AN:

My Muse had a thought.

It horrified me.

It also left me cackling madly in front of my friends, who proceeded to give me many a look for such a social faux pas as letting my madness show in public like that.

Chapter 1:
New Game

Her first thought after hitting the ground was that getting sucked into a black hole apparently didn't compact you into a microscopic smear. The second was that her everything hurt. Over the ringing in her ears, she could hear a strongly accented voice murmuring rapidly to itself.

"… definitely NOT a dremora… soul gem was correct, spell was right… how in oblivion did it go wrong?..."

Taylor managed to roll herself onto her back, which hurt no less than lying on her stomach did unfortunately, and succeeded in getting a glimpse of the person talking.

In front of her stood a tall, slender figure, male by the voice, with burning yellow eyes. His left hand held a large book with a purple cover, while in his right was a rather wide knife coated in red. Near his feet was the crumpled form of a young woman, her throat being the source of the blade's new coloring. Before Taylor could start to panic, the voice started speaking again.

"Well, it seems that my spell was a wash this time, but for the life of me I can't find what I did wrong. Luckily for me it provided me with exactly what I needed for a retry. Just hold still girl, this will all be over in a second…" he said, as he set the tome down and reached out to grab her arm.

Now, while Taylor wasn't at a Tattletale level of smart, she considered herself above average, and she was still keyed up from the fight with Bakuda that she had been ripped from. It was rather obvious to her that if she didn't do something RIGHT NOW, that she would end up just like the other girl. Her power still seemed to work through what she was starting to believe was at least a mild concussion, so she ordered every nearby insect to attack the man. Seeing as how she was in some sort of forest, that meant that there were quite a lot.

"Aaaargh! What sorcery is this?!" the man screamed, while swatting at the clouds of insects. All of a sudden, massive swaths of her bugs died as streams of flames leapt from his hands and devoured her swarm. She pulled back her insects, preserving their numbers against the now revealed pyrokinetic as he turned to her. "Just for that, bitch, I'm going to drain you slowly, and I'm going to savor every moment of it," he snarled as he blurred, ending up behind Taylor. He seized her shoulders and hefted her from the ground, only for his hands to tightly grip her and tilt her head as she felt a sharp pain from her now exposed neck.

The man didn't get to finish whatever it was he was doing to her, as a loud shuffling sounded moments before a large brown shape leapt at her attacker with a chittering sound. The force of the blow ripped her from his grip, leaving two ragged tears in her neck and shoulder as whatever he was doing to her was forcefully stopped. The wet feeling let her know that she was bleeding quite a bit, and a sharp pain in her left thigh forced her to look down.

A brown shape like the previous one was firmly latched onto her leg, revealing itself to be an enormous spider the size of a dog. Her confusion of why she didn't have control over it was answered as she watched the man wave his glowing purple hand towards the nearby corpse of another massive spider, only for it to glow the same color as his hand and return to its feet.

Taylor didn't have time for further speculation on what exactly was going on. The man's knife was at her side, and Taylor didn't hesitate to drive it into the head of the spider on her leg. It was already feeling numb, yet painful at the same time, almost like frostbite felt like. The spider at her side started to fizzle and crumble into ashes, and she looked over to see the second reanimated spider doing the same from under a pile of her spiders. Looking to the man, she saw that he was wrapped in several layers of spider silk rope. As he snarled and thrashed, she noticed the long fangs that he had in place of canine teeth.

Taylor had honestly reached her limit by this point. Uber and Leet's shenanigans, the bomb bitch and the black hole, and now giant spiders and vampires. The concussion and blood loss were not helping matters. Taylor left the man wrapped up by the spiders as she stumbled away from the small clearing she was in. The edge of the tree line wasn't far off, and she made her way in that direction as best she could. The blood loss was getting to her, and she couldn't concentrate enough to make her bugs follow her, they just started buzzing around wildly.

She managed to break through the trees and onto a cobbled road, and she found herself facing three men similarly dressed in brown armor.

"Giant spiders. Vampire," was all she managed to get out before she dropped the knife that she had been gripping, and her tenuous hold on consciousness let go as well.