Chapter 1: Day of the Dino (1)
A few years ago...
A man pushed himself against the wall and breathed heavily, looking over his left shoulder before moving on. He run through a maze of tunnels and takes a left jumping down a few steps into a room as an explosion follows. Not hesitating he keeps on running.
Down a different stairs a man-like creature descends and at the bottom he stands before more creatures.
"Find him… Whatever it takes." The man-like creature commands the other creatures.
The man runs down another corridor, obvious that he is now on the run. Another explosion follows and he runs into one of the creatures. He turns around and runs back, the creatures hot on his tail. As he keeps running he finds the exit. Just when he is almost outside an explosion hurls him out against a rock wall. His back hits the wall and he falls to the ground, quickly recovering himself and looks around to see any pursuers. His breathing is heavy and his face is dirty from the smoke. Realizing he has little time to catch his breath he begins to run again as explosions occur all over the place. He runs through the forest and two of the creatures jump through the sky. He looks around spots them, but is unable to get away as they bash him to the ground. More of the creatures catch up and surround him. He holds his stomach and from his face it is obvious that he is hurting.
He realizes that he is now surrounded and focuses on the creatures. One of them assumes a battle position and the man does the same. The creature charges him and he kicks it back with his left leg. He puts it on the ground and spin kicks another creature with his right foot. Another one charges him and he hits him with his right fist turning around in the process. He blocks a kick and interrupts a punch. Dodging a creature that flies towards him, he pushes another back and hits the creature that he interrupted before in the stomach. The man avoids a punch and pushes the charger behind him and spin kicks another attacker. As he keeps fighting them off, they eventually overpower him and they hold him as one of the creatures rolls towards him and kicks him with two feet, using his arms as a foothold. The man flies backwards, but recovers himself just as fast. The creatures try to stomp on him while he is on the ground and manages to dodge the incoming attacks. From the ground he is able to sweep them off their feet. He stands up and makes a scissor move to take one down. He stands up and is able to kick some of them away when a huge explosion hurls him and his attackers forward.
In the confusion of the several explosions that followed he dashes off again. He finally reaches open ground and proceeds to run, while his pursuers reach the edge of the forest and stop. The man comes to halt and realizes he standing on the edge of a cliff and that there is only water beneath him. He looks behind him and sees a major explosion taking out his pursuers and that it spreading towards him. His next movement is without thinking and he jumps off the cliff into the water. He lands into the water and resurfaces a second later. Keeping himself afloat, he sees the island blowing up and slowly sinking into the ocean.
He was on his own, floating in the water.
"What should I do now?" he asked to himself. He didn't have to wait long; a boat had witnessed the explosion and came up for a closer look. They spotted the man and hauled him aboard. They brought the man back to harbor and he thanked them for a change of clothes and some spare change to help get him back home. He made a phone call and after telling his story and asking the person on the other line for a pick-up he hung up and said to himself with a heavy hart: "So it begins…." He shakes his head dejectedly and waits for the person to pick him up.
Some years later.
The same man looks around him and adjusts his glasses with his bag underneath his arm. He smiles slightly and turns around walking towards the building behind him. An arch above him reads 'Reefside High School' and several students walk towards the school as a bus arrives.
He walks along the corridors of the school, greeting people as he walks by.
"Dr. Oliver." A voice behind him says. He turns around and a woman walks up to him. "I'm principal Randall."
"It's nice to meet you." He extends his hand. Her eyes dart seriously from him to his hand and then back to him again. "It's your first day too isn't it?" He asks her as he looks confused at his hand, because she didn't shake it. Instead she opens a binder and looks at him.
"Yes… and I'm still trying to figure out why a doctor of paleontology would come all the way to Reefside to teach science to teenagers." She doesn't ask, but states it as they continue to walk along the corridor. Students are passing them every now and then.
"Guessing I'm looking for some peace and quiet." He answered as he looks at her and gives her a grin.
"So you became a high school teacher…" She says with a sarcastic tone and he nods, "That doesn't make a whole lot of sense now does it, Dr. Oliver?"
He squints his eyes at her and makes up his mind.
"You know what I was thinking… Maybe we should get together. This way you can kinda fill me in on what you expect of me." He says reassuringly.
"I expect you to make it hard for them. Painful if it all possible. If they smile you know you are doing something wrong. Now I'm off to find my first truant. We'll talk later." She says icily. He looks confused about her attitude.
The classroom is noisy and everyone is glad the teacher isn't here yet. They are fooling around and throwing airplanes at each other. Matt shakes his head at the behavior his fellow classmates are showing. 'Like a bunch of kids…' He notices an african-american boy; he has short hair and wears a denim jacket. The boy is typing on his laptop; he is reviewing already for this first lesson. He grins 'At least someone thinks school is fun.' His eyes look around the classroom and he notices another person that is focused. A girl with yellow sleaves and dirty blond hair is writing in her notebook, a crumpled piece of paper hits her and one of her arms shoots up in defense, she sighs at being annoyed while writing. Matt suddenly notices a man standing in the door opening.
"Guys, settle down." He says loudly to make himself heard, "Take your seats please."
