The Gang of Five

Role Play => Land Before Time RPG => Topic started by: Ducky123 on November 09, 2013, 12:36:45 PM

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 09, 2013, 12:36:45 PM
Character list (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=11461&view=findpost&p=22043794)

A beautiful night somewhere in the Mysterious Beyond. Two Rainbowfaces looked into the stars wondering what they would tell them this time.

Galli was deep in thought. Her eyes fixed on the constellation of the Little Longneck, she noticed something of interest that shook her sleepiness away in an instant. "Mimus?" She called her friend and companion. "You just gotta see that!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 09, 2013, 03:31:13 PM
"Huh?" Mimus startled, as if he had just woken up. "What is it, dear?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 09, 2013, 05:31:43 PM
"Do you see the position of Mars, do you? A right ancle to the constellation of the Little Longneck! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?!" Galli screamed in excitement almost exaggerating. "This means the end of a reign..."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 09, 2013, 05:51:22 PM
"Yes! I can see it clearly," said Mimus, "A change in the world is bound to occur at anytime! Though I'm not sure exactly when..."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 09, 2013, 05:59:24 PM
"Neither do I... Hey Mimus, finally a prophecy after a long hiatus!" Galli cheered. "I'm not sure I even remember the last one... something with an astroid and five kids possibly?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 09, 2013, 06:03:52 PM
Mimus thought about it momentarily. "An asteroid? Five children? Oh yes, now I remember! Something about a...a Stone of Cold Fire. What nonsense that was!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 09, 2013, 06:16:20 PM
Galli chuckled. "Sure it was! Anyways, I have a feeling they will play a role in this one as well... We shall watch the stars carefully because there are other details to be revealed likely." She plopped to the ground and watched the stars again.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 09, 2013, 06:30:31 PM
Mimus did the same. "Certainly, Galli, certainly! There's something out there in the sky that seems to be creating...a sort of message; a sort of needing; a sort of...well, I'm sure you know what I mean, right?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 09, 2013, 06:43:42 PM
"Sure I understand, I'm smarter than you," she laughed and gave her friend a friendly-meant weak punch. "Therefore, I'm capable of reading the message in the stars." She gave him a twinkle, just like the stars would do occasionally. "The despot will be brought down by a group of children who have learned to hold on together despite their difference in species. That will be the key to fulfill the prophecy... Sounds interesting, doesn't it, dear?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 09, 2013, 07:00:43 PM
"Sure does!" said Mimus. "And just think of what wishes they could make to do such a thing!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 09, 2013, 07:21:36 PM
"Yeah, and here comes the best part: We are given the might to make their wishes come true..."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 09, 2013, 07:53:02 PM
"As if we could ever do that!...could we?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 09, 2013, 08:13:00 PM
"According to the positions of Uranus and Neptune, we are.. One of the kids will know its destiny, says the moon..."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 09, 2013, 08:43:53 PM
"And everyone else will know their fates, says the now set sun."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 10, 2013, 05:43:44 AM
"I guess that's it, I can't find more messages in the sky, can you?" Galli told Mimus. Uttering a yawn, she added: "Let's settle down for the night now; tomorrow is going to be an important day after all!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 10, 2013, 02:41:10 PM
"Agreed!" Mimus said, yawning as well. With that, he and Galli both settled down, in preparation for a new day. They fell asleep within minutes.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 11, 2013, 10:01:46 AM
(Here we go :lol)

Eight dinosaur kids, of whom seven were commonly just called 'The Gang' , were playing Hide and Seek in the Great Valley in an area where both big and small trees and lower vegetation as well as grass grew. There were areas where the trees grew close to each other as well as areas with occasional trees or bushes and also open grassfields. One side of the area was bordered by the Great Wall that offered a few shelter-like caves whereas another side was bordered by a swampy area that was located close to the river that flew through the Valley. Littlefoot, a friendly, smart and courageous Longneck, who was the head of the Gang, Cera, a strong, proud and sarcastic Threehorn, who had a hard shell but a soft inside, Ducky, a cheerful, sweet and friendly Swimmer with a childish speech pattern, Petrie, a self-conscious, easily scared and gullible Flyer, whose heart was at the right spot nonetheless, with a grammar issue, Spike, Ducky's 'brother', a sleepy, easygoing and muted Spiketail with a great appetite, Ruby, a thoughtful, smart and responsibly Fastrunner, who tends to talk in a repetitive way, and Chomper, the Sharptooth they had hatched, friendly, innocent and sometimes a little childish, as known as 'The Gang of Seven' plus Guido, a forgetful, easily scared and self-conscious Glyder, who had met the Gang some time ago and since then had played with them every now and then, had a lot of fun. It was just Ruby's turn to find and chase the others around to catch them eventually...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on November 11, 2013, 04:52:24 PM
A bush rustled conspicuously as its leaves were drawn slightly apart. A small eye peered out, gleaming with joy, then quickly withdrew. Petrie settled back into the foliage and giggled. "Me no see her yet! Maybe she no find us ever!"

"Petrie!" Above, pressed against the trunk of the tree shading the bush, a blue glider whispered down nervously. Guido looked around, rustling his feathers slightly. "She will find us if you keep talking..."

"Me sorry," Petrie whispered back... and giggled again, a high, carefree sound that carried easily.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 11, 2013, 04:55:23 PM
Elsewhere in the vicinity, Spike was crotched down and hiding behind a large bush covered with sweet bubbles.  He hoped that his cover would work better this time than it did the last time that they had played this game.

However, his sniffer caught the smell of something sweet and enticing.  "Mmmm... Sweet bubbles." Thought Spike.  However as he was about to take a bite from the bush he remembered how he was caught last time, by eating his own cover.

