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I don't own Jurassic Park, nor anything about it. The credit goes entirely to its writer, and the directors that had gained permission from the writer to turn the books into movies. Sorry for not writing this as quickly as you all wanted me to. I got sick. VERY sick. I'm finally better, and so I'm writing this chapter to all you loyal fans! Thank you all so much for your support!~

Chapter 12

"Land ho!" Mily shouts out of relief as the plane finally approaches the island of the dinosaurs. It was a few hours before dawn when they sighted their destination. Her shout wakens Zain and Lizzy, who were sleeping to rest up before they arrived.

"Gee, shout loud enough for Thorn to hear you next time," Zain gripes lightly as he shakes his head and runs his hand through his blond hair. But he sits up straight and seems to be at high alert once he realizes that they were indeed close to the island. "I hope this will be a piece of cake if we're able to catch Thorn by surprise."

"I thought the idea was to warn Rose??" Mily said as she turns to look at him. He shrugs and motions to the island.

"You really think that it'll be enough? I doubt Thorn's sharp hunting skills would miss that there's a human living there. So then how long will it take for her to figure out it's her cousin?"

"Eh... good point." Mily pulls out her personal guns and checks the chambers where the bullets lay. "Think this'll be bloody?"

"No doubt," Lizzy answers instead as she stares out the window for a minute. Securing a pack for herself, she then pulls her hair into a ponytail. "But I'm ready to give a little payback to my cuz."

Zain chuckles lightly to himself as he nods in agreement. He personally been wanting a confrontation with Thornara since he heard what happened to his and Jiraz's best friend, Edward. Even now, it grieves and angers him to think of how Edward was found washed up on a shore in Florida a week after Thorn realized that someone was spying on her trading deals from an inside job, which happened just a few months ago.

"Well then, let's make sure to kick her ass before she does so to us."

"Amen."

Though what the people on the plane hadn't realized was that Thornara was already on the hunt for her prey...

"Mike, hurry up with my pack, would you?" Thornara barks impatiently in the dawn's twilight. They had set out on the hunt ten minutes ago with Victor and five others chosen to carry supplies as well as any trophies for the trip back. Jiraz was trying to slow the expedition the best he could, though he had realized long ago that once Thornara was on hunting mode, she was very impatient and snappy to reach her destination. Anything sets her off easily.

"Yes ma'am," he replies as he hoists the bag further up onto his shoulders and goes at a pace that Thornara would reluctantly accept. He knew it would be rather futile to keep her away from hunting for long, in which meant that if/whenever the time came that she realized that Rose was on the island, he'd have to give up his safe job. He was willing to do that.

"Now Victor, I hope that you have the appropriate weapons for this hunt," Thorn said to the man next to her in an almost flirtatious way, batting her eyes. It was rather out of character for her, but then again, she and Victor were much alike. So it isn't a wonder that Thornara was rather taken by him.

"Don't you worry about me, milady," Victor said casually as he winked at her. "I'm just here to protect you from sneak attacks." The whole act made Jiraz want to run off and throw up, though he wasn't about to openly do so. He'd rather piss glass before he insults Thorn and her taste in men.

What he wished hadn't happened is the screams that came up from ahead. And to him, one sounded more human than a beast.

"That just might be our hunting marks up ahead," Victor said as he points his rifle in the direction of the sound.

"Then let's make haste." Thornara smiles in a charming manner before turning to the rest of the group, the charm gone. "I suggest that you pick up the pace, or I will make your next assignment as bait for the velociraptors," she said in a tone that made even Jiraz pick his footing up.

'I hope that wasn't you, Rose, 'cause here we come,' he thought to himself. 'Zain, you better get here quick.'

The plane lands on the island half an hour later, and the small group steps out into the familiar territory they all hoped to never see again. Kyle grimaces and has a hold of a gun at all times. It seems that he isn't as virtuous as he had been before the first time on the island, which is a good thing in this case. Zain merely examines the surroundings and looks to the others.

"We better get going, cuz if I know Thorn well enough, she'd already be on the hunt," he said. Billy nods as he quickly glances at the map.

"We'll reach the raptor nest in just an hour."

"Can't we get there any faster??" Mily said with a groan.

"Unless you can sprout wings or grow raptor legs, we have to walk," Zain sighs out in impatience.

"Uh, maybe we don't have to find that nest after all..." they hear Kyle mutter. They turn to him, confused and a little angry.

"After all we did to make this trip, you're about to chicken out?!" Mily accuses as she places her hands on her hips. Maybe in another situation, she'd look scary to Kyle, but he was shaking for a different reason. Blinking at the reaction, she turns to look over her shoulder, and finds why he said what he did.

