Sorry for the long wait I had a huge writer’s block.

Disclaimer: I do not own Predator. Fox does and the person who created them to start with. I will try to be as original as possible but in this day and age that will be hard. I also have some reasons to believe in the one sub-consciousness theory. So don’t flame me if my story resembles yours.

-Shay-

The aliens that surrounded her, lead Shay to a huge structure that had an amazing architecture structure. It reminded the woman of her previous summer’s trip to Italy and her visit to the Coliseum. It had arches running up the sides and gave the Were the same shiver up her spine. Well Crap, if her instincts were correct her life was about to become Hell. The gates that were recessed into the side of the building opened and Shay was marched inside. She looked back as the doors clanged shut behind them.

Her apprehension grew more with every second that passed by. She was marched down a long corridor till they passed trough another doorway. On either side of this darker hallway there were barred cells. Shay had seen the movies about the Coliseum in its prime, so she knew gladiator barracks when she saw them. She paled beneath her tan and her blood ran cold. She was probably the fresh meat of this place. Shit. She was shoved into an empty cell and the barred door was swung shut. Shay turned to the door and glared at the large alien who stood there looking at her. He shifted uncomfortably  and left the corridor.

“You got nabbed too?” a voice from her left asked.

Surprised at hearing southern assented English, Shay looked in the direction of a voice. She saw a man sitting against the wall in the cell next to hers. He too was a were, Shay could smell it. “I guess so. What type are you?”

Knowing what she meant he grinned and answered, “Tiger, You?”

“Wolf.”

He grunted and licked at a wound on his arm and watched her with his golden eyes. “Is this a Gladiator Arena?” Shay asked him. He nodded. Great, she thought, This is my funeral.

-a few hours later-

Shay had been learning about the Arena from Jack, the were-tiger who was housed in the cell next to her. Apparently she was going to have to prove that she was capable of fighting. Well this should be fun. She had also learned that the aliens that owned the Arena were called Yautja, at least now she knew the name of the species that had kidnapped her. Though she did miss Ghardeh a little, she at least thought that he admired her martial arts forms. A large Yautja appeared in the doorway of her cell and opened the heavy metal grating that made up most of the door. He growled something at her in his language and beckoned her to come with him; he also motioned Jack out of his cell.

They were lead down the corridor to a very large door at the end of it. It was opened from the other side and bright light filled the dim hallway. The Yautja growled again and shoved her thought the portal and into a large circular, open courtyard of sorts. The ground was covered in golden sand and the walls were nearly fifty feet high and had spikes that kept whatever fought in the Pit inside of it. Both Aliens moved into the Gladiator Barracks and closed the door.

“At least your paired with me on your first fight,” Jack whispered to her from the corner of his mouth. “Just follow my lead and don’t shift unless you have too. It makes them happier.” He motioned up and Shay saw tiered seats above the top of the wall. The benches were mainly filled with Yautja but there were a few, very few, other aliens up there.

Her eyes were drawn over to the far wall when she heard the sound of rattling chains, the door on the opposite wall was being raised by heavy links of metal. A dark shadow moved in the dark on the other side of the raising gate. Jack cursed and motioned her to start to circle left; he moved right creating two targets instead of one. The gate was fully raised and a large scaled creature leapt out and headed straight for Jack. It pinned him to the wall and tried to take a chuck out of him but he had already slipped away from it. Shay caught a glimpse of sharp, white dagger teeth in a layered maw, much like a sharks.

It turned its head to her and charged her, Shay waited for the last moment before she dived out of the way the creature’s spiked tail grazed her thigh but she did not make a sound. The large lizard sensed that it had wounded one of its prey and did a quick 180. Shay growled at it and crouched low to the ground. Her martial arts training would be of little use when fighting this creature but if she could move quick enough she could tire it. Jack flashed up to her side and they locked eyes. He instantly knew her plan and nodded. Under different circumstances Shay would have like to have been acquainted with Jack.

Jack shifted into a beautiful Siberian Tiger and growled low in his throat. He dashed forward and Shay was at his side, sprinting quickly. Ten feet from the creature they split off and went in different directions. Jack was closer to the beast so it went after him, just as planed, but every plan has it faults. The creature quickly caught up with Jack and pinned him to the floor with two enormous taloned feet. Shay swiftly ran up to the creature and leapt. In the apex of her leap she shifted to the colossal black wolf nearly four feet at the shoulder. She landed with soft paws on the creature’s back and sank sharp teeth into its neck. Her weight on is neck caused the creature to over balance and have to remove its paws from the tiger. Jack leapt up in turn and clamped his strong maw on the giant lizard’s windpipe. Shay shook her head and a huge chuck of the creatures flesh came away in her mouth. She spit it out and clamped down again.

The creature howled in misery that was choked off by the lack of air to reach its lungs. It toppled over and trashed on the ground. Both Weres held tight and when the creature stopped twitching they dropped the corpse. Shay noticed for the first time the horde above the walls roaring with the bloodlust of the fight. Shay shook her black pelt and looked over at Jack. He was sitting patiently and panted slightly. The door they had come in by opened and Jack walked over to it. Shay followed the huge tiger into the dark of the Barracks. The other occupants of the cells were shocked by the size of Shay’s shifted form. She was used to this. Being one of the largest Wolf-Weres was something she was used to. She stalked into her cell and lay down next to the bars that also sided Jack cell. Mimicking her pose, Jack fell asleep on the other side. That was slightly to Shay. Fighting made her adrenalin kick in and the rush of battle had always pleased her. But she knew that not all of her fights would be as easy.