CHAPTER THREE: ALEXA IS BACK
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK
Alexa felt a gust of wind suddenly come, strong enough to blow her back. She knew it wasn't just a normal wind either. She heard the hum of an almost silent engine she heard only once before. The Predators. She picked up her things and looked up, seeing the sky flicker.
"Oh jesus. Is it 100 years yet?" She grumbled sarcastically as she ran to her apartment. She unlocked the door and ran inside, grabbing her retractable spear and a cup of coffee. Right when she was about to leave, her boyfriend, Cody appeared in the doorway. He had platinum blonde hair, mahogany eyes, and a radiant white smile. He wore a flyers jersey and jeans. He waved.
"Hey, Lex!" He said. She smiled quickly and pushed past him. "Lex! Yo! Where are you going?" He called to her, annoyed. She rose her hand absentmindedly and ran down the stares. He followed her to her car.
"Lex!" He yelled, slamming his fists on the hood. Lex snapped out of her trance and stared at him
"WHAT!" She shrieked, "And don't you hit my car!" He shook his head.
"Ever since you got that horrible spear thing, you've been acting strange!" He said. " I mean, you hear one noise that's unusual, and you look around like you're searching for an alien or something." She shook his head. Actually, he was quite right. Ever since the explosion and the confrontation with the Alien Queen, she was always a little paranoid. Sometimes she has nightmares that the thing swam back to the surface, and was still on Bouvetoya Island. "Why don't you just get rid of it?"
"No." She said, "I can't."
"Well, why not!" He yelled. She smacked him.
"Because you can't tell me what I can and can't get rid of in my house, AND you can't yell at me!" she whispered menacingly. "Just leave me alone! All you've been doing the past few weeks is arguing with me." she growled. Cody shook his head, anger glowing from his sky blue eyes.
"Well, fine." He said quietly. "Then I won't be with you at all." Lex's eyes widened. "It's over." He pushed past her, not looking at her. She watched him go without flinching. She knew it was going to happen soon, especially when she was gone for all that time on the expedition.
"See ya round... when the world ends." Lex whispered. She got into her car and found that the ship was only ten feet away. She front ended it, causing quite a few pedestrians to stare. Hey, it wasn't every day they saw a car mysteriously crunch together, hitting nothing. She got out of her car and kicked it. Hearing the familiar clicking noise, she turned around, seeing the air flicker behind her. "Oh... shit." She reached into the car and brought the spear out and extended it. The predator stopped at the sign of one of their spears in the hands of one of the "enemy". It clicked it's mandibles and backed off.
Re'en was surprised when the ooman brandished a spear of his own kind at him. He clicked his mandibles and backed off as he spotted the T-like scar on her cheek. It was his clan's scar. He saw it on his son's body, knowing that he was bestowed with honor, but it was a surprise to see an ooman with it.
"I am Re'en. You... know my son?" He asked in rough english. The ooman stared at him for a while and retracted the spear.
"I-I am Lex. Scar... was your son?" It asked. Re'en found it was female, but this Scar wasn't familiar.
"Is 'Scar' the name you gave my son Ran'ank-Se?" The ooman stared at him. Hahkek appeared behind her, ki'cti-pa extended. Re'en growled a warning and she whipped around, facing the youngblood with ferocity. Hahkek, out of surprise let out a squeal and fell backward. The ooman laughed and reached out her hand. Hahkek hesitated, then grabbed it, helping himself up so he didn't make the human feel weak. Hr'aen, Dei'r'dre, Ra'a'shi and the others, still cloaked, walked around the ooman, clicking and growling. Suddenly, Dei'r'dre stopped. She stared at the human intently. To Re'en's horror, she uncloaked herself and stared straight into the ooman's eyes. The oomans around them screamed and ran.
"Wow, aren't you short for a Predator?" The ooman asked. Dei'r'dre started to unhook her mask, the air hissing from the two tubes. She removed it and revealed her face. The ooman was surprised.
"I am Warrior Dei'r'dre... what is your name?" She asked.
"I-I am Alexa... how can you be a human?" Dei'r'dre slammed Alexa down, roaring. Alexa struggled, but to no avail. They rolled around, trying to kill each other. Hr'aen spotted them, uncloaked himself and pulled the angry Dei'r'dre off Alexa and purred, his hand petting her hair.
"You are not a human in my eyes." With that, Dei'r'dre calmed down. Kur'ab opened his wrist computer and a red hologram of the surroundings appeared, showing small green dots and big yellow dots. His eyes widened.
"Guys... I have kainde amedha on my sensors." Kur'ab growled. Alexa looked around and saw the predators looking around, their three red dots scanning buildings.
Alexa could tell she wasn't going to get along with Dei'r'dre, the human predator whatever it was. She stared at her, but saw that she was also different from humans too. She had pure white hair and bronze skin. Lex rubbed her arm where the "predator" punched her. She could tell now that Dei'r'dre definitely had the power of one.
"Is she always like that?" She asked the one named Re'en. He looked at her for a second and nodded, quickly going back to scanning the buildings. One growled and bolted to Central Park, extending it's wristblades and whipping out a shuriken. The others cloaked themselved and also bolted with him. She followed them and extended her spear. "What's going on?" She yelled, trying to keep up with the warrior. He growled.
"It seems that Kur'ab has found signs of a kainde amedha colony in that forest over there." He replied, grabbing her arm and pulling her along roughly.
"You mean in Central Park?" Lex asked, gasping as she was practically dragged by the large humanoid. Re'en clicked his mandibles and kept running, extending his wrist blades and jumping on a rock formation, searching the park for any aliens, letting go of Lex before he did so. Dei'r'dre growled, sounding very much like a predator, and pushed past her violently, making her fall into the mud. Dei'r'dre snickered.
"How you defeated an Alien Queen is beyond me. You're more clumsy than a drunk." She growled. Lex sneered and pulled herself up, grumbling. When they looked back at Re'en, he was gone. They searched for a second then saw him, wrestling an alien with his weapons thrown aside. Alexa tried to run to help him, but Dei'r'dre held her back.
"He will slay it on his own." She growled. Lex shook her head, but in a moment, Re'en reached one of his shurikens and shook it open, slicing the frontal lobe of the alien's head and throwing it off him. He roared and threw his head back, but the danger wasn't past yet. An Alien Queen watched them from the top of a building hissing in anger, remembering Lex, the one who nearly drowned her. She whipped around and jumped from building to building, tail lashing. Only Dei'r'dre spotted it and decided to follow it, Hr'aen at her side.