Hot Shot's girl: Same ole warning and all, and also this chapter's rules of the predators are totally made up. I do not know if this is really how things go but more or likely it is not. So just making sure that everyone knows that I am making these ways up now. And besides this is fanfiction everyone can do that, but some people are just sore about not getting it 'correctly' so read on and enjoy;D
The next moring Lex grew hungry and found that the predators had forgooten to give her food, or they have not come over yet and givem some to her. She firgured they would come over soon that day and give her some, but she was hungry now and wanted something to eat, so since she knew a little bit about where to go in the city she decided to head off the market and get some food herself. So she took up her some of her armor so she wouldn't be completely bare, but not that much for she wasn't going into any battle. She looked at her weapons and wondered if she should take them or not.
After a moment of concideration she took her combi stick just in case any one would give her a hard time and for some strange occurance she'd have to defend herself. She then headed off into the marketplace. She walked down the side walk and made her way into the market place. It took her a while to get used to the settings of the new and strange world, but once she found the signs she was good to go.
When she came to the market plaza she was fascinated by all the different kinds of foods, whether they be good or bad. She didn't care. She would gladly try them all. Most of the locals she met were all friendly, well . . . at least the ones that weren't warriors.
The ones that were always seemed to be looking at her while the others ones that weren't treated her like a kind old friend. Many of the merchants she met always gave her something of theirs to try and she enjoyed that. She was glad most of them were freindly for she stayed clear of the warrior ones. She saw many families there buying food and trinkets so their children could enjoy their stay.
Lex knew how to handle yautja money so she had bought a couple things. She bought some fruit and vegetables that were very unlike her worlds, but she knew that at least a couple were good cause she was chowing down on one as she came to another store and looked at its product. She njoyed seeing all kinds of different objects and always wondered what they did. After being there for a couple of hours she figured she could look at one more store and then go back home.
And so she looked at one last store, but as she was given something to try she was aproached by a large yautja warrior. Lex could tell for he had a shadow that blocked out the sun. When she turned to see why he came to her he just came to her shoulder armor and opened her shoulder plate to see nothing but bare skin. Lex found this very odd and strange.
What was that all about? why did he do that? was the thoughts of Lex and she didn't quite like it at all. She feared she had missed on of her studies of their ways, or this was the part of their ways they didn't tell her.
The predator warrior then looked at Lex with uninterpreted emotion and then let out a bit of a loud roar. As he did this Lex looked around and saw he caused several others to look their way and even more check her shoulder plate like that. The first predator didn't like the others doing that to Lex and so pushed them away and roared loudly at them, but they just pushed and roared back. Three others soon joined the fight and soon it became more thean Lex could bare.
She feared that the pushing and roaring at each other would soon get worse so she tried to look for a way out of this, but she was just behind a predator and couldn't exactly move. The five predators then ceased their pushing and decided to settle things by who ever grabs the female first gets her. Lex didn't like the way they all turned and eyed her closely. All then looked at each other and then at her and all at the same time lunged at her to take her for themselves.
Lex tried as hard as she could to get out of the way, but all her ways out were blocked. Then as they all came to her their paths were blocked as someone jumped before her and blocked their clearance for her. As Lex saw who it was she found she couldn't let her breath out any time soon. It was Scar.
He roared at them as he prepared to defend Lex. As Lex continued to back up she was, all of the sudden, pulled away from the fight sceen by three female predators.
"What are you doing?!" jumped Lex as they held onto her tightly.
One then wrote down a message to her and showed it to her. Lex read it.
"Trust me deary, you don't want to get caught in the middle of that," she read.
"What are they doing?" asked Lex glancing at the six predators ready to tear each other's heads off.
"They are fighting over you," wrote another.
"Me . . . why?!" asked Lex.
Just as the females were about to tell her the eldar predator came and stopped the six from fighting. Everything stopped as the eldar stood there glaring at them. He looked at the six warriors and all knew what the law said about this . . . sitiuation. The eldar then turned and began to walk away and all followed him willingly.
