Alright, there's been speculation as to what 031 is… Or was, at least. This chapter should answer that.
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The general flipped through the dozens of file folders.
"Where is it…?" He stopped when he found the paper he was looking for. "Alright… I got the file," He said into the phone as he opened it. "Hm… Yes, it fits the description perfectly. I believe they did run into it…"
"Alright, should I get some choppers together to head there…?"
"Are you crazy!?" The general snapped. "We can't send troops there! If word gets out about what we're doing there, they'll be no end to it! We'll have other countries trying the same thing; we'll have news reporters up our ass 24 7!"
"Sir, we can't just ignore this! What will happen if people find out we looked the other way? Then we'll have others exploring the island, and we'll have even more deaths on our hands! Is that better?"
"For all we know, those teenagers are already dead. The Coast Guard didn't even last a day; what makes you think they can survive this long?"
"If we don't find them, we can honestly say they didn't turn up,"
"We can't let the public know about this!"
"And if we do nothing, they'll still find out! Either way, we're going to have to take a big risk. And I suggest we at least try to search for them, sir,"
The general sighed, placing a hand on his forehead.
"It's your choice, sir; we can either ignore this and risk getting uncovered with a huge death toll on our heads, or we can attempt to find them, and either find out if they turned up dead, or if they're still out there… Maybe we can convince them to stay quiet,"
"…Fine…" The general sighed once more, shaking his head. "We'll organize a search party… But if something goes wrong, you're taking the blame,"
"Of course,"
The lieutenant hung up.
"One way or another… This will not turn out well…"
He told them trying to play God like this was wrong… But they didn't listen…
Now he had to clean up the mess.
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I yawned, slowly opening my eyes. I had no idea what time it was; just that I was lying on the ground, holding Lindsay in my arms.
Last night's memories filled me.
After I kissed Lindsay, she took it as an invitation to start completely making out within a few seconds; at first I was uncomfortable with it, but…
I don't want to get into the details of how we kissed. Regardless we kissed for… Well, I didn't keep track of time… But it was for quite awhile. Either way, afterwards, we talked for awhile before finally getting to sleep, holding each other like this.
Lindsay was still sleeping peacefully, a smile on her face. I grinned, brushing a few stray hairs out of her face.
I had no regrets. I did what I did, and I was happy.
But still…
I sighed, my mind drifting to Gwen. If we did meet up… How would I tell her? Would she understand…? I knew Gwen's temper… I was more scared for Lindsay than me…
I jumped when Lindsay made a soft sound, slowly waking up.
"Mmm… Morning…" She said groggily, opening her eyes to see me.
"Hey… Sleep well…?" She smiled, nodding slightly as she got up. "I was dreaming about you all night…" She blushed when I said this, not finding it corny in the slightest.
"Aw Trent…" She hugged me as she said this.
"Alright… How about some food?" I looked towards the storage room.
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"…And you should've seen Heather's face when she found out she was bald again!"
I burst out laughing, imagining Heather bald again. Cody had just finished telling me a story involving getting revenge on Heather for something… Turns out Cody had to go to the same school as her.
And he was still alive, amazingly.
A small grunt made us look down. Cody Junior moved a bit, an eye opening.
"Huh… Hey, Can you get off me for a sec?" Cody asked. Hesitating for a moment, since I was enjoying myself lying on him like this, I slowly moved off. He stood, stretching his legs for a brief moment, and opened up the hatch.
"…Wow…" Sunlight poured into the bunker.
We… Were up all night?
"Funny… I'm not even tired," Cody shrugged, shutting the hatch. He turned on the light, blinding me for a second.
"I think CJ's hungry…" I heard Cody say. When I finally could see, I saw CJ looking at the storage room door, putting his claws against it every now and then. I couldn't help but giggle a bit.
Cody grabbed my hand, helping me up.
"Alright, let's…" I stopped when my stomach let out a loud, unladylike growl. My face turned bright red as Cody burst out laughing.
"Looks like he's not the only one…" He kissed my forehead suddenly. "Come on, let's get some breakfast…"
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We quickly finished eating, placing the garbage in a corner in the storage room.
