Dark Blood: The Scorpion
Note: with a Title like this, you can guess what Dark Blood's next Prey is. I just want to say that I'm sorry I don't update often, but it's hard to think of Alien Prey, so the next chapter, he's going to have his first hunt for a Human Drug Gang. Enjoy!
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Over the years, Dark Blood had been fighting better and better prey. The Stone Bird now seems like a child's pet compared to most of his pry, but it still hasn't earned him the title of Blooded yet. But now, this last hunt as Young Blood would prove him worthy.
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He was standing guard in front of the Drop Ship waiting for one of his hunting buddies to return, and was real bored. His friend Slow Spear was supposed to come back and take guard a day ago. A normal hunt for something like what Slow Spear wanted would take a week, but Slow Spear could turn it into a year if he wanted to, giving him his name. The idea that he used to be called Swift Fighter seemed like Slow Spears fantasy. So, he "locked up" the ship and went out to find the idiot.
After a few hours of tracking down the fool, all he could find was a used Medicomp tossed carelessly on the ground. Dark Blood started to think, why can't I just leave him, just so he could learn to be quicker? But He figured that it'd take a decade before Slow Spear would figure it out, and it would be quicker just to find him now and leave, and Dark Blood would hunt somewhere else.
After a day of looking, the idiots' footprints and other tracks that Dark Blood had been following seemed to cross with giant insect-like tracks. Another day passed, and the tracks seemed fresher. Dark Blood figured that in another day he'd find the dumbass dead or alive. He hoped it would be alive.
Soon enough, Dark Blood found him, and a Giant scorpion that was attempting to sting the fool, who was hiding in a small cave. Looks like I get to play hero now, Dark Blood guessed. He cloaked and went up in a tree, waiting for the thing to make itself vulnerable. Why doesn't the fool cloak for once? Dark Blood Wondered as he saw the thing make another stab at Slow Spear. He then crawled up to the thing and waited for the thing to strike again. When it did, he made a stab at it with his Combi-Stick. But when he did, the thing swung it's claw at him and knocked him sprawling.
He looked up and saw the thing getting ready to strike at him. Then he noticed that the strike disabled his cloak. This is not good. I need to think of something, he thought. So, he let his instincts take over, and rolled out of the way as it struck the ground he had been seconds ago. He got up, and saw his Combi-Stick on the ground a few yards away from him. This isn't good, he thought as he dodged the scorpion again. So he took a strategy that had the most chance of surviving (which wasn't much): killing the thing with his wristblades. Yeah, I'm definitely crazy, he thought as he unsheathed his Blades and lunged, avoiding another strike.
He landed on the thing's back and stabbed as much as he could. Thankfully, Dark Blade wristblades are extremely long and just as sharp and indestructible. It still took long for the thing to die and get its head removed.
As he roared to the skies holding up his new trophy, Slow Spear ran up to him, thanking Dark Blood each step he took. "Oh thank you, Dark Blood! You see, I was hunting this thing and when I tried to strike, it did the same thing to you, and disabled my cloaking and…"
"Please, shut up. You know, Slow Spear, when you were named that, they didn't just mean your hunting abilities." The same thing could be said about all of my hunting partners, Dark Blood thought as he went to pick up his spear. "Now, let's get back to the ship and see how the elders react to your stupidity."
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It turned out that while Slow Spear had a quick scolding and his name was considered to be changed to something meaner, Dark Blood was shocked to find that he had hunted long enough to be called an honored Blooded hunter. And better, he was allowed to hunt Oomans now. Dark Blood couldn't wait…
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end note: well, would YOU be impatient to hunt humans for the first time if YOU were a Predator? I would. I'll write about Dark Bloods first human hunt soon, so see y'all!