Three Months Later

Chapter 3: New Siblings

Three Months Later
Jake drove down to the hatchery as fast as he could… without speeding of course. He was in a hurry to get to the hatchery. His bluetooth was on and Simon was on the phone on other line. "Mr. Masrani, how much longer do I have," he asked.

Simon, who was already at the hatchery, answered, "About fifteen minutes. You'd better hurry Jake." Simon turned his attention to the large, white, speckled eggs in the incubator. They were in a room separate from the rest of the eggs. The eggs shook violently as cracks began to appear across their surfaces. "I hope you get here soon Jake. Anything can happen with genetically modified hybrids, and you're our only large dinosaur trainer."

As Jake parked his truck (he had been given a white truck with the Jurassic world logo on the doors for the spinosaurus's) in the VIP section of the hatchery's parking lot Simon Masrani himself ran up to the car. "Jake, what took you so long," he asked with an irritated voice. "You were supposed to be here five minutes ago!" The first response he got was a warning growl from the two juvenile dinosaurs in the back of the truck. Simon didn't seem to take notice of the growls whatsoever.

Jake winced at the tone in his boss's voice. "Sorry Mr. Masrani. Grimlock and Amelia wouldn't go to sleep last night and kept me awake. Then I had to wake them up this morning and get them some breakfast. They're still like bottomless pits, even at this age," he answered.

Simon new well enough from the reports Jake and Owen gave him how ravenous hatchlings can be. He simply nodded and straightened out his face. "Alright, fair enough. Are the hatchlings here," he asked, this time with a calmer tone.

Jake nodded, stepped out of the pickup truck and motioned for the two spinos to come out. The two spinos hopped to the ground with much more grace than the last time Simon had seen them, though they still preferred to walk on all fours.

Jake smiled at them. "You can't really call them hatchlings anymore," he commented. They playfully nipped at each other before looking at him with interest, then looking at their father.

"Have they hatched yet," Jake asked Simon.

Simon shook his head. "No, they haven't, but you don't have much time. You have about five minutes, so we have to hurry." Jake nodded and called for the spinos to follow him, but Masrani gave them a disapproving look. "Are you sure it's a good idea to let them come in," he asked Jake.

Jake looked slightly offended. "Don't worry, nothing's going to happen," he assured. "Besides, I want them to see the birth of their new sister." Simon nodded with approval, but he still kept an eye on the young spinos. Jake understood why; anything could happen when you bring a pair of meter-long dinosaurs, especially carnivores, into a laboratory with tons of fragile specimens.

"Are you sure you can control them," Simon asked as he looked Jake dead in the eye.

"It's not about control. It's a mutual relationship, based on respect," Jake answered. "And as for your question, yes, I I'm sure I can keep them in check."
Simon face-palmed. "You're starting to sound like Owen," he sighed, making Jake chuckle. "Well, we'd best get going. Come on." He looked down at the two spinos watching them intently. "Just make sure the little rascals stay out of trouble." Jake nodded and the four walked off toward the hatchery.

Dino POV
Grimlock and Amelia padded after the two men as they walked inside of the large, white building in front of them. The windows shown a brilliant blue in the midday sunlight. As they stepped inside every person they passed by looked at them in confusion.

"Hey Grimlock, what's going on," Amelia asked. She and her brother already knew that usually when the man that seemed in charge of their dad showed up something important happened.

"I don't know," Grimlock answered, "but do you think it has something why he was in a hurry today?" Amelia thought about it for a moment before slowly nodding her head.

Grimlock turned his head to a woman and growled at her when she walked up to greet their dad, drawing the attention of everyone in the lobby. The woman backed away as Amelia added a snarl of her own when dad held out a hand to silence him.

Grimlock and Amelia had become well known for being very protective of their father. They figured out quickly that he didn't do so well in large crowds, especially around people he didn't know. So, they try to help him as best to help him as best they can. . . by scaring off everyone they don't know well.

