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

Chapter Twenty-Four

Marion was on edge during the remaining time that Cohra was carrying her through the jungle, watching out for any sign of danger that might be in the area, waiting to lunge out of the shadows and attack her family. It was only when she saw their home that she started to relax from knowing that they were so close to going inside of it to rest from the long and exhausting hike that had left several human soldiers dead due to the order of their general to cause a diversion so he could try to take out her husband although he wasn't prepared for her using a tactic of her own to keep him busy while Cohra had his strength together.

What she had done was brutal to the eyes of many humans like herself since she had used her position to keep the general occupied only to have him slaughtered like an animal that had been brought to a butcher to be sliced up. Marion wasn't especially proud of what she had done, but she did it in the name of her family and planned to do it again in order to make sure that they were protected first above everything else. She had found herself the place she belonged and she didn't want anything to jeopardize that.

Getting to the front door of the house, she watched several guards rush inside and investigate the surroundings, wishing to make sure that there wasn't any soldiers hiding out in the house as part of a last attempt to take them all down right there. She moved her eyes down to where Autou was resting in her arms while he made some soft growl like sounds. A smile danced across her face from seeing how he was behaving like he was shortly before a giggle left her mouth. Her eyes looked back to Cohra and found him to be focusing on his son, as well as him to be chuckling softly at having witness how his son was being. She turned her focus to her home to see the guards come out and give the sign that everything was safe for them to enter.

"Thank you for escorting us here." Marion said, speaking to the soldiers and nodding her head out of respect. "I appreciate everything that you all have done for my family today."

She found them all nodding their heads to her before they proceeded heading back to the mother ship once they had turned their cloaking devices back on. With them gone, Marion relaxed a little more in the arms of her husband as he carried her inside and up a set of stairs to their room with Mariah already running ahead of them. She noticed her daughter to already having her bed covers turned down for her so Cohra could just slip her inside of them. The sight had her eyes to tear up with happiness at how wonderful a little girl she had for a daughter in Mariah.

Working to keep from being a blubbering mess, she found Cohra easing her into the bed so she could lie down on it before easing their son out of her arms to rest in his baby bed that was next to her side. She found Mariah climbing into the bed to sit in the middle of it. Keeping her focus on her, she looked down at her while her innocent, child-like voice came out to her with genuine curiosity dripping from the words slipping out of her lips.

"Mama?" She asked.

"Yes, Mariah?"

"What is going to happen now that we are home and we are safe?"

"Well...I believe the best thing that we can do going forward from this point is just to live our lives as if everything is normal and not worry about the soldiers that had tried to come after us."

"Will there be more, mama?"

"I am afraid so, Mariah." She brushed her hair away from her eyes while she looked to her. Marion couldn't lie to her little girl about the possibility of things that were to come. "There will be more to come once other governments realize that papa's kind are spreading out in different parts of the world-"

"and papa will make sure to deal with them before things get violent if at all possible."

Marion looked towards Cohra at the sound of his voice to find him sitting on the other side of Mariah and herself. She looked over to him as he brushed her hair from his side of her face while he spoke to her as gently as he could manage.

"I won't let anything happen to you, Mariah."

"And I won't let anything happen to you, mama, or Autou. I want to be a warrior just like you some day."

"And you will."

Marion couldn't help but smile more at the sound of a light chuckle appearing in his voice towards her. She looked to him from where she was sitting while Mariah relaxed more into her from where her body was resting and her ears listened to his soothing voice.

"You will be a powerful warrior that will make the humans who are wanting to destroy us quiver in fear, and make a yautja a wonderful wife."

"Papa!"

The visible disgust at the idea of her being with a boy at her young age had Marion and Cohra to laugh out a little bit before relaxing into the moment with themselves. The future ahead for them was uncertain, but, there was one thing that was certain: Things were going to be shakened up with the help of Cohra and her little warrior-in-training, Mariah at his side. Nothing was going to be the same from that point going forward.

(I am planning to see about starting a new Predator Fanfiction that is going to be focused on Mariah when she has become an adult as a continuation of this saga with Cohra and Marion)