"What should we do today…?" Lindsay asked. I thought. I figured she'd want to stay here, but…
"Well… Should we just stay here again?" Part of me wanted to go look for the others.
"Shouldn't we try looking for Gwen and Carl?"
"Cody,"
"…Oh yeah…"
"But I thought you were scared," I pointed out. Lindsay's terrified face was still in my memory.
"But that was before…" She hugged me again. "I know you'll protect me if anything happens…"
I blushed, surprised she thought that she trusted me that much.
"Well… If you want…"
We began to remove the barricades.
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"Should we try looking again?"
Cody looked up from his food.
"What?"
"…Should we try looking for them again…?" I asked, looking towards the hatch. Cody shook his head.
"Look, last time we went out there you nearly got killed by a T. Rex…"
"But he's probably moved on by now! You said they weren't that smart!"
"Remember those dead bodies we saw?"
I was silent.
"Gwen, I know you're worried about the others… But if whatever killed those raptors is hanging around, going out could be suicide,"
"But…" I sighed, annoyed with Cody's thinking. "What happened to doing stuff for others?" Now it was me convincing him to go out.
"There's a difference between being brave and being dumb," He said simply.
"Cody, I know you're afraid of what's out there…"
"Who said I was afraid?" He asked, finishing his food.
"Cody, don't try to…"
"I'm worried about YOU, Gwen. Last time we went out there I could only watch as that monster missed you by inches! If we run into that thing again…"
"But Junior can warn us!" I blurted out.
"…What?"
"Junior… He knew the T. Rex was coming…" I didn't like talking about the baby like it was some type of tool, but it seemed to be working on Cody.
"I guess…" He said, looking at the raptor.
"And who knows? Maybe he'll be able to tell if Trent and Lindsay are around…"
Cody placed a finger and thumb on his chin, thinking.
"Please… We need to keep looking for them…"
"…Alright then," Cody stood. "But at the first sign of danger, we come right back. No helping any more babies, no delays. We can't take any more risks, Gwen," I nodded. I wasn't planning on doing any of that anyways.
Taking a breath, Cody opened the hatch.
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We decided to go searching in the opposite direction that we came from; neither Lindsay nor I wanted to head back for that lake.
"Do you think that big thing's still around…?" Lindsay asked, walking next to me.
"I'm not sure. Maybe it's still in that lake… Maybe it moved on. I don't know much about dinosaurs,"
We continued to move through the thick brush, stopping occasionally to listen for any sort of threat. If we heard anything, we would turn right back around.
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We decided to try a different direction this time; last time we tried searching the way we came from, hoping we could find Trent and Lindsay. This time though, we took a slightly different route; the baby seemed more than eager to go outside. He was currently walking alongside us.
Gwen was right; if there was any danger nearby, he would be able to tell. Velociraptors had pretty strong senses, and this one was no different.
For now, nothing was close by.
"How far should we go?" Gwen asked.
"Well, we can't go too far… We need to be close enough to the bunker to make it back if we do run into something again,"
"Well, should we at least try to find…"
We stopped when we cleared a few bushes to the side.
In front of us was a huge, open field.
"…A landmark…"
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"How much farther should we go…?" Lindsay asked.
"We haven't been out here that long, Lindsay," I answered. "Don't tell me you want to go back…"
"But what if we run into something?"
"Look, we won't go too far, alright? But we can't stop now; we've been out here for at most 5 minutes…"
We cleared a few large leaves to the side, and stepped into a clearing.
A big clearing.
"Woah…"
Before us was a large hill.
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"…Weird…" I said. "Why did the landscape change so fast…?"
"Maybe they cleared the trees here for something?" Gwen asked. I shook my head.
"I wonder if the people here did something to the land… They brought dinosaurs back; maybe they tried to make the island prehistoric as well,"
"Should we keep going?"
"The place is huge and open… We'll see any dinosaur before it sees us, most likely,"
"…Most likely?"
"Well they could be nearby in the trees… But the baby should be able to find them."
"His name is CJ," Gwen said, slightly annoyed.
"Does that really matter right now?" I was in no mood for playing games right now; I was in survival mode.
We headed into the clearing.
