Time Dome

He was getting cold in the machine… it was the Ice Age you know, and at this period of the world’s pre-history, temperatures could reach unbearable freezing temperatures… in some cases zero degrees and below. The area that the time-machine had landed at was mostly a deeply snow covered plain… but with mountains surrounding it. Obviously, geographic evolution has taken place here… now mountains of the present are greatly forming.

Usually in this place… in this cold time… everything is quiet and still… with a few trees around and some other forms of vegetation. Yes, ice and snow still covered everywhere, but usually this region of prehistoric Utah is one of the warmer places. But also usually, there aren’t too many creatures roaming around… since it’s hard for many animals to survive in these harsh conditions of temperature and blizzard weather. Only the strong and well adapted can survive.

Since it was getting even colder in the machine, Steven went to the living headquarters to get some warmer clothes out of the suitcase. He was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and pants right now… which is not the best thing to wear in the Ice Age.

He looked around for his suitcase in the machine… it was laying on the bed when he last saw it… but it had probably been thrown around somewhere during the fall. Sure enough, his suitcase wasn’t there, but he soon found it lying on the floor near the left side of the bed. It was open (He didn’t close it when he got the belt out) and clothes and other things had fallen out, and were all over the place. He looked for a sweater in the mess, and finally found one. He put that on, and afterward…

BAM!

He heard a huge sound that came from the front of the machine… then a loud thud. What happened?

Before there was time to find out… he heard the sounds of a cat-like creature… that sounded like a lion but only louder and more vicious. He heard the frightening sounds come closer to him, as he ran into the bathroom and hid in the shower. He closed the curtain as he heard the sounds that were now coming from just outside the bathroom.

"What is it?!" He thought.

Suddenly, he saw a shadow-like image against the shower curtain… it looked like the head of some kind of panther or lion… Steven wasn’t sure! But then it opened it’s mouth, and he could see shadows of giant fangs… each were about 6 inches long!

The creature’s mouth then closed as it began to sniff the shower curtain. Then it stood still… and didn’t make a sound.

Steven was pressed against the back of the shower’s wall… breathing silently in fear… and the creature on the opposite side of the shower curtain… was able to hear him.

The animal then let out a roar and viciously ripped down the shower curtain! It ripped it down on the left side, whereas Steven was on the right! Steven then (At the best opportunity he could possibly get) jumped out of the shower, then ran out of the bathroom… and then the living headquarters. He could hear the creature still in the bathroom…

Steven was on his way out of the time-machine when he noticed that the entrance door to the time-machine had been knocked down! That’s what the noise was that the creature… whatever it was… had obviously made happen.

He ran as fast as he could out of the time-machine… and onto the icy snow. He could already feel the terrible cold of the Ice Age truly begin to enter him. Steven kept running as fast as he could, until he found a tree very close by. It was a evergreen tree that was only about 30 feet high. Of course, he didn’t want to go up in a tree for safety, especially for what happened last time in the Jurassic, but it was the only safe spot he really could get to.