Chapter 6

(Rachael's pov)

8:10 Am

Jim was complaining to Dante about being hit by a pebble by Dante and you can see the look of disinterest on Dante's face that says "are you done yet?" He mostly has that expression when he wakes up in mornings. His tailblade goes up a bit like he's ready to strike.

"Wait. hold on, kid. I was joking about the whole love thing last night. Really I was!" Jim started to panic a bit.

Dante uses his tailblade not at Jim but at a snake above Jim. Dante pulls the snake off the tree with his tailblade and shook his head.

"I don't like jokes. So keep the jokes to a minimum." He said with no emotion.

Dante walked to Shadow and Jim looked at me confused.

"What's wrong with my jokes?" He asked.

"He isn't always laughing about jokes and mostly takes them serious. So yeah...keep it to a minimum. He might get mad." I warned him.

I went to check on Mizuki when one of the xenomorphs was sleeping next to Mizuki. I was shocked to see a xenomorph sleeping with Mizuki.

"Rachael. We got to go." I heard Dante say.

"Uh..."

Dante noticed Mizuki sleeping with the xenomorph and groans. He closes his eyes and the xenomorph woke up with a groan which woke up Mizuki.

"Huh...? It's morning already?" Mizuki asked rather tired.

"Yes, sis. Now let's go. We have to find a place away from the company."

"Sure, sis..."

Mizuki went back to sleep as the xenomorph carried Mizuki. Which was surprisingly nice of it to do that.

"Uh...thanks?" I said rather confused.

"You welcome." I heard it say in my mind.

It sounded like a 17 year old teenager boy when he talked to me in my mind. I thought he was grown adult but I guess he's getting into adulthood.

We walked further to the jungle when Jim started having a conversation with Dante.

"Why do you hate jokes so much, Dante?" Jim asked.

"I had an incident where a friend told me that another friend of mine was having a heart attack. I check my friend and see if he was okay. I thought he died when all of a sudden...it was a prank. That's when I lost my shit...I was no longer friends with them after that little prank or joke as they call it. They were sorry but I would not accept their apology. Never. That shit was too far and if something were to happen to them, I would not help them cause they could be joking. I never saw their faces again, got rid of them from contact lists from both email and phone and I sure as fuck never saw them in school. So yeah...after that I took jokes seriously and would rarely laugh about it." He growled.

Jim was going to say something else but I shook my head at him to tell him "don't push your luck.".

We got a near by lake and started washing our faces with the water when all of a sudden Shadow has a frog on his hand. A poison arrow dart frog. She was going to eat it when Dante slapped the frog out of her hand.

"Don't eat that. It's poisonous. It's not good for you." Dante warned her.

Dante gives Shadow a fish from the water and she starts eating the fish. The frog hopped away and I sat down on the ground to look at the water.

Mizuki woke up from the sound of a tree branch snap. She looked around a bit and was paranoid.

"Did you guys hear that?" Mizuki said with a bit of fear.

"Yeah. I heard." Dante said

As the sound got closer, we see a xenomorph...a praetorian xenomorph.

"Shit..." Jim mumbled.

(Dante's pov)

"Father..." Shadow said with fear.

"Shadow...why are you with these humans with your brothers and sister?" He growled.

"Please, father. These humans saved me from those bad humans." Shadow said.

The praetorian growls got louder making Jim and Rachael get scared.

"Then who is this? He doesn't look human." He said as he looked at me curiously.

"The bad humans did this to him. Don't hurt him...he's done nothing bad to me."

The praetorian growl starts getting quiet as he starts examining me.

"Can you hear me?" He asked me.

"Yes, sir." I nodded.

"What is your name?"

"Dante." I said.

"I am Bloodfang. Shadow's father. Royal guard of my hive." He said with authority.

He gets close to me as his tailblade is pointed at me.

"And if anything were to happen to my sons and daughters, it will be your head." Bloodfang threatens me.

"I understand." I nod.

He lowers his tailblade and looks at Shadow.

"You best be getting home. Danger approaches..." He warned her.

Bloodfang leaves and Shadow looks at me worried.

"Danger?" I asked her.

"...two types of dangers...Bad bloods and another hive that threatens my home." She said with worry.

"You think you're father would like it if we go to your home?" I asked her.

"Doubt that. But it's not his rules to say so. My mother makes the orders and her words are law in my home. After all she is the queen."

Wow...that was unexpected. Her mother is the queen of the xenomorphs. What a twist, eh?

(A/N: Dammmmnn, guys. Some of my friends from the sci-fi club I used to be in at high school read this story and emailed me from my yahoo that they wanted to me to do a predator self-insert story. So I'm like "Sure. why not?" They also wanted to see more chapters of the other alien/predator stories as well. I'll try but the heat is ridiculous it sometimes hard to work and focus. And I can ensure you the guys from the sci-fi club are my friends and would not force me to do the stories so they know I take my time on these kind of work. Trust me. Anyway, hope you like this story. More to come in the process.)