Everything hurt so much, all around me was a cold overwhelming darkness. My limbs felt numb and refused to move as a cold liquid sensation slowly washed over me, encasing me in the cold darkness like a cage. Everything was so fuzzy, the fuzziness was exhausting.
But something itched in my head, things I was meant to remember.
What was my name? Why was everything so dark and where was his friend.
Slowly, everything came flooding back into my mind in painful bursts.
I remembered the plane, sitting on the small plane beside my friend Jarred as we flew back home to Australia. Jarred the blond shaky hair kid with them hazel eyes and tall skinny body, we'd been friends since pre-school in 2003. Despite us being separated for since 2009, we'd managed to get into contact with each other in 2015 and organised a visit to Coasta Richa for a small gap year holiday.
We'd both finished our HSC final exams for secondary school and saved up some money from a part time job, but I couldn't remember how much it was.
We had some fun, it was terrifying on the plane, I remembered Jarred laughing loudly in amusement as I clung to the armrest of the plane during take-off like I was about to die.
It was good fun hanging out with Jarred, he was a good guy and pretty smart. He'd showed me a few selfies of himself and his GF he'd been hanging with for a long time.
Everything was going great….. until the plane hit a tropical cyclone or something, I remembered the screaming, the terror as the plane was tossed through the sky like we were being used as a soccer ball. So much fear, the plane an island of some kind, some place where no human was supposed to walk upon.
Pain, that's what I felt as Jarred pulled me from the burning wreckage. My mind dizzy and unfocused as I watched people stumble from the ruins of the plane, drifting through the liquid ice pouring through the sky that hammered against our bodies.
Jarred pulled me to safety and watched over me during the night, the next day when I had awoken to discover my knee was dislocated.
"On three, ready… 1" and he snapped my knee forcefully into place and I let out a bloody scream of pain that echoed in the forest, which was apparently a bad idea.
"You wait here, I'm going to look for stuff in the wreckage" he said to me reassuringly, resting a hand on my shoulder.
"Be careful" I said before he walked back to the smouldering remains of the air craft, we hadn't seen any of the other 100 passengers from the plane, which was extremely unusual considering how softly the plane hit the forest.
It didn't take us long to discover, I felt my stomach churn at the memory of the bodies. All torn and mangled from something apparently having feasted upon them, I remembered heaving up last night's meal as we examined the remains of the other passengers.
Something roared in the distance and I remembered that look Jarred gave me, a 'oh shit' look you give when you realise just how bad the situation is.
I distinctly remember fumbling with stuff we found around the bodies, as I shoved it into a backpack Jarred salvaged from the crash, I remembered Jarred pulling at my arm and half dragging me through the forest.
"Where are we?" I questioned in a mixture of excitement and fear, Jared's reply sent a shiver to my bones.
"Isla Sorna, the island of death!"
My memory became fuzzy once more, my hand twitched slightly but that cold wet feeling held my arm down like chains. Why did it hurt so much, the coldness, the darkness and pain was nearly overwhelming.
But as I thought about Jarred, there was a small flame of hope for me. He'd save me, just like he saved me from the fire.
My mind slowly began to wonder my memory again, Jarred and I were both standing near a clearing, eyes gazing up as several massive sauropods slowly thundered past us with powerful steps that rattled the planet.
"Are those?" said Jarred in disbelief.
"Dinosaurs? There are dinosaurs here?" I stuttered in amazement, a childish thrill ran through me as I looked up at these creatures I had loved since a child.
Dinosaurs to me were awesome, but the one behind us probably not so awesome.
We heard a loud bellow and both turn around to see something crashing towards us, two small horns stuck out from above its eyes and short razor filled jaws shot towards us.
I pushed Jarred to the side and jumped, narrowly avoiding the jaws of the Carnosaurus as it charged past us into the clearing.
It charged head long until it noticed the massive Brachiosaurus's before it, the giants weren't too pleased by the sudden arrival of the predator which momentarily forgot about us.
