Chapter 4: The Human Invaders

Aurora knew when the moment she woke up in the morning something was very wrong. She could feel it in the air. The raptors, particularly Blue seem to notice their alpha's distress.

'What is wrong?' Blue chirps at Aurora.

"I had a bad dream last night and I fear that it has come true," Aurora answers and that was when she heard birds cawing as they flew away.

Blue and her pack mates sniff the air, they could smell something new, but it wasn't friendly. "Let's go back to the barrier," Aurora orders and they left for the west geode hill.

To their surprise, they notice that none of the dinosaur herds were around the pools or in the meadow. Something was wrong, the dinosaurs were nowhere to be seen or heard.

'This is so strange, they must've got scared of something and ran off,' Echo chirps at her pack mates.

'Yes, but by what?' Delta replies and Aurora leads them westward towards the geode hill.

Upon arrival at the top, they immediately notice the barrier, it had a gaping hole. Electricity crackled as if the barrier was energized by wires.

Aurora felt sick to her stomach, the nightmare came true, and they had to do something. She did dare herself to go down and check the hole. Blue followed behind her, the other three raptors stayed behind.

Aurora looks into the hole, but to her surprise, there was no blackness. She did, however, feel the dark aura within it.

'Where does it go?' Blue chirps to her alpha. Aurora was not sure, but the most important thing to do was to close the hole before anything terrible happens to Home.

Aurora knew that something did escape from this and they have to locate it. Then, one of the raptors, Echo gave out a call, 'We see something! Over here!'

Aurora and Blue follows Echo toward the northern forest. It was then Aurora began to smell fire and Blue sniffs the air and chirps at her, 'Something is here, it smells human.'

Under the cover of the trees, the pack quietly follow the scent towards a clearing. It was there that the scent of fire imitated from. They heard chatter, human to be exact.

"How is this possible?" Aurora said as they took cover by some tall grass.

'Did they come from the other side of the barrier?' Charlie chirps.

'It is likely, we have never found any other humans here until now,' Echo replies. Aurora decides to head down to get a closer look, with Blue tailing behind.

"Blue, go back, it's not safe," Aurora ordered, but the beta did not obey.

It appeared that the humans were creating a base camp. There were tents and fires were burning in pits. Both Aurora and Blue hid when they a whole troop march pass.

Aurora got a good at them, they were carrying M16 assault rifles, and they wore clothes appropriate to wear in a jungle climate. Then, she saw a group of men a little further away. Some were shirtless and Aurora heard them throw curses at one another.

Then, there was the sound of gunfire and then silence. Aurora and Blue saw a few men with the rifles carrying infant Edmontosauruses, they looked dead, but then they squealed.

They ran from their captors, but the men shot at them. "Don't waste your bullets!" someone shouts, "This place is unnatural."

"Unnatural as in magical?" another man chuckles.

"Please, we're not five year olds," a third man replies. The baby Edmontosauruses ran away, but the men enjoyed a few laughs by kicking them.

Aurora knew that her pack was not safe here, they had to leave before they get caught. "Let's go Blue," she said to the beta raptor.

Suddenly, a light shown on them, exposing them. "There!" a man shouts. Both Aurora and Blue turn to run, but they were surrounded.

Blue screeches at them and someone shouts, "Sedate it!" Another man steps forward with an electric prod.

"No!" Aurora shouts and charges at him. Men grab her and pull her away. Blue attacks them and bits into their necks.

"Sedate it!" the man repeats his order. Chains were looped around Blue's neck and legs and she was pulled away. She was held down and the raptor knew she was powerless to fight all of them.

However, she knew her pack mates had not been detected and she sends out a cry, 'Get help! Find Ulyssa!'

"Silence it!" the same man shouts and the man with the electric prod tasers Blue into unconsciousness.

Aurora saw what happened and she screams, "Blue! Let me go!"

"Lidia! It's okay!" a woman's voice shouts. Aurora was confused, but she continues to fight the men holding her. Suddenly, someone hits her in the back of the head and she slumps over, unconscious.

Charlie, Delta, and Echo watched the whole event and they turn to run. They hurry out of the forest at top speed.

They then reach the south jungle and were about to enter. 'Wait! This is crazy!' Charlie chirps at them, 'Ulyssa said she will-'

'We don't have a choice!' Echo replies, 'There are over a hundred of them and they are armed. We need all the help we can get!'

'And Ulyssa and her pack are the only help we can get,' Delta said and they entered the dark jungle, hoping that the big raptor would understand what was going on.

From the author: Oh-no! What's going to happen to Aurora and Blue?! Find out next time!

By the way, am I going to fast with this story? I feel like I am, but I really can't think of anything else to add in this.