Ch. 31 Fights

Ch. 31 Fights

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= A light rain falls as they start down the street, double timing it, headed for the main building. Now only a hundred yards away, they're close enough to read a sign over the door "InGen Bioengineering. We Make Your Future."

Madison could feel yet another presence but was unaware where it exactly was from, having taken time to look around while Roland and Ajay helped her walk.

While this, the rest were also oblivious to her movements. they keep moving toward the far end of the street. Until the animal crouches and springs into action. It slams horrifyingly into Sarah, who surprisingly was the last person in the group, and takes her down. Sarah is thrown forward, into the others, who fall like dominoes.

"OH SHIT!" Madison yells, grabbing a nearby crowbar and swings it at a velociraptor that lunges at her.

Sarah rolls away, while the raptor momentarily concentrates on disemboweling her pack, thinking it was part of her. The woman starts to get to her feet, but her eyes widen at the sight of a second raptor, this one running straight at her at top speed.

She buries her face in the dirt, covering her head with her hands, and the raptor's foot digs into the ground between her legs as it bounds over hr and joins the first raptor in the "kill."

Panicked, the group scatters in all directions. Nick rolls onto his feet and sprints toward the main building.

Behind him, another Velociraptor, this was the third one, gives chase, bounding after him with horrifying speed. Nick runs flat-out, but his speed is nothing compared to the animal's and it gains on him rapidly.

The walls of a structure of some kind close in around Nick. He leaps across a leather seat and pushes a door behind him so he has just now crawled into the back seat of an abandoned car.

But the car door is thin protection against the charging raptor, which thumps into the window, head first. The window spiderwebs, but does not yield. The raptor crumples to the ground.

Nick looks up, through a three inch hole in the middle of the web. The raptor leaps back to its feet and plunges its nose into the tiny hole, thrashing, widening it.

Nick screams and shouts and the animal forces its entire head through the hole, snapping its devastating jaws just short of his face.

He hurls himself over the seat and into the front as the animal penetrates even further into the car, but its torso will not fit through the window opening. It pulls away. In the front seat, Nick gets some very sad news because for him, there is no goddamn windshield.

The velociraptor springs up onto the hood, its claws smacking on the sheet metal, and tosses its body through the opening, just as Nick hurls himself out the door. While the velociraptor struggles to right itself in the front seat, Nick makes it to the main building, ducks inside, and slams the heavy wooden door.

Somewhere else, Malcolm, holding Kelly behind him, is face to face with a raptor, just ten yards from it. He looks around for some sort of nearby shelter, but there is none.

He sees the main building, maneuvers so he is between it and the raptor, and gives Kelly a shove. "Go! Follow Nick, I'll keep it here!" Malcolm shouts and Kelly frantically looks to her father in worry. Two of the three cubs also poke their heads out of her bag she found, looking around like they had lost something or someone.

"What are you going to do?" Kelly asks her father in disbelief.

"I love you, but please now run like hell!" Malcolm yells and shoves her, hard, in the direction of the main building, and she takes off running. The velociraptor lunges in that direction, to pursue her, but Malcolm lunges too, to cut it off, shouting as he does so.

The raptor stops just as Malcolm screams at it and so the animal cocks its head curiously. Lotta fight in this animal.

Malcolm charges straight at the raptor, screaming and pounding his chest. For about three seconds, he looks great and brave but for him, he just realised that the raptor doesn't decide to  run. Instead, it opens its mouth wide and snarls right back.

Malcolm skids to a halt. Cursing under his breath since that was pretty much it for his attack plan. He looks behind him, just in time to see Kelly make it into the main building at the end of the street.

But that's much too far for him now. He darts between the idled gasoline pumps and into the gas station building, closing the door behind him. The raptor bounds after him, slamming into the door.

Meeting resistance, it bounces off, notices the plate glass window next to the door, and pounces at that. The window shatters and the raptor clings to the ledge, staring inside, its tail hanging out.

Just as it gets inside, Malcolm opens the door and comes back out, keeping the piece of wall between them. The raptor whirls and springs, forcing him back inside, through the door again.Willing to play along, the raptor turns and jumps through the window again.

Balancing on the window frame, the raptor hisses and crouches, ready to spring at Malcolm. Malcolm takes cover behind the door, which is hanging open between them.

The raptor springs into the door, blasting  it off its hinges, knocking Malcolm right through a window behind him.

But the door smacks up against the wall, covering the window, preventing the raptor from following Malcolm out that way.

Malcolm flies through the window and crunches to the ground. Groaning loudly in agony and rolls on his bad leg, twisted beneath him. He gets up and races toward the main building.

Roland, Ajay, Tony and Madison were all huddled together. Backs pressed one another with each person holding a different weapon.

