there so you can take all of my eggs without breaking.  We wouldn't want that, would we?"  She doesn't wait for a response and immediately sticks a finger inside.  Crystal inhales sharply as her muscles tense up.  Her finger explores her insides with an eager curiosity.  "You're really tight.  I guess I wont be so gentle after all~"  She inserts another finger and together, they vigorously assault her insides while the thumb plays with her clit.  The reaction is instant.  Crystal struggles against the intrusion in futility as the venom burns, relaxes, and arouses at the same time. Her lower body thrashes about, but her restraints hold strong.  She can't help but let out a moan that's clearly audible over the sound of the shlicking despite her covered mouth.  Her arousal peaks quickly and a pool forms under her convulsing body.

	The demon pulls out her fingers letting the evidence of forced arousal drip for a bit before licking them clean.  Then she brings her hands down to meet Crystal's intertwining the fingers.  Leaning on them, she straddles her victim and presses down with her abdomen.  Their reproductive openings meet to Crystal's fevered protests.  She shakes her head while the demon peers into her eyes with a manic look.  Her warm sweet breath blowing over Crystal's nose.  And then she starts to push.

	Slowly, an egg passes between them and bears down on the entrance to the frightened girl's womb.  She strains against the intrusion, but her exhausted body can't hold up for long.  One last thrust from the demon squeezes the egg in, getting a muffled whimper in response.  The next egg is met with less resistance, but it isn't any smaller; it stretches her insides sending waves of pain and pleasure up through her body.  One by one, a seemingly unending stream of eggs shove their way in packing themselves together tightly.  Each new pulse of pleasure brings her closer to the edge once again, but slowly this time.  The pain is completely washed out by the over-stimulation and she soon becomes consumed in another orgasm that shakes her entire frame.  Her squeals of ecstasy bleed through her makeshift gag for a couple minutes as she loses control over herself.  Soon, they die down and she falls limp in a pool of her juices mixed with the demon's.  Tears stream down the sides of her face while she lies there motionless.  The spider woman catches her breath and squeezes Crystal's hands harder ready to lay the next half when a ear shattering crack of thunder rings out sending the demon tumbling away!

	Rachael touches down in front of Crystal's restrained form.  She quickly uses her knife to cut one arm free then places the blade in her hand.  When she stands up, she discards the last bit of her ripped sports bra.  All she has left on are her running shoes and finger-less gloves.  Her hair tosses about in a strong breeze only she can feel.  Her sharp solemn expression mirrors her controlled breathing giving her a calm but serious demeanor, but the fire in her eyes betray her burning anger.

	"Your first mistake," she shouts while turning to face her enemy, "was taking your eyes off of me!" She falls back down into a crouching position, then charges at the demon.  A string of web shoots out reflexively, but Rachael already moved to dodge.  The spider demon shields herself by crossing her arms over her top while her front pair of legs cross over her lower half.  The impact never comes, the rabbit girl having jumped clear over her.  Landing on one foot, she spins on it then pushes off with the other and closes in on her flank.

	"Your second mistake," The demon turns her upper body to meet the assault with a counter attack, but Rachael's attack was a feint, instead she dives for the ground and slides under the abdomen.  She twists and flips off the ground with speed unmatched and she's sprung herself into the air on the other side just as it registers in the demon's mind.  "Is taking your eyes off me!" She front flips in the air and brings her heel down on the demon who turned around too late to see it coming.  It connects with her shoulder and sends out another crash of thunder that blasts her backwards again.

	The demon slams into the far wall and despite her damage, recovers swiftly.  Clutching her limp arm, she faces off with Rachael once more; her face contorts into a look of pure hatred and fury.  She bears her fangs as her hind legs are hard at work crafting some kind of countermeasure out of web.  The rabbit girl dashes forward seemingly getting faster by the second.  Web suddenly shoots out in every direction blocking any chance at getting behind her again.  She flings several strings out in front as Rachael's momentum now works against her.  The first couple of strands miss their target when she lunges to the side, but the next ones don't.  She gets trapped in place, and the spider woman, wearing a far more malicious and crazed smile, stalks forward.  Rachael, unable to use her speed and mobility any more, simply meets her lunatic gaze with a gentle smile.

