SQUAWK!

Deep in the Amazon forest...
february 17, 2001 ;;

i'm writing this in my...uh...journal.

i'm very excited to be here, my first day in the Amazon.

they say it's so large, you can get lost in it and never come out! ooh, scary.

i've been hiking for a while with my friends, tomato and sketti. eh, it's kinda cool, but...let's just say I forgot the bug repellent.

we passed a small waterfall, and drank some water from a stream, guess we're on our own for the next couple of days.

so the thing is, we have to get to this sort of 'camp' thing in a very specific place in the rainforest. the people who put us here said it didn't matter if we got lost, since all the 'cleared paths' led to the camp. huh. wonder what that means...

- awesome coolruler

Reptilian Firebirds
Awesome scowled as he slapped away another mosquito. These bugs were really bugging him, looks like today wasn't such a ''buzz. ''

Tomato was in front of him, snapping pictures with his camera. He pushed in his glasses and looked down at the forest floor, staring at little glittery bugs and a colony of ants carrying leaves up trees. He loved every second of it.

Sketti, on the other hand, was spraying bug repellent on every five minutes and slapping at every bug he could find. "Ugh..." he groaned. "Are we there yet?" He squinted at his map, then looked it all over. "Oops, wrong turn."

Awesome went up to him and snatched the map. "You're not reading it right. Looks like we're in the area titled 'DANGER: Reptilian Firebirds'." Awesome just smirked and said, "Huh, firebirds? How scary!" He snickered as he went to the front of the line, leading. "I'm pretty sure that's just to scare us. That's probably just a camp name!"

He grinned enthusiastically at his friends before walking on and taking a turn, disappearing into thick tree trunks covered with moss. Sketti groaned and followed Awesome, leaving his brother behind.

"Reptilian firebirds, eh?" Tomato whispered. "Probably some weird type of--"

He heard a weird chirping, a deep sound coming from the treetops above. Tomato looked up, and was greeted only by sun-dappled leaves and...

A screech followed with a deafening thump, and the last Tomato saw was wild reptilian eyes staring right at him.