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EDIT: Crap, why the hell did this post show up???
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It must be an error.
Well heres more, I reckon it's getting shorter, but oh well.
CHAPTER THREE: QUEEN FLUFFY
Kico screamed at the top of his lungs, making his throat ache and scaring the babies, but he was too terrified out of his mind to acknowledge the fact. The massive creature still glared at him with those heart-freezing red eyes, still growled and breathed deeply with that bad breath that smelt like raw meat as he cried and shrieked and howled. He finally found sanity within him to run, but only hurt himself as his body met the dusty metal wall. He lay on his back in silent fear, finally feeling that pain in his throat as he heard the huge creature snarl. Then it spoke. In a hoarse, weak, croaky, aged voice.
“State…Your business…Here…” It choked, like its throat was clogged with mucus. He didn’t answer as the babies continued to whine and creak to the beast. At least it could speak, meaning it wasn’t some kind of killer animal. But it could still be a killer. It rumbled a frustrated snarl as the fear took hold of him once again.
“If you’re here…” She croaked. “To take MY BABIES AWAY FROM ME!” She screeched, so unlike her weak normal talking voice. “YOU CAN P*** OF OR I’LL KILL YOU LIKE YOU ALL KILLED HIM!” She screamed like a demon, scaring the young ones away, whimpering. “YOU B******S KILLED HIM BECAUSE OF THE WAY HE WAS BORN!” She shrieked, her furious voice echoing around the dark room. “AND YOU MADE HIM SUFFER!”
A booming screaming screech followed as the young ones squirmed for their lives to the other side of the room, a bed of grubbs that knocked him over. He fell onto the wet wriggling carpet of babies as they involuntarily moved him across the room and yelled as his head met with the hard metal wall. He moaned as his head ached and pounded as he lay against the hard wall, hearing the babies squeal and creak and whine and wriggle and crawl away from him. His heart pounded as he heard the creature breathe deeply in anger and growl in the darkness.
“I…” He choked, terrified and crying. He was answered by an agitated hiss. “I said STATE YOUR BUSINESS!” She screamed. The babies cried louder to the point they also screamed in the dark. Sobbing, he managed to choke up a reply.
“I…Don’t know…” He sobbed weakly. “They…The sligs…Threw me in here…” He cried quietly. The creature listened in the pitch black darkness. The babies were howling and screaming as they cried. She gave a bemused mumbling growling breath, before looking at him more closely. He wasn’t a slig, at least not a normal one. She could see his tail and arms with her lit up eyes, but also saw legs. Legs. He wasn’t a normal slig, and had no weapons. He couldn’t have been after the terrified creatures in the room. He wasn’t making a grab for them, with other sligs, keeping close to the hidden entry and exit behind her, or particularly confident. A slig sent in to snatch the young would know she couldn’t move her body, couldn’t hurt them if she tried as long as they stayed away from her torso, head and arms attached to her massive egg sack. She emitted a rattling sigh.
“I…Apologize…” She croaked weakly, partly from screaming her head off. “I thought-” She broke into an involuntary sudden and loud cough. “You were going to take them away from me…” Losing his fear but still shaken up, Kico stood up slowly. The whining babies still kept away from the beast. He looked at them, seeing their slimy bodies wriggle against each other. “Who’s them?” He asked, though he had a good idea of the answer. The huge creature whispered softly to the babies that calmed down upon hearing her voice in the darkness. “Shhhh…It’s okay…Mummy’s here, mummy wasn’t mad at you…” Their cries eventually lessened, and they crawled closer to her, avoiding Tiro and passing more quickly when they got near him. She looked down gently at them, before seeing his confused and curious expression. “They’re mine…They’re my babies…”
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He woke up when the train stopped rumbling and the doors opened loudly. Opening his eyes, he squeezed them shut again when the light came pouring in. The mudokons around him moaned and squeaked as the light strained their eyes and the sligs stood on the outside of the carriage. Seeing them, Kico got up. He knew well if he didn’t obey the sligs, he would get beaten. He nudged his two companions hard, making them moan in response.
“Kico? What time is it?” Lido muttered as he shook awake his other friend. “Time for work.” He answered, helping him stand up. He took his bucket and rag as his other friend awoke too, seeing he made more of an effort when he saw the sligs. “I’m scared guys…” Lido squeaked as he walked towards the open door. Sligs were yanking up the mudokons around them by the hair that weren’t getting up fast enough. “Tiro, what are we gonna do?” Said mudokon looked around as they walked involuntarily towards the open doors, surrounded by sligs. “I don’t know…” He whispered, holding his bucket and rag tight. “Let’s just do as we’re told…” The three friends winced as they saw other mudokons get beaten by the sligs, sligs with guns.
Terrified, they kept walking through the train station with the over a dozen more mudokons. Their bare feet touched the cold metal floor in the train station as the sligs led them through mercilessly, swearing and swinging their blunderbuss’s at them for the slightest excuse. Right then, Kico got a feeling of dread, along with all of the other mudokons. They might have escaped the horrors in the nursery, but this was going to be worse. There were no beds visible in the train station, the sligs had guns that hey beat them with and they remembered the new rules: Don’t go loafing around, keep on scrubbing and don’t speak and you won’t be shot. It was right then they knew they were heading out of the frying pan and into the fire.