Chapter XI

Scar growled at that after he had turned the communication line off, lost in possessive thoughts about a certain dark skinned Ooman, until the sound of rolling thunder assaulted his hearing.

Lex and Sebastian walked through the maze of corridors cautiously, knowing that around any corner there could be a Predator or a Serpent, the moved quickly both were prepared for anything, Sebastian was frightened, but Lex she had a cool head not allowing the fright to take hold taking comfort in the fact that if she were to die it would be on her terms.

"How do you say scared shitless in Italian?" Lex asked quietly, glancing at Sebastian for a moment.

"You know there was a point when I really liked you." He replied just as quietly. "But it's Spaventato a morte." He continued after a while.

Lex spotted a Kiande Amedha in front of them, blocking the corridor. "Sebastian I think we should double back." She said lowly, Sebastian looked to where Lex was and saw why she had suggested that.

"Yeah I think that is a good idea." He said lowly, before both turned and ran the other way, all the while Lex hated herself and the fact that she had to hide just to keep her freedom, she hated the Cyrel Institute more and more as the seconds ticked by.

They reached a chasm that spanned the corridor, it was over 15ft wide; when they saw the chasm they turned back to the corridor and saw the shadow of the Serpent.

"We're gonna have to jump it." Sebastian said, sounding like he wanted to jump the chasm about as much as facing the Serpent. Lex glanced as her companion and nodded, not liking the fact that there was no other way.

Both took a step back to get a running start, they tried to stay side by side but since Sebastian was slightly taller than Lex and she had to hide her capabilities, he landed first where he landed the bricks gave way due to the force of the impact, when Lex lands the floor gives way making her fall into the chasm, Sebastian grabbed her hand.

"Hang on!" he yelled as he pulled trying to get her on to solid ground. "Hang on!" Sebastian yelled again, as he pulled her up.

"It's not like I have anything better to do than hold onto your hand!" Lex replied hotly as she glanced down at the chasm, not even her eyesight could pierce the darkness, the chasm was just that deep, she looked back at Sebastian and saw a Kiande Amedha unfolding itself behind the Mexican, her eyes widen.

Sebastian looked at her when he saw her eyes widen. "What?" he asked before he was pulled upwards, Lex wasn't given enough time to mourn the loss of the Mexican; she had liked him as a brother.

"Sebastian!" she yelled before he disappeared.

When Sebastian disappeared from sight she hauled herself up onto the floor of the corridor and to her feet, she crouched slightly and glanced around, checking to see if there were any more Kiande Amedha that were lurking about, when she was sure that there were none she began to move.

The sound of rolling thunder echoed in the distance, making her run to find a room that she was sure she would be alone in, eventually she found one in which she was trapped, she spread out her empathy checking that there was nothing around her. Once she was sure that she was truly alone she put her bag down and began to rifle through it until she found the box that she always carried with her.

She extracted the box from the bag making sure not to damage the Plasma caster in any way. She set it on the ground and put in the combination that would allow her to get to second set of security, the next step was a fingerprint and blood test after that the box was open, the box was the only entrance to a pocket dimension that she had created to stash her weapons, clothes, and anything else that she wanted or needed.

She reached in and pulled out a black leather like garment, after that she stripped of her clothes until all that was left on her were her panties, she had made the chest piece a bit like a bra. She put on the leather like full body garment, years ago she had stumbled across some Kiande Amedha blood which she studied and incorporated protection from it into her suit.

After she was redressed she pulled out the high heeled boots that she had to go with the suite, once fully covered she reached into the pocket dimension again and started to pull out weapons and place them in their sheaths that were hidden all over her, she looked between the box and the back pack, the box was small enough that it could be confused as a medicine container but the backpack was bulky and wouldn't do anything but hinder her in a fight.

So she unpacked the bag and placed what was inside in the pocket dimension including the Plasma caster. I really need to go through this box to know what the Hell is in it. Lex thought as her hand hit yet another object that she had no idea what its purpose was.

After packing her stuff away she activated the suite, making it heat up and return her body temperature back to normal levels, she looked at the holographic computer screen that hovered about an inch above her arm, she then released the scanners. The scanners where tiny flying robots that she had invented when she had been bored out of her mind whilst she was healing from another 'meeting' with Cyrel Institute lackeys, they went through the whole complex and scanned the place that she was in so that she knew the layout.

