SIXTH ITERATION
"When all else fails, the evil element will do anything possible to stay
number one."
IAN MALCOLM
24. AVIARY Based from the movie Jurassic Park 3 written by Peter Buchman, Alexander
Payne, and Jim Taylor
Thursday, July 14, 1999 Isla Sorna, Valley
Jeff Rossiter stood in the center of the destroyed base camp. He sighed and turned to the only four remaining members of his team. Everyone else had been killed in the Velociraptor onslaught. He couldn't believe it. He'd lost everything he'd come for and almost everyone on his team. He felt like a failure now, just like that fool, Lewis Dodgson. He shock that thought out of his head. "Did all of the animals completely escape us?"
"I'm afraid so, Mr. Rossiter," Darris replied sadly.
"I beg to differ," Roland said smiling. "We still have one animal. The baby Tyrannosaur is still in our possession and the adults still have yet to show, probably because the area that they would have to get around is crawling with Velociraptors."
Rossiter smiled it this development. Perhaps there was still hope for his company. "So you're saying that we may have lost everything we came after on this trip, but that infant will single handedly save Biosyn," Rossiter gleamed.
"We could turn this around in the faces of the adults and capture one of them as well," James implied. "If we do that, Biosyn will be able to make a full recovery, Mr. Rossiter."
Rossiter turned away from the other men pondering on the thought, trying to decide the severity of the idea that his spy had just claimed to him. James was right about the company being able to recover, but the fact was that the danger would be very large. What if the animal broke lose? There would be hell to pay if one of those monsters got lose in San Diego, where the park he was going to put the animals was, then Biosyn would be in some huge shit. Rossiter smiled. Just think of all the smiling faces that would see the lovely creature though. All of the children that would be drooling in awe at the large creature that he had brought. He would be a hero and a household name.
Rossiter turned back to the other four men. "Ok Mr. Tembo, Let's find us a Rex."
James and Darris smiled and turned back toward the still remaining equipment. The five men walked forward, toward their destiny.
* * *
Alan Grant walked alongside Marty Guitierrez, Daniel Talon, and Nash Standish, unknowingly a little farther ahead of Paul, Amanda, and Billy who were following the four men, inside a large caged bridge, leading to what looked like a communications center high above on a cliff side. The maze of cages looked tantalizing, but maneuverable.
Along the way they saw something white on the side of the cage. Grant grabbed some of it and smelled it. It smelled sour and bitter not to mention that a very strong odor was present.
"What is it," Guitierrez asked looking over Grant's shoulder.
"Smells," Grant replied, not quite sure. "Oh my God." Grant looked up, and finally noticed the large net high above him. "It's a birdcage."
"For what," Guitierrez asked alarmed, as he looked in all directions.
"Let's get out of here," Grant replied, already starting to walk away from the area.
"I second the notion," Nash said.
"You don't have to tell me twice," Daniel said.
The four men broke off into a run toward the facility on the cliff's top. Guitierrez and Nash were going slower, because of their legs. Through the mist, the door of the facility appeared. They made it inside slowly. The facility was a bit bright, with a few bright lights here and there. It seemed like someone was still there. They walked around some more. Candy bar wrappers littered the floor. The walls were rusted like the water lab. They heard some footsteps. They all stopped and held their breaths.
Suddenly, they heard a voice. "Whoever you are, I'm armed," the familiar voice said, behind the corridor.
"No need to worry," Grant replied. "We aren't armed."
Robert Muldoon stepped out from the corridor. He was wearing torn green cargo shorts and a white shirt. "Rescuers," Muldoon asked, squinting his eyes in the light, trying to see who had intruded.
"Hardly," Grant replied. "But why are you here to-," he paused. The man looked familiar to him. Then Grant remembered him from Isla Nublar. "Robert Muldoon?"
"Why the bloody hell are you people here," Muldoon asked, aiming his gun.
"Oh. well we're on a very badly planned out field trip, Robert," Grant replied.
"No weapons," Muldoon asked.
