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A/N: Hello there my amazingly patient readers. I know this update was late again, but this full time job is honestly kicking my ass. So this chapter is a little boring but it is important to the plot. I hope you guys are enjoying this story! Don't forget to leave a review to tell me what you think and I'll see you guys next week.

Chapter 9 – The Sickly Sixes part 4

Oh, the last half hour had not been good.

The last half hour reminded him of Isla Nublar a little too much. Oh yes this was a completely different situation but it involved an Ingen engineered T-Rex trying to kill him, so you know it basically the same thing all over again.

Ian, with Nick and Sarah were basically dangling over a cliff's edge. Literally. All they had was the rope they were holding onto. This was because T-Rexes has pushed their campers over the cliff… with them inside.

Eddie had managed to throw them a rope he had tied off somewhere.

Ian wasn't sure what happened after that, but it couldn't have been good.

With Sarah in the lead, they scaled that rope, because they couldn't just dangle and Eddie wasn't responding to calls. They were hoping that when they got to the top, they'd find the Rexes gone and Eddie coming out of hiding to help them. And they sort of got what they wanted. The Rexes were long gone, but there was no Eddie, just a group of people from the Ingen camp.

They helped them up and over the cliff, got them onto solid ground and that's when Ian could see the real damage.

Nothing was left of their camp. The car Eddie had come in was in pieces, and judging by the bits he could see strewn in the mud, Eddie had given his life to save theirs. Tying their rope into place before getting eaten no doubt.

The Ingen team was actually all of them, they had been on the move since their camp had been destroyed. They had also been looking, for whoever had sabotaged their camp, they had heard the commotion and come to see who had survived and who needed help.

Ian had asked how they figured it out, and well, it became painfully clear they weren't alone on the island when they found the locks that Nick and Sarah had cut through.

They figured once the Rexes left, they'd see if there were any survivors and they found their rope.

But wasn't all they found.

The second Ian was topside his daughter was sprinting to his side, hugging him tightly. Ian was immediately less worried, immediately happy to have his daughter safe and in his arms. She didn't look injured at all, though she was probably traumatized after all of this.

He wouldn't blame her.

And they hadn't just found her, they had found Una but she was less happy to be found.

She was snarling and snapping and trying to bit people. The person who had a hold of her was heavily struggling with her. The girl kept lashing out, jumping, and one point she did a whole ass flip trying to dislodge the grip, both her and the handler landed in the mud.

"Stop, stop," Sarah cried, and then opened her arms for Una to run into them.

As soon as the man let go, Una did just that. Rushing to Sarah making her strange high-pitched cries. She didn't hug Sarah though, she did grab onto her leg and burry her head into it so she wouldn't have to look at the men around them.

"So the wild child is with you?" the man guys asked. He was clearly in charge, just judging by the way he was holding himself.

He was the one with the big hat and the full out safari outfit. He had a giant shot gun slung over his shoulder and he was staring thoughtfully down at Una who was still making her noises though they had lowered to small growls.

"Yes," Sarah said, though it was clear she didn't want to talk about Una's origins with these people.

Ian got it too because a dinosaur girl, who was raised on Isla Sorna, would no doubt drive everyone in Ingen crazy with greed.

That little girl didn't deserve that.

"Well, we shouldn't stay here out in the open, lest they come back. Come with us," the man said and then just turned around. All the men with him ran to follow.

And well… it didn't look like Ian and his little band of cohorts really had any other option.

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Together they walked back to that first camp, the one that Nick and Sarah saw destroyed, or at the very least the dinosaurs set free. It was clear that the plan was to pack up what they could and while the men did that, the ones in charge tried to think of what their next move was.

Sarah, Nick and Ian were talking with the four people that were in charge of the Ingen Team. Peter Ludlow may have been Ingen's new leader, but it was clear that Roland was the man in charge. With him came Ajay who was a stoic and silent man who seemed to be Roland's silent right hand. The other was Dieter, who was not quiet or stoic. He was spitting mad, especially with Una who had bit him and hit him and basically attempted to maim him. And just by the way he was swaying they were sure the man was intoxicated.

They were all huddled together talking, Roland had been nice enough to give Kelly a blanket as she was soaking wet from the rain. He tried to give one to Una but she had yelped and side stepped the blanket. She stared at it as it hit the ground and then turned a little glare up to him.

Sarah had picked it up and wrapped it around herself to show Una and then gave it to her.

Una had been excited about that but she had put the blanket over her face like she was a ghost. Then she rolled around in the mud with it, bunching it up like she was making some kind of blanket nest, using the mud as reinforcement or insulation.

They all watched her do it and then they turned to Sarah who was wincing.

"Is she yours?" Peter asked. "Does she have… is she… uhm… slow?"

Now wasn't that just an insensitive question?

Roland rolled his eyes and turned to Sarah. "She's not yours. The girl looks nothing like you. Where did you find her?"

Sarah was clearly stuck because she sighed and said: "Here."

"Here?" Peter echoed. "As in, on this island? How they hell did she survive?"

