"Oh, no..." Mo said, interrupting the story as she now had Junior over her shoulder and she was gently patting him on the back to burp him.
"Oh, yes..." Atticus nodded.
"So, does that mean he was...?" Mo asked.
"I'm afraid the hunter had become the huntee." Atticus slowly nodded.
"Oh, dear..." Mo winced while still patting Junior until he burped. "So, Cherry, what happened with Tim did he survive or the electricity kill him?"
"Well..." Cherry drawled out.
Alan kept gently patting Tim as he was not moving or breathing. Lexi started to cry.
"Now you care about your brother?" Cherry asked, dryly.
"Of course I do!" Lex cried.
"Hm..." Cherry said.
"You care about your family no matter what," Lex yelled through her tears. "Oh, I guess you wouldn't know what that's like, huh?"
"No... I wouldn't..." Cherry glared back, but she felt deeply hurt on the inside.
They were then interrupted by Tim's coughs and gasps for air.
"Good boy." Alan hugged the boy.
"Three..." Tim weakly uttered out.
"Don't scare us like that!" Lex glared at her brother.
After a little while, they continued their way to the center.
Alan decided to keep carrying Tim since he was painfully shocked. "Hello?"
"Anybody home?" Cherry also called, but only heard her own echo.
No one seemed to be there, so the four of them went into the buffet room.
"Okay, I'm gonna find the others," Alan organized a plan as he set the boy down on top of the table. "Get you to a doctor... Lex, Cherry, you look after Tim."
"Yeah." Lex nodded.
"Hey, your hair's all sticking up," Alan patted the boy on the head with a small smile. "Big Tim, the human piece of toast."
Tim weakly smiled to that.
"Okay, I'll be back, I won't be gone long, I promise." Alan said as he left the room.
"Don't you want one of us to go with you?" Cherry offered.
"No, I'll be okay, besides, I need someone to stay with Lex and Tim in case there's trouble." Alan said before completely leaving the room.
Cherry sighed and rolled her eyes. Tim scooted off from the table and started to walk around.
"Feels like it's been ages since we last ate..." Cherry said once she saw a huge abundance of food.
"So, what are we waiting for?" Tim smiled, getting himself a plate, a fork, and knife. "Let's dig in."
Cherry looked around. "I feel like something might happen..."
"Oh, please, what could happen?" Lex asked.
Meanwhile, Atticus and Ellie were making their way back to the center...
Alan looked around and spotted them in his sight.
"Run..." Ellie and Atticus weakly told him.
"Ellie! Atticus!" Alan called out to them.
Ellie and Atticus both ran towards him, just happy to know that someone they knew was alive. Alan hugged Ellie as she ran right toward him.
Tim, Cherry, and Lex sat down and pigged out on the exotic and free food. And where they were enjoying the food and then Cherry saw Atticus's shadow as he ran into the room. Lex and Tim looked up from their food.
"Atticus?" Cherry hoped.
"Cherry! You're alive and so are the kids," Atticus said. "Whew, at first, I thought one of the Raptors-"
Tim and Lex turned to see a different shadow which was followed by a snarl.
"Oh, don't celebrate just yet!" Cherry gulped down her food as she saw and heard that.
"Oh, come on!" Atticus groaned before whispering to them. "Quick, to the kitchen."
Cherry nodded in agreement. The four of them rushed and hurried into the kitchen to hide from the invading dinosaur. Lex turned off all the lights.
Atticus leaned against the door. "I wish I were stronger..."
"Maybe someday." Cherry shrugged.
"Quick, we better hide behind something." Tim whispered.
Cherry and Atticus ran down one aisle while Lex and Tim ran down another and they both hid behind the long tables, quickly and quietly. The raptor snarled, breathing against the glass window. Tim gasped as he took a look and clutched closer to his sister.
"Well, at least there's just one of them and that they haven't learned how to open doors." Atticus smiled nervously.
"Let me guess, they did, didn't they?" Mo asked interrupting the story.
"Unfortunately, yes." Atticus said.
"You just had to say it..." Cherry glanced at Atticus, remembering what happened after he had said that.
The door knob began to twist and turn a couple of times until finally the door opened a crack to the kitchen. The haunting roar of the dinosaur was heard as it emerged into the kitchen for its food.
"I just jinxed it." Atticus groaned quietly.
"What is it?" Tim whispered.
"It's a velociratpor..." Lex whispered back in fear. "It's inside...'
"I knew I'd die young." Cherry moaned.
