Page 250 of Light Leech

“I don’t know what your saaaaying, so shut up?”

“What did you say?” The warrior queen walked closer to me on her big spider friend. I liked the big thing, but she kind of scared me.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean nothing to–”

“That does not excuse your punishment.” She was getting closer and didn’t look like she wanted to play.

“But I’m just a kid!”

Boyband still coughed confetti and looked like he was tired because he was sitting.

“I don’t get this game!’ Naoma said and stomped her feet. “Why are you just playing with the boys?”

“Stop!” Kuni shouted. “This isn’t a game!”

Sanna laughed. It wasn’t the good kind of laugh that made me want to laugh too. I was confused. Why was she laughing?

“You want to play, girl?” Sanna moved her giant spider to walk up to Naoma.

“Hey!” I shouted. I stomped my feet like Naoma. “Are you going to tell her the rules without me?”

Sanna looked over her shoulder, whispered something that I couldn’t hear into the spider robot’s ear, then the spider lady kicked me.

It ticked. It tickled a lot and my head felt funny when I bounced off the wall. The wall looked bouncy but didn’t really feel like it. I coughed out confetti just like Boyband and my head felt fuzzy. Still, I could see one of the legs grab Naoma like a snake.

“Owie!” Naoma whined. “That tickles too much! Please!” she laughed. “Please it really tickles!”

“Stop!” Kuni grabbed the leg with both hands, really strong, then his eyes lit up. He turned gray like a snake but he kinda looked like a fish. Was something wrong with him? Yellow flashes shot out from his arms and the spider lady’s leg exploded.

She screamed and ran back as the leg that was holding Naoma broke into pieces like building blocks.

“Let’s make her confetti, too!” I said, wiping away the rainbow running out of my nose.

“Yeah!” Naoma laughed.

“No!” Sanna said, then made her spider lady run at us, but she moved weirdly without one of her legs.

“Use me,” the pig man said.

“What?”

“Now you, bakuh!”

My hands turned into big black claws.

“Wow!” Naoma said.

Uh oh. The spider lady was running at Naoma.

I was supposed to be a hero, right? I didn’t know why, but something in my head told me. Was that the pig man? No, he was stupid and didn’t make sense.

The spider lady kicked Kuni before he could do anything then leaned down to suck Naoma in with her giant mouth.

I scratched her with my claw, but it didn’t hurt her.

She lifted her head with Naoma trying to jump out of her mouth.

I saw her jaw start to stretch, but just before she could swallow my friend, she screeched again, dropping Naoma onto a table. Rainbow ooze started to leak out of her arm where she hit it.