Author's Note: Just for your own information, most anything that happens that directly relates to the movies has been carefully watched over and over, and to make sure its right, watched again. My DVD player is starting to get mad at me XD Oh, and do excuse the language I might use—I just feel that this would be the attitude of our lovely predators. (Hence, why this is PG-13...parly hence lol)

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3. Problems

The trip down the tunnel was easy. Tons of human equipment littered the surrounding cavern. Primitive lights lay scattered, along with stacks of boxes filled with the-Elder-knows-what. The feeling of the actual hunt within reach caused Inu to feel a ripple of excitement down his spine. The first thing he saw beyond the human junk was the man Prient'De had tossed down the tunnel. It was barely alive, having suffered too many broken bones to let it run away from them. He smiled inwardly, but that soon changed when Prient'De said to just take the kill; he started towards the pyramid, Boccob following.

Inu snarled as he watched his comrades walk passed the human, paying it no attention. How dare that over-grown ass just hand him a kill, as if insinuating the notion that he wasn't capable of hunting something down on his own! That fucker didn't see the other three humans he nailed back up top. The superiority Prient'De felt he had over others younger than him was sickening.

Completely annoyed, Inu approached the half-dead human that gasped at his appearance. He extended the wrist-blades and raised his arm. With one, anger-filled swing, he slashed through the creature's neck and chest, spraying blood onto the snow-rocks around. With a grunt, he sheathed the blades and followed after the others. All of the humans that went down the tunnel must have gone inside, seeing that there was no sign of life in the grotto.

Prient'De and Boccob were ahead of Inu as he started the tedious climbing of the hundred stairs. He silently cursed to his ancestors for allowing so many stairs to be built. It was nothing but a delay.

Once at the top, the three of them stopped and absentmindedly started into the darkness of the entrance hall of the ancient pyramid. The structure was massive, almost every inch decorated with symbols or pictures or statues of their ancestors. Each knew what secrets this pyramid kept, including the mother of monsters in an isolated chamber within the bowels of the archaic stone.

Inu watched as Prient'De raised his arm and the computer spit out the hologram of the configuration of the building and the location of the humans. He growled with frustration, causing Boccob to pay more attention. Inu saw what was wrong. The humans were in the room they had to get to before anything else could happen. The small blue light in the center of that room signaled to each of them that the chest had somehow been open, exposing their precious and much needed weapons.

Inu said a hushed, "Oh shit," when the blue spot blinked—the foolish, stupid, idiotic humans had removed all three plasma guns from their resting place of a hundred years.

Damn them.

This would tell the pyramid's hydraulics to start the transfer of the eggs to the breeding chamber where another group of humans were, actually, perfectly situated.

What was worse, this also triggered the maze to start moving around, making the long awaited hunt to start off prematurely, not to mention completely and utterly wrong.

Prient'De yelled out and looked at Inu who gave him a knowing nod. They quickly donned their camouflage again and raced down the passageway into the temple.

Inu couldn't believe how such an exciting day could turn out to be a disaster before it even really started. The ones they planned to hunt would multiply quickly, and although they technically could kill them with their present weapons, the three of them together couldn't take on a mass of these serpents without the plasma guns. Inu feared this hung might be over before it even started if the humans destroyed those guns, even if it was unintentional.

Recent disturbance of the hundred year's worth of dust and dirt showed dozens of footprints leading down the hall. Although he was basically following Prient'De, Inu kept a close eye on the prints. Unfortunately the last prints looked as if the owners walked straight into the wall. This wall must have shifted into its present place when the guns had been removed, causing the transformation of paths to take place.

Inu turned around and gave a stiffening grunt to the others, telling them in their native tongue that the path to their left was the best option.

Prient'De snarled an "of course" and led the way with the air that he had suggested it. Inu's fist tightened again, but he hurried down the passage in the same beat as the others.

