DISCLAIMER
Don't own Jurassic Park, only the characters that were created by me. Billy goes with the Jurassic Park movie, so duh, I don't own him. Rose, Mily, Percy, Roger, Lizzy, Kyle, and Johnson are copyrighted to me, while Zain belongs to Zain Takura – Saiyan Historian. As I had said earlier, this story is rated T+ for violence and mild language, and perhaps crude humor and suggested sexual content (and ONLY suggested, not actual stuff, perverts! XD It would have been rated M if there was!!).
Chapter Four
'Fuck…' the human of the pack thought as she examines the injury on her leg by the light of the fire. The day is quickly getting dark again. 'I got no sort of medical kit, but if I do not get this fixed up, I am going to get an infected leg…' The meat she got from the early hunt is skewered on sticks, cooking in the small fire she got up by the help of a lighter she usually carry. Grimly, she wipes the blade of her pocketknife clean with the remainder of her torn-up shirt (now she is only in her sports bra), then with the water of the stream. Something dimly comes to mind as she stares at the metal. '...With no other option until I go back to the plane and get whatever I need, I have to,' Rose concludes as she set the thing right next to the flames, on a rock.
As she searches for a certain kind of rock, the raptors watch her with some curiosity. Some chatters at her as she passes them, her incidentally smiling a bit.
'They must have thought humans just as unintelligent as the sort of prey they hunt… Or an enemy, like a t-rex... Being part of a pack, it proves otherwise now,' she thought while shifting through the rock she found. Finally, she found a rock that's hollow in the middle (in most part), and stands fairly well on its own. Quickly washing it, and then filling it up, she places it next to the fire as well.
Hearing disturbance behind her, she turns around quickly to find two of the members of the pack hissing at each other.
'What is this about?' she wonders as they circle each other. Getting up and crossing the short distance to the raptor she sticks close to at night, she imitates one of their quizzing croons, cocking her head to the side while crouching down. She paid close attention to the sort of sounds they make, just so they can understand each other a little better.
The raptor growls as she bobs her head twice then turn it towards the nests. There is one egg in the middle of two full nests.
'So… both of them think that it's one of theirs,' Rose thought as she sighs. 'How are they going to decide? Fight for it?' She shudders from the thought. She doesn't ever want to witness a battle between two raptors.
Apparently, her raptor doesn't, either. After a little while of watching the two, she finally stands and walk over, silencing the both of them with a hiss. Eyeing the egg in discussion, she nudges it with her muzzle. Raising her head and snorting at Rose, who quietly come forward, the velociraptor picks up the egg and put it straight into the humans' arms.
'…Is it kind of blue to be a raptor egg?' she asks herself as she glances at the nests. 'It is also about two-thirds the actual size…' Looking straight up, she spots a nest way up about fifteen feet. 'It must have come from there… But that is a long way down… Amazing it has survived the fall.'
Growling in disapproval, Rose jerks her head to both sides, then up at the nest, making the three raptors follow her direction. The two mother raptors sniff the egg curiously, and then snorts as they walk back to their nests, satisfied.
'I can never climb that high, not with an egg…' the human thought in dismay. '…Actually, not even without it… There is no branches low enough to grab.' She sighs as she walks back over to the small fire, wondering what to do with the egg. '…What kind of thing is this, anyway? No dinosaur lays their eggs in trees that much I know. Is it some kind of bird…? Hm… Maybe it is one of the creatures that were learning to fly before they were wiped out,' she muses while pulling up some dry grass and laying the egg in it. 'Why not try to hatch it? I doubt it will be dangerous as a newborn.'
She grimly looks at the bubbling water while wrapping the shirt around her hand and picking it up, the rock hotter than the water is. Pulling the pants leg up again, Rose pours the water onto the wound, choking on a yelp as she kept on until all of the water is gone.
'Now the really painful part...' Rose thought as she grabs an eraser from a pocket, biting down on it as she reaches for the knife with the covered hand. Rose holds the knife over her skin, but hesitates for a few minutes. She doesn't like pain, but it's necessary to keep the leg free of infection. 'I should have looked through the plane before running off…'
She bites down on the eraser as she quickly presses the blade to her leg, the sound of a muffled scream echoing through the trees.
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"This is quickly looking hopeless to do," Roger said as they camp for the fourth night since they've been on the island. "We've found like, what, six of the twelve dead?"
"Yeah, well, you're getting paid for looking, aren't ya?" Johnson grunts, pulling off the hat he wore for the day, his hair sweaty and pressed down against his scalp. "I'd rather be back at the hotel, with all the bitches of mine…"
"Disgusting…" Lizzy hisses.
"Men like you make the rest of us look bad," Zain said darkly.
"Psh, like I give a shit?"
"Enough," Billy interrupts. "John, we don't need to hear your sick fantasies, and Zain, leave him alone until we're off the island.
"…" Zain crosses his arms and just sits there next to the fire.
"…Another shriek," said Mily as they all hear an echoing scream.
"Sounds muffled," Percy comments.
