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?
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Acceptance
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Chapter XXI
-LV 475, Layla's Light Colony-
"Come on Keera! Mom's calling for us!" Richard shouted, knowing his sister was in her hiding spot doing something.
Keera quickly looked up from the secret hiding hole she was in and stuck her hand out, giving her brother a sign she heard. Once the footsteps retreated away, she turned her attention back to the alien she discovered a while back.
"I'll be back later alright? Stay here," she said.
The alien simply stared at her but judging from his body language, Keera knew he was finally starting to accept her presence. It was a victory for her in a sense since the first time Keera found the strange alien, he was so hostile she could barely even get close enough to help him with the life-threatening wound on his chest.
"Try not to move around so much."
Slipping out of her hiding hole and making sure the entrance was concealed from sight, Keera headed back down towards the settlement area where her parents worked as administrators of Layla's Light.
"I'm back," she called.
"Where have you been?" her dad asked, frowning at her over his glasses.
"Just in my little secret area. Needed some time to think," Keera poured herself a glass of water and drank from it.
"She means her hiding spot behind the abandoned reactor," Richard sniffed from beside his sister.
Keera kicked him under the table.
"How many times have we told you not to go there Keera? It's dangerous and old, I don't want to have to send a crew after you to pull you out of rubble."
"I'm fine mom. Worrying so much increases your wrinkles," Keera said with a grin.
Tracy sighed and returned to her food while her husband Jake chuckled at his daughter's antics. Keera ducked her head and resumed eating her food but kept kicking her brother's leg discreetly under the table, then also gave him death glares when her parents weren't looking.
Later that night when everyone was asleep in their rooms, Keera pulled the blankets back and slipped out of her pajamas. Carefully making her way downstairs to avoid waking her parents, she went over to the storage area and rummaged around until she found a piece of raw meat. Putting the meat into a small bag, Keera pulled out two more pieces and threw those inside as well. Securing the back around her back, she quietly crept out of the house and headed for the hiding spot behind the reactor.
Once she was back in the hiding spot, Keera shined her flashlight to illuminate the dark and was glad to see the alien was still there.
"Hey, I'm back."
The alien made weird noises and turned his head to look at her. Removing the bag from her back, she reached inside and extracted the pieces of meat. Upon seeing this in her hand, the alien sat up a little straighter as it watched her unwrap the meat.
"Here," she left them at a reasonable distance from the alien, avoiding being in its range if it decided to attack her.
Still rather suspicious of her intents but hunger overpowering his rational thinking, the alien took the meat and began devouring it. Keera watched from her spot in the corner as it ate like an animal, tearing into the meat with its mandibles.
"I'm Keera, do you have a name?" she asked it.
The alien paused in its eating to look at her.
"I'm Keera," she repeated while pointing to herself.
"Echo" it said in a guttural voice.
"Well then, it's nice to meet you Echo."
-Three months later-
"You need to leave! There's something hunting us!" Keera said, dragging Echo away from the carnage that was going on beyond the barricade.
An outbreak of aliens somehow happened after one of the colonists brought back an egg from a derelict spaceship they came across while scavenging one day. The egg hatched and attached itself to one of the scientists studying it, and then a small alien burst from its chest later on. From what Keera knew, the alien grew rapidly and captured more colonists before forming a nest in the lower areas of the reactor. The defenses the settlement set up wasn't enough to deter them, and they were quickly overrun.
It was a miracle Keera even managed to escape.
"Echo! Come!" she shouted, pulling on his arm.
One of the entrances was blocked by an alien that dropped down from the ceiling. Keera screamed in shock and scrambled backwards in an effort to get away from the creature. Just as it was about to drag her away to the nest, Echo effortlessly killed it with a single blow of his spear. If it weren't for him pulling her backwards in time, the acidic blood from the alien would have eaten through her clothing.
"E-Echo?"
"Follow," was all the alien said.
She trailed along Echo cautiously and he allowed her to cling to his side.
