Okay, so my test is done and Summer is here, and now I can open my PM. But there was one person who forgot that I had finals and gave his problems to me. This made me even more stress since I can deal with other people's problems because it will be my problem. He's mad of me for blocking him, he can be mad at me, but shouldn't told me his problems. It's hard for me to focus. I know he helped me with a story idea, and I'm grateful for his ideas. Yet he didn't know that I had finals. So, if he doesn't want to forgive me, then okay. He can stay mad at me if he wants.
I'm just a girl who is in another country, no one knows who I am, I'm struggling in my life to finish my college and hope for a bright future.
I don't want to talk about this argument I had. I dint want any more problems. I don't want any pressure, all I want was my life back. Where I can write in peace, no one bothering me. That is all I wanted, not to be bothered with problems or any types of stress that you guys have.
And sometimes, I regret on what I do and done, and I don't feel like I should have a fanfiction account anymore because I was thinking of deleting it, so I won't have to deal with any problems from others.
I'm still deciding whether I should continue my writing or not. I have my doubts about this and wanted to forget everything about fanfiction and all the stories that I made.
Meanwhile, the others were at the sacrificial chamber, looking around for any clues. They removed their overcoat after Lex found out that the temperature in here is a bit warmer, meaning they can take off your overcoats. Weyland uses his flashlight to a passageway, wondering what was at the other side. Weyland turns off his flashlight and walks over to Stafford.
"Let's move to that lower room, Max." Weyland said.
Stafford nodded and turns to the group. "Time to move out everybody." He said before turning toward Lex. "Ms. Woods?"
Stafford motions to Lex to take the lead. Lex nodded and walked towards the tunnel followed by Sebastian, Miller, Weyland, Stone, Bass, Verheiden, and Connors while the rest stayed behind. Hanging back momentarily, Stafford gives instructions to Thomas and Rousseau as they were stopped by him.
"You, stay here." Stafford said to Thomas before turning to Rousseau. "Rousseau. Stay with him, keep a team with you." And he turns to Thomas again. "Catalog everything."
Stafford turns to Sebastian, who stopped for a moment when Stafford told Thomas that he stays behind and gave Sebastian a gestured with his head towards the tunnel.
"Professor."
Sebastian didn't say anything as he went to the tunnel with the others. Stafford soon follows, leaving Thomas and Rousseau behind with the others. There was an awkward silence between the two. Thomas turns to Rousseau and made a small smile, but Rousseau had a deadpan look as she walks away, leaving Thomas on his spot alone. The kids were looking around the chamber, wondering if it's magic related. They decided to split up and find anything suspicious. Jay, Mike, Alex, and Sofia stayed in the chamber to search for clues while the the kids went out to find out any explanation about this pyramid. They look at the hieroglyphics on the walls and pillars, hoping to figure out what they mean. Damien looks around the walls and notice something strange. The girls were having trouble understanding the words, but Damien was getting strange information from his head. Soon, the words around him are starting to make sense.
"Wow…" Damien mutters in shock as he reads the hieroglyphics. As he reads them, his eyes slowly widen when he figured out why the pyramid was here.
"Yautja." Damien suddenly blurted out.
"What?" The girls asked in confusion as Damien turns to them with wide eyes.
"You know that statue on the island that give people knowledge and stuff." Damien reminded them.
"Yeah, it's called the Mindoraan." Gem said. "Damien, what does it have to with this?"
Damien points at the hieroglyphics. "This pyramid is not human or magic. I think Dark was right, it's alien. And not just any aliens, they are Yautjas!"
The girls, minus Kendall, were shock about this information. So, the pyramid isn't human or magic, it was actually alien! But why it was here, and more importantly, why do they need it?
"I know, it sounds weird, but hear me out!" Damien said to them. "The Mindoraan gave me info about Yautja cultures and traditions. Turns out, this pyramid is a sacred ritual!"
"What ritual?" Quinn asked Damien almost in fear.
"A ritual of a hunt!" Damien said in panic. "The writings on the wall explains that these aliens are Yautjas. They came here to hunt an ultimate prey."
"What prey!?" Quinn and Gem asked unison.
