Kjon's Audio Diary Log
June 9, 2621.
I came to a couple hours later that night lying on the wet ground; it was raining. I remembered Jenny being dragged off into the jungle by two, red, laser ropes. I remembered trying to fight her back before I got my ass shot by a high powered plasma caster blast. I was definitely going to be feeling that one when I woke up the next morning. I felt my chest, and grunted a little as I felt the painful aftermath of the shot. The blast had hit me directly in the sternum, thankfully some of my armor had absorbed the shot's impact. The blow had opened up a small hole in me, but I'd be fine with that. But they had Jenny.
I didn't bother calling for Jenny, I knew she was gone. I bellowed a roared angrily up into the air as loudly as I could. I was furious. Not for being shot at mind you, I'd been shot plenty of times before, but they'd kidnapped my girl friend, and there was going to be hell to pay. I picked up my Desert Eagle which I'd dropped when the plasma blast hit me. Even though Jenny and I had used up most of our ammunition in the fight earlier, I was still had some hollow points left for it. I also put my mask back on, which had also been knocked off of me after I was shot.
Before I began my hunt, I ran back to the ACP to grab my bag and some extra supplies to go with it. I found the other shadows that had fled the battle prior to Jenny being captured. They were all dead. At least I didn't need to worry about them anymore. I slept alone for a couple of nights. I didn't like that. It felt strange not having Jenny around me anymore. I was beginning to like her. Hell I loved her! I told her I loved her, and so did she! She cared about me enough to help me in my mission! She cared about me enough to want to help me get over my depression. Hell she loved me enough to kiss me on the mandibles! I was going to get her back alive.
I continued my search bright and early the very next morning. I followed the attackers trails closely and carefully. They hadn't expected their prey to survive a plasma caster shot at max power. Instead of having to track signatures I just followed their tracks in the mud. We get very hard rainstorms out here. Sometimes they're enough to cause flash floods. I was thanking God for it as it not only gave me a trail to follow, but also a source of camouflaging. I took my meshing off and coated my self head to toe in the stuff to avoid giving away my heat signature. It was freezing outside without my mesh, since it acts as a insulation suit. With it off, the air outside being 50 degrees, and having cold mud splattered on my body, I was dying from the cold. Our bodies aren't made to handle cold temperatures like that. That's why we are most commonly seen during hot summers, because we like the heat. But I was on a mission, and I had endured through much worse before. I was rescuing Jenny, even if I had to freeze my balls off to do it. I continued taking periodic mud baths as I went just to keep my cover up though, which sucked.
The trail eventually took me to one of their camps. I'd passed by about two prior to this one. Unfortunately it was like the others, abandoned. The fire had been put out, their stuff was no where to be seen, and I couldn't find Jenny. As I was about to investigate, I saw cloaked Yatja pounce down from the trees. I made a good call taking those mud baths because they did not see me at all. Their were two of them, a male and a female, both of whom weren't any taller than I was. I eyed them hateful as I watched their movements closely and carefully.
A thought then came to me. It was an excellent tactic that Jenny had used on me during her training. I was going to use it on them. I made a small hole in the mud that I laid in quietly, before I made a small noise which caught their attention.
Once they were on top of me I attacked. I caught the female, who'd trailed closely behind the male, and wrapped her in a headlock. I held my machete up to her throat and began ordering ,in my native language, for them to turn off their cloaks. They did so. I wasn't going to kill them or even hurt them, at least not yet anyway. I needed them alive so they could tell me where Jenny was. I followed my order by commanding them to drop their weapons.
"No!" The male said defiantly. "Let her go or I will skin you!" I wasn't intimidated by his meaningless threat.
