The hivemind is conquering for me?

After making her intentions well known to the scavengers in the room, that she will be the one with Apollo next, Onyx placed down Sophia carefully before looking around the room. "Ugh, fixed points are the worst when they don't revolve around you, my universe." "This was a fixed point? But there did not seem to be anything out of the ordinary?" I asked confused.

"Not this moment exactly Apollo, The face that one over there is making the first time she sees me is the fixed point." Looking in the direction Onyx's tail was pointing, Samantha had her eyes glued upon Onyx's form, her face awash with reverence and worship.

"Oh a stalker gene-caste? Well I did not expect you to bring such an elite and unique bio-form with you my sweet. That being said, I'm not too sure how you are planning to have your way with Daddy~ here as your form has no reproductive organs" Sophia said with a hint of intrigue in her voice.

Onyx did not respond with words, for a moment her eyes shone green before morphing her body into her humanoid form. standing on her toes, She leaned over and rested her head on my shoulders while her arms wrapped around my midsection.

"Oh trust me infiltrator, even if I did not have this form, I would find a way for my universes seed to enter my body." She said While tightening her arms around my torso, threatening to cleave me in twain.

Sophia was caught awestruck for a moment. 'what a unique ,even by stalker standards, stalker.' Looking to her left Samantha was standing there still with her mouth open in an 'O' shape. "Samantha!" Calling her to attention. "Stop standing there with your mouth agape like a fish and go I told you the command has been given."

Samantha tore her gaze away from Onyx very reluctantly, but listening to her mothers instructions she followed through. "As you wish mother." turning to me she grew a blush for a moment before saying "G-Goodbye Daddy." Before she sprinted out of the room.

With her gone a silence hung in the room for a moment before I spoke with laboured breaths, "Onyx, hah, can you let me go, hah, I'm about to lose my legs." Upon realising she was clutching me while holding very little back, She released me with a "Whoopsie~" letting out a sharp breath of relief I muttered. "What is with this hive and almost crippling me."

With the sexual tension that one was now vanished into the air, I sat back down on the couch next to another clinger and questioned Sophia. "So what is this command you have given to Samantha then?"

Taking her seat next to me Sophia responded. "Oh its nothing much my sweet, The family will always have a part of their original species stuck in them therefore to appease that side of them, I have put together a little party downstairs for you.

Upon hearing party, Onyx's head perked up before whispering the word. "shrimp." Knowing her favourite food would be there she silently left the VIP suite to consume as much as she could as this would be her first time physically eating it.

Meanwhile I replied Sophia. "A party? Sounds like fun. How many of the family are here for it?" "While In the best case scenario The whole cult would attend as they would hope, sadly a lot of them are off world or in high political or military positions and cannot make it.

plus on top of the available space while also keeping the nightclub open to the public for appearance, only 3000 have made it tonight."

"Wow 3000? That is quite an amount for little old me. Oh by the way just out of curiosity how much of the population have you managed to 'bring into the fold'?"

Sophia took a moment to calculate her sub-hive brain that is connected exclusively to her following before replying. "As of right now my sweet, roughly 0.00002% of the population has been successfully bonded with a parasite.

The number could be much higher but I have been methodical with my approach only targeting, for the most part, the north hemisphere patrons of my establishment as they have a much better chance of getting into important jobs which are useful to me as spies."

"That number seems Low but I don't know the population of the planet could you tell me?" I asked not wanting to discredit her effort." Of course the current population of the planet is roughly 500 billion humans on this planet alongside 8 billion Sepiida according to the last census."

I grew shocked at the population of this planet and grew more shocked by how many people She had managed to poison without drawing attention to herself. Leaning over I placed a kiss on her cheek. "Well done Sophia, making 100,000 cultists without alluring suspicion is very impressive."

Sophia let out a giggle and blushed at the compliment before standing up. "Thank you my sweet, now come, If we leave the cultists alone for too long they will grow agitated."

As I was standing up to follow her, I reached for my backpack but she stopped me and said "You may leave that there for now, It will be safe in here." "Ok thats fine but I'm going to bring Zircon for the safety of your staff." Opening the top of the metallic bag with a bit of difficulty, as I could not use my telepathy to command it, Zircon, still in her sheath Flew out of the bag and began floating around me.

Strapping her onto my back I then proceeded to follow Sophia out of the suite where I was once more introduced to the stentorian music that was playing. Luckily for my eardrums the crowd even in their drunk, dancing stupor parted for us upon seeing Sophia and we made It to the bar with relative ease.

Upon reaching the bar we walked behind it and into a doorway and corridor that eventually led to an elevator. Upon stepping inside and It begun its descent a unique piece of music began playing inside that sounded familiar in a weird way.

Noticing my questioning look, Sophia gave an answer in annoyance. "The sound is integrated into the actual electricity of the elevator I cannot stop it from playing and I've had countless mechanics look at it. Even Ronnie said the elevator only thinks this song over and over.

The creator of this piece of machinery is pure evil." Orchid also looked very displeased by the music but I thought it was actually quite upbeat but from the look of their scowls, I decided to keep that to myself.

20 seconds of uncomfortable elevator silence later, a ding was heard and the doors opened. With a breath to calm herself Sophia stepped out of the elevator and Orchid and I followed her down another corridor until we were in front of a double door. It was at this point Sophia turned around and spoke to me with a blush on her face.

"My sweet, Inside I will be putting on a performance and will change slightly , Don't think less of me when you see it." A smile caught my face at her shyness. "I could not think less of you if I tried-" I was about to continue but Sophia body began to twitch.

blood began to seep out of her mouth as sharp teeth began taking form while her fingernails grew sharper and from her back two wing like appendages sprouted from her back.

With her white dress now stained red she removed it showing her immaculate form and changed into a hooded robe that was stationed for her beforehand nearby. Placing it on with her wings passing through specially placed slits she looked back at me with a look prepared for pain.

Sophia had not had full access to the link for the last two decades only getting short snippets every so often so she was not sure If her mate would appreciate her current appearance. This was the last remnants of her previous form, the rest consumed or used to make nest pods to strengthen her following.

" I know you did not find Samantha's appearance unappealing but she still looked mostly human. Therefore I'm sorry if you find this version of me undesirable but If I remove any more my gene structure will collapse."

Sophia had spent too much time around humans to begin worrying about her appearance like this. To throw her emotions in the other direction to stop her from spiralling I asked a simple question. "What are your wings for?" "huh?" Sophia grew confused when I did not comment on the rest of her body and just her wings but still answered regardless.

"They are vestigial Apollo, Some of the fresh cultists like seeing more alien looking parts so I sprouted these."

"Hmmm ok thats cool I guess, lets head in then."

Sophia was confused by my indifference and questioned "You don't hate my current form?" "To be honest Soph, not much has changed with you. You grew wings and got bloody, I once made out with a gore drenched Orchid and had Ker'min blood get all up in my mouth, it was nasty but I didn't really care about it."

Holding her hand carefully not to get cut I affirmed her. "Looks are secondary to me, I fell in love with the hive not its bio-forms. So stop acting like a big human baby and lets go meet the family."

A wave of relief washed over Sophia and with new confidence, she pushed the questions for Apollo to the back of her mind for later, she mantled her Mother Persona and pushed open the doors.