The woods were a terrible place to fight, thought Shireen.  One mistep, or well placed throw, and she would stuck in a web, and be unable to fight back against her many limbed assailants.  The two beasts were directly ahead of the group, and were cleary intent on snagging three easy meals today.  Their tongue mouths were drooling in anticipation, and they had a wild look about them.  Shireen knew she wasnt going to end up gulped down by a hungry beast, but the others weren't so confident.  She wasn't sure of the competancy of the thief, but Cassandra was definitely useless.  She had no use for overly religious loons on a critical expedition, and would have much rather had another swordswoman.  It would be a hairy fight indeed.

The spiderkin intended to surprise Shireen, but she had spotted them hanging from the trees in silk hammocks from fifty yards away.  They stood on their powerful chitin covered legs, communicating to eachother in clicks, chirps, and growls.  They were a foot taller than the tallest girl at the college, and three times as heavy.  Not to mention the four large arms, and abilty to produce a silk stronger than any fabric. Grappling would not be an option.  The spiderkin were cleary aggressive and hungry, but hadn't attacked yet.  They were most likely sizing the group up for weaknesses, Shireen thought.

They found one as Cassandra was grabbed from behind by a third unseen beast.  "Blademaster help!" she cried with her shrill voice.  four arms easily sweeping her up, and controlling her, the beast sprayed a bit of silk onto her back in preparation.  The other two spiders followed suit, charging directly at the group.  "Thief!  Help the idiot, Ill handle these two..."  Shiela nodded her head, and sprinted towards Cassandra and her assailant dagger drawn.

Shireen held her sword in a high guard above her head.  She had done this many times before.  One of the spiderkin sprayed a cone of webbing at her, which she easily sidestepped.  It then came directly at her in a straight line.  As it got within arms reach, Shireen slashed downward with a false swing, and quickly reversed the blade as she maneuvered to the right, severing both of the beasts right arms as it tried to grab her.  The arms flopped onto the ground and green blood sprayed out from the wounds. The Blade of Deliverance had magical properties, and had killed a wyvern aming other beasts.  The spider would be easy prey for its unnaturally sharp edge. The spiderkin's left arms found purchase, and managed to grab Shireen by the shoulder, arm, and hip.  It mattered little, as she released her sword with her left hand, and reared back, before plunging the blade into the beasts mandibles.  The creature sputtered and drooled thick blood, before releasing her, and falling to the ground dead.  She pulled the sword up through its head, spattering grey brain matter onto the forest floor.

Before she could celebrate, the other was upon her.  It sprayed out a huge amount of warm, sticky liquid webbing, instantly immobilizing her legs.  The transparent off white silk layered on like a fabric, coating her thick thighs and knees.  The beast reared back to tackle her as she struggled to keep her balance.  She threw herself on her back as it lunged, and pointed her sword skyward.  

The impact was immense, feeling like an oxe had run into her.  The spider wasn't wrestling however, it was still.  She struggled to get free from under it, taking almost a minute to shimmy out.  The beast had impaled itself through the chest on her blade, doing all the work for her.  She quickly ripped the small amount of silk off of her legs, and prepared to help the others.  It would be interesting to see how they did.  Surely they could both handle one measily spider?

Shireen produced a loud sigh as she took in the situation.  The spiderkin was spinning Shiela in his arms.  Her body was already wrapped in a semi transparent layer of silk, and the spider had just finished sealing her arms to her chest.  Shiela was a ghosty white out of fear, and had a horrified expression on her face.  Cassandra lay on the ground nearby, completely cocooned in skin tight webbing, save one eye and part of her large chest.  She was emitting a pathetic "mmmmmph" noise over, and over again as she struggled uselessly against her skin tight wrappings.  "Here beast, face me!" Shireen called out.  The spider turned to face his new prey, still holding his meal.  She struggled in his arms, crying out occasionally as he spun her.  He quickly repositioned her, wrapping her face several times, before tossing her to the ground.

