Trapped in the Hollow Earth Novelette Series Omnibus Edition (Books 1 - 4) by Peebles Chrissy

Author:Peebles, Chrissy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, action, young adult, teens, aliens, ufos, island, dinosaurs, survival, shipwrecked, trex, mysterious island, glass city, hidden civilization, thrilled
Publisher: Chrissy Peebles

Episode 4

I scrambled to my feet and my body stiffened as I gazed up; the creature stood as tall as a house. I thought about making a mad dash for the water, but then I realized any sudden movement might be like ringing a dinner bell for the hungry-looking monster. The T-rex’s nostrils flared like that of a racehorse, and anger boiled in the hunter’s red eyes.

The creature opened its mouth, and long tendrils of slime dripped from its sharp teeth, right onto my head. I’d been slimed, but that didn’t matter. I had other pressing issues at hand, like living to see tomorrow and even more important—oh, gosh—saving Mike! I turned, peeking inside the hole that was filling up faster than I could say “Boo!”

From the corner of my eye, I noticed something blue; it was Jack’s shirt swaying in the soft breeze. I heard him inhale a deep breath and let it out quietly. I had to hurry and come up with a plan because time was running out. Jack opened his mouth to speak but I cut him off. “Take a few slow steps back,” I whispered. “Hide in the bushes behind the hole!”

Holding my breath, I moved like a snail into the vegetation and dropped to my stomach. Cold water soaked through my clothes as it continued to slowly pour over the bank of the river. Jack followed and flattened himself on the soaking wet ground.

I could barely get the words out of my mouth. “What’re we going to do?”

“Hey, guys!” yelled Mike.

“You’re not going to believe it. We’ve got a T-rex up here! But hold on, I’m coming,” I said, adding under my breath, “as soon as I figure out a way to get rid of this thing.” I looked around. Throwing a bone or a branch or anything wouldn’t work, because I wasn’t exactly dealing with a golden retriever. But what else can I do? In movies I’d seen, people always ran—most of them in the wrong direction. In this case, though, there was nowhere to run, and we couldn’t leave Mike behind to drown.

“This is no time to make jokes, Casey. A T-rex? C’mon!” Mike’s voice came labored, his words spluttering out like he was swallowing more than his fair share of mud and water.

“I’ll get you out,” I whispered. “That’s a promise.”

In the movies, this T-rex would have already gobbled us up, but this was real life, and right now, the huge creature just appeared very curious, as if it wasn’t quite sure what to make of the humans. The problem was, curious always seemed to turn out dangerous in the end. The sharks in the ocean had been curious, bumping into me and trying to figure out what I was. The spiders had been curious before they stalked me. The duckbilled dinosaur had been curious before it chased me in the woods. The croc had been curious before it launched that river attack. And now this thing with teeth longer than its arms was following in their footsteps, right on cue.

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