Time For A King
Two weeks later
It had been a while before I had gotten used to being in the hive. Everybody kept on staring at me. It was as expected though; I still had some human traits to me. I still walked on my hind legs and used my hands to an extent. Otherwise, I looked exactly like a xenomorph.
When the Queen showed me the hive, it was massive. There must have been at least a couple thousand xeno's in there. The predator, or whatever, said that he had to go back to his clan, but that he would be back. The Queen said that sense I was one of her latest sons, I was practically a prince.
One of the others has been teaching me about themselves, and what I could do as a xenomorph. During one of my lessons, on how I could climb on walls and ceilings, a drone came into the room.
"Excuse me your highness, but the Queen wishes to see you." The drone said while bowing.
"Thank you; tell her I will be there momentarily." I said while bowing back. I had learned that it was custom to bow when conversing with another being.
As I made my way over to the "palace", I noticed that there were still some people staring at me. I guess it was deserved; I was walking on my hind legs while they were running on all fours. I also noticed that it would take me forever to get there at this speed. So I decided to go with the flow and ran on all fours, I got there in a manner of minutes.
I saw the Queen in the middle of a room with some corpses hanging from the wall. They appeared to be another batch of hosts for our kind.
"You wanted to see me mother?" I said while bowing.
"Yes, I've learned that another hive close by has been destroyed. Only a handful of them survived, along with their queen. Their queen happens to be a sister of mine. I would like you to go and see them safely here."
"I will go immediately, where is the group?"
'They are about ten miles from here. If you run you should be able to get to them quicker." She said while I ran on all fours out into the night.
It took a little longer to reach them than I thought, but I found them while I was running through a desert. As I ran up, a few of them got in my way.
"Calm down, I'm here to bring you to the hive." I said with a calm tone.
The queen came up from behind them and looked me over. She rubbed her head on mine with a low rumbling coming from her throat.
"You smell of my sister, did she send you?" The queen said in my head.
"Yes, if you'll follow me, I'll show you to her your highness." I said with a slight bow.
So I set off, them at my tail (literally) in the direction of the hive. As I looked back to see if they were following, I saw two of them running up to me in a rush.
"Jesus, could you slow down a little? We need to talk to you." One of them said, strange, its voice sounded a little familiar.
"What do you want to talk about? And who are you?" I asked while slowing down. Back in the hive, I was the fastest runner. No one could beat me in a race.
"We're the prince and princess of our hive. Who are you?"
"I'm the prince of my hive. Nice to meet you guys." I said while bowing while running backward.
"Nice to meet you to. Say, have we met before? Your voice sounds familiar." The apparent boy xeno said while trying to keep up with me. As I was about to answer, we arrived at the hive.
"I'll tell you later, we're here. The Queen will want to see you three personally." I told them while leading them into the hive.
When we were all alone, I realized that the two others looked a little familiar as well as sounding familiar. The female looked like she was in love with the other. This was ok because it wasn't uncommon for brothers and sisters to fall in love with each other. I had almost fallen love with one of the others here, but mother said that I could only mate with someone of my "stature".
As we entered the main chamber, I noticed some drones carrying some corpses out, and some carrying new chestbusters with them, new recruits.
"Mother, I have returned with the other hive members. Their queen has some to speak with you." I said while gesturing for the other two to follow me. They didn't leave their mothers side.
"It's ok Ventus, you don't have to leave. I would like it if you would all stay here for a little. Is this ok with you sister?" She said while looking over to the other queen.
"Yes it is fine. I would like to know a little bit more about Ventus if that is ok with you. We really didn't have that much time to get acquainted." The other queen said while looking over to me.
"That's fine, would you mine telling them a little bit about yourself Ventus?" She looked over to me passionately, looking for approval.
"Not at all, what would you guys like to know?" I enquired.
They looked at each other for a couple of minutes before the female spoke up, albeit a little bit too loud.
"Do you have a mate?" She almost blurted out. I stood there with wide eyes, or I would if I had eyes.
"Nexcus, calm yourself! I'm sorry for my daughter Ventus. She can be a little "crude" at some times." The queen said while scolding Nexcus.
"It's alright your highness. And no Nexcus, I don't have a mate." I said, getting a, I guess, happy look from Nexcus.
