Author's Note: Again, I'm sorry about having to leave that note; I just had no other way to talk to the anonymous reviewers, hopefully things will straighten out.

Warning: Okay technically this chapter is just a massive time skip.

Disclaimer: Alien Vs Predator is not mine, the story of Haven and all original characters belong to me and my sister.

Haven

Lex awoke several mornings in a row feeling hollow. She didn't know when she had stopped keeping track of how long she had been with the Yautja clan, even when she tried to remember where she had left off it didn't help her understand how long it had been since she'd left her home planet. Life with the Predators made her old life, home on Earth, seem more like a dream than a memory.

The hunt to prove herself worthy of her mark seemed as distant as the year she graduated high school. Adventures around the ship blurred together until she couldn't remember which incident had occurred first. The fight for the right to mate her between Scar and Dart felt like a romantic fantasy she had made up, as did their hunting ritual.

Everything seemed so far off and unreal, Lex wasn't sure what reality was anymore and she surprised herself often by catching her reflection and realizing she was human, which made everything feel even more like she had bumped her head down in the pyramid and was living a coma dream instead of a real life.

Around the ship Lex noticed more of the Yautja learning English, more of them interacting with her, and Lex felt desperately homesick for actual human contact, which made her think of the other human that had once lived among this clan. Fisher, he was such an influence on the tribe that they'd started giving their clansmen names the ooman could pronounce.

Lex distanced herself from the Yautja, even her mate Scar and her father, as she had come to think of him, Javelin. Her retreat did not go unnoticed. Dodge came by a few times with some senior medical officers to ask how she was feeling. It took a while but at last Dodge's fluid English enticed Lex to spill her thoughts and emotions. Scar didn't know what to do, and it was Crusade that finally decided that it had been too long since the clan had been off the ship. It was time to start a few hunting parties.

Lex had not expected her heart to race with excitement at the idea.

Soon the whole ship was buzzing with the news, already teams were starting to form and destinations were made with objectives planned. Everyone was getting involved. Dodge and Burn volunteered to join Lex and Scar's group. Strike, followed by Tool, also asked to join them, despite that Dart was more than upset by them leaving his group.

"Traitors." He hissed every time he passed them.

Behind his back Lex stuck her tongue out at him, causing the group to trill with amusement and Dart to whirl around to see what was so funny, and stalk off angrily when he found no reason for them to be laughing.

Lex was staring to feel like herself again. Crusade, Wrath and Javelin called the clan together for a council. This wasn't going to be an ordinary hunt.

"We're going to have a competition." Wrath roared across the sea of warriors. "The party that brings back what we deem the most valuable trophy will get command the next big hunt." His eyes twinkled with amusement at the ecstatic uproar that followed.

Javelin raised an arm to silence the crowd, "Which is why…" He started, "We will be assigning your destinations at random. You may however keep your groups."

"No rules, no punishments, except no killing our clansmen, that is unforgivable." Crusade stamped his Combistick for emphasis, he had a mischievous look on his face which reflected in his next words as he roared, "And keep in mind that we will be competing too." The three elders trilled at the stunned silence. They may have been old, but they were the most experienced hunters in the clan, and were perfectly capable of cheating.

All the more fun this would be then.

"Prepare yourselves." Javelin roared, "The competition starts now."

Author's end note: By which he means start poisoning the other teams' best hunters so they'll be sick during the hunt XD. BTW No, this is not going to be like the last hunting scene. Why? You'll see…