The Packs Meet
Dino Fights, name still pending of course, was a break out hit to the board and they requested that it be worked on immediately. They told the workers on the project to work with Lowery and Ian greatly so that they could open the new attraction to the park by the end of the summer this year. Alice and Dom were getting a bit more closer to Josiah, but Alice still didn't fully trust the male Indominus.
It was now Friday, and Owen was nervous for today. Today, Owen and James' raptors were going to meet each other today. Owen at first was in a panic because he didn't know what to think about it, but, after seeing some revealing information about James' raptors, he calmed down a bit more about the matter. All that was left was for the day to go by, and fast did it go indeed.
Alice slowly cracked an eye open and blinked a few times at the shining rays of sunlight that pierced through the leaves and branches of the trees. Alice sighed and then stretched out her legs a bit and let out a wide yawn. Alice then looked around and didn't see Dom. She bit down a small panic, but then thought of Josiah and went in search of the bigger male Indominus. She found them, sleeping together near the pond again. Dom was curled up to Josiah, and the latter had his tail curled around Dom. Alice smiled at the scene and then turned around and walked to the viewing area. She poked her head through the brush and saw that there was no one there. Alice then walked back into the brush and lied back down. She was bored and she was alone, for now that is. Alice had to admit, it did feel nice being alone. No one to look after and having the pleasant noises sound around her. It was quite relaxing indeed.
Alice began to think about when she was younger. All the experiments, syringes, tests, x-rays, abuse, Alice lived a life of hell. Then, came the neglect. No one paid her any attention or even tried to bond with her. Dr. Wu imprinted on her, but as if that ruthless mad scientist would have stuck around to try and raise her. He had more important matters to deal with, the "classified" ones. Alice hated her life when she was younger, but she loved the life she was living now. She had great humans who cared for her, a maybe too energetic little brother, and other good dinosaur friends. Alice saw Rexy as a motherly figure and saw the raptors as her sisters. She saw Felix and Silas as good friends, and she only saw Josiah as a stranger. The older male Indominus was strange. He had some kind of changes in mood rather quickly. At one point, he's grumpy, but the next second, he's as happy as can be. Something was going on inside the mind of the bigger male hybrid, and Alice was now desperate to find out.
James was watching his boys run around the paddock, chasing each other in some kind of game of tag. Owen approached James and then asked, "Are they excited?"
"As excited as I am," replied James.
Owen turned to look at the male raptors and saw Enrique thrust his head into Raphael's shoulder.
"James, I read over their files," said Owen.
"Oh?" asked James.
"Yeah, and, it helped me relax a bit."
"Well, it's supposed to help you relax. And, I didn't know what to do about it when they were born. I never would have guessed that they would have met an all girl pack."
"Feeling slight regret?"
"Did you want your girls to have babies?"
Owen paled a bit at the last word of James ' sentence and then replied, "No, but, I do want to expand the pack."
"Well, it seems like it's going to happen today."
"What?"
"What if our packs like each other so much that they'd want to become one big pack?"
"I didn't think about that."
"Well, regardless, the most they can do is cuddle each other."
"I'm sorry James."
"Why? It was my choice to do it to them because I didn't want emotions to be burdened on them on Sorna."
Owen placed his hand on James shoulder and then said, "I'm still sorry about it."
"Then thanks Owen."
Owen gave a small smile and then the two watched as Silver began to snarl at Raphael.
"Uh oh," said Owen.
"Raphael! Silver! No empiezen! Si van a pelear vayanse atras a Sorna!"
The two then shut their snouts and turned to look at their human and Silver emitted a menacing chitter.
"No me des esa mierda Silver!"
The silver clawed raptor then got quiet and lowered his head submissiveley.
"I can't believe raptors can be bilingual," said Owen.
James chuckled at the man, "It's not that they're bilingual, it's that they just understand two languages. They don't legitimately speak raptor and Spanish."
"I know that James."
