Why the hell was she here? She hated the cold, hated people, and she really hated being outside. She had been dragged out of the confines of her sanctuary to come here with no choice, or say in the matter. It was either she came along or be sent to jail. Why? Because she's had the audacity to make her home in an abandoned asylum. Weyland's asylum. He had made plans to tear it down and build a manufacturing plant of some kind, but he'd never gotten around to it.

Darting her deep ocean blue eyes around, she saw Mr. Weyland, the head honcho, and sole owner of Weyland Industries, sucking on a glass pipe to get air into his lungs. She knew he was sick. She had known that from the first time she saw him. He could be in bed enjoying a nice warm meal, being taken care of by all the best doctors, and not worrying about a single thing; instead he came here; to this frozen wasteland; Antarctica; what a total moron.

Turning away from him, she stalked away to the hole that had been drilled only an hour ago. Peering down into it, she thought about sliding down to her doom. She imagined her brains splattered on the ground below her and all of her bones broken. Her gloved hand grasped the side of the hole, she would do it; she would slide down to her death.

"Remarkable isn't it, Lilith?" Releasing the side of the hole, she glared at Sebastian with a shrug.

"We'll be going down there soon; in about five minutes. Are you ready?" Sebastian could hardly contain his excitement. It was like watching a kid with a new toy. She rolled her eyes, shrugged her shoulders, and stalked away, with Sebastian staring after her with utter confusion. He'd never understand her.

Soon five minutes had come and gone. She was ready for the descent into the solid ice. Making her way down to where the crew was, she stopped a few feet away so she didn't have to be anywhere near anyone. She had no clue who most of these people were, nor did she care. She didn't want to be here, and she didn't want to be with them.

Weyland, though, was one she knew; it was easy to tell by the way he dressed, all fancy and nice. Sebastian was also easy to identify, because he wouldn't leave her the hell alone. The others, thank god, acted as if she didn't exist.

"Okay, before we go down; you have to listen to me and do as I say. It may mean your life if you don't." The black lady stared directly at her. She would have shot her the bird if Weyland hadn't stepped forward.

"Lex, we all know your rules. We will follow you and your instructions exactly to the letter." If he presumed to be speaking for her, she would rip off his balls and force him to eat them. She didn't care if he was sick.

They made their way to the tunnel and latched themselves on to the sled to get ready to go. As they began their way down, everything was fine, until half way; Weyland slipped and went sliding down to his death, the lucky bastard. She glared angrily at him as he slid by her, jealous that he was on the way to the afterlife.

CLANK

Lex's ice ax had pinned his coat to stop him. After nearly ten minutes, they had him reattached to his life line, with everyone asking him if he was okay. Finally, they were back on their way down.

Nearly an hour, it took them nearly an hour to get down here. She was grouchy and she felt like fighting. She was in the mood for a real long fist fight.

She watched as everyone picked up some equipment from the sled that they took with them and began to walk, with Lex in the lead. At least her name was easy to remember.

The temple fascinated her, beckoned to her, and eagerly she followed its calling.

Upon entering the temple, she noticed a few things. The walls had numerous markings on them and every once in a while she would see statues. It was obvious that Sebastian was fascinated by all of it.

"Amazing, it says here that gods from another world came here for game, and when they would come they expected human sacrifices for the hunt, and…" God did he ever stop talking? She couldn't take it. She ignored the rest of what he said. Walking on, she accidentally stepped on a stone that would wake a monster from anyone's worst nightmare, and invite the predators to come for their hunt.

Upon entering a chamber full of skeletons on slabs of smooth rock beds, she noticed that their chests were ripped open, and they were in a circle. She didn't know how many there were. She didn't bother counting.

It was astounding in her eyes, though. They twinkled with wonder.

Seeing the skeletons made her think of something she had forgotten to do before they arrived. She pulled out a knife. It was a nicely made and well crafted knife. A pocket knife to be exact, its handle was made from a deer's antler, and the blade was pure silver with a skull in the middle of it. The words 'Til You Die' were engraved underneath the skull. Raising her coat sleeve, and knowing that the others would be along any minuet, she made a quick clean cut across her wrist to accompany her other two hundred sixty six cuts.

It would seem that she would've died by now, but amazingly, that hadn't happened yet.

