"Easy, Keira." Geralt spoke, walking to the guards. Keira extinguished her flames and stepped aside for Geralt. "You say you have a spider problem? I'm pretty sure we can help out... for a price."

"You keep what you find." The first guard spoke "Just get rid of spiders!"

"Mostly big ones." The other added "We deal with them all the time. Big ones we can't."

"Big Spiders, eh?" Geralt replied "And I keep whatever I find?"

"Yes." They both spoke in unison.

"Fair enough. Come on, Keira. You're not afraid of spiders, are you?"

"Of course not, Geralt." Keira replied, following the witcher. "You think some arachnids will stop me?"

"Let's hope not."

"Just follow me," Zoltan spoke "And I'll join ye, Geralt."

"You stay, boss!" The first guard spoke

"You bastards! Let me-"

"You're safe here," the other added "We take horses to crawlers!"

"Why you little! When I get out of here-!"

"Easy, friend." Geralt spoke. "This shouldn't take too long. And little?"

"Oh, fuck you!" Geralt chuckled, he and Keira following the guards.

Many of the Diamond Dogs around kept working, though some stopped to see the two, but went back to work, others growled at them as they worked, and other just stared at the two, even in dark hallways with eerie yellow eyes glowing. Geralt was too busy reading his book on about Diamond Dogs, though Keira was looking around, unsure about what to do.

"Why are they staring at us like that?" she asked

"...Hm... it may have something to do with this land's history." Geralt replied.

To help local miners feel safe and rescued if a cave in ever occurred, Faust saw how dogs digged holes in her gargen and, with her best mages, made a way for the dogs to be sentient. The result were Diamond Dogs. Diamond Dogs were made to be loyal to their local miners, and they were, until they began to breed. Their puppies were more observant than their parents, and unlike them, they had more traits with that of wolves than their parents. These puppies saw how the miners were now becoming lazier, most taking days off without any excuses. Soon, this new species began to revolt, and eventually, they their way to another area, destroying Cantrerlot's mines in the process, and made their ways all over Equestria underground, all connected through their mines, believeing that when the surface world is destroyed, they will be the richest and powerful species to survive.

"Sounds a lot like the dwarves." Keira spoke

"Almost." Geralt replied "Except many dwarves don't live underground as much as their ancestors. And they came naturally, not made to help out some lazy miners."

"Lazy horses need to work like dogs!" The guard in front spoke "Horses don't like to work!"

"Well I may not be a miner, but I am a Witcher."

"Sword horse try to use fancy words to confuse us!?" The one behind asked in anger.

"No. I hunt monsters. It's what I do."

"Then what do mare do?"

"I am a mage." Keira answered "I study and use magic, that, and I'm-"

"But you no unicorn," the front one spoke "You no have horn."

"A horn? Geralt, what are they talking about?"

"...Oh, right." Geralt spoke, turning to Keira, pointing a his own horn. "This thing right here is used to comtrol magic around here. All of my signs, they're really... powerful."

"How powerful?"

"I fear that with one wrong move, I may burn down an entire forest. Or make anyone fall in love with me."

"Huh. Say, I forgot to ask you this, but is Roach here with you?"

"Yes."

"Really? Where is she and how did she change?"

"She's still an idiot, but can talk now. And as for where she's at, I don't care."

All the male guards ran and screamed for their lives as Roach chased after them.

"GIVE ME YOUR BABIES!!!" She yelled, tackling a guard. She violently ripped the guard's armor off, the metal protection cutting him in the process. "WHERE IS IT!?!?!?"

"W-wh-what!?" The guard stuttered.

"WHERE'S YOUR PENIS!?!?!?"

"W-wha-!?"

"HOW CAN I HAVE YOUR BABIES IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PENIS!?!?!?"

"GET AWAY FROM MY HUSBAND!!!" A lone, pegasus mare spoke, landing near Roach and hitting her with a broom. "Shoo! Shoo!!!" Roach hissed at her as she ran and chased some more guards, though she stopped when they entered a house.

"We're not allowed inside buildings, y'know!" Silence was heard. She looked around and the streets were empty. She saw a reflection of herself. Turning, she looked at her refection's backside and lifted her tail, seeing what she didn't want to see. "Oh great. Even if a handsome stallion wanted to make babies with me, he can't penetrate. ...Maybe master can help me with that?" She walked out of the city's gates. "Master!? Where are you!?"

Geralt and Keira arrived at an abandoned section of the mining area. Thought it's true most of the mine was dark with the exception being torches & Diamond Dog eyes, here, it was all pitch black.

"Spiders live here." The guard spoke "Many Dogs died here. My brother was one."

"...Sorry to hear that." Geralt replied.

"Take care of spiders and Boss goes with you." The other added "Or turn around now & leave forever." Geralt stared into the cave.

"I don't think so." He pulled out his silver sword. "Keira?"

"With honors." Keira's right hoof conjured a fireball. Acting as a torch, she lit the way, both walking into the abandoned mines. As they both expected, cobwebs were around, and with a small flame from Keira & an Igni from Geralt, burnt the cobwebs up easily. Nothing spectacular was happening at all; small spiders scurried along the walls, entering small cracks to escape being seen while others stood still, not caring at all and, instead, waited for an unfortunate victim to land in their web. They stopped a sillhouete of what looked like a spider, roughly the same size as a dog, quickly scurried by. Geralt prepared his sword.

"Careful. This may be the source of the problem." A loud screech was heard above them. They looked up to see a blur falling to them. Geralt was tackled by the creature, but the Witcher struggled to get out; he moved his head to the side as he heard loud, chomping noises near his ears, no doubt that the creature was biting him. A sudden rise in temperature was felt, and the creature wailed in pain. Geralt grabbed his silver sword and stabbed the creature in it's head, killing it with what felt like ooze dropping onto his face. He spat the bitter & heavy taste in his mouth, getting up and rubbing the blood off of his face. His vision was blurred, but he saw that, what tackled him, was a Spider almost as big as him, and Keira had burnt the Spider.