Everyone sits down and the boy behind the laptop looks up and stares at the new teacher. Dr. Oliver adjusts his glasses and faces the class.
"I'm Doctor Oliver and this is first period Science. Before we begin are there any questions?" he asks the class. A blond haired girl in front of him raises her hand and stands up as he acknowledges her.
"Cassidy, Cassidy Cornell." She says introducing herself with a fake smile plastered over her face. Everybody sighs as they hear her. The girl with yellow sleeves rolls her eyes.
"Dr. Oliver, as you may know. I'm the anchoring field reporter for our school's tv-station." Everybody else groans and now the boy with his laptop now rolls his eyes.
"Ugh, anyway I'm sure our viewers are wondering. Well… you don't really look old enough to be a teacher... Devin are you getting this?" A boy that was sitting next to her suddenly stands up with his camera.
"Cassidy, I promise you. I'm old enough, so lets put the camera away." He points at the boy.
"You missed it!" She barks in a whisper to the boy.
"For now lets talk about you guys on what you expect of yourselves in this class because that is what's really important." He gained attention of everyone in the classroom, the girl with yellow sleeves looked up and the boy with laptop stopped typing. 'Man, I can't believe she broke up with me.' Matt, who was playing with his pencil, took a hold of it and listened intently. Dr. Oliver suddenly notices an empty seat in front of him.
"Is uhh… someone missing?" He asks the classroom. People raise their shoulders, because they don't know. He decides to continue class without him or her.
Somewhere outside, a boy, in red uniform and brown hair, is playing with a red soccer ball. He starts to do a keepie uppie while staring at another guy in the goal. He is fully equipped with a helmet, leg protectors, hand protectors and body armor. The boy playing with the ball kick it up on his shoulders and lets it roll from right to left and catches it with his left leg. The guy in the goal is shaking madly, scared by the boy playing with the ball. As the boy stares intently at the keeper, the keeper almost looks like he is going to faint. The boy kicks it up in the air and makes a 720 spin in the air and kicks it towards the goal with a huge amount of force. The keeper makes himself small unable to do his job in the goal because of being scared of getting hurt.
"Dude… you're supposed to try and catch it." The boy in red sighs.
"You sure we're not going to get in trouble for this? I mean the bell rang and it's the first day."
"Look if anyone says anything. Tell them Conner McKnight" He points to himself, "gave you permission to be out here."
"Yeah but I heard the new principal is crazy she worked in a prison or something before she came here."
Conner chuckles and replies: "Don't worry about Randall." He doesn't know she walks up behind him and the keeper signals him to stop, but he continues anyway.
"She's a woman and women are just grown-up girls. Need I say more?"
"I think you've said quite enough, Mr. McKnight." Conner's expression fell from smugness to oh-shit-busted.
He takes a deep breath and turns around with a fake smile. "Principal Randall! I have heard such great things about you." He says trying to flatter her.
"Viscous rumors I can assure you." She says with no emotion."Go." She nods into a direction he needs to walk. Conner lets out a sigh. The keeper stares at the scene.
"What are you looking at?" Randall says as she stares disgustedly at him. He looks at her shocked. She runs towards a ball and kicks it with so much force that the keeper flies into the net and lands on his stomach.
"Now get back to class!" The keeper gets up like lightning and dashes off, scared out of his mind. Conner watches with disbelief, his mouth slightly hanging open. As she turns around so does he and starts walking.
During the switching of classes two guys, one of them being the boy with the laptop, run into a shed.
"Okay all clear." He grabs his laptop from his backpack. "Check this out."
Setting up his laptop and attaching it to what appears to be a mainframe. "I wrote a program that generates a code so the sprinklers go off at different times every day." He tells his friend excitedly.
Outside a group is listening to the girl with yellow sleeves playing on her guitar and sings while she strums the strings on her guitar.
I want to know
Know where you're at
I'm at the front
But baby you're still at the back
Oh can you tell me where you're at
Freak you out
Freak you out
Freak you out
Freak you out
Freak you out
The people around her clapped as Principal Randall walked up behind the girl. Her binder already opened.
"Ms. Ford, I'm afraid you need written permission to perform on school grounds. Let's go." She scribbles something down in the binder.
"Are you aware that kids who play an instrument have a 50% higher chance of getting into college?" She says smartly.
Randall lowers her glasses and stares at Ms. Ford.
"Well… you're hardly college material now are you, Ms. Ford?" The girl's mouth opens in shock of being offended and wants to protest. "Now come with me." Randall snaps her binder shut and walks off. The girl disgusted by the Principal's attitude gets off the bench she was playing on and follows her.
As the girl and Conner follow the principal across the grass field the sprinklers suddenly go off, panicking everyone that was on the field.
"Oh you've got be kidding me." The girl mutters while running towards the street. "This just great…" She wipes the water from her guitar.
The principal turns around and sees someone walking with an umbrella. It was the boy with the laptop, whom earlier had messed with the sprinklers. He has a smug look plastered on his face.
"Ethan James… I should have known."
A few minutes later they all follow the Principal to her office.
"Give me your lunch money." They hear a voice say.
