Ch.7 troubles

Ch. 7 Troubles

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= THE CAR DROVE and as it drives, Madison learns more about those she shares the vehicle with. Both Ellie and Alan works together in a digging site, having recently found a fossil of velociraptor.

"Madison, have you heard of the chaos Theory?" Ian asks the girl curiously, making the female turn to look at him, left eyebrow raised.

"Uh nope but I don't plan to either." Madison responds. Shaking her head while she receives a dull look from the black headed male with sunglasses.

"If you look to the right, you'll see a herd of the first dinosaurs on our tour, called Dilophosaurus." The voice of Richard Kiley is heard through the radio and everyone turns to where the enclosure should be.

"Dilophosaurus!" Alan fumbles and practically presses his face against the glass with eyes filled with wonder. Ellie just simply eagerly peers over while Ian looms his head over Alan's left shoulder.

"One of the earliest carnivores, we now know Dilophosaurus is actually poisonous spitting its venom at its prey, causing blindness and paralysis, allowing the carnivore to eat at its leisure. This makes Dilophosaurus a beautiful but deadly addition to Jurassic Park."

"Alan" Ellie whispers quietly to her male companion who was focused on the dinosaurs, all three bummed out for not seeing the venom spitting dinosaur.

"Damn."

The two Tour Vehicles soon slows to a stop outside the massive fence that serves as the enclosure for the Tyrannosaur Paddock, Madison joins beside Ellie as they watch it curiously. Everyone is looking at the window in anticipation of seeing the king of the dinosaurs.

"God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs." Madison could hear Ian utter, humming quietly in thought.

She had to take two separate looks to find that Alan had crawled into the boot and practically pushed Ian back so he could get a better look.

"Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth." Ellie responds, smirking as she noticed the impressed look upon Madison's face.

Both the men turns to stare at Ellie for a moment, then they return their attention to the paddock. However, there's still no sign of the tyrannosaurus.

Over the intercom, Madison could hear Arnold's voice seep through. "We'll try to tempt the Rex now. Keep watching the fence."

Inside the paddock, a cage raises bringing a helpless goat with it. The goat is tethered to a post, as the cage lowers around it, leaving it trapped and exposed.'An easy meal for a dinosaur, typical John.' Madison sighs.

Madison spares a glance to Alan who had released a strong groan of annoyance. "Rex doesn't want to be fed, he wants to hunt. Can't just suppress sixty-five million years of gut instinct."

They continue to wait, during that time, Madison returned to be focused onto her book and unfortunately the T-Rex is a no-show. They sit back in disappointment as the vehicles move forward again.

"You have more time don't worry, if not I'll just transform into one before you go."

Now, the two men in the back changed seats so Ian Malcolm sits behind the blonde female called Ellie Sattler and Alan Grants sits behind Madison, he was mainly focused on the outside with Madison eating a few skittles from her bag and viewed what's in front of them while the other two conversed.

Malcolm decides to lean closer to a camera in the corner of the car, looking over Madison as he taps the lens. "Eventually you do plan on having dinosaurs on your dinosaur tour, right? Hello? H-Hello?" They watch as the man exhales on the lens. Tilting his head.

"Yes?" He asks

The Hammond girl could only imagine what her uncle would be saying. Humming loudly while smiling up to the man. He, upon feeling a pair of eyes bore into his body looks down and finds the girl watching him in amusement.

Malcolm stills for a moment before Alan interrupts the moment with a cough and the black headed male pulls back and sits back into his seat. Sparing two glances, one to Alan who was holding back an unknowing smirk and one to Madison. "Tyrannosaur doesn't obey any set patterns or park schedules. The essence of chaos."

Ellie, upon feeling something also coughs and turns to the man obsessed with chaos. "I'm still not um clear on chaos."

A look of excitement befalls onto the males face as he scoots over, closer to the blonde female. "It simply deals with unpredictability in complex systems. The shorthand is the Butterfly Effect. A butterfly can flap its wings in Peking, and in Central Park, you get rain instead of sunshine."

Ellie waves her hand over her head, noticing Madison bite her thumb while she watched Ellie. Like she was studying the female. Awkward laughter fills the car soon enough, all thanks to the energetic 'Rockstar'.

"Did I go too fast? I did a fly-by."

"I missed it." Ellie utters, just then. Madison's ears twitched as her head snaps to look out her window. She could've sworn she heard a loud cry. Alan who notices her sudden change in manner also looks outside, catching his attention.

"Here. Give me your glass of water. We'll perform an experiment."

"The car should be still, but that's okay. It's just an example. Put your hand flat like a hieroglyphic. A drop of water falls on your hand. Which way will the drop roll off? Which finger?" Malcolm asks the woman with a raised brow.

