{Just a question for all those who are following this story: Would you rather me continue to post a chapter as they get edited? Or would a once a week as a repeated day/time be something better? My own Queen thought that it might be a good idea that so everyone has something to look forward to during the week. let me know what you think! }

Chapter 8: Family

"So before you freak out, everyone is alright."

"Amuuuunnnn!" Emilia hissed through her mental link. Amun had reached out to her on the way home knowing that she would know of the accident sooner rather than later. So he thought it would be best to hear it from him rather than his daughters. The troop was nearly home after the long walk back from the farm. Amun had to drop off the four friend near their vehicles because it would be dawn soon. They also could not be near the hive when the face-huggers emerged from their eggs because Amun was not sure that they could be controlled fully.

"Umm...I brought you cows!" He joked, attempting to change the subject. He felt a flush of warmth invade his mind. He realized it was his queen searching through his thoughts.

"Thea...what happened to Thea?"

"Mommy! Daddy got us cows! We will have sisters soon!" Replied the excited little runner. She began to crawl around Amun's large body with glee. It was when she started crawled along his tail that he had a tough time, it tickled something fierce and threw him off balance. It nearly caused him to drop the three sleeping cows that were still in his arms.

"Thea, my daughter! Are you alright?" Emilia asked nervously.

"I got shot!" She quickly replied, not thinking of what she had done.

"O crap." Amun thought to himself. "Not good."

"WHAT! AMUN!?" Amun's mind was impacted with so much anger and fear it made him trip as he walked, running into a tree that was nearby.

"Emilia, careful! Please, that kind of hurt. And again, she is alright so please don't fret."

"Fret! My daughter has been shoot and I am stuck here in this cave. Don't tell me to be calm!" Her rage flooded into all three of their minds and none of them liked it. Amun was truly considering waiting until she had calmed down before fully returning to the cave.

"Emilia, you need to stop. You are mentally hurting us." The comment came with a frozen silence that lasted quite a while. It was one that Amun hopped was due to the enraged queen attempting to subdue her rage, now knowing that it was hurting her family. "Emilia, I am sorry that it happened, I meant in no way to harm our daughters. It was an accident."

"I know." Her voice was now calm and understand. "I just...I fear for all of you while I am stuck here. I hate not being there with you." She replied. The comment made him think for a moment as he walked.

"Emilia...how many eggs do you have in the cave?" He asked.

"Twenty eight, just like we agreed. Why?" He felt her curiosity to his question which he satisfied with an explanation.

"If we have all the eggs we now need, you no longer need to stay attached to your egg sack yes?" There was another silence that lasted a bit before a feeling of embarrassment seeped through their mental link. Amun then felt a small bit of amusement from Thea.

"Mommy can come off the wall now?" Thea asked from atop his crown.

"Yes she can Thea, she was just being lazy." Amun made sure Emilia could hear his remark.

"I will hit you...so hard Amun." Emilia playfully responded.

"Yea? It may be time for a rematch I think. Just no cheating this time."

"Cheating? If I remember right, you are the one that flipped us over with your spikes."

"Mmm...Good times." As the three Xeno's approached the front entrance of the cave they called home, they were delighted to see Emilia standing outside, stretching her legs to her full height. She had heard the king approaching and turned to face them just as they came into the small clearing near the entrance. Once his gaze was captured by her, she quickly came to mean them all.

"Hello my Que-" His greeting was cut short as Emilia pressed herself into his body, nuzzling her head onto his shoulder and wrapping her one arm around him. She did not even notice the three cows that were still in his arms. "I'm glad to see you too. Happy to be out and about I take it?"

"You have no idea how go it feels to hold you like this again." As she finished her comment, Bobby and Thea both climbed from his back onto their mothers crown and proceeded to nuzzle her where ever they could. "Ha ha and I missed my daughters too." She said as she let Amun go and reached her only arm up to softly pluck Thea from her head. "You promise you are alright?"

"I promise mommy, it didn't hurt and look, big sister patched me up!" Thea squirmed within Emilia's hand to show her the resin band aid that had covered the wound. She nearly caused Emilia to drop her with all her moving.

"I see that, I'm glad that your sister was there for you." She looked back to Amun with his arm full of still sleeping cows. "Why don't you put those inside. I want to stay out here for a while." Amun nodded and made his way to the cave. As he ducked his head to enter the stone tunnel he heard Emilia from behind him. "Amun...thank you."

"You are welcome my Queen." He replied before entering fully into the mouth of the cave. Once inside, it was a rather large pain attempting to move three unconscious cows through the tunnel as well as himself. He ended up placing them on the ground and rolling them inside. Once all three were inside the main room, he took each one and placed them near and egg and waited. As he watched he could mentally feel the face-huggers begin to wake and stir, knowing there was a potential host nearby.