"Lets go!" yelled Jarred as he rushed over to me and dragged me to my feet.
"Run towards the dinosaurs, the carno wouldn't follow us there!" I yelled pointing past the confused carno, Jarred went to argue but another Carno emerged from the forest and we both sprinted for the Brontosaurus.
We ran past the startled Carno who roared and hastily chased after us, up until we were weezing in and out around the massive sauropods legs.
The Carno's lost interest and slunk back into the trees, in search of an easier meal.
But we weren't safe yet, I remembered Jarred grabbing hold of me to prevent a massive foot stomping down upon my head. We were now darting around the deadly careless feet of these sauropods, oh how fun it was at the time but I didn't know that we were heading towards something far worse than the Carnosaurus.
"Were seriously seeing dinosaurs!" I said excitedly, Jarred muttered something in reply as we cautiously headed into the forest on the other side of the small valley, we saw a radio tower from the valley and both decided to check it out.
"Ya killer mindless lizards" muttered Jarred bitterly as he pushed through the foliage, he was tired, hungry and dirty from last night and todays adventure.
I remembered to, feeling uncomfortable in my damp, dirty clothing and the heat, that tropical heat and bugs were a night mare incomparable to the dinosaurs. We struggled through the forest for many hours until finally we approached a building covered in vegetation as the jungle tried to take back the land.
"spooky" I said as we slowly moved towards the open door, Jarred agreed with me and grabbed me by the back.
"I packed a torch in here somewhere" he muttered as he unzipped the bag, I stood still, looking around for danger.
If only I knew that we were being watched by the islands most infamous predators, we mightn't have entered that dark building.
But how did I know this…. Something in my head itched, this memory was important so I clung to it to see what had happened to me, why it was so dark and how to get out.
We slowly entered the building, Jarred taking the lead with his flash light. It came as a surprise when we both found stuff with the label Igen upon it, we both knew about the company from the news but not to great extent.
"This must've been a research facility" he said as he opened a filing cabinet, I grunted and picked up a phone and held it to my ear in the hope it still worked.
Jarred looked at me with hope twinkling in his eyes but I shook my head and carelessly dropped the dead phone. He sighed and started reading something he found in the filing cabinet, I looked for more useful items when I noticed a noise.
"Listen to this, apparently someone was experimenting with DNA here to produce the dinosaurs, they made hundreds of them but added something to make them dependent upon… Lysine… but it didn't work because the Dinosaurs found some way to live without it" he said in confusion as he read, I rolled my eyes at the scientist stupidity.
"Did you hear that?" I said as I heard the noise again, Jarred placed the paper on a table and slowly moved towards the doorway.
I noticed a small map on the wall and tore it off rashly, only getting 2/3s of the map as I ran after Jarred as he had the light.
I followed Jarred into a large room, it looked like a massive labatory with strange contraptions with ancient egg shells and bottles of odd chemicals and glowing stuff.
A loud animal call made us both jump in fright, spinning around to shine the torch upon another dinosaur.
I remember the fear, upon seeing a large green velociraptor standing in the doorway recoil from the light blinding its eyes.
I grabbed at Jarred and yelled as loud as I could. 'RUN'
We both ran, jogging up set of stairs to a catwalk leading to more rooms.
I tripped on a step and saw Jarred keep on running, as I stumble after him I heard a loud screech and felt something slam into my side.
I remembered the air rushing past me, before striking the ground hard and something falling painfully upon me, then the darkness overcame me.
That's it I suddenly realised, I'm inside still in the dark interior of the lab that's why I couldn't see right.
Slowly I tried to move, the cold liquid sensation seemed to be gone suddenly, and my eyes opened.
But… something wasn't right, I looked around the room as if the lights were on, were they on?
But looking upwards at the ceiling, I couldn't see any of the lights on.
