The Saviour

Chapter 13

Catherine's POV

The large lion like aliens were circling the both of them. "I thought they wouldn't attack us unless we provoked them." Catherine quickly points out as she was watching one of them which were pretty close to her.

"They look hungry, probably taking what they can." She responds as Catherine looks at them able to see several ribs poking from their thin pelts. Now she couldn't help but feel slight sympathy at the beasts. They were starving and unfortunately Paya and Catherine were the ones they stumbled upon.

The largest one which appeared to be the alpha made a loud roar and three out of them charged at the two. Paya took them on as she pushes Catherine out of the way she falls on her butt. She scrambled back watching, Paya was fairing pretty well even without good armour.

A very low and threatening growl directly behind her made her freeze up, Catherine's blood seemed to run cold. She looks behind her extremely slowly and sees what she could onto guess was the alpha staring right at her. It releases a rumble from deep in its throat as it sniffs the side of her face, leaving Catherine trembling- petrified.

It growls again then roared and went to attack her. She rolls to the side and stands up in a battle position as she stares directly at it. The lion thing lunges at her so Catherine steps back while thrusting the large knife at it but missed.

"Catherine look out!!" She hears Paya yells as Catherine looks at her the thing pounced at her. She was knocked down but part of her slipped as she realized she was on the side of a steep hill she was on. The alien was on top of her as she stabbed it straight into its chest leaving it to make a pained roar and stumble back, scratching at her stomach leaving gashes.

She screams in pain and darted back feeling no ground and felt herself fall down the hill. Catherine tumbled all the way down as she tried to blindly cling onto something to stop her fall but nothing was working. Eventually she had hit the ground with a noticeable thud and her ears began to instantly loudly ring. Her vision had faded black but little dots of her surroundings were still there.

Catherine tried to grab something and felt a root from a tree and tried to pull herself. Her other hand was clutched over her stomach as she could feel warm liquid drip from it. She makes a pained cry from her stomach and looks around with a pounding heart with blurred vision. It had cleared from being black but now it seemed she was in slow motion as she quickly looks around.

It seemed something had just then came into her view and was slowly approaching her. From what she could see Catherine could tell it was a Yautja. "N-NightClaw?" She softly asks as she tries to get a focus on the Yautja not hearing any immediate reply. There was a soft clicking as she felt it roll her onto her back and she could prodding where her hand on her stomach was.

She could hear slight swift movements then her hand being moved off of her stomach. There was cool metal as she could feel a poke but couldn't respond to it. Then a bandage was wrapped over her stomach and she was picked up.

Catherine tried to move but there was a small purr from whoever was holding her. "It's ok, don't be afraid little one." She could tell the male wasn't NightClaw and tried to move or try to form words to ask who it was. Though she was getting closer and closer to passing out with each passing second so couldn't help herself and passed out.

Kral's POV

I had been following the two females as they ventured deeper into the jungle, making sure to be unseen and unheard. Luckily they weren't paying much attention and were constantly chatting so it was very easy for them not to hear.