Cargo Ship

The hurricane was kicking in full force. Lightning was flashing across the sky every few seconds, and rain seemed to be flying in parallel to the ground. Peregrine was beginning to have a hard time keeping his footing on the sleek metal deck of the cargo ship. As of yet he hadn't run into any humans, but he wasn't letting his guard down just yet. Reker had told him the people on the ship would be well armed, so the lone raptor assumed that meant they were equipped with lethal weapons.

Halfway across the deck of the ship, Peregrine noticed that the giant boat was lined with moving cranes, probably running on their own, and most of them were holding wooden platforms by cables. Since the cranes held the platforms up so high they made great vantage points. Peregrine jumped up 10 feet to the nearest wooden platform. It wobbled slightly at first, but the velociraptor found a balance to shift his weight to so the platform was stable.

Several streaks of lightning flashed horizonatally across the darkened sky at once, illuminating much more of the ship than the previous streaks. Within that brief second of light as bright as day Peregrine saw what lay ahead of him.

"Oh saifang." Peregrine cursed. An uncountable number of men were scattered in all different positions across the boat. Some were on platforms like him while others walked along huge red, blue, and green metal crates that lined the entire ship, and others still walked along the deck of the ship. Each was holding some kind of gun-like weapon or another. Peregrine recognized the electrical guns' blue, red, green, and yellow sparks from when he was in the deinonychus enclosure, but the other weapons he weren't as familiar with. One man, he noticed, had a rather big tube like piece of metal on his shoulder. "Best to avoid as many of these guys as possible and keep fights to a minimum." As soon as he said that another line of branching lightning streams flashed into life, exposing the dark silhouette of his menacing figure to a man standing on a metal platform underneath a crane not 30 feet away from him. Just as Peregrine's luck, the man was facing the lone raptor right at that moment. Fear flashed across the man's face right before he notified everyone within earshot of the raptor's presence.

"RAPTOR! RAPTOR, ON DECK SECTION E!" The man yelled in panic as he hurridly descended the ladder from the metal platform to the deck to regroup with the other humans.

"So much for keeping it stealthy." Peregrine whined.

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"KEEPER OF THE TEMPLES!" Kenduari roared out in ferocity into the Ancient Ruins of Jurassic Park, "Present yourself this instant!"

"Wai ler rek." Reker's voice echoed with question more than a statement in the Ancient Saurilied language through the maze of pyramids and stone work. Though the storm raged even through the interior of the island, Reker's conversational tone was still easily heard by Kenduari as if he was standing right next to her.

"Ofcourse, I am upset!" Kenduari swiveld her head in search of the Spinosaurus. His voice seemed to be coming from no particular place, but everywhere at once as well. Blinding lightning struck a tree several yards from Kenduari, cutting a crackled split into the plant; though she was blinded for that moment, the rex did not flinch. When her vision returned, Reker was leaning against a tree directly across from her.

"Wai xai qiel wair Primeval sa eix primecal riend ot plaer velos." Reker stated in his calm tone.

"The speed of my arrival is not the matter I came to discuss." Kenduari growled impatiently. "Why did you interrupt my conversation with Featherclaw?" Kenduari demanded, taking a step closer to the much larger carnivore.

"Etinifi nos toth pallel." Reker sighed. "Wao xai nos loacks aog eix gruag traeix Suns oun rex scail."

"DO NOT LECTURE ME IN THE ANCIENT TOUNGE, KEEPER!" Kenduari shifted into her Primeval out of rage. "What I could have told him may have saved all of Saurilied kind!"

"Wai ler yarung."The Keeper of the Temples stated. The T-rex let anger get the better of her, and rushed torward Reker at blindling speed that even rivaled a raptor. She spun and swung her tail, aiming for the spinosaur's long crocodile snout. Reker made no move to defend his self, but just stood there. Right before Kenduari made contact, another blinding flash of lightning occured. The rex felt her tail crash into the bark of a pine tree, uprooting it and knocking over. Reker was no longer there.

"I AM NOT WRONG!" The female alpha rex bellowed with the thunder.

"Testioun eix eldanreal tra Ansestor Lel eons tra Earth lynepi?" Reker questioned sarcastically while mockingly raising his head feathers as if to show flase interest. Kenduari spun on her heels to see Reker a distance behind her. She took notice of his mocking.

