Chapter 6: First Sighting
The group followed the trail to what seemed like hours. 'I've never been this deep in the jungle before,' Ulyssa chirps and sniffs the ground.
The jungle was thick with trees that had been toppled by the rogue dinosaur. So far, they had the feeling that they were dealing with one rogue T. Rex.
Then, Lightning stops Blue from stepping any further. 'Get out of my way!' the beta female raptor screams at the alpha male.
'Before I do, come look,' Lightning replies and Blue sees a nest of eggs hidden by rocks. In fact, there was a dozen nests of eggs surrounded by rocks. 'The Abrictosaurus would be very upset if you step on their eggs,' Lightning adds.
Aurora and Owen check on the nests, they were surprised that none of them had been stepped on by the rogue T. Rex. "The Abrictosaurus must've ran off when it came," Owen said, but then Aurora pulls him to his feet.
The Abrictosaurus mothers had returned to the nests and they roar at the Velociraptors, despite being smaller than them.
"Wait a minute!" Aurora pleads with the four feet tall dinosaurs, "We're sorry! We were following this trail! We didn't mean to disturb your nests!"
One of them walks up to her and screeches at her. 'She says that the creature chased after them for a while, but then went away,' Shadow translates for Aurora.
"We'll leave you alone, but we promise we'll catch this rogue T. Rex," Aurora said to the small dinosaur. The group walks around the nests and continue to walk the trail.
A lot of trees had been toppled and crushed. 'Wait a minute!' Silva shrieks and places her nose to the ground. She sniffs the scent, 'There's two different scents here,' Silva adds.
Argo and his mate Siren walk over beyond the trail and they screech, 'Look over here!' Aurora and Blue go to investigate and saw a boulder that had been broken to pieces.
Aurora touches the pebbles, "How could something like a T. Rex crush a rock this big?" she asks. Blue moves a rock with her muzzle, it rolls down, and Lightning catches it with his foot.
Blue looks at Lightning and she begins to growl at him. 'You are getting on my nerves,' she warns him.
'I'm sorry,' he replies, but does not go away.
"Can I ask all of you something? Have you ever met a much bigger dinosaur?" Aurora asks all of the raptors.
Ulyssa, her pack, and Lightning and his pack look at one another. 'The biggest ones we have met are Scar the Titanoceratops and Spike the Spinosaurus,' Ulyssa chirps and the others screech in agreement.
"Scar and Spike," Aurora repeats and begins to think.
"I say we take a break, my feet are pretty sore," Owen said and Aurora nods. They sit down on moss-covered rocks and Aurora shares some nuts and water with Owen.
The Velociraptors had thought up a big chunk of meat to share. Lightning insisted that Blue and her pack eat first. 'That is not necessary,' Charlie replies while looking at Argo. Siren displays her teeth at the young raptor.
'Argo is my mate, get your own!' Siren shrieks at Charlie.
'Mates? Who said anything about getting our own mates?' Delta chirps.
"Uh-oh, I hear trouble," Aurora said to Owen and they go to intervene with the two packs.
'For the record, we're not interested in finding mates,' Echo chirps to Lightning's pack mates, particularly at Blackjack . Blackjack didn't seem to care in what she said and walks up to Echo.
'You might change your mind,' Viper said to Delta, but she hisses. His brother Hooper looks at Charlie, but she was looking at Argo.
'Lightning, control your pack. Blue and her sisters are not interested yet,' Silva chirps, but that got Blue's attention.
'Yet? What do you mean yet?' the beta female replies.
Lightning steps forward, looking at Blue in the eye. 'My pack and I, except for Argo thought of pursuing you,' he chirps at her and that made Blue tick.
'Pursue us?! We don't want to have mates! Especially me! Aurora is all I wanted! I will not fall in love with you, Lightning!' Blue screams at him.
"Stop it, all of you!" Aurora orders and her pack falls silent. She looks at Lightning and his pack and says, "Lightning, my pack does not like the idea of mating. They prefer to be by themselves."
'Don't they want to know what it's like to mate and have younglings?' Viper chirps, but then Delta chomps her jaws at him.
'How could any of you think like that?! We only just met!' she screeches at him.
"Everyone hush!" Owen shouts and has them hide behind trees and boulders. The earth quakes beneath their feet, causing them to hop. "This is something really big," he whispers to Aurora.
They hear trees tumble down and rocks being crushed. Aurora and Owen dare to take a peek at what the thing was.
There stood an enormous creature, much bigger than a T. Rex, but it looked like a T. Rex. It had ghostly white scaly skin, its eyes were a blood-red, and its growls were deep in tone.
Then, the rogue T. Rex moves its snout towards the group's hiding place. Aurora gestures to her pack to remain quiet and they obey. The T. Rex sniffs the air and it was getting close to touching the raptors.
Aurora's heart pounded so fiercely that she thought it was going to burst. She was afraid as to what will the rogue T. Rex will do to her pack and the other raptors.
Owen holds her tight, preventing her from moving a muscle.
Just then, they hear screeching noises and the T. Rex turns its head to see the pack of Abrictosaurus hollering at it. The rogue dinosaur gives a deafening roar, making Aurora, Owen, and the raptors cringe at the sound.
The T. Rex heads towards the Abrictosaurus at a fast pace, but the little dinosaurs ran off. "Oh my God, that was the most terrifying thing I ever experienced," Aurora said to Owen.
"Those Abrictosaurus are having a bad day," he replies and they listen to the tumbling of trees and the T. Rex's roars.
'I have never seen that T. Rex before,' Ulyssa chirps to the others. The other raptors reply that have not seen the T. Rex either and Blue goes to check on her alpha and former alpha.
'You weren't scared were you?' Lightning asks Blue, but she snarls at him.
'Back off Lightning, I don't want your help,' she snorts at him.
'I'm not helping, I'm just asking if you are okay,' Lightning replies.
'I'm fine, see, now go away,' Blue orders him and he walks away.
"Blue, that's not nice," Aurora points out, but the beta female does not care.
Blackjack and Viper look at Echo and Delta, but the two females give growls at them, meaning that the two males should not ask. Charlie, however, looks at Argo, but he was making sure his mate Siren was all right.
'Don't waste your breath on him,' Delta informs her younger sister.
'Why are you interested in him? He already has a mate,' Moriko asks Charlie.
'I just think he is cute,' she replies, but Delta and Echo snarl at her.
"Delta, Echo, you be nice to Charlie," Aurora orders the two female raptors. The group then hears the distant roar of the rogue T. Rex. "What do you think we should do?" Aurora asks Owen.
"I think we should follow it, see where it resides," he answers and the two gather up their things.
They did return to the Abrictosaurus' nests, to be sure if they were okay. The two then spot some of the mothers returning and some of them screech at the raptors.
'They said the giant headed south,' Blue translates for Aurora.
"Tell them we said thanks for helping," Aurora said to the raptor and she chirps the thank you to the Abrictosaurus. The group then turns around and resume their journey to find the rogue T. Rex.
From the author: Major boy problems for the girls! Let's just hope they warm up to them. Stay tuned!