Chapter 4
We are walking its coming close to lunch time, we left the safety of the cave just before lunch, maybe about two hours ago. When we awoke I looked over at Sam and she didn't look good. I'm helping her walk where as Reed and the commander is walking ahead of us, while the three of us where sleeping our commander went back to get a gun, and Reed is holding it. And while we where waiting for him to return I decided to make myself a small spear, using a stick and a rock.
"Guys I need a break", she says and I let her down and the other two turn around and walk back to us.
"You all right Sam"? Our commander says.
"No, I'm in excruciating pain, I'm sweating, I might have an affection", Sam says as she looks at him. I sit down and put my spear down beside me then look up at Reed. He seems to be looking into space, and I think its because he is talking to the others. My heart starts to race, knowing what is going to happen today, Sam and I will die. Reed and our commander will be free to go home.
I then look down and stair at my hands, and close my eyes, everything I know, everything that I've been through is now going to end here, at some point today. I look back up to reed and smile. Maybe its going to be my time, I got to see and be near a living bug, I got to be friends with one. He then turns to look at me and we smile at one another.
"Can I get water"? Sam asks. I look at her and nod my head. I then get up and walk over to Reed.
"She wants some water", I say and he turns so I can get into the large bag that I had packed and grab a bottle of water then walk back over to her. I hand her the bottle and she opens it then drinks, gulps the water down. We all freeze when we hear the screeching of the bugs. She tosses the bottle away and stands up, I grab the spear and help her, our commander helps her and we go off running.
Reed keeping behind us, we run into the narrow canyon and by the time we reach the centre of it the bugs are right on our tails. Sam stumbles and falls, our commander keeps going and then I stop and look at her. My eyes widen when I see her turn around and she screams as one of the bugs bite her.
"No you son of a bitch"! I scream and hold up the spear and run over to them.
"Hikaru no, don't"! I hear Reed yell at me, but I don't listen, these bugs just killed my only friend, and I want revenge for it. I impale the creature with all my strength and it falls with a scream. I smile and pull the spear out then look at the others, they are all looking right at me. I don't care anymore, I'm going to die, so I might as well take out as many as I can. They then start charging at me and I freeze in place as I hear gun fire.
"Get moving Hikaru now"! Reed yells. I look over at him and my eyes widen, he is shooting his own kind. I hear the bugs screaming not out of the fact that some of them are being killed, but because of one of their own doing the killing. I listen to him, I move, run past him, then he follows, the bugs following behind him.
"Why"? I ask knowing he is right their.
"Because I promised you", he says. I smile and run, the commander is all ready at the ship, and beckoning for us to go faster, and that's just what we do, Reed sheds himself of the gun and bag, and I toss the spear aside to run faster. We make it into the retrieval ship and the doors close just as the bugs hit it. We take off into the sky. I breath heavily trying to get my breath back, I look over at Reed and smile at him also wondering why he would turn on his own kind.
Then losing Sam and Alissa catches up to me and I lay on the ground now crying. No one seems to notice as their is lots of chatter going on.
"Hikaru, you ok"? Reed asks as I feel a hand on my back. All I do is shake my head still crying, unable to stop the pain I feel, its similar to the pain of losing my whole family.
"Oh my god, Hikaru", another voice says and some one else comes over to me.
"What is wrong"? She asks.
"Every one I care about is gone", I say between sobs. Then I feel a hand rub on my back. Knowing its not Reed's I shake it off and glare at the blond woman known as Liz.
"Look your still alive", she says.
"How does that make it different"? I ask now getting angry.
"Why should I be the only one to live, and every one else to die"? I ask fisting my hands. She puts her hands in the air and says, "Because your a survivor".
"Like hell"! I snap, get up and walk over to the part that their is hardly any people. I go to the corner and sit in it, looking at the ground wondering why Reed let me live when I know all of us where to die. Tears start streaming down my face and I can't stop them.
"Hikaru I'm sorry", Comes Reed's voice. I look up and he stops walking toward me, seeming confused as to what to do.
"Why"? I ask.
"Why didn't you let them kill me, like the others"? He sighs and looks over to see if any one is coming this way and looks back at me, taking slow steps toward me.
"Blame me for this, but don't think that you should of died", he says.
"But I was suppose to", I say in my defense.
"Yes, your not wrong... I have a strange fondness toward you and I can't help but let you live", he says. More tears start going down my face, he is just feet away now, he can touch me if he wanted to.
