Anguirus111 note: If you're wondering where I got the dimetrodon camouflage idea for this chapter, it was from The Lost World novelization. Sometimes it pays to read now and then, although I think I may have greatly over exaggerated it for the purpose of this story.

The battle damaged semi-tractor trailer rumbled to a halt next to the deserted gas station with steam pouring out of the damaged engine block. Jake cut the engine and hopped out and quickly opened the engine as a mass of steam came flooding out while Lex let the kids out of the back.

"We're just going to be taking a bathroom break," she said with a little bit of humility to Jake who just shrugged. He tossed her the last rifle.

"Remember, unless if it eats meat, size doesn't matter," he said. "I'll be in the garage."

Lex nodded and nervously led the children to the bathroom. Jake walked over to the garage and slid the door open noisily. He looked around the garage and the dark shadows with a shudder since he no longer possessed a weapon in case things went sour. Nevertheless, Jake pressed on and began rummaging around looking for a toolbox. All around him he could've sworn he heard the small scampering of feet but he shook it off as nerves. He looked around some more and located a taser. Jake shrugged and put it into his pocket for later when it might have some use while he continued to search around the garage.

"Ah ha!" he said finally located a toolbox. He pulled out a crescent wrench and spun around to get a closer look at its size when suddenly a small green blur flew straight at him only to have it's forward momentum stopped by the wrench. Jake jumped back as a small compy was chocked as its neck got caught in the wrench following its leap. Jake instantly slammed the compy against the wall bashing its brains in. He then spun around as more compys appeared from the shadows and only then did he notice the dead mechanic in the corner covered in tiny bite marks with parts of his flesh missing. But instead of feeling fear, Jake's eyes flashed with anger, anger to the point that the compys stopped their approach upon seeing his rage.

"I HATE DINOSAURS!" he shouted. Jake grabbed a nearby blowtorch and slammed it on as he began attacking the dinosaurs who immediately leaped onto him taking small bites of his flesh. Jake managed to fry a couple of them but still more kept coming. Even as Jake tossed them off, their claws had hooked into his skin and parts of it came tearing off. He then collapsed onto the ground as the compys instantly let go and stepped back as a somewhat larger compy, no doubt their leader, appeared on top of a toolbox. It let loose with a roar and leapt towards Jake with its claws outstretched. Jake closed his eyes as a loud noise went off and the compy exploded showering blood and guts everywhere. Jake looked to see Lex standing in the doorway with her rifle barrel smoking. She immediately reloaded and fired at another compy that exploded as the others turned and tail and ran.

"Jake are you okay?" asked Lex running to his side. Jake looked at her weakly before passing out from shock and injury.

Docks: "There it is," said Muldoon looking through a pair of binoculars at the docks.

"Are the boats intact?" asked Hammond worriedly.

"They're fine. Unfortunately a pair of raptors has taken up position patrolling the docks, that could pose a problem," said Muldoon lowering his binoculars.

"Damn," said Ray.

"Yeah, unfortunately we're going to have to press onwards because those raptors that have been tailing us aren't going to let us go without a fight either," said Robert.

"Do you think they're all working together?" asked Hammond.

"Who can tell? On the one hand they could be on the other hand they might not, it'd be impossible for us to know for sure," said Muldoon disengaging the safety on his rifle.

"You're not really in a position to be fighting raptors," said Sarah. "After all, your last encounter with them didn't end so well."

"I can't sit by and do nothing while we wait to get eaten," said Robert signaling his men. "You stay here; we'll take care of this."

And with that the small army moved off into the brush heading down to the docks.

Gas station: Jake blearily opened his eyes to see a group of baby raptors peering over him along with one adult.

"Raptors!" he hissed struggling to get up. One of the raptors restrained him against the table.

"Jake are you okay?" it asked. Jake stared at the raptor before shaking his head to clear his blurry division to finally see Lex and the kids.

"Oh hell not again," he said rubbing his eyes. Lex laughed briefly as Jake finally managed to sit up.

"How long was I out?" he asked taking sip of water from a cup Lex provided.

"About a half hour," she said as Jake walked over to a nearby mirror with a sink. He rinsed his face, wincing at the pain, before looking at the mirror and his new cuts.

"God I look like Ash from the Evil Dead series," he said shaking his head before sitting down on a nearby chair.

"How long until you think we can get to the Visitors Center?" Lex asked. Jake shrugged.

"I don't know, all I know is that that semi isn't going anywhere because it's engine is shot," said Jake pointing to the still steaming semi outside.

