Jurassic park: Life change
Disclaimer: I do not own Jurassic park.
A.N: I'm a little disappointed, no reviews, shall i continue writing or throw it in the trash cane?
Well... here is next part, hopefully you will enjoy it, tell me what you think, please.
Chapter 3: New home
A storm had rolled over Isla Sorna as night started to fall. The rain poured down and soon there was water everywhere. The small river that usually moved dilatory had now turned into a rapid and deadly torrent. Flashes of lighting sometimes lit up the sky. Jack woke up as the thunder was over the compound. He was a little startled before he remembered the past days. Looking around he noticed that hes sisters somehow was still asleep. Erola on the other hand was moving around searching for a comfortable position to lay in. Jack now once awake could not go back to sleep as the storm was overhead. Soon he got annoyed of Erolas constant movement.
"What's the matter?" He finely asked.
"This thing around me neck makes it impossible to find a comfortable position, an on top of that water is coming from the ceiling making everywhere in here all wet. And this noise, how can your sister sleep in it?" she asked getting more frustrated for every word.
"I don't know how it is possible for them to sleep, non of us are heavy sleepers but this is absurd. My only guess would be that the transformation have taken really much out of there bodies." he answered. "dose storms like this happen often here on this island?" He asked to brake the silence between the two that had fallen them. He remembered three other storms that had befallen the survivors this far on there stay.
"quite often" she simply answered. " tell me how was your life was before you crashed onto this Island." She knew already about the past months.
"well... we lived whit our parents until 8 month ago when dad moved to Brazil where he had gotten a good job."
"Job whats that?" Erola asked curiously
"Well it's way for humans to earn there living. I'd guess that you hunt for your food, well humans they work in there jobs and then gets money that they can buy there food."
"I see. Continue please"
"well I lived a quite uneventful life. Mostly I would go to school" he said. "school is a place where humans go to learn things that help them in life" he added as he saw Erolas questioning look. " I mostly used to study, play rugby or being whit friends or my girl friend. None of them is longer possible, not as long as I am here on this island and in this body.
"what's this girl friend thing you talk about" she asked.
" well what system of companionship do you have?"
"we choose a mate for life that we bring up our hatchlings whit. If the partner dies some takes a new mate but most of the time they stay alone." She answerer.
" well, see girlfriend as a pre stage to mates. Human test there love before they chooses to be mates" Jack said.
"was she nice?" she asked
"yeah, she was wonderful and beautiful, but by now she surely is whit some other guy." he said and sighted
"what a whore" she commented but Jack had not heard her, he was far away in his thoughts thinking of his old life.
"whats rugby then" She asked as she noticed jack was back in realty.
"It's a game that humans play to entertain themselves" he said leaving out the fact that most looked as others played and on television due to the fact that he didn't want any more questions. He told her shortly how it was played and she listened clearly interested.
" Sounds fun" Erola said as he finished "maybe you can teach me how to play it."
"i can't see how it would be possible whit this claws."
"you seem like a smart guy, you'll probably find a solution. Nevertheless I'm sorry for your losses" she said and once more tried to find comfortable position but couldn't " damn this thing, damn those humans.
"thanks" Jack quietly said and smiled at her struggle and curse. He once more went back to his thoughts.
The storm raged on and none of the two could sleep. Whit no warning at all a terrifying roar reached the two raptors, making them stand up, soon there was a loud crack as if the security fence was braking. Electrical hisses could be heard. Shortly after gun shots was herd and once more a roar but this time in agony. The power in the raptors room went out after a loud smash. It went almost totally dark in the room but somehow Jack could see without any big problem. Roars and smashes continued to come from the outside. Whit a little click coming from the electric mechanism holding the gates closed opened up inwards. Jack tilted his head in disbelief, could they escape? The both awake raptors walked out of there respective cages eager to get out of the now foul stench the cages contained after the days of imprisonment and no where to do there "thing" whiteout being close to it afterward.
"Let me help you whit that" jack said as he saw the dog pole hanging on Erolas neck making it hard for her to walk. He walked up to her and whit some difficulty took it of her neck.
"thanks she said and nuzzled him on the neck thankfully. If Jack still could, he would have gotten a little red by the, in his opinion all to friendly act. He didn't comment on it. He quickly entered and moved over to where Ella was sleeping and nuzzled her gently. She didn't wake so he did it again but a little more roughly. This time she woke up and looked frightened around as he heard the roars from the outside.
