Now, Kerrigan had her task as Zurvan listed off the remaining Pack Leaders who would not bow to her. "You must know your enemies. Yagdra, a worm whose acid burns like fire." From her Overlords' eyes, Yagdra made it clear that his acidic reserves indeed blazed like fire on several Primal Zerglings, "Kraith, immense and consumed by hatred." He looked like the mitoscarab, except bigger and meaner when he crushed more Zerglings under his bull charge before the final was a Swarm Host, dropping Locusts as it slowly trudged across the grounds it calls home. "Slivan, the Eternal Mother, hollow and destructive. Kill them and you will command the whole of the Zerg." Kerrigan landed before Zurvan spoke with her Overlords heading away. "Each has sent most of its pack against your Swarm, leaving themselves vulnerable."
"Zagara, defend the Leviathan. I will deal with the pack leaders myself." She headed off to fight with her newfound ability, which Abathur took the time to speak about it.
"My queen. New form, powerful, Can leap through air, strike foes. Heavy damage." That's what ended a Hydralisk within the instant before she leapt to another section to a swarm of Zerglings. "New offensive ability: 'Psionic shift'. Dash quickly. Destroy creatures within path." They were torn apart, but Kerrigan knew that using these abilities would make her a threat in close range, but with Terrans and Protoss, it really won't work as she continued, collecting lingering Xel'naga relics before Dehaka spoke, his pack coming to aid her.
"Primal roaches help. They fight Yagdra's brood." She helped them out as the final ability of her form was made apparent.
"New form can twist essence, 'Mend' wounds. Heal nearby Zerg and self."
"Well, good to know that my Queens aren't the only ones who can heal the injured Zerg." Kerrigan mused as they headed on through what appear to be tar pits in a way, collecting another relic before following the trail and killing more of Yagdra's remaining pack before more Primal Roaches joined Kerrigan and they confronted Yagdra as the worm erupted form the ground.
"Leader of the broken pack? No!"
"Is that fear, Yagdra? You do know you never hand a chance, right?" She dodged out of the way as a lob of acid was fired at her as Yagdra angrily shouted.
"Your change means nothing! I will melt the flesh from your bones!" It was a battle that Yagdra could not win as it tried to blaze Kerrigan and Dehaka's roaches in vain and even tried to reinforce itself, but it was not enough as he erupted from the continued acid and psi blasts and Kerrigan absorbed his power before moving on as Primal Hydralisks joined the fight.
"More of my pack. Primal Hydralisks." They needed the additional firepower as pressing on brought them towards a great deal of eggs, ranging from the simplest Zergling to the mighty Ultralisk among the Primals, even had to snatch up a relic from behind four Ultralisk eggs and quickly destroyed them before they could hatch in earnest before Kerrigan looked before raising a brow and finding a severed arm before she spoke to Dehaka.
"Uh... Dehaka, I just found your arm, you want it back?"
"Forgot that Kraith severed it once. Am pleased to know it intact. Will take it once task is complete."
"Yeah, not going to judge you on that." Holding on to the arm was going to be a challenge, but one of the Primal Roaches yelped and she gave it to the creature before it shook in agreement and skittered off for an Overlord to pick it up before Kerrigan confronted Kraith.
"I feel your strength... You will be worth killing, worth the blood!" The large terror barraged locations and charged at foes to bring Primal Zerglings to overwhelm, but Kerrigan was not deterred, nor were the Primal allies as they avoided the attacks and killed the aid before killing Kraith himself, his body exploding before Kerrigan took his power and moved on as more of Dehaka's pack arrived with the additional of an Ultralisk.
"My pack arrives! They will break your enemies!" They moved on to Slivan's territory as Dehaka gave note to the Locust swarming the grounds ahead. "These ones explode when they sense you."
"Baneling Locusts... Now that's just teasing." Kerrigan moved and the creatures were alerted, but they were sluggish and their blow-up time gave enough time for her and her allies to get in and get out as they pressed on, grabbing the final relic form a pack of Ravasaurs that were artillery creatures and now Kerrigan was slightly wishing to have Ravagers on her side, but this was Primal territory and she didn't want to give the Primal any more ideas as they kept going, getting reinforcements when several of the Primals didn't escape the acid explosion in time.
"More of my pack joins you." It was a short trail up to the final Pack Leader and her nest of Baneling Locusts as she hissed.
"Welcome... to your demise." She spawned the things on the daily and Kerrigan knew that the Primal allies were going to be slaughtered before long, but the acid pools and Ravasaur ambushes were a problem, but she triumphed over Slivan, her nest erupting before Kerrigan gathered her power and now commanded the Swarm and Primals, but she was not done as a voice spoke.
"It is time." Dehaka's pack reinforced as Kerrigan spoke.
"Zurvan."
"The pack leaders are slain, their packs join your Swarm, and here you stand. Complete. You are Zerg. Your essence overflows with your power." The ground rumbled as Zurvan spoke. "I... I thirst. You will feed my evolution; the first time in millennia." The ground erupted from below as Zurvan emerged with a roar, tendrils behind the small group as Kerrigan spoke.
"I wondered when you would make your move."
"No allegiance but to self. Kill or be killed. You know this." Kerrigan huffed as she moved a strand behind her ear.
"Of course." Well, the gamble was coming to an end either way, so if he wanted to evolve instead of let her go, then it was just fine as Zurvan spoke.
"One will be consumed and become something greater than either! This is the heritage of the Zerg!" The tendrils crushed the ground as Zurvan hurled up Primal Zerg to attack, but they were simple to kill, it was the tendrils that were a problem as they could cause some severe damage before they wailed him down to him pulled himself up in speaking. "There is no escaping fate." Kerrigan dodged as a maelstrom of energy blitzed the ground and Zurvan didn't let up with the power as he tried to kill her, but it was in vain as he was brought down and she blew up the upper portion of his face before the corpse slumped into the crater below as Kerrigan spoke.
"Zerus is mine." She then called upon her Swarm to pick her up. "Izsha, prepare the Leviathan. It's time to the Swarm returned to the Koprulu sector."
Kerrigan's forces started to grow again as Izsha spoke to her about a Broodmother. "My queen, I have been contacted by Kilysa, a Broodmother. She has heard of your accomplishments and wishes to return her brood to the Swarm. Her brood is small in number, but it has strong Leviathans." Kerrigan reached out to give her returning Broodmother an order.
"Kilysa, hear me. The planet Mistaff IV is a hub of Dominion military production. Take your brood there and destroy it. Do that, and you will earn your place within the Swarm."
"It shall be as you say, my queen." With that, done, Kerrigan turned her attention to Dehaka for answers.
"Did you know the Ancient One would turn on me?"
"Your essence. It called him."
"And neither you, nor your kin tried to warn me."
"He was Zerg. You are Zerg. One dies and one grows strong. You know." Kerrigan snorted at the clear message as she spoke.
"I think I am starting to understand you, Dehaka." She got a brief message of Izsha replying that more Broodmothers were rejoining the Swarm and Kerrigan taking note that it was better in numbers than alone while Abathur answered Kerrigan's question of what he really was, a brood of one, spun from multiple strains and, without the Hive Mind to guide him, he is not Zerg, but a feral beast, interesting to hear, but Kerrigan put that to the side as her own abilities were finally able to be changed now as she kept the initial abilities in keeping the distance, but also decided to apply Malignant Creep to spread it out more and even get more healing on the Zerg and damage on the enemies unless she decided otherwise.
But before she headed back to the Sector, Abathur answered that the Hydralisk can now evolve and Kerrigan wanted to see what could be done with them before she returned and see if the Dominion had taken notice of the sudden change now...