Using what was for Spike a tremendous amount of willpower, he decided to eat some of the tall grass beside him instead.  "I will not blow my cover this time." He resolved.

However, distracted by his impromptu meal, he did not realize that his tail was beginning to shake the bush behind him...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Dosu2Dinner on November 11, 2013, 06:20:24 PM
Ruby, who had been giving the vicinity a panoramic sweep with her eyes, saw the light tremble of a sweet-bubble bush some distance away. At the same time, she raised a feathered arm to check the direction of the wind.
There is no wind over there..." she concluded. "Meaning..."
A satisfied smile on her voice, Ruby sprinted straight towards the bush...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 11, 2013, 06:27:21 PM
Spike was enjoying his brief meal when he heard the rustling of grass nearby.  Suddenly stopping his eating, he peered above the bush that had served as his hiding spot.

Its Ruby!  He thought dejectedly, once again his eating habits had gotten the better of him.

As fast as he could he darted off into the tall grass behind him. I can't outrun her! Spike thought, But perhaps I can lose her in the grass.  

But even as he had this thought, he could hear the footsteps approaching closer and closer...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Dosu2Dinner on November 11, 2013, 06:36:46 PM
Just as Spike was about to head into the thick grass, Ruby had performed a flying leap and had landed on his back, sending the two of them straight into said grass before rolling to a halt. Despite the slightly giddy feeling now penetrating Ruby's being, she surveyed Spike with a triumphant smile.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 11, 2013, 06:53:26 PM
Meanwhile, Cera had discovered the perfect hide: A tree-trunk that wasn't rotten at all...
Quickly, she crawled into its hollow inside hoping not to be caught by whoever was seeking for her..
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 11, 2013, 07:06:07 PM
No sooner as Spike had attempted to make his escape, he was sent spiraling into the grass.  Coming back to his senses, he found that he was on his back and that Ruby was looking down upon him with a smile.

Spike gave a low grunt as if to congratulate Ruby on her catch and then proceeded to attempt to get up from his prone position.

It is now my turn.  Spike thought, "Perhaps I can use my sniffer to my advantage."

He considered his strategy as he gave Ruby time to assume the role of 'hider' and to seek an appropriate hiding place.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 11, 2013, 07:23:51 PM
Ducky was residing at her own hiding place, waiting patiently like she always did.

"This is such a good hiding place," said Ducky to herself, her voice reduced to a whisper, "It has very tall grass and I cannot be seen so much. Ruby will never find me here, oh no no no!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on November 11, 2013, 07:33:10 PM
A commotion nearby drew Guido's attention. He caught a brief glimpse of Spike's not inconsiderable bulk fleeing into the tall grass, and Ruby darting after him. Sounds of a scuffle told him that Spike's futile attempt to escape had come to its natural conclusion.

"Well, it looks like Spike's the chaser now..." he reported down to Petrie.

"Oh no," Petrie's worried reply issued back from the bush. "Maybe here not so good for hiding when Spike the finder..."

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 11, 2013, 07:58:18 PM
While giving Ruby time to pick a hiding spot, Spike was sitting on his haunches with his eyes closed.  I may not be as fast as the others, but I do have one advantage. Spike thought, perhaps he could make use of Chomper's training on how to use his sniffer?

Raising his sniffer in the air, Spike took in a deep breath.  He was assaulted with the welcome scents on treestars, sweet bubbles, and tree sweets.  Mmmmm... Tree sweets.  

No!  Spike thought, Now is not the time to think about food.  That is why I am in my predicament in the first place.

Shaking his head slowly, he took in another breath.  Besides the pleasant smells of his favorite foods, there was literally a symphony of other scents to contend with.  Which scent was an adult?  Which scents were his friends?  Perhaps his training with Chomper would all come to naught.  Wait!  I recognize that scent!  Spike realized, focusing on a particular scent that had triggered his memories, I recognize that scent very well!

Spike then opened his eyes and turned towards an area of high grass some distance away.  Spike smirked.  Spike knew Ducky's scent very well...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 11, 2013, 08:19:24 PM
Suddenly, Ducky heard the sounds of sniffing coming from a distance. The sound was heading straight towards her. Now she knew she would be discovered at any moment now!

Wait a minute...is that Spike sniffing? she wondered. Her confirmation was immediately answered when she felt a slimy tongue run up her back. Turning, she saw Spike, who continued to lick his sister.

"Spike! Stop it!" Ducky said, giggling at being tickled, "Okay, okay! You finded me, yep yep yep!" Immediately, Spike ceased from licking, which gave Ducky the ability to stand up and dry herself off.

"Now it is my turn, yep yep yep!" she said. With that, she crept out of the tall grass and begin searching for a possible victim.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 11, 2013, 08:27:03 PM
His quarry having been caught, Spike scurried off to seek a new hiding place.  He decided upon an area of two large trees surround by high grass some distance away.  "I must resist the urge to eat my hiding place" He thought, "That did not turn out very well for me earlier."

He peered carefully from his new hiding spot, keeping a close eye on the new 'chaser'.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on November 12, 2013, 01:00:30 PM
Chomper a kinda bad hiding spot around a rock. Can't wait to be the seeker, he thought. I'm going right after Cera!

