Hello everyone! Welcome to my first chapter of my Jurassic World story, Ascension! It has taken Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom to come out for me to finally start writing this chapter and hopefully post it tonight. I hope you all enjoy my girl, Willow Grady, and her journey in the story. Let's get going!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Jurassic World. I only own Willow and Jonathan Grady, as well as Adelaide Dresdner.

"Alright, do you have everything that you need?"

There was absolute silence in response to the question.

"You know, you can't be mad at me forever. At some point, you're going to have to talk to me."

Once again, silence was the response.

In the middle of JFK airport stood three people. Two of them, one a boy whose blonde hair was in a bun and the other a woman with shoulder length red hair, were trying to get the third, a mini-me of the woman, to talk to them with unsuccessful results.

Willow Grady was angry: angry with her mother for sending her away during her break from school, angry at her brother for not coming with her on this hellhole trip, and angry with her father for being an absolute douchebag for ignoring her and her brother in favor of his stupid dinosaurs.

She had been fully expecting to be able to spend her winter break just chilling with her dog, work on her art, play basketball with her friends, and riding her horse. But no, her mother just had to book a trip for her to go see her dumbass father, who won't even pay attention to her because he'll be too busy training his precious raptors.

"C'mon Will," pleaded Jonathan Grady as he pulled her into a hug. "I promise you, this is a last minute thing. Otherwise, I would be on that plane with you."

Willow pulled out from his embrace, glaring at him full-blast. "Are you fucking kidding me, Jon?"

"Language!" admonished Adelaide Dresdner, giving her daughter an angry look.

"You'd rather hang out with your stupid friends than save me from this hellhole," Willow continued as though her mother hadn't even spoken.

"That's not true, and you know it!"

"Enough!" exclaimed Adelaide, her voice carrying over the two siblings' bickering. "Look Willow, whether you like it or not, you are going to see your father, and I would like you to try and make an effort into at least spending time with him."

This time, it was Adelaide who was bearing the full-frontal attack of her daughter's glare. "You should know better than anyone, mother, that the douchebag you call my father is not going to spend one ounce of time with me."

"I have made him promise that he would spend time with you," said Adelaide tiredly. "Plus, as soon as you arrive in the park, he'll be picking you up."

Willow let out a scoff. "Oh please, that's like saying Santa Claus is real. You know that he's going to forget that I'm even coming because he'll be too busy with his precious raptors."

She said the word 'raptors' as though it were poison.

Jon sent a look to their mother as if to say 'she has a point', and as a response, Adelaide just let loose a sigh and kissed her daughter's forehead. "Just try to be nice, okay? I'll make it up to you when you come back."

"Sure you will," muttered Willow.

Her mother ignored her jab, and pulled backed to let her son hug his sister goodbye.

"I really am sorry," Jon said as he hugged Willow to him once more.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," she murmured while reluctantly wrapping her arms around his waist.

They stood like that for a few minutes before he pulled back and said, "Don't forget to give that awful assistant of that lady who looks like Mom hell, okay?"

A mischievous smile spread over Willow's otherwise blank face. "Oh, you know I will."

"Good."

With that, he let Will go and, with Adelaide, watched as she slung her backpack over her shoulder and got in line for check-in.

"Do you think she'll be okay?" his mother asked quietly next to him.

"If Dad doesn't mess it up in some way, then yeah. Willow's strong Mom, she doesn't take shit from anyone. Least of all, Dad."

Adelaide shot Jon a look for his swearing, but she still couldn't help but worry. Her daughter has a very strong personality (which she got from both her and her father), and when it collided with another strong personality (like Owen's), it usually ended in explosions of anger.

She just hoped that Willow would be able to stay out of trouble while at Jurassic World. But, knowing her daughter, trouble will most likely find her.

She had been wanting for a couple of hours now, but Willow was now in her seat on the airplane that would be leading her to her doom. Luckily, she had stuffed her backpack with every type of junk food imaginable from a bag of barbecue chips to a huge bag of Sour Patch Kids (they speak to her mood). Plus, she also managed to get a Venti coffee from Starbucks that was pitch black (like her soul).

As she was sitting in her seat, waiting for the plane to take off and debating just bolting out of there, Willow contemplated just how she managed to get roped into this mess. Everyone in her inner circle knew just how much she was not a fan of her father. Once upon a time, she worshipped the ground he walked on. Then, he got that goddamn job at Jurassic World, training the raptors and analyzing their behaviors.

At first, it had been cool observing her father work with them. She and Jon had managed to even bond with the raptors when they were first hatched. The beta of the pack, Blue, had taken a real shining to Will, and whenever she visited, would follow her around, always chirping like a little bird.

But then, Owen would be too busy working, analyzing the raptors' behaviors and trying to train them further. Slowly, Will had begun to resent the creatures that had bonded with her, Jon, and her dad. She had stopped coming to see them whenever she visited the park, and if anyone wanted to find her, they would find her with Rexy, the Tyrannosaurus Rex from the first Jurassic Park attempt. Willow always had a huge fascination with T. Rexes, and the first time she had seen her when she first visited, she knew that she had found her muse.

Now, whenever someone was in her room, they would see a bunch of sketches of Rexy hanging up on her red walls as well as sketches of New York, her friends, her family, and her pets. To be honest, Rexy was the only reason she continued to go to Jurassic World. It definitely wasn't because of her father, although the stories that her aunt Lex and uncle Tim had told her about Rexy weren't necessarily the greatest at painting a good picture of the dinosaur.

It would probably surprise a lot of people to know that Lex Murphy, granddaughter of the late John Hammond and avid protester of Jurassic World, just happened to be Willow's godmother. She had met Will's mom in college when they were paired together as roommates, and from there on out, the two of them were best friends. She had been the one to introduce Willow to art since she owns her own art gallery (which surprises folks because she also has a reputation for being a notorious hacker). Everyone saw her as John Hammond's blood and a victim of the first park, but to Will, she was her aunt Lex who taught her how to paint and, underneath her quiet demeanor, had a wicked sense of humor.

She wished that she could have stopped her mother from sending her to Jurassic World, but Lex was visiting another art gallery to look at more paintings, which meant Willow was on her own.

The captain's voice jolted her out of her thoughts to announce to everyone to put on their seatbelts, make sure their trays were up, yada yada. As soon as the plane was moving and up into the air, Will put on her blue Beats headphones and selected the song that fitted her mood perfectly. As she looked out the window, she slowly fell asleep to the lyrics of Highway to Hell, and dreamt of what her trip would look like as soon as the plane landed in Costa Rica.

That would be the end of Chapter 1 folks! Just so everyone knows, Will's face claim is Katherine McNamara, while Jon's is Alexander Ludwig and Adelaide's is Jessica Chastain. Oh, and that stuff about Lex owning her own art gallery, I read that the actress who plays Lex actually owns an art gallery in real life. So, I figured "Why not make that Lex's career and give her something to bond with Will over?" However, she still is a hacker. I could never erase that from Lex's character. Let me know what your thoughts are in the comments section, and see you next time for Ch. 2!