The hivemind is conquering for me?

A day later Nerissa was walking, smiling and satisfied.

Arriving back on the moon, she had only been gone for sixty-eight hours. Ahead of schedule. She was of course very glad the moon was still here and her hypothetical had not occurred. Her mind had started to get a bit creative in that department and she was starting to worry herself a little.

She shrugged it off though once the moon was in sight and chalked it down to her blooming state.

As she walked along, she noticed all the glares and stares. She had been here for a while and the novelty had worn off for a good majority that had seen her out and about on numerous occasions, but some were still awestruck. Which was to be expected. As long as they didn’t bother her, they could look all they wanted.

Arriving at the private housing, she could see her home in the distance. She was glad it was still there. After summoning a being of such power due to his influence over Sol, she had seriously begun to question Apollo’s current limits.

Combat wise he was still weaker than her, but as she admitted to her kin, she thinks he could easily surpass their strength at a very young age. It was his potential, something about him screamed limitless. It intrigued her to no end. She wanted to understand the inner machinations of his mind. It truly was an enigma.

Due to Apollo saying to treat this house as her own, Nerissa opened the front door without knocking and walked inside. She thought she would see a simply mundane sight. Perhaps Apollo and his harem sitting on the couch together, or perhaps they were not in and at the library.

No, instead in the middle of the room was a woman bound and gagged, blood pouring from every inch of her body, it staining her clothes black. Standing in front of her was Apollo, hands bloody in mid swing as she stepped inside with Orchid Onyx and Janine by his side.

”Oh, hey Nerissa. How was your trip home?” He asked her as casually as he could.

Nerissa in turn took a deep inhale and closed, ignoring the metallic scent in the air. ’Oh yeah, this is the stuff.’ She couldn’t help thinking about the sheer bizarreness of the situation.

”Apollo, can you fill me in?” She asked and Apollo then happily replied.

”Sure thing, This piece of shit is...”

...

Earlier:

Orchid was sitting alone on the couch with nary a thought in her head. A common occurrence when Apollo was gone. It was a reflex from the days she could enter torpor. These days she could only sleep and would only try to do that if she knew Apollo was close by for snuggles.

Orchid really liked snuggles.

As she was just sitting there, thinking about nothing, doing nothing. She suddenly heard a noise coming from the back door. Curious, Orchid got up and went to investigate, but became confused as the person entering through the door was not one that smelled familiar.

”What are you doing here? You shouldn’t enter the house without Apollo-loves permission. Do you have his permission?”

The individual clad in black turned to look at Orchid as she said that and then threw an object made of Psionic energy towards her.

Orchid caught the object mid air, causing a stinging sensation in her hands before observing the object. It was a long spike that could have caused serious harm. Orchid frowned. This wasn’t normal. She was starting to get a grasp on humans at this point.

The actions of the newcomer only reassured her beliefs as a dagger appeared in the intruder’s hand as the intruder lunged towards Orchid. Realising this was an enemy and she was on her loved ones property, she had no reason to hold back against the assailant, but due to the fact Apollo might want to know what’s going on, she wouldn’t kill the intruder, yet.

Dodging the strike from the dagger, Orchid punched the interloper’s wrist which immediately forced bone to come to stick out of the flesh for a cheeky hello. Whilst simultaneously catching the falling knife from said blow and then stabbing the intruder in the clavicle.

Orchid was then immediately impressed by this human she had immobilised. It was still looking directly at her with malice in its eyes while not ushering a single decibel for its wounds.

Orchid then quickly took her hands and swatted with great force at the humans ears stunning it and rendering it unconscious as it collapsed to the floor.

Orchid looked at the creature on the floor and was reminded of a tactic Apollo pulled during one of their spars years ago. For good measure Orchid kicked the human in the head once to make sure it was truly unconscious before walking off to the training room.

When she came back she was holding some metal wire from inside one of the training equipment thingies and then hastily went upstairs to get the chair from the mating room before remembering the video course she watched back at Sophia’s about the art of tying up another person or as it was called in the video- bondage.

She found that naming weird now she recalled it, there were no Psionic elements involved, no binding your existence to the love of your existence for all eternity... Just wrapping a rope around the body and focusing around the exocrine to make it pop out more... It seemed odd.

Orchid decided not to linger on the topic of bondage, it left her feeling angry at all the usurpers. The only forgivable one was Sapphire, as it was just a part of Apollo. But the rest she could eat and not give a second thought about, especially Onyx. The bitch...

Orchid cleared her mind as the human began to wake up rather quickly for the level of power she had put in her strikes. Not wanting to deal with the intruder until Apollo came back, in the possible chance she made a mistake, she just knocked them out again and sat nearby, watching. Waiting.

...

”No, Janine. You are still trying too hard. Meditation is not about trying. Its about letting go, just entering yourself. You shouldn’t think of it as a breach. You are your Mindspace. Your Mindspace is you. Just enter, don’t force it.”

I explained to Janine after asking me a follow up question about our study topic for the day.

Janine just rolled her eyes. ”That doesn’t help at all, what you are saying may sound smart and full of wisdom, but you actually just sound like an ass. Thank the stars I have better teachers now or I’d still be fumbling around in the dark.”

Covering my chest above my heart, I stumbled away from Janine. ”Oof, that’s some serious emotional damage there, I was only trying to help.”

Janine then smiled at me before closing the distance and grabbing my arm and pulling herself close once more. ” I know that, but I’m not you with your mega brain. I need to go through all the steps slowly... Besides, you are the freak of nature here, not me. I am like all the others, I need time to enter.”

Putting on a nasally voice I pushed up a pair of invisible glasses and replied. ”Um, actually. We are all freaks of nature here. Our very existence upsets the flow of natural law. So get checked.”

My impression prompted a snort of laughter to come from Janine as she asked. ”What was that! ahaha! Where did that come from? Do it again, you sounded so stupid! I love it!”

Nudging her away I then followed up with. ”Um, actually. I sound super duper smart right now, you are just factually misguided so you are mistaking my supreme intelligence for stupidity. I pity you, simple one.”

”Hahahaha!”

Janine was laughing with her entire body and it was nourishing my soul. I had no idea where that had come from, a deep pit in the back of my mind most likely, but I was saving that for the routine in the future.

As we arrived at the front door, Janine was still laughing, mumbling in imitation. ”Um actually.” Before snickering at something that was too quiet for me to hear.

Upon opening the door, my mood instantly switched gears as I pushed Janine backwards and slammed the door shut.

”Apollo?” She asked confused, sensing my change of tune as I pulled out Zircon. ”I smell blood. Be ready to cover me.”

Janine’s training kicked in at a moment’s notice and gave me a steadfast nod. I then donned my armour and barrelled through the front door, Janine right behind me. My concern quickly gave way to confusion as Orchid was just sitting there with a smile on her face as she stated.

”Apollo, look! Orchid didn’t kill her!”

”Uh huh?” I agreed confused as I quickly looked through the open front door and hastily shut it in case someone decided to walk over. ”And, uh, why do you have a woman tied up like a BDSM sub?”

I was slightly concerned for a brief moment that Orchid was trying some new courtship ritual in which she was bringing me random mates, but after telling me exactly what had happened, my blood began to boil and I began to see red before my emotions went void once again.

’This bitch tried to assassinate my Orchid?’