"You don't think you can fix it?" Lex asked.

"I may know some stuff about machines, but I'm not Macgyver," said Jake. "Believe me, its shot beyond my ability to repair it."

"So we're hoofing it for awhile," said Lex somewhat disappointed.

"Unless you know of a place where we can get some wheels, that's looking like the only option," said Jake.

"How far are we away from the Center?" Lex asked. Jake walked over to a map on the side wall of the convenience store portion of the station.

"We are here, the Visitors Center is here," said Jake pointing to the two locations. "That is at least a two day walk," said Jake.

"So there's no way we can get there today," said Lex somewhat worried.

"Not unless you want to make your way through a couple of dinosaur pens, one of which looks like it belongs to the Spino," said Jake.

"You're right, that's a bad idea. But these kids really need some sleep and I'd really not have to sleep in the forest or here. Is there someplace closer?" she asked.

"Well you can take your pick between the Jurassic Hotel and the Pterosaur Lodgings, both are about a four hour walk either way, but it's a lot closer than the Center," said Jake.

"Which would you choose?" Lex asked trying to come to a decision.

"It depends," he said finally.

"On what?" asked Lex, her interest piqued.

"If the pterosaurs have gotten loose," said Jake simply. Lex nodded.

"So the Jurassic Hotel it is then," she said.

"Oh shit," said Jake looking at the map a little bit more closely.

"What?" Lex demanded.

"John you bastard," said Jake laughing while shaking his head. "You really knew I wasn't going to keep up with this island at all didn't you?"

"What?" Lex demanded.

"There's a dimetrodon pen between here and the hotel," said Jake.

"So, what's so wrong about that?"

"When we first bred a dimetrodon, the instant it reached adulthood it vanished, literally. We sent out some teams to go find out, what happened to it, but they were promptly slaughtered. It took a couple tries, but eventually we discovered that the dimetrodons had a type of camouflage even greater than a chameleon, the thing blended into the background scenery so well the cameras and motion trackers couldn't even spot them. Henry and I didn't even bother to put the animal on the DNS list because John was there at the time and he saw how deadly this thing was. Yet here it is on the map like nothing's wrong. I saw the embryo at that facility back there, but John hadn't mentioned one had been created. Way to go Jimbo now we're all dead," said Jake shaking his head in shame.

"Once we reach the hotel we should be fine right?" asked Lex.

"If we reach the hotel then yes we'll be fine. But if those things are loose you can forget us getting there without any casualties," said Jake. "I take it you wouldn't know how many are supposed to be in there?"

"Not really, the tour didn't say. But it did mention they were a very new exhibit so I don't think too many would be in there yet," said Lex. "Maybe there aren't any at all, we certainly didn't see any. Of course based on what you just said I don't think we would have anway."

"Let's hope not for all our sakes," said Jake. He grabbed the rifle and checked to see that it had only six bullets left. Jake shook his head before grabbing a nearby towel rack and yanking it off.

"Let's go," he said. The small walking entrée line headed out into the park.

Docks: Explosions rang out as a pair of raptors was downed in a hail of bullets.

"Everybody to the boats!" shouted Robert as a mass of civilians roared down the embankment towards the boats with the children being led by Sarah with a pair of guards. Unfortunately, more raptors suddenly appeared and began taking down humans as the workers surged into the two boats in a panic. More blasts rang out until finally the boats roared to life and moved away from the island. The raptors watched with interest and appeared to be contemplating whether or not to swim after the boats before turning around and leaving.

"How many did we loose?" asked John gasping for air.

"Five workers and three children," said Robert finally.

"Damnit," said John angrily. "Maybe Ellie was right, maybe this wasn't such a good idea after all."

"Either way, Jake, the rest of the kids, and Lex are now all alone on that island with no way to get off," said Ray. "They have minimal power and nothing that really works on an island full of animals capable of ripping them to shreds."

A large explosion went off blasting the dock to pieces and launching a raptor into the air.

"Guess the raptors set off the fuel tanks," observed Robert.

"Lex, I'm so sorry, so very, very sorry. Please forgive me," said John with tears in his eyes as the two boats roared off into the distance.

Island: Jake raised an eyebrow at the rising smoke in the distance. He shrugged and kept walking with the determination that no matter what happened, they were all going to die.

"I hope they're okay," said Lex a little bit scared.

"I'm sure they are," said Jake a little bitterly. "Somehow I don't think John could be killed by any of these dinos."

