After having made my way to the surface, It was dark out as the suns were still being blotted out by the Hive's fleet. Still, I had night vision so it was no hindrance at all. As I began running, I noticed sothing weird. There was no banging behind from the large form of the queen guard.
Turning around to see if she was just remaining in place, I was surprised when she was in fact right behind . A sense of unease ran down my back at the sight and I picked up the pace.
Still, The queen guards stayed behind like a tail. While I don't have a problem with her following , it was the way she moved. Sothing that big should not be able to cover that distance that quickly without making a noise.
Another thing that tickled my brain the wrong way was how she was actually moving. I could see that she was moving from point A to point B, But the way she was traversing the distance left dizzy as it was not 'normal.' It felt wrong against my idea of traversal.
Taking a small break where I closed my eyes, avoiding the sight of the queen's guard, I felt slightly better and decided for the rest of my run to just avoid any glances in its direction.
I lost ti while running. At one point even Sapphire joined in deciding her nap-naps can wait for a little bit. I tried to race her to boast about my new top speed, But the chonkinator's strength grows with my own and her muscles had so serious strength at this point. My top sprint was a pleasant jog to her.
An indeterminable amount of ti later, I had finished my run and was now resting against a spire of the teleport array. After giving the chonk so pats as a thanks for keeping company, she licked my face before dissipating back into the Mindspace.
Sothing about when Sapphire enters and leaves my Mindspace is, that when she does so, it requires a minute amount of Psionic energy. So little that it replaces itself in an instant, but that little bit is enough to activate a Psionic condition for a device that runs on Psionic energy. For example, the teleport array I was currently standing on.
Before the queens guard even had a fraction of a second to counteract the Psionic energy. With just Apollo alone in the teleport array, he was already gone as very little energy was needed for his body.
The queen's guard suddenly felt a terror it did not know it was even capable of and forcefully integrated itself with the Psionic energy of the teleport, bending it to its will, until it knew where its mate had gone.
Upon realising where his landing would be, the guard's angst disappeared as it went on guard next to the array, waiting for its mate to return.
My hearing was suddenly muffled and my surroundings were cold and dark. I had a sense of weightlessness and could not breathe. I was underwater. Looking around, I felt a sense of dread as I could not see a thing beyond the array.
Swimming to the edge, I looked down past its edge and. 'NOPE!' I thought to myself as I began to make myself up to the surface hastily, I was glad my lungs were enhanced and couldn't get damaged by a rapid ascent because fuck deep water.
As I ascended, the beautiful thing called light began to beco more prevalent in the water around and I could begin to see my surroundings. In almost all directions I looked, except down, because nope, there was nothing but open ocean.
Continuing my ascent, I suddenly felt a pulse vibrate through my entire body and out the other side. 'That was either sonar or echolocation. Either way, I don't want to find out whatever made that noise.' I thought to myself. Though it was too late.
Directly in the direction of the origin of the pulse, I saw a silhouette creeping slowly forward at a leisurely pace. Its leisurely pace though was incredibly fast and as its features ca into view I was stunned.
The beast was at least forty ters long and eighteen ters tall. Its body was green with a thick looking skin and was fusiform. It undulated back and forth in a way that emphasised its powerful fra. It had three dorsal fins with smaller spikes all the way across its spine and rough bumps along its gills. It had lines running vertically across its body like a camouflage. Towards the front of its body it had two arm like fins that it kept underneath itself as it approached, seemingly not needing their purpose for now.
As the beast grew closer, I could tell it was heading straight for . Its green eyes locked onto , its maw open with its sharp white teeth all bigger than my body on display, seeming being held together by its buccal flaps.
I was out of my elent in the water, but I could still fight. Since I was surrounded by liquid, that would be my best form of attack, focusing up, I began to tap into my Cryokinesis and began freezing the water around into large ice spikes. All at least the sa height as myself.
They were much easier to control when there was no gravity elent at play and they all floated in the water on their own. As the beast continued its advance, seemingly unimpressed by the ice suddenly manifesting itself, I seed to have forgotten sothing due to my distress of the deep water.
How I arrived here.
Once the creature was roughly ten ters away, I suddenly felt a familiar feeling. A Hive link. As soon as I connected I heard a beautiful belle accent. "Apollo! It is you! I thought I was having a phantom echolocation!"
I stopped channelling my energy into the ice around , which quickly lted back into the water as I looked towards the large being before . "I recognise your voice..." I thought for a mont after I relayed that and suddenly it dawned on .
"You are one of the voices I hear when I mate with Jewel. Are you a pri?" The creature did not reply right away as it slowly swam towards , pushing its snout against my whole body as it began to push backwards.
Instinctively, because I thought it was a hive mber, I began giving it pats, thought with such a large body and its extrely rough skin, I was not sure if it felt anything. That was until It replied.
"*sigh* Your touch, It is even better than it feels through the link my love. Though that being said, what are you doing here, my everything? You can't be here for , I would have known." The pri asked as it began taking to the surface, having received my displeasure of the depths below.
After breaching the surface, I took a deep breath of relief before clamouring up onto the top of the Pris head and lying down. "One second love, I did not know I was afraid of deep water. Has all sorts of ssed up at the mont."
The pri made no fuss as it continued to slowly swim. She would have swam to a nearby island, but this planet is currently fully subrged. Listening to the water being swept away by the pri's large body was rather comforting in a way and I gained my composure quickly.
Sitting up, I looked ahead and said. "Sorry about that. The truth is, I have no idea how I got here. I was just finished with a run, I had just finished treating my Psionic decay as you know and had a bunch of energy. I was resting on the array and suddenly it just activated. The next thing I know, a minute later I was subrged in the array deep below and then t you."
"Interesting, you must have done sothing to activate the array. It's a good thing I was here, as apart from microbes down by the volcanic vents, I am the only living thing on this planet." The pri said. Discover more stories at My Virtual Library Empire
"You are?" I asked as I looked over the side of the pri's face to look into her eye. "Yes Apollo, With Jewel currently indisposed, us pris are taking a great deal of burden upon ourselves. Usually I would just be looking after my own fleets that are currently scavenging the other 40 water planets in this system, but I am now also commanding another 260,000 Hive ships worth of bio forms, so I am 'taking it easy' as you would say my love, swimming around carelessly. For if I get into a fight and succumb to my instincts, I might lose grip and that would be bad."
I nodded my head, impressed by the pri I was sitting on, she seed smart and collected, and not hyper like a lot of the hive was around . 'Might be because she is not of the bug variety?' I thought before I asked. "Oh, what is your number by the way? I am curious."
The pri felt happy that her mate wished to know her on a more intimate level, She would keep her head and wait patiently for a na and not outright ask, so she replied.
"I am pri 6."
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