"We could save Saurilied lives by telling them more." Kenduari roared and prepared to charge once more.

"WAO DOUM DEITOPLEA!" Reker bellowed over the storm as he slammed a massive clawed hand into the ground. His huge claws dug deep into the earth. Despite her increased speed, Kenduari was still slower than the Spinosaurus. Before she could even move, giant roots shot up from the ground around her body, leaving her very little wiggle room to move. The roots became entangled with vines as thick as a ankylosaurs club tail, closing off Kenduari from escaping her foliage constructed prison. Only a small gap was left for her to peer out of off to see Reker. The spinosaur pulled his claws from the ground, and stood tall.

"We cannot simple sit by and watch our world burn!" Kenduari slammed into the sides of her prison to no avail.

"Nos wao baeg doum." Reker spoke calmly.

"Then what would you have me do? NOTHING!" Kenduari growled.

"Thousands of years old is my age." Reker said in modern day Saurilied. "But I do not claim to be a sage." The ancient Spinosaurus leaned against a tree to make himself comfortable before he continued. "Wisdom and knowledge, I have, yes. And I control them with the skills I have best."

"What do you riddle this? I comprehend none." Kenduari settled herself enough to listen to the spinosaur closely since he had switched to speaking in modern day Saurilied.

"What I mean is we can't control eveything. We must only guide others to the right bearing. If we pointed to the exact direction all the time, then by the nature of others our advice would be declined. The Sons seek help, and so we gave what we could. But just because they ask for more doesn't mean that we should." Reker lectured. Kenduari thought for a long while. The only sounds were the rustling leaves of trees as they blew in the hurricane winds, and the constant pelting of rain against their leaves.

"I will reflect on this piece of wisdom." Kendauri said with honesty. Reker nodded his approval at her understanding. The Keeper of the Temples let loose an earth shaking roar that could be heard clear across the island, and with its power the huge roots and vines recceded back into the ground and trees from which they came. The large alpha rex shook her body and stretched.

"Guide the Sons, they will need you. As well as all of Saurilied kind will too." Reker proclaimed. His eyes flashed with a bright green glow, and in that instant he vanished from sight. It was as if he disappeared into nature itself.

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Peregrine jumped from platform to platform that the cranes held up to avoid gunfire from the humans below him, but their numbers were overwhelming. When he landed on a metal paltform below a crane a soldier was standing there ready to greet him with a rocket launcher. Peregrine wasted no time in kicking the man off the edge of the small walking platform into his fellow soldiers below. Unfortunately, when he fell and knocked over three other men, his rocket went off and exploded beneath the metal under Peregrines feet. The lone raptor fell through the open hole the rocket had left and into the crowd of armed humans. Everyone jumped back and ceased firing for a few seconds. The raptor lay on the ground; unmoving.

"Is it dead?" On man asked.

"I don't know. Why don't you check it out?" Another asked sarcastically.

"Yeah, right, like I'm that stupid." The previous man responded. "Someone chuck a grenade at it or something."

"Plan A: Play dead...failed." Peregrine thought. "Plan B: Fight and flight...start." A primal screech tore through the air as Peregrine spun to his feet. He spun on his back in a circle, swiping anyone within range of his tail or feet, sending them sailing into their comrades. The movement took all the nearby humans by surprise, and gave the swift footed predator the oppurtunity to take an attack stance. When the men that were left standing regained their compusre they were very hesistant to attack. They had poor visibility compared to the raptor they were attacking, especially with the rain pounding their faces. Only the occassional flash of plasma across the darkened night sky revealed the raptor to be crouched low with its killing claws raised at the ready. "Fine, I'll make the first move." Peregrine growled impatiently. He dashed to his left down a narrow passage between two metal crates. Gunfire and electricity erupted behind him. The quick raptor kick-jumped of the side of the left crate and landed on top of the right one, barely avoiding a stream of yellow electicity that passed by his torso.

For the moment, Peregrine was safe. He knew no human could make the jump he just performed, and since all the soldiers in the area were below him they wouldn't be able to reach him. Peregrine ran along the metal crates with a smug look of satisfaction on his face when something he noticed wiped it completely off. He stopped running and chanced a look over the side of the giant metal container.

"There's no one following me." The velociraptor instantly went into high alert. "That can only mean something bad is about happen." He chuckled to himself.

