Zara rolled her eyes after Marlo, who seemed to get on every single nerve she had. She handed the boys wrist bands before explaining. "Your aunts got you VIP access. So you can get on all the rides without waiting in line." Gray proved to be impatient, messing with the large TV. "Hopefully we won't be seeing that Grady girl for the rest of the day," Zara huffed out.

     "She's not that bad, she's cool," Gray defended Marlo. "She's just more outgoing than some people." He shrugged while Zara scoffs at him.

     "No-" Zach looked up at Zara. "He's right, she's not that bad." Gray nodded with him.

     "She's a nuisance, I don't know why Claire even hired her, she's a troublemaker and has a loud mouth. She doesn't know when to stop." She glanced down to her phone. "She has no respect for her elders or superiors, it was a good thing that she got hit, she had it coming." It was Zach's turn to scoff. "Excuse me?" Zara laughed harshly.

     "I'm pretty sure she's above you, you're just an assistant, after all, she works here with the dino's." Gray looked at his brother in slight shock.

     "Well, hopefully, one day when she turns her back on them it will be the last thing she does," Zara mumbled. Gray wanted to change the subject, with Zach already on his phone, he started messing with the TV again.

     "Let's go!" Gray spoke up. Zach, whose eyes were on his phone, flopped back down onto the bed.

     "Dude, she said we have to wait," he told Gray.

     "I don't wanna wait anymore." He ran over to the windows, and looked down at the park. Beyond the hotel room balcony, the sun burned bright onto the park, and, built beside the fences of the Mosasaur Lagoon stood the monorail. Standing big and proud, the Innovation Centre could be seen from a far along with the plaza below it with flourishing crowds of tourists walking back and forth to each attraction building, and the roof of the Innovation Centre showed part of the Helipad.

-

     The parks operation manager, Claire Dearing, continued talking to herself in the elevator. She tried memorising the names of people she's going to be meeting, and the fact that her nephews should be fine with Marlo, she silently prayed that Marlo hasn't left the boys alone or has been starting up any rumours or lies like she did with one of the kids she was forced to help find the parents of. Needless to say she was panicking slightly after the email she received from the parents, but she tried shaking it off, Marlo had matured since then...She hoped.

     "Hal Osterly, Vice-President...Jim Drucker, bad hair...Erica Brand, deserves better...Hal, Jim, Erica. Hal, Jim, Erica. And I am Claire. Marlo has the boys, Marlo has got this. I've got this." She looked at her wristwatch. The elevator dinged. "Three minutes late." She sighed, when the doors opened she took a deep breath. "Welcome to Jurassic World." A smile was on her face.

-

     The scientists were hard at work as visitors watched them through the convex windows. Claire led a small tour group consisting of three potential investors; Hal Osterly, Jim Drucker, and Erica Brand through the laboratory. The almost completely white lab had specks of blue on the machines and computers, people in white lab coats and blue medical shirts worked and walked around.

     "While year-over-year revenue continues to climb-" An incubator with multi sized eggs were being scanned. "Operating costs are higher than ever. Our shareholders have been patient, but let's be honest, no ones impressed by a dinosaur anymore." Claire walked through the middle of the hallway with large blue walls behind and people either side looking through the glass. "Twenty years ago, de-extinction was right up there with magic. These days, kids look up at a Stegosaurus like an elephant from the city zoo. That doesn't mean asset development has fallen behind. Our DNA excavators discover new species every year," she told them.

     They entered part of the lab closed to visitors. A wall of computers showed DNA double helixes that were displayed on multiple screens, words describing them, typing out before changing, the helixes spinning slightly.

     "But consumers want them bigger. Louder. More teeth." The investors listened intently, exchanging looks. "The good news? Our advances in gene splicing have opened up a whole new frontier. We've learned more from genetics in the past decade than a century of digging up bones." She led them over to the computer screens. "So, when you say you want to sponsor an attraction, what do you have in mind?" She asked.

     "We wanna be thrilled," Osterly told her. Claire's mind wonders to Marlo, she can do the thrilling all on her own. She closed her eyes, ignoring her mind, before opening them again and responding.

     "Don't we all?" She slid her finger across the screen and one of the DNA double helix reacted, different compounds joined up to it, changing colour as well. Claire stepped forward proudly. "The Indominus Rex. Our first genetically modified hybrid." Drucker looked dubious.

     "How did you get two different kinds of dinosaur to..." He struggled with how to put it, and makes awkward 'doing it' motions with his hands. "Y'know..." He trailed off uncertainly while Dr. Henry Wu walked over to the group, smiling.

     "Oh, Indominus wasn't bred. She was designed. She was be fifty feet long when fully grown. Bigger than the T. Rex," he explained to them.

     "Every time we've unveiled a new asset, attendance has spiked. Global news coverage. Celebrity visitors. Eyes of the world," Claire stated, Osterly is convinced.

     "When will she be ready?" Osterly asked.

     "She already is," Wu beamed with pride as he replied.

-

     Crowds of people filled the street leading towards the Innovation Centre. The buildings on either side of the plaza walkway were wooden with glass windows. Some statues of dinosaurs, fake rocks, and large potted plants filled up the spaces. The water fountains sprayed outside the Innovation Centre building, the wooden exterior with dark grey pointed corners, colourful plants and grass in front. Gray was running enthusiastically up the steps of the building with his brother and Zara trailing behind, he turned to them impatiently.

