Chapter 8: Rivers, Monsters, and Lotus?
Andi woke up in the morning, and to her surprise they were still in the water.
"Uh Buck?" She asked her half awake uncle.
"Huh?" was his reply.
"Look," She said and moved out of his sight to reveal a vast river.
"We should've been there by now," Buck said.
"Dad," Andi said to her slumbering father.
"Dad?" Andi said again.
"What?" Diego said opening his eyes.
"Look," She gasped seeing the water ripple.
"Buck, you have flying dinos, and land dinosaurs, right?" Diego said.
"Right," Buck said.
"Do you have any swimming dinosaurs?" Diego asked.
"You know, I'm not quite sure about that," Buck said and fell of the mast when something hit the boat.
"What was that?" Andi said worriedly. It hit the boat again.
"Buck?" Diego said.
Before Buck could answer there was a huge dinosaur infront of them. It was a teal color and had a snake like neck. It had razor sharp teeth that stuck out its top and bottom jaw when it's mouth was closed. It's eyes blood red and looking for a fight.
"Does that answer your question?" Buck asked looking up at the monster.
The monster roared right infront of their faces. Andi and Diego stood speechless.
"Is that all you got?" Buck said.
The monster lunged at Buck, but he dodged the huge jaws. Buck landed on the monster's head. He ran down it's neck making a few scratches with his knife, then jumoing off. Only to land on Andi.
"Get up!" Andi said and pushed Buck off. Buck got up and threw his knife at the monster. It stabbed the monster and it let out a painful roar. It dived down in the water.
"Was that it?" Andi asked.
"No, we just made it mad, and it took my knife with it too!" Buck said angrily.
"We need to keep moving," Andi said and started to paddle.
"Not with out my knife!" Buck said.
"Something tells me, that monster will be back," Diego said looking at the water, then turned his attention to Buck," Then you can get your knife."
"Alright, I just can't live without with it," Buck mumbled and started to paddle along with Diego and Andi.
"We have to go look for them," Shira said.
"We can't," Manny replied.
"what if we never see them again?" She said.
"We'll have to bare through it," that was Manny's final sentence before he and Shira walked oppisite directions into the woods. Leaving the rest of the herd in the home cave, shocked.
"Maybe she's right?" sid asked.
"I don't know but, both need to cool off," Ellie said.
"Do you think they will come back?" Sid asked.
"Diego is the most, stubborn, determined, and bravest saber I've ever met, right next to my sister, He will be back," Josh said.
"And Andi?" Sid asked.
"She's hard-headedand just like dad," Alex said.
"Buck?" Sid asked.
"He's awsome and he can figure his way though the dino world," Crash said with Eddie nodding.
"We should just wait, and sleep, Manny and Shira will come back," Ellie said and layed down.
"Daddy!" Andi yelled, as the monster picked her up by the scruff on her neck.
"Andi!" Diego yelled and jumped. Andi turned and scratched it's nose. the monster dropped her, and Diego cought her. Buck took his knife from the monster's neck and dove underwater. The monster was right on his tail. Buck saw a small cave and at the last moment right before the monster closed it's mouth, he pulled up and hid behined a plant. The monster rammed into the cave and got itself stuck. Buck swam up to the surface and called for Diego and Andi.
"Buck, we're comin'" Andi yelled.
"We should be safe for now," Buck said.
"Look we're almost there," Andi said.
"Paddle," Diego said and layed down on his stomach, and used both paws to paddle. Andi and Buck joined.
"Finally, we made it," Andi said tiredly.
"Come on, we gotta keep moving," Buck said.
"Buck, she's only a cub, she's not used to this," Diego said, his mind was telling him 'Why are you talking like Shira?'
"Here," Buck said handing her a flower.
"What?" Andi asked.
"Eat it, it will make you feel better," Buck said.
Andi looked at Buck, who was giving a flower just like her's to Diego, then back to the flower. It was pink and had red dots at the yellow center. Buck started stuffing his face with them. Diego and Andi ate the flower at the same time.
"Their lotus flowers," Buck said. Diego's eyes wided and he started gagging and coughing.
"What's the matter, it's incredible!" Andi said happily grabing another flower.
"Lotus flowers can give you-"
"Whoa! Dad I didn't know you had wings," Andi said giggling.
"Visions," Diego said flatly.
"Oops," Buck said.
"Hey, you know what? Wait! did you see that? Did you just see that pink bunny with a deer?" Andi asked Diego, then looked back at the open space,"Come back pink bunny!" Andi yelled while running twords the jungle, to the maze. Buck and Diego looked at each other and laughed. They followed after the crazy cub.