Memoirs of a RAFian

[Cloak]

If this chapter does not post . . . well, then you guys won't be reading this, then.

EDIT: Piece of sh!t. Forgive my language. This'll be a truncated chapter now.

CHAPTER THREE:
Old RAF

"Are you sure this is the place?" Underseen asked.

"Sure, I'm sure," Parker said, sounding a bit miffed -- as if Underseen slighted his navigational capabilities.

They were in old ruins, yet there was a familarity to the abandoned, mundane cinderblock buildings. The dirt was loose and rather sandy. Earthsight was more difficuct, but not impossible.

It was Old RAF.

"So," Underseen said, forcing the cheery tone in his voice, "how does it feel for you guys to be back here?"

"I've never been here before," Cloak said, voice rather plain and expressionless. Aquilai and Noelle said similar things.

"Okay, sp never mind then." Underseen said falling quiet for a few minutes. Then he asked what caused this.

Cloak said, "I dunno, but my guess would be on the Pootang."

"The Pootang?" Aquilai asked.

"Unless I'm mistaken," Cloak said, "Pootang was born here."

***

The six Predators gathered holding the six devices that simulated the distress beacon. The Predators knew it would be the perfect lure to the RAfians. Once the RAFians arrived, they were informed and split into individual paths away from each other, splitting the one distress signal into six.

[Underseen]

How much is missing from that chapter?

[Cloak]

At least 25%, Underseen.

Anyway, I finished the "Monster Mash" book, and I am currently three-quarters through "Jumping To Conclusions" book. Added a several new book ideas:

• Book CLXX: Hat's Off

The RAFians must deal with a quartet of hat-like aliens.

• Book CLXXI: You Are What You Read

The RAFians must deal with a "Captain Marvel"-style vigilante, who turns supervillian.

• Book CLXXII: Wrath of the Colossuses

The RAfians must stop the rising Nazca Colossuses.

• Book CXXIII: The Year Without RAF

Estelore tells the RAFian version of "The Year Without Santa Claus".

[redtailedsaffa]

No wonder, it's strangely short. (Of course, my standard of "short" needs to be redefined. )

[Cloak]

Right you are, Saffa. Now, I don't know if I'll be able to post a chapter today, but I'll try to post one a little later on.

EDIT: Have time right before class -- here's the list.

• Book XXXVIII: A Protean Problem

The RAFians must deal with a powerful snot-nosed kid who, quite literally, can do whatever he wants.

• Book XXXIX: The Horsemen

Four RAFians are captured and converted into four Horsemen of the ancient, rogue Realm Walker Cataclysm.

• Book XL: Sizeable Pain in the Necks

The RAFians must deal with Heinlein aliens.

• Book XLI: RAF's Nightmare

The RAFians must survive their own nightmares.

• Book XLII: Unlucky Charms

The RAFians must contend with a rather bloodthirsty leprechaun.

• Book XLIII: The Piper

The RAFians must contend with a pied piper.

• Book XLIV: Starlight Desire

The RAFians race Malice, Abomination, and the Banned to a wishing star (no, not Estelore).

• Book XLV: A War of Armor

Parker is outraged to see knockoffs of his rather unique armor and what they're being used for.

• Book XLVI: The Worst Plague

The RAFians must weather the worst plague to ever existed -- the Hate Plague.

• Book XLVII: Little Alien Napoleons

The RAFians are caught in the middle of a war between Helmacrons and Fmeks.

• Book XLVIII: Go Away!

The RAFians must deal with the paparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them.

• Book XLIX: RAFian Tales

RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table.

• Book L: Maul

The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments.

• Book LI: Erised Orbs

The RAFians must face their greatest desires.

• Book LII: RAFians Alive!

Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread.

• Book LIII: The Pain Reliever

The RAFians must deal with an elderly Vulcan styling himself the "Pain Reliever".

• Book LIV: Beyond the Veils

Aquilai and Aila must confront old foes while the other RAFians must put up with a Czarinian bounty hunter.

• Book LV: Dangerous Deals

Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals.

• Book LVI: Of One Mind

Malice seeks out the Unimind.

