Gaunt,
Human,
12 years ago
This was nostalgically serving, digressing, a turning ..
A grimaced claw scraped over what was the face of a long gone Human soldier, too bloody and disfigured to even recount amongst the seemingly living tide of corpses that fell in defeat, nothing discriminatory about it anymore..
That Gaunt had somehow kept his head down and out of the fire was questionable, reeling his head, he heard the whirl of a metallic number. Guns firing, Brother and Sister, Xeno and Yautja, even unlucky Humans screamed in ache and terror as volleys opened, forcing the snake like chestburster to rake his seat on the battlefield with a sharp tear of it's semi-developed mandibles, taking cover inside the bones of the lone husk of a man that was.
It grinned silently, the obvious hunger made it want to tear and swallow the works of it's current shelter in a stupidly unbridled state of mind, which would only serve in a waste of time, what good was it eating cold meat, especially when the blood was dry.
His senses determined his outcomes, a Prince was on the field, about time, had it been mesmerized in the mixed bodily fluids of the dead for so long? His synapse was questionable, all Gaunt heard was bellowing screaming, like what a Human might shout to their .. pets? Dogs, perhaps. MORE HOSTS, ONLY HOSTS!! DOMINATE!
The Hive was on top in this conflict, for the moment at least, every participant was making a bitch out of another, misdirected drives causing all the fuss, with uncanny inner conflicts of some nature, it made him snigger.
The whirls of the hail fire were disbanded and scattered, lone creatures all at their whits ends, others of their kin a desecrated mess for everyone to see, monuments of pain to the senseless few.
He darted from the shelter that had abode so well for him, sliding away into the brush, almost unnoticed in the insuring conflicts, the fight that just seemed to grow, with several of his Brothers now engaged, backing, and getting close to the Alpha as the parred off with The Hunters and remnant Humans.
His small mass hidden in the darkened brush, the lack of already limited light around making him feel like a ghost. Gaunt faced to the conflict, tracing the grounds, it was scattered, messy, several participants swinging anything they fear flaunt into the fray, typical Yautja, the combistick wielders, something he didn't appreciate getting batted about by.
A Hunter, as a host. A small shiver erupted down his carapace. Look what that effort yielded last time, FireHunter, an almost unstoppable killing machine that set the Hive above the rest ...
Two would be plenty, three's a crowd. Gaunt loved crowds.
The was only one, he recognized the scent, a indicative of the Drone, a fabled Brother. Tawganator, he'd never ask how that name originated, but it was more than worthy of naming, as it currently pinned a Hunter in it's claws.
If only it were that easy.
Gaunt took a paced and careful bounding locomotive start, he burst from the brush that he had inhibited and headed off, to the direction of his Brother. The scent of the Hunter it pinned, was all too familiar, if it was, Gaunt knew, punishment was indue.
It took two to tango, but this was a flamenco.