Chapter one: What are those Eyes?
Tony White, a forensic anthropologist. World renowned figure in the justice system. Had gotten an email, it was strange it was addressed from the CIA. He had gotten emails from the CIA before but lately some strange remains; humans had been washed up on the beaches near North and South America. He had been on the first case, the second and the thirty fifth. The bite marks on the remains were massive, you would assume the bite force would be equivalent to a medium car having teeth, it was either an unidentified animal, a dinosaur, or a person was crushing people with a car with teeth.
These cases were not just impossible and almost fantasy-like. An animal with enough newtons to do that must be extinct by now; that is what the math said. The CIA had been very secretive about this and made him swear to secrecy. Only he could look at the bones.
The clock ticks in the background, I sat in my desk chair documenting the latest case, a body devoid of flesh with a missing femur, the bottom four ribs and a skull crushed in. This marked the Thirty Sixth body it washed up on the coast of California. The room was silent. All that was in the lab was myself, the body and some dinosaur bones brought over to be dated. The screen of my monitor lights up as an emergency email pops up. It was from the CIA it read as,
3 minutes after this has been sent, some CIA members will arrive, Drug you. You will be briefed when on the ship. Reading this means you also agree to the death clause
If you get harmed or die all your money will be given to your children and your cause of death will be by overwork.
"Bullshit" I yell as I chuck my monitor at the door, just for it to hit a person who is walking through the door. She grabs it and tosses it to the side. Standing there is a middle aged Asian woman wearing a suit.
" You're a mess Tony, have you gone home?" She says, wading through the mountains of books, rubbish and two minute noodles.
" Mizuki, what shit did the government find this time Alien bones?" I say, getting up from my desk. Some plastic dinosaurs fall to the floor disappearing into the rubbish.
" the divorces was that bad" she says before some other agents appear grabbing me and injecting something in my arm,
" Imagine getting cheated on and still losing custody of your kids" I say before I start feeling sleepy.
They carry Tony out of the lab wading through the rubbish, before Mizuki leaves she carefully places a Herrerasaurus on the cupboard shelf.
I feel groggy, and dizzy. It's as if I'm on a ship, I slowly sit up, Mizuki is sitting on a table nearby.
I look around trying to get my bearings straight.
" This is a ship, I'm on a ship. MIzuki why did you put me on a fucking ship!"
" I'll only show you if you promise to try to stop swearing" she says in a sing-song voice.
" Fine"
She walks over slowly making sure she doesn't slip. And hands him some photos. I Look at them Carefully inch by inch. Metal fence hugged by Overgrown Ivy. Building that nature has claimed once again and a blurry image of what seems to be a fast moving lizard like a Basilisk,
" You're kidnapping me and taking me to an island to an abandoned theme park to hunt a Basilisk, couldn't you just send some hunters" I say, chucking the photos away.
"Could a Basilisk, kill 36 people, think bigger" Mizuki says
" Mutated Tuatara"
"Bigger, and realistic"
" Komodo Dragon"
" Bigger"
" All lizards bigger are dead, what is this Jurassic Park" I say angrily.
A woman walks down the stairs into view and says
" Tony, Honey. She's thinking of a Utahraptor or even a small Allosaur."
My face scrunches in more anger
" Mizuki why is she here shouldn't she be back on land fooling around with a wannabe linebacker 20 years younger" I yell
" At least when I was around, the kids only saw you like once a month looking a nethanderthal bodies more interesting than your own kids, Chloe still asks where you are, and Tom just started speaking.
" At least I was faithful, people who cheat are also people who don't care about their kids." I respond as the argument gets tenser.
Before it could escalate, Mizuki stops it,
" You're both here because we need your expertise." She dumps some folders on the table.
Files that almost seem older than myself. I grab one and take a look
19XX
Trial and error
The subject 32-10z Fail, putting in an Enclosed space is a fail
The XXXXXXXX survived and is content
Only XXX DiX
The rest of the Island is getting surveyed for more
Supervisor: XXXX WhXXX
Pretty much all the files either are damaged by water or have parts scribbled over. The clearest one mentioned Sauropods or Therapods I don't know the difference
" Now Both you need to get along or else we could all die." Mizuki says
" If this is some sort of Jurassic Park shit, why is a forensic Anthropologist here, I get Rose she is a paleontologist but why am I here" I say
" You write a book that is used almost every day in solving murders and mysteries, it was about age dating. We need you to help fill in the blanks here. How old the the dinos, how old are the buildings and how old are the bodies" Mizuki says walking over to a nearby window.
" Well folks we have arrive as a Island known as, Sector Omega-32"
I can hear the birds chirping, the sea move and something roaring, shit something is roaring.
I walk on to the poop deck, An Island, covered in tropical trees, mountains that impale the clouds in the distance. The ship I'm on is definitely military, Jeeps, Turrets. And people holding big guns. Mizuki walks over.
" Satellite images show that this Island is split into multiple different areas, we call them Zones A B C… Etc" all of them are different types of biomes or sub biomes. We assume they hold many Dinosaurs. Rose you will Identify them and help us survive and Tony you have to not scream and help fill in the blanks and the mystery of this place"
The only thing in the vast ocean is this Island, nothing else. Dread fills me as we arrive at the dock, there are tents, artillery and food storages surrounded by a massive at least 70 metres tall, no man's land is what is past that fence.
Mizuki shows me to my tent. It's got a mattress table, portapotty. On the mattress lay a kevlar vest, pistol, flashlight, notebook, and pen. Many pairs of spare clothes lay across the table. I sit on the bed looking through the tent window watching the sun set.
Guards walk across the fence line, holding their flashlights.
" David do you really think their are dinos here"
" Nah it's probably a cover up for something else"
" yeah but why dinos why not something believable.
A noise echoes from beyond the fence, both guards jerk their heads toward the fence. The noise gets closer, the guards could see the leaves move. Something was in there, they ignore and moved on.
" Imagine if that was a T-rex" David says mimicking spooky noises.
" Yeah, should we try find out what this is"
" The pay is amazing, risking it is…"
A Low bellowing noises echos from behind David, it was similar to a crocodile but more fear inducing,
The other guard moves his flashlight, in the bush just before the fence a, yellow eye stares into the guards soul, it reveals its head more its larger than a komodo dragon, a lot bigger. Its eyes adjusts the the bright torch, it lets out a more aggressive bellow revealing two small crests on its skull, the guards scream causing into run away, as it runs off it kicks up, a arm; human its flesh is almost gone, the only feature that is identifiable is the golden watch on the wrist.
Something else is behind the fence, something that will turn this island into a bloodbath.
The crest dinosaur, a Dilophosaurus, is feasting on what was once a human in a lab coat. It seems in peace but something disturbs the peace causing it to run away. It grabs the body with its head. Its red eye is the only thing you could see. It leaves loudly with a roar that awakes the camp