It’s Jack.
Okay, so we charged each other. Then Seth veered off course. He started running towards the crumbling bunker. Once we were inside, I heard the sizzle of the wood. Then, KABOOM!!!! The wood next to us fell and exploded.
“Seth? What happened to you? You were my best friend!” I shouted, dodging Seth’s lunge.
“Jack, I was never your friend," he laughed, countering my next attack. That kind of hurt, but I didn’t let myself slow down. I drove my sword towards Seth.
Then the whole bunker came down.
Blackness.
That was it.
I saw Seth, then blackness.
I woke up to hearing Kyle, Lindsay, and Anna yelling my name. I was trapped under some wood that had fallen on my head and knocked me out. Seth was nowhere to be seen.
“What happened?” He asked.
“Seth. He...he isn’t my friend. He never was," I responded.
I am going to give the floor back to Kyle.
Kyle here.
“What do you mean that he isn’t your friend?” I asked.
“It was all a lie. He didn’t want his parents to adopt me," Jack said. I waited for further explanation, but Jack didn’t elaborate.
By pulling together, Lindsay, Anna, and I finally got Jack out, and he was burned, but not too badly. We trudged through the rubble to see if there was anything we could salvage. There was nothing left.
“We could go to the air station. It’s over by the Tyrannoceratops cage," Lindsay suggested. I nodded, and we started walking towards the air station.
As we were walking, I took stock of the supplies we had. Other than the clothes we were wearing, we had very little. Jack only had the torn pieces of the picture of him and his family and his sword. Lindsay had her bow and a few arrows. Anna had a dagger. I had a picture of my family and my bow, as well as my sword and a few arrows. As for food, Jack had some coke and sprite in his backpack. Lindsay, Anna, and I had nothing, so we stopped by Lindsay’s garden to grab some fresh fruit and veggies. I hoped it was enough for our journey.
Anyway, once we made it to the air station, we found our plane and put everything we had in it. I flew it this time. We raced down the runway, and we were off. We made it over part of the park, but we ran out of gasoline right over the Dunkalodon, a hybrid of the Dunkleosteus and a Megalodon,’s cage. I couldn’t believe I had forgotten to check the gas level! The plane started falling.
“We have to jump!” Jack yelled. Anna jumped, as did Lindsay. Jack and I grabbed everything we could. I jumped. Falling through the sky felt very strange. I had no control over my body, yet it wasn’t uncomfortable. I felt weightless. At last, I hit the freezing water and felt numb. I surfaced, completely out of breath. I looked up and saw the plane spiraling down 50 or so yards away. Then, SPLASH! Jack landed in front of me.
“Owww,” Jack moaned, treading water. Luckily, the plane had a raft that inflated when it came into contact with the water. Jack and I scrambled on, then we realized that we had no idea where Lindsay and Anna were.
“Lindsay! Anna!” Jack and I yelled. “Where are you?”
“Jack! Kyle! We're over here!” Lindsay shouted. We paddled to them and helped them climb onto the raft.
“Jeez, that was a long drop,” Jack said. We all got on the float when all of a sudden, BAM! It flipped over and we all fell back in the water.
“What? Why did it flip?” Lindsay asked.
“Hold on. Look at that. It’s a… fin?” Jack said.
We all looked and saw an armored fin go under the water.
“We have to get out of this lagoon," Jack said. We all started swimming as fast as we could towards the edge of the lagoon.
“Kyle! Give me the torpedo!” Jack asked.
“Who packed a torpedo?” I asked. I couldn’t remember ever having a torpedo, much less bringing it.
“Me! Now throw it to me!” He yelled back. I gave it to him. He got on his sword and it turned into a… hoverboard? He went higher and the Dunkalodon jumped out of the water, just in time for Jack to thrust the torpedo right into its mouth. BOOM! We all saw an explosion and ducked underwater to escape being splattered with dinosaur remains. Jack was nowhere to be seen. Then, SPLASH! He landed back in the water.
“Well, that went better in my head," Jack admitted.
“At least you're alive," I pointed out. We laughed and swam to the edge of the lagoon. Once we reached it, we took a few minutes to clean off a bit, especially Jack, who was covered in the ancient reptile’s blood.
After that, we walked back to the bunker. When we got there, all that was left was a pile of burnt wood. We walked in and decided that it would be best to build a treehouse. It was small, but it was big enough to fit the four of us, the pets (who had miraculously survived the fire, having been in the forest), and our weapons. We woke up the next morning and Lindsay went to see if the garden was still intact.
“I’m going with her," I said.
“See you later, lovebirds,” Jack smiled. I ignored him and maintained a distance of about ten feet behind her.
“Hey,” I said after a while.
“I knew someone was following me,” Lindsay said.
“What? No, I wasn’t following you,” I said.
“Of course not,” she replied, laughing sarcastically.
“I… um… I wanted to tell you… that I-” At that very moment, Jack pushed me down and yelled “DUCK!” We all ducked and a giant horn slashed right by my face.
“What the-” I tried to get out, but I could see why Jack knocked me over. A Tyrannoceratops, not just one, not two, but twelve circled around us.
“Jack? Do these count as more hybrids or just one species?” Lindsay questioned.
“One," he replied. Then a 65-foot tall Tyrannoceratops walked over to us. Its horns were bright red and it was over five times larger than the other Rexes. Its foot alone was larger than our treehouse. It had red stripes on its body, along with white on its back and brown on its stomach. It looked nothing like the one that destroyed the bunker.
It growled and stood at its max height, and roared as loud as it could. It was an ear-piercing sound, worse than anything you could ever imagine. Then Jack stood up and walked over to it. He grabbed some meat from the backpack he had on and threw it into the woods. The dinosaur didn’t move. Jack walked up to it. I readied my bow.
“Kyle, freeze!” Jack whispered before I could shoot. There was a Tyrannoceratops behind me. I couldn’t move a muscle or it would attack me. Jack turned around, again facing the Rex. I caught a glimpse of an odd device in his hand. Its screen looked sort of like a phone’s, but it had long antennae poking out.
Jack stood and said, “I’m on your side." The Alpha growled back. The device read Are you on the other human’s side? We have been trying to eat him for years.
I realized that at some point, Jack had created a device that could be used to speak to dinosaurs. Don’t ask me how; I have no idea.
“No. I’m not on his side. Will you protect us from him?”
The device said Yes.
“We’re good. They're on our side," Jack said, facing me.
We walked for a while before getting back to the treehouse. The Rexes slept where the bunker used to be. The Alpha was awake all night making sure nothing would come to eat us. After a while, I went to sleep. I had no idea that the next day would be one of the worst days on the island.
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