The Spinosaurus opened her eyes, finding them unusually heavy. The first thing she took in was that it was daytime. She saw she was in some sort of covered area, and with her were other large creatures, a few of them she sensed were types she would hunt, but the other she sensed was a hunter, the kind she would compete with for food and territory. The next thing she noticed was that the other creatures were each inside a large object with long sticks between the top and bottom and which were all around the sides of the objects.
Looking back from them, she noticed she was in such an object as well. She lifted herself up, finding a strange feeling in her head that almost made her want to lie back down. However, it soon faded. She leaned forward, and went to lift a foot up to take a step forward, but found that something was holding her foot down, preventing her from taking any steps. She looked back at her foot, and found that there was something encircling her foot, something hard, and from it was a small line of hard-looking strangely-shaped circles that went into the bottom of the object she was in. She tried once again to move her foot while keeping an eye on it, but whatever it was keeping her foot from moving kept its hold. Turning her head back around, she roared in frustration, but instantly finding that her mouth couldn't open, and as such, the roar was trapped inside. She tried opening her mouth for testing purposes, but found something was keeping her mouth from opening, something vine-like that was tied around her snout. She reached up with her claws to tear it off, but found that something was holding her arms down as well. She turned her head to look at it, and saw that her arms were held down similarly as with her feet. She struggled with these arm bindings, but they too kept their hold. She again roared in frustration, but with the same result as before. It started to sink into her that she could go nowhere, and there was nothing she could do about it.
Then she heard small footsteps. She looked over at the open part of the area's covering, where daylight was coming in. There were three small creatures. The one in front seemed to be a young male, with a lot of black, red, and blue for his colors. There was also a young female around the same age as the first one, and she had a lot of white on her with some greenish blue. The third seemed to be older than the other two, although he was shorter. He was colored in a lot of orange, yellow, and white. The Spinosaurus had the tiniest, faintest sense of familiarity about each of these three, but she couldn't identify why.
Upon the arrival of these three small creatures, the Spinosaurus heard each of the other four large creatures suddenly cry out. Something about the sudden excitement in the air made her struggle against her bindings, which only led her to trying to roar again in her rekindled frustration. Noticing that it got quiet again, she calmed back down. It was then she heard a sound from the small creatures.
"What's happened to them, Mr. Stubbs?" the young female sounded to the older male. The Spinosaurus didn't understand their kind of sound, only understood that it was their way of communicating with each other.
"The Professor said some stuff that set them off the deep end. That's why they tore up the contract," the older male sounded. The Spinosaurus saw the younger male take a step forward, and seemingly downward. At the same time, she heard the other hunter creature shuffle; his footstep heavy against the bottom of the object he was in. Sensing it meant nothing, the Spinosaurus turned back to the three small creatures.
'It was a deal they made," the older male seemed to finish from what he was communicating.
"So they're this way, 'cause of me?" the younger male sounded.
"I guess so," the older male seemed to reply. Though the Spinosaurus couldn't understand them, she noticed something about the tones of the two males that was negative in nature; not angry, but probably not normal either. She heard the small female make a sharp sound with her breath.
"Louie, look! Is that Cleo?" the young female sounded. The younger male instantly turned his head towards the Spinosaurus. The sense of familiarity came back to the Spinosaurus, and another sense joined it at the very last part of what the young female sounded. However, the Spinosaurus couldn't remember why anything was familiar, and there was a hurting in her head. The pain of it made her struggle more against her bindings, trying to pull them out from each angle she could manage. She tried roaring again in her pain and growing frustration; again, the binding around her snout held back the roar.
"I think it is," the younger male sounded. He then turned to look at the older male. "Why is she so restrained like that?"
"From what I heard, she took something the Professor said as a challenge against how tame they all were. She ended up biting one of the Professor's arms, and nearly breaking it. This is why she has stronger restraints than the others; she proved she was potentially more violent and aggressive than the others," the older male sounded, seemingly in response to the younger male, who turned back to look at the Spinosaurus.
"I-I didn't think she had that in her," he sounded. There was something in his face and tone of voice almost like sadness, but then it changed as he turned back to the older male. "What will happen to them, Stubbs?"
"He's featuring them in the show tonight," the older male seemed to respond, then turning around to head back outside as he continued, "All the usual weirdos will show up, I'm sure." The two younger creatures then followed right behind him.
"Stubbs, you've gotta get us in that show!" the younger male sounded. The three seemed to pause their movement as they exited.
"I can't do that!" the older male sounded.
"Don't you see? They did this for us!" the younger male seemed to respond. The Spinosaurus couldn't see what they were doing, but kept her gaze at them out of curiosity. She saw the younger male gesture with his arms back inside the covered area before continuing his communication, while swinging his arms back toward the older male.