	"Your third mistake," she utters calmly as the drooling demon closes in, "was taking your eyes off of her."  The gravity of the statement takes a moment too long to navigate through her blind rage.  She whips around to the other side and gets a mouth full of 10 gauge double barrel. A clack, then a blast pulps a large chunk of her face away.  The second separates her remaining good arm from her body.  The next 2 shells are loaded faster than it takes for the arm to hit the ground.  Two more shots score chunks off the midsection.  Two more embed themselves in the lower body.

	The barrier collapses as the seventh and eighth shells fail to find their way into the breech.  Her shaking hands can't seem to coordinate to reload another time.  It doesn't help that her eyes are overflowing with tears that cloud her vision.  After a few more failed attempts, a hand clasps over hers and she's pulled into a hug where she drops everything and breaks down in a wave of tears and heaving sobs.

	It takes a couple minutes of head pats and face breasts for her to calm down.  Crystal pulls away wiping her eyes and makes her way to the unconscious girl covered in a thick layer of acrid smelling slimy fluid.  She taps out a message on her phone and hits send.  Rachael picks up the sin core; it's sticky.

	"What should we do about her?" Rachael asks while trying to pocket a sin core that sticks to and leaves strands of web on anything it touches.

	"I know some people that can help.  I just sent them a-"

	"Breaker breaker four one niner! I've got the bogey in sight, approaching LZ."  Interjects a high pitched voice coming from the roof of one of the buildings.  "Kssht! Ten-four Hopscotch, recover the objective then return to base," she relays into an invisible radio in one had as the other grabs onto a vertical pipe that she uses to slide down.  "Kssht! Roger that, over and out!"  She hits the ground and trots over to Crystal and the snot girl.

	"That was quick."

	"I just happened to be in the area!"  She flashes a thumbs up then throws back her white lab coat to crouch over the silent sinner in goo.  Taking a big whiff, her pink pigtails bounce up and down and her matching colored eyes light up with joy.  "That smells just like..." she wipes up some slime with a gloved finger and licks it up, "vomit, my favorite! And it's fresh, nice catch!"

	"Um, hi." Rachael greets, unsure what to make of this girl's entrance or her examination methods.  "Are you...?"

	"Petera Barsett, of the Occult Revival Girls and Supernatural Medics." She points a thumb at the red cross on her shirt as she puffs out her detestably flat chest.  "They drop you, we got you! Kill a demon and you're still bleedin'? Come to us for a healin' and cleanin'."  She pulls a large white sack out of her inventory and pops it open. "Don't worry about her, she looks fine. We'll have her all better in a jiffy. We might not even charge her for it, depending on if she doesn't mind doing a little something for us, too.  We'll accept certain favors instead of cores if the situation allows it."  She pushes Spider Bait into the bag and hoists it onto her back.  It looks like it might be too heavy at first considering her small size; even with her long boots giving her some lift, she's easily a head and a half shorter than Crystal who's nearly a head shorter than Rachael minus the ears.  "Thanks Cris, see ya 'round!"  Petera scurries off apparently unhindered by the load.

	"Well that happened." remarks Rachael.  An awkward silence falls on the both of them as Crystal packs her belongings and gathers her bags.  She faces her savior, but stares a hole through some unremarkable spot on the ground.

	"Thank you. Again." It almost dies before it leaves her mouth.

	"Hey, no problem, it was nothing.  I mean we're a team, so it was natural and yeah."  Hands fidget in front of her wildly.  "H-how about we get something to eat?"

	"Sure, yeah, lets do that.  I'll pay." They exit the alley under the harsh midday heat to go look for lunch.