Chapter 3: Resting and Exploring
Owen arrives at his bungalow and helps Aurora inside his trailer. It was full of stuff, mostly of fossilized bones, a TV, a radio, a couch that seemed better days, and some other things that Aurora couldn't make out.
"Here we go," Owen said, laying Aurora on his bed. He feels her forehead, she didn't have a fever, but he feels the bump on the top of her head. "What is that?" he asks.
"I have no idea," Aurora answers.
"It almost feels as if there is something under your skin," he replies and feels around for more bumps.
"I think it's just swollen," Aurora said and Owen nods, but he was suspicious of the bump.
He asks, "Do you want coffee or anything?"
"No, I just want to rest," she answers and Owen nods. Aurora cuddles up on the bed, wrapping in a blanket, and lays her head on the pillow. "How far is this theme park, Jurassic World?" she asks out of curiosity.
"It is on the southern tip of the island, about roughly twenty miles from here. It is better to reach there by car or four wheeler," Owen answers and looks through his bags. He brings out a blue and white card, a cell phone, and a key.
"If you are feeling up to it, you can explore the park. You can take my four wheeler and park in a staff only spot. This card here has money, you can use it to buy food or whatever," Owen said, giving her the key and card. "Also, if you are in distress, ring me or Barry up," he adds, giving her the phone.
"Are you okay with me taking your stuff?" Aurora asks.
"To be honest, I do trust you and I think you need some time to try to regain some of your memories, try if you can," Owen said and adds, "I'm going back to the raptor paddock. If you want to come back and visit, you're welcome to."
"I might take up on that offer, Blue seemed...interested in me," Aurora replies and Owen nods.
"I have never seen that before," he said and checks to see if he had forgotten anything.
"Here we go," he said and shows her a pass. "This will let you ride the rides and you'll get to see the dinosaurs everywhere on the island, almost everywhere," he said and Aurora takes it. She then falls asleep. Owen goes out of his bungalow and back into the Mercedes-Benz and heads back to the paddock.
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Back inside the bungalow, Aurora had only slept for only a few minutes when she starts to dream.
Aurora was in a place very unfamiliar to her. She hears voices speaking in odd tongues, but she could not figure out what was being said. It was awfully dark, but there were illuminated computer screens.
She realizes she was on a table and she was strapped to it. She saw a dark figure wearing a lab coat and a hospital mask. Whoever he was Aurora was afraid of him and tries to move, but it feels as if her body was made of stone. She was so heavy that she could not lift a limb.
The figure held something up, Aurora tries to see, but it was so dark that she could not make it out. She did, however, see a big syringe with a red liquid in it, it looked almost like blood.
Aurora awakes with a start and the dream vanishes. She was panting and looks around the bedroom and then at the clock on the wall. She only slept for an hour, but she felt she slept all day.
She then decides to go and explore Jurassic World as Owen did make it sound adventurous and she was hungry. She looks around the trailer, but senses that she would not find anything good in here.
Aurora takes the items Owen gave to her, including the key to the four-wheeler and goes outside. She finds the four-wheeler and for some odd reason, she knew what she was suppose to do with it.
She puts the key into the ignition and turns it on. She then presses her thumb on the gas and she was on her way to the park.
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(Blue's POV)
'After it! Quick!' the beta-raptor Blue commands her pack mates as they run after the pig.
The raptors were quick, but the pig had a head-start as always and the pig runs into its pen. The raptors claw at the door when it slammed shut.
'Every time!' Echo snorts, 'That is our meal! And the humans always lock it up!'
"Here girls!" the human, Barry shouts at them, and they look up. However, they didn't pay attention to him when he shows them the dead rats.
'He's not one of us,' Blue chirps at her mates when she smells him and they walk away.
Blue goes back to the spot where the woman had fallen, the scent had faded, but Blue could still smell it.
Just then, she hears her alpha leader, Owen as she recalled his name. "Blue, eyes on me!" he calls out to her.
However, Blue decides not to obey and walks around the paddock, looking for the woman. The scent trail had faded, but Blue still had it fresh in her head.
Then Delta comes to her side and chirps, 'Are you still looking for her? Why are you interested in that human?'
'She has my scent, she must be our pack member,' Blue replies with a chirp.
'We are raptors! She's a human!' Delta screams at her beta, but Blue chomps her jaws in a warning.
'It does not matter, if she has my scent then she must be one of us,' Blue snorts and displays her teeth at Delta.
Delta walks away and Blue continues her pursuit for the woman, but it was no use as she was in a cage. She wanted to tear down the walls, but she remembered that she would be punished with a painful electric shock and she hated that.
She looks up at Owen and smells the woman's scent on him. She growls at him, but he didn't seem to notice.