"Should've thought about that before you took my girl! Now drop your fcking weapons or she's gonna be breathing through her a hole in her neck! You hear me?!" My threats also didn't intimidate him. It also didn't do anything to faze his girl, since she elbowed me in the gut, before wrapping her hands around my arm and Judo threw me over her, slamming me to the ground. She was about to drive her wristblades through my skull, but I rolled away just in time. I got back to my feet quickly and tripped the female before running off into the jungle. The male helped her up and they both began firing their plasma casters at me. They would've likely been able to have locked on to me with their targeting systems, but after I took to the jungle and stopped moving around they couldn't find me anywhere. I was still covered in cold mud which was hiding me from their infra-red settings. They continued blindly firing into the jungle before the male stopped the female, telling her it was pointless, since they couldn't find me. He instructed her to change her vision settings right as he did, before they began stalking me through the trees. They also had the smarts to put their camouflage back on, even though it made no difference, since I could still see them on the infra-red setting.
I could see them squatting on a tree branch a couple of paces away from where I stood. "Hey! Over here you ugly assholes!" I taunted them before taking off again.
"He's over there!" I heard the female shout. I'd staged a large branch and a few rocks that I coated in mud as a dummy, which I'd set partially on fire before putting it out. They took my bait again, and I pounced down on top of the male, who'd stabbed into the branch stupidly with his wristblades.
"Ch'ris!" the female screamed for the male in a concerned and scared manner. We rolled down the side of a hill punching and clawing each other as we went. Once we reached the bottom and we recovered, we threw ourselves at each other once again. We stood there for a short time grappling with each other.
"Traitor!" He called me spitefully, as we struggled against each other. I had no clue what he was talking about, but I didn't care. We threw ourselves off of each other and continued our brawl. He went to throw a punch, but I blocked it with my arm before twisting my limb around his. He growled in pain as I did that. I began punching him, but he broke my armlock and skillfully swept my feet with his leg, tripping me. The male then knelt over my body pinning me down, before throwing a series of punches to my face. He continued cursing me as he did so, calling me a traitor again, among his other insults. One of his strikes knocked my mask off. I then did a expert Judo technique, and wrapped my legs around the male's throat before pulling back, forcing him off of me. I got back up right as the female was about to take my head off with her wristblades. I dodged the attack and ran into her tackling her up against a tree. I began throwing my fists at her, but she caught them both and kicked me back. The male then caught me, wrapping his arms over mine and held me in place. "Where are the others?! Where are they hiding?! Answer me traitor!" He roared angrily.
"Go fck yourself!" I told him before he ordered the female to begin beating me. They wanted me alive also for some reason. That made no sense. And what did he mean when he asked where the "others" were. I didn't care about that and just fought back.
I stomped down on the male's foot hard enough for him to let me go. I then took the second I had, and grabbed him by the arm and threw him into the female. She was unfazed by the blow and began retaliating. She expertly kicked and punched me several times in the face and torso before forcing me up against a tree. She held her wristblades to my throat and told me to answer to the male's questions. I responded by punching her in the face before picking her up by the arm and throwing her. She managed to catch herself however and landed gracefully on her feet.
I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my abdomen which shot up my body. The male had stabbed me with his wristblades. Luckily his strike was weak so he wasn't able to send them in deep enough to penetrate anything vital. We struggled for a moment; I was trying to hold his wrist and force the blades out, but he continued to push them deeper. That hurt like hell. I finally had enough of it, and roared loudly before slamming my arm down on the ball joint in his elbow, where the humerus connected to the ulna and radius bone. I then let go of his other arm and put my elbow in his face hard. I was then able to wrench his wristblades out of my lower right side where he'd stabbed me and Judo throw him to the ground. I then set my sights on the female who I anticipated was going to attack me from behind, which she did. I caught her combi-stick as she was about to bring it down on me and pinned her to a tree. I held the weapon up against her throat to choke her.
"Where is Jenny?!" I asked with a pissed off look on my face. I gave her enough breathing room for her to speak. She didn't answer me. The male then tried to sneak attack me, but I moved the combi-stick and scraped his chest with it. The cut wasn't deep, but it was enough to make him back off. Unfortunately it took my attention away from the female long enough for her to maneuver herself under the combi-stick in a quick motion before she kicked the back of my leg on my lateral condyle, where the tibia and fibula bones connect, just below the kneecap. Yes I do know a bit about the human skeleton, which is very similar to ours. She hit a pressure point there which caused me to fall, allowing her to wrap her arms around me and push her hands against my head cutting off movement to my head and arms. In an attempt to keep me subdued, the male kicked me in the crotch. That hurt worse than the wristblades grazing my right kidney.
