Chapter VII
"We'll find them on the way out." She replied looking at the Mexican Professor, before leading the team out of the room.
"Stone, Verheiden cover our backs!" Max ordered.
Back in the Sacrificial Chamber one of the facehuggers have fallen of its victim, it task complete.
Rousseau's eyes snapped open, all she could feel was pain as she slowly sat up, she then brought her hand to her chest ad massaged the area that the pain was coming from. She took a moment to look around and saw that her six companions were lying on the floor and each one had a green spiderlike creature on their faces.
A wave of pure agony washed through her from her chest, seconds later she heard the tell tale sound of bones starting to break, Rousseau screams as a young Kiande Amedha breaks through her bones, muscle and skin. She dies once the young alien broke through.
Minutes after Weyland and his team had left the Sarcophagus Chamber, a Predator de-cloaks. It's Taro he stared down into the sarcophagus and saw that it was empty, he growled in frustration
#The Ooman's have taken the Sivk'va-tai.# Taro said over the communications line that the Elders had allowed them to have, Range growled in response to what Taro had reported.
#Calm down chiva mei'hswei, they probably took them in ignorance of what they are and what they mean.# Scar, ever the logical one, intervened.
#Scar we need the sivk'va-tai to complete the Chiva!# Taro argued. #I will not allow them to get away with this theft!# he continued with a growl.
#And what if it's the only female in the group that is the one that carries them?# Scar questioned. #Will you go against the code and kill her to retrieve the sivk'va-tai?# He continued on.
Taro paused frowning as he turned and faced the corridor that the Ooman's went down, and changed through the various types of vision as fast as his sight would allow. #By what my mask is showing me there is no trace of a female Ooman with this group.# Taro responded.
Silence was what greeted his response.
#But the visual on the Ship showed that there were two Ooman females, one died hosting a Kiande Amedha, and the other is still alive.# Scar said as he stopped next to his trial brother.
Taro glanced at the smaller but much more intelligent Yautja beside him. #Could there be a possibility, no matter how small said possibility is, that the female Ooman has found a way around the visual spectrums that our mask allows us to see?# Range suggested from behind them, startling both of the other Yautja's.
#That is a small possibility but a possibility all the same.# Scar said slowly. #Let's assume that her talents, whether they be technological or physical, only offer her a defence basis, as in they only a port to her defence.# Scar said after a moment of watching the footsteps on the stone floor. The other two nodded in agreement as the assumption that their trial brother had made was a logical one.
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Lex and the team kept moving through the pyramid, her flashlight then illuminated a giant statue as the beam of said flashlight illuminated the walls of the corridor it became clear that the passageway was lined with statues, the statues depicted a humanoid shape much larger than any human, their face's were covered by a mask each and every one of them looked ready for battle as they had armour instead of clothes, they also had weapons decorating their waist, with a gun like weapon attached to their shoulder. They looked intimidating and very powerful.
"Dear God." Sebastian muttered when he saw the statues, many of the statues were engaged in combat with another species, a species that Lex knew to be called the Kiande Amedha. The way the statues portrayed it was as if they were George fighting a Dragon. Max studied one of the statues and saw the weapon on the statues shoulder.
Lex walked up behind him silently. "Recognize what's on their shoulders?" she asked.
"We worshiped these things?" Max asked interrupted Sebastian who had been examining a mural that showed a human on its knees in supplication before a Predator.
"According to this we did. And the artefacts that you removed from the sarcophagus seem to be their weapons." Sebastian replied a little bit derisively.
Range looked down at the Oomans and saw that Scar had been correct there were two Ooman females at the beginning, but now there was only one. He cycled through all of the visual spectrums that his mask allowed him to, all the while praying to Paya, Cetanu and any other god that he knew of that the female wasn't carrying one of sivk'va-tai, so that he wouldn't have to go against the code.
Range breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that two of the males were carrying the sivk'va-tai. #Two male Oomans are the ones that carry the sivk'va-tai.# Range said, not caring that that the relief could be head in his voice. #And Scar you were right, but what is curious is the fact that the Ooman female registers with a heat signature but she doesn't leave a heat trace.# he continued as he zoomed in on the sivk'va-tai to check for damage.
"The heat bloom that your satellite detected makes more sense now." Miller said to Weyland.
"What do you mean?" Weyland asked the chemical engineer.
"A building this sophisticated would require a major energy source. That's what your satellite detected, the power plant for the Pyramid firing up... preparing." Miller explained.
"Preparing for what?" Weyland enquired.
Lex consulted her digital compass. "Let's get moving. Just another 200 yards to the entrance." She called out gaining many sighs of relief, but she was tense she knew that this was an ambush and she couldn't do a thing about it.
Behind the team Stone was bringing up the rear, he doesn't see the noose that has dropped from the ceiling and around his neck before it tightened, it dragged him into the air as he silently died.
Range watched as Taro killed the Ooman that was at the very back of the group with a sigh, all he wanted to do was kill a couple of Kiande Amedha, get marked and then get off of this planet. He approached the other Ooman that was at the back of the group and impaled him on his ki'cti-pa, the force of the strike sent the Ooman flying into the stone wall which alerted the other Ooman's too the attack.