The four stepped into an elevator and the spino twins curled up around their father. It was a tight squeeze but they all managed to fit. When the elevator door opened they all stepped out and into the room where the origins of every prehistoric inhabitant of the park lay. . . the incubation room.

The spino hatchlings stared in awe at the at everything they came across, not having seen this place in months. It brought a feeling of déjà vu to them as they watched a gallimimus break out of its egg. Several times Jake had to tell them to hurry up when they stopped and gawked at a something that stood to them. The man walking with their dad said something to him and they both laughed. Grimlock and Amelia were too busy taking in the sights around them they didn't even bother to growl at anyone.

That was when they heard someone yelling at someone else nearby. They turned their heads to the source and their eyes narrowed when they saw a redheaded woman yelling in their dad's face. "What's she doing here," Amelia growled as she curled her toes, making her claws scrape the tile floor.

"I don't know, but no-one yells at our dad," Grimlock hissed. He slowly stalked up to Claire with Amelia following right behind him.

Human POV

Jake was now wishing he had skipped breakfast. No-one wanted to get yelled at by Claire, and that was what was currently happening as he tried repeatedly to apologize.

"What happens when they hatch and there's nobody here for them to imprint on? It'll be your fault if something goes wrong," Claire scolded.

Jake visibly flinched back from her. "Look, I'm sorry that I'm late, but I made it didn't I? That's what matters right now," he said, trying to calm Claire down before things got out of hand.

"Don't try that crap with me," Claire snapped. "You need to be more punctual, so next time use your time more efficiently, got it?" Her yelling was getting the attention of the rest of the nearby scientists.

Now that there was a crowd gathering around them Jake began sweating bullets and panting heavily. "C-Claire, I get it, I promise that I'll be more responsible, now can you please quiet down," he almost begged. Then he noticed Grimlock and Amelia staking up behind her.

"Claire behind you," he warned, but Claire didn't buy it for one second.

"Oh, you think I'm stupid now? Is that it," she retorted. Jake was about to warn her again, but the deep growl behind her was more than enough.

Claire whipped around and looked down to see two extremely p****d off Spinosaurus hatchlings. Grimlock growled at her and slowly advanced toward her while Amelia hissed and circled around to Claire's right, pushing her toward the corner of the hallway.

Claire was shivering in fear and sweating heavily now. She looked like she was going to start crying at any second. "N-nice dinosaurs. Nice dinosaurs. Calm down now," she said. This only prompted Grimlock to snap at her. "Jake, do something now," she shrieked in fear. She was now backed into a corner by the two juvenile spinosaurs.

Jake finally decided to step in. He swallowed his fear, knowing he couldn't appear scared in front of these two. "Okay, that's enough you two, cut it out," he ordered. Amelia immediately responded, backing away from Claire and pacing toward Jake. Grimlock, on the other hand, decided to be hard-headed and ignore him. Balancing with his tail he reared back on his hind limbs and stood on his back legs, standing at one-and-a-half meters tall. He let out a furious roar, making Claire shrink back in terror.

"Grimlock, that's enough!" Grimkock's roar was cut short as Jake yelled at him. Grimlock turned away from Claire with a snort and returned to Jake. Jake began scolding Grimlock, but Grimlock growled at him. Jake gave Grimlock a stern glare, which was returned right back. The stare-down continued until Amelia hissed at Grimlock. Grimlock hissed back at Amelia, prompting Amelia to whack him on the head and send him face-planting on the ground. Grimlock looked like he was going to lose it at any moment. Until Amelia gave him a look that almost made him p**s himself.

Claire let out shallow breaths as she tried to recover from the frightening experience. As soon as she caught her breath she screamed, "What the hell Jake?! Why did they attack me?!"

"Well I'm sorry, they were being protective," Jake answered truthfully. Claire was still looking ready to kill him.

Simon, having stood by and watched these events unfold, came up to Jake and whispered in his ear, "I think it's best to leave her alone for now." Jake nodded in agreement. With that Simon said, "Well, what do you say we get back to what we came here for before the eggs hatch?"