"None of us are going to die." Atticus whispered.
The velociraptor started to sniff around for them. The others covered their ears, it made such a horrible noise. The velociraptor appeared to have a friend as there were now two of them. They could split the kids by two for their untimely meal.
"Quick, we gotta move." Atticus whispered.
"Follow me." Lex replied. She then took the lead for them all to get out safely and quietly.
They crawled around as the dinosaurs began to look for them.
'Please don't find us, please don't find us, please don't find us.' Atticus thought to himself.
The raptors sounded close and the four stopped in stunned and horrified silence. Luckily for the four kids, the raptors looked out above the table that they hid behind and since they were unfound, the dinosaurs continued on to find their food. Once they were out of sight, Lex then took the lead again.
'So far so good.' Atticus thought to himself.
Unfortunately, one of the raptors hit the pots and pans on the table with its tail which made it all crash down right in front of them. A few landed on Lex and Tim, but they were able to crawl away to the next table without being seen. The same was said for Atticus and Cherry.
'Too close.' Cherry mouthed as she put her hand on her chest as her heart rapidly beat through her chest.
A soup ladle then fell down next to Tim and clanked against the floor. This caught the two velociraptors' attention. Lex crawled another way with Tim, Cherry, and Atticus as the velociraptors hopped on the tables and started to search that way.
"We've gotta defeat them somehow while not getting ourselves killed." Atticus whispered.
Tim stopped, he couldn't go any further. Lex, Cherry, and Atticus urged for him to come their way, but he wouldn't. The raptor started to sniff around for Tim. Atticus was about to come and get the younger boy. Cherry took one of the ladles and tapped it against the floor so the raptors wouldn't get them.
Lex began to join in. "I guess you care about Atticus after all, huh?" she then asked Cherry.
"Hey, he's like family to me." Cherry replied, innocently.
"Aww~..." Mo cooed.
"SHUT. UP." Cherry put her hand up in mild annoyance.
To their luck, one of the velociraptors heard their ladles. The velociraptors went their way and Lex and Cherry made themselves disappear as the dinosaurs were on their way over there. Both Cherry and Lex got into two spots and where one of the velociraptors saw the girls' reflection and saw that they were stuck.
"Come on... Come on!" Cherry grunted.
Lex screamed because the velociraptor was now coming for the two of them. Luckily, the dinosaur got confused and rammed its head against the reflection, mistaking it for the real thing, and the girls were able to escape.
"Tim, it's our turn to get rid of one of the raptors." Atticus whispered.
"There's the freezer..." Tim looked ahead to see an open door with no dinosaur in sight. He then looked back. "One..."
"Two..." Atticus counted with him.
"Three!" The boys ran which made the other velociraptor chase them and snarl on its way.
Tim and Atticus ran out, slipping slightly, and tried to slam the door shut so the velociraptor couldn't get out.
"Come on, close, close, close." Atticus said.
Lex ran over with Cherry to help them and locked the freezer door once the dinosaur was pushed all the way in. The other velociraptor recovered and grinned as the four got out of the kitchen and into the buffet as Alan and Ellie came inside.
"They're here!" Atticus told them.
"Control room." Ellie said.
Alan took out his weapon and they all backed up to get some help.
"Why are we going into the control room?" Tim asked.
"Can we call for help?" Lex added.
"We've got to reboot the system first," Ellie replied as she rushed to a computer.
"The door locks!" Alan called from his spot. "Ellie, reboot the door locks!"
"Um, Alan, I think we have another problem." Cherry said, scared at what she saw.
Alan looked up to see a dinosaur on the other side and snarled, trying to open the door. Alan held the handle, but the dinosaur came through the door as Cherry backed up. Ellie gasped in worry and rushed to Alan to help him.
"You gotta reboot the door locks," Alan told her. "You gotta reboot the door locks!"
Ellie came to the door and leaned on it.
"Ms. Sattler, you gotta reboot the locked doors!" Cherry called to her.
"He can't hold the door on his own!" Ellie called back.
Atticus and Lex both looked to the computer and then went over to it.
Lex sat down as her 'computer nerd' instincts flared up. "It's a UNIX system... I know this!"
"What is it exactly?" Atticus asked.
"It's all the files of the whole park," Lex replied. "It tells you everything... I've got to find the right file."
"But there are so many files, how are you going to be able to find the right file?" Cherry asked.
"Just leave it to me." Lex replied as she tapped into the keyboard and started hacking.