Predator: A New Hunt

by Carmine Prophet

chapter 1

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Scarface with his cloaking device deactivated walked into the hospital room where celestia and his son Solar were asleep it was late at night so no one saw him. When he entered he saw his son for the first time and he was proud of his first born child. The child was lying next to his mother in the bed and he could see that his son was a hybrid possessing the traits of both his mother’s species and his fathers with the latter being more dominant.

His face was that of a yatuja but lacked a few of the features of one opting for an equine mouth instead of the yatuja and his forehead was  a bit smaller. But he did have for small mandibles two on either side of his mouth that clicked as he slept But they were not connected by any flesh like other yatuja instead they were independent more like the xenopredators and he lacked the ears of his equine kind.

ScarFace also notice that his son had claw like hands instead of two front hooves but two hooves instead of feat on his lower legs. And he also noticed that his son unlike other yatuja who had a leathery almost scaly skin Solar had a white coat of fur. Reaching over he activated his wrist gauntlet and scanned the child with a red laser.

‘strange power readings from the whelp same as his mother but unfocused and primal, almost raw.’ Scarface thought. Then he saw a triangle appear on his HUD.

Quickly but carefuly as to not wake his mother or him he picked up the child and walked out the door and out of the hospital And made his way to where his clan had landed the mother ship. And as he walked up the ramp the other yatuja kneeled to their clans elder and his new born son. Unaware of the soro that would rack the child’s mother in the morning.

320 Years later.

Solar has come a long way his coat had changed to grey with a hint of yellow. He now stood at 8 foot and 3 inches tall and was well built for a yatuja on top of that his dreadlocks were almost a shiny lathery black like the rest of his kind and had various gold and silver beads hanging in a few of them, He had raised through the various social classes and became an Elite of the Dark Blade clan as well as an inventor. And is currently talking to his father and Clan Elder.

“Father I must go to the planet of my berth.” He said as he kneeled one knee.

“And why is that.” Scarface asked as he stood up his one yellow eye looking a directly into his sons magenta eyes.

“Because I have so many questions that the ancient texts cant answer.” Solar said.

“I see. Then this is to find yourself? Very well. I will allow you passage to the forbidden hunting ground of equs” Scarface said gesturing for his son to stand up and stood in front of him.

“Go prepare yourself and meet me at your shuttles hanger.”

“Thank you elder.” Solar said has he bowed his head and placed his right fist on his heart and turned and left.

The only things in solar’s quarters was his armor and a few weapons everything else along with all of the rest of his weapons and projects were already onboard his shuttle. So walking over to a table he took time and began putting on his armor.

First he put on the rest of his armor he already had on the waist armor and the environmental mesh that all yatuja wore under there armor and his shin guards and snapping them into place, Next he put on his chest plates that coverd his chest with metallic metal. Next he put on his wrist bracers that had incorporated Sat-com, plasma bolt, net launcher, and power glove functions as well as their standers. and extended the wrist blades opting for two wrist blades instead of just one pair on his right wrist.

Turning he walked over to his wall and began taking weapons and equipment off of it. First he took his fully stocked med kit and placed it on his back. After this he reached up and took his custom plasma caster off of the wall and connected it to its firing arm on his left shoulder and reaching back up he garbed the second one and placed it on its firing arm on his right shoulder then the arm they were on quickly folded down and into there resting positions on his back. The thing that made them so special was that he had made them from the plasma caster that he took from a super predator that he hunted some 50 or 80 years ago. There a design that employs a revolving action to fire multiple plasma bolts at any time, similar to a Gatling gun without multiple barrels.

  And Last he took his Combi-stick that his kind receives it when they have finished all of their extremely hard training, and have shown themselves ready to begin their first hunt. The yatuja will decorate the combi-stick through time with skulls and memories of different hunts and moments in their long life, making the staff a part of the Predator, and is there prized possession.

His spear had a xenomorph bone handle with a small string attached to it that held small skulls on it along with the teeth of a Xenomorph queen there almost clear surface reflecting off the light in the room. And under them he had the teeth of the first xenomorph he ever killed there silver color complementing the clear white of their queens.

And he put it on his back and he turned from the now empty wall and walked over to his mask which sits on a pedestal. It was a modified version of his newest invention that he shared with his clan the Stalker Bio-mask. His instead of having the targeting laser on the top he opted for the more classic position and placed it on the right temple next to the eye on top of that he changed the targeting laser from blue to red and the visor yellow a signature of the dark blade clan. On top of that he has one major difference his bio-mask has form the others is that unlike the rest of his kind he does not see in infrared naturally instead he saw the same way the omans did. So it also has another mode where the visor simply acts as a window but leaves his HUD in view. So tacking his Bio-mask into his hands he took it off of his pedestal and put it on and connected the breathing tubes.

Unmodified Stalker Bio-mask

He activated his targeting laser and the three doted triangle appeared on the wall followed by his duel plasma casters swiveling into position on his shoulders turning off the laser the casters resumed there standby mode. Finaly turning to his right he picked up his shoulder armor which was an armored skull of a super predator on his right shoulder and a mettle leather on his left.

Finally turning around he looked to his empty quarters and walked out of the room and made his way to his shuttle and when he arrived he saw his father standing there with his glaive as an unneeded walking stick.

“Son you may take as long as you see necessary.” Scarface said then he held it out in front of Solar and retracted the blade. And his son reached up and took the weapon from his father.

“Thank you Elder.” Solar said putting the weapon on his back next to his combi-stick. But then he saw his father reach into his pouch and take out a red cloth.

“Son that glave was given to me by my previous elder and mentor when I was exiled. And now I am giving it to you may it serve you well. And I want you to have this.” He said giving the cloth to his son.

“Thank you for your blessing father.” Solar said bowing his head and putting his fist to his heart. And walking past his father and into the ship the hatch closing behind him and Scarface walked over to a view port and he watched his sons shuttle separate from the mother ship and hover for a second under it and fly off into space. And slowing before activating its warp engines.

1 week later

Solar’s shuttle exited warp and maneuvered his shuttle into orbit around the planet and began scaning until he found similar power to his own he activated a hologram of the planet and saw that one nation in particular that radiated it. Pressing some more symbols on his wrist computer he cross-referenced the strange power and it matched his own but only slightly. Pressing some more he found one that matched his exactly and found it was actually not in the area of the nation and found it in an almost volcanic area.

‘Well the planet meets my respiratory requirements. Might as well start there’ he thought as he stretched his mandibles. He then set his Shuttle on course to land near the volcanic area close to the power source.

He then walked to his armory to equip the rest of his weapons and see just watt that cloth was. He took 2 smart disks and put them on his thies he also took four Shurikens and put two on his belt two in front and two in back which function much like the smart disc. But are Constructed with retractable blades, the shuriken is also used as a slashing weapon and is immune to a xenomorph's acid blood.

Two Mauls a heavy bladed weapon comparable to a police officer's nightstick. And retracted the blades and put them on his lower back. He also took some proximity mines and also attached them to his belt. He also took four veils of dissolving liquid. As well as a razor whip and put it on his whip. Ant the last thing he did was reach over and unravel the crimson cloth and when he did he saw that it was an elders cape dispite him not being an elder he assumed it was a gift to his mother if he found her.

Turning around he walked to the hatch and walked out as the shuttle had landed. And when he was out he activated its cloaking device and his own and set out on his new hunt.

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