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“Garbage In, Garbage Out,” Tital said, as he notched an arrow
in his Browning Longbow. He elevated himself and told Bardala
and Viviana to elevate Lena out of harm’s way.
“It seems like the Gigantoraptors would like us to come as
dinner,” Bardala said, as she floated up with her longbow ready.
She had already eyed a trio of Gigantoraptors on a dead run,
trying to gain speed to leap into the air. “Two o’clock!” she yelled
to Tital, as she let loose an arrow at the hard-charging lead beast.
“SSSSSTTTUP!” Her deadly shot to the raptor’s reptilian right
eye brought it down, yet it skidded forward another seven
meters and wound up with its head resting against one of their
packs. Tital took out the second beast as Bardala, with her Hoyt
longbow, sent her second arrow deep into the chest of the third
Gigantoraptor, as it launched itself into the sky.
“AAAEEEEHHHAAAA!” That was its final scream. It hit the
ground hard, kicked three times, and then it was dead. Tital
looked over to where the boys were slinging arrows. He could
see young Kuó handing arrows to both Ronú and Jonathan. The
pile of dead and dying carcasses below the boys was getting
massive, yet the Gigantoraptors still kept coming in groups of five
or six at a time.
“Try to keep them on the ground!” Bardala yelled out, as
several tried to launch themselves into flight.
“AAAAAUUUUUGGGHHHHH!” came the bone-chilling cry of
the enraged raptors from below the archers.
Gigantoraptors had never before seen anything they could
not kill easily, and quickly eat. They had never before had an
enemy that posed any threat, and certainly not one so well
equipped for killing as humans. Viviana kept her group aloft,
while Lena supplied arrows to the archers, as Kuó was doing with