Chapter XVII

A moment later the Queen burst through the ice and snow that had been her prison moments before screaming out her rage at the fact that her children were all dead, and the fact that their murderers where in front of her preparing to deliver to her the same fate as that of her children, didn't help her rage.

Lex stared at the Queen with a determined look in her eyes, her body language screamed a challenge from one Queen of a race to another. The challenge was accepted by the Serpent Queen when she screamed for the second time that evening.

She crouched down and prepared herself to fight of the Kiande Amedha that was threatening Earth and her human family; she looked into the future and saw what she was about to do would cause her birth father to have the Yautja version of a heart attack.

Lex smirked before she launched herself forwards running towards the towering black serpentine form, the Queen screamed and flung her tail at the one that had helped in the destruction of her children, Lex avoided the tail by summersaulting over it.

She growled when she saw that the Yautja where just standing there staring at her, as if they had nothing better to do.

"You know you could help me you bastards!" Lex growled at them as she avoided the Queens tail and claws.

The two Yautja glanced at each other for a second before one grabbed his throwing star and the other his spear, they both knew that if they didn't help her they wouldn't ever live it down, the couple of minutes that they had just stood there could be explained away as them taking the time to try and come up with a plan and that they had been surprised when the Ooman female had leapt in and attacked.

#Well it seems that you will have a hard time trying to tame her.# Range commented as he prepared himself to throw the star that he had in his hand, his comment made Scar turn his head in his friend's direction.

#What?# Scar asked as he stared at his friend frowning.

#Nothing.# Range backtracked rapidly and quickly threw himself into the fight to avoid, not only an argument with his friend but pissing of the female Ooman, he had read some of the things that the males of this planet had written of their female counterparts, and he knew that they could make the Yautja females look like tamed kittens if it suited them.

Lex gave the bigger Yautja a smile of appreciation, relieved that she finally had some help from the ones that were partially the cause of her getting mixed up in this event. She turned back to the queen and prepared to launch herself at the black Serpent, sighing at the fact that this was either going to kill her, fatally injure, injure her or she would survive it with hardly any injury.

Of course two of those options weren't viable as that would mean she would be taken without her consent.

Let's see if I can steer this to the path that will lead me to staying on Earth and not go on an inter galactic hunting trip, thought I wouldn't mind if I got the chance to give my Dad the riot act. Lex thought with a smirk.

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Adrinle tensed as he watched the proceedings of the Chiva unfold in front of his eyes on the screen, he almost had several heart attack due to the antics of his daughter, he noted that his loyal friend and second-in-command was shooting him sympathetic looks.

#Why are you looking at me sympathetically?# Adrinle asked.

#Well your daughter looks like she is going to give you the riot act when she sees you, and it looks like that she won't really care if you're in public or not.# Minderin said, his eyes now focused on the screen as the two Yautja finally joined the fight.

Adrinle looked back at the screen and took in the attitude of his daughter and found that his friend was right.

#I think that I would much rather face a whole nest of Kiande Amedha alone than face her.# Adrinle said as he gulped slightly. His friend just laughed in amused sympathy.

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Lex jumped out of the way of the Queen's tail as she took a quick glance into the future, making sure that every decision she took ended up with her staying on Earth, she nearly broke down crying when she saw that her Father wouldn't give her the luxury of deciding, he would take her with him.

Great, now I'll have to do something drastic like dying, not that I'm a fan of that plan. Lex thought as she avoided another of the Serpent Queens attempts to kill her.

Lex back away from the Queen to take in the surroundings, yes Antarctica may be a frozen wasteland but it had its uses, like the fact that it symbolized a completely free land that had no one to rule it. She saw the run down and frozen buildings of the whaling station, many of which she was sure wouldn't hold up to a safety inspection.

"Alright so we have two Yautja, a Kiande Amedha Queen, a frozen whaling station and a hybrid that has been modified by science." Lex muttered as she made sure to keep away from the sight. "Now how does one use all of the components to gain a satisfactory result?"

She looked around spotted The Cauldron, then glanced back at the Queen and spotted the chain that was trailing behind the Serpent; next to get her attention was the two Yautja who were now glaring at her because she wasn't fighting.

"Okay lure the Queen to the Cauldron and secure the chain to said structure, then move to the other side of the Queen most likely have to baseball slide between the Serpents legs and then attack and push her back until she ends up hanging of the cliff." Lex muttered quietly.

She took in the situation then glanced into the future to see if she had time to try and make the Cauldron stronger than it currently was, she did but only if she notified her companions, which meant getting as close to them as she could.

She sighed as she took a deep breath and ran at the Queen, slashed at her a couple of times before she retreated to stand beside the two Yautja.

"Look, I know one of you understands, so translate what I have to say for your companion." Lex instructed softly as she stared at the Queen who was now just standing there, most likely trying to formulate a plan of her own, when the one on her right nodded she knew he was running a program or something to do the translations.

"I have a plan but I need to reinforce a building in order to make the plan work, what I need both of you to do is distract the Queen until I come back. Got it?" Lex asked as she glanced at both of them, both nodded to show that they would do as she asked.

With that Lex smiled at both of them before she launched herself back into the fight with both of them backing her up. When she saw that they kept the Queens attention focused on them and away from her she slipped away from the fight silently.

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The families of the Chiva participants watched as the female Oman slipped away from the fight and made her way to the tall circular structure that was on the edge of the small Ooman settlement.

#What is she doing?# Nrak'yrtara asked as she and the others watched as the female Ooman slip away from the fight.

