I'm spoiling y'all now.

Owen raced after Maria, heart thumping as the roars drew distant. He didn't know fully what she had gotten herself wrapped up in, but he knew one thing. He wasn't going to let her face this alone. Claire raced at his side, the two of them rounding corners blindly before coming to a halt at a crossroads. Owen cursed, fists clenching. Maria was gone.

Claire looked behind them, placing a hand on his shoulder prompting him to turn around. A small girl, no older than eleven, stood a few feet behind them ridgid with fear. Without a word, she turned and ran down a dark hallway. "Hey, wait!" Claire called as her and Owen went after the young child. "Please wait!"

The two stopped as they saw the girl in an dumbwaiter chute, tears streaming down her face as she struggled to catch her breath. She was traumatized, and Owen would place money on it that Mills was behind it. He glanced over when Claire looked at him, "that's Lockwoods granddaughter," she informed him.

"Hey, hey kid," Owen said as he inched forward, keeping his tone and stanced relaxed. "You wanna come down out of there?" The girl shook her head.

"Do you remember me?" Claire asked her now, smiling when the girl nodded. "My name is Claire, what's your name?"

"Maisie," the child responded after a moment, voice raw from crying. "Maise Lockwood," Owen could hear a faint british accent at the adition.

"Hi, Maisie," Claire smiled comfortingly at the child, thankful that she spent more time around kids after the park closed. "Well, this is my friend, Owen."

"I saw you, with the velociraptors, and Blue," Maisie said to him.

"Oh, yeah?" Owen glanced over at Claire. "You like dinosaurs?"

Maisie nodded. "You were in Maria's videos too, with the new dinosaur," she added, fear lacing back into her tone.

Owen stored that bit away, choosing to lock onto the little things. "I like dinosaurs too," he said. "Tell you what, you come down from there, and I'll tell you everything I know about Blue," he bargained. The two of them watched as she slowly climbed out of the chute, hands against her side as she slowly made her way over to them.

Claire bent over, "sweetie, we need some help finding your grandfather," she said gently. "Can you take us to him?"

Maisie shook her head, fresh tears spilling as she whined, "no."

"You mean you're down here all by yourself?" Owen asked. "Brave kid. Looks like you could use a friend."

Maisie ran to him, wrapping her arms around his middle. "He's gone," she sobbed.

Owen rubbed her shoulder for a minute before pulling away, keeping his hands on his shoulder as he knelt down. "So, listen, I'll tell you what. We were just about to go and find our friend and get the heck out of here, you wanna come with us?"

"We could use a friend, too," Claire added.

Maisie looked between the two of them, and nodded. She took Claire's hand and lead them down the hallway, towards a door. "We have secret passages," she explained. "They lead to ventilation shafts. We can take those to find your friends."

Owen nodded and opened the door, shutting it behind them as they went along. "You know Maria?" He asked after a moment of walking.

Maisie paused. "I, I met her once, a few weeks ago. She was nice, even after I scared her," she looked up at him. "She works for Eli."

Owen knew why the kid was hesitant. "I used to work with her," he told the girl. "We were good friends, she helped us escape before we found you. She was in the dark on this whole thing."

"But not about it," Maisie stressed. "The indo, indoraptor. She's been training it, I saw her videos on the matter."

Indoraptor, Owen furrowed his brows. That certainly was a hybrid name, but Maria was no liar. She told them she was training a hybrid, even admitted that he was dangerous. "Maria isn't one to do something with evil intentions. Whatever Mills told her, it must have made sense." He wasn't going to believe that Maria went into this without thinking it through.

The three of them paused as they heard the sounds of people talking below. Owen went closer to the vents, peering down into an auction room. A baryonyx was being transported back with a roar, a new sum of money being flashed on the screen. A wave of nausea hit him, they really were selling these dinosaurs.

"And now, that we are halfway through the evening," the auctioneer said as he caught the audience's attention. "We'd like to offer a special treat to our…discriminating buyers. This evening, we will preview a new asset that we've been developing. A creature of the future, made from pieces of the past. Ladies and gentlemen, please be warned. This is the perfect blend of the two more fearsome creatures to ever walk this earth," Owen could hear the raspy growl all the way from up in the passage. "We call it, the Indoraptor."

