Chapter 19

On Earth.

"My Queen?"

"Owwwww…" Terre cradled her stomach and couldn't get off her back.

"My Queen? What is wrong?"

"My erm, place hurts."

"Is it bad my Queen?"

"Yes…Ouch…damn it…" Tears began to burn her cheeks and quivered. "AND HAVE THEY EVER HEARD OF HEAT?"

"My Queen. I have offered to warm you, but you refuse to let me come closer to you."

"You, are not in my good books mister."

"My Queen I am sorry." Damon crawled next to her and rubbed her face with his mouth. "I did it because I wanted you to get better."

"Does this look better?"

"The meat hasn't had any effect on this. It made you stronger, I can sense it. This is something different…"

"Well I don't like it and I want it to GO AWAY!"

Matters only got worse as Snide waltzed in with a smug look on his face.

"In pain Princess? Oh dear. Serves you right for eating your own kind!"

"Damon, get my collar out of my pocket. It will snap around my neck…"

"Yes my Queen." Damon was about to push his mouth into her pocket, but he looked at Terre's hands. He then looked at his claws, and lifted them. He stretched his fingers and made fists with them. He shakily and slowly slipped a hand into her pocket and grasped the collar. He then wrapped it around her neck and smirked from his achievement.

"Thanks D. Now what AAAA!" Terre screamed as her pelvis throbbed in pain. "What do you want?"

"Why I want to tell you that this entire building is going to be destroyed soon. With you in it. But I came to see why you were in pain. So I can laugh. Time of the month is it?"

"DOES IT LOOK LIKE I AM ON?" Terre spat, regretting it as her abdomen burned and arched her back on the floor.

"Yes."

"Meat bag scum. I am not bleeding, I don't have 'period pains' if that's what you mean. Arse!"

"Then…"

"Look, if I knew I WOULD TELL YOU SO YOU CAN PISS OFF ALREADY!" She trashed her head back and Damon tried to comfort her by nuzzling her neck.

"My Queen. Get him in here…it is time…" Terre looked at Damon and he nodded.

It is time…

"Hay Snide. Why are you doing this?"

"Doing what?"

"You seemed to care about you men. Why risk so many's lives over this? For the money?"

"No, not for the money…" Snide came closer to the bars and Damon readied himself. He saw a set of keys hanging from the dark human's side…and looked down at his hands.

"Then what for?" Damon walked to the other side of the cage, and Terre forced herself to sit up. Trying to distract the general for Damon to carry out his plan.

"The Xenomorphs kill so many of our kind…and so do the Yautja…"

"Yautja? What is that?"

"He he. They are a race of creatures that hunt our kind for sport…just like they do your friend there. Our race has called them Predators or hunters in the past. Humans and Xenomorphs are all the same, game to them. To think they would hold us on the same level as those bugs."

"I think that is fitting. After all, we both know that in battle, one single Shadow could take down more than one squad of meat bags any day."

"…you think you are one of them now…don't you?"

"I am a Queen. I think maybe I should start acting like one. I am human, but only partly. I have changed, you are right. I don't see myself as human anymore. I am not good enough for that luxury. I lost the last of my humanity the moment that poor boy's flesh passed my lips. The moment I drank the blood from his 'meat'…I rejected humanity. No human could eat another human in cold blood and not regret it. And I…don't feel bad about it. And that scars me. I don't see you as equals anymore. I see you…as meat. And I don't know why." Terre started to whimper and cry from the mental and physical pain she had.

"…then you deserve to go down with this entire complex." Snide froze as her heard snarling coming from above him. Damon had crawled up the side of the cage and hung from his feet from the top bars. He hissed in Snide's ear and shot his tail out the back of the cage. It impaled him in the back and blood gushed from his mouth. A few moments later and the body sagged on Damon's tail and he dropped to his back feet on the floor. His hands reached out through the cage and clasped around the keys. Damon pulled them through the bars and yanked his tail out the mangled body.

"My Queen, it is time to leave." But Terre couldn't move. Her tears were flowing onto the floor and her body ached too much to move. Damon lifted her in his arms and cradled her like a baby. He slowly put the key into the cage door and smirked as it clicked open. "My Queen, hold on. We will be free soon." He struggled at first, but he began running on his back legs like he saw Terre run and sped out the door and down the complex. It was empty and that made him worry. Why aren't there any meat bags stopping us?

Terre buried her face into his armoured, black chest and sniffled. At least they would be out of this horrid place soon…poor Kim. They killed her and it was all her fault…

Fresh tears spilled down her face and the pain in her pelvis was just as painfully strong as ever.

They turned another corner, and jerked to a stop….

On the cloaked ship earlier

Kim hadn't seen Katel since the embarrassing run in she had with him and after his biology lesson.

"I bet he is hiding away in his room. He didn't even come and wake me up." Kim had stuffed her underwear with tissue and was coping now. She wasn't about to stay in the bathroom all day.

