Chapter 3: The ancient mask

Meanwhile Maya had access the next location which was another marine camp in the swamps; there she was receiving the location of the second young blood. While she was cloaked she jumped to one of the swamp's trees and she switched her vision to the thermal vision where she spotted seven marines around the swamp and three marines guarding the entrance to one of the research labs on the hills.

-"There's where they have the corpse of the second hunter?" Maya asked.

-"Yes, you have to eliminate the humans that defend the entrance to your destination without detection and set the young blood's wrist bracer to self-destruct." Chopper ordered.

-"Understood." Maya replied and she jumped to another tree nearby.

-"Everybody stays alert! Get your eyes peeled for Xenos." One of the marines said meaning that they're unaware of Maya's presence. When Maya finally got close to the research lab

-"What the hell's that thing in there?" One of the marines asked.

-"I don't know man but one thing's for sure, it ain't human." The other marine said.

-"Isn't it one thing in this place that doesn't want to rip off our guts?" The marine asked but while he and the other one were talking to each other the third marine was walking around the area until he saw something moving in front of him and before he could say a word he got his head stabbed away by Maya.

-"Not my style but it's worth it." Maya said sarcastically to the head of the now deceased marine. Soon the other marines heard something.

-"Oh, damn…c'mon you freak!"

-"What was that?" One of the marines asked.

-"Let's check it out." The other marine said and when they went to see what happened they found a headless corpse on the ground and then a red aiming laser was aiming at the marines' back and when they turned around Maya de-cloaked herself and shot plasma shot with her plasmacaster making the marines blowing up.

With the guards of the lab gone, May tried to open the door but it needed an eye-lecture to open it so she used the head of the security guard she just got earlier and the door got opened and she found the deceased young blood on the floor, without thinking twice she set the hunter's wrist bracer to self-destruct and she got out of there before it blew up.

Meanwhile Ky had found a way inside the facility where he cloaked himself as he stood above the marines.

-"Okay, listen up. The assault squad was assigned to eliminate the Xenomorph queen so we'll just make sure to cover this entrance." The leader of the squad informed.

-"We should be there burning that monster! Why do we get this crappy work?" One of the marines exclaimed.

-"Because they knew you were coming dumbass! Now shut up!" The leader said and then many serpents started to appeared eliminating the marines but soon Ky joined the battle and eliminated the rest of the serpents and then he kept his way and he found a marine with a flamethrower and Ky needed to eliminate him to continue his way.

-"Want some candy?"

-"What?" The marine said but then Ky de-cloaked himself and grabbed him from the neck and stabbed him in the eyes with his wristblades, then he cut the head off and guarded the head as a trophy. Later Ky entered a room full of flames and he found the corpse of a huge monster.

-"The serpent queen is dead, but the hunt is not over yet." Scorcher said.

-"Understood." Ky said and he kept moving a few steps and he finally found the third young blood and he set his wrist bracer on self-destruct and took the hunter's smart disc for it'll be needed later.

-"The facility will soon be destroyed, leave now! Honor demands you to find the Abomination." Scorcher said.

-"Okay." Ky said and he jumped down to the only escape route but it had flames blocking the path.

-"There's gotta be a way to douse the flames." Ky said and he found a water tube above the flames of the escape route and he threw the smart disc at it and then the water started to fell to the fire. The process will take three minutes so Ky would have to stand his ground as a horde of serpents started to appeared, he killed half of them by throwing the smart disc and cutting their members but there were many serpents to deal with, luckily the fire got extinguished and Ky managed to get away of the facility before it blew up. The time of the day passed to the night and Ky reached some ancient ruins near some mountains.

-"You are truly blessed, young one. You are walking the paths of the halls where it took place the first hunt of the serpents, though I wonder…How long did our ancestors hunt the serpents?" Scorcher commented.

-"Well, time to find out." Ky said and he found a switch where two wristblades fitted so Ky pushed his wirstblades to the switch and then a statue with the form of the Yautja's mask appeared meaning that this switch was opened. Later he found another switch on the top of a cliff and so he jumped there and he opened it too but this one showed a spider-like creature known as the Facehugger which was the creature that always started the birth of any serpent. And finally he found another switch and when he opened this one it showed a serpent Chestbuster or better known, a serpent embryo.

But after he interacted the last switched a serpent appeared from behind and stabbed him in the leg with its tail but Ky managed to stabbed his wristblades on the lowest part of the serpent's jaw killing it, though he killed the creature his wound was severe but he grabbed a enhanced medical shard and injected himself with it and suddenly his wounds healed, Now with the switches opened Ky finally entered the temple where he found an ancient golden hunter mask on the center of the hall. Knowing that this meant something great for the hunters Ky took his red mask off and guarded inside a bag on his back and he putted the ancient mask on. Once wearing the mask, Ky saw an holographic record of many hunters bowing to another hunter who was wearing the ancient mask then and he was holding the corpse of a serpent.

-"What is this?" Ky asked.

-"You are witnessing the first victory over the serpents, this took place millions of ages ago. There are many skilled hunters in our race but you, young one, have been blessed to wear the mask of our greatest ancestor…Use the mask with honor for it not only belongs to a honorable past but it also possess a special vision that will allow you to see the serpents on the dark." Scorcher informed.

-"Amazing." Ky said.

To be continued…