So who saw the new Predator movie? I personally liked it but the CGI kinda ruined it for me in regards to a certain character in the movie.
Summary: Lex thought she would never see the Predator that marked her with a mysterious symbol ever since the battle in Antartica. While leading yet another expedition, this time in the jungles of the Amazon, she runs into the very same alien that had been on her mind since. How will Scar react to seeing her after recovering from his near fatal wound?
Disclaimer: Aside from my OCs, I don't own anything else.
A/N: The next few chapters will alternate between Jake and Lex's POVs
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Acceptance
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Chapter VIII
-Jake-
Jake slept restlessly through the night despite having Neytiri in the hammock next to his. He still had no idea what they were called, but let's face it, it totally reminded him of the hammocks back home. Just as he was on the verge of finally drifting off, sharp cries of two children filled the air, alarming every Na'vi within the vicinity. Jake groaned but forced himself to get up, reminding himself he had a duty as Olo'ekytan of the clan. By the time he made it down to where the children were, Mo'at managed to calm them down enough for the two to speak coherently.
"What happened?" Jake asked gently, kneeling until he was eye level with the children.
"We saw a monster!" the younger one cried, his eyes wide with fear.
"There are no monsters here my child. Every animal is one with Eywa," Mo'at explained, assuming the children ran into one of the wildlife.
"No! We did see one! It was tall, black, with two pairs of arms and a large head. It tried to eat us!" the second child explained, gripping Jake's arm like his life depended on it.
This alarmed Jake as he exchanged a brief look with Mo'at. The two were more than familiar with the wildlife on Pandora, and what the children just described was nowhere near remotely close to anything they've seen.
"Where did you see this monster?" Jake asked, gently easing the child's grip from his arm.
"In the river near the forest, where some of the Ikran go to hunt."
Standing up and nodding at two of the guards nearby, Jake asked Mo'at to look after the children while he went to see what was going on. Just in case something dangerous was out there, he took along his gun which he saved from the battle with the RDA.
"Be careful," he said and the three of them took off.
Neytiri came down just in time to see Jake leave with two guards and was about to chase him, but Mo'at stopped her daughter from going.
"Where is Jake going? What is going on mother?" she asked.
"Come with me," was all Mo'at said.
-Lex-
Hunting with Scar was definitely something on another level for Lex. She realized just how high the physical and mental differences between herself and him were. She was already running out of breath from moving non-stop, but Scar showed no signs of slowing down. Talk about being fit for things like this, Lex always assumed she was in good shape but nope.
She was wrong.
"I need a minute," she finally called out, panting slightly as she caught her breath.
Scar slowed and turned to her, concerned she wouldn't be able to keep up with him.
"How much farther?"
"Not far. Tracks are close," Scar responded, fiddling with his wrist-comp until a map showed up.
"Thank god."
After resting for several minutes and her legs were finally working again, Lex resumed her pace with Scar leading the way. It was strange how they hadn't run into any wildlife at all, even with their camouflage mode activated. This was something that concerned her, and she had a feeling Scar felt the same.
"I wonder if the others found her already," Lex said, ducking under a branch that hung overhead.
"This planet big. Others check farther areas. We are on right track."
"Someone's confident," she muttered with a small smile.
The Predator gave his version of a laugh.
Her Bio-Mask suddenly detected traces of heat up ahead and she focused in on the signatures, using the mask to filter out ambient noises and excess background lights.
"Up ahead," she pointed.
Scar paused while he scanned the area with his own mask, and a growl came from him as the Predator flexed his arms.
"It's the Na'vi," Lex said.
"They search for queen."
"They'll die! They aren't prepared to fight something of that caliber!"
"It is the way of life," Scar responded casually.
Lex couldn't believe what she was hearing. She knew the Predators were the type to hunt the strongest of species, so she should have seen Scar's response coming, yet something inside her was raging at the thought of innocent lives being thrown away so casually.
"We need to help them."
"I already help you once, not second time."
So basically he was going to turn his back on them?
"We can't just leave them to die!"
"They choose own path."
Anger boiling over now that Scar was adamant on not helping the natives, Lex stood in front of the Predator stubbornly and prevented him from going further. Whenever he moved, she would move and their little game went on for about ten minutes.
"I'm not moving until you promise to help."
Scar was getting annoyed by then, Lex could tell by the way he moved, but she was equally stubborn and planted her legs on the ground firmly.
The two stared at each other.
Then a scream brought them back to reality.
-Jake-
Monster was a huge understatement.
The thing that towered before Jake and the two guards was no monster.
It was a behemoth.
Jake thought he was already tall as a Na'vi, standing at an impressive eleven feet, but this thing easily towered over him.