"Everything... Is gone", I say, looking down. I then feel his hand on the side of my face and he forces me to look into his swirling with colour eyes.
"I'm still here", he says. My heart skips a beat to that, no man has said that before, and I can't believe that he had, he isn't human. Not able to control myself I then hug him and start sobbing harder.
"Live for me, your the only one that knows, and I can trust you", he says as he puts his arms around me.
"I'm sorry for the pain I had to cause, and if it comes down to it, I will gladly let you kill me", he says. I can't say anything to that, I like that he will allow me to do that, but I don't think I would be able to if I wanted to. And as it was, I don't want to, I mean I have no thought of it.
"I don't fully blame you for the death of all I cared about. Because it was us that caused this war", I say and pull away some to look into his eyes. I love his eyes, a lot. I then reach my hand up and place it on the side of his face. I rub his skin with my thumb feeling the urge to lean up and place my lips on his, but I fight it.
"How can you look and feel human"? I ask. He smiles at me and places his hand on mine and brings it down to his chest and leans in, his mouth right beside my ear and answers, "We are so much a like that you won't understand". With that he kisses my cheek and pulls away.
"All your answers will come in time", he says. I nod then sit down looking at him and sigh. He sits beside me and looks around.
"You scared"? I ask.
"Yes", he answers truthfully.
"That's another reason why I didn't want you to die", he says and looks at me. I look at him and smile.
"So you needed a scape goat", I say. He shakes his head and replies, "Not a scape goat, a friend". My eyes widen and he just smiles at me.
"Your shocked", he says.
"Of coarse I am, you wouldn't be if I told you that"? I ask.
"Actually no, I was shocked the moment you told me that you don't actually want to kill my kind", he says.
"You feeling better"? My commander says. We both look at him and I nod.
"That's good, and Reed... My name is Conner", My commander says. Reed gets up and holds out his hand, then replies, "Well Conner its nice to finally met you". I smile, he has some knowledge to show that he is human.
"It won't take long to get to the ship, and from their we will need to be fully debriefed", Conner says. Reed nods, but I can see that he hadn't thought of that.
"Um, commander, would it be all right if he can get settled in first"? I ask as I get up and stand beside him.
"Yes, we all need to get settled", he says then turns and walks back over to the others. Reed then faces me and smiles.
"You can understand my body", he says.
"I guess", I say as I feel my face warm up. He looks at me intrigued and shocked.
"Your embarrassed by it"? He asks. I look down and shake my head.
"No", I say. I then walk back over to the corner and sit down, putting my head down and sighing. Sure I'm still hurting, I'm still morning my loss, of friends and family, but now I have to worry about the protection of my new friend. He sits down beside me drooping the subject.
"Their is one thing that concerns me", he says. I look at him and wait.
"I must go back to my true form even for just a second, or else I lose this form", he says.
"Well when we get onto the ship, you can come to my quarters, and turn their, I have a way to keep you hidden their, and you'll see why", I reply. I actually smile to the thought of seeing my little creation.
"You seem happy about it", he points out. I look at him and nod.
"Thanks because I am happy about it", I reply, not really realizing that I'm confusing the guy.
"We will be aboard the Horizon in a moment", says a voice over the system. Reed looks around, that was the first he heard of that. I smile, but it fades as I see him sweating. I place my hand on his arm and feel how warm it is.
"Reed you ok"? I ask. He looks at me and smiles then nods. But I can tell he isn't, and I have a feeling its because of what he said that he must do.
"Does this have to do with going back to normal"? I ask in a whisper. He only nods and looks down.
"It won't take us long to get their, then we can go straight to my room", I say not realizing that some one heard it.
"Oh Reed is going to get lucky", Liz says as she stands in front of us.
"What"? Reed asks. I shake my head and glare at her.
"Come now Reed, I'm much more of a girl then Hikaru is", she says as she leans in close to him. Not liking where this is going, I get up and push her away and reply, "That's sexual harassment".
"No it isn't, I haven't touched him... Yet", she says and starts to laugh.
I was confused at first at where the voice came from but ignored it for the moment trying to keep myself calm. Then after what Hikaru had said that woman comes over to us, which angered Hikaru. Now the two girls are fighting, for some reason.
"Will you two stop fighting", says a male voice from the side. I look over and its one of the other guys that was on the ship when we got to it.
