AN: Yeah, I'm sorry this took so long but... uh... I had some, -ahem- setbacks.
Disclaimer: AVP belongs to whomever thought of it. I don't know who. I'm terrible with names, but I'm gunna' go kill him and steal his identity... Kinda' hard for a chic to do, but I'll figure it out!
Character Disclaimer:
Two characters do not belong to me, while they shall remain unnamed for now, their respective owners are:
Infernochinchilla.
GODDESS-Rita-ofDARK.
They will be named in later chapters, to which they will be named to their creators.
Thank you, Rita and Inferno! I love them both so much!
Diana was beyond furious and Korrine was downright petrified.
"You act surprised." The rather large one asked.
Growling, Diana held up the machete. "I am surprised! I mean, oh my God. You were about to sacrifice my mother?!"
"That Ooman?" He questioned through the device, "Your mother? I believe you are mistaken."
Diana glared. "No, I think you're insane. Sacrifice? What are you, giant creepy Mayan rejects?" She growled.
The largest, who was the only one speaking to Diana, did not move again. He stood there staring through the metal mask that frightened Diana and Korrine. Who wears a mask like that?
Then, one of the two standing behind the only one that could communicate started, as Diana guess it, speaking to the largest one... Viciously.
"It seems there is some confusion." He turned his head from the man behind him back to Diana, "From what clan do you hail?"
Diana's glare stopped suddenly. She shook her head, looking strangely at the three ahead of her. "Clan? What the hell do you mean; clan?"
It was the Three Stooges time to be shocked.
"You do not know what clan you are from?" The big one asked again.
Diana rolled her eyes, lowered her machete and sighed. "If you mean what family I'm from, then I'm Diana Beck, this is my mum, Korrine Beck. The man you ditched outside is Harvey Beck. Pleasure to meet you, now go the bloody hell away." She hissed again.
Much to Diana's dismay, the three began talking privately, in their own language, turning slightly away from Diana.
"God, this'll take forever..." Diana groaned. "Mum, go see Dad. Make sure he's okay then go back to camp, pack and I'll be right behind you. We don't have time to deal with these bloody idiots before dark."
"Wait, pup." The translator called out, Diana rolled her eyes then took up glaring back at the largest. "You claim yourself the offspring of a Ooman and you do not know your own language. Grant me a few easy answers if none other, how did you arrive here and why do you believe to be a pup of an Ooman?"
Diana stood up straight and stared to the translator. "I think your thingy is broken... My own language?"
"My translator is the latest model, I received it just before we left for this backwater planet."
"My... own... language."
Korrine could clearly see the shocked look on Diana's face while the three offenders who previously attempted to sacrifice her could only question her wide eyes and strange stillness when she had threatened to slice them in half with a machete not to long ago.
She was right, Diana wanted to stop but she feared the reaction she would be given in return. She had heard right, the man's translator tool was working properly and he had just insinuated that he and his companions were speaking her language and therefore were her specie.
Diana's current trail of thought robbed her of her awareness. She simply stood there, stiff as a board and dropped her machete.
The clang of the discarded weapon forced all three of the mysterious men's eyes to follow it until it lay silent, then they spotted Korrine.
Only the largest turned his attention back to Diana while the other two had a stare down with Korrine.
"You are surprised?"
Diana's eye twitched as did her hands before she could react. Mentally beating the crap out of herself, she awoke from her near stasis state.
"That's... my language? You... That means you... are my race." She mumbled out just above a whisper.
The smallest one of the three turned to the translator and spoke in the clicks and growls that Diana now knew was her language. No wonder she could make weird noises like them so well... Now had she said when she did make those clicks?
Her mind was pulled away from her thoughts again when the translator returned from his short talk with the other.
"All of us are confused. You do not know your language or your race? How is that possible?" His determination to ask these questions became somewhat of a nuisance to Diana, she wanted to ask them the questions. However, this would come sooner or later.
"I-I... W-when I was... Well, I think..." Diana stumbled for words, how was she supposed to describe the one moment in her life that all she oculd remember was fire, falling, snow, and strange men?
"Tilly." Korrine stepped from behind Diana, guessing that the three would not harm her as long as she stayed by Diana. "Please, allow me."
Diana nodded and Korrine released Diana's arm, unaware of the moment she actually took a hold of it.
"I would about twenty years ago I had gone out with my husband and we had found Diana in the cold. It was winter, near Christmas time and a few months prior the park, where we found Diana, was closed for some strange reason." Korrine started off, still uneasy in speech around the three who stared her like they were trying to bore a hole through her.
"A few years ago, my husband's sister Danni and her husband Nicolas had discovered something. For years we've trying to track down Tilly's specie. When Nicolas came here two years ago he found and brought back a stone with a carving of two creatures. One that resembled something of a skeleton with a scorpion tail, and the other which held a certain likeness to Tilly here." Diana grinned at the memory, she would never forget that night. Left early, helped move Danni and Nicolas' belongings into the new home, cooked homemade pizza, left a giant mess in the kitchen, sat down with the family, scared the living daylights out of Corbin, and discovered hints of her race.