His gun had absolutely no effect on the creature either, his bullets ricocheting off its thick armor. He ordered the two guards to stay back and call for reinforcements while he dealt with the thing on his own. The two were reluctant to leave their leader by himself, but Jake knew protecting his clan was his top priority. Now he was fighting the thing on his own.
"You're one ugly motherfucker," Jake commented, rolling out of the way as it attempted to lash out with its tail.
The creature shrieked in response to his taunt and charged towards him with its head lowered.
"Jake!"
The Na'vi spun around and saw it was the human from earlier with her companion. The two of them threw something at the creature, and the blades pierced through its thick skin.
"Be careful of the blood! It's acidic!"
He barely managed to roll out of the way as a spray of blood landed where he was just standing moments ago.
"Why are you two here?" Jake yelled, ducking as the tail went over his head.
"To kill that thing!"
-Lex-
Jake was indeed fighting the Queen on his own when Lex and Scar arrived at the site. The both of them threw their smart discs at the Xenomorph, distracting it from its current target and switching to them instead. Both rolled separate ways and activated their plasmacasters, firing off several shots that pierced through the head piece of the Queen, causing her to roar in anger and pain.
With the Queen's attention focused on them, the duo used the surrounding area to their advantage. The Queen's huge size made it hard for her to turn and strike in time, giving Lex ample time to set up various traps while Scar dealt with the Xenomorph. Once all the traps were in place, Scar lured the huge Xenomorph into them and watched as the Queen fell for every one.
"Pin her to the rock over there," Lex pointed towards a large rock formation.
The enraged alien was lunging at Scar with her tail while bleeding from several wounds on her body. The Predator ran towards the rock formation like Lex said, with the Xenomorph not far behind. Once he was near the rock, Scar made a sharp turn and positioned himself behind the Queen. Together, Lex and the Predator fired off their nets, pinning the Queen into the rock as the nets began tightening around her.
"We finish now," Scar declared.
Activating their plasmacasters, the duo fired off multiple shots until the Queen stopped struggling, her double-jaws going slack as blood spilled from the large wounds.
"We did it," Lex breathed.
"Hard meat queen weak from experiments. No strength to truly fight."
That explained why she went down so much faster compared to the Queen back on Antartica.
"I guess the lack of a nest and warriors made it easier too."
"Yes," Scar merely confirmed.
Footsteps approached the area and the two whirled around to find a band of Na'vi approaching, Neytiri leading them with bows drawn. The massive group of warriors stopped when they were near the trio, and Neytiri stepped forward to speak to Jake.
-Jake-
"What happened?" Neytiri asked, standing beside her mate and looking him over for wounds.
"It's dead. Nothing to worry about now."
"Did they kill it?" she looked at the two from earlier who tried to hurt her.
"Yeah. Don't do anything stupid please Neytiri," Jake said wearily.
Neytiri knew better than to antagonize warriors who could take down an unknown monster with ease. Although she was still bitter over what happened earlier, the Na'vi princess couldn't help but be impressed by their skills.
"Thank you," she said at last.
"You're welcome," the human responded.
Her companion had his arms crossed but remained silent.
Hissing noises coming from the body prompted everyone to look at the dead carcass. Jake noticed the blood from the creature had eaten away at the netting, and now the entire body fell onto the ground.
"What is that thing? You two seem familiar with it," he said to the duo.
"It's a long story but just be glad that thing couldn't breed or half of your planet would have been blown up."
"Blown up!?" Jake widened his eyes.
The other alien moved towards the dead body and poured some sort of liquid onto the carcass. The Na'vi watched in fascination as the body dissolved into nothing, not even a single trace of it could be seen.
"We go," he then said to Lex before vanishing from view.
Lex followed after her companion.
-Lex-
"Why are we in a rush to leave?" she asked, scrambling to catch up with Scar.
"We hunt. We stalk. We kill. We do not make friends," Scar replied.
Lex had a feeling the Predator was angry at her for trying to make friends with the Na'vi.
"Haven't you ever thought about becoming friends with the ones you hunt?"
"No."
"Then why did you become friends with me?" she countered.
Scar stopped walking and turned to face her.
"You different. You warrior, one of us now."
"I'm only a warrior to you because I killed several aliens and a queen back in Antartica. I would probably be dead if I didn't return your plasmacaster back then either."
The Predator merely growled in response to her comment.
Realizing she wasn't going to get anywhere with him, Lex threw her hands in the air as a sign of defeat.
"I give up. Let's just head back to the ship then."
The two walked together in silence.
To be continued...
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Well looks like Lex and Scar are running into slight problems with their friendship atm XD
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