a/n: man I'm just knocking these chapters out. when the muse hits she hits huh? and it about one of my favorite parts of the Jurassic Park movie. so please enjoy. btw i own nothing here. Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowling, Universal owns the rights to Jurassic Park, and I'm just playing in their massive creative sandbox.
Chapter 3
Harry smiled as Tim rummaged under the seats. The cars had stopped just outside of the Big Rex's paddock, and another goat had been brought up, in an attempt to entice the creature. Rain had begun to fall heavily, causing the teen to feel nervous for some reason.
They had been stopped for over half an hour already, the power in the electric cars had gone out, and the lawyer was getting frustrated. He looked over Tim's head at Hermione. See smiled weakly at him. The sense of impending doom grew stronger.
"Um ... where's the goat?" Lex asked nervously from the passenger's seat. The group looked out the windows to see that the goat was gone. A gasp escaped Hermione's lips, as a thump caused them all to look up. Lex screamed. There on the glass top, was a severed goat leg.
Hermione gasped, as she looked back out the window at a large figure standing just inside the dense foliage. The Big Rex tilted its large head back, the rest of the goat carcass sliding down its gullet. It lowered its head and looked at the fence.
With a snort, the Rex drew itself up and gripped the fence with its short, 2 fingered claws. Harry frowned, the beast should have been electrocuted. Perhaps it was more then the cars that had lost power. He had no time to think about that, as the Rex ripped the fence down.
Lex started to scream again, only for Harry to cover her mouth. The Rex roared in triumph at having successfully escaped its prison. Gennero gulped, opened the door of the car and bolted. Harry growled, taking his hand from Lex's mouth. Ignoring her squeaks of 'He left us', he crawled into the front of the car and slowly closed the door.
The Rex thankfully didn't notice, content to take in its new surroundings. Unfortunately, it did hear the terrified squeaking of the 2 newborn Utahraptor chicks, and the beam of light from the flashlight, Tim chose to turn on.
"Tim, turn that off. Now." Harry hissed. Hermione and Tim wrestled with the tool, but it was too late. The Rex bent down to look into the car, the beam of light shining in its eye. It raised its head and roared, causing the Lex to scream. The Rex brought its head down on the glass roof, pushing it into the car.
All 4 kids put hands and feet up trying to keep the glass from smashing them. Realizing it wouldn't get to the morsels with in the Rex withdrew, and roared. It began slamming its head into the side of the car, tipping it over on to its side. I kick to the underside caused the vehicle to roll onto its roof. The Rex put one foot onto the car and pushed down pushing the car into the mud, as the large carnivore ripped a tire loose.
Harry managed to keep Sif from being squashed, as Lex screamed in pain and terror. A shout from the car behind them drew the Rex's attention away from the kids. Looking through the broken back window, Harry saw Grant running towards then, a flare in hand. A second yell and a flare of light saw the Rex begin chasing Malcolm into the jungle.
Taking advantage of the distraction Malcolm had caused, Grant rushed to the Kids' car. Harry and Hermione had already managed to wriggle free of the wreckage, and were in the process of pulling Lex out when he arrived. Lex was soon free and the trio was attempting to get Tim out, when Lex screamed.
Grant was quick to cover her mouth, as he looked up at the Rex. "Nobody move." He said. "Not a sound." The kids froze, barely breathing. Harry and Hermione held their Raptor familiars close. The little dinos seemed to sense that now was not the time to make noise.
The Rex moved the back of the car, and gave it a push with its head, causing the car to spin. The group of humans scramble to keep from being hit. When the car stopped spinning, Grant indicated the hole into the paddock. Harry and Hermione nodded and, the four scrambled drop down the wall.
The screeching of metal on concrete drew their attention upward. The wrecked car slide further over the wall, tilted wildly, and began to fall. Harry, Hermione, Grant scrambled out of the way, as the car crashed down.
"Timmy!" Lex screamed, watching the car fall. It landed on its front bumper and tumbled down flipping over on to its roof again. A roar sounded out above them, as the thundering footsteps faded away. The group of 4 made their way over the trunk to the ground. Making their way to the car in, Grant called for Tim.
When no reply was heard, Grant dropped to his hands and knees. The three kids waited, nervously, Lex still muttering curse about Gennero. Grant finally manage to coax a terrified Tim out of the wreckage, and checked him over for injuries.
"What do we do, Dr. Grant?" Hermione asked, terror evident in her voice. Grant looked at the 4 kids. Harry and Hermione were comforting their Familiars, Lex was shaking from fear and cold. Tim just looked shocked.
"We head for the Visitor Center." Grant said. "That's the best option we have right now." Harry nodded staring at the downed tree, the Rex had used to get out.