• Book LVII: The End of Time

The RAFians must contend with two Kryptonians (who think they're Time Lords) and prevent them from ending time altogether.

• Book LVIII: Hematomimic

The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's rather stupid Judoon jailer.

• Book LIX: Sins of Youth

Estelore, Richard, Parker, and Cloak must survive when the entire city and forum have been reduced to two-year-olds.

• Book LX: The Replacements

The RAFians must contend with the fame-feeding Eidolon Consciousness.

• Book LXI: Arachnoids

The RAFians must contend with the Arachnoids and finding a cure for one of their own that was poisoned before it's too late.

• Book LXII: Personal Tissues

The RAFians must contend with some one misusing Bibliophaetos's discarded book shell.

• Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow

The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it.

• Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon

A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it.

• Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite

Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities.

• Book LXVI: The Merging

The Universes begin colliding and merging.

• Book LXVII: Be A Doll

The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky.

• Book LXVIII: They're Such Cards

The RAFians are sealed into cards, which end up trapped in an ancient leather-bound book, and it's up to three kids to free them.  An out-of-continuity book.

• Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island

Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian.

• Book LXX: Corrupted

The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor.

• Book LXXI: Artificial Skins

The RAFians must deal with symbiotes.

• Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety

The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus.

• Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians

The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks.

• Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea

The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac.

• Book LXXV: Vacation Photos

The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera.

• Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin

The RAFians must contend with gremlins.

• Book LXXVII: The Rust is Silence

The Rafians must deal with an oxidation ray wielded by a criminal.

• Book LXXVIII: The Toyman Cometh

The RAFians deal with a Toyman-esque character.

• Book LXXIX: RAFian Idol

Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies.

• Book LXXX: Savage Heart

Cloak battles an ancient being called Garrotik.

• Book LXXXI: Slave Islands and Juggernauts

Three RAFians are taken prisoners by the Knights and sold into the slavery of New Genoshia, while the others deal with a juggernaut.

• Book LXXXII: Shredding a King

The RAFians deal with a demonic Shredder-like ghost called Regiphaetos.

• Book LXXXIII: RAF -- The TV Show

The RAFians are forcibly recruited to Mojo's programs.

• Book LXXXIV: The Drinker

The RAFians must contend with a Spirit-Drinker.

• Book LXXXV: The Last Laugh

The RAFians must face Joker Gas.

• Book LXXXVI: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Villain

The RAFians must contend with mind control cards which are ineffective on them.

• Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen

Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind, optically-speaking.

• Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow

The RAFians must face a second Ice Age caused by a Diznee Ice Ifrit.

• Book LXXXIX: The Rachel Toxin

The RAFians must find a cure to a toxin that increases the fearlessness, hostility and aggressiveness induced in people which the Mark cannot protect the RAFians from.

• Book XC: Virus Alert!

The RAFians face a dangerous virus seeking a host.

• Book XCI: A Youthful Thief

The RAFians face a creature that siphons off the youth in its victims, provided they're younger than him.

• Book XCII: Calendar Creep

The RAFians face the Calendar Creep, a criminal whose crimes are holiday themed.

• Book XCIII: The Branding

Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Saberhagen) for a magical branding iron in Faerie's possession.

• Book XCIV: The Void Zone

Nothing like a "Subspace Emissary" parody.  Sorry.

• Book XCV: An Epic Yarn

The RAFians' world is turned into yarn and fabric.

• Book XCVI: RAFian Gladiators

RAFians are kidnapped by Gamesmaster, another rogue Realm Walker, and force to participate in gladiatorial games.

• Book XCVII: The Box

The RAFians must cage thirteen Revenants released from Pandora's Box -- each representing and amplifying a particular feeling (i.e. hatred), while looking for the perfect host.

• Book XCVIII: From the Shadows

The RAFians must save their shadows and the shadows of everyone else from being absorbed (eaten) by the Umbraraptors, but not everything is what it seems.

• Book XCIX: Grimm Prospects

The RAFians discover Malice controlling several "wesen" with control collars akin to April's in "Catwoman from Channel Six" and get stuck in one-on-one battles to the death with them.  One will die.

• Book C: Loop-De-Loop

Everyone's trapped in a temporal loop, but the only ones that realize it are Cloak, Aila, and Aquilai.

