Chapter 6

My quest had come to an end. I breathed in a sigh of relief as the planet I called home came into view. Finding the asteroid fated to destroy earth had been a diffucult task, but once I had discovered it, a small burst of concentrated energy from my antennae was all that was required to eliminate the cursed space rock. With my task completed and the world safe once more, I was free to return to said world. How I missed my island and my beloved fairies. Soon, we would all be together again. Although my heart raced with the excitement of my homecoming, I was not oblivious to the fact that not all was well.

Even from the dark recesses of space, the arrival of the new Godzilla did not escape my notice. I thought and feared at first that he would continue down the same path of destruction as his father before him had. Luckily, the once Junior was less aggressive and seemed to have little interest in harming humans. He was very lonely though. One of his mind's greatest desires was for me to be there with him, being that I am one of the last surviving kaiju and one of the few who could understand his loneliness. It broke my heart not being there for him, but I could not abandon my mission. Besides, I knew that things would be different once Biollante had resurfaced. Even now, she was developing feelings for Godzilla, as she had for his father.

Now inside the atmoshpere, my mind returned to the present. My first destination would be the place of my birth, Cosmos Cave. It was there that the races of old had made the drawings of the balance, depicting both myself and Battra. My sorrow briefly returned as I dwelt upon my fallen ally, although there was some comfort in the knowledge that he was immortal and would never truly die. He would return if ever the world's balance was disrupted. Still, I wish I could have known him better.

...From the moment I saw the island, I knew that something was wrong,... that something had changed. All was not how I had left it, but whatever it was I could not pinpoint. My two Cosmos fairies were both still there and seemed safe,... yet nervous. As I drew closer to their location, my cave, there nervousness suddenly turned to worry, then fear. "Don't come in here", Lora shouted in my mind. "Mothra, you must leave now", Moll followed. But that only caused me to go faster,... something that would prove to be a great mistake. There was the cave! Right there in front of me! I had to reach my fairies! What had happened!?...

I did not see the webbing until it was too late. Every last inch of the cave I called home was coated in it. All I remember was a sudden jolt as all of my momentum was lost, followed by a second as the web snapped both itself and myself back into place. My wings were now glued to the sticky material. Strings of it wrapped around my thorax, abdomen, and legs. For what seemed like an eternity, I struggled against the bindings. In the end, all that accomplished was to tire my body. With all of my strenght lost, I cried out, hoping that anyone would hear me.

"We are sorry, Mothra." No! Hanging limp in the web across from me were my two beloved fairies. They were no longer afraid, merely sad and resigned. Lora wept bitterly as Moll hung her head in shame. "You must be brave! Show her your inner strength!" Show who...?

"Well, well, well," called out the deep female voice. To the human ear, it would of sounded like a series of loud clicks and hisses. "Seems our guest has finally arrived. About time, I'd say." A shadow loomed over my helpless form, forcing me to shake with fear. When I finally gathered the courage to look up at my captor, I wished that I hadn't. Of course, she was a spider. That was what I had been expecting... only this one was almost twice as large as I was. Her enormous legs gave her a span of well over two hundred meters. Her striped was a blackish blue striped with golden yellow. Eight emerald eyes glared hungrily at me. She was the most frightening thing I had ever laid eyes on... and yet I couldn't look away.

"What a gorgeous little moth you are", she spoke with as much seduction as she could muster. Before I could blink, her face was already inches away from mine "Much too gorgeous for eating." Wha... My mind went blank as she seized my mandibles with her own. Prying them open, she stuck her tongue into my mouth and found mine. She lolled the appendage gently to and fro, while her fangs continued to massage my mandibles. All I could do was lay back and take in the new feeling. This giant spider, who had taken over my home and kidnapped both the fairies and myself, was now... kissing me!? While she moaned with pleasure and ecstacy, I whimpered with fear and confusion. After what seemed an eternity, she pulled out and licked her fangs. "But where are my manners? Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kumonga."

To be continued...