Jurassic Girl

Chapter Seven

Somehow, Zara finds us when we get back to the park. She yells at us for running away as soon as we see her.
"Zara! We don't have time for this," I yelled back at her.
Now, we were running through crowds of terrified people as dinosaurs swoop down and pick their meals.
I hold onto Zach and Gray's hand, making sure not to lose them in this chaos. We stop in the Main Street of the park, looking all around us. Zara runs past us and Gray runs after her.
"Gray!"
We pull him back just as a dinosaur swoops down to grab him. Zara turns to us.
"Don't just stand there-"
A dinosaur swoops down and grabs her.
"Zara," I scream, "Zara!"
She screams as they lift her higher in the air. Three of them try to grab her, as they fly over the Mosasaurus lake. They drop her, and she falls in. I run towards the lake, hoping I could somehow get her out.
"Zara!"
She gets lifted back in the air by a dinosaur, by her legs. The boys run up behind me, watching. She is lifted higher, and then the mosasaur jumps up, catching Zara and the dinosaur that carried her.
A sob escapes my mouth as I fall back into Zach, his arms catching me. She was engaged, her wedding was only a few weeks away, but now she's gone.
"Come on, we got to get inside," Zach says in my ear.
I nod, fighting back my sadness. We had to survive right now.
"Come on," I say, grabbing Gray's hand again.
Zach grabs my hand and we run. We run back towards the visitors center.
"Zach!" "Gray!"
"Aunt Claire," Gray yells as we see her standing on a fallen cart.
"Claire," Zach yells.
I see Owen shooting behind her at the attacking dinosaurs and I yell, "Owen!"
He is looking at something behind us. I turn to see a very large pterodactyl chasing us.
"Zach," I yell.
He turns and sees it too. He pulls Gray and me to run even faster. An ACU guard shoots the pterodactyl and we fall to keep from getting hit. Zach pulls me with him as we push ourselves away from the animal as it continues to slide forward. It stops, its sharp beak only inches from our faces.
I kick it back so we can stand up, Zach and I pull Gray up next to us. I look back over to Owen and see him getting attacked, but Claire hits the thing off of him with the butt of a gun, shooting it three times.
"Is that Aunt Claire," Zach asks, a little shocked.
We watch them stare at each other for a moment before Owen pulls her by the waist and kisses her. Finally, those two have had so much tension between them for months, and I was sick of being suffocated by it.
They part ways and Claire looks over at us, "that's them. Zach!"
"Mor," Owen yells, running towards us with Claire.
I take my hand out of Zach's and run towards my brother, "Owen!"
He runs and meets me halfway. I jump into him, his arms crushing me as he held me to him.
"I was so worried," he whispers.
"I know," I whisper back, tears forming in my eyes, "I know, I was worried too."
It felt like the times Owen would come back from deployment, safe and sound. A few tears slide down my face and onto his shirt.

-Zach's pov-
I watched Mor hang on to this guy as Claire fussed over Gray. She clung to him like he was her lifeline.
"Who's that," I ask Claire.
She looks back at them, "we work together."
After that kiss they shared, I bet they were more than just colleagues.
The guy says something to Mor and she nods, letting go of him. They turn to us and I see the tears on Mor's cheeks instantly.
"Hey," the guy says, "we gotta go."
"Okay," Claire nods, turning to us, "come on, come on."
Claire pulls us over to the guy and Mor. I instantly walk over to Mor as Claire and the guy take lead.
"Who is he," I ask her.
She reaches up to wipe some tears from her cheeks, "my brother, Owen."
"You have a brother," I ask, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that while we were being chased by a monster dinosaur," she laughs, "Owen and I work with raptors, we live here on the island."
"That's so cool," I say.
She nods, "yeah. It's pretty cool."
Ahead of us, Claire calls somebody, "Lowery, I'm on my way back to you."
Mor gets closer so she can hear better, I copy her.
"What do you mean use the raptors," Claire says.
Mor stops cold, Owen as well. I look at her and she has a stone cold look in her eyes.
"Son of a bitch," Owen says as a helicopter flies over us.
"You shouldn't say, bitch," Gray says.
Owen ignores him, "take the kids. Get them somewhere safe."
All of a sudden, the huge gates behind us start moving. We all look at them and a hand slips into mine, Mor. The gates slam open as people run through it, being chased by flying dinosaurs.
We all run towards a Jeep, Mor pulling Gray with her as I pull her. Owen and Claire take the front seats as us three pile in the back.
Owen throws the car into reverse and Gray and I start yelling at him to go faster. He turns us out of the way of the hordes of people running for their lives and we slam to a stop.
"This does not feel safe," I say.
"Can we stay with you," Gray asks.
"I am never leaving you as long as you live," Claire says to us and I kinda feel bad.
"No, him," Gray and I both say.
"Yeah definitely him," Gray says.
Mor sits forward and I lean back so she can talk to them, "Owen, if Hoskins touches my girl I'll-"
"I know," Owen cuts her off, "I'll let you get first hit."
She smirks, viciously, "let's go find the son of a bitch."