When Monsters Come Out to Kill
Lightning flashed about in the clouded skies of the night as thunder rumbled about. A dark prelude to what was to come as fifteen male apes used their dark bodies to their advantage in the shadows to sneak up onto the unsuspecting guards on the other side of the warehouse. The only thing potentially giving their presence away were their glowing red-brown eyes. The right-hand ape to Ajax, Urko, was leading the sneak attack. The plan was to trap their victims within the warehouse with their exit points cut off. He had three apes block the backdoor exits that used huge trash bins and medium sized wooden boxes, utilizing their astounding upper body strength.
One White Fang guard was watching the speech below as did his fellow guards. They were so preoccupied with that that it wasn't difficult for Urko to wrap his arm around his throat and cover his mouth. The guard let out a muffled scream that the others on the other side couldn't hear them. His fellows around him were either kidnapped and dragged down by the other apes to be mugged, or had their necks snapped. Urko went for the latter as the guard went limp in his chokehold with his head twisted backwards.
The guards on other side didn't even notice them as they were too riled up by the speech on the stage.
Urko dropped the dead guard and quickly waved twice to Ajax, who saw it was now his time to do his part. The alpha nodded before he walked out from hiding, revealing himself to the guard leaning against the box.
Ajax began panting and hooting, getting the guard's attention, whose jaw almost dropped at the sight of him.
"H-H-Hey!" the guard stammered out loud out of shock, interrupting the entire speech as Torchwick was about to do something very important. "Guys! Guys! Look over here!"
The entire crowd were flabbergasted, including Roman and the White Fang lieutenant.
"What on Remnant?!" the lieutenant thought his eyes were deceiving him.
"Is that a monkey?" the orange-haired criminal mastermind asked.
The other guards on the balcony went quickly in front of Ajax, but warily kept their distance with their weapons aimed as they saw his stocky muscular build and ominous red eyes and scars.
"Holy shit..." one of the guards gulped loudly. "You are one ugly son of a gun."
Ajax hooted in low grunts as he next slowly stood upon his hind legs up to his full height of 9 feet tall. He towered over everybody.
"Oh my Oum...he's huge!" a guard felt really small compared to the ape when he could clearly saw the power in Ajax's bulging, ripped large muscles that were like thick chords of steel with his biceps the size of a basketball. His built was more packed and bulkier than the strongest human wrestler and bodybuilder. Ajax's pretend yawn revealed his large sharp canines that could easily tear through flesh no problem.
The Faunus crowd gasped and began remarking on how much bigger and more terrifying he was when he stood up and looked down on them.
"Goddamn! He's like a wrestler!"
"Oh Oum, the monkey just made me wet my pants!"
"Where the hell did he come from?!"
"Look at his fangs!"
"*whistle* Now that is one seriously big monkey," Roman Torchwick was taken aback, "I wonder where he came from."
"But look at his eyes..." the White Fang said with unease in his voice, pointing to Ajax's red eyes. "I've seen chimps and gorillas. They never have eyes like that."
"Certainly reminds me of several things," Torchwick gripped onto his cane. He knew a certain blond girl would have her lilac eyes red whenever she's really pissed off, activating her Semblance. Then the only other thing with red eyes were the Grimm. Anyone or anything else born with red eyes were rare. Not to mention, they tend not to be sane individuals.
The look on Ajax's face was something else.
Roman saw that something about this ape felt off. Like way off.
He could tell that this ape was probably an intelligent brute, but the crazed look in his eyes spoke to Roman as...a calculative psychopath. The mafia boss couldn't verbally place it for certain, but his intuition was screaming that this individual is dangerous and not to be taken lightly, which only made his eyes narrower and the grip on his cane tighter.
The guards were unsure of what to do with the tension thick in the air and lightning flashing outside.
"Sir, what should we do with him, sir?!" a guard asked the White Fang lieutenant for clarification, his voice wracked with growing fear and uncertainty.
No response.
"Sir?!"
The lieutenant himself wasn't sure what to do. His mind and instincts were yelling at him to have this beast killed immediately, but his body refused to cooperate with either of them.
Nobody did anything, or were sure of what to do with the ape still standing there, looking down on them with a tight-lipped, cold expression, growling every now and then.
The seconds felt like minutes.
Then the silence was broken in the most, unexpected childish way coming from the ape as his expression turned clownish, with his mouth blowing a raspberry.
