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A/N: Hey there my wonderful readers. So we're going to take a break from the drama and read about Una getting herself into trouble. Or well, doing something that will most likely cause problems. I had a lot of fun writing the different perspectives of this story so I hope you guys enjoy it! As always don't forget to leave a review or drop a fav or a follow and I'll see you guys next week!
Chapter 13 – Dinosaur Medicine Woman
Una had purposely left Eric behind because he wouldn't have understood what she was about to do.
Even she knew that what she was about to do was a stupid, foolhardy choice, but she couldn't be dissuaded. Not even by her mother who had argued with her all the way out of her territory.
The rest of the pack had stayed behind, her mother had wanted to stay behind too, but she hadn't. She had followed Una out of that territory and all the way to the beast's nesting grounds.
This particular part of the jungle used to be raptor territory. Una remembered playing around here. But when the Spinosaurus decided it wanted it as it's nest the raptors had moved without question.
Wasn't like they could take the Spinosaurus on.
They walked past many a half-eaten carcass before they finally found the it's nesting site. It had picked a hollowed-out part of the mountain to lie in.
It was no doubt cozy to sleep in in the rain.
The Spinosaurus was currently in it's hollowed out mountain lair, it's one good eye glaring at her.
"This is a bad idea," her mother said and Una struggled to not agree. This really was not one of her smartest ideas.
But the Spinosaurus was hurt and she could help it. And she would like to, if it let her.
"I know, but we need to try," she said which just earned grunt of disagreement from her mother.
Still, she moved forward and while behind her she could feel her mother's tense stature, she didn't try to stop her.
"Hello," she tried in Tyrannosaur. Her vocabulary was limited in Tyrannosaur but it was the closest dialect she could think of to talk to it in.
And it didn't seem to understand her.
She took half a step forward and tried again.
"I want to see your leg," she told it in raptor and it just glared at her with it's one good eye. When it continued to just glare she went to her mother and mimed looking at her leg, and then wrapping it up. Her mother seemed to understand what was going on because she mimed limping and then walking better.
The Spinosaurus continued to glare at her but eventually shifted so the injured leg was more easily accessible. The invitation was clear. Come and check it yourself.
But it did nothing else to make it easier for her.
She still wasn't sure if this was a trap or not. But she had to try.
So she slowly edged forward moving slowly around it to the injured leg in question. She kept eyeing it, to see if it was about to make any sudden movements, but luckily it hadn't.
Outside the cave her mother was trilling, soft worried noises she made whenever Una was up to some sort of mischief. This was a completely different kind of mischief though.
She really didn't want her mother have to watch her get eaten. Who would tell Eric what happened?
After a while she realized that the Spinosaurus wasn't about to attack her, so she began to really look at it. Trying to determine what it was that was hurting it.
She was really hoping it was an outside wound, cause inside wounds she'd need Eric for, and he would not be happy about this.
But she was lucky, she found the problem almost right away. This metal stick was stuck into its leg. That was, no doubt, the problem. And she knew how to fix it. And she wouldn't need to bother Eric with it either.
She just didn't know how to explain it to the Spinosaurus.
She quickly left the cave, rushing out towards the bushes.
"What is it? What's wrong with it?" her mother asked as she ran off. "Can you help it or not?"
"I can," she said. "I just need to try and explain it first."
She eventually found what she was looking for, which was a stick and then she returned to her mother. With the stick in hand she pointed up to the Spinosaurus, so it could know she was talking about it. She mimed the stick being stuck in her mother's leg and her pulling it out.
"It's going to hurt, probably," she said in raptor and it continued to just stare at her.
Well. She had done her best to explain. She went into her bag and brought out all the bandages and the stuff that Eric used to stick it together and then she went back into the cave.
Not slowly this time because she figured it not a trap and it'd be really stupid of the Spinosaurus to try and eat her before she got the thing out of it's leg.
She had to climb up onto it to get a good grip on the piece of metal in it's leg.
It took both hands and one massive tug to get the piece of metal out of it's leg. She pulled so hard she toppled right off the leg and to the ground. The Spinosaurus let out a roar, and Una covered her ears. Outside the cave her mother was barking, hissing, demanding that she come out, right that instant before it trampled her or changed it's mind about not eating her.
