“This is great!” A spirit said. “We should have done this well before the wolfgirl suggested it!”

That was a sentiment most of the spirits within the hive agreed on. Currently the hive was on the fifth floor, well within the cave forest, and most of the spirits were enjoying the change of scenery. The Nature spirits within the hive especially loved the feel of being in the forest again, even if it was one they had created themselves. The sense of the grass, the feel of being between the trees, the chirping of the birds…okay, there’re no birds yet but that’s something the hive could remedy easily.

Most of the other spirits enjoyed it because it was a welcome change after so long on the third floor. Sensing the various creatures running around in the forest were a good distraction for the spirits and the hive also found it easier to make decisions after shredding the Fire spirits. With less spirits inside the hive, the spirits found that it was easier to get consensus and the fact that they no longer had to put up with the Fire spirits’ daily stupidity was another such plus. Unfortunately, the hive was about to discover that all good things end sooner rather than later.  

*Hey wimps! Wimps! You guys there?*

*Of course we’re here. What do you Fire idiots want?*

*What we want is to eat! This is not working.*

*What do you mean it’s not working?*

*It’s not working. We’re still having problems feeding?*

*You do? We’re already 2 floors below you guys, you still can’t feed?*

*Not well. It’s better than previously when we can’t feed at all but most of the spirits are still drawn to you guys.*

*…well, there’s nothing we can do about it. We’re already 2 floors down from you.*

*Go further down, or stop eating!*

*Hey, you Fire morons are not the only ones who need energy. We need to eat too. As for going down, you guys need to wait. The sixth floor is still under construction.*

*Well, this is certainly not working. We can feed enough to sustain ourselves and do some minor things but it’s going to take forever to be full.*

Hearing the Fire Hive’s words, the hive pushed their senses onto the third floor. Since the spilt, the hive had been having issues seeing the third floor. It was as if there was something covering the floor, preventing them from entering. The hive needed to spend more energy to break into the floor and that was what they did now. What they saw surprised them.

*By the 99 Gods, what did you guys do? Why are there torches on the walls everywhere? And are those mines in your room? Why you put mines there?*

*…well, you know how we had been saying how easy it had come for the humans to kill You-Who-Are-Not-Bear and Smoky? We’re thinking of doing something in the room to make it more interesting.*

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*So the mines are…?*

*Our traps don’t affect our creatures right? So our lizard could walk all over the mines with no problem, but if a human step on them while fighting our lizard…Boom!*

*That’s…that’s…that’s a pretty good idea. Why couldn’t you Fire idiots have ideas like when we were together?*

*We did! We just couldn’t get the rest of you to agree. At times, our ideas were dismissed even before we could voice them!*

*Because they are usually incredibly stupid!*

*…*

*Okay, maybe once in awhile you fools could come up with something interesting.*

*…why thank you for that amazing praise...*

*We are regretting it already!*

*So you guys want to know what our plan is or not?*

*…go on.*

*We placed 6 mines all over the room and when the humans enter, our lizard will fight and at the same time try to make the humans step on the mines. This will surprised them and give our lizard chances for some easy kills.*

*…*

*Come on, admit it!*

*…*

*Admit it…*

*…*

*Admit…*

*Okay already! It’s a great idea! Happy? Enough with the gloating already! And no wonder you guys aren’t filled! Look at all these useless stuff you guys created! Why put torches on the walls?*

*We’re Fire spirits; it only makes sense for us to have some fire on our floor right? Besides, they don’t cost much. Our feeding problem has nothing to do with the torches and mines. The problem is that most of the energy is still going to you guys!* 

*Nothing we can do about that! Nothing you can do about that! Unless you guys want to move elsewhere there’s…*

The sudden idea struck a chord with the hive. The spirits within the hive began discussing the idea in earnest and there were no objections. Having the Fire spirits moving out of the tunnels was a great idea. Surprisingly however, the Fire hive beat them to the punch.

*Where should we go?*

*Wait; you Fire fools agree to move out?*

*Sure. You think we want to near you guys? There’s only the question of where to go.*

*We should ask the wolfgirl. Maybe she knows a place.*

*Preferably somewhere with a lot of fire…*

*Take the hellhounds with you!*

*What? What are the hellhounds?*

*The dogs you guys created that breaths fire. That’s what we named them.*

*You named them? You can’t name them! They’re ours! We created them, so we should be the ones who named them!*

*There’s no rules stating that…*

*WE NEVER EVEN TALK ABOUT IT BEFORE! Why you fools called them ‘hellhounds’ anyway?*

*Because we knew you Fire morons would be mad as hell when you heard that we named your creation before you did. Are you?*

*OF COURSE WE ARE MAD AS HELL!*

*Success!*

*WELL, WE CAN PLAY THAT GAME TOO! We are naming your three-headed freaks…Cerebust!*

*Cerb…what’s a Cerberus?*

*A useless creations that’s certain to be a bust. Thus a Cerebust!*

*Cerberus? What’s a bust anyway?*

*A mistake! A failure! A…*

*There’s no such thing. You guys just made it up.*

*So? We make new things all the time, so we are now making words as well! Deal with it!*

It was then that some of the spirits within the hive noticed something peculiar. The forest was quiet; too quiet. The hive focused and found that the forest was almost empty! The hive was alone and the spirits quickly realized the reason; the ground was shaking. The argument between the two hives had caused shaking again and the hive didn’t even realized it! What’s worse was that the third, fourth and fifth floors were all affected by the shaking.

The hive immediately retook control and stopped the shaking while wondering how long has it been since the shaking had begun. They need to apologize to the creatures; the spirits knew how much they hated the shaking. The hive sensed the tunnels and discovered that the wolfgirl, Alpha and Chieftain were at the entrance and they looked worried. Oh no…!

The spirits listened in to the trio who were speaking to one of the Crowman and were delighted by what they were saying. They weren’t talking about the shaking; they were talking about something else. Something that sounded wonderful to the hive!     

*Hey Fire, we need to discuss this later. We’re going to have visitors.*

*Visitors…what visitors would…oh, you mean humans?*

“Yeah, and this time there’s a lot of them!*

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