The Six Campers and The Soldier: A Camp Cretaceous Story (OC fanfiction)

Down in The Darkness

Exploration is key into understanding the risk of danger in the surrounding area of your position of comfort. Exploring vast areas can lead you into finding better shelter, resources, weapons etc. Exploring Isla Nublar is necessary but dangerous, backtracking can take you in circles and that can be fatal if it leads you into the mouth of a hungry predator. Our base is situated to the north but south of the mountain range that blocks off the restricted area. The Carcharodon from a few days ago tells me that new species that I've never seen are around and most likely coming from the north. New animals always pose a threat....even ones from a bygone time. Such as these....

Everyone was sitting around, trying to pass time. Darius was obviously with his field guide. I had ripped into him, the day after the Carcharodon mess, about thinking of the guide rather than his life. Sammy was talking with Ben about his experiences with Bumpy. Myself and Brooklynn were designing a raft that could carry the seven of us back to the mainland. Yaz was helping us out with drawing the design and Kenji was being annoying with popping his mouth. I grab a cushion and throw it at him. "Oof. What was that for?" He exclaims. "You are being annoying....now shut up." I reply back while going back to Yaz's drawing. It's a simple square raft with a mast at the front and vines that secure the bags and boxes that carry our supplies. "We need to find something to tie the mast down. We don't want the wind to catch and rip it off." I say as the other two nod. "So we need something that can keep tied but flexible enough to catch the wind." Brooklynn says. I nod my head. "Time to go out and find something to tie it down." I say.

"Hey guys....not to be a downer but could we maybe....explore the island?" Darius says which everyone turns to look at him. "Why?" Ben says. Darius looks nervous as he clutches his guide closer. Come on mate. "It's just....these dinosaurs are wild now and we have an opportunity to document them, we can find out stuff that no one was ever discovered before." Darius tries to reason. "Darius....I get it. Your curious and that's fine but we have to get off this island. We don't have time to document them. We don't belong here." I say. It upsets me to be the bearer of bad news but we can't get side tracked. "Just for today, please?" Darius asks and I see that he desperately wants this. He's a good kid with a good head on his shoulders. I sigh in defeat. "Fine.....but only for today, tomorrow, we get everything ready to get off this island." I finish for which he then nods and gives me a big hug. "Thank you Ryan, thank so much." I stand there shocked and confused. "Y-yeah all good mate." He breaks from me and runs to get ready. "Do you really think that was wise?" Yaz says next to me. "No....but he's a good kid with a good dream and it's only for today." I reply back. She nods in agreement. "I still think that we could have taken the helicopter." She says which I groan at. "Are you still on about that?" I say, looking at her with a 'are you serious' face. "So what, it was a good plan." I look at her incredulously. "Yeah because I'm pretty sure, you've never learnt how to fly a helicopter and I wanted to live." I say cheekily which she playfully punch's, quite hard mind you, my shoulder.

We are ready. It was agreed that me and Yaz would go with Darius on his research exploration. While the rest will scour the forest and jungle to find something to tie the sail to the mast and the floor of the raft. "Now remember, Brooklynn is in charge, Kenji, talking to you." He rolls his eyes. "And that the strongest vines are the ones that you have to cut down, so please don't use any weak ones." I finish as I pass Sammy my combat knife for cutting. I swing the machete of the left shoulder and the bow and quiver over my right. "Let's go." I say as myself, Yaz and Darius walk north towards the watering hole and surrounding jungle. I look over and see the others had south towards the gyrosphere valley.

We had found a spot to the far north. Walking here was tedious but Darius was living his dream. He had written down everything from herbivores to carnivores. From big, to small. He was happy. "He likes it here." I say which Yaz looks at me like I'm crazy. "Not like that but just being here, looking at these animals. He enjoys seeing them." I reason back which she nods. "I don't like it but even I can admit that they are amazing things. Just don't like when they try and eat me." I laugh at that. For all their terrifying qualities. Dinosaurs are just animals, live, breath, eat, shit and sleep just like the rest of the world. They're just bigger, that's all.