Safe Harbour

We had gotten up early in the morning to inspect the boat. I had to sneak out in the night to get to Main Street. Someone had forgotten that we only have one set of clothes. I had quietly raided a clothes shop while Rexy was sleeping, taking swim wear for everyone. When I returned, Yaz was standing in the middle of the courtyard, arms crossed and frowning. "I thought I would be back before anyone noticed." I say coming up to her. "Well you were wrong." She says but smiles. "But...I trust that you would find your way back...what did you get?" She says. I have a confused look on my face, any way. I take her swimsuit out of the bag. "I got swim wear for everyone, this is for you." I say with butterflies in my stomach. She looks at the swimsuit, taking it before looking back at me with a funny look. "What?" I say but she suddenly wraps her arms around my neck, hugging me. "Thank you...you didn't have too." She says but I shake it off. "I was nothing, I was just..." She shakes me quiet. "I know, it's alright, thank you for this." She says as she begins walking away to tell the others. The butterflies is my stomach have gotten worse or is better, I don't know but I like it a lot.

We had arrived onto the shore. Everyone one in their swim wear. I had black and red broad shorts on. Darius had yellow ones. Kenji's black. Sammy had a orange and purple swimsuit. Ben for some reason chose to stay in his own clothes. Brooklynn had blue and white stripes and polka dots suit. I kept sneaking glances at Yaz in her pink and purple swimsuit. She had almost caught me staring. Damn her legs are long, fucking hell. I crouch on the rock looking ahead at the boat. "Now remember, Tiff could still be on board." Darius warns everyone. "Keep your eyes peeled, watch your six." I tell them as I dive in and start swimming towards the boat. I come up and hear other splashes. I reach the boat and heave myself up.

Everyone is soon on the boat. I have my axe with me just in case. I hear Brooklynn gasp and speed over to her, she is leaning over claw marks. A dinosaur hot on board. I kneel down beside her. "The first claw from the inside is bigger than the rest." I say as I focus of the large claw mark. "What does that mean?" Brooklynn questions. I get up and follow the marks to the front deck. I see that bigger marks, suggesting toe claws. But the odd thing is the marks are placed weirdly like a dino was jumping...or there was two seperate individuals. I look up to the bridge and see that the window is broken.

I race to the back of the boat and climb the ladder, everyone followed after me to the top. I enter the bridge to see a grizzly sight. The window is shattered and splatters of blood cover the rooms floor. A piece of bloodied clothes lays in the corner. "I think I'm going to be sick." I hear Sammy and suddenly I hear throw up. I turn and see Kenji leaning over the edge of the boat. "What happened?" I hear Darius say as he checks the panel. I find a tooth on the floor. It's straight, more adapted for piercing and gripping. "I think I have an idea." I say as everyone turns to me. "The large first claw marks on the floorboards outside...the toe claws marks that suggest two individuals and this tooth...I think that Chaos and Grim got their revenge after all." I say which everyone than gasps at the realisation. Tiff was killed and possibly eaten by the vengeful Baryonyxs. Turn about is fair play, I suppose. "The panel is busted. And we are almost out of gas." Darius says which Sammy walks over. "Did you tap it? They always tap it." She says as she taps the fuel gauge. The gauge actually goes down. I stare at Sammy. "Sorry...at least we know now."

"So we have a boat but we can't use the boat." Ben says from outside. "The northwest dock is around the bend. We can take the boat there, find some gas and whatever else we need." I say as I climb back down the ladder to the cabins. Me, Brooklynn and Darius gasp as the cabin door handle begins rattling. I hold my axe in front. The rattling continues when suddenly the door bursts open. "BOO!" I throw the axe towards whatever it was. The axe lands squarely in the wall not far from Kenjis head. "Whoa dude, you could have killed me!" Kenji says everyone else comes around. "What happened?" Yaz asks. I walk over to the edge of the boat. "Kenji...come here." I say at the edge. He walks over with caution. "Sorry I scared you." He apologizes. I place my hand on his shoulder. "It's ok buddy." I say giving him a reassuring smile. He sighs in relief.

