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A kittens purr could be heard across the room as a certain purple skinned spider demon patted the a small kitten with a sad smile on her face. The mentioned spider demon, also known as Spindrax, was sitting in a pillow bag and was carressing the kittys back as gently as he possibly could so the small kitten didnt run away. The dark furred kitten didnt belong to her though. by what Spindrax had assumed, the kitten was most likely from the streets of the city of Megapolis, and was a stray cat. They didnt mind though, she liked all types of animals, especially kittens. And it seemed that the kitten didnt mind lying in the spiders lap either.
The first time Spindrax has encourted the dark furred little devil, was when the demon spider was sprinting towards their room. Frustrated and at the verge of tears, because Syntax revealed to the Spider queen that Spindrax was secretly meeting up with the best friend of their enemy, Mei Long, making her aunt dissapointed in them and yelling at them afterwards in front of everyone. And although Spider Queen didnt kick Spindrax out for commiting such a "crime", she made her feel as terrible as probably possible and sent her to her room without saying anything else.
Normally, Spindrax would just brush this off and forget about it the next couple of days, since she was already used to her aunt yelling and being mad at others, when something didnt go right, but the dissapointed look her aunt gave them reminded Spindrax of...
Someone.....
Someone, she and her aunt tried their best to make Spindrax forget about but at the time as the spider demon was rushing into her room his mind started pulling back the memories of the times when they were still living with her parent. And the more her brain reminded her, the more they felt himself speeding up towards their room. Finally, when he reached their room, she grabbed the door knob and shutted the doors behind them and tried to calm down their breath as they simply just stood there, leaning her back against the long metal doors. When he finally was sure that she wasnt going to break down right after they take a step forward, they tried to make a move, but the second they even moved their limb, she felt the pound of tears that have been trying their best to escape from all of her four eyes finally succeed. They didnt dare trying to say anything, the last thing they needed was to let someone who was passing by her room hear them sobbing. They massaged their forehead as he made his way towards her bed and sat down on the mattress. Why was this such a big deal anyway?! The monkie kid and his crew werent even attacking or doing anything bad to them so why is it such an issue if they try to make friends with them! And besides, Mei seemed to really care about Spindrax. She even gifted her her umbrella once when they were hanging out and it started to rain so she could get home without being soaked! Isnt that.. Something a, "good friend", would do? Spindrax thought to herself as he wiped the tears off their cheeks but the more they did, the more came.
They didnt want to seem like shes weak, he always admired her aunts determination to battle anyone who tried to fight her or even get in her way, and once Spindrax has been taken away by the Spider queen from her previous care taker, the queen has told the young spider demon about her many many battles she had been in back in the days of her glory. Making Spindrax amazed like theyve never been before and wanting to be just like their aunt once they grow up. Making her want to bring back the glory and fame to her auntie just like she desired and deserved.
But at the moment, she didnt feel even a little like her aunt, he didnt feel strong at all.
No, they felt pathetic and weak.
How can they become just like her aunt if he cant even do anything right? As Spindrax lied down on the mattress, she cursed herself under their breath for being so foolish and making friends with the people who were supposed to be their enemies. She kicked off her boots and her armor and once more cursed under their breath how this is all Syntaxs fault, and that once they get the chance they will get his revenge on that smartass wannabe. None of this would have to happen if Syntax would keep his dumb mouth shut. They felt an angry frown form on her face as he remembered Syntax smirking at him behind the queen while the queen proceeded to scream at her. Eventually calming down and sending her to her room. Her last words being as Spindrax started to walk away "Such an unbelivable brat.". Spindrax felt her hand clench as he swore under their breath that if hell ever catch Syntax smirking at them like that during anything like that ever again, shell punch the shit out of his face.
Just as they were about to finally break down and sob the pain and the bucket of emotions into her pillow though, they felt her heart jump as he heard something outside her window, because it didnt sound like the rain that was currently outside. Quickly grabbing herself off the bed, they turned around to see what was making that strange noise. But to her suprise, there stood a simple stray dark furred kitten.
,, What in the.... "
Spindrax mumbled to herself as they made their way towards the window and unlocked it, examining the cat on the way there. When they opened the windows, the spider demon didnt do anything but only staring back at the little kitten, both of them sharing an eye contact now. The kitten seemed to be a stray type of cat, and most likely from the streets of the neon city named Megapolis that Monkie kid protected and that her aunt tried to take over once. He quickly ran over to his bed and returned with a small blanket that lied on her bed, wrapping it around the kitty as carefuly as possible to not scare it away and slowly picking it up.
,, What in the heavens were you doing outside my window, little buddy? "
Spindrax said as she walked over to her bag seat and putted the little dark furball down. The kitten though managed to respond only with meowing and trembling from the cold.
