The Hunt Begins
By DNL
Chapter 1: The Hunter Lands
It was a hot night in New York as summer began to peak to its hottest point. The city that never slept was having one of its restless nights as robbers, murders, thugs, and drug deals had their way with the city. The cops tried hard as they could, the good ones anyhow while the corrupted ones made deals with the criminals to get some extra dough. While some of the criminals enjoyed their wrong doing others the more supernatural believing began to worry about the demon who makes trophies of men, or "El Demonio que hace trofeos de los hombres" as he's called in Spanish, showing up as he was attracted to the heat of summer. The hunter was fond of killing criminals due their violent nature and who faced him ended with their skull being removed…
Out in the outskirts of the city the air was quitter than in the crowded city area but in the distance of the sky a star began to move rapidly. A group of teenagers stared in wonderment believing it was a shooting star and began point at it in awe. Quickly they found out something was wrong the 'star' was moving awfully fast and towards them. When it was about the size of a horse in their perspective they scattered fearfully. The 'star' continued its course and landed carefully in a secluded are on the edge of the city. The object was actually a StarCraft or a spaceship about the size of a home maybe a little bigger it was rather sleek the front had a scaled front once the engine turned off the scaled front folded down and a large creature jumped out of it and the front closed up.
The alien creature was crouched down standing on its black clawed toes and its head jerked left and right as it looked around at its surroundings. Satisfied with the fact it was completely alone the sand colored creature with reddish brown markings stood up straight. In an upright position the lightly armored being was seven foot four not only tall the creature was also very muscular. Turning back to his ship the being turned his right metal gauntlet which had a computer like device on the side. After pressing a couple of things the ship vanished into thin air, it was covered in a cloaking devise.
Looking around more the big creature gazed at the high rock walls that surrounded his ship there was one gap in the rock structure. There were some lose boulders a top on of the cliff tops. On his left shoulder a small rectangular like cannon object moved into place. From behind its red lined helmet the alien saw in inferred it activated its cannon's targeting system which was a dashed triangle. The cannon reacted fallowing a laser guided system that was three dots forming a triangle. The cannon charged an electric blue energy before it fired off a rapid burst of plasma energy at the boulders. On impact the boulders were shot off of their perch and tumbled down filling the gap in the stone area.
Once the dirt cloud cleared the creature grunted approvingly at the result, (That ought to keep the humans out until I set up a true base…) the alien male thought calmly as he walked over the rubble. With a strong leap he jumped onto a boulder then onto another and soon he was on top of the heap of rocks after angling his body the alien being jumped off of the pile of boulders and rubble and on to a tree before continuing deeper into the woods. While the being was running through the trees like he was walking on the ground then he suddenly stopped.
Zooming in using his helmet the alien being spotted five humans from what he could tell they were adolescent. Tilting its head the extraterrestrial made a curious clicking noise and zoomed in further listening carefully to what his scanner could pick up of their conversation. To be careful, even though it was dark, the alien turned to his wrist computer and activated a light bending device a cloaking device. Now he was basically invisible to them especially since it was dark.
"What was that? A meteor?" One male teen asked a loud as he carefully looked around the sky.
"I didn't hear a crash…" A female said warily as she stood next to what another male. After a pause she continued, "Did you guys?" She asked fearfully.
The male next to her shook his head, "No, but I did hear a rockslide…" The others looked at each other exchanging wary or fearful glances with each other.
The female seemed to have had enough of the situation and headed back towards the city, "That's it I'm out of here I'm not having some alien or whatever sucking my brain out or anything!" She yelled fearfully as she stomped away. The male that was next to her, who was perhaps her mate, looked at the others before running after her. He didn't say anything but he appeared to be equally freaked out as her.
"I'm with Catherin on this…besides….it's a little late for my taste." The first male said sheepishly as he looked at the other two guys who'd remained silent. "Plus she's the one with the car…" He said warily as he rushed after the two lovers.
The alien in the tree watched them go. Luckily for them they were all unarmed so he had no interest in perusing them. The female was wrong however he wouldn't have sucked their brains out no…what he would have done may be considered worse. The reason he'd come here was because of the humans not because they'd found something, not this time anyway. It was because of what his race was. His race the Yautja were all hunters and humans were considered worthy prey to hunt and make into trophies. After becoming a blooded hunter by successfully hunting a Serpent or what the humans called a Xenomorph he decided to come and live on Earth with the option of returning to his clan when he wished the hunter felt no pressure or shame in his decision.
Arriving at the very edge of the city the hunter looked out at it. The buildings were tall and the lights were many. Standing in a tree the Predator felt himself grow excited all the buildings meant plenty of human prey to hunt. Still invisible the hunter leaps onto a building rooftop then ran off and jumped onto another quickly the cloaked being disappeared into the concrete jungle.
Walking alone at night in the down town part of New York city a woman who bore signs of being pregnant, her belly showed the tell-tale bump. She was heading home after a long day of running errands. Normally like this she wouldn't do anything but after her divorce she had little choice. Knowing that where she lived was dangerous she had a concealed gun and knife handy just in case. "I hate this god damned city…" She muttered to herself bitterly as she walked along in the night passing by lamppost after lamppost that lined the sidewalk. "Someone should off and kill every last thug and gangster…" The woman continued bitterly she was an angry vengeful woman with pent up anger and hate towards every last criminal. She didn't believe the penalties that the justice system gave were enough to deter criminals. The state of New York was proof enough for her.