"Looks like you have to be careful, Geralt."

"I guess I have to." He pulled out his crossbow and fired a single arrow right next to Keira's left ear. Unbeknownst to Keira, another spider appeared leapt behind her, and the arrow Geralt fired landed right into the Spider's eye, making it fall to the floor and wail in pain. Quickly, Geralt ran and stabbed the fallen spider in it's abdomen, killing it upon impact. "But don't get cocky yourself."

"... I suppose I should thank you for that." They saw multiple glowing eyes staring at them in the darkness, quickly disappearing as they were seen.

"Looks like they're over there. Ready to squish some spiders?" Both of Keira's hooves had fireballs.

"As long as you watch out for me."

"Same thing with you." They both charged ahead into the next room, but froze as they entered a large chamber. All over the walls, giant spiders were around, each varying in size, and they could see what were potentially other Diamond Dogs & other creatures wrapped in silk, some struggling while others were still, probably dead or paralyzed, as Geralt thought. In the center, however, was a giant Spider, at least as big as the Dragon & Hydra Geralt fought earlier, but spiders were all over it's abdomen. The ginormous spider opened it's eyes, each looking surprisingly feminine.

"Children," It spoke in a somewhat hushed, yet still booming, motherly tone. "Your mother is very hungry, and these two are hurting you all. Be a sweetie and capture them. They need to be taught a lesson." Geralt pulled out his sword.  

"Sorry," he spoke "but we don't want to end up in the belly of a beast."

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The spiders leapt at the two. Geralt quickly casted a Yrden. All the spiders in the circle stropped immediately, freezing, as other that jumped in froze & fell onto their siblings. Geralt quickly used an Aard, pushing the frozen spiders out of the way, both him and Keira ran to the mother spider. More spider blocked their path, flashing their fangs at them, which dripped with Venom. Quickly thinking, Geralt jumped onto the Spider's abdomens, running along with behinds, swinging and slicing the limbs off of other spiders that leapt at him and Keira. Keira, for her part, fired her fireballs at the arachnids leaping at them, and the ones surrounding the ones they were on. Geralt quickly noticed that, for every spider they killed, more seemed to be coming out of nowhere. Turning to the gigantic Spider, he saw that more of them were coming right out of it's own abdomen. He wanted to hurl, but he knew what to do.

"Can you handle these sons of bitches on your own!?" He quickly asked. Keira melted another one into a pile of push.

"You really have to ask!?" She replied

"I gotta take out their mother!" Geralt leapt onto the spiders and made his way to their mother! He landed right in front of the giant Spider's face, seeing that it's legs seemed to be stuck in the floor, and it's fangs drooling with both saliva and Venom.

"You're killing my children!!!" 'She' yelled Oh, when you're tired, I'm going to savor your flavor, Unicorn!"

"You can when I'm in hell." He ran under the Giagantic spider, swinging his sword at the other spiders below, protecting their mother. He grabbed onto the individual hairs on it's abdomen, Geralt climbed up the, stabbing both the gigantic spider, hearing it howl in pain, and the other spiders that tried to get him off. He stabbed at the area where the abdomen meet the thorax, knowing that since the young spiders will die if their mother's abdomen wasn't connected. he stabbed multiple times, each making the gigantic spider scream in pain. The place shook, and the loud cracking of rocks were heard, as the gigantic spider stood up and climbed up the wall. Geralt held on, but climbed his way to the side, making slow progress. The abdomen was slowly ripping off, held together by some flesh, but the spider he was on was bleeding, and many of it's children were coming out either too small to pose any real threat, or were just dead. He was glad that he climbed to the side, for the gigantic spider made it's way to the roof, and Geralt climbed up to it's underbelly. "Time to end this!" He sliced the abdomen off completely, the gigantic spider wailing in so much pain, and fell to the floor. Geralt navigated onto the gigantic Spider's head as it fell, landing just right before it's eyes, landing roughly with only it's 'fur' to act as some sort of comforter, but it wasn't as hard as he heard the loud crack of the gigantic spider's exoskeleton cracking upon impact.

"CHILDREN!!! HELP!!!" Keira, who was still battling what was left, stopped as the spiders around her stopped and ran back to their mother. Geralt jumped off as the spiders made their way back to their mother, most going around the sliced area and trying their best to tend to it, but she was bleeding heavily. The gigantic mother turned to Geralt with a look of both fear and anger. "You!!! You killed my family!!! My babies will not survive because of you!!!" Geralt stood on his hindlegs and crossed his forelegs like arms.

"Like I give a shit." He spoke.

"You will pay for this, Unicorn! My children-!"

"Will join you as you have with these innocent people you're about to eat."

"Innocent? INNOCENT!? They're Diamond Dogs! There's nothing innocent about them! I've seen them kill my brother and sisters for fun! This here? This is my home! I found this cave and made it my home! No one was here when I came in! Those Diamond Dogs only came here because of their search for jewels! I am only doing what is necessary to survive!" Geralt stared at the dying gigantic spider right in front of it. Tears fell down all of it's eyes, and he could hear it's heavy breathing.

Never thought I'd see a Spider cry in my life. "Can you move?"

"Barely. I'm dying because of you, Un-

"It's Geralt. Geralt of Rivia. A witcher."

"...Fine, Geralt. What are you going to do with me?

Get out of here.

Play dead.

You don't have much time left.

Your 'Family Meal' will end this

I've got a job to do.

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