"Why not?" asked Lex ignoring his snide comments.

"Because he was present for the birth of every living creature on this island, they've imprinted on him. Oy, what a piece of propaganda," said Jake shaking his head. "That's still not counting if any of the dinosaurs might've breeded."

"But I thought the dinosaurs were all females. You need males and females to make an offspring," said Lex. "Even a scientist like you should know that."

"I do know that. But Alan Grant had an interesting postulate that he came up with following his tour all those years ago that some West African frogs could change their sex if need be so why couldn't the dinos do the same?" said Jake holding up his hands in question.

"Did you do any research to prove if that could happen?" asked Lex.

"Yeah, but the results came up inconclusive so we couldn't tell for sure," said Jake. "Further research was to be conducted here around now, but I don't know if it ever happened or if it did what the answer was."

Lex nodded, interested in finding out what the answer was. The group moved on in silence.

"Jake?" Lex asked finally.

"Yeah?"

"Thanks for helping us out, I don't know what would've happened without you," said Lex.

"I'm sure you would've been fine," said Jake continued to walk down the road.

"I think we would've been Rex food," said Tommy.

"No," Jake began.

"Look he's right," said Lex cutting him off. "We would've been dead if you hadn't come and probably even more dead if you hadn't stayed with us. Thank you."

Jake just sighed and shook his head, he was never one for hero worship.

"Just watch yourselves, we're in a hostile environment and we'll be fine," he said with a lack of anything else to say. They had just reached a new dino pen, once more with a massive hole in it and footsteps leading away from the area.

"I wonder what was in there," said Jake. The group walked a little farther until they found the marker indicating what dino had been in there.

"All right!" said Jake smiling for once. "Gojirasaurus Quayi, I'd always hoped to see what it looked like at full size, maybe I'll still get my chance."

"Wait, now you're happy to see a flesh eating dinosaur?" asked Lex incredibly confused.

"This is a little bit different. This dinosaur was named after my favorite boyhood monster, Godzilla(I'm not making this up, this dino was really discovered and named after Godzilla). I always hoped we'd find a DNA strand for it, but the possibility was incredibly slim. Then two months ago we finally found a piece, I was so excited. I spent countless hours repairing its cellular structure to turn it into a thing of the flesh. When it was finally made, I immediately had it shipped over here. After I realized that the dinos had escaped, I secretly wished that this thing would've escaped as well. Electric wires couldn't hold back the movie Godzilla and now it appears real wires couldn't hold back the real Godzilla either. I wonder if the wires are singed?" said Jake with a big smile looking at the fence. Lex laughed briefly, finally glad to see a moment of Jake being human for once, but it was quickly shattered by a dino roar in the distance. Jake immediately swung his rifle up and motioned for the kids to follow him.

"C'mon, the sooner we get to the hotel the better," he grumbled. The group continued moving on through the jungle for the next couple of hours while they passed pens with massive holes in them or dinosaur corpses. Occasionally the random human corpse would pop up and Jake would put big leaves over it but other than that the trip was mostly uneventful. At least until they were an hour's walk away from the hotel, when the area Jake had feared finally came upon them.

"Dimetrodon Pit, perfect," said Jake shaking his head at the sign. He spun around to the group.

"Okay, listen up. I need you to do what I say from this point on. Do not talk, do not run away from the group, and do not do anything unless I or Lex say so. You need to stick together in a clump and move slowly with a purpose. Hopefully having all of your bodies together will throw the dimetrodons heat sensors for a loop and make them think you're just one big dino that they might avoid. I'll be in front of you guys walking along so that hopefull if they attack, they'll attack me and not you. Dimetrodons don't usually exert themselves for long distances, rather they lay still like a venus flytrap and strike when the prey has accidentally stumbled upon them. If any of you see anything that might seem like a dimetrodon, raise your hand and we'll call on you to tell us what you saw. If you take this seriously we'll survive, if not we'll all die. Is that understood?" asked Jake. The children nodded with terror in their eyes. Jake wanted to say something to make it better, but he couldn't deal with it right now and just moved forward down the road with the group of children and Lex following slowly behind.

Up front, Jake kept his eyes and ears open for any sign of movement. John hadn't mentioned the dimetrodons during his earlier talk with Jake, but Jake didn't want to take any chances.

CRACK!

Jake hit the ground as a massive object slammed right into him causing him to fall over in shock. Stars and spots appeared in Jake's eyes as a soft rumble was heard from a hidden beast. Jake forced himself to try and get up and he saw a pair of yellow eyes starring from just beyond the tree line. A clawed foot appeared briefly from the trees but instantly vanished.