"No shit, lizard brain." Someone responded over some sort of intercom. He scanned the area for the culprit; nothing, though it was getting harder to see due to the increase in rain.

"Show yourself, so I can cram whatever device your using to amplify your voice up your-" Peregrine began, but was interrupted by a powerful push of wind he believed to be from the hurricane. He braced his claws into the metal container to avoid slipping off into the freezing ocean below. Once the wind subsided he was able to regain his footing and see the true culprit behind the push. Not 30 feet ahead of him, hovering 10 feet above the metal crates was what humans called a helicopter. He had seen them land outside the Deinonychus enclosure many times, but never one up so close. And from the what Peregrine could guess, it was armed to the teeth with those tubes that fired rockets. "This thing must be a serious threat if it can fly in this weather."

"It's more than just a threat, it's your demise!" The pilot of the helicopter announced over the intercom. Through the glass cockpit Peregrine could see his uniform was similar but differed from the soldiers. Many more medals and colorful ribbons adorned his attire.

"You...you understand me?" Peregrine backed away, preparing to sprint at a moments notice. Since when did humans understand Saurilied? "Your species is too young to understand this language."

The man in the helicopter sighed. "I can't believe I'm about to have this conversation with a lizard." He thought. "You see, you weren't the only ones watching their enemies. Some of our higher up InGen scientists noticed how all you dinosaurs could communicate despite species difference, so they came to the conclusion you all had a common language. Seems they were right." A irratating high-pitched tone sounded as a missle took lock onto the lone raptor.

"But still...humans can't-" Peregrine started. He was beginning to lose his nerve.

"Don't flatter yourself. We built a translator into this machine. Its a prototype, but it works well enough." The man chuckled. He started laughing maniacally. As if on cue a flash of lightning came to life in the background of the sky. "Just so you know, I hate your species the most. I hated raptors on Isla Sorna, and I hate raptors here." His hate-filled declaration, sparked something inside of the lone velociraptor. A scowl crossed his jaws and Peregrine felt his nerve and resolve return tenfold, and with it his anger rose to new levels. "Now die!" The man pushed a button in the helicopter and the irratating tone ceased, but a missle came spiraling directly toward the small carnivore.

"SCREW YOU!" Peregrine snapped into his Rampage, and quickly disappeared from view. The missle lost lock and crashed into the container on which the raptor once stood.

"What the hell just happened? Where'd he go?" The man questioned. A tap on the side of the cockpit glass got his attention.

"Looking for me?" Peregrine smirked, sitting on the right wing of the helicopter. He stood up and taunted the man by making awkward faces at him. Right before the man had a chance to shake the raptor off, Peregrine jumped off to the side of the machine and kicked it with as much force as he could muster. The helicopter swayed for a few feet but other than that it didn't more suffer more than a small dent, much to Peregrine's suprise. The shock must have been on his face because the human commented on it.

"Suprised? Our scientists knew about that little power ability with your lysine your species has too." The man laughed with joy when he heard the velociraptor roar in fury. He fired his machine gun at the dinosaur and began to chase him down the ship along the metal cargo containers. "This helicopter was designed with that in mind as well."

"Great! Just Great! Rampage's power won't help me here. It's only good now because of the disappearing dashes it allows me to make, and those will tire me out if I use them too much." Peregrine complained in his mind. He glanced over his shoulder. The helicopter with the insane, racist lunatic piloting it was hot his tail and still firing at him. "And even in this hurricane this thing is still able to keep up with me!" Though the strong winds weren't helping Peregrine's speed much either. The irratating tone from the helicopter locking on brought Peregrine back to reality just in time for him to hear several missiles launch behind him. He didn't know how many there were, but he wasn't going to turn around to find out either.

As the first two missles were going to land on the raptor he disappeared to avoid them, only to reappear much further ahead along the line of containers. A set of three then flew at him from behind, and from the sides. They close rapidly on him, but Peregrine skidded to a stop, and slid behind and under them as they collided into a firey explosion of light and heat in front of him. He had little time to disappear again as a second wave of three slammed into the spot he stopped, but managed to pull it off. Again, he was now sprinting a little further ahead of the helicopter tailing him.

