Surviving Jurassic Park

Chapter 21

Me, Ellie, Dad and the kids raced down the second floor corridor towards the control room, me and Dad were helping Tim. The door to the control room smacked open. Dad, Ellie me and the kids burst in. Ellie headed straight for the computer terminal. Dad moved Tim to the side, and raced back to the door to lock it. "We can call for help?!"

"We've got to reboot the system first!" Ellie said sitting at the computer and studies the screen. It's flashing to her, dominated by a maze-like grid. She studied it, confused.

I went by the door with Dad. He looked at Ellie. "The door locks. Ellie boot up the door locks! Boot up the door locks!"

POW! Something hit the door, hard, from the outside. I screamed, as the raptor was looking at us through the glass. Dad hurled his back against it Dad loses his gun. He struggled, the raptor scratched the glass. I put my back against the door trying to help him.

"ELLIE!" He shouted, and Ellie leapt out of the chair and raced over to the door to help us. A raptor snarled and snapped, trying to ram itself against the door, trying to force its way into the control room. It's all we could do to hold the door against the onslaught, but it bucks against us viciously.

"Katie, Ellie get back and boot up the door locks!"

Ellie gritted her teeth. "You can't hold it by yourself!"

"Katie boot up the door locks!" I nodded, and as I left them they struggled even more.

I rushed to Lex who was frantically trying to find a way to get the system back on.

"Ellie try to reach the gun!" Dad shouted.

"I CAN'T GET IT UNLESS I MOVE!" The raptor wasn't giving up as it was screaming to get in.

I went to grab the gun, "NO! Go back with the kids. I don't want you near here."

Lex slid over files on the computer. She was really good at this. She stared at the screen for a moment. "I've got to find the right file. Oh no, this isn't right. This might be right, no this isn't it."

"C'mon, Lex!" Tim whined. I would have tried to calm him but I couldn't keep calm myself. Reaching another menu, Lex spotted a box on the screen that read "DOOR INTEGRITY." She reached out and touches it. The screen beeped. "There it is, I got it! This is it, I did it. Yes, yes!"

"You got it?" I said amazed. Tim laughed. The door latch panel buzzed, Dad and Ellie put everything they have into it and finally the door smacked shut, locking the raptor outside.

"What works?" Dad asked, leaning against the door. Ellie ran over to me and embraced me.

"Phone, security systems, everything works. You ask for it, we got it!"

Ellie held me tightly to her. "I was so afraid that I wouldn't see you again." I whispered. Dad was calling John to let him know that we were okay and to send the helicopters.

"The children are fine." Dad said, and looked at me and Ellie still hugging.

"Listen, the phones are back up! Call the mainland! Tell them to send the damn helicopters…" All of a sudden the glass smashed. It was the raptor smashing the glass window.

Me and Ellie sprang apart and grabbed the kids moving them away from the window. Dad grabbed his gun and shot it at the glass as the raptor dodged the bullets.

"ITS GONNA COME THROUGH THE GLASS!" Ellie screamed. Lex was becoming hysterical again. Dad threw his rifle to the floor, smoking, and several spent shells alongside it. The front window of the control room has three huge impact shatter patterns in the glass, where the gunshots hit. Tim goes into an open panel through the ceiling, and into the crawl space. Lex climbed the ladder, followed by Me, Lex and Dad. Just as we were on the ceiling the raptors smash threw the glass and Dad who was scared as hell kicked the ladder over.

"Dad what if we fall through the ceiling." I said trying to be careful on the wonky bits. I wasn't heavy but I could still fall through.

"Just keep going Katie." Ellie said as I led the way. As Lex is crawling the panel beneath leaps up and she is dangling on it and the raptors head is through the gap. Lex screamed trying to get off, but Dad kicks the raptors head twice before it drops down again, but now Lex falls down with it.

"Please help!" She screamed, dangling from the ceiling. Dad and Ellie grab her before the raptor could take a bite out of her. Ellie put her behind me and we continued on.

"Go Tim go!" Dad said putting Tim in front of him.

We found the way to the lobby of the centre we crawled through the air duct as fast at they can, the thin metal booming and creasing around us. We reached a metal gate that shows daylight beneath. Dad reached out and pulled it up. Through the gate we were directly above the skeletons of the dinosaurs, the T-rex and the sauropod it's attacking. The unfinished skeletons are surrounded by scaffolding.

Dad climbed down first and helped Tim climb down out of the air duct and onto a platform of the scaffolding that stands alongside the skeletons. We continued down to the second platform, then the third. We suddenly see a raptor standing to the side by the second floor railing. It's much too far to jump to the lobby floor, so Dad climbed gingerly onto the nearest skeleton, the towering brachiosaur.