Seeing the deep red of her own blood, she was satisfied and put her knife safely away. She turned around to explore the rest of the chamber, until a hand grabbed her by her shoulders. She was spun around with quite a bit of force and she came face to face with Lex.

"I said 'we are supposed to stay together as a team.' I will not allow a child like you to go wandering around on your own. Do I make myself clear?" She was surprised that Lex could talk to her so calmly even though she knew she was burning on the inside. She couldn't help the smile that adorned her lips.

"This isn't funny you little delinquent. You are to stay with me from now on. You got that?" The smile quickly left her face as she made two rude gestures with both of her middle fingers causing Lex to Smile.

"Good."

After their delightful conversation, the others showed up, joking about what Sebastian had translated. That came to an abrupt halt when they saw the skeletons. Sebastian saw this and came running around the team to get a better look.

"Their chests appear to have been ripped open from the inside out. Like something was in them and forced its way out of them." 'Thank you, captain obvious.' She thought as she went to walk away again. A hand on her wrist caused her to stop; at least it wasn't the wrist she had cut.

"You are to remain with me, or wasn't I clear enough." Jerking her wrist away, she folded her arms across her chest and reluctantly stayed in place as the team set about doing whatever the hell they were going to do. One guy threw a glowing stick down a drain to reveal another room. How exciting another room who gives a care, because she sure as hell didn't, but the others didn't seem to think so because Lex came around and started to steer her in the direction of a long set of stairs that they were going to go down.

Wrenching free from Lex she followed Weyland, Sebastian, and two others going down the narrow hallway entering a chamber beneath the chamber to find in front of them a casket type thing. Sebastian was the first to it studying it.

"What is today's date?" Really? She pushed passed Sebastian and started to turn the dials. "WAIT!" Sebastian grabbed her arm but it was too late. The casket slid open revealing strange weapon like things, and unbeknownst to them egg things above had risen up above the dead body's heads, the doors were sliding down, and the crew was fighting to keep them open when Lilith had entered the date, January sixth two thousand twenty one.

The only thing they heard was screaming from above them causing all but one of them to jump. That was the sound of sweet, sweet screaming. Who wouldn't like the sound of it? Well to Lilith it was like a wonderful lullaby. She could listen to it forever.

Until something that looked like air killed one of the men.

A door before them opened they had no choice but to take it; if they didn't they'd all die in that room that had killed on of the guys that was with them. They all ran, but Lilith wanted to walk not caring what they wanted, or that a guy was just killed. To her if she died, then she died; so what? End of story, but Lex grabbed her hand and pulled her along, so she had no other choice, but to follow.

As they ran, Weyland collapsed causing Lex to release Lilith and run back to Weyland. Lex let go of her and ran to his side. He pushed her away. "Go on go before whatever that was gets you."

"I can't just leave you." Lex tugged his arms trying to get him up, but Weyland shoved her away and persisted. "Listen you must go. You have other people who need you. I'm an old man and I'm dying. They're young and need to live." With tears in her eyes, Lex nodded her head and went running towards the others.

That was when it showed itself. Its mask the color of bronze, dreadlocks hung around its face like a deadly curtain, its green and yellowish skin looked almost reptilian, and it had armored chest plating, armor on its legs and thighs, as well as a metal looking kilt around its waist.

She stared intently at it, not paying the others any heed what so ever. She didn't even hear as Lex called her name. She simply just watched as it stared at Weyland, before it simply walked away. But as it did, Weyland tried to put it on fire, making the thing turn back towards him. She watched as it lifted Weyland up and impaled him with a weapon like thing on his wrist that had two blades; again, she thought that the bastard was lucky. She took a step forward, drawing its attention to her. She was mesmerized, such stealth, grace, power, and deadliness. She took another step towards it, hoping to die.

That was until Lex grabbed her arm and had her running again, the sheer nerve of that woman.

In the other part of the chamber, though, the hunt was already on. The eggs that had hatched had claimed their hosts and were now unleashed.

Lex forced her to run and to keep running. Up in front of them, though, a net like thing took another man who she didn't know or care to know, and pinned him to a wall. The net started to tighten against him causing him to scream in pain. Another one of those things that looked like the one chasing them came at him with a long spear and drove it straight through him.

