We all waited nervously, hoping the humans would leave. They didn't. They were coming inside even more. Mother hissed softly, telling us to go down the long entrance. If the humans come too close, we attack.
We instantly obeyed her, and we rushed to our positions. My heartbeat accelerated. The only ones to have remained with mother was the chestburster and Steel Claw, since they were too precious to join us- they were the next generation.
I saw the dark silhouettes of the humans as they slowly crept into the den. They had those weapons which shoot out orbs of plasma- guns, I think they were called.
I breathed as quietly as possible. One sound- any sound- would give away our position. The xenomorph next to me watched them, as the humans footsteps echoed in the den. There were about five of them, each one with only one goal- to hunt us.
Suddenly, the xenomorph next to me had enough. He began growling, softly, with hostile intentions. The humans looked around, getting closer to finding us. I gently nudged the xenomorph next to me with my tail, getting him to stop. It was enough to silence him.
The humans began talking in their language, probably planning how to find us and kill us, but we couldn't die- we refused to.
They resumed searching. One of them came close to us, his eyes scanning for movement. The xenomorph beside me began growling again.
"Be quiet! You're going to get us killed! I told him, telepathically.
Again, he stopped, but it was too late.
The human called his friends over. We didn't move a muscle as we nervously watched them.
Suddenly, the xenomorph next to me pounced forward, hissing and screeching, onto the nearest human. He jammed his inner mouth into the humans face, killing it instantly. Red blood dribbled onto the xenomorphs inner mouth, as he retracted it back into his jaws. He turned to the other humans, and growled. They pointed their guns at him, and shot him. The plasma slammed against his body, and sent him flying, as his green acid blood sprayed everywhere.
Me and the other xenomorphs ran away, as fast as we could go. If we weren't so rare, we would've faced the humans, but now that our numbers were down to eleven, we couldn't lose anymore individuals.
As we ran, man of us were shot down. As their bodies fell onto the ground, only five of us survived. Humans were easy to outrun, but their plasma orbs were a completely different story.
We reached mother, and we huddled around her, terrified. The humans caught up with us, and pointed their guns at us. One of them dug into their pockets, and took out a strange, black, metal device which made strange beeping sounds. They placed it on the floor, and ran off.
The beeping was accelerating. One of the xenomorphs moved away from mother, towards it, slowly. Mother held on to us, holding us tightly.
He curiously moved his head towards it, sniffing it.
Then it happened.
"BANG!