"Come on it's the only way to get down." He said and helped Tim on the one he was on. I had no choice to climb on to it, Lex followed me. She reached for my hand and I pulled her on to it.

The raptor flew out and landed on the back of the middle section of the skeleton.

SNAP!

It cracks part with the weight, sending the sections spinning in all different directions. Dad and Tim twirl on the middle section. Tim began to slide down. Dad tried to hold on to him but Tim lost his grip and falls to the ground right underneath the swinging, large middle section of the dinosaur skeleton. Meanwhile, Lex and me were spinning on the front section. She slipped, "LEX!" She tried to keep from falling as she hangs by her legs. The anchor bolts in the ceiling rip free, zinging past us like bullets. The entire brachiosaur skeleton collapses like a house of cards sending Ellie to the ground. She covered herself with her arms, trying to protect her head from the shower of falling bones.

Me and Lex fell landing on the ground with bones falling on top of her. Thankfully we were hurt too much as we were on the skeletons. The pain in my side from where I fell at the fence was back again. Dad alone in the middle section, looks up and sees the cable about to snap. Dad fell down to the ground with a heavy grunt. The large section of the skeleton comes careening down, heading straight for Tim, who laid where he fell on the ground. It comes smashing down . . . with just enough space for him to be safe. The raptor tumbled to the floor in a cascade of splintering bone. It landed on its back a few yards away and staggers for a moment, the wind knocked out of it.

Dad ran over to Tim and pulled him up. Lex and me sat up and as the raptor regain its feet. We screamed as it came closer to us. Ellie grabs our arms and pulls us to her.

"Shit." Ellie whispered as the raptors came towards us. We were all sandwiched together. I was sandwiched between Ellie and Dad, and Lex had her arm around Dad. Tim was in Ellie's grasp. My arms tightened around Dad and we waited for the impact. The raptor crouched in their pre-attack stance we were caught in the middle of the two approaching raptors. Lex looked back and screamed. We continued to back up until we heard a roar.

"Oh God." I said out loud. It's massive head descends down from above. A set of six-foot jaws clamped down on the raptor, it's eighteen-inch teeth sink into its side, and the helpless animal howled in agony as it's lifted up, up, up off the floor of the lobby. We looked up in stunned amazement. We stepped back behind the rock for safety and look to the right. We see another raptor approaching. The other raptor goes up in the air now, twenty feet off of the lobby floor, held fast in the mouth of the Rex. It stood in the entrance to the lobby in front of the massive hole it ripped through the Visqueen wall. It shakes its enormous head once, breaking the neck of the velociraptor, then drops it, dead, to the floor at its feet.

We were about to be eaten by Velociraptors and we were saved by the who would have thought?

Ellie lifted Tim up as he was unable to stand anymore. We all ran and dodged the bits of debris that were flying everywhere and dashed along the lobby floor and out of the door of the Visitor's Center.

As on cue a Jeep to a halt in front of the steps. It was Ian lying in the back. I thought he got killed. I climbed in to the jeep next to Ian and grabbed Tim from Ellie putting him in my lap. We could still hear the battle going on inside the centre. Lex sat squeezed in and practically sat on Ellie's knee.

"Mr. Hammond, after careful consideration. I've decided not to endorse your Park." Dad said settling into the front seat.

"So have I." John hit the gas and the Jeep took off. Leaving the dinosaurs to their fight.

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The helicopter rotors whirl to life as the chopper waits on the landing cross. I let out a relieved sigh as the sight of it. We were finally going home.

Me and Ellie help Lex in the helicopter first, then Ellie takes Tim from Dad and gives Tim to me and I put him beside me. Ellie gets in after Tim then Dad puts Ian in. We prop Ian's leg up on the other side of the seat. From out the window I seen Dad letting John take another look at his dream, his dream that is now ruined. He came over to John and led him back to the helicopter. When we were all strapped in the helicopter took off immediately. As we rose into the air, we stared out the windows, looking down on the park as it spread out below. John looked down at the park, his eyes full. He looked over at the kids, who were in Dad's arms. Dad has his arms around the kids and we were coming out of the island now and on to the ocean, I had my head on Ellie's shoulder. Me and Ellie smiled at Dad, he seemed so natural with the kids. I guess this trip did bring us together after all.

Dad smiled back us, and looked at the kids. They were knocked out and Ian was looking out of the window. John was looking at his walking stick with the amber mosquito inside, obviously not wanting to talk. Ellie leant her head on my head and I closed my eyes. I was wondering what life would be like now after this. I wondered what mine and Dad's relationship would be like now that he had finally accepted me. Plus he had learned to like kids finally, although not in the best of circumstances.

I hoped we would never experience that again.

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