Rant of the author: Geez! I never stop do I?!?! I just keep going and going and... Well you get the idea. I am WAAAAY to enthusiastic about this ficcy. Well again keep the reveiws coming. Oh yes one more thing. If you have already reveiwed do not hesitate to do so again! And thanks to Ginger who from what I can tell really likes this fic and always tells me so. ^_~ Also I have 22 more pages written up in my fic journal and it isn't yet completed so you guys should be kept busy for awhile.

Chapter 8

As they descended the staircase they found themselves in a system of metal catwalks and nearly blinded by a heavy blanket of mist. Alan went to a stairwell, hoping it would lead them to the river and the barge.
The stairwell creaked beneath him and with one final groan it gave way beneath his feet. Paul Kirby immediatly grabbed Alan's arm and pulled him from the falling stairwell at the last moment.
With a frusterated sigh Alan turned his head to get a veiw of what other paths they could take. He found only one: a fragile looking catwalk.
"I guess this is the option now. There will probobly be a stairwell on the otherside." Alan said.
"Are you sure...?" Eric asked doubtfully. "It doesn't look like it even goes all the way across."
"This is all we have to go on unless we want to see if the spinosaurus is still out there. But just to be safe lets do this one at a time."
Alan vansihed into the mist as he began to slowly cross the catwalk. There was a tense moment of waiting for the other humans that ended when Alan called back. Beckoning Mrs. Kirby to come across.
Amanda turned to Eric. "Now Eric, Mommy is going to leve you for just a minute, but you'll be right beh-"
"Mom. I've been alone in a water truck for eight weeks on an island full of animals that will pretty much kill me on sight. I can handle the next two minutes without you." Eric interrupted with a mixture of teenage exasperation and sheer amusment that his mother would still talk to him like that after what he'd gone through.
Amanda glanced at Paul who looked thouroughly amused by his sons reaction and then to Billy who had the begining of a smile on his face. Amanda wasn't sure she really saw him smile but she could only hope so.
With one last look at her son, who gave hre an encouraging smile, the woman began across the catwalk.

Alan took in his surroundings on the other side of the canyon. As he'd expected there was stairs but they only went down a short way before reaching another catwalk. This next catwalk was caged so it appeared almost like a tunnel. Taking a step down the stairs Alan placed a hand on the railing and his hand hit a strange substance. Looking at the railing he could see at a glance what it probobly was. Taking the crumbling substance in his hand he brought it to his face and sniffed.
"Dr. Grant...?"
Alan turned to see Amanda just reaching the end of the catwalk.
"Well wasn't that fun." She said sarcastically. "Ok Eric! Come across honey!"

Eric glanced back at his father and then started across. He didn't need nearly so much encouragment as his mother. Eight weeks on Isla Sorna could do that to a person.
'It can also drive a person insane...' He reminded himself bitterly, as he remembered all the things he'd done for the sake of survival. So many brutal things... He'd repeatedly beat a raptor in the skull with a rock and hoped it was one of the raptors he'd seen kill and devour an iguanadon all for the sake of getting revenge for a young iguanadon. He couldn't count how many other brutal things he'd done to become part of the island. He didn't even want to think about what it would be like to tell his parents about his experiences in this place.
Just as these thoughts, fears and memories ran through his head a tremor hit the catwalk.
Eric froze and his hand gripped the railing tightly.
"Mom...?" He whispered into the mist, hoping to God it really was her but knowing it couldn't be.
Slowly a huge, looming figure began to appear in the mist. It had wings that were folded to hits side but when they were spread they must have made a twenty-five foot wingspan. It had dark, hungry eyes and a large cone on it's head, identifying it as a pteranadon wasn't difficult for Eric.

Paul turned to Billy and tried to find words to console him, as he was still hurt over Alan's words when Eric's terrified screams echoed through the mist.
"DAD!" Eric screamed, terror evident in his voice.
Billy and paul turned in time to see Eric thundering down the catwalk, a pteranadon flying close behind him. Eric was so close to them that Billy could hear the boy gasp before he screamed as the pteranadon's claws latched onto his shoulders and pulled him from the catwalk.
Amanda and Alan pounded across the catwalk moments later and tried to keep up with Paul and Billy who had already begun attempting to chase the creature that had taken Eric.

Eric screamed in protest as the pteranadon carried him farther from the catwalk he had been snatched from. Finally the pteranadon let go of him and let him fall into the mist below.
Eric landed hard on a natural stone platform. He could see other similer platforms right next to the platform he was on. A small squeeking noise sounded behind him and he turned to see a pack of baby pteranadon's glaring at him hungrily and slowly approaching him.
Searching the platform with his hand, Eric found what he knew to be a skull and hurled it at the tiny predators. He took two out for a time with that move but the others immediatly jumped at him as if for vengence for their siblings.

Billy climbed onto a railing on a platform. He could just barely see Eric, surrounded by baby pteranadons and looked back at Alan and met his gaze. Alan froze when he saw his young assistant and he could guess what he was about to do.
"No. No, Billy don't!" Alan said desperetly as he ran to his assistant.
Billy was about to jump when he saw the pteranadons leave Eric. He couldn't see what they were now jumping on but he was almost certain he saw another human figure approach Eric.
Billy couldn't be sure what he saw, because just mere seconds later a pteranadon appeared, seemingly out of nowhere, and hit Billy in the side of the head with it's long beak. Billy was knocked back into Paul and Alan's arms and it brought its head back for another attack.

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Rant: Sorry if this is to short.