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Post by Vel on May 23, 2009 22:06:33 GMT -5
Vel spoke to one of the rangers with his usual frown on his reptilian face. It was a bright sunny day out and the ranger was questioning Vel if he had seen anything that the creatures might be getting into to get sick. As the ranger spoke, Vel reviewed a clipboard with the status of the infected dinos.
"There is a plant here that can cause such symptoms if one of the creatures were to eat it. I've seen it in the Triceratops field, along the edge of the field, road side. Check among the bushes there. It will have dark colored berries."
When he finished speaking, he handed back the clip board to the ranger. He hated being interrupted from caring for the raptors that had finally accepted him into the pack.
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 23, 2009 22:13:06 GMT -5
The ranger accepted the clipboard back and walked back to the car that sat right next to the opening of the raptor pen. Loren peered out of the tinted windows and gasped. She was amazed to see a reptilian person talking to the ranger.
"Who is that!?" She questioned excitedly as he got back in the car. The ranger smirked.
"That's Vel." He replied. "He's an experiment we did. He doesn't like human much anymore, I think he sticks more to his dinosaur side." He murmured. Loren smiled and got out on a whim.
"Excuse me!" She called to Vel. She quickly thought of something to say for when he came up to her. "Do you happen to know if there are any of those berries in the raptor pen? I don't want them to get sick, so I need to check now."
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Post by Vel on May 23, 2009 22:16:51 GMT -5
"I haven't seen any first of all. Second of all its rude to question someone without first introducing yourself. Third, you are not allowed inside the raptor pen. The Velociraptors in there are fully grown and roaming freely in a pack. If you took one step inside you would be jumped from three sides at once."
He turned away from her and began walking back towards the cage. He stopped before entering the code to enter the pen.
"By the way my name is Vel."
With that he entered the code and entered the pen.
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 23, 2009 22:19:47 GMT -5
Loren reached out to grab his shoulder and turn him to her. But it was all for nothing as he walked away. She frowned and crossed her arms.
"Well... Hey!" she called when it finally hit her that she'd been called rude. "I'm Loren!"
She sighed and walked back to the car. "That could have gone better, Dr. Loren." The ranger chuckled. She growled and whacked him. Her first day on the job and she was already screwing up.
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Post by Vel on May 23, 2009 22:26:58 GMT -5
Vel walked through the jungle habitat created for the raptors and when he discovered the pack, he paused and began speaking to them in their own language.
"[i[I have a request. I know you don't eat plants but I'm looking for a specific one. It has dark colored berries and it has been poisoning the herbivores throughout the park. If we don't find a sample of it, our food source could be destroyed. I simply suggest that we spread out through the pen and try to find a small plant fitting the description.[/i]"
With that the raptors very organized, split up throughout the pen and began searching for such a plant. When one was discovered, it called the others, including Vel. Vel, thanked the raptor before yanking the plant out of the ground roots and all. He walked to the edge of the pen, put in a code and a live cow was lowered into the pen. This was to distract the raptors while he put in the code to get out of the pen.
Once out and the door was closed he grabbed a radio on a shelf next to the door.
"Ranger, ranger. This is Vel at the Raptor pen. I have found a sample of the plant that has been poisioning the herbivores. Will the nearest Ranger please come to the raptor pen asap so we can get the sample under glass." he spoke in human.
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 23, 2009 22:33:14 GMT -5
At a nearby ranger station, Hector - an older male with graying hair - picked up the radio and responded. "Alright, someone is on their way." He looked around and no one volunteered except for the new girl.
"I'll go!" She quickly jumped up. Dinosaur were her forte, she thrived learning about the supposedly extinct creatures and was even more excited when she had been offered a job at the park that would soon be opening to display the wonderful reborn dinosaurs.
"Here," Hector threw his keys at Loren as she made her way to the door with a glass case for the plant. "Take my jeep." The girl nodded and walked out.
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After a few moments of weaving through the difficult roads, Loren finally arrived at the raptor pen. She got out and walked over to Vel. "Hiya. Its me... y'know, the rude girl?" She greeted bitterly.
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Post by Vel on May 23, 2009 22:35:42 GMT -5
"Hi."
He reached out the plant to her, gripping it by the stalk. Working together they got it under glass.
"You got a shorter name than Rude Girl? Quite honestly I don't feel like yelling that out every time I need assistance."
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 23, 2009 22:38:31 GMT -5
Loren frowned slightly, but perked up that he'd at least asked her for her name. She took off her glasses and pinned them onto her jacket.
"I'm Loren." She replied. "I'm new here, so I'm sorry for the earlier mistake. I just wanted to help and it slipped my mind that there are live dinosaurs here."
"After all... they are supposed to be extinct." She smiled sheepishly. "Anyway, I should take this to the lab and analyze it." She looked down at the berries.
"They seem so familiar though..." She murmured to herself.
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Post by Vel on May 23, 2009 22:41:15 GMT -5
"I'm no botanist but I have a good feeling that this is the plant that the herbivores were being intoxicated by. Once the lab analyzes it they can find a cure for it. If not, the symptoms seem mild enough so far that they'll be fine until it finishes making its way throughout their digestive system. It's the one plus of guarding carnivores though. Don't have to worry about venomous plants."
He had heard her comment about getting back to the lab.
"Go ahead. I won't stop you."
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 23, 2009 22:50:19 GMT -5
Loren nodded. She paused after a few moments and frowned. She grabbed her glasses and looked more closely at the berries. Her eyes widened.