"Yeah well, you sound like you didn't."
Owen playfully punched James in the arm and said, "So, they'll speak English to my girls right?"
James snorted and rolled his eyes as he flicked Owen's forehead.
Ian and the others were hanging out with Alexis since it was her last day of recovery before she could be released and return to a partially normal life on Jurassic World.
"How are you holding up Alexis?" Ian asked.
"I'm doing good," Alexis responded, "I just really wish I could be out of here."
"Yeah well, they said you'd be out here by tomorrow. And the doctor said not to put stress on that wound, or else it'll be in a much more critical condition," said Olivia.
"I know what the doctor said. I'm not that clumsy you know."
The other three teens looked at Alexis as if she was crazy.
"What?" she asked.
"Nothing," said Ian as he pulled out his phone quickly to look at it as if he had received a text message.
"You have something on your face," said Olivia as she stepped up to Alexis and wiped Alexis' chin.
"I was just admiring your eyes," said Casey with a smirk.
"You guys suck," Alexis said.
Olivia started laughing and then Ian asked, "You tell Zach yet?"
"Yeah I did."
"And?"
"He was shocked, but happy to hear that I survived."
"Yeah, at least your both survivors," said Casey.
Alexis turned her attention to look at Casey and asked, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"It's pretty self-explanatory. You both survived the Indominus Incident and you survived being attacked by Zara. You both survive."
"No wonder we're the perfect couple."
Ian scoffed at Alexis and Olivia rolled her eyes.
"What? Do you two have something to say? At least Zach and I have kissed."
With that, Ian and Olivia went silent and had frowns on their faces as they turned to look at each other. Casey began to laugh as he said, "Oh my gosh, you two haven't kissed yet? Wow!"
Olivia turned to look at Casey and said, "What are you laughing about? You don't even have a girlfriend."
"Yeah I do actually."
"Alexis is with Zach."
"No, it's not Alexis."
Ian moved his head a little to stare at Casey and Alexis simply stared with an arched eyebrow.
"You have a girlfriend?" Ian asked.
"Yeah, why's that so hard to believe?" Casey asked.
"Are you seriously asking that question?"
"The whole thing with Alexis is just a little joke. I had a crush on her, but, her rejection has led me to find someone else."
"Does this mystery girlfriend live here?"
"No, it's a long distance thing."
"Really Casey? An imaginary girlfriend is a new low for you dude."
Casey looked at the three with disbelief and said, "Guys, I'm serious. I have a long distance girlfriend! She's coming here for the tenth year celebration."
"That's three months away," said Olivia.
"Yeah and?"
"How do we know you won't just ask someone to be your date for the night?" Ian asked.
"You really think that I'm that kind of guy?"
"Yes," said the three in unison.
Casey scoffed at them and then said, "Just wait until you meet her you dinguses."
The other three began to laugh at Casey.
Claire watched as Owen couldn't quit shuffling nervously. She rolled her eyes at him and then placed a hand on his arm and said, "They'll be fine Owen. Relax."
"I know that Claire, it's just a father's intuition to be weary when his daughters are meeting boys," said Owen.
Claire smiled at Owen and then turned her attention to James, who was standing next to Owen's right. James rested his arm on Owen's shoulder as he said, "Relax amigo feo, estaran bien."
"I know they will."
"You understand Spanish Owen?" Claire asked.
"Taught him every bad word in the book," interjected James proudly.
"And you're proud of that?"
"Eh, I had to do something fun in the Navy besides helping Owen train dolphins."
"I see. But, I doubt that you said a full on sentence of bad words."
"I taught him the basics of Spanish, so he understands more or less of what I'm saying."
"That makes more sense."
Barry walked out onto the catwalk and then said, "We finish bringing the girls out of the trailer. Now, all we can do is watch to see what happens."
The four then watched as the male raptors began to run around and goof off. They were told by James that they were going to have guests and the boys were excited to see who they were. Owen had told the girls that they were going to be visiting some new friends and they were very excited. Blue hoped that it was Alice and Dom, but when she saw that they weren't around, she vowed to hunt down Alpha later.
