Survival: The force of will
Author's note:This story is inspired by Broken Lives By Dinohunter55, My deepest condolences go out to him in the hopes that he will finish his story. This is my first fanfiction so i hope people reading this get good vibes and maybe a broken heart,or two (meniacle laughter coupled with pyrimid hands)
Disclaimer: Jurassic park is the property of it's respective owners. Characters not from jurassic park are mine and are not to be used without consent from me and me alone
A low fog laid heavly over the small island chain off the coast of Costa Rica, two hundred and seven miles from the mainland. A seagull sounds over head as it slowly decends from the clouds and on to a nearby rock. On the island many called Isla Sorna. Nearby little seagull hatchlings call out to there mother begging for food. The sound of the chrashing waves sound most prominelty umongst the subtle cries of creatures long forgotten.
The afternoon sunlight shown through the canopy although not much got through because of the heavy trees that covered the island leaving it very dark in most places and very humid. Off in the distance several bushes started to shake.
Then suddenly a girl appeared from the bushes. She was low to the ground, crouched, hunting for prey. Her name is Charlotte. She has black hair that was reaching her shoulder's and is riddled with dirt and grass. Having only being on the island a week she looked like someone who either been to hell or just came back from it. Her fingernails were starting to grow long. Though she liked them that way cause now if she needed to get something that was in the dirt she can use them to dig it out. She had brown eyes they had a small hint of green like a sliver almost. Her clothes were dirty, more than she herself was. Her shirt was black but because of hiding in the grass and dirt it had turned to a color of brownish green, granted some of it was vomit and she hadn't found any new clothes yet.
Ahead of her was her prey. A baby parasaurolophus. It stood only about the size of a fully grown dog. It cound't be more than a month old. She slowly stalked the little animal, carefully looking around to see of any more predators were around or if the mother was close by. She spotted the mother. She was a vibrant color violent and purple. She was off in the distance not paying attention to her little one.
Charlotte saw this as her chance. She quickened her pace and held her makeshift spear ready but suddenly a roar came from the opposite side of the clearing where the herd was. Then a Tyrannosaurus burst through the tree line.
He charged the group causing them to stampede right into charlotte's direction.
Charlotte started running as fast as she can, she knows that if she slows down she will be crushed by the stampeding parasaurolophus. She dodge a tree limb as soon a the herd entered the thick, dense jungle, she managed to miss the big limbs but the smaller more sharp twigs that were low to the ground scratched her leg causing her to bleed and there was no doubt in her mind that the smell of blood will draw any predator in the area toward her. The massive body's didnt slow down and Charlotte scanned the area as she ran found an exit to the left. After being on the island for more than a week she began to gain a level of familarity with the surrounding area. She did't venture to far from the small maintanence building that she had taken refuge in however. She feared that she might run into one of the other big threats the island. However today she needed to find a new home and food supply.
So she decided that after she got some food she would go back and collect her things. She didn't have much fear for the Tyrannosaurus or the Spinosaurus because she could either hide or if she's lucky outrun them but what she feared the most were the pack hunting velociraptor's.
After taking the exit she started to back track to her hideout, it was pretty well camouflaged in the foliage. Her breathing was heavy and her movement was slugish. A compy emerged about seven feet in front of her, she froze and hoped there were no other's around but she held high doubts. The compy wasn't facing toward her and instead was trying to focus on a dragonfly, but stopped short as the bug flew away, the compy having raised it's head started fliking the air with it's forked tounge, it no doubt smelled the blood that was coming from Charlotte's leg.
The compy turned it's attention toward the girl, both of them stood motionless for a moment before the small animal started chirpping in the air signaling it's brothers. Charlotte quickly ran at the little creature and essentially punted it, where it hit a tree branch and fell on the ground and didnt move. She figured she broke it's neck, but she was too late as she heard the chirps of more compys that started to jump out of the bushes.
Charlotte had then proceded to run. She was already very exhuasted but she kept going but she started slowing, the compy's were growing ever closer to her as she tripped on a branch with and her foot got caught under it. She took out a knife and she started to cut the encasing vines. Just as the she cut the vine a compy jumped on her back, biting her ear. She quickly grabbed the animal because she knew that if she were bitten even more the poison would be too much and threw the compy into the wave of the tiny green animals. She was mear feet from the door of the building when she heard another terrible sound, the sound that all animals fear, it was a Tyrannasaur it had turned it's attention form the charging herd and smelled the blood that came from Charlottes leg.
