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OK, here's the first chapter of Rocky Rambles- Prehistoric Time Travel to understand what I mean, go to Members Only and you'll see a thread titled, 'Rocky Rambles'. Please read that before you read this. And please be aware the first chapter is very long. May as well get straight to it:

The mountain, topped with snow and ice, dominated the whole western sky. An ankle-deep stream was forming from the melting glacier, the water icy cold. Tangled, old and worn trees lay at crazy angles. Slippery patches of mud were dotted around randomly. And ferocious dinosaurs roamed the shadowed forest, waiting for the next hatchling or animal. The tiny stream that ran down the mountain trickled down. And a shadowed figure wearing a cloak went down the stream.

The shadowed figure lifted the hood away, to reveal a red, scraggish part-dog human. It had travelled from around the year 5637 and was trying to capture and kill a dinosaur. The growl of wolves and a female T-Rex was heard further away, around the sandy desert plains. The human went by Simpree, and she was at the footpaths of the towering mountain. Simpree saw a small cave containing a Stegosaurus nest, and she made sure none of the massive, hulking creatures saw her.

Simpree wrapped her legs and tail around the nest, and picked up the last remaining egg and sucked out the contents. The others had been raided, there was a scattering of broken eggshell. The scorching African sun was hidden by a few wisps of white clouds. Apart from that, the rest of the sky was bright blue and cloudless. Simpree finished the small meal of a Stegosaurus egg, grabbed her rugged staff and struggled out of the cave. Big mistake.

The mother Stegosaurus, once a herbivore, had seen Simpree eating the last of her children away and decided to eat the scraggy wolf-like human. It roared and beated the dusty ground, a signal to make Simpree run as fast as she could into the tangles of trees. Simpree remembered she had to catch a carnivore, and big game lived on the plains and desert. Maybe I could find a river and catch one of those prehistoric sharks, she thought as she struggled out of the forest. Hatchling dinosaurs who had lost their mothers kept to the shadows of the forest, but adult dinosaurs had to roam the plain.

“Right,” Simpree got out her massive rucksack and checked the contents, “Where’s that dinosaur-catching kit?” There was many prehistoric tools Early Man used, along with a small kayak building kit. Simpree grabbed the spear, packed everything away and strapped the rucksack onto her back. She spotted a couple of T-Rex enjoying the carcass of a hatchling Allosaurus, but Simpree had spotted a massive male Allosaurus lounging on the other side of the river. She waded through the marshy-like water, and then ran as fast as her legs could carry her.

There was a blinding flash that startled all of the dinosaurs and wolves around the desert and water hole. What Simpree had walked into wasn’t a river, but actually a portal set by time travellers in the year 2222. They had randomly dotted these time portals all around the coarse of history. But the destination was random, you could be at the End Of Time and then end up in the year 1543, when the Tudors had ruled England.

Simpree collapsed onto the slightly sandy floor. There was a water-hole nearby, and a couple of sabre-tooth tigers attacking a baby zebra. The scraggy wolf-like human saw a few figures that looked like apes appear on the horizon, holding spears. On closer inspection, they appeared to be a group of Homo Ergaster, who were hunting for the skin of wolves. Simpree realised she had been transported back to 2,000,000 BC, somewhere in a desert place.