As the pregnant woman passed by an alleyway she was suddenly grabbed by three men and tossed against the wall. With a groan she looked up at the three men quickly she knew they were in a gang. They all looked like cliché gangsters but then again they could just be random thugs it was hard to tell at times.
"Hand over your money bitch." One scrawny guy threatened. It appeared that he may be a drug addict he was shaky enough to be one. In his shaky hand he held a knife, a pretty big one. On each side of him were more muscular men acting like enforcers or bodyguards. "Do what I say and things…won't get messy~." He sneered with a crooked grin.
The woman glared angrily and pulled out her gun, "How about you back the fuck off!?" She growled defiantly as she waved the gun between the three men.
Momentarily the men backed off but when the led scrawny guy gave the other two a look the bigger men suddenly grabbed her arm. In retaliation the woman fired off a round from her handgun. The bullet hit the thug leader in the shoulder the man screamed in pain as he back up. Gripping his shoulder the man scowled angrily and pointed his knife at the defiant victim, "Screw this I'm gonna kill this bitch! So hold'er still so I can cut her fat neck!" The criminal ordered. His men held the woman against the wall with only a little difficulty.
"Let me go you mother fucking bastards!" The woman screamed angrily and with a frightened undertone. She kicked and screamed some more the woman wasn't just afraid for herself she also feared for her unborn child.
Up on a nearby roof her screams of anger was heard but not by a Good Samaritan it was the alien hunter. He'd been wandering by when he heard the woman's screams. With a surprised grunt he walked over to the edge of the rooftop looking down he saw the situation. Noticing something was different about the female human from the others he zoomed in on her. The hunter was surprised to see she was pregnant. This mad him angry at her attackers, (Cowardly weaklings killing a pregnant female this could disturb the hunt! I can fix this mess…) First he checked if they were armed and they were which was perfect.
Pulling out a disk shaped object from its holster on his side immediately wave liked blades shot out from the sides. The inner disk had some lights turn on. From his helmet he pointed it at one of the muscular men that was holding the woman still. With a well-aimed toss the Smart Disk flew towards its target and easily decapitated the man. With the head cut off the body fell limp and began to bleed out from the open neck. The head unfortunately fell in front of the woman causing her to scream and kick it away.
"What the fuck!?" The leader said speechlessly as he stared at the disk weapon that was now stuck into the brick wall of a building and his decapitated henchmen fell to the floor. Whipping blood off of his face he turned his attention away from the woman he was going to kill and looked up onto the roof behind him but he didn't see anything there. Hearing a scream he turned and saw his other crony getting dragged away. "W-what the hell is going on!?" The druggy yelled frightfully as he ran towards his where his henchman was being dragged away. The criminal was desperate to see what he was going up against so he could at least figure out how to deal with it.
When he turned a corner he unluckily managed to catch the sight of his other muscle man getting his torn off of an invisible assailant. The sight of the spinal cord coming out of the body, blood dripping out; pouring momentarily, made the criminals guts churn sickly. While the skull of the other thug was floating in midair like it was being held up the drug thug felt like he was being watched. An ominous clicking noise alerted him to a presence he couldn't see. Pulling out a gun while still holding his knife he fearfully looked around, "Where are you…y-you coward!" He stuttered as his heart raced faster than a speeding train. The thug could hear the killer coming closer and closer all the while a shape started to form. The figure was hard to make out only an outline could be seen and all he could tell was it was tall…with a powerful build. A total feeling of helplessness over took the previously aggressive human and he stood there like a deer caught in care headlights.
The sound of metal being unsheathed was heard before a pain filled scream tore through the night air. The former victim slowly and fearfully walked over to the area the scream came from. She covered her mouth to avoid gasping when she found the gruesome murder scene. The man that was going to kill her head had been removed along with the spine on his chest were two huge gash marks that were still dripping blood. His decapitated body was on the ground sprawled out a pool of blood still expanding. The air was soaked in the sharp bitter metallic smell of blood and death. Cautiously the pregnant woman crept into the alleyway, "H-hello…anyone here?" She said aloud. The woman gulped when no answer was heard and at first slowly walked backwards before breaking into a full on run.
Up above the hunter watched her leave and made a satisfied trilling noise and stood upright. Looking down at his hand he was met by the terrified face of the last human that he'd decapitated. Grinning he felt triumphant these three were his first successful human hunt. When he didn't pick the human's heartbeat on his sensors the Predator jumped down from the rooftop and finished his hunt. He retrieved his smart disk whipped it off and returned it to its holster. He picked up the third humans head and placed it in a small bag and leaps easily back onto the rooftop and ran into the night.
Standing on the top of a skyscraper the hunter peered out into the thriving city. Still excited from his previous first human hunt his heart pounded in his chest this was the place he was sure of it. The city was a man made jungle. The humans may have made it to live in but he was going to make it his hunting ground. He soon would be feared by all the gangs in the city even if they didn't believe he existed…