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Heavy trigger warnings for this chapter for gore and torture via raptor. Skip the first italic section if you want.
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Hamada and his men was too late. Hamada stared at the body of the second chimera dinosaur and cursed in a very unprofessional manner, under his breath. The second team, who had come in from the road had reached there roughly the same time as Hamada's own group.
"The tracks look like they might have come up from the direction of the restricted area," One of Hamada's men said.
"Then we bet get there," Hamada said. He was about to give the order to get back to the jeeps when his comm. crackled and one of his men said:
"Sir, movement in the trees."
Instantly they formed up and camouflaged as best they could into the trees. After a few moments, the source of the movement came into view. Not dinosaurs. Men. Mercs, by the look of them, carrying heavy firepower and what looked like equipment meant for capture of dinosaurs.
Aww hell.
Hamada reached up and quietly relayed the news to Carter.
"What do we do sir?" he asked.
There was a pause and then Carter said, coolly. "Take 'em down. See if you can get one of them alive so we can find out what the hell is going on."
"Noted. Hamada out." Hamada looked at his men and made several swift hand gestures that conveyed his plan.
His men nodded in response and then, when the intruders were within range, they opened fire.
Owen struggled into consciousness once more. This time he was able to force himself to stay awake. He blinked blearily at the ceiling and forced himself not to groan and the searing pain in his head. It took a lot more effort that it should have to convince himself to sit up.
When he did so, everything became so much worse. He didn't care though. It was nothing compared to being cut off from the pack. He did groan that time however and the room swirled alarmingly.
"Owen?" said a young voice. "What are you doing? Lie back down!"
Hands pushed at him but Owen batted them away and blinked blearily at Zach. The room was very dark and he could hardly see the boy.
"Where am I?" he asked instead, wincing as his own voice seemed to reverberate around his skull.
"The med bay," said Zach.
"What are you doing here?"
"Same as you. All the preternatural got hit."
"What?"
"Whatever it is that's doing this hit all the preternatural. I'm not as strong so I didn't get hit as badly but the others but…"
Owen felt a pang of worry and then said, "Where's the pack? Are they okay?"
"I don't know," said Zach. Owen could make him out out a little better now and noticed that the boy was squinting even in the dim light.
"I have to find out," said Owen. He slid his legs over the bed only to be gently pressed back by Zach.
"How about we call Carter?" Zach suggests, "And tell Anika that you're awake. Carter would know about the pack."
Owen wanted to snap at him, tell him that the pack's safety was his responsibility, wanted to do something with the driving need to find out if his girls were okay, but he was no use to them if he collapsed again.
"Okay," he said after a moment. Zach pressed a button on Owen's bed and then pulled out his cell phone. He held the device twisted away from him and pressed a button. The phone lit up and Owen groaned at the shooting pains the light caused.
"Sorry," said Zach, "It's on the lowest brightest too."
After a moment Zach's eyes had gotten accustomed and he squinted at the screen to find Carter's number. He found it, dialed and held the phone out to Owen with relief. Owen grabbed the phone and put it to his ear, closing his eye on that side to prevent his headache from getting worse.
"Zach?" came Carter's voice.
"No, Owen," said Owen.
"Shit. Are you up?"
"A little. Where's the pack?"
"I don't know," Carter said. "They're heading deeper into the restricted area right now."
"What? Why?"
"It seems that someone released a bunch of hybrids on the island," Carter told him. "The pack are killing them out."
Owen went cold. "By themselves! Carter, the Indominous almost killed them." He shot to his feet, fulling intending to get out there now.
"Relax," said Carter, none of the bodies we've found have been in the weight class of the Indominous. The girls have taken down two already. Your intern is apparently helping them."
"My what?" said Owen feeling blindsided.
"Your intern," Carter said, "She's apparently handy with a gun."
"I don't completely trust her," Owen said, "And neither does the pack."
"Well they haven't killed her yet and she was the one who called in the medical for you."
"What about the guy that threw the grenade?"
"The pack killed him," said Carter.
"Shit," murmured Owen. He completely understood though. "Where are these hybrids coming from?"
"From the restricted area," said Carter, "The cameras you put there have been taken out."
"Shit," Owen said again and then wanted to hold his head. He closed his eyes. "I need to find the girls."
"Let Anika clear you first," said Carter. "The last thing I need right now is for you to do something stupid and leave us with an alpha-less pack on raptors on this island."
Owen gritted his teeth but agreed.
"Hey," said Carter, "They're big girls, they can handle themselves."
Owen huffed out a laugh. "Right."
"I've got to go," said Carter, "Call me after Anika sees you."
"Will do," Owen said. He ended the call just as a knock came on the door.
"Close your eyes boys," said Anika, "I'm coming in." Both Owen and Zach quickly closed their eyes. Even so, the light that they registered through their eyelids made their heads ache worse. Owen groaned. How was he supposed to help his girls when he was basically being defeated by light?
The next threat they encountered was not other creatures but they were men and they were not friendly. Blue grumbled in her throat and gestured to her sisters. Intern had stopped further back this time. Perhaps she did not want to kill the other humans. Blue understood that this was a thing that humans were generally against. She did not seem like she would stop them from doing so however and that was all Blue needed from her right now. She was glad the human woman wasn't coming any closer anyway, she was not as stealthy as the pack and would have given away their position.
Do not kill them all, Blue told her sisters, We must find out what they are here for.
The human can ask, Charlie said.
Blue agreed.
