A/N: Hey peeps! Here's another chapter for you all! This week is gonna be crazy at school. I had an AP test today, and tomorrow through Thursday I'll be getting in at one in the afternoon, just to stay for two hours. Crazy, huh?
Oh and, CAPTAINPRICE79, while that does make a lot of sense and the title could be seen that way, (cause Blue can be quite Icy) it isn't why I named the book Fire and Ice. It'll be explained later in the next few chapters; which I hope my idea for that doesn't go south, cause I got the idea from recent news regarding the sequel of Jurassic World.
Okay, that's all. I hope you all enjoy this chapter!
*Lilian's Story*
It hadn't been long before we were back in the forest again. I had warned Kilo and Juliet to behave and not to attack any of the humans, even if one of them was a stranger to me. But I knew Owen had expected more out of me after he hadn't seen me in a long time, and I knew he was impressed when I or any of my pack weren't aggressive. So explaining that to Kilo and Juliet, they agreed to stay calm with the other humans. And Barry and Claire were to be trusted.
They weren't pack, but weren't prey either, and Owen and Indigo cared about them. I even remember Delta had been very close to Barry, and refused to do as little as snarl at him when she was angry.
Fire had warned me to behave too. And now I had to get her and Lima back.
Indigo had mentioned of a plan she had, but hasn't explained anything to neither Owen, the stranger, or I. There was something else I was worried about too. I could hardly understand humans, just as any other raptors could. Fire could though, and so could Genevieve. In this situation, I worried I wouldn't understand what Indigo wanted me to do, but I would try if it meant to bring back my sister and Lima.
I chittered quietly when I heard a soft thump. The footsteps and talking from Owen and Indigo stopped, and I turned around confused. I heard her whisper something to Owen, and his eyes widened before glaring at Indigo.
"Again, you've got to be kidding me!" He said loudly. The lady behind him rolled her eyes before she groaned.
"It's the only chance we have. And we need distractions before we actually go in and break the girls out," Indigo replied with her arms crossed.
I tilted my head and barked at them to get their attention, and Owen glanced over before turning back to Indigo. "You pulled this on us last time we came here, we're lucky we aren't dead. Now you want Blue to bring the three carnivores along?"
Indigo only smirked and nodded in confidence, and I understood exactly what she wanted. It wasn't that hard to put two and two together. We couldn't just barge in the people's camp without help. The others at the boat had to stay in case we needed help, so that left one last option for who to get for help.
The other dinosaurs.
I knew what a carnivore was, and I knew the yellow dinosaur from earlier was one, just like me and my pack were. So all I had to do was track them down again, and ask them for help. By the looks of it, the one from earlier, who called herself Cora, said she and her two companions had been driven away from the river. She had been searching for them, and said they hadn't eaten since the people came here.
They attempted to attack, but one of them was brought down the same way Genevieve and Fire had.
I felt another thump, making the trees shake.
"Alright. Blue, we need your help now." Owen demanded. I chittered softly at him before another thump rustled the bushes, and Owen gave a small glance at the forest before saying,"We need you to find that Metriacanthosaurus from earlier. She can distract InGen while we get Fire and Lima out."
I got frustrated at the words I hadn't heard anyone say before, and I stared confused. Indigo sighed and said, "The dinosaur you saw earlier? When we found you, we need her help."
I huffed, looking at the ground, but this time I understood a little more, and a louder thump shook the trees. I glanced over when a large dinosaur came out, this one a little taller than the other one. It was yellow with brown patterns going all the way to its tail. It growled at us, and Owen, Indigo, and the red-haired girl backed up. I snarled at the yellow dinosaur. It couldn't be much bigger than I was, and I hissed.
It stopped, and sniffed around, before taking a few steps closer. I saw it relaxing, before it rumbled at me curiously. I tilted my head, and snuck closer to her. I had never seen other carnivores besides my pack, Rexy, and Genevieve. Today there were two new ones, and I had started to wonder how many more new dinosaurs roamed the island.
Then the yellow dinosaur spoke.
'You've seen Cora?' She asked. I realized this one must've been the other one who escaped, and I managed to hear Lilian blurt, "It's the Baryonyx. Nixie."
I glanced over my shoulder at her tone. She looked relieved and excited, I couldn't tell why. Then I look back at the dinosaur who had lander her eyes on the redhead lady. Nixie gave a low soothing rumble at her, a noise I had also never heard any dinosaur make on the island.
Again, I was smart enough to put two and two together.
Lily's POV
The Baryonyx I hadn't seen for the last three years crooned over to us. I watched her chitter with the velociraptor, and I couldn't snap my gaze away from the dinosaur. I had frozen in place, and Owen nudged me lightly before I snapped out of my thoughts. I only stared at him with my mouth dropped in shock, and he asked, "You okay?"
I tried to speak, but nothing came out. I felt myself shiver, and I wondered if what I had come to the island for was actually true. I had tried not to think about it too much, because part of me worried I had been wrong. But either way, I was on Isla Nublar now, and I wasn't going to leave until I had my answer, whether I was right or wrong. The feeling of dread took over though, and I wrapped myself in my arms before letting out a quiet groan.
"Lily." Indigo called out. I flicked my gaze over to her, and the background noise of Blue's and Nixie's rumbles and chitters started to cloud my mind again. Again, I didn't say anything, and only looked back at the only dinosaur I had always been amazed by. I furrowed my eyebrows in frustration, and I started to consider in leaving Owen and Indigo to their mission while I went to figure out what I came for.
"Lilian!" Owen yelled, this time making me snap back, "What!"
The snarls of the velociraptor startled me, and I flinched a few steps back. I glared at her before I looked back at the couple standing next to me.
