WARNING: The following post contains material that certain readers may find upsetting. Reader discretion is advised.
-------ASH'S WORLD-------
The whole thing started when Sam, walking through the forest near Oriam, was pounced upon by a giant spider.
"AAARGH SHIT FUCK BALLS," he screamed as the thing tackled him off his feet, winding all eight legs tightly around his body and pinning his arms against his sides. The swearing continued as he hit the ground, and went on as he jerked his head this way and that, barely dodging the sharp, slavering fangs that kept missing his face by mere millimetres. Sheer panic prevented him from remembering he could have just set himself on fire to escape this predicament, and thus he spent a good half a minute writhing and kicking in the dirt, the spider's weight keeping from rolling upright.
Of course, his salior talk served as the perfect beacon to anyone close by.
"HOLD ON, SAM!"
Sam didn't even see who was approaching until Erdrick had already been driven through the spider's body, the point poking him in the chest by accident. The beast shrieked, convulsed for a moment, and then went limp, the legs losing their grip around the Uberman's body as the life rapidly went out of it. The moment he felt that happening, Sam flexed his arms, pushing the limbs away from him, and threw the corpse of the creature off as he scrambled to his feet, letting off one last torrent of expletives as he went.
Then something grabbed his arm, and he screamed, picturing some worse animal-
"Sam,
SAM."
That was Ash's voice. Even in the midst of a heart attack, Sam would know it anywhere.
"
It's fine, we're here. It's deader than dead."
And there was Erdrick - his mother's voice, of course, which was still weird, but soothing enough for Sam to get a grip on himself. Whilst he babbled to a stop, gasping for air and clutching his chest, the other man knelt down and produced something akin to a small towel as he began cleaning the foul, pale ichor off of Erdrick's blade. It took some time for the former Destined Hero to get his breath back and put the past events in proper seqence, so he could find the right questions to ask about what just happened.
Thankfully, only one came to mind.
"...what was
that?!" he nearly shrieked, pointing at the dead spider.