Author's Note: Thanks for sticking around. Many of you, it seems, think that because I'm reaching the end of the movie, it means the fic will be over soon. Not necessarily, my friends, not necessarily. Before I continue, I want to make something clear about the romance that's supposed to be happening. I don't believe in love at first sight, so the love is growing gradually. Lex and Scar have mutual respect for each other, the foundations of a strong relationship. Scar has taken it a bit further with a puppy crush, while Lex harbors a subconscious one. Meaning if the two of them separated right at the beginning of this chapter, without facing the queen, they'd still think of each other now and again, but they'd move on eventually. For Scar, she'd be his first love, replaced by the next set of pretty legs until he found someone he could really connect with. Lex, being more mature, would get over him, meet a guy, have a family, but Scar would remain her biggest 'What if?' See what I mean? The romance will get deeper as I continue and I will continue. (Apologies for the lengthy note)
Warning: The big clash, more implied Lex/Scar, cliffhanger (Dun dun DUN!).
Disclaimer: AVP does not belong to me, and it won't ever be mine, unless I get some big help.

Haven

Lex landed hard. For a dizzying moment she couldn't focus, the ground beneath her started to quake, and the woman pulled her senses together quick enough to get to her feet. Scar had landed not too far from her, he too jumped up. Sebastian was further away seemingly unconscious, Lex started to run, Scar right behind her scooping up the Italian as he passed.

The power of the bomb was awe striking, but they didn't have time to marvel at it, to dally was to die as the ice broke underneath them. A fissure was cracking only meters ahead, the spot where the explosive's range ended. Lex ran as hard as she could, but in her heart she knew it was too far. She risked a glance back at Scar; the Predator was gaining and held Sebastian by his coat like a rag doll.

Suddenly Scar thrust his arms forward, throwing Sebastian safely across the divide, and before Lex knew it, he had grabbed her as well, tossing her over too. She landed with a yelp and slid across the snow a good ten feet from the ledge. Scar was still five feet from the other side. It went abruptly, all of it, the whole ground.

"Scar!" Lex shouted as he disappeared out of view. For a moment her heart stopped, tears welled up in her eyes, and her ears rang with the sound of Scar's roar, for a moment she thought she lost him.

But like a miracle, clawed hands clasped the ledge; the human stared in complete shock as Scar scrambled to climb up. She rose to help him, but as she approached the young hunter was able to lift himself onto the safety of solid ice.

"Scar!" She cried, she reached out as if to hug him, but stopped herself. The two of them looked at each other for a moment before Lex broke out into a fit of nervous laughter. She'd survived. Against all odds she'd survived, it felt good to be alive. Lex turned to the void and shouted down to the burning and dead aliens "Yeah! And you deserve every bit of it you mother fuckers!" She raised her arm and extended her middle finger to the ghosts that haunted her. "Yeah! I could do this again!" She continued like this, using every colorful metaphor she could think of to announce her victory

Beside her, Scar cocked his head and trilled a sound she had come to recognize as Predator laughter. He joined the fun, swearing in his own language (at least she assumed he was swearing), then he copied the hand gesture and proudly roared, "Uhg'lie Mothur Fukkerz!" mimicking the phrase she had used when she shot the aliens beneath the ice.

Lex laughed harder, but eventually began to tire and calm. She still smiled, but that too faded into an uncomfortable silence as wind became the only sound. Scar turned back to her, and for a moment only watched, as if waiting for her to give some sort of signal. She didn't know what to do. Suddenly she recalled their third party member, and started to turn away, "Better find Sebastian before he freezes…" she muttered.

Scar caught her arm. "Lhrueckz."

She faced him again, and Scar lifted a hand to his helmet, tugging loose two thick tubes which connected it to his face. With his other hand he slowly pulled the mask away. Lex froze as the hidden countenance was revealed.

His head was shaped almost like a human's, but sprouted outward, more like a short muzzle. His skin was a pale, fleshy yellow except around his eyes, which were sunken in and black. Texture-wise it looked reptilian, and shown with what was probably sweat from their long fight. Mandibles flexed around his set of dagger-like teeth and adorned on his brow was the fresh mark of the warrior.

