Note: I do not own or have anything to do with The Predator franchise. The only reason why I have decided to write this fanfiction is for entertainment purposes and no profit will be made from it in any way, shape or form.

P.S. This fanfiction is a follow-up to Dangerous Romance: Sequel to Claimed by a Predator that takes place ten years after the end of Dangerous Romance.

Chapter One

Ten years had passed since the day when the invasion of the Yautja soldiers began due to her father and uncles having made the call for mother ships to arrive to Earth and help them during their battle with a group of human soldiers that were out to capture her mother, brother and herself and destroy her father and his kind, wiping them from existence. The surroundings she had grown up with had changed greatly.

In the course of a decade, there were more colonies forming with male and female yautjas living in homes with their human counterparts. It was becoming normal for humans and yautjas to be together in relationships with one another. Some of the unions were willing ones, such as her mom and step-dad and her mother's friend, Bridget, and her uncle, Draven. However, she had heard some tales of some humans being forced into relationships with yautjas under the threat of them being put into labor camps or facing punishments that would only have them agreeing to being with the predators just to stop the pain.

That was something she didn't hope to experience, but it was still a long ways off for her to deal with in her mind. She was only 15, fixing to turn 16 years old. The last thing she wanted to think about was the idea of having to plan herself for the day when she was to join a yautja as their mate. She had enough to worry about when it came to her studies and helping out with her ten year old brother, Autou, assisting her mother with chores around the house, and working on her training with her father who had been working to train her into a fierce, human predator.

Sitting in the privacy of her bedroom of the house that her birth parents were living at with her until she was adopted into a much better one, Mariah was finishing with getting herself ready for a day of school. She was blessed with the ability of getting to go back to public school when the yautjas managed to take over the education system and made it to where human and yautja children were to attend side by side with one another. She had missed it when she was little, and found it great when her parents allowed her to go back to school. Things were still a bit tense between the humans and yautjas, but it wasn't anything that had gotten too severe.

Slipping on a black short-sleeved top, dark denim jeans, and black sneakers, Mariah pulled her hair up into a ponytail and secured it with a couple of black hair ties. She looked to her reflection in the mirror while her ears picked up on the sound of a knock at her door. Her eyes remained on the mirror while she called out to whoever it was.

"Come in!"

Mariah turned around as the door was opening up, and found Marion to be there, smiling sweetly at her. She returned the smile to her as she approached her and held onto her hands. Her eyes locked with hers while she listened to her speak to her in a loving and tender tone.

"You get to start your junior year of high school today, Mariah," Marion said, "and I am so happy to see you becoming a smart and fierce young woman that is a force to be reckoned with."

"Mom..."

"I know, I know. I am being all mushy right now because my little girl is becoming a young woman." She released a heavy breath before she let her hands go and picked up where her black and green backpack was on the ground of her room and extended it to her with a kind smile lingering on her face while she was trying to not mother her so much. "I am sure you will have a great day at school."

Mariah accepted the backpack from her and guided it on her frame before she proceeded to speak up some more to her.

"Thanks, Mom."

"Do you want me to walk you-"

"I'll be all right, mom."

"Okay. If anything was to happen-"

"Nothing is going to happen to me, mom. I can handle myself."

"I know you can, sweetie. Just...Just call me if anything was to happen to you."

"I will. I promise." Her eyes moved over to where a clock was on the wall near her and saw that she had to get going. "I better get started walking to school since it will take me a few minutes to get there."

"I have your lunch ready downstairs on the table for you to put in your backpack."

"Thanks, mom." She gave her a gentle kiss on a side of her cheek before she focused on her. "I'll call you once I get out of school to let you know when I am on the way home. Do you want me to walk Autou to school with me?"

"That won't be necessary since your father took him to school earlier this morning when he was heading off to base of the colony to check on things and do the tasks that he is to do."

"Dad is always working so hard, and never takes a moment to rest."

"He rests when he can, but he does what he has to in order to provide the best for our family."

She didn't want the best. All she wanted was for him to be around more instead of working away hours for the leaders who ruled over the area they lived in. Someday, she hoped that he would come around to her idea of what he needed to do and that he didn't have to do all these crazy things. All he had to be was himself.

Her eyes glanced once more to the clock on the wall prior to giving her mother a brief hug and dashing down the stairs. Mariah snatched up her lunch that her mom had in a bag for her and stuffed it inside of her backpack. She raced to the front door and opened it up prior to waving up the stairs to her mother who was smiling and waving her on, hopeful for the year that she was to have. With a bit of nervousness and excitement coursing through her body, Mariah closed the door behind her, and proceeded to head on foot in the direction of where the school she attended was located.