"Stay out of it Finny"! Both girls snap in his direction, and he flinches then shrinks in his seat. I look at the girls and sigh.
"Stop, your not a child any more", I say getting annoyed that its getting harder to concentrate on the task at hand. Both girls look at me and I smile some.
"She is", the other lesser says. I shake my head and groan. Hikaru stays silent, believing that I know its because she knows what is going on with me. Then I see all the other lessers standing by the door, waiting for it to open, even the two lessers I hadn't seen, which meant that they where driving this contraption.
Hikaru gets up and places her hand on mine and smiles then nods at me. I nod back understanding and get up. Just as I stand, the doors open, and every one leaves the ship. Hikaru walks in front of me as I am following her, and when we exit the ship I couldn't help but be amazed at the even larger interior of the new one.
Hikaru grabs my arm and drags me out of the room before any one can stop us and down a rather long hall. We turn many corners and then stop. I feel her trembling as she still holds my arm.
"What are you doing here"? She asks and I look ahead and see a lesser leaning against the wall.
"I'm here to see you", he says. As he pushes off the wall, he walks our way. Hikaru moves and places herself behind me.
"And who are you"? He asks.
"A friend", I reply, for some reason I want this lesser dead.
"Good, because she is my girlfriend and she and I have some unfinished business to attend to", he says with a grin on his face.
"Ex, I'm no longer your girl", I hear Hikaru say and then she grabs the back of my shirt and tightens her grip.
"Get out of my way pretty boy", the man says, narrowing his eyes at me as I am the only obstacle in his way to his prize. I look at him oddly at that name and shake my head.
"She isn't yours, so get the fuck out of my way"! He snaps his hands into fists. I can sense his body getting ready for a fight, and this is bad.
"No she isn't, but she isn't yours either... If I'm not mistaken your in our way", I say also hands in fists ready to move if he does, though I know it would be better if I didn't fight him, especially in the stat I'm in.
The lesser laughs, uncontrollably holding his gut as he laughs so hard.
"Please John just lets us through"? Hikaru asks, fear in her voice.
"Not till I get you all to my self", he says, then stops laughing and swings, he manages to hit me and my face turns to the side. Anger boils in the pit of my stomach but I fight it and control myself as best as I can. Hikaru lets my shirt go and backs up some.
"Your going to regret that"! I growl. He laughs and tosses another punch my way and I dodge it and hit him in the side of the face.
"You son of a..", he says then starts swinging at me with out any actual control. I dodge each attack and when I see the opening I need, I grab his neck and force him hard against the wall, my face inches away from his, the anger with in me, growing higher. I add a bit more presser and smile as I hear him trying to gasp for air.
"Reed, don't", Hikaru says grabbing my arm. I look at her for a short while and she gasps at me then steps back. I shake my head knowing that my eye colour must have changed and look back at the lesser in my grasp.
"Lets get one thing straight, this woman is out of bounds you understand me you sick fuck... And if I hear you have gone three feet near her, your dead", I growl at him, loosening my grip on his neck so he can breath properly.
"Yes", he says in a gasp of new air in his burning throat. I then let him go and he falls to the ground coughing.
"Come on lets go", Hikaru says as she walks passed us. I look at her and nod, then follow behind her. We walk down another few halls, into an elevator that she calls it, and down another hall before finally stopping in front of a door. She punches in numbers and the doors open, we walk in. She closes the door, locks it then punches in other numbers then something clicks, not the lock but something else.
I look around the room, amazed by the size, and then my eyes set on a glass object near what looks to be a human bed. I walk over to the glass item and look in it, my eyes widening at what I see in it. Their are small versions of my kind with in the cage.
"That's what I'm happy about seeing", she says then walks over, and she gasps.
"Their is suppose to be one". I smile at her and look back into the object and see four. I then look at her and ask, "You made these"? She looks at me, smiles and nods, then opens it and sticks her hand in the object and pulls out the all black one.
"This is the one I made, and it turns out it made three others", she says. It runs around happily in her hand and makes little noises, and I understand what it says. Its calling her queen.
"How did you make them"? I ask her.
"Well I used the DNA from a dead one that looks like these and your kind, then made him or her", she says. I nod my head and look back into the object and smile down at the three others. She then puts the black one back into the object closes it and looks at me.
"So aren't you going to change"? She asks. I look at her and sigh, I don't really want to, but the room is big enough for me to form my original form.
