Chapter 13 - The Child
That morning Tai, Yolie and Davis got down from the tree and started walking through the empty forest. Davis looked up at Tai, "Do you know why you're here Tai?"
Tai looked at surprised, "What?"
"Well . . ." Davis thought, "What happened that made you end up here?"
"Don't really know." Tai lied.
"I think this place is weird" Yolie said.
"Oh great." Davis said sighing, "Now she's not going to try anything new," Davis said to Tai, talking about Yolie. "Just going to sit in her room and never come out and play on her computer."
"I'm a hacker." Yolie protested.
"That's what I said," Davis said, "you're a nerd."
I'm not a computer nerd I prefer to be called a hacker."
Tai was reminded of how the two reminded him of Izzy and himself when the hair on the back of his neck stood up. Something was watching them, but it was too late for him to react. He was suddenly pined to the ground on his stomach. There was a scream from Yolie. Tai had all the wind knocked out of him and had a large amount of weight on his back. Something was standing on him. It bent down and licked his neck, it was Shamara. *Damn her.* he though to himself. Indeed she was sexy, but she was extremely demanding. He didn't love her and he had told her this before, but she rejected it. If Shamara wanted something she was going to get it no matter what the obstacle was. She almost killed Keiko because of him. Now if he wanted to be with Keiko, they had to be alone. Tai felt that Keiko was the only girl there that gave him a feeling of home. He loved them all but not as much Keiko. Tai had a feeling though, that Yukio like him. That boy was always around Tai no matter what. Ryo was obsessed with himself though, not that anyone else didn't noticed his skill. It was the first time Tai had not been a leader and was happy to get different perspectives of the team. But they all had something annoying about themselves.
Tai snapped out of his thoughts and remembered that Shamara was still on top of him. Before he could remember that Davis and Yolie were there, Tai morphed into his raptor form and sprang out from underneath Shamara and growled at her viscously. Yolie was not paying attension to him though, because she was staring at one of the animals that was sniffing her leg. Tai saw this out of the corner of his eye, and whacked the raptor a good five feet, with his tail, from Yolie. That was Ai, one of the biggest hentai's Tai had ever met. Now he was after Yolie for reasons Tai was happy not knowing. When Ai got up, he was still looking at Yolie and Tai gave him one of the nastiest growls Ai had ever resieved. At that moment Davis picked up a huge fallen branch and slammed in down on Tai's head, screaming great obscenities at him. "Liar!" Davis screamed as he hit Tai once again with the branch, "Didn't know why you were put her?! That was the reason wasn't it?!" Tai growled, baring his teeth, but Davis was so enraged he wasn't scared in the least bit. Meanwhile, Yolie and the other three raptors were staring awestruck at the mini-battle that had begun between the two males.
Yolie slowly started to get use to it. She knew that Davis had started to train with his father and had developed abnormal strength. She looked away from the fight and looked at the three raptors next to her. One of them - the one that had sniffed her leg - was the same color and form as what Tai had turned into. It had a row of feathers on it's head with a brownish reddish coloring to the skin. The animal had different colored marking then Tai did though, instead of yellow they were white. White?! That was the same raptor that attacked her in the lab back at the colony base.
The other two were completely different though. They had no feathers on their heads but were colored more like zebras. They were an off-white color with black strips. The had a few brown speckles on their skin. They were much more camouflaged then Tai or the other raptor were. They both had different markings though. The one that had pounced on Tai had red markings and the other had purple. Yolie was trying to determine why they looked different. They were defiantly the same species. Yolie also knew that since they observed to be carnivores, they were in the same pack or herd. She looked back over at the battle which now had Tai back in human form, and stuck up in a tree with Davis at the base of the tree, waiting for Tai to come down. Both were silent. Yolie shook her head in disgust.
"Hey Tai" said a male voice next to Yolie which made her look over to where the raptors once were. Now who stood there were three humans, one boy and two girls. Yolie tried to keep herself from drooling when she got a good look at the boy. He was gorgeous. He was medium height and had jet black hair with bangs that hung in front of his eyes in a very sexy manner. He wore a black silk shirt with a dragon pattern on it. The silky material on him showed every curve of his firm form underneath the shirt. He had camouflage colored combat boots and black baggy pants with dog chains looped off his belt. One of the girls was tall and had strait brown hair that was pulled into a tight ponytail that reached down to the middle of her back. She wore a choker with spikes on it and a long sleeve dress shirt with a dark green tank top over it. She had a short dark green skirt on and black leather hiking boots. The other was medium height and had very short violet blue hair. She had on a white, long sleeve belly shirt. The sleeves were very baggy while the part of the shirt that covered the torso was tight against her form. She had dark blue bellbottoms and black boots. All three of them had yellow eyes.
