Prologue

The lights in laboratory shined dimly as the woman opened her eyes. The white washed walls were stained with tiny fragments of red and she began thrashing against her found bonds which held her wrist and head in place.

She peered down to her bulging stomach to the child she was expecting and she fought against the straps, not only for hers but for the baby's sake as well. "Hello!" she shouted out as her eyes widened. Her body jerked forward and she let out a groan as she felt a heavy weight pressed inside her chest.

"So you're finally away" a deep voice almost laughed, "It wasn't that difficult to acquire your cryogenic tube from your ship."

"What have you done to me!" she wanted to hold her throat, for some reason it felt dry and scratchy.

Again her chest jerked forward and she screamed out.

"It's rather simple." A black window cleared in front of her and she gazed upon a tall man. He had a strong muscular body and dark eyes, his voice was handsome, he was obviously some big shot from a corporation...

"Wait! I know you!" she narrowed her eyes, "YOU SHOULD BE DEAD! I heard they ripped you apart… they showed us the remains! You cannot be alive!"

"And yet." He grinned, "here I am." he turned his face slightly revealing great wide claw marks across his face.

He rested his forehead against the glass brimming with anticipation on what was about to happen. He had waited so long but they had finally retrieved their package and now it was safely deposited and ready to be retrieved. "Mr Weyland."

A man hid his face behind his surgical mask though he looked longingly at the woman. Oh god, please have mercy. He thought as he watched the X-ray of her chest begin to move. "We have movement sir."

"Prepare the restraints and handle it like you would your own child."

That was a sick joke. The man looked back to Mr Weyland, You sick bastard. I will make you pay. You will burn in hell for this.

"Now my dear, you should be proud, after all; you are about to become a mother."

"What?" she stared horrified at him, "You can't take my baby!"

"Not to a human child." He grinned then watched as she screamed lurching forward in her restraints. "I want those restraints ready Alejandro!" he growled though the glint in his eye was obvious as his mouth salivated with excitement.

"Yes sir, they are in place already." Both watched as a glass tube was placed over the woman's chest as she gave a final horrified scream locking eyes with Alejandro before her chest busted open sending chunks of bone and flesh flying across the floor while the appropriately named Chestburster slithered out being ushered into a tube.

The woman's dead cold hand slowly slid from the now open restraints and fell limp to her side as a golden ring hit the ground with a ringing concussion. Alejandro closed his eyes and looked away while Weyland stared at the creature with his hands on the glass, "YES! YES!" his fingers flexed out as though he could touch it, "We did it!"

"Sir we are still registering movement in the room."

"Yes, because the creature is in there you moron. Go and collect my prize… Now!" he snarled as he looked into Alejandro's defiant face which broke as he slowly walked through into the room.

The metallic stench of blood was the first thing that filled his nose as the little nightmare creature writhed inside its trapping. He first picked up the golden ring and slipped it into his chest pocket. He had no fear being caught by Weyland as he did this. The rich bastard's eyes rested on his new little pet with anticipation of getting hold of it. He knew that had been Alejandro's wife that just had died in cold blood and agony.

He couldn't even look at the creature as he filed the tube into the machinery of the wall where it would deliver the creature to the pens. "Good work. You have five minutes. Then I expect you to be down in the pens."

"But sir-" Weyland didn't need to say anything. He just blackened the screen then grinned as the door closed locking Alejandro in. He had definitely been right.

There was still movement in the room.

"I should have stopped him but I have done something worse. May god forgive me for what I have done." the man looked at his dead wife, the frozen look of pain and horror permanently etched on her face. "I could have saved you and little Roseto but instead my need for knowledge clouded my mind. I placed one inside of you then tried to change it to make it like our son." He laid a hand gently on her bulging stomach then lent forward and rested his head across the cold flesh. "I could have-"

He didn't finish.

Blood gurgled in his mouth as he felt a sharp spike drive through his chest and he looked down to see a large black spear like tail driven straight through his body. "W-what?" he spat out through the drowning blood as he fell then watched the skin of the dead body tear open to reveal a small snarling face which sprawled onto the floor holding onto the umbilical cord which still connected it to the mothers body.

Little green eyes stared at him as the thing opened its mouth wide as it crawled over to him pulling the tail out of the chest. "WEYLAND!" the scientist screamed but behind the cover the man was clapping his hands and laughing with excitement like a child. "Beautiful! It's beautiful!" he screamed as guards finally showed up and grabbed the rabid child. "It is acting just like a Xeno!" Weyland marvelled as he walked with the guards.

"What shall we do with it sir." A soldier kept his hands around the tail then screamed as the spike stabbed straight through his wrist then coiled as the sliced brought his hand clean off. "Oh, I want to keep this one!" Weyland smiled as the guard screamed holding his bloody stump of an arm.

