Disclaimer: Jurassic World and the Jurassic Park franchise are the property of Universal Studios, Michael Crichton, Steven Spielberg and Colin Trevorrow. I own nothing from this story aside from the plot.
Authors note: Greetings Readers! first things first, I would like to greatly apologize for the delay of this chapter. I've been very busy for the past couple of days working on a script for my college screenwriting class and it has severely limited my time to work on this story, being struck with a cold doesn't help matters either. But now I'm back and will try to update on a more regular basis, probably every weekend. As always, comments and constructive criticism are very much welcome, always looking for ways to improve and a special thanks to Invader Johnny and zelene2004 for the reviews last chapter. Anyway, onto the story, hope you enjoy.
Later, they were on the monorail, heading to the park. She were sitting in the front, watching Gray excitedly peer through the front window, Zach tapping away at his phone next to her. Then Gray pointed excitedly at the approaching gates, the intercom announcing,
"Welcome…..to Jurassic World!"
"Whoa! Is that the Mosasaur Tank?! Can we go there later, please, please, can we, can we?!" Gray asks, jumping excitedly up and down.
She smiles at his excitement and plan a stop there later in the day.
After the monorail arrived at the park and checking into the hotel, the three of them headed out to the innovation center, Zara trying to catch up to a very enthusiastic Gray who charged off the second they left the hotel, Zach trailing behind her.
"Is he always this fast?" She asks Zach, still surprised at how much energy the little kid could have.
"You won't believe the half of it." he grumbles.
She rushes up the steps as Gray bursts in to the building and enters, holding the door open for Zach as she does so, struggling to find Gray among the Centers large crowd. Looking around, Zara found him interacting with the centers interactive displays which was next to the holographic dinosaurs, a T-Rex on display this time.
At the top of the center's spiral staircase, she saw Claire, clad in her usual all white attire, down to her white heels, which made her red hair stand out even more, coming down the stairs. She appeared to be on the phone with someone, a fact which made Zara roll her eyes 'so typical of her', she thought.
Claire hung up halfway down, walking up to the three of them when she reached the bottom, only managing to say hi before she was tackle hugged by a very enthusiastic Gray. Behind them, Zara could see her passing an envelope to the boys before telling them Zara was watching them for the whole day while Claire finished her meetings and was going to meet them later that night, wincing slightly when Gray asked "You're not coming with us?"
Claire turned to her, a pleading look in her eyes that said 'please back me up', but Zara only shook her head, this was her problem and she had to solve it herself. But Claire at least had the decency to do some damage control by saying that she would be with them tomorrow, convincing Gray enough though she could see Zach still had some serious doubts.
She then walked to her, sheepishly ducking from the glare that Zara was sending her way "Hey, are you still angry about this morning?" she asked nervously.
The unyielding glare was her only answer, but it softened eventually and she stepped closer to Claire.
Zara took both of Claire's hands and looked into her eyes saying, "Just be careful when you're at the paddock later alright? I really don't like how she looks at people, it's almost as if she's planning something."
She chuckled at the notion, "Honey, relax, It's just an animal."
Normally Zara would be inclined to agree, but she remembered the first time she saw the Indominus. It was part of the monthly inspection with the paddocks engineers and when Claire was busy discussing the specifications of the paddock with some of them, she took the opportunity to look into the enclosure.
"Where are you?" she said as she scanned the interior, trying to look past the towering trees, gasping when she laid eyes on her. She was a formidable looking one, she gave her that, with her bone white skin, rows and rows of sharp dagger like teeth, the slender rex like skull, long muscular tail and muscular dexterous hands that ended in claws that would make even a Baryonyx blush with envy. She gazed at her as she tore into a chunk of meat, using her claws for better grip.
But then the dinosaur looked up at her with those red eyes, jaws ruby red with blood and that made her freeze in fear. What she saw in those eyes were terrifying, there was no hint of emotion there, just cold malice directed at her and it sent shivers down Zara's spine.
The Indominus came closer to the observation platform, the ground trembling with each step she took and stopped right in of the window, her breath fogging up the glass as she cast a dark shadow over Zara.
Behind her, she could faintly hear Claire reassure the frightened engineers that the glass was designed to stop a fifty caliber bullet and nothing could break through it. She could also hear Claire telling her to step back but she couldn't, she was paralyzed with fear as the Rex peered at her with those eyes, like a sniper zoning in on a target, its body tensed for an attack and at that moment she felt so incredibly small.
She closed her eyes and steeled herself for the imminent attack, for the cracking and shattering of glass, for metal to creak and bend, but it never came.
When she opened her eyes again, she saw the Indominus was still but she could've sworn the dinosaur was smiling at her, almost satisfied from the sheer terror radiating from her. Then the Indominus left, her main objective apparently fulfilled. Zara stumbled forwards, barely managing to grab the decks handle bars to steady herself and took rapid, sharp intakes of breath.
She jumped slightly when a hand touched her shoulder, but calmed down when she heard Claire's voice, who was whispering words of comfort to her as she rubbed circles into her back. "Hey, you alright?" Claire asked, worried that she just stood there as the Indominus loomed over them.
The moment was broken when she heard thunderous footsteps, the massive form of the Indominus charged at them and crashed into the window, causing large spider webs of cracks to form in the glass and the metal to shriek from the strain.
"Jesus!" she shouted as they stumbled back as far away from the windows as possible. The dinosaur clawed and roared at the glass, before fleeing back into the trees. "Can we just get out of here?" Zara asked shakily, not wanting to spend another minute in there, looking back to see that the engineers already left. Claire replied by gently taking her by the arm and hastily leading her to the elevator. But even as the elevator doors closed, she couldn't help shake the feeling that they were still being watched.