The Ancient Hunter
"Come on, hurry up we don't have all day you know" Jack said hitting Mina lightly in the back of the head.
"Hold your horses jackass" she replied continuing her work on the sealed door "Damn it, this thing is sealed tight we can't reprogram it unless one of you can read Yautja"
"So what, just blow the damn thing up" announced Grimmer pulling out his rifle.
"As crazy as this might seem I think he's right" Bruno said shrugging.
"You sure Cap?" Mina questioned turning to face him.
"Well it's not like the owners will mind, there are all-dead anyway" Bruno said.
"Yea chick don't worry I won't let the scary Predators get you" Grimmer teased.
"Yea screw you" Mina said raising her middle finger.
"Stop fighting children and get out your guns" Bruno yelled to his crew taking his rifle off his back, the rest of them took out their guns as well and stood in a line ready to fire. "Alright guys lets blow this thing, ready and FIRE!" The group opened fire and the high caliber shots tore through the metal like a hot knife through butter, within ten seconds there was no more door to speak of.
"Damn that was fun" Grimmer called out, "let's find something else and blow it to hell too"
"Don't be stupid man, we probably shouldn't have used this much ammo on the door and now you want to waste more of it" Mina yelled "this stuff is not cheap you know."
"What ever you say sweet heart" Grimmer said chuckling but just then he saw movement out of the corner of his eye "What the fuck was that?"
"What was what?" Jack questioned.
"I thought I saw something," he said back "it was probably nothing." So they continued down the twists and turns of the temple not knowing what was following them and what they were willing to do to get to the center first.
They came to the center camber of the temple about three hours later it was huge about thirty feet to the ceiling and at least a few thousand square feet in area, it was brightly lit by an unknown light source. The floor was covered in symbols and runes that they could not identify but most important of all was the large container in the center of the room; that is what they came for that is what they were sent after a freezing chamber that was said to contain a centuries old Yautja leader the first to openly rebel against the rules of a "fair hunt". He has quite a following and would be worth a lot of money alive.
"Alright guys lets get this guy ready to go" Bruno ordered. Out of the corner of his eye Bruno could see a small flash of red light at first he dismissed it as his eyes playing tricks on him but then he saw it again. "Hey guys you see anything around here" he said to his crew but his only response was a puzzled look from each of them, he could he could see in their eyes that they had no clue what he meant but that was the last thing he ever saw. The blast of blue energy struck the back of his head and exploded leaving only a small puff of red mist over his neck, his body fell to the ground right in front of Minas feet. She tried to scream but let out only a small squeak.
"Holy shit" Grimmer yelled pulling out his pistol and firing in the direction the blast came from, the shot struck some thing solid and light itself seemed to bend to reveal the large Yautja standing at the other end of the room. "Take this you ugly mother fucker" he screamed un-strapping his rifle and pointing it at the Yautja but before he had a chance to even fire one shot the spear pierced his skull from behind and his world went into darkness.
"NO!" Mina screamed watching Grimmer fall to the ground lifelessly, she un-strapped her rifle and fired two shots at the Yautja behind him one missed but the other struck it's hand shattering it into pieces, the Yautja roared in pain as the spear stuck into the ground below him. Two more Yautja uncloaked one behind Mina and the other behind Jack, the one behind Mina grabbed her and threw her to the ground below the injured Yautja and grunted the words "kill her" in his native dialect the injured one nodded, extended its wrist blades and poised to strike. Mina had to think fast as the Yautja tried to bring its wrist blades down into her she rolled to the side, grabbed the spear that was stuck in the floor and thrust it through her attacker's neck "Fuck you" she yelled at it before wrenching the spear out. The Yautja swayed and gurgled drowning in its own blood before falling to the floor dead.
"Ell-osde' pauk!" The Yautja behind Jack screamed before grabbing him by the neck and extending it's wrist blades "Nan-de Than gaun" then it jabbed it's wrist blades right through Jack's heart, pulled them out and watched him bleed on the floor "Pauk-de Pyode Amedha"
"You Bastard!" Mina screamed at it and lifted the spear up ready to throw but the net hit her before she had a chance. It pinned her to the wall and began to constrict, if it wasn't for the spear she would have been sliced apart. The Yautja signaled to each other and walked towards the freezing chamber, the one that killed Bruno started pressing buttons on the control panel and in seconds the thing started to open slowly at first but near the end it sprung fast. When the steam cleared the Yautja did not see what they expected instead of their black armored leader they saw a tall Yautja with silver body armor decorated with shining blue crystal and white dreadlocks, on his stomach was the mark of Xenomorph blood burned there after his first hard meat kill.
"Bad blood" the Yautja said in a scratchy voice looking at the one who opened the chamber "Thei-de!" he roared before ramming his wrist blades through the bottom of the bad bloods head the blades went so far that the tips could be seen coming out the top "S'yuit-de" he wrenched the blades from his fallen foe and barked a challenge to the other two.
