Earth Spirit Ariadne

1: Woman? Sexy Parent? The Hot Mom Who Came From the Jungle

It’s been nearly eight years since she lost the memories of her past.

But now Airi Oshiro has her name, her country of birth, her daughter Ruki, and a reason to look for a life and home for them in civilization in Japan, for they belong there in Tokyo.

The two get off a train ride from Shizuoka, where they have used to live for nearly 7 years before Airi felt a certain calling in a dream, the small family of two get off to find a new life.

Airi stands slightly higher than most woman in the entire country, she has wild grass-colored eyes and wavy, neck-length, luxurious dark-brown hair worn in a practical style. She is dressed in a blue denim jacket with a pink heart she painted on the back a couple years back, green denim jeans, a jungle-green halter top, and brown sneakers.

Ruki, her 7-year-old daughter, looks a lot like her mother. She is in a simple purple dress with a cute little cat-like decoration in front and has her hair slightly longer than her mother’s.

Airi looks around to see that the entire place is just as she imagined it would be very modern of a city, as it should. The sight of the tall grey to white buildings, the smell of exhaust in the air, the sound of traffic and people communicating with each other, and feeling the cool yet warm breeze in her face has already given her feeling of comfort for being in the city.

This is where she and her daughter belong; Airi can feel it in her bones. This must be her home!

Catching her field of vision is a white baby stroller slipping into the streets. Reacting on motherly instincts, Airi rushes in and snatches it back onto the sidewalk. “Whew!” gasps Airi, “That was a close one.”

The mother of that baby in the carriage, who was talking on a cell phone, gasps at the sight of the rescue of her infant. She bows in thanks to Airi “Thank you so much.” Airi says, “Nothing really, I just don’t like disaster happening to families such as being separated, left out, or have dreadful accidents.” She turns toward her daughter and says, “Ruki-chan, I——“ then she notices Ruki is greeting with the baby.

“Is she your child?” asks the other mother. Airi smiles, “Yep, my one and only and my very first.” “I’ve never seen my baby warm up to another child before in my life and I’ve just gave birth to him last month.”

“Is this your first time here?” asks the baby’s mother. Airi says, “Probably yes, probably not; I’ve lost my memories in an accident and a lot of high school friends the day I found out I was in my first trimester.” “Oh dear!” gasps the other mother, “I guess that would be impossible to remember the father of your child. How do you imagine he’s like?” “Well,” sighs Airi thoughtfully, “judging from the way Ruki-chan acts, I guess he could be remarkably intelligent and responsible.”

“Be careful, okay?” says the other mother, “There’s been strange things going on.” Airi smiles, “I will. Bye-bye.” Ruki waves too, “Bye, miss. Bye, aka-chan.”

The small family of two happily walks on, and then they spot a ramen cart. Airi heard her stomach deeply growl in hunger, she says “Maybe I can recollect things when my stomach is satisfied.” Ruki smiles, “I think food is a necessary task since we’ve been traveling a long way.”

They go over to the cart and make an order for some ramen.

After 4 bowls of ramen (with Airi having three of them) later…

“I’ve heard that most ramen carts make their own noodles rather than buy it off the market” says Airi to her daughter. Ruki nods, “Yeah, masters of that can easily do that.” Airi blinks in surprise, “They can? Man, it has been a while since I’ve returned to modern civilization.”

“And how long was that while, Ms. Oshiro?” asks a new voice from nearby.

Airi slowly turns to find a stern-looking woman in a crimson business suit, behind her are a couple of stern-looking men that look like bodyguards.

Airi asks the woman, “What seems to be the problem, Koroma-san?”

The group, led by Yukisa Koroma, takes the mother and child into a building so they could talk…

“What?! My income was canceled last night?” exclaims Airi incredulously, “That’s not possible!”

Yukisa Koroma says, “I’m afraid that it’s pretty possible. I’m sorry.”

Airi could not believe it; without any income or a job to get it she cannot get a home for her and Ruki, nor could she get the proper influential environments to grow up in or for kindergarten or a hospital should she get sick. According to the current law, unless she has a job, a home, and an income that are all good enough for them both, she will be separated from her daughter until she could get them.

