Chapter 2

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rissss: Full blood Xenomorph

Hi'shaa: Hive child halfbreed, cunning. A favorite ofthe Queen

Shrsh: Hive child halfbreed, Stratigic

Dassraa: Hive child halfbreed, The counsilor, the calming of the halfbreeds.

Raa and Kesaa: halfbreeds who had died before story starts ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This was not good. Hi'shaa could sence from the images of the Queen that the yautja were very strong and cunning. They knew much about Hives and their nests. To fight them, they would need to be unpredictable, but with the flexibility of the Hives behaviorisms, it would be difficult to judge what would trick them. To steal away a Queen! Even humans would clone a Queen before trying to do something so barbaric. These hunters were less than animals!

Hi'shaa lookeddown at her hands with their fragile skin and transparent claws... no...nails. The word for these flimsy human claws were nails. Humans were not much better. They were very capable of terrible things as well....

There had been 23 of her kind in her awareness. Nine had died before they had reached consciousness, a soft whisper in the back of her mind. Two others had died in experiments. Three in excape from the human base. The remaining ones, Hi'shaa among them, finally found their way to this planet to find the Queen that called to them in the back of their minds since the day of their birth. That day, they finally recieved their names and were deemed Hive Children. Two, Raa and Kesaa, had died in the first year, falling into Hssraaak, Final Silence. Their bodies were shared by the Hive as was the custom with the dead, feeding their strength back into the Hive.

She had embraced them all, the rarest and most sacred of gestures. They were her special children. Her Will. Her Eyes. Her Judgement. Of her followers, they were wisest and most cunning as their minds walked a fine line between two worlds. Hi'shaa was a personal favorite. Of them, she looked most human, yet thought most like the Queen herself. Her Daughter. A prized possession. With her cunning, she had drawn half a dozen humans into the very Nest itself, where the Hive made short work of them. They had made good hosts for very strong and cunning warrior drones.

Hi' shaa silently called Shrsh, her hive brother. Another like her. He too had been warned of the Yautja. He had advised to keep the strongest Drones near the Queen. Hi' shaa thought this a wise move. It was custom to send the best of the Hive at first contact. If the Yautja knew this, then they would not expect the strength of their force if they managed to get near the nest. She commended his desision.

Hi' shaa felt Rissss nudge her.

"When do we revenge?" Rissss asked eagerly.

Hi' shaa could still feel the animal fury within her companion.She sighed inwardly and projected an image of Rissss ripping out a yautjas organs, coupled by the word "soon". Rissss was quickly growing impatient. She wanted to rend and tear. She wanted to feel blood flow down her jaws and hears the agonized wails as....

Hi' shaa forced herself out of Rissss's mindset. "Hhrrrrssa the Queen of all Hives!" She cursed to herself.Rissss could really get worked up over a hunt. It impaired all her judgement.

She felt a calming wave from Dassraa, her halfbreed sister. "Have patienceee wiith herrr, Hi' shaa. Sssheee did not pick herrr hosssst."

Hi' shaa nodded and sent an image of herself composed to Dassraa," She will kill herself if she keeps letting herself fall into bloodlust."

"Ssshee isss young...ssshee will learrrn," came the reply.

"Hopefully." Hi' shaa added as she sent Rissss a few more pleasing images. "We're going closer."

Shrsh expressed consern over this. Was it safe to take Rissss near? They still did not know much...

Dassraa agreed that it would be best. They needed to know more, but could not at a distance...

Hi' shaa contacted the Queen. A wave of power washed over her. But it wasn't threatening or consuming. The Queen gave her leave, having great faith in Hi'shaa's decision. Hi'shaa welcomed the mental embrace. She loved the Queen dearly, and wanted her safety and her Hive's safety more than anything.

"Let's go," Hi' shaa told Risss as the connection was broken. Rissss seemed very pleased. And crept beside her with a satisfied hiss. Rissss knew one of the yautja things had seperated from the group. The Queen had blessed her with this knowledge, and she all too happily shared it with Hi'shaa. Hi'shaa sent her very nice images of Rissss and her cutting down the yautja thing, revenging it to death.

~~~More coming~~~