Sorry for taking so long, been busy and the site wouldn't let me post this yesterday. Thanks for the reviews. This is going to be a fairly fast moving story, I'm going to make the character devolpement happen in tense parts of the story later on so I don't have to break the action to fit in that vital part, the characters that die before then, well may they rest in peace *laughs evilly*. Anyway, we're moving on, enjoy the chapter!

Not Alone

Sulaco, 11 pm;

The group had set up camp along with several trip wire turrets surrounding the village. "Alright, here's how we're going to do this." said Marcus. "We'll take watches, changing places every two hours." he said. "The others sleep while the ones on watch stay on."

Jacob grumbled but suddenly felt Will's hand on his shoulder and heard a knife drawn. "What the-"

"Don't move." said Will and stabbed something on Jacob's back, cutting his skin some. He held the knife up to Jacob, a huge brown spider impaled on the blade.

"What the Hell is that?!"

"That my friend is the infamous Camel Spider." said Tara. "A spider native to this area, it will feed on you while your asleep, leaving a large hallowed out area were is feeds, they eat the guts out of sleeping Camels, thus their name."

Jacob gulped. "There are more of those things?"

"Welcome to the war zone soldier." said Marcus with a smirk. "You and Tara can sleep first, myself, Will, and Alex will take the first watch."

Jacob walked off to bed, keeping his eye open for more of those spiders. Once he was out of ear shot, Will laughed. "He actually believed that?" he said, most of things they'd said were myths, though most new soldiers believed it.

"Well I wouldn't of known if I hadn't done research on a lot of stuff here." said Alex. "Its still funny."

"Well I'd best be going to get some rest." said Tara. "Buenas noches." she said and headed to bed.

Will stopped laughing and looked to Marcus. "I'll take two watches, I don't need much sleep." he said, he was one that was trained not to need a lot of sleep. He walked over to the edge of the safe zone. He watched out into the desert, sensing everything.

"Marcus, what's the deal with Will?" asked Alex. "Before we got here, he wasn't near this serious.

"His father, Billy Sole." said Marcus. "Was believed to have what you could call a Sixth Sense."

"You mean he was psychic?"

"As strange as it may seem, yes and I honestly believe it." said Marcus. "It saved his squad more times than I can tell you."

Lynx crept back towards the village. In watching the confrontation, he'd developed a wanting to hunt this group. He watched them closely, enjoying this hunt. The area was more frantic than he'd hunted in before. He saw three of them awake and listened closely.

"So he could sense things his squad mates couldn't?" asked Alex.

"Yes, danger." said Marcus. "And he passed that on to his son, our friend Will." he said. "And something out there has him spooked."

Will kept his eyes watching the sands closely, looking for any sigh of movement. He checked the ammo in his gun to make sure he wouldn't rapidly run out of rounds. He sensed something, watching them, something very dangerous.

Lynx crept up, cloaked. He snuck towards the more unguarded area of the base, unaware of the cold metal traps which his regular vision couldn't see. He stepped on the trip wire, triggering the turrets.

Will snapped around and ran towards the firing turrets. He saw something dodging the bullets and retreating. He took aim and fired three shots, hitting the being's lower back and leg. He saw a fluorescent green substances splash but the creature kept going, too fast for him to follow. Alex and Marcus came over. "What's going on?" asked Alex.

Will said nothing and headed over were he shot the thing, the others following him. He kneeled and touched the glowing green liquid that had splashed when he shot the thing. He smelled it on his finger tips and rubbed his fingers with it together, feeling it. "I think its blood."

"Seems to me you shot it." said Marcus.

"Yeah." said Will. "The question is what it is." he said. "Something that has glowing green blood. I've never seen any animal with that."

Lynx got out of hearing distances and examined the three wounds, one on his back and two on his upper leg. He took out a black case full of instruments. He put a dish like object with a small flame down, put some sand on is and mixed a blue liquid in with it after which the mixture burst into flames. While that was happening, he used other tools to remove the bullets from his wounds, snarling as he did so. Once the liquid and sand had stopped burning, forming a blue jelly-like substance, he used another device to place it on his wounds, letting out a pained roar as his did so.

"I haven't seen something with this type of blood ether and I've taken a lot of classes on animals, some have green blood but to my knowledge nothing has blood that glows without ultraviolet light." said Alex.

"I haven't heard of anything ether." said Will. "I got three shots with my Desert Eagle, direct hits and it didn't even slow it down."

"That gun can blow someone's head off their shoulders." said Marcus. "What could keep going after three shots from that?"

Alex remembered the stories they'd talked about on the plane and the events that had happened. "El Diablo que hace trofeos de los hombres, the Demon who makes trophies of men." he said.

"Well whatever it is, we hurt it." said Marcus. "And if it can bleed, it can die."

Lynx finished fixing up his wounds and gave an angry growl, feeling foolish for not checking the area for traps. He'd forgotten how cunning humans could be, he wouldn't make that mistake again. He put the medical kit away and stood up. He heard something behind him and quickly turned, firing a small spear head from a pistol like device and hitting a Camel Spider, impaling it. He went over and picked up the rather large spider. He looked it over, it reminded him of the Xenomorphs', or in Yautja terms Hard Meats, first stage, which humans called a Face Hugger. He took back the spear head and threw the small thing away. He turned and started back towards the human base…

As you can guess, that last little bit with Lynx and a Camel Spider has baring later on. Anyway, hope you liked the chapter, I'll try not to take as long next time.