Adiraiju

The blue-and-white InGen helicopter was already on the pad when Hammond drove up, spinning its rotors, ready to take off at any second. Hammond halted the jeep with a screech of bouncing gravel, and everyone gave grimaces of pain as they realized their bodies had seized up with exhaustion to one extent or another. Ellie ushered Lex into the chopper, then practically threw Tim inside in her haste before clambering in herself. A moment later, Alan ushered Ian inside. The chaotician hobbled his way along as best he could, he was drenched in sweat and grimacing with every step. He clambered into the chopper with a pained smile, hauling himself in with Ellie and Alan's help. Alan stood before the chopper, then turned, realizing Hammond hadn't gotten in yet. The old man was standing next to the jeep, his back to the helicopter, staring silently back into the jungle. Over the sound of the rotors, Alan could hear something else now - a Brachiosaurus, somewhere close by, singing in its

Alan wasn't even sure he hadn't hit the animal; the moment he'd raised the gun, it had vaulted away with incredible speed. He'd fired four times... he vaguely realized that they weren't the tranq darts Ellie mentioned earlier, but actual bullets that had blown some fairly small, messy holes in the glass windows between them and the raptor. Four shots, and the damn thing had jammed. Alan might have cleared the jam in a minute, but he didn't have a minute; the raptor had come back and was circling the windows outside, wary, cautious. Alan backed up, and hit something metal. He glanced behind him to see Ellie had set up a stepladder, and popped one of the tiles in the ceiling open. She was ushering Lex into the ceiling, Tim was apparently already up there. Alan dropped the gun - it was worse than useless in such a crowded space, and if it somehow went off again, someone was going to get hurt. Instead, he vaulted himself up the ladder after Ellie just as the raptor finally flung itself at