I pick him up from his legs. "Whoa Ryan, what are you doing!?" He screams as I throw him overboard. He comes up. "What was that for?" He says but I smile down at him. "We're even now." I say as I walk over and yank the axe out of the wall. Yaz over and holds up her fist, I bump it with my fist. We laugh at Kenjis predicament. "Well I'm going back to the shore. Me and Bumpy will meet you at the dock." Ben says as he jumps off and swims back. "Well, now that we have our laughter for the day. Whose going to drive the boat?" Yaz questions. Kenji makes his way up the boat. "I can, my dad has a yacht club membership." He says but stops suddenly when he sees my glare. "You ain't driving shit. I'll drive." I say as I climb up the ladder to the bridge. I start the boat and we are off towards the dock.

"Easy, easy." Yaz says as I careful dock the boat. I ease it against the dock. I kill the engine. "Good parking good boss." Kenji says from down below. "You don't 'park' a boat dingus, you 'dock' it." Yaz says with with her arms crossed as she stares down Kenji at the lower level. She is so goddamn sexy. I shake my head of those thoughts. Thats rude, Ryan, fuck you for thinking about it. "Calling me 'boss' is also not going to get you any points after your little stunt earlier." I say as I jump down to the deck. Yaz takes my approach and slides down. She almost falls when she lands but I grab her around the waist. "Gotcha." I say as I gaze into her eyes, she looks back. I look at every detail of her face. Her brown eyes, high cheekbones, silky black hair. "Uhh-um." A throat is cleared and me and Yaz turn to see Brooklynn, Kenji, Darius and Sammy staring. "What are you looking at?" I say while narrowing my eyes. They quietly realise, that I'm not playing around. They scatter away. Yaz laughs at the ridiculousness of the others. "You can be caring when you want to but you like scaring the shit out of them, don't you?" Yaz says with mirth. "Of course I do because it's fun." I say which she shakes her at. "You're an idiot." She says. She looks down and notices that my hand is still around her waist. I follow her gaze and pull my hand back, giving her space. I blush at that. Don't even noticed I still had it there. I look and see Yaz tuck a hair strand behind her ear, she blushes as she does it. We turn as we hear Bumpy growl down the dock. "Let's see what everyone is up too." I say to her as she nods.

We come down to the dock and seperate. I go over to Kenji to help him tighten the ropes around the anchor point. I see Yaz walk over and take a bag from Ben. Sammy goes to talk with Bumpy but the Anklyosaur pushes past her and brushes her head against Yaz's leg. "Must be your outgoing personality." I say to Yaz who turns around and playfully glares at me. "It's getting late. We can rest here for the night. We can find supplies come morning." Darius says from the deck. "Whoa,whoa,whoa, pump the brakes, bro! Look around." Kenji says which we all turn our attention to him. "We got swimsuits, a few hours of sun and a while boat to our disposal. If that doesn't scream 'yacht party', than I don't know what does!" Kenji shouts out. We all look between each other, sounds like a great idea.

Soon enough, music is playing and fun is in the air. "This is what eight years of diving lessons look like." Yaz says as she does a perfect triple backflip into the water. What can this fucking girl not do, like seriously. "Here's what running from an Albertosaurus and tripping and falling over a waterfall looks like." Ben says as he does a run up and jumps. Screaming and failing his arms and legs, he lands on a nasty belly flop into the water, next to Yaz. She laughs at his dramatic dive. "And here's just me." I say as I run up and cannonball into the water. Sending a wave of water over Ben and Yaz. I stay down under the water. The Jaws theme playing in my head. I swim up and place Yaz's legs over my shoulders. I swim up out of the water. "Ryan!" She playfully screams. I push her off over my back. I laugh as she steadies herself. I turn and get a big splash of saltwater in my face. I let the water drip down and I open my eyes slowly to see Yaz in front of me with her hand out. "You're dead." I whisper as I sadistic smile spreads across my face. Yaz slowly starts to swim away. "Even now, right?" She says.