"We had weapons until one of the Tyrannosaurs destroyed our plane," Nash replied shaking his head.
"Wait," Grant said, suddenly alarmed. "What happened to the gun that Udesky had?"
"It's more then likely still at that Plesiosaur place," Nash replied.
"That's true," Grant said sighing. "I guess we don't have any weapons now."
"Yes, you are on a very badly planned field trip," Muldoon said. "But I have a few weapons."
"Are you really Robert Muldoon," Guitierrez said. "I read one of your articles about tiger hunting in Africa."
"Yes, I'm afraid I am," Muldoon said. "I was working for InGen's deconstruction team. John Hammond's nephew sent myself and about thirty other people here to get rid of the animals after all of the problems that occurred on this island a few years ago. He came with us. His name is Peter Ludlow. We set up one facility on the ground near the InGen complex, one next to the ocean for the Plesiosaurs, and one here, for Pteranodons. Those were the areas that we decided would be the safest."
"I knew we were around Pteranodons," Grant said smiling.
"Our team fled during a large hurricane. The devices up here malfunctioned so we lost contact with the ground. We didn't really know the storm was that bad at first. Then we realized what was going on, we tried to talk to the other people below, but they had already left. And since the only animals that could get here are the Pteranodons, we felt it was much more safe to stay here."
"I see," Grant said, shaking his head. "Are there any more?"
"Well yes," Muldoon replied, a little irritated about it. "Peter Ludlow himself, who which was the only person on my team that lived besides me. There were about seven other people, but they all eventually died from getting killed by the animals. We'd have to go down below to look for food every now and then. Also some boy with the kid's mother's fiancé that were stranded here after a parasailing accident is here. The boat driver that brought them here is still missing."
"Missing," Grant asked astonished. "Didn't Eric and Ben know where he was?"
"So you know them," Muldoon asked.
"They're the reason why we're here, or should I say, the reason why we were lied to," Grant replied, starting to get irritated again.
"Well they're not the only reason," Daniel whispered to himself.
"They came up here uninjured, luckily," Muldoon said. "Eric said a pack of compies attacked but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Ben saved him actually. After the two escaped from their preservers, they ran for help. On the way they were attacked by Dilophosaurs, ran blindly up here, and well... forgot how to get back to the parasail. I'd wanted them to go get it but they were unable to remember where it was."
"Well we found it," Guitierrez said.
"You did," Muldoon asked. "And?"
"I've got it right here," Grant replied, pointing to his backpack.
"Oh," Muldoon said, this time low on his speech. "That is good."
"Where is Eric and Ben, by the way," Grant asked.
"Oh. Eric, Ben," Muldoon yelled. "Come over here!"
Grant heard running, and a boy suddenly came out of the corridor followed by an older man wearing a Hawaiian shirt ripped in several places. "Hello Eric, Mr. Hildebrand," Grant said smiling.
"Alan Grant," Eric said with surprise. "You're Alan Grant!"
"This light makes it so hard for me to see," Muldoon implied. "Dr. Grant if I'd known it was you before I would've hugged you. I know now that we will survive if you're here."
"Well I'm glad you have confidence in me," Grant replied smiling. "We won't be here much longer."
"What are you guys doing here," Eric asked.
"Your parents. invited us along," Guitierrez replied smiling.
"My parents are here," Eric asked.
"Yes both of them," Grant replied.
"That's not good," Eric said. "They usually don't work well together."
"You'd be surprised what people will do to save someone they love," Grant implied. "Eric. Ben... I must say, I'm surprised you two managed to survive even a few days here. I'm even more surprised about you Robert. You've been here for how long did you say?"
"Actually I didn't," Muldoon replied. "I've been here for three years now."
"Well, I'm just really surprised that you're alive," Grant said. "But, I'm glad to see ya."
"Likewise," Muldoon said smiling.
