Claws and Fangs

= Prelude =
A lot happened after the Ceratosaurus named Napoleon escaped from the BioSyn facility in the Gobi Desert to become the creature known as the Ukhel.
At first, an ecosystem had formed, with the goats that fed off of the plants in the greenhouse at the bottom, and the Tyrannosaurus mcraensis at the top of the food chain.
The first to die off was the Prognathodon. The Eutrophication in his tank got progressively worse, and his food supply being cut off didn’t help either. The Prognathodon’s corpse helped the algae to grow.
Not soon after, the Muttaburrasaurus was hunted down by the Utahraptors Atrocious and Yukon.
Soon after the Muttaburrasaurus’s death, the ecosystem began to collapse.
The electricity and water that was being supplied was shut down. This caused the plants of the greenhouse to die off, as well as shut down the water supply for the animals. This caused the goats and the Segnosaurus to die of starvation. But prior to the Segnosaurus’s death, the pack of three Fukiraptors had attempted to hunt it, which had led to their deaths.
Following that, the resident Velociraptor pack became the primary food source of all the remaining carnivores, until the Velociraptors also died out.
The Megalosaurus then hunted down the pair of Gigantoraptors, and then the Megalosaurus was hunted by the Tyrannosaurus mcraensis.
By 2014, all that was left was the Tyrannosaurus mcraensis, the Utahraptor pair, Panthera atrox and Panthera spelaea.
The Tyrannosaurus mcraensis, Lilith, had begun to starve, leading to her death. Her remains, including her bone marrow, was eaten by the Utahraptors and panthers, leaving only her skull, rib cage and spine.
= Prologue =
Three BioSyn hired mercenaries entered the facility, on the 18th March of 2014.
“Anything that was here should be long gone by now. You!” the senior mercenary said, pointing at one of the other mercenaries. “You go that way.” He turned towards the other mercenary. “You and I shall go this way.”
The other mercenary nodded, and headed that way, holding a torch, when suddenly Atrocious leapt out, and tore into his flesh. The mercenary began to scream, as Atrocious and Yukon began to swallow his flesh while he was still alive.
The other two mercenaries began to fire tranquilizer darts at Yukon and Atrocious, who in their hungry state, didn’t even look up. They soon collapsed, unconscious.
“Looks like some did survive. Load them into cages, and take them to the chopper.” The senior mercenary grunted.
The third mercenary, who turned out to also be a pilot, nodded.
Almost immediately, the third mercenary came running back. “Ishmael!” he yelled. “There’s a Xoblar Genetics helicopter flying this way.”
The senior mercenary listened. “So it is” he said, grunting. Quickly load up the raptors. I’ll deal with them.
Atrocious and Yukon were loaded into the cages, when several mercenaries walked in. They were led by Vsevolod Vasiliev.
“Who the f are you?” the senior mercenary asked.
“Nice to meet you” Vsevolod said, firing at the two mercenaries. “Load everything into our chopper. Put the Utahraptors into the BioSyn chopper. I want all bones, data and genomes in our possession. Remember, Xoblar hasn’t funded or supported this. We can’t get caught.”
The two panthers appeared from the darkness, and grabbed the corpses of the two mercenaries, and pulled them back into the darkness.
Having taken everything, Vsevolod had the suspicious shipment transported and auctioned off. It would fund Xoblar Genetics, and increase the equity. Vsevolod ensured that the highest bidder who won the genetic material and such was a collector. He had plans to have Xoblar Genetics expand and enter the dinosaur making business, and couldn’t risk competitors.
The two Utahraptors were sold to a Greek woman, Ms. Bowmont, living in Livadia. Nothing was heard of them for 10 years, until…
= Interlude =
It was the 9th of March, 2024. A massive ship was headed into Athens harbor. This was a ship transporting goods from USA to England, but had gone of route, and into Greece, due to a stowaway. The stowaway had slowly reduced the crew, until only the captain remained. And soon, the captain was eaten as well.
The ship crashed into the harbor, and a dinosaur pounced off of the ship, and fled into the darkness. It then leapt onto a statue of Zeus, and began to bark.
It was the Spinoraptor.
While this was happening, in the basement of a bar at Athens, a Pyroraptor had been pitted against a Deinonychus.
The two dromaeosaurs began to snarl at each other, slashing and biting each other. The Deinonychus grabbed the Pyroraptor by the throat and pounded her onto the ground.
Suddenly, there was a smashing sound coming from the bar door. The bartender rushed and opened it. Screams were heard.
“What the hell?” a person yelled.
