Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London by Keith Mansfield

Author:Keith Mansfield [Mansfield, Keith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2013-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

In a short space of time Sol had done a remarkable job. One side of the ship had somehow opened up enabling her droids to buzz in and out of the giant lower deck, bringing in huge quantities of shrubs and plants and even some trees that must have been many times their own weight. As well as the conifers, there were even the odd oak and sycamore. The space around the trees was filled with a few grasses but mainly the exotic shrubs and ferns Johnny had seen in the forest. Three-quarters of the deck had already turned into a huge prehistoric bio-environment before Ptery flew, with what at first glance looked like an ostrich in his claws, through the great tear Sol had opened up in her walls. The dinosaur being carried was yellow, with a small head, tiny arms and a great fat tail. Ptery swooped down, letting it go just above the ground before turning and flying out past another of his kind bringing the second of the pair. They were soon followed by a gray-green creature with one horn just above its parrot-like beak, two more on top of its head and a round bony plate behind them. It could only be a baby triceratops. As the droids finished covering the whole area, more and more pteradons came like giant bats, cawing into the new habitat and releasing their cargo. Johnny asked Sol to separate the different species with force fields so they didn’t tear each other apart. As the area filled Sol announced there were thirty minutes to impact. Johnny said he’d be up as soon as Ptery was safely inside and went over to the rip in the ship’s side to keep a look out. As he watched, pairs of pteradons carried in some much bigger specimens for the dinodeck, each at one end of their very heavy loads. Among them were a couple of T. Rexes, which he was very unsure about having on board, but he couldn’t very well send them back now. Finally, he saw Ptery flying in with a little version of the club-tailed dinosaur Johnny had first seen in the forest.

He shouted over to the winged dinosaur. “Time’s up, Ptery—I think you’ve won.”

Ptery was shaking his head from side to side. “I not win. Girl here bring more,” he screeched, and unfurled his left wing to point to another of the bone-crested flyers who was just dropping off another creature with a bony plate and parrot beak but this time no horns.

“Wait!” shouted Johnny as the female pteradon turned away. She stopped. He turned back to Ptery and said, “There’s a prize for the best boy and the best girl. You two stay here.” He was relieved there weren’t any other pteradons inside that he should send away. He didn’t think he could have condemned them to their deaths, even though there wouldn’t have been room for more than just the two—the place was already teeming with life. Ptery took off and wheeled triumphantly around the walls of the chamber, screeching loudly.

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