"Is that all its been," Eric said thinking back to all that he and Ben had been through. "It's seemed like it's been years. Only five days?" All of the run-ins with the Tyrannosaurs, Velociraptors, Dilophosaurs, Compies, and even the Carnotaurs that gave Eric the crepes and made him hope that he didn't meet up with any of them again were too much. He was afraid that one of them would come up from behind him and attack without him even realizing what had happened.
"Yeah," Grant replied shocked.
"We didn't make it up here for about a day," Ben said. "We found a map of the island in the worker village, then we found our way up here."
"That's incredible," Grant replied astonished. "I'm proud of you both."
"Thanks," Eric said smiling. He was really happy that his idol was proud of him. Grant had been his hero for several years now. Eric was very fascinated with dinosaurs and to see his hero in person was a great thing for him. Eric suddenly realized something that Grant had said before. "So my parents are here?"
"That's right," Grant replied.
"Where are they," Eric asked.
"Well, we separated from them," Grant swallowed. "They should be here any minute."
"But those Pteranodons are out there," Eric said in a scared voice.
"Oh God," Grant said. "That's right, I completely forgot about them."
"Mom," Eric yelled. "Dad!" Eric started running out the door and into the fog of the Aviary.
"Eric come back," Grant yelled.
"We better get him," Muldoon said, shouldering his gun.
"Yeah, you stay here though," Grant said. "Get Mr. God's Nephew. When we get back, we are getting the hell out of here."
"Right," Muldoon said returning to the back of the building.
Grant, Guitierrez, Daniel, Nash, and Ben ran out of the Pterosaur Lodge, after Eric who was a little ahead of them still running. Eric ran onto the bridge walkway and started going across. He could feel and hear the creaks of the bridge from rust and old wear. Grant and company started to follow him slowly across the bridge.
"Eric, you must stop," Grant yelled, trying to catch up to the boy. Eric wasn't listening to him. He kept on running across the bridge, but in the fog he saw an object come out of nowhere and was walking across the bridge in front of Eric.
He then saw that it was an adult Pteranodon coming towards him. Eric screamed and started running back in the other direction. The Pteranodon took flight and started towards Eric with top speed.
"Run Eric," Grant yelled.
The animal then picked the boy up and started flying into the aviary itself going closer to a nest.
Grant then remembered that he had Billy's bag which was carrying the parasail that had been rolled up earlier. He strapped everything on and ran over to the edge and opened the parasail that was hidden in a backpack and jumped off the cliff.
"Alan, no," Guitierrez yelled.
Grant went racing toward the animal with Eric in its claws. The Pteranodon then dropped Eric into the nest full of baby Pteranodons that began to peck at him making him bleed in several places while he was still screaming. Grant in the parasail then came up toward the nest. "Eric," Grant yelled. "Grab hold!"
He did so as Eric ran away from the babies and grabbed hold of Grant. They both flew off back toward the lodge.
The Pteranodon then realized what had happened and started toward both of them. The animal came closer and then went around to their side to try to strike at them. However, Grant and Eric were too close to the landing point and they landed safely in front of Ben, Nash, Daniel, and Guitierrez.
Robert Muldoon ran out of the lodge with someone following behind. He was wearing a torn business suit and wire frame glasses.
They all then saw four adult Pteranodons coming right toward them. They all started running at full speed to the large exit gate of the aviary. The people all ran onward out of the aviary and into the jungle to safety.
* * *
Paul and Amanda Kirby walked with Billy Brennan who was feeling very terrible about what he did to his mentor. Billy hadn't ever made Grant this mad at him in his entire life. There was the occasional fight that they might have every now and then, but otherwise they hadn't ever been in a real humongous fight like this, and Billy felt horrible.
The three people were inside the Pteranodon Aviary. Through all of the fog they were unable to see the Lodge and had ended up lost in the Aviary itself.
"I don't hear any more screaming," Paul implied still listening to the sounds made by the breeze coming in all around them.
"Is that good or bad," Amanda asked worried. She couldn't see a thing in all of the fog that was surrounding them. There was one thing that she was sure of though. She thought she heard screaming and it sounded like it was coming from Eric.
