Dark Fangs: Forbidden Fugitives

Chapter Nine

Drake settled himself by the Indominus's cage and blew out a long breath of relief. He calmed Swifty down and asked her to lie in the darkest corner of the warehouse, twenty feet from Drake and the Indominus.

     Drake sighed again. He couldn't shake the numb feeling of relief in his muscles. Escaping from Hal and leaving Jae (which still bothered him) had drained his energy reserve, even though he'd just woken from a full night of sleep over an hour ago.

     "All right...How are we today?" Drake lifted the curtain to see the white creature again, and this time she was awake. 

     The Indominus Rex growled something quietly in the back of her throat and blinked at Drake calmly. She seemed intrigued by Drake. She shifted her head a little to survey his frame and look deeply into his cobalt blue hues. 

     "Shhhh....Don't move too much." Drake warned in the softest voice he could. "I don't want you to be shocked again."

     A sound like a hoarse, weak growling laugh came from the massive creature. Drake smiled. He couldn't believe it was true, but it seemed like it was so. The sound continued for a moment, and it pulled a laugh from Drake as well.

     Indominus was laughing!

     She's not as creepy as the Indoraptor, Drake thought. Somehow, she is just so much more...calm. The Indoraptor is super high-strung and vocal. The more Drake stared into the red eyes of the Indominus, the more calm he felt resting inside him. 

     And then something very odd happened: Drake could feel it, and he could sense the Indominus knew it as well. 

     Their heartbeats synced. 

     Drake could hear the Indominus's. He could feel hers pulsing in union with his. 

     Or was it that his beat with hers?

     It was silent for a long, beautiful moment. The two gazed into each others eyes, and Drake did not know what he'd just done until it hit him, and he panicked.

     Oh no...

     The Indominus's jaws vibrated, and just as Drake dropped the curtain and rolled out of the way, her deafening, thunderous roar split the serene air. Drake closed his arms around his head, covering his ears as he scrambled to the dark corner with Swifty. 

      "Hey! Shut up in there!" Hal hollered. Drake heard the sizzling crackle of electrocution in the I-Rex's cage. 

     The roar died down. But even once it was long gone, Drake still kept his arms sealed around his skull. And good thing too; panic was slamming against the walls of his cranium and threatened to break through like a wall of water.

     But Drake could do nothing about it. The bond was already in place. He'd just made the worst mistake of his life.