"You don't have to worry, no one will know what you are, the ship can't sense you in here, because of the modifications I made to my room so I can keep them in here", she says as she points to the really small versions of me. She walks over to the bed, and I nod my head. I then walk to the centre of the room, and let the process begin, flesh tearing, and my body feeling normal after a few minutes of it going back to normal.
I can hear the little ones screeching at me, wondering what I am, and how I did it. I didn't want to make no sounds because of the size of me, people walking by the door might hear, and I don't want to risk that. I don't want Hikaru to get into trouble for helping their enemy on board.
"My child, why had you killed your own"? I hear my queen ask. Hikaru gets up and slowly walks over to me, I don't move, I just watch her look at me amazed. I do remember her saying that she would rather touch us when we aren't dead.
"Because the lesser I kept alive will help me understand their kind", I answer her. Hikaru then reaches out her hand and touches the top of my mouth. I lower myself some so she don't hurt herself on my sharp body. She gently touches the underside, which is inside my mouth area, the pincers, sharpest part too. Then she moves over to my torso, and presses herself against it.
"I didn't think I would be able to do this", she says.
"I know your dangerous, but I got to do one thing I had dreamt about". I close my eyes and feel relaxed with her against me.
"Queen and King", I hear her little creation say.
"We are of different species it wouldn't work out", I tell it, making sure I don't say anything to my real colony.
"It wouldn't matter to her, she loves our kind", the little one says as it tries to get out of its cage.
I couldn't help but go over and try to touch him, I have seen him before, but it was in the dark and as soon as he looked in my direction I moved away. I was afraid that he was going to hurt me, I still am, but I trust him. And after what he did with John, I know he will protect me. I then feel arms go around me and I open my eyes and see that while I was against him, he formed back into the human.
"Sorry", I say as I try to pull away, but he don't let me.
"Its fine, if I didn't want you to do that, I would of moved", he says. I look up into his eyes, when he is the bug, his eyes are black, and when he is human, they are a mixture of colour. We stand their for what felt like hours just looking into each others eyes, then I do something I didn't think I would do, I lean up and kiss him, I don't care that he isn't human, I still find him attractive inside and out.
Instead of pushing me away, he actually kisses me back. I hear the little bugs making a lot of noise because of this reaction. Then we part and he lets me go, I look away and look at the little guys, then sigh and walk over to them.
"You do know they think of you as their queen", he says. My eyes widen and I look at him.
"Really"? I ask. He just smiles at me and nods his head, he walks over to the bed and sits down on it. I open up the top drawer and pull out a container of bugs. I open it, open the tank and put some of the bugs into the tank, the four of them all go after their food. I smile into the container, because I don't have to worry about buying them anymore, they are reproducing.
I look at the four of them, and notice that the first one seems to be a bit bigger then it use to be. I shrug it off and sit down on the bed beside Reed. For some reason, even though he is a bug, I still feel comfortable around him, I mean he is male, and I have a feeling he looks it in human form too, at least from what Sam had said that first day.
"Its all our fault", I say and lay back staring at the ceiling.
"What is"? He asks.
"This war", I answer him.
"If we didn't go to that first planet, then none of this would of happened", I say.
"That's true, but I like it better this way", he says. I look at him with a questioning stair.
"One I would never have met you and two I might have to breed with my sisters", he says and looks down.
"That's why I toke this mission in the first place, I find it wrong that brothers and sisters are breeding", he says.
"That is wrong in so many ways, why isn't the queen producing"? I ask.
"Because she is old, she is no longer able to produce", he answers.
"She must be mad at you for killing your own kind though, because of me", I say sitting back up and looking down.
"I don't know, she hasn't replied back from what I told her last a few minutes ago", he says.
"I'm sure she is just making sure she says something right", I reply. He looks at me and smiles.
"Maybe". Then we go silent, I look over at the tank at my creatures and smile, if they really think of me as their queen then they must of loved what they witnessed between him and me. I blush then, did it mean anything to him when he kissed me that first time, then kissed me back?
"I wanted to thank you for what you did with John", I say and look at him.
"I don't like that lesser", he says and I see his hands go into fists.
"He better watch his back".
"Yeah well, I'm glade I have you", I say and feel my face heat up to what I said. He looks at me and reaches his hand out, to touch my cheek.
"I do know what that means", he says. I nod my head, and he only smiles at me. Does he care for me like that, or not? Its really hard to tell.
Well that's it for the 4th chapter. What is going on between the two of them? How will things turn out.