“Mom” says Ruki with great worry, holding onto her mother’s arm.

Feeling defeated inwardly, Airi sighs and says to her daughter “I’m afraid I can’t disobey the law if anything is wrong, Ruki-chan.” Ruki sadly looks at her mother and nods, “I understand.”

Yukisa asks, “So you’ll let her come with us, then?” “I will,” sighs Airi, “but please promise me that as soon as I do get a good job, a home for us both, a new income, and a nice place for her to be… I can have her back.” Yukisa nods, “You have my word.”

The mother and child hug each other, Airi whispers to her “I know I don’t have the money nor the resume to do to get any of the things I need to keep us together now, but I promise that we’ll be together again, Ruki-chan.” Ruki sniffs, “I know you will.”

Taken to separate cars, the mother and her child look at each from afar once more before their respective transports start driving off and away from each other. Airi is being taken to what she is told to be a training facility so that she may be able to gain enough skills to build a good-enough resume, then get her a well-paying and decent enough job, then an income, and then a home, and then she may be reunited with Ruki-chan.

Alone with herself in the car’s back, while looking at a small ornate silver bracelet, which slightly resembles like a cat holding something that isn’t there in its jaws and front paws, on her right wrist, Airi thinks to herself ‘Until I get back who I was, who her father is, and what happened before the plane crash in the jungle… she has to wait until I can retrieve her. It’s for the best.’

Then, all of the sudden, Airi gasps in horror, and clutches her heart.

‘Oh no!’ gulps Airi, ‘Something is horribly wrong! I can feel it!’

‘Crud!’ thought Airi as her pupils narrow until they’re like that of a cat ‘My instincts are going acting up again!’

CRASH! The police cruiser suddenly ‘explodes’, with the riders surviving. The vehicle has been torn completely in two horizontally, separating the front half from the back half!

While the front with the men belted into their seats are moving forward to a crashing stop, the rear half that had Airi is not. Before the back’s torn edges is a deep hole with black smoke rising out of it, and Airi is missing from her back seat.

Above the scene on the shady side of a building nearby is a giant spider of dark-violet with blood-red stripes holding a white cocoon in its forelegs while watching everything below, said spider cackles in a wicked woman’s voice “This should be interesting news for my mistress.” Then, just like that, she disappears and drops the cocoon towards the ground.

Meanwhile, back with the child welfare car…

Yukisa, who is in the shotgun seat, whispers into her cell phone, “Like everyone before, that woman believed our little white lies. This operation has had no problems whatsoever, even if her income still is intact. She’ll soon realize that she will be too late to rescue her when she’s placed in those special cells we have for her.”

Ruki overhears everything and silently gasps in horror, ‘Oh no! I’m getting kidnapped! I’ve got to get out of here and warn Mommy!’

BUMP! The male driver says, “Whoa, speed bump!”

Later, the stop by a building where another woman is waiting for them… as the riders of the car are getting out…

“OMG!” exclaims the woman, “Look at the roof of the car! It’s completely torn to pieces!”

The group formerly riding the car looks and pays witness to the gashing big hole in the roof in shock, as they look in the back for Ruki… she isn’t there!

“Where’s the girl?” asks Yukisa. The driver’s eyes widen in shock, “She’s gone!” “Some of us can see that already!” growls Yukisa. The driver grows upset, “No! I thought I hit a speed bump or pothole, I should’ve known!”

The woman asks, “What could’ve happened to the girl?” After a few moments, Yukisa says “It must be someone has kidnapped her from us, these claw marks can only indicate that it’s from one of the cannon fodder from the Dennaris organization.”

Back to the location to where Airi disappeared from, policemen and journalists are looking at the scene…

“How is it possible that the cruiser exploded and we survive?” asks the driver. His partner shakes his head, “It didn’t explode in a sense; if it did, there’d be scorch marks.” The driver says, “Although it may not be important, there’s no sign of that woman.”

“What is this white cocoon-like object?” asks one of the policewomen. The driver of said car says, “No idea.” A policeman opens the cocoon, to reveal a dried up human body encased in it. “Oh my god!” gasps one of the female officers. The policeman who opened the cocoon examines the body, “This poor man has been drained of a lot of his blood.”

