Chapter Four: Finding and Saving Storming Gale
After Diana let the raptors smell her, from her constant visits with her Indominus children Storming Gale's scent was prominent on her, all eight raptors barked and charged in the direction of the scent once the gates opened. Owen followed them on his motorcycle while Diana followed him on the motorbike he wanted to give her for her sixteenth birthday, and they went over bumps and roots while through tree branches as the Blue and Black barked commands to their respective pack. Diana moved forward until she came up beside Blue and Black, the two looked at her from the corners of their eyes and when she nodded slightly and they barked at the pack before surging forward.
"I wonder how they're doing?" She asked herself as she thought of Gray and Zach, who were waiting in a delivery truck with Claire. All of a sudden, a familiar scent entered her nostrils and she nearly slowed the bike because of who it was. "No way," She said to herself, but if anyone else heard it just sounded like grunting and growling. "Storming is close, but how close is the question?"
The raptors started barking wildly as the scent got closer and closer, they nearly got her.
They all arrived at a small clearing and waited as the raptors went into a certain pattern, a pattern both Diana and Owen knew immediately before the thundering footsteps were felt and heard. The scent overwhelmed Diana so much that she moved her bike forward until she was in front of the group as Storming Gale appeared from the trees. Trying to kill me huh? Storming said to herself before looking at the raptors. You have to help me free our family from their control. "Something's wrong," Barry whispered to Owen, but Diana could hear him clearly. "They're communicating." I can't take it if they steal my mother or your Alpha. She's trying to protect us! Diana thought immediately.
"I know why they wouldn't tell us what she's made of," Owen said as the raptors look at Storming Gale expectedly. "Storming Gale's part raptor." ATTACK INGEN! Storming roared and the raptors immediately turned around and screeched at the soldiers. "Engage!" One soldier shouted, which immediately makes everyone start shooting at Storming Gale with what Diana knew wasn't tranquillizers.
They broke their promise.
The bullets bounce off of Storming's hide but one of the soldiers was stupid enough to pull out a rocket blaster, or is it a bazooka, and immediately launch a rocket straight at Storming, which made her fall to the ground as the raptors suddenly disappeared. "Come on Storming, get up, please get up." Diana said to herself before her pleas were answered as the Indominus slowly but unharmed pushes herself back onto her feet and stare at the group before disappearing in the trees. "Watch you six! Raptors got a new alpha." Owen warned as they all looked around, knowing that they are now raptor food.
Screeches were suddenly heard as the eight raptors attacked the group. Diana looked around franticly before leaving the bike and running in the direction Storming Gale went. But she doesn't make it to the trees as something hot and painful imbed itself in her left leg. She falls to the ground with a dinosaur-like roar before unhooking her raptor whistle and immediately calling for help.
And the two that came to help her, made her knew that family is stronger than leaders.
A dark-striped snout gently prodded her wound as a gray snout nudged her forehead, which made her stop blowing and opened her eyes to see her uncle's youngest raptor and her second-born raptor. "Charlie, Cobaltite," She whispered as she rehooked the whistle to the brown leather around her neck before stiffening up a bit as Charlie licked her wound in worry. "Go back to the paddock, both of you are in danger. Please go home." That got through their minds, or maybe it was Storming Gale's scent on her, and they chirped a bit before running in the direction of the paddock.
Once the pain was bearable, she used her fingernails to pull the bullet out and was grateful that it wasn't in deep. "Dia!" Owen said to himself as he walked to his fallen niece and gently picked her up. "Let's get you two the truck." As he ran towards the truck where the Mitchells and Claire were waiting, a sudden thought went through Diana's mind. "What about the raptors?" She asked as she was seated beside Gray and Zach before he left.
"Aren't they controlled by Storming Gale?" Gray asked curiously before pulling out a small tube of antibiotics and a bandage from his pack and tended to her bullet wound. "I was able to get Charlie and Cobaltite out of her control and made them go back to the paddocks," She said while wincing as the antibiotic stung, meaning that it was working. "I'm just not sure about the others."
All of a sudden, a soldier tried to climb into the truck before Delta and Diaspora appeared and yanked him backwards, which made Claire immediately start the truck and nearly made the kids fall out because of how fast she immediately went. The doors swung open and close, but the four figures behind them were still noticeable.
"Delta, Diaspora, Echo, and Everfall." Diana listed off as they watched the raptors get closer and closer. "Stop!" She shouted but the four ignored her and started to attack the truck as Zach looked around and saw two stunners before picking one up and handing the other to Gray. Diana just stared in shock as the boys stunned Diaspora, Delta, and Everfall before hearing Claire scream out in fright as Echo went through the driver's side window before she fell out from not having any purchase on the smooth door.
"In here!" Diana shouted as she pulled open a hidden door that connected to the lab where the dinosaurs were created. Owen, Claire, and the brothers went through before she quickly pulled it shut and panted as she heard the raptors' frustrated grunts and clawing to try and get the door open. "This way, I've gone through this before to get to my children undetected when they were a few weeks old." She opened another door, but stopped once she saw the state of it.