"What the hell is this thing doing, teleporting?" The frustrated man in the cockpit said through clenched teeth. He locked onto the theropod for a third time. This time he was going to make sure he buried him.

Peregrine heard the irratating tone once more. Another missle sailed straight for him from behind. The lone raptor easily avoided this one by jumping down between the metal containers. He glanced back as the missle exploded. When he turned to face the right direction he was taken off guard by the another missle crashing down directly into the part of deck of the ship that lay in his path. Peregrine was met with a wave of heat and pressure unlike anything he had felt before, and then everything went black.

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Zeal's senses snapped him out of his meditative state. His eyes opened, and his irises immediately dialated to the brighter light that filled the entire cargo area. All the emergency lights in the ship had activated. He stood up from his sitting position on a wooden crate and leapt to the ground. He could smell the increase in human activity below the deck of the ship, and the scent of...

"Another raptor in Rampage." Zeal grinned devilishly. He clinked his sickle-like toe claws against the cold metal. "Finally, a decent battle has arrived." Zeal walked further into the cargo hold, anticipating the bought with this new arrival. "I think I will let them come to me. My instincts tell me that is the reason why they have come." The Rampage crazy raptor smirked in satisfaction as he perched himself atop a metal walkway above a ladder. "I can't wait."

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Peregrine pushed himself off the floor and rose to his feet slowly. He was no longer in his Rampgae state. He assumed the powerful explosion from that weapon must have briefly stunned him long enough to knock him out of it...if that even was possible. The small carnivore felt rain still pouring down on his tail but not the rest of his body which caused him to gaze up. There was a 20 foot hole in the ceiling above him, most likely due to the explosion, which also meant that Peregrine was beneath the deck of the ship. He was one step closer to finding Zeal. In a wierd way, it was in part due to the crazy human in the helicopter. The lone raptor would have probably been seraching for an entrance to the ship's lower parts for awhile. He could still hear the helicopter's blades whirring outside in the hurricane. The human must still have been searching for him.

"I swear, by Nexcreeg's head feathers, I'm going to disembowel that guy next time we meet." Peregrine grumbled as he stretched forward, much like a dog, would to loosen himself up. "Time to track little bro." Peregrine sniffed the air, walls, and floor for any scent that might indicate a raptor other than him was aboard. He wished Zeal was with him to help. Wiesen had told him a few times that Zeal was probably the best tracker on the island; though if Zeal was with him that would defeat the purpose for trying to track him. "Arrgh, too much thinking, not enough tracking." Peregrine complained to his self.

The lone raptor kept his head low to the ground as he tried to pick up a scent while jogging through the surprisingly wide corridors of the ship. He stopped every now and then to lift his head high into the air to smell the surrounding scents. Whenever he would catch the scent of several people down a hallway Peregrine would turn down a random corridor and continue his quest for the scent of another velociraptor. Just when he was starting to doubt that he was making any progress, two exciting scents wafted past his nose.

"Zeal!" Peregrine barked out. He couldn't be 100 percent sure, but the scent did seem vaguely familiar, like it was an old scent he hadn't inhaled in years. The second smell, however, wasn't as familiar but was equally exciting. It smelled of a raw ecstacy. Luckliy, both scents pointed in the same direction which Peregrine eagerly follwed. He trotted down another corridor, but abruptly stopped when he bumped into something.

"Hey, watch it." The something spoke in the human language. "Oh my God!"

"Oh, crud." Peregrine shook his head as he stared into the face of a single human soldier. The lone man was about to scream for help, but the raptor was much faster. In a split second he had the man by his throat within his jaws, cutting off his airway. In a singular motion, the strong bird of prey whipped his head in a semi-circular motion instantly snapping the soldiers neck and killing him. Peregrine let go of the dead man's blood soaked throat to let him fall to the ground.

Approaching footsteps sounded down the hallway as they moved towards the direction Peregrine and the dead man were in. "They're definitely not going to believe this was an accident. Especially with teeth marks like that in his throat." Peregrine licked his jaws of the remaining blood, and sped off in the opposite direction to where the scents of Zeal and the other suspicious thing lay. Not too long after he left the scene of his small scuffle, yellow lights started to swirl in their placements on the wall.

"Breach in the main hull! Biological breach in the main hull!" A panicked announcement came over an intercom. "Exterminate biological threat on sight! I repeat, exterminate on sight!"