"Jake are you okay?" asked Lex worriedly.

"Keep moving! Don't worry about me!" Jake yelled. "You've got to get the children out of here!"

Lex nodded worriedly before the small group moved on leaving Jake behind he continued to struggle to get up. As Lex and her small group had gotten a few feet away, two dimetrodons walked onto the road from the jungle. Appeared was a loose term as they were only shimmers only visible due to the intense bright light. Jake struggled to lift his rifle as one steadily approached him. It slowly drew closer and closer until Jake could smell its stinky breath right in front of him. The creature roared and abruptly its camouflage dropped making it totally visible. But before it could clamp its jaws around Jake, a piece of metal stuck itself against the roof of its mouth. Jake pulled the trigger and the gun barrel went off blasting the top half of the head off throwing blood and guts everywhere.

"Never stare a gift horse in the mouth," Jake grumbled as he spat out blood and guts as he was now drenched in red. He tried to get up, but his entire body was temporarily paralyzed by the force of the impact of what was presumably the creature's tail. At the moment he lay stricken right next to the electric track for the tour vehicles. As he lay there, content that he'd waxed the only dimetrodon on the island, waiting for his senses to return, a roar pierced the air. Lex screamed as a second dimetrodon, fully visible, emerged from the bushes and steadily advanced towards the group who stood their paralyzed. Jake struggled to aim the rifle, but he was practically paralyzed from the neck down. He could barely move his arms, which felt like they weren't asleep but in a coma. Jake knew that there was nothing he could do to possibly prevent the dimetrodon from slaughtering Lex and the children. Jake struggled to get up on his side and onto his front and after much grunting and groaning he managed to get up onto his side. As he did so, a black device fell from his inner jacket pocket and fell onto the ground, it was the taser he'd picked up at the garage in what seemed so long ago. Inspiration suddenly struck Jake and he managed to tilt up his head to reveal the metal track leading down the road, which the dimetrodon was subsequently moving towards.

"Lex!" Jake shouted. Lex continued standing their motionless. "Lex!"

"Yeah," Lex chocked out as the dimetrodon continued steadily approaching.

"When I say go, run for the trees!" shouted Jake.

"What?" Lex asked bewildered.

"Just do it," said Jake. Lex nodded not taking her eyes off the dimetrodon. The creature roared at the group as it came so close they could smell it. Down the road, Jake managed to drag himself to the track and lay across it. Then grunting and groaning he struggled to get the taser pointed at the track. The creature got so that it was nearly face to face with Lex and the group.

"Go!" shouted Jake. The dimetrodon swung around to look at the source of the noise while the group scattered as Jake held up the sparking taser.

"Die you ugly motherfu…," began Jake as he slammed the taser into the rail and immediately got a massive jolt of electricity as the taser poured its power into the railing and electricity shot down both ends. The dimetrodon roared in defiance as the electricity shot down the track and smacked into its foot resting on the railing as electricity roared up its body until Jake finally managed to pry the taser loose and the dimetrodon gave one last roar before it collapsed in a heap on the ground. Jake instantly popped up into the air as the electricity had restored his sense but meanwhile small wisps of smoke were pouring off of him and his hair stuck straight up. Jake stumbled down the road as all of his muscles began twitching while the dimetrodon was twitching as well albeit unconscious. Jake stood there with a bemused if somewhat vacant look on his face as the electricity continued coursing through his body. Lex and the children slowly appeared from the trees and walked over to him.

"Thanks," said Lex. "I don't know what we would've done."

Jake shrugged and stumbled off in a daze.

"Now that's a human piece of toast," Lex laughed walking after him along with the kids before adding. "A disgusting blood drenched piece of toast."

"Wait," said Tommy. "What about him?"

Jake looked back at the dimetrodon as little arcs of electricity streaked across its skin.

"It won't be coming after us anytime soon…assuming it isn't eaten before it wakes up," said Jake walking off towards the hotel.

"You need a bath," said Lex looking at the blood and guts all over him.

"It's for the best this way, the dimetrodon stench will ward off any of the smaller predators who want to come after us," said Jake as blood trickled down his forehead like sweat. A couple miles behind them, a pair of eyes high up in the trees peered out at the group moving away. A massive biped emerged from the trees and briefly roared as it burst through the trees and proceeded to eat the unconscious dimetrodon. Following the meal, the dinosaur roared again and took off after the group.