Jurassic World: Lurkers

One Sunday evening, in Zambezi National Park, Africa, two tourists were canoeing. They were 30 year old Taylor Craig and his wife, 29 year old Wendy Craig, who were spending their honey moon there.
Taylor was a Radiologic technologist, and had spent a good fortune on his honey moon. They were planning to dine in a 5 star hotel later that night. Wendy had bought a Canon EOS 90D, and was taking pictures of a herd of African Forest Elephants , which had been mixed in with a herd of Sinoceratops.
"I wonder why those haven't been transported to that BioSyn sanctuary yet" Taylor asked. It had been too quite for him.
"Tourists come here for them, so I doubt that they will ever be taken away" Wendy replied, taking another picture.
Taylor looked around him. There were a group of Nile crocodiles , basking in the sun. A herd of Waterbuck and Bushbuck were at the bank of the river, some grazing the grass. Taylor had hoped for some action, and he was bored. He yawned.
He looked behind him. There was something in the water. It was about 10-11 meters long. He nudged at his wife.
"Look at that!" he cried. "Something to take pictures of."
Wendy looked at the water, and then looked at her book. She looked at her husband , with a confused look.
"Nothing in the book looks like -"
Just then , a large theropod ascended out of the water, roaring. It looked at Taylor and Wendy, and submerged back into the water and began to swim towards them.
Taylor looked at Wendy. He knew their was no chance that any of them would get out alive.
"I love you" he told Wendy, before jumping in to the water with his paddle, and began to hit the theropod with it.
As if that would do anything
The theropod looked at Taylor, before chomping on him, ripping him into two pieces.
Wendy screamed, and began to paddle hard. The theropod just looked at the woman, and got out of the river. It began to walk in the same speed that Wendy was paddling, and then ran a bit, before returning into the river, and capsized the canoe. Wendy began to swim away, but she saw a Nile crocodile swimming towards her, so she turned and the theropod grabbed her by it's jaws, and got out of the river.
Further down the river a few hours ago, there was a boat , full of tourists, and a guide named Khary Omehia. None of them knew about the terrible incident that would happen a few hours later in the same river they were in.
Khary was driving a Passenger Boat full of 14 people, but stopped. There was a full grown adult hippopotamus in the way. One of the tourists, Pierrette Monette had been waiting for such an encounter for a while. With out warning, he grabbed his lunch box, and took out some cabbage leaves. He began to dump them into the hippo, ignoring Khary's warnings.
Within two minutes, a few more hippos came and capsized the entire boat.
There was a small patch of sand in the middle of the river, where everyone was soon stranded in. The boat was on that island as well , but it was destroyed beyond repair. All the phones were also ruined.
Luckily, it was the middle of the day, with plenty of day time left. Another boat might come, and they would be saved. But there was no guarantee , and if they had to stay there over night, it was likely most of them would die.
"There is a camp about a 2 kilometers away from here. If one of you leave now, you'll be able to be there by sun set." Khary said.
Oriel Semenov, one of the tourists agreed. The only problem was, swimming in the river would be suicide. There were plenty of crocodiles and also the hippos were still there. But he had to do it.
He dove in.
He began to swim, and then noticed a crocodile swimming his way. He stood still, and then began to back away slowly. He tried not to make any sudden movements, or splash. He was still in the shallow area, but then he decided to swim in a straight line. The crocodile swam after him, and bit his right leg. Before it could do any serious damage, Oriel dabbed his thumb in it's eye, and the Nile crocodile let go, and Oriel quickly reached the shore. He looked at his leg. It was bleeding heavily. He took off his jacket and tied it around his leg. This would stop the bleeding.
He looked at the others, waved and went looking towards the camp.
He began to walk, and walk. Then he froze. A Cape Buffalo was charging towards him, in top speed. Oriel decided to accept his fate, and stood still, and the buffalo's horn harpooned his right arm. Oriel screamed in pain, as the buffalo dropped him. He looked at his right arm. He could see his bones.
The buffalo charged again, this time carrying him from his vest, ripping it.