The girls stepped into the piece of unknown territory and began to inspect all the plants that surrounded them. It seemed a lot like their own home and they wondered who lived in this place. Delta walked over and sniffed a flower and then sneezed. Too much pollen.
"Bless you Delta!" yelled out Barry.
Delta chittered her thanks to the man and then all three raptors tensed at hearing a snarl from the other side of the trees. Blue told Echo and Delta to stay put and she would check to see what it was. Blue disappeared into the trees and after a few seconds, snarls and shrieks were heard. With that, Delta and Echo ran to see what had happened to their sister and Beta and when they came out of the brush and saw what was going on, they were surprised.
The boys stared on at the intruders of their home and Silver stepped out and let out a very vicious and commanding snarl. Blue stepped up and snarled back at the silver clawed velociraptor. Silver was impressed by this Blue One's defiance. Silver then asked them who they were and what they were doing in their territory. Blue told them their names, and then went on to tell them that their Alpha told them that they would be meeting some strangers, meaning the male raptors. Silver then told his brothers that these were the visitors that their Alpha had talked about. Blue tilted her head and asked Silver who they were. The males introduced themselves and then Silver welcomed them as guests only. Blue thanked Silver for the welcome and then Silver walked away from the group and disappeared through the brush.
"What's wrong with Silver?" asked Owen.
"He's not real fond of guests most of the time," replied James.
"That'll be fun if our packs merge."
"You guys want your packs to merge?" Claire asked.
"Why not? Doesn't it sound like a great idea? We could use the empty raptor paddock my girls used to live at and put some other dinosaurs there."
"That does sound like a good idea."
"Speaking of good ideas, Claire, I thought of one and have been meaning to tell you what it was, but a lot has gone on lately so I never got the chance."
"Spill it Owen."
"What do you think if we were to have guests play 'Hide-and-Seek' with Alice?"
The other two men turned their heads at Owen and then arched their eyebrows. Claire stared at Owen and lifted her eyebrows and said, "That does sound like a good idea."
"Yeah, you can make it seem like the guests are trying to survive from Alice. Last man left without being hidden wins."
"Ooh, now that sounds cool," said James.
"Doesn't it?"
"All right Mr. Grady. I'll pass it by the board later and see what they think."
"Jurassic World's going to get more people with all these new attractions."
"Yeah, and to think, they aren't even new dinosaurs or more genetically modified hybrids."
"True, but it's good for us. More money rolls in."
Owen rolled his eyes at Claire and then said, "It's not about the money Claire, remember?"
"I know! But I'm just saying, it's good for us," said Claire.
"Right."
The boys were actually having fun with the girls and they were having fun with the boys, and not like that, if you know what I mean. The boys were telling them about their old home, Isla Sorna and the vast wilderness that it still is. They told them about the females of that island and how they were way meaner than these three. Echo told them that they didn't have any males, at least raptor males, on this island, except for now of course. This intrigued the males a bit and made Raphael ask them if they'd ever mated before. Blue told them that they didn't and that they weren't looking for mates right now. The boys could see that much. And the boys responded that they weren't looking for mates either, but, they had their own reasons. Blue asked where Silver went and Enrique told him to go and check the biggest stream of the paddock. That's where Silver most likely would be right now. Blue walked off into the brush and went in search of Silver.
Tito had to admit, Echo was really pretty. Tito approached the bronze colored velociraptor and then let out a throaty rumble. Echo was immediately intrigued him his action and then chirped at him.
"Looks like Tito likes Echo," said James.
"Yeah well, I raised my girls to be likeable around others. They know better," said Owen.
"That's not what I saw during the Incident when they were eating people," said Claire.
Owen turned to look at Claire and said, "Harsh Claire. Really harsh."
