I hope all of you are having a good day/night and I apologize if once again this chapter took longer to push out than I normally take. But I hope you all enjoy this one, and I'll see you at the bottom.
"Hello.": Normal talking.
"HELLO.": Yelling.
"Hello" Speaking through the radio.
'Hello': Thinking.
What: Emphasizing a word.
"HELLO": Signs and Warnings.
* bang * Sound effects.
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The campers were once again greeted by the sound of squawking birds as they neared the ocean in the early hours of the morning, with barely any sunlight creeping through the vast blanket of gray clouds that covered the sky and the now darkened waters of the ocean swaying calmly.
Bumpy let out a growl from the island as she watched the group go off onto the patch of large rocks that led toward the stationary boat. Almost all of them had changed their clothes into something more appropriate given the fact they were about to get into the water.
Darius was wearing a pair of yellow swim trunks, Kenji was wearing a pair of dark gray swim trunks, Cass was wearing half-black and half-white swim trunks, Yasmina was wearing a navy blue one-piece swimsuit, Brooklynn was wearing a matching blue two-piece swimsuit that had horizontal white stripes across the top, Sammy was wearing a two-piece with the top being orange and the bottoms being purple in color. The only one who hadn't changed was Ben, and it's because he didn't care about getting his current clothes wet with seawater.
"Stay sharp." Darius told them. "For all we know, Tiff is still in there."
And with a collective nod of understanding from his friends, they all got into the water and swam toward the boat before quietly climbing aboard, crouching and sneaking their way across the stern of the boat. They all began moving forward as they searched the boat for any remaining signs of life until they were sure that they were alone, splitting up to cover more area and finish quicker.
Brooklynn walked along the starboard side and looked into the tinted glass of the windows before looking away and gasping at what she saw. There on the wooden floor at her feet, were numerous claw marks roughly half an inch deep into the deck. She cautiously walked around them just in case whatever caused the markings were still on the boat.
Sammy and Darius began climbing the ladder that led up to the second floor of the boat, with the older girl going first and sticking her head up to take a peak.
Brooklynn soon walked onto the bow, being joined by Ben as they looked around the seated area.
"No sign of anyone." Ben said.
"Or anything." The pink-haired girl added. "Looks like Tiff had some unwanted visitors."
Darius reached forward and grabbed onto the handle of a door before pulling it open, and letting out a gasp before covering his mouth. The floor of the control room was littered with broken glass, claw marks, and whatever remained of Tiff. A few shreds of torn-up clothing, some bones, and dried blood off toward the opposite-facing wall across from him.
His gasp caught Sammy's attention, and she gave the same reaction that he did. All though they had mostly gotten used to the sight and smell of blood since the fall of Jurassic World, they didn't like it. And even though Tiff was someone that they hated, who had tried to kill them and the dinosaurs, they still never wanted to see her dead body… or what remained of it.
"I'll… have Cass clean this up…" Darius quietly told her.
With a deep breath, they both averted their eyes from the scene and walked over to the boat's controls and wheel.
"The control panel's busted up." The young leader gathered after just looking at it.
"And so is the radio." Sammy told him after picking it up off the ground.
"And it's almost out of gas." He let out with a sigh.
"Are you sure? Did you tap it? They always tap it." The Texan girl asked him before tapping on the gauge to check the fuel levels, watching as the pin sank lower than what it originally was. "Huh? Well, now we're really sure." Sammy said with a bit of embarrassment.
"So, we've got a boat. We just can't use the boat." Ben said as he poked his head into the room, trying his best to avoid the scene across the room after catching a glimpse of it, with Brooklynn standing a few feet behind him.
"Okay, the northwest dock is just around that bend." Darius told them as they all left the room. "If we can somehow make it there, maybe we can find more gas and whatever else we need to get us off the island." He explained as he, Brooklynn, Ben, and Sammy all climbed down the ladder.
Suddenly the handle on the door that led into the cabin of the boat started to violently shake, causing Brooklynn and Darius to let out gasps of shock and fright as they were the first two down from the upper level. This went on for a few more seconds as the two youngest teens took a step back before suddenly, the door slammed open.
"Boo!" Kenji exclaimed as he scared them, causing the two of them to let out screams of fright as they either fell to the ground or onto a bench. He began laughing at the two teens. "Gotcha!"
"Kenji!" Brooklynn exclaimed as she got off the ground.
"Not funny, dude! You scared-" Darius started but was cut off.
"I know. It was awesome." Kenji said before laughing once more. "You should have seen your faces! Priceless!" He said before leaning against the wall as he tried to get the last bit of laughter out of his system.
"The height of comedy." Ben said in a deadpan voice as he climbed down from the second floor. "I'm gonna head back to shore. Bumpy and I will meet you back at the dock."
"Guess the only question is, who's driving the boat?" Yasmina asked as she rounded the corner after seeing Kenji's little stunt.
Cass walked out of the cabin of the boat and nodded his head at Darius. "Everything is clear in here, D." He said with a yawn and scratched the back of his head.
"Ah, that's good to hear. Though... I do need you to clean up a little… mess, upstairs." Darius said with a strain in his voice as he tried to block out the visual that came with it. "Please."
Cass looked down at his co-captain of this group and gave him a semi-slow nod. "Understood." He merely said as he knew there was something up there that needed to be taken care of, especially since he knew that Darius never really needed to say please when it came to a request. And with that, the eldest of the group walked past them, gave his girlfriend a quick kiss on the head, and then climbed the ladder to clean up.. whatever was up there.
"As for Yaz's question, I believe the answer is; who's dad has a yacht club membership and just found this killer hat?" Kenji answered as he spun the stereotypical white captain's hat in his hand. The teen put on said hat and gave a salute. "Captain Kenji at your service." Before giving a small laugh.
"Hey, Yaz.. Could you get me a bedsheet..? Kindly..?" Cass asked as he poked his head down to ask her.
"Oh! Uh, yeah, of course." She said before walking into the cabin to fetch said thing for him, coming out a few seconds later with a bed sheet from one of the beds. "Here you go." Yasmina told him as she handed the article of fabric to him.