The male then grabbed at my dreadlocks and pulled them back so we could stare each other in the face. He took his bio-mask off and looked at me hatefully. His face was a little darker brown than mine was with blue and black accents running along the top of his head that extending down in dots to the back of his top mandibles. I saw similar accents running along the rest of his body in stripes. His eyes were green, and his dreadlocks were braided with gold beads. "NOW! START TALKING! WHERE ARE THE OTHER BAD BLOODS AND WHERE HAVE THEY TAKEN MY SISTER?!" He roared in my face. I didn't answer him. I was to busy getting angry at him for kicking me in the dick. He then back handed me with his wrist gauntlet causing me to spit some blood. "I WILL NOT ASK YOU AGAIN! WHERE HAVE YOU TAKEN ZELL-OAH?!" He screamed in my face again.
The female then noticed something, which she brought to the male's attention. "Ch'ris wait! We may have the caught the wrong Yatja! Look at his garments and his mask!" They stopped beating me after they figured that out, and even loosened their hold on me, and began to actually talk to me. But the damage had already been done. They'd not only shot me with a plasma caster bolt on max power, taken my girlfriend, and beat the snoot out of me, but now they kicked me in the groin. If I wasn't angry before, I certainly was then.
I roared at the male's face. I could see the look of surprise in his eyes before I slammed my head into his. I then reached my arms over the female's shoulders, grabbed her armor, and slammed her down on the male. I was about to pick her up and slam her down on him again, but she rolled off of him, allowing the male to kick me away. I recovered just before they could and I charged the female. I tackled her to the ground and began throwing my fists at her as hard as I could. I even managed to knock her mask off. the front of her face was similar in color to the male's, but the rest of her head was red which devolved into a purple color as it continued further back. The rest of her body also had this purple red color mix. Her eyes were blue, her dreadlocks were longer than the male's, and they were laced with silver beads.
The male came to help her, but I leapt off of her and blocked another blow he was about to make and punched him repeatedly, before I twisted his arm and brought his face down on my knee. That was satisfying. I then threw him into the female as she came to attack. She recovered quickly and tried to throw a kick at me. I had had enough of her crap and caught her foot. I twisted it causing her to fall to the ground. I sat on her and continued to twist it. She cried out in agony for the male to help her. He tried to recover, but couldn't get up quickly enough to help. I took that opportunity to disarm her of her wristblades and her plasma caster. I then stood her up and locked my arm around her throat. She tried to force me off with a series of blows from her elbow, but my adrenaline allowed me to tolerate the pain. I was to pissed off to care. I brought my Desert Eagle out and put it up against her head, which made her stop.
"Rachelle!" the male roared after finding me with my gun against her head. He roared as he prepared his plasma caster.
The shot flew just centimeters past her head and nearly hit me in the face, but I avoided the shot and I kept my hold on the female, and retaliated by shooting the plasma caster right on the base of his backpack, where it connected to his armor. The ranged weapon fell off his shoulder with a metallic clank. He went to try and pick it back up, but I shot it right as he was about to touch it.
The male looked at me and saw I'd turned my firearm on his girl. "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT ,SHT FACE! UNLESS YOU THINK YOUR LUCKY ENOUGH TO TRY OR ELSE YOU AND YOUR GIRL HERE WILL BE THINKING WITH HOLES THROUGH YOUR FOREHEADS!" I told him.
"Ch'ris don't!" Rachelle told him.
"LET HER GO NOW!" He ordered me.
"BOTH OF YOU BETTER SHUT THE FCK UP I MEAN IT!" I looked at the male in the face hard. I flared my mandibles to let him know I was not happy, but I didn't need to. He could see I wasn't screwing around. He looked at me, then at his girlfriend, then at the plasma caster, and finally back at me.