So when she got dressed, she headed to the control room. Katel was there, but he soon left without even looking at her. that really pissed her off and she slummed into the main chair. Katel left a hologram program open so Kim gazed at it. It was a blue hologram of a military looking base with hundreds of levels. And there were white dots flooding out of it and two black dots in the bottom level. The odd thing was, the structure of the levels made her star at it with wide eyes…

It looked…familiar. "KATEL!" Kim shot out the chair and ran to Katel's room. She banged on the door and kicked it with her foot. "Ouch damn it. OPEN UP NOW!" the door opened and Katel stood in the door way, but he didn't look at her. "That hologram in the control room. Is that were the hunt is? The hard meats and the Queen?"

"Yes. In the lowest level."

"That…was where you were held captive. That was where we first met."

"…and they have a Queen…like in your dream…" Katel looked her dead in the eye.

"But Terre was the Queen from my dream…that can't be true, can it?"

"It would explain why there are only two of them. One from the last Queen or from outer space and your friend."

"…I can't hunt her." Kim lowered her head, expecting the worst.

"If it is her, it will no longer be your friend. On my home planet, there are vast walls of history and a special wall that tells of a legend. An ancient Queen knew her end to be nigh. So she took a Yautja female and passed on the gift of creation through a painful transference of her womb, to the other. Warriors and hunters of old saved her from what they thought was an attack, only for her golden eyes to darken to the coldest black." Katel took her wrists and dragged her to the armour room. "Her talons grew long and she grew a tail with the same spear as the Queen who sired her. on the inside she changed and her own womb was shredded from within her and replaced with the Womb of a hard meat Queen. She became activated and all the hard meat she tried to hunt, tried to rape her instead of kill her. In the end she was saved 20 times by elders and she was then forbidden to hunt. But she refused to be deprived her right to the hunt." He started to strap his armour on and shoved a mask at Kim. "She was foolish and went on a hunt alone. She killed many hard meat and even killed the Queen. But the remaining hard meat took her as their new Queen and…impregnated her. She was forced to give birth to thousands of eggs and her won children raped her to make her produce more drones, more warriors and then hive grew and grew."

"But I will not hunt her!" Kim shouted, tears threatening to fall. Katel span round and threw her against the wall.

"We have to. You didn't let me finish!" He roared, clipping a spear to his side. He looked down at the quivering wreak on the floor. "Her clan returned to the planet she fled to and hunted her children. She felt every death, every final blow. Then, her own father found her, attached to the wall in the hard meat saliva. Her lower half being used to produce more drones. Her own father had to kill the drone using her and he freed her from her restraints. And do you know what she said to her father?" He pulled her to her feet and pinned her to the wall. "Kill me. Show me mercy and kill me. Her own father had to kill her in cold blood. DO YOU WANT THAT FOR YOUR FRIEND?"

"No!" Kim shouted, tears in her eyes even more now.

"Then we will stop her suffering before it starts. She has been with a hard meat that will have tried to fertilise her from the moment she activated. We can prevent her torment before it starts."

"I WILL NOT KILL HER! There is no honour in killing your best friend, simply because she has been changed. I will not kill her and you will not either."

"I am leaving to hunt."

"Then I am coming with you." Kim placed her mask on, just as ready as Katel with her spear in her hands. She twisted the end and it extended in her hand.

"You said you will not hunt her. Yet you wish to come?"

"I will not hunt her. And neither will you. I will not let you!"

"You can not stop me!"

"I CAN TRY!" Katel saw tears flowing from her eyes through her eye pieces in her mask. He wanted to reach out, pull her mask off and wipe them away. But he couldn't.

"…then you will fail." He turned his back to her and left to the main room. He sat in the main chair and saw the black dots moving. He had to kill them before they escaped!

Katel programmed the ship to stay cloaked and land nearer to the complex. He got up and headed to the doors, holding to the side. As soon as the doors opened he would run out and hunt his prey before Kim could stop him. He hated doing this against her will. But there was too much at stake not to. But the worrying thing was, Kim hadn't agreed to be his mate. And he had been stupid not to ask again. So if he killed them…would she refuse? He would die if he didn't have her, he needed her. But she didn't understand. And there was no time to try and convince her, not now. He would just have to live with the consequences after he finished the hunt.

The ship landed and to Katel's surprise, Kim ran forward and jumped through the opening gap in the ship doors before he could register what she had done. "Damn!" He ran after her and cloaked the ship. He found the doors wide open and could hear the clank of her sandals on the metal floor ahead of him. He followed the sound and saw blood on the walls. Human blood. "Kim!" he continued running and jumped down a flight of stairs. Katel ran round a corridor and was about to turn a corner, when a large, black Hard meat jerked to a halt in front of him. Katel pulled to his spear, and saw a small human arm and leg hanging over one of its arms. Kim? KIM!