They slowly walked into the dark pens. By the time they had done so, the boy had already started more or less looking like a small child. Tufts of blonde hair stuck up from its head and its intelligent blue eyes watched him carefully. Weyland watched the boy get chained by his ankles though from the new instinct the… creature. He decided it probably only shared the majority of the human body, it may have just the mind of a Xeno. The tail of the boy came down on the chains which sent sparks flying across the room. "Tut, tut, tut." He wagged his finger as his hand hit a button on the wall sending frozen gas into the cell making the boy scream as he thrashed about until the gas receded, "I want this one monitored at all time." He closed the cell and set in the date for which the creature had officially been born; 30/10/1996. He grinned as he though about the way the creature had mercilessly just killed its own father. His beady eyes watched the monitor as a door inside the room opened up and the boy fled through it.

"Sir, we have some news."

"Yes, be quick. Can you not see I am busy?"

"The Queen matured."

The three words the man had been waiting for now for weeks.

He sat back in his office and poured a glass with a stiff dose of whiskey. "Marvellous, simply marvellous." He smiled as he watched the boy. Around his neck coiled a thick cable… at first Weyland thought it was just a collar but then he began to realise it was the Chestburster that had come forth with him. The Xenomorphs all shifted nervously around the new additions and seemed to whimper.

"Sir… what are you going to do with it?"

"Well imagine just what we can do with that genetic tissue." He grinned and took a sip of his drink. Imagine what I can do. He added in his thoughts. "The next Queen has already taken to him with great affection it seems." His eyes locked on the snake coiling around the boy. "Let's see what happens with the real thing."

The room was dark put that phased no problem to the child. He walked as easily on all fours as a man would walk on two legs. He slowly stalked forward looking around as he saw all the others. A low snarl rolled from his throat as once he even pounced forward slightly making some of the others growl and back away fearfully.

He might have been feared by the minor Xeno's but he was just a child, he was aimless and lost.

That's where the queen came in.

The matriarch slowly let a hiss rasp out her gigantic form as she bounded forward making the very ground itself shake violently. It sniffed as it could smell the burning strange blood of a human. Her mouths opened wide as the roar rocketed around the dark hive which she and her children had formed.

The boy stared at this strange sight. A tall black giant though it lent forward with a growl he stood his ground and returned the hiss his tail hoisted over his back as he stared down the Queen till she lent forward and grabbed him in her arms bringing her back to the main nest.

Weyland almost squealed like a little girl, "This is perfect!" he raised a glass with some of the scientists who stared at the boy with a mixture of horror and fascination. They all knew who that he was the child of Alejandro and that now by his own son's hands the scientist was now dead.

"Sir… is it right to keep him here. He is human." A scientist pulled up a few charts of paper looking at the contents of the boys DNA, "I mean, it is illegal for us to experiment on humans-" a single gun shot was heard and the man fell down dead as Weyland lowered his arm and gazed coldly around the room.

"Does anyone else have anything to say about the Xeno boy?" his eyes hungrily devoured what details he could make out on the monitor as the queen wrapped its tail protectively around the boy as he laid down.

"Then get the laboratory's ready."

"Sir, our equipment was destroyed in the last outburst we won't be ready and under way till…"

"You better choose your next words very carefully."

"Next week." The man winced then watched as Weyland pulled a clear glass cylinder from his desk and told the man to approach.

The cylinder broke and out launched a nightmare as it attached itself to the scientists face. "Fine. You will contribute greatly to the cause." Weyland muttered as the body was taken away to the cells.

"Sir, his growth has already slowed it could be years before we even get a decent amount of information off him."

"We can wait." Weyland growled. "We can wait."

Chapter 1

My eyes shot open as a growl echoed down my ear and I looked up to see them; the men in white coats who often came to get me when mother wasn't around. "Come on monster." They grinned at me dangling a bit of meat on string.

I hated them.

I opened my mouth in a snarl and watched as mother woke up. With a single stab of her tail, one of the men fell, being pulled further and further along it until their body tore in two. The others soon rushed to feed on the fresh, juicy meat. I purred quietly, something none of the others could do. Though I could not make words like the others could. I often listened in to how they would speak. I growled and hissed. It seemed to work when ever they were trying to come near me, it would make them run away in fear..

The other man stared in horror at the way us monsters fed. I pounced a long the wall digging my sharp talon like nails into the ground as I hung easily walking up the vertical surface. "JOHN!" the man screamed as he looked into the pile of as they called us; monsters. For anything that remained of his friend.

I reached out a hand and pushed him back behind the door and for a moment he stared at me "S-S-Sorry." The words I learnt from her came out quiet. I pointed to the others and shook my head sadly.

"You are all bastard monsters." He snapped and spat on the door though I am sure that he was aiming for me, "Weyland is right. You're not human you're their pet. Monster!"

A Harsh roar broke out shaking the cavern as the man stared horrified. My mother's tail soared through the class coming close to his eyes. I barked out quickly and hissed in warning but it was no use. My mother did not stand for any offences made against any of her kind. It just encouraged her to kill far more violently.

