Chapter four: Blood is thicker than water...
As Dto'rauta and Yeyinde walked back up into the ships loading dock, they glanced around at the other young bloods arriving back at the ship. "Guan isn't back yet?" Dto asked out loud, it had been several hours since the fight, the males were preparing to leave for another hunt on one of their game planets.
Yeyinde smiled and shook his head with amused clicks, "No doubt Ju'dha is keeping Guan occupied..." He said smartly walking ahead, Dto rolled his eyes, "That lustful sod better come back soon, or we'll leave without him." Dto mumbled heading straight back to his quarters to check on Mira.
He found the said ooman clone was asleep on top of Dto's bed of furs, he chuckled quietly leaning against the doorway, "Well, only one way to wake her up..." He thought to himself grinning, taking a deep breath Dto let out a mighty roar. Causing Mira to jump up and tumble off the bed in surprise.
Okay I was lying, there were many ways to wake her up, but Dto'rauta thought this way would've been more fun. Dto was laughing heartily at the doorway as the clone righted herself and glared up at him, Dto stopped laughing and walked towards her until they were inches away from each other, "My bed." He said sternly pointing at the fur covered bed, Mira merely pouted as a response and walked over to inspect his skulls again.
Shaking his head he turned around to see Guan walking past his open door, 'About time young blood, we were about to leave without you." Dto said smartly with his arms crossed, grinning. Guan made a fake gasp before responding, "You'd miss me too much." He smirked, Dto responded with a hard and playful punch to his shoulder before closing the door, not letting Guan have the last word for once.
He turned around and faced the clone once again, Mira was occupying herself with the tablet on the floor. Glancing over his shoulder he saw she was playing a memory game with written yautja words and symbols to match up. She grunted annoyed as she lost the game again, Dto rolled his eyes, "What am I going to do with you..."
(Approximately nine months later, the yautja ship was orbiting the planet Calpamos moon, Archeron (LV-426), where reports of a Derelict ship had crashed containing hundreds of xenomorph eggs was about to be investigated by Dto'rauta and Yeyinde, being a stealthy mission, only two yautja were allowed to enter the crashed ship.)
Yeyinde grunted through his mask as they walked over the moons dusty surface, Dto'rauta walked ahead of him, inspecting the symbols on the surface of the huge wishbone shaped vessel. "Do you recognize the language?" Yeyinde called out, Dto merely growled annoyed as he ran his fingers over the markings, trying to make out the details in the darkness.
At the moment, the two of them were on the dark side of this small moon, with a rotational period of about two hours, so they wouldn't have to wait long for light. The air wasn't breathable either, but had the potential to house life if they implanted some terraform technology to make the air breathable.
It was true yautja could use their see in infrared and ultraviolet with the help of their mask, but had trouble distinguishing small details in some objects that were close in temperature.
Dto'rauta finally looked up at Yeyinde, "Well?" Yeyinde asked expectantly, Dto shrugged before answering, "Definitely the work of Ossians." Yeyinde scoffed a little turning away after hearing Dto's answer, sure the ossians had provided the yautja with the necessary technology to breed kainde amedha, but Yeyinde had always been somewhat distrustful of such an evasive and resourceful species.
Many yautja also shared Yeyinde distaste for the ossians, they were worshiped as gods by many of the species they've created and implanted throughout the universe. But many also knew it was necessary to keep them in a false sense of security so the yautja could continue to benefit from ossian technology and research.
Dto'rauta walked ahead and signaled for Yeyinde to follow him, entering through a damaged rip in the ships haul, they emerged in the cargo hold of the recently crashed Derelict ship. Flicking the vision on his mask to infrared, through the thick mist covering the floor, Yeyinde scanned their surroundings to find hundreds of face-huggers still dormant in their egg sacks.
"Don't step off the platform or the foul beasts will wake." Dto warned walking across the platform ahead to a closed ship door, "Yeah, yeah." Yeyinde grumbled rolling his eyes, he couldn't believe he was taking orders from a yautja much younger than himself.
