Origins of Kumo Jinrui

[Shaon]

((3kul inspired me to write this.

The language they're speaking in the beginning is phonetic Japanese, by the way. With really bad grammar.))

"Nan no ano koun sono kono hitori shiyo to omou iki-nokoru?"

"... de nai ... nai chigai nai..."

He opened his eyes for the first time. Already his instincts were on alert, warning him that his eyes were not right... placed wrong... wrong sizes. Everything just wrong.

"Kare ga ... kare ga ikiru!"

"Nan to iu!?"

"Wareware wa daro mitsukeru."

Three blurry lumps moved around him, unfocused and wavering. His instincts blamed his closer surroundings.

"Wareware wa daro matsu hitotsu no shu."

Two of the lumps began moving away, while the third moved closer, becoming more defined in shape.

"Anata no o-namae wa... watakushi wa shiru... Kumo Jinrui."

((And to 3kul: They haven't been in our world for that long, hense why their Japanese is so bad.))

[3kul]

Woo, I'm an inspiration

*chokes and dies while reading the bad grammar*

I'm too tired to try translating it now, I'll read it all tomorrow (ie: 5 hours or so from now, since I spent most of today asleep) and add my comments then (so yeah, ignore my stupid post).

[Shaon]

[Shaon]

"All experiments report to the main labratory"

Kumo's head snapped up. It had been a month since he had been created by the research team. He was now around a foot tall, a large improvement from his birth height of only a few inches.

"I repeat, all experiments report to the main labratory."

Confused, the spiderling scuttled his way through the dull, metallic halls of his home.

As he walked into the lab, he noticed that all the staff was here. One of them was holding the only other experiment, whom turned out legless and mute.

In the main tube, something was in it. It was very small, smaller than he was as an infant.

"357, it's waking up."

Quickly as he could, he made his way to the railing protecting the test tube from being smashed.

Quite suddenly, a voice appeared in his head.

Wha... what's happening!

The water that the tube kept in started slamming against the glass, as the tiny thing suddenly became twice as large, flailing for its life.

"The wings seem to be large enough and usable. Experiment 675 is a success as far as I can tell."

"What will his name be?" Kumo asked the main scientist, who was the only one talking. He smiled, looking down at the innocent spider.

"He's the first to have wings, so why not Kumo Tsubasa?"

The voice in his head was panicing.

What's that thing saying? Where am I?

Out of instinct, Kumo thought back to the voice.

You are at your new home. The scientist was telling me your name. It's Kumo Tsubasa.

The small being suddenly calmed down, floating as if nothing happened.

"What the... is he still alive!?"

"He's showing lifesigns. Drain the tank."


Kumo never told the scientists about his mental conversation with Tsubasa.

[Shaon]

Why do you think they've started all this?

No new experiments have been created lately. Maybe they've given up?

It has been around two months. Tsubasa is now full size, a foot shorter than the now three foot tall Kumo. They walked down an identical hall, making their way to the courtyard, where they had been called down.

They passed by a group of scientists, as Tsubasa, with far more sensitive hearing, relayed what they were saying to Kumo.

"a might be mute... you ever hear him speak?"

"He's talked to me once. Doesn't say much though."

"What about Kumo? He's quieted down a lot too since Tsubasa was born."

"He was always quiet. They all have been."

Both were silent for the rest of the long walk, both verbally and mentally.

They both squinted, as they left the labratory, and Kumo sighed. He hated doing this, all of this. It was like they were trying to drive the spiders into madness, with all this mindless violence disguised as a training regimen. Tsubasa didn't care for it either, but at least he could escape, take to the skies with his wings.

Kumo looked up at the scientists controlling the androids with remote controls, and sped up to meet with his friend.[/i]

[Shaon]

a boat. A little boat made out of a barrel. No idea how I fit in it. But I do. Makes cute little swishy noises as I paddle it to shore.

Seagulls make their little cooing noises as I walk onto the land. Content. Happy. Little tropical forest a bit inshore. content to just wander around the beach though.

Coo coo cothump. The seagulls stopped crying. There was one on the ground on the cliff. dead. thumpthumpthump. more just falling. dead. poor things. I began to bury the one on the cliff. There was a nice little cave under it.

Little twang noise under one of my legs. a little white hair. nothing to pay attention too.

The hair started dragging the seagull away, though. put one of my legs on it to keep it still.

glancing up. the hairs.. More and more appeared.

Come on...

Tsubasa!?

something shotoutohgoditsa

Kumo!

Kumo shot up. Tsubasa was standing on him, looking worried.

Kumo, you just yelled my name. What's wrong?

Oh god... she looked like... she looked like you...

Tsubasa looked confused.

Who?

The... the parasitian... she tried to eat me...

Kumo, don't worry. Parasitians aren't real... it was just a dream...

It seemed so real, though....


((Yes, this is a filler chapter. :3))

[3kul]

zomg random dreams of Parasitians, who could it beeeeee?

Interesting chapter though.

[Shaon]

Kumo awoke to Tsubasa trying to wake him up as silently as possible.

Wha-

Don't speak. Something's wrong.

The spidertaur, now a good five feet tall, looked around. Everyone but Tsubasa and him were gone.

Getting up, they silently walked through the halls. Something was definately wrong.

They heard a low rumble, as a large chunk of wall behind them suddenly was shredded apart, several scientists being thrown into the corridor like ragdolls.

Then... it came through.

The thing was the size of Tsubasa, with huge, skinny spidery legs that made him far taller than the both combined. It looked like they spliced a human with a spider, with the spiderlike body, but a pair of vestigal, shriveled human legs, and pale, sickly white skin.

It had a humanlike head, with long pedipalps to serve as arms, and a mouth full of sharp teeth, drooling with venom.

And its eyes.... They froze the duo in horror.

It was busy stabbing someone in the stomach with one of its sharp, bloody armblades, when it caught sight of them.

It just stared at the two, smiling, before becoming disinterested with the bloody, someone still living, human, chucking it in their direction and walking off to kill some other scientists.

The being slid over right on Kumo's feet, before he reconized who it was. The head scientist.

He managed to sputter a few words before leaving the world:

"Find... Find Serpells..."

Confused, the two looked inside the hole in the wall.

They were stunned.

It was the lab room. Where they were born.

Everything was destroyed. The tube was shattered, machines were sparking. Humans and experiment corpses littered the ground.

End.

[3kul]

Great story Shaon, though it's a pity that Kumo has such sad origins...

To anyone confused by Serpells, you might want to read the HollowEyes story as well. If you don't want to, then Serpells is a scientist who started out working on the Kumo series, but was booted out of the group for his radical beliefs (that of saving the Remnants of Humanity on his home planet from their terrible lives and eventual extinction, which not many other people seemed to care about).

After he 'left' his work on the Kumo series, he began to primarily focus on Parasitian biological and genetic structure, and incorporating them into the work he'd been previously doing. He also began to wage war on those who resisted him saving them on the Human Homeworld, but yeah, read the HollowEyes story for more on that.