As the peddles of the eggs opened on one, then another of the eggs, Amun reached out with his mind to guide the huggers to their targets. However, as what happened with the very first face-hugger, Amun was not able to connect very much with them before they emerged and lunged strait at the sleeping cow.

"Strait to the point with these little guys. O well, do your jobs well little ones." He watched as the third face-hugger settled its long fingers onto the flesh of its victim, then turned to make his way outside. When he emerged from the cave he was surprised to find himself alone. He reached out with his mind to find all three of them chasing one another just a bit away. Amun decided to take this time to relax a little, he turned and began to make his way towards the river.

After the short walk he was pleased to see that the area was abandoned so he made his way to the water. Once in the center of its powerful current, he laid his large body down into its cool, crisp water. Amun let out a long sign and let the cold water drop his body temperature. There was no breeze so the sun was warming his back and crown perfectly, giving him just enough heat that he was not uncomfortable.

There he stayed, a King enjoying the water and the sun to the fullest and at that moment everything was good. He fell into their sleep like state and rested there for quite the while before he felt something approach the river, he felt no threat from it as it laid beside him and a tail drape over his own. Amun turned his large head to see Emilia beside him with Bobby and Thea on her back, both were curling up to take a nap.

"Thank you Amun, you did good." She praised him just as he felt her mind slip into her nap. Amun let out another long sigh of happiness. He would stay awake and watch over his new family, one that he would do anything to protect. One that he would make sure stayed together.

Amun was glad that he had found some peace and quiet the few days before when he could. He watched as Thea was being chased by one of her new sisters, another runner who they had named Violet. Bobby was playing with her new sisters as well, two more drones named Rowena and Scarlett. They were chasing Bobby along the stone roof, attempting to keep up with their more agile sister, and not doing very well. Amun knew that Bobby was teaching them more than anything. Something shocked him when he suddenly felt Thea and Violet rocket up his leg and begin to case one another over top of his exoskeleton. It tickled something fierce.

"Come you two, off your Father." Emilia told them, attempting to help her King. They proved to be too fast for their mother, darting away from her grasp time and time again.

"But we need more room to run, Mommy can we go outside?" Amun was surprised when Emilia did not responded with a yes instantaneously.

"I...don't know, will you all listen and behave? I don't want anyone running off." She explained.

"We won't, we promise." Both Thea and Violet responded in unison. There was another hesitation from Emilia to say yes so Amun decided to step in.

"I've got this...Kid-lets assemble! Super Queen puppy dog eye attack number 2!" In a flash, all five of the smaller Xenomorph's lined up in front of the King, then turned to face Emilia.

"What on earth?" Emilia said in confusion. She watched and Amun reached down and scooped up all five of his daughters within his arms. He lifted them up, their tails dangling down towards the ground and gently flicking back and forth. They all stared at their Queen in front of them with their little hands draped over Amun's arm.

"Pleeeeeeeease Mommy?" The daughters said at the same time and melted Emilia's heart immediately.

"O my god Amun! That is so not fair, how can I say no to that?" She said as she walked up to her daughters and petted them on the heads with her smaller set of arms. "Ok, let's go play." Amun could not keep hold of all five of the Xeno's and they all wiggled them selves loose and shot strait for the tunnel of the cave. "Remember, if you see the four humans, they might be our friends!" She shot at them before they got too far. She let out a sigh as noticed that Bobby had slowed down to leave last.

"I'll watch them Mother." Bobby said before making her way out after her sister.

"Why not take them to the lake Bobby? We will meet you there soon." Emilia told their first born as she disappeared.

Emilia turned to face Amun and purred softly. She approached him and placed her one hand on the side of his crown, pulling his lips to hers. They held the kiss for a few moments before pulling away. They did not kiss much, it was not as easy as they had thought because of the different muscle structure of their faces. They could bare their teeth easily enough, but puckering their lips together to create a soft kiss was another thing entirely. It was still nice every once in a while and they both enjoyed it.

"You know...the kids are outside playing..." Amun tilted his head in confusion. But it was quickly explained when a cloud of purple started to form around her. She began to purr softly as her tail rubbed against his back. Amun put his own tail around her slender waist and squeezed gently while his hand reached under her crown. His large claws softly looking from the royal jelly gland that was hidden from view.

As he found it, he felt Emilia's hand searching for his own gland before massaging it with her fingers. They both enjoyed the feeling that came with producing the jelly, it reminded Amun of getting a massage back when he was human. One of the few memories that had come back to him.

