103 32: ATTACK OF THE CARNOTAURUS.
In another part of the Jungle, where it was now raining, Auto was drove himself and the boys through the darkened forest, trying to find the exact location of the 103 Dalmatians. But from the looks of things, they hadn't had gotton anywhere with finding them.
"Are we there yet, Auto?" Asked Max.
"I told you, master Max, soon." Said Auto.
"But you said that hours ago, man." Said Max.
"It's so impressive that this island harbors animals that lived over millions of years ago." Said Lucas.
"I know. I mean i've read about Dinosaurs, watched movies and documenteries about them, and learned about them at museams. It's been my life's dream to see a real one. Never once did i actually think that i would get the chance to see one up close in person. The fact that i did is like a dream come true." Said Lucas.
"Yeah, and the best part is, i got the whole thing on my Super 8 camera. I can't wait to show these clips to the other kids back home at the orphanage. They'll be speechless." Added Brandon.
"When did you start doing that?" Asked Lucas.
"What, filming the island? As soon as we saw the long neck Dinosaurus." Said Brandon.
"Not that, i'm talking about the orphanage back in London. When did you start refering to it as home?" Asked Lucas.
"I, uh...i don't know." Said Brandon.
"Let's get something straight here. That place is not home. We're just staying there until some people come to get us." Said Lucas.
"If somebody adopts us. And even if someone does adopt us, they'll probably just want us because of all of the attention we'll be getting after we've rescued those 103 Dalmatians and gotton them off this island, not because they want kids. And who's to say that they'll even wanna adopt the both of us, Lucas? They'll probably just adopt one of us and leave the other at the orphanage." Said Brandon.
"I wish you wouldn't think like that." Said Lucas.
"Why not? It's true." Said Brandon.
"Whatever. Look, you and the next person can believe that, but i don't think like that." Said Lucas.
"...You're right. I shouldn't have went there, i'm sorry." Said Brandon.
"It's okay. I use to think like that all the time when i was little." Said Lucas.
"When you was little? You're 9 years old, you're still little." Said Max.
"Having a moment here." Said Lucas.
"Oh, sorry. Continue." Said Max.
"Thanks. Now, as i was saying, i..." Lucas was then cut off when Auto came to an instant stop and the lights in the car immediately shut off. "Huh?"
"What's going on?" Asked Brandon.
"I don't know. Hey, Auto, what gives? Why'd you stop?" Said Max.
"I appologize for this sudden set back, master Max, but my engen is all tired out due to the none-stop hours we've been driving around the island. I need some time to rest and recharge myself. I hope that's alright with you." Said Auto.
"Of course it is, Auto. Go ahead and take a break. We'll be sitting here, waiting for you to recharge yourself." Said Auto.
"Thank you, master Max." Said Auto.
"Don't mention it, Auto." Said Max.
Auto shut off his headlights and began to rest and recharge himself. But no sooner when he and the kids began to relax, they were distracted by a distant-sounding boom.
"What's that?" Asked Max.
Lucas looked nervous. "Maybe we're having an earthquake."
There was another boom and then another. Brandon looked out the window on his side and caught the sight of a water puddle that was near the car. As each boom sounded, the water puddle rippled. The distance between each boom seemed to be getting shorter.
Max had also seen the puddle. "Is there an Ellephant approaching or is it a small aftershock from an earthquake that we don't know about?"
"Neither. There are no modern animals on this island except the 103 Dalmatians. I don't know what it is." Said Brandon.
Max looked out the window on the front passenger side and saw the dead body of an Iguanodon Dinosaur lying on the ground. Then, suddenly, at that moment, with no warning, what-so-ever, something grabbed the dead Dinosaur and lifted it off the ground, causing Max, Lucas and Brandon to gasp and Brandon started recording the whole scene with his Super 8 camera. Look out the windows, they saw a huge Carnotaurus, towering over them and the jungle, swallow the dead Iguanodon in one mouthful. They watched in horror as the Carnotaur walked through the Jungle, knocking down every tree it came in contact with. One by one they snapped and fell down, allowing the Dinosaur to step out of the forest and out into the open.
Lucas knew from his years of research on Dinosaurs just how much a Carnotaurus could eat, and knew that the Iguanodon wouldn't be enough. It would still be hungry.