The boy spoke again, "We've located another one of Malone's men near here." Then they boy clasped his hands together and gave fake, sarcastic puppy eyes, "Keiko found this out for you!" Tai narrowed his eyes and the girl in the dark green skirt raised her fist threateningly yet the boy continued to speak in the girlie voice he was putting on, "She says it where all communication equipment is and -" At that point the girl was fed up with the boy making fun of Keiko and Tai and punched him right in the jaw making him fall a good five feet from were he once stood. She was about to turns towards Tai and expect at least a 'Thank you' but instead at that point Tai and the other girl had turned back into raptors and headed off to where the trailer was suppose to be. She had to hold down her skirt when they rushed by her, "I gotta start wearing pants from now on."
* * *
Ken woke up to the sound of birds chirping, but there was another noise as well. He got out of bed and went over to a window that Cody was staring out. Ken looked out the window and his jaw dropped. All around them were brownish dinosaurs grazing, on their legs and back were zebra like markings. Some would walk on all fours, and some of the smaller ones would gallop on their back two legs. Some would even look at them and press there beck like noses against the glass window. "Eddie says they're Iguanadon." It was one of the first times Cody had said anything other then ask if they were gonna make it.
When Ken leaned over to look out the window farther he bumped Cody and noticed, he was shaking. "Are you OK?"
"I wanna go home."
There was a long silence between to two.
"Hey."
The voice startled them both, making them jump. Eddie stood at the doorway of the front part of the trailer. "You guys wanna come with me?" "Where are you going?" Ken asked as Eddie walked passed them to the 'kitchen'. He gave them a quick breakfast before saying anything. "I'm gonna go check some equipment of mine and see the landscape as well. Ya wanna go?" The two boys nodded.
Eddie and the two walked through the herd of Iguanadon who would look up but did not look to worried.
The three of them walked through the forest, Eddie explaining to them about the planet they were on and how it differed from Earth. After about fifteen minutes of walking Eddie stopped at the base of a tree. Ken and Cody were a little confused until Eddie pointed up. Above them, at the top of the tree, was a big box object. Eddie took a small remote control out of his pocket and pressed a green button on it. The object started to come down. When it hit the ground, they got a good visual of the object. The spacing was small but cozy. About six feet by six feet and a ceiling made out of camouflage material eight feet tall. The 'walls' were chained fences that reached half way to the ceiling which were also covered in camouflage material. The three of them walked into the high hide and Eddie closed the gate behind them.
Up in the High Hide, Ken and Cody ate a lunch of sandwiches and chips. Eddie told them to make sure not to drop anything so as not to be noticed by the animals. The high hide was covered in camouflage. It hung in the highest tree by a chain attachment. This gave whoever was in the high hide a good look at what the landscape looked like. Ken noticed a large meadow with a stream running through it. Many animals grazed and drank from the stream. It seemed very peaceful. On the other side of the high hide was a different story. It was deeper into the forest and covered in a dense layer of foliage. When Ken finished dinosaurs that were roaming the prairie. A few times Ken noticed quick movement through the trees out of the corner of his eye, but ignored it.
That's when it happened. There was a blur that raced across the meadow at tremendous speed. It caused a panic among the herds of animals and produced a stampede. Suddenly there were more blurs and within a matter of seconds, a dinosaur was down and soon covered with . . .
"Velociraptors."
Ken and Cody jumped when Eddie had spoken. Ken and Cody looked back to see around five raptors on the now dead animal, and they were already going at it.
After a few hours Eddie announced that he was done and they started back for the trailer. When they got back it was already starting to get dark. Ken and Cody walked in the door and Eddie put him stuff down next to the door. "I'll be right back" he said and then walked out the door.
Ken and Cody nodded as he closed the door. Cody went over to one of the bunks and laid down wide awake. Ken sat down at the computer desk and looked at the four different monitors. They were security monitors. There were cameras placed in different places of the forest. Ken looked at one where there seemed to be the most movement. Two men were carrying an animal that Ken thought at first was one of the raptors, but when he looked harder it wasn't. It seemed to be a baby type on dinosaur that Ken was unaware of. It had small arms and to hind legs and Ken got the impression that the animal walked on two legs instead of four. The animal's leg had a deep gash in it and was bleeding badly. While one of the men held the creature up the other rapped a chain around it's belly and tied it to a tree. Ken was a little shocked by the scene he had just watched. It was like they were using the animal for bait, but for what?
