Plesiosaurs. One was supposedly found a few years back (1978 or so). Who’s to say that there isn’t a colony of them hidden in the ocean? Who’s to say that they won’t rise up and start a killing spree all across the ocean?
Plesiosaurs may seem like mythical creatures to us. Though it is hard to comprehend, they did exist before us. Anthropologists believe that Plesiosaurs were predators but they were passive towards humans. They also believed that many of the Plesiosaur species only grew up to twelve meters in length. However, none of this is true. They have existed… and they still do.
“Eh Jim!” hollered a fellow worker from across the marine exhibit.
“Hey Frank! What’s going on? Where’s Dart?” questioned Jim, while walking over to Frank.
Dart was the critically injured dolphin that had been rescued out of the Atlantic Ocean and put into Jim’s care for the past year. Jim realized that Dart would one day be released again, but he had forgotten that the release date was, in fact, today.
“Don’t ya remember? Today’s the big day, huh? We gets to release that dolphin! Boss told us to suit up and have us meet him at the docks in about, uh, two hours! Don’t ya worry too much about Dart, ok?”
“Oh, ok, thanks Frank,” sighed Jim.
“I’m very, sincerely sorry Jim. This here’s a pretty sad day for ya, huh? I know ya got really attached to that animal.”
“Yeah, I’ll miss him. I’m sure he’d rather be out in the ocean though.” said Jim.
“That he does. Well listen, I’m gonna go get ready now. See ya at the docks.”
“Bye Frank,” said Jim, contemplating how difficult it will be to let Dart go out into the ocean. Jim cared greatly about Dart as one would care about their dog or cat.
“Ok, Richard, do we have all our equipment set up and running?” questioned Boss.
“Aye, Boss. It’s all set up. We just need to wait for Frank and Jim. Oh, here they are!” exclaimed Richard.
“Alright, boys, let’s head out a few miles so Dart won’t have to worry about getting hit by any boaters.”
Jim had a funny feeling, though he couldn’t figure out what was causing it. He finally realized that the water was darker than usual. Jim asked Frank about this, but Frank said that Jim was just seeing things and was anxious about letting Dart go. Then again, Jim saw a huge object swim underneath the boat and the water became even more dark. Jim felt paranoid and didn’t know what to do about it.
“Ok, boys, I believe this is far enough. Wow, the water’s murky today, huh?” stated Boss.
“Ya, boss, but I think that it’s probably just some of dem whales, that’s all.” reasoned Frank.
“Can we please just get this over with?” asked Jim, feeling more anxious by the minute.
“You guys heard him! Let’s go!” shouted Boss while walking over to Jim, “Listen, Jim, I’m sorry about releasing Dart already, but you’ve got to get over it, ok, son?”
“No, Boss, it’s not that,” whispered Jim, “it’s the water. I think I keep seeing something flash underneath our boat.”
“Ok, Boss, we’re all set. Oh and Dart is ready to be released,” interrupted Richard from the other side of the boat.
“Jim, you do the honors,” stated Boss.
Jim walked over to the control center and pulled down a large green lever. The crew heard the cage drop into the ocean and felt the ship rock violently. They thought they hit a large boulder, until Jim pushed up a large red lever to raise the cage up out of the water. It was even worse though, the cage was missing. All that was left was the long metal cord that had bite marks on the end of it.
“What- what could have done this?” whined Richard while stepping back.
“Over there! It’s Dart and he’s ok!” stated Frank with relief.
Dart rose up out of the water but in the mouth of a monster. The crew’s jaws dropped to the ground. Dart was still alive and flopped himself out of the monsters mouth, as its mouth was fairly narrow. Richard broke the silence by switching on a small camcorder to catch the monster on tape, and then it became angry.
“Richard, email that clip to Barney so he can give us an ID of the creature! Now!” demanded Boss.
Richard ran over to the control center to email the tape and almost had it completed when he saw another one of them emerge out of the water. It stared directly at him. This one had a neck of 16 feet long. Richard wondered how large its body really was.
“Ahhhhh!” Everyone heard Richard scream from the other side of the boat.
Frank and Boss were paralyzed by what they were seeing. The monster had taken Richard out of the control center and into the depths of the ocean right before their eyes.
“Look at all of dem,” cried Frank while standing still and looking into the horizon in amazement.”
Hundreds of long-necked prehistoric creatures simultaneously emerged out of the water. The monsters had neck lengths varying from 6 feet to 30 feet. Their mouths were narrow but extremely long, and they had hundreds of rows of razor-sharp teeth. The most interesting thing was that their skin was all kinds of dull colors. Frank, mesmerized, slowly walked over to the edge of the boat to get a closer look at this nightmarish creature.
“Frank, get away!” shouted Jim, “Frank get ba-.”
Another extremely violent crash into the ship sent Frank flying off the ship and into the water. Jim ran over to see if he was ok, but he was no where in sight. He then ran over to the small control center, found Richard’s camcorder, and wrapped it in a plastic bag then duct taped it protect it from the water. BANG! Another crash into the ship. It wouldn’t take long for the monsters to tip over the ship.
Jim and Boss went below deck and worked on getting their mini-submarine up and running so they could escape. It took them twenty minutes filled with nonstop attacks from the monsters to fully get the sub up and running.