"Hold it! Now I know exactly what you're thinking, but forget it, it won't work. I can kill you and your girlfriend here faster than you can even reach that plasma caster of yours in time. Also note that this is a Desert Eagle 50 AE. I don't expect either of you to know what it is, but I will tell you it is powerful enough to leave a nasty hole in whatever I shoot it with. That includes you two. I'm also a pretty good shot with it. So you should ask yourself if your feeling lucky right now. Well are you punk!" I said, taking some inspiration from Dirty Harry.
My threat had terrified the female enough to tell him stop. Although I could sense she had no care for her well-being but for that of her boyfriend. "Don't do it Ch'ris. Listen to the Yatja and just leave it." The male looked at the weapon one last time before looking back at his girlfriend, and begrudgingly complied.
"Good idea. Now I want some answers!" I began.
"As do we!" the male said challenging. I put my finger back on the trigger of the gun, which silenced him. "Please! Stop! Stop! Stop. Please don't hurt her. Please. We will do whatever you want." He said in a more polite and desperate tone.
"May we ask you one question first. Please?" The female asked me.
I gave the female a wicked angry look before replying. "Fine! But make it quick!" I said keeping the gun on her.
"Are you among the traitors who took my sister ,Zell-oah, because you do not appear to be?" The male asked.
"I have no fcking clue who the hell you're talking about." I answered.
"So you are not one of the traitors who betrayed us and kidnapped my mate's sister?" The female asked.
"Hell No! I don't even know who the both of you are!" I answered them.
"But then who are-" He was about to ask before I silenced him.
"You've asked your questions, and now it's time you start giving me some answers! Where is Jenny?!" I roared.
"Jenny? Who is Jenny?" The male asked.
"A friend of mine! You know part Ooman, part shadow! The one you took from me when you shot me with a plasma caster blast! Any of this ringing any bells?!" The male and the female looked at each other and at me with a confused look.
"We do not know who you speak of." The male answered.
"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on here. You're saying you weren't the ones who attacked me and my Ooman friend two days ago?" I asked.
"No. We have never see you or any Ooman you have described to us like that before." Ch'ris answered me. My look of anger, devolved into confusion and disappointment after I heard that. I moved my finger gently off the trigger of the gun.
"Perhaps the Ooman you speak of was taken by the same ones we are also after." Rachelle hypothesized.
I looked at her and her mate before replying. "Alright, alright. Listen. I'm going to stop right now. I'll put my gun away and I'll let you do the same, alright?" I told them.
"Yes. We shall stop fighting you as well." They agreed. I gently released my hold on Rachelle, and we continued our engagement diplomatically.
"I am Ch'ris. This is my mate Rachelle. We are the leaders of the Vall-kcor'sta clan. Who are you strange one?" Ch'ris asked, introducing himself and his wife.
"I'm Kjon Schaefer." I introduced myself.
They both gasped in amazement. "You live among the mighty Ooman Schaefers?" Rachelle asked this time she spoke to me in English.
"Yes. One of them took me in and raised me as his son." I answered truthfully. I'd been so caught up in the fight and trying to find Jenny, that I forgot how highly my kind regarded us Schaefers.
"He is one of the Schaefers." Ch'ris responded in amazement. They both made respectful bowing gestures. I made the same greeting motion with confused respect.
"We apologize deeply for troubling you ,blessed one. We did not realize at first that you were not one of the traitors. We couldn't see you past your disguise." Ch'ris apologized.
"No wonder your apparel is so strange. You have lived among the Oomans. That was also a very clever trick of yours to out smart our technology like that." Rachelle complemented.
"Yes, Yes, Yes I know. I'm sorry for jumping you back there. That was my mistake. I sincerely apologize for that," I began, "I don't mean to be disrespectful when I say this, but can either of you explain to me what in the fck is going on? Because I'm trying to find my friend who was kidnapped by a group of Yatja, and it appears to me I have the wrong individuals." I asked.
