Predator
The hardest meat
By jman
Chapter 1. Bad Blood
"Da'guande!" Shouted the hult'ah guard.
"Cetanu!" He screamed again, as the elders glared.
"Steg'-in!" His voice echoed of the walls of the kehrite stadium.
"Kv'var!" The other Yautja waiting in the audience got more anxious.
"Nan-de than gaun!" Even the hult'ah seemed to be having trouble containing his excitement.
"Mesh'in'ga!" It was almost time,
"Hiju'paya!" time for blood!
"Mo'thei-de!" The bad blood would be purged,
"M-di h'dlak!" and receive U'sl-kwe for their sins!
"H'sai-de!" He finished,
"And last, Nain-de!"
he then began to read from the ancient law scroll.
"These eleven are guilty of the ultimate treason!"
Da'guande smirked.
"Nain-Yautja, the hunt of other Yautja!"
The kehrite filled with screams of rage!
"If that's not enough, they call themselves the N'dui'se clan!"
He chuckled. It was true that they often got the musk of their prey on themselves.
"And further more, they refer to all other Yautja as Pauk-de Amedha!"
This caused all ten of the N'dui'se clansmen to laugh out loud! The others were nothing but meat to them, ing meat!
"None know if they are simply to s'yuit-de to engage in Jehdin-Jehdin combat, or if they are simply hulij-bpe,"
This angered the clan. Cowards they were being called! Crazy they were being called!
"but the fact is that they have killed hundreds of yautja, Including Females and pups!"
Once again, everyone in the kehrite screamed in anger! Some called the clan "lou-dte kalei!" while others just yelled "Ell-osde' pauk!" The hult'ah motioned for silence.
"Because of these unspeakable acts, they have been sentenced to thei-de, in the form of the ultimate kainde amedha chiva, to show these bad blood pauk-de what their real prey are!"
Da'guande sighed. He and his clansmen had been stripped of all weapons and clothing, and were dumped in the middle of the stadium.
An elder rose. Old kantra, Da'guande thought.
"Let the kainde amedha be released!"
he yelled, as the audience cheered. Just then, five doors opened, and a hard meat queen emerged from each.
"Let the massacre, BEGIN!"
The hard meat caught the scents of the clan. Da'guande began to wish they weren't called N'dui'se.
One queen tried to grab him and Cetanu, but they knew to run in opposite directions. It sniffed in both directions, and after a few seconds, it followed Cetanu off behind Da'guande's back.
Mo'thei-de was being chased by another queen that clawed at him repeatedly, each time just a little closer! He saw Cetanu having the same problem, and got an idea! He ran right next to Cetanu, and just as the queen that had been following him caught up, he dove between Cetanu and his queen, and as it clawed for its prey, it hit the one attacking Mo'thei-de, knocking its head off! It was so confused that the living queen tripped on the one it just killed!
Mo'thei-de picked up a piece of the queen's head, and pushed it up against one of the doors. But as door began to melt, another queen walked up and bit through his torso, leaving him on his back to see himself get eaten. The last sound he heard was the cheering crowd.
M-di h'dlak ran past the distracted queen when he spotted something on the ground. It was a sharp rock! He picked it up and saw that the queen that had killed Mo'thei-de was about to do the same to him! M-di h'dlak ran up to the door that had begun to melt, and as the queen got ready to bite his head off, he threw the rock through the monsters neck! Sadly, only a small amount of its blood got on the door, with most of it landing on M-di h'dlak, making his screams the only thing audible over the sound of applause.
When Da'guande saw what his departed comrades had been trying to do, he ran to the center of the stadium and screamed
"N'dui'se! Follow me If you wish to no the joy of hunting pauk-de amedha again!"
As he said this, the audience began to shout again. Kv'var, H'sai-de and Steg'-in all ran to him, while Hiju paya and Mesh'in'ga each ran from queens, and nain-de was trying to beat the queen still stuck on its back to death with a stick!
But Nan-de than gaun had already figured out the plan, and distracted the queen that was chasing Mesh'in'ga. He ran from it, straight to the melting door where Da'guande and the others waited. When Nan-de than gaun got there he stood in front of it in jehdin stance, and the queen charged just as he had hoped. At the very last second, he jumped out of the queen's way, and suddenly screamed at the top of his lungs
"C'JIT!!!!"
He looked at his left arm, and saw that the monster had ripped it off! Luckily though, it hadn't been able to slow its momentum and smashed through the door with its crown, snapping its neck in the process!
Da'guande charged through the door and into a hallway where he found three hult'ah in full armor. The first fired his plasma caster, but Da'guande dove under the blast and rolled to the hult'ahs feet and punched him between the legs! As his opponent kneeled over, Da'guande ripped the plasma caster off his shoulder and blew up the second hult'ah. As he did this, the third hult'ah attacked him with his wrist blades, but missed and hit the hult'ah kneeling on the ground! He managed to pull his blades out of the friend he had just killed, but the moment they were out, Da'guande grabbed him by the arm and made him stab himself through the chest.
He called out to the others to say it was safe, and together they ran to the airfield and into an unguarded migratory ship. The entire ship was empty.
"Must all be at the game." Kv'var said with a smile.
Da'guande ignored him and sat at the command and began to power up the ship.
"Grab something!" he yelled.
As he said it the ship started to shake violently and took off at top speed, leaving an army of Yautja in a cloud of smoke. Da'guande looked back at his clansmen.
Cetanu had found a medikit and was trying to cauterize Nan-de than gauns arm before he passed out from blood loss.
H'sai-de was looking at the weapons closet.
Kv'var was making some kind of bad joke about their situation to Mesh'in'ga, who was angered by this, as he was clearly trying to mourn Mo'thei-de and M-di h'dlak.
Hiju paya, Steg'-in and Nain-de were putting on mesh jumpsuits, when they noticed Da'guande was looking at them.
Nain-de picked up another suit and some armor and handed it to Da'guande. At first he wondered why they would give him armor onboard the ship, but then he took a good look at it.
Ceremonial armor, reserved for elders.
He smiled and put it on.
It was then that he noticed the trophy room. He picked up a large container and placed it next to the wall of skulls, and dumped every one into it. He then placed the container next to the hatch. With the clan watching, he picked up and activated a self-destruct device. And, ignoring the frightened screams from his comrades, he tossed the gauntlet into the container, and said
"Hang on."
And with that he opened the hatch for a few brief seconds as the container was sucked away. When he closed the hatch he realized that his clansmen were looking out the window. He glanced out into space just in time to see a bright blue flash. The others turned around as Da'guande walked back to the trophy room.
"By the end of the season, we will have replaced them all!"
All the other N'dui'se began to cheer.
He smiled as he set a new course for the ship.
His ship.
His clan.