The Carnotaurus crossed the dirt road, stopping behind the car, and roared deafeningly. Max, Lucas and Brandon pulled back. The massive Dinosaur swung it's head about, looking for something to eat.
"Keep absolutely still. It's vision is based on movement." Said Lucas.
"Where did you hear that?" Asked Max.
"Jurassic Park." Said Lucas.
"I should've known." Said Max. The 12 year old quickly rushed to the back of the car, in the hopes of the Dinosaur not spotting him. However, the Caurotaurus had seen the movement and caught their scents and went towards the car.
"(Whispering) What is it?" Asked Max.
"(Whispering) A Carotaurus." Said Lucas. Didn't this kid know anything?
Just then, Max's cellphone started to ring, alerting the Carnotaurus of the kids' presence inside the vehicle.
"Turn the phone off. Turn the phone off." Said Lucas.
"Turn the phone off!" Said Brandon, who was still filming the Carnotaurus with his Super 8 camera.
Max quickly got out his cellphone and looked at the screen and saw his brother's name and picture. The 12 year old's attention was quickly drawn back to the massive Dinosaur that was standing over them outside the car.
The meat-eating Dinosaur sniffed at the car and snorted at the window, fogging it up, then it put it's eye to the window. The Carnosaurus then let out a loud deafening roar, causing Max, Lucas and Brandon to cover their ears.
Max, Lucas and Brandon quickly moved to the right side of the car and the Carnotaurus bumped it with it's snout, almost knocking it over, causing the kids to scream in fear.
"Hurry! Turn it off!" Said Lucas as he, Brandon and Max restled over the ringing cellphone.
"I'm sorry!" Said Max.
The kids continued restling and arguing over the phone, unaware of what was watching them through the car's skylight from up above. Then suddenly, without warning...
The Carnotaurus' snout crashed through the top of the car, attacking the screaming children. The screaming children held up the glass part of the skylight with their hands and feet, the only thing that stood between them and the roaring Carnosaurus' mouth full of teeth. Despite this scary moment, as well as the possibility that they could all get eaten, Brandon was still filming the whole scene with his Super 8 camera. The Dinosaur then withdrew it's snout from the car and struck the left side with it's head. It sturck the car again, this time turnning the car over and causing the glass skylight to break as the kids inside continued screaming. The Carnotaur then started bighting the car, searching for parts that were eatable. It started eating one of the tires as Max, Lucas and Brandon continued screaming. The Carnosaurus placed it's foot on the car and started pressing down really hard, slowly crushing it and breaking the windows of the vehicle as the kids inside screamed their lungs out and mud, mixed with water, began to seep inside the car, flooding the vehicle. The Dinosaur couldn't get to the kids inside, but they were still in danger of either being crushed to death or drowning in mud.
Just then, a short figure holding a red flare appeared. He wore a big sun tan hat, goggles over his eyes, a red bandanna that covered his nose and mouth and he wore a sun tan cloak that went down to the ground and brown fingerless gloves. "Hey!" Said the figure, in a distorted voice, waving the flare, trying to get the Dinosaur's attention.
This seemed to work, as the roaring Carnosaurus looked at the mysterious figure holding the flare in his hand.
The figure then threw the flare into the Jungle and the Carnosaurus took off after it, leaving the torn up vehicle behind.
"What's going on out there? It stopped. Why did it stop?" Asked Lucas.
"I'll go check." Said Max as he crawled out of mangled up vehicle.
"Be careful, Max." Said Brandon.
A mud covered Max crawled out of the car, stood to his feet and looked around for any trace of the Carnosaurus. Suprisingly, however, there wasn't one. In fact, the Dinosaur was no where in sight. As the boy looked around, he was completely unaware that the figure who had saved him and his friends was hiding in the darkness of the Jungle, watching him.
Max got down on one hand and his knees and placed the other hand on the car and looked inside the car. "It's okay, you guys, the cost is clear. The Dinosaur's gone."
"Gone? What do you mean 'gone?' Gone where?" Asked Lucas.
"I don't know, but we better get out of here before it comes back." Said Max.
"Come's back?!" Gasped Lucas and Brandon.
"Oh no way, let's get the world out of here!" Said Brandon. The 9 year old boy, holding his camera, crawled towards the back windowless opening where Max was and the 12 year old boy helped the mud covered boy out of the banged up car.
"Okay, Lucas, you're next." Said Max.