At that moment, two figures burst into the door and ended up knocking themselves into the opposite wall. This woke Cody and shook Ken almost out of his seat. Ken and Cody's mouths drop to their knees when they recognized the first figure as Tai. Tai looked up at them with his yellow eyes that still ran chills up Ken's spine. "When did you . . . How did . . . What the hell!" Ken was having a hard time finishing his questions.
"You need to get out of here now!" Tai said as he walked up to Ken.
"But we can't leave now!" Ken protested, backing away from Tai.
"Yes, we do. This is Rex's territory. We need to leave, now" Tai said, moving again to grab Ken.
"But they have one!" Ken broke the silence.
Tai looked back at him, "Have what?"
"A baby."
Tai looked at Satu, who was walking Cody to the car near the trailer, and she looked at him. "Where?" Satu asked.
"Lemme go with you." Ken protested, not answering the question.
"No!" Tai and Satu said simultaneously.
"Well I didn't make a map! I only know how to get there!"
Satu agreed, but Tai looked as if he would have smacked them both and shoved them in the car. That might have been the reason Ken was at far distance from him. So Ken and Satu got in one car and Tai got in the car Cody was already in.
* * *
As they got closer, they could hear the long, mournful cries of a small animal. The rain, now coming down harder, was making the ground very muddy and it was hard to determine the animal was there. It was defiantly the Rex's child, around the size of a big dog. Satu and Ken got out of the car and ran over to the baby, "Its leg is cut pretty bad." Satu said.
"Will it heal?"
Satu shook her head, "Not before a predator smells it and picks it off." They removed the chain from around around the baby's belly. Then Satu picked up the baby and ran up to the car. Ken opened the door for her, and Satu put the child in the car. Ken got in the passengers seat while Satu got in the drivers side.
Ken looked back at the baby, What do we do with it?"
"We'll take it back to the trailer, I saw some medical supplies there" Satu said, seeing Ken's concerned.
That morning Tai, Yolie and Davis got down from the tree and started walking through the empty forest. Davis looked up at Tai, "Do you know why you're here Tai?"
Tai looked at surprised, "What?"
"Well . . ." Davis thought, "What happened that made you end up here?"
"Don't really know." Tai lied.
"I think this place is weird" Yolie said.
"Oh great." Davis said sighing, "Now she's not going to try anything new," Davis said to Tai, talking about Yolie. "Just going to sit in her room and never come out and play on her computer."
"I'm a hacker." Yolie protested.
"That's what I said," Davis said, "you're a nerd."
I'm not a computer nerd I prefer to be called a hacker."
Tai was reminded of how the two reminded him of Izzy and himself when the hair on the back of his neck stood up. Something was watching them, but it was too late for him to react. He was suddenly pined to the ground on his stomach. There was a scream from Yolie. Tai had all the wind knocked out of him and had a large amount of weight on his back. Something was standing on him. It bent down and licked his neck, it was Shamara. *Damn her.* he though to himself. Indeed she was sexy, but she was extremely demanding. He didn't love her and he had told her this before, but she rejected it. If Shamara wanted something she was going to get it no matter what the obstacle was. She almost killed Keiko because of him. Now if he wanted to be with Keiko, they had to be alone. Tai felt that Keiko was the only girl there that gave him a feeling of home. He loved them all but not as much Keiko. Tai had a feeling though, that Yukio like him. That boy was always around Tai no matter what. Ryo was obsessed with himself though, not that anyone else didn't noticed his skill. It was the first time Tai had not been a leader and was happy to get different perspectives of the team. But they all had something annoying about themselves.
Tai snapped out of his thoughts and remembered that Shamara was still on top of him. Before he could remember that Davis and Yolie were there, Tai morphed into his raptor form and sprang out from underneath Shamara and growled at her viscously. Yolie was not paying attension to him though, because she was staring at one of the animals that was sniffing her leg. Tai saw this out of the corner of his eye, and whacked the raptor a good five feet, with his tail, from Yolie. That was Ai, one of the biggest hentai's Tai had ever met. Now he was after Yolie for reasons Tai was happy not knowing. When Ai got up, he was still looking at Yolie and Tai gave him one of the nastiest growls Ai had ever resieved. At that moment Davis picked up a huge fallen branch and slammed in down on Tai's head, screaming great obscenities at him. "Liar!" Davis screamed as he hit Tai once again with the branch, "Didn't know why you were put her?! That was the reason wasn't it?!" Tai growled, baring his teeth, but Davis was so enraged he wasn't scared in the least bit. Meanwhile, Yolie and the other three raptors were staring awestruck at the mini-battle that had begun between the two males.
