DISCLAIMER
I don't own Jurassic Park, nor any of its actual characters and plotlines. Everything here is mostly on my own imagination, and the characters, except one, is purely my own making. Zain belongs to Zain Takura - Saiyan Historian, in which I still extend a great, big thanks for letting me borrow at least the basic outline of his character. Even if we aren't on great terms right now, I hope you're doing well, Zain!!

Chapter 7

'They grow pretty fast,' Rose thought as she watches the young raptors start running and chasing each other, playing. It had only been a few days since the hatching, and they're already twice the height they started out at first. She's been watching her own egg, and she noticed that it shakes a little at times. She hopes that it hatches soon.

Another gunshot rings through the trees, making the entire pack snap their heads up. The adult raptors start to chitter at each other nervously; the gunshot is much closer than the last one.

'...Is Lizzy really here on the island...?' she thought while she rubs the egg a little, looking troubled. She's been pondering on that thought ever since Johnson was 'disposed' of, wondering if his words were true at all.

'But if she really is here... What would happen if she meets up with me while I am with my pack?' She shudders a little at the sudden image of the raptors attacking her sister, since she knows that they would protect her fiercely from any other humans, even from those that weren't going to hurt Rose... 'If she tries to take me away, my pack will kill her...'

Blinking, she realizes that she keeps referring the pack as her own. She looks back over to the raptors, watching them go on about their business. Then she spots Okaa, wondering about with the group and starting to assign who's going to hunt and who remains behind.

'...Could I even make myself leave this place for good...? They had been a family that I lost...'

Before then...

"Man, so many herb dinos in one place. I wonder how many steaks could come from 'em?" Mily continues to stay awed as she looks up at the dinosaurs, then around at those that aren't tall enough.

"I'd imagine that they'd feed all of Africa and a few other hungry countries about a hundred times," Roger replies to her rhetorical question, bored out of his mind while straining to push even more.

The jeep they took (they left the other one behind on purpose) is left shut-off to avoid drawing more attention to them, and also less threatening. Zain, Roger and Mily are pushing the jeep at the time, trying to keep up with the herd until the people either switch or until Billy say that they can stop and make camp.

"I think that's an understatement, but yeah," Zain agrees (somewhat) as he joins into the conversation.

"Rose would've killed meh for sayin' something like that," Mily said with a giggle.

"She sounds like a living hippie..." Kyle says quietly as he leans over closer to the living engines.

"Rose is, basically," Lizzy sighs as she looks ahead. She tightens her hold on the pocket knife once more, praying that Rose is doing well.

"Yup, she's a veggie while out to save the animals," Mily said, grinning a little in spite of the atmosphere and the work.

"She won't last long out here without finding a good supply of plants that's safe to eat... or else give up bein' a vegetarian for now." Roger shakes his head a little as he uses extra strength to help push the jeep over a small hill they just encountered. "It's been, what, about fifteen days since the plane crashed?? She may have been eaten, she could have found a good place to hide out... Hell, she could even be at the ruined theme park for all we know! A shit-load of food is there, it'd be almost perfect..."

Lizzy gave him a cold look while he was talking, but as he finishes, she sighs again.

"We can only keep looking."

"Let's stop, guys, the herd is," Billy announces after a minute.

As soon as the three stopped pushing, Mily basically gave control over to gravity as she falls backwards, panting while wiping some sweat off her eyebrow. Zain leans against the jeep and Roger just sits on a rock as the others got out and stretch their limbs out.

"Sorry for all the extra work," said Billy as he pulls out the equipment that requires to be recharged by the solar energy.

"I know, I know, I'd rather be exhausted from pushing instead of running from the beasties..." Roger said as Kyle hands him water, in which disappeared within thirty seconds.

"I dun know, it sounds much easier to just run," Mily retorts as she drinks her water without chugging it down.

"Hm," is all Zain responds as he sips his water slowly.

"It's really great that the herd isn't tryin' to chase us off or frightened by us," said Kyle as he looks around at all of the dinosaurs

"I dun know, they look kind of tense to me," Lizzy said, making Kyle look at her a bit fearfully.

"In any case, let's just rest, but we'll have to stay on guard," Billy said before the guy could start panicking.

"Alrighty, sounds good anyway..."

