The midday sun cast streams into the island below filling the deepest crevices with light as it ascended to the highest posistion in the sky. It was a crystal clear, cloudless day. The sky, completely naked, was a light blue in colour just like the tropical waters around the coast. To the north was a vast, endless expanse of forest so thick the canopy blocked the sunlight out, casting the world below into shadow. The shade was a refreshingly cool refuge to those hoping to stay out of the daylight. Deep, deep into the forest Blue was tracking the trail left by what she concluded to be another, different pack of velociraptors.

The only others like her that she knew where Charlie, Echo and Delta. She was completely unaware there were other raptors on the island, so as she travelled through the shaded forest her anticipation built up quickly. 'Will they be friendly?' 'How old are they?' 'How many of them are there?' All were questions that needed answering. She needed to befriend this other pack. Ever since exploring the shrouded dark of the abandoned building, Blue was begining to become paranoid. There was no one to cover her back, which worried her. For her sanity, she needed to interact.

As morning turned over to afternoon, Blue continued to chase down the scent without stopping once for rest. Time spent not running was time wasted and losing the track that would, in theory, lead her to the other raptors wasn't an option. Luckily, Blue was a strong runner, and she was adapted to travel quickly, so even after several hours of non-stop running there was still more energy to continue. Even in the dense blanket of heat that smothered her, she remained at a constant speed without faltering.

By the late afternoon, just before dusk, after a relentless cross country run, she had made it out of the forest. Outside of the shade, Blue felt the warmth of sunlight cloak her back. Now that her vision was no longer blocked by bothersome trees, she could see where the trail was coaxing her into going. Interrupting the horizon was a collection of human-built structures and fences the divided the land into a series of rectangles. Further away were even taller buildings that lined a wide street at the centre of the park. At the end of the street lay the tallest building. The fires were still alight from the battle with the Indominus. Not wanting to mourn her losses at that moment, Blue forced the thought out of her head and focused on the task at hand.

Shaking her head, she continued her trek. She darted through a pair of wide open steel gates into the eerie place built and left by humans. She leaped over several short wire fences, completely ignoring the grey paths that winded around them, and continued tracking the scent, sniffing every inch of air.

Just as the sun fell down once again, the raptor was led by her nose around a corner. She stopped and looked up. Above her was the unmissable construction that lay at the end of the wide open street. It was the tallest building on the entire island, outside of which had she met with the Alpha, and chose to stand with him against the Indominus. It was where the end began, and only a few days after running away from there she was back. Blue suppressed memories of the event and continued to sniff away at the ground. It was unmistakable that the origin of the smell was inside. With only a hint of hesitation, she entered.

All the lights were off leaving only silhouettes and outlines visible. Since it had been recently inhabited, the interior was left in fairly good condition. But it was completely lifeless now, completely still. There was a muffled silence that echoed in and out of different rooms and halls. There were certainly no raptors on the ground floor other than herself, so Blue peered upwards. From her peripheral vision she noticed a thin slit of light that cut through an ajar door. Creeping silently, taking care not to disturb the quiet already present, she made her way up via a stairway. Occasionally, her claw would tap against a stair causing a discreet sound, but even if it wasn't too loud Blue winced whenever it occured. Eventually, she made it to the top without alerting whatever was in the lit room of her presence. Slowly, she pushed the door open with her snout exposing the entire building to the bright light from inside.

Entering the room, Blue noted the clean white walls and tiled floor of equal cleanliness. Tubes of coloured liquids were in rows on tables and several monitors displayed words and symbols that Blue couldn't decipher. At the far end of the room, however, was the main point of interest. The scent was coming from a large, clear glass tank illuminated by powerful lights at the top of the container. A sizable hole in one side was surrounded by shards that must have been scattered as the glass was destroyed. Within the tank was more shards, but not of glass. They were thin and white in colour, and were in much larger chunks. After a moment of deep thought, Blue realised where she had seen these before. She had witnessed her siblings as they struggled to escape the eggs that encaged them. These white shards were, of course, the remenants of an egg, most likely several. They reeked of raptor.

There was quite a few stands inside the tank that Blue guessed the eggs were kept until they hatched. In front of each stand was a label, each with a different word. Blue observed a few labels. "Foxtrot", "Golf", "Hotel"... none of it made sense to the illiterate raptor. However, as she got to the last stand she realised that it was still inhabited. Upon the stand was a full, unbroken, unhatched egg. The label read "Zulu" but Blue still didn't know what that meant.

Taking a sniff of the egg, she acknowledged the familiar smell of velociraptor. She wasn't alone! Standing dead still, she stared unblinkingly with a comically large smile imprinted on her face. After a few minutes, however, she started to become bored.

'Come on...' Blue thought, 'just hatch already, you're late!' She nudged the egg, tilting it slightly away from her. No reply came. 'Any second now...' Still, nothing happened. 'What's taking so long!?' The eager dinosaur became impatient. Maybe something was wrong? She pondered for a moment, before springing into life. Blue had a solution.

Speeding outside, she attempted to focus on another smell: the smell of food. Surprisingly, the odour was very close. It seemed to originate from a black cylinder with similar symbols to the ones that labelled the eggs.

"Litter"

Blue wasn't sure what that meant either, but if it led her to food then she would happily "litter". Inside the strange capsule was mainly discarded plastic bags and old pieces of paper, but after rumaging for some time the scavenger uncovered a mostly uneaten slice of ham. It was perfect.

