Dinosaur World 7

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  Chapter 1

  There was a full moon out as we flew over the dark island of Jeju in the alien spacecraft. I stared out at the dark shapes of trees below us and had to remind myself that dinosaurs couldn’t harm the spaceship while our forcefield was activated.

  It had been only a few hours since we left Ravenscar, but Adhara’s spaceship had gotten us to Korea’s largest island in a timeframe no plane could have ever achieved.

  And we didn’t even get lost.

  Adhara sat in the pilot seat the whole way, and now her lilac fingers delicately moved over the alien controls as she used her thermal scanner to look for life below. The beautiful alien’s long, silver hair glistened in the moonlight coming through the window, and the small gills on her neck fluttered as she hummed quietly to herself. Her emerald green eyes shimmered with metallic-looking flecks, and silver freckles covered the angular planes of her face.

  Adhara hadn’t been in our lives for long, but she’d become a strong member of our team after we cleared up the misunderstanding she had with humans. We’d finally worked out that her people mistook the humans of Earth for an ancient enemy race of similar looking beings called “alakerik” who used to have a colony on Mars. When her people picked up a signal the Large Hadron Collider in CERN had unknowingly sent out, they took this as a call to war.

  As it turned out, Adhara’s people responded to the threat by opening thousands of portals all over Earth and letting vicious, bloodthirsty dinosaurs through. Their intent was to wipe out our entire race and then claim our planet for their own.

  Luckily, we managed to convince Adhara that humanity had nothing to do with the alakerik race and were in fact innocent on all counts. Unluckily, she hadn’t been able to contact her fellow aliens to spread the word.

  Now, it was a race against time to find out how to send a message to Adhara’s people and let them know the human race never meant to send a war cry in their direction. If we failed, an entire fleet of armed aliens would be arriving soon to finish off the attack and steal our planet.

  It hadn’t been long ago that I thought life couldn’t get any more complicated than the dinosaur apocalypse. Adding aliens into the mix had really added a new layer of danger, but my girls and I had overcome shit loads of terrifying experiences on the road since all this kicked off. I’d looked death in the toothy, scaly face enough times to know we could probably survive this if we did what we always did: fight our asses off to survive.

  Right now, this meant traveling to the Korean island of Jeju to find Hae-won’s father. He’d somehow managed to call us once even after the phone signals all failed, and while we didn’t know how he managed it, or what tech allowed him to hack into military satellites, we hoped Adhara could use the same system to communicate with her people.

  Before it was too late.

  My three lovers sat in the passenger seats beside me, and all our eyes were fixed on the ground below as we stared out the blue-tinted window at Jeju Island below.

  Hae-won’s ebony hair was pushed back over her shoulders, and she bit her lip like she’d been doing for several minutes now. She looked nervous as we tried to locate her family base in the dark, and I knew there must be a lot on her mind.

  Just before we’d taken off, my Korean lover revealed she was pregnant with my child.

  Hae-won had been a badass from the moment we met in Cambridge University. She’d hotwired motorcycles, mastered multiple weapons with little training, and proven she picked up many of her infamous father’s skills. She was feisty, sexy, gorgeous, and completely in love with me, and I couldn’t help but grin every time I thought of her as a mother.

  It wasn’t just Hae-won who was carrying my baby, though.

  Becka tapped her foot impatiently to my left as she twirled a strand of blonde hair around her finger. We’d recently traveled across England to find Becka’s mum, and the beautiful blonde and I had accidently ripped our condom the first time we’d made love, but the one thing she wanted more than anything else was to have a baby with me, so we’d kind of forsaken any other protection and had fucked bareback for the last three or so weeks.

  The gorgeous Brit had finally gotten to make the announcement a few hours ago that she was also pregnant, and she’d spent nearly every second since then holding my hand and sending me adorable smiles.

  Kat sat in the final seat of the spacecraft, and the pretty soldier looked engrossed in the alien technology as we scanned the jungle floor. The curly-haired corporal joined us on our way to Ravenscar after her military base became unsafe, and she’d quickly become a vital part of our family. She was tough as nails and determined like no one I’d ever met, and she never shied away from making it very clear how much she cared about me and my other lovers. Now, her hazel eyes sparkled as lights flashed on the control panel, and I knew what that look meant.

  Kat was desperate to have a go of flying the ship, but Adhara had been adamant about no one touching her controls. Ever.

  I grinned as I admired the moonlit faces of my three girlfriends, and with them by my side, preventing the end of the world didn’t seem so impossible. They inspired me every day to kick ass and keep stepping no matter how crazy shit got, and now that the lives of my first two children were at stake as well, I’d unlocked a whole new level of determination.

  There was no way I was going to let the world end. Not when my lovers and babies were here with me.

  I stifled a yawn as the spaceship hovered over a clump of trees, and I looked over at Adhara as she peered out of the front window.

  “Did you find something?” I asked, and the lilac-skinned alien sighed.

  “There are many ommati here,” she said. “Dinosaurs, is what I mean.”