"get up, we might have the opportunity to flee." Jack said.
Next Jack moved over to where Anna slept. "get up" he said as he nuzzled her.
"just two more minuets mom" she replayed in her sleep.
"Get up" he shouted . Anna bolted up from where she slept. Seeing Jack so close up and still sleepy she bolted away from hem screaming. Soon enough she remembered what had happened and she calmed down. The conflict outside had calmed down but the storm continued on lighting up the area sometimes. The group shortly after moved to the door. Erola tried to open it whit her muzzle but it wouldn't move.
"So much for freedom" She said frustratingly. Anna giggled slightly at her incompetents. Anna knew that Erola wasn't dumb but just hadn't opened a door before. "what?" Erola asked as she noticed Annas reaction.
"allow me" Jack said before Anna could defend herself. He moved over to the door and pulled the handle on the door whit his clawed hand and opened the door allowing the ladies to walk throw. He shortly followed them, the door slammed shut behind them almost getting Jacks tail in between. "That would have hurt" he said as he noticed what could have happened to his tail, non of the girls heard him as they was to busy trying to find the exit.
"hey, let's stick together" he said as he saw the girls going in different directions to eager to get out in the free. Erola lowered her head in submission. Jack was stunned by the act. "Way are you doing that?" he asked.
" because in my culture the strong and wise are the ones that are highest in the hierarchical stairs. Often the strongest male is the alpha in a pack, and as you are the only male in this group we are in now. You are my alpha until I get back to my real pack." Erola answered.
"okay boss" Anna said fooling around. "Where to?"
"do you know where to go, Erola? He asked ignoring Annas fun making of him.
" not really, this place is huge, and as I got here I have had a thing over my head when they moved me. But I would guess it is this way, because the air smells clearer somehow. She was standing in an hallway and close by there was two more that looked almost identical. Long hallways whit doors at the sides. At the ends was double doors leading to, for them the unknown.
"incredible" Ella said as she sniffed the air. "These new noses are truly useful."
the group moved down the hallway and soon found a emergency exit. Jack opened it and walked out. He froze as he saw what was waiting on him.
It was pouring down from the sky but it was not that that had frozen him. They had entered the courtyard 60 meters from the main entrance. The fence was a mess on the ground. Standing before and staring at the now crunched main entrance was a big dinosaur, bigger then he had ever seen, it was a spinosaur. Jack could smell the blood coming from different bullet holes in its body, it edged him but his instincts told him that the target was way to big.
"hey watch it" Anna yelled as she walked into Jack. The spinosaur turned around to investigate the sound and spotted the raptors. It let out a loud roar but stud still.
"run" Jack shouted as he saw the spino turning around. The raptors started running but the spino was in close pursuit. The raptors quickly made it to the tree line hoping that the spino was to big to follow but they was wrong, the beast easily followed them thru the light trees. The big predator was closing in.
As they run thru a small clearing jack shouted, "run and hide, I'll try and get him to follow me" the girls did as they had been told and Jack continued onwards over the clearing the hunter, followed him as planed. Jack was astonished how fast his new body could run and wanted to try it out but his thoughts was interrupted as a loud snap sounded from behind him, looking back for a second he noticed that the spinosaur had been really close in getting his tail. Jack jumped over a large fallen tree, the pursuer only missing his back whit a inch. This was to close he thought. As the spinosaur was about to bite down on him jack dodged to the right, the spinosaur that had missed tried to follow the sudden turn but was to big and clumsy, the dino was falling to the ground sliding into some trees. Soon it was back up and followed it's pray. Jack was running as fast as he could and his hart was pumping fast. Looking back he saw the predator a little behind him but closing in. he looked for a hiding place but found non that he could use undetected. Suddenly the deadly stream came within sight. Now what? He thought looking for an escape. The stream was moving rapidly, not even the spinosaur would be able to stand in it. It was to wide to jump over. Jack started running alongside it looking for a way over. He saw large rocks laying in the water and took his chance he leaped of and landed on one of the rocks, it was slippery but whit a lot of luck he did not fall into the deadly water. He quickly jumped to the next one making him out of reach from the predator. It let out a roar in defeat and stayed staring at him. It was still to far for Jack to jump the rest way over. He could do nothing but stand there hoping that the spino would get bored and leave. Unfortunately it stood there waiting for something. Jack suddenly saw what it was it was waiting for, the water level was rising and soon the rock would be under water, the rain falling on his back did not bother him. His scaly body protected him and made it slide of his body, but if it did not stop soon he would have to jump into the water or jump back and get eaten. He looked up stream hoping for a miracle.
