《The Land of the Unknown》Episode 22 (Part 3)
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“Come on, almost got it...” Sam said as he flicked a switch up. Soon, power and electricity came back on. “There, it’s working again.” He wiped his forehead and sighed in relief.
“It’s about time,” Anita said as she adjusted her glasses.
“But where’s my baby?” Dakota asked, clasping her hands together.
“Hang on, we’ll get this done in a minute,” Sam responded.
“Wait, ‘we’?” Mandy inquired, her eyebrows creasing.
“Yes.” He placed his hands on top of her shoulders. “I’m going to need your help with this. I can’t do this without you. Will you help me?”
Shocked and somewhat touched, she beamed and nodded her head. “Yeah, let’s do it!”
After tinkering with the control system, the two scientists came across something strange on the big screen. Mandy zoomed in on the black fog.
“What’s that?” She pointed and asked.
“Could that be...?” Dakota squinted her eyes and saw Tommy. “Oh my gosh, it is! That’s Tommy!”
“And Antonio’s there too!” Anita added.
“But what is he doing?” The counselor asked, puzzled.
“Ooh, no, he didn’t. Why that little...” Anita muttered through her teeth.
“Hey, what’s wrong?” The counselor questioned, noticing her expression. She didn’t answer his question, though.
.-.-.-.
Kira prepared herself as she rushed toward Antonio in a burst of speed.
“NO!” Tommy screamed at the top of his lungs. He ran over and shoved Antonio out of the way, getting hit by Kira in the process.
Tommy fell to the ground as his body ached with a small glow around his chest. His arms clutched tight around the stomach area and caught his breath.
“Oh no, Tommy!” Antonio shouted, realizing what had just happened. He rushed over to his side, as his friend’s body writhed in pain. “Are you all right? Do you need anything?”
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“Y-Yeah, I think I’m all right.” He heard Tommy’s voice reply weakly. “But, there’s just one problem...”
“What’s that?”
“...I’m not Tommy.”
“Huh? What?!” Antonio jumped back upon hearing a different voice coming out of his body. He looked over and saw that Tommy’s brown eyes had turned to a dark shade of purple.
“Now that I have a new body and heart, I can wear this crown at last. Oh, how long I’ve been waiting for this day to come.”
“Um, wait, Kira, what are you—?”
Kira, now possessing Tommy’s body, placed the crown on top of its head as the body levitated in the air. Vigorous winds soon pushed Antonio off the platform as he fell to the ground.
Antonio prepared for the worst as he fell from the sky. He wondered if this was the end for him, and that he would die this way with no one else even knowing. Antonio had felt the rough winds blow in his face as well as fog forming near his glasses.
However, Antonio landed on something scaly as it hit his face and hands. The wind caught him in a different direction than before. When he came to his senses, Antonio found he was on top of some loch ness monster. From the corner of his eyes, that Aehaby was beside him, riding on the beast herself.
To his surprise, the loch ness monster appeared, using its breath to stop the lava from flowing out and spreading across the land.
“A—Amy?” Antonio spoke up. “What are you doing here? What’s going on? How did you get—?”
“I hope you’re happy,” Aehaby said bitterly, not looking at him.
“Um, what?”
“Do you realize what you’ve done? Consider yourself lucky that I saved your life.”
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“What are we—?”
“Give me your crystals. I’m dropping you off, and I don’t want you messing up anything again!”
Antonio gulped and sighed in defeat. “Ok.” He said as he gave them to her without question.
As the loch ness stopped near a giant tree with a wooden platform on the side, Antonio stepped off as Amy muttered, “I’ll be right back.”
“Where are you going? What are you going to do?”
“I’ve got work to do, now get going!”
“All right, all right!” Antonio cried as he rushed toward the entrance.
.-.-.-.
As Maggie tried to watch the whole ordeal from a distance, she looked down as the platform on her feet crumbled apart. Maggie wasn’t able to think about what to do as she too had succumbed to dropping; she closed her eyes, flailed her arms, and screamed.
However, she stopped falling after hitting some force of mass. When she opened her eyes and stopped screeching, Maggie glanced over and saw a familiar face.
“Riku, you’re alive!” Maggie cried.
The Ceratocheloraptor nodded; she spotted another raptor beside it. As she squinted her eyes, there appeared to be another person riding on top of the dinosaur.
“Excuse me, miss, but are you all right?” A voice asked.
“Yeah.” She replied. “But who are you?”
“My name is Stels, but that doesn’t matter. We need to get you to someplace safe.”
“W—Where are we going?”
“To the big tree, follow me.”
The two hung on to the Raptors as they jumped from platform to platform while making their way toward the big tree as their destination.
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