"They've evacuated the lab..." Claire breathed out as they looked through the empty lab and noticed a door open slightly. They went through the door to see the remaining InGen soldiers packing dino embryos and Hoskins trying to talk Barry into leaving with them. "Get the hell away from those eggs!" Diana growled, which made Hoskins jump and turned around to see the five of them walking towards him. "Where's Dr. Wu?" Claire asked curiously.
"Henry works for us now." Hoskins answer as Gray noticed a screen still on with different physical makeups. "That's not a dinosaur." He immediately said. "You calling my children fake?" Diana muttered and Gray quickly shook his head to her answer. "Imagine the hybrid a fraction of it's original size, able to hide from military equipment, a living weapon that became nature's gift- SHIT!" He cut himself off as Delta and Diaspora bursted through the glass wall and stood between the others and Hoskins as he fell to the ground in shock.
"Easy, easy," He said as both raptors stared at him with indescribable looks in their eyes. "Easy boys." That comment made Diana grunt a bit and at that moment when he reached his arm out like she and Owen do during training, Delta bit off his hand before Diaspora took his forearm off. Then the mates started feasting.
"Run!" Diana shouted and they all ran out of the room. "This way!" She shouted before the same raptors bursted through another glass wall. "Nevermind! Other way!" They ran the way they came from and through the entertainment center with Delta and Diaspora on their heels before Gray pressed a button and a hologram of a Dilophosaurus which made the raptors immediately stop and challenge it.
They made down the steps but then Blue, Black, Echo, Everfall, Delta, and Diaspora cornered them. "Easy," Owen murmured as he slowly reached out his hand and unhooked Blue's camera. "Easy girl." Both striped raptors looked at them, and Diana and Owen could see the change in their eyes. Thundering footsteps were suddenly heard and coming out from behind a building was Storming Gale.
Don't attack them! They're not InGen. Storming grumbled which made the Betas look at their respective Alpha before turning around and shrieked at her. No! Leave me alone! She shouted as the raptors started attacking her and the others ran to a shack to hide in as she flung the raptors off of her, but they kept coming back to wound her.
"I have to save her." Diana said to herself before noticing an abandoned jeep. She looked around and saw that the others were paying attention to the raptors so she jumped out of the shack and ran to the jeep. "Diana!" Owen shouted in worry and fear. She finally reached the jeep and did something she knew that she would regret it it failed.
She honked the horn several times.
Every dinosaur stopped and looked in her direction before Storming started walking towards her as she jumped out of the jeep and stood a few feet in front of it. The clouds suddenly cleared themselves from the sky to allow the moon to shine it's light on her. Mommy! Storming roared as she stopped a few yards in front of her human mother.
And what she heard from her, made her remember all the times she visited her and Frosted Gale.
Silver light, she turned her gaze up to the starlit sky
And on this night began to wonder why
She knew that soon the day would come
Born to be
An heir of beauty and serenity
To her surprise she was the one
I was the one to destroy the park. Storming thought as she looked at the destruction.
Destiny was close behind her
Phantom of borrowed life
And her brother was a reminder
Mirror of given light
Frosted Gale! Storming though immediately.
Then one day
The sign she waited for in skies of gray
Traversed the world and came her way
She found the love she hoped she would
But she knew
That she had promises to stay true to
The Indominus daughter of Diana
And all at once she understood
Destiny was close behind her
Phantom of borrowed life
And her brother was a reminder
Mirror of given light
From the sky
She watched the life she known she would leave behind
Said goodbye and gave her people life through her sacrifice
I sacrificed innocents to stop InGen. Storming thought as her mother gently laid on her snout. Diana quietly said comforting things to her until they heard another pair of thundering footsteps. "Uh oh." She said as she went back to the shack where the others were waiting. "What's that?" Gray asked curiously. "My Indominus son," She replied as another Indominus, this one duller than Storming, suddenly appeared. "Frosted Gale."
Do you know how much disaster you've created?! Frosted roared at Storming, and she shrank back slightly. I just wanted- You couldn't have waited until Mom returned to the holding place, but no! IT WAS NEVER MY BUSINESS WHEN IT EVER CAME TO YOU! Frosted interrupted Storming before head butting her in the chest. He then turned around to leave, but instead sighed to himself.
You know, I'm glad I was lucky that Mom saved me from you killing me, He said to himself, and she sighed in relief before noticing his dangerous look. You're lucky too that I didn't have a mind to kill you either. Diana gasped loudly but not loud enough for either Indominus to hear her. Frosted glared at Storming before suddenly striking her across the face.
That was for the innocents, He said before hitting her with his tail which made her fall to the ground. That was for brainwashing our cousins, He then put one foot on her and roared in her face. And that was for me. He got off her and went in the direction of their paddock as she got herself up and stared at him in surprise.
"He's never treated her like that before," Diana said as they came out of the shack and the raptors went around Storming as if to protect her. "It must be the stress of not telling me what she was really doing." They stared at Frosted Gale in shock until Storming Gale lowered her head for Disna to climb on, like Frosted used to do, and then walked after her brother with one thought plaguing her mind.
Am I a bad sister?