Lex was ever confused and knew she didn't have time for the whole situation to be explianed to her. So she ran up to Scar and grabbed his arm and said-
"Wait, Scar what's going on?!"
Scar turned to her and wiped his finger gently across her mark. Lex knew she was a warrior, but not all warriors knew everything. Scar then left her and continued his way. The three female predators then came to her side gazing at the disappearing males.
They then gave her more messages to read-
"Alas that is the way it has to be."
"But what way?!" wrote Lex. "That is what I've been wanting to know!"
They then looked at each other and then decided to tell her.
"Huney . . . if two or more males fight over you, which in your case there is six, then they must fight for you . . . well . . . to the death."
"Oh dear god!" gasped Lex covering her mouth. "But Scar was just defending me from those . . . brutes who were about to rip me apart."
"Or was he?" smiled one with a sly eye.
"Cortla! Can't you see the poor thing's scared her male won't make it!" said one to the other.
She then turned to Lex and then bowed a bit and wrote-
"My name is Florrel and these are my friends Gargteal and, of course, Cortla."
"Well it's nice to meet you but Scar is not my male, just to get things straight," wrote Lex.
"Oh really?" smiled Florrel. "I saw the way you two look at each other. That's very rare now-a-days . . . for a couple to love each other before they are marked as mates."
"Wait, what?!" wrote Lex a bit hard.
"Oh yes," started Gargteal. "My mate came to me out of nowhere and chose me to be his mate."
"Do girls have a choice too?" asked Lex.
"Oh heavens no," said Florrel. "Did you world do it that way?"
"Yes," wrote Lex.
At that they let out a series of loud laughs as if Lex's ways were stupid.
"Our ways are better than your ways!" Lex wrote. "At least we don't kill over a . . . mate."
"It doesn't matter anyways," wrote Florrel. "We have too many males in the first place. It won't matter if we lose six more."
Lex couldn't believe these peaople. They were so used to killing they didn't care anymore who dies or not.
"So who ever wins . . . me gets to be my . . . mate?" asked Lex.
"That's the way it goes," said Cortla.
"Man I wish I would have just stayed home," said Lex to herself. "I should have never left earth to begin with!"
"It's okay dear," wrote Gargteal. "Your mate should be decided shortly."
"Why?" asked Lex.
"'Cause fighting never takes long for us," wrote Gargteal as she pointed to their coliseum where they did all their fighting.
"Oh no!" gasped Lex as she started off towards it.
"Wait for us!" said Cortla as they ran after her.
Lex ran straight into the coliseum and saw they had already begun fighting.
"No!" she cried seeing Scar slice and kill some one with his disk blade.
Scar heard her cry and so turned and looked high to see Lex looking down on him in fear of him killing more.
"Oh look at that," said Cortla as she came to Lex's side. "You have four fighting to be your mate now."
Lex had to stop this somehow . . . but how? She looked around for something anything to stop this, but there was nothing. There might have been nothing, but there was someone. She saw the eldar not to far from them and so ran to him and pleaded with him to make them stop.
"Please Eldar, make them stop. It doesn't have to be this way does it?!" Pleaded Lex.
"No," he wrote firmly. "This is they way of the law."
"Please!" cried Lex one more time.
The eldar then turned away from her and Lex knew there was nothing she could do now. There was no changing his mind. Lex tried to watch but couldn't find it in herself to do so and so she left. Florrel, Cortla, and Gargteal followed her.
They came and saw Lex starring out at the city that went by like any other day. She had her head in her hands and ever she looked frustrated.
"Huney . . . are you alright?" asked Florrel coming to her.
Lex had tears in her eyes for she was tired of living beings dying for stupid causes, but now that stupid cause was her. What kind of a world was this with all these stupid laws? She tried to figure it out, but she couldn't for she was not like them. She did not believe in their ways and now wondered if she ever wanted to . . . but was this the only way to fit in here?
