Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, he and all characters associated with him belong to J.K. Rowling. Also "Aliens" and "Predator" belong to 20th Century Fox. All of the Predator lore and vocabulary used was from the novel "Aliens vs. Predator: Prey" by Stephen Perry.

Harry Potter and the Alien Hive

Chapter 18: Big Brother

It was Prongs' brother.

Prongs' big brother more like it. Luna gazed completely hypnotized that the hunter in front of her. This one was bigger than Prongs, both in height and body, not much, but there was a noticeable difference. She guessed this hunter would probably be the only person, besides another giant, who could get into a wrestling match with Hagrid and have a good chance of winning.

Luna suddenly came to realize the only thing this hunter and Prongs had in common was that fact they were the same species, but that was where their similarities ended. While Prongs had black dreadlocks, this one had dark green, and while Prong's hung straight down, this one had its pinned up. Where Prongs' armor had been silver, this hunter's amour was a dark blue, and it seemed this one's armor was a lot more decorative. And even his

The hunter walked around, looking at his kill. Luna was astonished to see the skull of a black beast mounted on its chest plate.

The big hunter let out a growl and shook it's head at the dead black beast, then turned to leave. Luna finally made her decision that had been debating on in the back of her mind at that time. She stepped out from behind the wall she had been hiding behind.

The hunter swiveled around, staff ready, it's red targeting beam pointed at Luna's head. Luna gulped and held out her hands, palms up, fingers flat, head bow. All of these were to show that she was submitting to him and that she was unarmed.

She heard strange purr the hunters made. Without moving her head she glanced up and saw him moving away from her. She slowly moved her body back to normal position, and made to follow the hunter. This was the only chance she had, there was no way she could find the others, alive, by herself. She had only taken a few steps when the hunter stopped and turned his head, his weapons were down, but his body posture indicated a dislike for her following. He growled and turned back around and continued walking.

Luna continued following. The hunter didn't turn around this time.

Ajka growled, in the name of all the gods, why was it following him? He was seriously considering swiping the ooman's head off just to make it go away, but it wasn't armed or trying to threatening him. In fact it had done all of the signs of submission, if he killed it now it would be an act of dishonor and Ajka had no intention dishonoring himself over a creature that was of little more significance than a fly. Though he had to give it credit for not being completely stupid, following him would give it a better chance for survival than it just heading out on its own unarmed.

Then another thought occurred to him. What if it was infected? Ajka spun and approached the ooman. It kept its head low, but didn't move. At least it was showing the proper respect to a superior.

Ajka put a hand under the ooman's chin and tilted its head up so he could clearly see its chest, if ooman anatomy of the bust area was similar to yautja then this ooman was female. He zoomed in his vision, and found the chest cavity clean of any trace of Hard Meat larvae. If it was not infected, then what was it doing here?

Luna felt every muscle in her body clench when the hunter lifted up her face, but she managed to suppress the urge to shiver or run. She watched the hunter shift his gaze downward to her chest. She remembered Prongs did the same thing to Draco before. Some how these hunters were able to tell if someone was infected or not.

Something moved on the wall behind the hunter. The hunter calmly dropped his hand to the side then pulled out what looked like a discus from a segment of armor on his leg. He stepped back a couple of paces, still keeping his face turned toward Luna. The hunter stopped and with one swift movement of his arm that Luna could barely follow, the discus sliced through a dark shape on the wall. A faceless body of a black beast fell to the ground in front of the hunter.

Luna's eyes were as wide as saucers in shock and awe.

Suddenly the hunter growled focusing on something behind her. She whirled around raising her wand up. There were four black beasts crawling on the walls and the ceiling. The hunter aimed and fired a blast from his shoulder cannon hitting a black beast in the head making it explode in a shower acid. However, its bretheren charged toward them undeterred.

The hunter fired another blast seemingly almost bored with the situation. However, his boredom soon ended when one of the black beasts seemed to swallow the laser blast, then it reared back and spit it back out toward the hunter.

The hunter was clearly not expecting that for he moved a fraction of a second too late. The blast hit his shoulder cannon and it exploded. The hunter was thrown against the wall, his bladed staff flying from his hand.

Luna raised her wand at the nearest black beast, but to her surprise it jumped over her head and made for the hunter. Luna automatically turned around and caught a glimpse that the hunter was on his feet again before she remembered there were still two black beasts behind her. She whirled around aimed quickly and shouted the first spell that popped into her head.

