The hivemind is conquering for me?

Floating in the air not too far away from me was a figure. A captivating figure with skin the colour of charcoal. She had cracks along her skin across her torso and legs, acting like tattoos while showing off the fire within. The figure wore very little, a piece of seemingly flame resilient cloth to cover her lower regions and a metal like bra that contained her ablaze breasts. Her shoulders were adorned with two unique pauldrons that had a slight spikiness to them and were attached to a set of white sleeves that brought out the blackness of the figure’s skin further.

The figure had no skin on her face, for she did not have a conventional body. Her head was a mass of flames, structured in a way to resemble a beautiful woman with a sharp jawline and high cheekbones. She was wearing a sort of crown with two large Black horns made out of some material that jutted from the top of her head, the fire she was made of following them like a contour.

The figure opened her eyes, revealing molten flames once more and took in a deep breath, the horns on her head expanding as she took in a great deal of Oxygen before shrinking back to normal on the exhale. ”Mmh, yes. I like this.” She spoke, stretching out one of her hands to observe her nails.

”Yes, I really like this. This form suits my aesthetic tastes very well. I think I enjoy this a lot more than the last time I was able to mantle a body. How long ago was that? Too long.” The figure then observed her surroundings. Devourers everywhere, anti Psionic threats below. Or they were a threat if not for her kindled one.

Looking down at the man who had given her the template for her form and smiled as she looked upon him. She was bound to him now. She could feel his emotions. Confusion and the need for assurance that his love would be ok were the primary two. Exactly why she picked him.

”Queen Jewel. You have gone against your instincts to not attempt to devour me upon first sight. For that you have my gratitude. Here, I relayed to you the coordinates for a location full of Psionic biomass of my concept. I believe one of your fleets is near the location, vaguely speaking.”

Jewel allowed the relay to go through and was surprised by the fact that what she was given was the location of a Psionic planet in its development. That meant no fauna, but an exorbitant amount of flora. Psionic flora. Jewel felt hunger pangs throughout her beings, but did not show her excitement in any way whatsoever as she replied. ”I see. Your gift pleases me.”

Jewel then turned to Apollo. ”Apollo, I will return this form back to Apollo-minor. With your bondage over the Psionic energy, I trust it will do you no harm. Return to my body down below though as soon as possible.” She said before disappearing from sight.

The figure looked where Jewel was just standing and smiled haughtily. ’A test is it? Silly queen, I am already bonded with my Kindled, why would I want to harm him?’ Turning back to Apollo she smiled and descended to the floor.

As her feet made contact with the ground, a Pair of flaming heels suddenly manifested around them before she walked over to me, swaying her hips as she walked. As she stood in front of me, I realised she was slightly taller than me. That was still not a problem though, I liked my women in all sizes after all and from the look on her face, she seemed to know that.

The figure once directly in front of me raised her hands, flames dancing within and billowing out, and placed them against my face. I was surprised to feel no heat even with my Thermokinesis now down, after expelling everything out of my body.

”Apologies ,my kindled, for staying quiet during our ceremony of entanglement. It took a lot of effort to whisper to you when I did, I needed to stay focused so I would not dissipate. Your sexual stamina almost ruined the deal as I was mere minutes away from extinguishing. Though to answer the thought you had. I did enjoy the ceremony, though I suppose in a different way to what you could comprehend. However with this form... I believe I have structured everything to your tastes and would definitely enjoy another ceremony of entanglement.”

My brain was lagging behind a bit. I had too many science boners the past few days, and looking upon this figure before me, I knew It definitely wasn’t just science being a factor at play here.

”So. Um. I am sorry, I only know how to talk around my Hive and humans. And I guess Sepiidans. Would it be a burden to you if I examined your body again? I know I did it earlier, but that was the Jewel body.” I asked, trying not to overstep any boundaries as I had just met this being, despite having been intimate with a version of her.

”Your flame for learning is appealing to me, Kindled one. You may explore my form till you are content. I am now tied to your existence after all. You can do whatever you want with me.” The figure then reached both of its hands down to its waist and attempted to unclasp its cloth, but suddenly looked up confused as the one called Orchid was swinging an object towards her that was alight with a fire she was not familiar with.

The absolute abhorrence of that knowledge left her stunned, as she forgot to defend herself.

*Tink*

Before she knew it, she was sent hurtling away and landed with the new sensation provided by her body. Pain.

Meanwhile, Orchid dropped the stick and began flailing her arm around as the anti Psionic flame was attempting to purge the first practitioner of the horny. ”Ahhh! get it off Orchid!!!” She screamed before Keyla ran over in her Bloodfiend form and amputated Orchids arm, causing Orchid to sigh in relief.

I however looked at Orchid crossly, my eyes asking for answers that Orchid began to explain immediately to stop the cross expression. ”Orchid was enraged Apollo-love! That thing is dangerous, no matter what the Queenl thinks on the matter! I had to defend you. Then the stick suddenly appeared next to Orchid’s foot somehow and Orchid just acted! Please do not be mad, Apollo-love!”

Looking away from Orchid a moment and down to her arm. I was shocked to find that the flames had in such a short amount of time turned Orchids arm into ash. ’What the?’ I thought to myself, completely ignoring Orchids puppy eyes as I had already moved on.

Kneeling down, I began sifting through the ash. I quickly found the stick and stared at it for a moment, remembering that the flame that while it was on me, stopped my Psionic decay, but on Orchid, burned her arm to ashes. Curious as to why my stick had suddenly become able to do such things, I picked it up and the moment I did I felt a wave of energy shoot through my entire being, originating at my Origin.

All of a sudden I was engulfed in Anti psionic flames. I knew that is what they were, yet they did nothing to me, no, they empowered my body. I felt my muscles become stronger and my energy recovering rapidly.

My eyes suddenly began pouring out red Psionic energy, mimicking fire and my hair turned from purple to red. Orchid and Keyla took many steps back as the feeling I was emanating disgusted them, but the figure that had just been sent flying by Orchid had returned and stared at the flames with a zealous intrigue.

’Is this?’ She placed her new hand close to the fire before pulling away and smiled fanatically towards her Kindled one. ’It is. How has he done this?’ Her attention was then turned to the black hole where Apollo’s hand once was and frowned. Changing the way she observed things to her new ’eyes’ she saw an object. The object she was just hit with.

As she stared intently towards the thing, her eyes narrowed before widening in shock, looking up at Apollo’s being with both dread and exhilaration. ’How have you managed to infuse an Anti Psionic rod with a universal concept?’

She had been observing Apollo for a long time, she did not remember him doing anything of the sort. She would ask this of him at a later time, when they were alone as she had to obey certain universal rules now she was no longer a part of the infinite. Her now fickle attention was brought back, as the non flames began to dissipate around him, returning his hair back to purple.

Looking around at the three individuals staring at me with different emotions, I felt the need to break the ice as I could feel some tension.

”Well that felt nice, anyone else care for a go?”