• Book CI: Get 'Em, Shaw

The RAFians face a creature native to the planet Gossamer, who's under the control of Malice.

• Book CII: Threadfall

The RAFians must exterminate an epidemic of Thread.

• Book CIII: Siren's Song

The RAFians must deal with a siren and her alluring song.

• Book CIV: Resistance is Futile

The RAFians must deal with a hybridization of the Borg and the Hive chips (Ben 10: Alien Swarm) -- which the Mark cannot protect them from, nor the Unity energy can destroy.

• Book CV: The Titan

The RAFians must contend with the Titan serum and its effects.

• Book CVI: A Stony Glare

The RAFians must deal with a hungry Stone-Biter and a petrifying venom of a Diznee Stone Ifrit.

• Book CVII: Spritely Pests

The RAFians must deal with irritating sprites, which Faerie has had some rather tenuous experiences with.

• Book CVIII: Destroy All . . . What?

The RAFians must contend with a Furon incursion, and it turns out the Nyacs have knowledge of Furons. . . .

• Book CIX: Going Backwards

A grievious malfunction in Aquilai's TARDIS causes time to reverse its flow and flow backwards.

• Book CX: Death Takes A Holiday

The RAFians must convince Death to take up his role again.  A RAFian will die in this book, and it is within the continuity.

• Book CXI: High Price Stakes

Shanker and Gaz must flee and elude Daphne, the vampire hunter.

• Book CXII: A Killer Housing Market

The RAFians must survive and either destroy or escape a killer house.

• Book CXIII: A Silenced World

The RAFians must cope with a world that has become muted and a young sorceress, Melissa Spellman.

• Book CXIV: The Bureau

The RAFians must save their own from the insideous Bureau of Lost.

• Book CXV: To Tell the Truth

Broken's apprentice, Melissa, accidentally casts a spell forcing everyone to tell the truth.

• Book CXVI: Skin Crawlers

The RAFians, repulsed and revolted, must contend with Hundred (who eventually becomes Thousand, then becomes Million, then Billion, and then, finally, Trillion).

• Book CXVII: School of Stepford Lies

The RAFians must save the children from a school that turns them into Stepford students at Terenia's school.

• Book CXVIII: Ol' Salty

The RAFians must deal with the Salt Man.

• Book CXIX: The Great Race

The RAFians hold a race that Aloth cons himself into.  Who will win?

• Book CXX: Ape Escape

The RAFians must help super intelligent apes -- Caesar the chimp, Brutus the gorilla, and Maestro the orangutan -- reconcil their misanthropy.

• Book CXXI: A Different Kind of Unity

The RAFians must contend with a parasitic "unity".

• Book CXXII: The Great Brain Robery

Someone is stealing brains for an unknown purpose.

• Book CXXIII: The Bounty Hunter

The Knights, in their hypocricy, hire a Tsul'Kalu bounty hunter to collect select RAFians (to taxidermy).

• Book CXXIV: New Controllers

The RAFians confront Zirconians.

• Book CXXV: Creeping Crystal

A wave of crystallizing energy is sweeping the land. . . .

• Book CXXVI: The Element Feeder

The RAFians deal with a creature who feeds on a specific element and matures to a different element each time as it matures. . . .

• Book CXXVII: The Rider and the Walker

The RAFians come up against the Ghost Rider.

• Book CXXVIII: Headhunters

What will happen when RAFians lose their heads?  Seriously.

• Book CXXIX: The Color Purple, Man!

The RAFians confront the Purple Man, who manages to turn the entire government against them . . .

• Book CXXX: The Nemetrix Beetle

The RAFians confront the Black Beetle with Nemetrix properties.

• Book CXXXI: It's Tought to Be A Mod

The members of a primitive forum declare Demos and Blue to be mods. . . .

• Book CXXXII: Who-Zilla?

An energy reaction begins turning RAFians into monstrous creatures in 3XXX.  Out-of-continuity book.

• Book CXXXIII: Well, Techadon-ally . . .

The RAFians confront Techadons who assign them qualitive quatilities, and refuse to acknowledge any defeats.