"What is it?" Indigo asked, giving me a confused expression.
"I uh..."I began, still debating of what I was about to do. I side glanced to the two carnivores, still trilling at each other, and I took the chance to make my way our of the clearing.
"Go find your raptors. I'll meet you back at the boat in a couple hours," I say, starting to jog towards the forest, but Owen grabs my arm and says, "What?! Where are you going? It's dangerous out there."
"Well, I know that. Thanks for pointing out the obvious," I grumble with a smirk, and pull away from his grasp.
"You're looking for someone, aren't you?" Indigo called from behind me. I stopped mid-step, and without turning back, I sighed, and said, "I'll be fine. See you two soon!"
I ran into the forest.
About an hour and a half later, I had made it to the east side of the island, near the river where I remembered Nixie, Cora, and Aqua, the Suchomimus, fished at. The river, which I knew was also the Cretaceous Cruise, had been the three carnivores' home. I remembered the last time I had come here a couple months before the Indominus Rex rampage.
Too much has happened since then.
I ran when I heard faint snarls, which sounded like velociraptors. I hadn't had any encounters with those kinds of carnivores, and just knew what I had heard about them. Obviously, Owen's girls were different than what everyone else had said.
I kept running for what seemed like hours, but I hadn't realized because I was deep in thought. I had gotten lost in a memory.
"Lilian! Hurry up and get over here!" I hear my cousin, Ruby, calling me over. I raced through the tough brush and large leaves getting in my way, and finally made it out, slipping into a river I hadn't even known was there. I screamed when I landed in the cold water.
Ruby bursts out laughing from the other side of the river, holding a bucket with small fish. I groaned loudly and yell, "How did you get on the other side without getting wet?!"
She only laughed more, and I watch as bubbles started appearing in front of me. My eyes widened in panic as something burst out of the water too quickly for me to tell what it was. I screamed again when a large splash moved me across the river, and Ruby pulled me out, only laughing harder.
I skittered away from the river and stood behind my younger cousin, who just happened to work at Jurassic World, and this was my first time visiting her. I glared at the yellowish brown dinosaur I did not know the name of, only to have it glare back.
"Lily, this is Nixie, she's a Baryonyx. I'm her caretaker," my cousin introduced. I glanced at her before I turn back to face the Baryonyx. Nixie only huffed before slowly stepping out of the river, and I took a few more steps behind Ruby.
"Here ya go, Nixie." She says to her, throwing it a small fish. I take a better look at the Baryonyx, and I was surprised at her size. She was about two-three feet taller than me, but that wasn't the best part. I could only assume she was around twenty to thirty feet in length, especially because her back limbs and tail still remained in the shallow water, while it laid her front limbs in front of her, resting her long head on top of her arms.
Ruby giggled as she knelt down ti her dinosaur, and ran her hand on her snout. I looked at my cousin in shock. I never knew much about dinosaurs, and I was always cautious whenever I would get near one. Even if I knew it was an herbivore.
I rolled my eyes when the large dinosaur made a quiet rumble at her caretaker, nudging Ruby's hands with her snout.
I needed to stop panicking too much around dinosaurs.
"Lily, what are you standing there for? Come here." My cousin said in her obvious English accent, and pulled me down next to Nixie.
"Whoa— hey! Watch it!" I warn, but she had dragged my hand over to Nixie. I froze for a second before relaxing when the Baryonyx only gave a soft croon.
"Isn't she a carnivore...?" I ask my cousin, who nods, and lets go of my wrist.
"She only eats fish though, don't worry."
I smile, leaning closer to Nixie. She was a marvelous creature I never imagined to see in person. Whenever Ruby had told me she was the Baryonyx's caretaker, I had no idea what kind of dinosaur she had talked about, and neither did I bother to look it up. I only assumed it was a smaller herbivore dinosaur and not a large fish eating carnivore, who also happened to look intimidating with her long snout and long rows of sharp teeth.
I wasn't that fond of carnivores, but I had to admit, Nixie was adorable.
I shook the thought out when I heard a snarl closer, and I began to panic. This didn't sound anything like Blue or the other velociraptors, but similar. These sounded dangerous and bad. After another snarl, and multiple growls, I glanced around quickly for the closest tree I could climb, and raced to it just as a raptor jumped out of a fern next to where I had been standing.
I grip on the branches and frantically climb up as fast as I could, and stop at the highest I could get to. I look down. Three scaly brown velociraptors snarling and barking. I stared, not able to move after the panic, and I let myself calm down slightly after a few minutes that they had decided to give up and look for different prey. I sigh and lean back on the tree, and look at my surroundings.
I gasp when I realize how close I am to the park. I could easily see it from here; the hotel, the innovative center, the mosasaurus tank, and the main street. I frowned when I also spotted the people Owen and Indigo had called InGen. They had a big camp in the middle of the valley, and I wished I could smack them for being idiots.
If they weren't careful, then the other carnivores and even aggressive herbivores could attack them if they wanted to.
Then I see the large metal cages trapping what I could see on the other side of the valley were the Tyrannosaurus and Indominus. I gulped quietly and gaze at the two big carnivores. I had never actually seen them when I visited my cousin, because I would spend my entire visit at the Cretaceous Cruise. Some workers even asked if I was new at work there.
I squint my eyes to get a better look through the blinding sunlight, and I gaped at what I saw, causing me to hide further in the leaves of the tree I was in.
I saw three things at the camp I was dreading: One, no one was guarding the two most dangerous and biggest carnivores currently in captivity yards away from the camp, two, the three velociraptors that attacked me not minutes ago were heading the direction of the camp, and three?
Rexy was about to break out of her enclosure.