Even the compy's froze in there tracks in search from were the sound came from, giving Charlotte the chance to get to the door and latch it shut. She then ducked behind the one window on that wing of the building. The window itself was covered in dust, dirt and grim, so much so that any animal passing by would mearly walk past without a second thought.
The heavy thumps of the Tyrannasaur's feet sounded like an orchastra of drums. The group of compy's scattered in different directions as the massive beast came closer. This only furthered Charlotte's fear and her rapildy increasing heart rate. The Tyrannasaur's massive foot land meer feet from the small metal door causing the hinges to move speratically. The massive tyrant smelled the air, wary of any thing that could be a possible meal, or if anything was in it's territory. It gave an mighty roar when it smelled nothing of importance and it moved on further asserting it's dominice.
Charlotte, on the edge of a heart attack, decided to move to a different building that she found earlier in the day. She had mostly kept to a small area but since she wanted to get as far from the window as possible, she decided to pack of what remaining food and clothing she had and see if there was a more secure spot.
The trip took her two hours to get to it even though their was a road that led to it, although you could hardley tell it was there because of the decay and the grass coming through the road. She even had to go over a hill to get to furthed Charlotte's exhuastion.
As with most of the buildings on the island this one was govered in moss, vines and mold. She opened the heavy door and walked down a long corridor that led to different room's, one was labled electronics, while another was labled medical wing, she stopped in their and gathered what was left, bandages, wraps and other numerous medical supplies including pain killers.
She had found a room that looked secure enough, it was a large living quarter with and old computer though she didn't think it would still be working after all this time, though curiosity got the best of her. She sat down at the desk the computer was sitting on she tried to turn it on but like most of the things in the building it didn't work, so instead Charlotte decided to search the desk for document's that she could read later once she found a half way decent place to sleep. She did manage to find a few document's so she stuck them in her roughly made napsack made out of an old sheet.
Charlotte made her way futher down the corridor and found and entered a bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror. She started to recolected on the past few days.
(Flashback) As with most pack hunter's some of the velociraptor's were harassing a mother Maiasaura while other's rounded her side and attacked the calf, Charlotte didn't know what was happening at the time beacause her focus was directed at a small Troodon. When she heard the yells she turned her head toward the comotion. After the velociraptors took down the baby the adult went on a rampage but with all the wounds inflicted on her were too much and she fell on her side. One of the raptors jumped on the animals neck and started to tear open it's jugaler vein. This didn't bother her that much because she has seen predatory animals in action when she once ran away from her foster parents.
However what the pack did next was what made her of the raptor's which was a dark brown color with tan spot's on it's tail and a blue crest started to rip and tear at her lower it had made a large enough hole the raptor then dove into the ovary sack. The poor mother was howlong in pain. Charlotte had turned her head away as the raptor dove into the animal but the cries of both her and her still alive juvinile were too much for her that tears started flowing down her face. She didn't want to look anymore and run back to the building but something inside her had forced her head toward the massacre in front.
The raptor's had started to engulge themselves in the still alive Iguanadon, blood still porring from the exposed neck, as the raptos's feasted on the chest, blood was everwhere. As for the raptor that dove inside the poor animal it had resurfaced tail first. Charlotte thought that if was just pulling on some meat but it was holding the egg sack. It had thrown the sack on the ground and ripped a giant hole in it and started to throw the eggs out one by one. The animal then proceded to crush the eggs under it's foot, it didn't crush the eggs outright instead it crushed it just enough to crack it open and then proceded to grab the poor unborn creature and with one snap of it's jaws cracked it's neck and lifted it's head upward and swallowed it whole, one by one it did this.
