Chapter 9: The Plan
The humans had cleaned up the mess caused by the Titanoceratops. The number of casualties were all mixed up as no one didn't take count of how many came along to conquer the afterlife.
"The Velociraptors whipped out many of the soldiers, including those guarding the bunker. Those over-sized rats!" Dr. Christian Lewis said to Muldoon.
"You should've been careful when taking the pack's alpha and beta. They'll go to great legths to save them," the gamekeeper chuckles in a reply.
"Don't give me that! Those big rodents ruined my past life!" Lewis angrily bellows at him.
"The big one also ruined mine just so you know. We need to capture them," Muldoon said, but Lewis looks at him.
"And how do you purpose we do that?" the doctor asks.
"Force them out of their hiding place," Muldoon answers, but Lewis just laughs.
"Force them out? Like how?" the doctor asks, again.
"Send in a hunting party, some men will die, but it is necessary to sacrifice a few to get what we want," Muldoon adds, but Lewis just looks at the gamekeeper.
"Honestly, did you come here for a hunt or to get your revenge?" Lewis said.
"Both, but I want to mount the big raptor's head as a trophy of my success. I would've done it if that clever girl wasn't so sneaky," Muldoon answers and Lewis began to think about his plan.
"And what of the girl?" Lewis asks, but Muldoon had no answer for that.
"Leave her to me," a voice answer and Esteban Moreno appears with a gun. Joana was behind him, her eyes facing down.
"You're not going to kill her, are you? Your own daughter?" Muldoon asks, but Esteban just laughs.
"She caused us enough trouble when we were alive and I want to give her some grief for once," Esteban said, showing some rounds of ammunition.
"Just how you ended up in Hell?" Muldoon asks, as he was curious.
"We sold our other daughters to brothels, but Dr. Lewis here showed some interest in Lidia. So, we tried to give her to him, but she ran away. Somehow, he caught up with her and paid half of the interest," Esteban said, but Muldoon shakes his head.
"Not that, how did you die?" Lewis asks for him.
"Oh, our neighbors found out what we had done and they formed a lynch mob. They hanged us, a form of their own justice. I'm surprised they didn't get in trouble for that," Esteban answers.
"For a good reason," Muldoon whispers to himself. The gamekeeper began to feel pity towards the girl, Lidia or Aurora as she prefers to be called. He actually did not meet her, but he hated her parents, or so they claim to be.
"I deserved to be punished," Joana said and began to pray outloud in Spanish.
"Don't believe a word she says, she was part of the plot, too," Esteban said and adds, "She is crazy."
"Mentally unstable I should say," Lewis replies and at that moment, Joana began to shout in Spanish and pulls out a knife. She stops shouting and shows the knife to the men. She begins to laugh and made a cross in the air.
"Perhaps she is ashamed of selling off her daughters," Lewis said, but Joana shakes her head vigorously.
"The devil child must be killed, the girl must die," Joana said, still laughing.
"She thinks Lidia is the devil child?" Lewis asked and Muldoon seemed pretty shocked by this.
"That I can agree, Lidia has been hanging around those things, Velociraptors or whatever the hell they are. Plus, if she knew about what had happened in her past life then she'll let those things loose on us," Esteban answers and takes the knife away from his wife.
"Maybe we can provide some backup, there was a certain...dinosaur that the Velociraptors feared when they were alive," Lewis said and summons some soldiers. He spoke to them in whispers and then they left.
"In due time, we will have a dinosaur that is bigger than a T. Rex," Lewis said to the Morenos and Muldoon.
"Let me get my gun," the gamekeeper said and goes to retrieve his rifle.
"We will go at day-break," Lewis said to the Morenos and they nod and left to get some sleep.
Muldoon prepared his rifle, his thoughts on killing the raptor who took his life. Although, he wondered if it was the right thing to do.
From the author: I know, too short, but this was kind of necessary to show you what the humans plan on doing.
I am debating whether to make Muldoon a good guy or not. I'm letting you, my readers decide, and please share your decision in a review!