Chapter XIII
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.
Lex turned to face the two Yautja's that were staring at her, she arched and eyebrow at the feelings that she felt coming from them. She shook her head and sighed, before she realised that this was perfect timing, she wasn't caught by one or the other, they were too far away to even grab her if she attempted to escape.
Lex smirked as she looked at the two Yautja. "You can thank me later." She said before she turned around and ran down the corridor behind her and took a left turn then a right, she had heard them try and pursue her but she had a head start and she was sure that they would have a hard time following her.
Range and Scar stared after the female for a moment before they started to follow her; she was surprisingly quick for such a small thing.
#I think that we underestimated her Scar.# Range said as they ran.
Scar grunted his agreement to focused on trying to catch up to the female that had run at the first opportunity, he didn't know how capable she was in defending herself but he didn't want to find out by finding her dead. Range on the other hand was thinking that he rather be on this female good side rather than her bad, as he was sure she could get creative with her revenge.
They eventually had to stop because they were getting nowhere in locating the female Ooman, instead they paused and took stock of the situation. One of them was blooded so he had no problem with returning to the ship, the other wasn't and he had to be blooded in order to return.
#Let's find a Kiande Amedha so that you can become Blooded, then we can try and locate the female Ooman.# Scar said after a minute, Range nodded in agreement. Both then proceeded to walk down the corridor, in search of one of the Serpents.
Lex watched from a shadow as they gave up and agreed to something, she checked the future to see what that agreement consisted of and saw that the unmarked wanted to become marked. Hmm... I can help with that. Lex thought, before she turned and ran down a corridor.
As she ran she formulated a plan, she knew exactly what she had to do to get the Kiande Amedha's attention. It was a risky plan but it would work.
A reconfiguration of the pyramid later and she had a small group of Serpents following her; she went slow enough for them to keep pursuing her but fast enough not to get caught. She looked in to the future to get the location of the two Yautja that she was doing this for; they now owed her a favour each.
Six minutes later she found them they were in a corridor examining a bit of Serpent slime, she skidded to a halt next to them. She then turned to the unmarked one. "You owe me for luring them here." She said as she gestured down the corridor, where the first Kiande Amedha had appeared.
Range and Scar where startled by the appearance of the female Ooman rounding the corner at a run. Scar was surprised at what the female had said, even as he dutifully translated so his friend would know what she was saying.
Range was about to ask why exactly he owed her and what had she lured to them, when he spotted what she was talking about. He grinned, he was about to become blooded. #Tell her that I like her and also tell her that she has my thanks.# Range said as he prepared himself for a fight.
Scar made a bit of audio that said what Range wanted to say out of the different voices that he had recorded over time. Then he played the audio to the female, she looked surprised at first but then she frowned.
Lex was surprised when she heard what the voices said but then frowned, the dead shouldn't be mocked by the living nor should recordings of their voices be used by others to thank another. Lex shook her head she knew that she couldn't expect Scar to speak her language even if he did understand it. Both turned and watched as the Unblooded Yautja fought the Kiande Amedha.
Range was extremely happy because he was about to be blooded, he and Scar had found an Ooman that could be accepted into the Clan and he was enjoying fighting the Kiande Amedha that the Ooman had lured their way. So that meant that he was one lucky and happy Yautja, and he liked the female Ooman to boot.
Lex waited until Range had killed one of the Serpents, before she jumped in, Scar tried to stop her but her only response was to flip him off. He wouldn't be able to stop her even if he tried.
Scar growled when the female Ooman jumped into the fight. Didn't she understand that this was Ranges Blooding fight? It was a while later when he had also jumped into the fight that he realised that the female had only jumped into the fight once Range had killed a Kiande Amedha.
Lex smirked when she felt the disgruntled emotions and realization that practically flowed off of the smaller Yautja; he obviously hadn't paid close attention to the fight. She dodged the tail strike that one of the Kiande Amedha tried, she lunged forward and slashed at it in repayment, opening a deep wound on its hide making it scream out its rage.
Range and Scar's heads snapped in the Ooman's direction to see what she had done to make it the Serpent scream, they saw the deep gash, an angry Kiande Amedha, a dagger dripping acidic blood and a smirking Ooman. In the end it wasn't difficult to guess what had happened. They exchanged looks asking each other if she would ever stop holding back, then they went back to their own fights.