"Sounds like a damn bird, if ya ask me…"
"No one asked you, Johnny."
Roger merely eats his dry meat jerky, not going to be pulled into the arguments that are going on.
'John is making the team collapse into pieces,' Billy thought grimly as the rest of the team calms down and eat, talking quietly. 'I better keep an eye on him, for Mily and Lizzy's sake here. From the sounds of it, he's missing that certain part of his 'comforting' life…'
It's only until the next day did the tension fully break, packing up and heading on, now with about seven cans of gas instead of thirteen they had in the beginning.
"The scream came from that direction," Billy said as they check the map, once finding out that the sound was from the north. "…Uh, from what it says, velociprator and many herbivore nests are in that direction."
"Well, it wasn't THAT far north," Roger points out. "And the nests of the raptors are like, around here." He circles around the area that isn't on the coast, but along the river and further down from the edge of the island. "So whoever it was, it was like, beneath the nest of raptors, around the herbivores."
"Are you sure??" Kyle asks nervously.
"Pretty positive," Roger replies. "Though the raptors could have moved down further."
"OooOooo…"
"Suck it up, whiny," Johnson growls, making Kyle even more nervous. "Let's jus' get going and find the damn survivors, for I'm getting sick and tired of this place and the people that has no balls."
"Pay no attention to 'im, Kyle," Mily said as he quietly moves to the jeep that holds Lizzy, Mily, and Zain. "He demonstrated that he's an ass several times. So dun worry about what he says!"
"Precisely," Zain said as he shakes his head a bit.
"I would just love to give his a piece of my mind…" Kyle said quietly, beginning to stop shaking.
"And a meeting with my fist," Mily adds in, making Kyle laugh.
Lizzy starts the jeep and drives after Billy and them, being careful of the branches that had landed on the trail they use.
"Let's just hope that we find someone, or else I'm going to leave ol'Johnny here," said Lizzy. "Just say he got eaten alive by a…. by a stegosaurus."
"Niiiice," Mily remarks, laughing some more again.
"Hey, better than nothing," Zain said with a smirk.
"That's exactly right," said Lizzy. "Much better than saying, 'Gee, we're so sorry, but we left Johnson behind because we wanted to know how long he would last on the island'."
"'Yeah, we placed bets on it, see, and I said he would last only three days'," Mily adds in.
"'And I five days'," said Zain, his smirk growing slightly more.
They all laugh. The image is rather priceless, and it puts them all in a cheery mood.
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Awakening with a jolt, Rose finds herself breathing hard as she sits up more from the raptor she finally dubbed Okaa, just so she stops calling her a it or something (Japanese for 'mother', if one adds –chan at the end of it). She tries to calm herself as she find that she has cold-sweat on her face and skin.
'What a time to be reminded that I am a human that can get nightmares…' the human thought while placing her face in her hands, wanting to stop shaking. The crashing and the first invasion of man-eating dinosaurs comes to mind, and not just that, but the images she usually get when she thinks about her family on the Isle Sanora. She sighs as Okaa chirps sleepily, opening one eye to look at the adopted member of the pack.
Rose gives a more catty-purr as she gently rubs Okaa's eye-ridge, the raptor crooning before closing her eye again.
'Do I ever feel so privileged?' Rose thought with a slight smile, looking down at the egg she kept in her lap. Her legs may be asleep and feel like sharp needles jabbing into them, but she managed to keep the egg warm; the goal of which she was trying to accomplish during the night. Why she cared about the misplaced egg, she doesn't know, but she isn't going to question it. 'It certainly makes me feel like I am fulfilling something…'
As the pack start to wake up, Rose moves back over to the burned-out fire, placing the egg in the makeshift nest and covering it with her shirt.
'…I am going to go back to the plane today, and hopefully, be back here tomorrow,' she thought while picking up one of the cooked meat from the day before, tearing at it with her teeth. 'Morning of tomorrow, even.'
Okaa comes over and nudges Rose in the shoulder, making the human puzzled. It's only when the raptor look at one of the pieces of meat did she get it and held one up to the raptor. The meat is gently taken before Okaa simply tosses it into the air and snatch it, swallowing it as it is.
"You would end up choking that way," Rose said hoarsely, giggling a little, making the raptor look at her curiously. The human clears her throat, being that it hasn't really been used for talking lately. "Um…" 'How can I explain that I am going away for the day to a bunch of raptors??'
As it turns out though, the raptor really just seem to read her mind, being that Okaa then nudges the water canton, then looks in the direction Rose is going to go.
"You really are smart…" Rose said after a little while, the raptor nuzzling into the woman's hair. "Well… I will be back as quick as I can… Alright?" she said quietly. Okaa merely croons at Rose, several other raptors doing the same thing. Rose smiles as she picks up her water canton and fills it up with water she boiled after fixing her leg. She knows other ways to get water, but she has no equipment for some of them, such as a shovel.
'At times, I think you can talk but you refuse to show it,' she thought as she gives Okaa one more rubbing on the ridge above the eye before turning around and taking off for the crash site…