Disclaimer: I do not own the Quest Team or the Predator I am just writing this because I like the show. Anyway I was thinking about what would happen if JQ and company(the coolest dudes around) fought the Predator (the coolest alien around). Remember when reading this is my first fan fic. P.S. A special thanks to Gelo, Yongil, Sammi, Alice, and Gary Fleisher for their costant help and whom without this would have been impossible. Oh yeah, a wee bit of blood in this one;) The Hunt Part III By Timur Gurigan The poachers quickly grabbed them and started to tie them up. "Well, Dr. Quest, I didn't know you hated poachers that much." Said the lead poacher. "This looks like something we would do and by the way I am sorely tempted=85= " Suddenly Jessie kicked her guard hard in the shin and started to run toward the village. "Ramon!", yelled the man with the hat, "bring her back!" Ramon smiled wickedly and ran after the fleeing woman. Jessie ran blindly through the jungle, just trying to get some distance between her and the poachers. She looked back to see if anyone was following her. Suddenly she tripped on a log and fell hard to the jungle floor. She heard the sound of a gun cocking as a tall man stood over her. "You shouldn't have tried that Senorita." He leveled the gun toward her head. Something rumbled in the trees above, they both looked up. A flicker of movement, almost looking human in its outline, shot down from the trees and hit the ground behind Ramon soundlessly. Two metal claws materialized from the wraithlike form. "What the?=85" suddenly Ramon's words were cut short as the blades sliced through his flesh cutting with an upwards slash. Blood splattered over Jessie's shocked face as she recoiled in terror from Ramon's eviscerated body. The phantasm turned toward her; it eyes flashed for a moment then faded away. Almost oblivious to her being there it bent down and carried the cadaver of Ramon off into the jungle mists. * * * The rest of the poachers, with the Quest clan in tail, quickly caught up to Ramon's last location. His entrails were strewn across the ground near Jessie's huddled form. A trail of blood led through the thick jungle brush. "Ilyas find him and return back to base." Said the lead poacher. "Yes, Mister Connor." Said Ilyas as he started tracking the bloody pathway into the Jungle. Mister Connor walked over to Jessie and slapped her in the face. "Who did this!?" "Leave her alone!", yelled Race toward Connor, "Can't you see she's in= shock!" The Poacher abruptly stood up and walked toward the Quests. "Now you listen and listen good, I will do what ever the hell I please and if I find out your responsible for this your not going to want to know what I'm going to do to you." "For the last time, we didn't do it!" Said Doctor Quest exasperatedly. "Well then, if you didn't do it would you kindly mind telling us who did?" * * * Ilyas walked threw the miserably hot jungle following the trail of blood left by his companion. He had been trailing it for at least half an hour. Ilyas mumbled about how he would never find Ramon when suddenly the blood trail stopped. He searched all around but couldn't find any more blood he was about to turn back when he saw some red on a nearby stump. Blood stained the trunk of a large fruit tree; a line of crimson creeped up the tree. He followed it with his eyes higher and higher up towards the jungle canopy. Suddenly he stopped his upward search as his eyes found Ramon's body strung up upside down, a look of absolute fear on his face. Ilyas's eyes widened in horror as he surveyed the gruesome scene. A flicker of movement flashed by, near Ramon corpse, he blinked but it was still there, growling an unearthly noise. He raised his gun toward the phantom but the specter was quicker. It jumped from its high perch plummeting down towards Ilyas's position metal claws appearing in mid-flight from its form. Ilyas pulled on the trigger but the claws brutally ripped through his chest with so much force they pinned what was left of his body to the jungle floor. He didn't have the lungs to scream. * * * Bang! Bang! Bang! Three shots broke through the silence of the jungle. "Hey, boss what was that?", said one if the poachers. "I don't know", said Mr. Connor, "but were goin' to find out." The band of poachers, with the tied up Quest clan close at hand, closed in on where the gunshots had came from. They reached a small clearing where the corpses of the hapless poachers were littered around; one in a tree, and the other laying on the ground. "Hmmm." said Mr. Connor as he calmly looked at the dead bodies. He noticed that Ilyas's head and back bone had been ripped out, and he also noticed that two very deep stab marks were in his chest. Then he looked up at Ramon who had been skinned, and decapitated. Connor finally took his eyes of the dead bodes and walked back over to Jessie. "Who or what did this?" He was quickly loosing his calm.=20 Jessie took a deep breath and said, " I don't know" "Well then tell me what you saw!" Yelled Mr. Connor. "Eyes."=20 "What the hell are you talking about!!" Yelled Connor. "My men are getting butchered like animals and your telling me that a pair of eyes did it?!!" "Its eyes they were their and then they vanished. It was almost human, like a ghost, or a phantom. It just came out of the trees killed him then left." Connor looked at her for a long time then abruptly turned around. Dr. Quest interrupted his thoughts. "It's obvious that something is out there is killing us off one at a time maybe it would help if you would let us go." "No, I have what I came for, lots of money, you Dr. Quest are going to make me rich. I'm sure that there are many interested parties that would pay a fortune for you and your family." He then turned around and directed his words at the five surviving poachers. "Were going to head back to the main camp but until we've reached it we have to be on our guard. Carlos bring out the big guns." One of the poachers smiled as he unzipped a large black bag he had been carrying and pulled out a bazooka. Connor turned back to the Quests. "I think that should be enough to fight your ghost." The End Part 3 So what do you think?(get ready for some more interesting stuff in part 4:)