He suddenly saw a log closing in on his position, and it looked like it would pass him on the right side. He saw is chance and leaped onto it, he lost his balance but managed to keep on to it by digging his claws into the bark. After gaining his balance back he moved over to the edge. As he got ready to jump once more the log hit something and it got him flying into the water. He fought the water masses but it was pointless. He quickly drifted away. As the spinosaur saw this he turned around and left into the forest.
"Hey Jack, wake up, wake up!" a female voice shouted.
" are you hurt brother" another female voice was heard. Jack slowly opened his eyes he looked around and saw three female raptors staring back at him. He was laying in white sand at a beach, the sun was shining, it was a beautiful day.
" I think I'm good sister" he said and looked up at Anna. "Mother what happened I have a really bad headache" he said as he looked at Ella. The females all looked really confused looking slightly at each other.
"do you not remember?" Erola asked "and way are you calling Ella your mother?"
"Because she is and no" Erola looked at Ella who shook her head.
" so you do not remember your heroic act that ended in you falling into the stream, we followed your hopeless ride downstream and found you here on the beach. Jack only shook his head to Erolas question
"who are you? You are really beautiful. The most beautiful creature I seen." he suddenly said. The question throwing her off guard " Can we go hunting I'm starving" Jack said before she could answer.
"sure" Erola only said unsure of what to say. Jack jumped up childishly and nuzzled Erola in appreciation, he started jumping around the group in excitement.
"What's wrong whit him?" Erola whispered," I haven't known him for long but this can't be neutral, can it? He is acting like a overgrown hatchling.
" your right, this isn't like him" Ella whispered back " I think he has hit his head and now he have some sort of amnesia."
"how do we get him back"
"do we want to? This is so funny" Anna said as she almost laughed at Jacks childish acts.
"I don't really know" Ella said ignoring Anna. " a new hit to the head could help but it could also kill him. For now I think best would be to hope it will go over in due time", "how unpleasant it might bee. She added as she saw Jack urinate against a tree close by, she quickly looked away. "let's go and hunt. I feel quite hungry" the group of the three female walked in to the jungle, Jack was dancing around them. After 10 minuets of walking he suddenly froze, listening, not far away bushes was moving. He made his muscles ready and leaped towards it. He jumped over it and put his teeth into a Compsognathus, another one hissed at him as he killed it's comrade. Jack quickly dropped his kill and killed the other one whit a fast bite. He walked back to where the group had stopped as he had disappeared. He went over to where Erola was standing and dropped his two kills in front of her. "For you" he said
"do I mean so much to you?" Erola asked whit a bit concerned in her voice.
"more, you are my life" he answered
"but we just meet"
"ow, I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable, it will not happen again" Jack said and walked away whit his head held low. He stopped some way away from the group but in sight.
"what did he just do? Ella asked confused.
"He showed his attachment to me, I do not want to go in closer in to it" Erola said.
" so cute" Anna said but didn't say anything more as she saw Erolas glare.
"let's move on."
"Everyone know what they should do?" Erola asked as she had told them of the hunting plan they was going to use. Everyone nodded. They were going to use a 2 groups sneak/scare technique. Ella and Anna was going to sneak to the other side of a herd of Muttaburrasaurus and scare them to hell, hopefully the herd would come running towards where Jack and Erola would hide and wait for the dinosaurs to come to them, then when they would be close they would attack and kill a smaller animal that they would eat. Ella and Anna was already on there way and was closing in on there destination. The plain they was on was the same as the one the group of survivors had crossed but this time farther south. Jack and Erola was now waiting for the pray to come to them. There was meany raptor cries and roars and the herd was of towards there location. One of the Muttaburrasauruses was running strait to where Jack was laying, waiting. The creature was almost at him as he jumped up and biting down the throat and putting his killing claw deep into it's chest, he was handing there whit blood spouting out from the now open wound in the throat. He was in a bad position and noticed it soon, he could not jump of whiteout risking being mashed and if he stayed there he would be mashed as the animal fell dead. The creature was already dead it did not just know it yet. Jack jumped of the best he could as he felt his body starting to fall. Unfortunately he forgot to loosen his killing claws resulting in him falling to the ground at the same time as the dinosaur some feet in front of it, he landed whit hes head first and everything went black.
