23
We followed Talbain around the premises of the farm. The sun was still beaming bright against my forehead. I could hear the humming of bees flying above us as we paced thru the grass fields.
Never got stung before, let's hope I don't now I thought.
Talbain halted raising his right hand. "Wait"
"What is it?" Morrigan asked.
"Do you guys smell that?" Talbain asked, sniffing the air.
I sniffed around.
"Honey" Morrigan said licking her lips.
"Yeah, I smell it too" I remarked.
Talbain nodded. "This way" Talbain pointed to a wood cabin in the middle of the forest up ahead.
What's a cabin doing sitting in the middle of the woods?
We entered the woods and the scent of honey was growing stronger in my nostrils. I took a second to breathe it in.
"I'm not leaving here without some honey"
Talbain chuckled as he walked in front of us, "Why do you sound like Winnie the Pooh?"
Morrigan chuckled. "Honestly, I'm aching for some also"
I looked at the cabin we were approaching. Bees were crawling all over it. I took a few steps back.
Morrigan looked at me.
"Scared?"
"Nah, I'm too young to get stung"
Morrigan smiled. "Then activate your suit"
'Click'
I pressed the left button on my wristband and morphed into my suit.
Talbain walked towards the door as we followed close behind.
Talbain knocked on the door.
"Is anyone there?" Talbain asked.
There was no response.
Talbain looked at us and back at the cabin.
He bashed through the door with his shoulder and disappeared.
"Talbain!" I yelled. I ran into the cabin and to my surprise my foot never touched a floor. I yelled as I fell through the darkness.
I heard Morrigan scream down above us.
"Jay! I'm coming!"
After a two minute fall, I finally landed onto a surface. I heard a groan somewhere in the dark beside me.
"Activate gleams" I said.
At my command, small flashlights across my suit and around the perimeter of my visor emmited bright blue light in front of me.
"Funny, I thought the light would be white" I shrugged.
I turned around to where I heard the groan. I saw Talbain lying on his back.
"You alright?" I asked, helping him to his feet.
"I'll be fine, thanks" he replied.
We heard the sound of a propeller from above. I looked above us to see Morrigan descending.
"Jay, are you ok?" She said rushing to me.
"Yeah, I'm fine"
"I like the blue glow. When'd you do this?" Morrigan asked.
"I added the lights in a few days ago along with adapting Siri to my suit, though with a few changes. Thing is, the lights were supposed to shine white"
"That's strange" Morrigan said with a puzzled expression.
"That scent of honey is coming from down here" Talbain stated. "Due to it being pitch black down here, you mind showing us the way Jay?"
I nodded. I looked around until I saw a pathway out of the room we were in.
…
After a few yards of walking down the dark pathway, I seen a small blur of yellow light shining from up ahead.
"There's something up ahead" I stated, informing the darkstalkers behind me.
We approached the light as we met the end of the trail. I turned off my gleams and stared as we walked into a giant beehive.
"Woah" I said.
"Yep" Talbain said. "She's here"
We heard a noise coming from behind us.
"GET DOWN!" Talbain whispered.
We dropped to the floor. A few seconds' later, two bees the size of a small human flew into the beehive. We watched them as they flew to the very top. We rose back to our feet.
I noticed they were holding something in their hands.
"Are those deers?"
"Seems like it" Talbain replied.
The bees flew up and landed on a ledge above. A figure walked out of the hole in front of the two bees.
"Is that…a girl?" I asked incredulously.
"Indubitably" Talbain replied.
"Hm..Looks like I'm not the only queen around here" Morrigan smirked.
I looked at Morrigan and back at the female above us. The bee-servants laid the dead deer's at her feet and flew back into their combs.
Now that I think about it, I see why her name's Q-Bee
This place was swarming with bees of various sizes but to my disbelief, they looked a lot like humans with stingers and wings.
'ZZZZzzzz'
I heard a bee flying around me. I swatted it and it hit the wall dead.
Then suddenly, everything went quiet. I looked back up at the hive.
The bee-people crawled out there honeycombs and looked around with their antennae twitching.
"Shit" I whispered.
At that moment, the bees looked towards the entrance where we stood. I looked up at the girl, Q-Bee.
I watched as her back slowly turned around and I witnessed the coldest stare known to man when her eyes made contact with mine.
"They heard you" Morrigan stated.
Q-Bee pointed towards us with an angered expression as I heard her "Bzzz!" to the servant bees.
"Did she just-"
"Bzzz?" Morrigan asked. "That's their language, though she does have a voice"
"Oh"
"Get ready!" Talbain yelled as he morphed into his werewolf form.
All at once, a huge horde of bee's swarmed towards us.
"Well I'll see you guys outside!" I said as I blasted off back into the pathway that we came.
"I'm with you!" Morrigan said as she caught up.
"Yeah, just leave me behind!" Talbain yelled sardonically.
Morrigan and I flew out of the ditch as I busted head on out of the cabin. Morrigan hovered beside me. I turned around and faced the hole. With miraculous speed, Talbain ran up the wall of the twenty foot ditch. He jumped out and I extended out my hand to him. He grasped it and I spun him over me as he landed onto the ground.
"YOU THINKIN WHAT I'M THINKIN BAE?!" I yelled to Morrigan.
"LET'S DO IT!" She replied back.
In unity, Morrigan and I prepared to blast the hole into eternity as I prepared my special hand beam and as Morrigan formed a large shoulder mounted cannon from her wings.
"WHAT'S THAT CALLED?!" I asked, still concentrating on my energy.
"SOUL ERASER!"
"NICE! OF THREE….3!"
At the count of three, a bright flash of blue and pink light shot into the gigantic hole where the cabin used to be.
After two straight minutes of disintegrating of what I call bee people, my beam vanished and I turned to Morrigan.
"You think that got all of 'em?" I asked.
"Probably so" she replied.
We landed back on the ground besides Talbain.
"What about Q-Bee? You think she's still alive?" I asked Talbain.
"That was too easy. It would be too good to be true" Talbain replied with his arms folded.
"Indeed" we heard from behind us.
The three of us turned to face a girl emerging from the smoke. She wore an outfit similar to Morrigans. Though Q-Bee's corset was fully purple and her chest area was yellow with black stripes representing her nature. On each wrist she wore a cotton wristband, which also looped from her chest to the back of her neck. Behind her lower waist was a big yellow and black stinger. Jutting out from her back was a pair of clear insect wings. On each of her knees were two more. I tried to look in her eyes though she had her head tilted. That's when I noticed at closer view; she had antennae's on her head along with two bulging insect eyes coming out of her head.
Well that's a turn off
"Q-Bee" Morrigan stated, readying her guard.
"Morrigan Aensland, it's been a while"
Q-bee's voice was a bit more pleasant than her looks. If the eyes on her face were actually real, she'd look more appealing.
"I see you have a comrade along with you now" she said glancing at me. "Your soul looks quite tasty, sorry I'll have to separate it from that charming body of yours"
I grimaced.
Damn, all these girls digging me just for my soul
Q-Bee looked around. "Well, looks like you've destroyed all of my P-Bees"
Must mean her servants
"I guess I'll just have to make new ones!" She yelled.
Suddenly, from her wrist down to her hand formed into a big honeycomb and out came three bees. They landed on the ground and grew into human sized forms which I now learned are P-Bees.
Q-Bee sat on a tree stump nearby and crossed her legs.
"Well my soon to be lunch…Entertain me"