Before setting out on this quest, each of them had spent multiple days looking over maps of the temple. Although every ten minutes the walls, ceiling and floors would alter, they knew how to get around. The only problem was, their knowledge started from the equipment room where the humans started the hunt instead of them.

For several minutes the three predators stalked the halls, narrow and wide, straight and rounded. They had slowed their pace when Boccob twisted around having the feeling they were being followed. Prient'De hushed him and urged them forward.

Suddenly, Inu held up his hand and the others stopped. They, too, heard what had caught Inu's attention.

Voices.

Human voices.

Prient'De brought the wrist computer back up. According to the image, they were on the level above the humans. He flipped the lid and pointed to light at the end of the corridor they stood in. If they were quick, they could easily ambush the humans before the pyramid reconfigured again. He spoke commands in the Yautja language once they had found the tunnel led to a ledge where dozens of stone statues overlooked a hallway—and the humans were entering it.

Boccob would silently get as many as he could from the ledge above, preferably the ones with the guns if it worked out right. Inu would prepare an attack from further up the hall from where Boccob would station and get the remaining humans. Prient'De gave himself the job of moving down to the same level as the humans and get them from behind to get the three guns they desperately wanted back.

They nodded in agreement and split part. Inu, having removed his camouflage, reached back for his spear, gripping it and extending the ends. Cautiously, he moved to the edge of the ledge, standing still next to a statue created after his ancestors' image. In complete silence he watched as Boccob moved in a similar fashion. The humans—seven of them, four armed with weaponry—were directly below now. Scanning them closer, he saw the Yautja weapons encased in a pack upon their backs.

Boccob took out a long piece of the wire they used to hang their prey after a kill. With swift techniques, he created a noose from the invisible wire. Slowly he lowered the hoop.

Inu grunted—Boccob would only have enough time to get one of them. But that would be easy enough. The human ignorantly walked directly into the trap; Boccob yanked up and pulled the strangled creature to the ledge.

The humans remaining noticed immediately that one of their own disappeared without a trace. They turned in circles, yelling out and pointing their own primitive weapons in every direction.

Damn, Inu thought immediately when lights shinned up at him, his identity revealed, although heavily shadowed by the height of the wall. Without hesitation he lunged his spear forward, piercing the heart of his victim.

The others let off their weapons, sharp pangs hitting stone that shattered if struck. Inu backed away in the small corridor behind the statue as the humans continued to fire. He roared out Boccob's name, but never had a chance to hear an answer if it came.

The walls jerked and scratched as they began reshaping. The noise from the humans' weapons ceased, but Inu had no care for that. Behind him an entire wall came sliding up to where he stood. A quick glance over his shoulder and he saw walls and floor below in the hall were messing up the works. He had only one option.

Jump.

Inu sharply turned on his heels and jolted forward. With one great leap he flew across the open area, quickly enabling the invisibility cloak when the humans began shooting again. His legs and arms swam through the air. Luckily, the ledge across had made no move, giving the hunter plenty of room to land and stumble forward.

Silence filled the corridor. He was alone. An entire section of floor had risen up and blocked off where Boccob and been perched; Prient'De was nowhere in sight. The only thing he saw was the dead carcass of the human sprawled out on the cold, stone floor below, the shinning silver spear standing straight up from the body's upper torso.

Inu had no second though of jumping from the ledge and landing with a hard thud next to the human's remains. He switched off the camouflage and pulled the spear out of the flesh, a quick "chinking" sound echoing off the lonely walls.

Setting the spear in its resting position on his back, Inu surveyed his surroundings. He was trapped. The only passage he could see was a crawl space on the floor to the right; but he was much too big to fig through it.

All there was left to do was wait.

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AN: In case some of you were wondering whether I just decided to make the predator on the ledge Inu/Scar or whether it was really him, I shall proudly say that after using the pause button several times, I learned that it is in fact he. Short chapter yes, but chapter four will make up for it :)