The hivemind is conquering for me?

Information. It had encompassed her entire being. Every bioform movement, every bite into a kill, every prey scent that was picked up. Jewel was a part of it all. However, the information suddenly began to become quieter. Still there, as It always was, but becoming a mere background function, essentially she had gone from manual breathing back to passive breathing of her hive control.

As Jewel’s mind returned to her body, she felt a great sense of comfort as her senses picked up her Apollo below her being. Instinctually she lowered a tendril of energy towards him while she relayed. ”Ah, My Apollo-Oops.” She forgot to hold back her power for a moment, booming inside of her loves link to the hive. Fortunately Apollo seemed fine as his attention was turned to her.

”Ah, my Apollo, what a pleasure it is to feel your presence the moment I return fully to my body. I agree with your sentiment the other day by the way. I think limiting ourselves while we pleasure each other is a good idea. However, once we start to officially mate, we won’t be stopping until we have had thousands of spawn.

I smiled hearing her voice and felt comforted that despite not being ’there’ at the time, that she still heard what I said and responded a few days later. ”Of course my love, I wouldn’t have it any other way.” I replied flirtfully, but noticed Jewel looking up at her ceiling.

Sensing my curiosity, she slowed down her thoughts and allowed me to listen. ’Hmm, I think it’s ready to communicate. I better bring my other body over, as these guards won’t allow me to leave.’

Before I had a chance to ask what she meant, Jewel’s body became limp once more as her Mind travelled countless galaxies to reach her second primary form. As she awakened, she began evacuating herself in a 20km area so she could teleport herself back home.

It was a huge waste of Psionic energy, but what Apollo told her about that heatwave and the fact she felt the Psionic fluctuation at the Apollo-minor star before it came here, her curiosity was indeed very high for she did not feel a threat from the anomaly, nor did she feel any predatory instincts towards it. A truly strange phenomenon.

After thirty minutes, she had enough time to evacuate as much as she could, including all of Apollo’s belongings. Expending her own energy, leaving the energy already in the teleport just for Apollo, she disappeared from Apollo-minor, creating a massive shockwave that swept across the terrain as she did so, not realising right away that she had something hijack a trace of her energy for itself.

Arriving back on her world, Apollo had already made it up to the surface and had sufficient protection as two queen guards were present alongside Orchid and the Bloodfiend. Making her way over to Apollo, she smiled lovingly before giving him a small kiss upon reaching him.

”I could not tell from my other form, with you always being so small in comparison, but I thoroughly enjoy your new height, my everything. There is now more Apollo for me to love.” Jewel’s words, while incredibly cheesy, make my heartbeat race and caused me to blush ever so slightly.

”Should we really be flirting right now? Aren’t we doing something?” I asked, causing Jewel to smile at my action. She then turned away from me and looked up towards the suns. She had removed her blockade moments before and it seemed just in time as a super massive coronal mass ejection, that was too hot and too big for the measly brown stars, began hurling itself though space.

It was traveling incredibly fast and would reach the planet in minutes considering the world’s proximity to the suns. Despite seeing a massive cloud of plasma head towards the planet, I felt no worry or trepidation.

Taking a peak at Jewel, she seemed genuinely intrigued by what was happening. The only creatures on edge were the Queens guards as it was their job to be. ’I mean, they have been standing still for the last who knows how long, about time they earned their pay.’ I joked in my mind.

As the coronal mass neared the planet, I suddenly smelt something burning. I looked around for the source until I realised Keyla and Orchid were looking at me with worry. ”Oh.” I said as I looked down.

My clothes had burnt away as my skin began to glow red all over my torso. My skin began to bubble at the intensity of the heat, yet there was little to no pain. Naturally, Orchid and Keyla wanted to comment on my sudden burns that I somewhat forgot I had as they faded away shortly after appearing the first time.

They did not have time to ask though as a true burning heat had descended upon the planet and began to condense its form as it impacted the ground. On instinct I moved, grabbing Keyla and Orchid and placing them behind me, I rectified an invisible shield made out of my Thermokinesis.

I had never tried doing this before, but it just came naturally to me all of a sudden as it began to suck up all the heat and flames that was billowing in our direction. I did not have time to grab Jewel as she had made some distance, but looking at her, she was completely unfazed by the heat and the queens guards seemed to have a field of Anti-Psionic energy around them creating a bubble that the fire seemed to ignore as it travelled.

The heat in the area began to quickly disperse, but in the small crater, where the coronal mass compressed itself into as it landed, a torrent of flames billowed up towards the sky before slowly shrinking.

As the torrent shrank, in the craters centre a fiery silhouette stood there. Its form, instantly recognisable. A mimic of Jewel. Just like last time. As the creature began walking out of the crater and towards us, the queen’s guards took a defensive stance, causing the fiery avatar to halt its steps.

It then turned to me, Its face without eyes staring intimately towards me. My skin began to feel hot as it began burning, but the heat was pleasant, comforting as it enveloped my being.

Jewel was unfazed by her imitator as she walked forward, her Psionic defences were too strong after all. As she walked over and began circling the flaming imitation, she was still utterly confused as to why she felt no hostility towards the entity. It was on her planet after all. Such a thing warranted death for all prey, except Apollo of course.

Speaking of her mate, looking over towards him, she would have frowned if she had eyebrows. Apollo’s skin was glowing red hot around his torso, yet he appeared to be completely fine. Jewel naturally had a suspicion of who was behind it as her imitation had not stopped staring at Apollo the entire time.

Jewel was unsure how to proceed, a rarity in her existence. She did not know if this... Thing. was capable of communicating. As if knowing what Jewel was thinking at that exact moment, the Fire imitation of her placed its gaze upon her and let out a high pitched ring.

The ringing was not painful in any way, But Jewel was left so stunned that it did not just affect Orchid nearby, It affected even her guards. I looked around, confused by the body language of everyone. Keyla also had the same look on her face, but she had placed her fingers into her ears as the sound was not pleasing to her.

Jewel was still shocked by what just happened, but as the entity before her stopped the ringing, She suddenly began letting off the same high pitched ringing the silhouette of Jewel had just been making.

They started going back and forth between them, communicating? From my reading of her body language, Jewel seemed annoyed by whatever was happening between her and her copy, but that quickly turned to surprise and finally excitement as the two ’Jewels’ suddenly turned in my direction and smiled in a way that sent a shiver down my spine.

Jewel made a high pitched noise once more as she casually turned to the fire version of her before walking over towards me. ”Apollo, you can put your shield down now. It is ok.” I honestly forgot I had it still up as it felt trivial to use, despite just learning how to expel the energy away from my body.

”Is everything ok Jewel? I think I forgot to mention to you about my second Psionic awakening that was to do with my pyrokinesis. I have seen that. silhouette of you before. She gave me these burns.” I said, pointing to my body.

Jewel ran her hand over my burns, the touch made me shiver in comfort. ”I know, it told me. We can discuss everything shortly. For now, I need to uphold my end of our deal.” Jewel then kissed me lovingly positioning herself so her eye slits were in line with my own eyes. ”Apollo, you need to go and mate with that fire that has taken the shape of me. The sooner the better. It will be ok, I will be with you as you do it, overseeing everything.”

I blinked in surprise at what Jewel just said, but it took me a moment to process that she had in fact, just said that. I felt I could only naturally reply by saying.

”Huh?”