,, Gosh, youre so wet you look like a wet chicken. "
Giggles escaped the spiders mouth as she dried up the kitty with the blanket, then proceeding to pick the dark kitty up and putting it into their lap as they both sat together into the bag seat. Honestly, Spindrax had no idea what to do. She never had a pet, and wasnt exactly sure how to take care of one. But he couldnt just leave the kitten like that! They had to at least feed it something first before they let it go back outside. Thoughts of what she should feed the animal started filling his mind, what do cats even eat? Can they eat chips? Because Spindrax had a secret stash of them under their bed that noone knew about, but once they gave it a second thought, she slowly started to realize how ridiculous that sounds. Maybe since the dragon racer gave them her phone number he could text her and ask her if she could buy some cat food for them? Ehh no, she wasnt in the mood for hearing bunch of "awws", and especially not now. Wait! Maybe they could try getting that fish the big guy brought yesterday from the fridge! She would have to do it as fast as possible though, and not get caught, especially by Syntax. After a while of deciding if he really should risk it or not they stood up from the pillow bag seat, leaving the wrapped kitty in the blanket alone and walking over to the doors to go snatch the fish.
After coming back from her mission, almost getting caught three times, once by Huntsman, and twice by Syntax, they finally got the fish and went straight back to the place where he left the kitty. The baby kitten seemed to be finally dried up from the rain, its fur being fluffy. Spindrax had to chuckle when she noticed that the kitty almost resembled a dark furball. She summoned their iron pirate sword and cut the fish in small pieced so the kitty could eat it it without having any issues swallowing it.
,, There we go, that should do it. "
Spindrax spoke to herself when she was done and took one piece into her hand.
,, Now, say aah you little furball. "
As if the kitty understood what the spider racer said, it opened its mouth and almost choked on how fast it was eating the little flesh of the fish.
,, H-Hey! Slow down lil one! Youre gonna choke, and thats the least what both of us want! "
She quickly grabbed the end of the meat that was still hanging out of the kittys mouth and slowly let go off it once the kitty was done eating the first part so it could move on to eating the second part.
,, Youre really hungry, huh? "
The spider girl mumbled under their breath, leaning her chin against her palm as he watched the little dark furred kitty finish eating the piece of fish like it was starving this whole time. And once it swallowed the last piece, the kitten started meowing again for more. Who knew kittens can be that hungry?
When the kitty finished the last piece of the cutted fish Spindrax made, the spider demon gently picked up the kitty and once more putted it into her lap and started caressing its back. It nicely suprised him when the cat cub lied down into a sleeping position and suddenly she could hear and feel relaxing purrs against her. And after a while, he could feel themselves relaxing as well.
She felt himself weakly smile when they noticed the kitty made her feel much much better, but soon the smile dissapeared out of their face and a sad frown replaced it instead when he realized she would have to let the kitty go at some point since it probably had a family that it needed to go back to and also even though they never asked her aunt, she probably wouldnt let them have any pets in the lair.
The dark kitty opened its eyes and looked up, noticing the upset expression on their saviours face and leaned against one of her hands. Spindrax noticed it and felt herself smiling again, patting the little cats head.
And meanwhile they were having a wholesome moment together, someone decided to break it.
Spindrax felt herself yelping when she heard the doors open out of blue and quickly hided the kitten in their lap once she saw that the one and only spider queen was entering their room.
,, H-Hey auntie! Uhh- You um- You need something? "
Spindrax said, trying to sound as non suspicious and nervous as they possibly could so they didnt drive in much unwanted attention, but very obviously failing at it. The Spider Queen looked at her, rising her eye brow suspiciously when she realized something was going on. Proceeding to sigh, she slowly made her way in front of her niece that seemed to be nervously sweating. Not being in her spider form anymore, she kneeled in front of them.
,, Spindrax, I.... I just. Id like to apologize, alright? I didnt mean to yell that much back there and those words i said. A-And Ive realized that i was... Probably overreacting a bit. "
Spider queen said, avoiding eye contact with the younger demon as she rubbed her nieces palm gently. Making Spindrax suprised, he finally dropped their nervous fake smile. Was her....Was her aunt APOLOGIZING to her?
,, I.. I hope i didnt hurt you too much with what i said. Huntsman made me realize that the time when you probably just want to make some friends has came. Correct? "
Spider queen said, her voice filled with regrets she finally looked up into her nieces eyes. Her eyes filled with sympathy.
,, Well.... I.. I-I suppose, yeah. But i do understand why you were so upset, so its ok... "
They said and looked away, they couldnt handle looking into her aunts eyes, but having to get back to making eye contact when Spider queen placed a hand on his cheek and turned their head back to her.
,, Listen dear, you dont have to apologize for anything, ok? Youve done nothing wrong. You just wanted to make some friends, and since most of your time you spend fighting the monkie kid and his dragon friend, you probably just wanted to know how it feels like having someone you could hang out with. "
The queen smiled sadly and gently caressed Spindraxs cheek. Spindrax feeling her eyes widen, she smiled and leaned into her hand.
