The black castle rumbled from outside with the rain mercilessly beating it, and from within, an explosion and the falling stairs shook its grand halls.
Faust kicked off stone pieces of the stairs, hopping across the falling stairs like a giant cricket. Nirvana held on tightly. He jumped after Greg, occasionally grabbing the boy and throwing him up to help their ascent.
They were both ridiculously strong, but Greg wasn't as quick or dextrous as Faust.
'I hope those curses Zen was talking about don't come back for us now.'
Spider glanced back at them from the top of the stairs. A raw, painful scream ripped from her throat as she transformed. Her legs bulged and snapped with rapid shifts.
In half a second, her legs bent like a grasshopper's. The exoskeleton was white and powerful.
She grabbed Zen as she got behind him and surged upward in an explosive leap that blew the rock she pushed off into rubble. She dropped him off and turned back, leaping back down to grab Greg.