They walk around the corner and a few of the high school bullies are standing around a smaller frightened looking person. It was a girl wearing glasses, Ethan recognized her as a freshman. The principal wanted to step in just as the boy wanted to start showing her who the boss was. Conner recognized him as Tate, one of his teammates and opened his mouth to tell Tate off. He was interrupted by someone else.
"Leave her be, Tate. Just because you are bigger and uglier looking, doesn't give you the right to beat up other people." A voice said coming from the door. The guy looked up and stared right up in the eyes of Matt, who was leaning against the frame of the door.
"You picking a fight with me Matt, unless you changed your mind about giving me your lunch money?" Both boys had failed to notice the principal standing there watching.
"Let's see… people usually pick the fight with me. I guess it makes for a change of pace. C'mon then, I'll even let you throw the first punch." Matt signaled at Tate to come. The guy lunged out at Matt, who takes the punch full in the face.
"There, you piece of shit, not so tough now huh stupid footballjock?"
Matt stood up and blood trickled down the corner of his lip. He wiped it off with his sleeve and just stared at the guy that punched him.
"What? Too chicken to attack me?" The boy made a chicken motion and his supporters laughed.
"Fighting you would be abusing people weaker than myself."
"Oh yeah that's not what your girl said to me last night after she broke up with you. She said she'd rather have me than a chickenshit like you."
Matt turned his back, the other guy grinned even wider. Before the guy could say anything, Matt spin kicked him in the face. Matt grabbed him by his shirt in a split second and hit him square in the face; a sickening crunch could be heard as the boy's nose was broken. The rest of Tate's friends were staring in disbelief and suddenly snapped out of it, they surrounded Matt. Before things escalated the principal stepped in and yelled at the boy and his friends to get him checked and she then stared at Matt.
"Matthew Gabriel Deverest, detention." Was all she said to him. He didn't look surprised and merely made a move to follow her, giving a glance at the three people behind him. His glance then slid from the three to the freshman and he gave her an apologizing smile. His gaze slid back on the three behind Randall and it lingered on the girl for a bit. She didn't look at him, but that made it all the more easier for Matt to just see what pulled his gaze to her. He couldn't figure it out. Randall called out for them and him to follow. The rest of the crowd was still staring in disbelief.
"Get him to the hospital!" she snapped at the rest of the crowd.
The Principal, Conner and Ms. Ford were soaked by the sprinklers. Ethan and Matt, both dry followed after them.
"Sit!" She ordered them. They sat down, Conner being seriously bummed out, Ms. Ford held her guitar with two hands in front of her, and Ethan holding his umbrella and Matt sat down staring up at her.
"Principal Randall, I would just like to mention the fact that there is absolutely no hard evidence linking me to that unfortunate sprinkler incident."
"That's what all guilty people say…" Matt muttered under his breath. Ethan glared at him.
"Save it for Judge Judy, Mr. James!" She snaps at Ethan. She was furious and you could tell from her face. "The four of you will have detention for one week, starting today."
They looked at her in disbelief.
"Now if there are no further questions…"
They all started to argue, faint traces of band practice, soccer practice, computer club and football practice were made out in their arguments.
"I didn't think so!" She cut them off and stormed off into her office.
The door opened once more and someone else came out.
"Oh and Miss Abigail…? Detention for a week!" The girl sighed and closed the door. She stared at the people next to her.
She muttered something like "What's her problem…?" They raised their shoulders and she spotted Matt, who merely nodded to her in acknowledgement.
They all fell silent for a bit.
"Okay somebody seriously needs a hug." Ford states.
"Do you mean yourself or Principal Randall?" Matt asks her and he gave her a lopsided grin. "I kinda hope it's you."
She glares at Matt with daggers in her eyes. "Okay point taken, don't get your panties in a twist." He shrugs and leans against the wall and closes his eyes.
Conner leans forward and stares at Ethan.
"Dude… Computer Club?" he asks in disbelief. Ethan looked away annoyed at the jock asking him such a question.
The rest of the day went over quietly as the four finished the rest of their classes for the day.
"Dr. Oliver." The principal greeted him. "How was your first day?" They walk up the stairs.
"Oh the kids were great. No problem." He answered.
"Great, you'll be seeing a lot more of them." She said to him. "In detention."
"Mind telling me what I did?" He asked with a small grin on his face.
"No, you are in charge of it today." She looks at him with a confused look on her face.
"Ah no, actually I have plans to go to a museum outside of town- "
"Perfect!" She interrupts him. "Bring the little monsters with you. That should be sufficient torture for them. You've all met I trust? Well enjoy your little outing."
Dr. Oliver stares at the five teens standing in front of him. Conner has his hands in his pocket and is leaning against the wall. Ms. Ford is leaning against the wall with her arms over each other. Ethan stands in between them and is fidgeting with his hands. Abigail looks at the science teacher with a gaze of disinterest. Matt stands beside Ms. Ford and he looks displeased to not go through regular punishment. Dr. Oliver removes his glasses and sighs.
"So… you guys like museums?" He asks them unsure of the situation.
They hop in his car Abigail and Ethan jump in the back and Conner shotguns to front seat. Since they were with too many Dr. Oliver made Matt drive behind him with Ms. Ford next to him.