"Get down!" Max yelled as he grabbed Weyland.
"What the Hell was that?" Connors called as he crouched down by a pillar.
Lex saw a chakt-ra flying towards Sebastian "Down!" she yelled as she tackled him to ground the disk passed harmlessly over them before it cut through the statue that Sebastian had been standing in front off like it was paper. The head of the statue came crashing down to the ground, it had been neatly decapitated.
Taro roared in frustration, at the fact that the male Ooman had avoided the chakt-ra with the help of the Ooman female.
Max and Verheiden were firing the guns that they carried, before the pyramid began to shift again.
"The Pyramid!" Weyland called. "It's shifting again!"
"The doors are closing!" Lex yelled when she saw the door ways were closing.
"Let's get out of here!" Sebastian yelled as he grabbed Lex, who the grabbed Weyland and pulled them through a door way before it closed, Max had followed his employer when he began moving.
Range glanced around the reconfigured pyramid, he was trapped in a small room with Taro who was muttering darkly under his breath; he glanced around one more time before he settled down against the wall to patiently await the opening of a passage out of this room so he could get as far away from Taro as he possibly could.
Taro growled for the umpteenth time causing Range to sigh inaudibly it was going to be a long wait.
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Verheiden, Miller and Connors looked around the room that they were trapped in, all three of them knew that they were safe from the Predator for the moment, but they weren't sure how long that that would last.
"What are those things?" Verheiden asked his companions who shook their heads. "Did you see what they did to Bass and Stone?" he asked again. "I hit that son of a bitch, dead on as well. He didn't stop or even flinch." Verheiden paused. "Hell he didn't even slow down!"
"Hey! Verheiden." Miller called out.
"What?" Verheiden said as he spun to face the chemical engineer.
"I'm no soldier, but... I think you should calm down." Miller said before continuing after a moment. "Were not dead yet." Connors voiced his agreement.
"Thanks, Professor." Verheiden said after he had calmed down.
"Actually it's Doctor." Miller corrected. "But you're welcome." He continued.
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Max, Weyland, Lex and Sebastian were trapped in their own room this one was larger than the Yautja's one. As one Max and Sebastian eased Bass' body to the floor, making his back pack fall to the floor Weyland moved and picked it up.
"No damage." He said relieved, when he saw that the Predator gun was unharmed.
Max glared at his boss over Bass' body, his ice cold veneer and ferocious loyalty was starting to crack. "One of our men is dead." Max stated.
"I'm sorry Max." Weyland apologised, and Lex could feel that he did regret the man's death but he didn't know how to express his regret.
"I need to know what he died for." Max said after a moment of silence.
"He died making history." Weyland stated.
"Whose?" Max asked. "Yours?" he added after a while.
Lex and Sebastian could see that the relationship that these two men had had was holding on by shreds, they exchanged concerned looks.
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Miller and Connors watched as Verheiden paced the room making it seem even smaller.
"We're never going to get out of this place." Verheiden said suddenly as he paced.
"Don't say that." Miller retorted.
"Whatever you believe in, you should start praying to it Dr." Verheiden continued not listening to the scientist.
Connors just sighed as he watched his friend and the scientist, he didn't know if they were ever going to get out of this place, but he hoped that they did as he didn't want to die in a pyramid that was 10.000 years old and was apparently built by sadistic ancestors of theirs that worshiped an equally sadistic race as gods.
Miller watched Verheiden for a moment longer before he tried to calm the tense soldier. "Hey." Miller called to get the pacing soldiers attention. "Do you have children?" he asked once he was sure he had the soldier's attention.
"A son." Verheiden answered, not entirely sure of the relevance that his son had to the situation.
"I have two." Miller replied. "You know what that means?" Miller asked and continued when he got a negative head shake. "We don't have the luxury of quitting; we're going to make it out of here. You hear me? We're going to survive this even if I have to drag you the whole way." Miller said fiercely.
Verheiden and Connors looked at the scientist and saw that he had become a leader, as Connors too had a child he was going to help these two reach the surface alive.
"Hey." Connors said. "If I don't make it I want you to help my kid out, I'd do the same for the both of you, if you don't make it out." He asked. Both Miller and Verheiden nodded, agreeing with what Connors had said.
"Well since the guns don't work we'll have to do it old school." Connors continued as he dropped the gun to the floor and moved to the wall and detached the spear that a statue was holding. Verheiden followed his comrade's lead and dropped the gun.
"Miller. Grab a weapon." Verheiden ordered.
"Why?" Miller asked confused.
"To defend yourself with, we won't be around forever." Connors said. "Besides we all need to have an equal chance of reaching the surface and doing what we promised." He continued, at that Miller nodded and grabbed one of the two remaining spears.
At that moment an accord had been reached, and the Ancient Greek rule of three was alive once more.
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Translation:
Mei'hswei = Brother
Chiva = Trial
Sivk'va-tai = Plasma caster
Cetanu = God of death (Yautja)
Paya = God/ Conquering warrior