Chapter eighteen
Alexa Woods witnessed a lot of strange things for the past few years of her life. But nothing, nothing prepared her eyes when a tormented scream wrenched out of Serena throat as Scar brought down his wrist blades on the fucking hybrid.
Scar was livid.
Lex knew that the moment the hybrid bred and brought up by none other than Reed fucking Wayland appeared out of thin air and nearly spilled Lex's innards.
But she could not understand why Serena was running towards Scar and the hybrid, screaming and cursing at the Hunter.
Even the Arbitrator looked stunned for a moment.
Alexa's eyes went wide when Serena intruded Scar's kill, putting herself between the hybrid and the bulky hunter. The look that washed over the blonde woman's face was that of pure rage and…relief?
And it was only then Lex could see why.
The resemblance between the hybrid and Serena was as bright as a fucking Sun.
Anyone could see that.
But not Lex's mate who was blinded with fury.
"Fuck" she groaned when Scar's rage filled roar split through her head. Serena flinched, taking a step back and bumped with the Hybrid who looked suspiciously calm. Its blue eyes that was an exact copy of Serena's confused Lex.
Either Reed made a Hybrid using Serena's DNA with or without her knowledge or…
"Oh shit" Lex mumbled. "Oh shit!"
Gritting her teeth. Lex pulled herself to her feet, one hand clutching her side and the other using the tree as leverage. However she could not help but cry out in pain when more blood spilled through her fingers and only then her mate was snapped out of his angry daze.
Scar whipped his head towards her, his mask hiding whatever expression that was on his face and seeing her hunched over, biting her lips to stop crying out once again, the hunter was by her side the next second.
"Yeyinde" he rasped, pulling her close.
"Scar" she winced when he pried her hand off the wound, a threatening snarl ripping out of his throat.
Lex craned her neck over Scar's shoulder to watch Serena, who was now on her knees in front of the Hybrid. Lex then watched the black hunter, who was frozen still as a statue, his mask less face giving away nothing as he watched the mother-daughter pair.
Serena was weeping, her bony shoulders shuddering with each sobs as she wrapped her arms around the Hybrid's waist. And it struck even more suspicious to Lex that the Hybrid was standing still, blue eyes never leaving a spot far away in the forest.
"Wait" Lex wheezed when Scar started pulling her towards their ship. He snarled, obviously angry but he froze when the black hunter suddenly jumped into action. His outraged roar matched the familiar shrieking cry that made Lex's heart drop to her belly.
Scar reacted, snarling as he pulled Lex towards the safety of the ship as three adult xenomorphs bounded towards the four of them.
"Scar!" she yelled when he rushed out, sealing the entrance close. "Stay here!"
He growled back, before the door was fully sealed, leaving Lex alone inside the enormous spaceship.
The Kiande Amedha jumped into the air and on Cetanu. He roared out when the sharp claws swiped over his unprotected face. But he could not feel the pain. What he felt was only the unimaginable amount of anger towards the only person who was behind this attack.
Reed.
Cetanu snarled, kicking the black serpent off his body before getting back onto his feet. He snarled and rammed head first into the serpent, using his whole body weight to pin the shrieking creature into a tree. Cetanu reared back his head when its second jaw shot out and caught it in his hand, ripping it out in the process.
The xeno shrieked, corrosive blood pouring out of its mouth like a waterfall. Before it could attack him again, Cetanu whipped out his chakt-ra and cut the kinde amedha's head clean off its body.
He swallowed his roar of triumph as he bounded towards the second one, which was stalking Za'hkar who was in the middle of driving his ki'cti-pa through the other xeno's chest.
Cetanu roared out, collapsing his serrated wrist blades and ran it through the last xeno's side, and pinned it to a nearby tree. He jumped back to avoid the tail with bladed tip. He caught the tail in his hands and with a loud, booming roar, Cetanu whipped the heavy body around, deliberatively slamming its head on trees and boulders and brought it down heavily on the dirt floor, before Za'hkar delivered the final strike. The serrated blades of Za'hkar's shuriken cleaving the xeno's shrieking head off its shoulders.
Za'hkar roared out in triumph, and clasped Cetanu's shoulders in his hands and gave him an acknowledging shake. But the black hunter could help but feel the icy claws of something gripping him from inside out as he felt something amiss.
It was too easy.
Cetanu watched the retreating back of Za'hkar as his mandibles sagged with realization. He whipped around, staring at the spot where Serena was standing with her arms around the u'darahje.
The spot was empty.
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