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	Exert from Jun's Journal.

May 20
	We have been here in this strange world for almost three weeks now. Travel
has been hard we have taken days to go only a few miles in some cases.  I have
been leading our little group through these woods for the bulk of that time.
We are still being tracked by something we have yet to see, although it is
getting more cautious. That is not a good sign. We should reach the foot hills
of the mountains today, probably in a few hours. The vegetation is getting
thinner as we go, mabey it will back off when it loses its cover. We must
press on to survive we cant risk heading back into the jungle with that thing
getting ever bolder with us. I think the only reason we haven't seen any large
predators is we smell different than the usual prey. Those mountains were much
farther that we had anticipated, we were expecting to reach them in a week at
most. Its amazing how far you can see every thing here is so clean, the water,
the air. It seems so unreal. Mabey I'll wake up and it will have been some
crazy dream.
	Most of the time we just walked silently along on our journey, we aren't even
sure where we are headed. Its Ironic that I should lead a party going no
where. With me in the lead I doubt if we'll ever find it. Me an Itazura seem
to be getting along well, almost to well it seems. I don't mean I think she
likes me or anything. Its just that she seems to be taking the role of
follower almost to well, especially considering she was my teacher.  I feel
sorry for her more than any of the others because she had a real family back
on earth. She still cries herself to sleep sometimes. Its funny, she's the
oldest one and I keep thinking, "Poor kid." every time I see her that way. She
does seem to be adjusting very well, I've seen allot of improvement in her
attitude over the past few days.

May 21
	Found a road near the mountain base. 
Vic started talking again, just like his old self. God help us.

end exert.

	"Jun what is it?" said Jenn as she stood at the edge of a very large pit in
the center of the road. It was easily three hundred feet across.
	"A big pothole." said Vic sneering at her.
	"This was dug out." said Ryoken as he kneeled by the edge and looked into it.
	Jun nodded. "By our large friend from the jungle." he said calmly.
	"Really?" said Itazura in a small voice.
	"Get off it Jun we aren't buying any. We would have seen it by now." said
Achika angrily.
	"He's right." said Ryoken. "This is a crude trap and in a few moments we are
going to see our friend finally." 
	"What do you mean?" asked Vic with a nervous look.
	"This is a perfect spot for an ambush, we are enclosed by rock walls from
both sides, the pit is in front of us and it... is behind us." 
	As if in answer a deafening roar came.
	"He's trying to scare us into the pit." noted Phil.
	"Yes, the walls are steep enough that we couldn't run up them. I think he's
pulled this stunt before, probably on caravans or large groups.
	"What makes you say that?" asked Achika as she clutched onto Jun's arm as
another roar was heard much closer. Jun pointed to the bottom of the pit it
had appeared to be littered with rocks, but now she saw broken carriages,
scattered bones.
	"This is all your fault Jun you lead us into a trap. Your and incompetent
leader and I should take over." said Victor.
	"Aw, boss not now." grumbled Ryoken under his breath.

	In the Capitol city of the Akama controlled lands. The emperor sat in his
throne with a smile on his face. "How goes the battle?" he asked one of the
men nearby. 
	"The Mech and Gall are easily defeating the forces within Sambika my lord.
However reinforcements have arrived for the Joseians." said the man nervously.
	The emperor laughed and grunted in pleasure. The girl kneeling before him sat
upright suddenly and began to make choking noises. She fell on the ground and
writhed as the emperor watched unmoving. "I wish you would go to your private
quarters for that sort of thing my lord." said Lord Aken as he entered with a
small frown. "It is rather unnerving."
	"Hold your tongue." growled the emperor. "It is a pity this one, I rather
liked her. Ah well, I have many others where she came from."
	"I have some interesting news from Sambika." said the lord.
	"Yes?" inquired the Emperor.
	"It seems a mysterious stranger with much power has saved the princess. She
will no doubt be saved from the battle." replied Aken. 
	"Shit." said the emperor without much malice. "Find her and kill her with her
brother. I want them both dead." the emperor smiled as yet another young
frightened girl was escorted into the throne room. She looked in horror as the
body of her successor was carried away. Aken walked out and her screams were
cut off as the doors to the throne slammed shut.
	"Sick bastard." he muttered as he walked to his room.

