In Night City Arachno, a tall and slender man with eight jewel-like red eyes and ten fangs that protruded out of where his chin meets his neck in a dark silver and black suit entered the office room. The room was simple with a wall made of glass looking out over Night City. Arachno looked out the window the inky blackness clung to the buildings and roads of Night City, "I don't underssstand why you are againssst this Nycto" The shadows swelled in the room rushing together like a maelstrom purple glowing eyes stared Arachno down. " You don't get it, I know you felt it to after we lost the war all those years ago humans settled down here and because they live in a dreamland, they have forgotten what terrified them weakening us," the horse, raspy voice filled the room. "Ssso we finally have a lead thisss energy was Thanatos'sss if we find where he went we might be able to get answers-,"
"Silence!" the voice echoed around the room "100 years ago Thanato abandoned us in the crucial battle against the humans and dreams that single battle is why we're reduced to this one city which I now have to rule and nothing will jeopardise this, and you want to, what go on a wild goose chase to try and find him?"
"Yess, we may finally get answersss maybe he had a good reasson maybe if we find him we could fix-,"
"Just stop, he left and I can barely protect this city from the humans and dreams drop this you don't have my permission to follow this up, know that if you do you will become my enemy, just get back to your post you're one of the last powerful nightmares this city can't afford to lose you,"
"fine," defeated Arachno left the office the purple eyes of Nycto never once breaking from the back of his head as he left the room. Arachno took the dingy lift down to the foyer. The big entranceway walls were lined with black and purple with little light creating big and dark shadows.
Nycto watched from the office window as Arachno left the building and walked down the street. "If I know Arachno he won't stop just because I said. Scio you and your partner follow him and make sure he doesn't follow up on this," A smaller section of shadow detached itself from the mass and left the room.
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Arachno entered the Dingy Dungeon a bar near his house. As he entered the old, rusted door creaked as he entered the bar mostly empty of customers, a few shapes were hunched over in the corner of the room. As Arachno moved towards the front of the bar, where the barkeep was wiping down the tabletop, the other patrons noticed him and turned away in fear desperately avoiding eye contact. The Bartender a short, scarred creature with tentacle-like protrusions coming out of its head, a seemingly never-ending dripping of water hit the floor from these tentacles, "Arachno it is nice to see you back here how was the meeting with the boss?" a slow slurred voice filled the room.
"Ah, Aquapho it was a ssspectacular failure I told him about the energy sssignature and nothing, told to let it go Arrrgh! So frussstrating!" Thin web-like silver tendrils wrapped around his fist and arm as Arachno slammed it down on the table. The table crumbled reduced to rubble. "Hey, hey don't be destroying my bar. You're strong enough just do it without permission you know don't ask for permission ask for forgiveness,"
"You're right I'll find the tracesss find him and drag him back here piece by piece if I have two,"
"That a boy, there you go now leave look my loyal clientele are terrified," one of Aquapho's tentacles gestured to the entire room and the poor nightmares cowering in the corners startled by Arachno's previous outburst.
Arachno left the Dingy Dungeon and returned to his mansion. The weave mansion was a dark building on the edge of town. It had two floors with spiderwebs everywhere. As Arachno entered through the door he walked down the stairs at the back of the mansion into the basement. There in the basement was a throne made of webs with hundreds of thousands of webs coming off the chair and going out in every direction. Millions of black spiders of every different size crawled around the chair, and webs. As Arachno sat on the chair he rubbed his hands together, "Well let'ss begin."
The webs around the chair started to vibrate as information flooded into Arachno's head from this chair all the information in Night City is recorded and collected as the web spans the entire city. "Found it the traces," Arachno exclaimed he suddenly grabbed a web and pulled instantly he vanished into the web.
The only orphanage in Night City was located on the east side in the factory. This used to be a historic site but when the war was over the humans brought rapid industrialization and who better than the almost completely wiped-out nightmares to work there. The orphanage 'Somnum Exterreri' was surrounded by these factories allowing it to be somewhat ignored by police and once orphans came of age they were forced into the factories to work. Phasmo a short hound-like child with dark purple and black fur was one of these nightmare children a rare sight after the war and humans 'lost their fear'. Phasmo was been beaten in the education centre a routine for the orphanage to do until 3 loud knocks echoed almost supernaturally quietening the cries of the children and sending shivers up the adult's spine. "Bell get the door I'm covered in blood and not ready to receive," screamed Didaskaleino the head teacher and leader of the orphanage. Bell opened the door and screamed slamming it closed "The spider, the ruler of webs Arachno is here!"
"What foolish nonsense are you saying," Didaskaleino remarked now having changed clothes to a red apron over a black dress. "The God damm ruler of spiders is at our doorstep," Bell continued to exclaim. Didaskaleino reached for the door and opened it for herself and there he stood in that silver and black suit. "Oh my "Didaskaleino said "Welcome Lord Arachno it is great to see you. What did we do to deserve this pleasure?" beckoning him in.
As Arachno entered he Spoke "I am in sssearch of sssomething, I can feel it here," he gestured around the room until he stopped rotating "Found it," he exclaimed and motioned with his hands and ripped Phasmo out of the dungeon and through the floor. "I'm taking thisss child," Arachno said as he disappeared. "God what was that about" Didaskaleino wondered as she stared at the hole in her floor.
Phasmo slowly opened his eyes he realised he was no longer in the dungeon but lying in a bed. He shot up and ran to the window, as he took in the view the door to his room creaked open. Phasmo whipped round to see Arachno enter the room, "who are you?" questioned Phasmo.
"I am Arachno, I have taken you from the orphanage as you contain one piece of a very important puzzle inside of you."
"What piece inside of me?"
"A piece of Thanato our old ruler who disappeared I'm collecting them to try to figure out where he is," Arachno pointed at Phasmo's chest there a green light shone from it.
Boom the door to the weave mansion was blown open "Arachno I know you're up there hand over the child!"
"We have got to go," Arachno told Phasmo "I sense the next piece in the human territory so that is where we're headed." Arachno reached up and grabbed a web and disappeared with Phasmo.
That night the skies of Night City were illuminated as the weave mansion burned to the ground. ,
"Send word to the humans that my hunters will hunt Arachno down and bring him back he can not be allowed to gather the pieces of Thanato this threatens the peace I worked so hard to achieve" Nycto said to Scio and Pyro the leaders of the Hunters of the Dark.
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