Chapter 3
Loki looked around. He was surrounded by some animals that looked hungry. And he was their meal. But Loki just smirked,
"Stupid animals, you should know better than attack a god" he said, as he whispered the same spell he used on Heimdall. But nothing happened. Loki started to cold sweat, he tried with the spell again, but this time louder. Still not working. Why wasn't his magic working? Just then, one of the giant lizard/bird animal jumped on his back. But Loki managed to cut a deep wound on its neck, and get free from its grip. But just when the others were about to attack him, one of the animals that were more whiter than the others, started to make some strange noises, and suddenly they were all gone. What just happened? Loki looked around, shocked. Thinking of that this could have been his death, made him shiver. Eaten by some creepy animals. Loki walked over to a stone and sat down, so he could take a closer look on his injuries and heal them. But when he tried, it didn't work.
"Why doesn't my magic work here?" he sighed. Maybe it was something Thor had fixed on this place, just so that it would be much harder for Loki to find the tesseract? And those beasts... where they really necessary? Loki muttered. But the... beasts... were they actually communicating? In a more... human way? Not just growling to each other randomly, it seemed like they communicated in a more advanced way then the other animals. Loki looked around again, making sure they wouldn't show up again. But one thing was still buzzing around in his head: Why did they just leave him? Loki rose up, starting to make his search for the tesseract. He looked behind a giant rock that stood near there, and got a shocking sight. Another animal, pretty look alike the others that attacked him, but much bigger, was resting there. But unfortunately, Loki seemed to have catch the beast's attention, as it raised and made itself ready to rush towards him. It seemed to be around 6 meters high, and suddenly Loki recognized the creature, he had seen a painting of it in one of his books that he had when he was young. He still remembered the name. Tyrannosaurus Rex.
"Shit" it came out of the demigod's mouth.
"Ssh!" Thor suddenly said, putting one of his hands up to stop the others that was walking behind him. "I think I can hear something in the bush over there" he said and pointed towards a small bush that stood a couple of meters away from him.
"Oh please, this is like the 10th time you hear something in a bush" Natasha sighed and rolled her eyes.
"Well he can't help having a paranoia" Teased Tony. But Thor just ignored the comments and walked gently towards the bush. But there was nothing there. He sighed.
"I'm sure I heard something". The others just sighed and continued walking, but Steve walked past Thor saying."I think I take the lead now", which made Thor grumpy, and soon he was the last person in the lead, grumbling to himself as they were walking.
But what they didn't know, was that they were being stalked by some very small dinosaurs, also known as Compsognathus, or "Compy".
Loki ran. There was nothing else he could do, his magic was gone and staying would be suicide. Even if the T-Rex were much faster than him, Loki had one advantage. The environment were very crowded with trees, stones and bushes, so it was hard for the T-Rex to run fast. "All I have to do for now is to run in zigzages, until I find a place to hide" Loki thought, trying to calm down himself.
But the T-Rex wasn't far behind him, and when it roared all Loki's cockiness disappeared at once.
"What was that?" Thor said. This time, nobody started to tease him or saying he heard wrong, because now they could all hear it.
"It sounds like a T-Rex to me" Adam Hart said, as he pulled out a big rifle from his bag. Simon and Max did the same. Everyone looked nervous around, Natasha pulled out two guns, Clint took his arrow, Thor raised his hammer, Steve held his shield in a steady grip, and Tony was just about to put on his Iron Man suite, when he suddenly stopped.
"Thor... I think I found your little friends" He said, staring right at the many Compsognathus.
Loki kept on running, and the T-Rex came more and more closer to him. He ran through the high grass, jumped over stocks and stones, running zigzag around trees, but no matter what he did, the giant beast just came closer and closer.
The whole team was surrounded by the very small, but many, dinosaurs.
"They're called Compsognathus" Tony explained. "Everyone, cover your backs!" He shouted, and soon they were all standing in a circle, with their backs towards each others backs. Tony did another try to put on his suit and turn to Iron Man, but when he bent down some of the dinosaurs suddenly jumped on him. Surprised by the attack, Tony desperately tried to brush them of with the help from Bruce and Max that stood beside him. After they were all gone from Tony, the others tried to scare them away by making noises and shoot towards them, which helped, for awhile. But as fast as they stopped, the Compsognathus came towards them again.
"There must be thousands of them!" Natasha screamed.
Loki could feel the sweat drops run down his face. The Tyrannosaurus was almost right behind him now. If not a miracle would appear soon, he would soon be meal for the greedy animal. He ran through some high grass that was in his way, just to appear in a small glade there he found the last people he thought, or wished, he'd never see here.