"Why did he kill the other one?" Mina said to herself still holding the spear in front of her for protection from the net. "I thought he was their leader."
"Jehdin Jehdin" the silver armored Yautja barked to one of the bad bloods arching his back and spreading out his arms, the bad blood was just about to react when another Yautja uncloaked behind only this one was a heavy he was more then eight feet tall. With one swift movement he grabbed the bad blood by the neck, snapped it like a twig and slammed him on the ground. The other bad blood tried to react and strike the one who killed his comrade but before he knew what hit him the smart disk cut his head clean off and returned to now uncloaked Yautja standing close to where Mina was stuck to the wall. The silver armored Yautja was confused and readied himself for a fight but looked closer at the heavy in front of him "Sin'ra?" The heavy tilted his head to one side and looked at the Yautja wondering how he knew his name but then it hit him the crystal on the armor, the mark on his stomach it was his friend he thought to be dead, it was…
"Grishna? Grishna" he said in pure joy at finding his lost friend he walked up to him and shook his shoulder in greeting. "Old friend."
"I thought you were dead," Grishna said in Yautja tongue.
"I thought you were" Sin'ra responded, "It appears you were frozen as well although I was thawed five years before now"
"Get him to the ship you can fill him in there" The Yautja close to Mina barked, "I will deal with the soft meat."
"Yes Syf" Sin'ra answered. "Come on Grishna."
"Syf? Syf'oda-loos?" Grishna questioned as they walked away.
"Yes but not the one you knew, its his grandson" Sin'ra answered. Both of them headed out through the maze of a temple to reach the surface, Grishna told Sin'ra about how he killed Warui and the leader of the bad bloods and Sin'ra told him about how he escaped from the hard meat hive after being cocooned but before he was impregnated. "No one knows what happened to Syf's grandfather, do you?"
"I …" Grishna took a deep breath clearly troubled by the subject "he died… honorably and killed many hard meats before falling." He took another deep breath "he died defending warriors that I wish someday I can match in courage, in honor and in undying loyalty. This…" he said lifting a katana that was attached to his belt "this belonged to one called Draken or Raven as some called him, he was a brave and unbelievably strong warrior but also compassionate and had a standard of honor equal to ours"
"This Draken, was he a friend of yours?" Sin'ra asked.
"Not at first in fact when we first met we were enemies" he responded "It took all of my skill to stay alive against him but in the end he won and spared my life, to regain my honor I trained with him and even lived at the facility that he lived in until I had my rematch and won but as I stood above him I realized how much that world needed him and how many weaker creatures depended on his protection so I spared him for the greater good and we became friends"
"Interesting I never saw you as the type to befriend other races" Sin'ra said "you always said that they were inferior,"
"I never knew how wrong I was" Grishna responded.
"What of the other ooman weapons on your belt?" Sin'ra questioned.
"Well let me start at the beginning…." And so they talked for the whole way back to the ship catching up on old times.
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Syf' stood there in front of Mina just looking at her for a few minutes before snapping out of the trance, he extended his wrist blades and poised to strike but noticed that there was Yautja blood on the tip of the spear she was holding he turned to see the dead bad blood on the ground. "Did you kill him?" Syf' questioned.
"Umm yes" Mina stuttered surprised that it could speak English. Syf' paused for a second then retook his stance but something was wrong, there was something about her he just could not bring himself to hurt her. He noticed she was slipping in and out of consciousness he looked at her and noticed there were deep cuts on her arms and legs, though the spear had protected her body and head her arms and legs were still being cut by the net.
"Are you alright?" Syf' asked concerned though he did not know why he was so worried.
"I'll be fin…" then she lost consciousness. Syf' moved with lightning speed and cut the net down with his smart disk, catching Mina as she fell. She had lost a lot of blood but the cuts on her arms and legs could not account for this much and that's when he noticed the deep wound in her chest he turned to see one of the spikes on the ground near the bad blood's corpse was tipped with crimson blood. Syf' was suddenly overtook by a fear that he did not understand why did he care so much for this human? Why did he care if she died or not?
"Zanthos get down here now!" he barked into his communicator.
"I'm on my way what is the problem?" Zanthos responded.
"Your faster than I am get this human to the ship" Syf' ordered.
"Human? Why?" Zanthos said confused but did not stop running.
"Don't ask questions just do it!" Syf' nearly screamed at the newly blooded hunter. He just could not let this human die. Soon Syf' saw Zanthos running through the corridor towards him, he was not as tall as Syf' but solidly built his skin was all white accept for the large black tattoos that Zanthos seemed to like putting all over his body, his dreadlocks were a color like copper and his mask was mostly black. Before Syf' could say a word Zanthos took Mina and started running for the ship. Syf' kept running in a vein attempt to keep Zanthos in his view but he was just to fast. "He will do great things one day" Syf' said to himself continuing to run through the corridors.