SHANNON HOWELL

Lt. Melisa Terinos was the last to be left behind at the new out post for Terra Nova. “No big deal”, thought Melisa. She just had to off load some supplies and she would be heading out shortly to Terra Nova before the storm come in.

She finished offloading the last food barrel and went to start her Rhino when nothing happened. It was dead as a door nail. “great, power cells are dead” she thought to herself.

She radioed to Terra Nova and let them know which normally they would send someone out to bring new cells or pick her up. But with the storm coming in it was to dangerous to travel right now. No big deal as she could stay the night in part of the new outpost that had been finished. All she had to do was round up something to eat.

She tried to reassure herself that it was nothing more than simply camping in the woods, right?

Melisa was able to catch a few little critters for meat and used some of the food supplies she brought to the outpost that would work for a side dish. She was able to start a fire and the dino's, reptiles, mammals, oh whatever they were, smelled delicious cooking on the open fire when she heard heavy deep thuds and felt the vibrations through the ground.

All of her training in survival never once did anyone ever say that cooking on an open fire could bring huge dinosaurs to show up for dinner. “With you being the main course” she thought to herself. However that was the case, two massive dino's pushed through the forest on the edge of the new outpost but not before Melisa was able to hide behind her Rhino.

“Now if I could just make it to the outpost without them seeing me” thought Melisa as the first flash of lighting filled the sky and roared with thundering energy. “Great! What else could go wrong”, she thought as what appeared to be the male of the two roared out with a deep thundering voice of his own...