Xenomorphic

Chapter 30: Super Predator

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May 2007

It went without saying that a great deal had happened since the alligator hunt in the bayou back in September.

Asteria could say with great confidence that she liked most of the Hunt, and would gladly call them sisters...most of the Hunt. There were a few of the girls that Aster could deal without, for various reasons. Lucy was at the top of that list, with her cold and crass disposition towards the daughter of Poseidon being a major source of contention for the girl. There was also the way the purple-eyed girl leered at Asteria from behind her back.

It reminded the hybrid of the way the Erasers used to look at her when they were horny and desperate to fuck something.

The other two girls Asteria didn't care for were Octavia of the Longsword, the girl born during the time of the Roman Legions, and Phoebe, the daughter of Ares. The cause for the displeasure charged to the former was due to her extreme antimale ways, ways that went beyond simple hatred.

Asteria had caught Octavia sneaking out of camp one night when they were close to a suburb, so she followed. The Roman found a recreational basketball court where a group of black teens were playing a game of light night ball. She approached them, and against all stereotypes, the teens greeted her with respect and cordiality, the leader of the group asking if she needed a ride home or directions to somewhere.

With her telepathy, Asteria knew the boy to be genuine in his inquiry, and not looking for a one night stand.

Octavia had other plans. Plans that involved the brutal beating of eight young men for literally no other reason than that they were men. Because they had penises. Asteria had intervened, mostly because she saw herself on that court, herself from years ago when she killed for no other reason than to spill blood. Make no mistake, the daughter of Poseidon cared not for the boys' lives, or for Octavia's, but violence without a justifiable cause was pointless and tarnishing.

If those eight teens all had similar thoughts of holding Octavia down and raping her, then that was different, but for all of them to be nice and concerned, only to end up with life-threatening injuries...no.

Asteria wouldn't stand for it.

After getting a nearby resident to call an ambulance, the hybrid dragged Octavia's unconscious body bag to the camp, where Artemis had stood waiting with a displeased look on her face. Asteria did not know how Octavia was punished, nor did she care, but the girl never once tried to sneak off again after that night.

The reason for Asteria's displeasure of Phoebe was much the same for that of Octavia's, only where the Roman wanted to beat men senseless, Phoebe had wanted to unman a hapless child. It had just been another day in Colorado, during Deer Season. Asteria had chosen to hunt with Phoebe, to get to know her better. Eventually, a little boy no older than ten wandered into their sights, separated from his father and lost in the woods.

If the boy in question had been ten years older and looking to get laid, Asteria would've been fine with having a little fun at the perv's expense, but holding down a ten year old and putting a knife to his crotch was a bit extreme, especially when the child only wanted help in finding his Mommy and Daddy.

Asteria knocked Phoebe out and left her in the snow. Then she took the comatose child back to his lease, easily avoiding detection. She brought Phoebe back to camp with her, the last team to arrive, and told everyone what happened. Reactions varied, but the key response was Zoё. She walked right up to Phoebe and bitch-slapped her.

As far as bad times went, those were really the only two. There were the few times when the Hunters engaged in vigilantism, and Asteria unleashed her inner younger self, and violently slaughtered swaths of gangbangers, pimps, drug lords, cartel, mafia, etc. But those were only 'bad times' because it reminded Asteria too much of the school, which made her moody.