Lucas tried to crawl towards the back windowless opening, but for some unknown reason, he just couldn't seem to do it.
"Hey, what's the hold up in there?" Asked Brandon.
"Ugh, i'm stuck. The seat's got my feet." Said Lucas, who's feet were pinned to the sealing of the car by the front passenger seat.
"Hang on, Lucas, we'll get you out of there...somehow." Said Max.
While Max was talking to Lucas, Brandon turned around and "AHHHHHHHHHH!" let out a loud scream.
Max quickly turned and saw why Brandon was screaming and put his hand over the 9 year old's mouth, silencing his scream.
"Don't move. It's can't see us if we don't move." Said Max.
"Where did you hear that at?" Asked Lucas.
"Jurassic Park." Said Max.
"I think that only works with Tyranosauruses." Said Lucas.
"Shush!" Said Max. Both he and Brandon remaned perfectly still, trying not to move a muscle. And with good reason.
The Carnotaurus had come back to investigate the white car it had totaled earlier. The Dinosaur moved it's head close to where the two children were and sniffed them.
Max and Brandon remaned still and squeezed their eyes shut as the Carnosaurus nudged it's head against Max's head.
The Carnotaurus then breathed on the boys through it's nose, causing them to flinch. The Dinosaur withdrew it's head and the two kids slowly opened their eyes and saw that the Carnotaur was no longer in their faces. The Carnotaurus then struck the car with it's snout and Max and Brandon ran to hide behind the car as it circled. They looked over the car and saw that the Carnotaurus was still on the other side.
The Carnotaur leaned it's head forward the car and smelled the human scent coming from within the vehicle. The Dinosaur then bumped it's snout against the car.
"AHHHH!" Lucas screamed as he saw the snout of the Carnosaurus outside bumping the vehicle he was trapped in.
The roaring Carnotaurus then started pushing the car with it's snout and Max and Brandon backed away from it. Not knowing that they were standing a foot away from the clift. The giant beast pushed the vehicle a few more times, causing the two kids to take a few more steps back until they were standing at the edge of the clift.
Max looked behind him and Brandon and saw that they were standing at the edge of the clift before looking down and seeing how high up they were.
Max then looked down and saw several long vines hanging from the edge of the clift. "Look."
Brandon looked down and saw the vines hanging from the clift.
"Quick! Grab a vine!" Said Max.
The two boys climbed down the clift and grabbed onto a vine.
"Okay, now what?" Said Brandon.
"Now we climb down until we reach the bottom. And don't look down." Said Max.
"Why?" Brandon looked down at the bottom and saw how high up they were. The 9 year old boy's eyes widened. "AHH! Uhhhh! I had no idea we were up this high!"
"I told you not to look." Said Max.
"It's a little too late for that, don't you think?" Said Brandon.
"Brandon, don't let go." Said Max.
"Why on earth would i let go?" Asked Brandon.
"Brandon." Said Max.
Brandon looked up at Max.
"Look at me. Look at nothing but me. You're doing fine. Just keep your eyes on me, okay?" Said Max.
"Alright, i'm going, i'm going." Said Brandon as he and Max started climbing down the vine, unaware that the Carnotaurus was pushing the mangled vehicle to the edge of the clift.
"You guys, look out below!" Lucas yelled.
Max and Brandon looked up and saw that the recked vehicle was now at the edge of the clift.
"Oh no! The Carnotaur's pushing the car over the clift! What do we do?" Said Brandon.
Max looked at the other long vines that were hanging from the clift. "I know. You see those vines over there? All we have to do is just swing over there and grab one of them."
"You're kidding me, right?" Asked Brandon.
"No, not really." Said Max.
"We could get killed swinging over there." Said Brandon.
"Which would you rather do? Risk our lives or hang here until a Dinosaur kills us with a totaled car?" Asked Max.
"Let's do it." Said Brandon.
"Okay. Are you ready?" Asked Max.
"Not really." Said Brandon.
"Okay, on 3." Said Max before he and Brandon started swinging from the vine. "1...2...3."
The boys then seized the other vine and held on as tight as they could, just as the Carnotaurus pushed the car over the edge of the clift, sending it plumitting down, landing in a tree, with Lucas still inside.
The Carnotaurus then let out a deafening roar, knowing that it had rid itself of the vehicle.
103
DALMATIANS