Welcome everyone. This is AU is my little homage to Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World." I hope you all like it. Enjoy and review.
Wondrous Fabrication
The year was 1960 and the day July 13th. The place was the Royal Ontario Museum. It was here that Lee Ping, a renowned professor of paleontology, was giving a lecture on dinosaurs. In attendance were Sir Camillio Martinez, a hunter and womanizer trying to make himself the black Ernest Hemingway, and columnist Holger Holgaart, Danish by birth and his English was not too good thus he made all of his notes in Danish and had them translated into English by someone who's English was far better than his.
With a picture of an Iguanodon behind him, Lee gave his lecture. "Now, as we all now, these creatures moved like a kangaroo on two legs with the tail to the ground."
And that was when Lt. Wendell Barrage walked in. Though a military man by profession, Barrage had some knowledge of paleontology although he had never received a PHD. He had something in his arms, some sort of bone.
"Like a kangaroo?" scoffed Barrage, laughing loudly. "Have you ever seen one?"
"No one has ever seen one but with a body structure like that they must have, Lt. Barrage." Returned Lee.
"These things are quadrupedal animals." Stated Barrage.
"That is absurd!" exclaimed Lee. "By what right do you make such a claim?"
"I've seen them!"
"Like I said, absurd!"
"And I have something for you to identify" Barrage held up a bone from some kind of animal. "Will you do such a thing?"
Rolling his eyes, Lee took it and examined it. "It is the wing bone of a Pteranodon."
"It is seven months old and I shot the beast myself." Stated Barrage. Upon hearing that, Cam perked up with new interest. Now here was something new to hunt! "I shot it in Africa!"
"It is obviously a clever hoax!" scoffed Lee. "A wondrous fabrication!"
"Then come back with me, Professor Ping! If you are sure it is a hoax then there will be nothing to prove you wrong!" Barrage then turned to the audience. "Anyone care to come with us?"
