Chapter 5: The Aviary
Owen, Amy, and Gray walked down the road through the green vegetation as they tried to investigate the park. They had not seen or heard anything strange as of yet. They wondered if the Doctor and Claire figured out who was running this place and if Rory and Zach had found anything in the area of the park they were investigating. Owen was carrying a small gun. He made sure that he brought it with them. He didn't know what to expect on another planet in the future with dinosaurs. He actually found the green sky to be pretty cool. So did Gray. Amy had been to so many other planets that she was used to the new sensations. However, she still had to admit that this was pretty exciting.
"Do you do this every day?" Gray asked Amy.
"Hunt dinosaurs?" Amy asked.
"Go to different planets." Gray asked.
"Not always and not anymore." Amy replied.
"What do you mean?" Gray asked.
"The TARDIS is a time machine. The Doctor doesn't always take us to another planet. Sometimes just a trip in the past or the future. Rory and I used to travel with the Doctor full time. Now we live in our home and do trips like this every so often." Amy said.
"Why would you ever give this up?" Gray asked.
"There's more to life than places to go." Amy said.
Eventually they came in front of a very large glass dome. Owen recognized this structure because there was an identical one back at the original Jurassic World.
"This looks like an aviary." Owen said. "If there's anything on this planet that flies, it's likely in there."
"Let's go see." Amy said.
"No." Owen said. "Part of that terrible day at Jurassic World was when the Indominus broke through the aviary and all sorts of terrifying flying dinosaurs and hybrids attacked people from above. We have no idea what kind of creatures are in there."
"Don't be so scared of everything." Amy said. "The only way you survive traveling with the Doctor is if you get a little adventurous."
Amy then pushed the door open and walked inside the dark aviary.
"Stay behind me." Owen said to Gray before the two of them followed her inside.
The aviary looked exactly like the forest outside. However, it was clear by looking up at the sky that they were concealed inside a glass dome. They didn't see anything flying in the air and they didn't hear anything moving in the trees or bushes.
"What's the point in building all this if they aren't going to fill it?" Amy asked.
"Maybe they don't want to fill it." Owen said. "What if this is a big cage for one big creature instead of a hundred smaller ones?"
"Then we would still hear something." Amy replied.
Suddenly, a loud screech filled the entire room. There was definitely something in the aviary.
"We should go. Now." Owen said.
"Don't you at least want to see what's making that noise?" Amy asked.
"No." Owen said. "Odds are its a predator and it knows we're here. It will be hunting us. We need to go."
"Fine." Amy said. I suppose you're right."
Suddenly, they saw the creature that was making the shrieking as it flew over them and hovered near the top of the dome. It looked like something that was part human, part spider, and part pterodactyl. The original alien was called a Racnoss. They were large red creatures with a humanoid upper body, but had the back and legs of an arachnid. In their experimenting with hybrids, the Silence morphed this creature with a pterodactyl so that instead of arms, the Racnoss now had large pterodactyl wings.
"What is that thing?" Gray asked.
"I don't know." Amy replied. "I've never seen anything like that before."
The flying Racnoss looked down at the three humans and saw them as its prey. It then started to dive down and go in for the kill.
"Run!" Owen shouted.
Amy, Owen, and Gray then ran as fast as they could back to the entrance. All three of them have had the experience of being hunted by dinosaurs before and were not particularly fond of it now. The trees provided them with some cover so that the Racnoss couldn't see them from above, but it could smell them and would not lose track of them for long. Amy, Owen, and Gray soon ran through the door to the aviary and were back on the main road. They then started running back towards the TARDIS, where they knew it would be safe. However, they forgot to shut the door to the aviary and the Racnoss was able to escape.