A Lone Knight's Bounty

The Knight woke up, he had accidently fallen asleep last night with his armor on, of course before helping the bug eqainian. then the  Knight went wide eyed.

He accidently fell asleep, with 2 possible killers.

The Knight slowly went for his sword a few inches away from him, he wasn't looking, for the Drider was not by the dead campfire.

When he reached for it he grabbed something that was not his sword.

It was round and squishy, he heard a feminine voice was he squeezed for the 5th time. His brain finally kicked in and he started get up, slipping at least twice when he did he turned around and found the Eqainian bug, belly down on the floor, slowly waking up with a yawn, keeping herself up with her arm while rubbing her eyes with the other.

She looked around the forest and stopped at the knight she smiled and got up, she walked up to him and hugged him.

"Thank you for saving me, nobody would every help a changeling. the would only do something perverted to us and leave us to die, so Thank you thank you thank you!"

The Knight felt liquid seep into his shoulder, she was crying...

The Knight tried his best to comfort her, but because he was a knight, he wasn't around women so he didn't know what to do.

It was very awkward for the knight so he couldn't really return the hug, his arms were outstretched and he was looking forward trying to figure out what to do.

As he was pondering this he heard rustling in the abnormally large bushes

It was the Drider from last night.

Though the changeling didn't know that, so when she saw the spider being, she was growling at the oversized spider.

"Oh," The Drider smirked, "I'm not interrupting anything special am I?"

The knight wanted to break away, but the changeling was holding on to him no matter what he tried, so he did his last resort tactic

Flail uncontrollably

Not surprisingly it wasn't working, so he gave up.

"Who are you, bug!?" The changeling asked.

"I should ask you the  same thing... Bug." The Drider responded with a small chuckle.

"I am Princess Zenath, of the Fire Ant Changeling Hive, now who are you?"

"I am Princess Xeviera, of the Brown Widow Drider Clan, It appears we have a lot in common, Princess."

"It appears we do, Princess." The Changeling smirked.

Meanwhile, the Knight was stone still, trying to think of a plan to escape and not be poisoned and then eaten, by 2 dangerous species. if he did anything drastic he wouldn't get a new sword, he heard it was super shiny.

"What business do you have here, spider?", Zenath asked.

"I'm getting firewood so that I may feast with this knight tonight, despite harming me, he did not let me die," Xeviera looked to Knight and gave a slight bow," and for that I am grateful."

It appears we do have something in common," Zenath kept her smirk, "this knight saved me as well, and I was going to go look for food for the same reason."

The Knight really didn't want any part of this, but being a knight he had to respect royalty, so he had no objections to refuse to both off them, even if the asked for something wrong.

Some how he figured it'll take longer to get to Equestria.