Yolie slowly started to get use to it. She knew that Davis had started to train with his father and had developed abnormal strength. She looked away from the fight and looked at the three raptors next to her. One of them - the one that had sniffed her leg - was the same color and form as what Tai had turned into. It had a row of feathers on it's head with a brownish reddish coloring to the skin. The animal had different colored marking then Tai did though, instead of yellow they were white. White?! That was the same raptor that attacked her in the lab back at the colony base.
The other two were completely different though. They had no feathers on their heads but were colored more like zebras. They were an off-white color with black strips. The had a few brown speckles on their skin. They were much more camouflaged then Tai or the other raptor were. They both had different markings though. The one that had pounced on Tai had red markings and the other had purple. Yolie was trying to determine why they looked different. They were defiantly the same species. Yolie also knew that since they observed to be carnivores, they were in the same pack or herd. She looked back over at the battle which now had Tai back in human form, and stuck up in a tree with Davis at the base of the tree, waiting for Tai to come down. Both were silent. Yolie shook her head in disgust.
"Hey Tai" said a male voice next to Yolie which made her look over to where the raptors once were. Now who stood there were three humans, one boy and two girls. Yolie tried to keep herself from drooling when she got a good look at the boy. He was gorgeous. He was medium height and had jet black hair with bangs that hung in front of his eyes in a very sexy manner. He wore a black silk shirt with a dragon pattern on it. The silky material on him showed every curve of his firm form underneath the shirt. He had camouflage colored combat boots and black baggy pants with dog chains looped off his belt. One of the girls was tall and had strait brown hair that was pulled into a tight ponytail that reached down to the middle of her back. She wore a choker with spikes on it and a long sleeve dress shirt with a dark green tank top over it. She had a short dark green skirt on and black leather hiking boots. The other was medium height and had very short violet blue hair. She had on a white, long sleeve belly shirt. The sleeves were very baggy while the part of the shirt that covered the torso was tight against her form. She had dark blue bellbottoms and black boots. All three of them had yellow eyes.
The boy spoke again, "We've located another one of Malone's men near here." Then they boy clasped his hands together and gave fake, sarcastic puppy eyes, "Keiko found this out for you!" Tai narrowed his eyes and the girl in the dark green skirt raised her fist threateningly yet the boy continued to speak in the girlie voice he was putting on, "She says it where all communication equipment is and -" At that point the girl was fed up with the boy making fun of Keiko and Tai and punched him right in the jaw making him fall a good five feet from were he once stood. She was about to turns towards Tai and expect at least a 'Thank you' but instead at that point Tai and the other girl had turned back into raptors and headed off to where the trailer was suppose to be. She had to hold down her skirt when they rushed by her, "I gotta start wearing pants from now on."
* * *
Ken woke up to the sound of birds chirping, but there was another noise as well. He got out of bed and went over to a window that Cody was staring out. Ken looked out the window and his jaw dropped. All around them were brownish dinosaurs grazing, on their legs and back were zebra like markings. Some would walk on all fours, and some of the smaller ones would gallop on their back two legs. Some would even look at them and press there beck like noses against the glass window. "Eddie says they're Iguanadon." It was one of the first times Cody had said anything other then ask if they were gonna make it.
When Ken leaned over to look out the window farther he bumped Cody and noticed, he was shaking. "Are you OK?"
"I wanna go home."
There was a long silence between to two.
"Hey."
The voice startled them both, making them jump. Eddie stood at the doorway of the front part of the trailer. "You guys wanna come with me?" "Where are you going?" Ken asked as Eddie walked passed them to the 'kitchen'. He gave them a quick breakfast before saying anything. "I'm gonna go check some equipment of mine and see the landscape as well. Ya wanna go?" The two boys nodded.
Eddie and the two walked through the herd of Iguanadon who would look up but did not look to worried.