"Xenomorphs!" Damien said, causing them to gasp as he points at the writings on the walls. "Look, the hieroglyphics explains about the history of the pyramid."
"What does it mean?" Quinn asked.
"It says that the Yautjas found Earth thousands of years ago. They taught ancient humans how to build and made a civilization. They were worshipped as gods by the humans. And every hundred years, the would come back."
"Why would they want to come back?" Val asked.
"You see, the ancient humans wanted to please them and the Yautjas used that. They made the humans breed the ultimate prey." Damien explains.
"The Xenomorphs are their ultimate prey?" Gem asked Damien in surprise.
Damien nodded. "Yeah, the Xenomorph have this aggressive nature. That's why the Yautjas saw them as worthy prey. They were lethal. And the humans are use as cattle to breed the Xenomorphs."
"And that explains the sacrificial cham-Oh no!" Quinn almost panicked. "Lex and the others are beneath the it and-"
"It will pull the trigger of the hunt!" Damien said in shock. "I know what's down there and they need to be stop before they could activate it!"
"We huv tae tell the others." Aggie said.
The kids quickly went back in the chamber and saw the others were still looking around. They quickly went to the teens as they stopped snooping around. They whispered to them in their ears about the situation and were given the details about the pyramid. When Kendall put Val down, Jay and Mike soon run off with Quinn, Gem, and Kendall follows them behind. Val was with Alex, Sofia, Damien, and Aggie as they watched the others run off to warn the others.
"Hey?! Where are you guys going?!" Thomas called out.
"We're heading out!" He heard Quinn's voice through the hall.
He turns to the rest of the D-Squad and asked. "What's going on?"
"Believe me, the lesser you guys know, the better." Damien said before rethinking his words. "Or is it the other way around." He mutters.
Meanwhile, Lex leads the group to the shaft that was below the sacrificial chamber. They found the flare glowstick that Stafford dropped through the grate. This shaft was linked by a stone shaft of some kind. Lex shines her flashlight at the grate, wondering if the others could hear them. She worries about the kids, especially Val. She should've told them to stay at the ship, but they look like they can handle themselves.
"This should be directly below the sacrificial chamber." Lex said as she looks at her group. Then Lex sees something from the corner of her eye and shines her flashlight at it.
"Sebastian." Lex spoke, getting the archeologist's attention.
They followed her gaze and shined their flashlight at the object. At the center of the room is what appears to be a sarcophagus. It was fifteen feet long, four feet wide, and looked…alien. Sebastian went to it and carefully examines the sarcophagus with awe.
"It's a sarcophagus…" Sebastian said as he examines it carefully, touching it in the process. "This is the Long Count…this is the Aztec calendar. And this…it's some kind of combination lock." He explains as he turns the first of the metal dials on the top of the sarcophagus as it moves easily.
"Days…Months…Years. The dials are set for…1916." Sebastian reads out in shock.
This surprise everyone. They guess they weren't the first ones here, much to Weyland's dismay. Lex walked over to the sarcophagus and looks at it carefully. She has a bad feeling about this, there was a reason for it to be there. And she needed to know why and soon.
"Someone opened this one hundred years ago?" Lex asked, narrowing her eyes at the object in front of her.
Sebastian glances over at Lex, not answering her question, as he gave her a knowing look. "What's today's date?" He suddenly asked.
Lex just stared at him, not liking that she didn't get an answer, but she did answer him. "It's May 20." She said. "Why?"
"5-20…2016." Sebastian mutters out as he made his way to the sarcophagus. Sebastian turns the first of the metal dials on the top of the sarcophagus.
"You sure this is going to work?" Weyland asked.
"I don't know." Sebastian answered as he did the next discs.
Once he sets the date, month, and year on the discs, something happened that made the entire team stunned as the lid of the sarcophagus begins to move.
"Back up!" Lex ordered.
The team quickly backs away from it as the sarcophagus slowly opens itself, releasing icy smoke that was trapped inside, but covered something inside. Then Sebastian cautiously approaches the edge and slowly peers inside. And what he saw, made him shock. He turns to the group with wide eyes.
"Oh my God, take a look at this." He said.