But she waited. Waited with her bandages for it to stop then she quickly went about wrapping it. She started by taking the largest piece of flat bandage and then pressing it to the wound. It took a lot more bandage then she was used to but this dinosaur was bigger than the ones she usually helped.
But she managed to wrap it up, though she used the whole roll of bandage to do so and then she sealed it and hopped off. She scampered out of the cave and out of biting distance.
"I'll come check on you tomorrow," Una said as the Spinosaurus took a long look at what she had wrapped around it's leg.
"Are you sure that's wise?" her mother asked as they moved out of the clearing.
"I have to make sure that it's healing right," she told her and already she could tell that her mother wasn't impressed.
There wasn't much her mother could do to stop her though, except tell Eric, and luckily the two of them didn't speak the same language.
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Grunt finished his mid morning hunt and was really tucking into the Parasuar he had taken down.
He was particular excited because he hadn't had a good hunt in a long time. Every time he took something down the Spinosaurus would come and take it, which was ridiculous cause it could take down whatever it wanted, even a Tyrannosaur.
He was pretty sure it was doing it to him to be a jerk. It didn't need to be a jerk.
So he ate, tearing large chunks out of it. The innards were his favourite bits. And he wasn't all that worried about another predator coming to get his kill either. The Spinosaurus would have showed up by now if that were going to happen.
"Hello."
Grunt straightened right away. He knew that voice. He started looking around trying to figure out where his little biped-raptor friend was.
There was movement in the trees and he found her. The little biped-raptor waving from one of the branches.
"Need help."
You know, for a biped she had gotten really good at speaking like him. She obviously wasn't fluent but she knew a lot of words.
"Help?" he echoed.
"Yeah. Bring food?"
She wanted him to bring food? Really?
"Eat first, hunt later?"
"Okay. Call when hunt done. Something small. Have to carry."
Then she scrambled down the tree and away from him and his meal.
He finished his meal sometime later, and then he went out and hunted even though he wasn't hungry anymore. It felt weird to hunt on a full stomach, but if his little biped-raptor friend wanted him to hunt he would. Which was odd because she didn't like the whole hunting thing, because he had to kill creatures she helped.
He picked off a small Pachy then called for her to join him.
He only had to call twice before she showed up on a branch by his head. She waved, she always waved, those little arms back and forth until he saw her.
"Sit on my head," he said because it would be easier to follow her. "Tell me where to go."
"You not like it," she said as he stooped down to pick up the body. He straightened and then thought that over as she climbed off the branch and onto his snout before climbing up onto his head.
He didn't realize how right she was until he reached the Spinosaurus territory. Yeah, he really, really didn't like this.
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She was tired.
So fucking tired.
But she could sense that something was coming towards her. Something big. Something that shook the ground when it walked.
This wasn't good, because she wasn't ready to take on a territory dispute with another predator. She was hurt, she was hungry, she wasn't strong enough.
But then the Tyrannosaur broke through the trees, a carcass in it's mouth.
And on top of her head the stupid little biped that thought she was a dinosaur. The one that had blinded her all those years ago.
Probably in retribution for sinking that stupid floater her family had been on, and eating her real parents.
The Tyrannosaur was nervously shifting from foot to foot, clearly not wanting to be there, but it slowly lowered it's head and the biped-faker slid down it's snout and to the ground.
She was trying to talk to her again. She kept saying words in both Tyrannosaur and Raptor but she didn't know what this little thing was trying to tell her.
She kept trying to wave the Tyrannosaur over but it didn't want to move.
But she just kept bugging it until it did.
It edged slowly towards where she was laying in her cool cave and then carefully dropped the carcass in it's mouth. It used it's snout to nudge it towards her and then it stepped back.
They had brought her food? Why… why had they done that?
The little biped was talking again, pointing at the food and then at her. So it really was food for her. Then she was taking things out of the removable pouch she had on her back and showing her and the pointing to her own leg.
That meant her leg. Her injured leg. She was here to check on her injury and had brought her food too.
That was… nice.