"W-W-What the?" a female deer Faunus said, disgusted.
Ajax panted, knuckle-walking on all fours again, this time twirling around doing silly dances and clowning around with his hand on top of his head. Something that he learned from watching circus shows.
"Uhhhh…" the White Fang grunts weren't sure of what to make of the ape now acting like a playful, drunken chimpanzee.
Then Ajax did some grandstanding by placing himself upside down with his feet in the air and his hands doing the "walking" while his head was facing the ground.
"That's...impressive..." said a confounded Roman. He had seen some monkeys done it before as street performers in Vacuo, even some talented chimps did it in zoos at times, but not a 9-foot tall, 450 pound ape like Ajax.
Ajax continued to perform walking around in a circle on his palms with his feet dangling upward in the air with the White Fang still speechless and cautious. He then finished his performance after his feet finally touched the ground by doing a backflip, landing on all fours perfectly that had some Faunus clapping without themselves realizing what they're doing.
The White Fang lieutenant shook his head rapidly, snapping out of his stupefied astonishment now that his mind has more or less rebooted from the absurdity.
"What are we standing around, impressed by an apeshit monkey show?! Get that animal out of here!" he said in the most ironic words that did not register with anyone, except Roman.
"Where does he go though?" One of the guards questioned.
"Could that thing wondered off from a travelling circus?"
"Ummm...zoo, maybe?"
"Maybe he's just lost from his pack."
"Grrr...I don't care where on Remnant he wandered off from, or if he had happened to hit his head while swinging on some lousy vine, or slip on a banana peel for all I care! We've wasted enough time as it is with this freak! Get him out of here! Shove him into a box if you have to! Move!" yelled the frustrated lieutenant.
The guards pulled themselves enough to force Ajax to move with the poke of their rifles. Ajax, still acting the idiot monkey, hooted and panted with his posture now exaggerated, swinging his arms wildly like a drunk. He then wandered to a nearby box that happened to have a bottle of leftover whisky neglected by a sailor from earlier.
"Is anyone sure that ape should be drinking that kind of stuff?!" One of the initiates cried out.
Then Ajax, out of his gag reflex, spit out a spray of whiskey onto grunts irritating them despite having their masks on as it got onto their clothes. Some of the spit spray went onto a few newcomers that happened to be in the way, grossing them out.
"OI!"
"My eyes burn!"
"Some of them got into my bear and human ears! The jerk!"
"My hair! My hon is going to wonder why I stunk like alcohol piss!"
The White Fang lieutenant grew more frustrated with further tomfoolery coming from the ape while Roman can't help, but grow suspicious of the situation.
"No more monkeying around, you big palooka! Get lost before we have to drag you to a zoo!" one of the angry guards got too close to the ape. Like a whiplash, the ape grabbed onto his Dust rifle very suddenly.
"Hey!" that guard now had his rifle yanked out in no time even though he himself was no weakling. Just compared to Ajax's overpowering physique and strength, he was relatively.
That got the initiates very skittish, screaming and tumbling all over each other, trying to back out from harm's way as Ajax hooted childishly. The guards tripped over themselves as they had to avoid being accidentally pummeled. He swung the gun around haphazardly with the unbounded excitement of a kid who just opened his Christmas present.
"Whoa whoa whoa whoa!" Now Roman was very anxious and more suspicious of the ape, backing away from the stage. He knew that now might be a good time to leave.
"No no no! Quick grab the rifle out of the ape's hands now!" The White Fang lieutenant yelled in feverish panic, slowly losing control of the situation.
Ajax pretended to be curious with the gun in spite of the current panic that he's causing. He looked at the trigger and began to finger it much to the Faunus' shock.
"Hands off! Hands off!" the guards yelled as the gun was pointed upwards towards the ceiling.
Then Ajax pulled the trigger and the blast went off ricochetting up and down knocking a warehouse lamp in the process. Everyone had to duck with the bullet all over the place until it stopped.
"Shit! Somebody do something about this freaking stupid ape!" a random Faunus shouted.
Then the panic meter escalated up to eleven and the situation becoming truly scary when Ajax pointed the gun's barrel at himself!
Everyone went totally nuts and bananas at that point.
"Oh my Oum! He's gonna shoot himself!"
