Excalibur sat on the floor, leaning against the wall near the door, the only ones actually speaking were Jim and the Queen, Excalibur was bored, but thankfully he was no longer hungry. "Well, I think we're all done here" Jim said, obviously unhappy that they were ending their meeting "Um, yes, of course" The Queen said and she stood up from the chair, stepping away and towards the automatic door. "Lets leave" she said and she led Zagara and Dehaka out, but Excalibur wasn't paying attention and he continued leaning against the wall, til he felt something sharp poke him in the back "Excalibur" The Queen said sharply and he jumped.
"What?" he asked turning to look at the queen, his eye lids drooping and his tone tired "It's time to go" she said, stooping down and picking him up. The Zerg and Changeling entered the metal tube, the door closed "Do you love him?" Excalibur asked, his eyes blurring from exhaustion. "Huh?" she asked
"Do you love that Jim fellow?"
"Why would you ask that?"
"Because I'm not hungry"
The Queen sighed "I can't argue with you, because you're right" she said, walking down the near endless tube, "How long til I arrive home?" he asked, almost asleep. Excalibur felt a claw run across his head, neck, and frill, he purred like a cat and it only made him closer to sleeping "Soon little one" she said as he fell asleep.
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Later...
Excalibur shifted in his sleep, he felt something familiar pressing into the far edges of his mind, It's presence was demanding his attention, his dreams were affected by this, but it wasn't malevolent, it filled his dreams with the sound of buzzing wings and the speaking of his people, he was within range of his home at last and he felt his hive-mind once more, but his dreams were cut short by an awful shaking that woke him. He moved slowly and sluggishly as he pulled himself to his feet, but he flew forward when the Leviathan shook painfully, "Excalibur, get of your lazy ass and get to work" Zagara screeched at him "Whats happening?" he asked, pulling himself up warily.
"Protoss at attacking us" she said and offered no explanation as to what, when, where, and why, but she had already rushed off towards the pod chamber, quickly shadowed by Excalibur. They arrived just as the Leviathan gave another painful shudder, Excalibur wasn't affected because he was in the air, while Zagara was just unaffected. "Get in a pod" Zagara said and when Excalibur didn't react, she growled, grabbed him, and tossed him into a pod full of Vipers (Dragonfly Mutalisks). "You'll be leading them in battle, use your hive mind to control them or they'll go feral" she said "and good luck" she added, her voice surprisingly warm, but their was sorrow hiding among her words that confused Excalibur, but before he could add anything, the pod launched out into space and towards a ship that Excalibur could barely make out through the skin of the pod.
The pod approached the ship quickly and before Excalibur knew it, the pod had slammed into the ship and through it's hull, freeing him and his zerg. The Zerg flew out quickly and began to kill the blue skinned creatures, without even receiving a command and no Zerg were lost in the small amount of time it had taken for them to be released from the pod and now. Excalibur looked at the, but now, their attention had turned from the blue skins, to him and their gaze was less then friendly, he cringed, what had Zagara said, control them with the hive mind, was that like communicating via hive mind, oh Crysalis, he was sure to die.
They began to advance towards him, not quickly, but slowly, "Shit, shit, shit" he muttered, beginning to hover backwards a little, but they came as well. "Stop, um, Halt" he kept saying, but the advance never ceased. Excalibur felt something cold brush his flank and he saw they had backed him into a corner "Damn it" he near sobbed, the beast were very close now that he could feel their breath and now they were on top of him, In near perfect unison, they raised their claws to strike him and they came do with extreme speed...
Stop, Please
He waited for the claw to slash him, but they never came, he peeked up and saw they were still as Discord in his stone prison, minus the moving wings. He pondered something, he had said to stop mentally, had he used his hive mind? if he had, then awesome. Um, Attack the Protoss, he mentally tested and the Vipers zoomed of into the distance and Excalibur heard screams of agony and the bloodthirsty screeches of the Vipers. Excalibur near burst with glee, he could control Zerg, awesome.
Excalibur followed the Zerg as they killed and maimed the protoss, the Zerg were taken out in large numbers, but as were the protoss. "Kill them all!" Excalibur screeched, fueled by adrenaline, he even ran forward from behind the Zerg and with a quick lunge and leap, stabbed a protoss through the gut, he pulled his head up and tearing his horn out of the protoss's gut, increasing the size of the wound. Excalibur laughed, it was something different then any laugh he had uttered, it was a cold and maniacal laugh that anyone who knew him would look at him differently, but he had never killed before other then for hunting, but this was different and it was exciting.
Excalibur turned around from his blind charge and saw his forces had been practically decimated in the short period and only one remain of his Viper's, but only one protoss remained. He wore rags held on him by pieces of gold armor and with near effortless force, he sprang forward and cut of the Viper's head, the protoss turned to him and look him in the eyes. "You aren't Zerg, then why do you fight for them" he said, his voice like a whisper through the wind, "Why is it your concern!" Excalibur screeched and with speed he never thought he possessed, leaped at the protoss, his horn flying towards it's head.
The protoss grabbed him by the face, not even touching his horn "A warning unto you" he whispered and Excalibur saw a vision so unlike the others he had witnessed before.
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The Queen stood alone upon a pile of bodies, flames surrounding her, she cast her gaze backwards and smiled wickedly, her eyes glowing with a cold and cruel light. From the flames emerged a terran, crawling towards her, The Queen's wings were pulled behind her body and when the terran pushed his hand forward for help it all happened so quickly, the sudden movement of her wings, the look of fear and surprise on the man's face, and finally the quick movement forward into the man's skull.
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Excalibur was standing still as stone on the ground, having been put down by the protoss in the midst of the vision, he pulled his hand away from his face and carefully watched his reaction. "n- No, she promised to help" he mutter, what was to happen to the Changeling's when he arrived home, would they be murdered?. "No, Your LYING!" He cried, unwilling to believe what he had seen and he leaped at the protoss, eyes wide open, but he didn't see the protoss react and with startling speed, slash him with a glowing green blade. Excalibur fell to the ground, he was awake, but he couldn't see from his left eye, but his right field of vision registered a growing pool of blood on his left side right before he blacked out.