Sweet Revenge Against a Predator
Chapter four
Sarah peered her head around the corner. It was clear. Walking into the dock then turned her head back around. "Come on." Motioning the kids to come, they came out together, Danny and Robert though ran ahead running down the metal ramp. "Danny, Robert." She gritted though her teeth, the two stopped and turned around. "Get back here."
"Sarah," Robert wined, jumping up and down. "We're almost there."
Sarah heard a gasp then felt somebody hug her leg, looking down seeing Carlos's arms wrapped around her right leg. "Carlos," She whispered, "What's wrong?"
He looked up at her with tears in his eyes slightly whimpering. "I saw something."
"Where did you see it at?"
"In the middle of the dock, it looked weird."
She turned her head looking at the middle of the dock. Nothing was there, looking back at Carlos. "What did it look like?"
"It was see-through, like the invisible man, but the edges rippled like water." There was more wining and whimpering from off in the distance, then Robert and Danny came running back holding her legs.
"I saw something." Danny said.
"Me too." Robert added.
Natasha wined, shoving her way through Danny and Robert holding Sarah's legs, the rest of the children also began whimpering, all trying to hold her legs and waist. "All right now." Gently prying them off of her as she knelt down, "Look at me guys." They all gave their attention to her. "We can't stop now, we're almost to a safe place, just past those big doors, walk 100 meters to the east side of the dome then meet some people who have really big guns, board their ship and we're safe."
Most of the children smiled, while others only stared at her with tears in their eyes, she showed them a smile then got up. The ramp they were standing on all of a sudden jolted, like a BIG someone had just jumped onto it, there were only a few people she knew that could actually make the ramp jolt, but none of them was able to jolt the ramp like that.
All the children gripped what clothing of her's they could find then started crying. Sarah saw a shimmer just in front of her, it was close, so close she could almost touch it and then, John was miraculously lifted into thin air. The little boy kicking his feet and arms and screaming and crying, the rest of the children also screaming and crying. Sarah raised her rifle, she didn't know if her bullets would go through the ghost creature but it was worth a try.
There was a clicking noise then a predator appeared where the shimmer was, her heart stopped. It lifted John even higher, up to its own shoulders, which, its shoulders was very VERY high off the ramp. "Bastard!" She yelled, "Let him go!" It just clicked at her. She aimed her X-30 and was about to fire but quickly changed her mind. She had a clear shot at it's stomach and legs but John would have a long fall, he could get seriously hurt. "Let him go you damn brute!" It made the same clicking noises. "Fucking let him go!" Instead of letting him go, it only took three steps back.
To Sarah's surprise the predator was all of a sudden knocked off the ramp by a large blur ramming into it. "John!" She screamed as he was dropped, her legs acting on impulse pushing herself into a jump letting the X-30 fall to the floor, at the same time something else also jumped onto the ramp, this one grabbing John by the waist. Sarah shifted her weight making herself fall onto her right side, she had been running so fast she was now sliding along her side, the rough edges of the ramp easily tearing away at her clothes and the skin that was underneath it. Finally, she came to a stop, looking up seeing John in a large predator hand. John's screaming had turned into shrills repeatedly calling her name, a second later she was on her feet.
The predator looked at her then handed John to her. She wrapped both her arms around him pulling him to his chest. John doing his best to wrap his small arms around her thick body. Craning her neck forward rubbing her cheek against his, feeling little arms wrap around her legs and waist and heard crying soon she he too started crying with the children, grateful he was alive. Seconds had gone by until she lifted her head looking to her right side.
Out in the middle of the dock were two predators fighting, each savagely slashing at each other with their spears. Sarah gritted her teeth narrowing her eyes on the one who grabbed John, at first she couldn't tell one predator from the other, she still couldn't but was able to part this one out from the others. Laying John on his feet, "Stay here." The group giving out a loud shrill as she walked away from them.
Usually when she got angry she would lose control of herself, but not this time, this time it felt like it would be different, like she would rip it to shreds of her own free will and enjoy every bit of it. Unlatching the lock on her pistol holster and took out the pistol, she got closer to them and was now able to smell a rank musk, like sweaty gym socks left in a musty locker that hadn't been cleaned for months. There was an opening, Sarah targeted the predator then jumped.
The predator lifted its spear for another swing then cocked its head back, obviously surprised at the little human that was lunging for it.
Sarah extended her legs and left arm forward, quickly planting her feet onto its sides and digging her left hand under a piece of chest armor once she landed on it and latched herself to it.
The predator falling backwards from being caught off guard and off balance. As the predator fell Sarah tore off it's mask with the butt of her pistol, digging her feet into its sides even more and leaned her weight backwards as she fell forward with it, planning on letting its body absorb most of the impact.
Its spear now flying out of its grasp from hitting the floor. Sarah waisted no time and brought her arm up aiming the pistol. Its eye widened. Without another thought Sarah pulled the trigger, there was a loud bang then the smell of gun powder and burnt flesh, the noise echoing throughout the dock as pieces of bone and blood flew everywhere. Splotches of its blood spraying onto her face and onto the floor as the rest covered it's own ugly face.
Jumping to her feet taking in deep breathes and crying at the same time, "Bastard." She muttered with a kick to its side. Bringing her right hand to her face at a tilt of the already hot pistol wiping away tears and unknowingly smearing it's blood onto her face. Again, she felt arms wrapped around her legs and waist, putting the pistol back into the holster and laid her hands on some of their shoulders. Movement at the corner of her caught attention making her head spin, it was a predator.
It got so close to her it could almost touch her but it only lifted its left arm, held firmly in its left hand was her X-30, its hand was so large her rifle looked liked a little child's toy, it didn't even look like it was having problems holding up the rifle one handed.
Steadily reaching both hands out and took the rifle, back in her hands it didn't look like a little toy but the regular LARGE weapon, "Thanks." Looking back at the dead predator, she was surely glad they wore masks, cause the dead one looked absolutely gross, inwardly gagging to herself as she cringed on the outside. Definetly not a face that would get on the front page of "Hot Stars".
Like the rest of its body the face was yellow with two sets of mandibles, a flat nose, with a flat face, it reminded her of a sea creature only found on Earth called a crab. It had a large, oval shaped forehead, little spikes or else little hairs, either way, they were sticking up with a slight curve to them growing along its head.
"Defile leader...decision." Sarah turned her head looking at the at the predator that gave her, her X-30. "Want human for own."
That was something Sarah could correlate with from hunters of her species. Anybody who trespassed onto someone else's land and started killing game was considered unsportsmanlike and also was against the law. Looking at the kids then at the doors and back at the kids. "Hey." Slightly nudging some of their shoulders, they looked up.
"Let's get going."
"Yay!" Danny and Robert said simultaneously running to the docking doors.
"Boys!" Doing her best to walk them with the rest of the group crowding around her legs.