“Do you think this anything to the other incidents?” asks a man’s voice. The man is tall reporter with short brown hair and brown eyes, he is dressed in a black shirt and blue khaki pants, and he has a piece of red Twizzler candy in his mouth. With him is his partner training to become a reporter too, he is younger and has ice-blue eyes, ear-length black hair with brown bangs and a small tight braided ponytail.

The detective who is there frowns, “Kuso! It’s Suzuki.” One of the female junior officers says, “I can at least talk to Daisuke-kun, right?” “Do what you want with the youth,” grumbles the detective “but if he gets investigative, tell him to get lost.”

Haruto Suzuki is an arrogant reporter who needs proper incentive from others to get him to leave them alone. A lot of the detectives and policemen don’t like him, because of all the reporters in the city, Haruto is not one to just go away when forced to and the officials are running low on ideas to keep him from putting any of the unusual stuff into the papers.

His kohai, or ‘trainee’, Daisuke Nakahara, is an 18-year-old who is working to support both him and his sister. He was star boxing champion at high school and part of the newspaper club, which helped him get his resume into the newspaper company so he could report, but he is given partnership with Haruto to train him. Between him and his sempai, he’s more liked.

As Haruto and the detective argue, Daisuke spots indents on the side of the building, he takes out his camera with a telescopic lens to see what the indents are… “Claw marks and holes?”

Haruto overhears his kohai and comes up to ask him, “What’s this about claw marks and holes?” Daisuke points toward the building and hands his telescopic lens to his sempai, as he looks through it he spots the claw marks and holes on the building’s side. Haruto frowns with interest for a scoop, “This certainly leads up to the strange things going around town.”

The two reporters walk off in the direction where the source of the claw marks could be…

In a dark chamber, in an unknown area…

The giant spider of dark-violet with blood-red stripes crawls down from the unseen ceiling, stepping up to 10 well-developed women, each with different hair and eyes with golden irises and clad in animal skin halter tops and skirts, and bows to them. In this chamber are also ninja-like men clad in black, who are servicing these mysterious women and are undisturbed by the spider.

Around the neck of the black-and-white-haired body noticeably is a necklace with a golden claw holding a green egg-shaped precious stone with a fetal-positioned female figure inside.

“Mistress Dennari,” says the spider in her feminine yet clicking voice, “I’ve caught sight of our contact’s target’s parent. But I would like to acquire more strength, I bestow upon you the blood of 5 men.” From its mouth, it sprays a red large stream of blood onto the 10 bodies before it. They

The one with yellow hair says, “I, the Ten-Bodied Demoness Dennari, leader of Dennaris, recognize your beauty and strength, in return for thy gift I shall grant thee evolution.” Then she and the women with green and blue hair unleash waves of energy from their hands at the spider, she then undergoes immediate changes.

Back with the two reporters, Haruto and Daisuke, follow the directions of the marks toward the train yard and railway stations.

“Kuso…” curses Haruto, “Whatever beast left those claw marks down Koshikawa Street from Kiyosumi Street was here and has disappeared.”

“Ano… sempai?” gaps Daisuke. Disinterestedly, Haruto huffs out “What is it, kohai?” “Last time I’ve checked,” says Daisuke as he points in a certain direction, “the trees that bear coconuts, mangos, oranges, pineapples, and bananas aren’t native to this part of Japan.”

Haruto looks in the direction where Daisuke was pointing at and sees a few coconut trees, mango trees, orange trees, pineapple trees, and banana trees, he blinks in surprise at the sight “With such a gravel-covered ground it defies all cultural aspects and nativities. What a phenomenon! What a scoop!”

They hear a pair of voices; “Are you positively sure that this is alright, Ruki-chan?” “Yes, Mom. The Earth Spirit did give it to me.” “Well, if you say so.”

The two men sneak quietly and look behind the trees to find a young woman eating some of the bananas and her daughter eating some of the oranges.

“Excuse me, ladies,” says Haruto, surprising them, “but I’m not really sure that those are really safe to eat.” Airi scoffs, “Well, I’ve been in the wild long enough to know what’s edible and what’s not.”

