Chapter XII
But when they were, every single male Yautja that were 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.
Lex was enjoying riding the Kiande Amedha too much, she felt it's feeling of frustration at not being able to get her off of its back, making her want to laugh in vindictive satisfaction. She wasn't about to let this Serpent get its way and dislodge her from its back. In fact she held onto the spear and moved her body to jump off.
As she jumped she thrust the spear in between its neck and skull killing it instantly, she then used the spear as a spring board since she hadn't changed it after she had cut it open. She spun through the air like a gymnast and landed on her feet facing the body of her newly dead enemy.
Scar and Range glanced at each other, not sure if they should approach her. Heck it was rare to find a female Ooman that could fight, but it was practically impossible to find one that could fight both species at the same time and not end up dead in a matter of minutes.
Lex approached the dead Kiande Amedha and pulled her multiple weapons cylinder out of its neck, she cleaned the blade before she made the other blade appear and cleaned that one as well not wanting it to rust, as this weapon was one of her pride and joys, it had saved her more time than she could count as its unassuming appearance made the scientist allow her to keep it with her.
She knew that there were two very surprised Yautja's behind her contemplating whether they should approach her silently between them. She sighed as she shook her head and removed the box from her back after she had re-sheathed the cylinder, she inputted the combination then did the finger print and blood test to get in, it took her a minute to find the damn weapon that had gotten her into this situation.
Once she had it in her hand she set it behind the box and closed it then re-attached it to her back, she picked up the Plasma Caster and stood up then she turned and faced the Yautja and moved forward.
Scar and Range tensed when they heard the Ooman female sigh, they tensed even more when she stood up and turned revealing that she had the Sivk'va-tai in her hands. The female moved closer to them until she was a few feet from Scar.
"I know that you can understand and speak my language." Lex said to the smaller Yautja. "Forgive my dead companions for taking the Plasma Casters, they took them in ignorance but that doesn't excuse that they took them." She paused so that she could watch their reaction. "Another and I didn't agree with their decision to take them, me because I knew what was going to happen and my companion because he knew that it was a bad idea." She finished.
Scar listened to the female Ooman explain why they had taken the weapons and was relieved when he heard that she and another hadn't wanted to take them but had been out voted by the rest of their group, her voice was pleasant to listen to and it held a hint of a purring growl.
#She and another didn't want to take the sivk'va-tai.# Scar said to Range, translating what the Ooman had said for him; Range nodded showing that he had heard. Scar then turned to the Ooman that held the weapon out to him, he slowly took it.
Lex bowed her head to the two male Yautja that stood in front of her before she edged around them and started to make her way down the corridor, she was stopped by the tallest Yautja, who grabbed her and pinned her arms to the side, turning her to face the Yautja that she had handed the weapon to.
#Come on Scar we can't let her walk away!# Range said. #She's one of the Ooman's that will be accepted by our people!#he continued once he saw that Scar was looking at him.
#Why are you so interested in her?# Scar asked forcing the possessiveness that he felt down at the fact that Range was touching the female Ooman.
Range looked at him like he was an idiot. #Look behind you.# he said and Scar did, when he saw the size of the Xenomorph he scowled as it was bigger than his first kill. #Not only that but she fought a Yautja and won. If that doesn't shout worthy to enter the Clan then I don't know what does.# he said in a deadpanned manner when Scar looked at him.
Scar sighed before he nodded his consent before he turned to the female Ooman that had tensed when Range had grabbed her. In fact she had turned her head and was glaring at the big Yautja with murderous intent.
Lex glared at the big Yautja hoping that he would get the idea and let her go so that she could be on her way to finding Sebastian and getting the hell out of dodge. But it seemed as if he was ignoring her by the fact that he wasn't flinching back, heck he hadn't even looked her way as he was too busy conversing with the other Yautja.
She scowled not liking the fact that she didn't understand a word that they were saying, so she tuned into the big Yautja's thought process to see if she could understand why he had grabbed her. Once she did that she tensed when she knew exactly what they were planning, knowing that she looked into the future hoping that it would be able to give her a way out of being stuck on a spaceship in space, that just so happened to have more males than females on it.
It seemed like Lady Tyche was ignoring her plight and wouldn't lend her a hand as she saw that they would come back for her once they replayed the footage that was made public after every Chiva.