Why… why was she helping her?
The little biped waiting, watching, trying to establish what it was she was going to do. She so she leant forward, got that carcass in her mouth and started to eat.
While she was eating she didn't notice the little thing move, not until she felt her climbing up onto her leg.
Then the words were coming at her again, not words she understood, mind you, but she was trying to talk.
She was too busy devouring her first meal in days to try and decipher what the little thing was saying.
Until the sting happened.
Letting out a roar she shook the little traitor off of her leg and then turned towards her. Ready to snatch her up, but the Tyrannosaur suddenly growled, starting forward.
It meant to protect the biped. Why?
She turned on him the Tyrannosaur loomed above her and then in perfect Spinosaurus managed to say: "Let her help."
Great, so it was learning to talk to her too? Wonderful.
The Tyrannosaur then nodded to the biped who climbed back up onto her leg, finished rubbing the stinging burning liquid into her leg and then wrapped it back up with her white soft flesh.
She then hopped off, rushed off to the Tyrannosaur. The Spinosaurus watched the little biped climb up the nearest tree and use that to get back onto the Tyrannosaur's head and then the two of them were leaving.
She had watched them go almost wishing she could ask them to stay so she wouldn't be so lonely. But she also didn't want to admit that she needed help that she was afraid of being so vulnerable and alone.
She both wanted to them to come back and didn't at the same time.
It was a conflicting feeling, so she turned back to the food the Tyrannosaur had left her and ate her fill and then promptly went to sleep.
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On the third day, it was harder to shake Eric.
He was getting suspicious about what she was doing and she really, really didn't want him to worry.
Or argue, because he was native to this language and she wouldn't be able to out argue him in it. If it were in raptor, he wouldn't stand a chance.
Then, when she got away from Eric she found Rhum waiting for her.
Her mom had told him what she was doing and while he knew better than to try and talk her out of what she was doing, he was insistent on coming with her.
She tried telling him that she had Grunt and he was better protection against the Spinosaurus, but Rhum wouldn't take no for an answer. So, with Rhum beside her she found Grunt, who had hunted for himself and the Spinosaurus. He had very wisely figured that this routine would be going on for a while.
He let Rhum pick off of what he had hunted, as he picked up the kill, and Una climbed up the closest tree so she could sit on Grunt's head again.
When they were ready Grunt headed off towards the Spinosaurus' territory with Rhum trotting along side Grunt.
Grunt was much less hesitant coming into the Spinosaurus' territory this time around. She was guessing because he survived last time and the Spinosaurus wasn't aggressive. She kept calling down to Rhum to make sure that he was okay, but he seemed perfectly fine walking in Grunt's shadow.
They got to the Spinosaurus' cave and Grunt walked right up to her this time and dropped the carcass right in front of her and then backed away, letting Una slid off of his head and head towards the Spinosaurus.
As she ate, Una checked the wound again. It looked much better than yesterday. Still she put the healing cream on it, this time it didn't cause the Spinosaurus to lash out at her, and she wrapped it up again with a clean bandage.
Eric was going to start asking where all the bandages were going.
She had no idea what she'd tell him. She'd probably have to think of a good lie.
How hard was it going to be to lie in his language? God she wished they could have that conversation in raptor.
She hopped back out just as the Spinosaurus had finished eating. She then motioned for Grunt to do his part.
He growled out the Tyrannosaur's word for water and then a few others after it that Una didn't recognize. The Spinosaurus seemed to understand. She lurched up to her feet, gingerly putting her foot down. She hobbled on it probably because it still hurt to put pressure on, but she made her way out of the cave. As soon as she was out Grunt moved so he was beside her.
That meant, when she lost her footing two steps later her bulk crashed into him, but he kept her upright. He stood patiently while she got her footing again and then they continued the walk.
The two super predators walking side by side, slowly to match the Spinosaurus' while Una and Rhum walked ahead
They eventually came out of the jungle at the water hole, Una could see the herbivores leaving so she wouldn't feel bad about someone getting taken down on this trip.
Grunt not only got the Spinosaurus to the water's edge but actually stood partially in it to make sure she didn't fall.