'This guy's crazy, Stubbs. He's never gonna laugh at your jokes," the younger male continued. There was a small crashing sound, with the older male suddenly disappearing from sight, with the two younger ones following right behind.
The Spinosaurus turned her gaze from the opening. Though she had not understood the meanings of the sounds they made, she was sure from the way they came in, conversed some, then left, that the reason they had come in the first place involved her and the rest of the large creatures she was next to. It made her head hurt again to think over it.
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Later in the day, two figures came to their area. One was the older male creature from earlier, and the other was a taller male who seemed to be even older than the shorter one, and was mostly black for his coloration. The shorter one was pushing something that seemed to have some small square-shaped objects stacked on it. The Spinosaurus could smell something in a couple of the square objects that made something growl inside her. The shorter male carefully pushed his carrying object down what appeared to be a strange, small, jagged cliff. He then pushed it around to the middle of the area. While he pushed it, the Spinosaurus noticed the square objects were resting against the carrying object's hard-looking sticks, and it was moving with two circular objects at the bottom. He was pushing it with his hands gripping two hard-looking sticks extending backwards from the top.
He stopped pushing it when he got to the large creature at the far end. He let it stand straight up, and then he took the square object from the top of the stack. He opened the object, and inside it appeared to be yellowish flat lines of a nature not unlike flat greens that are eaten by the kind of creatures that the Spinosaurus and other hunters would hunt. The short male lifted the yellow food from inside the square object it was in, and it all came out as one square shape. He tossed the square of yellow food through the hard-looking sticks of the large object that held that large creature.
The Spinosaurus noticed how there was space in between the sticks of their confining objects. She looked back to the sticks in front of her, trying to let an idea to come to her. Before she could start, she noticed the taller male of the two small creatures had come closer to her, and was looking up at her.
"Have you been a good dinosaur today?" he sounded. There was something about his tone that she didn't like. She dipped her head down and slightly forward to get a better look at him. She used her instincts to sense his being. She sensed something bad about him that strangely set off a twinge of irritation, though she didn't know why. She made a low growl from this irritation.
"Splendid," the taller male sounded, seemingly in response to her growl. She noticed that one of his eyes was very strange and different than his normal eye. She also noticed that there were white bindings around one of his arms. There were flashes in her head that seemed to want to form into sights, but were too weak to, but instead left her with a pain in her head like before. She growled more loudly from the pain and the irritation of how it kept returning.
"Now, now. Don't worry, you'll get your lunch, too," the taller male sounded. A smell came to the Spinosaurus. She calmed down enough to turn her attention towards the smell, and noticed the shorter male was pushing the carrying object towards her. She also noticed that there was only one square shape object left on it.
She watched as the shorter male stopped the carrying object next to the taller male. The taller male then walked closer to one corner of the front of her confining object. The Spinosaurus leaned her head down again to inspect him, to watch for signals on what he was planning.
"Making this easier, are ya?" he sounded. "Look into my eye."
Some green color began to come from his strange eye, and the Spinosaurus couldn't help but look at it. Her sight became filled with the strange eye, with the green circling around it. It ended as quickly as it started, and the entire figure of the taller male at the corner of her confining object, only everything had taken on a green tint.
"Now hold still," he sounded. The Spinosaurus still couldn't understand the sounds these small creatures made, but all of a sudden, she could understand the meaning of what the taller male just sounded. However, this new understanding didn't feel like her own, like something else was in her head giving the understanding to her. It also felt like it had control over her own will, as she found herself holding still, waiting for the next sound from the taller male creature.
She barely heard a creaking sound she couldn't quite identity. Then she faintly felt a relief from around her snout. Her mouth reactively opened itself a bit from the relief. Then she felt something soft hit her tongue, something good to the taste.
"Now chew," the taller male sounded. The Spinosaurus instantly started chomping down on the meat in her mouth, and soon instinctually tilted her head back to let the food slide down her mouth as she swallowed.
This process repeated a couple more times until the square shape seemed to have nothing left inside it.
"Now hold still again," the taller male sounded. The Spinosaurus held still while there was a faint feel around her snout once more, and then it felt tighter. Afterwards, the creaking sound from before sounded again.
"Good girl," the taller male sounded. The Spinosaurus barely heard small footsteps that began to grow faint. There was a sudden burst of light from the left, from which the Spinosaurus blinked in surprise. She then noticed that the green tint her sight had was now gone, and her sight was normal again. She also noticed that the understanding and controlling in her head was also gone. Blinking a few times, she turned towards the opening to the outside. Both of the small creatures were there, leaving through it, with the shorter male behind the taller male, who was all ready outside.
"Tonight, this will be one show nobody will ever forget," the taller male's voice sounded.