"Jerk." Peregrine fumed under his breath at the announcement. After the man left the intercom he could her rushing footsteps through the halls. He smelled humans coming from every direction. He scanned the area for any exit possible; not even worrying about the scent of his brother and the mystery thing anymore. The raptor's eyes landed on a closed metal door with a wheel in the middle. He had never learned about how to open a door like that before, but he'd try anything to escape at the moment. He inspected the wheel hastily as the footsteps grew louder, and the shouts of men came into earshot. "How does this stupid thing work." Peregrine pushed it, pulled it, twisted it back and forwth, and even tried biting it; nothing. Soldiers armed with red electrical sparks at the end of their guns ran around corners and into view.

"There it is!" The one in lead of a group shouted as he took aim and fired. Peregrine ducked to avoid the stream of unnatural lightning, causing it strike into a person running around from the other corner. He dropped dead without a single noise.

"Screw this!" Peregrine hissed as he changed into his Rampage form and kicked the wheel from the side. The blow knocked it clean off the door and made it ricochet into the man who fired his electric weapon. He fell backwards into his fellow soldiers, knocking them over in the process. The swift raptor bolted through the door and slammed it shut behind him with a swat of his tail. He saw a metal crate as tall as his self when he ran through the door a few yards away. Quickly, he ran to it and began shoving it towards the broken door. It was really heavy, but Peregrine managed to push it against the door in time to stop the men from getting through. The men on the other side of the door hit the door trying to get through, but failed miserably. Sastisfied with the results, Peregrine left his Rampage. He knew if it was heavy for him in his Rampage, then it definitely was too heavy to move for a group of humans. With a huff of pride Peregrine turned to see what was in the room he had just entered.

The bird of prey's eyes were met with hundreds of other pairs of eyes staring at him. Every human in the large room covered in thin layers of ice was staring at the lone velociraptor a top a metal platform. No one moved. Peolple in the middle of the 50 yard long freezer room stood bent over frozen in place where they should have been picking up boxes that were rolling off a conveyor belt. People walking across suspended bridges from platform to platform above the raptor had stopped as well to look at it. And even the the workers just lounging around had stopped playing cards and such to stare at the raptor. Every single person had stopped what they were doing in shock at the dinosaur.

The pause gave Peregrine time to overlook everything. Peope were wearing puffy blue coats and had scarves around their necks and mouths. Ice covered just about everything, including the floor and platforms. Peregrine spotted what he was scanning for though. A door on ther side of the room was in front of the farthest suspended bridge. He wondered if he could reach it without freaking everyone into a panicked frenzy. Peregrine opted to test the humans to see what they would do if he made the first move since no one had yet to move at all.

"Uh, Hi?" Peregrine literally chirped quietly to the people. In one swift motion, everyone in the room reached behind their backs and aimed their blue electrical sparked guns at the velociraptor; even the workers out of range did too. An eletrical whirring noise filled the room as everyone simultaneously charged their weapons. "Why me?" Peregrine whined.

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Zeal sat up with a start when he heard the door to the cargo hold slam shut. It was followed by the sound of metal scraping metal. Apparently someone was moving one of the metal crates near the door. This made the raptor smile. No human could move those crates without mechanized help. The other raptor must have found his way into the cargo hold. Zeal hopped down from his perch on the walkway to find his new opponent.

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Peregrine barely avoided being fried half to death by electricity. He made it across the frozen room, escaping with minimal injury. He wouldn't have been hit at all if it weren't for the ice that covered the entire room making him slip on every jump, turn, and leap he made. At the moment, he was just glad the door had a crate next to it so the humans couldn't follow him.

"Is everyone on this boat equipped with weapons? Sheesh!" Peregrine exhaled relief. He traveled further into his new enviroment. He surveyed the new area with eyes, ears, and nose. Other than the occasional group of crates here and there, there was not much in the large room. However, the two smells that Peregrine had designated as Zeal and the wierd thing seemed to be emanating from further within the room, which meant, "I'm in the bowels of the ship."

"You are correct." Peregrine was taken off gaurd by the voice of another dinosaur somewhere behind him. He spun on the spot searching for the owner, but no one was in sight. "It's called a cargo hold to be accurate." Again, the voice seemed to originate behind Peregrine, but this time Peregrine turned fast enough to see a shadow dart between two crates behind him.

