Jurassic Portal by Turnbull Jr. Robert

Author:Turnbull Jr., Robert
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: www.hawkslegend.com
Published: 2015-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16.

With only a few hours of sleep under their belts, the trio was awakened by a gentle shaking that was common. What was unsettling, was the sound of falling rocks and a quick check found that the two monoliths that had held up the tiny passageway for centuries…no longer did, they had slid together and now completely blocked the passage out.

A quick check of his watch told Jack that it was still dark, but early morning; Sam would not be within radio range for hours.

The second thing they thought of was the far end of the cavern where the water was leading to. Following the narrow stream as it wound around and through the large boulders of the obviously unstable cavern. Through the cramped passage ways they crawled as they used only their LED flashlights. Larry led as Jack followed Coi through the twists and turns of the system of caverns and caves, the stream was obviously once a mighty underground river that had cut a winding path through the granite mountain. Finally they came out into a huge cavern with a ceiling that had to be at least one hundred feet high.

Their beams barely reached the ceiling as the darkness of the maw before them swallowed up the beams of light and they could barely hear one another above the flowing rivulet that they followed as it echoed off the rocky walls. It ran around boulders and rocks the size of a body and upward to the size of a car, most were covered in mossy growth. They carefully picked their way over and around the rubble that had fallen from the ceiling. Larry who was the expert in spelunking and geology explained that making undue sounds could bring the ceiling down upon them…which was why he made no sound as his light vanished from sight.

Coi gave a muffled scream and quickly clamped both hands over her mouth as Jack joined her looking down to the floor a dozen feet below where Larry laid strangely twisted among several large rocks.

Jack picked his way down a few feet as the falling dark waters trickled over him and then dropped down a few yards from his friend. He watched as Coi slowly descended and grasped her waist as she dropped to the cavern’s floor; they hurried over to Larry.

“Man oh man, Jack I really fucked up this time old pal…can’t feel anything from the waist down. Have a few broken ribs, and dislocated my shoulder…” he smiled in the beam of Jack’s light “but I popped it back in while you all took your time getting here.” he chuckled softly and tried not to cough.

“Easy pal, we’ll get ya out of here and…” Jack never finished as Larry grasped Jack’s arm.

“Shhhh…” his flashlight slowly moved upward “as I looked up I also saw those.” From the ceiling hung some sort of creature, but as they watched there was more movement. From the fragile ceiling bat-like creatures hung from the roots that had managed to penetrate the rock.

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