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I don't own Jurassic Park in any shape or form, just like it had been for the last ten chapters. XD; Sorry for the brief time between this chapter and the previous, but please enjoy Chapter Eleven!

Chapter 11

"Such a lovely place to hunt," Thornara breathed out as she watches the green island fly by beneath the plane, one of two she brought. "Don't you think so, Mike?"

Jiraz sighs to himself at the name she calls him. But he instantly straightened up and nods as she turns to look at him. "It is, mi'lady," he said with a respective tone.

"Mm." She turns back to the window as the small plane starts its landing. "I think I know what I want to hunt first." She smiles to herself like it was a pleasant occasion, which it is to her. "Velociraptors are so cunning, so powerful... much more appealing than a tyrannosaur. Of course, that mighty beast will be on my next hunting trip." She continues to be thoughtful, dreaming of the ways to do these hunting trips here on the island. "I'll just need a larger plan to carry that particular trophy."

Jiraz turns back to the laptop as his employer drifted off into her fantasies. She can be quite sadistic, not like her cousin Rosalia. Shaking his head lightly but not to gain the woman's attention, he continues to type in the reports he has to do usually 24/7 for each and every hunting trip. It's his job to track what Thornara had hunted, how many, and what kind of market value they have, alive or as fur hides.

Suddenly, a IM popped up. Well, it wasn't that unusual, since he has internet wherever he goes (a nice benefit to work for Thorn), but what surprises Jiraz was that it's Zain IMing to him.

Hey, what's going on? You on another trip? was the message. Jiraz decides he needs a break.

Yeah, my employer wanted to go on another hunting trip, but this one's going to be interesting.

Why's that? Did she finally flip and decided to hunt for humans? Zain never had much respect for Thornara, and Jiraz couldn't blame him; Jiraz certainly didn't have much respect for her particular hobbies, either.

No. She decided that she was going to go dino hunting at the Isle Nublar.

There was a stretch of time before Zain answered back, which Jiraz thought was strange. But the message turns out to make sense.

WHAT?? Fuck, that's where Rose is at!

'Eh??' That's who you were referring to about the search and rescue?? If Thorn finds this out, she'll make it a sport! True enough, considering that Thorn never liked Rose very much, since they were complete opposites. It'd be a perfect way to shoot her own cousin for the hell of it... and get away with it. Thorn had no morals, and even her own family members weren't safe from her, whether they pissed her off or only annoyed her...

Shit, yeah. She's staying with a pack of raptors.

'Raptors? How, and why???' Jiraz types those questions in quickly, as well as another sentence. If that's the case, then Rose is going to be in big-time shit; those are the first creatures she's hunting!

I'm getting on the fastest way to the island with Lizzy and Mily, Jiraz, stall her the best you can.

That was the last message Zain typed before he signed off immediately. Jiraz grimaced a little before closing the IM box and erasing the history from the hardware entirely. It may be his laptop, but Thorn always checks everyone's belongings, especially computers; if someone was to spill one of her plans to the government, she'd kill that person and then pay off the officials that were sent to check the claim. One of the trades she learned from her parents...

'Fuck, how am I supposed to do that??' Jiraz thought to himself as he resists the impulse to close his eyes and press his face into one of his hands. Whenever he had done that, Thorn usually would assume that he was holding back information that she thinks she should know. It wasn't the time to be caught and possibly killed, not when someone he happens to value may and will be in danger. Which somehow, raptors weren't part of that factor. It confuses him that she'd stay willingly with those creatures. But it remains that Thorn would find Rose quickly when she starts her hunt for the creatures. 'Calm down, just think... we're going to have to set up camp in a sheltered area, somewhere in the park. I'll get the process to drag out if we don't reach our designated grounds before nightfall.' He sighs to himself silently. 'I can only hope that they'll find a fast way to get here by tomorrow.'

He knows though that Zain has his own tricks when it came to getting somewhere fast and have everything ready. Jiraz can only hope that it would work in his favors, as well as Lizzy and Mily's. He wishes the three of them a silent good luck.

- - -

"Are you sure that this is the fastest way?!"

"Lizzy, for the hundredth time, yeah!" Zain concentrates on the road in front of him, looking out for just about any police cars on the almost-empty highway. He is going nearly double the speed of the legal limit, which was seventy-five.

"So we're takin' the jet plane from the government?" Mily asks to clarify it for herself. "It'll earn us the fastest way to jail, but it'll be the fastest way to the island?"

"Yeah, I'm positive." Zain narrows his eyes as he speeds right past a car, which honks with annoyance. "Jiraz will try to stale your crazy cousin, Lizzy, but the time limit is all on us. So I'm doing my best to get there without dilemma. Someone will be waiting for us at that plane, fueled and ready to leave as soon as we step inside it."

"Who?" Mily asks.

"Kyle, as well as Billy."

"What?? So basically, we're gathering and going back. Why are they comin' along?" Mily said in confusion. Billy and Kyle don't really have much of a connection to Rose like they did.

