Washed Away
Chapter 1
Disclaimer- I DO NOT OWN DINOTOPIA. All of it belongs to some wonderfully creative guy by the name of James Gurney. Seeing as how I am neither male nor is my name James Gurney I obviously own absolutely nothing. Do we understand one another?
The ship rocked on the gentle ocean swell, barely shifting the young woman balanced on the rail, arms flung out in mockery of the seagulls circling and calling overhead. Sometimes when she closed her eyes and just listened, she could feel as though she was up there, with them, wheeling on the warm ocean breezes above all cares. The perfect dream was shattered as cold water splashed over her, a shock in the heat of the day. Tumbling backward, unable to catch her self, Kat found herself staring up into the bright blue eyes of her best friend. A mock growl of rage escaped her lips as she leapt to her feet and proceeded to chase the other girl around the deck, inarticulate threats of revenge ringing through the air.
The two men relaxing by the wheel laughed at the antics of the pair, especially when Kat finally caught her much taller friend and wrestled the blond to the ground. The girls shoved and punched mockingly, not doing nor intending any real damage. The men laughed all the harder as the spray thrown up by a passing wave speeder broke up the mock battle prematurely. Realizing that they had been the entertainment of the moment, Kat and SJ jumped to their feet, nursing mock wounds, and disappeared below deck. In the damp coolness below they jostled for the much-coveted seat by the main manhole.
Though SJ was taller, Kat weighed more, and pushed her friend from the perch to tumble to the floor. The blond girl rolled into a sitting position, sticking out her tongue as she pulled her hair back from her eyes. The two were rarely truly angry with each other, a fact that might not have been obvious to a causal observer simply looking in on the pair.
"Are we having fun yet?" Kat teased softly.
The blonde girl shrugged, drawing her hair over one shoulder and playing with it as she gazed absently out the window. "I can defiantly think of better things to be doing with my time, but it could be worse."
One of the men flipped open a cooler and whipped a can from beneath a layer of ice, tapping the top a few times before popping the tab and taking a big chug. The other man laughed as he fired up a grill, adjusting the propane flame to just the right intensity to grill the steaks he had just pulled from another cooler. "Does that really work? My daughter keeps insisting that it does, but I can never tell."
The balding man held up his soda and eyed it for a moment. "You know, I don't know if it really works either, or what it does to make it work. But I don know that since I started doing it, I have not had one soda explode on me. And that used to be one of the boys favorite tricks too. To go through and shake up all of my soda's, I mean."
"Oh, I'll believe it. Sounds just like something my boy would go and do. You know, this is probably one of the best ideas that Marie and Ann have had in a long time. Us taking the girls out for an afternoon while they take the boys and Kate."
"Agreed, but why didn't Kate want to come? I'd've thought that she would have put up a fuss when she found out that the girls were going."
The first stake sizzled as he tossed it on the grill. "She doesn't like boats. She is convinced that she will drown in anything larger than a bathtub." They both laughed. "Well, a swimming pool, maybe, but you get the picture. When she found out that we were going out of sight of land she just about had a fit. She's a mommy's girl anyway. though. It worked out better this way. Right now they are all probably on the mainland enjoying a nice meal at one of those seaside restaurants."
Below, SJ had climbed so that she was seated on the table beside another porthole. She looked across the waves and gave a slight shudder, causing Kat to chuckle with amusement. "You really don't like this, do you?"
The blond stuck out her tongue. "The number of times that you have heard my rants on the evils of large bodies of water and you still have to ask me that?"
"What's so scary about it? I love it!"
"I know YOU do. That's why we're out here."
"You didn't have to come, you know that?" the redhead asked, flicking the empty shell of the peanut that she had just eaten at her friend. "Kate didn't"
"That's different. She's little. She can beg out of it. She just didn't want to spend the entire day out here with you and me because she knew that we would ignore her most of the time. She's really not afraid."
"Ah well, look at it this way- We DON'T have to mess with her for the rest of the afternoon, so lets make the best of it. Bet I can beat you in a game of Lord of the Rings Trivia."
SJ sprang to her feet, eyes alight. "Like heck you can. You're on. Looser has to fold all of the laundry when we get back to the Island."
"Bring it on."
Okay, very long chapter for me, so don't get spoiled. Anyway, please R&R. This is only my second attempt at a fanfiction, so I would really appreciate some feedback ya'll.