Last Day of Camp

The alarms were blaring constantly. We all gather around and hear the automated voice sound over.

"Attention, all park-goers must immediately report to the South Ferry Dock for immediate excavation. Last ferry departs in town hours."

"Fucking goddamn it." I yell out in frustration. "Wha-what does that mean?" Ben asks. "It's the Complete Island Excavation Protocol. They're basically telling us to hurry up and get off the island. The Protocol is only to be used as a last resort." I tell the group who express fear at the knowledge of the severity of the situation we're now in. "So that's it, no other explanation?" Brooklynn questions. I shake my head. "We got to go. We can make if we run." Darius says. I look back at Yaz, yeah, that's going to happen. "Are we sure that's the best way?" Sammy asks while pointing at Yaz. "I'm fine, I've competed with a torn ACL." "Doesn't mean a damn thing. The jungle is not a track." Yaz looks at me in disbelief. "I'm not helpless Ryan, I can keep up, I don't need you to tell me I can't do something." That hurts. "And I am telling you that you can't keep up with the group, there has to be a safer way to get to the docks." Yaz looks at me with anger. "There is no other way. And why do you think I can't keep up, we don't have time for you be a macho man." "I'm not. You can't run in your condition through the jungle." I say putting my foot down with her stubbornness. "Why, why can't I?!" She yells at me, to hell with this. "Because I'm not letting someone die on my watch again if I have the power to stop it!" I vent out without thinking about what I said.

Yaz and everyone else looks at me in shock. I shake my head and clench my fist. I grab my rifle as head off to cool my head. There is nothing we can do. I sit down with my back against the wall. It's hopeless, we will never get to the dock even if we all had peak Yaz speed. All of a sudden an automated voice came.

"...dining at Jurassic World. Followed by the Mosasaurus Feeding Show and lastly the South Ferry Dock."

"What the fuck?" I say coming back to the group. I hear Brooklynn say something about the universe or something. "Come on, we can catch the monorail to the docks." Darius says as we race towards the station. As we are climbing the stairs, I see Yaz having trouble getting up. I run up beside her, hoisting her right arm over my head and shoulder, carrying her up. "I don't need help." We don't have time to argue. "Just shut up and stop being stubborn." I say as I race up the stairs pulling her with me. We come to the entrance way and see Kenji and Brooklynn exclaiming in fear before running back.

I put Yaz over to the wall. She nods in thanks for the help. "What happened." I whisper. Kenji points out to the open area before the stations stairs. I walk over with my rifle at the ready, I lean to look around.

GGGGRRRRR!!!

I see a Carnotaurus with a mean scar running down his snout. Based on what Darius told me, it's Toro. Why does everything on this island go wrong. I look back to the group with my finger hovering over my mouth, universal sign for silence. Ben calms Bumpy as she yelps. I hear Toro growl as I feel his steps coming closer. I look down and see Darius with a rock and throws a good way away from us. I look over and see Toro walk away to investigate the noise.

I run over to the stairs hiding behind them. I see Toro with his back turned. I signal them over but than hold my hand up as Toro turns around. Fuck. He begins sniffing, he knows that something is around. I grab an abandoned camera that is lying next to me. I grab heave to the far end of the courtyard. Toro growls and walks towards the shattered camera. I quickly signal everyone over waiting for Yaz, the last one, to be in front of me. I see Toro walk away from the stairs, as I crawl up the stairs preventing Toro even if he turns around to be unable to see anyone of us. I see Kenji and Brooklynn get to the stop. Brooklynn covers Kenjis mouth to prevent him from alerting Toro. Turns out to be pointless as the monorail pulls up.

"Welcome to the Jurassic World Lagoon and our resident Mosasaurus."

ROOOAAARRR!

"GO, get to the to the doors!" I yell out as everyone rushes up the stairs as Toro begins to climb the stairs to get to me, I pull my feet out of range of his teeth. I pull ahead of Yaz, Ben and Bumpy. "Kenji keep those doors from closing." I yell out to him. I grab my rifle just in case. I see Yaz slipping and falling. Toro pulls himself up to snap at her. She quickly pulls herself forward. "Ben get to the monorail." I yell towards him as I run back down towards Yaz. As Toro is about to bite down on Yaz, I fire 7 rounds of 100 amps into Toros chest as he falls and breaks the side of the stairs. I reach Yaz, grabbing her by the waist and pulling her up away from the irate Carnotaur. "Come on." I say as I put her arm around my neck. We run as fast a we can. We reach the top and see everyone holding onto the doors preventing them from closing. Toro gets back up, charging at me with anger. I turn my rifle and fire some more shots at him. He cries out in pain as he collapses on the stairs, his weight bearing too much, and breaks. He falls onto the ground below. We get on the monorail as the doors close and heads off. Towards the south docks.

Kenji, Brooklynn and Sammy look out back towards Toro, the trio in shock of the situation. "No way. Something always bad happen whenever we think we are safe." Kenji points out as I sit against the glass. "Give it a rest, mate. Just don't think about it and everything will be fine." Kenji looks back at me. "Everything was fine until you said that." I chuckle than full out laugh. Everyone looks towards me as Sammy begins to cheer as well, soon everyone begins celebrating. Ben takes some candy bars out of his pounch. "Stashed a few snacks for the road." He says smugly. Everyone looks to Ben like he has become their hero. I take a bar and bite into it, a carob bar. Everyone par myself and Ben begins spitting their bars out of their mouth. "That is nasty." "Get it off." "Yuck." Wusses, when there isn't anything to eat, you take what you're given. "Ryan how can you eat that?" Brooklynn asks me. "When you eat an out of date M.R.E, you can really eat anything after that. And I'm hungry, I'm got to eat something, if it's this, so be it." I say as I bite into the bar. Everyone, par Ben, queeze. Everyone starts to say what their going to do when they get home. Brooklynn hugging her expresso machine. Yaz going back to training when her ankle gets better.

