> Web of Fatal Pleasures > by Dreamclaw > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1 - Web of Fatal Pleasures > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Tch, spiders, what are spiders going to do to something as awesome and fast as I am?” Dash boasted, flexing and spreading her wings, showing off that strong athletic body that she has spent years perfecting to be a top athlete. “I mean, I could just squash the little things! Everypony knows the spiders around here are just tiny, frail crawlies!” “Yes, Dash, I know you are brave and awesome and all that stuff, but ponies have been disappearing from town when they go to the Everfree Forest!” Twilight exclaimed, before proceeding to pace around the room and blabber about all things magic and research.  “According to preliminary studies, the cause of disappearances seems to be related to a new, previously unseen breed of insects. They seem to mostly resemble spiders, although more research is needed to verify their true lineage. So far it is unknown where they come from, maybe they are just coming out of a long hibernation, or maybe they migrated here from elsewhere, but what’s important is that they are seemingly corrupted by magic! Magic, can you believe that?!” She huffed, before getting sidetracked “Ooh, I’d love to get a specimen to examine and run tests on! Since it is a new species, maybe I could even name it! Oooh, but what would I name it?” Twilight droned on, Dash’s mind slowly tuning the purple egghead out as she just nodded along, busy imagining herself flying into the forest and ending the spider threat, maybe even getting the purple dork a toy to play with in the process. “Yeah yeah, whatever you say. Just... look, no spider is going to beat me, I mean, we have fought changelings with our bare hooves! Those are definitely tougher than some tiny little spider!” Dash puffed her chest in pride. “But if they are so dangerous that they are making lesser ponies disappear, I guess I’ll need to do some investigating and get to the bottom of this mystery – Daring Do style!” she said before stretching and darting off as Twilight continued mumbling on about the new species and the impact they might have on science. “I wonder if I could call it Twilus Sparkilcus or something like that... or is that… H-huh? W-wait! Rainbow Dash! Don’t! If they can drag off a full-grown pony, we don’t know what exactly their venom effects are or how they do it!” she yelled out, shaking her head in exasperation as she prepared to get her own expedition underway. The warning didn’t faze Dash as her thoughts were fixated on the awesome adventures she was about to have, killing evil pony-stealing spiders, being admired and praised, seen as a hero of the town on her own merits! Rainbow Dash stood right at the edge of Everfree Forest. The woods looked as gloomy and scary as ever. She glanced at the bright blue sky above and entered the forest, her thoughts rushing to happy places where she emerged victorious. She took her time flying around the woods, the silence being nothing but ominous as it kept building. Amongst the trees, she hadn’t seen any Timberwolves, Manticores, or any other sort of dangerous beasties. It was as if everyone were hiding from something even more terrible. Several uneventful hours of searching later, Dash was feeling frustrated and angry. When she was first imagining this adventure, dull and tedious definitely weren’t the words on her mind. She checked every nook and cranny, every tree canopy and burrow, every cave she saw on her way, and yet found no trace of missing ponies or ‘alien’ spiders. Her body was sending gentle waves of muscle pain to her brain, a well-known and welcome feeling to the athletic pegasus. What was making the whole endeavor worse, however, was the fact that Dash was in season. All the strain on her body and frustration from the fruitless search were amplified by the longing and desire deep within her body. It wasn’t long before she felt like she couldn’t concentrate on her mission any longer, and decided to take a break to relieve herself. Rainbow Dash landed on a particularly thick tree branch and studied her surroundings. Finding no beasts, corpses, or pretty much anything out of the ordinary, she laid down on the branch and scooted back some, wings spread as she reached between her legs. Rainbow’s mind teemed with her own adrenaline-fueled fantasies and frustration of having to spend time in this place instead of having ‘fun’ back at the village. Dash let her imagination run wild as the light blue hoof vigorously rubbed all the familiar spots on her sleek body. She imagined herself on such a wonderful adventure, discovering that the spiders were really a servant to an evil lord who needed stopping, that all the ponies were alive and tied up somewhere, kept alive as a sacrifice needed to summon an ancient being of untold power. Her mind drifted to the dangers, being tied up and needing to escape, fighting off the spider minions of the bad guy before beating him up and saving the day, the feel of the risks of her failure, knowing she never could fail because in the end everything always turns out alright and good, the good guys like her always managing to save the day. She couldn’t wait to be adored for the awesome display of pure bravery and skill! The pegasus’ body started to react to her own gentle touch, getting warm and loose. Dash closed her eyes and let out a few moans, her breath hot and heavy. The air slowly filled with the unmistakable musk of arousal and loud squelching noises as the appendage between her hinds started picking up speed, plunging even deeper than before. Dash’s hind hooves and wings twitched and stretched, her mind lost in the sea of pleasure. Too caught up into her own fantasies, she never noticed what was coming up the tree, not till it literally bit her in the flank as she was riding the peak of her carnal bliss. The creature’s fangs sunk deep, and pumped a plethora of a strange burning venoms into her, sending liquid heat flooding