I swim full blast and she tries to get away. I grab her around the waist, keeping her from getting away. "No, leave me alone." She says playfully, trying to break my grip. I grab her waist before heaving her up and throwing her across the water. "Ahh!" She screams as she splashes down. I laugh at her predicament. I swim up to her, she playfully hits me with a mock frown on her face. "Not funny." She says while smirking. "Looked pretty funny." I say. I look to the side to Ben getting up onto the boat but gives me a dual thumbs up. What the fuck. I look back at Yaz. She really is beautiful. Not going to keep denying it. I like her. Like her a lot.

She gazes at me and smiles. Fuck it. I swim over to her and gently pull her towards me. I rest my hands on her waist. She looks wide eyed but relaxes. She places her hands on my shoulders, steading herself while keeping us at an even level. "Ryan?" She questions. I lean my forehead on hers, she leans her own onto me. I look soulfully into her eyes. My own eyes convey my feelings that I have towards her. She brushes her hand across my cheek. She leans in but hestiates. I lean forward..."Hey guys, we have a problem." Darius shouts out, breaking us from the moment. Me and Yaz seperate while silently glaring at Darius. Yaz looks at me and kisses me on the cheek. "We'll talk later." She says while blushing. She swims towards the boat. I cheer and scream on the inside. I'm happy, for the first time in months, I'm whole and happy. I smile at Yaz as she swims further away. Yeah...later.

I climb up the stairs to hop onto the boat before jumping to the dock. Everyone is crowded around the edge. "We couldn't have hit something." I hear Darius say as they lean to look closer. I come up and see a hole in the boat. Goddamn it. "We can't catch a break can we?" I say sarcastically which gets me a punch in the shoulder from Yaz. "We can't wait until tomorrow, if the water raises over the hole than we will never get home." Darius says as he turns to the container yard. "Alright, lets get changed and find something to block off the hole. Let's get it done before it gets too dark." I say each everyone nods at.

The sun had set and to make things worse, a heavy fog had started to linger around the dock. Visibility had become really shit, only the lights on the boat provided any kind of break through the fog. But if we spread out through the yard than we will be only really relying on four senses rather than five. We had split up into three groups. Sammy, Yaz, Ben and Bumpy will head towards the garages, Darius and Brooklynn will head to the main entrance and maintenance sheds. While myself and Kenji will inspect the containers. "Keep an eye out for Kenji. I wouldn't put it past him to scare us. Especially in the dark." I hear Brooklynn say as Kenji also catches it. I then hear her and Darius talk about pranking Kenji after patching the hole. I look to Kenji and hear him say 'game on'. I slowly walk up to him and slap him at the back of the head. "Oww, why are you always hitting me?" He says which I stare at him with 'are you serious' look. "Whatever you are thinking about with Darius and Brooklynn. Don't do it." I say. He goes to say something but my glare burns a hole through him which shuts him up.

I walk away from Kenji. I'll kill him if I stay alone with him for too long. I inspect some of the containers. Some of these are just supply containers for maintenance. I move to the back and find one that's for ACU. Jackpot. I run over and found it locked by a chain. I take out my axe and heave down, cutting through the cheap chain. I open the container and..."holy shit." I found the motherload of gear. Old school weapons, kevlar, medical kits even tablets. I go over and find a few shotguns. Most of ACU's weapons were battery powered, so these shotguns run on good old gunpowder. I take a Mossberg 590 and load some shells into it. These will be really good as a last resort. I attach a shotgun strap to the weapon and place around my shoulder. The bow and quiver had nothing left and this is better. I find a few knives and attach them to my belt and left leg. I hear a noise outside.