"Thanks." He merely said as he grabbed it and walked back into the room to clean up the mess that was Tiff.. or what was left of her anyway. 'It's better me than them.. they've been traumatized enough as it is.' Cass thought to himself with little to no consideration for his own trauma and mental health.
A few minutes later, he had come down the ladder with a tied-up bed sheet in one hand one that was stained with red...
"It's taken care of, D." Cass said as he began to walk off the boat to dispose of the remains while returning to the boat and taking a seat just a few moments later.
Kenji took that as his sign to begin as he climbed the ladder and walked into the control room. He began to twist and turn the key as well as flip a few switches, but nothing seemed to work. But he tried just a few more times before the boat finally started with a semi-loud roar of its engine.
"Yeah! Who's good?" Kenji said with a chuckle as he began to accelerate the yacht.
The remaining campers downstairs all let out their cheers and laughed at this thing starting.
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"Easy. Easy." Yasmina guided Kenji as they finally made it to the northwest dock and started to pull in. "Hold up! Hold up! Hold up!" She began to exclaim to him as he pulled too close to the dock and bumped the boat into it, rocking the whole thing with a groan.
"Not a bad parking job, if I do say so myself, and I will." Kenji said as he tipped his hat and leaned against the control panel.
"You don't "park" a boat, dumbass. You "dock" it." Yaz told him with her arms crossed and a bit of side-eye.
"Sure you wanna sass the captain? It's a long swim home." Kenji jokingly threatened.
"Kenji, I will throw you overboard." Cass told him as he stepped off the yacht and onto the dock.
"Understood." The slightly younger teen said from behind his captain's hat.
Yaz flashed him a smirk before yelling out to her boyfriend. "Cass! Catch!" She said before hopping over the railing of the second floor of the yacht and into his arms, with the eldest catching her effortlessly. "Thanks, big guy." She said with a small giggle before being set down.
"Of course." Cass merely said as Yaz began to walk the length of the dock.
Ben and Bumpy made their way down the dock with said camper riding on his dinosaur's back before they slowed to a stop right in front of Yaz, with the girl grabbing the bag of clothes that Ben had brought for them.
"Thanks." She said before walking back toward the boat and joining Cass.
"Hey, friends!" Sammy said with her southern twang. "How was your walk?" She asked Ben and Bumpy as she jogged over to them.
"Great." Ben said as he hopped off of Bumpy's back. "Zero dinos. And even better, the dock's surrounded by a fence. I locked it up after Bumpy and I came through."
"Hi, Bumpy! Hey, girl." Sammy greeted the ankylosaurus and tried to hug her. "Hey- Oh, okay." She responded as Bumpy more or less pushed past her.
Bumpy let out a grunt as she began rubbing her head against Yasmina's legs, causing the camper to let out a surprised grunt as she balanced herself while going through the bag she received. Cass (now fully dressed) came up behind Yasmina wrapped an arm around her and used his free hand to scratch Bumpy on the top of her head.
Sammy looked at the scene with a mixture of shock and confusion before turning toward Ben, who could only shrug his shoulders as he didn't know what Bumpy's deal was either.
"It's getting late. We might as well rest up here." Darius said to Brooklynn. "We can scavenge for gas and supplies in the morning."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, pump the brakes, bro!" Kenji called out as he finished tying down the boat. "Look around! We've got swimsuits, a few hours of sun, and a whole boat at our disposal!" He said as he walked toward Ben and Sammy before wrapping his arms around their shoulders. "If that doesn't scream "yacht party", I don't know what does."
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Most of the campers were laughing and having fun on the yacht as they blasted some music through the onboard speakers.
"Here is what eight years of diving lessons looks like." Yasmina said confidently from the upper floor of the yacht before diving off perfectly with little to no splash.
"And here's what running from an Allosaurus, then tripping and falling off a waterfall looks like!" Ben said before getting a running start and jumping and wildly flailing himself about with a scream before splashing into the water below.
Both campers began laughing at the fun they were having, but more so Yaz laughing at Ben for his scream.
"Ooh! Water bottles, beach towels, those fancy tiny drink umbrellas, sad beach ball." Sammy was saying to herself as she went through a box that she and Kenji found while going through said contents including the deflated ball.
"Check it: party poppers, Roman candles, tons of yacht rock CDs." Kenji said as he walked out onto the balcony with the Texan girl. "They might have been evil, but Mitch and Tiff knew how to throw a yacht party." He told her before immediately getting pelted in the face with a now-inflated beach ball.
Sammy could only laugh at his bewildered expression.
"Very, very funny." Kenji said before he once again got pelted.
"Sammy, would you—" The teen got cut off as the ball made contact with his face again. "Sa—" And again, all while the girl was laughing with genuine joy from using his face as a backboard. There were a few moments where he said nothing and she merely held the ball, but the second that Kenji relaxed and was about to speak, Sammy bounced the ball off his face with a laugh, causing the slightly older teen to just sigh in defeat.
"We're not just leaving the island tomorrow, we're leaving in style." Brooklynn told Darius as she leaned back into one of the chairs on the deck, giving a small hand motion when she said style.
"Gotta admit, I am loving this yacht life." Darius responded from his more upright seating position. "But there is still one thing we need to do before we go—" He said before looking at his friend, who had lifted her sunglasses to look at him. "—prank Kenji back for scaring us."
"Oh, you know I'm down for that." The pink-haired girl replied before giving her friend a fist bump.
"Got it!" Darius exclaimed. "We steal his captain's hat."
"Uh-huh. And then?" Brooklynn inquired with enthusiasm.
"We don't give it back." The young leader said as if it was the best plan ever.
Brooklynn could only look at him questioningly with a quirked eyebrow.
"Yeah, lame. Sorry." D apologized. "When you've got an older brother like Brand, you're usually the prank victim, not the plank planner." He explained to her.
"It's gotta be something good or he'll never leave us alone." Brook told him. "What if we slowly and methodically make Kenji believe he never existed? Then, just when he's on the verge of total madness, we'll be like, "Gotcha!"
Darius could only stare at her with a hint of surprise and worry. "Might be too intense? Maybe we—"
* continuous popping *
Darius and Brooklynn let out screams of fright as they soon ducked down and took cover using the seats to hide from whatever was assailing them.