She activated them once they were set up, some were outside the pyramid whist the others flew around the corridors constantly scanning, doing sweeps to keep track of everything that moved the great thing about them was that they were too small for anything to see, and they had no heat signature so they were invisible to the Yautja, which was a huge bonus, she knew where they were but they had no idea where she was. Just how she liked it.

The whole process took around five minutes, including getting dressed and repacking her pocket dimension box. So she hopped onto a raised piece of stone and started to put up her hair in a bun, so that when she fought it wouldn't go into her face. She sat back and ate an energy bar that was one she had created as the normal ones just didn't have the amount of calories that she needed and drank some water, whilst relaxing a bit and kept an ear out for any Kiande Amedha or Yautja.

She got up just before her wrist computer beeped signalling the end of her five minute break after getting changed; she looked down and reset the alarm making it go off every ten minutes. She looked up at the sound of stone moving and saw that a new passage had opened up. She moved forward silently even if she did wear heels and looked out at the passage to check that there were no enemies to take down.

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Scar moved through the corridors trying to track the female Ooman with little success. It's like she just vanished, he had followed the footsteps of the male but they ended after he had made the leap across the chasm, meaning that he was captured by the Kiande Amedha, the thing that annoyed him was that he couldn't tell if the female had been captured as well.

#Where are you Scar?# Range asked him.

#Why do you want to know?# Scar asked, not answering the question.

#I know that you're trying to track the female Ooman and I want to help you.# Range said. #Heck if only to see how she would fare against a Kiande Amedha!# Range said.

Scar sighed and told Range his location; he only had to wait for three minutes before Range rounded the corner and stopped in front of him. They both nodded at each other in greeting as they looked around the passageway.

#She definitely isn't that way.# Range said as he gestured to the way he had come, Scar looked at the corridor and turned back the way that he had come and saw that there were three possible options, he dismissed the middle one as he had come from that direction, so he studied each of the others.

#I think that we should go right.# Scar said as he turned and started to walk down the chosen passageway, with Range following him.

#I never thought that we would ever be trying to track down an Ooman during our Chiva. Much less that said Ooman has a Sivk'va-tai.# Range said after a while.

#Nor did I Range.# Scar said, Range nodded his agreement.

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Lex stalked down the passageway, trying to stay in the shadows as much as possible. She hadn't encountered a single being and that was fine with froze when she heard a hiss, she looked up to the wall opposite of her and saw a Kiande Amedha trying to sneak up on her. Which it failed in doing, she noted that this one was a fully grown warrior drone, at that she grinned if she killed this Serpent than that meant that she had out done Scar as his first kill had been a lot smaller than this one.

Lex crouched down whilst she withdrew a multiple weapon cylinder from its sheath, for this she had gotten the idea from the movie After Earth years ago when she had first seen it, she extended it into the form of a double ended spear and got into position, the Serpent seemed to have cottoned onto the fact that stealth had failed him, so he hissed louder than he had last time.

A minute of silent stare down later the Kiande Amedha leaped at her intending to pin her as quickly as possible, but she dodged to the right as she moved she brought her spear up and slashed at the thing creating a nice long gash on its hide.

She faced the Serpent with a smirk as it cried out its pain. It leaped at her again this time faster, its blood was dripping from the wound that she had inflicted on it, she slide under it whist she thrust the spear up after retracting one end of it, cutting open its hide enough to allow the Kiande Amedha's internal organs to hang out a bit.

Lex frowned when she noticed that she hadn't done enough damage to kill it, she would have to fix that ASAP. She launched herself onto its back as if the Kiande Amedha was a bull at a rodeo; she rode the Serpent not letting it buck her off no matter how hard it tried.

This was the scene that Scar and Range happened upon, both stared at the Ooman ridding the Kiande Amedha like she had done the act thousands of times before; she moved her body in sync with the movements the body under her made.

#Now that's something that I'm sure the Elders and Ancients have never seen before.# Range said in shook at the sight of an Ooman riding a Kiande Amedha.

Scar made a noise of agreement but he felt the rush of jealousy like the other times before when the female Ooman had been touched by the males of her race. He still didn't know why he felt like he did, even if he knew that Oomans were accepted by Yautja, more times than not it was the male counterpart that was accepted, it was extremely rare that a female Ooman was accepted and could fight like this female could.

But when they were accepted, every single male Yautja that was unmated would try and prove to the female Ooman that they were worthy of her attention, sometimes it ended with all of the males fighting each other and the best fighter was the one that mated with said Ooman.