Around them were three velociraptors growling at the group. One was the one Madison and Kelly ran away from a few hours prior to this moment.

"This is quite fun, don't you think?" Madison asks with all heads turning her way until they watch her stride forward, throwing the crowbar around and roughly hitting a velociraptor in the side. The sharp end slashing at their skin.

Although just because of that, a Velociraptor jumps into her back to which Madison jumps backwards. Slamming the beast into a wall of the gas station.

Stepping away with torn clothes, Madison hisses at the creature. Body mutating right before their eyes. A black skinned dinosaur, bigger than the velociraptor.

Surprisingly, her rucksack survived the mutation and was sat comfortably on her back.

The two shares couple of snarls before Madison lunges forward.

Mushrooms and fungi sprout from the carpet in the town's dusty, vine-hung communications room. On one wall, there is a painting of what the completed and properly planned iconic place, Jurassic Park would have looked like. Big hotels, Ford Explorers with tourists leaning out the windows taking pictures, big crowds at the fences around the animal exhibits. But everyone knew that absolutely none of it came true, and now even the mural is runny and dust-covered in grime and filth.

Breathless, Nick barges into the room and his eyes fall on a sophisticated radio console that's built into one wall. He races to it and flips switches. He waits, desperate and the console glows brightly, all green, red, and yellow as it hums to life. Nick let's out a breath of relief just when Malcolm, his daughter and two out of the three cubs burst through the door.

"Where's Sarah!?" Malcolm yells.

"Where's Renee!?" Kelly goes again, watching as both men turn to her and she shows them the bag. Only Ezra and Bumble was inside.

Back with Madison, she latched her jaw onto the neck of the velociraptor. Digging their undeniably sharp claws into the creatures flesh, hearing it cry.

Until she stops when she hears a familiar cry in a nearby three story kiln house nearby. Her heart drops. At the realisation.

Sarah and Renee were in there.

Inside a three story kiln house, a windowless shed used for firing pottery and other construction projects. Catwalks lined with heavy chains hang above her, and on the floor below, she turns in circles, wondering that to do now. Renee was in her arms, looking around for their siblings.

From outside the kiln house, they both could easily hear scratching, digging sounds. From the other side of the door comes an animal snort, and a small puff of dust and dirt billows up through the crack along the ground.

the claws of one of the raptors dig furiously, trying to tunnel underneath. And Sarah runs to the opposite wall, falls to her knees, placing Renee beside her and the human and cub starts digging a tunnel of her own, clawing frantically a the dirt.

Behind her, the raptor's digging violently, and a rack full of hanging tools sway and clanks as it tears at the earth below it.

Sarah and Renee digs faster. So does the raptor.

With about eight inches of space under the wall, Sarah grabs hold of the bottom of one of the planks and pries it up as hard as she can. It snaps off with a loud cracks.

At the door, the raptor stops digging. It's silent for a moment. Sarah has a good foot and half of space under her wall now. She starts to lower Renee's body into it just as the raptors claw flash through from the other side, slashing at Renee's face and they both fall back.

Sarah falls back, completely forgetting Renee near to the escape room, screaming, leaps to her feet, and jumps up, grabbing hold of one of the catwalks above. She starts to climb, up, anywhere up, as the velociraptor now squirms and thrashes its way inside, coming in through her hole.

Renee continues to growl, trying their best to intimidate the overgrown bird. Trying their best to distract the beast while Sarah climb. Hauling herself up, Sarah leaping from one catwalk to another. Much to Renee's dismay, the velociraptor leaps up onto a catwalk as well and follows her.

A window in the slanted roof of one of the buildings explodes in a shower of glass as Sarah kicks through it and climbs outside. She reaches the edge of the roof and leaps to the roof of the next building.

She lands at the peak of the intersection of the two sides of sloping roof. As she pulls herself up the raptor appears on the rooftop behind her. In full stride, it leaps, sails over her, and lands on the roof ahead of her.

Sarah swings to her left and starts to crawl down the slope, away from the raptor. Suddenly the roof board under her splinters and cracks under her weight. The whole section pulls up and starts to slide off the roof. Sarah, clinging to it, rides the roof planks down, away from the raptor.

She looks over her shoulder, and sees her again, another velociraptor, waiting for her on roof of the building below.

Sarah quickly rolls off the sliding section of roof, which keeps falling. The raptor below jumps up, just in time to get whacked in the head by it.

Sarah tries to cling to the Spanish tile roof, fingers and nails slipping on the slick ceramic surface. She slides all the way to the edge, grabs hold of the gutter, and dangles there, suspended above one raptor and trapped below another.

END OF CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE