Chapter I

'Wake up little one.' A voice said in my head as I felt a smooth hand run on the side of my face and a spiny tail playfully jab me in the sides. This caused me to open my eyes and look at my protector and lover Serrena the smallest and least liked among the hive.

Her smooth black skin was disrupted with dark grey scars from all the years fighting to protect hive and queen. Her bony chest rose and fell as she startled my chest her face inches from mine the smallest amount of saliva dripped down on me.

"Would you mind not drooling on me." I said as I pushed her off and sat up rubbing the sleep out of my eyes. Then my surroundings became clearer I was in the hive in my private room. I looked at my watch and saw that it was half past 10. "You let me sleep in." I exclaimed looking at her direction as she walked towards the eggs we were in charged with protecting and finding hosts for them. It had been weeks since our last batch busted from their hosts.

'Well we were pretty active last night.' Her voice replied with a hiss of laughter. It was true I had only been asleep for four hours. 'Before you get too far in checking the young. Turmular wants you to go hunting with him.'

I froze in mid motion at the mention of the only xenomorph that didn't want me in the hive. "Where am I to meet him?." I asked as I finished getting up from my pile of cloths I used for my bed.

'On the southern border. In time for the harvest.'

"Southern border? That's were the colony is." At this Serrena did her best at smiling as she could showing me her sharp clear icy blue teeth then realized the connection I was worried about.

'I'm sure your family has left by now.' She said keeping her gaze from me as she said this.

"I already know that they were used as hosts like they must've thought I was." I said walking behind her and wrapping my arms around her expressing my understanding and love for her in my only action I could do that she wouldn't take as aggressive. My reward was a long drawn out almost purr as she leaned her head against mine. She turns in my arms pressing her head on my forehead.

"I got to get going if I'm going to impress Turmular." I said sadly removing myself from our embrace. I walked over by the eggs and found my hunting gear and put them on and examined the conditions of the blades that I took from the master hunters eighteen years ago earning my right to be in the hive by protecting the queen. I attached the blades that was still stained with blood.

After a few moments I was ready to head out hunting my own kind.

'He's late. It's not like him to be late for a hunt.' I thought as a whole hour passed and no sign of Turmular. The sounds of the nearby colony were to the point of driving me to insanity, after almost two decades of only the sound of the home's conversations about hunts and possible threats to them.

"Its one of the xeno freaks." A shout from the wall was picked out above everything else. I dropped my pack and sprinted to the wall and found evidence of a xenomorph recently climbed it and was now being hunted. I started to climb using the blades hoping to stop the marines before they kill it. I picked up th pace and reached the opportunity of the wall finding a marine's back to me and drove my blades into his back. The marine reeled back and started firing in random directions sending the rest of the marines behind cover momentarily forgetting about the xenomorph intruder.

"There's another one." Cried a marine returning fire to a now empty area. I slid farther into my cover as the shots slammed into the wall of a guard house. "You two worry about the first one you two cover me." Shouted a marine over the gunshots.

I back farther into the shadows thinking, 'Great now they're after both of us.'

'Is that you human?' A voice me full of pain and worry. 'If it is let me know.'

I replied by slamming my blades against the wall just as the marine came into the room and shot me in the stomach causing me to fall to my knee.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't the xeno lover Dakirn. Now I don't have to worry about what happened to you anymore." He said with a cruel smile on his face at the sight of me in pain.

"Hello Jeff. How have you been?" I asked spitting a mouthful of blood on his boots and looking at him in the face.

"Defiant til the end. How nice." Jeff said raising his gun to my head.

"Well before you get too far I will warn you that you are going to be part of the hive's harvest." I said looking behind him at Turmular who had snuck up behind him after killing the others. Before Jeff could do anything Turmular knocked him out and shouldered him and looked down at me.

'You're hurt.' He said stating the obvious.

"So are you." I said noticing the bullet holes that riddled his body his green acidic blood oozed out of each hole and dripped on the floor leaving little scorch marks in the floor. "Here I can take care of that." I said taking thick bandages out and started to wrap the wounds up.

'Why? Why risk your life when I want you dead and out of the hive.' Turmular asked me as I finished wrapping his more serious wounds.

"Because whether we like it or not we are part of the same hive and we have each other's backs." By now I had finished wrapping and started to wrap my own.

After a while we made our way back to the entrance of our hive. I didn't make it far into the hive before collapsing and blacking out.

End of chapter I

AN

Just a little fyi for those that like my fanfics I won't be able to work on them and post anything new after the twelfth. So sorry about that please r&r no matter how mean it is.