NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR
My apologies to those who I told differently, but after much thought I have made a decision.
For the next couple of chapters, the main focus of the story will be Deneve and Chimera.
Mat and the others will be making an appearance near the end of their arc, and their side will be shown in bits and pieces throughout.
Thank you, and in case you did not receive the earlier notice, if you wish to get a general idea as to what Deneve looks like, check my profile and use the description to identify her. She's the one with the shortest hair and the two swords.
I woke, and rubbed my head. I had a nasty hangover. I groaned and tried to close my eyes, but one single thought made me sober.
"My training. I shouldn't be able to get a hangover with my training. I didn't even drink alchol, in any amount—" I muttered, and sat up.
I realized I was in the Chimera's room, the one I had explored earlier.
"Huh?" I noticed I was nestled softly in the sheets from the bed, and my black stealth suit was nearby in a neat pile.
"If I'm here, then where's…Agh!" I yelped as I saw him. He was calmly watching me from the other side of the room. I think he had been watching me the whole time I was unconscious.
He reacted by walking calmly across the room to the edge of the blanket.
"Are you okay?" He asked simply. I was dumbstruck, at least until I saw the books I had brought along. He must've been spending a lot of time studying them to learn speech.
"I…uh…I…yeah." I managed.
"…You probably should stay down." He suggested quietly.
I decided to take that suggestion with a grain of salt, and began to stand. Immediately I retched, and vomited all over the floor before collapsing.
He was there in an instant, and cradled me.
"What…what the fuck did you do to me?" I screamed at him, and pounded on his chest.
"I…I don't know. It was instinct. I didn't…I didn't know what I was doing." He tried to explain, but it was clear he was distressed as well.
"…And that's supposed to make things better?" I quietly muttered, and clutched my abdomen.
"I…I'm sorry for what I did. I did save you, though. A patrol of those black aliens showed up and started a fight with some silver dragon creatures. They lost pretty quickly. The dragon things ripped their opponents to shreds and continued on." He continued, before gesturing to my swords.
"Oh…you retrieved them…how…how sweet." I wasn't able to catch myself, and blurted the last part out. He gave me a quizzical look and I blushed.
Goddamn it, why was this abomination making me like this?
I managed to half-crawl over to my black suit, and began putting it on.
"What are you doing? I can't let you go out like this!" He protested. I responded with several colorfully articulate phrases towards him while I (with difficulty) slipped into the tight suit and cloak.
"Either way…I can't be sitting around naked." I explained impatiently, and tried to stand. I collapsed again.
"Goddamn it…I can feel it. You impregnated me with something, didn't you!" I screamed again.
He didn't answer, only walking over and picking me up.
"I…I don't know what I did. Either way, I owe you for this, and I will not abandon you until I pay you back for what I have done." He promised as he carried me in his arms.
"Well, then…what I am supposed to do now! I can't complete my mission with…this!" I complained further.
"I…I'll bring you to the medical lab nearby. There's…a solution there." He quietly spoke, and after my berating he slung my two claymores over his back and left.
It was a quiet journey, him being completely silent and me being angry AND silent. I also noticed the mutilated remains of the Xenomorphs that were ripped apart by the Drakon.
"…You. Who killed those scientists." I quietly spoke.
"I don't know. I was being safely secured back in my room…and something killed all of them. Possibly those facehuggers that were mentioned in some of the books." He replied.
"God damn it…I can't just keep calling you it, or you. Chimera doesn't fit you either. You know what? Until further notice, I'm calling you Marc." I announced to him, and the journey continued.
We reached the lab quickly, and easily entered.
It was a white, sterile, and empty room that was inhabited only by a lab table and an X-Ray scanner. He softly set me down on the table and prepped the equipment.
"How in the hell do you know how to operate this stuff?" I asked suspiciously.
"I was bored, so I read a book on this stuff that was hidden behind a shelf." He explained, and clicked the final button.
A green ray of light shined over my body and turned off after a couple scans.
"Well?" I called out.
I sat up after he didn't reply, and my heart fell. He was deadly pale, and looked very frightened.
"What is it? WHAT IS IT!" I exclaimed with tears in my eyes.
"It's…it's a child. I did impregnate you. It looks like I inherited the alien's fast breeding genes." He managed to say, and swiftly picked up a scalpel and approached me.
"W-what are you doing?" I asked nervously and leaned back.
"Saving you. Killing it." He replied in a cold tone, and thrust the scalpel.
I batted it away, and took it; I promptly threw it away.
"What are you doing?" He exclaimed irritably.
"Get away from me." I growled.
"Don't you want to be free?" He asked confusedly.
"Not in this way. That is just a child." I continued with a dangerously low tone.
"It is a monster! It'll kill you!" He yelled back.
"It is my child! I'm not just going to kill it!" I yelled back.
"Why do you even care? You fucked me, you rapist bastard! You put this child in me! How are you different from those monsters, huh?" I screamed at him, and he took a step back.
"I…I…" He was speechless. I got up from the table (Not that either of us noticed I was able to get up) and punched him.
"Back off." I whispered in his ear as I winded him.
"Oof!" He grunted, surprised by my remarkable strength.
"So don't you dare harm my child…" I managed to get out before collapsing and falling unconscious again.