I wrote this for the hxhbb on tumblr. But I haven't watched hunter x hunter in ages and never wrote any fic for it, so this was hard. I'm glad I could finish it without having to back out though. I'm pretty sure it has lots of flaws in it, but as I said, I never wrote for this fandom before.

Something had gone wrong. How it had happened, she didn't know. The queen, she was strong and bigger than any other ant. And thus she had expected the rest of her kind to be just like that. The eggs had given them enough space, she had eaten enough food… so why didn't it work? In the beginning she had thought the eggs maybe had a thick outer layer and that that was the reason she couldn't see the soldiers residing inside. But when the first ones hatched, she knew she had been wrong.

The features were there. The wings of those feathery animals, the slimy skin of those she had captured from the water, it was all present. But their size, that didn't fit the image. They missed the amazing size the queen had. Even though she was the queen and thus should be the biggest, she had not expected to give birth to an army that couldn't even cover her claw.

'A waste of energy' that thought came to her mind. How could things this small serve her?

"So you are my army?" She asked, but no response ever came. It was only natural and she knew this. Her servants didn't have the intelligence to speak. She had found it a miracle she could do this. But her soldiers were obedient and that was all that mattered. She would send them out to the world, she needed more food. She needed to grow stronger and give birth to a king. One that would be strong and big. One who could rule the world.

…

She might've called them small, but the soldiers were anything but weak. The strength the queen had gathered to give birth to her servants had not been in vain. Their power had not been converted into size, but they were overflowing with strength. They had left their home in the cave and traveled land inwards. Sceneries they did not know of. Creatures they had never seen before. They had no idea what everything was called, but that was no of importance. They had only one task after all and that was to gather food. The world didn't matter, food did. Meat, flesh, anything that moved would be the perfect prey. And that was when they spotted them.

In size they were huge, they're bodies a million time bigger than one soldier. The ants hadn't seen the species like it before. They couldn't know the creatures they had spotted were only children, walking through the forest, no idea what danger was waiting for them. Hand in hand, brother and sister they walked. The brother was supposed to protect his little sister until the end. The little girl had been scared of the dark forest once. But with her brother around, she was no longer afraid. He would safe her, no matter what happened.

The ants moved closer

The girl laughed softly, the boy smiled.

The first one crawled up the boy's leg

He winced for a moment, feeling a sharp pain in his leg

More followed, covering the girl as well

The girl cried her brother's name, but there was no one to hear it. The two children vanished in a heap of black ants, leaving only a trace of blood and a shoe behind.

…

When he came out of the egg, the queen started to feel disappointed yet again by his appearance. Wings came from his back, his skin was green. But there was one thing she liked about him. He spoke. She bent over, looking at the small grunt in front of her.

"Fend me more of those creatures." She spoke to him and the servant bowed. Taking a small group with him, he flew out of the cave. A portion of death none saw coming.

And that certain death knew exactly where to go. If it was instinct the ant didn't know, but something told him to go to that village. Perhaps it was the nearest he could find, but it could also be calling to him. There creatures down there were working hard on their fields, some were inside their houses to prepare for dinner.

They were just a flock of hungry insects in their eyes. Which they were, in some way. The leader struck down and the first villager fell down. They couldn't kill their prey, it had been included in the order. Given the ability to fly, the only option to bring the creatures back to the queen was to pick them up and take them. And so they tried exactly that. First there was one who grabbed a man by his hair and tried pulling him of the ground. Too difficult, the man's feet only left the ground for a few seconds before hitting the ground again with a low thud. The victim scurried away, crawling through the dirt as he tried to find himself a place safe from the surrounding danger. But when he turned to his home, its entrance was blocked by a swarm of black. There was no escape. Villagers were smothered, one by one, by the gusts of ants walking over their faces. Maybe a few escaped, the ants couldn't keep track of everything. They had a bigger problem on their minds. With many unconscious victims, how would they bring them back to their nest?

…

Those who would spot them, would see a fairly strange sight. A group of bodies carried not more than a few centimeters above the ground. If looked closer, you could see the ants underneath them. At least ten were needed for every body. Flying wasn't possible, not within the woods. They had to save their strength for now. A short flight to the nest wouldn't be a problem, but in their perspective, the nest was at the other side of the world.

That day, the sky was filled with what seemed to be flying bodies. Above them a cloud of dark smoke, an illusion no one could understand.