AVP Prey 20

She looked back down at the advancing army and felt a rush of air again behind her. The monster warrior leapt over her and landed on the pack of seething black bugs. Noguchi could do nothing but stare.
The dragon fell into battle, its movements so swift she could barely follow them. The savage spear sliced and cut another bug in pieces. Another shot from the strange weapon and dismembered limbs clattered to the ground.

Gkyaun's heart hammered with glory as he caught the ooman's attention by burning the first drone. The drone exploded. The others cringed, drew back, looked upon him with the respect befitting a Blooded warrior. On some deep cellular level, they knew his kind. Knew the danger he presented.

This dtai kai'-dte was nothing! He could have won in infancy! Yautja would cry his name this night, victor of drone and ooman alike. He would bring the ooman's blackened skull to drink from! He fired again, and was again rewarded with a shower of acidic thwei. The Hard Meat screamed in loss. Gkyaun howled the war cry and jumped. He landed amid the hissing drones and moved among them like the setg'-in, deadly and quick. So easy! He spun and slashed, burned and cut at the same time. Two bugs fell with one slice of his spear. A drone from behind lost its head; he gutted yet another.

He was Paya, the conquering warrior! Thwei ran at his feet, the Hard Meat shrank in terror! More came at him, a relentless flow of fury and bound. He pivoted, Hunted, his every movement was
an arc of doom and pain.

Noguchi gulped air and pushed herself backward, toward the top of the shield wall. The warrior was a dervish of wild energy and prowess-the nightmare
creatures fell all around him. But more monsters flooded toward him. And despite the fighter's speed and strength, he fought poorly; he hadn't allowed for any outcome other than victory. It was as if he were a karateka who had mastered kata, but had never faced an opponent in actual combat...
The clamoring dark animals surrounded him, pulled him down. The warrior struggled, but to no avail; one of the giant bugs ripped off his mask with one spidery clawed arm and plunged its razor teeth
forward.-pg.127-128-129 chpt.16