They all crowded around the sarcophagus, wondering what was inside. The interior of the sarcophagus contained three strange looking weapons. They resembled to a type of gun, but they were more futuristic, almost alien design. Sebastian stared at the strange weapons, as if they were priceless gems, and was quietly ominous about this. They were all staring at the futuristic guns. They're a little freaked out about this, except for Lex and Weyland. Lex finds it suspicious while Weyland looks at the weapons in awe, thinking that he made a discovery. Miller was leaning in too close to the weapons as he looks at them curiously.
"Any idea what these are?" He asked Sebastian.
Sebastian shook his head. "No, you?" He asked Miller.
"No." Miller answered, clearly has no idea what they just found.
"It's a good thing we brought the experts." Stafford said sarcastically, thinking that these two men of science and history have no idea what they just found.
"Well, yeah. It is a good thing." Miller said, not fazed to the sarcastic tone that Stafford said, as he grins at the weapons. "'Cause this is like finding Moses' DVD collection."
This caused Sebastian to smirk at him in amusement while Lex shook her head at him as she looks at the weapons suspiciously. Whatever the weapons are for, they look like trouble, and thinking that they shouldn't be discovered by man. Before she could think further, Weyland started coughing. They all turn to him as he walks away from the group. Weyland was having a hard time breathing agin. The old billionaire pulls out his hand-held portable oxygen bottle and takes a shot into his lungs, trying to calm his breathing. The others thought he has asthma, but Lex knew that he has lung cancer since Kendall and Val told her, she just hoped that they were okay.
"Weyland?" Lex asked worriedly as she made her way to him, trying to comfort him as he struggles to breathe.
Weyland coughs a bit as he uses his oxygen bottle. "A little too much excitement." He assured her, coughing a bit.
Worried about Weyland's condition, Lex decided it was best to go back to the whaling station with the others. They can continue afterwards when they are rested. Weyland needs a rest along with the kids, since they need to keep their energy up.
"We've been out long enough for today." Lex said as she looks at the males. "We'll set up base camp at the whaling station and get back at it tomorrow morning."
"Well, you can go back to the base camp, Ms. Woods, but we're staying here." Stafford said to her, he was interested in learning to know about these weapons. However, he has no idea Lex is not taking no for an answer.
"No, you wanted to leave without proper prep, we did. You wanted to be the first here, we are. You've claimed the find, it's yours. Now, we move as a team, and we're done for the day." Lex informs them seriously and almost dangerously.
Hearing her tone, the males became somewhat scared of her. Who knew Lex can be scary? They turned towards Weyland, wondering if Lex should take charge. But due to his condition, Weyland decided it was best to go back, not for his sake, but for the others and the kids.
"You heard her." Weyland said to them.
The men were disappointed, but silently agrees to head back. Stafford looks at the weapons and then to Weyalnd. "What do you want do with these?" He asked.
"Take them. We'll run further tests on the surface." Weyland ordered.
Wanting to know who made these weapons, they decided to take the weapons, unaware the consequences might come. Meanwhile, Jay, Mike, Quinn, Gem, and Kendall were running through the hall, hoping that they can reach them on time to stop on what they are doing. But soon, Connors reached into the sarcophagus first and grabs the first two guns, followed by Verheiden. Sebastian saw this and his eyes widen in shock and horror, he told them not to touch them, but it was too late when Stafford grabs the last gun from the sarcophagus. Then a hidden trigger was activated with a loud 'CLICK!' that echoes throughout the chamber. Jay, Mike, Quinn, Gem, and Kendall came rushing in, trying to warn them.
"Stop! You have no idea what're you doing!" Mike yelled when they got it.
But it was too late, the sarcophagus slowly closed and everything around them started to change. The walls of the chamber began to move. Everyone was in full panic, except for Lex, as she was the only one who was keeping her cool along with Jay and Kendall.
"Watch out!" Lex yelled in alarm as chamber started to change.
"The doors!" Sebastian points out in alarm.