"We can only hope it's good," Billy said. "I don't see anyone in here at all."
"Eric has to be here," Amanda yelled. "There's no way he isn't! I swear to you that that was him screaming!"
"Please calm down, Amanda," Paul said in a calm voice.
They all then heard screeching sounds coming towards them. Then the three saw several Pteranodons coming right toward them.
"Run," Billy yelled, as he started to run in the direction away from the animals.
Both Kirbys then also started running for their lives. While Amanda screamed the monsters came closer to her each second.
The animals then sped up and somehow got in front of the people. They then dived right on Billy and started pecking at him, attacking in all possible places. "Get out of here," Billy yelled. "Forget about me!"
"No," Paul yelled. Paul jumped on top of one of the Pteranodons trying to chock it. The animal twisted in all directions trying to shake Paul off.
Amanda cried in the background while all of this happened. She wanted to help them, but knew that there appeared to be no hope.
The other creatures saw that the one Paul was on was in trouble. They took their attention off of Billy and went for Paul.
Amanda ran up to Billy seeing all of the bruises in places where he'd been bitten. She picked him up and hoisted him over her shoulders. Paul saw that Billy was now safe. He jumped off of the Pteranodon and started to run, when he suddenly realized that he was surrounded. Paul tried to avoid their beaks that were trying to peck at him. He dived under one of the animal's legs and rolled to safety. He started running, trying to catch up to Billy and Amanda, who were far ahead of him.
The Pteranodons started flying at top speed to catch up with them. Amanda and Billy reached the gate and exited. They turned around to see Paul running toward them with the Pteranodons not far behind.
"Hurry, Paul," Amanda screamed. Paul continued running as he tried to dodge attacks by the flying reptiles and he then fell. The animals start pecking at him again from all sides. Paul then rolled out of the path of the animals and started back toward the exit. He finally made it, and went out just as the Pteranodons reached them. One of the animals tried to get out of the exit gate but was too large to do so before the gate was slammed in its face. The three started running again back into the foliage of the island interior.
"When all else fails, the evil element will do anything possible to stay
number one."
IAN MALCOLM
24. AVIARY Based from the movie Jurassic Park 3 written by Peter Buchman, Alexander
Payne, and Jim Taylor
Thursday, July 14, 1999 Isla Sorna, Valley
Jeff Rossiter stood in the center of the destroyed base camp. He sighed and turned to the only four remaining members of his team. Everyone else had been killed in the Velociraptor onslaught. He couldn't believe it. He'd lost everything he'd come for and almost everyone on his team. He felt like a failure now, just like that fool, Lewis Dodgson. He shock that thought out of his head. "Did all of the animals completely escape us?"
"I'm afraid so, Mr. Rossiter," Darris replied sadly.
"I beg to differ," Roland said smiling. "We still have one animal. The baby Tyrannosaur is still in our possession and the adults still have yet to show, probably because the area that they would have to get around is crawling with Velociraptors."
Rossiter smiled it this development. Perhaps there was still hope for his company. "So you're saying that we may have lost everything we came after on this trip, but that infant will single handedly save Biosyn," Rossiter gleamed.
"We could turn this around in the faces of the adults and capture one of them as well," James implied. "If we do that, Biosyn will be able to make a full recovery, Mr. Rossiter."
Rossiter turned away from the other men pondering on the thought, trying to decide the severity of the idea that his spy had just claimed to him. James was right about the company being able to recover, but the fact was that the danger would be very large. What if the animal broke lose? There would be hell to pay if one of those monsters got lose in San Diego, where the park he was going to put the animals was, then Biosyn would be in some huge shit. Rossiter smiled. Just think of all the smiling faces that would see the lovely creature though. All of the children that would be drooling in awe at the large creature that he had brought. He would be a hero and a household name.
Rossiter turned back to the other four men. "Ok Mr. Tembo, Let's find us a Rex."
James and Darris smiled and turned back toward the still remaining equipment. The five men walked forward, toward their destiny.