Jake nodded and said, "Yes, let's hurry up. I don't think we have much time left. Amelia, Grimlock, let's go," and he motioned for the spinos to follow. The group of four walked onward, leaving a fuming Claire behind them.

"So, what did you call them again," Jake asked Simon. They had just reached the room with the new dinosaurs that Jake would be raising. Two whitish grey eggs with grey speckles sat in a straw nest on a stand with a lamp heating them, similar to the one Grimock and Amelia's eggs were on. The eggs wer about the same size as the Spinosaurus eggs as well.

"They're called the indominus rexes. They're our first genetically modified hybrids," Simon answered. He motioned for Jake to step into the room. Jake did just that and motioned for Grimlock and Amelia to follow him inside as well. Simon was about to tell Jake to leave them outside, but he trusted Jake's judgement for now.

Jake was aware of the number of eyes staring at him, but he knew why they were watching him. They needed to see how their new hybrids would act. So, Jake swallowed his fear once again and watched the eggs as they jerked around in their nest. The fact that he was in a room without other people did help.

Two minutes later, after watching the eggs sitting in the nest rattle nonstop, and many cracks forming across their surfaces, a small piece of shell on the left egg fell away to reveal a white face with red eyes. The eye blinked fiercely before closing and whatever was inside the egg began thrashing again. More cracks began forming on the egg and before long the egg shattered and the newborn indominus tumbled into its nest. It squeaked as it did so before laying down, exhausted from its struggle to break free of its shell.

However, the second hatchling was having trouble breaking free of its shell. It struggled to breaking out, but no matter what it did it just couldn't break free. It's thrashing had calmed down a bit as well; it would shake fiercely for a few seconds before stopping, then shake again only to stop even sooner than before.

Jake's concern was growing each time the hatchling would stop moving. "Something's wrong with this one," he said aloud. Simon opened the door to the room and walked inside. "It's not hatching," Jake explained.

Simon sighed heavily. "It's not the first time a dinosaur was too weak to hatch. Maybe you could do something about it? If not, it'll die," he said.

Jake answered immediately. "I'll help it out of its egg," he offered. Simon raised an eyebrow. "I've helped different types of birds hatch before. I'm sure I can help a dinosaur out of its egg too." Simon nodded in approval and stepped back to give Jake some space. Jake looked down at the egg and searched for the spot on the egg that had the most cracks on it. He found a spot that had a web of cracks spread across it and pushed lightly on it. That spot on the egg caved in gave Jake a peek at the indominus inside.

Dino POV

The dinosaur couldn't go on any more. No matter how hard it tried it just couldn't break the shell around it. It was exhausted and every movement tired it out even more.

Suddenly, a force pushed in a small section of the egg, right by its head. The small dinosaur blinked at the sudden light before its pupils shrunk and it stared up at the creature looming above it. The dinosaur suddenly lunged at the hole the creature created and forced its way through the hole, finally getting a chance at freedom. But it wasn't enough. The dino was just too tired to go all the way through. It got stuck halfway through the hole before tiring itself out again.

But the creature then stuck its finger in the shell and pulled a chunk of it away from the small dinosaur. It did this two more times before pulling the newborn out of the egg. It squirmed in his hands squealed before being set down in the nest. The newborn indominus, exhausted from the ordeal, passed out in the nest immediately.

Human POV

"Is it going to live," Simon asked Jake as he stared at the newborn indominus. It looked half dead from the way it was sprawled out in the nest with its tongue hanging out. The two creatures looked like white t-rexes with grey speckles, elongated necks, thinner jaws, spines running along there backs and long arms with four fingers each.

"Don't worry, it'll live," Jake assured with a relieved smile. Grimlock and Amelia were on two legs and looking at the newborn dinosaurs in the nest. Grimlock cocked his head from side to side as he studied them while Amelia purred at them, prompting the second born indominus to purr back in its sleep.

"I should tell you that one of them is male, the second one to be exact," Simon informed.