Lex ignored her companions in favour of dispatching the pissed off Serpent, after that she took quick stock off everything, the group of Kiande Amedha that she had lured her were whittled down to two members which were the ones being fought by the two Yautja. She also took in the fact that they were winning, so that meant that she wasn't needed.
And in light of that she turned and ran down the corridor, not wanting to take the chance at being caught again, and besides she needed to find Sebastian even if she had to kill him because he had been impregnated, she wasn't about to let him die without first giving him a chance to live.
Once they had killed the last two Kiande Amedha they looked around to see if they could spot the female Ooman, but she was nowhere to be found.
#She's left again.# Range said still looking around to see if she was hiding somewhere, before giving up and walking over to one of his kills to mark himself.
#State the obvious, why don't you.# Scar muttered for some reason not liking the fact that the female Ooman wasn't somewhere that he could see, or the fact that he had no idea where she was.
After Range had marked himself he went about getting trophies from his kills, like Scar was now doing. #Should we get her trophies or leave them for her to deal with if she comes back this way?# Range asked as he looked at the Ooman kills.
Scar looked at the dead Serpents for a minute. #The code says that everyone must take a trophy from their kill, but she doesn't bear the mark of the Clan yet, so the Code doesn't apply to her yet.# he said.
#Well that's easily fixed, we just need to take her by surprise.# Range said.
#The mark must be taken willingly Range, we cannot mark her forcefully.# Scar said as he glared at his friend. #If we try to mark her without consent we will become dishonoured, as it's her honour that we are slighting.# he continued.
Range looked down after he had nodded, now that he went over the Code in his head he knew that what he had suggested wasn't the right course of action, no one was allowed to forcefully mark another much less if it was a female that was being marked.
Lex had been exploring the labyrinth, keeping an eye out for anything that wanted to kill her or even capture her, she knew that she would have to accept the mark but she was going to make them chase her down and explain what it meant, before she allowed them to get close to her with a finger from a Serpent, that was also dripping it's acidic blood.
She travelled through the corridors with little trouble always finding a room to hide in when the pyramid reconfigured itself, in one such instance she had to hide in a small alcove that was close to the ceiling in order to make sure that the two Predators didn't find her.
Once the Predators had left the room she jumped to the other alcove that had turned into a passageway, she used the crawl space to get to another room, it took her a full ten minutes to reach a room that wouldn't reconfigure but she didn't care as she was starting to feel a bit claustrophobic.
Lex sat propped against a wall for a minute letting the claustrophobia fade before she took out an energy bar and some water she sat and ate for a while, always keeping an eye on the map that was changing along with the pyramid, she glanced around the room making sure that the crawl spaces were too small for a Serpent or Yautja to move through.
She sighed and closed her eyes, hoping that she could get at least five minutes of rest before she had to keep moving, she made the air around her harden until it formed a sort of shield that wouldn't let anything through, after that she fell into a light sleep.
When she awoke she checked the map and saw that the pyramid was making small changes, before the door on the other side of the room opened to reveal a dark corridor, she moved to the entrance silently, she looked left then right, before she checked her map of the pyramid to decide which way to go, she saw that right was a good decision as it lead to another room that she could stay in whilst the pyramid reconfigured, whilst left was a risky one it didn't lead to a room just more corridors.
I never was one for the safe route. Lex thought to herself derisively as she turned and went left moving silently and quickly. She kept glancing around her, whilst also letting her empathy feel around picking up the threats that her eyes could not. She heard heavy footsteps up ahead, making her melt into the shadows; she watched as both Yautja paused not too far away from her, they had stopped to check their own map.
Lex hoped that she didn't appear on said map, as that would end the fun of making them chase her all over the place. She shifted her weight to her other foot as silently as she could, whilst also glancing around, her instincts didn't like the fact that she wasn't moving but there was nothing that she could do about that.
She looked at the Yautja that were discussing something, she didn't know what and she didn't really care as long as it didn't involve her getting marked or leading another group of Serpents their way. That wasn't happening again, not by a long shot.