The Piñata Suprise

The Next Stage

I can feel an overwhelming urge. I am no longer needed as the creature I am, so I feel an overwhelming desire to fulfill a more needed purpose: That of producing food. I feel an overwhelming urge to plant myself into the ground outside, in the side yard, and to simply wait. Not even a desire, a need. A need to change, to become what is needed. To become better. I head outside, and simply sit, and wait. Outside of my own command, some of my many limbs plant themselves into the ground. I begin to grow a backbone, a spine, as I begin to extend upwards, my many limbs combining into large, wide extensions off of myself. I grow many eyes, but few ears. Extending upwards, upwards, until I can nearly see the roof. I feel some of my limbs extending into the ground, slowly. Through the dirt. They start to grow tiny hairs, tiny extensions. Some of my parts turn green, and blue, and brown. Others simply remain grey. They remain as they were. By the morning, I am implanted into the ground firmly. Firmly, I stand, unable to move, and I see the sun rise. I feel, and see, some of my body uncoil, revealing bits of color, pink, and purple, and green. They are each of my own type, my own creation. The other creature comes, and eats one. They enjoy it greatly, and head out for the day. They take a few children, and make them into the new parts of the hive. My hive. My existence, in my hive. They begin to turn but a few days after. And they change, into large beasts, things I haven't seen before. They are brown, and with many legs. They tend to the house, never leaving. They tend to the new arrivals, and they tend to everything, however, I am left alone. I continue to wait, growing taller and wider by the day, but they still ignore me. I still wait. Around a month goes by, now we are many in number, and growing quickly. Some of the new arrivals have become something different, yet the same. Still in the hive, but not entirely. They have become a kind of unicorn, and they protect the colony. They charge, and impale those who wish to do us harm. We are finally safe from the outside. For now.