Maybe it had to do with being a shaprtooth, but he loved being it. No one else did, though. They could rarely hide from his sniffer.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on November 13, 2013, 02:13:25 AM
OOC: Sorry me slow,I'll just pop in here


Littlefoot chuckled and he looked around,there wasn't really many places a longneck like he could hide. He scanned the area and spotted  a log with an opening,it was just big enough to fit him. He walked over to it and squeezed in,sadly for him his tail stuck out.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on November 14, 2013, 07:33:37 PM
Petrie snickered as he saw Spike run past to find a new hiding place. He chortled to himself. "Spike was never good at hiding... Not like Petrie!" He settled back in the branches confident that, whoever was now the chaser, wouldn't be able to find him.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Dosu2Dinner on November 15, 2013, 03:07:25 PM
Ruby, whilst doing everything in her power to keep low to the ground to prevent her from being to conspicuous, was feverishly searching for a hiding place. For some reason, it wasn't as easy as she had first anticipated.
"At least..." she thought as she searched, "If anyone one of the were to come after me, I might have the chance of a getaway..."
To her relief, she spotted a large tree with thick and shadowy branches, hopefully big and empty enough to conceal her. With that thought in mind, she quickly scrambled up it, and was just about to settle when a cry of confusion made her realise that this hiding place wasn't quite as empty as she first believed. She grinned sheepishly at Petrie, not quite sure what to say next.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on November 15, 2013, 09:09:48 PM
Petrie, relaxed on a branch, gave a small yelp as something moved into the foliage and shook him loose. Tumbling down, something broke his fall and he found himself staring into a pair of familiar blue eyes. "Ruby!" he exclaimed as he perched himself on her head, "You want to stay here? Me think there enough room."

"Petrie, you're poking out..." Guido hinted to him.

He turned around and saw glumly that his head was, in fact, sticking out of the leaves.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 21, 2013, 05:57:19 PM
All the time she was looking for someone, Ducky was pretty sure she kept hearing movement and mostly silent chatter from a familiar, tiny voice. She knew it. She knew it was Petrie who was hiding somewhere...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on November 22, 2013, 04:43:43 AM
Petrie heard a series of small footsteps from somewhere behind. It could only be Ducky, and she was getting closer...

He panicked, bending down to push Ruby's head. "Me change my mind! There no room!" Suddenly, he felt his balance slipping. Flailing his arms accomplished nothing - he tumbled backwards off Ruby's head, bouncing off the branches on his way down and coming to land in a heap on a patch of grass. "Oooh..." he moaned, sitting up in a daze.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on November 22, 2013, 05:04:08 AM
Littlefoot  backed out of his log to looked for another more comfortable place to hide,he scanned the distance sighing and spotted tall grass.smiling he started running towards it,skidding to a stop when he saw Ducky. He got low to the ground so he could sneak past-something longnecks really were not good at.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 22, 2013, 12:03:05 PM
Spike heard a commotion some distance away from Ducky and saw a small object careening aimlessly through the branches of a nearby tree.  That must be Petrie. Spike thought, Well, there goes his hiding place.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Dosu2Dinner on November 22, 2013, 01:53:46 PM
Ruby looked down at Petrie somewhat guiltily.
"Sorry!" she whispered.
At the same time, she wasn't prepared to go and pick him back up - that would defeat the whole point of her coming over here in the first place if she were spotted, and, you know...squatter's rights...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 27, 2013, 06:49:32 PM
Not looking where she was going, Ducky suddenly tripped on something (or was it someone?) and fell. Regaining herself and putting a hand on her forehead, she opened her eyes and saw it was Ruby whom she had tripped over. Looking upward, she quickly discovered Petrie and Guido hiding somewhere in between some leaves from a tree.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on November 30, 2013, 05:11:51 PM
Petrie saw a small shadow fall over him, and turned his head to see Ducky standing over him. He blinked and grinned sheepishly. "Um... Ducky can see Petrie, can't she?"

Guido grinned and jumped off the tree branch, gliding through the air to find a new hiding place. A little further on there was a group of small blue plants which happened to be about his size. Landing amongst them, he stood up straight and tried his best to appear plant-like.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on November 30, 2013, 05:49:45 PM
"You cannot fool me, oh no no no!" said Ducky, giggling, "I can see all of you, I can, I can!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on December 01, 2013, 05:44:58 PM
Petrie groaned. "Me was sure me wasn't going to get caught..." He stood up straight and put on his best 'fearsome' face. "But nobody can hide from Petrie!" Turning around, Petrie covered his eyes with his wing and began to count, giving the others time to hide.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on December 01, 2013, 05:56:28 PM
Spike continued to watch from his hiding place.  "Looks like Petrie is the chaser now."  He observed.  

Looking around, Spike noticed that the two tall trees around him had few low-hanging branches and did not give him much cover from the air.  "Uh oh."  Spike thought suddenly,  "I need to move while I still have a chance!"

Spike moved over to an area of tall grass beside the pair of trees.  "This should do."  He then lowered his body to the ground to make himself less conspicuous, all the while being careful not to move the grass too much while taking the occasional bite.  He did not want a repeat of what happened to him earlier.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Dosu2Dinner on December 04, 2013, 01:17:24 PM
Ruby took a desperate look around her. Where to hide? The tree she had previously hiding is was clearly not a sensible option, unless...
She considered - Petrie would not expect her to hide in such an obvious place, so it would be the last place he'd look...but she decided against it, she had to think of something else.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on December 04, 2013, 04:24:49 PM
Chomper was sniffing from the small rock he was half-hiding behind. He could start to pick up some of the scents from his friends. Petrie, Ducky, Spike, and Ruby were filling in his nostrils. He started to smile, mostly from being so bored at this point, and wanting something to happen so bad.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on December 05, 2013, 04:12:13 AM
"Me coming, ready or not!" Petrie uncovered his eyes and turned around. The area seemed clear - but he knew they were somewhere close. He grinned and started making his way around the group of trees and bushes next to him, deciding they were too obvious.