That doesn't sound good. I take the shotgun and aim it towards the container doors. I slowly step outside and check both ends of the corridor. I turn a corner and Darius and Brooklynn pop out. "Jesus fucking Christ!" I shout out. They breath a sigh of relief. "What the fuck are you doing?" I ask as I lower the gun. "What are we doing? What are you doing with a shotgun!?" Brooklynn stresses out to me. "I found it in an ACU container on the other side of the yard. Now answer my question, what are you doing?" I say. "Something broke through the fence." Darius says. My eyes widen as I look around. I cock the shotgun. "Stay close, don't wander off." I say as walk towards the centre of the yard.

We get to the yards centre and find Ben running towards us. He was about to say something but a growl is heard behind us. I aim the shotgun. A shadow is coming through the fog...Ouranosaurus? What are they doing here? "Don't worry guys, they're just Ouranosaurus, they're big but harmless." Darius says but the hadrosaurs growl in agitation. "You sure about that?" I say as I turn and run. This isn't right. They shouldn't...no won't come here. Why are they attacking, they are notoriously skittish around people and tendered to avoid their paddock workers, so why are they chasing us?

"This way!" Brooklynn says as we turn a corner that leads to the garages. I turn back and see that the Ouranosaurus have gone. I turn back to the others. "Get to the dock, find something to signal your positions to the others. I'll see if I can find them and bring them back to the boat." I say as I run off. I run around to the containers sitting by the garage. I hear one of the Ouranosaurus. I look over the corner and see Yaz hiding from the dinosaur. I kneel down and pick up a rock. Yaz has a terrified look on her face as the breath of the hadrosaur is literally going down her back. She sees me. I place my finger over my mouth which she nods. I stand up slowly as to not alert the dinosaur. I heave the rock over to the other side of the containers, a loud clank is heard. The Ouranosaurs growls and turns around and goes to inspect the noise. I gesture for Yaz to hurry over to me. She quickly strides over to me just as the other Ouranosaurs turns around and nearly spots Yaz. I hold her against the container as I glance around and see the dinosaur walk off.

I turn back towards Yaz who is breathing heavily. Not again. "Yaz...come on. Talk to me." I say as I hold her against the container, my eyes level with hers. "Breath, come on, breath." I say as she follows, her breathing comes back under control. "You ok?" I ask with worry. She nods slowly. I look around just in case of any dinosaur that could be close by. "Come on, let's find the others and get back to the boat." I say as I go to lead but Yaz grabs my arm, stopping me. I turn back with worry. "Yaz?" I ask but she just holds on. "Don't leave me alone here." She says almost crying. I pull her up and hold her comfortingly. "I would never leave you here." I say as I hug her. She returns the hug as she sniffles. "Come on let's get back to the others." I say as I make sure that she close by as we go.

We walk through the maze of containers and find Kenji running from one of the Ouranosaurs. Yaz's face changes from one of fear to one of anger. She throws the crowbar with all her might and hits the dinosaur in the side of the head. The dinosaur flees in pain. "Kenji, get your ass over here." Yaz says as Kenji runs over. "Hey, where are the others?" He asks. "I told them to wait by the edge of the dock and find a way to signal us so we can find them." I say as Kenji begins climbing the container rather pathetically. "Get down here dingus." Yaz whispers harshly. Kenji drops down. "Let's get to the centre quad and see if the others are there." I say as we head off towards the courtyard.

We run towards the courtyard when Kenji runs into Darius. "Kenji! Your ok." Brooklynn says as I raise my eyebrow. "Oh so we are going to forget about poor Ryan and Yaz, are we?" I say as they turn towards me. "Well, yeah but you had the shotgun so..." Brooklynn says as I playfully mock-knife stabbing me in the heart. "Wait, where's Sammy?" Yaz questions behind me. Good question, where is Sammy?

