The girl then stopped her attack as she closed her eyes and took a really deep breath, while widening her hands as she then opened her eyes and shouted, "Sea Serpent, Destroyer Mode, Ultimate Slayer!!!"
Suddenly, a large magical seal appeared as a large sea serpent came out, making a very angry sounds as it went towards the ants and devoured them.
Natsu was wowed and speechless as he saw a large seal the size of the tunnel, bringing out a powerful serpent that began killing all the ants.
"Wow that's so cool...!"
"Oh I almost forgot, I'm meant to be finding the cocoons and bringing it together" Natsu thought.
The seal was really bright as it radiated blue light, which made Natsu able to see his surroundings.
Natsu saw different kinds of cocoons and noticed that there were different sizes of them, as some were small and some gigantic.
Natsu tried carrying the ones that were small, believing there are humans inside.
"I hope I don't mistakenly carry an abomination"
Sigh
"I can't see everywhere since the seal wasn't meant to light up the whole place" Natsu thought.
"Aren't you done with your attack, cause I really need your help with the light up over here" Natsu said as he was close to the dark area.
The girl sighed as Natsu said that and stopped her attack, as she then said "I hope you know what you're doing!"
She ran and met Natsu as she tried casting a spell, but this time she didn't release it, which made her seal appear in her hands as a small ball of water was attached to it.
They managed to gather six cocoons in total, but as they brought the sixth one to the pile, ants came out from the hole and looked towards their direction while making strange noises, as the girl noticed it and told Natsu to run.
"Why did you shout run?" Natsu asked as he dropped the cocoon in the pile.
"Sea Serpent, Water rope" the girl said as a magical seal appeared in front of her hand, bringing out a rope that wrapped the cocoon as she then shouted, "Awaking, Sea Serpent, Water Ride!" which made her magical serpent to appear.
"Get on, the beast ants are coming towards us and there getting close" the girl said.
Natsu took a deep breath and tried to climb it but couldn't, since it felt like sitting on water, due to the fact he's almost magicless.
"I can't! Forget about me, I'll just run" Natsu said as he started running.
The girl made her serpent to start moving really fast, and after a while, she saw red glowing eyes which made her stop.
"We're surrounded!!! This can't be happening, what now!" The girl said in shock and frustration.
She turned back to start moving and remembered that they're ants heading towards her.
She didn't know what to do so she stayed at a place trying to figure out a way out, and not long after, Natsu caught up and asked "Why aren't you moving?" As he panted and bent down placing his hands on his knees.
She turned and pointed the spiders as Natsu understood her reason for stopping.
"This is bad! We can't run back because of the ants, and even if we run back the spiders would begin chasing us"
"Ahhhhh!!! What now?"
"There's one thing I've learnt from this exam, and that is. Beasts don't really prey on each other, rather, they prefer working together to kill us, and later fight for dominance over us"
"In other words, there's no way out of this. Cause we're cornered on both sides, which means, we're going to die if we can't kill them all. So what should we do?" Natsu thought as he grinned his teeth.
The ants approached them but instead of running, the ants began to walk gently towards them, which made Natsu and the girl to wonder, "Why did they stop running!!! Was it because of the spiders?"
Natsu didn't know what to do, so he gently stepped back, heading towards the spider, as the ants stopped moving.
"What now?" The girl asked.
"I don't know! I don't understand what's going on! Why, why, why are non of them attacking us?" Natsu said.
"So you got nothing too, huh" the girl said.
"Hey, why do you think they stopped?" Natsu asked.
"Are you stupid or what, I just told you I also don't know" the girl said.
"So what do you think we should do?" Natsu asked.
"Your either an idiot or you aren't listening to me. I told you I got nothing! Like no plans, nothing at all, so stop asking me useless questions and think of a way out of this" she said.
"Think of a way out! Why can't you do that? Stop giving me all the brain work little girl" Natsu said.
"Little girl!!! I'm the same age as you" the girl shouted angrily.