We spent the next half hour explaining ourselves. I explained my side of the story first, telling them who Jenny was, and what we were doing here before she was taken. Ch'ris and Rachelle then explained how a group of traitors from their clan had kidnapped Ch'ris' sister ,Zell-oah, and were using her to try and remove Ch'ris from his power over the clan so they could continue to live freely as bad blood hunters. They'd apparently made several attempts against Ch'ris, but all of them up to this point had failed. Ch'ris and Rachell followed the bad bloods to this planet, who had annihilated the remaining shadows Jenny and I were fighting. As we tried figuring out what had happened, the bad bloods found us and attacked for one reason or another. To make a long story short, Jenny and I had come to the wrong place at the wrong time.
"Damn!" I cursed, "I'm seriously very sorry for my inconvenience to you both. I truly am." I apologized to them both.
"We understand your confusion and your anger, and we forgive you for it. We are also very sorry that we brought this burden down upon you, and we are most deeply sorry that they took your Ooman friend." Ch'ris replied with respect and sincerity.
"Sons-of-btches! I'm referring to the bad bloods." I clarified to them both so as not to offend them.
"Your analogy of them is sound ,strange one." Rachelle said.
I stood there with an angry look on my face, before I turned to hand Ch'ris and Rachelle their gear. "What are you doing strange one?" Ch'ris asked.
"Those bastards took my girlfriend and I'm going to get her back. I'm coming with you so I can have a better chance of doing that. I'm also going to help you get your sister back." I said handing Ch'ris' bio-mask back to him. He looked down at it before glancing at his wife, who studied me for a short moment before curving her mandibles in a smile, and shook her head positively. Ch'ris then returned to me and smiled before taking hold of my arm "We are greatly appreciative of your assisting us Schaefer. We accept your alliance. We will also assist you in finding your Ooman friend."
I smiled at them and nodded. After retrieving all of our equipment we'd dropped in the fight, quickly patching up each others injuries, and saying a respectful prayer to each of our deities, we headed out. I had made two new friends that day with Ch'ris and Rachelle. They were good Yatja. Although they came from a dishonorable clan, I could tell they had honorable intentions. They explained their situation to me later on, telling me that they were trying to restore their clan's honor. I was sympathetic to them, not just because of what they were enduring, but because I knew how they felt to some extent. I was a dishonorable Abomination who was also trying to fight honorably to restore my mother's dishonor. I explained some of this to my new friends as we trudged through the wilderness. That also sympathized with me for that.
I did not rest easily those few nights. Neither did Ch'ris or his wife, who slept closely together in a protective manner. I didn't know what the bad bloods had done to Jenny. I had no clue if she was still alive or if she was dead. That thought made it especially hard to find sleep. I didn't want to think she was nothing more than a polished trophy. I didn't want to believe that. I didn't. I spent half the night praying silently to God asking that he keep Jenny safe, and that he would give me and my friends the strength we needed to overcome our enemies. I held Taylor's crucifix tightly in my had as I chanted my prayers. The praying did help alleviate some of my anxiety, but not all of it. I needed to know Jenny was alright, I needed to know she was alive. Merciful Master Jesus! I needed her next to me again! I know I was becoming to interested with her, but could you blame me?! Plus she wanted me to care about her! She loved me, and I loved her. No, I wasn't going to let those sons-of-btches get away with this. I would get her back alive! and I'd also help my new friends get their loved one back too.
Eventually the good Lord blessed me with his peace, and I found sleep.
Merciful Master Jesus, thank-you! Man was this chapter hard to right. I wasn't having any trouble being motivated to get it done, but having to choreograph that fight was a pain. I'm finished with it now though, and I've finally managed to get around to getting to Kj's explanation of the story, and how he truly feels about Jenny. Also I've finally managed to introduce Ch'ris and Rachelle to the story. Also just to clarify I designed Kj to look like the Jungle Hunter Predator from the first movie just with a little different skin tone, gills, and no beads on his dreadlocks. Also Ch'ris and Rachelle's designs are based off of the Emissary Predators who were supposed to be in the 2018 movie. Anyway I hope you guys like the story, and I'll get to work on the next part as soon as possible. Later
[Also NeverNeverGirl thank you once again for the comments. They help me recognize typo flaws in my story, and they make me more observant of them. Also your compliments have kept me interested and motivated in the story, so please keep sending them :) ]