We walk around hearing shouts of fear and bellows, sounds like Bumpy and Sammy are together. We sneak ourselves between two containers one of which being the ACU one I found earlier. Sammy walks by, hearing one of the Ouranosaurus close by. Yaz pulls her in the alley, covering her mouth as the Ouranosaurus passes us by. I see Bumpy show up behind us. We all turn around and head towards what we think is the right direction to the boat.

"We got to get to the boat and cast off." Darius says. "And go where?" Ben asks with worry. "Anywhere but here." I say as I pull Darius back from the corner. I look around and see the back side of one of the dinosaurs. I shake my head while pointing in the direction of the animal. "It has to be that way." Brooklynn whispers but Yaz disagrees. "No its that way." She whispers pointing back the way we came. "We just came from there." I whisper as Kenji points out some lights in the distance. "Over there. Yacht party for the win." Kenjis celebration draws the attention of the Ouranosaurs as they are pushing on the ACU container. "Go, go!" I yell out as the others bolt to the dock. The container is pushed so violently that it tips over the edge and falls into the water. Goddamn it, there goes all that good gear that we could have used. I run to the dock and hear the Ouranosaurs behind me. Kenji throws some hand held firecrackers, scaring the dinosaur from its chase.

"Good thinking." I say as I drag him to the boat. "We need to plug this hole. Can you do anything with this tape?" Darius says as he hands Brooklynn over some duct tape. "Only everything! Quick find anything to fill the hole!" Brooklynn shouts out. We begin looking for anything, planks, clothes, towels whatever. We pass some clothes and hats to Darius as he begins filling the hole. The calls of the Ouranosaurus alert us that they are not yet deterred. "Hurry up down there!" I yell out from the bridge. "They're coming!" Sammy shouts out fearfully. "Get us out of here!" Darius yells as I turn the engine over and full throttle reserve off the dock. I swing the boat around to get distance from the dock. "Everyone alright!" I scream out to the others below. "We're all good Ryan!" Yaz shouts out. I push the throttle onto full gear. The boat speeds from the dock. I feel a bump that nearly sends me to the floor. What the fuck was that. "Oh, they can swim?" Sammy shouts out. Great, perfect, just what we need. Swimming dinosaurs. I try to drive faster but the boat is at a steady pace, I don't want to waste all the fuel that we have.

Suddenly I feel a lurch from the back of the boat. The boat is already uneven with Bumpy on broad, with the Ouranosaurs, oh hell nah. I'm starting to get pissed off at these hadrosaurs. "Get...those...motherfucking...dinos...off...my...motherfucking...boat!" I shout out to the others. All of a sudden, I hear fireworks. What the fuck is going on? I kill the engine as soon as the extra weight gets off. I walk outside and see everyone with firework shooters in their hands, shooting out to the sky or to the Ouranosaurs. The animals turn tail and swim back towards the shore. "Bye-bye, swimming dinos!" Sammy cheers. We all cheer, that one was to close for comfort.

The next morning comes. I look down to see Sammy, Yaz and Ben joking on how Ben and Yaz played Sammy into thinking that Bumpy didn't like her. Funny...but cruel...but still funny. I walk over to Darius, Brooklynn and Kenji. "I killed the engine last night so we are adrift for the time being. We'll need a plan on what to following from the debacle last night." I say but Darius has a confused look on his face. "It doesn't make any sense. First Compies abandon camp and then peaceful herbivores take over a dock...a place they shouldn't even care about!" Darius says with confusion. "Things are definitely getting next level weird." Brooklynn puts in. "Yeah, 'dinos never go bonkers at Jurassic World', said no one ever." Kenji says putting off concerns. I shake my head. "Something is definitely up, dinosaurs don't act like monsters, they're just animals, the Ouranosaurs had no business being at the dock and they fiercely tried to kill us because of supposed territory. Why should they care about the dock, it offers nothing. They were there for a reason and to be honest... I'm scared as to find out why." I say which the others get fearful looks as the three of us gaze back at the island. What is going on?