"What!? I'm not getting in the car with him!" She said in disbelief while pointing at Matt.
"I'd take you in my car, but it's only a jeep." He pointed at his black jeep.
"If you don't want to then switch." Matt muttered to her. She sighed and followed him; she wasn't going to be sitting in the back with Ethan. His car was parked further down the road.
"It's not much, but it's my car." He said when they stopped at his grey Camaro. She stared at him.
"Not much? I don't even own a car."
"Okay, so it's different from your ordinary car… But it's just a car nonetheless."
"I thought guys were all about cars." She said sarcastically.
"Not all of us are… Besides a car is a car. It's replaceable." He smiled at her and she didn't know whether it was genuine or just a fake smile.
They got in and he turned the engine on. She expected the music to be regular hip-hop, trance, dance or anything other. She didn't expect him to be listening to the music she liked.
"Does the music bother you?" He asked with a gentle smile.
If she didn't know any better she might have thought he was hitting on her. But she did know better and knew he was just being polite. She did notice that there was an ashtray with several smoked cigarettes in them. Her gaze fell from the ashtray to him. 'Does he smoke?' Her thought was answered when he grabbed a pack from his pocket.
"No not really. Do you mind not smoking?" She asked him. He turned his head and then to his packet.
"Oh right. Sorry, I'm just used to smoking in my car." He put them away and seemed to be in thought, while he buckled up.
"So you broke up with your girlfriend?" She asked him to at least break the ice, but forgot that it might be a touchy subject.
"Yeah, it wasn't much of a relationship anyway. I wasn't what she was looking for and she wasn't what I was looking for." He shrugged. "She didn't have much besides a pretty face."
She was surprised at his openness on the subject.
"Are you always like this? I mean this open towards people." She asked confused.
"More or less. I like to talk to people, must have missed you though because you seem like my kinda girl." He cracked a joke. She would have hit him, instead she found herself laughing slightly not knowing why he made her feel comfortable.
The black jeep passed them and a horn sounded, signaling Matt to follow Dr. Oliver. They didn't say much to each other during the trip, just the average talk when talking to someone you don't care or know about. After driving an hour they arrive at the museum.
"Oh wow check out the T-rex." They hear Ethan say excitedly.
They walk towards the entrance and Matt noticed it is locked down and closed. The five teens lined up behind Dr. Oliver and Ms. Ford was the smallest, Ethan and Abigail were just a bit bigger than her and Conner was at least a head taller, as was Matt.
"That's weird."
"Oh well, no museum for us." Conner notes as he puts hands in his pockets.
"Great let's go home." Ford says with a tone of relief in her voice.
"I'll tell you what. Why don't you guys have a look around the grounds? If any of you guys find anything pre-historic, I'll cancel detention for the rest of the week."
"Sweet."
"Like we'll find anything pre-historic." Matt stated sarcastically. Dr.O ignored him.
"I'm gonna see if I can find someone who can tell us when they are opening up."
"Dr. Oliver, can't I just wait here?" Abigail asked quietly.
"Better go along with them, I don't know when I'm done here."
She sighed and nodded.
The five of them turn around and walked up the road.
"So let me get this straight… they have a club just for computers?" Conner asks Ethan.
Matt shakes his head dejectedly and walks on.
Dr. O walks up to the door and reads another sign 'Under New Management, In case of emergency' and below it were a few numbers.
"In case of emergency… Call Anton Mercer industries…? Anton Mercer? That's impossible."
The five teenagers were walking through the forest. Each and every one of them not wanting to be there.
"Hey did you guys ever hear the story about the guy who was hiking up here and fell into a giant sinkhole?" Ethan said trying to break the ice. Matt shook his head.
"Must have missed that one." Ms. Ford said with disinterest.
"C'mon! It was on all the urban legend websites!"
"Dude… You know this isn't computer club right?" Conner snarled at him.
"Oh… I guess you're too big and bad to surf the web." Conner chuckled, but Ethan wasn't done yet. "Well what do you in your spare time?"
"Me? I go out with girls… You know they're the ones at school that smell really good, with the long hair and the make-up, right Matt?" He snarled at Ethan, but he received no answer from Matt.
"Oh it's like that is it?"
"Yeah. It's like that." Conner snapped back at Ethan.
"Whatever." Ms. Ford walked right past them.
"I can't believe I'm stuck with these morons." Abigail said sighing.
Matt just walked by without saying anything. Conner chuckled and walked on.
"All I'm doing is trying to give you the heads up. Stuff happens out here. Just don't come crying to me when you fall into a giant sinkhole." No sooner had he spoken the words or he fell through a hole in the ground. He wasn't the only one though. Matt and Abigail and Ms. Ford and Conner fell through a hole as well.
Dr. Oliver gave up turned around and walked back to his car. Something was off… and he looks up. The giant Tyrannosaurus-Rex had disappeared.
"Where did…" He looked around and backed up nervously. He felt the ground move and turned around and looked up, staring right at the missing T-Rex. It growled at him. Dr. Oliver jump kicked to hit the nose of the T-Rex. It backed off, giving Dr. Oliver enough time to run away to his car. He got in and locked the door of his jeep.
