I decided to make this story part of the Family Secrets line. This is the second in the series. I hope everyone enjoys this one as they did the first one.

Desert Rose

Chapter 1: In the still of the night

As Savannah Sinclair drove down the wet streets of Boston, she began to think about the last few weeks and how very quiet everything had been at the police department. She had only a couple of drug busts, a few speeding tickets, and three arrests of the local prostitutes. Other than that, everything was still.

Savannah was a lieutenant at the local the police who was the smallest out of all the officers there. She stood only five-foot-two and barely weighed one hundred and five pounds. She wore her waist length blood-red hair pulled back in a tight French braid. Her large jade green eyes always sparkled with some kind of mischief. Her full, pouty lips were said to be the color of a red rose. Most people said that she reminded them of a short, red-headed Barbie, which she took as a compliment.

Tonight, she was looking forward to having the next two nights off. She had a five acre farm that was in desperate need of attention. Fields needed to be plowed, fences needed to be repaired, and the barn was a serious need of new shingles and a fresh coat of paint.

She inherited the farm from her great-grandmother, Melissa Sinclair. She never knew what happened to any of her family members. Some people said that they all found love and lived happily ever after. She knew who all of her family members were. Her grandfather was Alex Sinclair. Her grandmother was Carrie Sinclair. Her father was Thunder Sinclair. Her mother was Angel Sinclair.

Supposedly, her great-grandmother fell in love with an alien hunter and left Earth to be with him. Of course, it was only speculation that her grandfather was the son of this alien hunter. Savannah always shook her head in disbelief because, she didn't believe in aliens or UFO's. As far as she was concerned, she was a human and bled just like one.

If it was one thing that could be said about her, she did not believe in anything unusual. She didn't believe in UFO's, Lock Ness monsters, alligators living in New York sewers, etc.

As she thought about her family history and all the work that needed to be done on her farm, she heard the distinct sound of someone radioing her squad car.

"Attention! Attention! Possible break in at the Museum of Fine Arts. Suspects are said to be armed and dangerous"

"I'm on my way. ETA, five minutes" Savannah spoke into the radio as she turned her cruiser lights on and sped down the wet roads to the Museum.

"Finally, some excitement to my otherwise humdrum life" Savannah mumbled to herself as she tuned out the loud, obnoxious sounds of the sirens.

Less than five minutes later, she pulled up in front of the museum and saw two other squad cars parked there. She one of which was Captain Parker's and the other one was Sergeant Peters. Savannah felt as though they were both good cops who received bad raps because, they followed the rules and were not crooked like most of the others on the department.

Turning off her sirens, Savannah stepped out of her car and flashed her badge, announcing who she was.

"Good thing you got here. Looks as though all hell's breaking loose in there" Parker stated as he looked at Savannah. He always though she was too young for the job but, she knew how to take out the bad guys and take car of herself.

She always wore a pair of black jeans, pull-up black cowboy boots, a dark green tee shirt, and an almost worn out leather bomber jacket. She always had two guns with her at all times; one was tucked inside her shoulder holster under her jacket and the other one was on her right thigh in a holster. She also carried a knife with her on the left thigh, just in case she got into a close encounter.

"Hey, you know I can't let you boys have all the excitement!" Savannah exclaimed as she tossed her long braid off of her shoulder.

"Do we know who it is?" Savannah asked, turning to Peter.

"Nope, we haven't even seen their faces. All we know is that someone set off the alarm in there and there have been a lot of shots fired in there. Other than that, nothing" Peter stated.

"Well, let's hope we don't wind up street pizza like that guy over there" Savannah stated as she pointed to the body that was at the top of the stairs that lead into the museum.

"You're telling me. That guy was thrown out of the top floor window just after we got here" Parker stated.

"I'm going in. That is, if you're okay with that" Savannah stated as she looked at Parker.

"You know you don't need my permission" Parker said as he held out his hand, showing Savannah that she was more than welcome to go in there.

"You better be wearing protection and I don't mean just your gun" Peter questioned.

"If I wasn't, then my Miracle bra would be of some use now. Don't you think?" Savannah chuckled as she looked back at Peter before heading up towards the museum doors.

"Do you think she can handle herself?" Peter asked Parker.

"I have more faith in that young girl than I do in any of the other cops on the force and that includes you" Parker laughed.

POV:

As Kai wandered around the massive building that housed all different kinds of antiques, he kept a sharp eye out for the other two ooman males that were trying to rob this house of antiques.

He could hear that there were other oomans outside the building but, that didn't matter to him. He was a well-seasoned hunter who had proven himself more times than most and was not in the least bit worried about the little oomans. The only ones that he was after were the ones that had escaped his grasp. He had already taken out three of them, which left two more for him to locate. He was not used to loosing his prey but, this was making the hunt more exciting and desirable for him.

Kai was nearing five hundred years old and had already been on over twenty hunts on various planets. This time it was Earth's time and he was just getting in some practice before going on the real thing.

Kai always came prepared or, as some others of his kind had put it, over-prepared. Including his mentor, Varick. Kai always found it strange that Varick chose an ooman female as his forever mate instead of one of their own. But, after Kai met Melissa, he could understand why. She was brave and beautiful, for an ooman female.

