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Chapter 5 – Kongamato

  Let go of me the huge pterosaur said

  Sheena put on her bikini and looked at the creature. It was gigantic. If Triton was rge at 60 feet, and Sereya at 10 plus feet, this creature had a wingspan of 100 feet and from head to toe, it stood as tall as a giraffe!

  It was a quetzalcoatlus , rgest of the pterosaurs

  "I am Sheena, your captor. What is your name?" Sheena asked firmly

  You capture me, then ask for my name? I am Icarus. Why have you captured me? Icarus asked

  "I captured you to talk to you, so that I can do this...." Sheena said, suddenly growing in stature until she stood and looked identical to Icarus

  "I get chills every time she does that" Tarzan said

  Me too. As the st of my kind, it is why I am now following her Triton said

  So you have become like me. Release me! Icarus asked

  "How many of your kind are there" Sheena asked

  There is only me and a few family members. But I am the mightiest Icarus answered

  "I am.. looking for other mighty creatures in this forest. As you see, I have gathered a few and am looking for more. Have you seen others?" Sheena asked

  Others... from my...generation? There has been a few Icarus answered

  "I am looking for them, to be my companions. Will you also be my companion?" Sheena asked

  Your...companion? Icarus echoed

  "Yes, I once had a panther, monkey and parrot as my companions, but they were killed. Now I have a spider, snake and ape as my companion. I would want to have another companion that can fly" Sheena said

  If I were to be your... companion, you would let me go? Icarus asked

  And you will taste new foods too in the world of men Triton added

  And experience new things we can never experience in these jungles Sereya said

  I accept. But how can I go to the world of men? Icarus asked

  "Like this" Sheena replied, shrinking Sereya and Triton in front of Icarus' eyes

  Triton jumped onto her hand, wrapping around her wrist, while Sereya jumped onto her shoulder

  Very well, I will be the bird on your shoulder Icarus said

  Sheena shrunk Icarus down to the size of Pete, her former macaw, and Icarus sat on her shoulder

  She started chatting with the trio of Icarus, Sereya and Triton about their past and about other such prehistoric creatures in the jungles of he Congo

  She asked about other creatures she's read about, the Mokele Mbembe, the Kasai Rex, the Mahamba, the Mbeilu-Mbeilu-Mbeilu, the Eme-Ntouka, the Nguma-Monene and the Niger Firespitter

  Due to the fact that they mostly had african names, and speaking in the nguage of animals was a different nguage to begin with, Sheena had difficulty asking about these creatures!

  She had to draw sketches on the ground as to what kind of dinosaurs they were, based on what kind of dinosaurs scientists and researches think they were

  Surprisingly, Icarus had seen these creatures, and the researcher's guesses were more or less correct.

  Surprisingly, Icarus used his beak to correct some of Sheena's sketches as well, crifying what sort of creatures they were looking for

  The Mokele Mbembe was indeed a sauropod. The Kasai Rex was a theropod, possibly reted to a Tyrannosaurus Rex, but no T-Rexes have ever been known to live in Africa! The Eme-Ntouka was a ceratopsian, possibly reted to a Triceratops. The Mahamba was an extremely rge crocodilian, possibly a Deinosuchus or Sarcosuchus, the Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu was some sort of stegasouridae, the Nguma-monene was possibly reted to a dimetrodon and the Niger Fire Spitter was a spinosaur of some sort

  It occured to her, why are there so many dinosaurs from a previous epoch? Did they all survive millions of years till now? How come all of them are the only surviving specimen from their species? Surviving for millions of years would be impossible, wouldn't it?

  Of course, these are just based on rough sketches in the sand, and Sheena could not definitively determine which kinds of what types of dinosaurs they were, She can't even decide what pterosaur Icarus was, and he was standing right next to her!

  Icarus has flown over the jungle and knew where all of them were

  Based on what she read on the internet, and Tarzan confirmed this, all the creatures were man eaters and carnivores. So was Sereya, Tarzan, Triton and Icarus! This was probably why they have lived possibly for thousands of years!

  Sheena never bothered to ask how many years they have been around, since animals have no concept of time anyway. Those with short lives never know they have short lives, and those that have long lives outlive the rest and just treat it as a part of life. Even for Triton, his encounter with the Belgian helicopter in 1959 was just like yesterday to him!

  Sheena expined to Icarus her shrinking ring, on how he can enrge himself back to normal as he wished

  So Icarus tried and reverted to his usual size and so did Sereya. Triton remained wrapped on Sheena's left wrist

  Follow me. One of those you mentioned is pretty close by Icarus said

  Icarus took to the air, leading the group to the next monster closest to them, following the river downstream

  He didn't fly very high, just barely clearing the trees to that Sheena and her group could easily follow him

  The Bili apes stormed through the forest, more deadly than any pride of lions, while Sereya and Sheena joined them swinging through the trees

  As they swung through the trees, Sheena detected a strange scent unfamiliar to her

  It did not come from any animal she recognized.

  As she swung, she saw a rge footprint on the mud by the river bank below her. It was rger than any elephant's footprint!

  From a distance, she could finally see a gigantic creature, much rger than any elephant!

  It was the most famous cryptid in the Congo, the one who stops the flows of the rivers in the Linga nguage, 32 feet long, the Mokele-Mbembe!

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