There were only three of them now; her, Lex, and Sebastian. Lex was ahead of them. Wait; if Lex didn't have a hold of her, then why wasn't she turning back dropping to her knees and begging for her death? A smile appeared on her lips as she realized the answer. She was actually having fun for once.

She looked back to see one of the things chasing them. It was the one that had killed Weyland. She wasn't too sure how she could tell. Maybe the way it was smaller than the other one. Who knows?

She looked at it like a game of tag, a deadly game of tag. She turned her head and gave it one of the biggest grins she could. It slowed down when it saw her smiling at it.

She turned back around, wiped the smile off her face, and matched the same pace as Lex. As they ran, the temple began to change and causing them to run faster, the thing hot on their heels.

Lex leaped forwards to avoid falling in a hole that formed underneath her, as well as Lilith and Sebastian.

As they ran, they saw a chamber and the wall sliding up threatening to cut them off from it. They all ran faster including Lilith to reach the room. As they ran, an ear piercing screech echoed off the walls. What it was this time, they didn't want to know.

They were almost there. Lex reached it first crawling through, and making it to the other side. Lilith crawled as fast as she could behind Lex and making it to the other side, then Sebastian started to crawl through until something grabbed his leg.

It was as black as night and as shiny as a pearl. It was almost alien like. They all knew what made that shriek now.

Sebastian kicked at it and screamed. Why couldn't she have been the last one to crawl over?

The thing was ripped away from Sebastian by the other thing and the two battled. Sebastian was on the move again as a deadly dance was going on behind him. He barely made it out, as the wall came up. They watched the deadly dance. The one who killed Weyland knocked the other one down and dug a spear into its head winning the battle of the behemoths. They continued to watch as the winner took something from his belt and flung it towards them. They all ducked, except for Lilith. It flew through the air and whizzed past her hair cutting a piece of her brown hair dyed black off. You could barely tell it was cut.

The thing must have been impressed by this because it walked over to the wall that was between them and looked at her through the tiny boxed hole that was there. It tilted its head to the side and began to purr.

Lilith gave it a sinister little smile as she flipped it off.

That purr quickly changed into a low menacing growl and it shook its head, pointed a finger at her and wagged it back and forth.

This shocked Lilith. It was scolding her and she knew it. She stopped smiling, and glared at him while bringing her other hand up and flipped it off again; this time with both hands. The thing growled louder and deadlier, while pointing a finger at her again… She never got the chance to find out what it was going to do. A stinging slap to the back of the head made sure of that.

"What are you doing?" It was Lex; of course, she would interrupt her fun. Lex looked at the thing. It was now bent over its kill, its mask off. To say it was ugly was an understatement. The thing was downright repulsive. It had four tusks with pointy dagger like teeth on them. Its eyes were sunken in, although, the rich gold color of the eyes was beautiful.

It broke a claw off of the other thing and carved a "T" into its forehead, as it let out a loud roar.

"It's a predator." Lex and Lilith both whipped around to look at Sebastian who was leaned over some writing.

"And apparently the thing he just killed is an alien and it seems as though we have its weapons to fight those aliens off." Now that that is straightened out we can all live happily. Yeah right. "What do you mean?" Lex was now bent over him with a freaked out expression. "I mean if we don't give them to him were dead."

Lilith rolled her eyes.

"We only have three minutes till the temple changes and the only way out is through that door." Sebastian pointed to a slab that had a picture of a sun on it guarded by predator statues that was in front of them. She had no clue when they figured out what time the temple would adjust, but she figured it was when she was flipping the predator off.

Lilith didn't want to run anymore; she just wanted to stay there and see if the thing… no; the predator would kill her.

She turned her attention back to the predator that was pacing the floor, and had its mask back on, which was a total disappointment to Lilith. She smacked a hand on the stone wall getting the predator's undivided attention. She made sure Lex was paying attention to Sebastian because she did not want to get hit in the back of the head again.

Turning back around, she put both hands up on her temple, stuck her tongue out, and crossed her eyes, while tilting her head from side to side, as she wiggled her fingers.

