Blood On The Moon by Thomas P Hopp

Author:Thomas P Hopp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: military, space opera, dinosaur, yellowstone, dinotopia, walking with dinosaurs, jurassic world
Publisher: Thomas P Hopp

Will Daniels stood near his Jeep on the high prairie with Zippy, watching workers from Arran Kra take away the two fallen fighter-walkers. Teesa’s quahka had been damaged least, and she was able to pilot the machine toward the city with the assistance of another quahka walking beside hers and propping her up. On the other hand, Tanto Vetto’s machine had been too badly damaged and burnt to ever move again under its own power. Two quahkas working together lifted it with his body still inside and carried it off toward the right-hand portal entry to the underground citadel. The left-hand portal had already merged with the ongoing excavations to become one of the newly exposed city streets of Arran Kra. As the quahkas disappeared into the tunnel, Will murmured to Zippy, “I think going underground sounds like a good idea. Lotta trouble brewing. I think you and I oughta get going home too, Zip Doggie Dog.”

A thunderous ripping noise electrified the air above the prairie. Will spun around and spotted its source—the just-past-full moon, rising in the clear evening sky above a mountain ridge to the east. His jaw dropped when he realized that the death ray from Phaeon Crater was once again lancing out from the moon’s south pole, creating a deafening roar as the energy of the beam surged through the air over his and Zippy’s heads.

“I’ll be doggoned,” Will shouted to Zippy, who whined back loudly. “Here we go again!”

Zippy shook his head to sooth the pain in his sensitive ears. Will turned around to look for the impact point of the beam. To his surprise, it was focused just beyond Arran Kra, on the flank of Sandstone Mountain. Why the beam’s operators had chosen to target that particular place was immediately obvious. Two metal towers, built by the Kra in recent days to carry their local and regional radio communication transmissions, were glowing red-hot and throwing off sparks. Bathed in the fierce heat of the death ray, they began to sag and collapse.

When the light of the beam vanished and the roar from the sky subsided Will wondered out loud, “Why would they wanna mess with their own towers?” Then, as he watched the towers crash onto the mountainside, it came clear to him. “This goes right along with the attack on Teesa. They’re taking out the loyal Kra. The whole dang war’s starting up again, isn’t it?”

Zippy’s only answer was a whine and another head shake to clear his stressed ears.

A sickening qualm crept across the skin of Will’s neck and shoulders under the yoke of his western shirt. Where a moment before he’d felt the warmth of the late afternoon sunshine, he now felt a clammy chill. He looked hard at the moon, as if staring at it could tell him what he wanted to know the most.

“Kit,” he murmured, “I hope you’re not in too much danger.” That was an absurd thing to say, he realized. Of course, she was in about as much danger as a girl could get herself into.

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