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I get shrunk by a spider, Liza Runecastle finds me. She'll help me to break the curse. |
Chapter 1 The Beginning One day, when that cheap boss came back from a trip to Mexico without a souvenir for me, he told me about his tour of the ancient Aztec ruins. His story is the best gift I could hope for from him, it's a shame that when he tells stories, they are always confused and fragmented, not to mention all those times he goes back for a detail he forgot. What does it matter? If he forgot it wasn't that important. On the wall of his office the boss hung a rather strange painting, a spider attacking a man, who knows what it means. On Saturday we were closing the shop for the weekend, when the boss asked me to clean the windows I found a strange spiderweb. I reached out to the spiderweb and tried to remove it. Just before I could touch it a spider, of a kind I've never seen, landed on my hand and bit me. The pain was excruciating, I grabbed my hand with the other, bent over and closed my eyes. As soon as I opened them again the pain was gone!!! Miracle!!! But why? One moment I was dying of pain and the next… Poof… the pain was gone! But the strange things were not over!! I looked around and saw that the window was bigger than I remembered, I looked around and everything had changed!!! Everything was huge, in fact it was me who had shrunk to the minimum size of about 1 inch!!! It was that spider bite!!! Just at that moment the spider came down with a thread next to me. It was huge!! Then the drawing came to my mind: I connected everything. From his trip the boss had unwittingly brought this exotic spider typical of the Aztec population, the spider had certainly traveled in his suitcase or among his things. I knew, when I find myself in trouble, somehow it always has something to do with it, it is my downfall!!!! The huge spider was very ugly and was staring at me with its eight little eyes, I understood that it was preparing to do something, something that I will not like!!! I saw a piece of a paper clip, I took it in my hand and used it as a sword, I looked into one of the spider's eyes with a challenging air. He looked at me with a mocking look, a little more and he started laughing (if he wasn't already doing it, I don't understand when spiders laugh!!!), in fact I was a little ridiculous, how did I think I could scare him in those dimensions? Here the spider prepares to jump on me, but suddenly the sky becomes dark, I hear a roar and then darkness and after a few moments here is the light again, I looked towards the spider and there was very little left, it was a blackish stain on the sidewalk. In fact, a beautiful girl who was wearing stiletto heels had passed by and the heel had gone right to crush that dirty spider, leaving me intact between the heel and the rest of the sole. I walked over to the spider's corpse and started cheering for my lucky win "Take this bastard, you see you can't compete with me!!!". Once I did that, I turned to the girl who saved my life and said "Hey, thanks!!!", but I immediately thought "No way she'll hear me, I'm as tall as an ant and I doubt she'll hear me." Instead the girl turned and said "What? How strange, there's no one here!!! I must have dreamed it!!!". Come on, the situation isn't that bad, at least I can make myself heard, but who can I ask for help? Who can help me? "Sure, who else but her?" Liza Runecastle, my neighbor, and the most beautiful woman in the world, has always been kind to me and knows the stories of ancient civilizations. (I put a picture of her physical appearance in my portfolio to give you an idea.) But how do I get to her house? It's 18 km from here! While I was lost in thought, the earth began to vibrate under my feet. Before, when I was struggling with the spider, I hadn't noticed, but the majesty of these giantesses is remarkable, if I were to end up under their little feet (small in normal conditions, now they are gigantic for me) I would end up like the spider. The giantess passed very close to me and I noticed her immense foot protruding from the immense open shoe. I recognize the giantess, she's Ilary, a colleague from work, she must have finished her shift. I shout her name to get her attention, she sees me and picks me up. She is surprised, but listens to what I say and I ask her to take me to Liza. She is agree. END OF PART 1 |