DISCLAIMER
Do not own Jurassic Park, nor any of its plots, characters, and islands. I only own Rose Laxzi, Lizzy Laxzi, Johnson Potter, Percy Lonerstone, Emily (Mily) Mari, and Kyle Tucker. Zain Terdan actually belongs to Zain Takura - Saiyan Historian on here of fanfiction. Rated T+ (16+) for violence and mild language!
Chapter Three
Hours dragged to days for the crew and woman adopted by man-eating lizards. Billy and them had found the crashsite on the third day, as well as three partly-eaten bodies. Kyle had then disappeared for about an hour, looking rather sick.
"That's only three, the others are alive somewhere," Johnson said, though doubt was laced in his words.
After a small break, they continued on, looking for the survivors that managed to avoid the man-eating dinos. It is really too bad that they won't find very many alive...
And the next day is where the adventure continues on for everyone.
"What're these footprints from?" Lizzy asks Billy, being that they abandoned their vehicles for now, searching on foot.
"...Raptors," he said after studying them closely.
"Ack!" Kyle's face pales. "Then we shouldn't stay here!"
"Dun wet yer pants yet, wuss," growls Johnson. "We got the equipment, we could take 'em all out."
"You're really underestimating the velociraptors," Zain states, scrowling at him. "Haven't you read the reports Mr. Kirby's company gave us at all?"
"Hmph, no... I dun need ta read some stupid papers. It's a waste of time."
Mily snorts. "Says you."
"Uh, guys," Kyle starts as he stares in a direction. "...what kind of dinos are they?"
"What dinos??" Roger grumbles as he looks in the direction Kyle is.
"Those," Mily said as she points, surprised - a herd of ankylosaurus walks past their area, their large and bony tail club dragging on the ground or waving around in the air.The spikes along the sides makes it hard for predators to attack them from the sides, and the tail makes it nary close to impossible to attack from behind. They have broad, thick skulls, but the necks are, unfortanatly, the weak points.
"They won't hurt us. The only thing they eat is plants," Billy said dryly. "Jus' don't provoke them into attacking; they can be just as dangerous as a few velociprators or a tyrannosaurus rex."
"That's affirmative enough," Lizzy said with little humor.
Roger gives a sigh.
"I really doubt many of the passengers survived the first day, you know...?"
"Not all," Lizzy hisses, glaring him down. His raises his hands in mock surrenderment. With a huff, she continues forward after the ankylosaurus herd went by.
"Good job," Percy grumbles as he follows suit.
"Wha' I do?? I only point out!"
"Exactly..."
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'How are we taking down this thing??' Rose thought as she crouches with her pack. In front of her is a lone triceratops, the biggest that she has ever seen, even in movies. His two top horns curves up a little, then straight forward, a dangerous length of six feet long. 'The height is approximately nine feet, and twenty-eight feel long,' she guesses. 'I might as well say my prayers... There really is no way I can help with this hunt!'
She gets nugded from behind, the leader raptor chirping and growling lowly some sort of orders.
Dispite the fact that she can't understand what the raptor's saying, she gets the idea that she's to go first.
"Ack... What am I to do then??" she said, but obediently goes forward, starting to shake a bit. 'I am going to be impaled and gorged... But if I had refused, I would be eaten... Which way would have been a better way to go?' she muses gloomly.
Quietly moving as much as she can, she slowly approaches the monsterous dinosaur. It doesn't see or hear her, making her start to feel pleased with herself. She has been adapting to hunt and kill, frightenly enough, though she still feels guilty afterwards. She'll always then remind herself that she has to kill in order to survive. She've only been on four hunts so far, and that's with the pack. This will be her fifth time to hunt with them.
'But never with something this big and dangerous...'
She glances back at her pack, finding that they already started to move around, to strike when it's right to do so. Rose then realizes that she's the decoy this time.
'I guess that makes sense. Too bad that does not really make me feel better about this...'
A stick snaps beneath her right foot, making her and the triceratops freeze. The prey-turned-predator snaps his head towards her, barely missing her face with his horns, making her jump backwards.