"Get up now, get up Jack, get the fucking up now, please Jack get up" Erolas frightened voice echoed in Jacks head. Her voice faded as a terrifying roar came from close by.
Where em I? He said. He felt the earth shake beneath him. Coming to his senses he jumped up and saw a tyrannosaurus closing in. he started running in the opposite direction but almost immediately fell to the ground as his legs didn't carry him. He got up on hes clawed feet and started a swaying walk away from the carcase, there was no way he would get away from the rex that was running towards him. Suddenly Erola was there trying to help him getting away faster. A victorious roar was heard from the rex before it started digging in to the carcase. Jack and Erola was easy targets but somehow it didn't bother to chase them down.
"Are you okey?" Erola asked as they had entered the dense jungle.
"I think so" jack said, he was walking normally now again.
"what's happened here, last I remember I was chased by a spinosaur and then I fell...into the water and the next thing I know I wake up all bloody and chased by a t-rex. Jack said. He froze, "where is Ella and Anna, please don't tell me they got eaten by the spinsaur."
"I'm sorry Jack but..." she said and lowered her head making Jack whimper in sorrow. "...they are right behind you" Jack quickly turned around and hes futures shined up as he saw them.
"are you saying you can't remember as you tried to seduce Erola?" Anna asked whit a grin on her face.
" no, what did I do?"
"you'll have to ask her"
" I just remembered I got some food from your kill."Ella said after dropping the big meat piece she had carryed in her mouth. "Me and Anna got our fill before the t-rex showed but Elora was busy seeing to you."
"do you want some" jack asked Elora "it the less I can do for you for waking me up"
"I'm fine you eat up. I had two Compsognathus earlier"
"you had?, where did you get them from?" Jack asked.
"you gave em to me"
"I did?"
"yes"
"what more did I do?"
"nothing important really" Elora said clearly not wanted to tell what he had done.
"It didn't seem as noting to me" Anna said whit a grin on her face.
" don't tell me I tried to make you have sex whit me" Jack asked embarrassed
"gods no, how can you think something like that" she said laughing "I assure you, It was nothing important that we need to talk about right now. Just leave it"
"so do you have a plan on what to do now" Jack said a lot relaxed, he started eating his meat whit a good appetite.
"I want to go to my old pack, maybe I can get you in into the pack, if that is so I should tell you about our culture, maybe it should do it anyway now that you are probably stuck out here in the jungle."
"we'll follow you, at least for now then" Jack said. "tell us about the ranking system you told us about some time ago."
"Let's start moving first, it will take about 3 hours to walk to our destination." she said "In a pack there is a strict order that everyone in the pack needs to follow, the leader of the pack is called alpha male, he sort of rule the pack whit his mate, the alpha female. Then there is the beta position that contains two pairs and rule in the absence of the alpha pair. There are some more ranks but that's the two most important positions, the important thing is that you have to do almost everything that the ones that have higher rank tells you to do or you'll have to face the consequence. Also the higher rank always eat first, often everyone get a piece but when smaller animals are killed lower ranked members can be left whiteout anything. Understood?" she said, the last seriously. The rest nodded.
"what about mating rituals?" Anna asked curiously after some time. The rest stared at her "What? I might as well be ready for it, as we are stuck here, I at least want to make the best of the situation and if that contains taking a mate, then best being prepared right`?". Ella shook her head.
" First the Female and male will show affection to each other. Then the male will try to impress the female in different ways, it can be show by courage, strength, ability to get food or something ells that is impressing.
"so it was that Jack was doing, showing his skill in getting food" Anna said in a teasing tone.
"yes, he was trying to impress me"
"did it work"
"If you think about that he only have been a raptor for some days, then it was impressing but mostly it is bigger targets.
"I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable" Jack said "I was not really in me senses sort of speak"
"don't worry I sort of enjoyed the attention but I think we need to know each other before you do something like that again." Jack looked a little more relaxed. "Let's continue, then at the mating season there is almost always someone that will try and fight the male over the female, strength wins over the others and the female have to mate whit the victorious raptor even if she don't want to.
"so your saying that in the end all the impressing and feelings don't matter and that the male is the one that is in charge?"
