Chapter 10: The First Battle
Aurora and her pack awoke to see that the sun's rays was penetrating through the darkness of the jungle. Aurora knew something was wrong as the jungle was awfully quiet.
'Why do I get the feeling that something bad is going to happen?' Delta chirps and rubs against her alpha.
"I know, I feel it, too," Aurora replies, petting Delta.
Shadow, Silva, and Moriko sniff the air and then, Ulyssa arrives. 'Come, you want to see this,' she orders and everyone follows her to the opening of the jungle.
They look around at the meadows, the treelines, and the pools of water. There was nothing to see. 'I don't see anything,' Charlie chirps in confusion.
'Exactly, something scared off the dinosaurs,' Ulyssa answers and Aurora decides to climb up a tree. She didn't really know she had the ability to climb, but she kept going to the top.
There, she saw something over the horizon, and it was coming out of the northern forest and heading towards the meadow. "It's something big, it looks like a dinosaur, but nothing I have seen before," she calls down to her pack.
Blue then sniffs the air and a scent fills her nostrils. 'You have got to be kidding me,' she chirps and her pack also sniff the air.
'What's wrong?' Silva asks.
'That abomination, the Indominus Rex, it's here,' Echo answers and Ulyssa begins to growl.
Aurora climbs down to rejoin her pack. 'You need to call for Scar, the Indominus Rex is too powerful for all of us to handle,' Blue urges Ulyssa.
'My pack and I can handle ourselves,' the big raptor replies, 'You are more than welcome to join the fight. We just can't let it get to the river.'
'You don't know a thing about this hybrid, it has Velociraptor DNA in it. It will make you turn on us, like it did to us when we were alive,' Blue chirps and Aurora comes to her side.
Aurora had come to her pack's aid in the form of a ghost when Blue and the other raptors turned on Owen. "It is the truth Ulyssa, I had to go to my pack to remind them who was their alpha," Aurora said to the big raptor.
'I am the alpha to my pack, if anything dares to take over, I will kill them,' Ulyssa chirps and Aurora knew that her pride had blinded her.
Ulyssa had her pack ready for a fight and Aurora and her pack knew that they were outnumbered in strength. 'As I said, you are more than welcome to join,' the big raptor chirps and she and her pack were to about to go when Delta and Echo stop them.
'If you are going to fight it, you best hide your scent,' Delta chirps and she and the others rolled around in a patch of mud. Ulyssa and her pack took this into consideration and did the same. Once they were covered from head to toe, Ulyssa and her pack went off towards the meadow.
Blue began to push Aurora and chirps, 'Stay in the jungle, keep out of sight. If a human comes, call out to me.'
"No way, I want to help," Aurora insists, but the beta raptor continues to push her.
'And I want to keep you safe, that thing will eat you alive,' Blue chirps and sniffs her scent. Aurora hugs the raptor's neck and Blue purrs as her alpha gently applies more mud to her body.
"Please, come back alive," Aurora whispers and the other raptors join the circle, "All of you, come back to me," Aurora orders. The raptors gave screeches and they ran off to join Ulyssa and her pack.
Aurora went back into the jungle, she decided to protect the river from human invaders. She searches for anything that might be used as a weapon. She came across a few sharp stones and she uses them to sharpen a long stick.
She hid by the creek, taking cover under the roots of a tree. The only thing she could do was wait and listen.
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The raptors took cover in some tall grass, listening to the sounds of the hybrid and the vibration of the ground as it walked. They remained still, waiting for the Indominus Rex to come into vision.
The vibration got heavier and they saw the hybrid's head. The creature began to growl and then sniffs the air. Blue could tell that the hybrid can sense them.
'Show yourself,' the Indominus Rex snarls. That was when Ulyssa jumps out and attacks the hybrid. Ulyssa's pack follows suit, jumping on to the hybrid and then Blue and her pack appear.
Just as Blue suspected, the hybrid threw Ulyssa and her pack off of it. It then looks down at Blue and her pack. 'Well, what do we have here?' the hybrid snarls and the raptors stood their ground.
'Kill it!' Blue orders her pack and they jump to attack. Unfortunately, the hybrid threw the raptors off, except it grabs Blue and slams her to the ground. Blue bit into the hybrid's fingers, but it didn't let go.