"Damnit to hell! Out of my way!" The lieutenant, now more infuriated than panicked, jumped off the stage. He pushed through the terrified crowd to get to the ape. The guards were too scared to even do anything until one tried to yank the gun away from Ajax.
Then the situation took a much darker turn when Ajax instantly aimed from himself onto the oncoming guard, shooting him right in the face!
The guard's mouth exploded in a debris of blood and splintered flesh and bone. Thunder clamored loudly with the lightning flashing.
The newcomers screamed, scared to death. Even the lieutenant screeched to a halt when he no longer saw the idiotic and joking light in Ajax's face. It was all a charade all along. They were now replaced with cold, calculative murder and psychotic derangement in Ajax's crimson eyes with a twisted snarl to match.
"Crap!" Torchwick had enough. He rushed to the nearest exit door and tried to open it but something prevented that.
The guards aimed their guns at the towering primate, but Ajax acted faster, shooting wildly at the guards, killing a couple of them with many forcing to take cover. Some bullets struck the initiates, killing them.
"I'm outta here!"
"This was a mistake to come here!"
"How did it come to this?!"
The rest rushed towards the exit. Lightning flashed furiously when the unarmed guard grabbed on to Ajax only to get struck in the face by his own rifle, falling onto the floor with a bloody nose and a dislocated jaw. Ajax slammed the rifle onto the fallen guard's face and chest with so much force that he shattered both the rifle and the Faunus' mask and face at once.
"NOOO! Wilson!" The White Fang lieutenant was now consumed with unbridled hatred and anger upon seeing Ajax murder one of his men in cold blood.
Ajax beat his chest, slamming his fists onto the floor, and letting out a terrifying, deeper roar.
That was when the windows shattered as Urko and the fourteen apes charged through, hollering in a single, bloodthirsty war cry. The other three apes from the corner where Ajax walked out from, rushed in as well with one of the apes yanking down an entire shelf, blocking the only entrance.
The hunt had begun with the lightning tearing through the heavens.
Back at Junior's lightless club...
Junior, Militia, and Melanie walked cautiously together through the very hallway where Damon's horrified scream was last heard with their own flashlights on. When they smelled the bloody stench that led them to Damon's corpse with almost of his innards of his gut eaten in front of the VIP room, they had also found another dead henchman with his stomach also torn open.
"Oh gods..." Melanie grew disgusted, feeling stronger the urge to vomit as she was overwhelmed by the hideous odor of decay and the sight of the mauled victims.
"This is so unnatural," Militia was starting to doubt their chances for survival.
Junior clenched his fists with his face turning redder with rising hatred and loathing for the monster responsible for the carnage. He became all the more determined to hunt down the shady bastard and put an end to this nightmare that was now ruining his business. He would even do it with his own bare hands if push comes to shove.
First, though...
"You two better get back down with the others and have everyone evacuate this hellhole," Junior said glumly, shocking the Malachite Twins, who were not used to being ordered to abandon him coming from their superior himself.
"What?!" Militia couldn't believe what she was hearing from Junior.
"With all due respect, sir, this is no time to joke around," Melanie shook her head, pretending and hoping that Junior was letting his understandable frustrations and fear take over him.
But when Junior turned around to face the girls, his face said everything opposite of what she hoped it would be.
"I am not joking. You know I am not the type to jest. I want you, no, I am ordering you two and everyone else to get the hell out of here before it gets too dangerous," he said grimly with the precariousness of the haunting situation around him adding to the seriousness of his voice.
"Why, sir? Why the change all of the sudden? We've more or less fought any scum that dared to mess with us and our club together! Except for the blonde bimbo, we can kick whatever the Oum's harassing us outta here!" Melanie questioned.
"Sister...Junior, I have to agree with Melanie here, fighting whatever's in here all by yourself is unwise. You need backup," Militia said more calmly, but no less distressed.
"You thought I haven't thought about that, but look around us! Just like you said earlier, this is not natural! I may not be a textbook naturalist, but even I can clearly see that whatever beast is intruding into this club is not normal. At least not how it should behave in the wild," Junior pointed to the dead Damon on the floor, "Damon would have been eaten with nothing much left of him, no disrespect to him intended. But don't you think that by the time we arrived, we wouldn't even see his body here if this is was a normal predator or a Grimm we're dealing with?"
The sisters have not much of a clue as they were not as well-rounded as their supervisor, but it didn't meant that they not understood what he was trying to get at.
