Chrysalis

“Eldest! What are you doing up here?” Leeroy complained.

“Hah. Thought you had a nice final stand setup here, did you? You thought you’d run far enough from the rest of the Colony that we wouldn’t be able to catch up and keep you alive? You should know better by now, Leeroy.”

“But don’t you need to rush deeper into the nest, Eldest?” she asks, hope still alive in her scent. “We can hold this position… against overwhelming odds, even! Yes! We can stay here, battling to control the mouth of the nest to protect you… until we fall one by one, tragically!”

Wow, she worked that up in her head quickly.

“No chance, Leeroy. I came up here strictly to keep you and all your followers alive. None of you are going to die while I’m here,” I tell her firmly.

“Dammit.”

“This sucks!”

“Ruining everything…”

“I was feeling good about today…”

“Hey! Shut up over there! You think I can’t hear you? Don’t make me walk over there!”

“Would you kill us if you did?”

“What? No!”

“Dammit...”

after this battle, you’ve had your fun. Now get back to fighting termites

grumble and turn back to fighting, but it's easy to see that the fire has gone out of them,

along with literally tens of thousands of them all around us, climbing up the walls, and there

for this then what the hell

understand their lack of gusto. It’s not a problem though, I’ve got enough pep for

Let me at ‘em!

I rush toward the outer edge of the formation and run right over the top of the armoured soldier in front of me, throwing myself into the waiting jaws of the

gravity domain revolving into existence to pull the termites down before I even land. WIth plenty of brain power to spare, I pour all of my mental energy into compressing the mana as tight as possible before I release

their lines, my jaws snapping and crushing as I raise my

Eat acid you suckers!

use for that, but I won’t get the chance this soon in the fight. I’ll have to get a bit deeper before I

it’s up close and personal termite squashing

answer the call! Unrestrained, I unleash all of my pent-up rage upon the enemy, channelling the intent of my entire family into my mandibles as I rip

regularly, every bite enough to smash ten termites at once. In the distance I can see the rest of the Colony pushing forward, grinding down the enemy and rolling them back towards

nest so wide, the wide path and high ceiling only narrow deeper in as the opening fades into darkness. Down

me, climbing atop one another to take their shot, but with a hundred thousand members of the Colony in the area, I

to pile up, I can heal them. In fact, the more

that the battle is one sided so far. Against the

chomping morons! Did you really think you

Muahahahahahaha!