Fuck! It seems that I can't get out of this unless I die which whilst I don't care if I die, I very much care if my body stays on Earth after I die. Lex thought glaring at the muscle bound idiot that held her, wishing that he would relax his hold ever so slightly so that she could escape.
Scar watched as the female continued glaring at Range who had noticed and had flinched at the look that he was receiving from the female, but then her eyes widened for a moment before they glazed over completely as if she had retreated into her mind to contemplate what she had discovered.
After a couple of minutes they cleared and she had a resigned air about herself, but she didn't let that distract her from her goal of trying to make Range turn into a quivering mess on the floor whilst he begged for forgiveness for whatever he had done by glaring alone. Scar felt a heavy sense of relief.
Amused at the goal that the female had set herself, yet he was relieved for a reason that escaped him, the feeling made him frown. Why do I feel relieved? It's not as if I want her to be my mate... Scar trailed off.
His father had said that every male Yautja had a six sense when it came to finding a mate, sometimes you had many that caught your eye and other times it lead you to one. But that one might be compatible with several others so it would be no easy feat to impress the one that you were after.
Range looked at Scar then glanced at the female Ooman that he was holding, he knew that Scar wasn't admitting something and he had a feeling that that something had to do with this here female Ooman. He just wished that Scar was capable of taming the wildness that the Ooman displayed, he was sure that the ship wouldn't survive the clash of others trying to tame her before they have proven their worth.
Lex saw that they were at a stalemate, the one in front of her was lost in thought and so was just standing there, the one that had a hold of her had loosed his grip slightly but not enough for her to escape, the only thing that seemed to be relatively mutual was the fact that both males were distracted and so didn't notice the Kiande Amedha that was standing on the ceiling right behind the one in front of her.
Now she had some options, 1º she could let the Serpent kill the one in front of her and use the shock of the surprise attack to run, 2º she could use the grip that the Yautja behind her had on her and kick the one in front of her out of the way before killing the thing, or 3º she could yell out and give the one in front of he a heads up. Decision, decision, decisions. Which one should she chose?
When she saw the Kiande Amedha preparing to strike she made her decision. She gave a small jumped and flung her legs forwards hitting the one in front of her hard in the stomach, making him fall to the ground and thus not getting killed by the Serpent, the one behind her loosened his grip enough for her to shrug it off and charge forward whilst withdrawing one of her daggers.
She used the one that she had kicked as a spring board of sorts, as he had sat up looking for all the world as if he was pissed, causing her to sail through the air right at the Xenomorph, it froze when it saw her flying towards it and tried to dodge too late as she had already hit him dead on and both went tumbling through the air before landing on the ground.
Lex made sure that it was the Xenomorph that took the full brunt of the impact whilst also making sure that it hit the ground first. After she had regained her wits she straddled the thing and took a firmer hold of the dagger and severed the spinal column of the Kiande Amedha.
Scar had been forcefully shaken from his thought by being kicked in the stomach and due to his inattentiveness he couldn't stop the fact that he fell to the floor, as he sat up he noticed that the female Ooman had gotten out of Ranges hold and was running right at him whilst she was withdrawing a dagger from somewhere.
His original thought was that she was going to kill him but that thought was destroyed the moment his form was used as a spring board, he turned and saw that a Kiande Amedha had just been about to strike at his unprotected back and the female Ooman had seen this and acted.
His eyes trailed her form as she flew through the air for a moment before colliding with the black serpent, causing them both to fall to the ground, the female made sure that the Xenomorph hit the ground first thus absorbing the brunt of the impact, he was sure he heard a few of the Xenomorph's bones break. Then the female raised her dagger and sliced through its spinal column, making sure that it wouldn't rise to bother anyone ever again.
Range was just standing there; he had noticed the Xenomorph moments after the female Ooman had gotten out of his shock loosened grip, he witnessed the surgical efficiency that she had displayed when she had attacked the black serpent, letting on to the fact that she had been fighting for survival long before he and Scar had even signed up for this Chiva on Earth.
In fact he was sure she had fought for survival since a very young age, as she displayed the years of experience that one only gets after having been on a great many hunts, she knew of the best way to get rid of an opponent if she didn't feel like holding back, he now understood that whilst Taro had fought with all he had against this Ooman, said Ooman had been holding back trying to gauge the minimum skill level that the three hunters had.
Lex rose up from where she had been straddling the dead Kiande Amedha that she had killed and then cleaned her blade before re-sheathing it.