But they soon found out it was none other than Kenji, who was throwing the party poppers down at them from the upper deck, all while laughing at them.
"Seriously, Kenji?" Darius asked incredulously.
"I know, right?" Kenji asked with a laugh. "Too easy! Too easy!" He said before walking away from them while laughing to himself.
"All ideas are back on the table. The more intense, the better." Darius said to Brook as they once again bumped fists and nodded.
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And while all of this was going on between all the other campers, the eldest of them all was inside the cabin trying to get some rest, not that he particularly wanted to, but more so that he could have some space to wrangle what was going on in his mind without worrying or frightening the others.
His hallucinations, or at least he hoped they were hallucinations, have been ramping up over the past few weeks. Though of course, he's told no one, not even Yasmina. It was no longer just the little girl that he'd see before him or in the corner of his eyes. There was now a woman who would appear before him, who sadly was in a very similar condition as the little girl.
The woman had pale skin, very close to what the young girl was, but only the smallest shade darker, while still retaining her ink-black hair, though if he had to say, it looked maybe a shade warmer... It was fairly long, going just past her shoulders and framing her face with a set of bangs.
She wore what looked to be a beige long-sleeved sweater and a pair of light blue jeans along with what was a pair of basic white sneakers. At least... that's what he assumed she was wearing. This apparition never directly stood before him like the child did, but he would occasionally see her just around corners, or even just out of the corner of his eyes.
And just like the girl, this woman was stained in a crimson that the white-haired teen was familiar with. He never saw all of her wounds, or could even tell what they were exactly, be he could point out a few from when he had caught a glimpse of her.
There were many stab wounds to her abdomen, at least six from what he could recall, but it looked closer to nine or twelve. There were certain patches on her sweater sleeves that we torn and stained with red, so he could only assume that she was cut across the arms. And finally, the woman's neck… it was slit clean open.. and like a waterfall, it continued to slowly bleed that warm red without ever actually spreading.
Cass had an idea of who she was especially with how similar she was to a specific someone.. and the way that she looked at him, stared at him, was a dead giveaway. With the very same eyes that the young girl had, this woman would look at him the same, with anger at her fate, with happiness at his presence, but she wasn't nearly as blank as the child had been...
No.. she just looked so broken.. so sad.. so lost, whenever she looked upon him…
Like a mother who had failed her child...
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* grunting *
"Here you go, Bumpy!" Sammy exclaimed as she lugged and finally set down a bucket full of water in front of the Ankylosaurus. "I know how thirsty you big critters can get hanging out in the sun all day."
There was a moment of silence as the large armored dino just stared at her.
"Oops, almost forgot." Sammy reminded herself before pulling out one of the small paper umbrellas and setting it on the rim of the bucket. But once again just got stared at with a grunt. "Actually, that's a choking hazard, so I'm just gonna keep the umbrella." She said before taking it out of the bucket and putting it in her hair. "Enjoy!"
Bumpy let out a growl before turning away and flopping onto the ground with a heavy thud.
"Ladies. Having fun?" Ben inquired as he walked up to them.
"Us? Fun?" Sammy questioned. "Oh, yeah! Bumpy and I are having all the fun!" She lied out of her ass. But as soon as she finished her sentence, Bumpy had gotten up off the ground and more or less shoved past the Texan girl and walked right past her and Ben.
The two campers immediately saw that the big dino walked over to the yacht and started calling and grunting at Yasmina, who was currently leaning onto the railing, and gave the Ankylosaur a pet and scratch on her nose.
"Okay, sorry, but, Ben, you know how big animals are kind of my thing? Well, you ever think that Bumpy just isn't that into me?" Sammy questioned sounding sad at that thought as she and Ben watched Bumpy growl and groan at Yaz before the teen walked away from the railing with a smile.
"Bumpy's a complicated woman. Who knows what's going on inside that beautiful dino brain of hers?" Ben said to her with a hand on her shoulder. "I wouldn't worry about it." He offered her a smile before walking away.
Sammy could only smile at the words of encouragement from her friend.
"'Course, you might just be losing your touch." He popped back in to say. "Bye!"
Leaving Sammy with a look of shock and worry on her face before it turned into one of determination. "Challenge accepted. Bumpy, you will be mine."
But said dinosaur just looked at her before turning and walking away with a grunt.
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* upbeat music *
The majority of the campers were still off shouting out in joy and swimming in the water around the yacht as it turned into evening, with Kenji being the loudest as he jumped off the deck and into the ocean with a splash.
"Come on, there's gotta be something in here that we can scare Kenji with." Darius said as he was digging through a plastic tote.
"Like these fireworks." Brooklynn said as she pulled out a Roman candle.
"Eyes up, yo! Captain on deck." Kenji called out as he walked toward the two.
"Oh, hey, Cap. I mean, Kenji." Darius said as he and his partner in crime stood up.
"Just checking in on my crew. What are you two up to?" The older teen asked.
"Oh! We were just saying that it's starting to get dark. We should probably wrap up the party." Brooklynn said back to him.
"Yeah, so Cass can get some sleep and we can be fresh up to get supplies in the morning." Darius added on.
"You expect me to buy that?" Kenji asked with suspicion, causing the two campers to glance at each other. "When we've got these babies?" He asked with a laugh as he held up a small fake candle with a flame that lit up with a flick of a switch. "Already put 'em out on deck. Yacht party saved!"
* thuds *
The music suddenly cut out as the boat got jostled to the side with an almost permanent tilt all of the campers let out their gasps of shock as they braced themselves.
"What was that?" Darius asked as he pulled himself off the deck.
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"We couldn't have hit something." Yasmina said as she and all the other campers (including Cass) gathered on the dock and looked for what could've caused it.
"Oh, no!" Sammy let out as she was followed up by everyone else's sounds of complaint as they came across what caused the rocking.
"This can't wait until tomorrow, D." Cass said as he let out a yawn and scratched the back of his head.
"You're right. We've gotta patch this tonight before-" Darius was saying.
"-the boat sinks." Kenji finished up his sentence.
Everyone gave the teen a look before shaking their heads and went back to focusing on the hole.
"Thanks for the clarification." Yaz said sarcastically.
