The Town of Dinos

I often find my self thinking back to an easier time when the town was just the right size. There was a factory, gas station, school, hotel, grocery store and a restaurant. The town was not very big, but it was just the right size for me to call home. I was the owner of the hotel. My best friend owned the restaurant. Our town was on the only road between two major cities, so we would have many visitors everyday. Although we were a smaller town everything was made as perfect as possible due to all the money made from the visitors that passed through. Every place had a basement because of our bad weather which was the reason why we were kept as a small town. At least once a month we would get hit with high winds, tornados, and heavy rains that would floor and destroy many parts of the town. Each time we would try to build better to withstand through the bad weather.

Finally we had one child who was too smart for his own good. Rupert took a high interest in Science when he was about two years old. He was always asking questions like the other children, but Rupert would stop and think about the answer he was given. Rupert became the top of his class and won each year in the Science Fair. By the time Rupert was in fifth grade he was teaching the other students and the teachers about science. His fifth grade year was also the worst year we had with the tornadoes and high winds.

It was a nice warm day. The town had not had any bad weather for three months. The town was the buzzing with traffic. We, my wife and I, had just finished eating our lunch and were watching the school kids play at recesses when the dark clouds started whirling in fast. I got up and ran to the school yard yelling, "Take Cover, Its Coming". The children all took off running for their shelter spots. By the time I reached the school door it started to down pour with rain. I held the door open until all the kids where inside. My wife Annabell help the smallest children find their way. She gave me a kiss and she hurried into the school. I closed the door and followed everyone down to the basement. We were half way down the steps when I bump into Rupert. "Where are you going" I asked. "I need to find my sister, Lisa. She was reading alone outside". "Hurry!" I yelled. "The storm is coming in too fast". We both ran back up to the playground. Lisa likes to sit off behind the bushes under the oak tree. The wind was whiling so loudly I couldn't hear Rupert but he was yelling something. I stood at the school door as Rupert continued to run to the bushes. He was almost to the tree when Lisa came running towards him. Off behind them I could see a tornado heading right towards us. Rupert picked up his sister and ran as fast as he could. He just couldn't run fast enough as the oak tree fell right onto the two of them.

I ran into the building taking shelter into the hall of the school. The tornado seemed to take forever to pass. I'm sure it was really only took a few seconds. When the sounds of the whiling winds passed I ran back to the playground. To my surprise Rupert was pushing the branch out of his way but dragging out his sister. I was waiting in the hospital with Rupert when his parents came out crying. Lisa was going to be ok, but she wouldn't be able to walk again. Rupert ran out of the hospital. I spent time in the hospital with Rupert's parents telling them what had happened. Rupert was a hero. Lisa was spooked when the rain drew her attention out of her book. If he had not ran to get her she would have been smashed by the trunk of tree.

The next day I got a knock on my door from Rupert's parents. They had a list of supplies Rupert was requesting and asked if I would take them to Rupert. Rupert was locked into the garage and had "Do Not Disturb" written in paint across the garage door. There was also a box sitting off on the right hand side that said "leave supplies here".

Three months latter Rupert ran out of the garage yelling "Town Meeting in 10 minutes in the school yard." We all gathered into the school yard to see what was going on. Tim stood onto of the old oak tree stump. "This will never happen again. I have found the technology we need to predict these storms. With these poles station high on top of our buildings, they will detect changes in the weather. When a drastic change in the weather is going to happen, these sirens will sounds off. I have made enough to put one on every corner of the town. This new storm system will be able to give us a ten to fifteen minute warning." With a loud cheer we all grabbed the need equipment and went to work.

Many years went by. The storms came and went, but we were always had enough warning to take cover. Rupert made sure his sister had a lots of toys and a neat little cart that would take here anywhere she wanted to go. Every year he would come up with a new invention to make the building standup to the weather. Now the storms just leave dent and scratches into the structures. Rupert was about 16 when everything went wrong.

It was time for the Science Fair again. Rupert said he had made a time mirror. The mirror was able to let us see pass time. He let the mirror hang from a pole. Know one knows what he did, but the mirror started to glow. In the mirror you could see the Dinosaurs. They were very interesting until one flew into the school. Quickly we all ran out of the room. Rupert was the last out. He said he didn't know how to stop the mirror. So we locked up and sealed off that room of the school.

That was ten years ago. Today the town is bare. I still run the hotel and Kirk runs restaurant. Each night we head down to the basement because that is when the Dinosaurs seem to come out from the school ground. Thanks to Rupert's technology the building were safe from most of the Dinosaurs; however some of the larger Dinosaurs could damage the buildings. So each night we go to the basements to hide from the Dinosaurs.

Rupert had moved his family away for safety, but he came back every now and then to try to fix the Dinosaurs problem. The best he had done was to put up a force field around the town to stop the Dinosaurs for leaving. Rupert has also put something in the school that keeps the Dinosaurs in the school during the day time. People come for miles around to risk their lives and see the Dinosaurs.

Then about a few years ago I was able to meet Rupert's son. He heard the story as I have told to you. Then he told me who he was.

"Well, Mr. Burt, I'm Rupert's Son! I have gone over all his notes and I think I can fix it."

"So you are. What's you name son? Let me hear that plan of yours." Said Mr. Burt

"I can't send the dinosaurs back, but I can at least confine them to the school grounds. There will be a safe barrier so we can all safely see them. This will make the town one of the richest towns ever as people will come from far way to see our Town of Dinos."

Rupert's son was able to do exactly as he said. He set up the barrier around the school yard, but had to go into the school to activate the barrier. The barrier turn on, but we have never seen Rupert's son again.