The hivemind is conquering for me? - Chapter 308

Chapter 308: The Other Form
I opened my eyes and blinked groggily. ‘MMh, that was a good nap. First time I have slept without pain all week. I went to close my eyes again, to enjoy the sensation, but then it hit me.

Snapping my eyes wide open, I smiled jubilantly. ‘Hey, it doesn’t hurt!’ Doing a quick check of my body while still inside of the tank, I nodded in approval before I unhooked myself from the leech tubes and surfaced.

Unclasping the face hugger, I smiled towards the only bio-form in the room and said. “Leave it to my mate to make me feel better instantly, could you be any more perfect?” I said, causing the two meter tall warrior to begin a tappy dance due to its excitement.

As I got out of the tank, I walked over to the Warrior, who’s tappies got faster as I did so, and proceeded to give it head pats, to which it went absolutely ballistic with the tappies and started puncturing the floor with its pointed legs.

“Hey gorgeous, easy, eaaaasy!” I said as I began stroking it lovingly. The Warriors tappies went away and it began to lean into my head pats, loving the intimate contact with its mate.

As I continued to stroke its head, enjoying the feeling of its hard exo-plate as I had missed it, I requested. “Cutie, can you take me to a bio-form that can talk? I will give you kisses for a job well done.”

The warrior opened its maw to reveal its sharp teeth as it stayed in place. “Oh, so it’s like that huh? Fine, payment up front.” I said with a smile and proceeded to kiss the warrior on its sharp teeth and once I started, I did not stop for a minute and began a kissing frenzy all over the warrior’s pentagonal head.

After I gave payment, the warrior’s legs became a little weak as it began to wobble back and forth, overstimulated from feeling too much love; more than its simpler biology could handle. While it recovered, I put on my clothes and picked up the stick, placed it in my jacket pocket, and followed the warrior who had managed to recover herself in that time.

As we made our way to the surface, the warrior was flexing her status of helping its mate as it shrieked at any other bio-form we came across. I smiled at its antics and let it do its thing and before long, we were at the surface.

Not too far from the hole I emerged from, I spotted Orchid who’s back was towards me, looking towards something hidden behind a larger Freethinker’s form. Managing to sneak up on Orchid, I wrap my arms around her waist and kiss her neck before asking. “So, what are we watching?”

I then turned to answer my own question and the smile disappeared from my face. Jewel was hovering above Keyla whose whole body was twitching violently, like she was about to be possessed.

Orchid was surprised by Apollo as she was so engrossed watching Jewel for the past hour that she did not realise he was done. Being back with the hive, Orchid was naturally linked up with those nearby, to which her feeling of surprise spread, even to Jewel and Keyla, who was connected to Jewel via a wisp of Psionic energy.

Keyla looked up from her agony and smiled as her love looked better. “Apo-”

*PFFFT*

Where Keyla had just been, a red bloody mist had now taken its place as her entire body seemed to explode. I became as silent as space as I processed what I just witnessed. I felt a series of emotions pass through my body, but I suppressed them momentarily as I was obviously out of the loop about something.

Still looking in the direction of what used to be Keyla, I noticed an odd phenomena. The red mist, known formerly as my Keyla, was not falling to the floor as one would expect from viscera and blood.

No, some of it began to rise while some of it began to move linearly and the more the mist moved, the more I noticed a silhouette taking form. I watched in awe as the silhouette became bigger and bigger, surpassing the height of most Freethinkers by at least two meters before it stopped and.

*Splat*

Suddenly, a torrent of blood engulfed the silhouette before it flew off in all directions, leaving behind the once silhouette, now fully bodied. Before I could even get a good look at the being in front of me, It let out a high pitched reverberating roar that rolled in its throat making my blood chill.

….

‘ I am free (we are free.)’ The creature thought as it roared with ecstasy. It then began smelling the air, its eyes already becoming bloodshot with the desire to kill. The beast grunted with disdain upon realising it was completely surrounded by its genetic kin, this would not do.

It was then it smelt something divine, something so morbidly delicious that it began pelting in its direction before it even registered what It was. Just as the being was about to run its claws across the beings neck, letting all that life juice pour out in an orgasmic rush, It paused.

‘That is mate. ( He is ours.) (We should devour him!) (Keep him with us.) (Can’t hurt Apollo.) (Too much pain.) (So pretty) ( SO IS HIS BLOOD!)’ Like an echo, one voice followed the other in quick succession.

The creature got onto its mismatched claws and hunched down so its face and maw could be at eye level with this being that conflicted its existence. It noticed the fragile blood sac that it knew to be its mate held no fear for it. The mate only had a confused look on his face as he said. “Keyla?”

…

Looking up at what I assumed to be Keyla, I was stunned by what I was seeing. A large grey creature, covered in blood red spikes was looming over me. It was at least seven meters tall with sharp claws for feet and powerful, thick, digitigrade legs. Its arms were almost as long as its body, packed to the brim with powerful muscles and ended with mismatched claws, three on its right hand and five on its left, the size of my legs. On its lower back, A tail emerged and seemed to trail on the floor behind it, a large mace-like appendage at its end that could turn any human into meat paste easily.

The creatures maw was dripping with a perpetual torrent of blood that stained its beyond lethally sharp teeth. The creature also had blood red eyes, a flat pentagonal head and horns coming off each side. The creature’s entire body was dripping with a red substance that looked like blood, but considering once it touches the ground it disappeared instead of creating a pool, I assumed it was Psionic energy that looked like blood.

The creature roared into my face once more, making my blood run cold again. ‘Possible Psionic ability.’ I theorised before in a low guttural voice you would expect from a creature such as this.

“Apollo.” It said, causing me to reply. “Keyla? Is that you?” The creature then embedded its claw into the ground next to me and pulled its face, which had an overwhelming smell of blood, directly in front of me.

“It is me, and the others. We are all in control of the same vessel. It is so liberating! WE NEED BLOOD!” She roared and backed away, roaring into the air once more. I had like a million questions, so I started with the most obvious ones.

“Keyla, what has happened to you? This is not a hive-form I know of. And what ‘others’ are you talking about?” Keyla did not seem to listen. She was looking around frantically for something she could not find.

“Allow me to explain, my mate.” Jewel said after she finished examining the Psionic marvel in front of her. “Keyla for reasons I will get to in a moment, merged with a Psionic being known as a Bloodfiend many years ago. The Bloodfiend has been taking all of the mutations the Bio-cult has given to her and absorbing them as its own, what you see before you is a Psionic being, with the sole existence to kill and spill the blood of its victims.”

“Blood!” The creature screamed before it went silent as Jewel stared at it with her non existent eyes. As I gazed at the creature, I was awestruck after learning what Keyla was. “Ok, I will admit, that is kind of awesome. No offence hun, but it puts some of your bio forms to shame with its scary factor.”

Jewel turned to me with shock, like her whole world had fallen apart hearing that. She would have time to rectify that statement later, but for now she continued to listen to Apollo. “Still though, what were those others that Keyla mentioned?”

“The previous hosts of the Bloodfiend. Now enough questions for now. Keyla and whoever else inside that cacophony, are you feeling emboldened by your form? Or would you like me to tell Apollo what you have been keeping from him?”

Keyla and the so-called other’s growled gutturally at Jewel before immediately regretting it as they hunkered over to look smaller. Its large form then crawled over to Apollo once more and stared at him with its blood red eye before it said.

“Apollo. I am a serial killer.”