Arachnoextinction Chapter 7: Chapter Seven - Spider in the Doorway

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Looking at my open door, I saw a giant spider taking up the entire doorway. The hellish spider was as black as death with blood-red eyes that tore my soul to shreds. I felt like claws were digging into my gut and pulling my insides out through a freshly carved hole in my stomach. The size of the head wasn’t much bigger than a bowling ball, but its body was at least as long as me and quite a bit wider. It stood about thigh high, with its legs at least twice the height of the body, and it had pincers around its mouth that were snapping open and closed as it looked me up and down. The clicking that sounded from the pincers sent fearful chills down my spine; I tried to react before the spider could make a move toward me. I stumbled backward and fell on my butt as I attempted to leap back. After a few pitiful, failed attempts, I gave up on rising with my shaky leg and began scooting away in a weird crab crawl. My arms and legs moved as fast as they could on the floor to create space between me and the spider. I kept waiting for it to run at me. Waiting for the spider to jump on me and rip my face to pieces and engulf my body, but the spider never moved. It just locked its demonic gaze on my face, which was now a ghostly white, and continued clicking at me. Once I had backed up against the wall and was as far as I could go, I held my breath and waited for it to make its move. I was going to sit and wait for the painful and disturbing end to come. I was so paralyzed with fear that I couldn’t fight back if my life depended on it. Which it did. A soft growl began to emerge from the spider, and it started shaking violently in the doorway. It took one slow step toward me and stopped. Its growling grew louder and angrier as it fought to take another step toward me. Its mind seemed to be fighting against any movement the body attempted. Its eyes grew to an even brighter red, and with a red flash and abrupt pop, they faded to black. The spider’s body slumped over with all movement and noise coming to an end. "Aw, man," whined Dr. Kale as he stepped over the spider into my room with a controller in his grubby little hands. My hand was resting on my chest and I relaxed my body against the wall. Well, as much as I was able to relax. I was not entirely in complete control of myself at the moment. There was also a decent chance my body had lost control of all functions, and I might have made a mess. That is all I will say on that matter. I was trying, and failing, to calm my racing heart and gain control over my sporadic breathing. "What. In the actual HELL...are you doing?" I wheezed at him, never taking my eyes off the slumped over spider. "This is a robotic representation of what the spiders will look like once we bring them back," Dr. Kale said while beaming. "This one is a little smaller than the living version will be, but isn't it amazing?" "Smaller? That thing is bigger than me! I should just pull your funding! Those things are evil! Grotesque! Horrid! Why the hell would anyone want those things alive?" I shouted and climbed to my feet, ignoring his outstretched hand to help me up. “If there’s any creature that deserves to remain extinct, it’s giant freaking spiders!” "Arachnophobia is such a funny thing," Dr. Kale said, wiping a laughter-induced tear from his eye. "Arachno erotica is such a creepy-ass thing," I grumbled as I collected my phone and notepad. "I think it’s actually called arachnophilia. Unless you’re writing a book about arachnophilia, in that case, it would be arachnoerotica… You ready to see the mammoth life machine?" the evil Dr. Kale asked. "Yes, anything to get me away from any type of disgusting spider creature, alive or dead. Let's see this mammoth magic, Dr. Frankenstein," I said and scooted past the broken-down robot spider, kicking it once as I went by. Dr. Kale flashed me a hurt look and scooped up the spider like an eight-legged baby. This eight-legged baby happened to be bigger than him. When he tried to balan