Chapter VIII
At that moment an accord had been reached, and the Ancient Greek rule of three was alive once more.
"There's no way out back there." Lex reported once she had returned to the room that Sebastian, Weyland, Max and she were trapped in. Lex then moved over to sit with Sebastian; she saw that he was turning the Pepsi bottle cap over and over in his hand in a nervous manner,
"Careful..." Lex teased with a smile.
"What?" Sebastian asked.
"That's a valuable archaeological find." She answered gesturing to the bottle cap, earning a smile from Sebastian.
An alarm from Sebastian's watch goes off at that precise moment, making everyone in the room jump.
"What's that?" Lex asked, before checking the future and saw what it meant, she cursed herself for not remembering.
"Just a theory." Sebastian replied as he silenced the alarm, after he spoke a sound like rolling thunder sounded in the distance as it came closer they were able to tell that it was the sound of stone scrapping against stone. "The Aztec calendar was metric, based on multiples of ten. I'm guessing that the pyramid re-configures every ten minutes." He continued.
Max and Weyland stand up as a stone slab rose into the roof, revealing a new exit from the stone cell that they had been trapped in, all of them knew that a labyrinth of passageways awaited them beyond the exit. They all exchange looks, sharing the same concern of not knowing what awaited them outside of the nice and safe room, before they move out of the room one by one.
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Miller, Verheiden and Connors stand up from the floor what the bottom half of a statue moved back to reveal a crawl space.
"Whose wants to go first?" Miller asked as he looked between Connors and Verheiden, the other men look at each other then at Miller before glancing back at each other again.
"How about we set a goal?" Connors suggested.
"Very well, the goal is to get back to the Piper Maru come up with a convincing lie about why only the three of us survived and about what happened." Verheiden said, Miller and Connors nodded in agreement of that goal, before Connors moved forward and took point, Verheiden grabbed Miller and made him take the middle as he himself brought up the rear.
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Max, Weyland, Sebastian and Lex made their way through the underground passageways, Max was at the front with his MP-5 machine gun.
Lex looked down and checked her digital compass again all the while comparing the reading she saw to the ones in the vision. "If we can stay on this bearing, we should keep going up. If we can do that we'll make it to the entrance." She said.
Lex looked at the men that were with her, Max and Sebastian were doing alright both keeping up the pace that she had set, but Weyland on the other hand was struggling to keep up he then buckled under the weight of the backpack that he was carrying, it was the one that contained the Yautja weapon.
"Leave it. It can only slow us down." She said to Weyland after he had caught up to her.
"Too much has been lost to walk away with nothing." Weyland replied.
Lex sighed once she saw and felt that there was no way that she could convince him otherwise. "Give it to me." She said before Weyland and she traded backpacks.
A couple of minutes pass before up ahead Max signaled the group to stop, he aimed his flashlight so that it would illuminate the darkness, just as a Predator appears from said darkness, Max tried to fire but it was too late as the Predator had already fired something. Then a net appears in mid air, the net knocks Max of his feet and against the wall.
Max screamed as the net constricted around him, it cuts into his clothing and equipment like it was paper, Weyland tried to help his friend but only cuts his hand in the process, the mesh was razor sharp. Sebastian then tried to cut the net with a knife that he had stashed in his boot but it just snapped as if the substance that the net was made of was stronger than the metal of the knife.
"Look out!" Max yelled, Lex turned and saw the second Yautja appear out of thin air, she scowled before she moved faster than the Yautja could comprehend and pushed him away from the group of full humans. She then turned and saw that another Yautja had already impaled Max, it was turning to Weyland and Sebastian ready to give them the same treatment that Max had received.
"MOVE!" she shouted as she shoot across the distance that separated her and the Yautja, not noticing that the one that she had pushed was back on his feet and watching her as she practically flew across the room.
Range watched as the female Ooman ran across the distance separating her from Taro, at a great speed not stopping to yell whatever she had yelled at the other Ooman's, the female then threw an object at the youngest Ooman male before both males turned and ran obviously obeying the female of their race. Were the females the power of the race now? Range thought.
Lex leaped into the air moments before she collided with the Yautja bringing him temporarily to the floor, and diverting his attention from Sebastian and Weyland, now that she was alone with only enemies she didn't have to hold back.
She moved a bit away and dropped into her fully feral crouch allowing her instincts out of the cage that she had placed them in, her eyes changed from a dark chocolate brown to a pure and bright amber that shone in the dark flecked with her human eye color, her illusion fell revealing a tail that was longer than it was supposed to be it was white with black stripes on it in intervals, a trail of scales had appeared on her face and lead down her neck and disappeared under her t-shirt.
She let everything that she hid around the normal humans out in this fight she wasn't going to hold anything back, her enemy would fall, and fall hard before she even considered giving into deaths sweet embrace. She growled at the Yautja that had killed one of her temporary pride.
Taro stared at the female Ooman that had attacked him without warning, he was startled when she growled at him, her growl sounded animalistic and dangerous. He glanced at Range and saw that his companion would not help him, so he crouched and leaped at the Ooman confidant that the fight wouldn't last long, as she probably wasn't thinking coherently.
Lex smirked darkly when the Yautja leaped at her, she used her gift and found out that he was overconfident, she would enjoy making him regret feeling confident. She dodged to the side evading whatever attack that he had been planning as she dodged she made a connection with another of her gifts, the one that allowed her to see that future. She didn't care that she had an unfair advantage the Yautja had made things personal.