As he moved, he started humming to himself. He was Petrie, master sharptooth-hunter, searching for the bad guys to save the day! He stooped down to pick up a limp twig - no, a deadly anti-sharptooth spear - as he scampered along, twirling it between his fingers.

All the bad guys would fear him, and his brothers and sisters would be so jealous... Distracted by his daydreaming, Petrie didn't notice a shape sticking out from the rock he was approaching. Petrie would be famous all over the Great Valley! he thought smugly, as he walked around the rock... and straight into a set of large, sharp teeth.

"EEE!" He screamed as he stumbled back, dropping his deadly anti-sharptooth spear at his side in his shock. Petrie prepared to fly for his life... when he looked up and saw the teeth belonged to Chomper. "Oh, Chomper!" he gasped, trying to look as cool as he could, "Me knew it was you... You the chaser now!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 07, 2013, 05:35:34 PM
"Owww, this bloody log is too narrow for my taste.. I gonna need a different hide..." Cera thought. Petrie and Chomper were distracted so she darted to the caves, unnoticed.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on December 07, 2013, 10:34:28 PM
Upon hearing Petrie exclaim "Oh, Chomper!" Spike began to panic.  "There is no way I can hide from his sniffer!"  He thought.  Chomper's ability to track and find others with his potent sense of smell was far superior to Spike's and to anyone else in the gang.  More disturbingly, based upon the volume of Petrie's exclamation, they must be quite close to Spike's location.  "Chomper probably already smells me."  Spike concluded with some discontent.

However, as the wind began to gently blow against the grass, he noticed that it was blowing in his direction, and not towards where he heard the voices.  "Well at least I am downwind." He thought with some relief, "Maybe he will notice one of the others first."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on December 08, 2013, 03:48:09 AM
"Oh, hey, Petrie!" Chomper said with a huge, toothy grin. He wasn't sad to be found. On the contrary. "Guess I better get started, then."

He stuck his sniffer in the air, and picked up the same scents as before, though Spikes was a lot more faint by now. "Nope, no good!" He only had one threehorn on his mind right now, and he wasn't gonna settle for anyone else. He started trotting off.

"Ah, on the hunt again!" The little predator suddenly stopped in his tracks, and mentally kicked himself for thinking of such a thing. "No, That's not why I like being it. Can't be."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 11, 2013, 07:08:49 PM
"Chomper's walkin' t'wards me... what if he finds me?!?" Cera thought. She was aware of Chomper's tracking abilities which wouldn't help her if Chomper was picking up her smell with his sniffer. "If only I'd chosen a hide where I had the option of outrunnin' him..."Cera cursed trying not to be obvious.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on December 12, 2013, 02:23:03 PM
Chomper walked by the very cave Cera was in, not even noticing her at first. Suddenly, he Picked up Cera's scent. He stopped in his tracks, just to get a bearing on where she was.

"She must be in that cave!" he thought. "The air must be blowing in there, that's why I can just barely pick up her scent."When he figured that out, he also realized if the air is blowing into the cave, is must be going out somewhere else! He walked away from the entrance Cera was in, hoping to have a little fun this time. Sniffing around the rock formations near the cave, he found an opening with air flowing out.

Cera's unmistackable scent was now flooding his nostrils, so he slowly crept in...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on December 12, 2013, 07:50:13 PM
OOC: Sorry guys I thought I already posted but guess it slipped my mind.

Littlefoot broke into a run sprinting towards the other side of the area we were playing in,he however tripped over a loose stone and fell into the nearby water with a splash. He wasn't hurt but he sure did make the noise. He go out of the water and shook himself off. Looking for somewhere he can dart to and hide. It was then he decided to give thought about it instead of darting around randomly. He began trying to plan a route to the place his chose without being caught.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on December 12, 2013, 09:24:47 PM
Spike heard the rustling of leaves get fainter and fainter.  "He caught someone else's scent"  He concluded, "I guess it is safe to take a bite or two..."  The young spiketail then proceeded to take a few blades from the grass around him, being mindful enough to keep the noise to a minimum.

However, in the middle of his impromptu meal he heard a massive splash.  "What the..."  Spike immediately crouched down and kept as silent as he could be.  "Was this a trick of Chompers?  Did he feign walking off just so he could ambush me?" Were some of the thoughts that ran through Spike's head.  The thoughts were not unfounded, playing pranks on his friends during their games was something that Chomper had done many times before.  However, Chomper would usually roar or sneak up on his friends in order to scare them playfully - Not haphazardly crash into the water and... shake the water off?

Spike peaked above his hiding place in the tall grass and saw a long neck.  He smiled and did his best to stifle an amused grunt.  "Ha.. It is only Littlefoot."  He thought with some amusement, "I guess it would be hard to hide with his long neck."  Spike then resumed his meal.  Figuring that even if Chomper was in the area, he would have a far more conspicuous target in Littlefoot than himself.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on December 14, 2013, 06:32:49 AM
Petrie flapped away as fast as he could. As he did so, he caught a glimpse of Chomper heading towards some caves. Good job me didn't hide there... He spotted a small tree hollow not far up from the ground in front of him, and he settled into it.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 14, 2013, 08:34:46 AM
"Crap, he's going to catch me!" Cera cursed insidely. She was desperately trying to figure out an escape path but there wasn't one. "If I leave my hide, he'll spot me straight away... But... he needs to catch me so if I run for it I might escape him. That's it!" Cera turned around and left her hide aiming at the path that lead deeper into the cave towards another exit. Just when she looked into that path, she heard a mighty roar. "Crap!" she called and ran for it towards the very other exit...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on December 20, 2013, 08:42:42 PM
(OOC: I don't remember Chomper roaring, Ducky, but I'll roll with it.)