"There's gotta some tools or boating supplies around here that we can scavenge." Brooklynn said as she stood up and looked out into the rows full of shipping containers that lined the docking station.
"Let's hurry then. It's getting dark now and the fog's rolling in." Darius told them. "We should split up so we can cover more ground."
"Then let's go." Yaz said as Cass grunted in agreement.
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The sun has finally set on the island, casting a blanket of darkness onto the ocean and the land, with a thick fog rolling in on top of the already obscured station. But whether they wanted to or not, they had no other choice than to search the area for the supplies that they needed.
The seven campers (and Bumpy) all walked off of the dock as they set foot on land once more as they surveyed their barely visible surroundings.
"I'm gonna look over there." Ben told the others as he patted Bumpy on the head.
"Cool, we'll head this way." Yasmina said before giving Cass a quick kiss and began walking away with Bumpy in tow.
"Don't do anything stupid you four." Cass said as he turned toward the remaining campers before walking off on his own.
The remaining four are Darius, Brooklynn, Sammy, and Kenji. Who all gave their own form of confirmation to the eldest as they heard what he said. Soon the rest of them split up to begin searching for the supplies as well.
Brooklynn quickly jogged up behind Darius and grabbed his arm before whispering. "Remember to keep an eye out for Kenji. I wouldn't put it past him to scare us again, especially in the dark."
"Good looking out." Darius whispered back. "After we find a patch for the boat, we can prank him back." He told her before they both walked away.
Little did they know, Kenji was just behind them and heard what they had said. "Game on." Kenji said with a small smirk before he walked away.
All of them began searching in their locations and ways. Darius searched in the trunk bed of a truck and Brooklynn searched around and on some ATVs' to see if they would have any parts or materials they could use before moving on.
Sammy began searching on and around some pallets before looking out at some of the storage containers and spotted something next to one of them. "Gas cans!" She exclaimed before rushing over to them. The Texan picked them up and gave them a quick shake and found them empty. "Damn it!" She cursed before tossing them to the ground with a huff.
"Come on, Bumpster. Let's search over here." Yaz said to the Ankylosaurus as they walked past her and began their search.
"She gave her a nickname?" Sammy questioned as she heard what she said.
Yasmina began tugging on the handles of the storage containers trying to get them open, but couldn't given the strength required as well as the current conditions making it hard to get a grip on them. She let out a grunt as she pulled and pulled but they wouldn't budge. She rushed over to another and received the same results, and again and again this happened.
Bumpy let out a whine as she walked between the containers and watched Yaz.
"Just chill, Bumpy. This could take a while." The resident athlete said aloud as she looked over her shoulder and noticed the sudden absence of the large herbivore.
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Kenji was walking between some of the storage containers as he searched high and low for anything of use before calling out. "Brooklynn?" A few seconds of silence. "Darius?" He asked but received no answers, so he assumed that they were gonna jump out at him given what he heard earlier. He quickly turned around with a grunt but saw nothing but fog.
"Whatever you're plotting, it's not gonna work." He called out before making a turn around one of the containers, and jumping back out to try to catch them off guard, yet still no one was there. With a shout, he swept his leg under one of the many trucks but nothing happened.
"Huh.." Kenji whimpered in slight fear as he looked around and saw and heard no one but himself. So he began pushing one of the nearby crates into a small space between two of the containers before climbing onto it. "Can't scare me if you can't find me." He said to himself with one last look at his surroundings before he hid.
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Darius began his search in the foggy and dark night, using the concrete floor as a guide rather than trusting himself to see more than a few feet before himself, but what good that did him as he walked face-first into a giant steel fence. Becoming slightly dazed for a few moments, Darius held his head with a gasp before looking off to his left and saw a bright red case on the ground.
He quickly ran the length of the fence and crouched down to open the case, for which there were two full rolls of duct tape. 'Good, now we just need something to fill in that hole.' He thought to himself. He took a look around before letting out a gasp at the sight of the fence and noticed that a very large portion of it was ripped open. The position of the bends indicates that something got out. Without taking a second longer, Darius quickly got up and began running back in the direction he hoped that some of the other campers were in.
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Cass had made his way into one of the larger storage buildings, noticing that none of the doors that he had come across were locked, which made his job easier. 'This fog isn't helping me..' He thought as he couldn't tell the difference between one of these hallucinations and just random dark shadows in the fog. Pair that with his recent lack of sleep and his dwindling appetite, he wasn't too sure how much he could trust his own eyes.
"I'll be fine... Just a little bit longer.. for them.. for her…" He murmured to himself as he searched the building for anything that could be of use. But with a majority of the space being taken up by vehicles, there wasn't very much he could look through, but he noticed that on the back wall, there was a large assortment of wooden crates. 'This is probably backup supplies.. not sure how good they'll be any more, but we'll see..'
He unclipped his knife from his waist and unfolded the blade before jabbing it between one of the crates' lid and the body. Cass then very carefully pried the lid up before sticking his free hand in the gap and pushing the lid off. There was a small snapping noise that echoed in the facility due to the seal being broken, but it soon faded away.
Inside the crate, Cass had found this one to be full of tools that the park staff would've most likely used, including deployable shovels, wire cutters, crowbars, pry bars, and even sets of gloves. He grabbed one of the crowbars from inside the crate and moved on to the next one before folding his knife away and clipping it back onto his carabiner.
With a force slam, he shoved one end of the crowbar into the seam of the lid and pried it off, which resulted in yet another crack echoing in the storage building. He pushed the lid off of this one, much like the last one, and could only chuckle to himself.
"There we go. That's more like it." Cass said with a small grin forming on his face as he reached into the crate.
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Sammy began mindlessly wandering around the fog-filled area trying to look for anything, but still found nothing. Until she heard some very familiar huffs and grunts coming from somewhere in front of her.
"Bumpy, is that you? Are you lost in the fog, girl?" She asked openly only to hear more huffs and grunts from what she presumed to be the Ankylosaur. "Sit tight, I'm coming your way." Sammy said before jogging off into the fog toward the dino.