Just then, Oriel herd a loud bang. And the buffalo fell down, dead.
It was a gun shot
Oriel looked around him. There was a hunter, with a Winchester Rifle pointing at him. Spoke emitted from the rifel.
The hunter spoke.
"Halo bwana, unafanya nini hapa, unaweza kuwa umeuawa."
Oriel shook his head.
The hunter walked closer, and spoke.
"Je, unadhani ulikuwa unafanya jina gani"
Oriel shook his head once more, to try and tell him that he could hear him , but couldn't understand.
"Kumbe" the hunter said, before speaking again.
"Me entiendes ahora?" he asked.
"No" Oriel said.
"今？" the hunter said, before looking at him and speaking again. "Wait, you understand English right? Well, what were you doing. Quick, you need to get to the hospital."
"But the buffalo head?" Oriel asked.
"A human life is more important. I'm Matsuo Bunko" the hunter said.
"Well, Matsuo, I'm Oriel. And I came on a boat with 13 other people, and also a guide. They are stranded. I need to get to the camp to call for help"
"The camp?" Matsuo let out a sigh. "They didn't even tell the guide?"
"Tell Khary what?"
"Well, the camp was shut down a few weeks ago"
"Why?"
Matsuo helped Oriel up and the two began to walk.
"First, we need to get you to a hospital. Then , While we go there, I'll ring the rangers" he said.
"So, why was the camp closed?"
The two men walked for a while, before Matsuo spoke again.
"A company called MACROGEN had a few rogue employees come here and clone 4 species of dinosaurs" Matsuo said.
Matsuo grabbed Oriel's arm and moved away, as they passed a ceratopsian.
"Triceratops?" Oriel asked.
"Torosaurus"
"I see, did the rogue MACROGEN employees clone them?"
Matsuo nodded. Then he pointed at a lake
"Yes, them and Maiasaura. Those big cows near that lake. And two carnivores."
"Carnivores?"
"Yes, Proceratosaurus and Meraxes Gigas. One big, one small. Both extremely intelligent. All four species MACROGEN cloned are deadly."
Oriel looked at Matsuo, and was worried.
The two men walked in to a jeep. It was a Land Rover. Matsuo handed Oriel a Bolt Action Rifel, and took an AK-47 out of the jeep.
"You stay here."
Matsuo took out a bottle of whiskey and began to drink it, and walked into the grassland. He aimed his gun at another Torosaurus. He hadn't come on this trip for nothing.
He got ready to shoot, before he was impaled by the Alpha Torosaurus.
In his final breath, all he could do was scream in agony, as the alpha's horn went through his chest.
Meanwhile , back at the wreckage, nothing was going fine.
The tourists heard the scream of Wendy Craig, and soon their paddles and canoe were with them. Using one of the paddles, Khary jumped into the river, impaling a Alestopetersius bifasciatus. He knew that they couldn't eat it, but he remembered that there was a box of tissue inside a box in the boat. The tissues were dry, and there was a cigarette lighter in a lunch box inside the canoe. After ripping the fish into even pieces, Khary wrapped them in the tissue and lit them using the lighter. They had also used the paddles to defend them from crocodiles.
He shared the food with the 13 other tourists. He also noticed a large theropod lurking in the river, watching them. He decided to ignore it.
This theropod was the same theropod that killed Wendy and Talyor. It was a Meraxes Gigas, and was enjoying taunting the tourists by occasionally roaring.
Oriel woke up in the middle of the night. His back hurt a lot, but he looked around him.
He was not in the jeep.
Oriel looked around him. There were 7 Proceratosaurus, and some of them were dragging him. He kicked at them, and got up and tried to run , but collapsed. He was still weak from the crocodile and buffalo attacks, and still tired from all the walking.
There was only one thought in his mind.
Where was Matsuo?
One Proceratosaurus jumped on his back, and began to rip into his vest. Hot blood flew out of him. He got up, but a Proceratosaurus was there, right in front of him , and it jumped onto him, and began to disembowel him. Another one looked at his injured arm and ripped it out.