Then, Ulyssa jumps back on and scratches at the hybrid's neck, leaving deep gashes. The hybrid lets go of Blue and rolls onto its side, but Ulyssa got away in time before being crushed.
Blue tries to run, but the Indominus Rex grabs her, again, and pins her down with its hind leg. 'I wonder what Velociraptor meat tastes like,' the hybrid growls in a sinister tone.
This was it, Blue was going to be eaten by this beast. She shuts her eyes, waiting for what fate headed her way. The hybrid opens its mouth, ready for a meal.
"GET OFF OF HER!" a woman's voice shouts and Aurora appears. She stabs the hybrid's snout with the sharp stick and held onto it. The hybrid moved about, trying to get the human off.
It pushes Aurora off of its nose, but the woman got up, and stabs its right eye. The hybrid screams in agony and blood spews out of its eye. It also moves its leg away, allowing Blue to escape.
Aurora pushes the stick deeper into the hybrid's cornea and it screeches in pain. "Hurts like a bitch!" Aurora shouts, just as the Indominus Rex flings her off.
The hybrid had trouble seeing out of its right eye, but it could still smell its prey. Then, Silva and Shadow screech at it, 'We're over here!' The hybrid turns around to face them, but there was something new in its senses.
The hybrid turns its head to see out of its left eye. Right in front of it was the Titanoceratops, Scar, and he brought company, a Spinosaurus! The hybrid roars, but the two giants attack.
Scar stabs the hybrid with his sharp horns and the Spinosaurus bites on its side. The hybrid bites down at the Spinosaurus' neck and wacks its tail at Scar.
Seeing the giant dinosaurs in trouble, Ulyssa calls out to her pack. 'Attack it!' she orders and they jump on the hybrid. The Indominus Rex, distracted by the raptors, was attacked, again by Scar and the Spinosaurus.
The hybrid did not give up and flings the raptors off. It then backs away from the giants and they stood their ground. The hybrid was badly injured and it knew it could not finish the job.
It looks around and sees Blue and Aurora. 'Hear this, the humans sent me here to kill you. You may have won this battle, but not the war, because it will get worse. All of you will perish, it's a promise,' the hybrid said to the raptor.
It then turns around and walks away towards the northern forest. 'It gave up? But why?' Charlie chirps at her comrades.
'So it can heal and prepare for the next fight,' Moriko replies as she comes beside the youngest raptor.
'Where the heck did you go?' Ulyssa chirps at Moriko.
'I had to go get Scar and Spike, we were no match for that thing. Blue was right,' Moriko answers. Ulyssa growls angrily at her, but calms down. The big raptor allows Scar and Spike the Spinosaurus to go their way and they left.
Aurora checks on Blue, who looks at her with an angry eye. 'You were suppose to stay in the jungle! You could've been killed!' Blue growls at her alpha.
"I couldn't help it, that thing was ready to eat you! I am nothing without you!" Aurora cries and hugs the beta raptor. Blue calms down and purrs. Ulyssa looks at the two in amazement.
She had never seen an interaction between a raptor and a human like this before. She dismisses the feeling of trust toward Aurora. 'I don't trust her,' she chirps to herself.
'We should go and attend to our wounds,' Silva advises and the raptor packs leave the meadow to the safety of the jungle.
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Up on a grassy hill, Robert Muldoon had witnessed the battle. He was amazed by the raptors teaming up with the Titanoceratops and the Spinosaurus and defeating the Indominus Rex.
When he saw the big raptor, he saw his chance of shooting her down. He had prepared his rifle and looked into the scope. The big raptor kept moving about, but Muldoon did get a good visual until he was stopped when he saw the human girl.
The human girl had embraced the Velociraptor, Blue, and he was shocked to see the raptor's reaction. Blue did not flinch or didn't attack her, neither raptor attacked the human girl.
Muldoon watches as the girl, Aurora and the raptors leave the meadow and they were gone. Muldoon then remembered that Aurora was the alpha of her pack. "What a cleaver girl," he whispers and decides to return to camp.
From the author: What did you think?! I couldn't keep this idea inside my head for too long, otherwise I would've lost it! This is just the first battle, but it will get intense later and it will involve the human invaders! I would like to hear what you, my fellow readers have to say about this chapter!
I know that the Indominus Rex is referred to as female in the movie, 'Jurassic World', but the reason I call it 'it' is because it's really not a dinosaur. I felt that it does not belong to any category of dinosaur.