Aliens: My Alien, Daeus

Chapter Twenty-One

Edited: 5-21-24

Void's POV

My body was shaking through the whole meeting. I hated how the Honeycombs standing on the stage were so menacing and large. They acted like they hated Daeus and it pained me as I could almost feel Daeus' worry and panic. His emotions had been affecting me more the longer I stayed with him and right now his were about 30% of my emotions and it hurt on the inside just to stay standing at his feet. I was being stared at by more than just one set of eyes and I knew the news coming from the leader's wasn't good.

When all of a sudden, Daeus' mood went from about a 50% okay to completely not okay, it was like I couldn't breath anymore. I removed my wings from around me and stared up at my alien, trying to seek comfort from him, but he wasn't paying attention and my tail started twitch uncomfortably as an unfamiliar sensation welled at the tip of the stinger.

"The Taurikie Test does not need to be ran! My bond has proven what he needs to!" Daeus' panic and anger that disrupted his voice really freightened me. "You said none of this before, not even in consideration. He's not ready for the test! He's been through too much to be separated right now!"

Out of nowhere, hands that weren't familiar were grabbing me, pulling me away from Daeus as he tried to keep ahold of me. My wings struggled to flap as panic consumed me. The blue/purple hands that grabbed me held tight to my body and snatched my wings, harshly pulling them together and still. The hold hurt and I wanted to cry out, I wanted to do anything to get away, but I couldn't! This couldn't be happening! I didn't even know what was happening!

Out of nowhere, my tail arched forward and struck the Honeycomb in the shoulder. The sleeve prevented the stinger from peircing his skin, but he yelled out in shock and nearly dropped me, but somehow he still held onto me, holding my wings even tighter to my body as he squeeze me to him. I struggled to free myself, struggled to get back to Daeus, but it was no use. With an unbearable pain in my stinger from the toxin not being able to release, I squirmed harder in the hold of the Honeycomb, desparate to be put down. This was not okay! This was completely not okay! I wasn't something that could just be picked up by anybody!

I needed Daeus. I needed my alien, but as the Honeycomb went through two large doors, my view of my Honeycomb vanished and fear started to freeze my limbs. There was nothing in here to keep me safe. There was nothing in here to save me from whatever these Honeycomb wanted to do.

I was dropped on the floor and the sleeve over my stinger was ripped off. Before I could even stand up, the doors were slamming shut and a loud click let me know that they were locked. The room I was in was dark and cold with the only light coming from the top of the wall where a small two-way mirror stared back at me. I couldn't see through it, but I knew someone was watching me.

With unfamiliar instincts running on high, I darted around the room, trying to find an escape. The only thing on my mind was getting back to Daeus. My wings flapped in panic, but were useless to get me off the ground considering how bad I was panicking. Hitting something hard, yet soft at the same time, my tail struck the material before I could even register what was happening.

Pulling my stinger out of the object, I could see the bright golden liquid oozing from the small hole my stinger had created. The liquid sizzled softly, melting at the material of whatever I had struck. Lost from my panic at the sight of the toxin I'd always known was there, but have never seen, I fell back and sat down. Soft cries emitted from my mouth without me knowing and once my mind focused on me, I could feel the tears running down my cheeks.

I needed Daeus to function properly, it was obvious. He was my safety, he was my home. Whoever had taken me had taken me away from him and it hurt. I couldn't form proper thoughts and the frustration and fear that consumed me was animalistic.

All of a sudden, bright lights flared from overhead and I squinted in the light. All around me, large fake boulders decorated the edge of an otherwise bare, square room. The only side without the weirdly textured boulders had two screens. Fearful of what the screens meant, I stayed where I was and wrapped my tail around my feet, watching the screens with fearful anticipation.

"Hello . . ." A monotone voice blared from the screens as they suddenly came alive with a bunch of different flashing images. The images moved so rapidly I couldn't even tell what they were supposed to be.

"Welcome to the Taurikie Test, a test developed to test the strength and truth behind any given bond." The voice prattled on, sounding ominous. I didn't understand a word it was saying, but the neutral tone of the voice helped soothe my nerves, if only a little. If I was in trouble, Daeus would be coming to save me so I must have been in an okay situation - even though I was separated from him. Right?

When the voice stopped talking, the screens stopped flashing. On one of the screens was a picture of Daeus, but on the other was a picture of an Earth city. The second picture startled me and I stared at it for a moment. Was I supposed to choose a picture? Earth had never been my home, this planet was my home - with Daeus. Touching the picture of my alien, the screens started flashing again, yet this time while one pulled another picture of Daeus, the second one went black and the sound of the screen moving made me jump towards Daeus' picture again. I didn't know what was going on, but I didn't like it. I wanted out of here.

Through the opening that was once a screen, something very skinny and very long slithered from the hole. It had no eyes, no nose, no ears, no limbs, just a body, a pointed tail and a very large mouth. Its head turned to me and it opened its jaws impossibly wide. The fangs and multiple rows of small sharp teeth made me want to scream and I did. The moment the sound left my lips, I knew I'd made a mistake. Faster than I could process, the thing was launching through the air and towards my face.

Panicked, my wings surged forward and wrapped around me before the creature could reach me, yet instead of latching onto my face, its fangs dug deep into the muscle part of my wing. Woozy from the pain, I could feel the thing's mouth moving and all of a sudden it was like my heart was beating too fast. My head hurt more than anything else and I fell to the floor, trying to shake the thing from my wing.

Running on instincts, my tail swished around my wings and stabbed into the head of the creature multiple times. Due to already having spent most of the toxin, it hadn't had time to replenish, but the stabbing seemed to have done the job as it stopped moving and the only thing keeping it in my wing was its fangs.

Feeling faint, I called out weakly with a feeble chirp, something I'd recently discovered I could do. Looking back towards the screens, I saw that the one that opened had closed and instead two pictures had been put up. One of Daeus, holding out his arms for me and the other of human civilization, of a family eating around a dinner table at Christmas time. But like I said before, Earth had never been my home. Humans have never been my friends. Stumbling weakly towards the picture of Daeus, I chirped again, my wings sagging behind me. I needed him more than anything right now and the only thing I had was a picture of him.

Before I could pass out, I could hear that same monotone voice again and I sniffled, feeling tears rushing down my cheeks. "Congratulations, you've proved the strength of your bond is true and whole, we only hope that your Ekhad continues to develop your bond to extraordinary lengths." If only Daeus was here, I would have been safe and this thing would have torn into my wing. As everything started to go dark, a deep hatred started to boil in my gut and I didn't know if it was mine or Daeus'.