"Zeal?" Peregrine questioned, cautiously approaching the crates. Suddenly, he felt himself kicked from the rear into between the crates he had be gazing down. He recovered with haste and popped his head up to confront the perpatraitor, but all that greeted him was a sinister chuckle. The not so lone raptor put his head on a swivel as he walked into a more open area. "Zeal?" Peregrine questioned with a little more confidence this time. "I am your brother, Peregrine Featherclaw." He waited for a response, but the only reply was silence. "We are brothers, Zeal. Born of the same parents and pack. I am here to help you."

"So you know my name." Zeal finally responded, but from where was a mystery to Peregrine. It wasn't until a raptor in full on Rampage crashed down into the floor in front of him, forcing him to stop in his tracks, that Peregrine realized Zeal was in the platforms above his head. Zeal kept posed after his landing. His stance was wide and his snout pointed to the ground. A severe two foot dent in the steel floor had formed at Zeal's feet upon his landing. "But what proof do you have that you are any blood relation of mine." The raptor finally lifted his head to meet Peregrine eye to eye. Recognition flashed across both predators' faces.

"My word should be good enough." Peregrine steeled himself. He slowly began to ease his body into a defensive stance, as not to provoke an attack right away. "I remember your scent, even after all these years. Therefore, I know you must remember mine...Broxtie." Peregrine spoke the Ancient Saurilied term for 'brother'. Zeal narrowed his blood-red eyes. His sickle toe claws scraped acrossed the floor.

"Even if your claim is true, you still mean nothing more to me than an opponent to test my superior skill...Broxtie." Zeal mocked. He took a stance of attack with his tail high and head low.

"We can do this the easy way where you cooperate with me, or we can do this the hard way where I kick your tail from one side of this ship to the other." Peregrine slid his left foot back and right foot forward to broaden his manueverability. Zeal smirked at the gesture, and suddenly vanished from sight into thin air. "I guess we're doing this the hard way!" Peregrine snapped into his Rampage with a burst of intense energy.

Me: Kenduari knows Reker? InGen has a device that understands dinosaurs? Where's Grant? And Peregrine finally found Zeal. (Yeah, sorry if you read this thing before you read the chapter. I kinda screwed you over, lol. Sorry.) I think a lot of confusing stuff happens in this one, but I'll leave that to you to decide. Everything will make sense eventually, though. I-

Zeal: Quick question.

Me: Yes?

Zeal: What is the whole deal behind the disappearing acts me and Peregrine do?

Me & Peregrine: Seriously?

Zeal: Uhh, yeah.

Peregrine: Your joking right? We both do it all the time in Rampage.

Zeal: ...

Me: *sigh* I'll explain, since it's vaguely described in the story anyway. You are moving at an unseeable speed by the naked eye. It's like an extremely fast super dash.

Zeal: Pretty sweet, dude.

Me: That's something I would expect Peregrine to say.

Peregrine: That was something I was going to say too.

Me: Ooookay. Back to what I was saying before...I tried to write the conversation between Reker and Kenduari in extensive Ancient Language dialouge. I wanted to show just how fluently it could be spoken.

Kenduari: I think you did a pretty awesome job on that. It was really cool.

Me: ...Again, this is something I would expect to hear from Peregrine.

Peregrine: And again, it was something that I was going to say. What is with you guys today?

Zeal & Kenduari: *shrugs*

Me: It may have been the pie we ate earlier. It does...things to them.

Peregrine: Creepy.

Me: I know, right? One of you is bad enough.

Peregrine: *Growls*

Me: Haha...Hey, how about you close out this time. The other two seem a little out of it.

Peregrine: Alright... Hey readers! How are you! Peregrine here.

Me: Way too corny, dude.

Peregrine: Fine, fine. Hey guys, since Derrick is being a jerk-

Me: HEY!

Peregrine: Chill dude, I'm just kidding. But seriously, we all want to thank you for reading our stories to this point. It makes us all happy that this story of humble beginnings has so many readers. I thank you for your favs, alerts, reviews and especially your time. Which I know is very valuable to you. I hope that you guys continue to read further chapters, for even when this book ends the adventure will be far from over. You won't believe who-

Me: Alright, alright, don't start giving stuff away before I even have a chance to post it. *shoves Peregrine away*