Sprinting back up the stairs and almost smashing into a wall before managing to slow down, the genius of a raptor returned to the egg victorious. 'Here you go' she thought, carefully planting the ham on top of the egg being careful not to harm it. 'Eat up'. Once again, no reply came, not even movement. Anger swelled up within Blue, causing her eyeballs to nearly pop out of their sockets they were so wide. She took a deep gasp in and roared at the useless egg and then stormed out the the room with ferocity.

Exiting the building once again, Blue was able to view the sunset as it burned the sky shades of orange and red. She decided to take a stroll down the street to soothe her temper and breathe some fresh, cool evening air. To her right, she saw the ruins of a building, still with small fires alight inside. Blue recognised this as the death place of Echo. At one moment during the battle, Echo was there, the next she was knocked into the building and incinerated in a blazing inferno. Blue deeply hoped that it was a painless, quick death. Echo deserved that much, at the least.

Holding back a tear, Blue continued down the street, turning to the present. Her main priority, she decided, was to protect the defenceless egg. It needed all the help it could get; the stupid thing couldn't even eat (although, Blue was having second thoughts about how eggs work. They don't have a mouth, after all). The secondary objective was to regroup with the Alpha, like she had decided before. As she concluded the council in her mind, she found herself at the end of the street standing before a huge circular body of water. Remembering what had happened to the Indominus, she decided to stay away from the edge. Looking to the right again, Blue saw the spot that the Alpha was standing when he shook his head, dismissing the raptor. This was the last place she had seen him.

Perhaps, just maybe, she could pick up a trail that would lead her to the Alpha. Once she had taken care of the egg, of course. On the topic of eggs, Blue realised that the Alpha had been there since her hatching. He must have hatched years before anyone else in the pack. If he had raised them, Blue figured he would know how to raise "Zulu". She didn't know the first thing about raising a child, and she was willing to bet that she would never find out. No, the Alpha had to do this. She couldn't. Who else could?

There was certainly a scent where he had stood, but it was very faint and not indisputably his. Blue decided to follow it nontheless, although she highly doubted it would lead her to him. It had been days since the incident with the Indominus Rex, so the trail was vague. Switching straight into a tracking mindset, she wandered in the direction her snout pointed as is uncovered the way. She was led back up the street, but then turned sharply in front of the egg-building. It guided her to a cracked tile of stone of the ground. It was stained a dark red with blood. Blue closed in on it, lowering her nose to sniff the blood, trying to identify where or who it came from. It took several sniffs to take in the full odour, but Blue instantly identified whose blood this was once she had processed the smell.

Without a doubt, this blood came from Delta. It made sense, she was tossed away by the Indominus' immense strength during the fight. The trajectory would have caused her to land somewhere near the bloodstained tile with force. She must have landed on that very tile, cracking the floor on impact, before bleeding, leaving the bloodstains. Something was very strange, though. There was no body.

That evidence would sugguest that Delta had survived the attack. Blue inspected the area for any clues that could lead her to Delta's whereabouts. Small dots of dried blood trailed off away from the large blotch that painted the tile. Looking behind at the structure that housed the Zulu egg, Blue decided it would be a safe enough place for it to stay while she searched for her lost sister.

The bloodstains paved Blue's way across the park until a familiar enclosure came into view. It was her enclosure. It was home to the entire raptor pack. The stains led into the pen. Delta's scent was thick and new in the air. She was in there. Blue entered.

Inside, Delta lay facing away from the entrance. She half turned, communicating with a series of growls and grunts, but Blue understood.

"You have a lot of nerve to return here."

Blue had a crazy diversity of emotions within her. She felt relieved that Delta was alive, joyful that they were reunited, sad for the loss of Echo and Charlie, and now confusion. She replied "What? How? What do you mean?"

Delta snapped at her "You led Echo to her death before leaving me for dead. How can you expect me to welcome you. I thought we were all comrades, companions, but it seems clear you only ever cared for the Alpha." She looked down, drowning in her sorrows, eyes watering.

Completely taken aback by what she heard, Blue was in disbelief. Stuttering, she replied "I... I'm so sorry Delta, I didn't know-"

Delta cut in "Sorry doesn't cut it, Blue." She stood up and fully turned, revealing a deep, open scar from the front of her chest, streaking past her right shoulder, blood still slightly oozing from the wound, and a completely white, blinded eye also on her battered right. She was completely in tears now. "We would have followed you unto death- hell, Echo did! But it turns out you were always just a slave for the Alpha."

Blue defended herself. "He's Alpha for a reason, he truely cares for us. The Indominus used us for its own needs, the Alpha is a friend to all of us, not just our leader."

Delta shook her head, sighing. "If he's so great how come he left? He left you to die, just as you did to me." The damaged raptor lay back down. "I'm sorry Blue, but I cannot forgive you. Just leave me be. You're no longer my sister..."

The beta was in complete amazement. 'This must be another nightmare' she pleaded in her mind, now also in tears, 'this can't be real... this can't be happening!'

"I'm not going to ask you again, Blue. I don't want to see you ever again. Just... just leave me alone"

Blue was in despair. This wasn't the reunion she expected. After so long of being apart she couldn't bear seperating again. But she had to. Broken emotionally, saddened, she left the enclosure with a low hanging head and sorrowful, watery eyes.

Night settled in and the moon began to rise. Blue drifted into the room containing the egg, still hanging her head low. She lay on the ground and buried her head in her claws. 'Please let this be a nightmare, please...' But her pleas were in vain.

Meanwhile, in the raptor enclosure, Delta gazed into the white moon with her one good eye. She remembered how Blue had left her, how she had convinced her and Echo to stand with the Alpha, leading Echo to her death. Rage grew in her eye, hot anger bubbled in her body. She swore on the moon 'I will avenge you, Echo.'