One saturday evening we all went to the cinema. Lucy, Emily, Alex, Barbara and me. Two swans, a platypus lady, a elephant woman and a spider girl. Or spider woman, Lucy and me had become adult girls.
So we went to the cinema and had a great evening. But the whole week I felt...different. A strange feeling in my tummy, pulling, that made me stand infront of a window for hours, looking into the far. And now, while we come out of the building, I feel it again.

But I even feel something else.
You may know that spider eyes have a better sight than some others when it's dark around.
I notice a quick flutter above us, a small shimmer of colorful wings. I look around, but I can see nobody else, just us.
Now I become nervous.
“Guys, we should move..” I say and gently push them in the direction of the car.
“What's wrong, Rachel?” Lucy asks, looking happy but confused. “Are you okay?”
Alex and Emily even slow down, so does Barbara.
“Seriously, let's go!” I say, giving them another push. “I don't know what's wrong, but there is something!”
Suddenly my mind finds the answer why they don't notice anything: they are no predators.
Swans, elephants, platypus...peaceful animals.
But I am a predator.
My spider legs twitch, my abdomen itches. Then I notice him; he's standing on a balcony, holding a walkie-talkie. I jump on the wall, climbing up as quick as I can. After a few seconds I reach the balcony, jump over the small railing and wrap the guys snout with my hand. My spider legs dig into his sides, deep enough to make him feel the sharp tips.
“Shhh....no word anymore” I whisper into his ear and grab the walkie-talkie out of his paw. The dark grey lion growls.
“Silly bitch, i'll bite off ya neck!” He moves, I can feel it. But I am quicker than him.

My lower spider legs move like they have their own will, they grab the silk from my abdomen and start to wrap it around the guys legs. At the same moment my lower hands emit silk too from the glands on my wrists and stick it to the guys arms. My upper hands stick their silk to his face, right on his snout.
All that happens in seconds. While the lion still turns I emit more silk from my glands, wrapping his legs and arms using his own movement. His growl turns into a surprised “Rooorrrwhaaa?”
I jump over him and stick the silks together, the guy tries to struggle free. But I don't give him a chance, I move around him a few times, then he is bound with spider silk around his arms and legs. His jaw is even wrapped.
Time for...nah, that guy won't taste well. Urgs. Strange thought...comes with the predator-thing I guess.
But there is this gleam of colorful wings again. The same colors I've seen so often. So long ago.

Maren.

With a gun.

Aiming on my family.

I pick up the walkie-talkie. Time to prove Lucy that i'm good in catching balls...and even better in throwing.
Head and Talkie meet. Maren shouts and lurches in the air, looking around. I smile at her, then I jump off the balcony and move along the wall. A quick look over the shoulder and I see her turning to follow me, still with a gun in her hand. Silly girl, so easy to anger.
Bang.
A small piece of the wall above me explodes, sending tiny fragments through the air. Nothing hits me, so I continue to move along the wall. I can hear Marens wings flutter, her curses.
I reach the corner of the building, but until I can move around
Bang
The pain in my right lower arm explodes. I move myself around the corner and inspect my hurt arm. The bullet went through the upper layers of skin.

Pain.

This is not fair. She has a gun and I...I...
I am a predator.

Chase.

Maren is afraid. She is the prey.
I am the predator.

Night.

She moves, can't see, is angry and afraid.
I act like a predator.

No fear.

I climb along the wall, using my unhurt arms and my spider legs. Quickly like if I walk on the ground I move along the wall, until I reach a small gab between the houses.
Quickly I emit some silks from my left wrists and twist them to a rope with a sticky end. Then I wait.
Seconds later I can hear Marens wings. Then I see her. She looks around, confused, searching where I disappeared. I wait. And wait. Then...she's close...i throw the rope with the sticky end, catching Marens left wing. She gasps and tries to aim at me, but I already jumped from the wall and fall down, the rope in my hands. Maren gets tugged down on her wing and shouts. Her arm with the gun is waving through the air, not really aiming on something.
I land on my spider legs, use them to jump aside. Where i've stood now Maren hits the ground. Her wings are creased by the collision and she moans and holds her head. The gun is laying somehwere, but not in her hand.
I slowly sneak closer to her, ready for the final bite...to inject my venom, to kill her. Then i'll … eat her?
Maren now notices that I am pretty close to her. She wiggles and moans, tries to scream. “Monster! I knew you're a monster! Don't dare to eat me!”
Sigh.
I think about hanging her upside-down onto the next street lamp, but suddenly somebody shoots at me.
A big moth guy with brown..fur? Dirt? ...whatever on his body aims a pistol at me. I jump aside, up the next wall.
Bang.
Will this ever stop ?!
Luckily that guy does not seem to be the best gunner at all. With loud buzzing wings he follows me. “You'll not hurt my daughter and get away!” he shouts. THAT is Marens adoptive father?! I'm nearly sorry for her now. Nearly.
Bang.
Along the wall, over the gap. I jump onto a street lamp, then over a garden wall. I land on soft grass. Something moves in the darkness. Something...big.
I can still hear the moth guys wings, he's coming closer. I hide behind a tree in the dark garden.
“Too bad I can smell your blood!” he says, landing on the grass. “Now I will kill you!”

“Wrong garden for that, missssster!” says a hissing voice. A shadow raises behind the moth and he disappears in the mouth of a giant venus flytrap.
I hide behind the tree, my heart bumping in panic. This garden is a death trap! If I only...

“Come out dear. My darling will take care of that...sssscumbag.” The voice says.
“You really don't have to be afraid, Vicky will not harm you.” says another voice, sweet, calming.
I step around the tree. Three siluettes are standing on the terrace, one of them with wings, one with...a snake tail?
“Hello...and thank you for...removing this guy. He wanted to kill me!” I say, trying to discern the girls.
“Blood. You're hurt.” growls the third one who hasn't spoken until yet. I nod.
“Come in. You're ssssafe here, I promisssse!” says the lady with the snake tail.

They take me into their house.



That house is now also my house. Vicky, Calypso and Amora are my sisters, my siren sisters. It was not easy for me to leave the Le Gance house, but I am totally happy over here! I'm not normal, like my three sisters, but we don't care. We care for each other.
I often visit Lucy, Alex, Emily and Barbara. Sometimes they visit me in my new home. They like my sisters and my sisters like them.

I am Rachel. I'm a spider.
And i'm the happiest spider on earth.




Edit:
Two days after the “hunt” the newspapers were full of stories about the events of that night. They brought the whole backstory about Maren and her adoptive father, who was a big gangster boss...until he ended in the stomach of a meat-eating plant.
He adopted Maren to get a new member for his gang. Maren seemed to be a perfect criminal with her preference for violence, she often lured her victims into safety with her harmeless look, then robbed them.
Also Maren confirmed that they were after the Le Gances to take them hostage and extort money.
End of the story: One gangster boss less in the city, Maren imprisioned, the Moth-Gang bisbanded.