Chapter 12: Night Fight

Nighttime fell upon the afterlife, but it was all quiet due to the absence of the dinosaurs.

In the southern jungle, Aurora and her pack took turns in the night watch. Blue insisted that her alpha get plenty of rest. 'If those bastards show up, you need your strength,' the beta chirps.

"Blue, for the last time, I am fine," Aurora answers, patting the raptor's neck.

Just then, thunder began to boom and the sky lit up with lightning. 'Wonderful,' Echo chirps.

'I don't want to stay out here in the rain,' Charlie chirps, childishly.

'What's wrong with you? You think you're going to melt?' Delta replies, but Charlie snaps back at her.

"No fighting you two, we should find some place for the night," Aurora commands and they leave the creek.

They trek down the river heading further south. Then, Blue stops and sniffs the air. 'Someone's here,' she chirps to her alpha.

Aurora arms herself with her weapon and waits for the intruder to appear.

'Easy! We come in peace!' Moriko chirps and screeches at them. Ulyssa and her pack then appear out of the darkness.

'What are you doing?' Ulyssa asks in a hostile tone.

"Finding a place for the night, we're not going to do lookout in the rain," Aurora answers, but Ulyssa snorts.

'Rain or no rain, you're still doing the night patrol,' Ulyssa angrily replies. Blue stands in front of the big raptor, featuring her teeth in a warning.

'Touch her and I will bite your head off,' the beta raptor growls.

"Will you two stop? I hate to see you fight, again. Please, we just want some place dry," Aurora said to Ulyssa.

The big raptor does not answer, only looks at Aurora with an angry eye.

'There's a cave over here,' Silva answers and gestures her head to where it was.

Ulyssa gives an angry growl at Silva, but Aurora and her pack were already heading towards the cave. "We don't mind if you join us," Aurora said to the big raptor.

Ulyssa did not move, but her pack followed Aurora inside. The cave was dark, but dry, and they heard streaming water.

'Ouch! Someone stepped on my foot!' Echo screeches.

'That was me! I'm sorry!' Moriko replies and backs away from Echo.

Then, the rain came down in big droplets of water and Aurora and the raptors saw Ulyssa outside at the mouth of the cave. She was getting drenched.

Aurora walks up to her and asks, "You coming or not?"

'I simply don't understand you, why are you treating us like this?' the big raptor replies in a chirp.

"I trust dinosaurs like you more than my own kind. Now come on in," Aurora orders and Ulyssa obeys.

However, Ulyssa does not join the others in a group huddle to keep warm.

"Leave her be, at least she is out of the rain," Aurora said to her pack. Blue, however, steps outside to retrieve a big palm leaf.

'Just how did things get so crazy around here?' Delta asks.

'Tell that to Dr. Lewis,' Echo answers and the other raptors snort.

'If I ever see him, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind,' Shadow replies and they turn around to see Moriko and Charlie rolling on their backs to get a comfortable position.

Aurora and the other raptors chuckle at this and the two childish raptors fell asleep.

'I wish I could sleep like that and then I would be in paradise,' Silva chirps and tries to get comfortable on the rocky ground.

Blue joins Ulyssa, but the big raptor growls at her. Blue drops the palm leaf nearby. 'I don't want you to catch a cold,' Blue chirps.

Ulyssa looks at her and the leaf. 'Just how do you trust a human? I tried, but they always responded with cruelty,' she chirps in a question.

'Finding humans who have no black heart is hard to find, but we were lucky. Now we have each other here. You should feel lucky that you have your pack,' Blue replies.

'But what if she turns on you?' Ulyssa asks, again.

'You know why you hate humans? It's your pride, it blinds you from seeing the truth. When Aurora died, I blamed one man and my pride blinded me further,' Blue answers and adds, 'Don't let your pride blind you forever.'

Blue leaves to join the others, who were now asleep. Ulyssa takes last look at Blue and curls up with the palm leaf.

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Outside, the rain continues to fall with the booming thunder. However, there was something else that made the ground shake.

The Indominus Rex had followed the scent of its enemies, but the rain and water had washed away the trail. It could no longer see the trail in its mind.