Melissa was unlike any other female he had ever met or probably would ever meet again. She was just right for Varick but, she was not for him. Varick had trained Melissa and she trained all of her children to fight like a warrior.

Kai also knew that Alex and his forever mate went back to Earth to protect what they had. But, Kai didn't know what it was or why they had to. All they said was that they had made some enemies before they left. That was the last time Kai had ever seen Alex. He also thought very highly of Alex and his choice in a mate.

Even though Alex looked human enough but, when he bled it was a whole different story. He was larger and stronger than any other ooman male that Kai had ever met. He was also very protective over his family, which Kai found to be a very unique habit.

Alex and Kai met after Varick's ship landed on their home planet and the friendship between them was immediate. Especially after he saw Tanaka and Bashera play fighting with Alex and they were all laughing out loud. Alex insisted that he join in the fun and revelry, even though he was crippled.

Kai was born with only one leg and was outcaste by his mother and all of their society. He was reduced to being merely a slave and a punching bag for the other Yautja. It wasn't until Alex stood up for him and told the other clan members that he would not tolerate this kind of mistreatment towards another of their kind.

About a month later, Melody, Carrie, and Mara fashioned him an electronic leg which was surgical installed onto the rest of his body. As he grew older, the leg would grow to match his height, weight, and skin coloring perfectly.

It took almost six weeks before he was completely healed. After he had healed, Alex, Tanaka, and Bashera started to work on training him for the hunts, as well as teaching him the ooman language. Six months after his training began; Varick took him out on his first hard meat hunt, which he killed more than twenty of them with no difficulty. He was branded as a warrior and was permitted to carry the mark, which he made sure to repeatedly thank the three young ooman females for making his dream a reality.

Now, almost a hundred years later, Kai was of the top five percent of the hunter/warrior class Yautja. Barely anyone remembered the crippled Kai, including his family. It took his mother almost twenty years before she would recognize him as being her son and for being the warrior that she always wanted him to be.

Varick turned over the Star Ranger to Kai about ten years ago, so he could become part of the warriors who hunted the bad bloods. As far as Kai knew, he forever mate was still alive and looking as lovely as the day they met, thanks to the help of many Yautja scientists who altered her aging cycles. She still looked forty years old and had the internal workings of a twenty year old. Her other family members also underwent the procedure, so they could live as long as their mates did or longer.

Alex and Carrie also underwent the procedure before they left but, they were never seen or heard from again. This led Kai to believe that they had been captured or murdered. He wasn't to sure which it was but, that was one of the reasons why he was sent to Earth, was to find the answers.

He dearly missed his ooman warrior friend and hoped that he would find him and his forever mate shortly. Especially before it was time for the hunt to start. Kai was given four weeks to find Alex and Carrie before the hunt. After that, they would be considered dead and given a proper Yautja funeral and morning period.

He turned his head when he heard the distinct sound of a door opening. He quickly and quietly moved his invisible form into the shadows. Then, he heard light footsteps across the marble floor. That's when he saw a young ooman female come into view.

Kai noticed that she moved with the finesse of a fully trained Yautja female. She was short but lithe. He watched as she upholstered one of her guns from under her jacket. Her long red hair was tightly pulled away from her face in a long braid that gently swayed against her butt when she swiftly turned when a sound caught her attention as well as his. It was one of the males that he had been hunting and now she was in danger of being injured or possibly killed for being in the wrong place.

"Hello gorgeous. Didn't think those pigs would let you out of their site" the ooman male stated as Kai watched him sneak up behind.

"I think I can take care of myself especially when dealing with you scum bags" Kai heard her say as she turned in the direction of his voice only to be caught off guard when the other male wrapped his arms around her entire body and began to squeeze.

"Still think you can handle yourself?" the other male asked as he lifted her tiny body up off of the floor, her feet were almost two feet off the floor when she finally spoke.

"You bet your ass I can" she harshly stated as she slung one of her feet back between the ooman male's legs and nailed him square in the groin, causing him to double over in pain.

Kai watched in amazement as she freed herself from the ooman male's grasp. She quickly turned and punched him in the jaw with all the strength of a female warrior, knocking the male down and out cold. Kai watched as the other male raised his weapon to shoot her but; Kai raised his shoulder cannon and fired it at the standing male, killing him with a shot through the heart.

"Alright pal, who the hell are you?" The female demanded as she raised her gun in his direction.

"You may call me Kai, little one" Kai softly spoke as he stuck to the shadows and watched her track his every move without even hearing him.

"What are you called, little one?" Kai asked.

"Savannah Rose is all I will tell you at this time, Kai" she spoke harshly.

"Do you plan on making a trophy out of the ooman male you took out or are you going to waste it?" Kai asked as he watched her start to back away from his position.

"A trophy? You just killed a man who could have provided me with valuable information as to the whereabouts of the other missing artifacts" Savannah's temper was getting the better of her because she knew that he had just saved her life.

"You still have one who is alive. You may question him for this information" Kai snidely commented as he began to climb up the wall and head for the open ceiling.

"That's not the point!" Savannah shouted as her mouth went agape when she saw a watery figure begin to scale the wall.

"What the hell are you?" she demanded.

"That's for me to know, little fox, and for you to find out" Kai chuckled as he escaped through the open glass ceiling, leaving he to question her own sanity.