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Brooklynn was walking around some of the storage containers before turning a corner, pulling out a familiar white rectangle and pressing it to a security panel but nothing happened. "Oh, come on! What good is a secret keycard to the entire island if you can't use it on the entire island?" She said through grit teeth as she fiddled with the mechanical lock and tried to tug it open.
The pink-haired girl decided to just reach into her hair, pull out her bobby pin, and unfold it before placing it into the keyhole to begin lockpicking. With light clattering and scrapes sounding out into the foggy surroundings, Brooklynn was focused solely on what was in front of her.
Suddenly a hand grasped her shoulder causing her to turn around and let out a shriek of panic which was mirrored by the other person, who happened to be Darius.
"Darius!" Brooklynn exclaimed. "The plan was to scare Kenji, not me!"
Darius put his hands on her shoulders and urgently whispered to her. "Something broke through the fence. We all need to get to the boat now!" Which caused her to let out a gasp of fear.
Kenji was still hiding between some boxes and crates when he heard Brooklynn whispering out into the open. "Come on, I think it's this way." Causing the older teen's head to pop up and look around.
"Okay. Stay close." Darius whispered.
"Gotcha. No one pranks Captain K." Kenji said to himself before hopping over the box and quietly running further into the fog.
A low chortle reverberated through the area as a shadow of a tail swung through the fog. With Darius and Brooklynn walking right past said area.
"See anyone?" The vlogger asked.
"I can barely see you." The young leader replied. "Sammy? Yaz? Anybody?" He called out hoping someone would respond. "There's Ben." Darius quietly called out and waved his hand to get his attention, with said jungle teen jogging up to them before letting out a gasp as he saw two shadows behind them and heard a growl.
The other two quickly turned around and they all saw two dinosaurs slowly walk out of some of the thicker fog in front of them as they let out some grunts and growls.
They were all on edge until face to face with said dinos. "It's okay. They're just Ouranosauruses." Darius told them. "They're big, but they're pretty much harmless."
The two Ouranosauruses reared up and slammed their front legs into the ground as they let snarls and roars.
"Do they know that?" Ben yelled out before he, Darius, and Brooklynn began running away from the herbivores as they chased them down.
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Cass pulled out what appeared to be a crossbow, but its design was slightly.. off. "Ah, so this is the automatic crossbow that they were getting. And these…" He trailed off as he opened up a small case. "...must be the stun bolts." He admired the bolts and saw that they pretty much acted as a taser, with barbed tips and a small discharger just below it. 'So if I remember correctly, as long as it decently hits the target and the battery slams into the skin, it discharges..' The eldest camper thought to himself with a hum.
"At least this gives me something to ward off the dinosaurs with.. cause as much as I could use that rifle, I don't think the others would be too fond of the idea of me shooting them, so at least this is nonlethal." Cass said to himself as he saw there was roughly a total of thirty bolts in the entire case, and the bolts were about eight inches in length. 'This thing has a magazine size of five bolts if I remember..' He thought as he took said amount and added it to the weapon.
Cass reached inside of the crate once again and pulled out a crossbody sling bag and put it on before putting the case of bolts inside.
He began to turn around while he fiddled with the auto-crossbow. "I should probably get back to the others. We can always come back for th- Oh... Hello.." Cass stopped and addressed a familiar little girl.
She looked up into his eyes and stared for a few seconds before responding. '...Hello…'
He knelt to match her height, with the little girl never taking her eyes off of his own. "It's been... quite some time since we've talked face to face.." Cass said quietly.
She continued to stare at him before slowly blinking. '...It...has…' She did something unexpected though, with a small frown on her face, she slowly reached up to his face with her right hand and placed it on his left cheek. '...You...look...tired…'
Cass just gave a soft chuckle at her statement. "That's because I am tired, little one.." He said gently. It felt weird to have someone touch his face that wasn't here with him… like being touched by solid air… knowing that at a moment's notice, she'd disappear from sight.
The girl slowly retracted her hand before adjusting her face to a more neutral mood. '...Is...living...hard…?'
The question gave Cass pause before he let out a sigh and looked down at the floor for a second. "It is... It gets harder every day.." He honestly told her before looking back up at her. "But I've got people to protect... People who mean a lot to me... So I can't stop now... Not until they're home safe." He said with a soft smile.
The little girl remained silent for a few seconds before an almost unnoticeable smile formed on her face. '...That's...good...'
The young adult also held a small smile on his face as the two of them stayed here in silence for a few more moments. And just as he was about to speak, he was cut off.
'...We...miss...you...Cass…' The little girl said with a hint of sadness as she looked him in his eyes, a look of shock and surprise appeared on his face.
"I—" He started to say.
* Ouranosaurus roars *
* screaming *
Cass quickly whipped his head to the left as he heard the dinosaurs and the other campers. He turned back to where the girl was but found nothing, seeing that she disappeared. Cass slowly stood up and with a shaky breath he tried to reel in the emotions he was feeling. And with a deep exhale...
"I miss you too, Faye.." Cass said to himself before leaving the building to save his remaining family.
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"This way! Hurry!" Brooklynn yelled out as she quickly turned a corner with her fellow campers right behind her as they quickly disappeared into the fog.
The Ouranosauruses came to a stop as they let out growls of frustration before slamming into each other before pulling away and continuing to stomp through the area.
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Yasmina was still trying to search through the shipping containers, finding none that weren't locked or barred shut. She decided to walk away from the one she just tried to open and searched among the rows and rows of containers before she noticed a crowbar that was left out on a crate.
She quickly jogged over to it with a smile on her face and grabbed the tool. Though she quickly let out a gasp as not even ten feet in front of her, she saw another crate being slowly pushed before being forcefully tossed into the adjacent container with a roar from an Ouranosaurus.
Yaz quickly dropped behind a crate and hid from the dinosaur as she heard it begin what could only be described as a tantrum, stomping its feet and letting out roars and growls. The Ouranosaurus walked toward Yasmina's crate before it began pushing its head against the box, moving it a few inches before it let out a growl.
Yaz sat there with her knees tucked to her chin with a look of absolute terror on her face as she could feel the dinosaur's breath on her skin from how close it was.
'Cass, please help me!' She frantically thought to herself as she wished her boyfriend was her right now.
