Chapter 5: Science vs Magic
No POV
Ripclaw is sleeping soundly beside the two unconscious bounty hunters. He opens his eyes in a white space. Suddenly, several beings materialize in front of him. He leaps back, snarling.
"So this is the anomaly."
One woman, on his left, is wearing a bronze war helm and wielding a long spear. She holds a shield with the image of a boar on it. In front of him, a woman with long glittering robes and a golden war helm and sword. To his right, a short and small child, who also wields a shield and spear. The two others behind them however, are different. One holds a large amphora, and has a drunken expression. The other supports the drunken one. She has a kind and gentle smile. He had seen a lot of humans do that, before they stabbed him with syringe. Or shocked him. Or shot him. He let out a louder snarl.
"My, what an animalistic creature. I wonder why it was created."
Ripclaw response is slow and dragged out.
"War."
"War? Ares, are you responsible for this?"
"No way. I hate the mamono, so why would I create one?"
"I have the answer to that."
"Oh? Who created you, beast?"
"Humans."n
The response seems to shock the beings.
"What?! Are you saying, humans, the main combatants against creatures like you, are the cause of your creation?"
"Yes."
"Show us proof!"
"This is my dream, correct?"
"Yes."
Ripclaw closes his eyes. The white space contorts and shifts, before taking form of the underground lab at the Lockwood Estate.
"Wh-What is this place?"
"My "birthplace"."
Suddenly, one of the doors swing open and in comes Ripclaws most hated person, Dr. Wu. He snarled when he sees the Asian scientist. Wu passes through them as if they are made of air. He continues on, until he stops in front of a large one way window. On the other side of said window is what seems to be an incubator. It hisses and slides open. A black claw clasps the side of the metal egg shaped incubator. A small, lizard like shape tumbled to the floor, making small piping noises.
Wu pulls a walkie talkie out from his pocket and speaks into it.
"May five personnel come to the testing room. Our "subject" needs training."
Five minutes later, the door swings open again, and Ripclaw lets out a feral roar. The five men standing were the most brutish and cruel out of all the guards that guarded Lockwood Estate.
"What brutish looking scars. Where did they get those from? And what are those strange looking staffs? They look like those gun things that humans have just started to use."
The guards walk to a door that led into the small chamber. The baby Ripclaw turned around, squeaking excitedly as the men stepped through the door. He scampers towards them, only to be kicked harshly across the room. The little Ripclaw screeched out in pain. One of the men raised his AK-47, aimed at the young raptor hybrid, and opened fire. Baby Ripclaw screeched in pain, writhing as each bullet hit him. The bullets didn't pierce his skin, but they felt like several thousand fast and hard pokes. The gun stopped firing, having run out of ammo. The men then drew hunting knives and advanced on the hatchling. It screeched in terror and then the vision vanished.
The scene changed, and now they still stood in the lab, only it was different. They were now in the area where they kept the dinosaurs and cruces up in a dark cell was a fully grown Ripclaw. The adult Indoraptor twitched and spasmed in its sleep. His eyes suddenly snap open and he roars, before slamming his side into the bars of his cell. Several guards ran around the corner. They raised their staffs, which crackled with electricity. They then jabbed the cattle prods into Ripclaw's side and head.
He roared with fury, and thrust his claw in between the bars. He raked the stomach of the guard closest to him, promptly disemboweling the man. He screamed and fell, dead. The raptor snarled before turning away and curling up in the corner of his cell.
"This lasted my entire life."
"That's is horrifying and despicable and... and..."
"Inhuman?"
"Why are you so... calm now?"
"To be honest, I don't know. I think it's because it was when I first came into this world, I met a trio of young mamono and a human boy. They were the first things that didn't try to harm me or scream in fear. I guess that was the cause."
The Indoraptor faces the gods one last time.
"You may think that your humans are pure little things, but there are many that only think of lining their own pockets. That includes priests."
And with that, Ripclaw wakes up.
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