Chapter 2: new life.
the smell of gasoline and a mechanical roar could be heard way before the dot in the distances could be seen as it seemed to get closer and closer. Two figures could be seen in the front seat which L'iviesss quickly recognised it as Ellen who as soon as she notices started to wave at him and Bruce who seemed to be having a blast driving his new toy. L'iviesss got up to greet them but A'mygdalisss seemed too contempt to budge and just seemed to passively watch them.
"see your finally up! How are you feeling?" Ellen asked.
"absolutely fine."
Ellen look down for a second as if she heard something before walking over to A'mygdalisss who seemed to be smiling at her. The queen pressed her face against her belly and let out a deep purr. Ellen couldn't help feel fascinated by this magnificent beast.
"hello O'ceiroesss, are you ready to come out?"
"well I have been waiting for L'iviesss to awake so I guess I'm ready now."
The moment he said that Ellen seemed to place her hand on her belly before a worried look shot across her face. she collapsed to the ground and began to let out a painful shriek.
"what's wrong?" Bruce said as he ran to her aid.
"he's coming out!" she howled in pain.
"o fuck! Let me help you back t-"
Before he could finish his sentence, L'iviesss had swept up Ellen in his arms and was making a dash back to the hive with the queen and Bruce in hot pursuit. Bruce kept trying to shout L'iviesss but the defining roar of the buggy's engine seemed to drown out anything he said. They reached the entrance where L'iviesss proceeded to take Ellen deep into the hive. Many of the drones and warriors seemed to follow, letting out exited shrikes and hisses for the new arrival into the hive. L'iviesss placed her in the centre of the queens chamber which was luckily clear of eggs.
"what do I do!? What do I do!?" O'ceiroesss bellowed. His instincts told him to rip and tear but he knew if he did it would kill her.
"fight your instincts!" L'iviesss told him as Ellen began to push.
"somethings got my head!" he growled. His instincts were starting to win over, causing him to try and tare his way out.
"calm yourself O'ceiroesss! I know this is terrifying for you but let Ellen do what neediest be done."
The sound of L'iviesss voice seemed to calm the petrified O'ceiroesss down and he let Ellen push no matter how much his instincts begged, screamed, pleaded for him to brake free any means necessary. As soon as his head could feel the fresh air, he began to wiggle best he could before thrust his arms forward above his head. L'iviesss quickly grabbed them and help pull him through. He let out a shrike as L'iviesss held him in his arms. His eyes opened only to reveal that what should have been the white part of his eyes were a deep fiery orange that seemed to glow in the darkness of the hive, what should have been circular pupils were more of a vertical slit.
"is, is he ok?" Ellen huffed a little exhausted.
"he's fine." L'iviesss simply replied as A'mygdalisss took a closer look as the new member of the hive.
"welcome young O'ceiroesss." She lovingly said to him as he ran his hand over her forehead all the way down to her jagged teeth.
"we should take them both back to the main facility to make sure they are both ok." Duke said in a worried tone.
"you may take Ellen back but O'ceiroesss will stay here with me." L'iviesss simply replied turning his back towards him.
"but!"
"he stays with me! If you want you can bring some of your doctors over here."
He was about to try and make one more plea but he noticed how some of the warriors were looking at him with a murders intent for annoying there king so he just decided to help Ellen into the buggy and drive her back to Ascension.
L'iviesss assigned Z'ulesss to be his body guard. Anywhere O'ceiroesss went she would follow, protecting him from any possible threat. If he ever needed anything then she would provide.
L'iviesss gently placed him on the floor where he immediately began to try and run full speed only to stumble and get back up again only to repeat what he had done. Eventually he had learned from his mistakes and was playfully dashing around the hive, sometimes swiping at the older drones and warriors before scurrying away from them. He was happy where he was, he was where he belonged.
The sound of engines seemed to emanate from the main entrance of the hive were a truck with a huge trailer was parked outside. Bruce stepped out as well as four more scientises one of them being Arthur and the other being Mcalehand the rest were people L'iviesss had vagile seen but never talked too. They all proceeded into the trailer which seemed to have a fully functioning mobile lab inside. It took them around fifteen minutes before Bruce and Arthur emerged from the trailer and went deep into the hive.
"Livis, where is he?" Arthur asked.
L'iviesss quickly called O'ceiroesss and within seconds he was barrelling down the corner before abruptly stopping at the entrance of the chamber, frozen in fear.
"what's wrong?" L'iviesss asked him as he picked him up.
"bad men in your dreams." O'ceiroesss whimpered.
"don't worry, the hive will protect you but don't say anything that happened in my memorise ok?"
He nodded his head in acknowledge meant. L'iviesss followed them to the trailer where he handed O'ceiroesss to Bruce who took him into the trailer and placed him on the table. They began to measure his weight which was 9 pounds, pulse rate which they noticed was very close to a xenomorphs, reflexes as well as a few other things.
"ok, one more thing we need to do." One of the doctors said taking a siring from a container "this may hurt a little."
He felt around O'ceiroesss left arm until he was able to find a vain. He slowly penetrated the skin only for O'ceiroesss to swipe at him, the doctor felt a burst of pain on the right side of his face had three distinct claw marks which seemed to be gushing blood.
"son of a bitch!" he howled as he stumbled backwords.
Arthur quickly grabbed a medical spray as well as some stiches.
