The changes were immediate. My ear length hair turned green and I could feel my second stomach much emptier than it had ever been before. It would take some time to get used to. My harem members were more docile now that I was a higher level than them again. After a few in game months, my harem gave birth to my eggs and they were taken down to the lower levels to be cared for. I was also getting ready to give birth to the royal offspring inside me. Since I was carrying an egg, I could not take any oil until I gave birth to it. That sucked but it was okay. It was while we got to the Cosqux, we saw that if was now bearing fruit. The fruit was bigger and much heavier than a 30lb. bowling ball. I decided to take it back with us because we could plant it somewhere closer to us. When I asked King Zuhos he told us to take it in the opposite direction from the tree. We went about half the distance and dug a big hole. I carved the fruit away and put it in the hole. We covered it up with the displaced dirt and came back to the hive. I hoped it would grow soon.
One day as we were going about our business, the sky turned red. We were scared and huddled in until we saw a giant spaceship had entered the atmosphere. I knew what this was. It had to be the humans. Just because the humans were here did not mean they were friendly. Several smaller cruisers came down and they made a makeshift base within a feet. The fighters spied on them from a distance. That was how I was able to tell what they were doing. Their large droids and robots did most of the work for them. We all stayed inside. Eventually, they found us. We were out in the open after all. Zuhos had to respond when they tried to signal at us. He told some of the fighters to bring them to him. The went out and brought five creatures with them. Only three were human. One was a 6 foot tall lizard woman and the other was a eight legged drider creature. "I am Zuhos, king of this hive of Dikir Phesurs. Tell us your purpose." our king said. "Thank you for welcoming us in your home. We are ambassadors of the Intergalactic Neighbors Alliance, INA for short." the lizard said.
A human male then said "We are a coalition of friendly planets who strive for peace, cooperation and trade between member planets." Zuhos looked terribly confused. He called me out and pointed at them. I nodded and walked up to them. I said "I am Daara. I can be a speaker for our hive. How did you find our hive." The drider said "We saw member of your hive watching us on our scanners. We tracked them here and decided to talk to you in peace." "I see. We are a new and small hive. There is not much to learn here." A human female shook her head and said "We only just landed on the planet. Whatever you could tell us about yourselves would be great. If I could ask some of you to come with us, that would be even better." I shook my head. I was not sure about something. I flew back to Zuhos and whispered in his ear. I asked "Do kings control multiple hives?" He frowned and said "Not unless they build them themselves or conquer them. Wovili has stood against invasion for many winters." I went back to the ambassadors. "Each hive is independent unless conquered."
Seeing their faces twist in thought I pressed "How would you propose allying yourself with all hives? There are many and many dislike the others." The female human said "We will do our best. If there is a conflict, we will have to decide who are the most conducive to our goals." "What are your goals?" I asked. The drider said "We catalogue sentient races and offer them a seat at the table of our alliance. You are the first candidate for a sentient species we have seen." "You can't tell we're sentient?" I scoffed. "It takes more than talking to prove sentience. And more than that to join the alliance. You need a culture a language, a writing system a form of government that has sizeable representation and the support of other races to join up." Is smirked and said "We have all of that." I looked around and pointed at the oldest one gathered. He was an artisan. "That artisan and our king can tell you all about our culture." I said. I then huddled them up and told them what we needed to do and show. They nodded and we went along with them. They were impressed.