If she hadn't gotten to know him…if she had run into Scar on any other occasion and viewed his face, she would have turned and run away screaming. She might have gasped a bit at seeing him, but beyond Scar's nightmarish features, she looked into his eyes. They were a muddy amber color, filled with emotion and intelligence, intelligence beyond that of mankind.

But mostly she saw pride and affection. Scar purred, the same noise she'd grown accustomed to in the darkness, it reassured her. The hunter took a careful step closer to her, and reached to brush his finger gently against the mark on her cheek. Lex's heart started skipping beats, she felt compelled to do the same. She reached up, Scar leaned down to meet her and she ran her fingers delicately over the mark.

Behind the Predator came the sound of footsteps, over Scar's shoulder Lex saw Sebastian approaching. He'd landed badly on his injured leg, so he was limping, but he was alive. She called to him. Scar turned snarling. The Italian jumped, both at Scar's ferocity and his visage, but the hunter made no move to harm him. Lex might have laughed if-

Boom!

From their left, the ice exploded, a black form pushed its way to the surface. Lex glanced at Scar; the young Predator gave a surprised yelp, and wore an expression on his face that distinctly read "Oh FUCK!"

"Run!" she told Sebastian, but too late. The giant serpent attacked, targeting the weakest person first. Her tail knocked him backwards, Lex watched him fly into a building, she prayed Sebastian survived his landing, and promised that as soon as this was over she'd find him.

The alien turned toward her next, probably thinking she'd be as easy to defeat, Lex dived and rolled under the beast, the queen, she thought, that's why their were so many of them. Without hesitating she jabbed her spear into the queen's abdomen, acid fell around her, but Lex tossed away from it before it dripped onto her.

Scar roared, leaping above the queen's head and striking her through the temples, the human only had a moment to marvel at Scar's ability to jump like that before she found herself needing to duck to avoid the queen's tail. Scar was not quick enough; the tail pieced his side and threw him away from the battle.

The queen turned her attention back to Lex fully and the woman knew that there was no way she could keep this up, her energy was wearing down, but the alien appeared ready to continue for hours. Lex threw her spear just as the queen snapped at her with double jaws, the resulting shriek made Lex flinch; again she dove to avoid the tail. Weaponless all she could think to do now was run. While the queen was busy trying to get the spear out of her mouth Lex ran for the nearest hiding place, hoping that the queen would be stalled long enough. Ducking behind some rubble she tried to think of a plan.

She heard the alien roar again, and felt the ground rumble as large feet headed her way. Panicking Lex glanced around for anything that could be used as a weapon or…

Her eyes landed on the water tower. Possibilities darted in her head. If she could lure the queen in that direction…Lex risked a glance from her hiding place to the large black alien; there was a dangling chain hung around her… Perhaps Lex could fasten it to the water tower and drop her into the ocean. She remembered what she'd said to Miller, what seemed like years ago. We could ditch, but the temperature of the water would kill us in three minutes. She looked back at the tower. It was quite a distance away, but she thought she could make it.

If only she had.

As she ran towards the tower, the queen saw her, and began to chase, catching up in only moments. The monster was almost on her; Lex screamed knowing for sure that she was going to die. A blast sounded, the queen shrieked the human looked backwards to see what had happened.

Scar was back, his shoulder cannon mounted and firing. No longer interested in the smaller hunter, the queen turned her attention on the bigger threat. Lex picked up a harpoon off the ground and hurled it at the alien as she tried to impale Scar with her tail again. Scar leapt into the air and twisted as he fired his gun directly into the queen's skull, she howled with pain and rage.

Scar landed perfectly on his feet in front of Lex, but his knee buckled under him and he dropped onto the ground. The queen was still distracted by the harpoon which Lex noticed had hit her in the thigh, Scar rose to his feet again, and pulled out more weapons, a huge dagger and shuriken. The Predator made a rumbling sound as if telling her to stand, Lex complied and Scar pushed the dagger toward her. She stared at it a moment before Scar ordered "Tay'k it."