They were surrounded by raptors.

"Oh fuck," Zain said as he tries to keep his rifle on every raptor. But that's kind of impossible when they're all around them. "Any suggestions?? 'Cause I don't think Rose is here to save our asses this time."

"Uhh..." Mily is then suddenly struck by an idea. A very stupid and maybe suicidal idea, but an idea nonetheless. "Try following my lead, maybe we'll get to Rosie faster," she said. The others look at her with doubtful expressions, but they let her step out of the protective circle. Holstering her guns to her hips, she then pulls out the one thing she keeps with her that isn't a weapon; a thick bracelet that Rose had given her at one birthday. Mily rarely wears it, though Rose had worn it several times before giving it to her. She personally hoped that Rose's scent was strong on it, even after a few months.

"What are you doing, Emily?" Kyle nervously ask while she slowly walk up to one particular raptor.

"You must be Okaa," Mily said quietly to the gray-muzzled raptor, entirely ignoring Kyle as to not let the raptor have an exposed back. That, or ignoring him because he used her real name. The raptor herself peers at Mily curiously, wondering of the humans' bold but cautious approach. "Lizzy, would you by-chance have anything at all of Thorn's?"

"Why the hell are you asking me for??" Mily took that as a no, which she's finding very unsatisfactory. The velociraptor could attack her at any time before she could somehow get her message across.

"Why Thorn?" Zain ask instead.

"I'm trying to get the message across that someone on the island is after a packmemeber, and I'd rather have them have the scent of Thorn," Mily said slowly, though she almost backed away when Okaa step forward and growls at her. "Easy, easy..."

"I got somethin' Jiraz sent some time ago. Would it be good enough?" Zain pulls out a necklace Jiraz swiped from Thornara's office at one point on a bet/dare.

"I hope so, so bring it to me. Slowly, please!" Zain inches forward until he could just reach out and hand the necklace into Mily's outstretched hand. Okaa blinks at the male who backs away into the group again, then turns to Mily. She is starting to shake, but she kept what courage she has and held out the bracelet first. Okaa at first withdrew and hissed (making Mily flinch), but curiosity won over caution as she approach slowly and sniff at the bracelet. Instantly scenting Rose, Okaa croons and tilt her head to one side. Mily takes this as a very good sign.

"Put the bracelet on the ground and then drop the necklace on top after it smells that too," Zain suggests as he tries to watch the rest of the velociraptors. They were only holding back because Okaa hadn't issued the order to attack. Yet.

'Easy for you to say...' But Mily then presents the necklace to the raptor once she pulled her other hand away. The raptor sniffs it curiously, not recognizing the scent, none that matched the humans right there in the clearing. Mily slowly placed the bracelet on the ground, then straightens up with the necklace right above it. Okaa watches with one eye as she lets the necklace drop down on the bracelet, the metals clicking together loudly. The raptor then did something unexpected; she hisses at the necklace and snaps at the chain, whipping it right off the bracelet. The action made it fly and hit Mily in the face, but she wasn't about to let a little pain make her yell when death surrounded them all. The necklace lands at her feet as Okaa peers at the bracelet, then at Mily. At a sudden impulse, she stomped one foot on the necklace a few times, empathizing on her dislike for the scent it belongs to.

Okaa shrieks out before trumpeting at the rest of the pack. Vocalizing to one another, most of them turn away from the humans and races through the forest back to the nest. The ones that remain is Okaa and four others, though only Okaa remains to be the closest one. She barks some sort of orders at the humans, but unlike Rose, they didn't understand.

"Maybe we're being led to her?" Billy suggests when Kyle glance at him. Bravely, he takes a step toward Okaa and Mily. Immediately, the raptor turns with the others and goes at a brisk pace. They all took this as they were to follow, and the humans quickly matched the velociraptors' gait once they had their packs on.

Rose, on the other hand, was with a hunting party, tracking a parasaurolophus they've been after since that morning. With Sirus in the lead, the rest follows loosely as to not draw attention from their quarry. Whipping his head to one side at half the group, they circled away from the main and took their place around the creature, who finally stopped to take a drink from a pond. Sirus steps in front of Rose, then barks to the rest to finish the circle around their prey. Rose already knew what her job was, seeing as it seems to be her best one; be the distraction. As soon as the raptor stepped away from her and trilled at her softly, she makes her way quickly through the underbrush.