With a bit of elbow grease, Dto managed to pry open the doors with his bare hands, the ship was no longer active, so this wasn't too difficult without the locks active, "Show off!" Yeyinde retorted as Dto ignored him, walking into a large room with a massive seat like structure in the middle, resting in it was the unconscious body of the nine foot tall ossian, "Its still alive..." Dto'rauta leaned down closer to inspect its huge helmet, large tube like appendages going around the helmets neck and into its back.
Taking a closer look with infrared vision, Yeyinde suddenly pulled Dto away as the creature suddenly jerked up and started convulsing, "Not for long, I saw the parasite in ts chest. Z'skuy-de." Yeyinde said harshly, reciting the yautja words for a xenomorph birth.
They only had to wait a few seconds before the creature burst from its chest, the monstrous xenomorph was unlike any the yautja had seen, already being huge in size, despite only being a newborn chest-burster it was already six feet long as a result of its large hosts body, only having stumpy arms and legs and visible black pupil-less eyes. Its skin was more of gray color as opposed to the usual black.
Screeching the creature lunged forward, taking Dto'rauta by surprise, it tore gashes in his chest breaking the wire-mesh with its sharp tail, and biting down hard at the skin near his throat, Dto roared in both pain and anger as he tried to throw the creature off.
Yeyinde unsheathed his wrist-blades, and tore at the creatures back, but was thrown back as the Xenomorph-Jockey's acidic blood spattered over his arms and chest. Finally getting a grip on the creatures throat, Dto grabbed the serpent by the neck holding it outwards as it tried to bite him again with its inner-mouth.
An unspoken understanding was made between the two yautja as Dto looked at Yeyinde, the said yautja nodded getting the message, and with one slice of his wrist-blade, cut the creature in half. As its acidic blood gushed onto Dto's arms and legs he roared with unimaginable pain before finally collapsing out of exhaustion.
Panting and staring over the horrid creatures body, Yeyinde pressed some buttons on his wrist communicator, "Dto'rauta is badly injured, send someone out here to dispose of the Ultramorphs body." About to hang up and gather up his friend, Yeyinde was surprised when the computer blinked again, trying to make contact again.
"What is it now?!" He growled standing over Dto's limp body, the yautja operating the ships computer had a voice Yeyinde didn't recognize, "When you get back Yeyinde, Guan wishes to speak to you." A rather arrogant voice told him, Yeyinde growled again, "It can wait till I get back, Guan can kiss my..." Yeyinde growled again when they hung up.
(Managing to drag Dto'rauta unconscious body all the way back to the ship and speaking to the ships doctor, he was informed that due to the damage, Dto would be in a coma like state for a number of weeks healing in stasis.)
Yeyinde met the eyes of the little ooman standing outside the ships medical bay doors, with Guan standing there with his arms crossed behind the clone. "What's so important that it needs my attention Guan?" Yeyinde retorted than made an accusing glance to the clone standing beside him, "Have you been making trouble again?!" He asked in an accusing tone, Mira blinked a little hurt but then used her mouth to make click noises, to merely say the yautja word for no, Yeyinde was glad Dto took the time to teach the clone basic words like "yes or no".
"My pup was born this morning." Guan stated simply, "And how exactly is that bad?!" Yeyinde spat at Guan who didn't react, "Because Ju'dha didn't survive the birth, and no-one is willing to take the pup into their care." Guan responded growling with crossed arms.
Yeyinde put his hands over his face and shook his head with frustration, "Dekna passed of old age two months ago, that leaves you alone responsible for the pups care." He scoffed a little before adding, "Its unheard of for a male to have any part in pup rearing." He snorted looking over at Mira who was looking up at them both curiously.
Guan face-palmed, "I know..." He wined like a tired child, before saying, "And it'll be arriving on the ship this afternoon, where the elders will decide its fate." Yeyinde blinked at Guan's expression, he looked utterly depressed, perhaps he actually cared for his only pup, "I will try to put in a good word..." Yeyinde said kindly before leading Mira off, Guan nodded gratefully in his direction as they left.
(I'm very proud of this chapter, notice I made the effort to put an infamous Engineer (Or Ossian) and a Exnomorph-Jockey in it?, This means this story took place shortly before the events of the first alien movie, and no colonists had arrived on the moon LV-426 yet...:)
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