"And the dead bodies out there. As far as I am concerned, this is too much for a goddamned carnivore to do so out of survival unless we're dealing with a rogue, but even then, not that many."
"Even still! We're not going to leave you here all alone with the creature, even if you want us to!" Melanie argued defiantly.
"And what happens if we all don't survive?!"
"I'd rather go down fighting with this club than to go back onto the streets!" Melanie screamed.
"Melanie, stop!" Militia was trying to stay calm, but Melanie, in her current state, was making that difficult for her to stay composed.
"Then who would tell the police what the hell happened here?!" Junior roared back, "Half of our henchmen are already dead or injured, and depending on how screwed up tonight is, more will be on the stretcher regardless whether they survive this night or not! They won't even last a minute if the VPD or heavens forbid, that Goodwitch from Beacon decide to interrogate any of them! You, on the other hand, can keep a cooler head to give the police the details they would need to fix this."
"Are you kidding me? Going to the police?!" Melanie became flabbergasted at what Junior was saying to her.
"Roman will ditch us at the first sign of trouble, leaving you two to the Beowolves to cut his losses! With the police, at least we have some chance of getting them to understand enough to launch an investigation even if we'll end up behind bars and my business closes," Junior concluded.
Melanie wanted to argue, but she had to bite her tongue when Militia butted in saying, "I think I perfectly understand even though I don't like it."
"What?! Militia!" Melanie flung around to face Militia. "You can't be serious!"
A nerve-chilling croaking roar was next heard along with a couple of screams the next floor above them, which made them still and anxiously silent.
Silence reigned for several seconds with a flash of thunder.
Junior then yelled, "Go. Leave right now!"
"But-!" Melanie was yanked along by her twin sister as they ran out of the hall and down the stairs.
"I have a monster to exterminate." Junior wielded out his hammer club, smacking it on the palm of his hand, walking out of the hallway and onto the stairways upward to the next floor.
Present day in Jurassic Kingdom, Isla Nublar...
Alan stood outside a large holding paddock generally shaped like a hexagon about the size of a small football stadium. It had two aerial walkways that intersect each other over an exhibit that had some trees at the edges with one side that was an entrance to an area that was heavily forested while the middle was plain for the handlers to see. He looked up to examine the electric fences on top of steel walls that were about 13 feet tall.
"Dr. Grant!" Hammond called as he and the others, except for Teams ARBN, BRNZ, and NDGO, Oobleck, and Dino & Archie with those two birds put back into their respective enclosures, walked up to the paddock, "As I was saying, we laid on lunch for you before you set out into the park. Our gourmet chef, Alejandro-"
"What are they doing?" Grant asked as a trailer truck carried a large horse into the jungle where the forested part of the paddock was obscured. The horse was heard neighing from the trailer.
"Oh, feeding them." As the trailer truck disappeared into the jungle, Hammond tried to make Grant come along, saying, "Alejandro's prepared a delightful menu for us. Vacuoan sea bass, I believe. Shall we?"
Grant ignored him, heading to the staircase.
Ruby, however, scuffled her feet quite anxiously, a contrast from her earlier excitement. She was going to see a live feeding of Jurassic Kingdom's smartest and deadliest dinosaurs. The thought of it made her blood freeze as it brought back the trauma she had suffered at the teeth and claws of the Dilophosaurus up to the surface. She still had occasional nightmares about that night and the live feeding might trigger her PTSD, which would cause her to feel phantom pain of her neck and hyperventilate.
John Hammond was the first to notice the signs.
"What's wrong, child?" he said with sincere grandfatherly concern, which made her team uncomfortable being put on the spot unintentionally on his part. Taiyang, however, saved them by speaking on their behalf.
"My daughter had a horrific encounter with a pack of Grimm that had ambushed her within the campus. She almost didn't make it." Taiyang spoke a white lie as to be careful of not mentioning about the Dilophosaurus, "Stuff like what's about to happen in there could cause her to recall it all over again."
"I see. I am sorry to hear what had happened to Ruby." John frowned with a gentle understanding in his eyes as he nodded. "She doesn't have to go to the paddock if she's not ready."
"No. I can still come. I need to see these things for myself," Ruby said putting on a brave face to mask her fear.
"Rubes, are you sure about that? We can turn around and not go there," Yang said.