“Ok, release the hatch, Jim.”
Jim ran out of the sub and pushed down a large blue lever. He ran back into the sub, and Boss closed the sub door. The blue lever that was pushed down opened the door for the sub to escape from the ship. Jim slowly propelled out of the ship then went into high gear.
“Since the monsters are swimming about, the water is very dark and you’ve got to be extremely carefully not to run into any rock
formations, Jim,” whispered Boss, not wanting anyone or anything except Jim to hear him.
“What is that?” whined Jim while pointing off in the distance. “It’s no rock formation, Boss.”
“I think they’ve found us,” announced Boss with fear.
They slowly moved closer and closer to the object, only to find it reassured their fears. The creature, thought with poor eyesight, noticed the moving sub and decided to check it out.
“Do not move, one muscle,” whispered Boss with a quiet voice.
The monster’s head was two feet away from them and only separated by glass.
“I have to sneeze, Boss,” whispered Jim.
“No, please try to hold it in. You see the way the creature is looking at us? He is most likely attracted to movement and sound,” stated Boss.
“Aaaahhhhchoooo,” sneezed Jim.
Jim looked up and was relieved to see the monster was gone.
“You are so luck-,” Boss tried to say when something crashed into them. Another crash. And another. At this point Jim lost consciousness.
“Ugh, I feel so sore,” Jim croaked.
He rolled himself over on his back and observed his surroundings. He noticed that he was lying on sand. He tried to get up but felt a rush of pain from his back. He then noticed that he was on the same beach in Florida as they were when they had set off with Dart. He then vividly remembered all that had happened to him. The only thing he couldn’t remember was how he survived the submarine crash. Maybe Boss would know. He lifted up his head and made sure that Richard’s camcorder was dry. Luckily it survived the crash and was dry.
“Hey, guys, what’s that over there?” Jim faintly heard a teen ask his friends.
At first Jim thought that they were talking about him.
“A little help would be nice,” Jim whispered with a cracked voice, although no one heard him.
“Let’s go check it out. Hurry, before they leave!” the boy said.
The group that was standing next to where Jim lay was totally oblivious to him and ran down the beach toward a vehicle. He
decided to force himself to get up and look for Boss, and then make a plan to announce all that had happened to them to the world. No one knew what had happened yet since they sailed so far off into the ocean to release Dart. As Jim got up, he started walking in the direction of the vehicle and then realized that it was actually an ambulance. The person who they were loading up was Boss.
“Hello is Barney there?” said Jim to a person on the phone.
Jim needed to ID the monsters, so he was calling Barney, an anthropologist, who could hopefully determine what the monsters were by watching the clip.
“Yes, this is him,” spoke Barney.
“Hey, Barney, it’s Jim!” yelled Jim in excitement.
“Hey, Jim! How are you doing?” asked Barney.
“Great, I’m doing great Barney. Hey, one of my colleagues shot a short clip of an animal. Could you please tell me what the animal is?” asked Jim.
“Of course, Jim, email it over.” Stated Barney.
Jim emailed the clip of the monster to Barney and waited for a response on what the creature was.
“Very funny, Jim. Please don’t waste my time.” Jim heard Barney say on the phone.
“I’m not making any of this up, Barney. Can you just tell me what it is?” asked Jim.
“Your “monster” is a plesiosaurus. Most scientists believe the pre-historic creature to have gone extinct millions and millions of years ago. If you’re telling the truth, this could change everything we think to be true.”
“Thanks, Barney,” said Jim right before he hung up.
“How may I help you?” questioned the girl over the counter.
“Hi, I would like a ticket to D.C.,” said Jim.
Jim planned on speaking directly to the President on this matter. He bought his ticket and walked into the plane. While he was on the plane, he was thinking hard about what he was going to say and how he was even going to get to speak to the President.
“This is Kate, your airline attendant; we have arrived at Washington D.C. Please make sure you take your luggage in the
upper compartments and then you can exit the plane,” announced a woman over the intercom.
Since Jim had no luggage, he was one of the first people off the plane and found a taxi easily.
“Where can I take ya?” asked the taxi driver.
“The White House, please” uttered Jim.
“Alrighty then. The White House it is,” the driver said.
When Jim arrived outside the White House, he thanked the driver and paid him. Jim then tried to climb over the gates to the White House but immediately got tackled and handcuffed on the ground when the secret service saw him.
“Who are you?” asked one of them.
“Jim, I’m Jim Castle. I have to talk to the President. It’s extremely important,” shouted Jim while lying on the ground.
“Yeah, I bet it is,” one of them said sarcastically.
“No, a ship I was on got completely torn up by a horde of Plesiosaurs. You’ve got to believe me. We have to do something about it! I’ve even got it filmed on a camcorder!” said Jim excitedly.
“Give it to us. We’ll make sure the President gets it,” they stated.
Jim slowly reached over into his inner pockets and pulled out a camcorder. He pressed the play button and everyone watched in astonishment.
“Come with us,” they said.
Once the President saw this, he ordered everyone to stay out of the ocean. Jim’s actions saved people ranging from fishermen to Navy commanders. The tape also disproved evolution and many scientists around the world were converted to Christ. He was regarded as a hero and lived a comfortable life afterwards.
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