Having seen enough the the monsterous act Charlotte started to run back to the building. She was almost at the door but she could't hold back anymore, she tried to cover the vomit with her mouth but everything that she had eaten earlier was flowing out her mouth and down her shirt, she let go and let it all come out. She proceded to vomit over and over for five minutes. The sun was going down so she had decided to go to bed and try to forgett the horendous scene she had witnessed. But something like that would not go away easliy. She walked toward a trash can a spit in it several times to get the taste out but she then puked again but this time it was just nothing but bodily fluids and water. She did't sleep well at all, In fact she didn't sleep at all as the scene replayed over and over in her mind. she spent the rest of the night hudled in the corner very anxious of all the sounds around her (end flashback)
Charlotte finally decided to see if the sink was working, to her suprise it was working meaning that there must be power somewhere else in the building. There wasn't a shower so instead she grabbed an old torn up shirt to use as a sponge and dipped it under the faucet to get it wet. She had taken her clothes off and set them aside to wash later. After she was clean she put on some fresh clothes that she found in a locker room.
She then proceded to exit the washroom and look for area's that had power. She guessed that it was most likley from solar power that was powering the building. After climbing some stairs she found the room she was looking for, it was an observation deck overlooking the jungle. It was a glass 360 tower much like an airport tower.
It had rod iron steel door with rebarb enforcment so only the strongest of animals could get through. The only draw back was that it was high enough that a Tyannasaur or a Spinosaur could reach up to grab her. She moved to one side of the tower and saw a herd of grazing Maiasaura in a small clearing. Off to her right she saw movement in the trees. She looked through her napsack and pulled out binoculars to get a better look at what it was. She had looked though the binoculars to see what and where the animal was but got only a blur as the animal moving was very fast. However the creature had stopped near the tree line. Charlotte concentrated on the animal, it was a lone velociraptor, which seemed odd to her as almost always velociraptors hunted in packs. She scanned the perimeter of the jungle but didn't find any other raptors. This lone velociraptor was or appeared to be a juvenile as it didn't have the bright crimson ridges above it's eyes. Charlotte had determined this after reading a couple articles about jurassic park site B was that the juvenile was a male. The animal was a light blue-green in color with dark grey spots on his tale.
The velociraptor had started to move from it's jungle hiding spot and was moving toward the grazing herbivores. Charlotte knew what was gonna happen next as the animal was gonna go toward the youngest, most defensless animal and attempt to go for it's neck to bring it down quickly. The raptor moved ever closer to smallest infant, it's mother most likley a few meters from it's young was grazing on some beautiful purple tulips. The raptor moved closer to it's prey. The mother of the infant almost oblivious to what was gonna happen looked up and the raptor ducked so it was not spoted. The mother sensed no danger and returned to grazing. The infant was moving farther from the mother and closer to the raptor unkowingly growing closer to it's doom. The little infant came within feet of the raptor.
Charlotte peering through the binoculars saw that the raptor was getting ready to pounce, but then suddenly the matriarch Maiasaura sounded an alarm that sounded like a 100 moosen howling at the same time, just as suddenly as the alarm was sounded a Spinosaurus emerged from the jungle. He charged at the group, causing the heard to scatter into a stampede. The little infant started to turn and the raptor was not gonna let his prey get away but was too late as the mother was on him in a heartbeat and crashing it's duck-billed head into the suprised animal. The raptor flew about 20 feet and hit a tree before landing on the ground, it got up but nearly fell over as a blow like that must have ceartainly have knocked the wind out of it.
The young raptor started to run, not into the jungle, but toward the bulding that Charlotte was observing from . She silently cursed herself as that's all she needed was a raptor that if she wasn't carefull would kill her in a second. The raptor was at the door of the building. Charlotte further cursed herself as she forgot to lock it. the raptor simply turned the handle and pushed it open and went inside. Charlotte crouched down in the tower and tried to make as little noise as possible.
The raptor pushed open the handle, he found it astonishing that humans could build such elaberate nesting sites, he gently flicked his tounge in the air, he smelt nothing out of the ordinary except that their was a smell in the air that he didn't recongize, but that didn't matter because he need's to find a place to lay low. When the Maiasaura hit him he more than likley craked a rib or two. He was starting to feel dizzy and nearly fell over.
As he went into the main part of the building he found an oblong shaped object. It was brown and covered in moss. It had a soft texture in the middle and a hard surface on the top and sides. He put his head on the soft part and it felt rather comfy so he decided that he would lay on it, however his efforts were in vain, because as he lifted his leg he found it very painful and let out a large cry of pain. From the pain in his leg he decided that he might have also tore a ligament. He decided instead of jumping on the couch he would instead gently climb on it for fear that he might make things worse. He then began to fall asleep unaware that there was another animal in the building.