Chomper stepped on a sharp rock in the cave, and he let out a mighty roar of pain. 'Dangit! I know she heard that!' he mentally cursed himself as he just started running towards Cera as fast as he could. He chased her out the other end of the cave, but wasn't gaining much ground on her.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 21, 2013, 06:11:18 AM
Cera was faster than Chomper. As she looked back to judge the distance she had from Chomper while stil running at full speed, she didn't see the tree in front of her and crashed into it headfirst with force. Now it was Cera's turn to utter a mighty roar of pain.
"Oh Cera, you stupid Threehorn.. They gonna laugh at you..."
As Cera intended to look back to consider whether it was still making sense to run for it, she noticed that her horn was stuck in the tree.
"The day can't get any worse, can it?" she sighed, waiting for Chomper to laugh at her.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on December 21, 2013, 07:54:40 PM
Spike's meal was again interrupted by a loud roar, which caused him to again peak over the tall grass that was serving as his main camouflage.  He couldn't see much from his vantage point for a few moments, but then he saw a blur of yellow collide into a large tree.

"Ouch!" Though Spike, That has got to be painful!"  His concern turned into amusement, however, when he saw that the prideful threehorn was struggling in a futile attempt to get out of the tree.  He laughed with great amusement, not even attempting to stifle his amusement this time.  "It looks like Cera is going to be the chaser now." He concluded, but then he took a look at this hiding spot.  He had consumed nearly all of the grass on the side facing away from the cave.  He would be easily visible if anyone approach from that side!

Grumbling to himself in annoyance of his own absent-mindedness, he decided to move to a different spot.  "The stream had many shallow depressions around it.  Perhaps I should go there?"  He then slowly moved away from the tall grass and advanced in the direction of the stream.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on December 21, 2013, 08:15:51 PM
Petrie relaxed in his tree hole, once again sure that he wouldn't be found. He cocked his head at the sound of something charging towards him. Me no like the sound of that... Suddenly, he was rattled around in his hiding place as something struck the tree with a heavy thump.

Startled, he peeked out and looked down, then snorted with laughter. "Looks like horns not always a good thing!" he chortled down to Cera as she struggled to free herself from his tree. He suddenly saw Chomper fast approaching, and ducked back in.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 22, 2013, 10:49:59 AM
"Yeah beakbrain?! Oh wait 'till I'm free..." Cera growled, knowing the skinny Flyer had every right to make fun of her. Turning her head around, she saw Spike rofling as well. The Threehorn refrained to comment on that as well.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on December 30, 2013, 08:14:24 PM
Guido heard a heavy THUNK from somewhere in the distance, and the ground trembled slightly under his feet. A petal fell off the blue plant he was hiding behind and flapped down over his face. "What was that?" he wondered out loud as he brushed it off... then he heard Cera roar in outrage. Of course, who else? he thought with a grin.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on December 30, 2013, 08:23:00 PM
Chomper was closing in on Cera. He leaped onto her back, and just started making fake roaring sounds, also saying things like "Om nom nom!". He was being careful not to hurt her any with the sharp claws on his feet.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 30, 2013, 08:36:10 PM
"Alright, alright!" Cera snorted. "What's all the show about anyway?"

Using her slight anger to finally make her horn unstuck, she closed her eyes and waited for everyone to dart away and hide.

"If I were you, I'd get lost," she recommented to Chomper.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on December 30, 2013, 09:04:25 PM
(OCC: Sorry, I'd just like to see where this goes. :p)

Chomper wasn't exactly thinking straight right now. Maybe it was from feeling big by being up high up, over someone else, like what predators like. In any case, he was feeling a little full of himself. He forgot he was even playing a game. That he was supposed to go and hide. But he didn't feel like going back and hiding again.

"I'm not scared of you."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 30, 2013, 09:15:12 PM
(OOC: Totally fine! :DD)

Cera would  have banged her head against the tree her horn was stuck in earlier, but she didn't since the tree had a nasty crack already. Why the heck was Chomper acting like this?

"I'm not scared of ya either but that's not the point. I gonna catch ya if ya don't run off NOW!" Cera explained. "'Cept you want me to..."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on January 06, 2014, 06:16:16 PM
Spike heard the commotion coming from Cera's direction and figured that she was the chaser at this point.  "I need to pick up my pace." Spike thought to himself, "Otherwise I will soon be the "chaser" myself!"

The spiketail redoubled his efforts and speedily advanced towards the stream.  He just hoped that there was a sufficiently-sized depression in the area to hide his enormous bulk.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on January 08, 2014, 11:40:16 AM
"Well, I'm bored, everybody. I really wanna play something else!"

He hopped up and down a little from his spot on Cera's back, to show his impatience.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on January 10, 2014, 07:22:55 PM
Cera looked at Chomper, being slightly annoyed.
"Sure... fine," she grunted in her usual sarcastic voice.
The Threehorn then took a deep breath and called out for the others so they would hear her for sure.
"Guys, you can come out of your hideouts coz Chomper ain't bothered to play this game anymore!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on January 10, 2014, 08:00:51 PM
Spike heard Cera's call right after he had gotten himself into a sufficiently-sized depression.  He sighed to himself as his recent work had all been for naught.  He slowly got up and prepared to head in the direction of Cera's voice.  Feeling the onset of fatigue, he was in no particular hurry to catch up with the others.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on January 10, 2014, 08:00:59 PM
Ducky, who had hidden in a nearby bush, came out of her hiding place when she heard Cera's statement.