As they locked gazes with one another, they both saw the jelly begin to flow from their mouths. Emilia extended her second tongue and Amun followed suit. He then took hers easily within his and then brought her in close to lock lips. The wave of pleasure that came after had both of them huffing in excitement.

The two had discovered that the King's royal jelly main function was to fertilize the Queen, but it also had a rather interesting effect when mixed with the jelly of the queen. It was the most intense feeling of arousal that they had felt in their new lives as Xeno's. They both stayed still and enjoyed the feeling of one another as wave after wave of passion swept their bodies. Eventually they both pulled away from one another.

"You know...the kids are outside playing." He repeated, Emilia giggled as she pulled the large King to the ground in her embrace.

Emilia and Amun emerged from the tree line by the lake a few hours later and were happy to see all five of their daughters playing in the water together. Chasing one another back and forth both in and out of the gray surface of water. The King and Queen gave one another a quick glance before calmly walking out into the lake, letting its liquid wrap and cool their bodies after their rather heated evening.

They two were not far into the water before their small ones turned and made their way towards them with speed. Amun watched as they all raced each other to see who would make it first. He stopped in his tracks and waited, knowing what would happen when they got to him. He mentally reached out and was not surprised to find Bobby in the lead, moving at tremendous speed. Amun bent over low to the water so that his back was exposed.

"What are you doing Amun?" Emilia asked in confusion, never seeing him act this way before.

"Just wait." Was all he told her, she would not have to wait long to see what he was up to. For a moment later Bobby came rocketing out of the surface of the water towards Amun. She landed on his back and quickly turned around to face the others who all followed Bobby onto their fathers back. Each one of them sitting in a certain spot on his back. Amun let loose a playful roar and then snapped open his hidden spikes which sent all five of his daughters soaring into the air above the water. Emilia watched as all of her daughters flew through the air, happy as could be. She heard each one of them giggling and laughing.

"My god...you made a alien catapult...why am I not surprised." She told him as he stood back up to join her.

"It was Bobby's idea and I know they all get a kick out of it. Plus it is kind of fun on my end." Amun said as he moved deeper into the water to cool off. Emilia joined him as he slowly snaked his way through the chilly mountain water. Their dark heads above the surface collecting heat so they did not get too cold. As they enjoyed the air, water and their daughters, Amun also felt a bit of concern from his Queen.

"What is it my Queen?" She slowed down beside him, surprised that he had felt her feelings. She must have thought they were too small to be noticed. She must still not know that Amun was rather good and feeling her emotions however small they may be.

"Will you go back to the cattle farm again soon? I...I would like that." She almost whispered as she talked to him. Out of embarrassment or fear he could not tell, there may have been a bit of both mix in her question. He was pretty sure he knew why she had asked thought.

"You really like the thought of having a bunch of young ones don't you?" The comment stopped her in place. Amun circled back to her in the water to meet her face to face. "Was it something I said?" A wave of sadness tricked into his mind. "My Queen?"

"I...yes, there is something that has been pulling at my mind ever since we escaped the labs. I do not know if it is the Xenomorph side of my mind or the human but...great joy comes as I think of having as many daughters as I can. You have no idea how hard it was to agree to only have thirty where I would love hundreds. I cannot explain it. When my daughters are happy, it...it flows into my mind, giving me joy. It's addictive, almost like a drug and I would not say no to more." Amun was a bit shocked, she had done well in hiding this from him. He also found it surprising because he did not receive the same effect from his daughters. Where as he could feel their emotions and happiness, but nothing more happened to his mind. Perhaps it was only written into the Queen's biology.

"I...I did not know that this was happening." He nuzzled her face with his. "I will go back tonight my queen and I promise that none of our daughters will come to harm."

"I would like to come with you if...if that would be alright." Amun was a bit taken back by the request, but realized that she just wanted to help.

"I think it would be better if you stayed to watch this new lot, they tend to need guidance to stay out of trouble. I will take Bobby and Thea, they know the drill from last time so it should make things smoother." He mentally felt something behind him attempting to sneak up on him within the water. "Plus..." He shot his tail out behind him and snatch Violet while she was still under the water. "This one likes to play too much." Still wrapped in his tail, he brought his daughter out of the water and over his head so he could tilt his head and look up at her.

"He he. Daddy!" Was all she said as she reached her arms down towards him, wanting to be let down upon him. Amun lowered the runner onto his crown where she happily laid down on its warm surface. Amun noticed the large sigh that came from his queen.

"You are right, they do need constant supervision don't they. As long as you make sure no one else gets hurt." Amun swam close and pulled her into his arms.

"I promise my Queen."