* * *
Alan Grant walked alongside Marty Guitierrez, Daniel Talon, and Nash Standish, unknowingly a little farther ahead of Paul, Amanda, and Billy who were following the four men, inside a large caged bridge, leading to what looked like a communications center high above on a cliff side. The maze of cages looked tantalizing, but maneuverable.
Along the way they saw something white on the side of the cage. Grant grabbed some of it and smelled it. It smelled sour and bitter not to mention that a very strong odor was present.
"What is it," Guitierrez asked looking over Grant's shoulder.
"Smells," Grant replied, not quite sure. "Oh my God." Grant looked up, and finally noticed the large net high above him. "It's a birdcage."
"For what," Guitierrez asked alarmed, as he looked in all directions.
"Let's get out of here," Grant replied, already starting to walk away from the area.
"I second the notion," Nash said.
"You don't have to tell me twice," Daniel said.
The four men broke off into a run toward the facility on the cliff's top. Guitierrez and Nash were going slower, because of their legs. Through the mist, the door of the facility appeared. They made it inside slowly. The facility was a bit bright, with a few bright lights here and there. It seemed like someone was still there. They walked around some more. Candy bar wrappers littered the floor. The walls were rusted like the water lab. They heard some footsteps. They all stopped and held their breaths.
Suddenly, they heard a voice. "Whoever you are, I'm armed," the familiar voice said, behind the corridor.
"No need to worry," Grant replied. "We aren't armed."
Robert Muldoon stepped out from the corridor. He was wearing torn green cargo shorts and a white shirt. "Rescuers," Muldoon asked, squinting his eyes in the light, trying to see who had intruded.
"Hardly," Grant replied. "But why are you here to-," he paused. The man looked familiar to him. Then Grant remembered him from Isla Nublar. "Robert Muldoon?"
"Why the bloody hell are you people here," Muldoon asked, aiming his gun.
"Oh. well we're on a very badly planned out field trip, Robert," Grant replied.
"No weapons," Muldoon asked.
"We had weapons until one of the Tyrannosaurs destroyed our plane," Nash replied shaking his head.
"Wait," Grant said, suddenly alarmed. "What happened to the gun that Udesky had?"
"It's more then likely still at that Plesiosaur place," Nash replied.
"That's true," Grant said sighing. "I guess we don't have any weapons now."
"Yes, you are on a very badly planned field trip," Muldoon said. "But I have a few weapons."
"Are you really Robert Muldoon," Guitierrez said. "I read one of your articles about tiger hunting in Africa."
"Yes, I'm afraid I am," Muldoon said. "I was working for InGen's deconstruction team. John Hammond's nephew sent myself and about thirty other people here to get rid of the animals after all of the problems that occurred on this island a few years ago. He came with us. His name is Peter Ludlow. We set up one facility on the ground near the InGen complex, one next to the ocean for the Plesiosaurs, and one here, for Pteranodons. Those were the areas that we decided would be the safest."
"I knew we were around Pteranodons," Grant said smiling.
"Our team fled during a large hurricane. The devices up here malfunctioned so we lost contact with the ground. We didn't really know the storm was that bad at first. Then we realized what was going on, we tried to talk to the other people below, but they had already left. And since the only animals that could get here are the Pteranodons, we felt it was much more safe to stay here."
"I see," Grant said, shaking his head. "Are there any more?"
"Well yes," Muldoon replied, a little irritated about it. "Peter Ludlow himself, who which was the only person on my team that lived besides me. There were about seven other people, but they all eventually died from getting killed by the animals. We'd have to go down below to look for food every now and then. Also some boy with the kid's mother's fiancé that were stranded here after a parasailing accident is here. The boat driver that brought them here is still missing."
"Missing," Grant asked astonished. "Didn't Eric and Ben know where he was?"
"So you know them," Muldoon asked.
"They're the reason why we're here, or should I say, the reason why we were lied to," Grant replied, starting to get irritated again.
"Well they're not the only reason," Daniel whispered to himself.