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We started up the hill, Lindsay complaining a bit about how tough it would be.
"Come on, Lindsay… It's not like we're on a luxury cruise,"
"Why couldn't we be going DOWN a hill?" She asked.
A thought crossed my mind.
"Hey, remember how we fell off that ridge? Maybe this hill leads back up it…"
"So Gwen and Cody…" Lindsay tried to piece it together.
"If they're alive, maybe they're up the hill!" I encouraged.
If they're alive.
The word "If" was what worried me…
We made it to the top of the hill in a few minutes; we could see a huge open plain before us.
"Nice view…" Lindsay said, looking out. She had a point; we could get a good view from here.
"HELLO!!" Lindsay called at the top of her lungs suddenly. I looked at her.
"Are you crazy?" I said, angry. Was she trying to get us killed?
"What? Maybe Gwen and Cody can hear us,"
"And maybe some hungry dinos will too…"
"…Sorry!" I looked back down the hill. My eyes widened.
I saw movement below, in the distance.
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We had been in the field for a few minutes, when Junior stopped.
"Hold up," Cody stopped, looking at him. CJ was looking towards a hill that was off in the distance.
"What is it…?" I asked, not expecting an answer. Cody looked up towards the hill.
"Something's up there… But I can't make it out,"
CJ looked at us for a moment, sniffing. Then it looked towards the hill and sniffed again.
Without warning, it began running towards the hill.
"No, wait!" I started running after him.
Gwen!"
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"Something's coming," I said quickly, stepping back. "Lindsay, you got something's attention alright…" Lindsay looked.
"What are those…?"
"I don't want to know! Now come on!" I urged her.
"No… Wait…"
Lindsay stepped forward.
"Lindsay!"
"…It's them," She said quietly.
"What…?"
"…It's… It's them!"
Lindsay started running down the hill towards the things.
"No, wait…"
I finally was able to make the figures out.
I followed.
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"Cody…" I stopped for a minute. "Look…"
Cody's eyes widened.
"Oh my God…"
Lindsay and Trent were running towards us.
We started sprinting as fast as we could towards them.
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There was no doubt; it was them.
I pulled Gwen into a strong embrace when we finally caught up.
"Oh my God, Gwen…" We were both smiling. Lindsay and Cody had joined in our hug; I wasn't necessarily hugging Gwen out of love, but…
Oh for God's sake, don't think about that now!
"I was starting to think we'd lost you guys…" I said. Lindsay was overjoyed they were alive; she was practically squealing.
I looked down, my eyes widening.
"What the heck is that?" I asked, breaking off Gwen.
"Oh, him…?" She lifted the tiny creature up. "Don't worry, it's a baby… He's harmless," I raised an eyebrow.
"We found a baby Velociraptor with dead parents. Gwen insisted on taking it back…" Cody explained. He smiled. "Good thing too, since without him, we may have never found you…"
"He must've heard Lindsay," I said. I smiled at her. "Good thing you called out…"
Finally, we were together again. I didn't want to question; for the moment, I was just happy they were alive.
That was, at least, until a monstrous, familiar roar broke through the air.
We parted.
"What was that?" Gwen asked. I recalled hearing that same noise yesterday.
"…We need to move. Now,"
"What was that!?" Gwen demanded. She looked at Cody, who looked at me. I saw something move through the trees in the distance.
"No time to explain; run!" Cody looked back to see something begin to emerge.
"You've got to be…"
Our reunion was cut short as the massive Spinosaurus stepped through the trees; I could just barely make out a small scar on its arm.
"Follow us!" I ordered, heading back up the hill. Gwen and Cody's bunker was in the other direction; we had no choice.
We ran for our lives as the massive beast began to follow.
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The wind blew in its face; a scent was in it. This normally would not have surprised the creature; it could always smell the creatures on the island.
But it knew this smell.
It had picked up traces of these scents yesterday, but they always vanished it had assumed it was just imagining things, but now it could pinpoint the smell.
4 peculiar scents. 4 human scents.
They were miles away, but it would find them.
And it would kill them.
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Alright, this wasn't my best chapter, I know. I wasn't looking forward to the reunion; I no good at making things super emotional…