The Jenny Lewis Chronicles
Episode 1
Chapter 7
...The pristichampus was pulled backwards out of the living room and out through the hole it had made in the door, roaring in pain as a full set of backward curving teeth embedded themselves in its left back leg.
"What's happening?" asked Tracy, more to herself than anyone in particular.
"I don't know" replied Jenny, "Let's look out the window and see." So they did.
Outside, a battle was taking place with the pristichampus and an enormous, dark green snake. The pristichampus' leg was bleeding where the titanoboa had bit it. But that didn't stop it from trying desperately to get past the snake and escape to freedom. Sanpping its jaws angrily at the titanoboa, it searched for a way out. Meanwhile, the titanoboa, determined not to lose her prey, kept a close eye on the pristichampus' every move, swaying her coils from side to side in order to block off potential escape routes. Finally, the pristichampus decided that enough was enough and lunged for the nearest coil, sinking its teeth into it. The titanoboa was distracted by her wounded coil long enough for the pristichampus to rise up onto two legs and gallop away back towards the school, it no longer cared about hunting the bear dog. All it wanted now was to get to safety as quickly as possible. Unfortunately for it, the snake was not to be put off so easily and, ignoring the pain in her wound, slithered after the pristichampus.
Meanwhile, back inside the house, Jenny turned around and pressed one final button on the safe. Instantly the door swung open, revealing the contents of the safe: a pistol, the controller thing that Jenny had been carrying earlier, a laptop computer and a several photos in a messy pile in the far corner. Jenny took out the controller and the pistol. Then she shut the safe door and headed for her car.
'Wait!" cried Tracy as she and Harry followed behind Jenny, 'We're coming with you!"
"Oh no, absolutely not!" snapped Jenny as she reached the door of her car. "This is dangerous, and besides I don't want two young people of your age getting involved in this!"
"Bit late for that now, don't you think?' retorted Tracy as she opened the car door for her and Harry to get in.
"Oh alright, but you're not to leave the car, do you understand?" said Jenny as she got in and drove towards the school.
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Jenny parked her car in the carpark of St Maxwell's. Tracy leaned forward and pointed at the controller.
"What's that?" she asked.
"Something for locating where those things have come from" replied Jenny.
"What are those things?" asked Tracy.
"The crocodile is called a pristichampus" said Jenny, "I've seen one before and I hoped I would never have the misfortune to see one again, and certainly not here in Richmond."
"What about the snake?"
"It's a titanoboa" said Harry, speaking up for the first time in a while.
"How could you know that?" asked Jenny.
"I happen to know quite a bit about things like that" said Harry. "If that snake is from the same time as a pristichampus, then it must be a titanoboa."
Jenny smiled for the first time since Tracy had met her. "You remind me of this friend I used to have. He was a lot like you."
"So how did you get started on all of this anyway?" asked Tracy, "Chasing dinosaurs with wierd detector things?"
"Tracy" said Jenny, stern again, "There is a time and a place for questions but trying to send a prehistoric crocodile and a giant snake back to their own time period is not one of them!" She got out of the car. "I'll be back as soon as I can, don't leave!"
