Fated to rule

Rescue mission

Norrick was following the scream, which was getting further and further from him. 

How is it possible for the abductor to move that fast?  There was no creature he knew about that could be so fast. Breaking through dense bushes, he continued in following the scream and the track, left behind the kidn*pped messenger. 

...

In the meantime, Gellerion arrived safely back to the homestead. The front gate was impossible to open now when he was alone. Dendrick wasn't outside, so he didn't hear him when the boy tried to call him. Fortunately came to the boy´s mind the moment he was playing in the garden.

There was the second gate! It took him almost quarter-hour to walk around the stone wall right to the other entrance. 

"Thank god, it is still open." said and looked on the cow he was pulling behind with all the stuff. She was so stubborn. Every time she had the opportunity, stopped and started grazing. 

"Come on, girl. We are almost there." Again forced the cow to move. After they got inside, Gellerion tied Kelly to the fence and ran towards the main doors into Dendrick´s house. 

It was evening, and the sun already dipped below the horizon.

Hearing the banging on the door, Dendrick approached them and with no hesitation opened.

He wasn't afraid of anybody, and everybody knew it. Near and far was known, that no one should mess with Dendrick. The only creatures that didn´t care were dragons. The type of Black scaled dragons that lived in the same mountains as the goblins were enormously aggressive, and when they were hungry, it was better to stay out of their way. 

The man was surprised seeing Gellerion again in a short period of time. Now he spotted that he is on his own. "Come in, boy, and tell me what happened." 

After the boy told him the story for the third time, Dendrick finally understood. Gellerion was so confused that his first and second try was incomprehensible.

"Why the i***t stayed there! It is almost night. I am sorry, but we can´t help him now. It´s too dangerous in the forest during the night-time." 

"This sentence scared Gellerion a lot." 

...

Norrick was now approaching the scream once again. It stopped moving away, so the margin was reduced by each ranger´s step. 

Huge caves appeared in front of him with cobwebs all over. 

Is this the spider´s nest?  But how would a spider manage to drag adult man so fast away?  A lot of questions came to his mind now.  He has never seen so large nest before. It was usual to find a location with 3 spider´s holes all over the forest, but this? It was huge. Possibly hundred´s of the bloodthirsty creatures could live there.

It was almost impossible to see without a torch for regular man by now, but the observant eyes of the ranger were still able to work clearly. He spotted the messenger, tied, sitting in the middle of the cavern entrance.  

Two spiders were approaching the man now. Ranger had to act. He drew his bow and nocked two arrows. When the beasts were in the right position, he shot them down both at once. Then Norrick decided to leave his hideout and ran towards the desperate man quietly. His movement stopped as he saw an entity appearing next to the man in armour. It was a trap!

"Hello, dear Norrick." said a voice seductively. Now, there was standing a woman with long, deep dark hair, without any clothes on. Only shadows were covering her bosoms, very small part of her privates and both hands, rest was soft white skin without any imperfection. The part that was wreathing her womanliness was almost transparent, whereas shadows begging on her wrist and going down to her fingers seemed like solid metal. They were ending with pointy, sharp fingernails. She used these to torture her victims.  

"Look what do we have here," smiling at the messenger, "a fresh meat!" With slow and elegant steps approached the young man. Lowering on her knees, she looked at the ranger. 

"And you? Did you come here to save him? How brave... How stupid." Her red eyes lighted up.

Norrick didn´t say a word. 

"Although, I am little disappointed. Where is the boy?!" shouted the woman with a different, angry voice.

 Norrick was still silent, but the messenger was whining. 

"Don´t worry, he will come. I know he will." 

Noticing the young man wailing, she grabbed his chin with two pointy nails and licked his cheek very slowly. "Ah, your scream makes me tingle."

"Let him go!" finally shouted Norrick.

The woman looked at him and began laughing. "Of course I will, but only if you make me do it ."

Hearing that, Norrick, surrounded by an army of spiders, nocked with lighting speed another arrow and shot at the woman. Seeing that, the spiders attacked him immediately. He unsheathed his sword and tried to defend himself, but there was too many of them. They knocked him down and tied him in cobwebs.

"Oh no, he shot me." fell the lady on her knees. 

"Well, he tried to!!!" Anger burst in her purple eyes. "You are really stupid." again started laughing this time even louder and more evil.

Approaching the messenger, she went silent. With a swing of her demonic, shadow claws, she slit his throat.

"Take him down to the tunnels, my sweethearts. Let others feed on his flesh. And Norrick, I hope you will enjoy the time with us. You are going to spend a lot of it here before I end your misery."