"Great lock the door Tommy, real good." He muttered to himself while trying to reach for his keys in his pocket. The T-Rex closed in and he found his keys and put them in the ignition trying to fire up the car.
"C'mon…"
He quickly buckled up and the car's motor roared. He backed the car up quickly and turned and hit the throttle. Effectively escaping the T-Rex, but it followed him.
Conner, Ethan, Ms. Ford, Abigail and Matt looked up at the opening above them. They were covered in dust and Ethan was clutching his side.
"Alright. You guys stay here where it's safe. I'll climb up and come back with help."
"I'll give you a boost." Conner was surprised to hear Matt say that, because he was giving him the silence treatment a few minutes earlier. Matt stood against the wall giving Conner the boost. Conner tried to climb up and held unto a rock that broke off, resulting in Conner falling down.
A hand in front of him made him look up. Abigail had extended her hand. She looked away with a face of disgust, but had somehow decided to at least a nice gesture.
"Back already?" Ethan said sarcastically. They helped him up.
"Obviously climbing back up isn't going to help us." Abigail stated.
"Well we could always check where this leads." Matt gestured at a small path.
Ms. Ford was currently rethinking the situation. 'Great, I'm stuck with the King of Jocks and King of Geeks. Of course there's also the Student Council President and Head of the swimming team Abigail. And then there is…'
"Quarterback of the Reefside team." Matt said to her. She hadn't noticed she was gazing intently at Matt, which he picked up and merely smiled at her. This was as weird as the situation would get, everyone knew the jocks at Reefside were divided into two groups. One was the American Football group and the other the Soccer group and they didn't hit off very well. 'Oh great another jock. Wait… Jock this guy? ' She thought to herself. He certainly had the looks to be a jock, but his personality was so different from the other jock with them.
"Hey Conner about today, I'm sorry to be hitting one of your teammates man." Matt had tapped Conner on the shoulder. Conner raised an eyebrow.
"If you could spread the word we're not looking for a fight… I was just helping out a freshman and he made a comment on my fresh break-up with Connie. So if you could…?" Matt shrugged. Conner didn't reply, but didn't press the issue further either and nodded.
"Abigail… What are you in detention for?" Ethan asked.
She shrugged. "I merely asked for more funding for the Reefside extra-curricular clubs. The swimming pool could use some new assets, not to mention the other clubs."
"Let's not waste time here talking and keep moving." Conner cut Ethan off from whatever he was going to say next. Ms. Ford rolled her eyes and pushed past Matt and Conner and moved into the small opening and rest followed.
Dr. Oliver drove his jeep down the road, still running from the T-Rex that was following him. He looked around and saw it catching up. He pushed full throttle. It still caught up and rammed the back of Dr. Oliver's Jeep.
Meanwhile back with the five teenagers, Ms. Ford had started to sing 'Freak you out' while looking around.
"Babe? Could you keep it down? I'm trying to stay focused here." Conner said to her.
Ms. Ford looked in utter shock.
"Did you just call me babe?" She demanded. "Did he just call me babe?" She turned around and asked Ethan.
"I don't know. I wasn't listening. I was still grooving to your tune."
She glanced at Abigail, who wasn't paying attention. Then her glance slid to Matt. He just merely nodded and smiled at her. "Yup he called you babe." He obviously thought the situation was amusing. She walked, glaring at Matt, up to Conner and stared at him.
"What? Just chill out why don't ya?"
"Listen. My name is Kira. Maybe you should write on your hand or something? So you can remember." She snapped icily at him. The rest walked past him in silence except for Matt who grinned at Conner's stunned face. "And that goes for you too, Mr. Quarterback." She stated afterwards, his grin fell to an amusing and playing smile.
"Definitely not one of your regular girls huh?" He smirked at Conner. Conner gave Matt a grin.
"Not exactly no. You interested in her?"
"I just broke up with my girl and you already think I'm looking for a new girl?"
"Oh right…"
"It doesn't matter; I'm just messing with ya. Besides note to self don't ever call her babe." He shrugged. Conner grinned and they moved on.
Dr. Oliver was still running from the T-Rex. Turning the corner he saw a viaduct and drove under it. The T-rex, not looking where it was going, rammed it head on. Dr. Oliver saw it happen in his rearview mirror and immediately pressed the brakes when he saw the T-rex not getting up. He unbuckled his seatbelt and got out of the car and walked towards the massive dinosaur, noticing that the spot that hit the viaduct was gone and only had robotic insides.
"This screams Jurassic Park to me." Kira said when the five were examining the remains of a Stegosaurus.
"This'll get us out of detention forever." Conner replied.
"Good, means I won't have to be stuck with you guys for the rest of the week." Abigail said coldly, touching the bones.
"You'll never get rid of me, oh fair maiden." Matt replied sarcastically. Abigail glared at him.
"Not only are you a quarterback, but you are also in theatrics now? When did that happen?" She coughed at him. He grinned at her. Kira stared at both of them 'Did they know each other from somewhere?'
Conner ignored them and touched the lower jaw of the remains.
"Do you think you should-"
Kira wasn't able to finish her sentence, Conner's actions activated a mechanism and a secret door opened. 'As secret as it was...' Matt chuckled to himself.