Katel clenched his fist making his wrist blades shoot out to their full, deadly length and launched towards the hard meat. He saw the hard meat lower in stanch, getting ready for a fight and raising its tail. It looked ready to strike him with it. He got closer and brought his spear back.

But.

"YOU WILL NOT HURT HER!" Kim jumped out from a corridor and brought her spear up above her head in a horizontal line. So when Katel brought his spear down, it clanged on connecting with Kim's spear.

"Kim?...KIM!" Terre struggled to get down but Damon refused to let her go.

"It is not safe my Queen. That is a hunter."

"Terre!" Kim began to struggle to hold off the hissing Katel. "Terre run!"

"Kim! Damon put me down now!"

"MY Queen it is not safe for you! The Hunter will kill you!"

"Damon I order you as your Queen to PUT ME THE HELL DOWN!" Terre roared at him and he immediately dropped her to the floor. Kim kicked Katel in the gut and rant to Terre. "Kim! Oh Kim I thought you were dead." Terre rant to Kim. But Kim shied away from her. "What?"

"Y your eyes! They are black!"

"Please, I am still me. I swear I am! Please don't be afraid of me. Please!" Terre dropped to the floor and Kim wrapped her arms around her.

"I'm not afraid of you Terre." Kim held Terre as she rocked back and forth, crying her eyes out.

"They said you were dead. They tried to make me have sex with a warrior and I wouldn't and they said you were dead and."

"Shhhhhhh Terre. It's ok now. I'm here and nothing bad is going to happen." Km looked over her shoulder at Katel, who had a spear raised. "Even if I have to die to keep you safe."

"Get away from her." Katel hissed and readied his spear.

"You will have to go through me first!" Kim stood over Terre and held her arms out. Meanwhile Damon was huddled on the floor, hurt that his Queen had raised her voice at him so badly. It hurt him…

"She didn't do anything. She isn't pregnant."

"You don't know that!" Katel hissed.

"I didn't." Terre added, her hands on Kim's shoulders.

"But that hard meat." He pointed at Damon on the floor and Terre spoke up.

"That's Damon. He is my friend. He saved me from another Warrior who tried to fertilise me. He will not do any of you any harm. Right D?" Damon nodded to her weakly, still crushed. All he ever did was his best for her and she ended up yelling at him for it.

"I will do anything you ask of me my Queen." He whimpered.

"See. He said he will do as I ask." Kim and Katel looked gone out at her. "Oh, sorry. I can understand him. I can talk to him too but I have this collar on that lest me speak normally."

"I always said you were a bitch." Kim chuckled.

"Ouch." Terre chuckled and wiped her eyes.

"And you dress like a whore." Kim took Terre's hands and looked over her shredded clothes. "How did you end up dressed like that?"

"…when he attacked me…he ripped at my clothes…"

"Oh. You poor thing." Km pulled her into a close hug again and rubbed her back. Kim looked over her shoulder and looked at the creature. And she remembered it… "Is that D?"

"Yeah. Damon. He saved me so many times in that place. OH MY GOD! We have to get out of here!"

"Why?"

"Snide said this place was going to blow up. We have to leave!"

"…Katel…can we take her with us?" Katel turned his back to them and hisses. His lower mandibles flared and his fists clenched. Kim left Terre after brushing her dark bangs out her face and turned to Katel. She placed her hands on his back. "Please Katel."

"We are leaving."

"I will not leave without her."

"And I'm not leaving without Damon! He may not be anything to you, but he means so much to me."

"My Queen…" He meant so much to her. His spirits lifted and so did his body, onto his two feet. He walked over to Terre and nuzzled her neck. She smiled and stroked his large forehead.

Katel turned to look Kim in her emerald eyes.

"Do not ask me for anything else if I take them off the planet…for now."

"Thank you. Hurry!" she called to them and Damon scooped Terre into his arms. Katel threw Kim over his shoulder and Katel ran side by side with Damon, both scowling at each other. There would be no love loss between these two that was for sure.

They got to the ship and Katel put Kim in the ship. Damon put Terre next to her and he looked to Katel. Before Katel let Damon on, he put his clawed hand on Damon's chest.

"If you or your Queen hurt My Mate…I will have both your heads on my trophy wall."

"And if you come close to harming my Queen. I will snap your mandibles from your face and gouge your eyes out with them. then I will kill you with my bare claws."

They both snarled at each other as the ship lifted off, illuminated by the large explosion on the ground. They escaped with the nick of time and still had time to breath easy. One thing was for sure, Katel wouldn't take his eyes off the hard meat….and Damon wouldn't take his eyes off the Hunter. But Terre and Kim? They would have to watch their 'others' and make sure that no one started a fight.

The ship left the orbit and earth. And none of them would return for a very, very long time…

AN: I am sorry that I haven't been updating as much as I used to, but I have been working with other materials and other story ideas. Hope you liked this chapter and please review.

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Draguna