I Train Raptors For a Living [Jurassic World Fanfic]

The Brood

June 3, 2004
Owen Grady's POV

Day 1

It's been 3 months since I've been sent to work here at Jurassic World in Isla Nublar. I've worked with canines for the military, but what I was about to get to was a whole step and a half above that. Velociraptors, the most dangerous animals on the island at this moment. All I have to do is find someway to train one.
We have about a year till this park is up and running and I have to be ready to show off these animals opening day. That seems like a lot of time, but I still have to figure out how I'm going to go at this. I mean... they're 65 million years old, that makes them extremely unpredictable and elusive.
I was waiting in a lab, not really my type of place but I wasn't here to enjoy myself. InGen hired me from the military to take this job, and as soon as they new I was onboard they prepared 4 raptor eggs. Today was the day they were planned to hatch.
The eggs laid on a table absolutely still hidden slightly in hay and grass that the lab workers placed. I had to be there because I need to imprint on them when they're born. I stared at them waiting for what was going to consume everyday of my life for the next year.
"Any minute," said chief scientist Henry Wu.
Almost instantly the first egg started to tremble. The wiggled and rolled slightly around the table. The egg slowly started to gain slight cracks. The baby raptor started to make a slight screech and starts to poke it' snout out of the egg shell. It was soon out of it's shell and struggling to walk.
I smirked at how it looked at me. It tried to scare me away with a weak growl but it definitely did not work. I took the back of my index and middle finger and started to stroke the side of it's body. She started to nibble at my fingers and did it's best to hurt me. At this age the teeth just felt like sandpaper. I softly pulled her off and smiled.
She was a dark grayish blue with a blue stripe going from her eyes to the tip of her tail on each side of her body. I gently picked her up and put her in a cardboard box with the top open.
This cycle continued with the other three raptors. One was a lighter green with darker green marking on the side of her face. Another one was brown with darker patches of brown through out the body. And the last one was a muddy green with darker green and brown stripes on her neck and back.
I put them all in the box and got permitted to take them to their new home. This place wasn't going to be the place they stay long term, but it would be perfect for them until they get to at least infancy.