Disclaimer: All things Harry Potter related belong to J.K. Rowling, and all things "Aliens" and "Predator" related belong to 20th Century Fox and such. However the plot belongs to me. Also my friend Writer Chica was kind enough to beta read my story.

Grand Flecture was suggested by Kraeg001, who was honored to beta-read this chapter. However, it belongs to GreenGecko and appears in her story, "Resonance."

Harry Potter and the Alien Hive

Chapter 11: Bloodshed

Neville's heart stopped when he saw the sight above him. Big black shapes spotted the ceiling. Out of the corner of this eye he saw the entrance from which they were coming. There was a big vent in the upper corner across the room. One of the black beasts was crawling out of it.

Neville wanted to shout, to scream, to warn the others of the danger. But his fear was slowly slitting his throat, only allowing him to whisper out a quiet "guys..."

"All right! I'll make it easy for you all!" Draco pushed himself away from the others, but still kept a safe distance away from Luna standing behind him. He pointed his wand at himself.

"Avada Ked-"

"GUYS!!" Neville found his voice at last.

Too late...

One of the black beasts leaped down from the ceiling and tackled Draco to the floor, pinning him there and knocking his wand out of his hand. It looked down at Draco. He looked back up the beast, wide eyed and terrified. The creature then turned its head to the other and let out a loud hiss. Harry was horrified to translate the hiss in his head as:

Attack!

Everyone looked up in time to the black beasts coming down upon them, then dived out of the way of the creature that was targeting him or her. Harry turned over and thrust his wand up like a punch shouting the first spell that came to his head.

"Stupefy!"

The red beam hit the creature square in the chest. It collapsed and fell next to Harry. He barely had time to catch his breath before the creature he had just hit started to move again. Harry jumped to his feet and pointed his wand.

"Incendio!"

A high pitched screech came from the creature as it burned. Harry felt both a pang of pity and a pang of pleasure as he watched it burn.

"Michael!!" Cho screamed as she watched a beast's second jaw puncture his head. Her wand dropped from her hands.

"Cho get out of the way!" Dean screamed from behind her.

Cho turned to see one of the beasts in front of her, stretching out one of his clawed hands, reaching for her, spreading waves of paralyzing terror. Behind it Dean was aiming his wand.

"Cho you're too close! Run!" He shouted.

"Dean! Behind you!" Ron shouted.

Too late.

The tail point from a beast's tail slashed across Dean's throat, his blood sprayed, he fell to the ground and did not get up again.

"No! NO! NO!!" Screamed Harry. "Incendio!"

Harry burned Dean's killer with a grim satisfaction.

Draco had long since given up his struggles to not be pinned to the floor by one of the black beasts, but it was too big, and too strong. He watched the battle with a morbid fascination, amazed that Potter and the others were managing to hold their own against these creatures. He watched the Gyffindor Neville use a Full Body-Bind on one of the beasts, then the Hufflepuff Justin grabbed a cleaver from one of the kitchen draws, and hacked at the thing's neck. Unfortunately some of the beast's blood got on Justin's arm, which sent him screaming to the nearest sink while Neville covered him. His gaze shifted to the Ravenclaw Cho Chang being pulled into the vent by one of the creatures, with Hermione unable to stop it.

Draco looked back up at his captor. It was the same one he had seen while he was in the chamber. It was still wearing Orlando Baragon's Quidditch necklace. Why it was wearing it, he didn't know. He guessed when it was "born" the necklace must have somehow gotten caught and the beast grew into it.

He turned his head the other direction when he saw Luna move out of the corner of his eye. The Ravenclaw girl had moved out of the corner they had been sitting in before, and very slowly approaching him and his beastly captor.

The black beast had apparently noticed her too, for it turned its head and hissed warningly, but otherwise did not move. Luna stopped, but after a few seconds took another step. The creature hissed louder, but did not move an inch away from Draco. Luna took another few steps forward, and the beast screeched and lashed out its tail. Fortunately Luna had been prepared for such an attack, for she used a defensive spell called Grand Flecture. This spell, with accurate timing, could cause moving objects to be magically thrown away from the caster; this caused the beast's tail spike to whip wildly in the opposite direction, which also confused the loathsome monster momentarily. However, the creature remained in its place pinning Draco to the floor.