"These are the berries of the poke bush." She replied. She looked up at Vel. "Do you know how much any of the dinosaurs ingested?"
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Post by Vel on May 23, 2009 22:53:21 GMT -5
"Like I said, I don't guard any herbivores. I strictly stick with the raptors. No comments about the reason being that I fit in so well either. You should hurry Loren. Preventing an epidemic is a matter of time."
He rushed her off to her jeep so that he could go back to being comfortable with the raptors again.
"Dinosaurs are so much easier to understand."
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 23, 2009 22:56:29 GMT -5
"Heh sure!" She called jumping into the jeep and speeding off back towards the ranger station. She rushed inside and got everyone's attention.
"I need someone to take me to the main base so I can use the lab there." She replied. When no one volunteered she growled and rushed back out the door. She knew she wouldn't be well liked here, but she never knew men like the rangers could be such jerks.
"I have to get to the main base... The dinosaurs could die!" She huffed as she ran down the winding road, holding the plant in the glass to her chest.
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Post by Vel on May 23, 2009 22:58:39 GMT -5
"I should actually check up on the others. Perhaps they would know how much of the plant the animals have ingested." he stated out loud.
He stretched briefly and then sped off at almost cheetah speed towards where the others would be.
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 23, 2009 23:01:07 GMT -5
The young prodigy remembered that they had quarantined at least 7 dinosaurs because of this plant she now held in her hands. After a while of running, she finally arrived at the main camp and walked in, still panting from her run.
"Please... a lab?" Was all she could get out and all she needed when the rangers realized what she was holding. They led her to an empty lab and left her to her work.
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Post by Vel on May 23, 2009 23:04:24 GMT -5
The first stop was the Triceratops paddock. He ran out into an open field until he saw a feminine figure with short tail and three horns coming from her head, standing up on her hind legs.
"Hello there Cera. I have a question about a poke bush. Have you seen any around and have any of your dinosaurs ingested them?" he began questioning her.
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 24, 2009 22:01:44 GMT -5
The dinosaur rider looked at him and frowned. She shook her head.
"I don't know about any poke bush," She replied. "What does it look like?"
"And you know I can't control everything they do, just as you can't control the raptor pack as much as you'd like."
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Post by Vel on May 24, 2009 22:04:10 GMT -5
"It's a small plant with dark colored berries. It's been causing the animals to get sick when they eat them." he replied.
He sighed at her comments.
"And you're supposed to be the pleasant one." he mumbled.
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 24, 2009 22:07:14 GMT -5
Cera smiled and thought a moment.
"You know, I did see some of my pack eating some berries like that the other day. But they've been detained because they started getting sick." She frowned.
"How do you know about the berries?" She questioned absently, making a mental note to find the bushes and dispose of them.
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Post by Vel on May 24, 2009 22:10:43 GMT -5
"New scientist on the island told me the name." he replied.
He folded his arms as he spoke.
"I know Ty isn't worried since he has the Tyrannosaurs but I figured you and Spike might be able to help with the investigation and extermination of these plants. This way our "friends" can be safe once again."
Cera spoke up again.
"Did the pack finally accept you as a member?" she questioned.
"Yes, but I still have trouble trusting them sometimes. That's why I always sleep outside of the pen." he replied.
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 24, 2009 22:13:22 GMT -5
"Ah, that would be Loren White." Cera said thoughtfully. "Hector told me about her."
The triceratops rider smiled and nodded. "I can understand that. Don't tell him I said this, but it took the Tyrannosaurs a while to accept Ty as well. I assume its because they're carnivores that they don't trust easily..."
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Post by Vel on May 24, 2009 22:16:23 GMT -5
"Yes, that's her name. She has a sample of the plant for the lab so it should be alright to destroy the rest of the population of the troublesome thing." he smirked. "Of course with my speed I could pick all of them off the island in a day but I figured why do all the work on my own?"
He smirked over at her with his reptilian face. It might have seemed creepy to a normal human but since Cera was another dino rider, she was used to it.
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 24, 2009 22:19:34 GMT -5
Cera nodded and turned to walk away.
"Well, I'll tell Spike and we'll get started inside our packs' pens. Then we'll get them outside the pens as well, just in case." And with that she ran off to her herd.
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"I don't believe this... It wasn't the berries...." Loren gasped as she examined the plant closely. "They've been eating the roots of this plant!"
She jumped up and darted out. She had to get to the dinosaurs' pens before any other ingested any of the toxic plant.
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Post by Vel on May 24, 2009 22:22:50 GMT -5
"Just focus on your herd. I'm going to go tell Spike right now to start in his paddock." he turned and waved back at her. "Good luck."
With that he accelerated to cheetah speed again all the way to the Stegosaur paddock.
"Spike?? Where are you big guy??" Vel shouted, looking for the stego dino rider.
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Post by Dr. Loren White on May 24, 2009 22:25:25 GMT -5
A muscular male almost twice the height of Vel walked from around a large hedge.
"Hey, Vel. What's up?" He questioned with a deep voice.
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"Please..." Loren huffed as she ran once more down the winding road. She knew she was getting close. She needed to tell Vel, since he was the only dinorider she actually knew. "Please... don't trip..." She panted.
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Post by Vel on May 24, 2009 22:27:46 GMT -5
"There's a dark berried plant growing on the island that has been making the animals sick. I need you to search and destroy all of these types of plants in your area. It's not tall at all and has dark berries. Got it?" he questioned, just to make sure that Spike understood.
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