"They came up here uninjured, luckily," Muldoon said. "Eric said a pack of compies attacked but it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Ben saved him actually. After the two escaped from their preservers, they ran for help. On the way they were attacked by Dilophosaurs, ran blindly up here, and well... forgot how to get back to the parasail. I'd wanted them to go get it but they were unable to remember where it was."
"Well we found it," Guitierrez said.
"You did," Muldoon asked. "And?"
"I've got it right here," Grant replied, pointing to his backpack.
"Oh," Muldoon said, this time low on his speech. "That is good."
"Where is Eric and Ben, by the way," Grant asked.
"Oh. Eric, Ben," Muldoon yelled. "Come over here!"
Grant heard running, and a boy suddenly came out of the corridor followed by an older man wearing a Hawaiian shirt ripped in several places. "Hello Eric, Mr. Hildebrand," Grant said smiling.
"Alan Grant," Eric said with surprise. "You're Alan Grant!"
"This light makes it so hard for me to see," Muldoon implied. "Dr. Grant if I'd known it was you before I would've hugged you. I know now that we will survive if you're here."
"Well I'm glad you have confidence in me," Grant replied smiling. "We won't be here much longer."
"What are you guys doing here," Eric asked.
"Your parents. invited us along," Guitierrez replied smiling.
"My parents are here," Eric asked.
"Yes both of them," Grant replied.
"That's not good," Eric said. "They usually don't work well together."
"You'd be surprised what people will do to save someone they love," Grant implied. "Eric. Ben... I must say, I'm surprised you two managed to survive even a few days here. I'm even more surprised about you Robert. You've been here for how long did you say?"
"Actually I didn't," Muldoon replied. "I've been here for three years now."
"Well, I'm just really surprised that you're alive," Grant said. "But, I'm glad to see ya."
"Likewise," Muldoon said smiling.
"Is that all its been," Eric said thinking back to all that he and Ben had been through. "It's seemed like it's been years. Only five days?" All of the run-ins with the Tyrannosaurs, Velociraptors, Dilophosaurs, Compies, and even the Carnotaurs that gave Eric the crepes and made him hope that he didn't meet up with any of them again were too much. He was afraid that one of them would come up from behind him and attack without him even realizing what had happened.
"Yeah," Grant replied shocked.
"We didn't make it up here for about a day," Ben said. "We found a map of the island in the worker village, then we found our way up here."
"That's incredible," Grant replied astonished. "I'm proud of you both."
"Thanks," Eric said smiling. He was really happy that his idol was proud of him. Grant had been his hero for several years now. Eric was very fascinated with dinosaurs and to see his hero in person was a great thing for him. Eric suddenly realized something that Grant had said before. "So my parents are here?"
"That's right," Grant replied.
"Where are they," Eric asked.
"Well, we separated from them," Grant swallowed. "They should be here any minute."
"But those Pteranodons are out there," Eric said in a scared voice.
"Oh God," Grant said. "That's right, I completely forgot about them."
"Mom," Eric yelled. "Dad!" Eric started running out the door and into the fog of the Aviary.
"Eric come back," Grant yelled.
"We better get him," Muldoon said, shouldering his gun.
"Yeah, you stay here though," Grant said. "Get Mr. God's Nephew. When we get back, we are getting the hell out of here."
"Right," Muldoon said returning to the back of the building.
Grant, Guitierrez, Daniel, Nash, and Ben ran out of the Pterosaur Lodge, after Eric who was a little ahead of them still running. Eric ran onto the bridge walkway and started going across. He could feel and hear the creaks of the bridge from rust and old wear. Grant and company started to follow him slowly across the bridge.
"Eric, you must stop," Grant yelled, trying to catch up to the boy. Eric wasn't listening to him. He kept on running across the bridge, but in the fog he saw an object come out of nowhere and was walking across the bridge in front of Eric.
He then saw that it was an adult Pteranodon coming towards him. Eric screamed and started running back in the other direction. The Pteranodon took flight and started towards Eric with top speed.