“Unmarried?” asks Haruto, since ‘mikon’ is Japanese for ‘uncultivated’, ‘unmarried’, or ‘wild’. “No,” growls Airi, “I said ‘the wild’ and I meant the wild!”

Daisuke thinks to himself, ‘That woman sure looks familiar to me.’ Then he introduces himself to the two women, “Excuse me, but my name is Daisuke Nakahara and this is my sempai, Haruto Suzuki, and we’re reporters.” Haruto scoffs “I’m the professional and he’s a trainee under my wing.”

Being as polite and civilized as possible, Airi introduces herself back, “Nice to meet you too, Daisuke-kun. I am Airi Oshiro and this is my daughter, Ruki.” Ruki bows, “Hello to you, oniichan, ojisan.”

Haruto’s eyes twitch, “’Ojisan’? I’m not your uncle and I’m not that old.”

“Where did you come from?” asks Haruto. Hesitant at first, Airi plainly replies, “I am from Japan, but I was placed in special rehabilitation by natives on some mysterious jungle island called Yalmkenzoi after my class’s plane crashed about 8 years ago. Why?” Haruto rubs his temples, “You really should do something about your doctors; those Yalmkenzoians are terrible with rehab.”

Daisuke asks the child, “Ruki-chan, can you tell me how you got here and where these trees came from?” Ruki answers, “Ariadne, the Earth Spirit, picked me up and placed me here before leaving me these to eat. My mom seemed to have been worried sick and went here to me.”

“Ariadne?” repeats a confused Haruto. Daisuke says to his sempai, “From what I’ve heard, it’s the name of Crete’s goddess of fertility whose name is derived from a Cretan-Greek form for arihagne which means ‘utterly pure’. However, this Ariadne she telling us is new to me. Maybe——” he stops and gasps in realization, he finishes “maybe she’s a part of all these mysterious things going on.”

Airi looks around the scenery carefully, ‘This whole mess must be my fault.’

“Mom,” says Ruki. Airi replies, “Yes, Ruki-chan?” “Those people didn’t sound like normal people from the department of child welfare.” Airi gasps in surprise, “What?!” “Eh?!” asked the two men who spotted them. Ruki explains, “In the car while we were being separated, they whispered to each other that you believed their white lies like many others before you.”

‘It was kidnapping using the form of a law-abiding department?’ Airi growls, ‘Damn it, and I almost bought it. What is it about my daughter that interests them so much enough to kidnap her? As well as other children.’

Daisuke says, “Uh, miss… are you sure you should believe a child? They are known to have pretty wild imaginations.” “I’ve known Ruki-chan since I gave birth to her,” says Airi, “I’ve told her to tell me how things were going while we were separated and to tell the truth.”

Haruto chuckles, “If what the kid is saying is true, then something big is going on here.” Then he pokes at Airi’s left breast, “Bigger than your rack even.” “HEY!” shrieks Airi as she slaps him! The force of the slap slams him to the ground with a loud crash!

Leaning up on one of his elbows and hips while massaging his throbbing face, Haruto groans out “Itai… what kind of workout do you do for a single mother? That felt like I was bitch-slapped by a lioness!” “HMPH!” huffs Airi, “serves you right!”

“Wait a minute!” realizes Airi, “That must also mean that my income wasn’t canceled either. Until I can get a job here in town, we’re still able to survive here.” Ruki says, “They did mention that it was still intact.”

Haruto says, “Here’s an important question; if these kidnappers wanted to kidnap her in the fashion of disguising of a law-abiding section department and telling lies to you, why do they want to take her? What makes her so special? What raises their interests in her?” Daisuke asks, “Is there anything about her you could think of that would make her special?”

Airi says “I don’t know who her father is, all that I know before she was born was that I survived a plane crash in the Yalmkenzoian jungle 8 years ago. I was with my class from what I could tell from the wreckage, I couldn’t remember anything prior to that but I found plenty of clues to who my school faculty and classmates were plus I knew I was in my first trimester. When I was nearing my third, I knew I had to return home so the natives helped me so I could have my child born into modern civilization instead of the wild.”

Daisuke is in awe, “You’re such a brave woman.” Haruto says, “The amnesia and plane crash raises further questions!”