The real question was what had raised her, and Peter would get there eventually, just no one was going to help him.

"Maybe we should get back to the matter at hand," Ian offered and Roland turned back to him and continued as if he hadn't stopped in the first place.

"Our communication equipment's been destroyed. And if your radio and satellite phone were in those trailers…" "They were." "…Then we're stuck here. And stuck together, thanks to you people."

"We came here to watch. You came to strip-mine the place," Nick snapped. Then once again Dieter, who had been circling the group, got up into his face. This wasn't the first time he had, but it was the time that got Nick to snap: "Back off."

That back off was paired with a growl and a snapping snarl from Una and Dieter skittered away.

Everyone ignored the two of them and just continued on with the conversation.

"At least we came prepared," Peter said snidely, because of course he couldn't just leave it alone.

"Five years of work and hundreds of miles of electrified fence couldn't prepare the other island. You think a couple dozen Marlboro men will make a difference?" Ian snapped back.

"It's a looter mentality. All you care is about what you can take. You have no right," Nick snapped as well, coming to his defence. Which was nice but not necessary.

"An extinct animal that's been brought back to life has no rights. It exists because we made it. We patented it. We own it."

Dieter, however, was ignoring the grown-up conversation and had been circling the group again. He got himself back into the group to once again get back into Nick's face. And this time, Nick reacted.

"You looking for a problem?" he asked, getting closer to Dieter

"And I found you, didn't I?" Dieter asked getting even closer to Nick.

That was too close for Nick so he shoved him. And that shoved set of Dieter who immediately started a scuffle. Roland and Ian moved right away to break it up, with Peter stepped away to avoid it all.

But Una, little Una got up out of her nest, launched herself at Dieter and bit him.

She bit him right behind the knee, on the tendon and the man went down. He turned around to lash out at her but she quickly moved back and away. Rushing straight back to Sarah and hiding behind her legs again.

"She bites me one more time…"

"She's never bit me once," Sarah snapped. "What did you do to piss her off?"

"He knocked her one," Roland admitted. "She was trying to fight him, and he slapped her. Stunned her out long enough for us to carry her to you."

Sarah glanced down to Una who was staring up at her making her chittering sounds. Sarah then turned back to the men staring at her and then down to Dieter who was rubbing the back of his leg.

"Yeah, avoid her, she's going to bite you a lot."

"She's a child, we weren't about to let her run off into the underbrush when there were predators about. Wild or not," Roland said, he held out a hand and offered her half of a protein bar. Una sniffed at the air for a moment before she snatched it out of his hand and then carefully nibbled the side of it, before shoving it all in her mouth.

She took two big chews and then opened her mouth and let the half-masticated half of the bar fall out. She then made funny faces and rubbed at her tongue.

"She doesn't like junk food," Sarah said. And just like that Una got up, danced around Sarah and out of the circle heading for the trees. Sarah did nothing to stop her. "Don't go far!"

Peter's eyebrows whipped up. "You're just going to let her…"

"She wanders. It's easier then trying to keep her contained. She's going to get something to eat and then come back."

Roland watched her basically jump up into a tree and then turned back to Sarah. "How long do you think she's lived here?"

"I don't know.

"How did you find her?" Roland asked.

"I didn't. She found me, I think. She showed up in my camp, sick. I don't know if she walked in, or something brought her."

"Those sounds she's making. Have you heard any other dinosaurs making those noises?" Dr. Burke asked finally inserting himself into the conversation.

Sarah, Ian and Roland all groaned at the question because they all saw the lightbulb in Ludlow's head go off. He finally realized that this wasn't a random survivor. She was a wild child, raised by something on this island.

Sarah didn't want to answer the question, but it was clear she also did. She was a scientist, she no doubt wanted someone to talk her theories out with. But she also didn't want to egg Peter Ludlow on.

"No, not yet. But I don't know if that's dinosaur. It could just be gibberish."

But really, what else would it be?

"A child raised by dinosaurs. Do you know what we'd make on her? Studying her? What she could tell us once she learns to talk."

Of course Peter Ludlow was thinking about money, just like Ian knew he would be. They needed to get this girl away from him.

At that moment Una dropped out of one of the trees, startling a few of the men. But no one tried to hurt her let alone shoot at her.

She had the shirt pulled up using it to hold something. She came over to them slowly, and they found mangos in her shirt. She handed one to each of them. One to Sarah, to Ian, to Nick, then one to Kelly and Roland.

No one else got one, though Ludlow seemed to think that last one was for him.

No Una dropped herself onto that bunched up muddy blanket and began to peel apart the mango, being sure to show Kelly how to do it with her own hands.

"Jesus," Nick breathed out. "She's like a freaking chimp. We should get Jane Goodall out here see if they can communicate or something."

At that Roland turned to Nick. Really took a good look at him and seemed to have his own lightbulb moment.

"I know you. You're that Earth First bastard. Aren't you?"

"What's Earth First?" Ludlow asked.

"Professional saboteurs…" "—Environmentalists!" "…Criminals!"