The three of them walked through the forest, Eddie explaining to them about the planet they were on and how it differed from Earth. After about fifteen minutes of walking Eddie stopped at the base of a tree. Ken and Cody were a little confused until Eddie pointed up. Above them, at the top of the tree, was a big box object. Eddie took a small remote control out of his pocket and pressed a green button on it. The object started to come down. When it hit the ground, they got a good visual of the object. The spacing was small but cozy. About six feet by six feet and a ceiling made out of camouflage material eight feet tall. The 'walls' were chained fences that reached half way to the ceiling which were also covered in camouflage material. The three of them walked into the high hide and Eddie closed the gate behind them.
Up in the High Hide, Ken and Cody ate a lunch of sandwiches and chips. Eddie told them to make sure not to drop anything so as not to be noticed by the animals. The high hide was covered in camouflage. It hung in the highest tree by a chain attachment. This gave whoever was in the high hide a good look at what the landscape looked like. Ken noticed a large meadow with a stream running through it. Many animals grazed and drank from the stream. It seemed very peaceful. On the other side of the high hide was a different story. It was deeper into the forest and covered in a dense layer of foliage. When Ken finished dinosaurs that were roaming the prairie. A few times Ken noticed quick movement through the trees out of the corner of his eye, but ignored it.
That's when it happened. There was a blur that raced across the meadow at tremendous speed. It caused a panic among the herds of animals and produced a stampede. Suddenly there were more blurs and within a matter of seconds, a dinosaur was down and soon covered with . . .
"Velociraptors."
Ken and Cody jumped when Eddie had spoken. Ken and Cody looked back to see around five raptors on the now dead animal, and they were already going at it.
After a few hours Eddie announced that he was done and they started back for the trailer. When they got back it was already starting to get dark. Ken and Cody walked in the door and Eddie put him stuff down next to the door. "I'll be right back" he said and then walked out the door.
Ken and Cody nodded as he closed the door. Cody went over to one of the bunks and laid down wide awake. Ken sat down at the computer desk and looked at the four different monitors. They were security monitors. There were cameras placed in different places of the forest. Ken looked at one where there seemed to be the most movement. Two men were carrying an animal that Ken thought at first was one of the raptors, but when he looked harder it wasn't. It seemed to be a baby type on dinosaur that Ken was unaware of. It had small arms and to hind legs and Ken got the impression that the animal walked on two legs instead of four. The animal's leg had a deep gash in it and was bleeding badly. While one of the men held the creature up the other rapped a chain around it's belly and tied it to a tree. Ken was a little shocked by the scene he had just watched. It was like they were using the animal for bait, but for what?
At that moment, two figures burst into the door and ended up knocking themselves into the opposite wall. This woke Cody and shook Ken almost out of his seat. Ken and Cody's mouths drop to their knees when they recognized the first figure as Tai. Tai looked up at them with his yellow eyes that still ran chills up Ken's spine. "When did you . . . How did . . . What the hell!" Ken was having a hard time finishing his questions.
"You need to get out of here now!" Tai said as he walked up to Ken.
"But we can't leave now!" Ken protested, backing away from Tai.
"Yes, we do. This is Rex's territory. We need to leave, now" Tai said, moving again to grab Ken.
"But they have one!" Ken broke the silence.
Tai looked back at him, "Have what?"
"A baby."
Tai looked at Satu, who was walking Cody to the car near the trailer, and she looked at him. "Where?" Satu asked.
"Lemme go with you." Ken protested, not answering the question.
"No!" Tai and Satu said simultaneously.
"Well I didn't make a map! I only know how to get there!"
Satu agreed, but Tai looked as if he would have smacked them both and shoved them in the car. That might have been the reason Ken was at far distance from him. So Ken and Satu got in one car and Tai got in the car Cody was already in.
* * *
As they got closer, they could hear the long, mournful cries of a small animal. The rain, now coming down harder, was making the ground very muddy and it was hard to determine the animal was there. It was defiantly the Rex's child, around the size of a big dog. Satu and Ken got out of the car and ran over to the baby, "Its leg is cut pretty bad." Satu said.
"Will it heal?"
Satu shook her head, "Not before a predator smells it and picks it off." They removed the chain from around around the baby's belly. Then Satu picked up the baby and ran up to the car. Ken opened the door for her, and Satu put the child in the car. Ken got in the passengers seat while Satu got in the drivers side.
Ken looked back at the baby, What do we do with it?"
"We'll take it back to the trailer, I saw some medical supplies there" Satu said, seeing Ken's concerned.