“How’s this for an answer;” says another woman’s voice, “you’re about to die very soon this hour.”

Startled by the voice’s owner’s intention, the group of four under the mysterious trees look into an open door of a railroad package car… and they each regret what they find coming out——

A giant dark-violet with blood-red stripes one from the previous ones is that where the head should be is instead the entire torso like that of a humanoid woman. The monster’s chest is clad in silvery material similar to spider silk, on her wrists are silvery spider-shaped bracelets, and her head is really pretty.

Haruto was at first enticed by human-like part of the monster but after seeing the rest of her, he gulps and says “Oh crap! To be killed by a hot monster, this is way too good to be true. Seriously, I didn’t see it coming.” “Are you the one responsible for that silky cocoon with a dehydrated body which was devoid of his blood we saw today?” courageously asks Daisuke. The Spider Woman says, “My fangs not only secrete a venom that can dehydrate my victims but also enable me to suck the delicious blood out.”

The creature reels her hands back and shouts——

“Spider Silk Spray!”

The Spider Woman then shoots webbing from her open palms and her abdomen at the three grownups, binding them to the trees!

“I hope you got a picture of this beast-woman, the papers will be hot even if we don’t live!” says Haruto. Daisuke angrily says, “The papers? I may have taken a few photos, but our lives are at most importance as of now! The mother’s child is left unguarded too!”

The Spider Woman puts a finger to her cheek and says, “That’s odd, such tropical fruit-bearing trees like these are not grown in this human colonized part of Japan. I wonder where they come from.” Ruki throws a few pebbles and a coconut at the Spider Woman’s head, “Stay away from my mommy!”

“Mmm!” says the Spider Woman monster as she licks her lips at Ruki, “Pure innocent blood; the most delicious of all.” Ruki’s eyes widen in fear in response, then she screams!

Suddenly, Airi’s wild grass green-colored human eyes then shift into violet catlike eyes.

“Nobody is laying their wicked hands on my baby!” hisses Airi, baring teeth becoming sharp fangs.

She rips herself free from her spider silk bindings, punts the giant arachnid away from little Ruki!

Haruto is shocked and surprised, “When I’ve said I felt like I was bitch-slapped by a lioness, I’ve never expected her to have that kind of power.” Daisuke blinks in awe, “She is amazing.” “Mommy?” asks Ruki in surprise.

Tapping the bracelet on her right wrist three times, Airi calls out “Nurturing spirits residing within the Earth, grant me your power!”

After tapping on it the third time, her mysterious bracelet on her right wrist expands and changes shape into an ornate metal cuff; where it’s designed after the Earth’s oceans and continents, paws on the bottom at either side, a large cat head-like knuckleduster with a single ring between the two fangs and a triangular indent in the forehead, and a chainlike tail with a serrated spearhead at the end on the other side of the cuff. The chain tail wraps itself upward around her right arm.

Her eyes remain the same royal violet catlike eyes, but her ears become pointy like that of an elf, her brown hair grows into a long, straight, thick platinum hair in an alluring style. On her left cheek is a red marking resembling two strings tying their selves together in an X-position forms, along with a green Saxon symbol for Earth on her forehead.

Then her clothes explode into light and instantaneously return to her in a new form: a green halter bikini top of sorts and a rainbow-colored flower petal-styled skirt with a sun-yellow slit skirt loincloth under. On her left shoulder is a small piece of brown shoulder armor with green leaves while on the other shoulder is a silver-colored metal piece of shoulder armor resembling a saber-toothed beast skull.

On her feet up to her knees are obsidian-colored coating resembling boots with her toes free and with claws too. On the backs of her heels are small upward curved claws. Over her left hand extending to her elbow appears to be a silvery glove with claw-equipped fingertips and a serrated blade edge on the blade of her arm.

Around her neck is a necklace of 10 white fangs and 12 black claws with a red jewel in between appears. Strings of green plant vines sprout out and wrap around her waist above her skirt and then around her arms decoratively.

“A superhero?” gasps an even more shocked Haruto. Daisuke exclaims, “A magical girl?” “From the jungle?!?” exclaims both of them in unison.

The transformed Airi howls, “GAAH-WEEEEE-YAH-YAH-YAH-YAH!”

