Haruka's eyes widened when she caught a glimpse of a spike begin waving behind the boy holding her by the neck. Hesitating for only a moment, she started to scrabble at the boy's wrist, trying to bring her enhanced strength to bear and get a breath of air.
Ranma ground his teeth in rage when the prey started trying to flee. Ingrained instincts bubbled up in his mind. 'The prey is trying to run.' He mentally smiled. 'A hunt brings the most pleasure during the chase.'
Haruka could feel the grip tighten for a moment and her hear swam with the pulse of blood forced into it by the squeeze. She tried to focus as her vision started to waver. 'I have to get out of this, or I'm not gonna make it.' She let go of the hand restraining her and lashed out at the boy's face, trying to take an eye out and hopefully make him drop her. She felt her magically enhanced fingers dig into the oddly tough skin of his cheek, barely missing her target. She cocked her arm back for another swing when her hand exploded in pain.
Ranma's face broke out in a predatory grin as he say the prey's hand started smoking from the acid that now covered it from her strike. His grip loosed to let the blood-curdling scream tear itself out of her throat.
Minako was frozen as she watched the hunk of the decade boy hold the other senshi by the neck. She continued to watch in morbid fascination when the blond clawed at his face. She inwardly winced. 'I hope it doesn't leave a scar.' Her eyes widened and she was shocked out of her inaction when she saw the both the blond's hand and parts of the sidewalk start to smoke. She rushed forward, hopefully in time.
"CRESCENT BEAM!"
The golden beam of energy lanced out and slammed into Ranma's arm, seeming to hesitate for an instant before blasting a bloody hole in his forearm. Uranus' screams intensified when a few drops of blood spattered across the front of her uniform.
Ranma grimaced and whipped his head around, looking for the danger. His vision started to turn silver and slide into the background of his mind as his hunter-sense snapped into being. He zeroed in on another prey/not-prey running in his direction.
Minako saw the boy's eyes glaze over and prepared to fire another Crescent Beam. She began to pull the mana together when she heard Artemis start yelling.
"HOLY SHIT!" Artemis' brain was working on overdrive, trying to figure out a way to get everyone out of this alive. 'The last time the Moon Kingdom encountered Xenomorphs, we won, but at an incredible, almost unacceptable cost.' Artemis finally started screaming for everyone to retreat. "RUN AWAY SENSHI, GET OUT NOW!"
Ranma heard more screams as the prey/not-prey stopped advancing. It seemed to hesitate for a second, but turned and started fleeing. Ranma's blood started pumping harder and the prey/not-prey solidly became just prey. 'Hunt, protect the Queen.' He cocked the arm back that was carrying the wounded prey and hurled it away. He let out a loud, wet hiss and started running. He had better, more dangerous prey now.
And the hunt was on.
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