Sarah was done with Roland and Nick's argument and immediately moved to shut them up.

"Knock it off! Now listen to me. By moving the baby to our camp, we may have changed the adults' perceived territory."

"Their what?" Ludlow asked.

"That's why they attacked the trailers," Burke explained. "They're defending this entire area now."

"We have to move… now," Sarah snapped.

"To where? Our boat and their airlift are both waiting for orders we can't send."

Luldow pulled out a map and then unfolded it over the hood of a burnt out jeep. Why had he been holding onto that? Why hadn't that map come out sooner?

"Alright. There's a communications center here near the old operations building. Everything ran on geothermal power. It was never meant to need replenishing. If we can get here, we can send a radio call to the airlift."

"You know the frequency?" Ian asked.

"It's right here in this book," Ludlow said showing them the little pocket book he had also hidden in his pocket. He was really holding on out on them here.

Roland snatched that and the map from Peter with a stern: "Right, we'll mind those," and then handed them to Ajay who put them straight into his backpack.

"How far's the village?" Nick asked.

"A day's walk, maybe more," he said and then rushed off when he spotted his flask in the mud. Great, guess alcohol was more important at that moment. "That's not the problem."

"What is?" Roland asked. But Ludlow didn't answer right away. "What is the problem?"

"Velociraptors." And then he took a good long swig as they took that in. "Our infrareds show that their nesting sites are in the island's interior, which is why we were planning on keeping to the outer rim."

"What is a velo… whatever?" Dieter asked.

"Velociraptor. Carnivore. Pack hunter. About 2 meters tall, long snout, binocular vision, strong dexterous forearms, killing claws on both feet," Burke answered.

"And the Rexes may track us too if they feel we're a threat to them and their infant."

"No, we'll lose them once we leave their territory."

Sarah shook her head. "Don't bet on it. Tyrannosaur had the largest proportional olfactory cavity of any creature in fossil record, except one."

"Right, turkey vulture. Could scent up to 10 miles," Burke conceded.

"Right this is all very thrilling, but I say we should head for the village," Ludlow interrupted.

"We could head back to the lagoon," Ian offered seeing as Kelly was getting more and more nervous by the second. He could tell because she was getting fidgety. Una was sitting in front of her she kept trying to wrap it around her but Una kept shrugging it off.

"And sit out in the open, next to a heavily used water source and hope that your captain comes back?" Roland asked. Right it was stupid, he didn't have to be so passive aggressive about it.

"He won't. He knows better," Nick said, which was probably true. Nick spoke his language, had had a nice chat with him about everything before they landed.

"Then we head for the village," Roland said. "We might find shelter and we can call for help. The Rex just fed, so he won't stalk us for food."

"Just fed? I assume you mean Eddie? You might show some respect. The man saved our lives by giving his."

"Then his troubles are over." And Ian just stared at the man. How could he be so callous? "My point is predators don't hunt when they're not hungry."

"No, only humans do," Nick called as the man stalked away.

"Oh you're breaking our hearts," Roland called back without stopping. "Saddle up, let's get this moveable feast on the way."

The men all began to pick up their things and Ian noticed hat Ludlow had his eyes on Una who was sitting in that little blanket nest not really paying attention, practically sucking the stone clean.

"What about you? Little… girl," Peter said looking down at Una who was covered in mango juice and now looking up at him. "Would you like to come with your Uncle…"

The second he started talking her head starting doing that swivel thing, her eyes becoming that impossible wide they were used to as she took him in. He moved to grab her, to no doubt pick her up, but Una scrambled up and away, hissing and baring her teeth at him.

"That right there is a threat display," Sarah said. "I suggest you leave her alone."

"Right, let's go!" Roland called, gathering all the men to attention. "I'd like to get this mobile buffet on the move please."

And everyone did as he said.

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They went first to the secondary camp. A smaller camp farther away from the larger one. They went there because, as they were heading for the Hunter's camp they had found a fresh Una scent. It had been heading in that direction, which meant that the biped-female had taken her there. Probably because it was safer. Except then the Tyrannosaur mating pair left their territory and crashed into that one.

They laid low, let them go about their hunting and then they went back after tracking Una's scent, which got stronger and stronger as they approached that camp, even despite the rain.

But when they got there they found destroy biped wreckage and evidence of a Tyrannosaur attack.

Not good. Not good.

But no Una. No sign of an eaten Una either, though a biped had been ripped up here, they found bits and pieces of it in the mud.

But they did find another trail of Una scent, this one lead them straight back to the hunter camp they had been going to originally.

It too had been destroyed. Small fires burned in the area, everything was turned over and ripped up. Big metal structures for holding dinosaurs were left open and empty.

And still no Una.

But she had been there.

Rela could smell her.

Could make out her little footprints in the mud. Different from all the others as she wasn't wearing the strange things on her feet. So she could clearly make out the difference between Una's prints and the others.

The hunter bipeds had Una.

The hunter bipeds were going to regret taking Rela's hatchling