CHAPTER 140
A pair of arms wrapped around Kyra's shoulders and slammed her against the side of a jeep. Kyra knew it was the end. She'd been caught. In seconds her insides would be spilled across the dirt. She struggled and screamed though she knew it was useless. The arms constricted around her torso, pressing her harder against the jeep. It was not until she heard Dr. Johnson's voice that she felt a shred of hope that this was not the end.
"Kyra, stop! Stop! It's ok. It's me, Dr. Johnson."
Kyra's struggling eased, and she caught the doctor's reflection in the window of the jeep. It was true. She hadn't been attacked by a velociraptor.
Dr. Johnson relaxed her grip and said, "follow me quick."
Kyra was about to do as the doctor had told her when her sight refocused through the window to the other side of the vehicle. The glimmering eye that she found to be staring back at her belonged to the utahraptor with the mohawk. Kyra clamped up. There was more movement beyond the jeep. More raptors were stirring. Growls surrounded her and the doctor.
"Come on!" Dr. Johnson pulled at her shoulder. Kyra turned and started running with her. Around them the pounding feet of raptors made known that the pack was on the move.
Dianna was making sweeps with her pistol as they hurried back toward the pickup truck. She saw raptors darting about everywhere she looked, and they were closing in. "This way." She cut left between two vehicles and then cut right, moving in a zig zag. The truck was directly ahead of them now.
Beyond Dr. Johnson, Kyra saw Dr. Conners laying Shelly in the passenger seat of the pickup. She was alive. Kyra could scarcely believe it, and now they were almost back to the truck.
Dr. Conners was moving for the driver's seat. He waved them toward the bed. "Get in the back!"
They were only a couple of vehicles away from the truck when a low moving blur shot out from between two cars and side tackled Dianna at the waist. As she fell between two other cars the tail of the velociraptor that attacked her lashed across Kyra's face and she stumbled to the ground as well.
Dr. Conners jumped from the truck and ran to take aim at the raptor, but something snared his boots. Claws dug into his ankles and his legs were pulled out from beneath him. Dr. Conners was drug away like he was being pulled by a rip current.
Hector used all the strength he had to lift himself and stand in the truck bed. As his knees trembled and his torso wavered a rush of dizziness and confusion overtook him. He couldn't see Dr. Conners anymore. Dr. Johnson was also out of view. Hector tried to yell for Kyra to come to the truck, but the claws came for him next. As he was pulled backwards out of the truck bed the sky spun over him. He hit the dirt, and the velociraptor dragged him away.