through her body as her racing heart helped spread it around even faster. Her wings went rigid as an innate reaction to being startled, the primal fight or flight response being an integral part of the warrior race. But as she tried to move her wings and take to the sky to escape the danger, her body started to feel stiff and unresponsive, making her fall forward and grasp the branch she was resting on to prevent herself from falling down. Her worries about falling down to her death were drowned out by a new burning desire that grew inside her with every passing second. She couldn’t help but feel confused when that desire turned into lust, somehow giving her pleasure and arousal from her predicament. The spider wasted no time tying her forehooves up with a sleek but sturdy string of webbing, keeping her attached to the branch as she kept struggling to get free, her mobility slipping by the moment. Rainbow Dash blushed and panted at feeling a familiar tingle and wetness spread between her rear legs. She kept struggling, her resistance fading as panting turned into moaning and then heavily breathing, her marehood dripping as if she were in heat. The spider moved over and bit her on the same leg again, this time in the area of her fetlock. The bite pushed another dose of venom into her, making her fighting will and focus slip away even further. The added venom made it even harder to move, and soon slight twitches and random jerks were all she could manage. She figured out it had to be the venom doing something, suddenly understanding how such a small and easily crushed thing might take down a grown pony. She could feel every inch of her body feeling damp with sweat as she felt the very real effects of heat, her mare folds winking and desperate to be touched, but her hooves bound and stiff. It was then that a second creature, a far larger spider, descended from the treetop menacingly, just out of Dash’s sight. Her pupils went wide and she tried to scream for help, but could manage nothing more than a garbled whimper. The larger spider wasted no time exploring around her engorged mare parts, poking and stroking, feeling them up and making her wink in response. She felt it probe her depth, then moved over to caress the area over her tailhole. It teased every part of her marehood, before finally moving onto doing something else. Whatever the spider was doing, the pleasure from it was immeasurable and intense, making Dash’s mind spin with various fantasies. If this was the awful fate the spiders had in mind for her, she couldn’t help but imagine how awesome everypony will think she is when she comes home safe and sound, especially Twilight. A powerful orgasm exploded through her body as thick mare cum flooded out, making her go totally blank from its intensity. But soon the strokes and nibbles started feeling strange. As the venom shifted in her body, the spider’s nibbles started feeling firmer and harder than she remembered, and just a few moments later she was forced back into the harsh reality as she heard a soft crunching noise. Soon it became clear that those sounds were coming from her own self as she felt intense pressure on her crotch’s sensitive nub. Quicker than she could think, all of the stimuli stopped abruptly, only to be replaced by immense pain. She tried to scream once again as the pleasure washed away to agony. She felt intense stabbing pain at one of her perky crotch tits, seemingly coming from whatever the small spider was doing to it. And then it all clicked. Suddenly she became acutely aware of what exactly the large spider was doing face-deep in her crotch: chewing, crunching, pulling and tearing the flesh away, nibble after nibble. Realizing what they were doing to her, Dash doubled her efforts to move her body, and strained her vocal cords even harder in an attempt to summon help. Seeing their prey resume resistance, the smaller of the spiders moved over to one of Dash’s rigid wings while the larger spider kept munching away at the tender pegasi flesh. Dash was forced to watch as the small spider gnawed and chewed at her wing’s base, tense muscles being exposed and soon chewed through and ripped from the bone. Blood trickled down her damaged wing and hind legs, the wounds quickly closing up as blood clotted up under the influence of spider venom and saliva. She felt so awake, so alert, and so terribly scared as she watched her wing being slowly and methodically chewed through, and eventually, falling away and landing with a thud on the forest floor below. Seeing this gruesome display, Dash finally realized she was done for, there really was no way out for her, no Daring Do style escape, no more hope. She broke down in tears as her entire body shook and trembled, like it was slowly shutting down, all the while the sound of crunching growing only louder in her ears, now echoing throughout the woods.. Those few moments felt like an eternity as she was bit over and over again, being slowly eaten alive. Still lying on the tree branch, paralyzed and utterly helpless, just like a fly caught in a web, the thoughts of the brave adventurer gradually faded away, replaced with the reality of just being a meal for the same spiders she was supposed to seek out and defeat. She went through the stages of grief fairly fast, being too tired and, strangely enough, still too aroused. Her unnatural lust persisted even as she started to fade out, her world growing darker as the sun began to set, the impending darkness of the night taking over. The last thing she saw was a spider chewing on one of her legs, feeling it sever the leg, hanging limply from her other foreleg with minimal blood loss, and the strange sensation that the spider was laughing at her while doing so. She knew she’d never get out, that she was just a dumb pony, always destined to be food for something, always so eager to rush headlong into things, even knowing she could be hurt or end up dead, being nothing more than another creature’s meal for the day. And in her mind, she reasoned away, she told