"yeah, the female often fights for her right and it can end in deep wounds on both parties." Anna wasn't happy at the answer "then the couple will build a nest even if they have one already, that can contain them and eggs. After that you have to imagine yourself what happens." They all knew what she meant. "during those fights there are curtain rules, the most important ones is no killing and no using our killing claw. If you use the killing claw it often leads to the death of the victim. The attacker on the other hand will either be killed as well or be banished, depends on the alpha. You can also fight others in the pack for a higher rank, same rules. She continued telling them things of smaller significances as they walked west.
"strange, I would have guessed that our approach would have been noticed by now, at least this close to the nests" Erola said as she felt really familiar."you would think so because the wind is blowing strait to the nesting area and they unusually have regular patrols ." They walked five more minuets, entering the nesting area. The sight was horrifying everywhere lay broken egg shells, skeletal remains of the hatchlings lay here and there some still in there broken eggs. carcases of adults was also present and the smell of death lay in the air. Some was half eaten and the smell of rotten meat was overwhelming. Jack felt like vomiting but couldn't manage. At his left side he found Anna doing just that. Suddenly he noticed that Erola no longer was at hes side. He stared searching, after a long time he found her laying on the jungle floor, whimpering slightly, he guessed that if she could she would be crying.
"I'm sorry about your loss" Jack said trying to comfort her. She didn't answer. Jack lay down close by, staring at her beautiful body. "what now?" he thought. They lay there for at least half an hour before Anna and Ella found them. Two eyes was staring at the group.
Whit a roar a allosaurus jumped out from behind a large bush. Jack hissed at the enemy and stud up, Erola didn't even move a muscle.
"we need to protect her" jack said to his sisters " try and flank him and hopefully we will hurt him enough so he will leave us alone. Anna was to small to deal any serious damage at all but Ella could deal some if she got the chance. The three hissed at it all the time trying to scare it away. Jacks two sisters flanked the beast and was ready to attack as fast they got the chance. The allosaurus tried to bite down on jack but he avoided the bite by jumping to the side at the right time, before it could prepare itself Jack jumped onto its head putting his killing claw into it's skin. A agonizing roar came from the allosaurus as one of hes claws punctured one of it's eyes, it shook it's head violently making Jack fly throw the air and landing hard against a tree. The roar had made Erola to come to her scenes and she was now standing seeing the allosaurus preparing to bite Jack there were he was laying. She saw the sisters unsure of what to do.
"jump onto his back now" she yelled before she did it herself. She was soon followed by Anna and Ella. They all bite and ripped at the allosaurus leaving deep wounds after them, the dinosaur recognized defeat and started running away. The girls quickly jumped of and hissed after it as it run away leaving a clear blood trail after it, it would survive but it was badly hurt, losing an eye.
Elora run to jacks body and nuzzled him, he was alive.
"Jack's angels to the rescue" he said as he felt her contact. Anna and Ella laughed slightly at the comment.
"what did you say" Erola asked
"nothing"
"we should move if it comes back" Ella said before anyone could say anything more. Jack stood up whit some help from Erola.
"what way?" he asked
"I know a place that is quite secure" Erola said.
"lead the way" Erola started walking East and Jack limped after whit some help from Ella, Anna was laughing at Jacks limping but soon quieted down as she herd a roar in the distance.
"The place" that Erola showed the group was perfect. An medium sized area whit some trees in was suraounded bu high rocks, protecting them from large predators, three narrow passes leaded up to the area one west and two north. The entrances was quite hard to spot and from the outside. In a cliff wall to the north was a small cave that would protect them from rain even if they didn't need it . The walls around the area would protect them from the wind, that might make it hard if it was realy worm outside but the cave would probably be cold even at the hottest days, jack didn't even know how he would react to the could or worm. The only problem was that you never knew if something would lurk outside waiting for them to exit.
"how did you found this place?" Ella asked after inspecting the area.
"I was here once whit a friend, he accidentally found this place when we were playing, it have been our secret sens then. " Erola answered in a sad voice.
"what should we do now?" Anna asked
"we should build nests to ourselves that we can sleep in, if you do it right they are quite comfortable. " Erola said
"how do we do a nest then?" Anna asked
"first you'll have to gather branches and leaves. Them you have to form the size you want making it stable whit mud and then place lot's of leaves for comfort." It took them two hours to build there nests everyone was exhausted. They all lay down in there respective nests and closed there eyes. Jack noticed that Erola whimper herself to sleep and soon he followed into the dream world.
Even if they did not know it yet, they had started a new life and had a new home.
A.N: I don't know how long it will take to update next time, probably long, haven't came up whit something yet, we'll see
