As Long As We Make Out Alive
ch9: Exploration of Extinction
The jeeps pulled up to a building. They walked in to be greeted by the cool air conditioning. "Mr. Hammond, aren't there other guests?" Kurama wondered as he looked at the displayed dinosaur skeletons.
"Now my dear boy, you all are the only guests before the park official opens," Mr. Hammond, the owner of the park stated, "Now if you all would kindly follow me, we can get our tour started."
"What do you think about this so far?" Yusuke whispered to the red head as Mr. Hammond led the team up a flight of stairs and down a hallway.
"So far nothing seems suspicious, but we have to keep our eyes open for the sapphire." Kurama answered as Botan grabbed his hand.
"Right." Yusuke walked ahead to join Kuwabara.
##################################################
"Ah here we are, please have a seat." Mr. Hammond led the team in a room that looked a miniature movie theater, but on each seat there were bars like a fair ride. Each member of the team took a seat. Amaya sat between Kurama and Yusuke in the front row. Botan sat between Kuronue and Hiei in the second row. Ren sat beside Mr. Hammond and one of the park's investors in the back row.
A short introductory film began as the ride started to move after the bars came down on the riders' laps. They passed by rooms; control rooms and such. They passed by a lab that contained computers scientists, a man walked by with an ostrich-like egg in hand and placed it in a storage tank with a red light.
"Wait, how do you interrupt the cellular mitosis?" Amaya turned in her seat.
"Can we see the unfertilized eggs?" Yusuke asked.
"Shortly, shortly." Mr. Hammond assured. Yusuke and Amaya turned around and tried to push the bars up to get out.
"Can't you stop this thing?" Amaya wondered.
"Sorry dear, it's kind of a ride." Mr. Hammond replied.
"1…2…3." Amaya, Yusuke, and Kurama worked together to push the bars up. All the bars on the seats went up in response.
"What, what?" Mr. Hammond and his investor followed the teens into the lab.
"Can they do that?" The investors followed close behind.
"Good day Henry." Mr. Hammond called to a scientist that was writing something on a clipboard.
The man looked over his shoulder, "Oh, Good Morning, sir." The man smiled.
The team looked around, Amaya and Kurama came to a stop when they found a place where a mechanical arm was turning eggs. One of the eggs began to move, the arm stopped when it sensed movement.
"The egg's twitching, it's twitching." Yusuke stated as he pointed and walked up with Kuwabara right behind him.
"Oh, right on time." Henry smiled, "I was hoping that they would hatch before I had to leave."
"Henry, Henry. Why didn't you tell me? I insist on being here when they are born." Mr. Hammond slipped on a pair of latex gloves on.
The egg began to crack open, "Very good little one, push, push. There you are." Mr. Hammond cooed as the egg revealed a small dinosaur.
"Awww, oh my God." Amaya sighed at the sight at the new life.
"It's just a little thing isn't it?" Ren smiled.
"The temperature seems a high eighty, Wu?" Mr. Hammond grabbed a few tissues to clean the baby he held.
"Ninety-one, sir." Henry answered. (I forgot the exact temp. they said in the movie)
"It can hold that temperature?" Kurama wondered.
"Yep." Henry answered.
Hiei and Kuronue got a closer look. (I forgot to point out that Kuronue is in his human form.)
Hiei slipped on some gloves and held the dinosaur in his hands, "What species is this?"
"Um, it's a Velcoraptor." Henry stated.
"You breed raptors?" Amaya gasped, she knew how dangerous they were; of course she only read how dangerous they were, but still.
Henry nodded. The raptor in Hiei's hands squealed.
##############################################
"I was hoping we could have lunch before you all set out on the tour…" Mr. Hammond walked up to the team, who were staring at a mini fortress outside, on a cane.
"What are they doing?" Kurama asked as he watched a live bull on a crane being lifted over the top of the cage within the fortress.
"Feeding them." Mr. Hammond answered.
Kurama walked up to the stairs on the fortress that led to the viewing area. The team followed.
The bull was lowered into the cage as the top slid open. There was heavy panting, the bush shook as loud steering and shrieks and ripping sounds made it known the bull didn't stand a chance.
The team grimaced at the sounds. The crane lifted up the thing that the bull was in, it was ripped to pieces, and not a single piece of the bull was left.
"Yes, well, who's hungry?" Mr. Hammond smiled after the team asked questions with the one charge of the raptors.
##############################################
The team sat at a large table in a room that had TVs playing films. The girls received their plates first.
Amaya began eating. "How can you eat after watching that?" Yusuke wondered beside the ookami.
"You forget, Yusuke," Amaya whispered, "I'm a wolf, we eat fairly similar to the way raptors do… but we kill our prey then eat it of course were as raptors eat theirs while it's still alive." Mr. Hammond wasn't aware of his guests – the majority of them were demon.
"Oh." Yusuke replied.
The others didn't touch their food. "Well, shall we continue the tour?" Mr. Hammond stood up after a half an hour of conversation. The team agreed.
To Be Continued…