Seeking Salvation

Takes More Than Courage

It was in these moments, that flashed by like lightning, that Slash and Dagger truly saw it.

Perhaps they had numbed themselves to the possibility for they had chalked everything up to coincidence like their clans-brothers and clan-sisters.

But in these slowed moments with two packs of xenomorphs and two leaders, clashing like good and evil, it seemed to show in its most potent form.

How utterly powerful a woman was.

There was a drawn-out yell in the slow movement of time as the White Woman ran forward, surpassed only by the xenomorphs at her heels; the bodies darting forth like serpentining and sleek predators and slamming into their feral counterparts like two waves of oil. Teeth and snarls alight as the untamed guards of the Hive Queen teetered from side to side as their powerful legs sluggishly pushed them into a good form to start galloping as black forms clashed and slammed into each other in the White Woman's path.

But it was not soon enough.

The two guards flanked the fighting Xenomorphs; one on the left and one on the right. As they drew closed, a stray Xenomorph launched itself from the fray, arms open and claws wide and primed. With a shriek, it propelled itself onto the left Soldier Xeno like a raptor of war and took the creature down, and the White Woman jumped up. Her foot landed on one of the fighting Xeno's heads just long enough to propel herself forward towards the right-flaking Xeno that screamed at her in defiance.

And her answer to its blatant show of disrespect came in the form of a spear, spearing it through the mouth and head that it lifted towards her.

Amid running stride, it collapsed into the swarm of black bodies and knocked friend and foe to the ground; but it was forgotten as the White Woman yelled and charged at the thin Queen. The White Woman let out her screech of battle as it began to make a desperate and pathetic attempt to charge at the White Woman.

While the Predators moved to try and join the fray and perhaps even the odds in the White Woman's favor, she gave no mind to them or the much larger foe before her and fell to a skidding slide down the metallic tunnel.

And they watched as she held the halberd with both hands, and swung with the fury of a Valkyrie, just before passing under the Queen.

A biting bellow of immeasurable pain and agony fell from the south end of the tunnel where the two females engaged.

And the Queen slammed forward into the ground, with the speed her strong legs had tried to carry her on to add to the crash. The acidic blood splashing against the ground.

The Queen pushed up from the ground with her front arms, arching her body and turning it to look back at the smaller female as another roar of agony passed her sharp white teeth and slick black gums. And as she raised her head and exposed her thin neck a silver flash flickered across the thin black skeletal structure.

Roars and shrieks of fury from the feral xenomorphs filled the air as the Predators watched the body collapse to the floor.

The White Woman standing upon the Queen's shoulders as its head fell from its severed neck.

Xenomorphs turned to attack her and charged at her, but in the disarray, it made them easy to distinguish who was a friend and who was foe- and the Predators caught most of them off guard; a few making it over to the White Woman, who fearlessly held the halberd in both tanned hands once more and ran towards them. She slashed at the smaller ones, getting one in the side before another retaliated by tossing her aside with a heavy blow from its powerful tail, knocking the wind from her and having her sailing back over the body of their dead Queen.