Footsteps could be heard, as the Spinoraptor entered the basement.
People began to scream, but their exit was blocked by the Spinoraptor. A bartender rushed towards the cage, and opened the door.
The Deinonychus and Pyroraptor stopped growling. The two of them exited the cage, and snarled at the Spinoraptor.
“Well, well, well, look what we have here. A couple of fierce fighters just itching for a rematch with those pesky humans” the Spinoraptor barked.
The Pyroraptor hissed, and charged towards the Spinoraptor, who got into a defensive mode. Suddenly, the Pyroraptor changed her direction, and she pounced onto an unsuspecting person.
Pretty soon, it was a free for all, as the Pyroraptor, Spinoraptor and Deinonychus began to slaughter everyone at the bar.
= Corpus =
“P.K.C! P.K.C!” the audience chanted.
It was a week before the Spinoraptor attacked the bar. Kalidasa Osmus, or P.K.C Osmus, popular Mimaurean cricketer had just scored a breathtaking century, securing their team's victory in the championship match against Kamak.
Osmus’ teammates ran up to him, and lifted him in the air. The audience continued to chant “P.K.C! P.K.C!”
It was only the second day of March, and this was a good start to his March madness, Osmus thought, smiling.
“Yo! P.K.C, coach wants to see you!” one of his team mates said.
The rest of his teammates put him down, and Osmus rushed. The coach was waiting for him, and shook his hand.
“Well done, kiddo. You’re quite the buzz at Mimaure. Already I’ve got multiple people calling you for party invitations, chief guest reservations and many more. But also, we’ve been granted a grant! And we mustn’t take her for granted.”
“Please stop” Osmus said.
The coach chuckled. “You see, kiddo, we’ve got a call from this woman in Greece. She’s already donated a ton of money to us, and wants to meet you personally, upon which she would donate much, much more.”
“I’ll be there” Osmus said.
“Good! Your flight is on the 8th of March.”
Osmus flew to Greece on the following week. Ms. Bowmont, the donor, had also hired a cameraman to meet them.
Nevith Reginold Kodikara, the cameraman, was waiting for him at Bowmont’s residence.
Osmus walked up to Bowmont as shook her hand. “Come in. You too, Nevith” she said, smiling.
Osmus and Bowmont walked into the hallways, while Nevith photographed them. Bowmont handed Osmus a cheque.
Just then, the noise of snarling could be heard from downstairs.
“What was that?” Osmus asked.
“Relax! Those are my pets!” Bowmont laughed.
Osmus and Nevith stared at Bowmont in disbelief. “What?” they asked together.
Bowmont smiled, rubbing her hands together. “Come with me to the basement” she said, smiling. Without waiting for a reply, she headed downstairs. Osmus and Nevith followed.
Atrocious and Yukon stood, growling. They were hungry.
“Here you go dear” she said, throwing four chunks of meat into the cage.
“You want to explain this?” Nevith asked.
“I bought them, ten years ago” Bowmont said, smiling. She looked back at the cages, and her smile turned into a frown. “Your right. They don’t belong here.”
“I never said that, but yeah” Nevith said.
“I’m setting them free” Bowmont said, smiling. “Be free, my dear!” she yelled, opening the cages.
“What?” Bowmont gasped.
Atrocious charged out of the cage, and turned towards Bowmont. He growled, before bolting outside, with Yukon right behind him.
“Hey! Wait!” Bowmont yelled, running after Atrocious and Yukon. She stopped, and turned towards Osmus and Nevith. “Come! Watch them embrace freedom!” she said.
A Barbaridactylus stood, walking on her wings. She was feeding on a few garden snails.
Atrocious huffed, before pouncing on the Barbaridactylus. The Barbaridactylus attempted to fly off, but Atrocious tore her wings off, and disembodied her. He then barks over her corpse.
“Oi!” Bowmont came running, waving her arms. She jumped in the air, slapping Atrocious on the snout.
“Get back inside, you idiots!” she yelled, confident that her years of nurture would have enforced love and loyalty for her upon the Utahraptors.
It had not.
Yukon charged, knocking Bowmont over. Atrocious grabbed her by the leg, and held her upside down, while Yukon growled close to her face. Bowmont screamed, and Yukon grabbed her by the face, tearing through her skin. Atrocious dropped her, and the two began to tear into her belly, spilling out her intestines. While she was still alive, the two Utahraptors began to feast on her, displaying their wings sideways.
Nevith and Osmus watched in horror. Just then, a Concavenator emerged, roaring. It growled at the two Utahraptors, who decided to leave their two kills with the other predator.
