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// Eight legs & Explosive Actions 
// Story: The Twi'lek 
// by Gallants 
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The shifter ran to the side as the spider rushed me, I turned around planting my feet on the wall, and ran up it; springing off I turned midair landing squarely on her back, "Get off me scum," I smiled and thrust my saber down and was nearly knocked off balance as my saber failed to penetrate her white exoskeleton, "You're adorable thinking you could hurt me with that tickle stick of yours," she aggressively turned and slammed herself against the wall knocking me from her back and onto the ground, "I was just going to kill you, but now you're going to suffer!" she leaped towards me drool dripping from her maw. She smacked into the wall as I pushed her away, taking a deep breath I got back to my feet raising my saber once more left hand gripping my hip.

Her left foreleg shot towards me I slashed my saber to deflect the attack, "AWWWW!" I heard her scream first before my chest was impacted by the tarsus, "You insolent little beast, I'll make you watch as I tear your family apart limb by limb," I took a step forward as she stepped back. Taking a more aggressive stance I lifted and slung several stones toward her face in response she ducked and shot a web at me stepping to the side and slashing with my blade I noticed it was particularly strong as my saber bounced off of it, her laughter was cacophonous as she shot more web at me.

Dropping into a slide under another stream of web I jumped to my feet and rushed her, she dodged a swipe and ran up the wall where she started to throw stones at me I couldn't keep up with the volume, a stone struck my arm forcing my saber from my hand, another hit my leg knocking me down a third pinned my arm down holding back a scream I attempted to get my saber when a thin string of web stuck to it pulling the hilt towards the spider where she held onto it with a tarsus. She landed above me, "Not so tough without your little light toy, huh," chuckling followed shortly after her statement, "before I string you up and hunt down your family I want you to watch as I destroy this."

"I would strongly recommend you don't do that," I said struggling to get my arm free of the stone pinning it, she laughed at me as she slowly brought the saber to her mouth starting to crush it. With a final desperate push, I got the stone off and propelled myself directly into the wall bringing my left hand to grip the top of my head I blurrily saw her rushing me I could feel the dents being made in my sabers casing, I got to my feet and began to run dodging every attempt she made to catch me. In my daze, I felt a small hole I dropped onto my left side and slid into it, there was a resounding explosion causing the roof of my hideaway to shake and drop small pieces of debris on me.

"What was that?" Looking to the side I saw the shifter staring at me.

"It was nothing Cavern, only one of the most important things in my life was just destroyed," Tears rolled down my face as I made my way out of the hole, I gripped my right arm and saw the rubble laid strewn about as sunlight shined from above revealing our new exit, I made my way to the remains of the spider, dropping to my knees I reached down and grabbed the heart of my saber that had snapped in half from the force of the blast I placed the halves in my pocket and screamed before a sense of nausea overtook me and blackness filled my vision.