[ WP ] Spiders are a species who made the noble decision to protect humans from small poisonous insects and disease carrying critters . However , with the amount that have been killed in fear or annoyance by humans , they have begun to leave us to our doom .

Carter could remember when the world had begun to change; it was just another Saturday evening sat slumped in front of the computer playing through a new game, in this world he was a soldier fighting through the hordes of arachnid from another planet, as time progressed his reactions slowed yet the threats persisted and grew bigger; after a few hours he lost his final life and turned off the computer in anger and began to make his way to bed. 
 
 Just as he was about to get into bed something scurried across the wall, still annoyed at the virtual spiders he decided to take his new target out, grabbing a heavy book he began towards the wall and crushed the defenceless being, with a smug grin he looked at the mess he ’ d made and issued a threat to any other spiders that dared enter his room. 
 
 Carter awoke in the night to the buzzing of a mosquito in his ear, he dismissed it with a flick of his wrist and headed downstairs to get a drink as he opened the door to his kitchen he saw that he ’ d left the light on and the moths had congregated around it, he sleepily shooed them away before switching off the light and making his way back to bed. 
 
 As morning came he rose from bed, an insatiable itch on his back he began towards the bathroom to examine himself to see he was covered in bite marks, going downstairs to get breakfast he saw that flies had joined the moths in the kitchen, getting the hoover he quickly dispatched of them and sat down to enjoy his cereal in front of the computer where he would get lost in the other world yet again. 
 
 In the following days the insects constantly grew in number, it wasn ’ t long before they were making national headlines; they reported that scientists were investigating the influx but were unsure what had driven them forward as of yet, people were advised to keep their windows and doors shut. 
 
 Weeks passed and not only did their numbers swell they also began to grow much larger, that ’ s when we realised; the spiders had gone, where and why nobody knew but their effect on keeping us safe from pests had become apparent, the world as we knew it couldn ’ t continue without them. 
 
 It has been nearly a year since the spiders left us. Disease is rife in the new world with so many carriers; the sun often blotted out by swarms forces us to live by the blue light of the bug zappers. 

