Pre-Historic Life

This story begins with four best friends, Joel, Tracy, Sam and Beatrice. They share a common interest—exploring the unknown. So they form a club called the Mystery adventure club.
Every now and then, they would go mountain climbing, visiting haunted houses and even cemetery at night.
One day, they all decided to go trekking in the forest. So they packed their bag and off they went.
They reached their destination, a forest not far from Mt. Finable, in the morning. They were very excited. Could not wait a moment longer, not knowing what was lying ahead of them, they went deep in the forest.
As they walk further in the forest, it gets darker. Losing track of time, they need to find a place to rest. They found a dry and flat piece of land and started pitching their tents. After they all had dinner, they sat around to plan for their trip tomorrow.
While they were discussing, they heard some funny noises coming from deep in the forest, they also saw some flickering light coming from the same direction. The four of them get a bit of frighten yet excited. What could it be happening deep in the forest?
The next morning, Joel woke up first and then called the rest of the team up. They trekked deeper into the forest; they came across a flat bald piece of land in the middle of the forest. They were all puzzled by what was in front of them. Who could have done such a thing in the middle of the forest? It has a size of a football field with four deep-rounded impressions on it. They felt goose pimple crept up their spine.
As soon as they overcame their shock and were sure that no one was around, they got bolder and started walking into the middle of the field. Tracy saw a small gadget with a red blinking light. Tracy picked it up. It looks like a remote control of her home television except that it had a big dial, a small screen and three small buttons.
They all crowded around to take a good look at it. Curious as they always are, they started fiddling with it. The three buttons read as PAST, FUTURE and ABORT. As Joel turning the dial around, it started showing a series of number as years. A small printed word at the back of the gadget said, “this is a teleportation device. Just adjust the time you want to go and press the button in the middle of the dial.”
“I think we found a time traveling machine.” Tracy joking said. “Let’s hold hands and try it out.” Joel said. Tracy knew history and told Beatrice to set the time to 230 million years ago and they adjusted the time and everyone was so excited.
As Joel pressed the middle button, soon they were in a whole different place! There were a rich amount of oxygen and full of greens. The four of them all gaped at the amazement and suddenly; Joel said, “This is so different from television shows!”
Then suddenly, a small figure ran across and they all jumped in shock.
All four of them turned their focus to the figure and noticed that it was a small and petite dinosaur. It looked like a mini tyrannosaurus rex. It has a small, sharp claw in front of its feet and at this time, Beatrice came from behind the group and said, “This dinosaur is called a Compsonagthus (you may check out the name from libraries, wikipedia or any encyclopedia). They all nodded their heads and clapped to show that they were absolutely impressed by what she said. But the clapping petrified the small dinosaur and it ran away.
They continue with their trek. As they walk further away, they noticed that the portal was slowly closing up. They knew it was a point of no return. They continue walking and soon are out of the jungle.
They turned around and heaved a sigh of relief and said, “Oh gosh, finally we are out of the jungle!” Joel exclaim.
Hardly would they know that it was just the beginning of their adventure. Tracy first felt a short tremor and soon after, everyone felt it too. As the tremor get more intense, they saw the trees starting to shake and then a huge, majestic creature suddenly appeared. It was a brachiosaurus, followed by an Allosaurus, a fears looking Tyrannosaurus Rex was hotly pursuing them.
Quickly the four of them run back to hide in the forest. When the “coast was clear” they again venture out of the woods to find other smaller creatures like the Deinonychus, which is only the size of a human; and the Euparkeria, which is the size of a chicken.
They saw world renowned Stegosaurus and Triceratops. They are all so huge that when they walk, their movements were like stomping the ground.
The four of them were so trill and excited. They had to duck every time a dinosaur walked by. There were once they unknowingly found themselves underneath the mighty Brachiosaurus.
Fearing for their own safety yet wanting to see more, they continued with their trek.
After a while, they came across a big river. They were all so tired and thirsty; so they ran to it and started drinking like four buffalos. The water was so clean and pure that it tasted sweet.
After they had enough rest, they set off to continue their journey. They walk along the river, plucking and eating the wild fruit that they can lay their hand on. While they walk, they continue to meet more and more pre-historic creatures.
Suddenly, Tracy shouted “Bridge, a bridge.” “Why so excited, it is just a bridge!” Sam retorted. Tracy gave him a long hard look and said, “That means there is other human being around.” “I don’t understand.” Sam said. Joel explained, “Human being does not exist when the dinosaur was roaming the earth.”