"Wow" was all Ethan could bring out when he saw the room inside. He walked in first with a massive grin on his face. The rest followed after, Abigail was clearly not amused.
"I could do a crazy video in here." Kira said excitedly.
"Wow… This must be like the mother ship for you dude." Conner said to Ethan.
"Normally I'd be insulted. But when you are right you are right." Ethan replied happily.
"This is freakish." Was all Abigail could bring up.
"Whoever he is, he's got some pretty high-tech stuff in here." Matt said, eyeing the machinery.
Conner spotted a pedestal with 5 gems. The colors were red, blue, yellow, green and grayish silver. He walked up towards them and feeling a strong attraction to red wanted to pick it up.
"Yo! Don't touch that." Ethan practically shouted. They all walked up to the pedestal.
"Why not?" Conner replied.
"You're really taking this dumb jock thing to a whole new level."
Conner was offended, but so was Matt. He was about to speak up when Conner interrupted him.
"Look…. I've sat through enough lame science classes to know that that thing looks fully pre-historic and if I don't have to miss practice…" He trailed off.
"I hate to agree with him, really I do. But I already missed one rehearsal." Kira pleaded Ethan.
"Same here, the coach'll be pissed if I miss another football practice." Matt chimed in.
"As long as I don't have to spend detention with you guys, I'm taking a gem." Abigail replied coldly.
"Aww does abby-wabby hate to be around me?" Matt replied sarcastically. She once again glared daggers at him. Ethan made up his mind. They reached out and grabbed the gems. Conner took red; Kira yellow, Ethan blue, Abigail green and Matt took the grayish silver. They instantly started glowing.
Everyone looked surprised at each other then at their gems.
"Well… What are they?" Kira was the first to speak.
"I can go online later and see if I can find out."
"You in front of a computer… Oh wait let me put on my surprised face." Conner's voice was filled with sarcasm.
"You know 10 years from now when your hairline is receding and when you're playing pickup soccer in the park, because your dreams of turning pro never quite worked out. I'll have my own multi-billion dollar software business." Ethan snapped at him, but then grinned at his own dream. Conner stared at Kira, while she turned.
"Where are you going?"
"I don't want to think about what kind of freak lives in a place like this and I sure don't want to be here when it gets home." She turned around and saw Matt and Abigail already waiting for them.
"Right behind ya." Conner replied. They pocketed the gems.
Somewhere in the ocean or sea, a massive island surfaces.
"The gems have moved. I can feel them. Go! Get them!" A leader monster tells the same kind of monsters that attacked Dr. Oliver a few years back.
"This way!" The five finally found the exit. They run out and look around.
"Compass. We need a compass… anyone have a compass?" Ethan asks them.
"I was going to bring one." Conner replied sarcastically.
"Sorry man, I don't really have those things in my pockets." Matt replied.
Abigail and Kira said nothing.
An eerie gust of wind flew by.
"What was that?" Kira asked.
"The wind?" Matt answered unsure. It blew by again.
"That ain't the wind. As much as we like it to be it ain't." Ethan answered.
A scream sounded as creatures teleported right in front of the five.
"What the hell are those things!?" Abigail shouted.
Matt pressed his hands against Abigail's mouth and restrained her till she calmed down.
"Don't move…" Conner whispered to them.
"Great idea, make it easier for them." Kira replied with sarcasm.
"New plan. RUN!" Ethan yelled.
They all ran away. Ethan, Conner and Abigail jumped over a ditch, but Kira didn't make it and falls into it. Matt running behind her jumps in and pushes her up the ledge while climbing up himself. Just when he is up the monsters jump and fall into the ditch. They keep running and Kira trips, she looks up and the monsters are almost upon her. She yells, but instead of her own voice a loud screeching sound erupts. Sonic waves shoot from her mouth at the creatures effectively knocking three of them back. The rest stopped to cover their ears and turned around when it faded. The other four run up to Kira and Matt and Conner help her up.
"What… was that?" Ethan asks her in disbelief.
"I have no idea." She looked shocked.
"Whatever it was, it sure was effective." Matt let out a whistle.
"Kira… Your pocket is glowing." Abigail pointed at her pocket.
The gem was glowing bright yellow and everyone stared at it. Kira briefly spaced out and saw a flash of a dinosaur in her mind. It screeched and she was brought back.
"Uhh guys let's not stand here watching the gem…. Because the creatures are getting up again." Matt pointed at them. He was right; they were getting up again and were ready to charge at them. They split up and each of them got a batch right behind them.
Kira suddenly stopped and turned around facing the monsters. She dodged an incoming creature that flew towards her and then blocked another's punch. She hit it a couple of times and it flew backwards. Kira hit another and it charged again, she spun around it and blocked an incoming kick. She hit two others one with a punch the other with a kick. Then she spun around another one and blocked its kick. Continuing to block more incoming punches she decides to duck and kicks away an incoming punch. She then spin kicks and recovers herself and gets ready to fight again even though she is exhausted. Matt caught her fight in the corner of his eye and was impressed by the way she defended herself, her movement was sloppy, her stance poor and she was full of openings, but he was impressed nonetheless.
