A/N: Hello to the probably 8 people who have given up on this story. I am very very very very, times a hundred very, sorry. I started another story, and this one wasn't doing all that well so hence my abandonement.
But I have good news! This chapter is fairly long, so you won't be as annoyed. I know I get angry when a person who hasn't updated since I was born finally posts a chapter, and it's an author's note or a five second chapter. Anyway enjoy the long awaited chapter.
Disclaimer: This belongs to that guy who wrote the book and the people who made the movie (I really know my stuff today)
We slowly stood up and Sean took out his compass.
"South," he read, "that's good. The river's North." Just then, the glowing bird had twittered and flew over to us. It then zoomed off into a huge cave. We quickly followed it, even with my limp. It took us to an enormous landscape with rocky ground. We walked across it hand in sweaty hand. Suddenly Sean tripped.
"Are you okay?" I asked. He said nothing. He seemed to be staring at something. My eyes suddenly widened when I saw his pocket knife floating in mid-air. I reached out and pulled it back. After helping him up, I handed it to him. He let go of it for a few seconds, experimenting, and then pulled it back again.
"I get it," he said slowly. "It's a magnetic field." Then we started jogging across the rocky land, me limping along, trying to catch up with him. Suddenly he stepped on the ground and it disappeared from underneath him. We stared down at the never ending glow of blue. Our heads then slowly looked up. My jaw dropped. Ahead of us there was giant rocks floating in mid air like stepping stones all leading to a strange light on the other side.
"No way," I said. "Magnetic rocks?" We took a few steps closer and looked down. I think both of us nearly fainted.
"No," I said instantly.
"It's the only way we can get to the river," Sean murmured. "If you want, I'll go first." I considered it, but then thought about the floating rocks.
"No. Once you go across they might not join up again the same way."
"Okay, we'll go together," He decided. "I'll go in front, you follow." I nodded very slowly. He turned to face the rocks, his hand still in mine. Then Sean turned back to me.
"Um, in case, I die," He squeaked, and my stomach did a backflip. "I have something I want to tell you."
"Hurry up," I said hoarsely, wanting to get across the death rocks as quick as possible. He took a breath. Then the words he wanted to say tumbled out of his mouth very quickly.
"Lydia I think you're really pretty and funny and smart and… kind of weird, but then again, that's a contributing factor–and I really, really like you. If you die, I won't be able to forgive myself because it will probably be all my fault." I was about to open my mouth to say it wouldn't be his fault, but he had stepped closer to me and kissed me on the lips. My brain still clicking into place, processing what had just happened, I put two fingers to my mouth where his lips had touched it and smiled. "Well," Sean said rather formally, "now that that's all cleared up…" he nodded once and turned back to the deathly field of suspended rocks. He let go of my hand, and then jumped. My heart was pounding; I was expecting him to fall to his death. He made it. He spoke then, but didn't turn back to me.
"After I jump onto the next one, you start jumping."
"Okay," I said in a terrified whisper. He leapt onto the next rock. I took a deep breath, and jumped. I had built up a scream for when I fell, but I didn't need it. I had jumped successfully. Sean bounded onto another smaller rock, and then stepped onto a bigger one. His foot slipped, and he fell over. I screamed.
"It's okay," He called. We watched as the wedge of rock he'd pushed off slowly floated back up to its original spot. I followed him with a butterfly infested stomach and a dry mouth. Sean jumped onto his hands and knees onto another, and the rock glided closer to others. It hit the other rocks and I winced at the impact. I realized I was wasting time and quickly made my way closer to Sean. Then I noticed after he had hit the other rocks, he had floated back closer to me. He was on his hands and knees, almost. I slowly lay down onto my stomach, and gripped the rock's edges with my life. The other stones crashed into mine, but I didn't go too far back. I stood up and leapt onto two more rocks. I saw Sean's path empty of other stones, and fretted. Then gradually, another rock glided in front of Sean. He jumped onto it. He was on his hands and knees again. Then I gasped in horror as the rock began somersaulting backward.
"No!" We yelled. He clutched onto it extremely tightly as the rock turned annoyingly slowly. His head torch fell out of his pocket as it flipped him upside down. I let my rock float closer to his, and then jumped onto the one behind Sean's. His rock did a full three-sixty turn.
"Yes!" He said when the rock was still again. "No!" shouted Sean as it flipped forward this time. He gripped on the rock again, until it was the right way up. Soon he reached the end. He got off the rock.
"Come on, Lydia," He encouraged. I nodded and jumped. After two more leaps, I climbed onto another one, and my foot slipped. I screamed and I had something of a heart attack. Once I was breathing normally again, I jumped, but this time, I missed the middle of the rock. I grabbed onto the edge, and the rock turned toward me. I screamed just before I fell.
"NOOOO!" Sean roared. I fell down into the endless floor, still screaming. Nothing really ran through my mind as I had my last moments, just how loud the wind was in my eardrums, which meant I was falling quickly. My hair whipped my face. I had kind of gotten used to falling by now, so I shut my eyes and tried to imagine I was flying. It didn't exactly work as I'd planned. Suddenly something slammed against my shoulder blades.
"OW!" I yelled.
"Lydia?" Sean called hopefully. I couldn't reply – I was a little preoccupied with the throbbing in my shoulders, head and back. Suddenly I realized I wasn't descending anymore. I was rising. A rock below me must have floated to me just in time. I cried out in happiness and then I felt the rock hit the ledge of the other side, and then Sean pulled me off the rock. I wrapped my arms around him, sobbing a little with him.
"I thought you were dead," Sean said as we hugged.
"Me too," I admitted. "I'm never doing that again," I vowed as tears slid down my face. Realizing how little time we had, we let go of each other. Sean and I then walked into a narrow entrance to another huge patch of land. Not knowing what to expect, we looked around warily, and jumped at our own footsteps.
"Hannah?" I called hopelessly.
"Uncle Trevor?" Sean asked. We kept walking, now over mounds of earth. Sean checked his compass. "Still south," he muttered, putting it away. We walked for a few minutes when we came to a large mound of earth. Sean jumped off the mound, and then helped me down because my bad leg was weak. We turned around and gasped at the "mound" we'd jumped off. It was no hill. It was a skull, a dinosaur's skull.
"Man," Sean said, "I really wish I read that book."
A/N: So there it is :) Tell me what you thought in the reviews.