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An upside-down gyrosphere was beside an injured dinosaur-or dead. Violet couldn't really tell because it was laying there, rolled over.

"The indominus rex was here." Sammy gasped at the sight.

Darius examined the dinosaur. "Predators don't kill prey and then just leave without feeding." He kneeled. "This...this isn't right."

Violet walked a bit closer to get a better look, kneeling beside Darius. The sight and information made her feel very uneasy. "So...it hunts for fun?" Her head turned to him. "Like sport-" Her head turned to the tall grass from hearing grumbling sounds. Violet put an arm around in front of Darius who tumbled backward on the grass because he got scared by the sudden sound. She quickly helped him up as everyone ran to hide behind the abandoned gyrosphere.

Light sounds of grass moving were heard in the previous location that they ran from. Then a loud but low snarl came out as the figure jumped out from the grass. It was a dinosaur, no indominus rex but a smaller-sized one. It was softly growling while walking out from the tall grass.

Ben peeped his head out from behind the gyrosphere with a huge smile, "Bumpy!" He and the dinosaur ran to each other. Ben kneeled down to hug the little fellow.

"That's Bumpy?" Connor walked toward Ben and the small turtle-like dinosaur, in Connor's opinion it was very turtle-like. "He's bigger now."

Ben turned his head to Connor. He was very offended while correcting Connor. "Her. She. Not he. Bumpy is a female, for your information."

"Okay." Connor spoked defensively as he looked down at Bumpy. 

Ben shook his head in disappointment. "You should apologize to her."

Connor smiled with a chuckle but Ben didn't. "You're serious? You actually want me to apologize to her?" He motioned his hand to point at Bumpy. "No. I'm not saying sorry to a dinosaur."

Violet stifled her laughter, standing beside Kenji. "C'mon, Connor, it's not that hard."

"Says the one who doesn't even know how to properly make an apology." Connor turned around to look at Violet.

Kenji walked forward to them with disbelief. "How do you even know that's the same dinosaur?"

"Her big head bump." Ben gently touched the horn on its head. "Dr. Wu said she's asymmetrical, but he's wrong that it's bad. And so what if she is asymmetrical? There's nothing wrong with being different, or bumpy, or getting tired after reading an overly thrilling book! And maybe if her parents had listened to her, she wouldn't have come here and gotten attacked!"

"Are we still talking about the dinosaur?" Yasmina whispered out to Violet and Sammy who were near her. "Feels like we're not still talking about the dinosaur."

Violet now walked over to Ben and kneeled beside him. She put a hand on Ben's shoulder, "Well, forget that doctor slash mad scientist." She then smiled down at Bumpy. "Because Bumpy is adorable." Violet turned her head to Ben. "Dr. Wu is just jealous that he's not as beautiful as this little fellow."

Yasmina scoffed with a sigh. "Not you too. Violet, I don't think you're looking at the big picture here."

"She is the big picture." Violet softly smiled at Bumpy as she gently placed her palm on Bumpy. 

Their stop was to find the lab. Darius, Kenji, and Violet were the ones who didn't go to the lab visit so it was up to the others to try and remember the way. In the end, Bumpy was a dinosaur and too slow to keep up with them. Ben was heavily outvoted on keeping Bumpy with them.

Violet watched Ben still kneeling in front of Bumpy, sad. She walked back over to him. "Fate will bring you two back together."

"Do you really think so?" Ben looked up at her, not wanting to leave Bumpy.

Violet blankly stared down at him. "No. I don't believe in fate and hope." She then patted his shoulder. "Sorry about Bumpy, she seems nice."

The rest of them started on their walk once again but this time they were looking for a lab which was the one place they knew was near them.

Yasmina held up the big hanging leaf to let Sammy walk under and forward. A side smirk crossed her face as she saw Violet walking backward, chatting with Brooklynn. She watched Violet take more steps closer and then she let go of the leaf, allowing it to smack the back of Violet's head.

"Hey. Who-" Violet quickly turned around to push the leaf out of the way. Then her eyes were met with Yasmina who had a barely viable smile at her before turning to walk forward. "Okay, that was not fair. You planned that. That's like...premeditated murder"

Yasmina rolled her eyes with a smile while walking alongside Sammy, "Do you hear something?"

"Oh, wow." Violet continued to walk forward with a scoff. "Real mature Yasmina. Real mature of you to ignore me."

Brooklynn walked beside Violet with a confused look as she looked at the back of Yasmina's head. "I thought you two were close?"

Violet now glanced over at Yasmina and spoke in a low voice "Who? Me and...?" She glanced at the back of Yasmina's head and then turned to face Brooklynn. "We've had a few friendly conversations but Yasmina prefers to not be associated with someone like me. In fact, she probably hates how much I've been in her bubble space." Brooklynn stared at her, not understanding what Violet just said. Violet read her look and understood what she was thinking. Confusion. "A troubled teen who gets into trouble daily and has a rep for getting into trouble. Which is me. So, I'd only ruin her rep." Violet snapped her finger together. She then leaned forward to Brooklynn to lowly whisper to her, "But in actuality I'd make her rep skyrocket with the connections I have."

Yasmina furrowed her brows from hearing the conversation. She turned to look over her shoulder, looking at Violet. "Now that is a lie. I don't-"

Violet didn't look back at Yasmina, only kept her attention on Brooklynn who looked forward. "Do you hear something? I could have sworn I heard something."

Brooklynn giggled at what Violet was doing. "I think that was just Connor's stomach again."

Connor furrowed his brows from being more behind them. "I can't control my hunger."

Sammy lightly chuckled beside Yasmina. "She just did what you did to her."

Yasmina on the other hand didn't have that huge of a smile. "And she called me immature."

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A/N

I just finished my hw so I can now finally put this chap out

I'm in the middle of writing act 2 right now and it's honestly kinda boring cuz, if ykyk, so I got a lot to work out to make it more interesting

Ideas and insight are welcomed