"That is alright," she said, "I was getting tired of the game myself, especially because no one had findeded me for a long time."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on January 10, 2014, 09:29:09 PM
Petrie peered out from his hidey-hole. "It over? Me not get caught again?" Shrugging, he clambered out and flapped over to where Cera and Chomper were waiting.

Stepping out from the blue plant, Guido grinned and made his way over too. "You're giving up, Chomper?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on January 13, 2014, 12:44:35 AM
OOC: I never even posted yet...MY BADZ




Grandpa was getting ready to call his grandson home "Littlefoot!" he called out hoping his grandson would respond to it...if he was still in the valley..that boy did have the habit of going walk-about in The Mysterious Beyond at random though Littlefoot claimed he always had a reason "Littlefoot,come on now" he said one last time before turning to Grandma "I have a feeling he is not too far away,he'll be here..most likely when he gets hungry" he chuckled.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on January 21, 2014, 08:35:14 PM
Littlefoot looked up when he heard Grandpa "Got to go,bye guys!" he said to his friends before running off quickly reaching his Grandparents,he smiled at them "I had fun today" he started saying.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on January 21, 2014, 11:24:07 PM
Petrie's mom flew through the sky looking for her son.  The other siblings were easier to track down, but Petrie was always more difficult to find as he had a rather adventurous group of friends.  "No doubt he will be where his friends are."  She thought.

As she advanced through the valley she saw the clear outline of Grandpa Longneck who had a certain young Apatosaurus following close behind.  She could see the distinct forms of Chomper and Cera not very far from the duo.  Petrie and Guido were close behind them. There they are!  She observed.

She flew over the area where the remaining gang were and called out to Petrie.

"It is time to come back to the nest, Petrie!  You can play tomorrow."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on January 22, 2014, 06:47:20 AM
Petrie looked up despondently as he heard his mother calling him. "Just a little longer?" he tried, then groaned when he saw the look she gave him. "Okay... not longer..." He turned to face the rest of his friends. "Me had fun, see you all tomorrow!"

He flapped up and joined his mother in the air, heading back to the nest. "Petrie was amazing sharptooth hunter today!" he reported to her, his weedy chest puffing out proudly.

-----------------------------

"Bye Petrie!" Guido called up. "I think I'll go too guys, I'm getting hungry and there's some bugs out there with my name on 'em." He started to make his way off, waving over his shoulder to the group. "Catch you later!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on January 22, 2014, 01:00:51 PM
"Ducky, Spike?" Mama Swimmer called. "It's getting late, time to rest."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on January 22, 2014, 02:31:23 PM
Spike looked in the direction of Mama Swimmer's call and sighed.  "Was it time to call it a day already?"  He thought.  Looking around him, he noted that the sun was getting lower in the sky and that twilight was fast approaching.

"Hmm... I guess it is time." He concluded.

He began to walk towards the nest, but then he stopped.  He looked expectantly at Ducky, waiting for her to join him in the trip back.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on January 22, 2014, 06:47:22 PM
"Okay Spike," said Ducky, "I am getting--" A yawn interrupted the sentence before she continued. "--tired anyways, yep yep yep." And so, she hopped on her little brother's back and headed home together.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on January 22, 2014, 09:40:02 PM
"Aww..." Was all Chomper could get out as everyone around him started leaving. "well, I guess that means I have to go back to the caves, then. Good night, everybody!" He started on his short journey back.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on January 26, 2014, 07:20:51 PM
Cera didn't like her friends leaving but there was nothing she could possibly do about it anyway so she decided to head home before being called.

"Seeya tomorrow!" she called and walked off. It's been a funny day so she shouldn't complain...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 16, 2014, 07:53:13 AM
Galli and Mimus had been wandering through the Mysterious Beyond all day, towards the Great Valley where their presence was needed to make the prophecy come true. It was already night when they finally stood at the entrance.

"A beatiful sight, isn't it, Mimus?" Galli said dreamily. "Sometimes I wish I could stay here..." THe female Rainbowface took a look at the cloudless sky. She didn't notice more hints at what they were supposed to do the next day. "See any further messages in the stars, dear?" she asked her partner. "I don't..."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on February 16, 2014, 01:12:36 PM
Mimus smiled as he looked up at the twinkling stars. "Well... perhaps..." he said, taking note of a few things. "But until they get stronger, I'll count them as maybes." he stated. "Hmmm... tomorrow is going to be a very auspicious day for the young ones... I only hope they're ready. I'd be more than happy to offer them consolation in order to help them deal with what I'm sure will be their initial shock." he chuckled, looking over at his partner now.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 16, 2014, 03:12:32 PM
Galli gave Mimus a stern look. "You know that isn't allowed," she said and sighed. "The children will do fine...eventually. Don't worry about them."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on February 16, 2014, 03:18:40 PM
Mimus gave her an apologetic look now. "Oh... yes... of course, I know, I know." he nodded here. "I just can't help myself sometimes! They're so young and innocent and we're right there... but yes, dear. I know it's not allowed." he said, nodding once more and hanging his head as he gave her a "can you forgive me?" look.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 16, 2014, 04:18:04 PM
"I know, I know..." she said knowingly. "I suppose we should enter the Valley and get some much needed rest." The yawn that followed Galli's suggestion affirmed the need to rest.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on February 16, 2014, 08:41:44 PM
Mimus yawned as well, and held his hand out. "Yes of course. After you." he offered, giving her a tired smile.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 17, 2014, 09:30:53 AM
The two rainbowfaces didn't need long to find a resting place that suited them well. They soon fell into a pieceful slumber.