• Book CXXXIV: The Mind's Eye

The RAFians face Spellbinder and his realistic illusions.

• Book CXXXV: Bas-ic Instincts

Bas awakens and attempts to take control of Cloak and other felines.

• Book CXXXVI: Midas Duck

The RAFians must contend with a very strange golden idol and a greedy sneak-thief.

• Book CXXXVII: War with the Warworlds

The RAFians must defeat two heavily-armed Warworlds.

• Book CXXXVIII: Solar Sucks

The RAFians must save Estelore from a device able to suck out her stellar substance and lifeforce.

• Book CXXXIX: Hounded

The RAFians are attacked by hellhounds that only Demos can see, although Cloak can "see" them via Earthsight.

• Book CXL: Politics

The RAFians, much to Cloak's chagrin and irritation, get caught up in the middle of Realm Walker politics.

• Book CXLI: Buggy Afternoon

A Bug is after Parker's blood, to "avenge" their brother slain by the SPARTAN.

• Book CXLII: Cloak's Nightmare

Cloak has an exceedingly vivid nightmare of the Great RAFian Purge. . . .

• Book CXLIII: Cloak and the Olympians

Cloak confronts and defies the Olympians.

• Book CXLIV: Down to Earth

The RAFians have gravity-related problems.

• Book CXLV: Hittin' the Dino-Sauce

The RAFians learn the dangers of Dino-Sauce.

• Book CXLVI: Blood Feud

Shanker's past comes into light. . . .

• Book CXLVII: She's Back! A Dino Story

Pretty much a shameless parody of "We're Back! A Dinosaur Story".

• Book CXLVIII: A Journey into Her Past

Delving into Noelle's pre-RAFian life and her relationship with Ardnalil-Shicom-Maar.

• Book CXLIX: Mortality and Morality

The RAFians face some rather conceited Leviathons.

• Book CL: Utter Pandemonium

Cloak, Gaz, Saffa, Underseen, and Hunter investigate odd goings-on at a theme park island named "Haunted Island".

• Book CLI: A Reality Rewrite

Cloak, Faerie, Broken, and Broken's protege discover a magical, reality-altering typewriter.  Cloak, being a Realm Walker and the other three, being magical, are immune to its rewrites of reality.

• Book CLII: The Coming of Galacticron

The RAFians must save Earth from Galacticron.

• Book CLIII: Theft of Intellectual Property

The RAFians must contend with Brainiac.

• Book CLIV: The Contingency

The RAFians must battle the Talos Project and their living weapon -- Weapon XLIX.

• Book CLV: Muppet, Muppet Man

Parker and Gaz are turned into Muppets. ()

• Book CLVI: Larval Ambush

The RAFians must deal with insectoid creatures who are parasitoids with humans.

• Book CLVII: As the World Doesn't Turn

The RAFians must stop a group of feline aliens from stopping the world from rotating.

• Book CLVIII: Princess Pearls

A few girls of RAf discover the Princess Pearls.

• Book CLVIX: Attack of the Killer Produce

The RAfians must deal and cope with killer produce.

• Book CLX: Moonscarred Menace

The RAfians investigate mysterious disappearances on Moonscar Island.

• Book CLXI: League of Assassins

The League of Assassins set a number of Assassins after Blue.

• Book CLXII: Dark RAFians

The RAFians come up against an evil team modeled after them, attempting to usurp their postions.

• Book CLXIII: Danger Rising

The RAFians' training sim gains sentience.

• Book CLXIV: Moody

Gaz and Saffa accidentally have Moodulators attached to them.

• Book CLXV: Bound Together

Some RAFians get molecularly stuck together.

• Book CLXVI: The Legion of RAFians

The 31^st century RAFians are being picked off and controlled by a group calling themselves the Fantastic Fatalities. May be an out-of-continuity book.

• Book CLXVII: Monster Mash

A deranged Yeerk tries to merge its DNA with a Geonosian Brain Worm to rid itself of its Kadronna dependency.

• Book CLXVIII: Jumping to Conclusions

A xenophobic, reliously-zealous, former government man confuses Cloak with a "Jumper".

• Book CLXIX: You Wish!

