My Light In The Dark ~ Book 1: Ripper's Fury

Stealthy Attack.

Maisie POV...

"So, Owen, how's it going?" Carter asked Owen as he took a sip of his hot cocoa, when Rain and I walked in.

"Eh. Not much. The usual getting chased by dinosaurs like yours." Owen replied.

"HEY! We both know that he was sorry for that incident!" Claire defended.

"Still, that thing could have killed me! It had already nearly killed me a few times a year prior!" Owen yelled back.

"It Almost killed my nephews when they were in the park, too," Claire said, "And I have to admit that I was mad! At least I don't dwell on shit like that like you do!"

"Yeah, well at least I don't wear high heels when running through the forest OR when getting chased by a T-Rex." Owen said with a snarky look on his face. 

Claire playfully hit Owen as Kat and Carter chuckled from across the table.

"What's so funny? Why are you guys chuckling!" Claire asked.

Kat started laughing in the middle of taking a sip of her hot cocoa. She laughed so hard, she spat it all over Claire, whom was sitting across from her.

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME, KAT?!" Claire screamed.

"I'm so sorry, Claire! Its just you and Owen have gotten so platonic since JW!" Kat laughed.

"This was my favorite shirt, too!" Claire yelled. "We're about two miles from the Golden Gate. I'll be right back!" Claire said before getting up and walking out of the shop.

"Rain, I'm going to go with her if she'll let me!" I said to rain before getting up.

"Might want to take this, kid. Ya know! Just in case." Kat said before grabbing a handgun from her purse and handing it to me.

"Thanks..." I glared at Kat for a second before going out and running up to Claire.

"Are you coming with me?" Claire asked.

"Only if it's okay with you!" I answered.

"Well you can come." Claire said, pulling out her phone and turning on the flashlight feature.

"It's getting foggy out tonight... that is a bit worrying..." Claire said.

"Do you reckon he's hunting us?" I asked.

"The Indoraptor? Without a doubt! Look... if you see him... run." Claire said with a worried tone.

"I have a gun." I admitted.

"What kind is it?" Claire asked.

"I don't know, but it's some kind of handgun!" I said.

"HA! That's not going to do jack shit to that monster!" Claire yelled.

"I wouldn't call him a monster out here, if I were you," I said. "Unless you want to get us both killed-"

"Honey!" Claire said before turning around to face me. "You, nor I, are dying tonight! Don't even bring up the thought of death until you know how to recreate a dinosaur!"

"You know how to make a dinosaur?"

"I would know how to make you if they had taught me that!" Claire said.

"Easy to create me! All you have to do is go up to Owen and-"

"THAT'S REPRODUCTION! NOT RECREATION! Jeez, child, where'd you learn your crap?!"

"I think about 87% of the worlds kids knows what-"

"I GET IT! Can we get off this topic and just go down this little hill that we're on?" Claire asked.

"Sure!" I said, smiling.

Claire began to grab the edges of her shirt.

"What are you doing?" I asked her.

"I'm taking my shirt off. Why?"

"Because I think that the water down there is salt water!" I said.

"So. The least it'll do is make me smell weird." Claire said.

"Well, did you ever think that it would make it easier for Ripper to track us if one of us had a smelly shirt?" I said.

"Wait..." Claire said.

"What?" I asked.

"I think we went the wrong way!" Claire panicked.

"Why do you think that?" I asked.

"Because this slope doesn't lead to the river!" Claire said.

"Where does it lead?" I asked.

"It leads to a campsite... I'm going to go check one of those tents! Maybe there's a fresh shirt in one of them." Claire said, shining the light from her phone through the fog, and onto a tent.

I looked behind a tent noticing an arm. When I got behind the tent, I could make out a bloody body. I squealed a second before stopping myself.

When I turned around, as I tilted my head, I noticed a lantern on in one of the tents. I began to walk closer to it before saw in a shadow.

"IS ANYBO-" I ran up to Claire and put my hand over her mouth, and looked back over at the tent.

"Shut up!" I whispered.

"WHY?!" Claire asked.

"Because you're an idiot! He's here!" I said.

Claire looked over my shoulder towards the tent I had been observing for a minute, before staring at me with her eyes wide. Suddenly, the lantern that was on in the tent behind me turned off, leaving Claire and I in pitch black darkness.

"Claire where's your phone?!" I panicked.

"I DON'T KNOW! I SET IT DOWN WHEN I FOUND A FRESH SHIRT!" She yelled.

"WELL, YOU'RE EVEN MORE OF AN IDIOT!" I cried before Claire pulled me close to her body and started to back up.

"What are you doing?!" I asked.

"I'm trying to protect you!" Claire replied.

Suddenly, I felt Claire get torn away from me and heard her scream.

"CLAIRE!" I yelled before I head a Velociraptor roar.

"BLUE!" I yelled.

Suddenly, I felt the sharp pain of something smacking me in the temple. I, then, felt myself get picked up by something, and everything went dark.