From this point on POV will be extremely weird. My horrible writing kills me ;_; I'm more focused on the story than the writing XD

[His Warmth]

Within the large grey room, there were twelve motionless bodies on the operation tables. They all looked humanoid, yet so alien and different. It was clear that each one had been dissected alive. Their faces were contorted with terror. Multiple needled tubes were on their spines, legs, and arms.

One of them twitched. It was still alive.

Eva felt its painful orange gaze pierce right through her heart as it looked at her. The creature's scaly blue body had been badly mutilated. Its eyes were pleading desperately...

...as if it wanted to be free of its misery...

The woman knew what she had to do and slowly raised the gun towards the creature's head. Dread and repulsion filled her conscious. She just couldn't. What right did she have to end another's life?

The voice in her head told her otherwise: It had suffered enough.

Eva shakily pulled the trigger. Tears began to roll down her cheeks and her breath caught in her throat. From the corner of her eyes, she spotted a dark figure lying on a table behind a screen at the far end of the room. Each step the woman took towards it felt as heavy as lead. When she looked behind the screen, Eva's heart shattered. The gun slipped from her hand and dropped to the ground.

"No..." Her voice was full of anguish. "It can't be..."

Lying before the horrified woman was the dead body...of her mother. There was a bullet hole right in the middle of Clair's forehead. Eva felt the entire room begin to spin. She could barely see as the tears blurred her vision.

How did this happen? Why is this happening? Why had no one told her of this?

The grief stricken woman accidentally bumped into the side of a nearby counter causing a file to fall to the floor.

Project Genesis. The words on it seemed to be screaming at her. Eva picked it up and began to flip through the pages with trembling fingers. The more she read, the harder the truth hit her:

She was a hybrid.

According to the info, Eva had inherited a unique gene from her unknown alien-humanoid father. Although her genetic structure was identical to that of a human, her DNA contained a special gene, GX-1. It allowed her to take in and reshape the best traits of every other species without ever changing the overall genetic coding. These traits would permanently become a part of her.

Weyland-Yutani Corp. apparently wanted to experiment with her. The goal of Project Genesis was to develop the ultimate gene that can be injected into ordinary humans, granting them the ability of limitless evolution. Eva was the key in creating the ultimate species.

For years, hybrids of all kinds were engineered and born into the facility. When they reached adulthood, their bone marrow and blood would be harvested. Captive extraterrestrials also met the same fate...

Isaac's words suddenly came echoing into Eva's mind.

"...No one would know they even existed..."

It chilled the very depths of her soul.

Just as she resumed reading, another series of frightening realizations hit her: the serums she had been injected with came from the genetic material of these creatures. If the experiments proved successful, she would be harvested as well...

A yellowish crumpled paper caught her attention. The page was so badly damaged that it was nearly unreadable. She could only make out the fact there was one other person who shared half her genetic structure.

The very last discovery disturbed her as she studied the last page: the current projects were led by none other than Isaac, David...and Stephan.

Eva couldn't fathom why Stephan would partake in such a cruel research along with the two men. Especially David. Just thinking of him made her blood curdle.

Isaac had always given her the creeps, but David...well...he was a psychopath. Ever since she had known him, he had always loved to torture things. Back when they were small children, she once discovered him mutilating a stray kitten in an empty playground. He smiled his sick smile as he enjoyed the painful cries of the dying animal. When he was finished, he buried the corpse in the large sandbox, which was later discovered by other children. Eva couldn't forget their screams. Dismembered animal parts appeared all over the playground ever since that incident.

The woman shivered. It definitely explained the reason behind the other test subject's injuries.

Alarming questions popped in her mind.

Since when did David start working for the corporation? Did they all have something to do with her mother's death?

This was all too much to take in. She didn't want to believe it. She didn't want to believe any of it...

The file dropped from her cold hands and the pages scattered to the floor. As the tears continued to stream down her cheeks, a dark hand lightly touched her shoulder. She turned and found herself looking at her savior. Eva didn't even know what else to do except stare at him...

Shadow could see the sadness in the woman's eyes. He found himself feeling great sympathy for her. Whoever the dead human was, he knew she was important to her. He tenderly brushed Eva's cheek. As she wept, he gently pulled her close to him and wrapped his arms around her to hug her. She could feel the warmth of his body and the beat of his heart as he held her. The woman found it to be comforting.

The predator purred softly.

If the situation had been different, Eva would've felt uncomfortable being hugged by a stranger.

However, at the moment, she wanted to forget...

...the secrets...the lies...the truth...everything...

Eva closed her eyes. She wished nothing more than to stay in the endless warmth of his embrace...

On floor B-51, a man had been running for his life. For how long, he wasn't even sure anymore. The countless twist and turns of the maze-like halls and empty rooms made him panic even more. He knew that those black serpents or masked freaks would eventually catch him. Aiden hoped his brother hadn't met his end from one of these monsters. The man had already used most of his time and energy trying to find a way out. The blockades made it impossible to escape. His assault rifle was running low on ammo and his body was reaching its limits. He didn't know if he could continue evading those things any longer...

Blade had been trailing the human. He loved it when they run. It made the hunt more fun.

The predator snorted.

Too bad Shadow wasn't here. He was definitely missing out on the humans and xenomorphs.

Speaking of his brother, where had that idiot gone anyways?

Ever since the three hunters stepped foot in the facility, Blade and Thorn decided to hunt the humans. Shadow, however, had wandered off. He found the humans to be boring.

Though each predator became busy with their individual task, they hadn't forgotten their true purpose.

Blade knew they had to find answers, but unlike Thorn or Shadow, he wasn't in a hurry.

In the meantime, why not enjoy a little happy hunting?

The predator had caught up to the human. The man suddenly bumped into an invisible wall. There was a crackle and Blade materialized.

"Oh shit!" Aiden's eyes widened in fear. Before he could raise his rifle, the hunter whacked it out of his hands and grabbed him by the throat.

From behind the mask, Blade curled his mandibles into a grin. He was going to enjoy this.

To be continued...