"So, what now?" Kenji asks while they all are sitting at the docks.
"For now, I think we should look for a safe place to rest and recover." 10k suggests, looking at Yasmina's hurt foot.
"I'm OK, really." Yaz insists.
"Sure you are." Brooklynn says sarcastically, tapping her left foot with her own, making Yasmina grunt in pain.
"10k is right. We're all exhausted. We won't make another day on our own here without getting some rest first." Darius agrees.
"I think we should check out the dock management and the reception buildings." 10k says pointing to two white structures at the dock.
"Yeah. They seem to be in good condition." Brooklynn agrees, the group getting up with Brooklyn and 10k supporting Yasmina on either side.
The group heads over to the two buildings, peering inside, either building not being big enough to fit the whole group.
"Well, looks like we're going to split up for the night. Here Kenji. You take one group and I take one." 10k says, offering his spare knife to the teen.
"Why me?" He grumbles, accepting the weapon.
"Because after me and Yaz when, she's healed you're the strongest one of the group." He tells the teen.
"Alright." Kenji says proudly.
"I'll go with Kenji." Darius offers, stepping over to the dock management building.
"Come on 10k. We're with you." Yasmina says, hopping over to him with Brooklynn.
"Looks like you're with us then Sammy." Darius says happily, trying to cheer up the girl, who's still trying to win back Yasmina's friendship.
"Alright." She says saddened, looking after Yasmina with Brooklyn noticing this.
"Let's go girls." 10k says lifting Yasmina up in front of him, walking towards the reception building which is slightly bigger than the other one.
"I can still walk on one foot." Yasmina protests, blushing.
"I know, just humor me. We just got stranded on an island full of man-eating dinosaurs." 10k says.
"Way to stay positive." Brooklynn remarks, looking at them a bit jealously.
The three enter the building and look around quickly, finding no real resources, however.
10k gets the small blanket they found and hands it to Brooklyn after leaning Yasmina against a wall.
"Thanks. Won't you or Yaz need it though?" Brooklyn says, accepting the blanket, brushing some hair behind her ear.
"We'll be fine." He answers with a small smile, before he moves over to Yasmina and lies his backpack down against the wall. He lies his head down on it and pulls Yasmina down to him, making her lie down on top of him. Yasmina blushes embarrassed but still wraps his hands around her stomach, leaning back into his chest, feeling the slight vibrations when he takes a breath.
Brooklynn sits down against the wall to their left, watching them enviously, covering herself as much as she can with the blanket, shivering slightly, more due to her being scared than cold.
"Brooklynn, come." He offers, holding his hand out to her, Yasmina looking at him and the pinkette behind her.
The internet sensation accepts the hand and lies down to their left, one of his arms wrapped around her while Brookylnn drapes the blanket over all of their lower bodies.
"We need to be careful not to get too cold." He tells the two girls.
"I made a video on this. Sharing body heat is both important and efficient." Brooklynn says snuggling closer to the boy she has a crush on.
"Let's get some rest." He says yawning and closes his eyes, his breathing evening out soon after with him in a light slumber.
"I know what you're doing you know and I'm not giving him up that easily." Yasmina says into the dark room.
"I know and I'm not exactly happy about how I feel either. He's not even my type. I usually like the sophisticated, distinguished type." Brooklynn sighs.
"I don't know. For some reason, he just makes me feel all giddy and special." Brooklynn adds.
"Don't you always feel special Mrs. I'm a star." Yasmina teases.
"It's a different kind of special. A better one." Brooklynn tells the sporty girl, before both fall in silence and asleep soon after.
|The next morning|
"Would you look at that. Mr. Hero's getting the girls. What about Kenji?" The asian teen says disappointed, seeing Yaz and Brooklynn snuggling with him.
"Wake up guys." Darius says, shaking them awake.
"We should get moving. It's dawn." Darius tells them.
"Right." 10k says, three of them getting up, 10k groaning painfully while doing so.
"What's up are you hurt?" Darius asks concerned.
"Just a bruised back I think. Got knocked around too often yesterday." 10k says, with Brooklynn pulling off his flak vest and pulls up the back of his shirt, revealing a bruised right shoulder an a large blue bruise in the middle of his back, as well as one on his left hip.
"Man what did you do? I mean the large one surely is from Toro flinging you against the wall. But the others look pretty nasty too." Kenji says, sympathetically.
"Can we just go? If Kenji can carry my backpack for now I'll be fine." 10k says stoically, pulling his shirt back down.
"Yeah. Sure." Darius agrees reluctantly.
"Make sure you don't lose it." 10k tells Kenji, throwing his back to the teen.
"Yeah yeah." Kenji replies.
"How's your foot?" 10k asks Yasmina.
"It's OK. I'll be OK if we find me a stick or something." Yasmina tells him with a guilt-stricken face, remembering how he carried her around half the day yesterday and now his back is so bruised.
"Good. Everyone hold an eye out for something to help yaz then." 10k says, leading the group outside.
"Don't beat yourself up. I'm pretty sure the bruise on his hip is from when he tackled me out of the way from Toro. He got hurt protecting all of us, it's not your fault." Brooklynn tells her love rival while helping her walk with Sammy also helping her.
"Brookylnn is right. And the bruise on the shoulder is mine and Darius fault. Afterall if you didn't save us back then he wouldn't have had to help you." Sammy adds.
"Thanks guys. But you didn't have him carry you around all day yesterday." Yasmina says.
"He wasn't hurt then though. At least not much." Brooklynn says.
"Still. I don't like being a burden on any of you. Especially not the guy I'm starting to like." Yasmina tells them.
"He's fine. Come on or else the boys will leave us behind." Brooklynn says, speeding up.
"Alright, what do we do now?" Darius asks the group when they reached the edge of the jungle.
"We should try to find a way to get help soon. After that we can look for Ben and shelter." 10k suggests, cutting off some sticks of a long branch so Yasmina can use it.
"He's right." Brookylnn agrees.
"But how do we get help?" Sammy asks.
"Isn't there some kind of backup power system so we can call someone?" Kenji asks hopefully.
"There is. It got destroyed though." 10k tells him.
"How do you know?" Kenji asks.
"Well for one, no light here is on. If the backup system runs emergency lights are on all over the Isle and secondly I saw some dinos focus on the station when we passed it with the monorail." 10k tells them, handing Yasmina the staff with her accepting it with a happy smile.
"Great. So what do we do guys?" Brookylnn asks.
"Mainstreet. If there's any working technology around it'd be there right?" Darius asks.
"It is worth a shot. While I don't know about an official equipment, we could get lucky and find a left behind phone." 10k agrees with Darius.
"Alright then to main street." Kenji says walking off in a random direction.
"Wait up, give me the map." 10k tells him and Kenji gets the map out of Ben's hip bag.
"We're here. Mainstreet is there. The direct route leads directly through carnivore territory, meaning even if those gates are working we're in danger. I think this route could work however." 10k suggests, trailing a path along the shoreline before moving to the middle, where main street is.
"Isn't this way better? Because if we go there, we're passing through an area with pretty territorial dinos." Darius informs them, suggesting a different path.
"Right of course." Kenji says.
"Alright. You know these creatures better than any of us. Lead the way." 10k agrees, giving Darius the map.