The dream I had was rather unusual as I slept with the larvae in my shirt. I stood in between 2 figures, one looked like it was injected with Xenomorph DNA, the other was me when in my human form. In the middle, I looked like Xavier with claws and a tail. When I moved my arm to my right, it turned color and texture to that of the Xenomorphs, and then moved to the left, the claws were gone.
As I tried to figure out what was going on, the words: "don't hold on to what you were in the past, for you won't make any progress if you do," echoed in my mind. It sounded like Xavier's voice. Those words made me think about my future. Would I end up living in the hive with him during college?
That's when I saw Xavier walk behind the one to my right. "Remember what you said to me, no matter who you are your still human in the eyes of the lord," he said to me.
"Yeah and what about it?" I asked him.
"Well there's something we know and it's something even Xol doesn't," he replied.
"And a human Xenomorpth hybrid standing next to you is important how?"
"Nathan, how'd you feel if you had this under your belt too? You wouldn't be having to worry about Facehuggers anymore," he said to me.
"That seems nice and all Xaviar but I don't know if I can handle it," I replied.
"Come over here and feel it course through you," he replied.
I walked over to him and as I did my body began to change. I felt their flesh on my body and it felt somewhat nice. once I got to him I was completely transformed. I felt strength run through me like never before to the point it was almost too much to handle. "This is a lot of strength coursing through me. It's almost too much," I told him.
"You'll get used to it Nathan if you decide to go for it," he replied.
"I might but I'll have to talk to my grandma," I replied
"Good, now wake up Nathan we have to get going in an hour," he said to me before I woke up.
"Had a good nap?" Xavier said to me. I look at my skin to find it normal. I look in the shirt to find the larvae still in the shirt, calm as can be.
"Yeah, what was that dream for?" I asked.
"I just keep having dreams of you loving that new form and living among me and my own hive," he replied. I tried to get the larvae to come out of my shirt.
"You're coming out buddy, I can't bring you with me for now," I said to it. But no luck, it kept rubbing against me. I got up and out of the bed, then it tried to move up my shirt to my neck. I reached into my shirt and grabbed it before handing it to Xavier. "Find somewhere here to keep it safe, I'll get my stuff ready," I said to him.
As we headed to the campus I felt something off, as if there was some danger on the horizon. Once we got there I saw Franklin and he looked at Xavier in confusion. "Nathan, is he a friend of yours?" Franklin asked me.
"Yeah, he is, also you remember that I almost got grabbed by dragons here" I replied.
"You say that why?" He asked. That's when I switched forms to reveal my black scales.
"So they finally got you didn't they. I remember that black dragon used to just lay there and watch you play volleyball in the sand court outback" he said to me.
"It was the black one that got me as well. It seems scary at first, but once it turns you, you soon realize it's nothing to be scared of," I replied.
"But you got into her arms no problem. You seemed like you trusted her," He replied.
"That's because I wanted this to happen to me I couldn't be without her," I replied.
"That's nothing to be ashamed of," he replied.
After we got our meal cards and keys, we headed to the 2nd floor to put our bags in our room and I find my roommate in there unpacking his bags. "Never expected my roommate to be a dragon shifter," he said to me.
"Yeah, just expect me to be asleep on the floor, a friend of mine is here too and let's just say our link is in one large group" I replied.
"He's the half breed in the neighboring room isn't he" he replied. I look out the door to find Xavier trying to get his bag open.
"Nathan, do you have a wall charger on you?" He asked.
"Yeah let me get it" I replied.
"Did he say something to you?" He asked. I nodded yes and then he backed up from my largest bag. "You better not have a facehugger in that bag!" He said to me.
"I don't live with Xavier nor his hive. The only one I know of that Xavier had with him latched onto me before I got here," I replied.
"How long ago was that?" He asked.
"Eight hours, maybe an hour or so less" I replied.
Then he said something that made me think about what Xavier was hiding from me: "you know, there's a bigger reason than those facehuggers why not many people will go as far as you have to be friends with people like him,"
"And that would be?" I replied. He pulled out his iPhone showing a picture of someone who looked like they've been injected with one side of Xavier's DNA. "He might know that there's something rare about you, Nathan," he said to me.
"I never expected them to link me with the hive mind in the first place, even though it helps us communicate. I was just there getting him home after we got back, and I ended up staying the night," I said to him.
"I saw you on the news from time to time. Nathan, you used to help people escape being grabbed since you were 7. Did you by any chance do that for him?" He asked me.
That's when Xavier walked into the room saying: "you saved me from people with blunt instruments. Don't you remember, that's why I'm also a dragon shifter like you." That's when it started to come back to me. My captor grabbed us mid-fight and laid low in the woods. He kept a hold onto her hoping to get taken by her. But he got taken by a blue dragon instead.
"I did something greater than that, I saved him from being beaten, possibly to death," I replied.
"Nathan, something like that would usually get a hive queen's attention if he's her son." I stood there in shock.
"Xavier is that true, you're the prince of that hive?" I asked him. He nodded yes before heading out of the room to head downstairs.
After 20 minutes we went around campus on a tour of the general area we'd be in. But once we got to the cougar statue my Symbiote decided to show itself by covering my shirt and tightening around me as if trying to hug me. "Nathan I didn't expect that to be on you," Franklin said to me.
"That was on me since a dragon camp I went to," I replied. The Symbiote was happy about the taste of the supreme slice I ate. it wasn't picky like I was with what I ate, and lately, I hadn't eaten a diverse palette of foods.
Once we got back to the dorms and switched into gym pants. I heard someone scream in the neighboring room. "Xavier careful with your tail, you nearly smacked me in the butt with it!" His roommate shouted.
"I've had that happen to me before," I said to him.
"Are you the one that can hear him?" He asked.
"Yeah, Xavier's sorry about that, aren't you Xavier," I replied.
"You knew what I would say, Nathan," Xavier said to me.
As we were heading to the gym, I could feel my Symbiote going through my arms and legs. "Your arms could use some work," it said to me.
"My endurance needs work too but with my medical conditions, I can't improve" I replied.
He let out a slight grunt before saying: "believe me, you got a lot more now that I'm around."
"Yeah as I've heard from others before, but one time you did take over my body and eat the Recess in the fridge one time without me knowing, and I was wondering why there was a peanut butter taste in my mouth until my grandma told me" I replied.