For a few hours, they try to relax enough to rest, though it's hard to do so while there's so many dinosaurs all around. They have no clue if there was a predator or a pack of them lingering about in hopes of getting an easy meal. In which they personally will see it will not be them.

"...Hey..." Kyle nudges Roger in the shoulder. He's dead asleep to the world... "Roger, pst!" Actually smacking this time, he jerks Roger out of his peaceful slumber, who in which hisses at Kyle.

"What?!" he said quietly but irritably. "I was actually enjoying a dreamless sleep, numbskull..."

"S-s-sorry... But... L-look at this..." Kyle leans forward to the stump in front of them, and with a sigh, Roger leans forward as well. He looks at the glass of water that Kyle had set there for some reason.

"...And what am I s'pose ta be seein'?"

"Watch the water..."

After a few seconds, Roger could see what Kyle's getting at. The water ripples. And ripples again, except the ripples were bigger. Then the next time, it got bigger still.

"...We probably should tell Billy this," he said as he stands up from where he had been sleeping from, looking in the direction where Billy's at.

They hear, in a distance, a sort of roar that had every creature turning their heads to the sound.

"Definitely time to get our ass's in gear," Roger said as he looks to Percy, kicking him in the leg. "Wake up dude! We got a situation that doesn't involve sleepin'!"

"Wha...?" The grogginess is certainly gone when another roar thunders out. "Aw shit!"

"Shit is right, " Billy said as he shows up next to the jeep. "That's a tyrannosaur's roar..."

"Great... A time that Johnson could have been some help with this," Zain said as he pulls whatever items that they've took out of the jeep right back into the vehicle. He then yanks out his rifle, loading it but keeping it on safety lock.

"Everyone get in, we better haul ass before we're run over by the panicking dinos!" Mily yells as she takes place behind the wheel, starting up the jeep as everyone takes her word and get in. It's a tight fit, but they'll have to deal with the space issues another time...

As Mily stomps on the gas pedal and takes off, the ground starts to thud even more before the lining of the trees break under the sheer weight of the mighty t-rex that rightfully holds the title 'King of the Dinosaurs.' This monster's size is bigger than most of them could imagine for a t-rex, in which Billy knows instantly that this is a total killing machine that hunts for one thing; to quench its ever-lasting hunger for meat and blood.

"He's chasing that stegosaurus herd towards our way!" Percy yells as he looks back at the t-rex and its process of the hunt. Sure enough, it took its sight on the herd of stegosaurs. A few of the big males tries to drive it away as the females and younglings makes a run for it. But the t-rex is not to be easily deprived of his hunt...

"Fuck, he's definitely chasing them in our general direction..." Zain growls as he tightens his grip on the rifle.

"Brachiosarus at 12 o'clock!!" screams out Kyle as Mily tries to react in time to swerve away from the pounding feet of the mentioned dinosaur.

"Lizzy!!" Percy yells out after her as she was thrown out of the jeep.

"Kyle, as well!" Roger tries to grab a hold of Kyle's shirt and hold on, but the material rips apart and Kyle flies behind as the jeep rushes right past him.

"I'll get them, you keep goin', Mily!" Percy said as he grabs two rifles and leaps out of the vehicle, doing a barrel roll to avoid having too much damage done to his ankles and legs. As soon as his movements stopped, he's on his feet and running towards Lizzy and Kyle, loading up a rifle as he runs.

"L-Lizzy!" Kyle said as he limps over to Lizzy and tries to pull her up to her feet. He manages to get her to her knees before he looks up in fear of a stegosaurus that has halted in front of them. It bugles out in challenge as the rest of the herd tries to find another direction to run to. The t-rex is still behind them.

"Kyle, get Lizzy up and GO!" Percy aims and fires at the stegosaurus' head. Crying out from pain, the dinosaur falls to the ground as another one appears next to it, turning enough to aim its spiked-tail towards Lizzy and Kyle. "Not today, beastie!!" He fires another shot, in which ricochets off of the spikes and flies off somewhere else. The dino turns its attention on Percy, in which was the entire purpose.

But now he wishes something else takes the beast's attention away from him...

"C-c'mon Lizzy!" Dragging Lizzy to her feet, Kyle pulls her away from the distracted dinosaur. But the movements and sounds takes its attention right back to them.