"When Nicolas told us about what he had found, we also discovered accounts of the months before the night we found Tilly." Korrine thought for a moment, attempting to properly remember the order of events as it was by the leaked reports.
"The Weyland Yutani Corporation appeared first and hauled off the space ship Tilly fell from. After they had finished their excavations, the government and construction workers appeared and covered the crash site up. But Tilly was the only one left and so my husband and I found her a few days after the park where the crash had taken place was reopened." Korrine finished her brave explanation and could swear that the tensity of the three, possible Diana's race of the male gender, raised greatly.
"You said where this pup fell from. What did she fall from?" He asked, the translator could barely keep up with the rushed clicks and growls.
"The ship, Tilly said all she could remember was a fire, a hole, and then she was falling. She landed in snow, that undoubtedly broke her fall. She was able to escape that way. The Weyland Yutani men could not find her, they did not expect her." Korrine answered for Diana, who was nervous and shaking like a maraca.
"You also mentioned she landed in-" He stopped mid-sentence and a grumbling came from his throat before he could continue. "-s'no-w." He said, and it was obvious to both Diana and Korrine that their language did not have a word for snow and therefore he had to try his voice at the English language... which came out rather choppy.
"Yes, I fell into the snow." Diana suddenly answered, making Korrine release a heavy breath of relief. She did not want to be the target of the three much larger-then-her men's eyes.
"And it was-" He was going to try again and it almost made Korrine and Diana cringe, they did not want to hear what he had to say in English again. "-Wi-nt'er." He choked out, gladly returning to his translator for the conversation.
"Cold as ice. I was freezing, felt like I was shoved into a polar ice cap." Diana involuntarily shivered.
"That is impossible. We are a warm blooded race. We require heat, yet you claim you survived the coldest season of an Ooman's year."
Diana tilted her head, she did not know the answer. Why was she able to withstand the cold? She knew she could freeze rather easily, but she never froze to death, hence her living now.
"You also claim to have lived on Earth for over twenty Earth years. As a race, we cannot breathe the atmosphere on Earth like the Ooman's can. We would die within a matter of day's, how is it that you are able to do such?"
Before answering, Diana and Korrine both soaked in the information. First surprising fact was that they were identifying her as their race and therefore their quest was a success, in fact, beyond a success, they did not think they would actually find living members of Diana's race, much less meet them.
Secondly, Diana and Korrine as well as the rest of the family, understood that Diana would often complain about breathing problems and her sensitivity to the cold, but it never came about when Diana was choking on the air or when Diana turned pale and as cold as a block of ice; not even during Winter.
So how was she able to survive on Earth with her race being warm blooded and Winter is exactly the time she arrived, and how could she live on Earth without the same breathing masks, as Korrine and Diana guessed, that the three men wore?
After contemplating the possible answers, all Diana could reply was with a leasurly shrug. "I don't know."
And Korrine nearly the same. "Not one clue."
The three glanced in one another direction. "This is unnerving."
"You're telling me." Diana laughed. "I just discovered my own race, my own language, then found out there is no plausible way that I can survive on Earth! This is awesome... and weird, but mostly awesome."
There it was, Diana was returning to her natural state of hyperactivity and Korrine saw it coming from a mile away, but her anxiety was focused elsewhere rather then the three soon having Diana glomping them together and asking a slew of questions that they would no doubt become annoyed at.
"Tilly, love." Korrine pulled on Diana's shirt. "Harvey."
Diana's hyperactivity disappeared. "Dad!"
Before the three and Korrine herself knew it, Diana had lifted Korrine into her arms and was rushing with astounding speeds back through the dark carved halls and back out into the near blinding, white hot light outside of the Temple's entrance and straight to the spot Harvey was up against.
"Harvey!"
blood shifter2:Oh, you'll find out who she'll be with, however, I cannot use Infernochinchilla's character or GODDESS-Rita-ofDARK's character as the romance target for Diana's insane obsession with big strong dudes. :D
Infernochinchilla:Well, I'm glad we fixed everything up and you still like me. Also, thanks for kicking my heels and keeping me on my toes about getting this chapter out. It was a toughie, although it doesn't look like it, but I enjoyed talking with you the entire way! You're still a wonderful best friend, because you aren't afraid of telling my like it is... Because I'm stupid and slow, I agree.
PureAngelEyes: Well, I know I made you all wait a long time for this chapter, but I finished it, thought it was decent enough. Though I may come over the story again once it's finished but for now, I like it... I think. ^.~;
GrimlockX4:OH MAI GAWD. You read both of my stories!? OMFG I LURV EWE. xD
You're still awesome Grim and I hope you enjoyed your inserting into my Transformers fic: Real World Changes.
Infernochinchilla: The few, the proud, the KICK ASS READERS! Love ya' Inferno, though I know my jokes suck and are REALLY hard to understand sometimes, I just love spouting them out like some demented poisoned water sprinkler with a deadly cause.