As she thought about this she was soon snapped out of her thoughts as the cries of another dying predator came to her ears. Lex ran to see what was going on and found that two other predaotrs had killed each other and now there was Scar and another predator. They circled each other for a short moment of time till they quickly jabbed at each other with their combi sticks and then tackled each other causing a wrestle on the ground as both struggled to get to their weapons. As they tried pressing their weight on each other Scar was kicked off but because of that he was able to reach him weapon first.
He grabbed his knife and pounced on top the predator warrior and held him down tightly as he prepared to slice his throat and win the fight. The other warrior knew he was defeated and so prepared for death. Before Scar killed him he looked up at the eldar and saw Lex had returned. He could see how distraught and upset about this whole matter she was and he clearly understood for she was not used to his ways, but she agreed to come with him and should have expected different ways then hers witht he hunters . . . perhaps she had thought that they weren't that different . . . maybe they weren't as different as he thought. Lex held her breath in and waited for the final blow . . . she was going to watch . . . she had to.
Scar then looked at the warrior willing to die and then decided this fighting had to stop. There was no need for it. Scar then let go and stood up straight. He gazed at the eldar and waited for his approval.
"This is not the law," said the Eldar pndering what Scar had just done.
"Then kill me . . . father," said Scar not afraid.
Lex wanted to know what was going on but couldn't tell. All she knew was that Scar and the eldar spoke with one another. The eldar looked at Scar, his own son, and said not a word. He knew that if Scar had made up his then mind no one would change it no matter what.
The Eldar then turned to Lex and looked at her for a moment. He knew it was her who changed his son's ways to were it forced him to break the law. He would not have him do this and get killed just because a small human didn't agree with their ways. He then sighed a heavy hard sigh and turned to Scar and said-
"If you do not follow one part of the law then you shall follow the other."
Scar then bowed and hit his chest. He then turned and left. The eldar soon did the same.
"What's going to happen now?" asked Lex.
"Well . . . you're going to get marked now," said Florrel.
"Again?!" wrote Lex turning her face just enough to were all could see her mark on her cheek.
"Oh no, a different mark," wrote Florrel as she lifted Lex's shoulder plate. "This is where they shall mark you."
"Is that why those others looked under my shoulder plate?" asked Lex.
"Yes," replied Cortla.
"You see if there is no mark there then that means you're free to be taken as a mate, but if you have a mark then you have a mate already and no one can lay a hand on you," wrote Gargteal.
"But I don't want a mate!" Lex wrote plainly.
"As long as you live here you'll have to abide by our rules, but don't worry deary . . . you'll get used to them in time," smiled Florrel.
"Yea, they're not really that bad," chuckled Cortla slapping Lex on the back.
But Lex wasn't in the mood to laugh. She hadn't been in that mood at all since the mating incident and now she knew thind were going to just get worse. As Lex stood their the eldar and six guards returned to her. Lex turned and the eldar held in his hand a long hot rod that sort of resembled a brander.
Lex gasped for she knew that was meant for her. Lex turned to look at the females, but found Scar standing next to her.
"Scar?" gasped Lex jumping a bit.
Scar just looked straight ahead and readied for what was to come next. Lex then turned to the eldar again and also readied. The eldar then handed the rod to another predator and he came up to Lex. He opened Lex's shoulder plate and placed the hot rod on that patch of skin just under the choulder plate.
Lex just about bit her lip off cause of the pain. It was worse then the aliens' acid blood, but dealt with it. After they finished with her they then did Scar and Scar only growled a bit. After they were done with Scar the eldar inclined his head to them and then turned and left with the others.
Lex was about to ask 'now what?' but Scar then left her too.
"Scar," she said getting ready to follow him, but the females stopped her.
"No Lex," they wrote. "This is the way it has to be . . . for now."