"You here that? You've got a brother and a sister," Jake said to his spinos. Jake pulled out his bag of meat strips and when Grimlock and Amelia smelled it they turned around to Jake and sat down like dogs, looking up at him almost pleadingly. "It's not for you," Jake said and reached over them, dropping two pieces of meat in the nest. The spinos whined but quickly got over them and went back to watching the indominus hatchlings.

The female, already standing on all fours, instantly pounced on the meat and tore into it. When the male, smelling the food, tried to crawl over and get some the female snapped at it and hogged the meat. Jake frowned and put some over on the male's side opposite to the female, the female walked over and pulled it away from her brother and snapped at him again. The male bit into a piece and tried to pull it away, but then his sister did something unexpected and shocking to everyone watching.

The female growled viciously at her brother and pounced on him, biting deep into his neck. The onlookers gasped in horror as she bit down hard and thrashed her head around with her brother in her jaws, almost looking like she was trying to break his neck. She placed one clawed hand his face and the other on his shoulders, her claws leaving deep and bloody scratches as she raked them across his snout and back.

"Jake, do something," Simon shouted. Jake grabbed the female indominus by the back of her neck and tried to pull her away from her brother, but she was much stronger than Jake anticipated. She twisted in his hand and bit into his fingers. Jake yelped and dropped her, coming away with a bloody hand as she slashed at him with her claws, tearing at a chunk of his palm with her teeth on the way down.

When she landed in the nest Grimlock got involved. He growled at the infant indominus, who snarled in return. But Grimlock managed to shut her up when he roared right in her face and finished it with a snap of his jaws, bearing his teeth for her to see.

Amelia, on the other hand, was more worried about the male indominus. She purred at him and when he whimpered back she licked at his neck. Her tongue gently ran over his wounds and when his neck was clean she moved to his back and then his face, the male still whimpering all the while. When Amelia was done she nudged the indominus and purred. The female saw her brother getting attention and tried to go at him again, but she was stopped by Grimlock who growled viciously at her, keeping her where she was.

"Jake, are you alright," Simon asked. "your hand looks pretty bad. You should get to the infirmary."

Jake looked at his bloody right hand. "Don't worry, it's not anything too bad. But I agree, I should get to the infirmary," he replied.

Simon looked back at the indominus rexes. "I can't believe she tried to kill her own brother," he said. "Grimlock and Amelia might have their fights, but if their first meeting with Owen's raptors was any indication they still care about beach other."

Jake could only shake his head. "I don't know what these two are mixed with, but some creature can have some serious sibling rivalry at a young age. Anyway, I think we should also get Apatite to the infirmary too," he said.

The last part caught Simon off guard. "Apatite," he asked with a confused look.

"His name. I decided to name the male Apatite and the female Sapphire," Jake answered as he picked up Apatite. The young indominus curled up in his warm hands and Jake smiled.

"Sapphire. Quite the name for someone who tried to kill her younger brother," Simon criticized while glaring at the female indominus. The small dinosaur hissed at him, only for Grimlock the hiss at her.

"I'm not going to judge her just yet. There still be a chance we can get her to be nicer if she is raised right," Jake suggested.

Simon frowned and gave Jake a look that made him nervous. "Sorry Jake, but I've already got a plan for something different," Simon said.

"What plan." Jake asked.

Simon sighed. "We were going to raise them in isolation if they were too aggressive toward others. What we just witnessed was a clear example of what we consider too aggressive," he explained.

Jake gasped in surprise. "What do you mean? If you raise her in isolation she could just become even more aggressive…" Jake protested, but Simon raised a hand and cut him off.

"I don't want to risk one of them dying while your back is turned," Simon explained. Jake was about to argue again but stopped when Simon gave him a look that shut him up. "I know you're fond of these two already despite what Sapphire did, but you just make sure that Apatite doesn't turn out like his sister, do you understand?"

Jake closed his mouth and nodded his head. While he did so he thought to himself, "Don't worry Apatite. I'll make sure you don't attack anyone like that. I'll treat you like my own son."