"I want to get over it. As long as I have you guys around, I should handle it just fine." Ruby said, still insistent on seeing the animals inside the paddock in spite of the subtle shivering of her hands. She didn't want to hold up her peers' opportunity of seeing the dinosaurs in the paddock, at least in her mind.
"Ruby...," Blake muttered with her bow drooping.
Zwei nuzzled up Ruby's leg sensing her distress.
"It will be fine, Ms. Rose," Ozpin intervened, "Besides, one of the aspects of being a Huntsman is learning to confront your fears, not cower from them. Besides, we may not see these creatures again after this."
Ruby slowly nodded, "Thank you, sir."
Ozpin nodded back before he said, "I better go catch up with Hammond and the others. I will see you all up there." After that, he left.
"What are we waiting for? Let's go before we miss them!" Gray ran excitedly up the stairs.
"Hey wait up, Gray!" Zach ran after him.
"Can you please hold my hand, Dad?" Ruby asked her father.
"Yeah, sure." Taiyang smiled softly as he held delicately, yet firmly Ruby's hand.
"If you're going through this, then we're going to do it together," Yang clasped onto her little sister's shoulder, reassuring her.
"Thanks, sis." Ruby said, feeling a little better.
Blake nodded, while Weiss sighed.
"I still think this is a bad idea for us to witness a mauling since she's not 100% yet." Weiss commented.
"Yeah, but none of us are 100% either in that regard, Ice Queen." Jaune butted in.
"Will you stop calling me that?" Weiss was a bit perturbed at the nickname, before she calmed a little, "Anyways, this paddock should be enough to keep the raptors from getting the wrong idea."
"I think it will. I don't see how they could overcome the walls with the electric fences on top without electrocuting themselves." Pyrrha stated confidently.
"Let's hope so. The last thing I want is for any of us to be on the wrong end of those claws," Jaune said worriedly as the Hunters-in-training started walking up the stairs.
"You worry too much, kid." Coco stated as she adjusted her shades. "These walls look sturdy to stop even a King Taijitu from busting through."
"Exactly! Heck, I think even the full blast of my blunderbuss or Yang's Semblance will be hard pressed to dent them, judging by their construction," Port inferred from seeing similar walls built like the paddock, mainly to keep Grimm out.
"I hope that doesn't come to jinx us," Velvet said.
"Ah, come on, girl! What's a few scratches going to walls like these?" Sun cockily said.
The horse, which was genetically modified to be bigger than an SUV, was moved into the heavily forested part of the paddock as the group clambered up the staircase and onto the viewing walkways that were a good 25 feet above the ground. The equine beast snorted as it took in its new, alien surroundings. His ears picked up unusual, crunching footsteps coming from the dense cluster of ferns behind him. Then there were the growling snorts, which made the horse angsty.
Then a long silence.
"I don't see anything," Gray whispered.
"Sssshh," Qrow shushed the boy.
Grant waited. Several seconds have passed. Flies buzzed in the air. The group were still seeing nothing.
Ellie tapped him on the shoulder, and pointed.
Amidst the ferns and bamboo, Grant saw the head of the animal. It was motionless, partially hidden in the fronds, the two large dark eyes watching the horse coldly.
The head was about two feet long. From a pointed snout, a long row of sharp teeth ran back to the head of the auditory meatus, which served as an ear. The head reminded him of a large lizard, or that of a hawk. The cat-like eyes of the animal didn't blink, only slit further like a viper's as the animal remained motionless. It had feathery plumage reminiscent of the Harris Hawk with dark brown feathers and subdued orange-brown markings. The primary feathers on its arms were reddish brown up until the secondary feathers that were black. The animal had a feathery crest on its head that was slicked down to be streamlined. Alan even caught glimpse of the beast's tail feathers that were like orange with black stripes on them. The coloration of the adult Dakotaraptor greatly differed from that of the infant. The adult looked like a Harris Hawk crossed with that of a tiger.
As Grant watched, the animal slowly parted away the ferns with its single forelimb. The limb was strongly muscled behind the feathers and it had three grasping fingers, each ending in hooked, curved claws.
Grant and Qrow felt a creeping chill upon their spines as they both realized, Good heavens, it's stalking the horse.
