CHAPTER 175
Dianna had lost sight of Bryce and did not know what had happened to him. As her eyes focused through the stampede she eased off the gas a little in hopes that lingering back would reveal his location. She knew she couldn't wait though. If something had happened to him she had to keep going anyway.
Bryce was still nowhere in sight, and she pressed back on the gas. Putting her eyes forward she steered through the herd. Out of the corner of her right eye she saw a disruption among the hadrosaurs. Before she could even turn her head one corythosaurus fell over in a manner as though it had been hit by a tractor trailer. This corythosaurus collided against a parasaurolophus, and they both crashed down. As the two hadrosaurs landed in a heap a set of three sharp horns was revealed. In that moment Dianna recalled why they had stopped using the black and white Jeeps. They had realized that the color scheme provoked triceratops to charge. There was nothing she could do though. They were on a collision course with no time to turn.
When the triceratops struck the passenger side quarter panel of the CJ7 it rolled the vehicle with an effortless fling. As the Jeep tipped upside down the one thought going through Dianna's mind was that she wished she had a seatbelt. She wished they all had seat belts.
Before the Jeep could fully roll over there was a slam from the opposite side. A second triceratops had charged the Jeep, shoving it back on its wheels. Dianna tried to regain control of the vehicle, but it was shuddering and swerving so hard that she couldn't move the steering wheel with any substantial command.
The first triceratops dipped in and scooped the front of the vehicle, lifting it off the ground. As soon as it dropped back down Dianna could feel that the front passenger tire had been popped. The Jeep lurched and dug into the ground. For fear of flipping over she hit the breaks. When the CJ7 slid to a stop the two triceratops ran past and then circled back around.
The engine had stalled, and now the thumping feet and snorting nostrils of the triceratops could be heard quite well. The spiky frills and long horns of the dinosaurs speared above the tall grass as Dianna watched through a cracked windshield.
She snapped her head around and looked at Seth and Kyra who were sitting wide eyed in the back seat, and she yelled, "hold on!"