Claire chuckled at Owen and then watched as Echo and Tito walked off somewhere, leaving Delta with Raphael and Enrique.
"If only Charlie was here, then they'd all get some kind of buddy or something like that," said Owen.
"I know Owen, and I'm sorry about what happened," said Claire as she placed her hand over his.
"It's fine."
"But, the board agreed that maybe it might be time to bring in a few new velociraptor hatchlings, except this time, it would be two girls and two boys."
"What? Why? Then I'd have to make one of the boys an Alpha."
"Well, you could always be or have a co-Alpha you know?"
"Be that as it may, it'll be rougher training guys, that's all I'm trying to say."
"Even with James to help you out?"
"Oh, well in that case, it should be only tricky."
Claire rolled her eyes at Owen and then watched on as the raptors continued to socialize.
Blue found Silver exactly where Enrique had said. He was lying down next to the biggest stream in the paddock. The female Beta slowly approached him and asked him what was wrong. Silver opened an eye and looked up at the blue streaked raptor and told her that nothing was wrong; that everything was fine. Blue didn't believe the lie and then asked him the same question. Silver sighed and then said that he didn't handle guests all that well. Blue then lied down next to him and told him that she didn't handle guests all that well either, most of the time. But, she had to learn to adapt and she told Silver that he had to do the same, at least for today. Silver knew that Blue was right. He had to at least try for right now to get along with the girls. He didn't want Alpha talking his ear off once the girls were gone about how he didn't socialize at all. Silver told Blue that she was right and then asked her what she wanted to talk about. Blue chittered that she wanted to know a bit more about him, and Silver began to tell Blue about him home and how his bond with Alpha came to be and how much he loved his brothers. They could be knuckleheads sometimes, but they were his knuckleheads. Blue told him that that's how she felt about her sisters and then told him about what had happened to Charlie and the whole Indominus Incident. Silver was a bit surprised by the story and felt sorry for Blue. She told him that everything was fine and that Charlie's death didn't go in vain. Silver was confused because Blue had told him that her death wasn't avenged either, so it couldn't have not gone out in vain. Blue told him that his sister didn't go out in vain because she felt like Alice feeling the ultimate guilt was good enough. Alice still felt guilty over Charlie's death to this very day. Silver then understood what Blue meant and then told him that he had lost a few brothers growing up. They all died of birth defects or of malnutrition or even neglect. They had different Alphas, all who were low life scumbags, until their present Alpha stepped in. Present Alpha cared for all of the raptors with the utmost love and would do anything for them. Blue told him that her Alpha was like that as well. Silver said that his Alpha knew Blue's Alpha. Blue didn't know that! How dare Alpha hide these boys from them! Blue was seriously going to hunt down Alpha later. The two Betas continued to talk as the steady stream kept going by, making a relaxing noise.
"I told you that you had nothing to worry about Owen," said Claire, "All the raptors are accounted for and seem to be having a good time."
"Yeah, whatever. They're fine, for now that is," said Owen.
"Oh Owen," began Barry, "just accept it that the girls are happy and having fun right now."
"Fine! I'll admit, they do seem like they're having fun. There, happy now?"
Claire smiled and then rolled her eyes at Owen, then James said, "Amigo, I think another playdate is in order, don't you agree?"
"Sure, I guess."
"Then let's get planning."
"Oh boy."
James then began to talk Owen's ear off about the schedule of the play dates and Claire and Barry just laughed quietly as they continued to watch the raptors play around, while Blue and Silver secluded themselves and continued to talk amongst themselves. Everything was going to be fine...
A/N: Turtles! How's it going! Let me just say that I enjoyed this chapter, and I hope that you did too! Just a small thing that I wanted to tell you guys because, I wouldn't want to spill it on you when the time came around. It is with a heavy heart that I say that Terrifyingly Beautiful will be ending soon. Not, soon soon, but, soon enough. But, I'll give you more on that later! Review, if you want to and stay tuned for more to come!
'Til Next Time!-TM341