Taro was genuinely surprised when the female Ooman dodged his attack, but then he turned and saw the glint that her eyes possessed, he now knew that this was a fight to the death.
Lex moved fast, knowing that she had stunned him for a moment with what her eyes said, she withdrew a dagger from her sleeve as she charged at her opponent, she saw that he bought his arm up in a defensive position but she ducks and spun around and under his guard and slashed at his unprotected back, breaking the mesh that he wore and also making a slash appear on his skin.
She slide to a stop a few meters away she spun around to take in the reaction of her enemy and saw that he was not happy.
Taro turned rapidly after he had gotten over the shock that an Ooman and a female at that had injured him, he then withdrew his hip dagger and launched himself at her again. Lex saw what the Yautja was about to do and slid under him before she jumped up, spun and threw herself at him whilst also raising her dagger, the Yautja turned just in time to block her dagger with his own.
Both stared at the other trying to push the other back in the end Lex slipped her foot back ducked her head below her dagger and made the Yautja overbalance, she then moved to the side allowing he opponent to stumble forward after she had removed her dagger from the stalemate.
Taro stumbled forward and growled once he had his balance back, he noticed that he was standing in front of a hole in the ground he knew that if the Ooman female tackled him they would both fall in.
Lex noticed the exact same thing the Yautja had, she braced her feet on the floor and ran at her opponent whilst his back was turned, he turned around just in time to see her launch herself into the air and tackle him into the hole behind him, moments later the Yautja collided with the ground Lex was still on top of him making the Predator take the brunt of the impact.
Range watched as the fight progressed, he was stunned at the prowess that the Ooman displayed it was as if she had been fighting for her life since she had learned the basics, he had been surprised when the female had pulled a moderate sized dagger from her sleeve. He winced when he heard both his companion and the Ooman female collided with the pile of bones. He really didn't regret not getting involved in the fight.
Lex was up and a few feet from the Yautja after a moment, which she used to gather her wits and some energy. She observed her enemy as he slowly hauled himself up off of the ground, she sank back into her crouch she knew the Yautja thought that she didn't have a coherent thought at the moment and she was more than happy to use that against him.
Once Taro was back on his feet he crouched and faced the Ooman female that had managed to knock him of his feet more times than any other Yautja of his age and for that he respected her.
Range snuck into the room that the hole in the ground lead to he really wanted to see how this fight ended, even if it ended with his comrade dying. He watched as the two opponents circle each other warily.
Lex and Taro clashed for the umpteenth time, both tried to get a hit on the other but failing as both were just too good a warrior to let that happen. Lex drew another dagger from her sleeve and started to duck and dodge any attack that the Yautja executed, she was waiting for an opening in his guard.
Finally she saw an opening minutes after they had clashed, during those minutes the pyramid had reconfigured again but she was confident that she would be able to find Sebastian and Weyland again once this fight was over, she took her chance and darted at him bypassing any defence that he tried to build, she lashed out with her daggers once she was close enough, one was embedded in his chest the other made a slash on his arm, she quickly moved away as her opponent froze.
Taro froze when he felt the pain of a dagger being embedded in his chest and a slash on his arm being opened, he turned around and saw that the very Ooman that had caused him a bit of pain was already out of striking distance but he attacked using the chakt-ra.
Lex dodged the shuriken that the Yautja had thrown in her direction as she threw the last dagger that she had in her hand, she saw in which direction that the Yautja would dodge in so she launched herself to tackle him unawares.
Taro dodged the dagger that the Ooman had thrown and was then surprised when the Ooman tackled him to the ground, this time instead of jumping off of him she pinned him underneath her in a way that gave him no room to move.
Lex purred lightly she was in the control of her instincts now and there would be no denying them until the one that killed a member of her temporary pride was dead.
Ranges eyes widened when the female Ooman pinned Taro down so securely that not even an Elder could get out of, he was surprised even more when the female began purring in a way that suggested that she had already won.
Lex bent so that she was face to face with the Yautja, her right hand slid down to her boot and then she pulled out the dagger that she hid there, she brought it up slowly to savor the fact that she had such a physically powerful being at her mercy, the Yautja was growling not liking the fact that she was taking her sweet time.
Taro growled at the female Ooman wishing that she would hurry up and kill him or that Range would intervene. He glanced down to see where her hand had gone and saw that she had withdrew another dagger but this one from her boot. Once she had brought the dagger up she didn't kill him immediately, instead she changed the dagger from her right hand to her left.
Once she had changed which side the other dagger was on she reached out with her right hand making the move look seductive, her hand closed around the hilt of the dagger that was in his chest, she knew how much pain that this was going to cause the Yautja and she believed that he deserved every drop.
She gave the fallen Yautja a seductive smile and looked at him from under her lashes; she pressed a small button that was on the hilt of the dagger, the button was a trigger that released a poison that she had created herself. She had tested it on Yautja blood and knew that it was effective, and then once she was sure that the poison had reached the wound she twisted that dagger making the Yautja under her to roar out in pure agony.
She kept up the torture for a couple of minutes longer before she raised the dagger in her left hand and released the same poison as before and slashed at his throat making sure to cut as deeply as possible.