7

"Say you'll love me every waking moment. Turn my head with thoughts of summer time." I was singing. "Say you'll need me with you now and always, promise me that all you say is true. That's all I ask of you."

I remember I was singing that to Ra one night as we were discussing some movies and he was intrigued by The Phantom of the Opera. Ra… Ra.

"Ra." I whispered, and my eyes snapped open, and I was alert as muscular arms held me. Had the yautja gotten me. "No." I struggled a bit before I was restrained some more.

"It is okay, you are safe. It's me Nikolai." I heard his voice say. I was panting softly and slowly, and I looked up to see Nikolai's face over me. We were sitting down, and I was in between his body.

"What- what happened?" I asked softly. He shook his head slowly.

"We came to check on you, to tell you we were moving out when we saw the creature." he replied. I was trembling a bit.

"Did he-?" I asked and looked up at him in fear, and he shook his head.

"No. He did not hurt you." he replied. I nodded slowly and leaned into him more. His grip around me tightened. "I won't let anything hurt you." I could see the trees around us. I nodded.

"Did we all get away?" I asked. He nodded.

"The prisoner was injured. He tried to fight the beast because he was trying to take you and flee, but Stans stopped him." he replied. I nodded.

"Where are we now?" I asked. Nikolai looked around.

"In more of the forest," he whispered, "We set a trap for the beast. I think the doctor will be useful." Edwin, I had almost forgot about.

"You need to know something about him." I whispered.

"Jesus Christ shoot him already!" we heard him yell in the distance. We both looked up. Nikolai stood up and helped me to my feet. The monster went down, and we all moved to surround it. Royce looked at me.

"You alright?" he asked. I nodded. "How about next time we all stay together. No Wandering off." Isabelle glared at him about to say something, but I shook my head and looked at Stans.

"Thanks for helping me." I replied. His arm was wrapped with a piece of cloth from his jumpsuit sleeve. He gave a cheesy grin, and shrugged.

"Yeah no problem. That fuck would have split you in half." he said. I gave a small smile. That was true. We looked down at the weird creature.

"It is not of this planet." I replied. Everyone looked at me.

"How do you know?" Royce asked. I looked at him.

"It's a river ghost. Yautja hunt them as well because of their agility." I replied.

"It must have thought we had dropped it here." Isabelle said. Royce nodded looking at the creature.

"Nice shot though." he replied. Isabelle was looking at a small hole in the tree, and then looked at us.

"I missed." she replied. We looked at the hole before hearing sounds coming from all around us. We all moved together and looked around.

"Over here." A shrouded voice echoed. We looked in one are. "Here." We looked in another direction and suddenly Royce had three lasers pointed at his head. They had found us so quickly. Nikolai shielded my body, his gun up and ready to fire. I placed my hand over my stomach as if protecting it. I was disturbed to already feel a bump there. Something uncloaked itself and it looked to be a small yautja?

"What the fuck are you?" Royce asked. We waited and watched as the person removed his mask, and I was stunned to see it was a man, an older black man.

"I'm alive."

Normal POV

A cloaked ship had entered the atmosphere of the preserve and was slowly landing. Once it was on the ground, the ships bridge lowered and Ra marched down it and cloaked himself. He was angry- no enraged. And he would use that rage and take it to fight his enemies. There were only three. His mask scanned the area for heated foot prints. He found nothing. He looked from the ground to the forest in front of him. Now that these large yautja were disowned by their clan, for kidnapping a pregnant woman with intention to hunt and kill her they were now marked for death. He had his whip, his plasma castor, one blade on his right wrist and two on his left. His net and combi stick were with him with his medi kit and his self-destruct device. He would only use these on the humans here if they were resistance. On his back was a sheath that held the sword he could use as a wrist blade. He had used it to take down the bad blood Snake two years ago, and that was what he would use on the three fucks who had taken his mate. Its blade had heat as hot as the sun and that could cut through any weapon made by a yautja. They did not have the technology to create something that could wish stand the sun.

He heard roaring and barking coming from a distance and raised his shuriken, ready to attack when needed. When a hell hound came out, he almost threw it, but when it stopped and sat down in front of him, he knew it was Anubis. He got on one knee and patted his thick neck. It was good to see his hound alive and well. He had surely tracked and kept a tab on his mate.

"You know her scent…take me to her." he replied. Anubis barked out loudly and turned running into the forest. Ra followed after Anubis and they were buried by trees. He had decided that when this was over, that when he got his mate back that they would go to Yautja Prime, his home. There she would be accepted by all and safe. Lex and Scar have already decided to go back and if there he could hunt numerous things and she would be happy and could raise their future kids. That was his one worry however, for he knew that a human's body could not with stand the birth of a yautja suckling on its own. He already had a serum that he needed to inject into her blood stream so her body could grow with the size of the baby. The birthing would be painful, but there was no way she would die.

He had to find her fast. Each day a yautja fetus grew fast. On earth it had already been two days. She could give birth in a matter of months really. Ra would see it to it that his mate and child were safe no matter what the cost was. He could hear a shuriken whipping through the air at Anubis. He quickly grabbed the hound and lifted him high and off the ground spinning back so the shuriken sliced the back of his armor and landed in a tree. Ra dropped Anubis who was growling hard now at the figure stepping out of the trees. It was the Tracker. He roared viciously and Ra stood there for a moment.

"You are intruding on the hunt of the true yautja jungle weakling. That gives me the right to take you down." he threatened. Ra disregarded the slur that was shot at him and raised his arm and pulled out his blade.

"You have something of mine and I want it back." he said in a calm yet threatening tone as well. Anubis roared violently and Ra's fist curled into a fist his knuckles popping as he did so. The tracker was confused, but he was not going to let the weak jungle bitch sway him of a good hunt. His single wrist blade shot from his wrist gauntlet and he charged for the other yautja. Ra was not small, he was not easily taken down. He had taken down his more larger and ruthless other half before and this day would be no different. The inside of his blade heated up and he charged the other yautja.