"stay still!" Arthur demanded as he tried to use the spray. The moment the substance from the can met the wound the blood seemed to stop spewing out. He then began to stich it up in an orderly manner before turning his attention back to O'ceiroesss who was currently on the roof letting out aggressive hisses and shrikes.
"were not going to hurt you." Arthur said in a calm and collected manner.
"but you just did!" O'ceiroesss growled at him.
"we just want a blood sample," he took a deep breath "look I know it hurts and it scares you but it has to be done."
O'ceiroesss seemed to look at L'iviesss for comfort before dropping back onto the table and letting Arthur extract some of his blood.
"is it just me or does his skin feel similar to a chestbuster?" Mcalehand asked Arthur.
"well that would make sense I mean he is part xeno… the only question is how much of a xenomorph is he and how much human is in there? I mean look at his eyes."
They all nodded their head before opening the door and letting O'ceiroesss run to his father.
"so, what is his name?" Arthur asked.
"it's O'ceiroesss but it's probably easier for you to say Oceiros."
Arthur face seemed to narrow as if he was abought to ask an unconfutable question "I know this is a odd question that I should probably know but what is your last name?"
"it's Deimos."
"so, all this time it's been Livis Deimos?" he laughed.
"well actually it's L'iviesss Deimos but I don't really like it so I just go with my first name."
Bruce stepped out of the trailer holding a note pad with a bunch of empty boxes before finally getting to the box that said first name and last name.
"so, it's…"
"O'ceiroesss Deimos." L'iviesss replied.
"ok that's everything. We will get everything back to the facility bring some food for Oceiros and when we are sure Ellen is ok, we will allow her to come pick him up if that ok with you?"
L'iviesss nodded his head at him. They all got back into the van and drove off back toward the facility.
six days past with life going on as normal as It could be. O'ceiroesss seemed to be growing up and already looked around five years of age and was already walking upright. He seemed to like playing with the younger drones and loved to help out the queen anyway he could.
L'iviesss was by his queens side when he received word from A'lisasss that Ellen was at the entrance sitting in the Buggy. He called O'ceiroesss and bring him to her.
"how are you feeling?" L'iviesss asked her.
"there's a little bit of pain but aside from that I'm fine. How my little man?" she chuckled to O'ceiroesss.
"ok… why can't I stay in the hive with L'iviesss?" he asked.
"well erm… don't worry you can come back, it's probably safer and a lot cleaner for you to live with me."
"but I'm safe in the hive."
"don't worry. You will have Z'ulesss with you." L'iviesss reminded him. "hey and you will even have a nice comfy bed as well as some decent food… well I would say decent if it wasn't your mother cooking."
"hey you cheeky sod!" She chuckled.
O'ceiroesss just seemed to tilt his head "mother?" he questioned.
"Ellen." L'iviesss simply replied.
He nodded his head and sat down in the seat to her left. Z'ulesss hopped into the back seat and just seemed to sprawl out similar to an old dog. They drove off back to the Ascension disappearing behind a treeline.
O'ceiroesss could feel wonder as the world seemed so alien to him, he examined the strange brown monoliths with which seemed to twist and turn at the top with these strange green things that loosely clung to them.
"what is that?"
Susan just seemed too chuckle at his cluelessness "it's a tree." She replied.
"is it alive?"
"yes."
"how come I can't look into its mind?"
"I mean on a cellar level."
"a what?" her answers just seemed to baffle him.
"I will teach you later." She simply replied.
They drove on with O'ceiroesss curiosity growing more and more and then he saw this huge complex in the distances with strange smells and sounds. They drove through a behemoth of a gate and parked up in what looked like some sort of high-tech stable which attached something to the side.
"stay close around this area. It's not safe." The moment she told him this Z'ulesss shot up ready to attack any preserved threat to O'ceiroesss "I don't mean anything trying to intently harm you, more accidently. There's a lot of heavy machinery and vehicles around here and most people are trying to complete a task which leads to the focusing on that rather than what's around them." The xeno seemed to ease a little but still seemed a little tense.
Ellen got out first and lifted O'ceiroesss from his seat and carried him into the building with Z'ulesss right behind her. she didn't know whether to feel like and absolute badass, nerves or a mixture of both meaning as the quiet intimidating warriors seemed to be breathing down her neck. They were abought to enter when two security guards seemed to turn their pulse rifles off safety.
"sorry but no xeno's allowed in the facility without permission from one of the heads."
"she won't hurt anyone. And there's the fact that she has been told by L'iviesss to protect O'ceiroesss so unless you want a pissed farther on your door step, I suggest you let her past."
They seemed to think about what she said before stepping aside but keeping their eyes trained on Z'ulesss. They walked through the main entrance and seemed to take a left where they kept following these signs that all read apartment and had an arrow. They eventually reached the apartment sector which had rows upon rows of doors with numbers on them. They went up two flight of stairs before finally reaching their housing area. This part was designed for family's and had much larger spaces for obvious reasons. Ellen stopped at a door labelled 237 and pulled a key from her pocket and opened the door. She entered and almost shut the door in Z'ulesss face.
"sorry." The warrior just let out a sharp hiss in response "so what do you think?" she asked O'ceiroesss.
"well it ok, I guess. Where do we sleep?"
She walked to the side of the room and opened the door "this is where you sleep." He walked into his room and began to examine everything he could.
"what are those?" he questioned pointing at a book shelf.
"books."
"do you mean the things you read to me?" he said in an ecstatic tone.
"yes. Do you want me to read you one now?"
"yes please."