"I have a feeling going back the way we came is out huh?" He said. Grant nodded. "So through the paddocks. We need to head south west I think." He said, casting a point me spell. His wand spun for a moment, before pointing south east. He looked up at Grant who nodded.
"Well then. Lead the way Mr. Potter." The Paleontologist said, indicating for Harry to take the lead. The group began picking their way through the jungle.
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Back at the Visitor Center, Elle Sadler and the Grangers had just arrived to find the compound dark. The vet pulled out a flashlight and led them to the Operation Center, where they found Mr. Arnold attempting to restore power to the park.
"The last we were aware, the cars were stopped outside the Big Rex Paddock." Sirius was saying. "Nedry did this. I warned you about him, John. I told you not to trust him. And now we have this shit to deal with."
"Yes yes, Sirius. You were right. Gloat later. For now, we need to focus on retrieving our wayward guests. You and Muldoon take a couple of Jeeps and go get them." Hammond said.
"I'll go with you." Sadler said, following the two out. Laura asked about apperating to where the cars were. Hammond shook his head sadly.
"Unfortunately, Magical means of travel don't work on this island. It was one of the quirks we made use of to keep magicals from stealing the animals." Hammond explained.
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The pair of jeeps arrived at the scene of the Rex attack. Sadler gasped in horror, as the grim faced men leapt from the vehicles and began inspecting the site. Sadler rushed to help, and came across a bloody leg.
"I found the lawyer." She said with a gag.
"So did I." Sirius said, grimly. A moan caught their attention, drawing them to the pile of wreckage that had once been a restroom. Pulling away a large piece of debris, they found an injured Ian Malcolm. "He's in shock." Sirius said.
"At least he managed to use his belt as a tourniquet." Muldoon said. "Come on. We need to move him. I don't want to be here when whatever did this to him comes back."
"Should we risk it?" Sadler asked. "We could do more damage that way."
"Please! Risk it!" Malcolm said, sitting up as a roar sounded in the distance. Sirius pulled his wand and carefully levitated the injured Mathematician to one of the jeeps. Sadler and Muldoon followed four sets of tracks to the edge of the wall, and looked over.
"Alan! Harry!" Sadler yelled over the edge, seeing the wreckage. When no answer came, they turned and headed back to the jeeps. Another roar quickened their pace. Jumping into the jeep that held Malcolm and Sirius, Muldoon put it into gear and speed off, as the Big Rex burst from the trees. Muldoon floored the gas pedal.
"Must go faster! Must go faster!" Malcolm muttered, as the Rex drew nearer. The four ducked as the jeep sped under a fallen tree. The Rex crashed through it but was slowed, giving up the chase. The four gave a sigh of relief, as Muldoon shifted gears and headed back to the Visitor Compound.
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"If I remember the map correctly," Harry was saying to the 4 behind him. "We should be in the sauropod enclosure."
Grant nodded his head from the back of the line. They had been walking for an hour and a half, with no sign of the Rex. The younger 2 kids were scared, and the 2 older teens had been trying to keep a pair of terrified Raptor chicks calm. The entire group was hungry, thirsty, tired and sore. Grant had been asking quizzing them about dinos and magic to keep their minds of their situation. "Alright then, can anyone name the distance sauropod species for me? Both Magical and mundane."
"That's easy." Tim said. "Brachiosaur, brontosaurus, diplodocus…" The 11 year old began rattling of a list.
"Save your breath, Timmy." Harry said, chuckling. "There are over 200 different sauropods, both Magical and Mundane. There's no way anyone but Hermione could remember them all." Harry said. Hermione rolled her eyes at her friend's back.
"Your right Harry." Grant chuckled. "And good job, Timmy. The ones you did name are the most well known along with the Apatosaurus. Most scientists believed that sauropods spent most of their time in swamps, thinking that the large animals couldn't support their own weight. Clearly they were wrong." The man pointed through a break in the trees at a small herd of Brachiosaurus serenely munching on leaves.
Tim smiled wildly, before letting out a huge yawn. Geant smiled and looked around. He saw a large tree and lead the group over. "Alright, everybody up. We'll be sleeping in this tree, and continuing in the morning."
"Great." Tim mumbled. "first the car, and now trees."
Grant chuckled, as he gave Lex a boost into the tree. "It's the safest place for us. Especially if the Rex comes back." He said, as he helped Tim up.
Once they were all settled, Harry and Hermione cast warming charms on the lot of them. Sif and Hela curled up snugly in their humans' laps. Grant who was in the middle, shifted uncomfortably, and reached into his pocket. He pulled out his prized Raptor claw, found on his first dig. "So much for luck." He muttered. Harry watched as the man prepared to toss the claw.
"Wait. That's from your first dig, right?" The teen asked. Grant nodded, and handed the claw to Harry. The teen examined the fossil, fascinated. "Deinonychus right?"