Crouching next to a tree somewhat near the pond, Rose watches and waits for the right moment. She can see the rest of the pack positioning themselves for the attack. Quietly flipping her knife out of her pocket, she waits until it looks to one side before springing from her hiding spot. Without a yell, she leaps onto the creatures' tail, making it bellow out in surprise as she slices into a point that the skin wasn't as thick as the rest. As it turns to stare at what jumped on him, the pack attacked at once. The creature didn't know what hit him, and while he tries to take on the raptors, they were five steps ahead of him most of the time. He did score a few raptors with his tail and forelegs, but there were too many of them for him to prevent the inevitable.

Feeling particularly vengeful against the first creature that jumped him, the creature raises his tail up high, lifting Rose up way above his head before slamming it down to the ground. The impact threw her balance, and she was suddenly swinging by her lower torso, her legs somehow able to keep their grip. The creature lifts the tail up again despite the raptors attacking his back, neck, torso and face. With another bellow, he slams his tail toward the ground. By this point, Rose realized that she was going to be crushed if she stayed there any longer, and so let the momentum throw her off. It practically threw her ten feet away before, and by rolling herself into a ball, she at least saved herself of a broken arm or leg as she slams into a rock. She screams out as it digs into her rib cage, but though it hurts, it'll only leave a big black-and-blue bruise.

'I think I'll lay here for a minute,' she thought as she bites her lower lip hard, closing her eyes as she resists the impulse to yell some more, like those who slam their big toes into corners of furniture by accident. Though a rock against ribs would definitely hurt more, and had the right to scream out in bloody murder. But screaming would only hurt her ribs more, since breathing was hurting bad enough, and so laid there as her pack finished off the parasaurolophus. 'Ooooh, that hurts...'

What makes her instantly forget about her pain was a ringing sound of a gunshot being fired. She sat up fast despite her ribs screaming at her, the rest of the pack who were feeding looking up in high alert. Sirus screeches out to the pack in retreat, and they turned away from their kill to flee into the trees. Rose had a tough time running, and so had to settle hiding in a clump of bushes until her ribs could let her run again. 'Who the hell are they?!'

She didn't have to wonder long as the hunters finally make their way into the dinosaur-made clearing. A man with dirty-blond hair dressed in hunting gear led a small group. Or so it seemed at first. The sight of her black-haired cousin made Rose want to run and hide for all eternity; now there's no question of why they're here, for Thorn is on the hunt.

'Oh great, just what we really needed... a psychopath on the trail,' Rose thought to herself, suppressing the want to groan from both the discovery and her ribs. Watching even though it pained her to stay crouched there, she watches as six other people walk behind them, carrying gun ammunition and supplies. One of them she recognizes as her friend, Jiraz. Not surprisingly, he looks like he'd rather be somewhere else. But he seems more worried about something else other than dinosaurs.

"Fresh kill, not that long ago," the man observed as he presses a hand against the parasaurolophus. "These teeth marks has to be velociraptors." He turns to Thornara as she stares off in a direction where the grass was crushed by feet. "Think they're that way?"

"Oh yes, we're close to finding their nest." She smirks as she turns to the man. Rose's anger instantly flares in that instant; she's after her pack, her family. Without meaning to, a growl thrums in the back of her throat, but luckily, it was quiet enough that Thornara and the man hadn't noticed. One person had, though he merely looked around in surprise. Jiraz was sure that it was a human growl. "Twenty minute break, I think," Thornara said as she glances at the rest of the group and sees that they were sweating from exertion. While nervous of being the clearing of a killed animal that hadn't even been dead for thirty minutes, the rest of the group happily took to sitting on a rock or log.

Jiraz, who was still certain that someone was watching, took this break as a chance to examine the place that he heard the growl. He casually strolled to the clump of bushes and sat on a rock right in front of where Rose is. "Hey... you there?" he said, barely moving his lips. Afraid to talk due to the pain that might make her voice higher than intended, Rose merely grips onto a sleeve of his shirt. If he hadn't been expecting an answer, he'd probably would have jumped. His face looks more grim rather than relieved as he sighs. "You have to hide out somewhere until Thorn has her fill of hunting. She'll be eager to hunt you down too, if she found out you're here."

Again Rose's anger sparks, which transmits through her hand as she clutches tight enough to squeeze the material around his arm. "I am not hiding when she is hunting my pack," she growls out, barely louder than a whisper. Jiraz bites the inside of his cheek, afraid to have heard that. So she had become attached to the monsters.

"Zain and the others are on the way, if they hadn't got here already," he said as he pulls out his laptop, still playing casual for if Thornara watches him. He felt as her hand loosens slightly from surprise. "If you're not going to hide, then you better find them and have them where they can help. Once Thorn catches wind of you..." He didn't have to finish that sentence, she knew that she would be hunted for Thorn's pleasure for revenge.

