Dark Serpent

6 hours have passed...

It was time to begin. While waiting, I was reaching out with the Force. Trying to feel the serpents.

I felt them. Like I has expected, the Dark Side basically cradles them like the favorite child. It makes sense. They are cold, ruthless, and have a hierarchy based on strength. The strongest becomes Queen, becomes king, becomes a spitter or a praetorian. The rest follow and do so ruthlessly. Even sacrificing themselves if necessary and without hesitation. They are even cruel despite their lack of individual sentience. It is in their DNA to be cruel, ruthless, cold, and perfectly dangerous.

Their reputation for being perfect and highly adaptable once again proved itself true. As after the 5th hour of waiting, I felt the six xenomorphs no longer. Not even the Queen. They have learned to hide themselves in the Force, by pure instinct. As it is always instinct with them. Their DNA makes them perfect like this. Yes, they are cunning. Their instinct is what makes them so dangerous though. Now their perfect instinct is coupled with the Force. It is unknown what sort of abilities they have now. Unknown what they could do. They will most certainly not be weak.

Although I may be able to feel them now. I can feel the Dark Side that has suffocated the hunting grounds they reside in.

I am excited...

As I finish my waiting in the 6th hour. Marka Ragnos appears with a solemn disposition.

"Oh student of mine..."

"What have you made...?"

"I can feel the Dark Side reveling at the abomination you made. Why did you make such cursed things?"

He had asked me with a truly concerned voice.

I responded with a Yautja smile on my face, "I made them to be my prey. To be worthy prey. Not even the fight with Darth Venamis will be able to hold a candle to this hunt."

Marka Ragnos shakes his head, "Then you better succeed and kill them all. They can not be allowed to live. Let alone propagate. These black serpents of yours were amusing before and even impressive. But now it isn't amusing anymore."

I assuage his worries, "Do not worry Marka. In the event of a failure. There is a failsafe in place. A Yautja hunter always has a failsafe when dealing with xenomorphs. I especially have a strong one, as these xenos are different. It isn't even appropriate to call them black serpents anymore.

They are Dark Serpents..."

Marka sighs, "Then I will leave you to your hunt. It seems that Kaljaren was right in trusting you to take care of this. I just had to see myself. Good luck on your hunt Bido. May the Force be with you."

I laugh as he fades away, "We will see what the Force has in store for me Master Ragnos. We will see."

I put on my bio-helmet. Equip my kit, pick up my light-glaive, Destined Death, Finally, I lave the staging area and hit the ground running into the hunting grounds.

Rushing through, the environment got dark. Even though the sun was high in the sky, it was getting dark. It was not a natural darkness. It did not matter.

As I kept on, I felt area feel thicker. I stopped jumping and stood crouched on a branch. I spread my senses, Force-based and not. I even shifted through my various HUD visions. Xeno-vision picked up faint tracks of footprints. Just a handful, but enough to know. I spread my Force-sense even more and notice a blot of heaviness on my location. The blot was hard to sense as it attempted to blend into the darkness of the area. My senses were too precise for that.

I had also prepared a special group of creatures.

I then used the whistle voice setting on my bio-helmet. The Hellhound whistle to be exact. Further upgraded with paralysis stinger tentacles. Along with an increase of speed and strength. The blot was on me, but its center was circling me. That is good. It did not recognize the whistle.

It circled me for a minute, allowing my hounds to arrive. The hellhounds came to me under the branch I was sitting on and circled the tree. Thanks to Vornskr abilities they have had for a while. The xeno could not hide from them. They finally get a worthy foe to use that ability on.

"Flush them out...", I order them.

The hellhounds then left me and went right after the xeno. Which was hiding nearby in another tree.

It was indeed flushed out. Then is displayed great skill and power. It knows how to completely enhance itself. Its strength, speed, claw sharpness, tail lethality, durability. It had a bite of red lightning. My hounds were being heavily injured and resisted with not too much trouble. It could keep up with the pack of hounds with only some trouble. While the hounds got some minor wounds in, nothing that slows it down.

After seeing enough, I sounded the whistle again to recall them. Now that the xeno is flushed out, there is no need for them to get injured further.

As the hounds backed away, I ran straight at the xeno. It met my challenge and charged me with Force Speed. I used Force Speed as well. It leapt at me, and I went into a slide beneath it. As I was sliding underneath, I shot out out a net. It wrapped around the xeno and then began to tighten.

The xeno let out a screech and burst out of the net with the help of the Force. As I thought, it would not be so easy. It approached me again, but this not in a straight charge. It came at me and stopped right in front of me. Swinging its tailbone around to launch its tail at me. I slipped the tail and then used my right arm to grab it. Then I grabbed it with two hands and swung the xeno over my head and into the ground.

I smashed the xeno into the ground another three times, before it retaliated. Red lightning coursed through its tail and into my hands. Shocking me and shooting me away into some bushes.

It was a good jolt, but it'll take more than that. I got back up a little smokey but okay. The xeno wasted no time and came at with everything it had. As I was getting up, I was assailed by claws, teeth and tail. To defend, I attacked. My wrist blades came out and I chopped off its hands.

The wrist blades were now starting to melt, so I ejected them out and right towards the xeno. The ejected blades were swiped away by the tail.

For some payback, I raised my hand and sent red Force Lightning at the xeno myself. It couldn't dodge and got shocked. It actually managed to resist being turned to ash. Although it couldn't move from the lightning.

I raise my left hand and us the Force to Grab onto its head. I then rip off the head and the body turns to ashes. I then pull the head into my grasp and hold it.

"One serpent down. Five more to go.", I say to myself.

Then I call down a drone to pick up the head and take it back to the staging area.

That xeno was just a scout. The lone scout that the other 5 sent out to inspect the surrounding area. They will know that their scout is dead. They will be expecting me. Holed up in their underground temple, waiting.

I let out a loud and far-reaching roar. I want to let them know, that thinking they can lure me in. Thinking that they are the hunters. Is a grand mistake.

Finally, I begin to run again. Straight towards the underground temple.