  “Don’t worry.” I grinned. “We’ve definitely learned your word for them by now.”

  “I’m almost positive this is near where the family base is,” Hae-won said. “It’s so hard to remember, but it was near the outskirts of the forest on this side of the island.”

  “Should we just roll down the window and yell?” Becka muttered with a smirk. “We’ve been looking for ages.”

  “It’s so cool, though,” Kat said as she sat on the edge of her seat. “This technology is amazing, I could watch it all day.”

  “Well, I want to sleep,” Becka yawned. “I’m a pregnant woman, I can’t be up all night.”

  “Your stomach is still as flat as a board,” Kat said with a raised eyebrow. “I think you’ve got a while before pregnancy habits start to kick in.”

  Becka scoffed in mock insult, and I left a soft kiss on her hand that made her instantly melt into an adorable puddle beside me.

  The ship moved slowly over the trees, and the small screen which showed the thermal scanner findings flashed up with orange outlines of various animals. Alien technology seemed to be eons ahead of ours in so many ways, and the thermal imaging picked up what looked like mice as they ran along the forest floor along with a few even smaller creatures.

  I wished it was light enough to see the view properly, though, because I knew the island would look incredible from up high. There hadn’t been any signs of a base from what we’d seen, and the only humans who had come up on the scanner were clearly families inside small
houses near the beach.

  “So, you’ve never been to the base?” I asked the Korean beauty beside me.

  “Not that I can remember,” Hae-won replied. “I think I possibly went when I was very small.”

  “You’re still very small,” Becka giggled. “Sorry, I really am sleep deprived.”

  There was the sound of multiple roars below us, and I glanced at the thermal scanner which showed a mass group of dinos. Like the herds we’d seen at Ravenscar, it seemed to be multiple different species, some of which I didn’t recognize the shape of at all.

  “Seems they’re ganging up together here as well,” Kat said grimly. “I hoped maybe they hadn’t caught up over here.”

  “Do you think there’s more dinos or humans at this point?” Becka asked, and I shrugged as I stared at the orange outlines moving across the screen.

  “There have been no human shapes nearby,” Adhara reported. “Not since we left the little house land.”

  “Village,” Kat added. “Those little places are called villages.”

  “Village,” the alien repeated with a nod. “Village, village…”

  The air system in the spaceship seemed to regulate the temperature constantly, so I had no idea what to expect when we eventually left the ship. I’d never been anywhere in Asia before, and I was excited to see a part of the world that was so far from my home in the States.

  I’d already managed to go on a tour of England, although the sightseeing had been interrupted by prehistoric monsters that wanted nothing more than to slaughter us. Still, it was a hell of a trip, and getting to learn about Hae-won’s family and her country was an opportunity I was looking forward to.

  A distant thunderous howl reminded me it wasn’t exactly going to be a vacation, but there were worse places to save the world than a Korean island.

  “I’m so excited to see my family,” Hae-won said. “I can’t believe you are going to meet my father.”

  “Ahh, yes… The underground king.” I grinned. “I have to admit, I’m still kind of nervous. He sounds intimidating as fuck.”

  “Definitely introduce yourself as the guy who shagged his little princess and got her preggo.” Kat smirked. “That’s always a good way to make dads like you.”

  Becka smacked the soldier’s arm with a giggle, and Adhara suddenly gasped.

  “What?” I asked as I stood up to get a better view.

  “There are even more ommati here,” the alien muttered. “They are gathering so much near this one place. Do you see?”

  I frowned at the thermal scanner and saw there were a shit load of dinos prowling back and forth over the same spot. It looked like most of them stood on their hind legs, but it was difficult to tell how big they were from the small screen.

  “Maybe they have a nest there,” I suggested as I peered out of the window.

  It was so dark below that I could barely make out the shapes of the trees, and even though Adhara’s ship had spotlights she could use, we’d decided it was better to be as subtle as possible so we didn’t alarm the locals.

  The last thing we needed was to alert the entire island that we had an alien spacecraft, so we made do with the thermal scanner to keep track of the life below.

  “No, not a nest,” Adhara replied as she studied the screen. “The ommati eggs would show up on screen. The small ones would still have heat enough to show.”

  We watched as the orange silhouettes on the screen slowly started to leave their spot and slink back off into the trees. Adhara slowed down the ship and hovered over the spot where the dinos had gathered.

  “Are we going to land?” Kat asked. “If Hae-won only knows the rough location, we might be better doing the search on foot.”

  “What if the base isn’t even on this island?” Becka asked. “If Hae-won can’t remember, then this might not be the right spot. Or her dad could have told her a lie.”

  “My father would not lie to me,” Hae-won said firmly. “He may hide the truth sometimes, but he would never lie.”

  “Okay.” The blonde shrugged. “As long as he still has that pool you mentioned, he’s my favourite person in your family so far.”

  Hae-won grinned at her friend, and Adhara started to slowly lower the ship into a clearing where the trees created a small circle.

