Disclaimer: Jurassic Park and Inheritance Cycle do not belong to me.

A/N: I am SO sorry for the very long wait! I had to go searching for Jurassic Park (book) and read it for a certain dinosaur that was in it, then I got caught up in school work and my other stories that I kinda forgot about this story for a little while. Well, I'm updating now!

Findings

Murtagh groaned as he finally came to next to a small creek with Thorn's right wing draped over him. Rubbing at his eyes, Murtagh flinched as his arm stung a lot. Looking at hand, he saw why. There was a deep gash on the top of his hand and the bone was sticking out.

'Thorn? You awake?'

A low growl answered him, before the wing was removed and his dragon looked at him. At a closer look, Murtagh would be able to see that Thorn must have had a rough landing before he had quite a few bite marks all over him. But at a closer look, Murtagh would catch the sight of the corpse of a large reptile looking creature, or rather more than one.

'Thorn what happened?'

'These…things came out of nowhere while I was trying to keep you warm. They took me by surprise, which is the only reason why they were able to do some damage. But once I got a good hold on them, they were done for.' Thorn lashed his tail angrily, and a plum of smoke came out of his nostrils.

'I see…any sign of Eragon, Arya, or Saphira?'

'None.' Thorn growled lowly as he looked around. 'Heal your hand Murtagh. The blood might attract something larger than those raptors.'

'Raptors?'

Thorn nodded his large head towards the carcasses. 'Something tells me that is what they are called.'

Murtagh nodded silently, before healing his hand with a wince. Just the feeling of the bone going back under the skin, snapping back in place, the muscles realigning themselves, and everything else, and then also healing was enough to make him sick. After healing himself, Murtagh looked around silently. The trees were too close together for him to fly on Thorn, which might explain why Thorn looked like he wanted to kill something right now.

'So the last we saw of them was when Eragon and Arya jumped off Saphira's back?'

'Yes.'

'What about Saphira?'

'She crashed somewhere among the trees.'

Murtagh sighed heavily, before letting Thorn know that he was going to go check things out. Walking past the trees silently, he looked around cautiously. Huge leafy ferns were all around the place, but what he liked the most was that he could hear birds and crickets making noise. That little sign told him that there weren't any predators in the area hopefully. After a few minutes of walking, Murtagh came to an open clearing, and he stared around in awe.

"Amazing…"

There were butterflies, and what at first glance to him looked like large birds flying around. But when one came flying towards him, Murtagh realized that it wasn't a bird, or it was a type of bird with leathery wings, a beak, and a single horn pointing upwards at a slight angle on its head. He started running from it, until he heard a loud roar. Pausing for a moment, Murtagh caught sight of Thorn, who just managed to break free of the trees, flying towards him and the strange creature. Though because he had paused, he felt claws grab his shoulders and suddenly lift him upwards.

"What the…?"

Thorn roared in anger as he tilted his body and went towards the creature flying away with his rider. 'Oh no you don't! Murtagh hold on!' Releasing a jet of fire, Thorn distracted the creature long enough to swing in from the side and clench his jaws around its neck with a deep growl. Grabbing Murtagh as the thing screeched in pain, Thorn broke away by pushing off it's side, and quickly flying to a different area of the island.

'Thorn we need to find Eragon.'

'I know. Though he should be safe as long as he is with Arya.'

'Yeah…IF he's with Arya.'

~Somewhere else on the island~

"Eragon why did you eat the berries?"

Eragon looked at Arya pathetically, but didn't say anything since he couldn't. He had eaten some blue berries that didn't look poisonous, but ended up making his tongue swell up a lot and it made talking difficult. Kairou chuckled as he came into view carrying some fruit.

"These ones are ok." He handed some fruit to Arya, who took it gratefully. Eragon looked around silently, and a little irritated. So far he hadn't been able to make contact with Saphira, and they had been chased by Spino yet again in the middle of night, but once again they had out run the creature.

"Eragon if you're worried about Saphira, don't worry. I'm sure she can hold her own against one of those creatures."

He nodded once to show he understood, before standing up and walking a few feet away. Closing his eyes silently, Eragon started listening to everything that was around them. His eyes snapped open when a loud roaring in the distance caught his attention. Arya and Kairou must have heard it too because they were standing by him a few moments later.

"What was that…?" Arya whispered since it hadn't sounded like Spino.

Kairou narrowed his eyes slowly. "It sounded like the other carnivorous one."

Arya whirled around and stared at Kairou in anger. "There's another one? You could've said something earlier then we would have been more cautious about where we were going!"

"Relax! The other one isn't the same as Spino. Unlike Spino, the other one's arms are really short. You only have to watch out for its fangs really."

Eragon was still looking in the direction that they had heard the other one. He regretted wanting to find out what was out here. 'Well…now I have my answer, but at what cost? Have I lost Saphira forever because of my curiosity? I hope not…'

Not very long, but hopefully I will be updating more often. I will finish this one eventually! I promise!