* Ouranosaurus bellows *
She heard what she assumed was a second one of the dinosaurs from further back, and hearing the one that was right above her turned and looked back, giving her a moment to quickly dart out from behind the crate and around the corner of one of the shipping containers. However, she quickly turned back around and hid at the very end of the container because on the other side was what she figured was the second Ouranosaurus.
With her now being slowly closed in on by the two, she started to panic. Yasmina was smart to find a way out of her current predicament as she turned around a jumped up, using the crowbar as a claw to catch the top of the container and pull herself up on top of it.
Though the container was metal, it did make some noise, which caused the Ouranosauruses to look up and spot the athletic teen. And with the two dinosaurs having decently long bodies and strong legs, they quickly stood up on their hind legs and started to snap their bill-like jaws at her and shove into the container to knock her off.
She was quickly backed up to another container. Yaz swung the crowbar at the dinos to buy herself a quick few seconds, and after she managed to momentarily ward them off, she once again jumped up and used the tool to pull herself up.
"Whoa!" Yasmina let out as the container that she was standing on began to jostle side to side by the Ouranosauruses slamming their sides and tails into it.
* loud whistle *
Yaz quickly looked over to her right and saw Cass standing on top of a nearby container and aiming his new weapon at one of the dinosaurs. With a single trigger pull, he let loose one of the bolts into the upper thigh of the Ouranosaurus that he could see. The barbed tip slammed into the leg of the dino and let loose one hundred thousand volts into the beats. Which by no means completely stopped the thing, but it did cause its leg to spaz and fall into the shipping containers, completely knocking them loose.
"Jump!" Cass yelled out to his girlfriend as he lowered the crossbow and held out his arms to catch her.
And not being one to question him, Yasmina quickly jumped the gap just as the shipping containers completely lost balance and into his arms, allowing him to catch her, and quickly roll over onto another container so that they wouldn't be seen by the Ouranosauruses.
Yasmina lay beneath the eldest member of their group, looking up at him with a small smile. "You always know when to come to the rescue."
Cass looked down at her as he used his body to shield her from view and harm. "I'll always be there when you need me. Always." He said gently.
She gave him a soft chuckle before leaning up and giving him a kiss, which he returned.
Cass softly separated from her with a smile. "As much as I'd like to continue, we do have to save the rest of our dysfunctional family."
Yasmina could only giggle at him before nodding in agreement.
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Kenji let out a quick shout of fright as he heard all the noises echoing through the fog.
"Yo, Darius! Brooklynn! Truce?" He yelled out. "Nice try with the scary noises and all, but…" Kenji trailed off as he not only heard but saw one of the shipping containers slide against the concrete with sparks and a growl of scratching metal. "Okay…" He said in shock and fear at seeing it happen. "..fun's over."
* stomping *
"Who's out there?" Kenji shakily asked before standing rigidly and letting out a gasp of fright at the sounds of growls coming from behind him.
An Ouranosaurus let out a snarl and snapped its bill at him, causing the teen to fall onto his ass as he backed away. The Ouranosaurus reared back and aimed to slam its front legs down onto Kenji, but he managed to stand up and run out of the way just in time, causing the dinosaur to miss.
The Ouranosaurus let out a few roars before charging after Kenji, intent on flattening him, with Kenji letting out screams of terror as he ran away as fast as he could. Going around boxes, taking turns between the shipping containers, it didn't matter what he did, the dinosaur was right behind him.
Eventually, Kenji's luck ran out and he tripped over his own feet, falling to the ground. The Ouranosaurus ran up to him and in his desperate attempt to defend himself, Kenji started to kick at the dinosaur. Said dinosaur taking the teen's foot into its mouth, picking him up, and started swinging him from side to side, before eventually throwing him off to the side.
Just as the Ouranosaurus began charging Kenji down again, a crowbar came flying through the air and slammed directly into the dinosaur's head, causing it to stop in its tracks as it reeled in pain, letting out grunts and groans as it tried to shake the feeling from its skull. Kenji took this opportunity to once again run away from the dino.
After running for a few moments, Kenji slowly came to a stop to catch his breath.
"Kenji." He heard get whispered to him. Looking up, he saw Yasmina and Cass sitting on top of a shipping container, with Yaz being the one who whispered to him and Cass just giving a nod in his direction.
"Where are the others?" Yasmina asked in a whisper.
"I don't know!" Kenji replied in a hushed exclamation.
Cass dropped down from the container and caught the athletic girl in his free arm before setting her down. And as they looked around, they couldn't see their friend anywhere.
"Kenji?" Yaz asked again.
The two turned to their left and Kenji tried, and failed, to climb up the shipping container, barely being able to make it more than halfway up.
"Get down here, dumbass!" Yasmina said to him in frustration as Cass grabbed him by the back of his shirt and pulled him back onto the ground.
But their reunion was cut short as they heard the Ouranosauruses letting out their calls and growls.
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Darius, Brooklynn, and Ben were all crouched down and hiding behind one of the many shipping containers as they hid from one of the Ouranosaurus, which was currently shoving itself into a nearby parked truck. The vehicle creaked and groaned as the multi-ton dinosaur slammed its front two legs into its sides, almost tipping it over. But with one more roar, the Ouranosaurus turned around and began stomping off in a random direction.
"Let's go!" Darius quietly exclaimed to them before getting up and sprinting forward, only to slam into Kenji just ten feet later, causing the two to tumble to the ground.
"Kenji! You're okay!" Brooklynn said with joy as they were reunited with another camper.
"Darius broke my fall!" Kenji said to her as Yasmina and Cass caught up to them. "Thanks, bro." He said to the younger teen before getting up.
"No problem." Darius wheezed out before being helped up by Ben and Brooklynn.
"Wait, where's Sammy?" Yaz asked urgently as she noticed that she wasn't with them.
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The Texan girl was practically blindly walking through the fog-filled shipping yard, holding her arms out in front of herself, and panting in fear from all that she'd heard, but not being able to see much of anything. But soon her outstretched hands touched something scaley, causing the girl to let out a scream of panic which was followed by a growl from said creature she touched.
