Survival

Chapter 8

Making their way into the putrid hive, they fought their assailants that came charging to challenge. They had reached it... the opening to a large area, Nina's heart skipped a beat. Surrounded by a mass of hissing bugs that were much larger than the usual drone. These were the guards of the Queen. They made this place a home for their queen, coating all surfaces with their strange extrusions, protecting the eggs in several distinct nursery areas, and guarding their domain, but none moved, their only concern was mama bug. There in the middle of the chamber sat their queen, she was huge, dark, all sharp edges and teeth, both beautiful and terrifying. The air was heavier, more dense, humid and warm, and it smelled of something acidic and rank. She could hear the queen's constant, heavy breathing, and the fluid sounds of her birthing sac as it pulsed with new eggs. The bug queen hissed, her breath condensing in the warm, heavy atmosphere, steam billowing around her head. Her trans was broken when Wahkan turned to her.
"Are you ready for this."
For once her bravery faltered. "No." She replied, his head tilted in question. "I'm afraid, and I don't want to die just yet. There's so much more time I want to spend with...with you...." she admitted.
He pressed his head against hers. His hand gently cupped the back of her head. "We'll live or die together." he said.
"Some small comfort." She said. Lifting her spear and looking forward she waited for his command.
He raised his scimitar into the air and let out a deafening rawr, with that they charged as the bugs attacked with the battle cry.

Like a massive termite's nest, and its insects were running, crawling, scampering everywhere. Nina slashed, sliced, stabbed, covering Wahkan pushing forward to the queen. She blasted at the eggs while killing the bugs. Clear the hive clear the hive she screamed in her head.
Wahkan reached the screeching queen as she began detaching herself from her egg sac. She was angry, and ready to battle. As Nina fought the bugs to keep a clear path for her leader, she watched him leap at the queen. He sliced at her neck, her smaller set of arms groping at her wound she wailed, she screeched and screeched as if calling for something. She attacked, enraged at the Yautja. Each attack he parried damaging her more. Finally she fell giving Wahkan the opportunity he began several strikes to the back of her neck, cutting her massive head from her body.
Her guards all screamed in rage, but the sound of their squeals were masked by something louder. They all faced towards Nina not Wahkan, causing her confusion. Suddenly they ran past her, she turned to see another wave coming in behind her but they began attacking the first group. She turned to look at Wahkan when something massive struck her, she was tossed across the room hitting a wall so hard she could barely breath. Looking up, there stood another queen. She looked ancient, faded in color; her crest was wide and regal, her size much larger than the first. The real mother? Did we just kill her successor? Possibly like ants on earth the hive had two queens separated and now the sides of the colony were in mass hysteria due to the death of the leader of a particular group of workers?
Nina couldn't move as the queen came for her, mucous pouring from her mouth she was ready to strike. She faltered as Wahkan had picked up Nina's dropped spear and drove it into her side. She clawed at him as he climbed her form, taking his dagger he repeatedly stabbed into the back of her neck, roaring in anger. He was unmounted by one of her guards, fiercely trying to protect its queen. They rolled to the ground, shuffling trying to kill each other. Nina watched the queen turn to the fighting pair, wanting to kill the threat once and for all.
"Wahkan!" Nina uncontrollably screamed to no avail.
Climbing to her feet filled with new adrenaline she bolted towards the massive bug. Her wrist blades snapped out, with all her might she stabbed the bitch drawing her attention on to her. As she turned Nina ripped her spear from her side, slicing the grabbing arm of the queen off with her wrist blades during. Her plasma blaster automatically shot at alarmed bugs coming to aide the queen, others jumping at Wahkan covering him. Nina sliced at the queen's leg, ducking and keeping clear of her whipping angry tail. The queen stumbled as she lashed out, giving Nina an opportunity to reach her head. Withdrawing her scimitar as she mounted, she drove down hard. Each drive of her sword made the queen stumble until she dropped, splayed out. Nina drove hard one last time screaming at the top of her lungs breaking the spine leaving the massive head dangling by muscle and skin only. She ran to the fray of Yautja and bugs furiously cutting the monsters down, she felt deranged anger and vengeance coming out of her from the loss of the colony long ago. The bugs would not take the only thing left in her heart, she attacked and attacked as the last thing she saw move she blasted it with her cannon, shooting it over and over again until she felt something touch her arm. She swung around ready to kill when she seen it was Wahkan she cried. Her arms wrapped around him instinctively and this time he returned her gesture. As the adrenaline ran out of her she heaved in pain and collapsed, succumbing to darkness.