Disclaimer: All things Harry Potter related belong to J.K. Rowling, and all things "Aliens" and "Predator" related belong to 20th Century Fox and such. However the plot belongs to me. Also my friend Katie and my friend Writer Chica were kind enough to beta read my story.
Harry Potter and the Alien Hive
Chapter 8: Queen HachiDraco slowly opened his eyes. His eyelids were heavy with exhaustion and sweat. He was lying on his side in some sort of room, every inch of it was covered in the sticky black coating he had seen in the common room.
He sat up quite alarmed when the memories of what had happened floated back to his mind. Why was he not dead?
The memory of the spidery-crab like creature latching on to his face resurfaced. He raised his hands to his face. His fingers felt a few small scratches and cuts here and there, but otherwise his face felt the same as it always did. What had that thing done to him then? Had it failed?
Draco used to wall for balance as he slowly stood up, his muscles shaking from fatigue. He completed standing and took a chance to look around the room he was in.
An involuntary gasp escaped his lungs, when he saw he was surrounded by the eggs he had seen in the common room. The ones that held the creatures that latched to your face.
However nothing compared to what he saw sitting in the middle of the room amongst all of the eggs. It was the very same monster he had in the in the Daily Prophet. The picture had not done it justice at all. It was huge. It was humanoid in the fact that it had two legs, a body and arms, with hands and fingers. That was where the similarities ended. Its skin was as back as ebony, its body ridged and spiked like that of an insect. It's head swooped back, then branched out in the back like flattened antlers all fused together. At the front was a pointed face dominated by sharp teeth.
In contrast to the body was a yellowish sack attached to the creature just under its tail. At the other end Draco saw an egg slowly being pushed out. He realized this creature the Officials of the Department of New Discoveries found had to be the mother of the monsters.
Malfoy jumped when the creature turned her face to him. Even though she had no eyes she seemed to be looking straight at him. She opened her jaws as if to speak then closed them again without a sound and continued her eyeless stare.
Draco began backing away from her, toward a tunnel that seemed to be a way out, but not taking his eyes away from the Queen of monsters.
Draco let out yelp when the back of his legs hit something smooth, causing him to fall over backwards on to the floor. He looked up and saw one of the creatures that had captured him in the common room earlier. One of the queen's children. He felt his insides clench when he saw around its neck was the necklace once worn by Orlando Baragon, the captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team. The smaller version of the golden snitch How did it get there? Why was it wearing it?
The creature looked at him, tilting its head as if to ask, "What are you doing down there?"
Draco quickly picked himself up and took off at a run. He stopped when he came to the hole that led to the common room above. He looked down and for the first time that day felt relief when he saw his wand lying there next to his foot.
However, it did not solve his problem of getting up through the whole in the ceiling that led to the floor above.
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Queen Hachi awoke when she sensed an unfamiliar presence. It was one of the soft ones, one of the humans. Hachi opened her jaws to send out a call to her warriors to remove this threat from her nest. However she stopped when she picked up on the small familiar presence that also radiated from the soft one.
This human was the host to the new unborn queen. That explained why this soft one had been allowed passage. The special hosts were not bound to the walls, but allowed to walk free, to take the new queen to another place to build her nest.
The human began moving backwards out of the nest. Unfortunately it was not looking where it was going and bumped right into her warrior Nyuki.
It had been Nyuki's cleverness that had allowed the children born on the floor above to join Queen Hachi below. Nyuki found their blood penetrated the soft ones physical barriers. Unfortunately the quantity needed came at the cost of one of the children's lives. But it had to be done, for the sake of the hive. There was no other way. Nyuki and the other children tore open one of their siblings and its blood allowed them passage to their mother. Queen Hachi accepted her child's sacrifice with sorrow and pride. Now the Queen called on Nyuki again.
Protect her.
Nyuki turned her head from the human to her mother.
Protect the young Queen from the humans, and yautja, those beasts that once imprisoned me, and hunted your siblings before.
What are the yautja like? How will I know them?
They are twice as big as the humans, but stand only on two feet like them. They are armed to kill us. And to protect themselves they wear armor fashioned from the skins of others like us. And they smell of musk and death!
Nyuki shivered when the Queen Hachi's transmission suddenly became crisp. The Queen softened.
Protect the human as well. They are not as strong as us. They bleed easier and faster. If the human dies so will she.
I will. Nyuki turned and ran off after the human.
Hachi watched Nyuki go, and whispered one last message. And try to keep yourself alive. You cannot protect her or me if you are dead.
There was something strange about this new brood of hers. Not that there was any difference in their love and loyalty, or their physique, but there was something under the surface, something powerful. A power not belonging to their teeth, their claws, their speed, their strength. So far it had remained dormant, her current brood had acted no different than her previous ones. Perhaps this power would not be understood until it showed its function.
From this point the queen thought about where this strange power could have come from. Then she remembered the human hosts had radiated the same power. So it came from the hosts. It was very common that her children would pick up traits from their hosts, but this one was different. It was something she lacked completely, and because of that she could not touch it and understand it. This frightened her.
Her children sensed her fear and tried to comfort her, insisting that if the power's function should be revealed, no matter what it should be, it would never be used against her.
Still the Queen decided it would be best to keep an extra watch on her powerful children.
Nyuki spotted the human trying to climb up to the entrance of the hive. Its odd clawless hand and covered feet were barley clinging to the wall. Nyuki knew that though the human was making progress, it would never reach the opening.
Sure enough the human lost it's footing and would have fallen if Nyuki had not placed her head under the human's flailing feet and gave it a foothold. The human easily made it to the top with Nyuki's help.
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Draco pulled himself out of the hole in the common room floor. He didn't care how he'd gotten out, the point was he was out, all he had to do was get to the door and he was free. However, Draco knew it would be easier said than done when he heard the screams.
"SEAMUS NO!"
"KILL IT! KILL IT!"
"INCENDIO!"
Draco heard the ear-piercing screech of a black creature's death call, and the unmistakable voice of Harry Potter and his trio.
"Great, of all humans to be here," Draco growled. "Oh well at least they are human."
Draco whirled around when he heard a hiss behind him. The creature he had seen before in the queen's chamber appeared from the depths of the hole.
Draco raised his wand, shaking.
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Sorry for the wait, but I wanted to make sure this chapter was written properly.
Yes I decided that since I had segments of this story from the point of view of the humans and the Predators, I figured it would throw another interesting twist if some of the story was from the Aliens POV.
BTW, my character Orlando Baragon Co-stars (alive) in my HP story "The Filth in Purity", which can be found in my profile.
As to the gender of the Aliens besides the Queen (female of course), I read in bee ives all of the bees are female except for the male drones. Nyuki is a warrior/worker, not a drone, so she is female.
Now let's see if you can get the little joke behind the names, Nyuki, Hachi, etc.
Please review! I want to know what you think of the Alien POV.
Till Next Time.
-Vega Sailor