Jocelyne wasn't awakened by the sunlight. This time what took her out from the dream world was a heavy weight pressing on her chest that was making difficult for her to breathe. When she opened her sleepy eyes she found a large head with two enormous eyes watching her.She almost screamed and she immediately pushed the animal away; the creature fell off her chest and screeched in annoyance. When she calmed down, Jocelyne relaxed: the animal in front of her wasn't dangerous at all.It was a pterosaur, but it was rather strange: the muzzle was broad and flattened and the neck was practically non-existent. It must have been no more than a few tens of centimeters tall and it scuttled across the ground like a clumsy bat.Jocelyne remembered seeing that animal in a book once. If she wasn't wrong, it was called jeholopterus.The pterosaur screeched furiously and scurried away from her. It almost seemed to be offended by something. Jocelyne followed it with her eyes until the jeholopterus reac
When they reached the river bank, Jocelyne immediately ran to get her feet wet; she took off her shoes and stockings and let the waves cover her up to her ankles. As soon as the magnificent sensation of freshness reached her legs, she couldn't suppress a groan of satisfaction.If it hadn't been that she didn't have any spare parts, she would have taken off her clothes too and washed them from top to bottom. She had been wearing them for three days now and they were covered in leaves, drool, sweat, sand, dirt and even dead insects. If she would have had an alternative she wouldn't have hesitated to tear them off and burn them.She cupped her hands and took some water which she carried to her mouth. The river water was less good and harsher than the dew, but it was nice to be able to drink a large amount of water all at once. Then she took some more water and threw it on her hair. She didn't know in what state her head was and when she saw the dry leaves and dead insects falling from it
"Damn you, Oz! Mobilize those damn troops! Now! Bring my daughter back here! NOW!"Marcus Jersey had been yelling at his chief officer for half an hour. Like all great families, he also had a private militia. Too bad it wasn't doing its duty.Jackson Oz, the chief officer, couldn't do nothing except remain silent while his master let off steam. Unfortunately, screaming wasn't very useful: the criminals didn't care about the people screaming, so they continue to remain hiding from the cops as usually.Jersey screamed for the next ten minutes, then he finally calmed down. Jackson waited patiently. He had been at his master's service for years and he knew he was a composed, serious, and rational man; his fury of the moment was only due to the frustration of losing his daughter.Unlike many of Odaria's breadwinners, Jersey didn't care that his child was a girl. He had loved her just as if she were a son and he never thought about using her as a political tool. Indeed, he was thinking of gr
"Good. Now get down...""No, not like that. You have to move slower...""I said to move slower, damn it! But do you listen to me when I speak?"Sobek shook his head as he realized how senseless his curse was. "I'm starting to forget that these words are only in my head. It would be really useful if she could hear them!"The spinosaurus let out a grunt looking at the young girl posted on the branch of a tree, who was trying in vain to get close to a lizard that was sunbathing among the leaves.From his point of view, Jocelyne made far too much noise. He had miraculously managed to teach her how to catch some mice or how to track down a burrow, but catching an animal on a tree branch seemed beyond her reach.Jocelyne tried to get even closer, but her movements didn't go unnoticed. The lizard saw her and opened two small membranes from its back with which it launched itself from the branch and glided towards another tree."Right, coelurosauravus can fly..." Sobek thought. The coelurosaura
Sobek headed for the source of the roar, trying to be as quiet as possible. Even if he didn't recognize the sound, it was obvious that it was the roar of a large predator.As he walked, more roars came from deep in the jungle. Hearing them, Sobek could deduce that there were at least two predators fighting.Eventually he came to the edge of a slope, where he stopped. Below him, in fact, there was a large clearing where at least a dozen large dinosaurs were resting.[Prey identified: Torvosaurus gurneyi, megalosauridae. Experience: 60,000 points]Sobek's heart leapt. Torvosaurs! They were basically the tyrannosaurs of the Jurassic period! They were predators at the top of the food chain. They didn't have the jaw structure as powerful as the one of the t-rex, but they were still almost as big as it was and had a powerful bite. They were the kind of dinosaurs that Sobek preferred stay away from.Their amount of experience proved their danger. Sobek was sure that if he ate one of them he w
For the next two days Sobek tried to avoid the torvosaurs as much as possible, not wanting to risk any confrontation with them, not even the smallest and harmless; however, that doesn't mean that he hadn't spied them. After all, knowing the enemy was the key to surviving even in the most extreme and dangerous situation. The more he learned, the better chance he had of getting out from there alive and unharmed.As he already knew, they hunted in pairs; although they were a family group of about a dozen individuals, generally only two of them left the pack and went hunting. The others remained in the clearing waiting for them. Also, generally the ones that went to hunt were all young adults: the oldest ones or the youngest ones remained in the clearing, and they spent almost all their time lying around, cuddling, licking each other and playing.Even if they were just two, however, Sobek never dared to confront them. After all, two young adult torvosaurs were more than enough to defeat hi
According to the current knowledge of Earth's paleontologists, the andrewsarchus was the largest carnivorous mammal ever lived on the planet. Although most modern reconstructions saw it as an animal more similar to a warthog than to a wolf or in any case an active predator, it was still very large by the standards of a mammal. It reached the impressive length of more than five meters and a height at the withers of almost two meters.By comparison the Bengal tiger was just a adorable kitten, and even the massive polar bears were smaller than it.However, its size was still minimal in a messy world where dinosaurs, mammals and any other creatures lived together. Even if the andrewsarchus could be considered the top predator in the mammal kingdom, it still had no chance against large predatory dinosaurs. Ceratosaurs, allosaurs, carnotaurs, giganotosaurs, carcharodontosaurs, mapusaurs, tirannosaurs: they all could kill it with a single bite. Compared to the giant reptiles of the past, even
Jocelyne was surprised by a sudden roar that the spinosaurus launched before it started to scrape the ground. It was a behavior she had never seen. This worried her quite a bit: even though she was not an expert, she knew that if an animal suddenly assumed an unexpected and confusing behavior it was a bad sign. Yet for some reason the dinosaur seemed... happy?After a few seconds, however, she saw the dinosaur's muzzle approach her. As it had already done many times, it grabbed her, being careful to not hurt her; however, unlike the other times, it didn't put her on the ground, but began to run at great speed in an unknown direction.Jocelyne's blood froze instantly. In her pespective, the spinosaurus was clearly trying to run away. This could only mean that they were in danger. Had it found them? Was the mysterious predator coming? Was the spinosaurus trying to escape with her?Even though she was relieved that her protector didn't want to leave her, she was still anxious: what if the