"Frankly Mily, the more the better for our case. Besides, Billy managed to get a hold of some weapons for us. We're going to have to take the situation and turn it to our favors before Thorn realizes that her cousin's on the same island."

"Yeah, the last time the two of them seen each other, Thorn said she was going to shoot Rose right in the head... Alrighty, then five instead of three are better odds."

"Six," Zain corrects Mily. "Jiraz is on our side."

"Oh, right." Mily sighs as she leans back against the seat of the Jaguar car. "Meeting him would have been better in any other situation. But a better reunion can wait..."

"I hope Rose will stay out of sight..." Lizzy said in a worried tone. But she doubts deeply that the connection to the raptors would make it impossible for her to stay away from any that was in trouble.

"Knowing Rose as of now, she'll run into Thorn and rip her throat out with her new skills," Zain said. But he wished the same thing Lizzy was.

Arriving at the flight strip near the coast, Zain screeches the cars' tires to a halt, slightly skidding before coming to a complete stop. As the three got out of the car, they could see Kyle waving at them from the plane that had been prepped and ready to take off. They ran to the plane with what they brought with them, climbing the stairs quickly.

"We got everything on here," Kyle informs them as they pull the door up and shut tight. For once, he wasn't stuttering so bad. His shoulder seems to have healed, as well. "I'll get the plane going." He goes to the front of the plane, strapping into the seat and flipping switches. Billy was seated in one of the few seats in the main cabin, and in the back was a choice of weapons and a few bags filled with items that only the man knew.

"We're quite prepared for this expedition," he said as the three seated themselves while the plane starts to move. "And with the fuel, we'll be able to reach the island by the morning, if not sooner."

"Thanks Billy, I owe you big time," Zain said as he straps himself in.

"Yeah, you do. But I'll settle with a better-explanation about this Thornara person. Is she really that smart and dangerous?"

"You don't know the half of it," Lizzy said grimly. "There's a reason that none of us ever bother making contact with her."

"Yeeaaah, the same one that gets her banned from family reunions," Mily inputs with a grim smirk. "She goes lo-co, though others would call it being so obsessive with favors and money. And if you don't get in her favors, she simply shoots you in the head the next time she sees you."

"That's crazy... does she really??"

"She stabbed me when I wouldn't let her have a cookie when she was ten," Lizzy said in a flat tone. All Billy could do was whistle.

"Then what did Rose do to her?"

"She actually stopped a major trade that could have earned Thorn another few thousand dollars, as well as a part of stock," Zain said. That was the first time he and Rose met. "It involved her favorite animal, cheetahs. That was the most life she ever shown by that point."

"No wonder you're worried about the two of them meeting..."

"Mm."

"Though I think Thorn should be more worried about meeting her than the other way around," Mily said with a small hint of humor. "After all, Rose is hangin' with the biggest and baddest gang in the world."

"Thorn has the biggest and baddest guns, though..." Lizzy murmurs.

"Good point..."

"We'll reach Rose first," Zain said with such fervor that even Lizzy could admit that she is more confident with the plan. Maybe he had more feelings than he realized, though Mily would never say it out loud to him. After all, she knew both Zain and Rose that well.

- - -

It had been a few hours since the aircrafts flew overhead, though Rose didn't know if it landed or it was only flying low to take a few pictures before continuing its path. She was so nervous, though, she picked up the notebook to add more, but never did. It just sat there in her lap as she continues to look around as though waiting for an attack from the trees. Her constant state of alert made the raptors nervous, as well. At one point, Sirius trilled at her in annoyance, but she ignored him. Okaa merely laid down around Rose and tried to soothe her, in which stopped Sirius from nipping the human like he would have done with any raptor that chose to ignore his presence. He then tilted his head and laid down in front of Rose, trying to figure out what was making her so alert.

Rose blinks as she gets nudged by Okaa after another hour of her constant alert. It seems she was finally calming down. She rubs Okaa's ridge above her right eye, looking around at the clearing. The raptors finally settles down, the tension they were all feeling from her gone. With a sheepish smile, Rose then reaches over and does the same rubbing treatment to Sirius, in which he closes his eyes and gives a sort of growly-purr.

'Sorry,' she thought as she looks to the trees one last time. 'It can't be good with two planes flying so close to the island. We'll need to stay on alert tomorrow.' Luckily for them all, it was so close to nighttime that if those planes did land, they would have to make camp. Unless they were suicidal enough to go hunting at night. With a shudder that wasn't from the breeze, Rose settles against Okaa and watches Levine hop to the bushes to eat before settling for the night.

Satisfied that the human is not going to make the pack nervous again for the night, Sirius stands up and stalks off to his mate, whom Rose calls Eclipse because of her eyes of one golden-yellow while the other is silver. It reminds her of the sun and moon. The two touch muzzles with a purr before they settled in for the night.

