Ava's POV
We had been walking in the jungle for a while, without a clock or a phone to tell the time. It could've been minutes or even hours going through bushes, tall grass, and mud, but no park in sight. We walked in silence, tense and on the alert for any dinosaur, but none had shown itself. We jumped at any noise the jungle made, a sudden gust of wind, bugs—CRACK!
We all spun around at the loud noise. "Sorry, I stepped on a twig," Ben cowered from our gazes.
"Ugh, come on, man!" Yaz groaned.
"You almost gave me a heart attack!" Sammy had her hands over her chest.
"I should step on you!" Kenji said aggressively.
"It's okay, Ben," Darius said. "We're all on edge."
"And lost," Yasmina added.
I scoffed. "If we had stayed on the road like I said, we wouldn't be lost!"
"We've been over this; it's too out in the open," Tyler explained to me.
"Well, I would know if we're heading in the right direction if I still had my phone because it has GPS, a compass app, and is also a phone!" Brooklynn approached Sammy.
"Sammy didn't steal your phone!" Yasmina got between the two, putting her hand on Brooklynn's shoulder and raising her voice. "No one stole your phone. Can we please stop talking about the shitty phone?"
"You guys! You guys, you guys, you guys." Ben interrupted them, his voice was insistent but low at the same time. "Could you all yell at each other quieter, please?"
"My fellow campers, chill!" Kenji said loudly. "What we need here is someone who can make the hard call on what to do next." He walked over to Tyler. "Since I'm obviously leadership material... I'll do this. And my first decree as leader is for everyone to stop talking and just listen to... Tyler." Kenji placed his arm around him.
"Huh?" Tyler's eyes went wide.
"Just go with it, plus I can blame you if anybody gets eaten." Kenji whispered in his ear earning an elbow in the gut making him fall to his knees gasping for air. Tyler moves from Kenji.
"Just admit your lost Mr VIP" Tyler remarks as he stands In front of all of us. "But I do know that the Carnotaurus cage is near and so is the genetics lab."
"We're by the Carnotaurus paddock!" Darius beamed and took off running. "I thought this place looked familiar."
"Wait up little dude". Tyler ran after him.
"Am I an excellent leader or what?" Kenji bragged after getting up, as we followed the two boys.
"I remember the fence." Darius ran through the final bushes. "The broken... ripped-down fence." He halted in place.
The fence in front of us had an enormous hole in it, like something had blasted through, but inspecting it closer, there were claw marks on the metal.
"That means... that means Toro is out here... with us." Ben whimpered.
"Now we have to deal with the Indominus and Toro." Tyler lowered his head. "Hold up." He jerked his head. "How do you know about Toro?"
"We all know. Kenji told us, like, the day after it happened." I explained.
Darius and Tyler glanced angrily at Kenji. "In my defense, me saving Tyler was super cool." Kenji said, elbowing Darius playfully.
"Anyway." I ignored them. "Maybe the Indominus, like, ate Toro or something, and we don't need to worry about it."
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Raptor Boy
AdventureSixteen-year-old Tyler Grady isn't thrilled about spending his summer at Camp Cretaceous. With his combat skills, raptor training experience, and love for rock climbing, he prefers the company of dinosaurs over humans. Despite his protests, his ment...
