27 Business Cockblocked? Blame The Receptionist! (1/2)

Lyra was starting to feel panicky, she had been in this stalemate for five minutes already, she either had to disengage and head back to try and escape with Yu, or she had to risk getting seriously injured to kill the drones

But the choices were nearly identical, if she tried to run with her master they wouldn't make it past the huge numbers, if she got a crippling injury here she wouldn't be able to fend off the incoming bees, either way they would die

Without noticing it she was steadily cornered into the wall, if she didn't decide now the drones might decide for her

The walls here were honeycombs made of wax, they had a dome shape to them that curved upward, if they got near then the drones could use the comb's dangerously to their advantage

Suddenly an idea popped in her head, and instead of trying to get away from the wall she headed straight to it

Seeing her do so the drones gave pursuit, the small distance between them and the wall wouldn't give her enough momentum to jump, thus they would have cornered her from all sides with her back to the wall

Lyra seemed stubborn though and ran as fast as she could anyway, she got faster and faster but alas she couldn't make enough momentum to jump and the wall was already in front of her

Buzz

The drones were delighted, the mad wolf won't be able to slow down and will crash into the wall, they dove with their top speed to sting her to death, they will definitely not give her a chance to run around anymore

Crash!

But they were destined to be disappointed, Lyra hadn't gone mad as they thought, instead she used whatever speed she built to run up the wall, the curve gave her just the right angle to get above the drones taking a big bite of its head while the other one crashed into the wall

Buzz

What she didn't take into account was that the third drone was lagging behind its brothers due to its earlier position to intercept her, thus it gave it the best distance at which Lyra couldn't dodge when she jumped off the drone's back

There was nothing she could do, she had tried her best, she did everything she could do and maybe more, still though, a feeling of regret welled up within her as she thought of the night from before, they would not be able to see the night sky again, nor listen to the breeze, their journey would end he-

BIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

A resounding buzz rang through the lair, it rattled the eardrums of both Lyra and the last drone who turned to his head toward the queen only to see a bolt sticking out of its waist, causing the drones instincts to scream at it to go protect the queen

Lyra was surprised as well but as she had been falling off the dead drone she couldn't spare the time to remove her sight from the living one, thus when she saw the momentary gap of focus she instantly used it to jump slightly right of the stinger, grazing her fur just enough for some blood to come out, other than that she didn't suffer any form of poison

The drone, noticing it missed its chance, tried to make the best of the situation by turning its stinger to toward the Lyra, but that was the worst move it could have made, owing to its rage, as Lyra was already by the stingers side, making impossible to move it back and pierce before she bit the living hell out of the mad bee, which she did

”Nice job not taking your eyes off it, we would have been goner if you did”

Approached the hero of the day, Yu, with a taunting smile on his face, he really wanted to give the wolf the same taste of its medicine, which she indeed hated if her scrunched up face was any indicator

”Well I'll gloat later, the guy that crashed into the wall is getting back up, and that queen is still alive”

The drone managed to slow down enough not to suffer much damage from the crash, but it still left it verbal, and Lyra made short work of it before they headed toward the screeching queen

Upon getting close enough Yu noticed that the queen hadn't taken any action other than screeching and glaring at them with its large five eyes

'Why is it not moving? Even if it can't fight it can at least run'

”Be careful, it might have something up its sleeve”

Yu sharpened his sight and so did Lyra, they wanted to know what the queen had hidden for them

The two opposing partied kept glaring each other down, before an unexpected development occurred…

”Ha hahaha, never mind, this thing isn't just not dangerous, its particle useless”

Lyra looked at Yu as if he was mad, he was laughing while they were running out of time, did he not know that hundreds of bees were flying outside, waiting to barge in any second now