  “Okay,” I said. “I guess we better get geared up if we’re going to explore a jungle. We have no idea if the dinos are any different over here.”

  The girls stood up, and we headed over to the weapons room in the ship, and just walking through the doorway activated the dim pink lights in the room.

  We’d left a bunch of Adhara’s guns with the locals at Ravenscar after we taught them how to operate the alien technology, but there was still a more than decent selection of the weapons left for us.

  I’d quickly fallen in love with the slick design of the weapons as well as the unbelievable power of them. There were large, cylindrical blasters which could blow up dinos into a firework display of guts, sharp guns with dagger-like bullets and the ability to melt down bodies into goop, and swords with blades which could cut through anything, including the thickest hides.

  I still had my SA80 rifle and Glock, which had been my trusty weapons through most of our trip, but the alien technology quickly became my favored method of fighting. Since we left a lot of our personal ammo reserve back in Ravenscar for the locals, we also wanted to try and preserve what we could during our time in Korea.

  The sharp guns Adhara gifted us looked somewhat similar to human rifles. They were razor-thin, though, and the finish was a deep bronze color. Their bullets were razor-sharp, too, and I’d used them to take down enormous dinosaurs with a single shot.

  Which was just so fucking satisfying after all the shit we’d come up against in the last few weeks.

  I swung a sharp gun over my back and hovered my hand over one of the alien swords. They were hung up on the wall with the blades still retracted into the dark green hilts, and I hadn’t gotten the chance to use one on a live dino yet. I’d only tried it out on a dead triceratops back at the castle, and the blade had sliced through the thick hide with no problems.

  “You really want to cut something up, don’t you?” Kat laughed as she watched me. The soldier took some more sharp guns and handed them to the other girls before she took one for herself.

  “So badly.” I grinned and grabbed one of the sword hilts before I attached it onto my belt. Without the blade it was incredibly light, and like the rest of the weapons, I could barely feel it as I carried it.

  “So, what’s the plan?” Becka asked as she flicked her blonde hair. “We just run around the forest until we find the secret mafia base?”

  “He is not the mafia,” Hae-won sighed. “But I know the base is around here somewhere.”

  “I trust you,” I said, and the Korean beauty smiled up at me as she clutched her sharp gun.

  Becka absentmindedly stroked her belly, and although it was still flat, I could already tell it wouldn’t be long before she was showing off our baby to the world.

  I knew the girls were capable of handling themselves, but having two of them pregnant with my babies made me feel so much more protective. I almost felt sorry for any dino that crossed our path, because no lizard fucker would come near my kids, let alone my super-proud, pregnant girlfriends.

  Once we all had our guns, we stepped back over to the pilot’s chair as Adhara guided the spacecraft to hover over the forest floor. She’d managed to maneuver the ship down between trees without crushing any, and she checked the thermal screen every couple of seconds to make sure we were alone before she started to lower the craft onto the ground.

  I peered out into the darkness, but the forest seemed still, and the only noise I could hear was some kind of night bird chirping far off.

  “I think we should use these,” Adhara said, and she pulled open a small compartment to reveal two pairs of what looked like sunglasses. “Good for seeing in the darkness.”

  I stared a
t what apparently were her people’s version of night vision goggles. They were super slim, and the lenses were tinted dark green, and the sturdy, shiny black ear pieces were attached to a black, stretchy cord so we could keep them around our necks.

  “Yes,” Hae-won said as she bounced up and down. “I have been waiting to use these.”

  Adhara took both pairs out and handed one to me, then one to Hae-won.

  “You don’t want one?” I asked, and the alien shook her head as she rose to her feet.

  “I only need them when there is no light,” she said. “Your moon is enough.”

  “Nice.” I grinned as I examined the goggles.

  I hung them around my neck and wasn’t surprised to find they were lightweight to carry. Then I turned to face the darkness outside the front window and took a moment to try and study the jungle with just my natural eyesight. It was hard to see much other than the plants closest to us, and as clouds rolled in front of the moon, everything dimmed.

  I grabbed my goggles and slid them over my eyes, and I had to stifle a gasp as the world suddenly lit up with color.

  “What the fuck?” I muttered as I stared out at the forest, which suddenly looked bright enough to be around sunset.

  I could see the brown of the trunks and the various greens of the tall palm trees and bushes. There were small pink and orange flowers scattered around the clearing we landed in, and I could see every leaf that rustled in the evening breeze. I held my hands out in front of me and could see every minuscule scratch on my skin.

  Even in the interior lights of the ship, the goggles somehow improved my eyesight.

  I’d played around with cheap night vision goggles as a kid, but they’d barely made it any easier to see, and everything had been an emerald green color. The alien tech made everything visible, and I watched Hae-won as she looked around open-mouthed with her goggles perched on her face.

  “They work?” Adhara asked as she looked at me. “I have not used them in a while.”

  “They’re fucking amazing,” I chuckled. “You really are just showing off at this point.”