Chapter 7: The Rescue
Aurora had been crying on the earthy ground and her face was caked with mud. She prayed that Charlie, Delta, and Echo would come back with help, but she desperately wanted to be beside Blue and heal her injuries.
She felt afraid of what Dr. Lewis was planning to do to the raptor. Blue had been beaten savagely and for some reason, Aurora also felt hurt, not just on the inside; she discovered some bruises all over her arms and legs.
At first, Aurora thought that she received these bruises from fighting with the soldiers. They didn't kick her or beat her, except for the hit in the back of the head. She decided to forget the issue and hoped that something would happen.
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Outside, the human camp had settled down for the night, but most of the soldiers were on portal. In the tall grass, the Velociraptors kept a low profile, making sure they stayed out of sight.
Scar, the Titanoceratops stayed under the cover of blackness, waiting for orders. Ulyssa sniffs the air and chirps, 'Take out that line of troops first.' The other raptors notice a group of soldiers, about eight heading out of the camp.
'Attack from both sides, be sure to silence them. That way they won't cry for help,' Ulyssa adds and the Velociraptors went into position. They hurried into the darkness under the trees, that way the soldiers would not notice.
The soldiers were walking two by two, which was a good way to take them out at both sides.
Once the troops were in the Velociraptors' line of vision, they strike. Eight raptors, including Charlie, Delta, and Echo got one soldier each and they chomped on the vocal cords to prevent them from crying out.
'Get them out of sight!' Ulyssa orders and the raptors dragged the bodies away. Just then, all of the soldiers' bodies turned to black dust.
'What? Where did they go?' Charlie chirps, but Echo quiets her down when another line of soldiers came out of the camp.
The raptors did the same routine, but like before, the bodies of the soldiers turned to black dust.
'How is this happening?' Delta asks Ulyssa.
'I'll tell you later,' the big raptor replies and then goes to find Scar.
Meanwhile in the camp, Esteban and Joana were with Dr. Lewis. Esteban was outraged by the condition that Aurora or Lidia was suffering from. He was, however, more afraid that his 'daughter' will discover the real truth.
"I told you, her memories will come back eventually," Lewis said to Esteban.
"Eventually? Like when? A day, a month? Hell, I should've given her to that brothel along with her sisters!" Esteban shouts and Joana flinches at the sound of his voice.
"You really are a terrible father," Lewis said, but Esteban didn't care.
"That girl is more trouble than she is worth," he replies.
"It's no wonder you ended up in Hell in the first place, your wife on the other hand just could not let you go," Lewis adds and Esteban gives a mock laugh.
"Lidia is a good girl," Joana said, but she was not looking at the two men.
"From what I understand about Joana, she is-"
Suddenly, something crashed through their tent, almost like a freight train. It was Scar, he charged through the camp ground, destroying everything in his path.
The Velociraptors also sprang into action, taking out the soldiers with the M16s.
Ulyssa, with her pack, and Charlie, Delta, and Echo went to look for Aurora. Delta lead them down an opening that lead into a bunker-type underground.
Aurora, in the room, heard screaming and screeching and looks out from underneath the crack in the door.
She saw human feet and then Velociraptor feet jumping onto the human. The man cried out before the raptor killed him.
A snout came into Aurora's view and she hears Echo chirp, 'Aurora, are you in there?'
"Echo! Delta! Charlie! Yes, I'm in here!" Aurora cries out.
The three pounded their heads against the door, but it would not budge. "C'mon girls! Start digging!" Aurora orders, taking mounds of dirt away from the door, and the raptors obeyed.
When the hole was big enough for Aurora, she squeezed her body through it, with the help of Charlie.
"Oh girls! Thank you!" Aurora cries and hugs them.
'We don't have time, where's Blue?' Ulyssa demands and Aurora leads them out of the underground.
There was chaos all around as Scar and the other Velociraptors continue their carnage. Aurora grabs a tent cover and some rope as she knew Blue could not walk or run.
"This way!" she says to her pack. They follow her to the clearing where Blue was crying out, more in pain than in distress.
'Aurora! You're all right!' Blue screeches, but then gives a cry of agony.
"Stand still Blue," Aurora orders and she and the pack pull the chains out of the ground. They use the tent cover like a stretcher and push Blue onto it. Aurora ties the rope around Echo and Delta's necks so they could pull.
"There!" a soldier shouts as he had spotted the pack. More troops came into view and began to shot at them.
'GO! RUN!' Ulyssa orders them and they turn to run. Ulyssa gives a screech for the others to hear.
Scar and the other raptors had heard her and they hurried off into the darkness.
The soldiers kept on firing at Aurora and her pack. Then, a bullet pierces through Aurora's shoulder and she cries out in agony.
'Aurora! Get on!' Charlie orders her alpha and lowers herself for Aurora to get on her back. The woman did and with the others, they ran off. Delta and Echo manage to pull Blue on the tent cover and they mange to get away from the human camp.
The humans were in shock and disarray by what just happened. Most of the soldiers were dead and they vanished into black dust.
"What the hell just happened?!" Dr. Lewis shouts at no one in particular.
The survivors were tending to those who were alive and began to clear up the wreckage. Lewis grabs a soldier, but he had no idea what just happened.
"Easy Lewis," a man in cargo shorts and safari vest said, speaking in an unusual accent.
"And who are you?" Lewis asks the man.
"My name is Robert Muldoon and I know what has happened. It was the Velociraptors, they are lethally intelligent, they gathered a troop to rescue their pack member," the man answers.
"I know that they are intelligent, but which-" Lewis stops talking and runs off to the bunker. Aurora was gone and he runs off to the clearing where he saw that Blue was gone, too.
Lewis began to laugh and Muldoon joins him. "What could possibly be funny?" he asks.
"They did not just rescue one, but two of their pack members," Lewis answers, but Muldoon was confused. "That young woman, she is part of their pack, too. In fact, she is the alpha," Lewis adds.
"How extraordinary, I have never seen a human be alpha to a raptor pack," Muldoon replies, "But I will tell you this. That big one, oh I remember her well, killed me she did. Listen, I'll take care of that one while you do the others."
"Now that Mr. Muldoon might be much harder than you think," Lewis said and both of them return to camp.
From the author: *Gasp!* Muldoon is here!
Now the pack is in a lot of trouble! What's going to happen? Find out later!
Yes, I have copied some scenes from the second Jurassic Park. You are probably wondering why the dead soldiers turned to black dust? A lot of questions will be answered next time!