Chapter 16: Preparations

The whole camp was in an uproar when the humans have heard that countless dinosaurs were seen crossing the meadow. "There's no way we can kill them all!" one man shouts.

"We'll be dead before we have our turn," another said.

Dr. Lewis was hearing all this and he was getting pissed by their cowardliness. He then shouts, "Just what kind of men are you?! I swear, you are the worst bunch of sissies I ever encountered!"

Muldoon heard the commotion and began to wonder; should he join Aurora to fight the human invaders or stay with them and take his revenge on Ulyssa?

"In two days, there will be blood everywhere, but the one thing I want to see is some dead raptors!" Lewis shouts at everyone and pushes a few men aside.

"And a dead girl!" Esteban shouts after him.

"You do whatever you want! I'm not your mommy!" Lewis replies, but that ticked Esteban.

Muldoon knew what he was talking about, Lewis wanted the two raptor packs dead. Esteban wanted to kill Aurora and perhaps mount her head on a spike.

"I say we move on ahead and kill them all tomorrow!" someone shouts and the others yell out in response.

"Kill them while they sleep!" one of them replies. All of them seem to agree on this and they began to bring out the big guns.

Muldoon began to think and he thought of a plan, but he must warn Aurora and her raptor pack first.

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In the south jungle, the dinosaurs were ordered to drink the water that was coming out of the cave. 'This water will make you immortal, nothing will kill you, not even bullets,' Delta and Echo said to the dinosaurs.

Ulyssa and her pack check on the dinosaurs' strength, but with their size, they could easily crush the humans to death. They met up with the other Velociraptor packs.

'So, will the human's plan work?' one asks Ulyssa.

'It should, with the connection destroyed, Hell will pose no threat to us anymore,' the big raptor answers.

Meanwhile, Aurora was at work with setting up the bomb. She carefully set up the wires to connect to the TNT stripes and that would cause the explosion. There was no telling that this would work as she never made a bomb before.

She looked over the instructions, again and again. From what she knew, when the clock chimes, a spark will light the fuse, and that would ignite the TNT.

Aurora carefully placed the bomb in the sack and wraps it up. She knew that the bomb will not go off, but one can't be too careful.

'Is it finished?' Blue asks.

"Yes Blue it is," Aurora answers, pointing to the sack. The raptor gently nudges against her alpha and Aurora hugs her tight.

"I don't know about you, but I am terrified right now," Aurora said and Blue purrs.

'I know, I am too, but you and I are Velociraptors. We are the toughest dinosaurs in this afterlife. Well, you may not be a raptor in form, but in spirit you are,' Blue chirps and Aurora nods.

"I get it and I know. If I did look like you, maybe I would look like a..." Aurora trails off, she didn't want to think about it.

'It does not matter what you look like, as long as you have the spirit of a dinosaur, you are making a lot of good for all here,' Blue chirps, again.

Aurora stands up, something was poking her, and she pulls out a slab of geode. It was hers.

Then the other raptors join with the two. 'What do you think we'll do when this is all over?' Charlie asks.

"I think we will have to evolve, move on and adapt. Perhaps we will find new things to do," Aurora answers and the raptors give a little chirp.

'Resume our exploration of this afterlife?' Delta asks in a chirp.

"I don't know, what do you think?" Aurora asks in a reply and the raptors give another chirp.

'Maybe do the things we didn't do in the mortal world,' Echo answers.

'Like what? Eat and get fat?' Charlie chuckles, but the others snarl at her.

"Easy," Aurora commands, "No Charlie, we will not eat and get fat. That means we will be lazy," she adds.

'I was only joking,' the young raptor replies.

'Well, your jokes are sometimes not that funny,' Blue chirps and lowers her head on Aurora's lap.

The others follow suit and lay down beside their alpha. Aurora gently caresses Blue's head and the beta raptor purrs.

"You know I love all of you, my pack," Aurora said to her pack mates.

The four raptors chirp in a reply. 'We love you, too.' 'You're the best alpha.' 'I cannot imagine what our lives would be like without you.'

Ulyssa and her pack look at Aurora and the four raptors. The big raptor was jealous of them as she never experienced love in her past life. Maybe she could experience now in this life.

She walks up to them and Aurora and her pack notice her. The human woman gently pats Ulyssa's muzzle.

"You nervous?" Aurora asks her.

'Maybe a little, but when this is all over, I'm going to show you places you have never seen here,' Ulyssa chirps.

'That would be nice,' Echo replies.

Suddenly, gun shots rang out and all the dinosaurs notice it and began to scream and holler.

Aurora stands up and orders her pack to calm the dinosaurs. "Stay here, I'm going to see what's going on," she said to her pack and leaves.

Ulyssa decides to stay close behind her, like a snake slithering through grass.

Aurora comes to the edge of the jungle and notices Muldoon. Ulyssa sees him, too, and hisses.

"What are you doing here?" Aurora demands, angrily.

"I've come to warn you that everyone in the camp is going move the assault to tomorrow morning. Whatever plan you have, you best set it in motion," Muldoon explains.

Aurora was not surprised, she knew that the humans were not patient enough to wait for the three day deadline to come.

"Why are you doing this? I thought you wanted revenge on Ulyssa," she said, her hands crossed over her chest.

"Let's just say I had a change of heart. I better go before anyone notices I am gone," Muldoon replies and leaves in a hurry.

Aurora hurries back to the dinosaurs and tells them the warning. Ulyssa made it back before her.

'We had them drink the water, they should be fine,' Delta chirps.

"I think we should give them what's coming to them. I did tell that if they didn't keep their end of the bargain, I'll have every dinosaur wipe them out," Aurora said and immediately thinks of a plan.

"Listen, here's what we're going to do," she adds and begins to inform her pack and Ulyssa's pack of her plan.

From the author: Oh boy! The battle is coming! Will Aurora's plan work? Will the dinosaurs succeed in this plan? Find out next time!

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