Nevith and Osmus held their breath, as the two Utahraptors passed Bowmont’s house.
Atrocious began to bark, his voice echoing through the forest. A responding bark echoed back.
It was the Pyroraptor from earlier. She had left her captive bar, alongside the Deinonychus and Spinoraptor.
“I never thought that there’d be something worse than the Ukhel, but here it is” Nevith said. He shuddered, remembering the Ukhel’s attacks twelve years prior. The Ukhel was thought to have died, until it encountered a jeep in 2014, and again in 2019.
Osmus and Nevith left to warn the other citizens, but they found that it was too late.
The Spinoraptor stood, feasting on the gizzards of someone. Nevith looked at the roof of a McDonalds, where the Deinonychus stood, staring hauntingly back at him.
Yukon was also there, chasing after people. Atrocious charged, displaying his wings, before stopping near the Spinoraptor. The two tilted their heads, and sniffed each other. And then their started growling. The Spinoraptor lunged at Atrocious, but then Yukon pounced on the Spinoraptor’s spine, sinking his claw into the skin of the Spinoraptor, who shrieked in pain. Atrocious then leapt onto the Spinoraptor, and began to sink his claws and jaws into the Spinoraptor’s neck. The Spinoraptor gasped for air, before passing out.
Atrocious turned his head upwards, and shrieked loudly. He began to bark, and charged away.
Nevith and Osmus ran, following Atrocious’s trail. Atrocious and Yukon were at a car park, hunting a group of preschoolers, who had climbed a tree for safety. The two of them were snarling at the children.
“Bloody hell” Osmus said. “Stay here” he said, and handed the envelope with the cash to Nevith. “Yep. Stay here. Hand this to our coach. Y’know, of the Mimaure Cricket Team.”
Osmus rushed behind a jeep, noting the keys. He opened the door, getting the attention of the Utahraptors, and got inside the jeep, and started it. He put the shutters down, and yelled “Boo! Die!”
Osmus fiddled with the engines, and turned the radio on, increasing the volume to max.
The noise boomed, causing the Utahraptors to charge and pounce onto the jeep. A song began to play.
How could this happen to me?
I made my mistakes.
Got nowhere to run
The night goes on as I’m fading away
Sick of this life
Just want to scream,
“How could this happen to me?”
Osmus drove down the lane, the Utahraptors hot in his heels, snarling as they charged after him. Atrocious bit the door handle, opening the door, and then jumped inside, with Yukon following. Osmus drove off road, and let go of the steering wheel, leading the jeep straight into a river.
The jeep crashed, and continued to drown. Osmus figured out that he had just written down the Utahraptor’s fate.
Being disembodied by Atrocious wasn’t an issue for him.
Having killed Osmus, Atrocious and Yukon swam out of the car, and onto the shore of the river, dragging his corpse with them. The duo began to feast on Osmus’s corpse.
“They weren’t supposed to swim…” Nevith said, watching from nearby. Nevith then looked at the sky. An albino Pteranodon was flying in the sky, being hunted down by a flock of Dimorphodon. He figured that the Pteranodon had disturbed a nesting site of the Dimorphodons or something, and watched as the Dimorphodons swarmed the Pteranodon, ripping in apart while in the sky. The Pteranodon’s wingbone fell next to Nevith. The flock of Dimorphodon s started flying towards him.
Nevith began to run. The wake was after him.
The Spinoraptor lay, critically injured. A van drove up to it, and a woman got down. Shockingly confident of her safety, she approached the Spinoraptor with a cattleprod and a syringe. The Spinoraptor growled, and lifted its head to bite her, when she electrocuted the Spinoraptor, knocking it unconscious. She then stuck the syringe, drawing out blood from the Spinoraptor.
“She’s loosing blood. And I don’t think taking her blood has helped. Get the Vectispinus. Time for a Xenotransfusion” she said.
A juvenile Vectispinus, also unconscious, was lying in a cage inside the van. The woman stabbed the Vectispinus with another syringe, and transferred its blood into the Spinoraptor.
“That should do it. Now, get everything back into the van.
The woman had several assistants load the Vectispinus into the van.
“Here goes” the woman said, stabbing the Spinoraptor in the chest with the cattle prod, electrocuting her again.
This woke the Spinoraptor up, causing her to shriek.
The woman dove into the van, and watched the Spinoraptor stare menacingly at her. The Spinoraptor charged into the night.