The predator cocked it head to the side and made an almost clicking rumbling noise. Lilith stopped what she was doing for a second as she turned and saw Lex and Sebastian still talking to one another; good. That was good. They only had a minute left before the temple shifted.

Looking back at the predator it was still making that sound, as it approached. It appeared to have been chuckling at her. The predator obviously knew she wanted its attention, and it was giving it to her. She examined its body and saw nothing feminine like so it must be a "he". When she really thought about it, his companion must have been a he too.

She was about to reach her hand out to him knowing he might cut it off, but the temple began to shake. The stone in front of Lilith began to come down and the door was opening. Not wasting any time Lex grabbed Lilith and bolted towards the opening door with Sebastian taking up the rear.

A roar was heard from behind them but they didn't stop. Lex still had a hold of Lilith, as they ran not letting go, even when Lilith tried to free herself.

They ran all the way to a broken bridge that god knows what fall down to your death height it was. Releasing Lilith, Lex turned to Sebastian. "We have to jump across it."

The look on Sebastian's face was enough to make the funny pages. His eyes were practically bulging out of his face, his mouth was opened to his knees, and he was ash white. "Uh, no, no I don't think so." Lex gave him an incredulous look. "Don't tell me you're afraid of heights?" "Well you see about that…" Sebastian rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "You flew out here on a plane." "Hey, planes are safe."

Tired of their bickering she took a running leap to the other side almost missing her goal, her legs hung over the edge. Using her arms, she pulled herself up. Seeing as though they were still fighting she clapped her hands together making Lex and Sebastian stare at her in wide eyed horror, but not nearly as much as when they saw the predator behind them. "We have to go, NOW!"

Lex's legs pumped as she ran and leaped into the air landing on the target without her legs over the edge. Sebastian stared as the predator stalked forward taking steps back. He went to turn around to run. Run he did. He flew over the gap that was separating him, Lex, and Lilith.

Lilith was paying just as much attention to the predator as he was to her. She stuck her tongue out at him and flipped him off with both hands. She watched as he took several steps back. That was when it occurred to her that he was going to jump over to them. That was until he was tackled to the ground by an alien.

Sebastian latched on the edge with his hands trying to pull himself up. Lex threw her back pack at Lilith and ran over to Sebastian.

"Take my hand." Staring at her, he grasped her hand as she tried to pull him up. A black shimmering shadow caught Lex's attention, and she tried harder but the shadow had a hold of his leg, and was pulling him down into the ravine, and Sebastian's eyes widened in horror.

"Lex." Lex wouldn't let go she refused to let go, but that was her undoing. The alien managed to pull Sebastian down and Lex along with him. They were gone. Lilith watched what had happened, but she didn't feel any sadness.

Dropping the back pack Lex threw at her, she walked off allowing a song from the band the One Eyed Dolls to enter her mind…Monster. She knew that the predator was fighting off a horde of aliens, but he wasn't alone, oh no, one of his friends was with him fighting alongside him, he had a bigger bulk and was decorated in skulls, he looked mad and huge, so she walked on.

Unbeknown to her, the predators had watched everything. They saw what happened, they saw her drop the bag that had one of their weapons, and they saw her walk off.

She walked the temple halls for what felt like hours. She was on her guard; to her this was a game of chess mixed with tag; in this game, though, she was the lone queen.

She walked without any direction. This temple was a damned maze, but one that would change every so often. She slumped against the wall to rest and contemplated her mind, that was until a shrieking and a growling sound pierced the air around her.

She shot up from where she was and followed the hall that held the sound. She ran three times to the right and the last time to the left and found a huge chamber the size of two football fields and there in the middle of it all was a predator and an alien standing it off head to head and toe to toe. The predator was leaping from the walls all the while attacking the alien, which was already wounded; it had a grid pattern on its head.

The predator was strongly built, more so than the other two she'd seen, but same color, though it did have one single skull tied to its neck. The predator was able to cut the alien across the chest all the while avoiding the blood. He leapt from the wall east from the alien in an attacking pose. His gauntlet raised with the two blades extended; they glistened with what little light was there, he struck, too bad the alien saw this coming; it dodged to the side using its tail to whip the predator back and into a pillar. He hit it with a sickening thwack causing Lilith to become rigid as she watched the alien attack the predator, who had no time to gather his bearings, with its tail raised.