Matt was surrounded and looked around nervously. He was used to this, being outnumbered that is. They decided to charge him and he dodged them swiftly stepping aside and hit his attacker against the back of the head. Another attacker charged him and he ducked and rolled away, recovering himself he kicked the attacker forward. Then two of them came at the same time and punched in, what he assumed to be, the face. He blocked the other and with his shoulder bashed him into the others. His martial arts training came in handy, but he was outnumbered and they eventually forced him down. He recovered, but failed to notice the incoming pursuer and it scratched his face. Matt touched the wound and decided to punch to return the favor and punched it in the stomach. The creature flew back towards the group. Matt had hit it with such force that it failed to get up. The gem in his pocket was glowing and a flash of a Titanosaurus flashed in his mind, looking proud and fierce. He grinned and started to attack once more with renewed vigor.
Ethan got kicked back and was grabbed by two of the creatures. He wanted to kick two more, but they grabbed his feet and they tossed him away. He recovered himself slowly and the creatures decided to strike him down. He blocked and something happened. There was no pain instead he bluish glow surround his arms. He tossed the attacker back and stood up. He looked at his arms and saw a faint trace of blue scales surrounding his arms.
"Something is happening to me."
He then looked into the object clutched in his hand and it glowing bright blue. The images of a dinosaur flashed his mind and a smile came to his face. The attackers began to charge him and he blocked the first incoming strike. Another came from behind and he blocked him too and with the same arm punched the attacker in front of him, knocking him back.
Conner was having a hard time fighting back too. He got kicked in the stomach against a tree and was tossed forward against another tree. He fell face first in the dirt. The gem in his hand was glowing bright red and a dinosaur with massive jaws charged at him in his mind. He stared intently at the gem when he suddenly realized there were still creatures around him and he looked up. One of them charged him and Conner got up with super speed and kicked him back. He looked at his hands in amazement.
"Everything is so slow…" It echoed somehow and he saw two attackers jumping at him in slowmo.
He jumped in between and kicked the on his left first and then the one on the right. Abigail saw Conner's fight and somehow found herself staring, while forgetting her surroundings. She instantly came back when she saw an attacker's fist coming her way. She ducked, but get swept from her feet when the attacker low kicked her. She fell on her back and rolled away for a creature that wanted to stomp on her. She didn't notice the other creature she rolled towards. He struck towards her only to find not one but two persons. Abigail's thought came true and there were more of her and she started to attack back. The two Abigails kicked the attacker away and then spin kicked the two that were behind them. The gem in her hand was glowing bright green and an image of a massive dinosaur swimming passed her. The two Abigails proceeded to help each other out when one attacked and the other defended.
"Over here." Conner shouted and they all ran towards one spot.
They were all breathing heavily and were holding the gems in hand.
"Dude, how much do I love detention." Ethan didn't ask a question, but made a statement.
"Hey!" They heard a familiar voice and Doctor Oliver ran up to them. Each and every one of them pocketed the gems quickly. "Are you guys alright?"
All thinking of an apology, Ethan was the first to speak.
"Yeah, couldn't be better."
"Nothing out of the ordinary happened?" He asked concerned.
"Nah… Just your routine hike in the woods. Lots of furry little creatures." Conner tried to play along and set up a face to make it seem like a familiar story.
"And a few scaly ones…" Kira added under her breath. Abigail gave Kira a slight push with her arm.
"If you mean out of the ordinary…" Matt spoke up. They all looked at him with worried looks. "Us trying to silence each other to death… then yeah I suppose… Other than that no not really." He grinned at Dr. Oliver.
"What happened to your face?" He pointed at the wound on Matt's face that was bleeding seriously.
"I slipped and cut open my face on a sharp rock." He pointed backwards. "I didn't really notice it was this serious though." He was looking for something to wipe away the bleeding. Suddenly a hand with a cloth reached up to his face and Abigail wiped off the blood. "Thanks."
"You're welcome." She gave him a rare smile. Matt looked at her quizzically, but then smiled at her and mouthed a thank you. The scene was weird to stare at.
"So… You get into the Dino exhibit?" Conner asked breaking the tense mood.
"Uhh… Still working the kinks out." He answered. "We better get you guys back. C'mon."
He turned around and they followed him.
"Don't you guys think we should tell him?" Kira asked them.
"I don't know about you, but I've got about a thousand sci-fi DVDs. You want to know how many times the dude with the superpowers ends up in some freaky government lab lying on a table with wires in his head?" Ethan asked her back.
"Even I know that." Conner told them.
"I second their opinion." Abigail said.
"I feel we should tell him too, but it won't help us any." Matt was still staring at Dr. Oliver.
He turned around. "Are you guys coming?" He asked them.
They looked at each other one more time and decided to go. Kira rode back with Matt again and neither of them spoke.
They arrived at school an hour later and they grabbed their stuff and met up again.
"Okay, so we all agree no one talks about this? To anyone, no matter what." Conner asked them, carrying a small soccer ball in his hand.
"I can do better than that." Kira smiled sarcastically. "I'm out of it. Just forget I was here and I'll do the same." She placed the yellow gem in Conner's hand.
