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I awoke to the sound of Lex's irritating scream of "Go away!". I yawned and shielded my eyes from the morning sun to look at what poor innocent creature she was likely screaming at.

"It's ok, it's ok," Dad said to her. "It's a brachiosaur." I groaned, she saw them last night!

"It's a veggie-saurus, Lex, veggie-saurus," Tim said loudly.

"Veggie," Lex breathed.

Dad lifted up a branch and held it out to her. "Come on. Come on, baby."

The brachiosaur stared him down and let out a loud bellow. Only then, did she take hold of the branch.

"Yo! Alright!" Dad exclaimed as he kept hold of the branch. "I'm not letting go!" He brought her closer to us. He, Tim and I petted her gently on her muzzle as she lazily chewed.

"Looks like it has a cold," Tim observed.

"Yeah, maybe," Dad said.

"Can I touch it?" Lex asked.

"Sure. Just think of it as... kind of a big cow."

"I like cows," Lex said. As she extended her hand, the brachiosaur moved her head back. Lex climbed further up on the branch above us. "Hey, come on, girl. Come on up here, girl."

The brachiosaur looked at her, then let out a tremendous sneeze, covering Lex in snot.

Tim climbed up behind her. "God bless you!" He called out.

I started cackling.

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"Yuck!" Lex said for about the tenth time since we'd started walking.

"Oh, great, now she'll never try anything new," Tim groaned. "She'll just sit in her room and never come out and play on her computer."

"I'm a hacker!" Lex snapped.

"That what I said. You're a nerd."

"I'm not a computer nerd. I prefer to be called a hacker."

I sighed and rolled my eyes, those two could argue over anything. I went to look how Dad was handling their bickering and stopped. "'ey!" I waved for the two of them to follow me as I went back.

Dad was sitting in between two tree roots hunched over something. Sitting up, he held a broken shell up to show us. "You know what this is? It's a dinosaur egg. The dinosaurs... are breeding."

"But, my grandpa said all the dinosaurs were girls," Tim said as he took the shell.

"Amphibian D.N.A," Dad said in realization.

"What's that?" Lex asked.

"Well, on the tour, the film said they used frog D.N.A to fill in the gene sequence gaps. They mutated the dinosaurs genetic code and blended it with that of a frogs. Now, some West African frogs have been known to spontaneously change sex from male to female in a single sex environment. Malcolm was right. Look," he pointed at the small, tiny and many footprints on the ground. "Life found a way."

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We were halfway through the clearing, and Lex and Tim were halfway done with their complaints.

"I'm tired, I'm hot."

"I'm dirty, my legs hurt."

"Just keep going, guys," Dad said, sounding exhausted himself. "The Visitors Center is just a mile over that rise."

"Oh, thank God," I moaned.

We stopped at the top of the hill as a flock of fast moving dinosaurs came from over the rise.

"What is that?" Dad asked. "Tim. Tim, can you tell me what they are?"

"Gr- ga, uh, uh, gala- uh, Gallimimus," Tim said.

"Are, are those, um, meat-eating? Um, meat-asaurusses?" Lex asked.

"Carnivores? no," I said.

"Look at the wheeling. Uniform direction changes just like a flock of birds evading a predator."

"They're, uh- They're flocking this way," I said as Lex, Tim and I began backing up. The four of us began running away as the gallimimus's came up over the hill. The flock squawked when they passed by us, each one swerving to avoid us as much as possible.

Dad grabbed mine and Lex's hands, and Lex grabbed Tim's. Jumping over a long fallen log, we hunkered down as the flock began leaping over it. Once they cleared out, we crawled under a groove and watched them from the other side of the log.

With a roar, the T-Rex erupted from the tree line and grabbed a gallimimus roughly in her jaws. The poor thing let out a pained cry as the Rex finished her kill.

"I wanna go now," Lex whispered.

"Look how it eats," Dad said, looking transfixed on the Rex. Even I was looking intently at her. Now that she wasn't focused on killing us, she was, indeed, beautiful. "I bet you never look at birds the same way again."

"Yes," Tim said.

"Go now," I said.

"Okay, keep low and follow me," Dad said as he got low to the ground and began crawling away. He turned back when Tim began to stand.

"Look how much blood..."

"Tim."

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The four of us stared up at the fence skeptically. Dad hopped onto the concrete divider and threw a stick at it. When nothing happened he turned to us with a shrug. "I guess that means the power's off," he said turning back. Slowly, he raised his hands and took hold of the fence.

We screamed in horror as he let out a yell and shook. He stopped and looked at us with a grin.

"That's not funny," I said staring him down.

"That was great," Tim laughed.

"Well, maybe, we could-" Dad began pulling at some of the wires when the Rex's roar sounded nearby. Lex, Tim and I looked back, then at each other before jumping onto the divider and started to climb the fence.

"Timmy, I bet I could climb over the top and be on the other side before you could get to the top," Lex said as we reached the halfway point.

"What would you give me?"

"Respect," I grunted.

"Come on, guys, it's not a race," Dad said as we reached the top. "Good. Here we go. Over the top." We swung ourselves over and began to climb down. "Take your time, Tim. That's good. Come on. Find your footing," he directed.

We reached the bottom just as an alarm began blaring from the fence. I looked up at Tim in a panic, he was still only halfway down.

"Timmy get down!" Lex cried.

"Tim! You have to jump!" Dad called up to him.

"You crazy? I'm not gonna jump!" Tim yelped.

"Do what Dr. Grant says!"

"I'm coming up. I'm coming up to get you," Dad called out as Lex grabbed me for comfort. Before he could reach it, the fence sparked and buzzed. Tim flew backwards and into Dad's waiting arms.

"Timmy! Timmy!" Lex shrieked as Dad began CPR. She clung to me crying as I stared wide eyed at him, not completely understanding what was happening.

"Tim! No, Tim!" Dad called before Tim began to cough. "Good boy. Good boy. Good boy, good boy, Tim."

"Three," Tim wheezed.

Only about two-three more chapters after this! Next chapter is officially the "final" chapter since it'll go up the end of the movie. But the ones after that will be follow up before the next installment. Anyways, let me know what you think!