Chapter Four
Thanks for the reviews everyone, obviously appreciate it a lot ^^ Keeps me motivated to write. :D Oh yeah, as for all the short chapters for now, this is mostly to get the story going without making it too dreary and boring, once the story really gets going the chapters will be longer.
Oh yeah, that acid the predators use to dissolve corpses will also be in the story; and not everything in my story will be 100% accurate, however, I will try to keep everything as accurate as possible One thing in my story there might be debate about is whether aliens can actually see or use sensors, in my story they are blind because of their lack of eyes; however, this is only my opinion.
Most of the information I'm using is in the Wikipedia of the Predators, so it is debatable, but it is the closest I'll ever get to facts.
And Weyland industry will be in this story, I won't keep the same names in the company though. Sorry for the long author note.
IMPORTANT: To those who have found the link I put on the first Chained story, I'm sorry I stopped so abruptly in that story but my lack of writing knowledge and contradicting storyline put me off so I decided to scratch it and after a few years decided to start over.
Please read and review and enjoy. :D
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(03:00 – Same Day)
Lauren pilled the last fragment of glass from her hand with a tweezer and it clattered down onto the plastic wrap that was laid down in the basin, mixing in with the other pieces of glass and blood that lay on it already. Lauren examined both her hands to make sure they were shard free before taking the plastic wrap by the sides and lifting it up from the basin and the shards of glass cluttered together in the middle as she picked it up.
She tossed it into the bin before turning back to the basin; she put in the plug and turned on the faucets as she poured some antiseptic liquid into the water, watching as it turned a milky white. Once the water was warmish she turned off the faucets and dunked her hands into the water. The antiseptic water stung her hands slightly but she kept it there as she counted down the second before she could take it out.
A minute passed before she removed her hands, she took the hand towel and wiped her hands on it, leaving slight smears of blood on the white towel, before taking hold of the tube of cream.
She dabbed some cream onto the cuts and then started to bandage them up with a sigh, she had already done her leg and cleaned the other various small cuts, but she didn't know how she would clean up all the glass or that piece of head that was oozing acid on her carpet without going into shock.
The best for her to do at the moment was ignore the carnage in her bedroom, go to the guest bedroom and go sleep and then go work. When she got home from work she would deal with the disaster in her house but she was not going to sleep in that room for one main reason; because of the window being gone. She had seen what was out there and it scared her witless. Her guestroom only had a small window at the top to let sunlight in and she would feel much safer knowing nothing could come into the room with such a narrow and small window.
After she was done bandaging her hands she walked out of the bathroom and grabbed a nightdress from her dresser before heading off towards her guestroom to force herself to sleep; the fact that she was an insomniac wouldn't help this motive much considering the events of the evening.
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(Somewhere on a roof)
He ripped the tail from the xenomorph as he tossed the rest of the body aside; the head was damaged and would mean nothing to him. He wrapped the tail around his body like a belt before removing a vial of green liquid from his belt.
He opened the vial and dripped some of it over the corpse of the xenomorph and watched as it started to dissolve into nothing more than black sludge. He turned towards the house he had just come from; the remnants of the xenomorph lying in the house of the human wouldn't pose a problem.
The fact that one of the xenomorph kin had died in that house would cause a problem and would possibly lure both the Weyland Yutani people and the xenomorphs' to the human's house. Since the destruction of the pyramid the hunting grounds had shifted to wherever an outbreak occurred.
Which was only thanks to Weyland; according to the clan leader the Weyland Industry had first allowed the creatures to escape due to negligence but upon realization what the creatures drew to the planet they started to do it on purpose to try and draw one of the hunters to the planet while they controlled the situation.
What these foolish humans didn't realize was that they couldn't control the xenomorphs', their rate of replication was beyond anything these humans could understand and to release them into a place as crowded as New York was both suicidal and stupid.
It wouldn't be long before they created a hive and bred or created a Queen to serve as the heart of the hive and then it would only be a matter of days before they overrun the city.
The Yautja lifted his head and swapped the vision over to ultraviolet to see if he could detect any Xenomorphs' in the immediate vicinity. As his eyes scanned across the terrain he found there were no xenomorphs' present in the area apart from the one he had killed.
He sat down on the roof and continued to scan over the area, swapping between ultraviolet and infrared, to see if any humans were panicked or if any xenomorph came into sight. The scent of their dead kin's acidic blood would lure them to the area and once he saw how many came he would be able to judge how many were already rampaging the city.
Without removing his eyes from the landscape in front of him he put his hand on the white bag next to him, he felt the chill of the ice seeping into his hand and then removed his hand again. When the sun rose it would be defrosted enough to eat and it would be safer to do so as well. Even though the xenomorphs' did not possess the capabilities to see its advanced senses often allowed it to be far more lethal than something with eyes and even if they could not detect night from day with their eyes they knew the difference and knew the latter didn't work to their advantage.
Thus they mostly hunted at night to camouflage themselves but they were far from intelligent; the only intelligent strain of their race were the Queen and that was why she was the most prized trophy among the Elite and Clan Leaders, while they were but a hopeful dream to the blooded and unblooded hunters.
This was his second hunt, but his first Xeno Hunt, and he was the only hunter deployed to finish it to become blooded; however it seemed his clan leader did not take in regard the capacity on New York City, it was a breeding ground flourishing with thousands upon thousands of host. The encounter with a Queen was inevitable if he wanted to complete the hunt but the possibility was slim of surviving if he didn't kill the young queen quickly.
The become a clan leader one had to wipe out a hive of over three hundred xenomorphs with the help of two others if required and to even be sent on that hunt you needed to have at least three Queen heads as trophies and he didn't even have one.
This place held the possibility to produce the biggest hive they have ever seen and he was here alone among the coming carnage. The xenomorph he had killed in the human's house had harmed him before it was even in the house; he had chased it down to the house and finished it off.
He knew his choices would boil down to a few things. He would continue hunting them and once he saw signs of a possible hive he would need to take action. The choices were to either inform the clan of a possible 300+ hive for those who wanted to become Clan leaders and forfeit his opportunity to become blooded; to fight as much and as many as he could and then bomb the place to end the affection and return as possibly blooded or to fight and die with honor, taking them down with the bomb as he takes his last breath.
He felt both a thrill and some fear for the coming hunt…
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This chapter was mostly his perspective and if I did something wrong or if you are disappointment just tell me and I'll edit here and there and repost