	Jun and his group were forced into the pit as the thing rounded the corner
and appeared before them finally. "I wonder if Speildberg will ever know how
close he got." muttered Jun as he watched the huge red Tyrannosaurus loom over
them.
	"Most unusual." Commented Phil casually as they made their way down the pit.
Achika backed down with her eyes locked on the beast in fear. "My god." she
said quietly. Ryoken stood beside her with Victor cowering behind him.
	"Ryoken! I command you kill that thing at once." He cried in terror.
	It lept into the air and landed near Jenn at the bottom of the pit. It raised
its clawed foot and stomped her into the ground. "Jenn!" cried Jun running
forward. It turned and roared loudly at him and he stopped cold. Its head
snapped downwards and it lifted its foot up and looked. It roared at the
unmoving and still intact Jenn and began to stomp on her body repeatedly. Jun
watched in horror.
	Ryoken was the first to react. He yelled and charged throwing his knife at
the animal hitting near one of its eyes. The Tyrannosaur roared and turned
towards him angrily. It opened its mouth and its neck inflated. The air around
its mouth began to distort and Jun gasped. "Ryoken get out of the way!" he
yelled as it released a huge fireball at the young ninja. Ryoken jumped up
barely avoiding the blast. The Tyrannosaur roared and stumbled. Jun looked and
saw two hands moving under its feet. Jenn was still alive. He lept at the
animal and backed away as it snapped at him he punched it in the nose causing
its head to snap back about five feet before it regained control and shook the
blow off. It stepped towards Jun and roared. Jun grabbed its jaws and began to
force them open. The T-Rex lifted its head up into the air and tried to shake
him off twenty feet above the ground. Jun managed to get his feet into its
mouth and shoved up hard breaking its Jaw and causing it to roar in his face
in pain. Jun's ears rang  and his face was burned from the heat of its breath.
He reached back and punched into the roof of its mouth. He pushed his arm in
as far as it would go and the creature stiffened. Jun released it and jumped
away as it fell forward. It landed with an anti climactic thud and died.
	Ryoken walked up to him and frowned as he sat on the ground next to Jenn with
her head in his lap. "What the hell were you thinking?! You knew that thing
was a fire breather and you jumped in its mouth??! Are you that stupid you
knew she was dead dammit." he said angrily to Jun.
	"She's not dead." said Jun calmly.
	Ryoken looked down and saw Jenn�s chest moving. Besides a large gash on her
arm and allot of bruises she looked all right. "What the?" said Ryoken as the
others finally caught up with them.

	A few hours later the group sat around a fire as the sun neared the horizon.
Them men sat around and watched the meat from the Rex cook casually. Jenn was
shaken but was fine after a little rest she had bandages on her shoulder and
was sitting on a cliff looking out over the land. Jun had cut up his hands
pretty bad on the teeth of the Dinosaur and was bandaging them up calmly as
the others prepared to watch the sun set from about half way up on of the
mountains. "It appears we can be cut quite easily." noted Phil 
	"We can take any impact and any idiot with a knife and a lucky shot could
kill us." said Jun. 
	Jenn looked at the forest below them, she sat up suddenly. "Jun you idiot!"
she screamed. 
	"What is it?" said Achika as she walked over to her friend. 
	"Look and tell me what you see." said Jenn pointing into the forest off into
the distance. 
	"Its that huge rock we passed two weeks ago." she said in mild suprise. "Wow
we can still see it."
	"Now look over there." said Jenn pointing at the other side of the forest
directly across from the other rock.
	"Its the abandoned temple pyramid we stayed at a few days later." noted
Ryoken. Everyone had been attracted over to the cliff by Jenn's scream.
	"No wonder it took three weeks to get here! We've been zig zagging from one
end of the forest to the other. Jun your stupid sense of direction almost got
us killed you jerk!" she cried smacking him on the head angrily.
	"Oops." said Jun timidly.
	"I had forgotten about that." said Phil. 
	"Perhaps I should navigate from now on sir." said Ryoken with a small smirk.
	"Shut up you guys it isn't my fault ya know." said Jun in embarrassment.
	"It appears you are to incompetent to lead us effectively I suggest I lead
form now on." said Victor smugly.

	The next day they stood on the other side of the mountain and looked at the
great desert that stretched before them. A large city with Persian like
architecture could be seen in the distance not quite on the horizon.
	"We could make it in a few days." commented Jun.
	"No, at least a week if the desert permits." said Phil.
	"Are you sure you want to cross a desert?" asked Ryoken. 
	"We can follow the river. If it stops before we reach the city we can always
come back." said Victor trying to sound smart.
	"Don't count on it." said Jun. "You have no Idea how fast water can dry up in
a desert." said Jun.
	"And I suppose you do?" asked Jenn.
	"Went on safari with dad when I was seven, to the Sahara. You can imagine
what happened to us." he said dryly.
	"You got lost." said Achika without much humor. Jun only nodded.
	"That city is allot further away than it looks to us and I think I know why."
said Phil.
	He quickly drew two circles in the dirt. One was allot larger that the other.
He drew two lines on the sides of both circles. "What is the difference
between these two lines?" he said to them.
	A dawning came offer Itazura's face. "The distance between them is greater."
she answered.
	"Yes they represent our field of vision, how far we can see to the horizon.
This planet is several times larger that the earth. There for we can see allot
farther to the horizon because it is much farther away. That city is more than
a few days away." explained Phil. 
	"We had better get moving." said Jenn as she looked at the sky.
	"Mabey we can join a caravan or something." mused Phil.
 	"Off we go into yet another interesting adventure." said Ryoken with a heavy
sigh.
	"Cheer up it'll be fun." said Jun as he started down the mountain.
	"Jun...This way." said Jenn turning her friend in the right direction.
TbC...
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	This ch. Was written to the Evangalion soundtrack. I just got all three of
the CD's. It was mostly the third one though. I like the 22 track as kind of a
theme to the wanderings. [Basically its and instrumental version of the
opening theme with a guitar and a piano.] It just seemed to fit so well.
	Next time I'll Check up on the battle of Sambika with Dan. A few interesting
developments occur with more than a few twist. [I hope anyway.] 
Until then Ja ne!
Catbert25.