The entrance was sealed shut and revealing brand new passageways in and out of the chamber. And same goes to the sacrificial chamber. Val was outside of the chamber as she looked at the writings on the walls. The others were still inside as they investigate the writings. Soon, they heard a faint 'Look out!' from bellow. This caused them to be on edge when they heard that. Suddenly, large blocks of stone slides down from the ceilings of the entrances. Val gasps when she saw the entrance was going to sealed up, she was about to rush back in, but was sealed shut. She hits her fists on the solid block wall and stated hitting it with all her might, but she wasn't strong enough.
"VAL!" Sofia, Alex, Damien, and Aggie screamed in shock as they rushed to the blocked entrance and tried to figure a way how to open it.
Rousseau quickly pushes a large metal case under the last door, but it was hopeless as it was crushed by the stone. Rousseau and the others were shock by the strong force of the stone block. As Rousseau stood up, Thomas quickly went to her side.
"You okay?" He asked worriedly.
"Yeah…" Rousseau nodded as she looks at the stone block. "Slab's gotta weigh two tons. We'll never move it."
"I knew this pyramid is booby-trapped!" Damien exclaims in fear as he and the others were trying to pry open the stone slab to get to Val.
Speaking of Val, the little girl was hitting the stone slab with all her might, but it was useless because it was rock solid. Val can't use her powers because she was afraid that something bad will happened if she uses them. Val continues banging the stone slab with her little fists, hoping that her friends are okay. Then suddenly, the halls started to shift again, causing Val to gasp as the floor started to move, revealing a bottomless pit. Val quickly moves away as she escapes from the fall. She soon went towards a statue of a strange looking being, a Yautja statue, and quickly climbs up the statue as she avoids the closing floor. Val was lucky to be a climber as she made it to the top and watched the floors changed, along with the walls. Val became scared before she carefully climbs up and found a passage way that leads somewhere else. Val started at the hall way with wide eyes and her brows down, her face shows a scared expression as she looks at the dark halls. Celestia, Val's little dragon, pops her head out from the bag and looks at the passageway. She carefully made her way out of the bag and to the solid ground and turns towards her friend with a chirp.
"Come on, Val. We'll find another way to the others." She said.
Val wasn't sure if it's a good idea, yet their circumstances are kind of slim since the pyramid is almost like a Rubik's Cube. So, without a thought, Val agrees with Celestia as the little dragon helps Val up and carefully stood on the platform. The two friends walked together, side by side, as they find away to get back to the others.
Meanwhile, the others were trapped at the sacrificial chamber. They were all trapped in the room, sealed in shut with no way in or out. Alex, Sofia, Aggie, and Damien were trying to figure a way to break down the stone slab. They were thinking of using their powers or magic, but they can't use them in front of the people around them. But they can always use Aggie's amnesia's spell, Mentus, to made them forget what just happen, but they must think of an excuse for it.
Suddenly, something caught everyone's eyes. At the bottom of the sacrificial slabs strange looking eggs suddenly appeared. They stand at least around two and a half feet tall and are brown-black yet leathery. They appeared at bowl-shaped indentation. They all eye at the eggs suspiciously. Damien's eyes widen in full horror as he already knows what those eggs are.
Xenomorph Eggs.
Seeing a danger, Rousseau readies her gun as she pointed at one of the eggs. Thomas shines his flashlight at one of the eggs and there was something inside of the egg. It was moving around, and it was almost disgusting. Everyone looked at the egg almost scared, but Damien was terrified. He knows what are inside of those things, and it will cost them their lives. Suddenly, the eggs started to open on top, sticky slims came as they opened. And inside were strange creatures that should never come out.
"What did you say this room was called?" Rousseau asked Thomas as she shines her flashlight at one of the eggs until she Thomas looked at eggs, his face turning pale, as he now realizes how the people who offer their lives died.
"…Sacrificial Chamber." He answered grimly.
Damien's eyes widen as he turns to the others. "We have to-"
Before anyone could do anything, seven scorpions like creatures launch themselves simultaneously from the eggs. Everything was going in slow motion. Rousseau was slowly raising her gun up to shoot at the creature, but it was out of range. However, before the scorpion like creature could do anything, Aggie cast a spell as she was surrounded by a magical aura with spells.