"Now for mine, why do you look like us and a Yautja (FOUND IT OUT) mixed together?"
"Well, that's pretty much who my father is. He was a predator who got captured along with her." I said while pointing at my mother.
When I said this, the other queen looked like she was going to blow, and my queen looked like she didn't want me to say anything about it.
"You got captured by humans and were mated to a Yautja? Why didn't you tell me of this?" the other queen said, while rushing up to my mother, no one does this.
I ran up to the two and stood between them, holding them back with one arm each. They both seemed surprised, just like the other two xeno's in the room. But not as surprised as what I said next.
"CALM DOWN THE BOTH OF YOU! THIS ISN'T HELPING ANYTHING!" I practically screamed, or hissed, at the top of my lounges. Everyone stopped and stared at me, waiting for what I was going to do next. All of a sudden, I felt a stinging punch to my left side that launched me to the other side of the room.
I turned around to see who had dealt it, and saw that it was the other prince. He looked like he wanted to kill me, and the feeling was mutual. NO body hit or assaulted me while I was near mother, NO ONE!
"How dare you lay a hand on a guest, especially when she is a queen." He said while looking down at me.
Before anyone could even breathe, I grabbed him around his neck with my tail and hauled him up the side of a wall. With the extra strength I got from my father, he felt no heavier than a feather. I then felt Nexcus trying to unwrap my tail. I picked her up by the throat and placed her by her brother. As they were about to die, my father came in and saw all that was happening.
"SON, drop them now!" He yelled while running over to bring them down. Even though I had hella lota strength, I still couldn't stand up to my dad's size and strength.
He rushed over to us, grabbed me and pulled me away from the two.
"What is the matter with you?" He said, in a somewhat concerned tone.
"The other queen tried to hurt mom. I ran and got in between the two, only to be punched away by that other male." I said to my dad, very pissed off.
"Only because no one is allowed to touch my queen, NO ONE!" The other male yelled while trying to get to me. Yet he was held back by his queen.
"Calm yourself Vexcus. He only wanted to make sure my sister didn't get harmed. Isn't that right Ventus?" She said while looking over to me.
"Right" I said, half heartedly.
My mother didn't look that impressed, she seemed more worried than anything, I wonder why?
"Sister, shouldn't we tell them that they are cousins? Or about how they know each other?" my mother asked, worriedly.
"What do you mean "How they know each other"? I said, walking away from the two.
"Come on Ventus; don't tell me you don't notice anything familiar about them." The other queen asked, walking over to the other two.
"Now that you mention it, their voices sound a little familiar." I said while walking towards them.
"What if I told you that you used to be brothers and sister?" The other queen asked, smugly.
"Wait, you say what now? The only people who were ever my siblings were…" I started, before Nexcus came running up to me.
"I can't believe it's you Charles!" She screamed at the top of her lungs. She got to me and wrapped me in the tightest hug ever known.
"Wait, how can he be Charles? He was taken away by Yutani INC (That's right isn't it?) and we never saw him again.
"Look at him Vexcus; don't you see how much he looks like us? He looks just like me." She nearly screamed at him.
He then came over and looked us over, slightly growling. He noticed that we looked almost exactly the same.
"Ok, if you're Charles, then what was our mother's name?"
"Jenna"
"What was our father's name?"
"Nickolas"
"And what was the prank that we were planning to pull the day that the men came to our house for the first time."
"Easy, we were planning to put yellow food dye in the water tank to make it look like pee, I still want to see the looks on their faces when the find it." I said while laughing a little bit, or hissing I guess.
"Holy shit, it really is you." He said while backing up a little.
"What, it looks like you didn't even miss me any Lucas." I said, playfully.
"Hey, don't call me that. My name is Vexcus." He said, holding his fist up.
"Calm down you two, I'm just happy that we are all back together again." Michelle said, gathering us up in another death hug. She even kissed the both of us, WEIRD!
"Um, does she always do that?" I asked Lucas, a little concerned.
"Yeah, but you get used to it. Just wait till she starts watching you while you're training." He said grinning. DOUBLE WEIRD!
And CLIFF HANGER FOR NOW. HAVE FUN WITH IT FOLKS. SEE YOU NEXT CHAPTER.