herself that this was always her fate, that were it not these spiders, it could be a dragon next week, or a zebra tribe celebratory roast a month from now. In a strange and perverted way… she enjoyed this. The ultimate appreciation, to be used for something, for food, the most awesome food, even convincing herself she was probably the tastiest meal for something out there! In her delirious state, Rainbow’s only regret at the time was that it was not her friends who were the ones to enjoy eating her. Still wrecked with feverish thoughts, Dash slowly drifted off into an unconscious state, dreaming shallow dreams of what a great meal AJ or Pinkie would make of her before those too faded to black. The spiders saw her will and energy fade, finally ending their primal feast. The large spider grabbed Dash’s body, dragging their catch and all leftover pieces back to the lair with the help from their fellow arachnids. Once there, they trussed it up and left it hanging over the cave floor for insemination with their future offspring, as numerous youth skittered about among the bones of the previous captives, eager to taste a fresh and still warm meal. The next morning, hours before sunrise, the gang, minus the daredevil pegasus, got rounded up by a sleep-deprived and distraught-looking Twilight. She told them about her conversation with Rainbow the previous day, and how the pegasus flew off into the forest, before asking if anyone had seen her in hopes that things didn’t go the way she thought they did. Upon hearing the dreaded replies from every pony in attendance, it was decided that they had to search for Dash. Time was of extreme importance, and so the search had to be organized in a hurry. The venturing ponies had backpacks full with provisions and camping supplies, the group not really certain how long the search might last. Just before leaving, Spike sent a letter to notify Celestia of the current situation, after which the drake joined the rescue group. The gang headed out towards the edge of the forest with the first morning sunlight. It didn’t take them long to find and follow a blood trail leading to a cave. After warily passing through the cave entrance, they finally saw what became of their friend. Dash’s body was a gruesome sight: It was missing a wing and one of the front legs, the chest cavity was torn open, guts and intestines hanging from what once used to be a culmination of years upon years of work. What’s worse, the flesh has been eaten to the bone in some places, while in others sacks of eggs could be seen attached on top of the flesh or forced deep below the skin, resulting in grotesque festering sores from which small hatchlings would occasionally emerge once they were born and their first feast was complete. The five ponies and a dragon let out a gasp, some of them immediately starting wailing while others rushed the strung-up form of the pegasus in a foolish hope that there was still something they could do to save their friend. Miraculously enough, the shrill wails and frantic hoof pokes did cause a reaction from the torn-up body. Dash let out a small whimper and a hoarse croak, one of her eyelids slowly opening and a glazed eye meeting those of her distraught friends. What nopony noticed, however, is that there were the small spiders crawling all around the cave. Almost as if the spiders were somehow acting as a one living organism, each of the ponies let out a pained yelp, looking down in abject horror at the small bite marks they got while standing near Rainbow. Spike’s scales proved to be too thick for the small crawlies to penetrate, but the sheer fear of them made the drake accidentally stumble into the net of a far larger spider, hidden in one of the dark corners of the room, just past where Dash’s detached foreleg hung loosely. The spider made short work of the small dragon, its fangs easily penetrating his armor in multiple places and pumping him full of venom. Seeing this, Rainbow’s mind managed to break through in an outstanding display of will, her mouth moving to alert the others and tell them to leave, yet only a wavering croak escaped her lips. She tried to move, but all she managed to do was weakly wiggle in place with what remaining appendages she had, the weak twitches serving to only further alert the larger spiders of the hive to the alien presence. Upon seeing the last remaining pony to keep standing up and fighting the venom fall down, the tears that Dash thought were all gone once again found their way to her eyes. The realization that her ego and foolishness had cost not only her life, but also the lives of her best friends was too much for her to handle. Thankfully for the distressed pegasus, the sight of her friends being cocooned up and dragged off to be strung up and devoured just like her was suddenly obstructed by the abdomen of one of the larger arachnids in the cave. Dash had only a second before its ovipositor penetrated her eye, the tube plunging deep into her brain. Her entire body jerked and convulsed as small eggs and mildly acidic lubricant fluids were pumped into her eye socket and deposited into the squishy mass inside her cranium. In just a few agonizing minutes, Dash was finally gone from the world of the living, her new purpose to be little more than a breeding ground for the spiders, with her friends following suit soon afterwards. After a week has passed with no word from the rescue team, the forest was surrounded by an impenetrable barrier, and a nationwide mourning had been announced. The princesses themselves made sure to recast the spell on a regular basis to prevent whatever evil has bested Equestria’s finest champions from getting out of the cursed woods. Just several days later, after a group of armed ponies went missing during a reconnaissance mission into the woods, the barrier was altered to prevent ponies from getting into the forest, thus sealing the woods for good. The evil within returned to a deep state of slumber, waiting for unsuspecting prey to stumble into its domain once more.