Chapter 1: The Big One

Aurora and the raptors stopped at the edge of the south bend. The river flowed into the jungle, but they could barely see any light within.

'Let's get out of here, I don't have a good feeling about this place,' Echo insisted, but Blue snorted.

'Wait until Aurora decides,' she chirps. Aurora walked at the edge of the dark jungle, wondering what was in there.

"Just a quick look," she said to the four raptors.

They then step into the dark jungle and walk around for a while. 'I don't see anything, let's go,' Charlie insisted, but Aurora pats her on the muzzle.

"It's okay," she assured the young raptor. Then, they heard something, it was the ruffling of leaves, followed by hissing noises.

"Blue?" Aurora asked the beta raptor.

'It's not me,' she replied in a chirp and began to sniff the air. 'Something's here, besides us,' she adds. Aurora's curiosity got the best of her and ventured onward to find the source of the noises. The four raptors followed behind their alpha, but they were nervous as to what was lurking in the jungle.

Aurora turned to face Blue, "Call out, see if there are any raptors here," she commanded the beta.

Blue obeyed and she called out, but nothing replied. Blue calls out, again, but still nothing.

'Maybe there are no other raptors here,' Echo chirps.

Aurora decided to walk deeper into the jungle, the raptors followed her. They came upon a creek where a lone Dilophosaurus was drinking on the other side.

It looked at them with curiosity, but then returned to drinking. Aurora knew that Dilophosaurus spit venom to paralyze their prey, so she and the raptors slowly backed away and left.

They stop to rest as the jungle was steamy with humidity. Aurora places her feet between some cold pebbles by the river. The raptors drank the water, but Blue kept an eye out for anything suspicious.

Then, they heard a twig snap and something rushed pass by in the brush. Blue calls out and Delta did the same.

'If there any raptors here, come out, we will not hurt you,' they said, but no reply.

"Let's go," Aurora commanded and they followed her.

They kept on walking through the jungle, but they could not find where they have entered. 'We should go back to the river, we'll follow it,' Blue advises and Aurora nods.

They found the river and headed north, hoping to find the entry way.

Just then, they spot something on some rubble, it was a raptor. This one was smaller than Blue with gray scaly skin with a tint of brown.

Blue chirps at it, 'Who are you? Where can we get out of here?' The small raptor did not answer, instead it looks at them and hisses.

"Something's wrong," Aurora said to her pack.

'Stay close beside me,' Blue chirps at her alpha and they began to slowly walk away from the small raptor's sight.

Suddenly, without realizing it, Aurora tumbled down an embankment. She wasn't hurt and got up.

'Aurora, are you all right?!' Blue called out to her.

"I'm fine," Aurora replied, brushing off the dirt.

Just then, the small raptor came into Aurora's view, followed by another and then another.

They snarled and displayed their teeth at her. Then, a huge Velociraptor came into view and it stared at Aurora with wild yellow eyes. Blue and the others saw what was going on and they rushed down the embankment. Blue stood in front of Aurora and snarls at the strange raptors.

'Who are you?' the big raptor asked in a hiss.

'I am Blue, I am the beta of this pack,' Blue answered in a chirp.

'Beta? Then who is the alpha?' the big raptor asked, again, looking at each of them, including Aurora.

"I am," Aurora answered and the big raptor gave a look of surprise.

'You?! A human?! How can a human be an alpha for a raptor pack?!' one of the other raptors chirps.

"Please, we don't want any trouble," Aurora insists, "We just want to get out of here."

'So you admit, you invaded our territory,' the big raptor said.

'We didn't know. We just came here out of curiosity,' Delta chirps, but the big raptor snarls at her.

'Curiosity will get you killed,' the small raptor replies. Blue and Aurora wanted to point out that this place was the afterlife and no one can die, but they decided not to.

"Please, just let us go," Aurora insists. The big raptor looks at her and at Blue.

'Answer me this, why is the human your alpha and where did you come from?' she chirps at the four raptors.

'We were attractions for Jurassic World and-' 'Jurassic World?!' the big raptor growls, stopping Blue from speaking. 'My pack mates and I were in a place called Jurassic Park,' she adds.

"Jurassic Park?" Aurora asks, "You are the raptors Lex was talking about."

'Lex?' one of the smaller raptors asks.

'That human girl I was hunting, along with that boy,' the big raptor replies.

'Aurora is our alpha because she was experimented on and she had my blood running in her veins. We grew to trust and love her as a pack member,' Blue finishes explaining.

'Love?!' the big Velociraptor roars, 'Humans are not capable to love! They treated us as if we were part of a zoo attraction!'

'Not Aurora!' Blue hisses back, 'She cares deeply about us!'

Both the beta raptor and the enormous raptor snarled at each other. Blue can sense so much hate within this raptor. If she did live in Jurassic Park, then the big raptor must've been treated with cruelty.

"Please, no more fighting, we just want to leave. We won't come here anymore, we promise," Aurora pleaded with the big raptor. The raptor looks at her and Aurora could see so much hate in her eyes.

'We'll escort you out, but I am warning you,' the big raptor snarls, 'If you return, I will kill you myself.'

The big raptor lead Aurora and her pack through the jungle, with the small raptors strolling behind. Aurora felt sorry for the big raptor; she had heard stories from Lex Murphy that the raptors in Jurassic Park were kept in an enclosure, much like Blue and her pack.

When the power went out, the big one and her pack mates made a dash for freedom. That ended when they were killed by Rexie, the park's veteran T. Rex .

"Mind if I name you?" Aurora asks the big raptor, "That way we don't have to keep referring you as the big raptor."

The big raptor looks at Aurora and sneers. 'What do you have in mind?' she asked in a snarl.

"Ulyssa," Aurora said and points to the small raptors, "That one will be Shadow, then Silvia, and Moriko."

The big raptor looks at her pack mates, 'What do you think?' she asked them.

'I do like mine, Shadow,' 'Silvia sounds nice,' 'Mine too, Moriko,' The three small raptors repeated their names and Ulyssa snorts.

'Very well, call me Ulyssa,' she replied and they came upon the edge of the jungle. 'Here, now get out,' Ulyssa orders Aurora and her pack. The five of them walked pass them without protesting.

Blue did give one last snarl at Ulyssa, but Aurora shushed her. When they were far enough, they turn to see Ulyssa and her pack disappear into the jungle.

'She is a beast!' Charlie chirps at her mates.

'She has been through a lot when she was alive,' Echo replied.

Blue gently nudges against Aurora and purred as she gently pat her muzzle. "Well, this has been quite a day," Aurora said. "Let's go to the west end tomorrow," she adds.

Blue did not protest and they went on back to their private spot.

From the author: A little fun fact- 'Ulyssa' means 'to be angry, to hate'. 'Silvia' means 'from the forest' and 'Moriko' means 'forest child'.

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