The Purple Xenomorph

Chapter 20.

Kritos kneeled down, picking up the necklace and staring at it. Guilt filled his heart as he lowered his head.

"Kritos, if we don't go now, she will certainly be killed." Karna clicked.

The engineer growled in anger and stood, looking in the direction of where they had gone.

"Then let us go, and let us kill those bastards." He snarled.

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The Super Predators dragged Xeno into the temples arena pit, tossing her into the wall. She snarled as her razor spine took most of the force and sliced through the old stone, it making a loud shrieking sound. The Bad Bloods cringed and covered their ears, looking to the angry xenomorph.

"The fuck?" Falconer looked to the wall behind her and saw the deep slices.

"Did IT do that?" Tracker approached Xeno to examine the damage.

She snarled at the Bad Blood to keep his distance, not phasing him whatsoever as he looked to her external spine. Falconer approached her and kneeled down, they wanted a better look. Tracker could see the blades extruding from her back were glistening in the sunlight much like metal, as it was. His eyes wandered from her spine to her exceptionally long tail with the strangely shaped axe blade, seeing it mended naturally with her skin. Falconer looked over the xenomorph as well and noticed that the metal upon her arms and hind legs were fused into her skin, as well as her dark blue dome covering her face.

"Why are you two staring at the thing? That's not why we captured it." Berserker snarled.

"HER. I am a HER." Xeno growled.

"Did I fucking ask you?"

He took menacing steps towards the serpent when Tracker stopped him.

"Brother, take a better look at the serpent. You may notice some very unnatural things." He gestured to the serpent.

"Why would I care about that?" Berserker asks.

"Trust me, you might want to take a look." Falconer growled.

Berserker sighed annoyedly and kneeled down, looking over Xeno as she stared him right in the eyes. He did a quick glance over her, simply not caring or knowing what was there.

"Alright, what am I supposed to be looking at?" He asks.

"Look at her spine down to her tail, it's naturally shaped and steel somehow. Along with that dome on her face." Falconer hissed.

Berserker rolled his eyes under his mask and looked back at the xenomorph, now seeing what his brother meant by the naturally shaped steel spine and tail blade. He was certainly surprised, but he still wasn't entirely intrigued as he looked to her dark blue glass dome.

"Having fun there?" Xeno hissed with a slight smirk.

He looked her in the eye, "I admit, you aren't like any other victim we've hunted. But don't think that we won't hesitate to kill you because you're 'special'."

"So you'd kill a helpless captive? That's very dishonorable." She hissed.

The Super Predators looked at each other, then they snickering which turned into a cocky laughter. Xeno was puzzled at why they were laughing at her comment, Berserker looking back towards her, grabbing her by the throat and getting in her face.

"Yes, we would. Listen here and listen good, XENOMORPH. We don't CARE about that fucking code of honor, we care about the thrill of our hunts. Your kind is our ultimate prey. We hunt you, not play all nice and be friends. You shouldn't care about that code either. You're a serpent, you will NEVER be accepted among the Yautja as a warrior." He snarled in her face.

She quickly opened her mouth and thrusted her inner jaw at his cranium. Berserker was startled at her action, quickly letting go of her throat and backing away. Xeno hissed with a smile at them, the Super Yautja then began chuckling.

"Nice try, serpent." He clicked.

She snorted and looked away, cautious of being electrocuted by the net once more. Berserker started walking away from her and his brothers when she asked,

"If you don't follow the code of honor, why do you hide your faces?" The xenomorph asks.

The Bad Blood halted, turning back around to look at Xeno. He slowly reached for 2 tubes attached to his mask and yanked on them, the tubes hissing as a foggy mist came out of them. He then reached for his jawed bio mask, gripping onto it firmly and slowly removing it from his face. Xeno's hidden eyes widened as the Berserker revealed his face.

His head was large, larger than an average Yautjas. He had large black and red markings on his forehead, larger fanged mandibles, reddish orange eyes and an overall terrifying gaze. Falconer and Tracker then removed their own masks, revealing the same head shape and features as Berserker. Xeno looked in between the Super Predators, staring at their terrifying appearances.

"Because we enjoy the reaction of the reveal." Tracker snarled, his mandibles flaring.

The xenomorph was stunned at how different the Bad Bloods looked compared to the normal hunters, them putting their masks back on and walking away from her. They exited the arena through the gate leading in, leaving Xeno all alone. She knew she was bait for the trap the Super Predators had set for Kritos and Karna.

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Xeno wasn't sure how much time had passed when she heard the familiar loud clangs of metal boots in the distance, the brothers had arrived. She perked at the sound of them running in her direction, but she was worried for them as she could feel the Bad Bloods presence in the arena. The serpent tried squirming once again only to get shocked by the netting encasing her, screeching in pain. The trap was still operational, she thought. That was when an idea popped into her head.

Her tail, the spikes leading down to her axe blade were sharp enough to slice through rock. Yet they hadn't sliced through the netting yet, perhaps from little to no moving. She began slowly moving her tail back and forth, pointing the blades to the meshy material. The sound of the brothers boots getting closer brought both more relief and worry to the xenomorph. But she kept cutting at the net with her tail, the material starting to frizz at where she was cutting.

"Xeno!"

Xeno looked up to see Kritos and Karna, both masked, running in from the doorway that had come through the day prior, them running down the stone stairs to the edge of the pit. They jumped over the edge with ease and landed in the pit, running to free her.

"Stop! It's a trap!" She roared.

Kritos and Karna screeched to a halt, clenching their fists.

"Are you alright?" Kritos asked.

"Other than being shocked a few times, I'm fine." She chittered.

"Get down here and fight us like warriors, you cowards!!!" Karna roared and looked around the arena.

There was silence for a moment. The Falconer then landed 3 feet next to Xeno, then Tracker on the opposing side of her, Berserker landing 10 meters in front of the brothers. The young hunter summoned his large wristblades and combistick, and the engineer summoned a huge blade extruding from his machine arm. The Bad Bloods lined up and faced the very angered Kritos and Karna, them summoning their own single wristblades from their gauntlets.

"Hopefully you will be more fun than your pet here." Berserker clicked.

"Xeno is no pet," Kritos glanced to the serpent, "She is FAMILY."

"And NO ONE messes with our family without dealing with us!!" Karna roared.

Xeno felt joy at how the brothers considered her family.

The brothers and Bad Bloods roared at each other, charging towards their enemies with a thirst for blood.