The doors opened, revealing a jet black dinosaur roaring at the audience as he was wheeled inside. A brilliant golden stripe contrasted against his scales. He roared out in pain as the guards nearby shocked him with a prod, the electricity glowing and casting his shadow against the walls. The audience let out shocked gasps and screams as he roared, and it wasn't for show. This was a fearsome creature indeed.

"The perfect weapon," the auctioneer said. "Built for combat, with tactical responses more acute than any human soldier." Owen felt his blood turn to ice. This is what Maria was raising? Training?

"What is that thing?" Claire asked.

"They made it. Mills and that other man," Maisie answered.

"What man?"

Maisie pointed down at the front row, just as the auctioneer continued. "Designed by Mr. Henry Wu. With the intelligence comparable to a velociraptor. Biospecs include: heightened sense of smell, and trained to respond to a pulse coded, laser targeting system. Enabling it to isolate and track prey in complex environments. Voila!"

A man to the side of the room raised a gun, a laser dot showing on a mans chest on the other side. The victim looked up fearfully as the indoraptor trained his sights onto him, red eyes glaring down.

"Now, first, the laser sets the target," the auctioneer explained. "Once locked on, the acoustic signal triggers the attack." The man with the gun hit a button on the side, and the indoraptor leapt towards the man, hitting the bars and snapping his teeth. "This animal is relentless. Now, modifications are still being made-"

"Twenty million!" A man from the audience called out.

"No, thi, this is a prototype," the auctioneer said nervously. "Not for sale."

"Twenty one," a man in the back said.

"Well, it is still a prototype," the man tried again.

"Twenty two!"

"Twenty three!"

The auctioneer glanced over to Mills. "Twenty four million on the table," he said after getting the okay.

Owen sucked in a deep breath, before getting the wind knocked out of him when all hell broke loose down in the galley. The phrase, hell hath no fury came to mind as Maria stormed into the room looking like she was going to shoot up the place.

"Eli Mills!" Maria called as she entered the room, hair flying back as she stormed towards the man. He stood, eyes wide as he made a move to pacify her, only to get punched in the nose. He flew backwards, clutching his bleeding nose as he looked up at her. "What the hell is going on?" She reached down, clutching his suit and shaking off the guards that came to her. "Get the hell off of me!"

"You were supposed to be in Washington," Eli huffed as she was pried off of him.

"I left early," she sneered. "You're selling dinosaurs! You're selling Ripper!"

He glared at her as he removed his hand, blood trailing down his face. "I forgot, you two are a packaged deal." He looked to the auctioneer and nodded. "She's his trainer, the only person he'll spare. Sell that how you wish."

"Sell?!"

"Before we continue on, we have an adition! This here, is the trainer," the man at the gavel said as the guards spun her around. "The only person who can get up close to this beast." Maria felt her heart skip as she faced down the crowd, and felt it stop completely when the bids kept rolling on.

"Twenty seven million!"

"Twenty eight!"

"Thirty million!" A russian voice called out.

"Going once, twice, sold! To our russian friends," the auctioneer said cheerfully as he slammed the gavel down.

"No!" Maria screamed as she tried to escape the guards grasp. She saw Ripper look over sharply, red eyes gleaming with hatred at the men holding her. "Let me go! You can't do this!" She screamed back at Mills.

"I did," the man said simply. "I don't know why you're complaining, the two of you are going to be together now." She stared at him, eyes wide as he nodded to the men holding her. "Go get her cleaned up and ready to go."

"NO!" Her shrill scream echoed in the room, shortly followed by Ripper's enraged roar. A scream of pain escaped her as the guard on her right twisted her arm behind her as she was pushed towards the back room. "I'm going to kill you," she hissed to Eli as she passed him. "You're going to pay for this, Eli!" She screamed back as she was forced out of the room.

'Wait for me, I'd like to say goodbye," Mills called out before the doors closed.

