I saw Jurassic World this week and I loved it!
This is a bit of an AU for Jurassic World, after the raptors are used to try and kill the Indominus Rex. It will be a multi-chaptered fic.
Will feature Claire, Zach and Gray in later chapters.
I realize this first chapter is a bit short, but it felt like the right place to end the chapter.
Enjoy reading and all reviews are highly appreciated :-)
As soon as the raptors had started communicating with the Indominus Rex, Owen had known the situation would escalate. And it had very quickly….
"This is not good…" Owen muttered to himself.
He had not even finished speaking the words, before Blue, Charlie, Echo and Delta had turned around and started to approach the troopers menacingly.
Where the raptors had been iNGen's secret weapon against the Indominus, they now turned against them and the animals wasted no time in delaying their attack.
For a few moments the four raptors stared menacingly at the troopers in front of them, before they suddenly scattered in different directions.
"Watch your backs, everyone!" Owen shouted. He knew the raptors would now attack soon and knew they would attack from behind. He held his rifle at the ready, finger tensed around the trigger. He did not want to shoot his raptors, but realized that he might not have a choice.
The rustling of leaves and the rapid footsteps on the mossy forest floor, were their only short warning that the attack had truly begun.
The raptors seemed to come from every directions and they were fast, clawing and biting at everything in their way.
The iNGen troopers starting firing at anything that moved. They tried to eliminate the Indominus by burying it in bullets and grenades, but it only caused the large dinosaur to flee away from them, apparently not harmed even in the slightest. The raptors, on the other hand, were too fast for the troopers to get a good aim on and the animals continued to wreak havoc.
In only a short period of time, the four raptors killed or severely wounded many of the iNGen troopers.
Owen managed to fight the animals off himself and those surrounding him for a while. Still, he knew that actually escaping with his life was a huge challenge.
Suddenly, one of the raptors popped up from behind a bush only a few yards in front of him. Owen immediately realized he had walked into the trap these animals were only too good at setting up.
He froze up and stared intently at the animal in front of him. He tried to read the animal's expression to try and determine when the attack from behind would be coming. Because he knew damn well that at least one of the raptors was creeping up his six.
"Easy, Blue…" Owen said tensely, never breaking eye contact. The beta raptor cocked his head to the side and growled softly, flashing razor-sharp teeth.
Owen cast a careful glance over his shoulder and he could indeed see movement behind him.
"Easy…" Owen repeated. He slowly took a few steps to the side to see what the raptors would do with that. To his horror, he saw Blue copying his movement. Shit. The raptors were definitely still in killing-mode.
A sudden movement from Blue's head, gave Owen just a split-second to react. He dived forward and threw himself onto the ground for the attack he knew was coming from behind. He prepared himself for the deadly bite, the teeth sinking into his flesh to rob him of his life. But it didn't….
Instead, he felt one of the raptor's heavy paws land on his back as the dinosaur ran over him. His muscles and bones groaned under the animal's weight.
As the raptor put his full weight on the paw, one of its talons sank deep into Owen's back, right between his shoulder blades. The pain was intense, close to unbearable, but still nothing compared to what followed next.
The raptor set off, keeping up its stride. The talon still stuck in Owen's back, was forced backwards by the motion. It tore open Owen's flesh and left a deep laceration which stretched to halfway down his back.
Owen immediately felt hot blood spill from his wounds and he screamed out in pain. The raptor that had wounded him stopped and turned to look at its victim. It was Charlie.
Owen stared sadly at the animal he once almost trusted. He slowly came to terms with the fact that this animal would soon kill him, especially now it had smelled his blood.
Owen's rifle had fallen to the ground, just out of his reach and he knew he would never be able to grab it, before Charlie would reach him. He was simply defenceless against the animal.
"Come on, just do it…." Owen whispered more to himself. He just wanted to be killed quickly and not some dragged out death.
To his surprise, Charlie cocked his head to the side and made a noise that almost sounded like an apology. Their eyes locked once more, human and ancient being, before Charlie took off again at full speed. Blue followed him quickly and in the distance the other raptors could be heard doing the same.
Owen blew out a deep breath in relief. But his relief was only short-lived, when he realized that the few troopers that had managed to survive so far, had fled the scene in the trucks and with his motorcycle. He was now all alone, in the middle of the jungle, bleeding, severely wounded and with dangerous dinosaurs on the loose. He was lucky if he even survived the next hour….
Now that the adrenaline of the fight was wearing off, the pain from his wounds gradually started to take hold of Owen. He could feel his clothes stick to parts of his flesh that should not be exposed. Blood drenched his shirt and jacket and was soaking it even further with every passing minute.
Owen carefully tried to move, but quickly seized his attempts. Even the slightest movement hurt him unbelievably much and he found that his muscles would not cooperate with carrying any kind of weight. He slouched back to the ground, lying still on his front on the muddy grass. Black spots blurred his vision as the pain became more and more intense. His wounds stung, bit and seared all at the same time.
Slowly, he started to realize that, if nobody found him soon, he would probably die right here. And the chance that anyone would come back for him, was very slim.
He thought about what Zach and Gray would think when they found out he had died. He was a hero in their eyes, and heroes were not supposed to die. He thought about how he regretted not getting a second chance at a date with Claire. And finally he thought about what an idiot he had been to let himself be talked into participating in Hoskins' plan. Owen knew perfectly well that he had helped set the raptors loose on the island, which had now resulted in the slaughter of nearly the entire team of troopers. And there were probably even more victims to come….
He felt responsible for it all. The weight of every lost soul pressed down on his shoulders and tried to squeeze the breath out of him.
But mostly, Owen felt guilt. Guilty about betraying his raptors.
They had been a pack and he had been their alpha. It should have been his responsibility to protect them from people like Hoskins, but instead he had participated in leading the animals straight into their most certain death. And even if, in the slightest possibility that they survived, they would be scarred for life. His failure to protect his raptors weighed down hardest on him.
"I'm sorry…" Owen whispered into the grass. His muscles lost all their strength and his vision blurred even further. One single tear rolled down his cheek as he lost himself to unconsciousness.