Just as her hands clasped around the blade Scar roared, as the queen's tail hit him. He was knocked into Lex and they both went flying. They landed in a building, falling through the roof. Lex cried out in pain as she landed and almost passed out. Scar landed beside her, the Predator gave a weak growl and his eyes flicked before closing. She tried to stand, her body protested, but she managed to get into a sitting position.

For a moment the world went blurry and she couldn't comprehend where she was or what she was doing. A piercing roar knocked her back to her senses. Lex shook Scar's shoulder. "Wake up…" she said. "Wake up!"

Scar didn't move.

The queen roared again, searching for her lost prey. Lex shook him more frantically 'Scar! Scar! Wake up, she coming!" The Predator still didn't move, for the first time Lex inspected him. The wound from the queen's tail bled badly and luminescent liquid stained the snow. Scar's abdomen moved with weak slow breaths, and Lex realized how serious he was injured. Hot tears trickled down her cheeks. "No, no, no, nononnono…" She begged. "Please…Please Scar….Don't die…"

She tasted blood on her lips, and realized too how bad her own injuries were. Crimson and emerald blood mixed on Scar body. Lex's vision blurred, but not from tears, her head pounded, and she felt herself growing numb. Finally she couldn't hold herself up, and collapsed on top of Scar, her left cheek and the mark of the warrior facing the sky. The last thing she heard was another blast, like the one that came from Scar's cannon…

"Nan-de than-gaun!"

Outside, the queen balked in surprise. She'd been so busy looking for the young predator and his companion that she'd failed to notice the arrival of other Yautja. Cannons blasted, and spears punctured her side. Around her, warriors gathered, dropping small devises in a circle around her. Ignoring them she lashed out. Taking down and hopefully killing a few of them as she fought for her freedom.

Too late she realized what they were doing. "Set up the impoundment!" A hunter snarled in his native tongue, "Get that bitch contained!!!"

She roared in fury as laser nets fired up, trapping her in a cage. She rammed the sides of her prison, searching for any weak spots, but to no avail. Heat resonated off the laser beams, draining her of much energy until she could not longer fight back. She could only growl as the Yautja ship uncloaked before her and a group of them stepped off with a transport to take her away.

With the Kainde Amedha queen contained, the Predators counted their casualties. Lucky for them she'd been worn down and distracted so she'd been easy to catch. Elders gave orders for the group to search the ruble for survivors.

"Over here!" A warrior shouted. Three Elders made their way over, followed by four medics. They stopped to stare in amazement at the sight before them.

"My son…" The center Elder breathed, but it was not Scar he was shocked by, rather it was the dark skinned ooman that lay collapsed on top of him. On her cheek was the clan's symbol of the hunter. Snow fell around them; the medics glanced at their elders, asking what to do about it.

"Take it." The Elder who had spoken first ordered.

As the medics leaned down to help another Elder barked "No! Leave the creature!"

"It bears our mark…" The third pointed out.

"We must bring it with us!" The first declared.

"It is Ooman!" The second protested, "Pyode Amedha! Leave it!"

An argument began, but soon a scout rushed towards them, bearing news that a team of ooman were heading their way. Scar's father pounded his spear into the ground, "Ki'cte! I am the chief Elder! We'll take the ooman warrior, and decide its fate later!"

There was no argument after that. Human reinforcements arrived on the scene shortly after the all Predators and their ship had vanished; they too searched for survivors. Snow covered the blood of the fallen warriors, and the footprints of the clan, hiding all evidence of their presence. Among the rubble they found a single man… with no trace of any other living beings…

Authors End Note: I need a favor from ya'll; go to my profile, you'll find a poll there, please vote. If it isn't obvious, the 'sole' survivor was Sebastian.

Editor's note: Yeah, and it is planned that I will be writing a "Sister Story" to this explaining what happens to Sebastian after this, the Hot Italian lives! I don't particularly know when I will be working on it or when it'll be posted but ya'll can keep an eye out for it anyway. Review please and do take a look at Zae's poll.

Nan-de than-gaun- The kiss of Midnight (don't quote me on this, but I believe I read that this is a battle cry)

Pyode Amedha- Soft mean, human

Ki'cte- Enough!