For mammals like man and Faunus, there was something indescribably alien about the way these reptiles hunted their prey. No wonder men despised them next to the Grimm. The stillness, the coldness, the pace was all wrong. With the recent discoveries that dinosaurs all possessed feathers and specifically, maniraptoran species possessed more complex feathers than their distant relatives, it only made the theropods as a whole more eerie and alien than before. To be among alligators, large reptiles, and birds of prey was to be reminded of a different kind of life, a lost world, where mammals were at the bottom of the food chain.
Then the attack came suddenly from the left and right. Charging raptors covered ten yards to the center of the forest with shocking speed. The horse was now neighing and whining in pain and shock as both raptors slashed at his sides. The horse bolted out from the jungle death trap and out into the more open area as fast as its legs could carry. However, the raptors were even quicker as about 15 of them burst out not only from the jungle, but also from other edges of the paddock where they had been camouflaged the entire time thanks to their plumage pattern, breaking up the visibility of their body outline. Qrow had blurred impressions of their powerful, six-foot tall bodies, stiff balancing, feathery tails, lean limbs with curving talons, and open jaws of knife-like teeth.
The animals let out eagle-like shrieks as they leapt bodily into the air, raising their hind limbs with their big dagger-like claws. They struck the defenseless, trapped horse with it now being tackled to the ground and punctured by the Dakotaraptor's retractable toe claws. The horse let out a pained, panicked whining scream as the raptors tore apart his belly, ripped into his neck, and while one would bite the horse's head, shaking it with the teeth serrating deeper into the flesh and eyeballs. Another raptor would stand on top of the horse's shoulder, hovered its snout over the horse's ear and taunt it by mimicking the sound of the horse's own distress cry.
Ian was physically shaken at what he was witnessing, holding a hand over his chest to steady his breathing with his other clutching onto the railing tightly to keep himself somewhat upright. Ruby looked away from the savagery below as she began to hyperventilate with her neck throbbing from the phantom pain. Memories of being mauled by the Dilophosaurs flashed before her eyes. She clutched her head and shut tight her silver eyes, whimpering and losing her breath.
"Ruby!" Yang's lilac eyes widened fearfully upon seeing her younger sister start to break down. She quickly hugged her and next their father quickly enveloped both of his daughters, shielding Ruby away from the bloody mauling. Zwei whined, with his ears pushed down by his paws as he tried to block out the dreadful noises.
Weiss was stunned into speechless silence at the predatory horror of the raptors. She covered her mouth.
Blake had to avert her head away as it reminded her too much of the White Fang committing tortuous atrocities.
Nora covered her mouth with her head sweating, her pupils shrinking, and her body shivering when she saw blood being spilled by the raptors tearing the horse apart while the beast was now barely alive, slowly losing to death. Ren was horrified and he rushed to her side, hugging her.
"Nora! It's okay! It's me, Nora!" Li Ren tried to calm her down, and it was working as she felt him. His presence, knowing that he was with her, cooled her down. She started shivering less.
"Oh my god," Jaune muttered with dread.
Pyrrha balled her hands into fists.
Ellie had a disgusted grimace on her face. Zach got in front of Gray protectively. Velvet pulled her bunny ears in front of her eyes, whimpering from the horrific sounds of the slaughter, especially the raptor cruelly mimicking the horse's painful screaming in a mocking manner. Yatsuhashi clenched the railing so tight that he nearly crushed it with his knuckles white in the face of such an evil sight. Fox's jaw was clenched while Coco pushed her hat down. Alan had a look of stunned fascination.
Sun grimaced as he had seen innocents mauled by packs of Grimm before on his own. They were already terrible, but this was something else. He already felt sick seeing how some of the raptors seemed psychotic in taking pleasure in torturing their victim while they ate the horse alive. Neptune had all color drained from his face with his jaw dropping onto the floor. Scarlet and Sage looked nervously to each other wondering what the heck had everyone walked themselves into.
Qrow had a look that screamed bloody murder at a particular raptor that was bigger than the rest of them.
There she is, the one that killed that Geoffrey guy. Qrow thought darkly. I doubt Jimmy is gonna like this at all.
Ozpin, yes, while disgusted at the carnage, had his curiosity piqued at three individual raptors. The three that stood out from the others due to their unique coloration of their plumages. The first of the trio that seemed to be the leader of this band of colorful misfits was a raptor with blue-grayish plumage of feathers, a white stripe with metallic blue in the middle going horizontally from the eye orbit. One side has blue around her eye, the other side's stripe stop at her head in the form of her vertical headcrest, down to her tail and tail feathers. Her wing arm feathers were black and striped blue.
