"Come on! This was your idea, right?" Keri asked Lizy, calling down from the top of the liquid stairs that Hydie had constructed.
"This was only partially my idea! I never planned on going near the water!" Lizy said, feeling her temperature rising with her frustration.
"I will make sure that you don't get wet or fall off," Hydie said as she walked over to stand at the bottom of the stairs with Lizy.
Initially, Lizy wanted to say something rude, but after taking a deep breath, the spider woman decided against it. Getting angry wasn't going to help her, but she also didn't want to admit that she was scared out loud.
"Did you know I don't like heights? I absolutely hate admitting to such a thing, but it is true," Jilly said as she walked over to join Hydie and the spider woman.
Lizy had been concentrating on the steps, trying to get her confidence up. The sound of Jilly's voice snapped out of the trance-like state.
"You are scared of being above the ground?" Lizy asked in incredulity as she stared at Jilly, who was now in her human form.
"You don't have to say it like that! Everyone has something that scares them!" Jilly growled in defense but then sighed and relaxed her shoulders.
"I think that Jilly is trying to tell you that it is okay to be scared of things. I really don't like the cold, and if I get too cold, I get to a point where I can't move and could potentially die," Hydie explained, and Jilly nodded along with her.
Seeing that Jilly was the same size as her made Lizy feel a bit better. Hearing that she was scared of something so trivial as her claws not touching the ground helped a lot more.
"Look! The water isn't even wet-! Ahhh!" Keri cried out as she rolled off the top of the boat, falling down to the sand.
Keri seemed to recover almost as fast as she fell off but ran back around to the stairs where Lizy was still standing. Before Lizy could say anything, Keri was pushing her up the stairs from behind.
"Hey! Wait! I didn't say that I was ready to start moving yet!" Lizy cried out as she was forced up the stairs by a surprisingly strong Keri.
Hydie, Jilly, and the rest of the girls watched them. Before they were at the top, Jilly turned around and shooed Veronica and Kali.
"I don't think that you need my help, for now, so I will take these too, and we are going to do some training with Beeno. She has been working with Cera, Bera, and Riez all morning, so I think that it is time that we got over there. If we don't, I am sure that the lunatic will come and find us!" Jilly said with a smile as she dramatically rolled her eyes to jest.
Lizy was now standing up at the top of the submarine with Keri, but she had yet to transform. The spider woman was also holding Keri's hand for balance, and her legs were shaking.
"Sounds good; when we get finished here, we will come and join you," Hydie called to Jilly but then turned back to Lizy to say, "You don't need to worry! I am holding your feet to the ship, so you won't fall off! None of the water on the ship can hurt you! I have it all sealed within an air bubble!"
Lizy knew what water felt like from rain, but she had never been in the water. The feeling on the buttons of her feet was more like a gel, but these feet had never touched water.
This form was all new to Lizy, but that didn't change how she felt about getting wet. Things were changing so fast in her life that the Magma Spider was having a hard time keeping up.
"You know, I was really scared the first time that I got into the water! Aunty Jilly had to pull me in, and I fought the whole way, but when I finally did it, I loved it! This stuff isn't like the stuff I had a bath with, so I think that you will be safe!" Keri reassured Lizy.
Lizy stared at the little woman with burning eyes, and Lizy sighed as the little woman turned away. This should even be possible for a powerful creature such as herself if even a creature that ate fire could do it.
Lizy let go of the red-skinned Gog-girl's hand, taking a deep breath. The spider woman closed her eyes and concentrated on what she usually looked like.
As she did, Lizy's humanoid body began to grow and expand. Her two legs shrunk down to points, and six other legs grew from the large grey shelled abdomen that started to glow bright orange and red.
Keri jumped back as Lizy grew into her massive Magma spider form. Even though she knew that Lizy had changed and was getting better, the massive form still made her a bit uneasy.
After finishing her transformation, Lizy opened her eyes slowly and then looked down. The tips of each of her legs had some of the water crawling up them, but they were holding her in place.
Slowly, Lizy lifted one of her long pointed legs to test, and she was able to do it with no problem. Then when she put it back down, the water pulled back up her leg point to hold her down.
After a few more tests of leaning from side to side, Lizy was satisfied. She was about to start spraying on her molten webbing, but then something happened that made her freeze.
Lizy wasn't the only one; every girl connected to Zack felt his presence disappear. This was when Zack stepped into the first Astral Ring, Libra.
"Did you just feel that?! Where did he go?!" Keri asked with fear in her voice as she looked at Lizy, but the spider woman didn't know how to reply.
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