Sisters By Mind, Sisters By Blood
Chapter 4: Brother
The jungle was silent this morning, no wind dared taunt the vegetations, not insects nor large predators dared leave their homes…yes how ominously peaceful the jungle seemed to be today, Princess decided as she lounged in the top of an extraordinarily tall lush and luxurious tree. Its branches hung over a well-sized pond complete with a small waterfall and thousands of flowers of all shapes and sizes.
This was her favorite spot in all the forest, because she could lay here, where she was now, completely out of sight and sound and watch all the different forms of life come to drink, graze, and lounge, but not hunt, never to hunt. It amazed her how some species that were natural enemies would peacefully shared this gorgeous place…and it made her wonder if perhaps this was a sort of neutral territory between predator and prey.
But of course the moment she began to think along such lines, the Darkness within her would scoff. Such a thing did not exist, there were no treaties in this world, only the strong, the weak. The surviving, and those killed for survival. No neutral territory could ever exist in such a world.
The young woman was drawn out of her thoughts by a pin-prick of red to her right, she turned her head to watch it slink ever closer toward her, and glared as she realized what it was. No wonder it had been so quiet.
Intruders...Hissed the princess to her Queen as she gracefully leapt from the branch, traveling over them with inhuman speed. The hybrid cursed herself for a fool, why had not she sensed the intruder? And how in the seven colonies could he match her pace through these trees? She chanced a glare over her shoulder, only to see nothing but the foliage behind her. She made a noise of frustration, her senses told her she was being chased, but she could not see her persuier.
It frightened her. And if it was aything Princess hated, it was being frightened. Her already rapid pulse quickened as she heard the screech of delight erupt from behind her, and she missed the next branch, gasping as the wind was knocked from her body and she fell, winded, to the forest floor. Just in time to escape the red-aiming-dot the young woman righted herself and scrambled up the trunk of the offending tree, daring not to pause as she reached the top.
Princess, the warriors are almost upon you, they shall see to your safety, and kill this dispicable foe. The royal finally replied.
Princess was, to say the least, panicked, a feeling she was not normally accustomed to, and hated with a passion. Within her something snapped and she flew around to throw her entire being upon that which was attacking her, she came into contact with an invisible force and knocked it from the tree, a snarl upon her lips, while at the same time being voiced by whatever she had slammed to the ground.
There was a jolt before the air was charged with electricity, and before her lay the answer to her earlier question, whatever had attacked her, was of the Colony, but upon closer inspection, the Xenomorph musk that hit her senses was not that of any colony she had birthed, nor was it her own, no, this musk was of a colony one step above theirs.
He is our eldest brother…She gasped within her mind, another emotion evoked within her one that commanded her to serve this unknown xeno mixture, we cannot allow him to die!
Brother? What does that word signify? Snapped the queen. There is no elegance to brothers!
He is our Brother, birthed by the High Queen before our time! Growled the young woman, as the warriors finally came upon them, thirsty for the flesh of one who had dared attack one of the royal family.
The Queen sent her dissaproval through their link, but also felt the emotoin of obligatoin to this creature. She would let him live...for now...
godddam i'm sick of these lines!
"Damn! The half-breed failed!" cursed a young hunter, one who had not even made his first kill. The Elder silenced him with a look and he brooded in silence, how high strung these youth were!
"Peace…the Honorable shall prevail…or die trying…" Though he would never admit it, even he, the Eldest, was rattled by how easily the half-breed had been knocked out and captured. And by a human female no less! And what was a humanoid doing in the colony of Serpents anyhow? She was not contaminated with any larvae he could see, though she was in the beginnings of pregnancy… so many questions this short excursion had evoked within him.
"Eldest, do you think it wise to risk them so soon? We have only tried one alternative…perhaps those waiting on their first kill could be sent instead?" Proposed another Elder respectfully.
The Eldest was set to pondering for a moment, before nodding decidedly, no need to waste good Youtja on rotten xenomorphs.
A/N
Well there you have it, a nother revised chapter, now please excuse me as i rest my brain and prepare for the next addition to this story.