Shireen sized up her opponent.  She stood in a defensive posture, with her Black hair gently blowing in the wind, and piercing turquoise eyes staring directly at her foe.  The spider side stepped, back and forth, looking for an opening, but she gave it none.  The only sounds were the wind, and the constant muffled grunts from Shiela and Cassandra.  The beast had done an excellent job immobilizing them.  As the silk began to cool, it became opaque.  It had been applied skin tightly, and Shireen wasnt sure how well, they could breathe.  Poor Shiela had her entire face wrapped, and had no gaps in her cocoon.  The only identifying trait was a single lock of red hair protruding from the wrapping on her head.  This would not be their fate, Shireen would see to it tha...

Her thought was interrupted by a stream of silk, shot directly into her face.  Her world went dark as the silk coated her eyes.  She held onto her sword, but immediately began tugging on the mass of webbing.  Just as she ripped it off, the spider grabbed her.  It quickly wrenched the sword from her hand, tossing it aside unceremoniously.  "Let me go wretch!  I don't need my blade to end you!"  As if responding, the spiderkin begun spin her.  She felt a warm liquid impact her stomach, and then felt the silk wrapping around her midsection.  She struggled with the beast, slowing it down, but it was much stronger than she was.  It also had four free limbs.  "I wont be some parcel for you filth!"  she cried as she kicked at it.  Its body took the impacts with no issue.  She needed Deliverance...

Kor'shazza grew tired of toying with its prey, and decided she was actually dangerous.  She did in fact end Gresch'pho and Sog'da quite readily.  More food for him!  Perhaps Ghrolath would recognize her.  The others would feed him well for a week or so.  He pulled her struggling form away from his body, tightening the slack on the sheet of silk eminating from his chest.  As he spun her, the silk layered on extremely tightly, causing her to gasp as it squeezed her curvy body.  He quickly wrapped her upper legs, hips, stomach, and chest, before sealing her arms to her sides.  She fought pretty hard for a human, which he admired, but he didn't have much trouble.  She gave him one last kick before he sealed her legs together, and wrapped her feet.  The silk steamed as it layered onto her body.  It was like a wet, transparent fabric.  "No beast!  Dont you know who I am!"  "I'll kill you, I swear to mmmmmmmmph!"  He interrupted her by wrapping her entire face in one pass.     He took his time, making sure to apply the silk extremely tight, wrapping her voluptuous body with sticky silk over and over again.  She would make a wonderful meal, and he briefly considered devouring her right there.  

Shireen was enraged, how could she be bested by such a simple creature.  She was helpless, and she knew it.  The cocoon rendered her unable to speak, and as it cooled, it was starting to become harder to see through.  The spider had wrapped her extremely tight, and she could barely breath.  Her limbs were sealed to her body, and she couldnt even move her fingers.  The spider wrapped her with two full layers, before stopping.  He held her wriggling body in front of him, doing god knows what.  Shireen noticed something out of the corner of her eye.  Through the silk, she could just make out the shine of her sword.  It had fallen down and gotten lodged into a log blade up, and was a mere three feet away.

Kor'shazza inspected the cocooned girl.  He spun her around so her front end was facing him.  He had done better, but she was suitably packaged.  The cocoon would hold her indefinitely, or at least until she ended up in someone's stomach.  Humans made great meals, especially the females.  The ones from the college in particular were always so healthy, and curvaceous.  The traits that made them so desirable for mating to other humans made them extremely delicious.  Large breasts, wide hips, a full rump, and thick thighs.  The fat content was perfect, and the college girls were always so clean!  The cocoon had squeezed all of her features, slightly compressing her chest and butt.  He could still see her angry blue green eyes staring at him through the silk.  She was trying to communicate, but it was reduced to a muffled, unintelligible grunting.  One of the other girls was trying to rub her cocooned body on a sharp rock, and he decided to put a stop to it.  He turned to face her.

It was now or never.  Shireen used every ounce of her strength, and bucked forwards, headbutting the spider in the mouth.  Unfortunately, it did little to phase the beast, who did what was the equivalent of laughing, a low clicking sound that sounded like a cicada chirping.  The world around her began to fade as the cocoon silk cooled, shapes blurred and colors faded.  Then nothing but off white.  

