Chapter 3: Dream a Nightmare
Aurora and her pack went to the waterfall that was in their private area. Charlie went in first, as she usually wanted to go first, and stood under the waterfall.
'Brrrrrr! It's so cold!' the young raptor chirps at her pack mates.
'Then why are you doing that?' Echo asks.
'So I can get it over with,' Charlie replies and swims around the pool. The young raptor dives under the water, much like a fish, and swims around while the others laugh.
'Charlie, you really are a youngling,' Delta chirps at her when she broke the surface.
Charlie came back on dry ground and then shakes herself dry, but the others were hit by the spray of water. 'Charlie!' Blue snorts and the young raptor stops shaking. 'You're worse than a youngling, you are a baby,' the beta raptor adds.
'I am not a baby!' Charlie protests and then came the bickering match among the raptors.
"Stop it! All of you!" Aurora shouts and they obey. "Honestly, it feels like I am babysitting a couple of toddlers," she adds and the raptors frown.
Delta went into the pool to wash off the sweat and grim. Echo and Blue did the same, but Blue stayed in the water, despite the cold. "What are you doing? You'll freeze," Aurora said to the beta.
'I'm waiting for you,' Blue chirps, 'I am going to protect you from Ulyssa, if she shows up,' she adds.
"Oh come on Blue, she will not come, the south jungle is her territory, she would not come and take over this part of the jungle," Aurora insists, but Blue shakes her head.
'You'll never get me to change my mind, not in a thousand years,' Blue replies and Aurora rolls her eyes.
"If you say so," Aurora said as she undresses and goes into the pool. She washes her hair and skin with soap and stands under the waterfall. True to Blue's word, the raptor kept an eye out while still in the water.
"Are you sure you want to stay in the water? I'll be a while," Aurora said to Blue, but the raptor shakes her head.
'I don't care if I turn into a snow-cone, I am not leaving your side,' she chirps. Aurora walks over to the raptor and gently rubs her neck to get her warm.
"You are like a dog," she said to the beta raptor, "That's why I love you." Blue purrs as Aurora warms her up and they step out of the pool. Both of them dried off and Aurora thought hard on new clothes.
At that moment, Aurora received a new pair of jeans, a t-shirt, shoes, and a hoodie. After dressing, Aurora and the pack went to their private area.
It was a nice little camp-ground with a fire pit, a tent for cold nights, and a clothes line for hanging wet garments. Aurora built up a fire and the raptors were pulling a huge bull. Either one of them thought on it and they killed it.
Aurora cut a chunk out of the bull and roast it over the fire. The raptors ate the bull clean and its bone simply vanish into thin air.
'That was a good bull,' Charlie chirps, cleaning her talons.
It quickly got dark and fatigue came down on the pack. "Bed time," Aurora said to the raptors. They yawn, featuring their white dentures to Aurora. At times, Aurora was afraid of their teeth.
The raptors then curl up on the ground and Aurora lays herself down by Blue, her head resting on the raptor's neck. The young woman fell asleep, listening to Blue's purring and breathing.
Aurora was looking directly at the barrier from the geode hill. Aurora saw a gaping hole and it crackled with electricity. She dared herself to go down and see what was lurking within.
In the hole of the barrier, Aurora saw a whirlpool of blackness. She sensed the evil within this barrier and it was horrifying to look at. She knew that the hole had to be closed, but how?
Suddenly, hands grab hold of the young woman and pull her into the darkness. "I see you and I'm going to get you!" a familiar, male voice spoke to her in the blackness.
Aurora tried to scream, but the darkness enveloped her.
Aurora awoke with a start, panting hard and sweating. Luckily, she didn't awake Blue or the other raptors. She did her best to remember the male voice she had heard in her dream.
"No, it could not be him," she said to herself. The one man who had a voice that send shivers down her spine was the one man Aurora and the raptors dreaded most when they were alive. Dr. Christian Lewis.
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In the west, by the geode hill where the barrier was, something was pounding in it. Hands banged on the barrier, but it crackled. However, a much more powerful force arrived.
It delivered a crushing blow to the wall, making it crack like glass. Finally, the barrier broke open and one by one, black figures stepped into the afterlife for the dinosaurs.
From the author: Uh-oh! This is not good! What is going to happen next? Stay tuned for more!