My breath came in jagged gasps and slowly, I looked down at my chest, what I saw made a horrified scream leave my mouth. An inhumane sound left my jaws as I looked down at a human hand, protruding from my chest as if reaching for the sky, around it tendrils of black gooey material coiled around it like a snake.
I lifted my hands to my face, but what came up was a 4 digit clawed hand with a thumb still attached, however on my other dark scaly arm was a small stump with goo slowly oozing out of it like blood.
"OH my god!" I cried, but words didn't leave my mouth, instead the horrible calling sounds of a velociraptor is what I heard.
With my.. Hand, I grasped the hand around my chest and pulled hard. Pain exploded through me as I tossed the hand across the room and grasped at my chest, feeling warm liquid slowly gush out of me.
With shaky unfamiliar limbs, I stumbled upon my side and looked across the room. My heart was pounding like a drum in my chest, breathing was hard and horrible smells were clouding my nose.
In petrified horror, I watched the hand suddenly melt into black goo, which slowly slithered towards me.
A loud scream left my jaws as I scrambled to get back, but I was to slow and the goo touched my body. With a sickening feeling it slithered over my body before reaching my stumpy arm, merging into a new clawed hand before my eyes.
"WHAT THE HELL!" I roared in shock, this couldn't be real I must be dreaming, everything about myself felt alien, hell my own body look alien to me,
"What messed up shit did Igen make here!" I bellowed as I kicked and rolled around, trying to get up but everything felt wrong, nothing was working like my mind felt it should.
Then I saw it, my blood turned cold as that sickle killing claw gently tapped the stone floor with each step towards me. Those golden eyes bore into mine and those black scales made the raptor look like an omen of death.
"Don't hurt me" I cried as I pushed myself backwards across the ground until my back came into contact with an incubator thing device.
The raptor hiss angrily and came closer, I closed my eyes and covered my head with my hands, noticing my head felt long and muzzily. A whimper left my throat as I felt warm air blow over my neck, the putrid stench of rotting meat hung on that breath and made my nose wrinkle in disgust.
"You emerged from sticky death" hissed a female voice above me, my muscle went tense as it struck me only one thing was with me right now.
"You smell of nest sibling, the sticky death devoured you and left you how!" hissed the voice demandingly as I felt a foot push down on my side painfully.
"I don't know!" I cried loudly, not daring to raise my head or open my eyes to see the predator, there was an annoyed chitter before breath upon my face.
"You smell of nest sibling…. But sound of human prey, your fake skin!" it hissed coldly, I only whimpered in reply terrified I was about to be mauled to death by a bloody instinct reptile.
"I just want to go home" I shuddered softly, feeling tears in my eye as I thought of my family waiting for me expectantly back home.
There was silence, then it was broken but a sharp bark and the foot leaving my side.
"Alpha will wish to see you, if you lucky you may live to go home" hissed the raptor, I slowly opened my eyes and watched the raptor slowly move around the room, sniffing at large jars of the same black goo that latched onto me.
Shakily, like a new born child I stood upon my feet, but looking down I noticed 4 clawed dinosaur feet with the inner most claw being a smaller version of the raptors sickle claw.
"I'm a dinosaur?" I wasn't sure if I should be horrified or excited, the female raptor watched me in amusement as I stumbled around the room and ended up head butting the ground in an attempt to run.
From what I was understanding, a raptor knocked me off the cat walk and onto one of those jars. I looked at them then at my hands, the goo inside them must have done this to me, melting me into something I wasn't supposed to be. The fact the raptor said I was eaten is kinda disturbing, as well as the fact that I smelled like her brother or something, this was so weird it made my head ache.
"Stupid fake skin cannot walk" sniggered the raptor coldly, I glared at her insulted.
"My name is Braden, not fake skin" I growled in annoyance, sounding like an animal.
"Fake skin" she huffed stubbornly, oh this was going to be a very long and stressful day.
To be continued.
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