The second raptor to the bluish raptor was brownish plumage with darker blue stripes that were more akin to her other kin having resemblance to tiger stripes. The dark cobalt stripes covered around her eyes completely compared to Blue's stripes that only partially covered her eye. This raptor also had a scar on the left side of her muzzle.
The third one has green olive feathers with black stripes. It was also smaller than the other two of the trio as well as being more timid and cautious. The other two were more assertive and overprotective, judging how they were zealously shielding her from the other twelve members of the pack and also eyeing them warily.
When the horse has finally succumbed to the fatal wounds, the horror show wasn't even over as the Dakotaraptors began to squabble amongst one another with the biggest Dakotaraptor, being the alpha female of the pack, being the instigator as she began to attack any raptor that got to close to her prized possession. A mess of soft intestines.
She bit one by the scruff of her neck, forcing that raptor to back off with an angry squawk and her patch of feathers being ruined, her Aura glowing as she began to recuperate. Another tried to sneak up from behind to grab an intestine, but the Big One wouldn't have any stealing from her prize as she snapped her jaws onto the intruder's head and slashed her shoulder in the process!
"Oi Oi! What in Oum's name is the alpha doing?! Is she trying to kill her own?!" Qrow couldn't understand what was happening down below in the paddock.
The raptor caught in the Big One's tyrannical bite screeched and crowed painfully before she was thrown back against other members of the pack. The Big One fanned out her forewing feathers and tail feathers with her dark crest extended in an intimidating display of aggression and dominance as she let out a series of crowing sounds and barks. Her own Aura flared out in a dark violet light. While most of the raptors reluctantly backed down, some remained defiant, standing their ground with their own feathery displays and snarls, particularly the two raptors of the colorful trio.
The Big One hissed back maliciously at the three and the blue one roared defensively with her Aura being azure. Figuratively lightning flashed between their slit eyes and their auras clashed violently with each other.
"Look!" Blake pointed to the confrontation between the two raptors as their Auras pushed back and forth against each other.
"No way! Is this even possible?" Taiyang couldn't believe it with his own eyes what he was seeing. Prehistoric creatures, never proven to have the ability to use Aura, were seen doing it for the first time in eons since their recreation.
"It's not even a possibility anymore. It's now the truth." Malcolm gulped hard, knowing this was one of the reasons why he theorized the Chaos Theory will run rampant on this island.
Jurassic Park Trivia: In the canonical first Jurassic Park film, director Steven Spielberg wanted the Velociraptors to be ten feet tall, which was way taller than what the actual animal really was. However, during filming in 1991, paleontologists uncovered specimens of giant raptors called Utahraptor, which were closer to Steven Spielberg's raptors. Many years later, in 2015, Dakotaraptor would be uncovered and it was about the same size as Utahraptor and Jurassic Park's "Velociraptors". It also happened to live in the same period and place as T. Rex in what was formerly known as Hell Creek in Cretaceous South Dakota, making a confrontation between raptors and Tyrannosaurus all the more plausible.
RWBY Trivia: 1) Blake Belladonna's name was the hardest to create. Monty Oum originally wanted Belladonna to be her first name, but that was changed because it didn't feel sharp enough for her character.
2) In the first tweet Monty ever made about RWBY, he asked if anyone knew of a word for something that is black that starts with a W. This means that Blake's first name may have almost started with a W.
3) For Blake's fighting style, Monty reused an idea for a girl who dual wields swords and makes clones of herself from an old project that was never finished.
Other trivia: The Jurassic Park franchise had two totally different versions of Carnotaurus. The first one was from Michael Crichton's novel sequel to his highly popular Jurassic Park novel, The Lost World, which were more like carnivorous bipedal chameleons that were active only at night. The second version was the more accurate, still genetically modified Carnotaurus as seen in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom where its major first appearance was attacking a Sinoceratops before trying to make mincemeat of Owen Grady only to be killed off by Rexy. At least two more of the Carnotaurus were captured by Eli Mills and brought to Lockwood Manor before they were set free by Maisie Lockwood.
The original script for Jurassic Park III called for a Carnotaurus to approach Alan Grant, Paul Kirby and Amanda Kirby on the river bank when searching through the Spinosaurus dung. However, for unknown reasons, the dinosaur was replaced by the Ceratosaurus.