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BACKGROUND INFO:
Okay here's what you need to know to enjoy the excerpt. First of all you'll come across "the Celestial Arachnid". This is a very meaty spider that can survive in the vacuum of space. This is because its body is covered with an airtight exoskeleton that keeps it alive. It kills its prey by spitting acid on it which is stored in a sac at the end of its body.
Naturally it needs an enemy to fight. Enter the being known as "the Entity". We don't know much about this being at this point of the novel. What we do know it is a "gas creature", meaning it is composed of loosely connected molecules that can expand and condense. It fights by flinging its prey around and shocking them with electric pulses.
Oh yeah, they're fighting in a mining tunnel made by humans in a very big asteroid. HAVE FUN!!!
EXCERPT:
The powerful creature pierced through the liquefied rock with its thick pointy legs. Acidic spit, propelled from its mouth, caused more rock to dissolve. After burrowing through the tough material the creature’s stout body emerged into the auxiliary tunnel.
The beastly body of the arachnid glistened in the dim light of the tunnel. The first layer of its body was made up of a thick and powerful exoskeleton. It formed a powerful seal over the soft flesh of the arachnid’s inner body. This natural protection allowed the celestial arachnid to survive the harsh vacuum of space.
Space bandits were fond of the arachnid’s flesh and enjoyed hunting the creature. Of course once caught the tough exoskeleton presented a challenge. However a barrage of concentrated heavy weapons fire did the trick. Once the arachnid was split open the tender flesh was theirs for the taking.
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The fierce creature skidded across the floor. It immediately spun around and began spraying acid aimlessly around. The entity easily bypassed the sprays and moved in for the kill. The arachnid was thrown up against the wall. This time the enraged being did not release its grip.
Powerful electric pulses hammered the creature’s body. At first the helpless arachnid withstood the ferocious pummeling. But alas the glimmering exoskeleton could not take any more. Small factures formed on the hardened material. They slowly crawled across the surface. The electric pulses repeatedly rammed into the creature, the factures grew into cracks.
Grayish flesh peered out of the wounds and the creature let out piercing cries of anguish as the invading vacuum of space contoured its innards. The entity would not relent. The continued onslaught dislodged the arachnid’s acid sac from its socket. The sac dangled by a few tough tendons. A couple of well placed pulses severed the tough material and the sac fell to the tunnel floor in a gush of acid as the sac membrane was ripped apart. Any rock that came in contact with the caustic substance dissolved into a bubbling mess.
By this time the hardy creature could not take anymore, its body grew limp it screams faded away. As the being concentrated its energy on the cracks chunks of flesh began dropping from the openings. Soon the entire exoskeleton laid in pieces the arachnid’s innards strewn across the rough tunnel floor. Upon realizing that there was nothing left of the celestial arachnid the entity released its grip, a fragmented spinal cord clattered to the ground.