Ellie squints her eyes before wiggling her thumb with an interested smile. "Thumb, I'd say". Malcolm places the drop of water on Ellie's hand and in their sight, It rolls off the back.

"Ah ha. Okay, freeze your hand. Don't move. I'll do the same thing, start with the same place again. Which way now?" He adds.

"Let's say back the same way." Malcolm drops the water again, and Alan squints his eyes while Madison moves about. Shoving stuff into her bag while Ellie gasps. "It changed. Why? Because tiny variations... The orientation of the hairs on your hand..." he explains slowly for the girl to understand.

Ellie was too absorbed into the conversation, she didn't see her companion staring out of the vehicle. "Alan, look at this."

But just like Madison, Alan Grant still isn't paying attention, eyes practically glued on what's outside.

"...The amount of blood distending your vessels... Imperfections in the skin..." Ian continues.

Ellie furrows her eyebrows and repeats what the professor was saying. "Imperfections in the skin?"

"Oh, just microscopic... Microscopic... That never repeat and vastly effect that outcome. That's... what?" Malcolm waves his hand for Ellie to respond.

Ellie responds with the words he wanted her to say. "Unpredictability."

Finishing collecting her stuff, Madison swings open the door. Closing it shut behind her with her foot and jogs away from the car, Alan also allowed curiosity to get better of him and follows in suit.

Malcolm clicks his fingers and points to where the pair left. "There! Look at this. See? I'm right again. Nobody could predict that Madison and Dr. Grant would jump out of a moving vehicle."

"Alan? Madison?" Ellie, concerned for the pair crawls out on the same point Madison exits the car. Leaving Malcolm all alone in the car.

Deciding it was best to excite himself, he laughs. "And there's another example. See, here I am now by myself," he says. Realisations dawning onto himself and he loudly pats his pants. "um, uh, talking to myself. That's Chaos Theory."

Alan couldn't lie, Madison was surprisingly fast in his eyes. One moment she's right beside him, the next he doesn't even know where she should be. All he finds next is a puff of grey smoke lingering in the air as he is joined by the others.

"What's that?" Ellie asks the companion once she reaches him with Tim on the other side.

"I don't know- Woah, are you okay kid?" Alan was interrupted when Lex nearly falls and he catches her by the collar. Pulling her back up to her feet.

They soon reach the area to see a female triceraptors laying on the ground. Breathing evidently heavy.

"Don't be scared. Come on, it's okay. Muldoon tranquilized her for me. She's sick." The handler comforting the triceratops tells the group as he pats the creatures back softly. Ellie squeals.

"Oh, my god. Hi baby. Hey baby girl. Hey." Ellie chuckles with excitement and kneels down to rub the skull of the animal with the back of her fingers.

"She was always my favorite when I was a kid, and now I see she's the most beautiful thing I ever saw." Alan whispers, hugging the animal until Lex and Donald practically screams. Making the group turn to find a small Protoceratops emerging from the long grass.

"Another one!?" Lex shouts.

The handler chuckles at the sight of the Protoceratops calling out to the larger female. Bumping their head against the bigger creatures own head. "Oh that's Miss Hammond, she'll usually change into protoceratops to check up on this one here."

"Madison!?" Tim and Lex shouts as they watch the Protoceratops converse with the triceratops. They didn't understand her or the other one but it seemed like they understand each other as the larger creature mewls.

"How would you know that?" Alan asks the handler curiously.

"The eyes, whenever she transforms they are always white and you tell by the marks that'll resemble the marks on her back." The handler explains.

Turning her head to the blonde human, the Protoceratops roars quietly and gestures their head to have her check the animals tongue, head brought away to sniff at the grass. "Microcesicles, that's interesting."

"Thanks, what are her symptoms?" Ellie asks the handler who answers.

"Imbalance, disorientation, labored breathing. It seems to happen every six weeks or so."

"Six weeks..." Ellie goes and shines the penlight into the Triceratops's eyes, the tinier creature looking forward. "These are dilated. Take a look. It's okay."

The handler looks surprised and responds. "They are? I'll be damned."

"That's pharmacological. From local plant life." She stands up and starts looking around, the protoceratops mewls and wanders away. Using their paws to dig at the ground where Ellie arrives, noticing a plant she recognises. "Is this West Indian Lilac?"

"Yes. We know they're toxic, but the animals don't eat them." The handler answers, crouching down beside the female.

"Are you sure?"

He nods in affirmation "Pretty sure."

"There's only one way to be positive. I'll have to see the dinosaur's droppings." Madison turns to the female with a look of surprise over her now reptilian features.

Malcolm who has now just arrived with them, halts while staring at the blonde woman in disbelief. "Dino... droppings? Droppings."

END OF CHAPTER SEVEN