"...shit..." As the triceratops trumpets in challenge, she turns around and run for it, a few seconds afterwards the sounds of stampeding feet follows. Rose pushes through the bushes, her arms getting cut up bad, but that doesn't slow her down a bit as she leaps over a tree trunk. A loud SNAP sounds behind her, somehow making her speed up even more.
'A quick turn ought to trip him up a bit!' she thought desperately as she barely manage to make a quick cut to the left, then go right by the giant beast. Looking behind her, the dino tries in vain to do as she did, but end up going down. She thought she is safe, but she's proved wrong on that when he got up quickly enough, bellowing in rage.
And it makes matters worse when the human's body locks up, unable to move.
'RUN!!!' she screams in her head, trying desperatly to move her legs. Just as the triceratops start to charge once again, she manages to get control enough to jump up as he lowers his horns to impale her. Incredible luck saves her from becoming shish kebab - she ends up landing on the beast's face, only her leg struck by the horn on its beak-like muzzle. Rose grits her teeth to not scream in pain as she hangs onto one of the six-feet-long horns, the triceratops thrashing about to get her off. It would be the end of her if she let go of that horn, and she knows it.
Bellowing once again, the beast charges once again, his eyes trained on her and her alone. She looks over her shoulder and finds that they're going to ram into the trunk of the tree dead ahead.
'Ohhh, this is going to hurt the both of us...' Rose thought as she hangs on even tighter, trying to pull her leg off of the nose horn before the impact. She manages to pull it off and tuck it with the rest of her body before the monster rams straight into the tree trunk. As much as Rose hanged on, though, she still loses her grip and ram into the tree herself. Dazed, she shakes her head slightly while the three-horned thing cries out, trapped by his own horns.
Only then did her raptor pack rush in, jumping on their prey and sinking their teeth and claws in. He howls in pain and rage, trying ever-more desperatly to get loose. The human finally come to her senses once the triceratop pulls out a bit from the tree. Fumbling for her pocketknife and pulling out the dagger part of it, she stabs the beast in one eye, going fast and hard enough to reach a fatel point. The thing goes limp, his horns still firmly planted in the trunk. Rose barely manages to pull out the knife before she falls off to the side out of shock. Shrieking when her wounded leg hits the ground.
'This is not really good...' She sits up and examines her calf, finding that it has a shallow gap in the skin. 'I have to fix this later, though. Better get my share of the food before they got so much of it.' Standing up and firmly setting the pain aside to worry about later, she tears off as much of the meat she can in a spot that doesn't have the tough hide protecting it. As her pack feed on their prey, she hobbles off to the nesting area with her portion.
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"Man... I'm glad I'm not this poor guy," Johnson comments with some humor, as they stumble across a corpse of one dead Professor Red. Kyle identified him before rushing off to some distant bush.
"Looks like the work of a dilophosaurus," said Billy quietly as he examines the sticky goop on the man's face. The only known dinosaur to spit black liquid in the prey's eyes, blinding them and unable to know where to run before taken down. One of the traits that seperate it from the Australian frill-lizard, other than periods of time and size.
"What else lives on this damnation of a island...?" Percy said as he shakes his head.
"Hell, for all we know of, they also made dragons!" exclaims Mily. That made most of the others shudder in thought.
"Hopefully not," Roger said.
"As much as I love dragons, I rather not meet one here, not now and not ever," Lizzy agrees.
"That makes five out of twelve," Percy said as he counts how many people on the plane they found in his head. "Still leaves seven possibly-alive passengers."
"True," Zain said as he nods. "There's still a slim chance for the others."
"Hopefully," Kyle said weakly as he returns to the group.
"Keep runnin' off like that, and ya'll end up a snack for a dino 'fore we get ta ya," Johnson said disapprovingly.
"John's right," Billy said before a word is uttered from Kyle's mouth. "We have to stick together."
"A'right..."
"Let's go back," he then instructs, turning around and heading back down the path they came from. "We still got a long way to go, lot'sa ground to cover."
As they reach their jeeps, they all thought they heard a shriek of a human.
"Did anyone else heard that?" said Kyle.
"I certainly did," Zain replies.
"We better hurry, then!" Lizzy said as she jumps into the jeep. They couldn't argue with her as they pile in and take off in the direction the scream came from, though they know that it is so far off that they'll get there tomorrow to reach whoever it is.