"Via Eternitas!"
Suddenly, everything and everyone stopped, froze in their place. Not moving or breathing as they paused or glued into their place. The scorpion like creatures were in midair, almost at the seven people that Weyland hired. Aggie pants out as she looked on what she has done. She knows that she has not authority on casting that spell, but she has no choice, she had to do it in order to save her friends and the people here. She looks at her friends, who were frozen in their spot, and points her index finger at them before she uses another spell to help them.
"Via Disapatis."
The spell hits her friends, they gasp in shock as they were free from the spell that Aggie cast before. They looked around and notices that everyone else were not moving. They turned towards Aggie, who was panting a bit.
"Ah tae dae it." Aggie said.
"It's okay, Aggie. You had to do what's right." Alex assured her with a smile before looking at the not moving people and then to the creatures. "We have to put them in a box."
"Got it." Damien said before looking at IM (Impossible Man), who was disguise as a smart watch. "Impy, give us a bulletproof glass box that is not breakable, oh! And has wheels to move around and easy to carry.
"On it!" IM said.
In a flash, a big glass box appeared, it was big enough to fit the creepy-crawlies in. Alex uses her energy power to create a shield on the seven alien-scorpions before putting them in the box. Damien closes the box and IM puts a lock on it, preventing the creatures from escaping. They finished the job just in time as the spell worn off and everyone moved again. Rousseau has her gun pointed, but saw the threat gone. She slowly lowers her gun and notices the glass box filled with alien like scorpion inside, moving around as they tried to latch themselves on their faces.
"What the hell are those?" Rousseau asked in disgust.
The four looked at each other before looking at Rousseau. She and the others were suspicious about this because they remembered that they were almost attacked by these creatures. Aggie was about to perform another spell to erase their memories, but Alex stops her, knowing it was no use since they need to explain to them what happened.
"It's a long and hard story." Alex said.
"Then explain." Rousseau demanded.
The four looked at each other before the three girls looked at Damien, giving him the silent signal for him to explain. Damien wanted to slap himself for being the one with the knowledge of the Yautjas, but there was no other choice since that Rousseau or Gem 3.0, Rousseau reminds him of Gem sometimes while Nightdeath was almost like Gem, but more quiet and deadly. And he considers her a Gem 2.0. Yeah, he's really afraid of Gem. Anyways, Damien started to explain about the situation.
"Okay, long story short, this temple is actually made by humans who were taught by an alien race called Yautjas, and the ancient humans worship them. Then the Yautjas used the humans as cattle to breed the most dangerous prey called Xenomorphs, but in order to do that. They needed hosts aka you guys and these creatures called Facehuggers are the ones who can do it by latching on your faces and getting you guys…um…" Damien thinks of another word for his explanations.
"…Uh…carrying an alien baby, and after an hour or two, they'll explode right out of your chest like those guys." Damien points at the corpses that were on the stone slabs.
"Wait, full grown aliens will come out of us?" Thomas asked in shock.
"No, no, no. They're actually Chestbursters, they're the third stage. And in few hours or so they'll reach their final stage or better known as their adult form and they're use as a hunting ritual for the hunters, aka Yautjas, to prove their worth of being a warrior or something. And if they lose, the aliens, or better known as Xenomorphs will wreak havoc among us, killing or kidnapping us for food or used us as host for making more of them. PHEW!"
Damien breathes out after his long and awkward explanation. They, minus Alex, Sofia, and Aggie, stared at Damien in full shock as they tried to process this. They can't believe that this pyramid was actually for aliens, they just made a discovery of a life time. But they didn't expect to be used as cattle.
"If you're saying is true…then why now." Rousseau asked.
"Because this ritual only happens every one-hundred-years. And they did it now because they were waiting for you guys to find it and activate the whole thing." Damien explains.
"The people in the whaling station…they were the ones who found it first, correct?" Thomas asked.
"Aye, and we believe thae they ended up…ye know." Aggie looks over the corpses.