The transformed Airi then charges at the Spider Woman, going tooth to claw with her!

Ruki gaps in shock, “The Earth Spirit Ariadne is my mommy?”

“She’s the Earth Spirit Ariadne you’ve bragged about?” blinks Haruto in shock, “My god! She’s something else entirely!” Daisuke nods, “Yeah.”

The transformed Airi, or rather the Earth Spirit Ariadne, fights hard to keep the horrible arachnid woman away from those that she shot her webbing at. While trying to get her venomous fangs to Ariadne, the Spider Woman thinks to herself ‘This one should pose no threat but something is telling me otherwise. I’ll have to kill her and take her daughter with her to find out.’

Ariadne bites onto the leg of the Spider Woman, who shouts painfully by only a small amount.

Attempting to free himself, Daisuke says “Except for the transformation I’m getting everything on film, sempai!” “Good,” says Haruto “keep at it, kohai!”

Ariadne continues biting hard on one of the legs of the Spider Woman, before finally ripping it off!

The Spider Woman leaps away backwards, when she lands on the roof of a cargo car her leg that was ripped away re-grows into a brand-new one!

“It regenerated!” gasps Ariadne.

“All spiders are fast healers,” evilly smirks the Spider Woman “you humans just don’t give them enough time to do so.” She then aims her abdomen’s end up, shoots a string of silk toward a building’s top and then she climbs up it. She confidently says “We’re also very good trappers.”

Ariadne jumps at the Spider Woman and begins attacking at the stump of some of the legs, which are not showing any signs of regeneration. Seeing this, she attacks the Spider Woman’s shoulder.

“Spider Silk Spray!”

The Spider Woman retaliates her opponent’s ferocious biting by shooting some of her webbing at her opponent’s face, Ariadne leaps away in a back flip to avoid being trapped like a spider’s food.

Then she attacks the humanoid abdomen with the serrated edge on her left arm, the cut made by Ariadne spills out red-orange blood.

They part from each other for better distance…

The Spider Woman frowns and thinks, ‘Damn it! This woman is no slouch; she’s got the cunning of a jungle cat and is stronger than I gave her credit for.’

Ariadne growls ferociously, ‘Come and get me if you can, web-head-teme!’

But before either of them could throw another punch——

A loud rumbling sound resounds from beneath their feet. Ariadne cautiously growls out, “I’ve felt this sensation before; back when I was in the car.”

CRASH! BOOM!

Out from the ground came up a metallic humanoid robot equipped with big drills and sharp claws equipped to its joints, head, and hands that stands on two feet like caterpillar treads. There’s a small insignia on its chest greatly resembles an O.

Ripping the webbing off of her face, Ariadne purrs out “Great, one thing right after another.”

A mechanical voice spoke from the robot, “Target: artifact of power. Status: pinpointed.”

The machine points its left arm at Ariadne and its right at the Spider Woman who is moving towards it.

The robot announces in a mechanical voice, “Left Arm Drill, extend.”

Then the drill-equipped hand toward Ariadne extends from the wrist at her! Ariadne flips over the drill and balances herself on her feet upon the extender to the drill.

“Calculating subject’s ability levels;” says the Drill robot, “Agility 10.0, weight 69 kg, Stamina possibly 7.8——“

The Spider Woman screams “Enough with that technological hogwash!” as she rushes in to trash the machine.

The robot announces “Nose Drill, maximum run.”

The drill in its face spins like a motor on high and it trudges toward the transformed Airi, surprisingly as the arachnid monster is knocked away by the incredible force of the huge drill on the face.

Bringing the drill arm back in, the Drill robot looks ready to drill into Ariadne’s torso!

Jumping off the retracting drill arm and grabbing onto the nose drill with her own left hand, Ariadne frowns “Okay, now I’m really mad.”

She squeezes the nose drill bit, making it slow down until she breaks it off without effort!

The robot slowly blurts out “Error, error…” and dies out, as indicated through the lights in its green eyes fading to black.

She then rips the robot apart with her bare hands!

Terrified, the Spider Woman says, “Okay, she’s a lot more monstrous than I’ve thought! She must be, as they say, all that!” and then flees with the little strength she has left in her battle-ravaged body.