In the next morning, Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Ruby and Chomper met at their usual meeting place to discuss what to do on a beautiful day like this day.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on February 17, 2014, 10:03:47 AM
Petrie flapped down, landing lightly on Cera's crest. "Hi guys," he yawned. Bending over, he looked Cera in the eye and grinned. "How's your head? Petrie knows running into a tree must hurt for a long time..."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 17, 2014, 11:14:21 AM
Cera gave a mighty snort. "Maybe if a Flyer bumps against a tree... A Threehorn would never feel any pain from something that silly..." The orange Threehorn ten turned to Littlefoot. "What d'ya fancy playing today?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on February 17, 2014, 02:00:12 PM
Spike listened to the banter of his friends with some amusement.  Cera was putting on a brave face, despite being humiliated the previous evening in her misadventure with the tree.  He stifled the laugh that wanted to leap forth, however, as he didn't want to be on the receiving end of an agitated threehorn.

Observing that the others would probably agree on a game soon, he decided to have a quick meal while he still could.  He had overslept that morning and when Ducky had woken him up there was little time to have breakfast before their usual late morning games.  Nonetheless, he kept his misgivings to himself.  He had no one else to blame for sleeping in besides himself.

Turning and looking at a nearby bush, he took a large bite.  I will have to make this quick.  Hopefully they have an argument or something and that gives me some time to eat!  Reflecting that this was the only time in his life that he wished the gang to actually begin bickering about something, he emitted an amused snort.  

As he ate, he continued to listen to the antics of the gang, which were not interrupted in any way by his mid-morning meal.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on February 17, 2014, 08:03:41 PM
"Hmmm" Littlefoot said in thought "We could play Sharptooth Attack" he  suggested "Or maybe Lone Dinosaur" he smiled,'lone dinosaur' was one of his favorites.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on February 17, 2014, 08:53:53 PM
Well, I'd have to be the bad guy in both of those games, wouldn't I?" Chomper spoke up, with a very strange expression. Half of him was sad about this, but the other half of him was excited, for some reason.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 21, 2014, 10:23:36 AM
"Well, you'd be the second best choice, Chomper," Cera chuckled smugly. "A Threehorn is just the perfect choice!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on February 21, 2014, 10:28:49 AM
"I'm sorry, Cera" Chomper began, "...but you don't make a very good sharptooth!"

He then sighed. "Though, why are sharpteeth always the bad guys? Can't they be the good guys, for once?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on February 21, 2014, 02:14:57 PM
Spike was continuing to much on his mid-morning meal when he heard Chomper's remark.  Sharpteeth as the good guys?  Ha! The spiketail thought to himself.  Despite his open and accepting personality, Spike could not accept such a possibility.  It was hard for the herbivore to view anything that wanted to eat him as a "good guy".  

Nonetheless, he continued to listen to the gang's discussion.  It was true that such long-winded discussions normally bored him, but today it was allowing him to enjoy his meal.  

He was also curious to see how Cera would react to being told she wasn't good as something.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on February 22, 2014, 06:01:30 AM
"Sharpteeth? Good guys?" Petrie's eyes widened in confusion. "But sharpteeth scaaary! Scary can't be good." His small frame gave a shiver. "Except for you, Chomper, you not so bad."

Petrie rapped on Cera's head. "Chomper right, you not good sharptooth. Not scary enough." He paused. "But maybe you angry enough..."

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 22, 2014, 08:46:24 AM
"Grr! You better run fast if you don't wanna end in my tummy. ROAR!" Cera screamed, acting to be the Sharptooth and quite realistically at that. Being a Threehorn was probably helping her to express the viciousness of a real Sharptooth as Threehorns could get veeeeeeery dangerous...
Her friends screamed, some acted to be scared, some WERE scared, and ran away. Cera gave chase.

*

Galli and Mimus were watching the kids play "Sharptooth Attack" until everyone took a seat or lied down under a huge tree that spend some shelter from the heat of the Bright Circle. They approached, ready to do their part to make the prophecy came true...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on February 22, 2014, 02:56:06 PM
Mimus spread his hands out theatrically in front of him, and smiled. "Good morning, young ones!" he exclaimed. "Looks like a fun game you were playing! Sharpteeth and all that!" he flexed his hand a bit, mimicking the swipe of a sharptooth's clawed appendages. He then imitated the growl of a sharptooth in a not very convincing fashion.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 22, 2014, 03:36:14 PM
"Now, now. Would you stop scaring them?" Galli snarled.

"Hello children," she said, turning to the Gang now. "I'm sorry for his bad-mannered introduction. We have met each other already, some seasons ago. We are here because there is something the stars are telling us... that involves you children." Galli turned to her partner to indicate that he should explain the details.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on February 22, 2014, 04:14:59 PM
Chomper, seeing dinosaurs he'd never seen before, instinctively tried to hide behind the tree. I hope they didn't see me! was running through his mind. Things were always so... unpredictable when he met someone new. Most of the time, newcomers were either scared of him, or tried to attack him. All of his friends were there, of course, but he still didn't want to take any chances. That little incident with Old One's herd was still fresh in his memory.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on February 22, 2014, 04:16:51 PM
Mimus hung his head a bit abashedly as Galli reprimanded him. "Yes..." he cleared his throat, stepping forward now. "Um... the stars have told us that each of you are going to get one wish!" he held up a finger now, growing serious. "To make this wish, you must not speak it aloud!" he instructed. "Merely, think about it very hard in your heads." he tapped his own head here with a finger. "One of you will already know the outcome of this ahead of time, however, but we can't reveal who this is." Mimus stated, looking at all of them now. "I'm sorry I can't be more specific. Now... if you would all close your eyes." he suggested, his smile once more returning, though it was more subdued this time as he took in a deep breath.