She drank her fill and then carefully lay herself down by the water's edge.
She hadn't been mobile in a few days, she must have been tired.
Grunt too lay down beside her, not right beside her, but instead close to her. He liked to give her space, and that was fair.
Una too got comfortable on the shores, and Rhum did the same.
Una liked water. Quiet water that was. She liked to hear the babbling of the streams because it reminded her of her childhood nests. But storm nights when the big water would rage and she could hear it crashing brought back something dark and frightening.
A feeling, a whisper of something long forgotten, but the impression was still on her mind.
"I'm surprised this worked," Rhum said, breaking the silence that had settled between the odd foursome. "I'm surprised she didn't just eat us all."
Una was surprised too. "She knows," she told him. "She knows we're here to help. And that without us, she'll die."
"Well, let's hope she doesn't change her mind when she doesn't need us anymore," Rhum said and Una sighed.
She was worried about that too.
Granted, with Grunt, he actively didn't hunt the raptors of her pack. She couldn't get him to agree to not hunt the herbivores she helped, but he didn't pick off her newly healed ones anymore. She wasn't sure that the Spinosaurus would ever agree to just leaving Una's pack alone let alone not going after the still healing herbivores that Una was always helping.
She didn't even speak her language.
Una eventually got up, walking carefully over to the Spinosaurus and patting it's long clawed arm. That large head turned to her, one large huff of probably annoyance sent Una's hair flying but Una stood her ground.
She pointed to herself. "My name is Una, what's yours?"
She said it in raptor, hoping that it would be close enough but it was clear that the Spinosaurus didn't understand.
So she tired again. "My name Una. You?" she said, this time in Tyrannosaur. She knew less words in Grunt's language, but they were both super predators so it would make sense that she would understand him.
But still the Spinosaurus just stared at her.
"Una," she said again pointing to herself once more. Then pointed to Rhum and said his name, then pointed to Grunt and said his, all in Tyrannosaur. And then she just stood there, waiting to see what she would do next.
Eventually the Spinosaurus let out a sound, something that sounded vaguely Tyrannosaurish.
Egia.
"Egia?" she asked. "Is that your name?"
The Spinosaurus nodded and she nodded too.
"That's a nice name."
The Spinosaurus leant forward, it's snout knocking into her and practically knocking her over and into the water. But Una wasn't insulted. That nudge was one of fondness, kind of like what Rhum or her mother did to her.
She was starting to like them.
This could only mean good things.
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Una was acting weird.
At first, he thought it was simply because of the Ingen search team. That maybe she was going through the jungle looking for other captured creatures to help.
The problem was this had been going on two weeks and she was still spending almost her whole day, or a very large portion of it out in the jungle without him.
It was kind of like she had a job that she wasn't tell him about. But what sort of job could a little dino girl have? And why wasn't she telling him about it? It had to be bad, something that would upset him.
But Eric didn't want to argue so he said nothing about it and figured at some point he'd ask and hope she didn't lie.
Eric had gone back to work because Riker was demanding more updates. He didn't want to rock the boat until he had a plan so he figured he'd sent useless, repetitive updates to keep them quiet.
He was up in a tree watching the watering hole to write down the hierarchy around access to the water when all of a sudden, all the herbivores just scattered.
Eric was immediately excited because that meant that a predator was coming. And sure enough he started to feel the shaking thudding steps of something huge coming his way.
He immediately went about putting a fresh roll of film in his camera and then waited for it to show up.
Except the only thing to come out of the tree was his girlfriend with a Raptor with red stripes down his body, flanking that thick stripe of white. A Raptor he knew was Rhum. She had failed to mention that the two of them had made up.
But it was what came after that startled him the most.
It was her Tyrannosaurus friend, and with it, hobbling along beside him was the Spinosaurus.
It was leading the larger dinosaur to the watering hole.
It was helping it.
What… what was happening right now?
Against his better judgement he started taking pictures. He couldn't help it, this was a significant development, this had never been witnessed in this prehistoric world ever. And he knew, he just knew that all of this was happening because of Una.
His girlfriend was the catalyst.
And that just made his whole dilemma so much more dangerous.
Ingen could really never find out.