"Are you crazy? Do you want these beasts to kill us, just look at the way they're looking at us. What if they can't see us, do you also think they can't hear us too" Natsu said.
"Wait, that's it!!!" the girl said.
"You got an idea?" Natsu asked.
"The reason they aren't attacking us is because they can't see us. My guess is that we mistakenly entered into an invisible wall" the girl said.
"I don't get it" Natsu replied really bluntly.
"Your dumb! This is what I mean. I think the beast are currently seeing a wall, but the real truth is, there's nothing there" the girl said.
"So you think we are in an illusion" Natsu asked.
"Yeah" the girl said.
"Are you sure about that? Cause I believe they aren't attacking due to the other beast at the opposite side" Natsu said as he thought, "See whose calling me dumb! If there was an invisible wall or an illusion as she claims, why didn't we see the same thing when we were coming here"
"Well, you might be right! But if that's so, don't you think one of them would have made a move by now?" the girl said.
"She's right! Unless... There's something stopping them" Natsu thought as he made a face of realization and gulped while looking up.
Natsu saw a gigantic spider, which was tree times the size of the other spiders heading towards them.
The spider shot webs towards them, but Natsu jumped away just in time to dodge it.
"That was close!" Natsu thought as the spider landed in front of him.
Even though the girl was stuck, some parts of her body were still showing, as she was stuck with the cocoons to the ground.
Natsu brought out his blades and held it tight as he took a deep breath to attack.
The spider turned towards Natsu and looked around as Natsu held his breath and thought "Don't tell me it can feel it's surroundings. I thought it uses magic to see, which would have made it impossible for it to see me"
"Come to think of it, she was the last person to make a sound, wait, does this mean it uses something like echo location"
"I don't have time to think of this, it's still heading towards me, what should I do?"
Natsu couldn't really see the spider, but its glowing red eyes helped him know its exact location.
As Natsu was thinking, the spider continued looking around, as it began heading towards him slowly.
It got close to Natsu and made a weird loud noise which made Natsu clothes to move as Natsu heart began racing.
"Water spear" the girl shouted as water flew towards the spider, the spider turned back and faced her with anger.
"I'm doomed! But at least I can help him escape"
"I would have launched a large attack towards it, but this web keeps draining my energy, and the more I try to use it, the more it takes" the girl thought as the spider started heading towards her as she closed her eyes.
Natsu screamed and ran as he threw his blades towards it.
The spider turned and looked at him as he shouted "You haven't yet captured me and trust me when I say this, I'll be the last human you would fight so come on!"
The girl opened her eyes and thought "What does he think he's doing? He's just going to die!"
"Lamp shine brighter" Natsu shouted.
"Lamp! Is he talking about me, wait, he's trying to buy time for me to escape by making the spider think I'm a magic item instead of a human" the girl thought as she realized what Natsu was trying to do.
She immediately used lots of magic to increase the power of her seal as she screamed in her head.
The place radiated blue light as Natsu was able to see the place much better.
The spider rushed Natsu but he jumped away as he shouted "ROS, S"
Natsu landed on the ground and slid as he began running towards the spider.
The spider shot webs towards Natsu, but he kept on dodging it as it then tried to stomp on him, but Natsu kept on evading its attack as he tried fighting back.
"I can't wrap my rope around it, so my best option is to get this girl out of here" Natsu thought as he hit the leg that was tough as steel, as it tried to crush him.
Natsu escaped and went towards the girl, but as he went pass the spider, the spider turned and shot a net web towards him.
Natsu couldn't dodge it since it was really big, plus, it was coming from his back.
As the web was coming towards Natsu, he jumped and shouted "ROS" as he went towards the net.
Natsu did a backflip as he stepped on the web and turned, as the web moved back and closed.
Natsu stabbed its face as he went back really fast, as he sliced its upper body.
"S" Natsu said as he stepped on the top of the cave and jumped down, as he then stabbed the ground trying to stop himself as he slid on it.
He immediately started running towards the girl as the spider screamed.
This made the ants and spider eyes shine red as they started running towards Natsu and the girl.