Heart of a Monster

Chapter Five

I pace my enclosure, not sure whether or not I should test the electrode fence. The bright flashes of electricity have calmed down, but I don't think the fence is off completely. Clutching my single surviving egg closer to my chest in the dark, I cautiously step over the line. 

My implant doesn't shock me, doesn't do anything. The lines really are down. Now I just need to find her and get her out of her enclosure. 

I walk down the hallways, my tail swishing behind me as the spikes lining it brush against the corpses lining this hallway. A normal in the hallway escaped before me, a Carnotaur. It killed all the guards and then left.

Thankfully no guests were caught in its rampage. I pick my way along, careful not to give myself away or to step on a body. I'm in a hurry sure but I won't be disrespectful to the dead whose live satiated the hunger of the beast who would've killed me and my egg.

I can feel the heartbeat within the fragile shell under my fingertips, know how close he is to hatching. I need to find her before he hatches. His cries would draw the Carnotaur. I hurry my pace, slipping out of the hallway and into the main area of the nearby raptor paddock. There isn't any more normals in this particular section because it is shared with the other half-humans. 

I move through the tress swiftly, clutching my egg closer to me. The shell is beginning to crack as his tail and horns poke through the egg. God he's so close to hatching where is she!?

I know her paddock is near Mosa's and his paddock opens out onto these woods.

I burst from the trees only to see the other half-humans gathered around Mosa's enclosure. I race over to Mosa and start talking. The two raptor half-humans stare at me as I word vomit to him.

"....and he's about to hatch where's Onco!? I need to find her!"

Mosa points to the enclosure next to his. I rush over and see Onco at the edge of the water, floating on her back. Her scales have lost their shine. The egg in my hands cracks completely, our hatchling curled in my arms. His tail is just like hers, his horns mini versions of my plates.

Onco looks up at me, hearing his cries. Her smile lights up the dim, rainy night. She pulls herself out of the water and sits up as best as she can. I kneel down and hand her our son, her grin as she looks at him is priceless.

"What will we name him?"

I smile at her.

"Let's name him Maximum. Because he's our maximum joy in life."

A/N: I know I know it's cheesy but its cute plus I couldn't think of another name.

I pick up Onco, as the gray and blue raptor comes over. I think his name was Blue.

"Congrats Stego. He's adorable."

I smile. 

"Thanks Blue."

We walk back over to Mosa's enclosure but the person in question is nowhere to be seen. The water parts and Mosa surfaces, grinning. Another, smaller half-human surfaces next to him, swimming close to him. 

I smile. So Mosa had his kid as well as Stego. Onco sits down on the pavement, and I hand her little Maximum. Mosa helps his daughter out of the water, her tail covered in scales like his but shaped like Megalo's. 

She smiles at all of us, and Mosa tells us her name as yet another child surfaces; this one a boy. 

"She's Mesa and the boy is Mosalo."

I smile. The boy has Mosa's tail but a sharp shark's dorsal fin instead of a Mosasaur fin. Both hatchlings are my size despite being newborns. I guess the genetic tweaks InGen used to alter the size of both Mosa and Megalo transferred to their descendants.

Now the only two we need to find are Ceros and Dako. Last I heard Dako was transferred to Ceros' paddock because he refused to eat without Ceros. 

So both the boys are in the biodome. We now know where to go before we escape.