I'll start off by saying that I've got alot of guts coming back here because you gracious and ever so patient folks won't like the news that i've got....
THE FIGHT NEVER WENT DOWN. THE MANTIS DIED.
Yes, the Mantis died the night before the fight was supposed to go down. My buddy, the same guy with the frighteningly evil face in the first video, decided it would be a great idea to draw a fuckin' smiley face on the thorax of the mantis. 2 hours later it was dead, we suspect from some sort of ink poisoning as the smiley face had faded noticeably. Trust me, I was pissed. It's not often that we come across those things, although they are common.
The fight was hyped up here as well. In my defense, i've done my part as a promoter (as far as Okinawa is concerned. Here is a different story.) My buddy on the other hand, has been terrible. His dumb ass centipede wouldn't fight and every other spider he's got has been killed in just a few mins. He talks a big game but can never deliver the food to the figurative table. My apologies loyal Spider Night Fights fans.
Here are some pics of the Mantis anyway:
Oh, what could of been...
As far as the last fight? It lasted for roughly 2 hours and since we are filming the videos on my other friends digital camera, we can only take 2 min clips at a time. This poses a problem, because since we can't predict exactly when the kill will go down, we have to constantly film and then restart every 2 minutes. This leaves many many clips to sift through and edit. That, coupled with the fact that we were quite drunk when the fight went down equals crappy footage and blurry pictures. There are just too many crappy and blurry pics and crappy footage to even put forth the time. There were a few great moments in the fight though. I'll give you a recap of what happened:
-The giant Banana Spider was farely immobile and mostly stayed in the middle while the Champion wanted nothing to do with it. After a short time of inactivity we upped the ante and threw a slightly smaller Huntsman carrying an egg sac that resembled a Shock Tart. For a while they wouldn't do anything at all, that was untill I kept poking the Banana Spider with a wooden spoon. That pissed him off royally. It's pincers tried in vain to bite into the wood but I would just hit him with it and he'd back off. Eventually we got the Champion to go after the egg sac carrier. This was interesting. The Champion, instead of going for the kill, instead bit into the egg sac, which resulted in the two spiders running around trying to secure control of the precious babies. The struggle ended with the Champion gaining control of the sac, which it carried underneath it's body as if it was going to take care of it...
-At one point the Banana Spider tried to escape, which resulted in me slamming the lid shit and slicing a leg clean off. A greenish translucent goo oozed out of the wound, but that didn't stop the Banana Spider. Pissed off, it crawled across the cage towards the smaller Huntsman and proceeded to literally stab the shit out of it's head with it's huge pincers. White stuff started to ooze out of the wounds and a minute or so later the small Huntsman was dead.
A while passed and we grew very bored so we went out for a cigarette. Upon our return approximently 5 minutes later, the Banana Spider was curled on it's side. It was dead. And there sat perched the Champion. Victor of the Battle Royale and with a brand spankin' new egg sac as a trophy!
A few days passed and I pulled the cage out to see the Champion. He had dropped the egg sac, which was now laying in the sand amidst two corpes and a severed leg. Also, the cage reeked. The Banana Spdier was rotting. Using two pens as chopsticks, I pulled the Banana Spider out and noticed that a quarter inch length of it's underside had been sliced open. The greenish ooze had dried up around it. The death of the Banana Spider was not of a severed leg like we initially thought. It appears to have been from the thorax wound. We don't know who actually caused the wound as both Huntsman tangled briefly with it a few times during the 2 hour melee. I flushed the Queen Banana Spider and the Huntsman egg sac down the toilet. A proper burial indeed.
After all this I'm convinced that my Huntsman is invincible. Well, not actually invincible, but fate is on his side. Either that or my buddy is an idiot for drawing a fuckin' smiley face on the back of a praying mantis.
We're not quite sure what's next for Spider Night Fights. The death of the mantis really killed alot of the excitement over here. The mantis was seen as the pinnacle of Spider Fight Nights and since we missed the opportunity for a great fight, nothing less will do. Also, I haven't fed the Champion in over a week and a half.
More to come if anything develops.
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