"How did you kill that thing back there?"
"Am hunter, hunt kiande amedha for sport."
As much as she wanted to ask what those strange words meant, Keera knew Echo had to concentrate or they'll both end up dead.
"We have to find my parents!"
Peeling herself away from his side, Keera ran towards the administration area where her parents were. Unlocking the door with the code her parents gave, she ran inside and looked around frantically.
Dead bodies.
Some were impaled.
Others were missing limbs.
Some had their chests broken with ribs exposed.
Fighting the urge to throw up at the sight, Keera began searching for her parents among the dead.
"Mom! Dad!"
There was no response.
"Come on Keera, think think!"
Then she remembered every colonist was implanted with a chip at birth.
Hurrying over to the computer system in the central room, Keera logged in with her parents credentials and managed to access the location of the chips of her family. A map appeared on the screen and her heart sank upon realizing where her family was located.
"They're in the reactor..." she whispered, walking backwards until she bumped into Echo.
The alien studied the screen carefully.
"Where here?" he asked, pointing at the blinking dots.
"The reactor...it's where we get power for the colony...and if it blows up then we can kiss our planet bye bye."
Echo made a note on the position of the colonists and turned back around. Keera scrambled to her feet and went back to his side when he held his hand out to her. It seemed no matter where they turned, the aliens were always there waiting to ambush them, but Echo took them out with relative ease. Keera made sure to stay out of sight every time, though she was never far from where he was.
Clearing most of the room and heading towards the lower depths where the reactors were, the duo were suddenly surrounded by aliens. One of them wrapped its tail around Keera's ankle and yanked her off balance.
"Echo!" she screamed.
He whirled around and threw something at the alien, cleaning slicing off its tail, but rivets of blood landed on Keera's feet, eating away at her flesh and she screamed in agony. Seeing her injured sent Echo into a frenzy as the hunter began attacking the aliens without discrimination. Struggling to crawl away from the fighting, Keera hid herself behind a table but one of the aliens grabbed her by the waist with its tail.
"Echo!"
"Keera!" Echo threw a shuriken at the alien but it disappeared inside a vent, taking Keera with it. Impaling the remaining alien with his combistick, he followed after the only source he could.
Her screams.
To be continued...
Review?
Apologies for this chapter being in italic but that's how I do flashbacks XD
Anyways looks like I'll have to split the backstory into several chapters or something.
Now that our mysterious Yautja has been introduced as Echo, what are your thoughts on him? XD
I'll leave a little background info on Keera and Echo for you guys.
See you all next time!
Celsius Fate~
Keera Yorkland: Keera is the daughter of Tracy and Jake Yorkland and older sister to Richard Yorkland. Born and raised on the colony of Layla's Light, Keera is an intelligent and curious child. Once she was old enough, she began sneaking out of the colony to investigate the unexplored areas of LV 475 alongside her brother. While she was exploring one day on her own, Keera came across a damaged spaceship containing an injured alien she had never seen before. After she managed to get the alien to her secret hiding spot, she began to befriend it until the alien allowed her to help treat his wounds. She would often return and keep him company as his wound healed, stealing portions of meat from her home to feed him. As a result, she developed a close bond with the alien and became his only companion until he was ready to return home.
Echo: Prior to being stranded on LV 475, Echo was on his chiva with two other fellow Yautja. After successfully completing the hunt, the trio were set to return home when a stray Xenomorph managed to damage their ship. With no way of contacting their mothership, their own ship crash landed on LV 475. His friends were killed in the crash but he managed to survive, albeit with near fatal wounds from debris piercing his body. Keera found him in this state and despite initially trying to scare her away, she kept returning to help him. Eventually Echo learned to trust the human and allowed her to look after him while his body recovered. Once fully healed, he was about to signal his mothership to pick him up when the outbreak happened. With Keera taken captive by the Xenomorphs, Echo ventures towards the reactor to destroy the nest and Queen if one has been born.