Triumphant, Ariadne howls, “GAAH-WEEEEE-YAH-YAH-YAH-YAH!”

Haruto, freed from the webbing, says “Holy moly!” “You can say that again, sempai” adds Daisuke, also freed.

Ariadne turns toward Ruki and stumbles backwards in a nervous gasp, her own daughter just saw her transform into the one who defended them for years as well as having her daughter seen her act savagely.

‘Oh no!’ cries a worried Ariadne, ‘She’s seen me! She must think of me as a horrible mother now. I have to leave! I don’t want to but I feel like I should!’

Ariadne turns to leave, Ruki calls to her, “Wait!” Ariadne stops, just in time for Ruki to say, “Mommy.”

Ariadne turns back to her daughter and slightly smiles.

“Do you…” stutters Ariadne, “do you… still… see me… as your mother?” Ruki walks up to her and says “No matter how you act in front of me, whether civilized or primitively, you’re always both my hero and my mother.”

She kneels down to her beloved daughter and they embrace lovingly, having the smile become bigger. Tears of relief cascade down Ariadne’s eyes as she continues hugging her beloved daughter.

Back in the dark chamber somewhere, the savagely beaten Spider Woman monster returns before the 10 women…

The pink-haired body of Dennari says, “What a surprise, our spider servant returns.” The blue-haired own frowns grimly, “Yes, but with incredible injuries.” Dennari’s black-haired woman scowls, “What the hell happened out there? What’s your excuse, Spider Woman?”

The Spider Woman fidgets and falls to the ground in agony, then she gets up a bit in a painful kneeling fashion toward the multi-bodied demon queen, “I’m sorry, my Demon Queen… but there’s a fearsome savage out there with a silvery bracelet and she destroyed a particularly powerful robot with her bare hands! Please forgive me!”

“Bracelet?” asks the violet-haired body. The green-haired body asks, “Did this silvery bracelet change to an expanded form?” The Spider Woman bows, “Yes, mistress.” The yellow-haired body asks, “Did it in its expanded form have a knuckle duster ring in the shape of a feline head, a chain wrapped around the upper arm, and markings in the shape of the planet’s continents?” “First two… yes…” groans the wounded monster.

The blue-haired body gasps in realization, “The Giwime Bracelet!” “OOO!” cheers the pink-haired body. The black-and-white-haired body of Denarri loudly growls out, “Of all the people on this dying planet… the source of ultimate power just happens to be in the hands of a powerful wild woman who’s moved to Japan!”

The black-haired body quietly says, “Now die for running away.” “Burning Punishment!” huffs up the red-haired body of the Demon Queen before breathing fire onto the unfortunate part-arachnid monster, instantly incinerating her.

“No time to waste!” says green-haired body of Denarri. “We have got to get the Giwime Bracelet!” snarls the red-haired body of Denarri. The violet-haired one nods, “Yes, we must have it before the summer solstice.”

Back with the small family and two reporters…

Ariadne transforms back into Airi, in her civilian clothes from before.

“Holy cow,” sighs Daisuke, “a lot of people would’ve killed to be superheroes, but this child has one for a mother.” “We've got one hell of a story here,” smirks Haruto.

“Reveal my secret identity and I’ll perform unnecessary fertility rites onto you; gory castration!” growls Airi, with her eyes showing change. Haruto nervously gulps, “Whatever you say.”

“Can we reveal your alter ego though, like they’re separate from each other?” asks Daisuke. Airi says, “Just as long as whatever story about me or the other me is separated from each other. I don’t want to be already popular than I already am.”

Airi looks down to Ruki and says, “Let’s go look for a home here, Ruki-chan.” Ruki nods with a smile, “Hai.”

Airi knows that the battle today was won, but they don’t know who sent the robot and who sent the spider monster nor who those who posed as the department of child welfare while trying to kidnap Ruki. So not one amongst them knows why they’re attacked.

As night settles down, Airi transforms into Ariadne so that she will get the three mysterious forces know that she’s here in Tokyo and she’ll be waiting for them——

“GAAH-WEEEEE-YAH-YAH-YAH-YAH!”

To be continued…