Epic of Bee

"What I gave Queen Alexia was called BeeBliss Serum, and it is something that I created after we fought the Predators on the Rock Troll mountain. The goddess Beezli of the Bee rained down a special Nectar that was used to create our ship. It was able to wash the Lichtar off and encase all the women that had been captured by the man you know as Trent," I explained to Malkis, the interrogator.

"Do you have any proof of any of this happening? That is not already part of Your Queen's control?" Malkis asked, and I nodded.

"Yes, we have all the Predators that are covered in the golden Nectar in a room right now in a type of sleep. I can wake up the large general, Kena, and then you can speak to her, and she will tell you the same thing. What I ordered one of my people to do was only to protect Lexia, and it also made her stronger," I explained, and he nodded.

"Good, this will be more than enough to get you cleared if you can get the Predator general to talk. I will work on getting everyone back into your ship, but how are we supposed to do this? What guarantee do we have that you won't try to take the ship if we give you power back?" Malkis asked me as he stood up.

"You can keep the Wives here and Riza with her guards. Then you will have them have another meeting with your Council. I think that they will have a lot to talk about but get on this fast, there could be people waking up, and some of them were awake for a very long time and will be confused to be in a dark room filled with bodies," I said, and Malkis nodded, then left the room in a rush.

When the door slid closed, so did my eyes, and I had already started to construct a hexagonal cube with eight floating chairs in it. It was sometimes unnerving the way that I could see from all eyes at once, and I was all minds at once, but somehow each was separated.

Among the eight, a conscious agreement rose that said this was the best possible result, but only time would reveal the outcome. The girls having another meeting with the Council now that they had been cleansed was vital considering that they had tried to attack Ashia.

There were mixed thoughts about the Queen, but soon we would be able to deal with that problem. Ashia had marked Tag and Sig, but they were with Pendra and Granthus and not here.

Once I was allowed back into the ship, I was going to have to start delegating tasks to people to get everything running again. Once I could get everyone moving, I could start dealing with the search for Ashia.

It was unanimous that getting the Hive back moving was extremely important, and I would be sending Beezli and Pelleta to deal with Kena and the rest of the Predators. I had made some of the BeeBliss Serum to be a higher concentration rather than just use more doses, and I would be getting more doses made as soon as I could.

"Gamble, you can come out now," a voice called.

I came from a talkbox that was similar to the one that I had been talking to my wife on. That was far faster than I would have imagined the response.

I had barely been sitting for five minutes, even though it was more than twenty minutes in my head. I stood and walked to the door that opened after dismissing the hexagonal cube.

"So, are you some kind of genius seer?" A Large Sky Crab Folk with a spiked body asked me.

I immediately noticed that he had three smaller elemental stones and one large one in his chest. This man was a general of some kind and Elemetally enhanced.

There were threads everywhere, but I was able to sort through them in seconds and got what I needed to know. What I found was more than what could be considered frightening.

"General Brand, you are the one in charge of Swarm Hive Strike, right? Quite the number of successful missions under your belt as well. It also seems that you are commended as a war hero?" I asked, trying to keep myself calm as I was forced to watch countless scenes of slaughter.

This man was a monster, not a Hero. Even if the Wasp Folk were trouble, the lengths that this man went to were beyond disturbing.

"Yes, so you are good at this game. Well, Gamble, I would like to sit down and have a talk with you before I let you go back to your ship, but I have already given the order for your Queens people to go back. Feel free to use the talkbox your crafty Guard brought you to ask your wife, Pixie. I agreed with all of your requests, but I just want to pick your brain about something since you know it all and everything, hehe," Brand said with a deep chuckle that was not filled with anything.

More than a hundred things bothered me about this man, but I wasn't surprised that he knew about all that stuff. If he was already letting them back into the ship, then I had no reason to worry, but I still pulled the TalkBox out of my chest pocket in my robe.

"How are things going?" I asked and then got a response right away, and I had to force myself not to get embarrassed in front of the room full of Skyfolk.

"They let us back on the ship, Snookums! I am getting everyone to start getting things moving again. Why aren't you down here?" Pixie asked.

"I am going to have a talk with General Brand, but I will be down soon. Get the goddesses to go and start dealing with the Predators, and," I started to say, but Pixie cut me off.

"Don't worry, you can boss us around when you get here! I will get everyone moving; you just go and talk to the nice man that let us all out, and then come down here give me some love! It has been so long since…."