"There you are." Sammy said after regaining her breath as she looked upon the Ankylosaurus that she had been looking for this whole time. "Don't be scared. Just settle." She said out loud as she hugged the dinosaur's large head, but whether she was speaking to the Ankylosaur or herself, it didn't matter.
Bumpy let out another growl before letting out a sneeze and a huff, causing the enthusiastic camper to flinch back before letting out a sigh.
"Let's get you back to Ben and Yaz." Sammy said with a slightly dejected tone as she still wasn't sure why the big girl didn't like her that much.
Quickly running up from behind her was an Ouranosaurus that began growling and reared itself onto its back legs before slamming its front two into the concrete, causing Sammy to let out some screams of fear as she slowly began backing away.
Bumpy wasn't going to allow any dinosaur to threaten her campers, so the Ankylosaur let out her own growl and put herself between Sammy and the Ouranosaurus, and swung her clubbed tail at the opposing dinosaur a few times, getting it to back off.
The Ouranosaurus wasn't one to easily back down, so with another roar from its billed mouth, it began charging forward and seeing the incoming charge, Bumpy began her own.
"Bumpy!" Sammy shouted in worry for the resident dinosaur of their group.
But there was nothing to worry about as Bumpy had charged directly into the Ouranosaurus's legs, knocking them off balance and sliding across the concrete ground.
Sammy quickly stepped out of the way at the incoming dinosaur with a gasp of fright, soon rushing over to Ankylosaurus and hugging her. "Oh, good girl! Let's go!" She said as she ran off with Bumpy going off in another.
"That way works too!" Sammy said as she immediately turned around and ran after her.
The Ankylosaurus and camper duo were walking together for a few minutes, with the teen girl following the dinosaur. But Sammy soon fell behind Bumpy with how obscured her vision was at this time.
"Bumpy?" Sammy whimpered out as she lost her again. Taking her chances, she turned between some shipping containers before getting startled by the loud echoing roars of the Ouranosauruses that reverberated through the fog, not giving much indication of where the dinosaurs actually were.
Little did she know, one of them was turning the corner right where she was…
But thankfully she was pulled into a small gap between the containers by Yaz and Cass, with the athletic girl holding her still and covering her mouth so she wouldn't make any noise, while the eldest member of their group placed himself between them and the Ouranosaurus that was walking past them.
After a few seconds, the dinosaur had moved on from the area. Cass turned around and gave a nod to them all, silently letting them know that they were in the clear to keep moving. And get moving they did, as all other members of Camp Cretaceous (including Bumpy) all quickly moved out the other end of this makeshift alleyway.
"We gotta get on that boat and cast off." Darius urgently whispered to them all.
"What about the hole in the side?" Ben asked about the problem that caused them all to be out here in the first place.
"We'll figure something out. We don't have a choice." Cass answered him, seeing as it was risking the boat or abandoning it, and he knew no one wanted to leave it.
"And then? Where do we go?" Kenji questioned as they still hadn't really acquired anything they were looking for.
"Anywhere but here." Brooklynn said with urgency as she no longer wanted to even be in the area. "Come on, it's this way." She said waving in a direction.
"No, it's this way." Yasmina countered as she pointed in a different direction.
"I thought it was this way.." Ben mumbled as he realized with how dark and foggy it was, they were practically lost.
Kenji suddenly let out a gasp as he pointed out. "There!" He exclaimed as he saw the faint glow of all the lights he had set on the boat. "Party yacht for the win!" Kenji said before rushing into the direction of the yacht with all his fellow campers following after him.
Though they wouldn't get away that easily, one of the Ouranosauruses stepped out from around a corner and let out a snarl as it followed after them with a roar.
As all the others were rushing themselves toward the yacht, Kenji (for once in his life) had an idea, he reached into his pockets and pulled out a small handful of the remaining party poppers, and tossed them at the Ouranosaurus. Thankfully the loud noise and little flashes spooked the dinosaur, causing it to momentarily stop its advance toward them.
"Come on!" Brooklynn exclaimed. "Go! Go! Go!"
"Come on, Bumpy!" Ben said as he led his Ankylosaur onto the back of the yacht.
"Hurry!" Darius said as he tried to get this all moving, Cass, Yaz, Sammy, and Kenji had all made it onto the yacht.
"We've gotta patch this thing." Darius said. "Can you do anything with this tape?" He asked the pink-haired girl beside him.
"Only everything!" Brooklynn confidently replied. "Quick, grab whatever you can to plug it up." She shouted out to those who were on the boat.
Ben, Kenji, Sammy, and Yasmina all rushed around the boat to find anything they could, all while Cass stood at the ready with his crossbow as he heard the Ouranosauruses roaring as they made their way toward the yacht.
"If you can, hurry. I'd rather not go through more bolts than necessary." Cass said aloud as he pulled the trigger and shot a bolt into the front shoulder area of one of the incoming dinosaurs, causing it to buckle and slam into the other one, buying themselves some more time.
"Okay. What do I get?" Sammy asked herself as she and the others searched high and low for anything that would block the water. They had collectively grabbed floaties, swimmingwear, clothes, and some other water-repellent items before rushing over to the edge of the yacht and handing them down to Darius.
"Here, take this." Yasmina said as he gave it to the boy.
* roaring *
The Ouranosauruses got back up after their fall and began stomping their way toward the campers once more.
"Look, this shit has got to hurt, so why do y'all keep coming?" Cass said to himself as he fired a third bolt into the side of one of the dinos, making it buck and knock into the other one, causing them to snap and growl at each other.
"This won't hold long, but it's all we got." Brooklynn said openly as she and Darius quickly filled the hole with what was handed to them and began patching it up with the tape.
"They're coming!" Sammy exclaimed as the Ouranosauruses once again stopped fighting each other and started to loudly huff and stomp their way toward the yacht.
"Get us out of here!" Darius yelled out as he and Brooklynn had managed to completely cover up the hole and were ready to get the hell out of there.
With Kenji being the resident captain of the ship, he quickly climbed up the ladder and got behind the controls of the yacht, cranking it to start but nothing happened.
"Let's go! Kenji, drive." Brooklynn yelled out as she was helped up onto the boat by Sammy and Yasmina.