An ancient lamp is uncovered, and an ancient warlock seeks it out, while RAF gets caught in the middle.

• *Book CLXX: Hat's Off

The RAFians must deal with a quartet of hat-like aliens.

• *Book CLXXI: You Are What You Read

The RAFians must deal with a "Captain Marvel"-style vigilante, who turns supervillian.

• *Book CLXXII: Wrath of the Colossuses

The RAfians must stop the rising Nazca Colossuses.

• *Book CXXIII: The Year Without RAF

Estelore tells the RAFian version of "The Year Without Santa Claus".

[Underseen]

Well this is unfortunate, but a day without a chapter won't kill me.

[Cloak]

Sorry, Underseen, but I'm exhausted. Spent an hour and 40 minutes walking (nonconsecutively) and another four on my feet.

But I will try.

CHAPTER FOUR:
Six Degrees of Separation

"That's odd," Parker said, "although not altogether unsurprising. The distress signal has split into six."

"There!" Underseen proclaimed. "Bona fide proof that this wasn't anything more but a trap. We should get going --"

"Not so fast," Aquilai said. "That'd be sloppy, we need to be thorough."

"Thorough?!" Underseen said, quite seriously. "Thorough?! This is obviously a trap! You can be seriously considering this. You've seen horror movies. You can't be honestly suggesting --"

"We should split up," Cloak said, brusquely. "Take 'em on."

Underseen facepalmed repeatedly, his hair changing color and style with each one, until he wound up in a platinium blonde mullet. With a twitch, the mullet recided into a crew cut.

"Underseen, do you honestly think we cannot handle whatever laid this rudimentary trap?" Gaz said bracingly.

"Yes, the old 'distress beacon lure' is so old-school," Parker said dismissively.

"But --"

"Underseen, anything short of Heralds of Unicron or Galactus we can handle. We're good." Cloak said.

Normally, such overconfidence would lead to ruination. But, is it overconfidence when you know your opponent? Cloak had told the others his suspicions of thesecreatures, and read from the database's entry. Underseen yelped a bit.

"I must still protest," Underseen said.

<That's fine,> Noelle said. <Go west, young RAFian.>

"Huh?"

<Go to the west, follow that distress beacon,> Noelle elaborated.

Resignedly, Underseen complied. Cloak went north, Noelle went east, Parker went south, Aquilai went northwest, and Gaz went southeast.

[Underseen]

Wow, I am surprised you pulled this off today.

[Cloak]

Yes, if there are any chapters on Thursday, expect them rather later than normal, if at all.

[theyoungphoenix]

Soo... Gotta wait for a bit.

[Cloak]

Well, if this chapter, this short chapter, doesn't post . . . well, then you'll hafta wait until tomorrow or later on tonight.

CHAPTER FIVE:
It's RAFian Season!

Cloak had hesitated a bit before going onto his path, he sensed something, something watching.

He had a shrewd idea what was doing the watching. He hoped by going to these different pathways to turn the trap around on the would-be trappers.

Doubts did fetter his decision, but he silenced them. But they remained, disquieting him.

He closed his eyes, hesitated no longer, and pressed onward.

***

"They're going," one of the six said in their Predator language.

"Yes, yes, I can see that," another sniped, in the Predator language. "Don't narrate everything."

All six were perched in an old oak tree, and completely in shadow and silhouette. You wouldn't be able to tell they were there unless you were looking for them.

"Let's go! Get this hunt on!" one exclaimed in the Predator language, clearly quite eager to get his clock cleaned.

"No!" the most experienced of the lot snapped in the Predator language. He was the big cheese of the six apparrently. "It's too soon. Too quick a hunt. If you want it to mean anything, you'll have to wait a little longer."

And they waited. The most experienced on getting tired of the others' complaints. This why he had the RAFians separated, he preferred his hunts alone for this reason. When you're alone, the only complaints you hear are those from your prey if you decide to draw out the death.

But only real young Predators  or the sadistic ones, enjoyed drawing it out. This one did not.

Then, after a half hour had elapsed, the most experienced one dropped down from the tree.

He spoke in the Predator language, "Now is the time. The hunt is on!"

[Cloak]

Now, if my internet doesn't decide to get spotty on me, here's another chapter.