     "Come on!"

     "Relax," Zach commented.

     "Come on!" He waved to Zach.

     "Dude, chill," Zach mumbled before looking at his phone.

-

     The boys pushed open the double doors and entered. Zara, trying to keep up, almost doesn't make it through before the doors swung shut. The boys looked to each other, small smiles on their faces. The interior of the building was a flurry of activity. Glass automatic doors with small grey block colours for decoration. Silver floors shining. Golden honey coloured pillars with orange providing light, the middle in a circular platform was a transparent blue dinosaur.

     People were walking around, children played with some of the games, listening to the dinosaurs sounds, roars and cries. There were spiral stairs to the upper decking, a glass window with a statue of John Hammond stood tall towards the back of the building with 'HAMMOND CREATION LAB' in silver writing in the middle. Different walls covered with footprints and facts, pictures and information. Children were brushing sand from fake bones as an activity. The P.A started up;

"Welcome to the Innovation Center, where technology meets prehistory. Join us on an exciting journey 65 million years into the past."

     In the centre of the lobby there was a holographic platform, which currently displayed a projection of an Apatosaurus which roared, seemingly at the boys. Announcements over the P.A from both male and female speakers continued as the various exhibitions in the lobby offer the 'Digging For Dinosaurs', a recreation of a paleontological dig where the children used brushes to uncover the bones. The announcer could be heard halfway through;

"...Literally meaning 'three-horned face'. Three. Triceratops is half as tall as T. Rex..."

     There was a theatre where children and their parents could watch a documentary about the extinction of the dinosaurs.

"...As one-hundred trillion tons of TNT."

     The boys saw an asteroid strike the Earth in an enormous explosion on the screen. The children gave various exclamations of amazement and fright. Elsewhere, there was a holographic projection of a globe of the Earth, showing where various dinosaurs lived during prehistory, small white projections of the dinosaurs walked around.

"...Can turn its head back to look over its shoulder, to better aim the swing of its dangerous tail."

     Gray rushed over to the DNA show, where visitors were quizzed about genetics. After a quick scan he immediately began to push the buttons and recited the answers as he went.

     "Cytosine, guanine, adenine and thymine. The same four things in everything that ever lived." In response, a 3-D representation of Mr. DNA appeared onscreen, continuing while Zach sidled up to him, grumpily.

"Test your knowledge."

     "Hey, don't wander off, all right? Mum's not paying me for babysitting," he told Gray. While Mr. DNA continued.

"...The building blocks of life! When John Hammond discovered a way to bring dinosaurs..."

     "Gray, is that you?" Claire asked, almost mentally noting to give Marlo extra for actually doing what she asked of her. They turned and saw her descending from the stairs on her phone.

     "Aunt Claire!" Gray yelled excitedly while running over with Zach, Claire continued down, still talking on her phone, but in a hurry to finish the conversation.

     "Okay, yeah. No, I'm gonna have to go. My nephews are here." As she hung up and reached the bottom, Gray ran up and hugged her.

     She was clearly overjoyed but unsure how to respond and awkwardly hugged him back. The holographic projection had now changed from an Apatosaurus to a Parasaurolophus next to them. Zach ambled up, still looking moody and emotionally distant as his hands were shoved in his pockets.

     "Hi." She laughed. "Oh, oh, my gosh. You're so—You're so sweet." She turned to look at her other nephew as Zara joined them, having finally caught up. "Woah, Zach. Last time I saw you, you were like..." She held a hand out to roughly Gray's height. "That must have been, what? Three, four years ago?" Zach looked at her.

     "Uh, seven. Seven years. But, you know, close."

     "So, I see you already got your wristbands and this is for food." She handed Gray and envelope with the 'Jurassic World' logo on it. "And Zara here is going to take great care of you until I'm done working tonight, okay?" Zara glanced up from her cell phone, looking uninterested. Gray suddenly looked gloomy at this revelation.

     "You're not coming with us?"

     "Oh, um, I really wish that I could, but tomorrow I can take you to the control room, show you behind the scenes and all of that. That's...That's gonna be cool, right?" Zach rolled his eyes while Gray averted his gaze from his aunt and stared at the floor. "You know, you could always find Marlo, right? I'm sure she'll be glad to actually have a reason to ignore work, rather than make up excuses. Yeah, Marlo can do that." Gray nodded. Claire's phone rang once more, she started walking backwards. "Okay, so I will see you tonight at, uh-" She thought about it. "Uh, six..."

     Zara spoke up, "No, no, don't forget you have the-"

     "Right, of course. I will see you tonight at eight. What time do you got to sleep? Or, or, do you go to sleep at different times?" The boys didn't respond. They were stony-faced. Her phone continued ringing insistently. She checked it. "Okay, so, um, have fun." She looked to Zara. "And take good care of them, okay? Find Marlo." She smiled as she walked off through the holographic dinosaur. "Yeah. No, I'm here." She walked off.

     "I know where Marlo is." Gray ignored Zara, who was on her phone again, Zach looked at him and nodded as they walked out.