"Just as I thought, good." Luna raised her wand. "Stup- Hermione look out!"

The brown haired girl dived out of the way just as one of the beasts thrust out its inner jaw, taking off some of her hair in the process. Hermione landed hard on the floor her wand knocked out of her hands. The creature had her backed against the wall defenseless.

The others were busy fighting their own battles. Luna weighed her options, she could Stun the creature holding Draco, then threaten him so the others would back off. No that would take too much time, Hermione would be dead by then. She pointed her wand to beast towering over Hermione.

Without warning something smacked into Luna's chest sending her to the ground. The beast guarding Draco had flung out its tail again, fortunately the spike at the end had not hit Luna, but the bulk of the tail gave her a good bashing.

Harry and just finished using the Reductor Curse on a beast to blast its brains out, careful to avoid the blood spray after seeing what had happened to Justin, when he turned around and saw one of the beasts stalking over to a cornered Hermione.

Harry raised his wand ready to attack, when he felt something slightly sharp brush his face, and heard a strange noise that sounded like the combination of a dolphin's click and a cat's purr. He whirled around, but there was nothing there. He swiveled back, remembering Hermione. In front of him he saw what looked like ripples in the air, then the ripples seemed to take shape, forming a body, it looked like it was running toward the beast that was towering over Hermione.

Hermione cowered as the black beast loomed over her. She had no wand, no weapons. One thing kept repeating in her mind. You're going to die. You're going to die.

She cast her eyes her eyes to the ground, waiting for the inevitable. Suddenly the beast screeched. She looked up in time to see a thick silver blade jutting out from the creatures segmented torso as it was leaping for her. It screeched again and then fell limp. Hermione gazed on completely awe struck, for she could see nothing that could be holding the blade.

As quick as lightening, a blast of blue light came from an invisible source next to Harry. It hit one of the beasts going after Ron and Ginny, blowing the roof of its skull off.

Silence covered the room, except for the beast still pinning down Draco that was screaming over the deaths of its siblings.

Then what sounded like heavy footsteps could be heard as three separate ripples took shape in the air one of them was standing on the kitchen island, other was shrugging the corpse of the beast that had attacked Hermione off what looked like a bladed staff, and the third was slowly approaching the final beast, the one that held Draco captive.

In a second the creature was on its two feet putting itself in between Draco and the mysterious ripples.

Nyuki hissed a threat of death to any that would dare approach her and her charge. She would die before she ever let anyone of those beasts come near her charge, the young queen growing inside the human.

Still one of the large beasts advanced, just walking, calmly drawing out its own claws, its false claws. The other two stood back watching waiting. Apparently the other humans hadn't the slightest idea what was going on, she could sense their confusion.

Nyuki could feel her rage flare as the beast approached her. No! Should would not them hurt the young queen! She would not! Suddenly something surged through her body, something, strange and foreign and yet at the same time, undeniably natural to her. She knew not from where it came, all she knew was that with it she felt she could do anything, and she would do anything. Anything to protect the young queen. Anything!

Harry's insides clenched as the lights in the kitchen began to flicker and various objects began to shake. He remembered when his Aunt Marge had insulted his parents, he felt an uncontrollable surge of magic rise up along with his anger. When that had happened the lights flickered and various objects shook as well. He could feel that same kind of surge again, but it was not coming from him. He shook slightly when he realized it was coming from the black beast standing in front of Draco

Suddenly blue sparks began to fly off the "ripples" as they began to take shape. Within a few seconds the ripples had dissipated completely and revealed what had been creating them.

They were giants. Three of them, each the size of Hagrid at least. Only Hagrid did not have claws, Hagrid was not dressed in armor and a metal mask, Hagrid was not armed to the teeth with blades, guns and spears, and Hagrid most certainly did not have Dreadlocks....

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Haha, cliff hanger! The Predators have arrived and the hunt's begun. The strange power of Nyuki will be revealed in the next chapter, but you will have to wait until then. Unfortunately, college will be starting again in a few days, so updates may become slower. Sorry.

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Till Next Time

-Vega Sailor