Darius gets up as he raises his carob juice. "Let's raise our carob juice. A toast, to not getting eaten." We all reply as we take a sip of the juice. Everyone groans in disgust. This has to be the funniest thing I've ever seen. We all hear a loud boom in the distance. "What was that?" Brooklynn asks fearfully. "Sounded like an explosion." Yaz replies. "Don't worry, if the explosion was near us, we would have seen it, relax." I say. Everyone does but with a sense of tension and unease. Sammy raises her juice in a toast of us being friends for life. I feel sorry for you Sammy. She looks around on confusion as why no one is acknowledging. "Sammy." I say getting her attention. "I'm sorry but the reality is that after we seperate, what are the chances we are going to see each other again. We all live all over the country. Face the reality, this group, it's not forever. We all were just along for the ride." I say somberly, this group had no connection, just the common goal of surviving. While I hate that fact, to deny it is to be naive and in denial. Everyone becomes silent, Sammy looks upset that she believed to have made new friends and turns out to be nothing. I pity her.

"Coming up on your right is the 18-holed, dinosaur themed golf course, one of the many attractions that make this park so Jurassic."

"What does that even mean?" Brooklyn questions. "I thought I knew." Darius says sadly in his corner. I look towards him. I think he has been the glue of the group, the one that has kept us together through thick and thin. "All my life, I had an idea of Jurassic World, my dad promised that we would get there. He would say 'All-saurus and a bag of chips.' He was so corny." Was. Darius eyes reflects memories that he had. I feel his pain. I look towards Kenji. I know what it's like to lose someone close. To feel broken and try to move on but any to fail all the same.

Kenji turn too Ben as he asks him why he was here. Thats...actually a good question. Ben explains that his mum works for Masrani and got him a spot at camp. Told him that it was to face his fears. Ben then vents that he is sick of being scared all the time and hates his inability to help anyone. I feel as that Ben has never had a moment in his life that he had to face his fears almost like he has been sheltered. He wants to help but can't because he has no idea of if he can. "It hasn't been all bad. If I don't come, I won't have met-."

CRASH!

Whatever he was going to say, is interrupted as something bangs against the train almost rocking it. I grab my rifle as we all head to the back car. Darius focuses his eyes beyond the window. "Guys, we have to turn off the lights!" He says fearfully. He grabs the torch out of Kenjis hand and begins banging on the lights, breaking them. I look out the window and see a flock of Pternadon following us. "I fucking hate Pternadons." I say as I jump up and use the butt of the rifle and bash the lights. Brooklynn, Sammy and Kenji grab more torches, Brooklynn passes one to Yaz. "What should I do?" Ben asks from the floor. "Find a torch and help or stay out of the way." As we run to the next cart. Sammy notices a second train that is broken and is covered in Pternadons. "Now we know what that explosion was earlier." The Pternadons begin coming in from all angles. Soon enough, they will begin breaking the glass. We move to the second front cart. That's it, I had enough of this bullshit. "I'm am sick of these motherfucking Pternadons!" I yell out, I take off my rifle and pass it to Yaz who is shocked. "Point, breathe, pull the trigger, if any get in." I run off looking for an emergency axe. I find one and kick the glass, shattering it. I grab the axe as I see a Pternadon break through the window. I see Yaz shoot it as it cries out in pain. It shakes the pain off before charging at Yaz. I run up to it and bring the axe down onto it, almost cleaving it's wing right off. It's blood sprayed onto my face as it shrieks. I push it back to the window than boot it out, sending it into a passing tree.

Everyone looks shocked at what just happened. "Come on, we got to the front." That shakes everyone out of their stupor. I come up to the door, and it won't open. "Are you kidding me?" I yell out. "Stand back." I tell the others as I bring the axe down onto the door, it doesn't bulge. I try again, nothing. "It won't open." I yell out, punching the door. "I can get in through the ceiling access." Darius says as everyone, in disbelief, tries to talk him out of it. " We don't have a choice, me and-." Darius says as he looks at Ben who is cowering with Bumpy in the corner. "I'm the only one that can fit, just distract them." The train rocks as Darius falls to the floor. We were getting closer to the other train. I hear the hatch squeak and turn back to see Ben climbing up onto the roof. "He's going to get himself killed." I say as Darius jumps up to the hatch trying to get Ben back in. He falls but down while grabbing a torch, showing its light outside, blinding some of the Pternadons. "Distract the Pternadons, keep their focus off of Ben, I'll keep trying to break this door down." Everyone turns their torches on pointing them outside. I turns back to the door and bring the axe down onto it. "Come on. Open, goddamn it!" I yell out. I look through the doors window to see Ben drop down and try to figure out the controls. "Come on Ben." I whisper, hoping that he can save us. We get closer to the other train. "Brace yourselves!" I yell to the group. Just at the last second, our train breaks left, scrapping and sparking against the other train.

We all see the other train fall to the ground, burning. We are all shocked. The Pternadons fly down to the burning wreck. We all begin cheering. The front cart's door opens to see Ben standing there panting. We all cheer for him. "Well done Ben, I didn't think you had it in you." Darius says, Ben smiles. The glass shatters as a stray Pternadon flies through grabbing Ben around the waist. I charge forward. "BEN!" I say as I drop the axe and hold onto him, preventing the Pternadon from flying off with him. He screams in panic. The Pternadon gives up but not before scratching him across his hip. He falls but I hold on, grabbing the axe with my free hand, I slam it into the floor creating an anchor. Ben begins to slip through my hand. "HOLD ON!" He is barely holding onto my fingers.