The pack slinked through the bushes, low to the ground, carefully not disturbing the trees they were passing by. When they were all in position, Charlie deliberately stepped on a branch. The branch crackled and the men all whipped around to point their guns in her direction.
Echo, popping up from the opposite direction, dragged a man down and broke his neck cleanly. The men spun to where Echo had been and Delta hit a man in the claves. He screamed once before she severed through his throat. She rolled away from the shots fired at her and Charlie finally sprung, biting into the artery that pulsed in the human neck before slipping back into the brush, leaving the man to bleed out.
Shots peppered where she was and the men drew together in a circle putting their backs to one another. Their heartbeats were racing and fear leaked off of them. Good. They should be afraid. They had come to the pack's island, brought challengers and hurt their alpha. They should be very afraid. They had com to their island. They would not be leaving it.
Charlie, Delta and Echo flashed through the trees, drawing fire from most of the group. Blue leapt, broke a man's jaws in her neck and was back in the brush before the other men could twist around to fire at her. A bullet grazed her skin but it was nothing.
The men were even more frightened now and one of them pulled out something that Blue recognized from Owen's memories. A grenade. The thing that had blown up the paddock. The man lobbed it in the direction that Charlie and Echo were in.
Blue felt a moments horror, screaming at her sisters to run because the blast could hurt them, even kill them if they were too close. A bullet fired and the grenade pitched sideways, away from them and detonated midair.
Blue turned to look and found Intern holding her alpha's rifle. The men whipped around shocked and then Intern fired again. A bullet buried itself in a man's shoulder, another in a mercenary's leg, a third through the arm of a man.
Then intern was rolling out the way as the men fired at where she was. The distraction was enough through. Intern had opened a hole in the wall of men and Delta took full advantage of that, leaping into the gap, hitting the unprotected backs of the men, Blue, a second behind her.
Charlie and Echo joined them only moments later and soon only one of the men was alive, the one Intern had shot in the arm. Blue casually crippled his other arm with a twisting bite and Echo cut both of the tendons behind his ankles so he couldn't run.
Intern jogged up to them and the screaming man. Blue lifted her head and snorted in her face. Intern rocked back and Blue looked her right in the eyes and then turned her head to look at the man. Then she cocked her head at Intern.
Surprisingly enough, Intern understood what Blue was asking on the first try. She slung her gun onto her back, knelt next to the man and asked:
"Who are you? What are you doing here?"
"Go to hell bitch!" the man groaned.
"Sorry, no can do. Who are you working for? What do you want."
The man spat at her. Intern jerked back so that it missed her and dug her fingers into the arm Blue had broken. The man yelled then laughed.
"You think," he gasped, "that, that's going to get me to tell you what you want to know? You don't even have the stomach to even do this, freak!"
"It's me or them," Intern said leaning forward. "Either you tell me or I leave you to them and they will get you to talk, trust me."
"They've already taken everything." He choked out, gesturing at his legs, "I'm not afraid to die."
"Well the sad thing about raptors," said Intern, "is that they're smart enough to hurt you a lot more and not kill you. In fact, I'll ask them not to. We'll keep you alive and I will make sure you make it and have to live as a cripple for the rest of your worthless life. And trust me, they haven't crippled you as much as they can."
Echo was happy to demonstrate by slicing through a muscle in his calf.
The man screamed again and tried to grab for a knife but Charlie darted her head forward and crushed the bones in his hand. Intern took the knife and said, "There are a lot more bones in your body and a whole lot more tendons and raptors are very, very precise with their claws."
Fifteen minutes later the mercenary finished giving them all that he knew.
"Please," he said at the end, looking at Intern, "Kill me. I don't even care if they do it. Just…just kill me. Don't leave me like this."
Blue, raging from the things he had told them was happy to oblige but Intern threw herself over the man and said, "No. Please, no."
"You bitch!" the mercenary screamed, but desperation and pain laced his words. "Damn you! You promised!"
"I didn't," Intern said to him. She looked up at Blue. "Please. You don't owe me anything. But please." Desperation flooded her words too, and sickness and horror flowed off of her.
Blue looked at her, evaluating how much they would need her words at the end of this and finally nodded. The man wouldn't live very long anyway.
"Thank you!" said Intern. Then she took the rifle and knocked the screaming mercenary out. She moved quickly, wrapping wounds and tying tourniquets.
Blue snorted harshly at her.
"I know. I know," she said. "We can't take him but I'm pretty sure ACU is coming and they'll find him."
Blue jerked her head to indicate that they must move now and Intern made a final knot and then dived around the corpses, picking up guns, ammunition, rations and small first aid packs that were tucked into pockets.
She was done in less than a minute and then the pack was off.
When the pack finally slowed, it was to deliberate between two sources of the wall that had sprung up between Owen and the pack. Behind them intern trotted up and then promptly threw up behind a tree. When she was done, she slowly crawled into the branches of the tree and sat there while Blue and the others sought out which creature to go after next.
Perhaps the one deeper into the forest, said Charlie, It feels stronger. Killing it will hurt the wall a lot.
Yes, agreed Blue, But the other is closer to the park and may hurt the humans. We can't let them reach the populated areas. Owen will not be pleased. He is alpha and he protects what is his and we protect what is his and ours.
Kill the weaker, suggested Echo. We are tired. We are hurt. Kill the weaker and rest. Then kill the stronger.
Blue contemplated. Then agreed with Echo. Kill the weaker first. It is smarter. We rest. Then kill the stronger. With that proclamation, she barked an order and the pack was off. Behind them she heard Intern scrambling down from the tree.
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