Creepy Creatures
		Chapter 3
	We just stood there. Just staring at the sleeping body of the new Sandarake Crux I accidentally hit with my car last night. And there it is. A new crux type in our biology lab. We were just staring at the crux. I was waiting for something to happen, but what? Crazy finally caught my attention and pulled me out of a hypnotic trance I had from the crux for a bit. "Hey. You okay man? I know that you did hit it with your car last night and... And I'm just a little bit concerned about you." I just stood there, thinking. What will happen in the future for us with a crux in our lab? Are we going to discover all of their hidden secrets, or is it going to break out and take us with it to where cruxes do their things to us furries? It's all still a big mystery. "HEY!!! Snap out of it man!" Crazy yanked me by the ears and finally got my full attention. "Ow ow ow ow ow! What was that for?"
	"You were stuck looking at that thing. Now come on, we still need to decide what to do first." The only thing came to mind is to take care of it first. Ever since the collision with it last night, it had no food or water. Plus too the sedation formula from the dart I used must have made it even more dehydrated. I knew that we had got to nurish it back to health. Cruxes appear to be carnivores like dingos and wolves, so we have to feed it some sort of meat. "Crazy. Head on over to the market and buy some kind of meat to feed this crux. All I do know is that with its teeth, they just might be carnivorous creatures. Get some kind of meat. Ribs, steak, roast, anything." Crazy stared at me like as if he thought that cruxes eat furries like the velociraptors from Jurassic Park. He became greatly concerned about our safety from hearing what I said. "... On it." Crazy headed to the door to the stairwell to head over to the market and get some meat. Before he entered the stairwell, he gave me a worrying glance back, like as if I don't even know what I am doing.
	An hour has passed ever since we placed the crux in its containment cell and it was still asleep. I was lucky that the tranquilizing dart managed to have a sedation formula strong enough to keep a crux asleep for so long. I went over to the sink and grabbed a two liter flask and filled it up with water. Maybe six liters should be enough for now for a crux. Both the food and water troughs in the crux cell were designed to carry ten liters at the most. The flask is full, time to start giving the crux its drink. I began to pour the water out of the flask and into the shoot into the crux water trough. As I poured, I saw the ears twitch lightly. Was the crux starting to wake up, I have no clue. A quick glance at the clock and it was 11:48, and Crazy has been gone for a while now. After refilling the flask for a second time, I took a quick peek out the front window looking down to the main enterance of the building, and I saw Crazy walking back towards the building with his shiny green fur and lots of different meats in boxes he bought from the market for the crux. I filled the water trough again with another two liters and saw the crux's ears twitch again. A few seconds after I was done pouring the second round, I saw it quiver, like it was cold. The actions that the crux was doing was really starting to freak me out.
	Finally it was time for me to pour in the last two liters of water. As I was a quarter way through pouring the last two liters of water, I heard the elevator stop on the lab floor. As I looked up, the crux was wide awake and staring right into my eyes. In complete surprise, I jumped back screaming and lost my grip of the flask. The flask dropped and shattered. To me, it was like it was falling a couple thousand feet since everything was moving so slow. Finally I heard Crazy come busting in through the lab door, shouting in complete horror. "Are you alright!?! Oh my god, it's awake!" I backed away from both the containment cell and the broken flask slowly. I was horrified when I saw it staring into the lab with its glowing red eyes.
	The crux was standing up like how a velocirapor would back in the Jurassic Park movies, but slightly different. Its ears were standing straight up, still with the loopy curls swirling outwards. Its arms were tucked in and its elbowes were bent like a raptor's would. And its tail was bent in a big hump horseshoe like shape. All I saw in its eyes was pain. It was like it was trying to talk to me with its eyes. I then realised that maybe the sedation formula in the dart was a bit too heavy for a crux. It looked down and saw the water in its water trough, then it looked up at me again and gave me a simple and single nod, like it was thanking me. Then it kneeled down and began drinking the water. I knew that he has got to be hungry, so I turned to Crazy to see what he's got. He was still in complete shock ever since he saw the crux staring at us through the glass. "Jesus... That was so creepy. Are you okay Nick?"
	"I'm fine. It doesn't look like that I have been cut by any broken glass. Anyways, please clean up the broken flask and I'll take a look at what you got." Crazy immediately got to work on cleaning up the flask while I went to check out what Crazy bought for feeding the crux. There were still some boxes left in the elevator from when Crazy dropped them to check on me, so I unloaded them from the elevator and took a peek at what Crazy bought. There was some large ribs, ground beef, some ham, turkey, roast, angus steak, and salmon? Why did Crazy bought some fish? In curiosity, I asked him. "Well I thought maybe cruxes do like fish since we did saw some cruxes over by the Cypress River a few days ago on camera. But still those were the older types of cruxes that we are aware of. Who knows what these new cruxes eat?" He did have a good point.
	We had a large walk in freezer in the lab that was originally for storing dissected organs and such, but I will never perform any dissection experiments on any living creature. I placed all of the meat in the freezer and closed it on my way out to see how Crazy was doing. We just had to cook the meat somehow but yet still keep it rare for the crux. Then I remembered that we had a big grilling party up on the roof from when we opened the lab. I just had to ask Crazy if he left it there by accident. "Hey Crazy do we still have that charcoal grill up on the roof?" I had to ask since I saw it every now and then since it looked like you left up there ever since the grand opening bar be que we had when we opened the lab a few days after the first attack. "Yea. Why?"
	"Head back out to the store and buy plenty of carcoal. We're going to start dining with the crux."
	"Are you insane!?! I'm not going to eat in this lab with that thing!"
	"Crazy we have to if we want to do more research about the species. Now you're an animal biologist and your job is to study animals. And our job on this island is to know more about cruxes. So we have to eat with it so we can see how it eats and what it does and does not like."
	"Okay. I'll be back in a minute." After Crazy finished cleaning up the broken glass and left the lab to get some charcoal for the grill, the crux looked back up at me through the glass. I walked over to the glass to get a closer look at it. The crux appeared to be about five feet and eight inches tall from head to toe. With its ears up, it made itself be more than seven feet tall. I was smart on making both the lab and the cell with extra high celings. We were the same hight at eyelevel. We saw eachother eye to eye. Then I saw the crux's expression changed from pain to something else, like it was trying to remember something. Then I remembered when I shot it and it saw me for a few seconds. In a split second the crux lunged forward and started banging on the glass and was screatching at me with hatred. I was smart enough to make the glass bulletproof, so that way then no matter how hard it hits the glass, the crux can't break it. I left the crux and went to the elevator to head up to the roof, leaving the crux behind to calm down. As I was waiting for the elevator, I looked back at the crux and saw it drop its ears and saw it start walking back towards its bed. The crux was walking in a stange way, swinging its body side to side in an exaggerated way. Once the elevator arrived, I stepped in to head up to the roof. As the doors were closing, I saw it lay down on the bed and started crying. Something was telling me that the Sandarake Crux we have went through a lot before I found the creature.