Nevith took a deep breath, hiding. A Dimetrodon flew close to him. Nevith held a bat in his arms, and smashed the Dimorphodon with the bat. He looked at the street. It was chaotic. The flock had spooked a Struthimimus flock, and now the road was occupied by a Struthimimus flock. There were corpses of people everywhere. Most people had fled by now. Nevith was alone.
He glanced at a Motor cycle. The keys were still there, the owner of the bike lying faceless on the ground. This could be his only chance.
He climbed on to the motorbike, and drove on. A pack of Guanlongs chased after him. This was a family. A male, female, two sons and a daughter. The male and female had been cloned by BioGen Innovation, as test subjects to see their genetic power, and were subsequently released into the wild.
The male Guanlong snarled, and hissed, chasing after the motorbike. Nevith drove on, ignoring the Guanlongs. He hoped to tire them out. He saw a Chasmosaurus and a Pentaceratops ahead, and drove towards them. The ceratopsians, thinking that they were being hunted, bellowed, and charged towards the motor cycle, scarring off the Guanlongs. Nevith drove on, unaffected. He looked at the sky. There was something else. Not a Dimorphodon, Nevith knew.
It was a Tapejara, which flew onto the motorcycle, causing Nevith to loose balance. 
Nevith fell onto the ground, while the motorcycle went flying. The Tapejara stood, flapping her wings, ready to attack, when she was attacked by the Pyroraptor. Nevith got up and ran. He glanced from his shoulder, and saw that the Guanlongs were back, and they were still after him.
A Bonitasaura bellowed, slamming its feet on the ground. Atrocious and Yukon were growling at the sauropod. The Bonitasaura waddled off, and Atrocious followed the sauropod. Yukon stood back, and lay on the ground, eating a human corpse.
A few minutes passed, and nothing happened. Until Yukon rose up, growling.
The Spinoraptor was here.
Yukon charged, grabbing the Spinoraptor by the throat and slamming it on to the ground. The Spinoraptor shook Yukon off, and grabbed Yukon by the throat, placing her arms on both sides. The Spinoraptor snapped Yukon’s neck, killing him. Yukon fell on the ground, dead.
Just then, the van drove towards the Spinoraptor, chasing her off. The woman got down again, and had Yukon’s corpse loaded onto the jeep. The Spinoraptor watched, confused, as the jeep drove off.
Atrocious turned his head around, tired of the Bonitasaura. He saw Nevith, fleeing from a pack of Guanlongs. A Tuojiangosaurus stood closeby, waving her tail defensively. Nevith was running towards the stegosaurid.
Atrocious looked at the sky. The Dimorphodons had disturbed a Rhamphorhynchus nesting site, and a battle had begun in the sky. Atrocious ignored it, and charged, displaying his wings. Nevith turned to Atrocious, wandering what caused the noise. The Utahraptor leapt onto the stegosaurid, delivering a killing blow.
Nevith fell on the ground, and began to crawl backwords. Atrocious growled at Nevith, and approached, while the Guanlongs watched, ready to feast on the left overs.
Just then, the Guanlongs began to shriek. Nevith looked up, wondering what was causing all this noise.
It was the Spinoraptor.
The Spinoraptor grabbed Atrocious by the tail, pulling him towards him, and slamming the Utahraptor on the ground. The two leapt in the air again, clashing midair. The Spinoraptor pinned the Utahraptor on the ground, with her leg on his head. She sunk her claw down Atrocious’s throat. Blood poured out of the Utahraptor’s jaw, killing him.
The Spinoraptor turned towards the Guanlongs. She shrieked, and pounced on the carnivores. Nevith got up and ran, without looking back, as the Spinoraptor killed the members of the Guanlong family. Having finished her bloodbath, she grabbed Atrocious by the tail and pulled her off to the wild, disappearing into the darkness.
= Epilogue =
The woman that had been with the Spinoraptor earlier appeared, her van appearing in a Helitex Genetics facility in Bulgaria. She got down, and a man was waiting for her.
“Well, Fatima, where the hell did you go with so much of our staff?” he asked.
“Thomas” the woman said, before stopping, seeing his scowl. “ Mr.Geis, I was at Greece.”
“Utahraptor?” Thomas Geis asked.
Fatima nodded.
From behind, another scientist arrived.
“Fatima, this is Tsi Chang. Former InGen employee, and a scientist of Xoblar Genetics. Or rather, Xoblar Corp. He believes that the people running Xoblar are idiots. Next year, which is 2025, Tsi’s prison sentence is over, and he shall no longer be needing bail that is provided from Xoblar. After that, he shall be joining us.”
Tsi Chang nodded, smirking.
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