Note: I do not own or have anything to do with The Predator franchise at all. The only reason why I have decided to write this fanfiction is for entertainment purposes and I will not be making any proft from it in any way, shape or form.

Chapter Twenty-Three

"We need to be on our toes!" Cohra said, snapping towards the yautja guards who had come back. He was brimming with anger from what had just happened. "This dead human general chose to use his men that had you all running off to leave us alone here as a diversion so that way he could try to take me out so he would be able to take my mate and our children with him to where the humans are running tests at the moment. If this man chose to do this in order to take her from me, there is no telling as to what is going to happen or what is to come from these human soldiers. We must be prepared!"

His frustration for what the general had done dripped from every word coming out of his mouth. It was one thing for a soldier to come at him face to face or even trying to find a sneaky way in order to get his hand on him. However, for someone to go to the lengths of using those in his unit to have the protection that was set in place for him to fall away and come at him from behind showed him how desperate the military that was in the area had become when it was towards the idea of getting his mate away from him and doing who knows what to them due to having been around him.

His eyes found the soldiers in agreement with what he had to say while all of them had blood on themselves from having gotten into a fight with the human soldiers that had been underneath the general a distance from the area. He shifted his focus over to one of the soldiers to see him stepping them forward before he registered him to be speaking to him in their language and not in the English tone.

"We have taken out the other human soldiers that were looking to only take us down and not drop their arms, Cohra." He said, gently. "There are no survivors left from their group and not another soldier in sight for the time being. I would suggest that we see about getting back to moving to your home before any more of their group tries to intervene again."

He was right. They needed to get going before any other humans with dark intentions came into the area where they were nestled. Cohra looked over to where his mate was to see their children curled up around her as she looked to him. He shifted his gaze towards the soldier he had been listening to and spoke to him, gently, in their language.

"Will you allow me a few moments to tend to my family before we get going?"

Cohra watched the soldier take note of how they were shaken up from what had happened and give him permission with a nod of his head. Nodding his head to them, he made his way over to where Marion was with Mariah and Autou and knelt down in front of her. He was met with his daughter rushing towards him and holding onto him. The way that her body was shivering in his arms spoke volumes to him as to how what happened had scared her. His focus shifted to where Marion was situated on the ground with Autou in her arms and could tell that she was under the same stress that their daughter was underneath. If Mariah was this upset, he knew that Marion was just as concerned for what had happened before them. The discovery had him using a hand to cup a side of her face while he spoke to her in her native language, switching from the one he was born with to the one she had been born with quite easily.

"I am sorry that you all had to witness that, my love." Cohra whispered. His voice shook from what had happened and the thought at something having almost happened to his mate and their children. He never wanted to think about someone getting that close to taking all the things he cared about from his life away from them. "It wasn't my intention for you all to be witness to that." He held eye contact with her while he felt her nod her head up and down in his hand towards his direction while her voice left her mouth, softly.

"You don't have to apologize for that, Cohra." Marion whispered. Her eyes showed sincerity towards him, revealing that she was being very honest with him for what she had to say to him. "There was nothing that could have been done to stop what had happened."

"I still didn't want Mariah or you to see that, Marion."

"I know, Cohra, but...he was going to end up killing you if you didn't do what you did and if I hadn't distracted him with the use of his gun that Mariah had got from the ground and brought over to me."

Her statement to him had him looking to Mariah in surprised at what she had done. The discovery led him to speak to her with awe being in his tone towards her.

"You got mama the gun, Mariah?"

"Yes, papa." Mariah replied, nodding her head to him. "Mama asked me to get the gun for her with her eyes as to not alert the general what she was going to do, and I did it as quickly and quietly as I could manage to do."

"You were very good since I didn't even hear you making a sound."

"Thank you, papa. I wanted to do a good job at helping mama and keeping my baby brother safe from that evil man."

"You will become a great protector when you get older, and a warrior that will be a force to be reckoned with."

"Will you teach me more, papa?"

"I promise to do that. Right now though, we need to get mama and Autou home for them to rest and then we can see about getting started on your training soon enough. Is that okay?"

The sight of his little girl quickly nodding her head up and down with a smile on her face gave him enough motivation for his arms to move to where they could guide themselves underneath where Marion was situated with their son in her arms and rise himself up from the ground in a standing position with his daughter at his side. He turned towards the soldiers who were ready and started to walk down the aisle as they moved alongside him, being more vigilant since it seemed that the human soldiers were planning to go to great lengths in order to remove his mate and children from him.

They can try as much as they want to, but they are never going to take my daughter or my son from me while I still live and breath. Any other soldier arrives at my home to come at me will wish that he hadn't made that decision.

Cohra silently made the decision that he would go after all human soldiers that chose to come after his family. Although he didn't wish to attack any humans in general, he had reserved a spot for those that were soldiers as being at the top of his list of targets when it came to his family being threatened by them. He keep his vow to himself while he moved with the guards into the jungle with his family in his presence, making their way back to the place they called home.