I ran along the thick wire of her tail back down to her, settling in her arms as she groaned quietly laying a bundle of eggs. I knew sometimes it hurt her to do this, but if she did not do it then the men would come with sharp sticks that made a bright light which would hurt my skin.

When the eggs were laid on the floor, it would begin to move and I would watch as a small hatch would open taking it away.

My tailed brushed against my face like a razor as my mother held me over the water and I began lapping it up taking in small sips. All the others had a different shape they were darker than the shadows we hide in. I resemble the monsters in the white coats and yet I have the qualities of the monsters that hide in shadows.

A ragged breath brought my attention back as my mother pulled me back from the water thinking that I had had enough. I was different from all the others in here... except for one. Mother looked after me and her more than anyone else.

I leapt from her arms as a monster; a little bigger than me, walked slowly over to us regarding me. I growled lightly as it jumped on me and we rolled. Our tails clashed, making the same noise that happened when we would hit the wall with them. We stalked around each other looking for a clear opening to attack and knock the other over but I whimpered before he could do anything like that. She would curl under me making me hang on tight around her neck just the way she used to do when we had first been put in this here.

When she had broken out of her skin though she hadn't come out like the others, she had become like me except for two differences.

She growled and nudged me closer to the food and I wrinkled my nose at the man who lay there. She placed me further into the corner next to a small object. It was round and had the strange numbers and letters that the men had. The difference of mine was that they looked completely different. I looked at the black band tied around my wrist with the same thing; Experiment 17&18.

The food seemed more appealing though it was smaller than what the others got. Instinct told me to rip my teeth into it but something always held me back from eating what they ate. That's why the men often brought me this stuff. I had gone so long without eating once that I hadn't even been able to move. Not even when mother had tried even putting the food in my mouth herself. I would not touch it.

"Hey boy." My eyes snapped up and I saw one of them. I let out a little growl but the person approached me closer before she sat on the rocks. The other look alike of me walked forward as the room shrank around us. I lunged at the clear walls that had formed around me and scratched frantically. "Hey, calm down. It's okay boy." She smiled, "Come on Roseto." I tilted my head. She had often come and taught me sometimes. Sometimes she told me of her words, sometimes she would teach me about the places beyond this room and about how she was called woman and I was called man… though her face would always turn red when she tried to explain further.

"Roseto come on. You too Loriana." She laughed as I slowly crawled forward and put my head on her leg, "You over slept again didn't you?" she patted her hand on top of my head into the thick stuck together mess of what she called hair. "Don't the others ever wash?" she wondered.

"We stay dark in the shadows." My words were quiet.

"It keeps us safe." I did not understand why she called her Loriana or why she even called me Roseto.

"That's really good." She smiled, "You are learning words really fast." Her hand touched my face and I flinched back. "I am going to get you both out this place." She finished placing the food in my mouth and took my hand pulling me out the door with the one she called; Loriana.

The alarms blared as men rushed forward with those sticks and I watched as the sparks flew trying to hit us. Loriana would just run forward and hiss sticking her tail through the mans face while I tore the others face away with my claws.

"HOLD IT!" a new voice snapped my attention around and I saw a tall dark man who often came and watched me from behind the door. "Come on boy. Let's go back to the cell."

"Mr Weyland."

He raised a stick and me and Loriana watched as a spark flew and hit her in the chest. She slowly fell and lay still on ground as a red pool formed around her. "Tut, tut, tut. See what happens when you both are naughty?" I felt my body start to shake as something warm spread inside of me and Loriana watched me. "I mean, it's your fault, if you hadn't tried to escape."

My lips began to twitch.

"She would still be alive."

I opened my mouth and with Loriana and deafening hiss pierced around the building as the men around us fell clutching their hands to their ears till we closed our mouths. "Is that the best you got?"

A slow shuddering was felt through the floor and I felt my face move into what the girl had taught me was a grin. "What did you-" a deafening sound exploded around the room as the floor began getting torn away by black talon hands which reached in grabbing at the men dragging them through the floor. "THEY CALLED FOR SUPPORT!" the tall man shouted as he ran towards the door. Sparks flew around hitting the others but as they hit a liquid burst out the holes in their skin and the men began falling clutching themselves.

What was it that the girl had called it… blood? Our blood was just as dangerous as us.

"Watch out. They might have called…" I watched as the whole tunnel rope open and a roar shook every man who stood their as they turned and fled. "The Queen!" screamed one.

Never… ever… piss mother off.

Loriana growled at me with a snappy hiss and I nodded as my tail wrapped around the girl pulling her onto my bare back as we ran out the building.

I turned back and glanced once. The men were rallying with sticks that shot the thing which we feared. The girl often called it fire. We hated it more than anything else. I shook my head and felt fluid running down my eyes as I saw mother fall as she and the others were pushed back into the pit.

We would return. And we would free them.

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