"Reducto!"

Unfortunately, the curse only hit the nearest black beast in the arm, blasting it completely off and knocking the creature from the ceiling, but it was still very much alive. The other black beast in the meantime had followed its other sister in attacking the hunter.

Luna was not prepared for a tail attack. She tried to move out to the way, but the bulk of the tail hit her in the chest. She landed hard on her back knocking her wand out of her hand and the wind out of her lungs. She gasped and saw the black beast tearing toward her. She needed a weapon. Out of the corner her eye she saw the staff of the hunter lying within an arm's reach of her.

She grabbed it and anchored it against the wall as the black beast leaped at her. She raised the staff up in time for the beast to impale itself on it. And yet it still lived.

The creature continued to lash out its tail and toothed tongue. However, the staff kept Luna just out of reach. Finally the beast fell still, seemingly dead. With shaking hands, Luna began to tilt the staff to the right to move the beast off her. Suddenly the beast raised its head and Luna found the teeth of the beast's inner jaw snapping together mere inches from her face.

Luna let out a small hiccup, as the beast once again fell still and silent. Luna jiggled the staff a little bit just to make sure it was dead. It was dead as a doornail.

Luna let out a shaky breath and with all of her strength shoved the beast to the side so she could stand up.

By this time the hunter had finished off his quarry and stalked over to Luna. The girl stood up straight and proud that she had successfully killed one of the black beasts.

What the unholy pauk was going on here? Ajka growled as he gazed down at the two hard meat he'd killed. In all of his years of hunting and killing these creatures, he had never seen one swallow and regurgitate a blast from his plasma caster, nor had he seen one spit silver darts, acid yes, but not silver darts. Ajka berated himself for allowing the hard meat to catch him off guard. He was lucky his mask was still functional enough to provide air to breath, however, the rest of its capabilities were dead. Oh well, the only thing one could do if one survived his mistakes was to learn from them.

Ajka turned and saw the ooman shoving aside the hard meat it had impaled on his staff.

Curious... Ajka thought. All his life he had wondered why other yautja considered oomans such good prey. Oomans were a lot smarter and stronger than he had given them credit for. This ooman had been clever enough to anchor the staff against the wall so that the hard meat could not over power it, not only that, the lower half of the ooman's body was covered with hard meat blood, and yet it was not burned at all.

Perhaps this ooman had encountered the hard meat before. Maybe it knew where the hive was located, not to mention it might know about any other traps this building contained.

Luna slowly reached down and picked up her wand as the hunter stalked over to her. He pointed at the black beast she had killed and extended his arms out. Luna figured he meant he wanted to find lots of the black beasts. He wanted to know where the hive was. She nodded then pointed to the hallway that led to Slytherin and motioned for him to follow her.

He held up a hand and she stopped. She watched as he stalked over to the body of the black beast she had killed. First he removed his staff from the beast's body then took out a beautifully decorated knife from a compartment on his leg armor. She was surprised when the hunter began to stab and slice at the outline of the beast's head. When he seemed to be done, the hunter put down his knife and slowly separated the black beast's skull from its head exposing its brain.

The hunter picked up the knife again, and looked at Luna then held up a hand and indicated for her to come closer. Luna was not about to disobey the big hunter so she drew closer and knelled down next to him. He then motioned for her to look down at the now skulless black beast. Without warning he plunged the knife into the black beast's brain. This action caused the beast's inner jaw to shoot out making Luna jump to her feet in alarm.

The hunter looked at her, tilted his head and emitted a new clicking sound. It took moment for Luna to realize that sound was the equivalent to a snicker. It was a joke. Apparently the hunters had a form of humor too.

Presently the hunter stood up and handed her the hallowed out black beast's head and pointed to his chest where the face of a black beast was mounted on the armor.

A trophy?

She, Luna Lovegood, was being presented with a trophy of a black beast she had killed by an extraterrestrial hunter? This was too good to be true!

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Sorry for the long wait! I've been studying for finals and getting a new job, and working on "Filth in Purity." Plus this was kind of a hard chapter to write for some reason.

Next chapter is going to be a good one. Harry Potter and pals run into someone they never expected to see, and it isn't Dumbledore.

Big thanks to all those who reviewed! You guys keep me going!

Till Next Time!

-Vega Sailor