Part Three. Same disclaimer applies. Archivers: All yours The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest ''Mystery of the Amazon'' by Jade Falcon Part Three Jonny had taken a similar way as Jessie, with two troodons in pursuit. He jumped over logs, ducked under thorn bushes, and ran right through the thickest bushes, but nothing seemed to slow the troodons down. They followed him through every obstacle. Jonny heard a swoosh and two painful shrieks. He felt a sharp blow to the back of his head, and fell, unconscious. He woke up facedown in the dirt. He quickly rolled onto his back, to see a pair of large brown eyes staring back at him. He jumped to his feet to see that they belonged to a creature who stood six feet tall on four legs. lts neck and tail were very long, with a small rudder on its tail. It had five spikes going down the length of the back of its neck, with a small horn at the base of the front of its neck, looking somewhat like an eight turned sideways. lt topped off a fearsome display of spikes that covered its entire chest, spike points down, so not to stab anything in front of it. lts head and snout were long and narrow, much like a troodon's. lt had a gentle smile and soft, brown eyes, despite its fearsome appearance. lts wings, now folded, were at least four times as long as the creature, and it was at least twelve feet long! The wings were not like what Jonny expected, scaly and bat-like, but they were feathered and bird-like, with the exeption of a small claw on the middle of the top of the wing. The wings themselves were orange, with rainbow colored flightfeathers, which seemed appropriate for this creature, being that it, too, was multicolored, with the exception of the tail rudder, the horn on its neck, the spikes on its chest, a small area on the underside of its wings, the claw on its wings, and the claws on his hands and feet, which were yellow. lts legs and arms were a dull brown. To Jonny, this thing looked like a dragon. He screamed and slowly backed away. The dragon screamed in, to Jonny's surprise, a very humanlike voice. This must mean it can talk, too, Thought Jonny. He decided to try it '' Why'd you scream, too?'' The dragon looked at him blankly for a moment, but responded '' l screamed only because you startled me. lt is not every day we Saurians*** see a human.'' ''Yeah, well it's not every day we humans see a dragon.'' *TROODON: (TROH-oh-don) A small theropod, about three feet tall, Troodon, when in its normal pack-hunting, could easily bring down prey up to five times its size. **STENONYCHOSAURUS: (STEN-oh-NY-cho-SAW-rus) A very close relative of Troodon, Stenonychosaurus was another small, pack-hunting theropod capable of bringing down prey much larger than itself. ***SAURIAN: (SAW-ri-AN) A dinosaur suborder, but in the case of my story, the name of a clan. (((Troodon & Stenonychosaurus from part two, forgot to put them in.))) Comments? Flames? Money? Send 'em here at Timb@Cybervault.com