"Velociraptor, actually." Grant said. "Thought it might bring me luck on future digs. Guess I don't need it anymore, what with the park and all. It's yours if you want it." Harry thanked the man, smiling at the claw. He conjured a small leather strip and tied it to the claw, putting it around his neck.
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"Point me Harry Potter." Sirius said. He and Hammond were standing on the roof of the Visitor Center. The wand in his hand spun rapidly, before pointing towards the northwest. "Well, that's a good sign. And as Dr. Sadler said, they're with Grant. He'll keep them safe."
"I hate the fact that Malcolm was right. And that you were right about Nedry." The older man grumbled. "How could we have been so foolish as to not ward the Embryo Storage Facility?" Sirius put a consoling hand on the man's shoulder. It had been Wu who had discovered the theft of the embryos, when he had gone to check on them before heading for the ship, bound for the mainland with the rest of the staff.
"Well at least he paid for it in the end." Sirius said. "Death by Dilophasaurus. Ugh. Not the way I'd want to go. And hey, we got that jeep back, though it needs a good cleaning." Hammond snorted, as the two headed back in.
Reaching the Ops. Center, they entered, to find a serious discussion in progress. "It'll take forever to get through all this coding to fix the problem." Ray Arnold was saying. "I still say our best option is to reboot the whole system."
"That would leave us in the dark with nothing to stop the animals from coming in." Neil said. "I mean, if the Rex is loose, how many of the other animals are loose?"
"Thankfully the Raptor enclosures are on a separate system from the other enclosures." Said Charlie Weasley. Hammond had headhunted him from the Dragon Reserve in Romania he had been working at. He had signed on as a Dino Wrangler, and was well known around the breakroom for his work with the larger dinos.
"Unfortunately," Muldoon answered. "They too would be affected by the shutdown. I told you we should have put up wards around the enclosures." Hammond waved him off.
"All that matters right now is finding our missing." The old entrepreneur said. "Once Grant and the kids are safe then we can deal with the park."
"We can't do anything till morning, whatever we do." Said Charlie. "It's too dangerous to go out into the park right now. We should all go to bed, and pick this back up in the morning." The rest all nodded reluctantly.
Laura Granger looked at the endless lines of code scrolling up the screen if Nedry's computer. "I'm going to keep working on this code for a while. Maybe I can figure out what that fat bastard did." She growled. Niel smiled at his wife, who had the most knowledge of computers. If anyone could figure out what had been done, it was her. Laura sat down, as the rest filed out to go to bed.
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Grant grunted as his feet hit terra firma. It had been a long night in the tree, interrupted by a visit from a Brachiosaurus. He helped the kids out of the tree, and they continued on their way.
As they scrambled over a large root, Grant stopped short. There hidden within the protection of the tree roots, was a familiar site, one he had seen at numerous raptor digs. The nest of a small dinosaur, with broken eggs scattered within.
"Kids, look at this." He said picking up a piece of eggshell. The four kids gathered around him, staring at the empty nest. "It's an actual dino nest. Conclusive proof that they cared for their young."
"Dr. Grant?" Hermione asked, a tremor of fear laced in her voice. "I thought Dr. Wu said the dinosaurs couldn't breed?" Grant dropped the shell in shock. How was this possible?
"And what kind of dino nest is it?" Harry asked. Grant took off his hat and scratched his head.
"From the looks of it, it's a Compsognathus nest." The man said. "Compys were scavengers, egg stealers. And yes Hermione, they aren't supposed to be able to breed out here. Wu did say they had to use the DNA of modern animals to fill in the gaps. The South African Bullfrog is known to change sex when needed. They must have used frog DNA."
"We need to get back and tell Uncle John than the dinos are breeding." Harry said. The others agreed and began the trek back. Four hours later, they finally came to the large field on the southern end of the park.
"Finally." Harry said. "We're almost there." The others breathed a sigh of relief, and the group began their journey across the large plain.
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"Alright, we're all in agreement?" Arnold asked. "The only option we have is to do a complete system wide shutdown?" The others nodded reluctantly. The Director of Operations hit the master power switch, and the Ops. Center went dark, before the red glow of the emergency lighting flickered on.
"Hold onto your butts." Arnold said around the cigarette hanging out of his mouth. He reached over and flipped the switch again. The group held their breath.
"Nothing happened." Sirius said, pointing out the obvious.
"Crap. I was afraid this would happen." Arnold said.
a/n: so i fixed a major plot hole in the Jurassic park movie. i always wondered how the hell the Rex managed to get out, when it pushed the car over a very high drop. and how the hell were visitors supposed to see the damn thing if the drop was really that high. makes no sense to me. any ways hope you enjoyed this chapter. please read and review. your comments are like mana from heaven to me.