CHAPTER SIX:
Hunted, Underseen

Underseen took his pathway, but was wondering what good was running. He also noticed just how much smaller old RAF was to its modern day counterpart. Within moments he was a the western threshold of the forum.

Still the Predator hadn't shown. Underseen's form quavered a bit -- eventually winding up with Justin Bieber hair and a distorted version of his own natural face and that of the overrated pop star with an ego the size of Hindenburg.

When he realized that had happened, he quickly shapeshifted it away, looking around, thinking, I hope no one saw that.

The Predator following him was being rather careless, ignoring his camouflage tech. He was so confident that his victory in this hunt was assured, he didn't even stalk Underseen, but strolled after him at a sedate pace. His weapons still holstered, his mask's tech not even activated.

Underseen found this lack of finesse, this abandonment of secrecy, this utter distain and denial of Underseen being seen as a threat, offensive. He was abjectly indignant at this.

The Predator wasn't even bothering to keep himself secret! He was just strolling blandly and bold as brass! Underseen could see him easily from a distance!!

This not only angered Underseen, but infuriated him. He may have some more subtle abilities, not as ostentatious as, say, Cloak's or Estelore's, but the Infinity Blade, his Light Blade, did chose him, after all! To disregard him after all he's done to a C-list . . .

Underseen got a grip of himself, and shot an glare of such deep loathing to the reckless Predator, as Underseen decided to turn the tables in this overconfident sack of Taxxon manure.

He deftly disguised himself as a wasp, when he came to the area where the distress beacon was placed -- a rock by river rapids. Trees all around. An isolated area.

Obviously, the Predator thought it would be the best place to make his kill.

Well, it won't be that easy, you irritating idiot, Underseen thought bitterly.

Then he waited for the lolligagging Predator to show up . . . then he'll show this dimwitted Predator why he, Underseen, was as much of a heavy-hitter as the others, as Parker, as Estelore, as Cloak.

[theyoungphoenix]

Nice chapters. Do you really think like that Underseen? Just a random question for you.

[Cloak]

I may have been wrong, but sometimes shapeshifters don't get the respect they deserve.

May be a short chapter.

CHAPTER SEVEN:
Shapeshifter Schooling

The Predator approached the distress beacon, and examined it in a rather lazy, laid-back way.

"The bait's been untouched, and it definitely came this way," the Predator said in its natural language. Had he been human, he would have been smiling like an idiot. "The prey is hiding. It could be anything, if its profile was right."

Naturally, Underseen couldn't understand what it was saying, but he got the gist. But he waited a moment more, before flying as high as he could, before shapshifting into a black rhino -- the species withe prehensile upper lip and two horns -- and plummeting right down on top of the Predator. He quickly rolled off as he shapesifted to a gray rat and hid in the undergrowth, watching.

The Predator managed to survive that -- after all they can crush concrete with their bare hands.

Suddenly, Underseen burst from the underbrush as a cheetah, this way and that, successfully disorienting the Predator.

Then he retreated into the underbrush, which the Predator recklessly fires his energy weapons into -- luckily not starting a fire. Still, it was a careless, thoughtless thing to do.

Then, quiet suddenly, The Predator had a 400-pound gorilla on his back,mwrestling him to the ground -- not using brute force but dexterity, momentum, and skill.

Eventually, the Predator manages to stand, but Underseen was already gone.

"This can't be," the Predator cursed in he own language, "it was not supposed to be this . . . this . . ."

Suddenly, behind him came an earth-shattering shriek. A velociraptor burst forth from the underbrush, charging the Predator, drawing blood -- its glowing, phosphorescent blood -- which splattered the rock. The Predator touched the gash, fumbling to a knee to find a blade, the Light Blade at his throat.

"Am I danger to you now?" Underseen snarled.

The Predator closed his eyes expecting to feel the Blade bite into his neck. But it did not come.

"No," Underseen said, sheathed the Blade. "I shall not take your life. I've beaten you. That's plenty."

But this was not what the Predator's culture demanded. In the end, this overconfident, reckless Predator took his own life, as his culture demanded it after a defeat.

[theyoungphoenix]

And another amazing chapter!