Chapter 8
The Spinosaurus quickly finished the waiters. He was still hungry, and crazed with disease. When he came back around to get more, everyone under the bridge saw the white foam. They knew he was dangerous, but didn't now the behavior that a sick dinosaur would show.
He lunged for the frightened passengers, ramming into the stairway, causing it to fall with a clatter in front of his prey. The Spino roared in frustration and anger, and lunged again, this time hitting the target place. But the voyagers had already run around the other side of the ship, sprinting toward the one door that the captain knew would be open.
Running up the short stairwell Lex heaved the door open and flew inside, everyone else on her heels, Roland bringing up the rear, slamming the door after him, and locking it. "What- do we –do?" the captain panted, looking fearfully around at the group. "Well, obviously" Roland replied, annoyed, "we have to distract the beast so we can have a chance of surviving. The meat idea that boy had is a good idea, unless someone else has a better one?" He looked imploringly around, and then said, "No? Okay then, lets get to work with the meat."
It took the group half an hour to gather enough meat to distract the hungry dinosaur. They piled it inside the door that was unlocked, and the controllers unlocked all the other doors on the ship, so that they could escape easily.
When all the meat was in place four of the men, Ian, Paul, Alan, and Billy prepared to drag the pile of meat outside. Roland went down to the opposite end of the ship, to distract the dinosaur, and give the others time to set up the meat.
As Roland was planning his escape back into the ship there was another tremendous bang on the ship's hull. Thinking it was still the Spinosaurus Roland didn't take much notice. He was about to do the scariest thing he had ever done, scarier than when the T-rex almost got him. He was tempting something much more dangerous now.
Seeing the signal from Eric down the hall, Roland opened the door to face his doom.
