Dark Fangs: Forbidden Fugitives

Chapter Eleven

The pouring rain had only exceeded into turning the sky shadowy-black with thunderous claps and blinding streaks of lightning. The beach was swept with terrifyingly strong winds that almost knocked over Jae and Drake as they scouted the shore in the edge of the jungle foliage.

     The windy, storming shore was packed with men in grey uniforms with powerful firearms. Five massive barges were yards from shore, and smaller boats began taking cages and cages of selected dinosaurs away, which Jae suspected were all of the groups that would be given their own islands. She couldn't make out any of the dinosaurs though, aside from the only Rex, who looked like she was going along with some Carnotauruses.

     "There!" Drake yelled and placed a hand on Jae's shoulder to steady himself, and Jae pulled away, her eyes not leaving the shore. "See?" Drake instead gripped a wet palm tree trunk, blinking hard as sand was flung into his blue yes.

     Jae squinted against the storm and wind-swept debris, gazing intently at a cage Drake's attention was solely focused on. The Indominus...And Indoraptor! 

     It was true: The two cages were side by side on the shore, two hybrids inside them snarling at the men around them.

     It was too windy for curtains now.      

     "What are we going to do though?" asked Jae, turning her green optics to meet Drake's. She blinked rain out of them.

     Drake glanced from Jae to the beach, and back. "....I was going to say create a diversion...In this wind, it should be easy."

     Jae narrowed her eyes and braced herself as another screaming wind tore from the ocean and blew a torrent of rain into their faces. "What kind? And how would we move the cages?"

     Drake sighed. "I....Okay, then, let's wait this out--"

     "Drake, I thought you had an actual plan!" Jae exclaimed. "Waiting won't work! They'll all be gone to their selected islands! In the next few minutes, they'll already be on the boats on the sea."

     Drake closed his eyes. "I'm sorry. I didn't think about that. I thought..." He sighed through his nostrils, trailing off. Rain dripped from messy black hair strands onto his face. Then his cobalt hues widened. "Wait."

     "What?" Jae inquired.

     "See that lorry?" Drake said, pointing to an army-green lorry on the shore.

     Jae's eyes widened, then she blinked sharply as salty rain pelted them. "Wait...are you...?"

     "We could get one at a time, sedated, on the back of that lorry and bring them to separate parts of the Island. Or better yet," Drake scanned the shore with his sharp eyes, shielding them with a hand. "We could get a boat and move them both to their own private islands."

     Jae stared in pure shock at him. "Do you hear yourself?" she breathed finally. "You think we could steal two hybrid creatures, move them to different islands, and not get caught? What is going through your head?"     

     Drake clenched his jaws. "Do you have a better idea? It's better than letting them die here! You sound just as crazy!"

     "I sound just as crazy?" Jae growled. "You are talking about getting two dangerous animals--one that weighs a literal ton, the other who weighs about eight tons--onto the back of a large vehicle or in their cages on a boat somehow, and moving them to a different island, or another section of Sanctuary Island. Not to mention getting past all of those armed men." Jae spread her arms out to indicate the military-like force milling around on the beach with the cages, moving them onto specific barges. "I think we should wait and ask our parents and expose Hal and the abuse. Who sounds more crazy?"

     Drake frowned, impressed, at Jae. "Jae--"

     A screaming roar interrupted Drake, silencing him immediately. 

     It was the Indoraptor.

     Against her will, and stunning her, Jae's heart leapt in her throat, and a supernatural emotion of searing empathy seized her mind and heart. She lifted a hand to her mouth, her green eyes dilating. 

     Drake's cobalt eyes slid sidelong to peer at Jae. "....Jae...Don't you se--feel it?"

     Dang it, Drake...Jae thought bitterly, raking a hand through her drenched, snarled dark hair.

     But, yes, I do. I understand it. 

     The hybrid was again being electrocuted, and his long, powerful tail lashed the heavy barred sides of his cell. He reached through at three men on his left side, slashing through the bars at them, and as he did, four more on his right side reach through with prods and shocked him. Jae could imagine it hurt worse now that there was rain soddening his scaly hide.

     It was so unfair.

     "All right! All right!" Hal's voice cut through the crackling air and snapped Drake and Jae's attention to him. "We'll leave the rest here. Get them ready in the morning; We have passengers coming."

     Drake and Jae could barely make out his words, but they deciphered enough to make out the sentence. And wordlessly, their vibrant gazes slid to a massive cruise ship out at sea. A smaller passenger boat was coming ashore. 

     "Is that..." Drake breathed, and Jae didn't hear him.

     Are those my siblings and grandparents? Jae thought, her spine tightening unpleasantly. She squinted against the storm, her heart pounding lightly. 

     But I thought they weren't coming until tomorrow. 

     I guess not.