,, Thank you for understanding auntie. But to be real with you, its actually only dr- "
They both suddenly paused when they heard a meowing noise come out of Spindraxs crotch. Both dropping their smiles, they stared at each other with shock in their eyes. Oh god, Spindrax is so fucked-
,, What was that- "
,, Nothing- "
,, Spin- "
,, It was just my stomach haha im probably starting to get hungry- "
,, Spindrax- "
,, I guess i should go make myself som- "
,, SPINDRAX! "
Spindrax quickly shut his mouth, not daring to say anything else, Spider queen deeply sighed and spoke.
,, Spindrax, is that a cat in your lap? "
,, ... "
The spider racer looked down, feeling as if her mouth was locked and the only key that would be able to unlock her mouth was nowhere to be found.
,, Spindrax, answer me right now. "
Sighing, they finally looked up into his aunts eyes.
,, If i say yes, will you kick me out and make me sleep outside for a month? "
Spindrax asked, feeling her hands tremble with fear of having to sleep outside, worse yet, having to leave the spider queen for upseting her. The queen gasped softly, the expression on her face resembling a sad confused shock instead of anger that Spindrax was expecting. And if the Spider queen wasnt close enough to Spindrax, the spider racer probably wouldnt be able to hear her aunt voice.
,, Wuh- What kind of silly question is that, my dear? "
The spider queen said, feeling herself smile while her eyebrows were furrowed in confusion as she returned to gently caressing her nieces face.
,, Well.... Everytime i have upset her a bit more often than i was allowed to, she usually made me sleep outside.. "
Spindrax spoke, feeling a small amount of tears make their way back into his eyes as their mind was slowly bringing back the memories.
,, S-she? Whos she? "
,, You....You know.. "
The young spider watched his aunt Spider Queen having to take a moment to remember who she meant, and the longer she took, more tears started to form in their eyes.
,, Wait- you mean your-"
The Spider Queen paused when she saw her niece cover her face and let out a sob. She couldnt belive them, how could they have done something like that to her beloved niece, he hasnt done anything! She was so glad once that she got them out of that place. How much else was done to Spindrax? She wasnt sure if asking that specific question would make the matters of the current situation better or worse, so she just kept quiet.
A hands pulled Spindrax into a hug and the younger spider accepted it immediately with a shaky breath. Leaning into her aunts neck, they let himself be caressed on her back by her aunts hand as they rested their chin on her shoulder while they finally sobbed out their bottled up emotions.
,, ..Im sorry auntie.. "
He mumbled under their breath, but because the queen was close enough to her niece, she heard it.
,, Sorry for what? "
She asked with a soft giggle as she closed her eyes, continuing to gently rub her nieces back.
,, ....For not being strong as you.. "
Spindrax felt the anxiety rise as the hand stopped moving on her back, oh god, did they say something wrong? Suddenly though, the hand started moving again.
,, Darling, could you please explain what you mean by that? Because i dont remember not one time when you were weak. "
The queen started to gently rub circles into her nieces back. And right after she said that, she felt the others hands wrap weakly around her back.
,, Thats not true! I-I am weak! If i wasnt, i could have gone out of that place easily!- "
,, Spindrax, you were 8 years old- "
,, But- "
,, Spindrax. "
They pulled away, the queen held the younger spider by his shoulders and making Spindrax stare into the sympathy that filled the queens eyes, meanwhile the others were slowly starting to get red and full of tears.
,, Youre strong in your own kind of way, alright, my dear? Everyone is different, but always can become stronger if they so desire, and so can you. And by what im seeing, youre already on the journey to become one of the strongest people i know. "
The queen said and gently pressed their foreheads together.
,, S-Stronger than Sun Wukong? "
Spindrax asked as a sniffle came out of her.
,, Stronger than Sun wukong.. "
,, Stronger than Tripatika? "
,, Stronger than Tripatika, especially him. "
,, Stronger than Budha? "
,, Spindrax- "
The queen paused when she finally heard Spindrax giggle that day, and instead of explaining of how noone can be stronger than Buddha himself, she sighed and chuckled, and let herself be pulled back to a hug by her niece.
,, We feeling a bit better now, my dear? "
,, Yeah... I think I do.. "
Spindrax spoke, giggling once more when she felt a kiss being pressed into her forehead by her aunt.
,, Im glad to hear that... Hey, how about we get this little dark furred devil its own little place to sleep? Hm? "
The spider queen said as they both looked down on the purring kitten that has fallen asleep in Spindraxs lap.
,, That would be great. "
Spindrax smiled and together with her auntie began patted the lil stray cat, completely forgeting about the fact that the kitten wasnt his and probably belonged to someone else, and just enjoying the rare moment they got to had with his mother figure.
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