As the moonlight glistens in the night, a mouse scurries over to her nest and gives her babies the chunks of food that she held in her mouth. Near by inside a cave, a velociraptor looks at her last egg as it just stands still like it did hours after the others hatched. Her mate comes over and and looks at the egg as there is nothing they can do.
"I'm afraid that the egg is rotten. There is nothing we can do," he said as his green eyes glisten with tears.
"No I we mustn't give up. He was a late bloomer just like you and did your mother give up? No she didn't. So I'm not giving up on this one. It just breaks my heart when a young soul dies and has never seen his parents before," the persistent mother said as a few tears slip out of her eyes.
"Alright but we can't keep the egg forever. I'll let you keep it until the next nightfall," he says.
"Him not IT,"she said as she curls up next to it. She stays there all night making sure she doesn't go to sleep just in case it hatches and she doesn't see it.
The next morning two girls and one boy slowly wake up to their mom sleeping next to their late brother. One of the girls goes up to the egg and sniffs it. She gets startled and runs away and hides along with her siblings. They peak out their heads to see what happened. It turns out that the egg was finally hatching. The tiny nose of the velociraptor slightly broke a hole in the eggshell and winced. The baby velociraptor's wincing woke his mother.
"Oh my gosh!" she said in surprise, "Honey come quick!"
"What!" He said running.
The blue velociraptor crawled out of the egg and then fell on the floor. His mother nudged her nose against him, helping him get up. She noticed a few dark blue speckles on his nose under his brown .
"Speckles" she said softly as the baby looked up at her, "Your new name is speckles"
"Rawr" one of his sisters, Rory, said.
"Rawr" Speckles said.
"Grrrrr" his brother growled as a roach crawls by. The siblings go running as fast as their tiny legs can carry them chasing the little critter until they lose it as it vanishes into the underbrush. The siblings then realized that they were hungry and went off complaining to their mom.