(Warning: Cannibalism alert and may not be the faint of heart.)

Chapter 8

(3rd pov)

Midnight at the Brazil jungle, two Weyland industries mercenaries wander the jungle guns at the ready as they had their flashlights surround their area.

"I don't see why we have a kid at this kind of jungle. In the night of all things!" one mercenary grumbled.

"Shut up. That "kid" is a hybrid of those xenomorphs we heard about. Bishop is paying us double to have him alive." The second mercenary frowned.

"But still in the night?"

"Shut up..."

They walked further in the jungle unaware that they were being watched. Turns out the target they looking for was watching them with hunger for flesh and blood as he continued go stalk them. That target...was Dante.

They split up in hoping to find Dante but this gave Dante to kill them one by one...

"Time for the hunter become the hunted..." He growled with hunger.

He follows the second mercenary and decided to make a sound with a tree branch to get the mercenary paranoid.

"W-What was that?" The mercenary said in fear.

Dante jumps to the next tree near the mercenary as his tail coils on a treebranch so he can hang upside down behind the unsuspecting mercenary and grabs his neck. The mercenary screams in a panic as Dante's inner mouth impaled the mercenary's skull and starts devouring the mercenary's severed head.

"Cody!? I'm coming, man!" The second mercenary shouted.

Dante drops the body of the missing head and goes on top of treebranch. The mercenary rushes to check his comrade only find his comrade dead body.

"God...WHERE ARE YOU, YOU SICK FUCK?! COME OUT AND FIGHT ME!" The mercenary shouted in rage.

Dante jumps in front of the mercenary, disarms him and chomped off his fingers from his right hand. The mercenary screams in agony as Dante chomps on another set of fingers on the left hand. Dante's hands impale the mercenary's body and ripped him in half as guts fall on the ground. He grabs a heart and starts eating it.

"Mmm...delicious." He grinned.

Sounds of flesh being devoured was heard for the rest of the night...

(Rachael's pov)

I wake up the next morning and I couldn't find Dante in the hive. However Dante comes back...covered in blood. He smells of dead flesh...

"Ugh...What the hell did you eat?" I said as I covered my nose.

"...Humans...humans who worked for the company..."

I felt like throwing up...this was sickening.

"You did what!? The hell made you do that?!" Jim asked with shock in his tone.

"My craving for meat had driven me to the point to kill someone. Besides...the queen alerted me that they had to be dispose of."

Damn...

"You guys need to prepare yourself. Queen's orders. I have to train with Shadow to become the hive's warrrior." He said as he walked past me.

"You heard him. Best we prepare ourselves from the enemies that may try to attack the hive." Jim mumbled.

2 hours later. Me and Mizuki were making some weapons from wood and stone when Dante dropped two rifles in front of me. Thankfully he doesn't smell anymore.

"Stole these from the mercenaries. These things are energy weapons so you don't have to have to reload them. Just be sure you don't use it too much cause it has a nasty overheat that can give a nasty burn. Tested them myself." He said as he walked away.

Well that's a start...

(Jim's pov)

I was scavenging some weapons from the company's armory with Nightblade. I took a laser pistol from a desk and she looked at it curiously.

"What is that?" She asked me,

"It's a gun. Never seen one?"

"No."

"It's a weapon we use to defend ourselves whenever we are in danger."

I started showing her how to use a gun and as I fired the gun and hit the wall. Nightblade screeched in fear.

"You alright?" I asked her with concern in my voice.

"Yeah...that was really loud."

Yeah. I can't blame her. I had my dealings with soldiers from the war and everytime someone fires a gun at me it's always a fight or flight situation.

"Sorry." I said as I holster the pistol in my pocket.

I took some stun batons and some grenades from a nearby locker as Nightblade wandered of somewhere. I was going to ask where she was going when I hear the most smallest shriek I have ever heard. I rushed to check it out and saw chestburster out of a scientist's chest and starts running around as if it were looking for food.

Nightblade gently picks it up and stopped screeching and suddenly purred as if she was the mother.

"It's a boy." Nightblade muttered.

"We should bring him to safety to the hive." I suggested.

Nightblade nods and we walked back to the hive.

(Dante's pov)

Training with Shadow was hard...but I suppose this is the way of the warrior. I was pinned to the ground by Shadow when we were sparring and I couldn't help but chuckle.

"Guess I need to train harder."

"You're lucky you weren't fighting my father otherwise you would get hurt real bad."

No kidding. Praetorians are merciless and could kill if necessary.

She got me off the ground and I see Jim with Nightblade cradling something.

"I sense a child..." Shadow said quietly.

As Jim and Nightblade got closer, I see a chestburster on Nightblade's arms.

"Jim...where did you found the chestburster?" I asked him.

"Out of a scientist's body. Poor guy was probably hungry too cause he was running probably looking for food. We're to bring him to hive so he get some food and keep him safe."

"Good idea." I nod.

They walked to the hive and I looked at Shadow with curiousity.

"A chestburster? We didn't see a facehugger wander the facility."

"The facehugger are tricky creatures and could get an unsuspecting host by an instant."

"I see..."

It's true cause I've seen facehugger in video games and they really are sneaky so that pretty much proved Shadow's point.

"Let's hope the little one enjoys his new life..." I whispered.