What was she thinking? She grabbed her knife from her coat pocket and started to charge the alien.

Its tail was raised well over the predator's head and brought it down in a deadly arch.

A force knocked it to its side confusing it as well as the predator; both of them looking around for the force that had dared to attack it.

Her smile was nervous, though she tried not to show it, she had just attacked a creature twice her height. She watched as it gathered itself up looking around for her. She moved slowly in the dark, stealthily, undetected, and silent. She moved up right next to it in the dark while raising her pocket knife high in the air and bringing it down on the beasts hide sinking it deep into its side. It screamed in pain, agonizing, brutal, pain.

Removing the knife, she saw that it was covered in acidic blood, but unharmed.

She should have been paying attention to the thing for it had whipped around hitting her with its talon clawed hand sending her flying through the air hitting a far wall. It was on her in seconds before she had the chance to dodge or move. It was preparing to attack, to kill her, to end her life.

She was prepared, but something unexpected happened at that moment. Well two things actually, one being a bright blue light hitting it dead in center of the head, the next, it was able to survive long enough to get away.

She looked to her left where the shot had originated from. There in the doorway were the two predators she had seen over on the other side of the bridge. Shooting up she darted to the nearest exit, which was forty feet away from her, she never made it; she ran into thin air and stumbled to a halt.

Before her eyes, a predator appeared from thin air. She recognized this one well. This was the one she tormented well mainly teased him when she was with the others.

She darted to the ground in between his legs startling the poor guy, poor? Cha, yeah right. She made him mad. He spun around; his dreads spinning around him as he did so, grabbing her by the hood of her coat lifted her to his eye level and gave a deep threatening growl.

She knew she was dead. Her game had ended much sooner than she wanted. Glaring at the predator, she lifted her right hand and flipped him off. His growl deepened. Hey, if she was going to die she might as well get her kicks.

She was expecting to be impaled, have her neck broken, be decapitated, or anything else that involved death, but no she was tossed over his shoulder like a damned sack of potatoes. His left hand had her pinned by the knees rendering her legs immobile for use.

She was not happy, she was mad, no, she was beyond mad. To say that she was pissed would be an understatement. She grabbed his dreads, pulling them this way and that way, all the while banging her fist into his back. She even went as far as biting him, while ignoring the growl he was giving.

Raising his left hand off her legs, he brought it down onto to her bottom firmly but hard enough that it would hurt all the way through her clothes. He replaced his hand back on the back of her knees.

She felt it; she gasped, but it made her go way over the edge. He did this as they were passing his comrades. The one that was thrown against the pillar made the same sound that her captor made when she had made that face. He was chuckling at this. She glared at him and flipped him off causing him and the other one to go rigid; turning her attention back to the one carrying her she started to claw and bite him. She was relentless. She was so relentless that she drew blood, green blood.

The predator had finally had enough of her behavior. Hadn't anyone taught her manners or for that matter, respect? He stopped dead in his tracks, lifted her off his shoulder only to be met with a rebellious glare; rebellious, angry, and defiant.

He leaned against the wall, but enough to have bent knees; he set her on his right leg trapping her legs with the other, while having his right hand support her where she was. Lifting his left hand, he gave her twelve smacks to her protected bottom; each smack earned a small gasp or a hiss of pain. He didn't use his full strength, but enough strength against a human to make it effective.

His comrades stared at the scene in approval. Landing the twelfth smack, he lifted her back up to meet his gaze and held hers while he shook his head no.

Holding back her tears, she looked away from him, not wanting to meet his gaze after he shook his head. He set her down in front of him; pushed off the wall; and grabbed her, pulling her into a hug.

She went rigid. First, he hits her then he's frigging hugging her! Is he mental or something? She put her hands on his chest and started to try to push him away. She shoved, she pushed, and she tugged; nothing seemed to release his relentless grasp. After a minute, she finally gave up and dropped her hands to her side. He purred when she did so; it was deep, and it almost sounded like 'aw'. After a few minutes of holding her, he picked her up, and cradled her as if she were a baby. Of course, she did struggle then, but a growl from him made her cease immediately. What? Going over his knee once was more than enough for her; she settled down allowing herself to be carried. She'd get her revenge one way…or another