Roaring again, the dinosaur swings back its tail then strike it down towards the two at an incredibly-fast speed. "Look out!" Somehow, through his paralyzing fear, Kyle pushes Lizzy out of the way of one spike. The same object slices clean-through Kyle's skin of his shoulder and back, making him scream out in pain.

"KYLE!!!" Reloading his rifle, Percy charges forward to get closer and fires again, getting the beast in the side. Screeching from the unexpected attack, it falls back to retreat slightly as Percy takes the time he's given to get to Kyle and Lizzy's side. "Shit, that doesn't look good..." Percy growls angrily to himself before giving Lizzy the other rifle he brought with him. "Here, you'll need extra protection now that it's only you and me."

"Eh? But what about you?!" Lizzy looks up at him in pure shock and surprise of his words while he stands back up.

"'Ey, I'm gonna go with ya, o'course!" he said as he stands up, loading up the next shot that's left in the rifle before he has to reload the gun. "But you go first towards the forest, here comes another stegosaurus." He fires at the approaching dinosaur that was about to attack them. "Go, NOW!"

"A-alright!" Coaxing Kyle back onto his feet, she pulls him with her as she pushes past the tall grass towards the destination that they really felt safer than open area if danger was to approach. Looking back over her shoulder, she can see Percy following after them after firing off one more shot. Only one stegosaurus is dead, he really tried not to kill them off. They were only protecting themselves, after all.

Only a deafening and terrifying roar can make her, Kyle and Percy's blood run cold...

"The t-rex is here!!!" Percy cries as the stegosauruses trumpets out in fear, in which makes most of them charge forward. The males sticks back like the previous two had, to try and hold off the big guy off for the rest of the herd to run and live to see another day.

Something catches Lizzy's feet...

"WHOA!!" Lizzy and Kyle both hits the ground hard, stunning the two of them from the impact. Lizzy looks at her feet and finds that it's tangled-up grass that must have been used as a nest. "Shit..." She tries to pull the grass apart with her hands, but it's hard to do so without slicing up her hands. The grass is razor-sharp when dry.

"You okay??" Percy said as he catches up to them.

"I'm caught!"

"Jus' a second, I should be able to hack that apart..." He pulls out a pocketknife and starts to rip at the dry grass. It's not that hard to get through, but when there's a ton of them, there's problems on getting through them fast enough.

"L-Lizzy!!" Kyle points in the direction that they've just came from, and the other two turns their head in time to see the rearing of the tyrannosaurus's head as it roars out in triumph. It must have brought down one of the herd members, or it found the one that Percy shot and killed...

"I almost have you out, Liz!" Percy manages to pull the grass apart enough for Lizzy to yank her foot out of it. "That's it!"

Lizzy's mouth opens up to thank the guy hurriedly, but all that comes out is a scream. A spiked-tail comes crashing down from above as the prey that the t-rex just defeated falls. Gorging Percy right through the stomach and chest.

"Arrggh... Erk... Li.. zzy... Run..." Percy manages to gurgle out through the blood seeping out of his mouth. And before Kyle and Lizzy's eyes, their comrade dies after another very painful minute of trying to breathe through all the blood. His lungs had been punctured and destroyed, giving him a very painful experience no one should ever go through before they die...

"P... Percy..."

"LIZZY!!" Billy pushes through the grass. He halts from the sight of the tail and the gorged corpse of Percy, turning very pale. But with whatever determination he manages to keep after looking at the sight, Billy turns his face away from the scene and pulls Lizzy to her feet. "C'mon, we have to get out of here before the t-rex will personally see to us as its prey."

"B-but..."

"Zain, we need help here! Kyle's injured!!" Billy finds that he has to forcibly carry Lizzy away from the scene.

"I got him!" Zain said as he manages to avoid looking at the horrible death while pulling Kyle to his feet and having him wrap an arm around Zain's shoulders to hold him up. "Let's go, now..."

Lizzy tries to look back at Percy and the dead stegosaurus, but Billy restrains Lizzy from moving her head to look back.

"I'm sorry, Lizzy..."

XD;; Wow, another death of a comrade, but it was someone that didn't deserve it this time! - I personally didn't want to kill Percy, either... But the idea wouldn't let go of the concept, and I was somehow compelled to write it anyways. I'm sorry for the death, but I think it's necessary for the story to go on. Sorry to any that really liked Percy! T-T (myself included in that category)