"Run Eric," Grant yelled.
The animal then picked the boy up and started flying into the aviary itself going closer to a nest.
Grant then remembered that he had Billy's bag which was carrying the parasail that had been rolled up earlier. He strapped everything on and ran over to the edge and opened the parasail that was hidden in a backpack and jumped off the cliff.
"Alan, no," Guitierrez yelled.
Grant went racing toward the animal with Eric in its claws. The Pteranodon then dropped Eric into the nest full of baby Pteranodons that began to peck at him making him bleed in several places while he was still screaming. Grant in the parasail then came up toward the nest. "Eric," Grant yelled. "Grab hold!"
He did so as Eric ran away from the babies and grabbed hold of Grant. They both flew off back toward the lodge.
The Pteranodon then realized what had happened and started toward both of them. The animal came closer and then went around to their side to try to strike at them. However, Grant and Eric were too close to the landing point and they landed safely in front of Ben, Nash, Daniel, and Guitierrez.
Robert Muldoon ran out of the lodge with someone following behind. He was wearing a torn business suit and wire frame glasses.
They all then saw four adult Pteranodons coming right toward them. They all started running at full speed to the large exit gate of the aviary. The people all ran onward out of the aviary and into the jungle to safety.
* * *
Paul and Amanda Kirby walked with Billy Brennan who was feeling very terrible about what he did to his mentor. Billy hadn't ever made Grant this mad at him in his entire life. There was the occasional fight that they might have every now and then, but otherwise they hadn't ever been in a real humongous fight like this, and Billy felt horrible.
The three people were inside the Pteranodon Aviary. Through all of the fog they were unable to see the Lodge and had ended up lost in the Aviary itself.
"I don't hear any more screaming," Paul implied still listening to the sounds made by the breeze coming in all around them.
"Is that good or bad," Amanda asked worried. She couldn't see a thing in all of the fog that was surrounding them. There was one thing that she was sure of though. She thought she heard screaming and it sounded like it was coming from Eric.
"We can only hope it's good," Billy said. "I don't see anyone in here at all."
"Eric has to be here," Amanda yelled. "There's no way he isn't! I swear to you that that was him screaming!"
"Please calm down, Amanda," Paul said in a calm voice.
They all then heard screeching sounds coming towards them. Then the three saw several Pteranodons coming right toward them.
"Run," Billy yelled, as he started to run in the direction away from the animals.
Both Kirbys then also started running for their lives. While Amanda screamed the monsters came closer to her each second.
The animals then sped up and somehow got in front of the people. They then dived right on Billy and started pecking at him, attacking in all possible places. "Get out of here," Billy yelled. "Forget about me!"
"No," Paul yelled. Paul jumped on top of one of the Pteranodons trying to chock it. The animal twisted in all directions trying to shake Paul off.
Amanda cried in the background while all of this happened. She wanted to help them, but knew that there appeared to be no hope.
The other creatures saw that the one Paul was on was in trouble. They took their attention off of Billy and went for Paul.
Amanda ran up to Billy seeing all of the bruises in places where he'd been bitten. She picked him up and hoisted him over her shoulders. Paul saw that Billy was now safe. He jumped off of the Pteranodon and started to run, when he suddenly realized that he was surrounded. Paul tried to avoid their beaks that were trying to peck at him. He dived under one of the animal's legs and rolled to safety. He started running, trying to catch up to Billy and Amanda, who were far ahead of him.
The Pteranodons started flying at top speed to catch up with them. Amanda and Billy reached the gate and exited. They turned around to see Paul running toward them with the Pteranodons not far behind.
"Hurry, Paul," Amanda screamed. Paul continued running as he tried to dodge attacks by the flying reptiles and he then fell. The animals start pecking at him again from all sides. Paul then rolled out of the path of the animals and started back toward the exit. He finally made it, and went out just as the Pteranodons reached them. One of the animals tried to get out of the exit gate but was too large to do so before the gate was slammed in its face. The three started running again back into the foliage of the island interior.