Kor'shazza was pleased, he had quite a catch, and almost no one to share it with.  Ghrolath would be pleased to have an offering, and may even let him have prime hunting grounds.  He went to set the cocooned beauty down, but lost his balance as his foot found a rabbit hole.

Shireen felt gravity shift, and then a massive impact as the beast fell over backwards.  The beast then let loose a horrible screamibg sound for several seconds, before falling still and silent.  She felt a hard object touching her right arm that wasnt there before, and felt warm liquid seeping into her cocoon.  The idiot had lost his balance, and fallen onto her blade.  Luckily for her, it pierced it and not gone clean into her, missing her by mere inches.  She let out a "mmmmmmmmph!" in triumph, beginning her escape attempts.  She tried to rub herself on the sword, but ended up rolling off of the spider, ending up face down in the dirt.  She was able to roll, and kick her legs, but not much else.  She let out another "mmmph!"  One of the other two girls responded similarly.

Cassandra knew it, the Fire Goddess was on their side.  She saw to it that the faithful were protected.  Now she would give her the strength to escape.  With her one free eye, she was able to locate a jagged rock, and had been rubbing her right arm and hand against it for what seemed like forever.  The silk was incredibly strong, every bit as strong as a good leather, but stretchy and sticky.  Back and forth, she had managed to rip a small hole after the repetitive motion finally wore an opening a full ten minutes later.  Exhausted, she managed to poke her hand out of the sticky prison, and started to shimmy towards the thief.  Her dagger was point down in the dirt, and only two meters away.  It took over a minute for her to slowly drag her cocooned body through the dirt towards the blade.  Knife in hand, she bagan carefully slicing at her other arm, which was sealed to her side.  She cut and cut, but the knife kept getting stuck in the silk.  With every motion, her curvaceous form jiggled, her large breasts bouncing up and down.  She finally freed her other arm after another five minutes or so, and took a break.  She looked around, and saw the others were having no such luck.  Shiela was next to her, and had given up long ago.  She simply lay against a tree, and was whimpering quietly.  Shireen had ended up squirming into a nearby sheet of silk, and was stuck to it like an insect.  Her body was bucking wildly still, and she didnt look like she was slowing down.  The beast that got her was lying nearby in a pool of greenish blood.

After a brief rest, Cassandra managed to free her upper body, peeling the tight, sticky silk away.  She managed to remove it from her clothes, though she did have her ample chest pop out a few times.  She sat in the dirt, wrapped from the hips down, essentially a mermaid out of water for a moment while she caught her breath again.  Composing herself, she worked hard and finally freed her legs.  Her body was sore from all that effort, and her skin was tingling from the overwhelming tightness of the spider silk.

She had alot of work ahead of her, but she needed to work quickly. She decided to free Shireen first, as she would probably need her combat skills if anything else came along.  After almost two hours, all three girls were free from their silken prisons.

Shireen felt an unfamiliar feeling of defeat.  She was not only bested, but humiliated.  She had killed a full grown wyvern, ogres twice the size of a carriage, and more men then most of the college put together.  She was only twenty five, but already had a legendary reputation, and had spent her  life fighting.  To think, her first real defeat would be from some ordinary spiderkin, and she would be packaged up like some kidnapped villiage girl for a late night snack.  Worst of all, she was saved by Cassandra.  The brunette Priestess had a certain smugness in her voilet eyes she cut the cocoon open, speaking nonsense about her Fire Goddess.  After she retrieved Deliverance, Shireen took a moment to meditate.  She would need to train harder when they got back, she had gotten sloppy with all the office duties.

Shiela had made a terrible mistake.  This was an awful job from the start, and now spiders, spider-men, and god knows what else?  She would leave when she had a chance, damn these college girls, damn the gold, and damn the spiders most of all.  "Don't even think about running thief, I WILL find you." Shireen bluntly delivered, as if reading her mind.  "A contract is a contract!" Sheila replied with a false excitement.  She would need the right moment...

The girls rested for awhile, before picking up the trail again.  It wasn't long before they came upon a web covered cave deep in the woods...