Quickly, they walked toward the bridge. Leading across the river, it is a long swing bridge made out of rope and plank. They could not see the end of it as it disappeared into the thick forest over the other side of the river.
Joel, being a strong leader, volunteered himself to first cross the bridge. Carefully he balanced himself on the bridge and walked slowly. Occasionally turn back to wave to his friends.
Slowly his friend saw him disappear into the thick of the forest. Just when they were getting worry, they heard Joel shouted across the other end “It is clear over here!” Upon hearing it, the three of them started their crossing. Tracy was the first to go, follow by Sam and Beatrice. Just when Tracy heaved a sigh of relief upon reaching the other side of the bridge and just when Sam was half way through, Beatrice saw a Triceratops charging at her and she got panicked. She screamed and ran across the bridge. The Triceratops followed. As the bridge was made out of rope, it could not take the weight and snapped.
It all happened so sudden, before Tracy and Joel could do anything; Sam, Beatrice and the Triceratops fell into the river. The strong current soon swept the three of them out of sight. Tracy was screaming and crying in grief, as Beatrice was her best friend. This was too big a blow for Tracy.
Tracy was so sad and told Joel that she wish to go home. However when she took out the gadget, the blinking red light was off. The LCD screen when blank! Tracy went panicky and started knocking on it, but it just didn’t work.
Joel, being a gentleman, consoled her. After a while, they both decided not to let their emotions hold them down. So they continued their Journey.
Just when they stopped to take a break, as Joel was scooping up some water to drink, he saw from the corner of his eye a human figure not far from them. He turned around and saw a sweet looking girl was also drinking water.
Equally shock was that girl when she caught sight of Joel. Before Joel could open his mouth to talk, a Euparkeria jump out of nowhere and pounced at the girl. Out of instinct, Joel picked up a big piece of rock and threw it at the creature. Accurately, it hit its eye, immediately it ran away.
Joel and Tracy quickly walk to the girl. By now Joel managed to have a good look at her. She was wearing a silvery suit with a same colour boot.
“Thanks.” She said shyly. Joel and Tracy were elated that she could speak their language. Joel exclaimed, “How do you get here? There should not have any human here.” The girl smiled back and said, “I was about to ask the same question.”
Joel and Tracy told her the whole story of how they get there and the demise of their two friends.
The girl told them that the gadget belonged to her team and that it should return to her. Joel asked who she was and what was happening. She asked Joel and Tracy to follow her to the mother ship and she will get her captain to explain to them.
Not knowing what to do next, they follow the girl to walk into the forest. After about half an hour walk, them stop in front of a huge space ship. The ground was clear and flattened for the ship. It was about three story high elevated on four rounded legs. The girl pressed a small remote control on her shirt and down came an elevator from the middle of the ship.
The girl led them to a room with roll and roll of computers. A tall handsome was working on one of the terminal. That girl addressed him as “captain” and told him about the adventure that the four of them had gone through. Tracy took out the gadget and showed the captain. The captain was relief to see it and told Tracy that its battery had gone flat.
The captain told Joel and Tracy that they are time traveller. They lived in the future. Their times were year 3010. At that time, scientists manage to find a way to break through light speed and Man could therefore travel through time. With the technology they had made many trip to visit our present day live and monitor the evolution of mankind.
Their had just visited our present time and when they found that Joel and the three member was getting to close to the base, they have to leave in a hurry, and drop that gadget. The gadget that Tracy picked up was their emergency Time Travelling pod that would bring any loss crew back to the mother ship. It was only good to carry two persons and for one use only. The captain said that it was lucky they override the pod program to return who ever found it to the mother ship, when they discovered that they lost the pod. Joel and the gangs did not return to the ship because of the four of them was too heavy, the pod could only carry them half way. The captain added that it was lucky they discovered their loss earlier and set it to back to the mother ship or Joel and Tracy would have miss them by ten years.
Their mission at that time was to do research on animals that were existed on earth. He said that in 3010 all wild animals had vanish from the world due to the urbanisation and the environmental harm that cause by human.
The Captain told Joel and Tracy that they would have to send them back or they would be some complication. He also told them that he would bring back their two friends alive but he would have to erase their memory. Tracy told him that he could whatever he want as long as he can bring her two friend back to her.
The captain then asked the girl to give Joel and Tracy an injection and place them in a small rounded cubicle. Slowly they fell asleep.
When they open their eyes, they found their two friends were sleeping next to them, and they have no recollection of they had gone through earlier.
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