Odyssey II Chapter 5

"Shit," Maya said, surprisingly calm. She closed the door behind her.
"What the Hell have you -" Paul exclaimed, and was cut short when their eyes met, Maya's gaze boring into his skull, making his eyes water and the tentacles on his back quiver.
Strangely enough he thought he could hear Tal'shen cry out from somewhere in his brain in a language Paul did not know but understood somehow.  "No, please, Sister-Progeny!"
"What the-" he started to say, and was interrupted by another voice in the same weird language.
"No, sister. I have finally found a means to make our species survive," the voice said.
"Our species is doomed to extinction, Lysanna. Look, even your progeny has had to mutate to survive." Maya's voice hissed.
"Yes but this mutation means we can live in a new world. A new home."
"No. This ends today. I'm going to kill your pathetic offspring along with your absurd dreams."
The voices stopped and Maya wrenched her eyes away from Paul's. She fell to her knees, moaning. Paul looked at her, terrified, feeling palpitations from his own and Tal'shen's hearts inside him.
Maya took a deep breath. "Right." she said, then rose and extracted a syringe from her pocket. Tal'shen squealed, and Paul stood up, the tentacles reaching for and sticking to the wall to keep him upright.
"Sorry you got dragged into this," Maya said.
"Please stop her!" Tal'shen whimpered to him in his subconscious. Maya swung her knife, and Paul ducked. But the tentacles were too slow in detaching themselves from the wall, and he felt a stab of pain and Ta'shen scream as the knife sliced through one of alien limbs, which fell to the floor in a pool of multicoloured blood. Paul tugged on the remaining tentacles, only to be jerked back against the wall, trapped. Maya smiled and moved towards him, her stained blade dripping rainbow blood in one hand, the threatening needle in the other.
"P-please." Ta'shen and Paul's merged voices pleaded.
Maya ignored them and raised her needle.
Suddenly a bubbling noise came from where the dead tentacle had fallen. Both Maya and Paul turned and saw the blood surrounding the tentacle foam over and submerge it. Paul gasped as the bubbling mass rose to form a humanoid shape.