Oh, he'd get a goodbye. She was going to punch his teeth in as soon as she got her hand free. The guards stopped in the hallway, keep a hand on her shoulders to keep her from running. Her head jerked to the side when she heard her name being called, and relaxed slightly when she saw Wu coming towards her.

"Henry, help me," she whispered as he drew near, wrapping her into a hug. "Henry, he sold me and Ripper."

"I know, I can't help you," he said mournfully as he pulled back. He pressed a small flash drive in her hand, holding it tightly for a moment. "You'll be fine, I have a feeling that it's going to be okay," he whispered. He nodded to her hand before letting it go. "Look at that when you're out of here, and I pray to god that you'll forgive me."

"Forgive you?" Her brow furrowed. "Look, I know you can't do anything against these idiots," she said jerking her head back to the men behind her.

Henry shook his head. "Not for that," he said softly. He nodded to her hand as he stepped back. "For that," he said. He nodded to her, "I hope to see you again one day," he said before walking off towards the labs, head bowed.

Maria watched him go, and pocketed the flashdrive. The guards grabbed her again when a loud commotion sounded from the room behind them. The sounds of screams and chairs being thrown sounded, a gunshot and Ripper roaring. Did he get out somehow?

Mills burst through the door, grabbing her arm as he dragged her down the hallway. "What the hell were you thinking?" He hissed to her. "All you had to do was keep quiet, to not be here!"

"Oh, so this is my fault?" She exclaimed. "I'm not the one who decided to start selling endangered species!"

Eli huffed, shaking his head. "Don't act like you didn't know it would come to this. This is about money, what good are those animals if they're just on an island?"

"Living! That's what good they are!" She wrenched her arm away from him, rounding on him and pointed a finger against his chest. "You condemned them to a fate worse than death!"

"They're alive," he said unaffected. "Which if you keep your cool, you will be too," he added with narrowed eyes.

Maria huffed, taking a step back as they reached the basement. "I'm not scared of you, Eli. You're a coward, someone who sends other people to do your dirty work."

The man drew himself up, blue eyes hard as he stared back at her. She didn't see the slap coming, only felt it as her head jerked to the side. Before she could react, his hand was in her hair, jerking her head back as he drew near. "I've had it with you. I've been nice, I've been lenient. But you and that damned creature better count your lucky stars that I decided to sell you rather than kill you both and save myself the trouble. I can, and will, make a new indoraptor. You were expendable, you always were."

"No, she's not," Owens voice sounded from behind them. Eli kept a tight grip on her shoulder, spinning the both of them around as he stared down Owen. "Let her go," Owen warned, voice tight in anger as he noticed the red mark on her cheek.

"Give me Maisie first," Eli said. The two of them watched as Claire and Owen drew closer to the child. "Oooh, so you're going to take care of her now?" Eli asked, his words crawling up Maria's spine. "You two have no idea what she is. What do you think drove Lockwood and Hammond apart? Huh? Lockwood never had a grandchild. He just wanted his child back. And he had the technology, he created another. He made her again."

Maria felt her eyes widened as she looked at Maisie, no one should ever had to find that out, especially like this. "Maisie, that doesn't change you," she said, wincing when Eli tightened his grip on her. "Don't give her to him, Owen. I'll be fine."

"I won't say it again, give me Maisie," Eli said lowly, fingers digging into her skin.

Before Owen could say a word, the two guards in front of them were snatched by a blur of black and gold. The two screamed in agony as they were hustled into the darkness of the hallway behind them, the sounds of flesh being torn and bones being broken sounded. Eli, out of shock, released Maria. Without hesitation, she sprinted over to Owen, grabbing his outstretched hand and following him, Claire and Maisie into a servants corridor. She leaned against the wall, panting as Owen blocked the door and dragged her along.

Ripper was out.

Just wanna say, I'm really glad y'all are enjoying this. Next chapter, I'm diverging from canon and will go back to free writing this story. Which I have some unique ideas for it that hopefully you all will enjoy.

Next chapter will also have Blue, which, for those who are begging for her and Ripper to get together, I am debating it. But it won't be for some time. I like realism in my stories, and a sheltered dinosaur isn't going to be fit for contact with any other species right off the bat. Maybe during arch 3 of this story, we can explore that.