They all look at the corpses and realizes what she meant. The people here who worked at the whaling station must've found the pyramid before, and they ended up being dead when they made the aliens or Xenomorphs, so they can prove themselves worthy. They were still shock yet skeptical about this. Thomas walked over to the glass box and looks at the Facehuggers inside, they were crawling around the box mindlessly. As he got closer, one of the Facehuggers lungs at him, but hit the glass box. Thomas was startled by this as he quickly stood up.
"Holy-this…this is real!" He said in shock.
"Wait the state the obvious." Damien said sarcastically.
Rousseau walked over to them. "So, these things will be ones that will create the Xenomorph things?" She asked them.
"Yes, but first, we have to think of a plan to get out of here." Alex said.
"I still don't get how did they got in there when they almost latched to our faces." Thomas said.
"We'll tell you when we get to ship." Alex added.
"If we can." Damien said, causing everyone to look at him. "This pyramid is like a maze, a maze that moves. We'll just be going around in circles if we don't think of a plan to get out of here the right way."
Everyone looks at each other, wondering if they should listen to him. But since he and the others somehow saved their lives, they decided to give their ideas a shot, and hopefully find the others and get out of here.
"Okay, so what's your plan?" Rousseau asked.
Damien's eyes widen a bit. "Wow, you guys want to hear me-us out?"
"Well, considering that you all somehow saved our lives, we'll take those chances." Thomas added. "Plus, you seem to know a lot of this."
"…Okaaay then." Damien said with a shrug before looking at the others. "So, the pyramid shifts around, changing its halls and walls to make new entrances, kinda like a Rubik's Cube, but bigger. And more…"
"Death deifying?" Rousseau adds.
"Yeah, but if we play our card right, we'll find a way to get out of here and finding the others, and hopefully getting Val before she gets hurt." Damien said.
"But about those things, the Xenomorphs, are they out there?" A scientist asked.
"Not sure, but in the walls, it explained that they were wiped out by an explosion." Damien explains.
"Let's just hope that there aren't any." Rousseau said.
Oh, how they were so wrong.
Deep beneath the pyramid, a hidden chamber that was separated from the rest was in ruins. Many rubble and fallen statues were on the ground. Some were still intact, but some were not. It wasn't much left on the chamber, only broken statues and pillars. Yet, there was a sound of small rocks falling. There, a pile of rubbles besides a wall with two pillars like arc, something was pushing the rubble away, causing some dust and pebbles to fall. Then with an incredible force caused all the rubble to explode away. Once the smoke clears, a black figure came out from it. It was tall, it was scary, and looked dangerous.
Its appearance resembles to a human but somewhat bipedal in form, though it adopts a more hunched. It has a cylindrical skull with ridges but possess no visible eyes, has a skeletal-biomechanical appearance and. Its color is black like camo and has a few sets of dorsal tubes located on its back. And a tail blade.
It was a Xenomorph.
This Xenomorph is a warrior male, but bigger and scarier. He somehow survived the explosion and stayed alive all these years, hidden inside a hidden chamber. A very intelligent being.
And he's not alone.
Soon, few more Xenomorphs came out from the hidden cave, Drones and Warriors. They somehow survived with the explosion. One of the Drones, a male, came to the Warrior. It has a green artful grid mark on its dome head and missing tail blade. He got those scars from a battle long ago, he would've died if it wasn't for the Warrior that saved his life. They and the others retreated to the pyramid, in hopes to avoid the explosion. They lived but the others did not. The Drone crawled over to the Warrior with a hiss. The Warrior turns to the Drone and made a low hiss as if they were communicating. They have this telepathic communication as well, but they only use it when they are separated. Now, they came back when the pyramid came to life. And they one mission.
Is to find their Queen.
Even though the pyramid is moving, they know how to find her since they are psychic connected, they can find her with no problems at all. So, with a loud shriek, the Warrior gave the command to move out. The others responded with loud shrikes before the Warrior runs off to the open entrance, followed by the others, searching for their queen.
That's all I got. I hope you guys enjoyed it. And I don't know when the summer break in America is because my summer break is different from the rest. Lucky, my friend enderdragonprincess helped me since she told me that her summer break is either May or June since I changed combination lock's codes. Also, the spells belong to Tara Duncan the series.
Thanks again to enderdragonprincess for her help.
