Chapter Eleven - The Truth Rejected
Hoshiko had been put in the back of the jeep. He faced the back and his dislocated leg hung off the back of the jeep. He wasn't asleep but was just resting his eyes. Sora and the other boy known as Ryo, which is 'dragon' in Japanese, were on their way to the slope to where Sora saw Tai go. Ryo kneeled down and started pulling up the grape vine that Tai had climbed down, "So you came to bring him back didn't you?"
Sora looked at him funny, "Yeah, why?"
Ryo shrugged, "Bad idea." Sora looked extremely puzzled, Ryo wasn't looking up at her, but concentrating on the vine. Then he stopped and looked up at her perplexed, "how did you find out about this place?"
"A friend."
"What friend?"
Sora started to tell him about digimon and the digital world until Ryo put his hand up, "I've heard this before." He got to the end of the vine and stood up with. He stepped up close to Sora and began to tie the vine around her waist. "So what friend told you about this place?"
Sora opened her mouth to speak, but Ryo covered it with his hand, then he kneeled down and put is palm to the ground, he felt it again.
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Hoshiko opened his eyes when he felt it. He looked down at a T-Rex footprint which was now a puddle. It vibrated, and caused little concentric circles. It did it again. Hoshiko looked up and spoke to no one, "Anybody hear that? It's an impact tremor is what it is. I'm fairly alarmed here."
Meanwhile Ryo was hurrying to try and undo to knot he had just tied around Sora, it was getting closer. "What is it?" It was lose, and Ryo lifted Sora out of the loop, then started running for the jeep.
Hoshiko hurried them, "We gotta get outta her. Gotta get outta here now. Now! Right now!" Just as Ryo started the car, the Rex burst out of the trees and started to chase them. As the Rex gained speed, Hoshiko turned back to Ryo, "Must go faster."
The Rex was almost on them now and Sora began to scream "Shit" and Hoshiko screaming "Fuck you" at the Rex. Ryo looked in his side mirror, the Rex roared and it's mouth filled up the entire screen, including where the writing said, 'Objects in the mirror, are closer then they appear.' Hoshiko backed up and pushed the stick shift forward.
Ryo tried to push him off, "Get off the stick, let me move."
Sora looked forward, and screamed, "Look out!"
Ryo yelled, "Down!"
An overturned tree was lying across the road. The jeep just made it under, but it knocked off the windshield. The Rex didn't stop though, he just sprinted right through it, breaking the tree in half. The Rex came over to the side of he jeep, and tried to tip it over with it's head. It failed and roared in anger, and Sora screamed as Hoshiko tried to protect her. The car went suddenly faster, and the Rex lost ground and gave up on the chase. Sora was relieved but Hoshiko smiled and said, "Think that'll be on the tour for you Sora?" Sora narrowed her eyes at him.

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Malone sat at his computer in the small, empty room that once contained the large animal that would claim his position on earth. The only light came from the computer which had a picture of Dodgson on it. The two were talking between computers. Dodgson had the slight look of anxiety on his face. "But Sir," Dodgson said, "RJ, Dennis, Nash, Cooper are all dead and we can't track any of the little shit heads down! There's no way we'll get them in time." Malone stayed cool, "I don't care what it takes, if you don't find the twelve of them I'll make sure your asses don't make it back, you hear me?"
"Yes Sir."
"Good. You need to make sue you give a better impression to those digidestined then those fucking dinos do. Tell them anything, goes as far as to tell them that the raptors want them dead, I don't care what the hell you say. Just make sure the digidestined won't get in your way, ya hear me!?"
"Yes Sir" Dodgson seemed more enthusiastic about his job.
"Good."
With that last word, the two signed of and the computer went blank. Malone leaned back into his chair, thinking. Four of them were dead already? Seemed kind of a waist, he had asked for the best and he was told he had gotten the best of the best. But four people in three day seemed awfully fast.

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Ryo stopped the car near a dense cluster of trees. Sora wasn't sure if he really meant to stop the car here. She could feel a strange ego that it wasn't safe. "Wait here" he said, and with that he walked into the dense trees. It was to dark for here to see anything.
He came back and motioned for her to help him get Hoshiko out of the car. With Hoshiko hopping on one leg, they made their way through the foliage. "Is it safe?" Sora asked.
"One of the safest places on this crazy planet" Ryo answered with a twinkle in his eye.
When they came to an opening, Sora was amazed of how different the place was from the rest of the area she'd seen. There were twelve trees arranged in a circle with a small stream or brook dividing the circle in half. Grass blanketed the entire circle, and the grass was near a foot long. There were also many different colored flowers, kind of like tulips. Sora thought of it as a sanctuary.
Ryo pointed to one of the trees, "one of yours is up there."
"Huh?" Sora asked confused.
There was more than just you and the younger two weren't there?" Ryo asked with a sarcastic look on his face.
"Yes . . . what do you mean younger two? Tai's with us too ya know. " Sora said giving the same amount of sarcasm that Ryo gave. All Ryo did was roll his eyes and shake his head, she still didn't get it.
Sora tried not to let that conversation bother her and climbed the tree Ryo told her to. She saw Matt lying down, asleep. She went over to him and almost decided to wake, but didn't. Instead she laid down next to him and fell asleep.