"That is so strange," Owen said to Barry, "Blue has never disobeyed me before."
"Maybe it's Aurora," the dark-skinned man answers, "Blue did protect her from the others."
'Aurora,' Blue repeats the name with a chirp, 'That's her name.'
She decides to wait and hope that Aurora would come back, even for a visit.
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Aurora finds a staff-only spot by the gate that lead into the park and she walks through it.
There was a crowd of people walking around on Main Street. There were plenty of stores and restaurants and Aurora could smell meat cooking. She was dying for a meal and found a restaurant that served hamburgers and such.
"What can I get you?" a waiter asks after Aurora looks over the menu.
"I'll have the Carnivore Burger and I guess I'll have the Lava Daiquiri for a drink," she answers and the waiter takes her menu and walks away.
The restaurant was dinosaur-themed, very obvious for a dinosaur theme park. There were hanging lights that had amber-colored covers, a fossilized skeleton of a baby Triceratops on a wall, and some other interesting features.
"Here's your Lava Daiquiri," the waiter came back with her drink.
Aurora looks at it, it was a strawberry daiquiri as it was the color pink, but it had swirls of red in it. She took the cup in her hands, but then, her eyes flash with images.
"Here, try this," a male voice said to her and she drinks the daiquiri. It was sweet and Aurora liked it. Just then, she felt her body go limb and she fell asleep in an instant.
The image flashes away and Aurora gasps when she saw the daiquiri in her hand. She lets out a cry and throws it to the floor. The glass shatters and the daiquiri spills all over the floor.
"Are you all right, miss? What happened?" her waiter asks.
"I'm sorry, I didn't have a good grip on it," Aurora lies and a bus boy cleans up the mess.
"Would you like another? No extra charge," the waiter said, but Aurora quickly shakes her head.
"Just water, please," she answers and the waiter walks away.
Her hamburger arrived along with a glass of water. It had bacon on it and some cheese and lettuce. Aurora takes the first bite and felt like she was in paradise. She gobbles it down in less then five bites, along with the French fries.
"Wow, you inhaled that," her waiter said, taking the empty plate. "Would you like anything else?" he asks, but Aurora shakes her head and gives him the card that Owen gave her.
The waiter returns the card after he was finished with it and Aurora quickly leaves the restaurant.
She tried to remember the images she saw. She heard the male voice offering her the drink and she took a few sips, but then she blacked out after that. "Was I drugged?" she asks herself.
Aurora decides to head to the Innovation Center and was dazzled by the attractions it had inside. She checks out the computers that showed holograms of the dinosaurs it featured and the map where dinosaurs were said to roam over 65 million years ago.
She checks out the Velociraptor and the hologram appears. To her surprise, it looked like Blue and the raptor hisses and chirps at her.
She stares at the raptor for a long time and even walks up to it. Just then, the image fades and a hologram of a Stegosaurus appears. She looks to see a child play with the holograms. She then leaves the computers and goes into the Creation lab where she watches the staff check out the eggs and work on the computers.
Aurora saw a computer with the image of a Velociraptor and she gasps as an image flashes before her eyes.
A computer monitor features a Velociraptor image and it illuminates the darkness.
"Miss?" someone said and the image went away. Aurora looks to see a man with children by his side. "Are you all right?" he asks.
"I'm fine, just a headache," she replies and decides to leave the lab and goes out of the center.
Aurora knew that her memory was struggling to come back, but for some reason it felt like something was pushing them out of her head. She touchs the top of her head, the bump was still there.
She didn't know what it was, but she knew her head wasn't swollen or anything. She had to see Dr. Lewis about it, but she decides to wait for that as she wanted to explore more of the attractions.
Aurora goes to the Mosasaurus Feeding show where she watches the giant sea creature chomp on a great white shark. It splashes water all over the people in the wet zone and the seats were lowered to show the Mosasaurus swim around in its aquarium. Aurora then leaves and goes to the Gentle Giants Petting Zoo.
There were children riding on the backs of baby Triceratops and others were feeding baby Brachiosaurus. She wanted to feed one, but for some reason they ran away from her.
"That is unusual," a care-taker said and Aurora gives back the treats and leaves.
She then goes to the T-Rex Kingdom where she watches the park's veteran Tyrannosaurus Rex eat a goat. It walks around for a little while and goes away. Aurora felt tired of the attractions despite having not seen all of them, but she goes back to the four-wheeler.
She then decides to go and visit Owen at the raptor paddock and perhaps visit Blue and her mates. She gets on the four-wheeler and drives away into the jungle.
From the author: I thought of getting this out of the way because I have an exciting idea for the next chapter. If it's too short, please don't be harsh. I'm happy to see more followers! Stick around for the next, exciting chapter!