In the cave, Aurora awoke to see the ground rumbling and some rocks began to move. She lifts her head up to see the fearsome creature lurking outside.

Ulyssa quietly walks up to her, 'It's here,' she chirps in a gentle whisper.

The Indominus Rex sniffs at the ground, looking for the raptors and Aurora.

'Wake the others and follow me,' Ulyssa orders and the two began to gently arouse the others.

Aurora wakes Moriko, who then gives a yelp. Aurora clamps her mouth shut. The hybrid had heard it and Aurora prayed that it would not suspect that they were in the cave.

The others follow Ulyssa quietly, but suddenly, Echo took a misstep. She had slipped on a rock and it was rolling towards the mouth!

Blue tried to reach it, but it was too late. The rock had appeared into the hybrid's line of vision.

Blue stood still as the Indominus Rex's head came into the cave. Aurora and the others watch helplessly as the hybrid looks around, mere inches from Blue.

Suddenly, a flash of lightning illumates the hybrid's vision and it saw Blue! It roars and Blue turns and ran towards her group.

'GO!' she screeches and the others turn to run.

Then, Charlie slips and Blue hurries to help her up. Suddenly, the hybrid grabs Blue by her tail and began to pull her away towards certain death.

"BLUE!" Aurora screams and the other raptors screech at the creature. Ulyssa notices the trouble Blue was in and rushes back.

Ulyssa pushes the hybrid's head away from Blue and screams at it. 'Go help the others!' the big raptor orders Blue.

Blue hurries away, but stops to hear Ulyssa's screeches and the Indominus Rex's billowing yells.

Ulyssa jumps on the hybrid, biting into its neck, and forcing it to go backwards. It pushes her off and she salms into a stone pillar.

The hybrid looks at Ulyssa and growls. 'You're not the one I want,' it said and opens its mouth to show its teeth.

Then, the other raptors screech at it. 'Over here you bag of bones!' Charlie screams at it.

Ulyssa notices Aurora up above her. She gestures the raptor to get away to safety while Aurora, Blue, and Shadow push hard on the rocks hovering over the hybrid.

The other raptors taunt with the Indominus Rex, long enough for Ulyssa to get away. Aurora, Blue, and Shadow push hard on the rock pillar, but it would not budge.

'Get away from there!' Ulyssa orders the three and then, she and the others force the hybrid to go backwards into the pillar.

Then, the pillar and the roof of the cave began to come down on the hybrid. It tried to get away, but it was crushed under the avalanche of rocks.

When it everything was calm, the raptors and Aurora look around and see the hybrid, dead under the rubble.

Then, its body began to wither away in a cloud of black ash. It now had ceased to exist.

'It's over,' Blue chirps at the group. Aurora hugs the beta and Blue begins to purr.

"Don't scare me like that, again," Aurora urges the raptor. She then turns to Ulyssa, who was tending to her wounds.

"You all right?" she asks.

'Just a few scrapes, but I will be fine,' Ulyssa answers and then, Aurora hugs her. The big raptor was surprised by this move, but she did not rebel.

"You scared me to death, damn you," Aurora said and Ulyssa begins to purr.

'Quiet down! I hear someone!' Shadow warns and they went silent and hid behind a pile of rubble.

Flashlight beams illumated the darkness and they heard human voices outside.

"Where did it go?" a man's voice asked.

"How should I know, you were ahead of me," another man replies.

"That hybrid is bigger than a T. Rex, how could you have missed it?" someone said and the raptors and Aurora recognize it as Dr. Lewis's voice.

Blue and her pack felt like growling, but Aurora gestures for them to be quiet.

"Let's go back to camp," another man's voice said and Aurora recognizes it as Muldoon's. "The rain is not doing us good," he adds.

"I'll say, I'm freezing!" someone said and the flashlight trails turn around.

"Okay, but we'll scout through here, again at dawn," Dr. Lewis orders.

Aurora and the raptors listen as the men went away and everything went quiet.

'I really hate those humans,' Ulyssa chirps and they decide to head deeper into the cave, just to be safe.

From the author: What did you think?! Yeah, I copied one scene from the Disney movie 'Dinosaur'.

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