"Wait, how come he gets it?" Ethan asked her.
"Well here." She took it from Conner and gave it to Ethan.
"Kira, do you need a ride home?" Matt asked her with his own football in hand, his wound hadn't healed yet.
"Just because we did detention together, doesn't mean we're friends." She replied coldly.
"I could have sworn you just pulled an Abigail on me." Abigail in response raised her eyebrow. He was obviously enjoying this all way too much. Kira turned around and found herself glaring at Matt smiling at her. She couldn't find the words so she just started jabbing her finger into his chest.
"So… besides jabbing me… what reasons do you have to say no?"
The blond haired girl and the boy with the camera were walking on school grounds. "I'm telling you there is something weird about Dr. Oliver. I mean seriously I called Angel Grove High and they wouldn't tell me anything. It's like his private records are some big secret." She crossed her arms in frustration.
"Yeah I kinda thought that was why they called them private records. I mean if they were public records-"
He got interrupted as the girl spotted the team of five talking to each other and pulled the boy behind a car.
"What?" He asked her.
"Don't you think that's a little odd?" Pointing at the scene before them.
"A bunch of kids standing around talking… yeah freaky man." Obviously not getting it.
"No… Think about it… Why would Conner McKnight, King of all Jocks, be hanging out with Ethan James?"
"Huh?"
"King of all geeks?"
"Oh yeah, right."
"Not to mention the Avril wannabe and the student president. Wait is she talking to Matthew!?"
"Who?"
"Ugh… Quarterback of the Reefside Football Team? He is like the most popular guy to gossip on. He has a 4.0 average and still has time to keep up training. Some say he is the vice-president of the student council, but I've never seen him there. I mean seriously in the 3 years we've been at Reefside, have you ever seen them look at each other? Cause I haven't." The boy handed her, her makeup and she started applying it.
"You know what? I give up, you are impossible!" She swung her hands up in resignation and turned around and walked away. Matt ran after her, wanting to apologize. An eerie, familiar wind blew past.
"Oh you gotta be kidding me." She spoke out loud and looked around. Seeing Matt and turned around walking away again. Suddenly she was being grabbed by the creatures; they threw the bag on the ground and grabbed her.
"KIRA!" Conner shouted and they ran towards her. Matt having the advantage, initiated a jump kick.
"Devin get the camera!" Cassidy shouted.
"Oh yeah yeah." He reached out while the others ran towards Kira. He dropped everything and reached for his camera.
The creatures were able to subdue her and they vanished into a weird energy stream above them. Her bag was all that remained and Matt missed them just by half a second and landed on the ground.
"Kira!" He yelled, but she was gone.
"She's gone!" Abigail said shocked. They stared at each other.
"So what do you see?" Cassidy asked Devin.
"Oh yeah… You gotta check this out, I have an awesome shot." There was nothing on there but the sky and treetops.
"There is nothing there." She snapped at him.
Conner and Ethan drove in Conner's red Mustang and Abigail and Matt followed them in his Camaro. They screeched through a bend.
"Okay so where are we going?"
"Uh… Dr. Oliver's?"
"What's he gonna do?" Conner asked Ethan. Matt and Abigail were listening over the phone and were thinking as well.
"He's a dinosaur guy; these things are dinosaurs… sort of…" He opened his hand held.
"Alright, so where does he live?"
"1992 Valencia Road."
"Ethan… That's way out in the middle of freaking nowhere!" Matt shouted over the phone.
"We don't have a choice we need to get her back." Abigail said, she was still shocked.
They arrived at his home. They got out and stepped up unto his terrace. Conner looked through the windows and Matt and Abigail were standing behind him. Ethan knocked on the door, but no one answered.
"Knock again." Conner ordered him. Ethan did so. "Now what?"
Matt pushed against the door and it opened. Conner stepped inside.
"What are you doing?"
"Why would he leave it unlocked?" Matt asked them.
"He's got no neighbors."Abigail replied looking around. Conner looked back at them.
"What… You never heard of the three bears?"
"Is that the last book you read?" Ethan smirked with sarcasm.
Matt looked at Abigail who shook her head and walked in before him.
They went into the first room and called out for him.
"Man, check it out."Conner spotted a T-rex skeleton. He wanted to touch it.
"Ey… Remember what happened last time you did that?" Ethan asked him.
"Dude… the guy is a teacher not-" He touched the jaw and floor panel opened. "-Batman."
"Well there goes that theory…" Matt smirked.
They walked down the stairs and saw a familiar sight.
"It's the same place…" Abigail noticed first.
"Are you freaking out right now…?" Conner asked Matt and Ethan.
"Yeah… I have to say I am…." Ethan replied looking around with Conner.
"Uh… Guys…" Matt pointed behind them. Before they turned around someone spoke.
"If you are looking for extra credit… you are in the wrong place." He looked at them, with a pissed off look on his face.
Somewhere else ….
Kira was lying on a chair unconscious and a voice rang out.
"Ahh…. Excellent." He almost touched her and then stood behind the chair she lay in.
Abigail's note: Yay for Chapter 1~!
Fire's note: Yay indeed. Read and review if you want. Feel free to flame or whatever.