Chapter 4 Welcome Home
"Is something wrong brother?" Elena asked. Talmist look up and sighed "Now is not the time, your right we need to get back to the hive". Elena nudge Talmist and said "It's ok brother, whatever the humans did to you, we will not hate you for it, now come mother is waiting for us" Elena said running sighed and ran after Elena. He just hoped that the human would understand. He hoped that some way he could get her into the hive. He knew it wasn't going to be easy. But his freedom was because of her, he had to at least try. But Talmist could not ignore the call of the hive; he never felt it before…Soon he was outside and Elena was waiting for him. New smells fell…new everything came to his senses. "The outside is such a better place than there, but the hive is even more welcoming" Elena said. Just then something jumped to the side of Talmist. He jumped from where he was looked around. "Speedy, stop that" Elena look at Elena "Speedy?" he asked. "That would be me!" a smaller xenomorph said. "Speedy isn't her real name, she just wants to be called that, she is the wired one" Elena said. Speedy ran off, Talmist couldn't understand Speedy."Come on, Talmist we need to meet mother next, we can meet the rest of the hive after that" Elena said getting ready to run. Talmist get ready run to but he said "I never used my legs like this before." Elena nodded and took off, Talmist did the felling was so great for Talmist; he could feel his legs becoming stronger by the minute.
Then he saw Elena speeding up. Was she testing how fast he could go? Shaking his head he increased speed to keep up with Elena. Then she started to slow down, and stop completely. Talmist slide to a stop, and asked Elena "Why did we stop?" Elena growled playfully and walked slowly a hole. "This is the only way to get to the hive now, the humans closed off the main entrance with a landslide, it was the same time they took your egg" Elena sighed and went on "It all started with a strange blue mist, all of us couldn't move, I was carrying your egg to a host when the mist crept in… I watched them take your egg, I made a promise to mother I would find you and I did, come". She slipped into the hole and Talmist hole to the hive was long, and just wide enough for a xenomorph to past through. Then Talmist came out on the other side, he looked around him, it looked like the blurry visions without the he could smell his brothers and sisters all around him. He could see Elena walking ahead, Talmist ran to catch up to her.
"Talmist, Mother will not be mad at you, she will not be disappointed with you, she understands what happen, she is only mad at the humans for taking you in the first place" Elena said as they walked through the tunnels. Then she stopped, Talmist look couldn't see what's was at the other end. "Mother waits for you, she wants to meet you alone" Elena said looking at Talmist. He nodded and started walking. As he came closer he could start making out what was at the end. He ran the rest of the way there, when he got to the end, he stopped. In front of him was his mother, she had a crest that spread out, and she had to be ten times bigger that he was. She also had an ovipositor attached to her "Oh child, there you are" she said with a soft voice. Talmist walked closer to her, she brought her head down to so that she was level to Talmist. "Mother, I felt you, I would have…" But he was stopped by Mother "Don't worry about that child, yes I did call out to you, but only because I wanted you to know that we were there, I am sorry I couldn't wake you up with my voice when you first woke-up, you were too far away to be reach," she said pulling back her head. Talmist looked up at his Mother, then to her egg sack. He looked around some more and saw eggs lying all around the room. "These are all of your brothers and sister, they are still young" Mother sighed and went on "But sadly I only have 4 fully grown children, including you." Just then both of them heard Elena saying "Speedy wait! Mother wants to talk with him alone". Speedy came running but stopped after she heard what Elena had said. Backing up Speedy said "I am sorry Mother, I didn't know". "It's ok child, why don't the other two come in as well" Mother said. Elena walked in, then a xenomorph that looked like Mother but smaller walked in. "Talmist, meet your oldest sister Nina, she will take my place after I am gone" Mother said. Nina walked up to Talmist and sniffed him, and said "Welcome home, brother"
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