The annoying sound of an old bell clock tower of her alarm went off. Crap, Raven thought as she fumbled through the deliciously warm covers for her phone. School…not exactly the most enjoyable thing in the world, but the thought of being with her friends and laughing like idiots together was pretty much the only thing that helped her get up every school morning.

Raven found her phone and quickly disabled the alarm and switched the screen to Pandora. Music, it was food for her soul, there was no way in hell she could live without it. It always helped her melt away what it could of life's daily stress. And she needed all the help she could get. At nineteen, being a freshman in college wasn't easy.

She propped herself up on her elbows and split the long black curtain of hair from her face. The cats up, she thought as she noticed the absence of warmth on her back, Nika, the sleek black cats' favorite sleeping spot. Rolling onto her back, she whipped the cover off and immediately regretted it. Oh my God, it's freezing…Ugh, she hated cold mornings, but it was better than hot sweaty ones.

Shivering, Raven quickly darted to her closet and stripped. Doing a little dance that resembled the 'pee pee dance', she shoved her legs into a pair of jeans and slipped on a T-shirt. After pulling her favorite pair of boots on, she applied some makeup. Not much, just a simple base and eyeliner. It made her seem a bit intimidating and she liked that. Being a Latina, she was small and kinda needed what little power it gave her.

Knowing her parents were both at work, she didn't bother announcing to the whole house she was leaving and darted out her simple little two story house. Locking the door behind her, she gave her beloved dog, Axel (a Saint Bernard/ Doberman mix), a quick rub down. She was going to get the mail, but decided not to since she had set her alarm late and now had to speed walk to school.

A large rumbling sound came from overhead as noticed an extremely large vessel make it way across the dim sky. Another pickup, Raven smirked, remembering back when all the aliens and extraterrestrial used to be were simply just movies. Two of the most favorite races being 'Yautja' and 'Xenomorph', their names based off the popular movies. As it turns out, the government liked to keep secrets from the civilian public. Apparently, someone had gotten a hold of enough information about the creatures to make some movies out of it. The government couldn't really do anything about it and just allowed the public to assume they were a new string of science fiction movies. So they just continued covering up whatever evidence they came across. Until, that is, when the two species came to contact Earth.

The US government, with their intent on 'exterminating' these creatures, had just pissed them off. And to make matters worse, their nuclear warfare gases had killed off almost all of their females. The biogenetic scientific community had tried to solve the problem by cloning and reproducing more females, but that had only worked for the primitive species. Yautja and Xenomorph were far too advanced and complex, but somehow (and Raven was pretty sure how) they had found that the two species could breed with human females and some of the other alien races. So a couple times every year, for the past 5 years (two of them being a sort of hush hush operation), a ship arrived to collect samples of women's' DNA from all over, leave and come back for the ones who had matched the requirements to be a 'lifemate'. They had figured out a way to decode and unravel the DNA structure to show patterns and slight similarities to one who was a close as you could get to a 'soulmate'.

It was Ravens dream to become an acknowledged and well credited bio genetic researcher and scientist. She wanted to help and learn more about the two powerful and majestic races. She laughed at herself, remembering all the movies and becoming infatuated the Yautja and then the Xenomorph. But then she had come to her senses and realized only a human male was for her.

And as for the Xenomorph being the prized prey of the Yautja was a misconception. They had currently been at war, when they were 'discovered'. Still, Raven thought as she arrived at her college building, the idea did make a pretty good movie.