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"Punishment"
She winced as the blanket was placed on her, but something, or rather someone, told her it was going to help. She listened to that voice, but if it was wrong, she would kill it.
In the most painful way she could muster.
"Okay, just did a check over the body, nothing seems new, except one thing," Rex said as he suddenly appeared.
White One growled at him for showing up without warning.
"Sorry, sugar, but if you were on guard, then you would've heard me coming."
"I don't have time to argue," She huffed. Rex snorted; he wasn't the one arguing.
"Well, what is it that you found?" She questioned.
She hoped it was nothing. Maybe it was just that she was going to lose a tooth, or a scale was chipped; some other minor thing.
Rex wouldn't say anything.
White One bore down on him with her most menacing glare she could muster.
"Okay, look, I will tell you, but stop looking at me like that!"
She relaxed her face as she watched and listened, waiting for his report.
"Well, I remembered you saying something about a punishment, so I pondered that. When for some odd reason, I thought of hatchlings. So I went and checked. Well, I am proud to announce that you are going to be a mother."
White One was flabbergasted.
Sure she wanted hatchlings, but she didn't feel ready to be burdened with them.
They both seemed to wake at the same time as a bird was tweeting loudly in a tree nearby.
Delta groaned as she got up, and Diablo looked at her critically to see if he could detect any problems. There were none that he could tell from just looking at her.
"Delta, are you alright?" He asked as he gently nudged her shoulder.
"Yes, but I just have some pains coming from inside," She responded.
Diablo thought about this.
She was probably just sore from last night, since it was her first time coupling.
"Can you start getting soft ferns for the interior of the nest? I will start making it," Delta spoke.
He nodded his head as he began to walk away. That was when two seemingly harmless coincidences came to him.
Delta was experiencing cramps, and now she wanted to build a nest.
Could that mean? No, it couldn't, they only coupled last night. But it could still be, couldn't it?
Looking around, he looked even closer at Delta, trying to determine if there were any visible problems.
He had to admit, there was a slight swelling at her hips, but nothing big.
He will ask more her if she was feeling better after he got back.
The pains were constant, but they didn't hinder her that much.
Using her two nimble hands, she began to dig a bowl in the soft soil. Scraping the dirt she excavated to make a rim of the nest, she kept on digging.
She stopped after a while to check her progress.
Lying down, she found that the nest was barely big enough to fit her, let alone Diablo and her clutch of eggs.
Back to digging.
She scraped away the soil with renewed vigor, trying to get the nest dug out.
After a short time, she felt the nest was big enough now, and easing herself down onto her side, she tested the size of the nest.
Lo and behold, the nest was big enough!
Panting at the exertion, she crawled out of the nest and sat down on the ferns.
They felt so soft right now.
Before Delta knew it, she had closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.
Blue sniffed the air carefully. Her sister's scent seemed to be coming from everywhere, and it was making it difficult to pinpoint her.
"Delta, where are you?" She called out, though she didn't expect an answer.
As if to prove it, the land seemed to go dead quiet, nothing was making a noise, not even a bird chirping.
Something wasn't right.
Now she was suddenly aware that the silence wasn't at all natural.
The scales on the back of her neck were beginning to itch with the unnerving feeling being watched.
She was used to hiding in the bushes and watching Alpha. He always seemed more edgy when she did that.
But who was watching her?
Turning her head so she could look behind her, she could've sworn that she had seen two fiery, golden orbs. Or was she imagining things?
As she looked forward again, the sun rose above the eastern horizon, flooding the land with light, and driving back the colorless grays of night.
The ground shook under her feet.
Something big was moving, and it felt as if it was coming closer.
A loud intake of breath behind her alerted her that something was behind her.
She slowly turned around, unsure of what was there. When she finished turning, she had to look up to meet the eyes of Stern One.
"Hello," She chirped, hoping that the big dinosaur was in a decent mood.
"What are you doing, Blue One?" Rexy questioned the raptor.
Blue had known Stern One had named her that, but she never corrected it. It was close enough.
"Searching for my sister," Blue answered the queen of the island.
Stern One exhaled, "I haven't seen her, but I am confused about something."
Blue chirped in confusion. Stern One's wisdom seemed limitless, what could possibly be stumping her?
"What is it?"
The Tyrannosaur looked down at the raptor before replying, "Lying One. She showed up at my home yesterday, and she smelled heavily of you."
Blue nearly squealed in panic.
"No, I didn't kill her, if you are concerned for her. But she is missing now."
"Thank you, Stern One; I will look for her after I find my sister. I hope you have a good day," Blue ended the conversation.
The Tyrannosaur began walking back to the tree line and soon vanished as her jungle colored hide blended in with the foliage.
Blue was left there, alone.
She was now wondering where White One was.
The wind hadn't brought her scent to Blue for a while.
But she knew White One was alive, she had to be.
"Thank you for your time, Henry," Weiskopf thanked as he walked out the door.
Before he had stepped out the door, he turned around and left a parting wish, "Oh, Henry, please get the geneticist to work on the new DNA samples as soon as possible. I don't want the investors upset."
The man nodded his head, and Weiskopf knew he wouldn't be disappointed.
As he excited the labs, he began whistling a soft tune to himself and sung quietly, so quietly no one would hear him.
"This was a triumph. I am making a note here, HUGE success!"
He honestly couldn't remember where he had heard that song, but it got stuck in his head.
Finally, he reached his office door, and pushed it open before walking in as he flipped the switch for the lights.
Closing the door behind him, he moved over to his desk where he relaxed in the chair.
He had a throbbing headache; it almost felt like someone was bashing his brain with a jack hammer.
Opening a desk drawer, he pulled out a bottle of Tylenol Extra Strength before popping the top off and dropping the red pill into his palm.
Popping the pill in his mouth, he reached out and grabbed his water bottle and took a mouthful of water.
Having another swig to wash down the awful aftertaste, he hoped that it was going to relief him of this monster of a headache fast.