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It begins at sunset, and the first one sounds like the warning alarm of the fences make just before they turn on.

You might even think that is what it is at first, until you remember that the fences are already on. And then the alarm sounds again, and this is now clearly the start of something new.

Again the alarm sounds, but doesn't it seem just a little bit louder?

The sound comes again, and again, and again, the warning sound set off into a full blown alarm, and each metallic raking BEEP noise that comes grows a little bit louder each time. Before long, the sound becomes so loud you can hear nothing else, and the jungle starts to go wild. Animals of every possible sort have been awakened; irritated animals with nowhere far to run with the fences on. They're just as trapped as you are.

Still, the alarm grows louder. Louder. Louder to the point where the sound starts to become painful. So loud you want to fall to your knees and bury your ears with your hands. In the sand. Beneath a dozen pillows. Then, it grows louder still. So loud that your teeth hurt and the ringing in your head is so bad that you can feel your own bones vibrate.

And just like that... everything stops. The forest goes still. For one perfect moment there is complete and total silence.

Everything goes back to normal. All the fences turn off, on schedule.

And if you get deep enough or think to look, you will notice the force field around the compound has turned off as well.

Who knows for how long....

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The strike hit causing the Beast to screech and try once more to snap at Pruna with it's Powerful jaws, now sporting a significant limp in it's front leg. Whatever this tiny fleshy thing with a single large claw was? It was going to eat her.

Sandy's efforts seemed to be going well as she reached the first big branch and tried to pull up on it...only to hear a sickening "CRUNCH!" as the branch came away and she toppled from the trunk of the tree.

She let out a yelp and felt something hard underneath her as scrambling desperate hands wrapped around a muscular, scaly neck.

"Oh no..." She moaned as realization dawned upon her.

Meanwhile the branch fell from the tree and landed on the other Lizard's head with a THUD! Knocking it silly for a moment. It was shaking it's head and growling as it tried to clear it's vision from the impact.

If Purna glanced to the side she would see Sandy, looking horrified as she straddled the back of the other Raptor who was now tossing it's head wildly back and forth trying to see what was clinging to it.

She stumbled backwards again knowing she couldn't keep this up for long. She heard the branch snap and her head whipped to the side to see to broken branch. She darted out the way again but the Raptor was more bothered trying to get the thing clinging to it. "Sandy!" She was so clever!

She darted forwards again whilst the monster was distracted and reached out to try and grab its tail, it didn't look like it could turn all the way round.

The creature became even more irritated when it felt it's tail touched and began spinning desperately trying to get at Sandy thinking she was the cause.

"Nonononono!" She protested feeling the muscles of the beast thrashing between her legs as they clamped as tightly as possible to hold on.

The other Dinosaur was recovering. They wouldn't have much time. As it happened though the one on Sandy had decided it had had enough and tried to take off at a run to escape these crazy creatures. "Pruna!" Sandy yelped and risked letting go of the Raptors neck to grab at her friend.

"Hold on!" Pruna called when she heard Sandy shouting. She gripped as best she could, her knife back in her pocket for now, when the stupid monster began running. She heard her name and twisted her head, seeing Sandy's hand eventually and reaching up for it, her aim was a bit off since she was missing an eye but she continued scrambling up, reaching out to try and catch her friends hand as well.

With strength that defied her size and was fed by fear Sandy hauled Pruna off her feet and drug her behind the loping two legged lizard as the other one snapped at the air where Pruna had been just moments before.

The scruffy girl grunted and hauled her up over the Raptors back so she could sit as well, and flailed one of her arms to make sure she didn't lose her balance.

And just like that...the girls were riding on the back of a Raptor.

Pruna found herself flying through the air and the next moment she was behind Sandy, on the back of the monster. She grabbed hold of the monster as best she could and held Sandy with her other hand. Impressed with how Sandy had caught her, she could be brave and strong when she wanted to!

The raptor was still hurtling through the jungle as the girls clung to it. It couldn't go very far though as the fences still pinned them in.

"We need to be jumping." She shouted, practically into Sandy's ear.

Sandy groaned at the prospect.

"Of course we do." She complained loudly and narrowly avoided being thrown off as the Raptor turned sharply.

But what about the raptor? It would kill them the minute it realized there were off!

An idea formed and Sandy felt her stomach twist like a rung out rag.

"I need the knife!" She shouted over her shoulder, tightening her legs again so she could take off one hand. She'd have to be fast and they would probably still get thrown.

Pruna grabbed her knife from her pocket and handed it over to Sandy. If Sandy had a good idea then Pruna would let her try it. She held onto Sandy whilst handing her the knife, if they fell off too early without a plan they would get eaten for sure.

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It really wasn't much of a plan, and for all she knew it was going to fail horribly.

Gripping the knife tightly, Sandy winced and thought for a moment about Mindy's admonishing her for not being aggressive enough.

Driving the knife into the creatures neck it screeched and stumbled. A wrench and a jerk and the creatures throat was slit and the three of them went crashing to the ground.

Sandy groaned, sprawled out spread eagle in the grass.

"Is it dead?"

Pruna hit the ground hard but didn't stay down. She rolled over and jumped up again, picking up her knife on the way she was at the Raptor as Sandy asked the question.

"I do be thinking do." She stabbed it in the back of the head, just to make sure. It didn't stir.

She turned round, her face breaking into a grin as she ran at Sandy throwing herself at her in a hug, sort of. Pruna didn't usually start these things and she wasn't sure where her hands were meant to go. "That did be being brilliant!" She laughed, "You did be being amazing." She leaned down and kissed Sandy on the tip of her nose.

Sandy blinked, her face bright red and nose wiggled a little at the kiss.

Trembling she slid her arms around Pruna.

"That was very...very scary." she mumbled in a voice that betrayed her shock. She gripped Pruna tightly but was smiling in a dazed sort of away.

"We're alive." she added trying to reassure herself.

Pruna let her hug her, filled with pride for her friend. "But you did be killing it, so it do no be being scary anymore. It do be being dead."

She nodded, that was important. The monster was dead and they were alive. For now. "We need to be moving before the others learn it do no be being with them."

Sandy nodded and begrudgingly let go of the hug. Her legs felt like rubber but she knew Pruna was probably right.

"Or before something bigger smells all this fresh dead meat." She pointed out and took Pruna's hand again so they could try and escape.

Pruna nodded and pulled Sandy's hand, still dizzy from adrenaline. It felt good, like she was on a difficult mission and staying alive by the skin of her teeth.

"Can you be climbing?" She looked down at Sandy's shaky legs, "We will be safer in the trees I do be thinking."

"Climbing...yeah...yeah you're probably right." Turning their direction to the nearest line of trees Sandy knelt down to give Pruna a boost to the first branch.

Her eyes lingered on the dead dinosaur though. It was frightening even in death the way it's big sharp eyes were glazed over and glassy. Fluid was leaking from it's mouth and rows of teeth.

Would killing a human be just as easy?

A fist wrapped around Sandy's gut and she knew sooner or later she'd have to find out.

Pruna didn't seem to notice Sandy's thoughts, at least not until she was on the first branch and leaning down to help pull Sandy up.

Then she noticed her looking and sighed. "Do no be going all leaky faced over a monster, Sandy Marko." She warned.

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Fade to black?

Yup!