Charlotte laid low to the floor and nearly screamed when the animal let out a cry. She didn't though because it sounded like it was in pain. She felt pitty for it though she didn't know why. She gessed that it was just natrual. She decided to get up but very slowly, when she got up she noticed that the sun was going down, she guessed that it must have been at least 7o'clock. Charlotte carefully moved toward the door to listen. What she heard was raspy purring like breathing and she figured that the raptor was asleep, So Charlotte decided to go down to see of it was really asleep and maybe get away from it. She opened the door and to her suprise the door handle didn't make a sound. She made her way downstairs unaware that besides the velociraptor there was another animal taking refuge in light of the spinosaurous rampage.
As Charlotte slowly decended the stairs the young raptors nap was cut short as something was in the building only in a different section. He got up to investigate the noise. Charlotte froze in her tracks on the verge of a heart attack, her heart was beating the fastest it has ever gone. Both Charlotte and the raptor had no idea what was in the building and only one knew of the other's presence. That is until a small hooting sound was called from a bedroom farther down the hall.
Charlotte unaware that the raptor was awake made her way down stair's she almost screamed her head off when she saw him but covered her mouth to avoid signing her death wish. However the raptor had smelled that unfamiliar smell again and wandered what it could be but was still focused on the animal that was rummaging though some trash the next room. Then Charlotte could have made the biggest mistake of her life when she stepped on a piece of rebarb and fell on her ass.
The sudden noise startled the young raptor as he jumped in the air with his killing claw ready but landed hard on his hurt leg and gave a yelp. He turned his head to see what made the very loud noise, But was struck dumb when he saw what was laying before him. It was a human? He rembered the elders talked about the humans and how cruel most of them have been, but also about the one's that were kind and compassionate. The young raptor was confused as he could't tell which kind of human this was. Was it mean or nice. He cocked his head in confusion and contempt as he wanted to know. He flicked his tonge at her to taste the air, it smelt of fear around the human, fear and fruit? It was the same smell he smelled when he entered the building. He was unsure of why this human smelled like fruit but his thought was cut short by another hoot but this one much much closer.
Charlotte could only watch in fear as the raptor took a step forward and flicked his tonge in the air at her, she was terrifed and frozen. She only hoped that if the raptor were to attack her is to just make it quick and painless. That thought was cut short however as another creature came up behind the raptor it was about as half as tall as it but a had two large crest's on it's head and flapes of skin on it's neck, it was mostly green and red. The creature had opened it's mouth and showed is rows of razor sharp teeth. The animal reared it's head and flared it's brightly colored skin flap's and spit a gooey stickey substance that missed that raptor so it decided to take a different aproach.
The animal knew that the raptor was injured and leaped on it causing them to tumble into the wall just bearly missing Charlotte. She screamed at the fight, she wanted to help the injured raptor, for some unkown reason she felt a connection with this creature, something she couldn't explain. She reached for the piece of metal that she tripped over, it had a sharp point on the end. The animals were clawing and biting at each other, The dilophosaurus was on top of the raptor. Seeing this moment as her chance to strike and she plunged her peice of sharp metal through the animals neck. It howled in pain and gurgled as it lay dying at the foot of both of them.
The young raptor seeing this act had fainted due to the wounds that the dilophosaurus had inflicted plus the already added injures. His last moments before he passed out was the human knealing over him with a passionate look in her eyes before he sucumbed to darkness.
Charlotte looked down at the poor animal and the heavy injures he has sustained. His eyes started to close, she wondered if he was dying but saw he was still breathing. She searched around the building for medical supplies in addition to what she already had. She started to put disenfectant on his wounds and put bandages on them. She rubed her hand across his rib area and felt that part of it was popped out of place. She put some bandages on the area in hopes that it would heal but just for good measure she decided to pop it back into place she hoped that it would'nt hurt him too much.
She did pop it pack into place. It wasn't far out of place so she didn't place to much pressure on it. When she did the raptor mearly shuttered as if he was having a bad dream. When she was done she retreated back up to the tower after she grabbed an old mossy blanket in which she cleaned. She closed the door behind her and hoped for at least a decent sleep.
Author's note: Well that's the first chapter if you guys like it review and let me know and if not: go out with the knowledge that a thesaurus is not a dinosaur