Predator 2

By Charles Xavier


Hong Kong

Two glass doors slid sideways open, when a young boy walked through the entrance of the hospital, making his way to the reception and avoiding all the doctors and nurses walking across his way.

"Nihao!" The nurse at the reception desk greeted the boy. "How can I help you?"

"I'm here to see Meiling Li." The boy replied firmly. The nurse began punching her keys onto her computer to search the name that boy had given her. It didn't take long to find it.

"Ah, yes. You must be her cousin, Syaoran Li."

"That's correct." Syaoran nodded.

"Yes, your mother came in earlier this morning and told me that you'd be coming." The nurse got up from her seat and left her position. "Please, follow me, Mister Li."

Syaoran followed her into a large elevator, where the nurse pressed the third floor button. The elevator's doors began to close.

A knock came from the door.

"Yes, come in." The voice of Mrs. Yelan Li spoke out, before her son entered the room. "Oh, Syaoran. It's you."

Syaoran saw his mother, sitting by a bed that was completely surrounded by all of his sisters…and they didn't look so happy, like they always did. They were looking very sad, or maybe in Syaoran's personal view, scared. Scared of the horrific sight they saw on the bed. They were so scared that one of them burst into tears, while covering her mouth. It was sickening...

Syaoran came forward as his sisters made way for him to see Meiling Li. The sight of her just made Syaoran nauseous…

"How…?" Syaoran's voice started to tremble at the horrific sight. He saw that Meiling had been bruised almost everywhere around her face, her cheeks swollen, her eyes blackened, and her head was bandaged up. Attached wires, cuts and more bandages and were seen around her pale white arms. Sleeping as she was, she looked almost dead. The rage that ran through Syaoran's blood nearly made him thirsty for that of the one who did this to her. "How in the world could this have happened to her?"

Yelan gave a deep sigh as she looked down upon the resting Meiling and stroked her forehead. "Do you really want to know?" She asked meekly, sounding as if she had no care for the poor girl sleeping beside her.

"OF COURSE I WANT TO KNOW! I'M GOING TO KILL THE BASTARD WHO DID THIS TO HER!" Her furious son yelled at his mother. The sisters all jumped up in fright from their short tempered brother. "I want you to tell me why this happened to her!"

His mother didn't give him a straight answer.

"No…I believe you know the answer to that." She said to him, but Syaoran gave a confused look. "Think Syaoran…think about the times you were with Meiling last. Did you notice anything odd about her?"

Syaoran thought and thought…yes. He did have some recollection of Meiling acting rather strangely. He remembered her being rather frightened one day…out of the blue. She kept bugging Syaoran about some monster she kept seeing in her dreams. Some monster she couldn't quite see clearly. And it came to his memory that just yesterday, Meiling told him something very disturbing…

It was on a clear sundown during the late afternoon, when Syaoran and Meiling were walking through a park, back to their home. Though on the way, as they were walking past some trees, Meiling suddenly stopped when she heard a familiar sound.

"Syaoran. Did you hear that?" Meiling looked up to the trees, holding onto Syaoran for dear life. "It's that same noise in my dreams I told you about.."

"What noise, Meiling? I didn't hear anything."

Meiling heard the creature growling at her.

"It's here again." She said. Syaoran had no idea what his cousin was on about. "It's watching me, following me, haunting me."

Syaoran looked around the trees, but could see nothing but birds and squirrels scurrying about the branches. He thought maybe Meiling was pushing this issue a little too far. "Meiling, please calm down. There's nothing up in those trees."

"You don't believe me, do you?" Meiling snapped, pushing herself away from Syaoran. "Well, let me tell you something, Syaoran. For the last month, ever since we came back from Japan, I've been stalked by something…something I can't see, and I don't know what it is. It knows that I'm afraid, and it doesn't stop following me. And even when I try to ignore it, it still won't go away. It's as if it knows who I am, or what I am."

Syaoran didn't know what to say.

"I bet you think I'm crazy." Meiling raised her brow. "Well, if you're not going to believe me, I might as well take care of this problem myself…tonight! You hear me, up there?! I'm going to take care of you tonight for good!"

Syaoran felt embarrassed when many of the people in the park began looking at his cousin yelling up at the trees.

"And I don't need YOUR help if you think your own cousin is going nuts."

Meiling marched ahead of Syaoran in disgust. She didn't speak another word to him on the rest of the way back home.

"What was she seeing?" Syaoran asked his mother. "What was it that almost killed Meiling?"

"Killed, dear? No…" Yelan shook her head. "It mistook Meiling, for she was not the one that it was truly after."

"What?" Syaoran said. "How do you know so much about 'it'?" All his sisters were feeling the same way as him. They didn't know either why their mother sounded like she knew a lot about 'it'.

"Everyone in our family knows about 'it', dear. Stories about 'it' have been passed down in our family for many generations." Yelan realized now that she had to spill the beans on her children. She couldn't keep even the deepest family secrets from them anymore. "Oh, dear. I think you people should sit down and listen to what I have to tell you."

Everyone grabbed a chair and gathered round Yelan Li.

"I was afraid it might come to this, my children. I didn't want to tell any of you about this before, but I see now that I find it best that you knew. The one that attacked Meiling has been something that the Li family has feared for many, many years…"