"Oh, my God." Alan muttered as he looked down at his hands, which were covered in a white substance. He quickly wiped his hands on his cargo pants as the two women next to him looked over.

"What is it?""What?" Amanda and Charlotte asked together, wearing equally confused expressions.

"It's a bird cage." Charlotte's mouth opened at the realization that her favorite dinosaurs were trapped in a cage, with six humans and despite her admiration for the creature their odds didn't look good.

She barely registered the fact that they were actually endanger when a scream echoed through the fog. Amanda immediately froze, knowing that the sound they heard came from her son.

Charlotte made eye contact with the woman just before she started running across the bridge. Alan hesitated before realizing that his niece had run after the mother.

"Paul! Where is he? Can you see him?" Tears ran down Amanda's face as she questioned her ex'-husband.

"I'm trying! That thing took him down this way!" He recalled pointing towards the fog.

"Split up!" Alan told them.

They stood over the observation platform, looking for the boy from all different angles. Charlotte almost gave up on finding him when she noticed Billy staring a little ways down the canyon.

She ran over to where he was standing. "Did you find him?"

"Hmm." He responded, distracted.

"Billy! Wait!" She heard her uncle shout, noticing that Billy was leaning dangerously over the side. She grabbed him arm to pull him back but he quickly got out of her grasp.

"I can get him!" He yelled at her uncle who was too far away to help her. he ignore her attempts to grab his arm, softly swatting her hand away.

"Billy, no!" Charlotte tried pulling him back but her small frame and lack of arm strength weren't helping. "You can't go in there, you're going to be attacked."

"I have to help the kid, Charlotte. I can't let him die. " And with one final look at her he smiled as their eyes met in understanding. you can always say how you'd be willing to sacrifice yourself for someone else but when the moment comes, many rarely do.

"No!"

"I know the consequences!" He yelled at her uncle before falling off the railing. Charlotte screamed as she saw his body plummet towards the ground until suddenly he was saying. The parachute they had found earlier was open.

There were a couple of times where Charlotte was sure that he was going to crash onto the canyon wall but eventually he circled Eric. His first attempt proved to be too high for Eric to reach. "Eric! Hold on!" The next trip resulted in Eric jumping on to Billy's legs as they were chased by a pterondon

As Paul tried to find a place to jump off and help Billy retrieve his son a large pteranodon jumped on the catwalk. Charlotte had followed her uncle and Amanda who were walking towards Paul when the dinosaur landed. There it stood next to the mesh, snapping its beak at them.

Charlotte found a discarded branch and aimed it towards the creature but just as she was about to hit it, the side of the catwalk it was on gave out and it fell down.

That resulted in their side flipping over laterally. The group held onto the sides of the catwalk. Charlotte felt her self losing her grip. She felt too heavy and too weak. Without a second thought she discarded her backpack full of her books and water and maintained a better grip.

As the dinosaur made its way towards the four, they desperately moved away. But the pressure on the catwalk was too much and as it broke down it sent them towards the river at the bottom of the canyon.

Charlotte broke the surface of the water, spitting out what had gotten in her mouth and almost hyperventilating at what had just happened.

"Uncle Grant!" She yelled, frantically looking around.

"I'm here Charlotte." She heard from somewhere on her left.

She saw Paul and Amanda emerge next to the canyon was and she heard a screech as Amanda tackled her son.

"Where is Billy?!" She yelled over to her uncle who had going the three.

Her uncle pointed at a struggling figure attached to the canyon wall. "oh no." She whispered. She was reminded of the titan Prometheus who was punished by being chained to a rock for eternity, having his liver eaten out by a bird everyday and waiting for it to slowly regenerate. The flock of pteranodons proved to be just as relentless as the eagle.

A large pteranodon lunged at him almost taking out half his face but luckily he had the foresight to dodge as well as he could. This movement resulted in the harness being broken as Billy fell into the river.

"He made it!" Her uncle said astonished as she let out a happy screech. As they saw Billy's head emerge from the water he waved and started his way towards the group. All of them equally excited, the five ran towards their almost lost companion. Alan kept smiling while Charlotte cried but everything seemed okay. That was until Alan noticed the entire flock of pteranodons diving down towards his intern.

"Billy, look out!" Billy turned around at his mentors words running forwards while shouting at the others to get back.

The lead pteranodon dove down, its beak hitting purposely on Billy's head, reminding Charlotte of a less serious instance involving a bird flying down to hit her cat's head. This action knocked Billy down back into the water. The rest followed the leaders example. Charlotte screamed and started running towards him only to be pulled back by her uncle.

"Billy!" He screamed as he made his way towards the young man.

"It's no use, Dr. Grant. No use." Paul tried sympathizing with Alan, who had was still screaming, echoing the word "Billy". Alan, who was holding her back from getting closer kept feeling Charlotte almost leave his grasp. Her desperation to get to the boy was almost unbearable for her uncle to hear. He knew Paul was right, there was nothing to do. All he did was watch his favorite students' blood filled up the river while not letting go of his niece.

He shoved Charlotte under the water as several pteranodons made their way towards the trio. She knew to follow them so when they finally resurfaced for air they were safe from the most determined of the pteranodons.

Amanda had found a small boat and motioned for the girl to get on. Her uncle and Paul had already climbed into it but she was having trouble. Her uncle grabbed her arms like a child and pulled her up to safety. She sat next to Eric who had given her a sympathetic smile, which she returned before staring at the spot where her friend just was.