Isla Nublar, 2018, The Day of the Rescue Opt
With the sun high in the air, Blue peeled her eyes open. She yawned, looking out towards a few Compies playing tug-o-war with a scrap of meat.
The Velociraptor pawed at her face to make sure she wasn't crying again. That was a very scary event in her life. It wasn't as scary as when she had seen Charlie being blown to pieces, or witness the life leaving Echo's eyes, but it still spooked her. She didn't understand what that sudden change was all about, and she didn't want to know what it was about. All she knew was that she didn't want that to happen to her again.
She rose to her feet, padding towards her storage bin to grab a bite of meat to find something that infuriated her.
Her meat was gone, and the Ford Explorer was filled with sleeping Compies, their bellies distended from how much meat they gorged themselves on.
She screamed in fury, startling the Compies awake.
They screeched, bolting out of the vehicle, Blue hot on their tails, snapping her jaws in fury, as she chased them away.
She curled her lips back in an irritated snarl before her belly rumbled. She turned around to look inside the Ford Explorer, whimpering when she couldn't locate any meat inside.
She was sick of those little pests stealing her food. She wasn't as fortunate as those little scavengers who get away with anything, and no one would notice them. She was much larger than they were, and she was a lot less fortunate when it came to stealing food.
Her stomach growled again, causing her to flinch. She drew her head away from her storage bin, nostrils flaring. She looked around hopefully, death talons tapping, as she attempted to locate any scent of prey.
Unfortunately, there was none.
She sniffed the air for prey. No scents, except her own and the Compies'.
She trotted off towards the treeline, hopeful she could find food elsewhere. Without those Compies attempting to locate her, hoping she'd spare them a morsel.
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Thick, smoky fog surrounded the area of Mt. Sibo.
Blue had heard strange groaning and roaring noises up in the area a week before, and she was tempted to go out and find whoever was making that strange noise.
She sniffed around, death talons flexing, her inner membrane for her eye cleaning the ash and dust from her eyeballs whenever she blinked. The membrane kept her eyes clean from any dirt or grime that could've gotten into them.
She jumped from a toppled over van to the ground, chirping and chittering, her colors darkened by the surrounding ash and fog.
She didn't see very many dinosaurs around, which confused her. Before Mt. Sibo started rumbling, several Minmi and Protoceratops would venture up to higher altitude where they fed off of shrubbery and other greenery that was scattered about the plains near Mt. Sibo.
Blue liked to wander those areas. Her densite was near the volcano's base, but she had been searching for a satisfying meal for hours with no luck.
She hopped over a Suchomimus skeleton, her belly growling. She was so hungry and desperate for food that it began to blind her sense of rational thinking. Whatever she first saw that was accessible, that was going to be her prey.
The Velociraptor's nostrils flared, as she began to creep closer to the scent of a cluster of eggs up ahead. She cocked her head innocently, stepping closer. She bent her head down, sniffing the eggs. She could hear the squeaking of still-developing infants inside, which didn't phase her. She didn't have babies or a mate. She didn't understand what made those odd noises from inside the shells.
A loud roar snapped the dinosaur out of her stupor, as a large Baryonyx stormed towards her. The mother of the clutch of eggs.
Blue hissed, death talons tapping against the ground, as she opened her jaws wide in a loud screech of anger and hunger. She needed the larger dinosaur to move away from her, and her potential meal. She was starving!
A large, bulky, bronze body lumbered into the view of the two quarreling dinosaurs, a noticeable limp in her stride.
The Baryonyx and Blue stood up a bit straighter, as the massive Tyrannosaurus Rex approached them, head held high in a dominant way.
The second larger dinosaur had no need to stop a quarrel between two strangers near the edge of her territory. The only thing she wanted to do was to drive them out.
She lowered her head, jaws opening wide, and let out her bone-chilling roar, which Blue and the Baryonyx both couldn't compete with.
The angry mother charged at the Tyrannosaurus, causing Blue to step back, rocking on the balls of her feet giddily.
The bronze dinosaur easily grabbed her neck in her jaws, simply tossing her away, causing her to hit her head on a rather large rock, which knocked her out.
The Velociraptor, spurred on by the fight, shrieked, and charged at the older dinosaur. She pounced onto her thick hide, gripping onto it with her claws.
The Tyrannosaurus bucked against Blue's attempt to attack her, growling and snorting like an angry bull. She managed to grasp Blue's tail in her mouth, causing her to yelp in surprise, before tossing her to the ground.
The smaller carnivore tumbled to the ground, before jumping to her feet. She glared at the old Rex and roared angrily, which the Tyrannosaurus Rex replied to with an equally angry roar.
The whirring blades of a helicopter silenced them both.
