Episode 5

My Many Amazing Adventures

       Minutes turned into hours and hour turned into complaints. The only ones who didn't complain were Megan and Ethan, and I was very grateful for that. Even I went a bit bonkers, I started checking the map wondering if I had taken any wrong turns. Percy, Ethan and Drew did seem a bit skiddish though. "What's wrong?" I asked. "We smell fresh blood" Percy answered. "That mustn't be a good odor" I replied. "Yeah, and it rarely comes with good news." Said Drew breathing heavily. "Let's make camp, it's getting too dark for me to see." Ethan said. Percy had a makeshift collapsible tent in his pack. "Two people keep guard." Megan suggested. Drew and I volunteered. 

       Neither of us were very talkative, so the conversation only started after she saved my skin from a  Hypsilophodon. "Thanks! So, uh, how long have you been seeking this treasure?" I asked "You won't believe me if I told you." she said. "I've traveled back in time by refrigerator, I've meet my first dinosaur, I have an immortal friend, and I'm chasing after the worlds top treasure. I'm pretty sure I could handle it." I explained. She still hesitated. "Come on, try me." I persuaded. "Seven thousand eighty six years. We're immortal." she said. "Don't go try anything crazy or you'll end up like us, stuck on the island till we get the treasure." She sighed. The awkward silence was broken by some rustling in the bushes, then some whispering from the bushes. Drew notched her arrow and stepped closer. "You wake the rest, I'll investigate." she whispered. I went and got Ethan, Jason, Percy, and Megan. 

       They all came out arms at the ready. Then an arrow whisked past my ear and Ethan commanded battle positions. Ethan in the front, Percy and Drew to the side and back of him, me directly behind Ethan, Jason directly behind me, and Megan took the back. A whisper and the next thing we knew somethings charged us. Those somethings were humans. "Drop your weapons if you don't want to become our midnight snack." one of them growled. "Get an attitude check before that." Ethan growled back as he easily knocked the first one's sword out of his hand. The second one shot Ethan in the ankle. "And I highly suggest you shoot with something other than toothpicks." Ethan said as he plucked the arrow out of his ankle. "Excuse us, I'm Luke and this is Logan." They waved. "You have good distracting methods, but they don't work on us." Percy said. "We truly mean no harm, we're just looking for the world's top treasure." Logan said "So are we." I said. "Have you had any luck?" "None whatsoever." Luke replied "Would you care to join us?" "I looked at Ethan. "This is your call." I said. "welcome, I'm Ethan." Ethan introduced the rest of us. 

       That night I slept while Ethan and Logan kept watch. That morning Jason and I got some weapons. Jason was a natural spear man and I naturally drifted over to the swords which seemed to be my specialty. After some training and some breakfast we started our journey. We only stopped once to fight a pack of velocirapters. Later that day we met our daily group of people after our treasure. Sandy a dirty blond that fought with a dagger, rusty a redheaded archer and Timothy(Tim) a spear man who had a whole collection of electric spears. It was now eleven of us and one treasure. I thought it was fair to let the stranded 7,086 year olds keep it until we celebrated Tim's second million birthday. Well, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it I thought.

       The scariest part of the adventure in my opinion was when we crossed the volcano. "And halt!" Rusty commanded. "Man I hate this part of the jungle." he muttered. Just then a fire ball shot out of the volcano and landed a few yards away from us. "Yeah I can see why." Sandy remarked. We kept hiking until we got to a bridge that stretched from one side of the volcano's mouth to the other. "How about you go first, leader," Luke said. "How about you go first Luke," Ethan said definitely frustrated. "Heads you go first tails I go last." Luke said grinning as he fished a coin out of his pocket. "I'll go first if you like, just keep your voices down, you never know what's lurking around here." Said a boy who walked out of a bush. "Sure, when can I sign up for whisper lessons for next fall?" Jason whispered sarcastically. "Not funny." the boy said. "I'm Hugo." I counted twelve on my fingers. "Huge-o?" Jason said. "No, it's Hugo." Hugo said "Oh, phew at first I thought you were going to say Tiny-o." Jason giggled. Hugo turned his back on Jason who was rolling around on the ground trying not to laugh. Hugo, Ethan, Tim, Luke, and I consulted how we would cross as the rest got Jason recovered.