Insect Ruler
11 - Becoming a Mother.
The eggs started to hatch the next day.
Ryuu had just returned from his last trip to the river. At first, he thought he was just imagining the crack. His voice was very faint, almost gone due to the birds chirping and rustling of the forest. But she kept rushing to the egg to check it out.
The egg was now large enough that he thought a human child might be able to fit comfortably inside it, if they were tightly curled up.
Ryuu looked at him for a while, but heard nothing more. Then the egg began to slowly shake and the small cracks she missed began to enlarge until they wrapped most of the top of the egg.
He took one step forward, started to go and help, before he hesitated. Ryuu lowered his arm and just watched, tensely, as the egg grew more and more broken.
His fingers found a sharp stone that he had inserted into the makeshift belt on his waist and he clenched it tightly.
The first part of his shell started flying. He took a step back, narrowing his eyes. He smelled someone else's smell, a strong scent that he couldn't recognize, but felt familiar.
It was different from anything he got from the forest. Then the creature inside the egg seemed to push it away and the egg began to break in earnest, allowing the hatchling to climb out.
Just then, a status panel appeared in Ryuu's view.
...[.Congrats! Access System has been opened for you!] ...
...[.Welcome to the System. Full functionality should now be available.] ...
"Eh?"
He blinked, refocusing on the newly hatched creature. Normally he would be eager to investigate it right away, but this System had the worst time.
What he saw was clearly another member of his species. His body shape resembled that of a male, and something about his scent also showed the same thing.
Ryuu was slightly shorter than him, at least for the time being, but even though he was standing on two legs, he had six differences from himself.
A pair of human-like arms closely resembled his, and the other pair of arms were more insect-like, with a sickle-like appendage on the front of each arm.
The creature was covered in the same shell as him. After she looked at him for a moment, another Statys panel appeared to identify him.
...[.Warrior Vanguard — Level 1] ...
The newborn Vanguard warrior slightly tilted his head to look at ryuu, blinked his dark eyes with insect pupils and was clearly inhuman.
“ano...... Hi, How are you?” Ryuu said with a racing heart.
The Vanguard warrior looked hesitant for a moment, before he took a step towards him.
"Mother? My queen?”
Ryuu felt a burden he did not realize lift from him and heaved a sigh of relief.
“Yes, That's right. I am your mother and Queen-mu” she said. Ryuu acts smiling at him.
"Come My Son, There are many things we need to talk about.”
"Good, mom!"
There's something about that Vanguard Warrior. Her instincts were quite silent, except for the general positive feelings that made Ryuu very comfortable being around her, but she felt connected to him in a way that she could not describe. It is like the relationship between parent and child.
Ryuu began to ponder wondering in his mind whether he might be a threat, and even the idea felt ridiculous. The creature was a Vanguard Warrior who was born by himself directly. Of course that Vanguard Warrior would not attack him.
The Vanguard insect soldier walked towards him, his first few steps faltering and almost falling down, before falling Ryuu supported the soldier's body and embraced him.
The Vanguard Warrior supported by Ryuu looked at ryuu, but his flat expression turned into a warm smile to Ryuu.
"Mother" he said in a happy tone.
Ryuu rubbed warmly the head of the Vanguard Warrior in return.
The Vanguard warrior shook his head. “Mother, I am a Soldier in charge of guarding your nest. Of course, I know that you are my Mother and Queen.” The fat antennae moved. Then she continued “Mom, We're not human, are we? I know about them, but still vague.”
Ryuu sighed then nodded. "Eh? Ah... Yes you are right... Anyway how did you know about that?"
All this was strange for Ryuu, then he continued his question. “And How can you know how to speak the same language as me?”
The Vanguard warrior tilted his head again. “Umm..... I guess when I was born - I had knowledge from you. Because it is so, in my opinion,” he said hesitantly. “I think I got it from you, My Mother. I don't know anything. But somehow in my mind there were strange things I knew, which I only knew when I needed it, but that was it, Mother.”
Ryuu looked at him while thinking. That might make sense, in a strange way. If the newborn Vanguard Warrior got the knowledge given to them, then they would be ready to fight faster. It seems like all this is not normal.
“Umm... Mom, maybe we can ask the system about myself?” She asked. “I saw some kind of notification status earlier.”
"All right." She smiles. “Try to open your panel status sheet. Do you think there's a way that I can see it too?”
His gaze became unfocused for a moment, then he nodded. "I can see it! I think you should be able to see it too. Because mother is Queen-ku”
He narrowed his eyes at her. A moment later, with a soft notification sound, a status panel reopened.
...[.DING DONG!] ...
...[.STATUS]: ...
...Name:- ...
...Species: Vanguard Warrior ...
...Level : 1 ...
...HP :20 ...
...ATK :7 ...
...Where: - (Nothing)...
...DEF :10 ...
...SPEED :5 ...
...EVOLUTION RATE: 1 ...
Ryuu stared at the status of the panel and raised his eyebrows.
"Gee. Pull over!"
The way the new soldier looked at him vaguely reminded him of an excited puppy.
"What do you think, Mom?”
The words of the Vanguard Warrior made Ryuu aware of his existence as an alien, not as a human being.
Ryuu stared at her head in the sky with a long sigh, then She shifted her weight making her breasts move uncomfortably, suddenly realizing how her new body looks as a woman, and now she is called mother.
Ryuu shouted in his heart:
"fucking shit! I've really become a woman... Not only that.... And even worse... I've become a mother of creepy creatures, fak! I can't, can't.... Ahhhhhh!!"
Ryuu is a strange woman of the insect Humanoid species, she is now wearing only a kind of short skirt made from the skin of the animal she hunts, with a kind of winding leaves wrapped around his arms and armed with stones and spears made of sticks.
The middle part was still stuck with a little dirt, and there was a wound on his cheek from the wrong tree branch.