Page 251 of Light Leech

I looked back at her to see why she was being such a baby. Boyband stood behind her, still coughing confetti, but he had a big glowing staff that had chopped off half of two of the spider lady’s back legs.

She walked back with only five legs, so I swung my claw at one of her legs, breaking it into a bunch of building blocks that flashed a myriad of colors.

I thought she was going to fall over with only half of her legs left, but she moved faster. Her legs moved to cover the gaps so instead of three on one side and one on the other, there were four in good places that helped her stay up.

She hit boyband with the back of her body, throwing him back against the wall. Naoma ran with white glowing hands, but the spider lady kicked a chair in her way and knocked her over.

The spider lady turned to me next. I coughed out some confetti and didn’t feel like playing anymore. The tickles were starting to hurt.

I ran away, but I wasn’t that fast.

She was catching up as I got closer.

Boyband’s staff flew in front of me, just missing the spider lady. She stopped to look angry at Boyband for a second but kept moving after me.

I hid behind a couch but knew that it wouldn’t stop her. I was stuck.

“No more!” I shouted. “I don’t want to play anymore!”

Sanna laughed, then yelled and looked back.

Naoma had a giant white snake head and bit onto one of her legs.

She tried to flick Naoma off, but my friend held on tight as the spider lady waved her arm in the air.

I ran to hit one of her other legs, but she smacked me with her head before I could reach it.

The tickle didn’t feel good anymore.

Naoma was still hanging on.

The lights flashed. One of the hanging ones exploded, then another.

I looked over to see Kuni touching some metal box on the wall. He was flashing like before.

Naoma still held on, but the spider lady was more scared of the flashing blue lighting bolts that came down from the ceiling. One of the bolts hit her in the head, making her look dizzy, like she took a fix.

“Run for the legs!” Kuni yelled.

The spider lady tripped. Another bolt hit her as she tried to stand up, knocking her over again.

Before I could ask what he meant, I saw Boyband already running to break another leg.

Naoma did the same.

The spider lady couldn’t stand, so I ran for her head.

“The neck!” the pig man told me. I didn’t want him to boss me around again, but I thought it was a smart idea. Black light claws grew from my hands. I climbed up her broken body then slashed the spider lady’s neck until her giant head.

Rainbows exploded, but I couldn’t watch for long. Sanna jumped on me and slammed me to the ground. She started to tickle me and rainbow drool fell out of my mouth.

My eyes started to go black. My head felt funny. I laughed. She was tickling me too hard.

I wanted to sleep. Maybe that would be good. I was a hard worker and my mom liked it when I napped.

My body shook. The tickling stopped. Sanna wasn’t on me anymore. I looked up to see her shaking on the floor as Kuni continued to shock her.

Zeg. Tickling? What was I thinking? The warrior queen was Sanna. That was it. The playful spider lady was a chromatic demon, one that had once called herself a PTA member. Veren’s mechanical corpse had been torn into pieces and thrown around the room. She no longer looked like a giant toy, but her shape held true with broken legs scattered and sparing with blue light.