#I don't know.# Ryend, Ranges mother, said. #Maybe she has a plan and she needs to prepare the place that it will take place in?#

#Possibly.# Scars father mused as he watched the events unfold.

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Adrinle and his Clan watched as his daughter slipped away from the fight, he noticed that the two Newly Blooded Yautja were purposely trying to keep the Queens attention away from Lex.

#They have a plan.# Adrinle stated, gaining nods and sounds of agreement form his Clansmen.

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Lex looked up at the Cauldron and sighed, she didn't like this nor did she like the fact that she had to figure out a way to reinforce the tower in twenty minutes, for that was all the time that she had before the plan that she had become obsolete.

She looked around, all that was the there were whale bones, a couple of spades, a crane and a lot of wires. She stared at the wires for a moment before she grinned, they could be used to anchor the Cauldron to the surface and make sure that the Queen didn't accidently take a swim in waters so cold that there was hardly any life in them.

With that she got to work keeping an eye on the fight between the Queen and the two Yautja, she chuckled and smirked at the language that she heard coming from them, it seemed that they were being really creative in their insults concerning the Queen and various other objects… Wait.

"Is that even possible?" Lex asked out loud as she turned and stared in the direction of the fight, before she shrugged and went back to work. It took her twenty more minutes to finish the final touches that were needed before she was done.

"Right." She muttered. "Now here is where it gets a little bit tricky."

She ran to where the Yautja where to get them to help her position the Queen exactly where she wanted her to be. What she saw when she arrived had her in hysterics, she just couldn't help it, one of the Yautja was standing there just staring at the Queen who had the other wrapped in her tail and near her mouth, who was rubbing her snout getting him a really rough purr/growl from the big Serpent. She thought the one that was staring at the Queen was trying to believe what he was seeing, all of their attention snapped to her when she had started laughing.

"Good distraction, not what I had in mind but if it clearly worked then who am I to complain." She said as she smirked at the one that was being held by the Queen, and she was sure that he was blushing.

The Queen quickly dropped the Yautja that she had been holding and charged at the one, that in the Serpent Queen's mind, was a fellow Queen. Lex just looked at the beast wide eyed and lunged out of the way of the Queen's way.

"Now I have no regrets about what I have planned for you." She muttered as she got up and brushed the snow off her suit, Lex looked at the Yautja and nodded.

#Let's hope that whatever plan that she has doesn't end with us being injured.# Range said as he fingered one of his various knives.

Lex looked at the Queen and saw that she was gearing up for another charge at her, she glanced at the two Yautja for a second before she focused her attention back onto the Queen.

"Follow me!" She yelled to the two predators as she turned around and ran towards The Cauldron.

Lex grinned as she felt the vibrations that were caused by the serpent Queen as she ran, once she was at a certain distance from the big cylindrical structure she bent down and grabbed one of the few spare wires that she had placed strategically around their new battle ground.

Moving quickly, she pulled the wire as she ran towards the Queen, ignoring the fact that her actions could be seen as suicidal if it had been anyone but her, once she was under the Queen she tied the wire around the Queens legs making sure that the Yautja kept her attention. Lex then ran back towards The Cauldron, where the two Yautja were waiting.

"Grab the chain that's connected to the collar around the Queens neck and tie it to the tap of the hollow cylinder." Lex told them as she pointed to the building and skidded to a stop in front of them.

She froze as a vision assaulted her, she saw that Miller, Verheiden and Connors had made it out of the pyramid without a scratch and that they were slowly but steadily making their way towards the Piper Maru on foot, having correctly guessed that the camp was compromised. She let out a sigh of relief, at least humanity wouldn't be deprived of their wisdom and maybe they could warn the ones that explored pyramids for a living about the sadistic tendencies of their ancestors.

Because of the vision, Lex never sensed the incoming tail strike of the Queen, which hit her with such force that the hit sent her flying and left a bone deep gash on her left side and nocked the breath out of her, she lay there staring at the cloudy sky knowing that she couldn't re-join the fight. Lex moved her head as much as she could and stared at the Yautja and the celebrating Xenomorph Queen.

"Move." She pleaded to the two predators as she bleed out at a moderate pace, her healing abilities trying to combat the damage, she wasn't willing to let the alien Queen win, not when so much was at stake.

Scar and Range glanced at each other, before turning, lunging to grab hold of the chain that was connected to the Queens collar and pull it towards the strange building that the female Ooman had pointed to, they pulled with all of the residual strength that they had to reach the goal that the Ooman had given them, all the while the Xenomorph Queen screeched in rage and resisted as much as she could, whilst she tried to go for the one which she understood to be their Queen.

Once the two Yautja made it they wound and tied the chain around the protrusion, then paused not sure what to do as the Queen strained against the bounds that she was now under, still trying to reach the downed dark two-legs. Lex huffed as much as she could, considering that she was being affected by blood-loss.

"Push the building over the cliff." She told them using telepathy, chuckling in amusement when both of the Yautja jumped in surprise, but they soon overcame it and began doing what she had told them to do.

Checking the future to see what was the outcome and smiling at the fact that she had succeeded in obtaining the future that she had wanted for the planet, she sighed as she finally accepted the fact that her remains would not remain on the planet of her birth.

Alexandria Ehiztari Woods smiled in happiness for the first time in her life, taking what she thought would be her last breath as she closed her eyes and surrendered to the soothing darkness that was slowly consuming her consciousness.