"I'm trying!" He yelled back as he cranked the ignition again and again. "Be enough gas! Be enough gas!" Kenji pleaded with the yacht as he turned it again, getting it to turn on completely. "Yes!" He pulled the throttle back and put the yacht in reverse, pulling away from the dock.
Darius still hadn't got on the boat yet, and seeing as their target was getting away, the Ouranosauruses began rushing down the dock toward the boat, toward Darius. But just as he was about to run out of land to run on and about to get bit by the bill of a dinosaur, Cass came over and pulled him up onto the boat.
"I've got you, D." The eldest said.
"Thanks." Darius gratefully replied as he caught his breath.
Now that all the members were on the yacht, Kenji very quickly turned it around and began accelerating, getting them away from that area as fast as he could. Everyone let out a sigh of relief as they all caught their breath after being relentlessly chased by the Ouranosauruses.
'Something was definitely spooking them... They were way too aggressive, even for being territorial.. and to just keep coming after us after three bolts worth 100,000 volts a piece..? Something isn't right..' Cass thought to himself.
"That was close." Darius said as he rolled his shoulders and rubbed his arms.
* thuds *
Something had slammed into the side of the yacht, causing everyone on board to have to balance themselves and not fall over. They had all (aside from Kenji) rushed over toward the railing to see what was hitting the boat, and lo and behold, it was none other than the Ouranosauruses, they had popped their heads out from under the water to let out a roar before going back to slamming their bodies and tails into the side of the yacht.
"Oh, they can swim?" Sammy said in a distraught tone as she thought they had finally got away from them.
"We can't outrun them." Darius explained to them.
"Then maybe we could scare them off!" Brooklynn exclaimed a solution to their seemingly never-ending problem.
"Go find those damn fireworks or something, I can't exactly or safely discharge electricity into the ocean, so whatever y'all can do, do it." Cass said to them as he picked up his sledgehammer and went to the back where Bumpy was currently at.
Darius and Brooklynn remembered that they had stored some of the Roman candles in a box, so they quickly ran off to find them with the help of their fellow campers.
Bumpy let out a growl as she saw the incoming Ouranosauruses, but got pat on the head by Cass.
"Come on, girl. We've got this." He said as he readied his hammer as the first dinosaur tried climbing onto the back where they were.
Bumpy let out an annoyed huff as she slammed her clubbed tail into the face of the Ouranosaurus, which was followed up by a similar blow by Cass, causing the dino to let out a roar of pain and start slipping off. But the second one decided to start climbing onto the back as well, placing a lot of unexpected weight on one part of the yacht, causing it to tilt.
With the now suddenly tilting boat, many of the campers lost balance and slid across the deck of the ship.
"Hurry!" Yasmina shouted as she held onto the railing to steady herself.
Darius tried his best to quickly search the boxes of things they had before managing to find some Roman candles, which he promptly rushed off toward the back where Cass and Bumpy were still fending off the Ouranosauruses.
With a quick strike, Darius lit a Roman candle and held it up, letting it shoot out its bright balls of light and screech loudly. Soon being followed up by Brooklynn, Ben, Sammy, and Yasmina as they all held up their Roman candles. With the overabundance of noise and light that was coming from the fireworks, the Ouranosauruses finally pulled away from the yacht and swam back to Isla Nublar.
"Bye-bye, swimming dinos!" Sammy shouted out in celebration as she and all the others cheered at finally getting rid of them.
"Didn't get to scare Kenji, but I'll count this as a win." Darius said to Brooklynn.
"Hell yeah!" Said the pink-haired superstar replied with a fistbump at their victory for the night.
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THE NEXT MORNING
The sun began to rise as the members of Camp Cretaceous all drifted into the sea, finally getting a chance to most of them to eat and rest after last night's ordeal.
"There's my hero!" Sammy exclaimed as she went to go pet Bumpy but said Ankylosaurus pulled away from her and stood close to Yasmina. And said athlete pet the top of her head when she let out a groan.
"Okay, I gotta ask." Sammy said as she wanted to know. "How on Earth did you get Bumpy to like you so much?"
"Easy. I carry around snacks in my pocket." Yaz replied simply as she pulled out some berries and fed them to Bumpy. "Kind of a habit I got into while running." She said with a chuckle as she scratched the dino's chin.
"So, you were just messing with me?" Sammy asked Ben who was standing nearby.
"Yeah." Ben replied like that it wasn't any big deal. "Bumpy wasn't in on it. She's too highbrow for that kind of thing."
"Whoo." Sammy let out with a giggle. "For a minute there, I thought I was losing my mojo." She let out some more giggles as Yasmina handed her some of the berries to her so she could feed Bumpy her snacks.
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"I cut the engine to save whatever fuel's left." Kenji said as he walked toward Darius and Cass who were leaning on the railing, and Brooklynn who was standing nearby. "We are officially adrift."
"It still doesn't make sense." Darius started off. "First, the Compies disappear from camp. Then peaceful herbivores attack us and take over the dock, an area they shouldn't even care about?" He listed off before turning toward Cass who was thinking.
"Unless something forced them to leave their original habitat..?" Cass openly asked. "Now, I'm no dinosaur expert like you, Darius, or even cattle whisperer like Sammy, but those Ouranosauruses were unnaturally spooked. To the point they were ready and eager to attack us if it meant getting us and presumably anything else out of their new territory." He explained aloud as he tried to figure out what was going on.
"Things are definitely getting next-level weird." Brooklynn agreed with him.
"Yeah. "Dinos never go crazy at Jurassic World", said no one ever." Kenji sarcastically replied.
"It's more than that, it's like the whole island's out of balance somehow." Darius questioned as he looked back toward Isla Nublar. "But why..?"
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* thump *
* thump *
* thump *
* scream-like roar *
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Holy shit, it's been way too long since I've updated or added anything to this story, and for that, I apologize. A lot has happened in the what? Year and a half since I last added a chapter? But I've got a new writing schedule that should hopefully allow me to put out a new chapter every month or so. We'll see.
As for the auto-crossbow that Cass had found, it's based off the EK Archery Adder, with some slight changes to go with the story. If anyone was curious about said item.
But thank you all for reading my story and checking in on it whenever you felt the need, I'll see you all whenever I upload next, have a good one.