(Fun fact, the picture above is actually my attempt at the teaser picture using lineless art and shading in Paint Tool Sai. Had a fun 6 hours doing that XD a little sarcasm intended as it was both fun and torture XD)

I look out the window of the barn to see a helicopter landing outside, I look towards Fugi with concern.

"Government, you need to get out of here before they find you." I say.

"And what about yourself?" Fugi asks.

"I don't know, but I DO know what the government wants to do to aliens such as yourself. Fugi you need to hide, best place would be in the forest." I tell him.

Fugi puts his bio mask back over his face, reattaching the tubes and other things. But once he does that, he doesn't leave. He just stays put.

"Fugi! Come on, you gotta hide!" I attempt to push him, but he doesn't budge.

"Oh no, I am not leaving you. As a part of Yautja tradition, if we were protected by a being lesser than ourselves, we will protect said being until the debt is repaid. Mind you, this is one of the very few times someone has done the very thing you did." Fugi said.

I facepalm as I hear the door or the barn be broken down.

"Fugi!" I whispered as the Predator then vanished into thin air.

Ah, cloaking device. Very nice! I quickly picked up my drawing notebook and flipped a few pages ahead to a drawing of a bunny that I had already finished, but these guys don't know that. I sat down and held the pencil in my head as I heard the government men coming upstairs, two men with large guns cane running up into the loft where Fugi and I were hanging out. I lifted my head to see them aiming at me, but they seemed mildly confused.

"Oh hi there." I say innocently as I turned the picture of the realistic fuzzy bunny towards them.

The two men looked at each other.

"Looks like an easy one, take her downstairs." The one on the left said.

I stood up and held the pencil tight in my hand, "Excuse me, it wouldn't be too smart to come near me for a number of reasons."

Of course they ignore me. The man was about to grab my arm when I then shove the pencil deep into his arm, earning a pained yell as I pulled my blood soaked pencil out and grabbed my knife. The other man pointed his gun at my chest, but not before I threw my knife at him. The 6 inch blade pierced right between his eyes, blood spurted from the wound as he fell to the ground, dead. The one behind me was about to hit me in the head, I could feel it.

I spun around, grabbed his gun before it could hit me and nailed him where it hurts with my knee. He grunted as he then dropped to his knees, then I jabbed the pencil deep into his forehead. The second man then collapsed to the floor like his comrade had. I was breathing deeply, my ribs began to feel sore as the painkillers are wearing off. I was looking at the dead men before me when something hit me.

How the hell did I just kill 2 military men?! And...why didn't I just let Fugi handle them? I feel...different. Tingly, anxious, shocked, many emotions. Fugi then uncloaked, looking in between what would've been his victims. I went to the man with my knife in his head, pulling it out as fresh blood dripped from it. Blood smeared my sweatpants and shirt.

"You must be part Yautja, because you killed these people much like I would have." Fugis translator crackled.

The sight of what I had done made me gag, wanting to throw up. Gagging made my ribs start to hurt worse, I gasped sharply and grasped my chest. Fugi was suddenly at my side, kneeling down and looking at me.

"You are injured, but neither of them had landed a hit on you. Let me see." Fugi then began to lift my shirt up.

But as an insecure girl, I pulled my shirt back down. Fugi tilted his head.

"I need to see what is wrong, I will only examine the wound." Fugi said as he began to lift my shirt again.

I sighed and allowed him to do so, the bandages around my torso were revealed, the once white color was now bloody red. Fugi paused as he was not expecting the bandages beneath my shirt, he only stared.

"You have several broken ribs-" the Predator started.

"Yeah I know, and right now the medicine is wearing off. I need...my bag. There's painkillers in the first aid kit." I said as I sat down.

Fugi grabbed my bag from under a table, searching for my first aid kit. He found it immediately and pulled it out, handing it to me. I opened the kit and found the syringes, taking one out and readying to inject it.

"What happened to you? I'm guessing you had a terrible fall judging by how they fractured." Fugi said.

"Yeah. Fell, was pushed. It was an attempt to get this 'wrist gauntlet'  which as you can see was a failed attempt." I injected the needle into my arm.

"Obviously, and your bandaging needs replacing." Fugi said as he pulled out the white roll bandages I had packed.

Footsteps could be heard coming into the barn, I had finished injecting the painkiller and shoved everything into my bag. Fugi hid the bodies of the 2 military men within an empty crate, placing a burlap sack over the blood stains to hide them. Him and I hid behind a large stack of baled hay as 2 people came up into the loft. A black man and Casey Brackett, who I just learned was the ladies name. That and she was a biologist.

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The human and the 'Yautja' hid and listened to the conversation between the government agent and biologist, the woman handcuffed to the chair Sky had been sitting upon. The man was getting seemingly irritated as she was trying to bargain an alliance to study the "Predators".

"Shut the FUCK up!" He said angrily.

She sighed, "Why are they here?"

"You remember that big deal a few years back? 'Get them while they last'? Well, that's what they're doing with us. Before climate change claims us." The man said.

Right when he said the words 'climate change', Sky rolled her eyes and mouthed the words 'Bullshit'.

The woman looked shocked, "They're grabbing all the best DNA before we're gone, we're an endangered species and they KNOW it."

"Upgrade themselves, wait for us to die out, then move right in. But the Predator that got away was bringing us a way to stop it, and we know he's here somewhere." He said as he then went to leave.

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I look at Fugi after the man had left, I was genuinely concerned. We came out of our hiding spot and surprised Casey as she wasn't expecting us.

"Jesus, you two were there the whole time?" She asked.

"Uh huh. Fugi, are they really planning an invasion or something?" I ask him.

He sadly nodded. Oh so now he's back to not talking around the other humans, fun. I sigh and walk over to Casey to hopefully unlock her handcuffs.