Carnivore Valley

Rex

They all had their eyes over their cover, hearts pounding, anxious to the bone.

The sun was not yet about to set, still rather high, when the brush just off left of the gas station started cracking and moving.

Arno sat wide eyed as the giant head broke the brush first, then the body, then the extra long tail, the Rex paused when it saw the pickup, it tilted it's head and lowered it, then taking a few sniffs in the direction of the pickup.

"s**t! Zhis must be it's territory... It realized zhat pickup is new to zhe area" Helga whispered so everyone could hear her.

The Rex slowly approached the pickup, it came in close and sniffed it again, then gave it a bump with it's nose.

Arno prayed it didn't go ballistic and tare the pickup apart, that's their only means of transport, and the safest as well.

The Rex drew it's head back and loudly roared at the pickup, everyone in the garage shop ducked for cover as the noise of it's roar sent chills up their spines.

Arno slowly came up when the Rex stopped roaring and saw it was still looking at the pickup, finally deciding it's just an inanimate object it moved around it still sniffing the area, but then it's head stopped on the pump side of it, it took a few new sniffs then followed it's nose to the garage shop.

"Oh ma se poes it's got our scent!" Arno said ducking again.

"Seriously!?" Bison whispered back.

"Yes fok! It's coming this way!" He tried as much to keep his voice down.

"Fff!" Helga made with a finger on her mouth.

They lied flat behind their cover, making sure they cannot be seen from the door, the large shadow of the Rex started filling the window, Arno being the closest to the window started contemplating a full scale attack, everyone with a gun must fire, and aim for the eyes.

The Rex banged the door of the shop but it still remained in tact, then a second bang made it break, Helga was just a meter or two away from the door behind a small shelf, Arno held his finger to his mouth and his face stressed, eyes wide.

The nose of the Rex came in the door, still sniffing, but it wasn't wide enough to fully get it's snout in, it forced a little until it managed to touch the cabinet where Helga hid, she held her Famas up in panic, Arno still shook his head with a finger on his mouth.

The Rex stuck it's tongue out and licked the cabinet, it was enough to make it start tipping and lean towards Helga, she now had tears in her eyes, but Arno still indicated to her she must stay put.

In the distance another roar of a different Rex came and this one drew out and lifted it's head, it gave a roar back then left the station in a hurry.

Arno blew out a sigh of relief, he saw Helga lower her weapon, crying softly with her face down, Arno scanned the outside and saw it was clear, then headed over to her.

"Well done Helga" He said kneeling next to her and placing his hand on her shoulder.

"Tometo, Sause, I can handle a lot of things, but zhat was the most fear I ever felt"

Arno felt for her, he nearly shat himself as well. He looked up at Bison and Genevieve who came in behind them.

"You two ok?" He asked.

"Yeah, somehow" Bison said.

"Of course we're ok dumbass, nothing happened, my machine gun is still cold" Genevieve said stubbornly.

Helga got to her feet along with Arno "Thanks Sause, if you didn't tell me to stay, I would have fired, zhen it was only a question of how long zhis building would have provided us with cover"

"Correction, it was a question of how long it would take us to gun that f*****g Rex down!" Genevieve said and walked out the building.

"Genevieve! It's not safe out there!" Bison said.

"Shutup Bison! The Rex is gone!" She called back.

Bison followed her mumbling.

Arno sighed looking at Genevieve "Geez sometimes I wonder what made that woman so hard!"

Helga smiled "I overhead her talk to Blake the other night, she lost her fiancée in Somalia, and she blames herself"

"Why?"

"She said she was supposed to take out zhe guy holding an RPG, but fired too late, the RPG blew the Humvee up zhat had her fiancée in it"

Arno felt his heart cramp "Sh... s**t that's rough"

Helga smiled at him "She also said you piss her off because you remind her of her fiancée, I think zhat's why she's so hard on you..." Helga giggled "You coming to me to make sure I'm ok, zhat sparked a little jealousy in her"

"We're a team Helga"

"Yes, I know, but pay attention to her next time ok? I think she looks at you and fears she might lose you"

"But I'm not her fiancée!?"

"I know, also keep it to yourself for now, she will be hard on you still, zhe thing is to just accept zhat she worries about you" She gave another one of her sweet smiles and left.

Arno sighed "Ok then" He said to himself and walked out, he scanned the surroundings just to secure his own comfort, then headed to the pickup.

After Bison loaded the bags again they set off down the road.

"Zhere is one thing zhat bothers me" Helga said having her rifle out the window again.

"Yeah?" Bison asked.

"Rebecca said zhis place is still not up and running, but zhat pump station back zhere looks like it's been abandoned for almost years"

Bison looked back down the road then looked at her "You're right, maybe they built it then realised it wasn't necessary?"

Helga gave him a blank stare "Seriously? It still had gas in zhe tanks"

"Helga is right, that is odd, why have a filled up gas station, then leave it to mother nature?" Arno asked and looked at Genevieve, she blinked and looked forward.

"f**k if I know, maybe they wanted it to have that effect that the dinosaurs overrun the place and was abandoned"

Arno shrugged "Fok, you have another point, I mean that place sure had me more scared than I ever was before"

"Yeah, especially since it's in a Tyrannosaur's territory" Bison said.

The four of them drove for a while in silence "I could so with some brandy right now" Arno said.

"Where on earth are you going to find brandy now nimwit?" Genevieve asked.

"I have bottles in my bag in the back"

"Then why not get it out?"

"I'm driving remember?"

Genevieve started laughing at him "That's cute mall cop, like the police will ever pull you over for driving under the influence here?"

"No duh Genevieve, I know that, but I'm in charge of driving you lot, if I have to focus behind the wheel I don't want to be drunk" He chuckled.

"Oh, aren't you a mommas boy" She bit at him again.

Helga and Bison looked at each other "Here zhey go again"

"Mommas boy?"

"Yeah, there are no rules here Arno, and if you die here, would you be disappointed that you couldn't at least have had one last drink?" She asked.

Arno gave it some thought "You know what, you're right" He said and looked back at Bison "Permission sir?"

"Boy I don't care what you drink, as long as you don't fold this truck around a tree whilst we try to get away from a Trex!"

Arno slowed the truck to a standstill then got the brandy out of his bag, he hopped in and drove of again holding the bottle between his legs.

Genevieve took it from him and he protested "Hoi!"

"Relax I'm not going to drink it" She said taking out one of her empty canisters and carefully filled it for him.

She held it over and he took it "Thanks" He smiled and took a few big gulps. When he put the cap back on he saw her place the bottle down on the floor.

"You're welcome to have some" He said.

"I didn't share with you mall cop, it's not fair"

"Yes, but you didn't have a bottle did you?" He smiled at her.

"Well..." She smiled back "Then don't mind if I do"