"General, what should we do next?" A man in a suit sat right across a man in military uniform. With worry, he stared at the ceiling with a strange s.h.i.+ne in his eyes."Stop worrying and keep producing our babies. You are only female Sokk that has intelligence. We choose this world as it has enough food for our babies. They say we are mating a lot, but look humans..." His eyes were on screens showing the darkest side of humanity.
"Yes, I am glad that those dogs and rabbits and other creatures are in their eyes. Since I became higher intelligence I want my children to be smart as well. Luckily I met you. Come, let"s make more. Soon our first babies will be born and we will need to gather more food for them." He looked at the dozen strange-looking coc.o.o.ns hanging in sealing.
"Yes. It seems since we got our human form, we don"t need direct to plant babies into foods body, like those lower Sokk. I plan to help that human girl and that Oi to rot out those lower Sokk. Our children need food after all as well. Why wasting on unworthy." As he went to the next room tens of thousands of coc.o.o.ns in different size were hanging on sealing. "At least a dozen of them will be soon ready."
The man patted the nearest coc.o.o.n softly. "Yes, the others will need many decades to grow. Let"s go."
Hand in hand they entered their main bedroom and changed their appearance. In their true form, they can produce many eggs while in their human form only one or two.
So they used their true form to continue producing their kind. A new strand of their race. To them, it didn"t matter how they looked in human form. It was anyway too inefficient and they had to mate with human women.
Not only they found it unpleasant, but their genes were also overpowered by human genes so they could produce only normal humans. Not their kind.
After meeting by chance, they realized that it was much more convenient being together in true form. Luckily there are enough such partners.h.i.+ps so no one found it strange that two men were living together. But in this case, they didn"t do it like humans, for love. It was something that they couldn"t stop, even if they became intelligent.
It"s their original need for mating and producing more of their offspring. No love, care or anything like that. Just pure reproduction. Nothing more or less.
Kendra spread her senses and could now feel vibrations of this world creatures. Just not in the whole world. Unfortunately, her senses were not that strong.
"There are five dogs, two cats and about five hundred rabbits with Sokk inside. Let"s hurry. They are moving in the group to the next human settlement, I fear they plan to get a snack or two today." She flew directly towards the direction and was followed by Oi that had a strange expression.
"Your powers grew again. How?" He was seriously curious.
"I"m cultivating. If your kind did that as well, they wouldn"t need to eat other creatures to get needed power. Just use way to gather energy from the awakening of the universe." Explaining to him she waved her hand and the creatures turned into dust. Not even a sound was heard when she finished.
She was after Sokk already one more year and they found many. But lately, she had that strange foreboding feeling that something big might happen.
Oi could see her eyes and turned his head as he stared at the spot where just tiny heaps of dust were left and were spread by slight wind. Her powers in this one year rose scarily and now he realized that it was a better idea to be her friend than an enemy.
"General sent me more pictures of unusual happenings among animals." He showed her strange gradations forming that made no sense. Rabbits, tigers, dogs, cats, snakes and many more would walk in a group and attack any human they could smell in their range.
"Let"s handle these and then I"ll need to clean up those among humankind." Kendra floated towards another group of animals that just came out of the forest and waved her hand.
Oi froze. "Sokk is to low in intelligence. He is that"s why only using the animal form. There are no Sokk among humans. At least I didn"t feel any."
But Kendra smirked. "Your mind is too narrow. You think everyone is so cute like your women. Humans are disgusting sometimes. In few world"s I met humans that did stupid things, but not on their own violation. Its because they had crazy bugs in their heads. But not all have that excuse."
Lately, not only the animals started acting strangely. Some humans became more evident online. They were talking about their experience with good looking men and women that were mating like crazy in the underground world.
She furrowed her eyebrows. "Those stories about mating humans... I must consider. They might be just normal crazy people and might be Sokk that gained intelligence. I realized that even the Calah got intelligence, why wouldn"t a few Sokk as well?"
Oi just silently followed her. True, if there are other kinds that evolved, why wouldn"t that kind as well. But then stopped.
Kendra saw his strange behaviour. "What is it?"
"I fear that if Sokk gained intelligence, it will use it to become powerful. And I fear I know why some people came to me. If they were Sokk, they would know about my portal ability. Kendra, I"m sorry. All this time I don"t want to see the other truth. I fear..." He closed his eyes as he realized how literally lucky he has met her. "Can you destroy my ability to pa.s.s through s.p.a.ce? Please?"
Kendra shook her head. "I"m not powerful enough. I can"t stop you, but I can make a s.h.i.+eld around this realm impenetrable. Like that no other creature can enter."
His face became sad. "So you plan..."