Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2020 13:39:48 GMT -5
---The Praying Mantis---
The sun shines ever so brightly on a cloudless spring morning. There's an absence of wind and to the naked ear, there's very little sound to be heard besides a few birds singing their songs, both good and bad. Yet, if our ears were more capable of turning up the volume to hear our surroundings. We'd be able to hear the heavy traffic of many feet moving around in this cornfield that's full of life, like the large cities of the world. There are relationships, friendly, mating, and foe all for us to listen upon if only our feeble ears were capable.
On this day, where the bright yellow sun rose into this cyan colored sky. There was a male praying mantis who followed the field's edge. This mantis, he went from female to female, spreading his forsaken seed throughout this field. Yet on this particular day, there was an unusually strong scent that swept through his senses. Much like the other scents, yet this one was far bolder than the others.
The male, he followed the scent which led him around the outer edge of this field until the foliage was no longer simple weeds, instead, the only vegetation that could be seen in his sight was a huge thicket of gnarly thorn bushes...
Upon seeing this, the male mantis, he didn't hesitate, the long lost lover, kept following the scent. Unlike other area's of this field he'd seen this spring. There was an absence of life, instead, he'd saw a lot of carcasses of other insects that littered the area; including other male mantis corpses. All of these bodies, they laid there on the ground, lifeless and it was clear that these poor victims were severely mauled.
Regardless of the ominous scenery, this mantis, he continued to follow the scent trail that's grown even stronger by now. The male, he continued on scurrying through the warm sandy ground until he came to where the pheromones suddenly stopped. The love sick mantis then looked around for a bit but saw nothing. Until he suddenly looked up and seen a gargantuan female mantis who was standing as still as she could amongst the thorns.
Their eyes, they locked and while her body language seemed welcoming to the point where it was clear she wanted him to come up to engage her. Yet, this wasn't this male mantis's first rodeo. As he looked at her two-faced eyes, the male knew that this abnormally large female; simply wanted him within her grasp.
The seemingly love-struck fool, he obliged what seemed to be her advances as he began climbing up the thick thorn bush. The much smaller male mantis, he took every kind of hell that this floral-rose bush could give him as he made his way up to what was a radiant female before his eyes.
Once he got closer to her, on the same branch with her, she opened up her body to him even more, which further invited the male into her grasps... Yet again, the male mantis, he obliged the females advances by moving even closer to her. Then, when he was close to her. The male pauses, for only a moment and it was this brief point in time; where the female instantly lashed out at him as if he was lunch. Yet, he knowingly placed his-self just out of her reach and because she put all of her weight into her strike that hit nothing but air; the female had now opened herself up to his sadistic intentions.
While she was off balance, this male mantis instantly snatched her by the neck before he climbed on top of her back. With those two actions, he now controlled the situation. The gigantic and seemingly strong female, no longer had any say in what happened. Her neck, it was his which in turn meant that the "life" of this seemingly stronger female; it was now in the much smaller male's pinchers...
The much larger female, she thrashed around trying to shake the male off of her but he had her; dead to rights. Eventually, both of them suddenly fell off of the branch due to the "wannabe" predator's thrashing. The limb they fell off, it was very high up, almost at the top of the thorny plant and for most of the drop. That little ole male, he had her neck, his feet on top of her back; for the sole purpose of preventing her from having the option of gliding down to the ground.
As both deviants fell closer and closer to the ground. There was something that happened at the last few seconds before both came crashing down onto the hard ground. The male mantis, he jumped away from her body with just enough time to open his wings. And it was this savvy instinct that helped the little guy glide down to the ground unscathed. Yet, the female, all of her gigantic body, it came crashing down right on top her head.
The female's neck, was snapped due to her own miscalculation and her light.. It was beginning to fade but she was around long enough to feel the seemingly "love-struck" male mantis who had began feasting on what would soon be; her corpse which would forever rest amongst the graveyard that she had originally created. And in the end, this clever male, he had his way with her remains, indulging himself on her carcass before discarding the rest of her remains like the trash that it was...
---Monologue---
I guess, we should've already knew where this story was going from the second paragraph that I spoke of; because female praying mantis, they feast on the males after mating much like black widows do...
Having said that, we know that this female; She was much larger than any females the male had met in the past yet the other side of reality was that the damned female, didn't have a clue of who she was staring in the eyes at that given moment. If she'd of known the little males track record of surviving other carnivorous females, if she'd of understood that she was basically looking a djinn (demon) in the eyes... If only that female mantis could of seen both, the fire and the darkness in his eyes. Then she'd of never even thought about opening herself up to him.
Yet, in the end, she didn't know that he was a sadistic individual... She never once thought about how he could cripple her because she'd been through quite a few of feeble men... There was only one thing on her primal mind, her ambitions of feeding off of others. Gluttony, arrogance as well as pride... These are the two sins as well as a by product of pride that destroyed this once great female... And if you're not extremely careful from here on out Candace, I'll do the exact same thing to you....
In closing, be careful what you ask for Candace...