Blue looked up to see a military helicopter soar over their heads.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex must've seen it, too, because she instantly turned tail and lumbered off, unwilling to be seen around humans.
Blue stayed put, tilting her head and chirping. She had dealt with humans when they came for her to put her back in a cage. She hated when they came. They meant betrayal and dishonesty. And they carried those scary weapons that shot tranquilizers at her.
She curled her lips back, starting to sprint down to her territory. For some reason, she wanted to seek out the humans. She wanted to find out where they were located, and what they were doing there. She knew it was a terrible idea, but Blue was always curious. Even if it got her in trouble.
She looked over a ledge when she heard several engines and tired herbivorous dinosaurs.
As she peered down the side of the ledge, she saw several large herbivores being carted off, restrained to large truck beds, and tranquilized.
She tapped her death talons thoughtfully before starting to follow after the odd-looking truck from the higher ground.
What appeared to be an adult Maiasaura bellowed groggily under the dusty tarp draped over its body.
Blue could catch a faint whiff of blood from the dinosaur below. Was it injured by the humans, or was it attacked by another dinosaur?
She stayed quiet, watching the trucks speed off towards the far east side of the island. Uncharted territory.
She jumped down from the ledge onto a mound of rocks built like a staircase. She stayed hidden inside the bushes, growing curiouser and curiouser as to where the Maisaura was being taken.
Upon scenting the salty sea air, she grew confused. Why was this dinosaur being taken to the East Dock?
The other trucks in front of it were also following along.
Blue kept her body low to the ground, as she relentlessly pursued the speeding vehicles.
Whenever they went over a bump or a ditch, the tranquilized animals groaned tiredly.
Blue suddenly flinched when she heard a loud roar of the volcano. She looked up towards the mountain to see lava and magma spewing from its mouth.
She made a sharp U-turn back towards the way she came from. She scrambled up the rocky "stairway" only to see a gruesome surprise.
The entire area at the base of Mt. Sibo was slowly, very slowly, being covered in lava.
The dinosaur barked loudly, as the lava began inching towards her.
She was trapped by the fiery liquid.
Noticing a rather large rock up ahead, the dinosaur ran towards it, leaping over the lava, as it consumed a Edmontosaurus skeleton, and landing onto the rock. She noticed a safe pathway up ahead where she could escape to reach her territory and camp out there. All her hunger was replaced with a strong sense of fear, as she launched herself off of the rock, and vaulted uphill.
Lava began rolling towards the fleeing Velociraptor, which caught her attention. She began to pick up her pace, growling with the effort to escape.
Blue felt heat on her back, and knew the lava was catching up to her. She saw fire beginning to ignite the trees and foliage around her, as she zig-zagged away from the blaze, pushing herself to go faster and faster, knowing she had to escape the oncoming wave of death behind her.
She trilled loudly in panic when she slammed into the wall of her paddock. She shook her head before whirling around, eyes wide in terror, as she saw the lava closing in.
The animal veered around the wall of her paddock, the lava crashing right into the paddock.
A few droplets of lava fell around her, burning hot embers singing her back and shoulders.
She skidded to a halt, looking over her shoulder to see the lava flowing around the building, the foliage lighting the entire complex on fire.
Blue whirled around, racing back towards her territory, as the lava began to reach the cliff where she witnessed Owen leave her.
When she started reaching the familiar land of her territory, she jumped over to her nest, instantly lying down, tucking her paws close to her chest, tail wrapped around her shaking body.
She was so close to dying. She was mere inches away from the lava and ash that consumed her entire, old, home.
She felt a pang of sadness when she remembered her packmates, and how they used to hunt and play inside those walls. But she was now safe. Safe from that terrifying flood of death inside her territory, next to her Ford Explorer, inside her nest, and away from any human contact.
Her nostrils quivered. She could smell something rather familiar. She narrowed her eyes, standing up.
Humans. In her territory.
She stepped back before sneaking off into the foliage. She didn't want to be tranquilized again.
She crouched down when she heard the sound of a human's cautious footsteps.
She narrowed her eyes, peeking through the foliage in anger at the strange human approaching her nest.
She kneaded her claws into the ground, lips curling back.
As the human grew closer, the bushes in front of her rustled.
The screams of a few Compies distracted the stranger, as they ran out of the Ford Focus.
Blue launched herself onto the top of her Ford Explorer, roaring.
When the human whirled around, a sudden wave of shock overwhelmed her.
There, standing before her, was none other...than Owen Grady.
A/N: So sorry for such a short chapter, everyone! I didn't really know what to add here, and the chapter seemed longer when I wrote it out on a google doc. Anyway, we're finally getting to the good stuff! The events of Fallen Kingdom!