Wondering idly what kind of velociraptor Okaa's mate could have been like before he died or was killed, Rose closes her eyes. She didn't have to open them when she felt something hop into her lap, knowing it's the dimorphodon getting ready to go to sleep. She gets nudged from the raptor curled around her, though, making her look at Okaa and smile lightly as the velociraptor lay her head near Rose's leg, her eyes closed completely with what sounds a lot like a sigh.

Leaning back her head, Rose closes her eyes again. Whatever comes tomorrow will have to wait until then. In the meantime, she'll need to get sleep. After all, if those planes did land and the people were coming to hunt, she'll need the rest to be on constant alert. Her and her pack will need it...

- - -

"Mike, get me a drink. I feel parched." Thornara smiles as Jiraz gives a nod and walks off to get her that drink. "Please add ice, as well. I never dreamed that the jungle is nearly hotter than the plains of Africa. And at night time, at that!" Of course the heat wasn't affecting her, but it gives her a reason to get a drink without having to get up.

Oh, how easy it could be to add something else to that drink, but Jiraz holds back on those urges every time. She may not be popular with him and a few others, but there were several 'friends' of hers that would exact their vengeance for her death. Besides, it's just not in his nature, and he won't be the one left with bloody hands, so-to-speak. With the drop of four pieces of ice to the brand of rum, he takes the drink to the woman and places it in her reaching hand. He bows his head forward as she takes a sip and waves him from her side.

"Just right. Thank you," she said with grudging acknowledgment. "Now then, what would be the best area to try for velociraptors first, Mister Peril?" she then said as she turns her attention to the man seating in front of her, who was studying the map in front of him.

"Victor, please," he said in a gruff voice, but with a light smile. To Jiraz, Victor and Thorn may just be suited for one another. Victor's history involves a series of illegal fights, as well as putting together hunts for the most dangerous animals in South America. "From the map we've pulled from the government files, the beasts should be holing up in this sector," Victor said as he circles with a finger where the latest recording of raptor grounds.

"That will be the first place we'll look, then," Thorn said with a satisfied smile, leaning back and drinking from the glass again. "Of course, if the hunt isn't too much for you, dear Victor, I would love for you to accompany me."

"No hunt is too much for me, mi'lady," Victor replies with a toothy grin. "Besides, I would love to see these predators up-close. If anything dangerous came out of the prehistoric times, it'd be those creatures plus a few others."

"Then it's a date," Thornara laughs. Jiraz resists the urge to roll his eyes; they indefinitely would be the perfect couple in their sick little world. "Mike, have you given Victor anything to drink?"

"I would like a scotch on the rocks," Victor said in result, but with a polite tone. At least he didn't expect Jiraz to jump on it immediately and kiss his feet in the process. Though at this rate, he just might make it an requirement for anyone that would serve him and Thornara.

"Right away," Jiraz said as he turns to the small bar of the tent that Thorn had set up as soon as the tent was in-place.

As soon as they did land, everyone was busy in the park setting up tents and personal fences that only Thorn had the money to buy. Supposedly, it would keep all the animals away from the camp by a hundred feet because of the noise the fence emits when powered-up. It's too high-pitched to bother normal human ears, though Jiraz could hear and feel a very dull ringing sound in his ears. It annoys him, but he actually prefers the noise to the thought of being eaten.

'Good thing we landed at dusk,' he thought to himself as he finishes the drink and walks it to Victor, who takes it with a gracious nod. Thornara will have to hunt tomorrow instead of today. And it was a good thing that Thorn asked him to scout out the building for anything that she should be aware of, though what she had in mind was inhabitants. What he found was supplies that was left behind by the previous human party that left it behind for a certain person. Rosalia must have kept them there for safety from weather. Making sure to hide it all in a place that Thorn will never bother to look in (the hole in the wall he found behind a box in the lobby), Jiraz then returned to her that there was nothing to worry about. She might as well not know that there was someone already on the island.

Retiring to his tent at long last, Jiraz sighs and lays on his cot. Yeah, he's tired, but he stays awake because of the thoughts of Zain and his companions, as well as Rose. Then the questions come back to him about her; why would she stay with raptors? And how? After all, she was devastated by the loss of her family by those creatures. Though it occurs to Jiraz that either she's finally suicidal, or she had come to realize that she shouldn't blame the velociraptors for their instincts. Though how that would have her come to live with them, he probably won't know until he asks her himself.

But one thing is clear to him; since Rose is going to be with the creatures, she's in more danger because of her company. When Thorn goes hunting tomorrow, Jiraz has to find a way to warn Rose, if Zain and his friends haven't found her by that point. Jiraz doesn't want one of his close friends getting hurt, if not killed, by the likes of Thorn. Not another one... not like what happened to his best friend, Edward... He won't let her do that to him again.

Another short chapter, but it's leading right up to the good action, wouldn't you say? XD; Again, sorry for the long wait, but you'll get your patience rewarded, I swear you will! So until then, I'll be working on that chapter you'll all be waiting for! See ya then!