Chapter Four - Scratches

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After meeting Masrani and the Indomonius Rex, I was dying to look at the other hybrids. I knew that only three of the dinosaurs were carnivores and two were omnivores whilst the other ate fish, also six herbivores. The fish-eater was in large aviary, all alone. I really wanted to meet the Seamus and Galacry, the main herbivore. My radio buzzed on my jacket and then buzzed and buzzed, it wouldn't stop buzzing until I hit the small blue button. I tapped the button and a voice that kept cutting on and off was heard,

"Hey *cut* We need *cut* you *cut* near the Indomonius *cut* habitat. *cut*'ASAP!"

"Yeah," I replied to the male voice through the speaker.

I pressed the small red button and the radio turned off. I grabbed my knife and stuffed it into my satchel, then made my way over to the habitat.

I pushed past people crowding the visitors centre and the walk ways. I headed west towards Gate 14, and when I arrived, I couldn't believe it.

The 'unbreakable' glass had an average sized smash in it, like the Indomonius had tried to break loose. Then I was being tapped on the shoulder, I gasped as I turned around.

"Oh, sorry. Do you work here?" The stranger asked me and took his hand off of my shoulder.

"Well yeah with the herbi-" He cut me off.

"Good. We're gonna need you to come into the habitat."

"Wait. With an actual killer dinosaur in there?! I'm sorry, no!" I replied, kind of scared.

"Well, she's umm lets just say missing..." He said, looked down at the ground.

"That's the reason? Shouldn't you be securing the perimeter?" Ok, I was getting super scared.

"We need to check if she's- just come one!" He grabbed my wrist and pulled me towards a secure, iron door.

He pushed a button and the door opened, he signalled me to go through. Well, I should've said goodbye from my mum instead of ignoring her, well she wasn't really listening to me. I walked through, remembering I have a gun and knife. If this hybrid was to attack we'd need lethals to kill it.

As soon as I got in the habitat, the first the thing I noticed, apart from all the people, the trees and other stuff, was large, white claw marks on the wall leading all the way up to the top. I nudged the guy, who practically begged me to come in here, and once I had got his attention, I pointed at the scratches on the wall.

"Owen! We need you!" Said a worker, walking towards the guy from above. Once he saw the claw marks his eyes widened. "Or not!"

"You don't suppose she climbed out, do you?" I gulped.

"Depends," Owen, I think that's his name, said.

"On what?!" I took a heavy breath, showing off how scared I was.

"What kind of dinosaur they cooked up in that lab ..." Owen was cut off by a scream and a roar. "She's still in here!"

Everyone began to run towards the door to get out of the habitat. A small rock was waiting for me to trip over it, and that's exactly what I did. Owen noticed I wasn't beside him and ran back to help me, he stretched out his arm and I grabbed it, he pulled me up. The Indomonius didn't spot us panting, we smelt of sweat, but she sure did spot a chubby worker, her teeth sunk into his head, tearing it off and eating it. Me and Owen ran like our lives depended on it, well it obviously did, towards the large gate.

Once we arrived at the gate, there was only four of us left, even though we went in with ten. Owen spoke through his radio, telling Lowery to open gate 14, then close it once we were out. After about a minute of waiting and hiding, the large, dark gate opened. We all ran out, and by all I mean three. Lowery spoke through Owen and mines radio,

"Uhh, problem. Gates not closin... yeah."

My eyes widened, we were surely going to die. Owen, my hero, pointed towards a Jurassic World tour car. I made my way over to the car with Owen following, we lain down underneath the car, me slightly sweating.

"Names Owen," Owen whispered.

"I knew that, from the worker of course." I whispered in reply. "My names Erin."

"Nice name, so how do you work here, Erin."

"Oh, umm, herbivore helper and feeder. What about you?" I gulped.

"Raptor trainer. It's pretty fun. Except they try and eat you," Owen quietly laughed.

We both dropped silent, and our smiles became straight, when we heard the horrible sound of bones crunching and blood spewing out. A few metres away from the vehicle, a body dropped down, missing the top half. I clasped my hands over my mouth, kicking back. Owen wrapped his arms around me, he tried to calm me. A tear slipped down my cheek, why am I crying? I've never talked to the guy. Well, I didn't like seeing someone or something living get hurt, unless it deserved to be there.

Once we were sure the Indomnius was gone, we crawled out from under the truck. Tears dried on my cheeks, causing bits of mascara to smudge. I thanked Owen for saving my life, and comforting me when I felt bad.

"It's fine."

Owen said in reply.

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