"Hey love, lookie here," Victor said suddenly when he stopped his exploration of the clearing, trying to take in the picture of how the raptors hunt. Bending down and grabbing something from the grass, he looks up as Thornara approaches. "Either someone dropped this long ago, or someone was here just some time ago. And I'm bettin' on the second," he said with a chuckle, handing the knife to the woman.

'Oh fuck,' both Jiraz and Rose thought at the same time. They watch as interest shows first on Thorn's face. Then follows recognition, confusion, fury, and finally vengeance as a smirk slowly appears on her lips.

"My my... seems I'll be leaving with another trophy," she said slowly, as though savoring the images going through her mind. Rose winces at what could possibly be passing through her cousin's head, though she'd rather never know. Again, that impulse to run and hide came around.

"Oh ho, personal interest?" Victor said with a grin.

"Why yes, you'll be meeting a soon-to-be ex-family member." Thorn laughs, Victor joining in without any sympathy for the person that Thorn's after as well. Namely Rose, who personally hopes she'll never have to meet either of them.

"Now might be a good time to wait until we move on..." Jiraz said, gritting his teeth while trying hard to look disinterested with the conversation. Answering by gripping his arm as though agreeing, she then withdrew and remained motionless once more. For her, it was time to be a predator... and wait.

When they finally took off, following a trail that leads away from the nest (one of the raptors' defense against egg-stealers and predators bigger than them), Rose slowly makes her way to the nest until she was sure that she was completely alone. As fast as she can go, she bursts in speed and ran the rest of the way to her pack, ignoring her ribs and her fear of attack. She knows she's going to reach the nest first, well before Thornara, but having the thought of her cousin hunting her pack as well as her would make just about anyone push past their limits if they knew they were being hunted like an animal.

"Rose!" Mily is the first to spot her as Rose finally leaps the last of the underbrush and arrives at the nest. Rather surprised by the call of her name, she snaps into defense before her mind does voice recognition, realizing that her sister and her friends have found her. Somehow without being mangled by her pack, who all were around them in a relaxed manner. "Wow, you changed in just a few months," her friend said with a ghost of a smile.

She wasn't the only one that noticed. Lizzy looks over her sister with a surprised expression, Kyle with a dumb-founded one, and Billy with a critical eye. Zain looks rather expressionless as he examines Rose head to toe; she had always been skinny and light, but she never had much muscle. In just four months, her arms and legs gained muscle, shaping tone that suggests quick fights but can last for awhile. Her stomach has abs for once in her life, having to run for different situations depending what called for it. Any fat she had was gone. Her brown hair also grew past her waist, pulled back in a ponytail, though it seemed to have unraveled from a bun she probably put it in before each hunt. Even her hair changed, from dark auburn brown to light brown, matching her tan. Considering that she wears a cut-short shirt and torn jeans, it wasn't hard to see the changes in her body.

"Is this really the best time to comment on my appearance..?" Rose said through grit teeth, feeling the pain in her ribs once the adrenalin wore off slowly. She held her ribs, but she refuses to sit. "Thornara is going down a false trail, but it will not be long before she realizes that. She is on the hunt for me as well."

The smile Mily had fell to a grim, hard look. "Well, that sucks. What the hell did you do that for, letting yourself get noticed??" She was hoping for maybe a chuckle, but Rose sighs and shakes her head. "Sorry, bad joke for a bad situation."

"I dropped my blade in the clearing when I had to let go of the prey. She and some man found it, and she recognized it as one of mine." She winces when she looks down at the bruise quickly forming from red to dark blue. "Of course, I would only know this because I had to stay still for this..." Okaa by this point wonders over to her human and sniffs at her hair and face, trying to understand what hurts her but at the same time being protective.

"That looks like it hurts like hell," Zain comments, though she shrugs.

"Uh, I would rather have a thousand of these bruises than one of my cousin's fist marks. At least rocks do not know where vital organs and arteries are at."

"Good point."

"So what's the plan?" Billy asks while eyeing a velociraptor close to him. "I'm still amazed that we're still alive. I don't know how Mily did it, but she did."

Rose had to look at her, wondering that herself. But she shakes her head and turns to the trees. "We have to stop my cousin and her boyfriend, that is what the plan surrounds. I am not leaving my pack to be hunted like lesser animals."

"Even if they are?" said a voice that made Rose's blood run cold...

Ha, I'm leaving you with something to ponder over as I write the next chapter. XD Have fun! -Laughs out loud and runs away-