Lord of the Flies

[WP] At the age of 18, everyone gains a Familiar, an animal suddenly enchanted to be intelligent and bonded to them. You wake up on your 18th birthday to find your room covered in hornets, all of them speaking to you as one.

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I had always dreamed it would be a lion. You know, like Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia. A big lion that would scare the sh!t out of all the bullies at school and would make me look cool in front of all the girls.

Tyler had an eagle that he flew into school with every day. Girls would die to get on that thing, same as Anny's horse. Even though Bella's moose couldn't follow her everywhere, seeing it at her house was pretty cool.

Of course, not everyone got cool Familiars. Jenny got a dog - almost everyone had a dog. That's like, normal. Albert got a goat. All it does is eat his homework and sh!t in their living room.

I didn't want that life,

Which is why I was particularly bummed to wake up to the buzzing of, what? A thousand hornets in my bedroom?

I was freaking out.

"Uh...Mom, can we call the exterminator?!" I shouted,

"What? Call the who, now? If not that we're supposed to be bonding with you, we'd have stung the daylight outta your ass," a sassy voice said, sounding k=like the buzzing of a thousand bees.

It was the collective voice of this bike of hornets.

If I could understand them, that meant...

"No, no, no, no! No No! This cannot be freakin' happening, You guys are my familiars?"

"Yeah. If it makes you feel any better, we are particularly bummed about this too," they buzzed.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"A tall, gangly nerdy 18-year-old who still has his solar system and miniature telescope in his room right next to his racecar bed? Even you would have rejected yourself," they said.

God! This was NOT happening.

"What the hell am I supposed to do with you guys now?"

"Bond. Live together. Symbiose. Haven't you read the Terms and Conditions or do we really have to go over the contract now?"

"I can't deal with this. I'm preparing for school. It's my final year, and just when I thought I'd get something to mess with those bullies, I get th-" he abruptly stopped, watching as his toothpaste and toothbrush floated towards him. On looking closely, he saw it was the joint effort of a lot of the hornets.

"As you can see, we are capable of performing some extraordinary feats. And if these 'bullies' are oppressing you, it would suffice to know that we are a strong destructive force," they buzzed as they gathered his table leg.

Within a minute, it had broken. They had chewed right through it.

"You guys do really have a few good things going for you, don't you? What is it you want?"

"A human body to occupy. We need shelter as we plan our invasion and domination of all other insect species on the world," they buzzed.

"Just insect species?" he asked, quietly.

"Animal species may follow suit. Why do you ask?"

He smiled as he beckoned them to come towards him.

"Maybe I have a few goals of my own."

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As he stood over the bodies of his bullies, most of them looking cadaverous and having 50% of skin eaten off, he smiled. First, it would be the school, then his neighborhood, then his town, city, and then the country.

"What are you thinking?" the hornets asked, ferociously hungry.

"Yes, I do have a few goals of my own."

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@Hanzell @Leo_kitti I'm pleased with this one.