Oriel knew that he was being Annihilated.
He screamed, and one Proceratosaurus grabbed him with it's jaws, as he began to cry. It slit his throat, and decapacitated him. Although Oriel was dead, the Proceratosaurus who was carrying his head wasn't done. With one sick crack, he bit into his skull.
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The Proceratosaurus began to call for their alpha, and a feathered Proceratosaurus emerged out of the bushes, and began to feast.
The next day, everyone on the wreckage was woken up when Saoirse Ó Braoin, one of the tourists, screamed at the top of her lungs. Khary woke up and saw that the Meraxes had gotten close towards the ship. Ashraf Ghazal was the closest to the Mreaxes, and he tried to get away, before the Meraxes broke into the boat, and killed him.
Xiao Jian jumped out of the boat and called for the Meraxes to come towards him, hoping to buy the others time to escape, but the Meraxes began to attack the boat, and toppled it. It climbed on top of it and roared, crushing the shit under it's weight.
This killed everyone except Khary, Saoirse and two other tourists ,Tyler Wise and Galina Volkova. After that, it turned towards Xiao, and bit him in half, before dropping his corpse and roaring.
Khary, Saoirse, Tyler and Galina got out of the crushed ship and crawled into the river, but the Meraxes soon noticed, but pretended like it hadn't seen anything. When they reached the shore, the Meraxes charged at them, biting in the air.
"Run you idiot!" Khary shouted at Saoirse, who stood there panting. The four people ran away, and came across the carcass of the cape buffalo. The Meraxes roared at them, and sniffed at the carcass, and grabbed it by it's leg, and walked away.
"Don't stop running. Let's get to the camp" Khary yelled.
They ran until they got to the jeep. Khary, Tyler and Galina got in the jeep, while Saoirse screamed, and pointed at a corpse.
It was the corpse of Oriel.
The alpha Proceratosaurus vaulted out of the bushes and killed her, and Khary quickly began to drive the jeep. He looked at the wing mirror. The Proceratosaurus was chasing after them, followed by seven others. He drove quickly, before Tyler yelled "Stop!"
Khary quickly stopped the jeep, and the Proceratosaurus leaped on top of it, before jumping off it. Khary was confused.
"Look!" Tyler said.
"There was an empty bottle of whiskey and an AK-47 lying on the ground. And a Torosaurus with a man impaled into one of it's horns was grazing closeby.
"What the heck?" Khary said, before n=he noticed the phone on one of the seats. He began to dial.
"Hello? Look, our boat tour became a nightmare. All but 2 of the 14 tourists died. We need you to send a chopper and close this park. What? The camp? You closed the camp? But not the park? What? Excuse me? Yes, send a chopper. We are file miles away from Impalila Island. Towards the North."
He put the phone down and looked at Galina.
"The camp was closed because of the dinosaurs. But not the park"
He sighed, but looked up when Tyler began to scream.
The Torosaurus rammed into the jeep. It's horn broke through the window, and almost killed Khary. It began to shake it's head, and ram into boulders. The horn without Matsuo broke off, as it honked at the jeep.
Just then the Meraxes came out of the tree line, and roared at the alpha Torosaurus.
Khary heard a helicopter. It was a Eurocopter AS565 Panther flying towards them.
"That was quick"
It lead down a ladder. Khary suggested that Tyler should go first, as he had a huge scar across his face.
Then, the Meraxes came towards the jeep, and pulled the Torosaurus horn out. Tyler screamed, being so close to the Meraxes. It just looked at him, and ran towards the Torosaurus, before stabbing it with it's own horn. It roared.
Galina was next to go up the ladder, and when it was Khary's turn, the Meraxes came over, and began to sniff at him.
Khary knew it was over for him.
Unless
He felt for his pocket. There was a bottle of hand sanitizer. He took it and emptied it on the Meraxes's nostrils, and it roared in agony, and began to sneeze, before rampaging away.
Khary got inside the helicopter.
"This park has to shut down, before we have any more fatalities" he said.
The Helicopter flew off into the evening sky.
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