"Also... Chomper... if you could please come out!" Mimus called. "You're very important too, you know, and definitely a part of this!" he motioned with his hand, having seen him run off after they'd stepped out. He gave no indication how he actually knew Chomper's name, but calmly beckoned for him. "It's OK... we're not here to hurt you, and we certainly aren't here to get you in trouble, either." he explained.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 23, 2014, 09:01:16 AM
"What the...?!" Cera's mind raced. The Threehorn didn't believe a single word of those gabbering Rainbow mugs.

"We need to think about this," she said as diplomatically as she was capable of, actually feeling like telling them to bugger off and quick. "May we have some time to... discuss this?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on February 23, 2014, 09:27:50 AM
Chomper popped his head out from behind the tree to get a better look at the newcomers. They both looked as calm as they sounded, so he came out.

He then joined in on Cera's conversation about these rainbowfaces. "Who are these guys? They say they know all of us, but I've never seen them before!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on February 23, 2014, 04:26:53 PM
Mimus nodded solemnly, and backed away now. "Of course... but this has already been foretold in the stars. It will happen at some point, but we'll... be here to help." he stated now, deciding to be audacious and gallant as opposed to careful and reserved.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on March 02, 2014, 12:29:55 PM
((Time to get this RP rolling again. I'll take Littlefoot until his player reappears. :yes Also, apologies for the double post, but necessary I think. :yes))

Littlefoot turned to Chomper. "Well... they were... uh..." He paused here, as he wondered if he should actually relate to him the part where he saw them vanish in a beam of blue light or not. "Visitors to the Great Valley when Petrie's uncle returned and we had our Stone of Cold Fire adventure... I think I told you about the adventure, but not about them." Littlefoot explained. "They kind of helped us get to the Stone of Cold Fire faster... or maybe as Cera would put it, the dumb old rock." he chuckled, giving Cera a quick apologetic look. "Anyway, what do you guys make of this?" he asked, looking around at the group.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on March 02, 2014, 02:22:40 PM
Petrie frowned. "It make my head hurt," he complained, rubbing the top of his skull. Then he perked up. "Ooh, a wish? Whatever Petrie want?" He strutted up and down Cera's head, then flapped down to land next to Ducky.

"Me think it good idea, Littlefoot!" He looked at Cera. "It been fore... for... foretolded," he said sagely.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on March 02, 2014, 07:53:28 PM
Spike didn't know what to make of the situation.  He, of course, remembered the two rainbowfaces from the Stone of Cold fire incident.  In that incident they were quite helpful if also a bit... mysterious.  Spike couldn't quite understand their motivations, but not understanding what motivated other dinosaurs was not a new phenomenon for Spike.

Deciding to judge the mysterious duo by their previous assistance, Spike gave an affirmative grunt at Petrie's response.  Why not make the wish and see what happened?  What was the worst that could happen?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on March 02, 2014, 10:00:01 PM
"Well, I don't like this," Cera stated. "They're probably just talking nonsense like the last time they came here!"

"But Cera," Ruby piped up. "They don't look like they are leaving us without having completed their task so if we cooperate we will have more tome to play games..."

"Fine... I don't care anyway!" Cera snorted.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on March 03, 2014, 11:54:41 AM
"Cera..." Littlefoot groaned at the threehorn's mention of the rainbowfaces talking nonsense. "Mm... just... I think we're in agreement." the longneck nodded as he turned with his companions to face Galli and Mimus now. "We're ready."

"Very good!" Mimus exclaimed. "Well if you're all ready then... close your eyes." he instructed once more. Littlefoot did so, shutting his eyes. "Now... all focus on your wish... focus hard. Relax, and block out all other thoughts." He spoke in calm, even tones, coaching them through this. He then looked to Galli and nodded to indicate they could begin.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on March 03, 2014, 02:01:15 PM
"This is sooo stupid!" Cera thought, slightly angered. "I should wish those creeps away!" At that thought, she had to suppress a chuckle. She considered...
"Meh, too obvious... they'd figure out I wished that... Maybe I should rather wish... yeah, that's better..."

"Focus on your wish..." Galli spoke. After a few seconds she piped up again. "Your wishes shall come true..."

Nothing out of the ordinary happened.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on March 03, 2014, 02:21:16 PM
Petrie nodded eagerly and closed his eyes as Mimus instructed. He grinned to himself as he pictured what he wanted most... then after a few seconds, he sneakily creaked an eyelid open. Nothing had happened.

Petrie bit back a pang of disappointment and scrunched his eyes again. "When... when it come true? Me no see anything different..."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on March 03, 2014, 02:24:58 PM
Spike closed his eyes as well and focused upon the hopeless dream that he had since he was a small spiketail.  After a few moments he opened his eyes and gave a contemplative grunt.  Hmmm...  Nothing seems out of the ordinary.  He thought morosely.  When is the wish supposed to come true?'
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on March 03, 2014, 02:40:07 PM
Littlefoot did as instructed, clearing his mind of all thoughts save for his wish, but when he was told he could open his eyes, he found... nothing had changed. "Uh... I'm sorry but..." he looked around. "Guys? I don't see anything different... did it not work?" he asked, turning to the rainbowfaces now.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on March 03, 2014, 02:56:37 PM
"Oh, don't worry children," Galli spoke calmly. "Your wishes may not come true immediately but they will come true as long as they have been realistic..."

"blah, blah, nonsense... I knew they were lying!" Cera thought smugly.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on March 03, 2014, 02:59:29 PM
Spike thought about this for a moment, but then sighed.  He was perfectly content even without the granting of his deeply-held wish, but nonetheless he felt disappointment because of its absence.  He supposed that he would just have to wait, just like he had waited for all of his life.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on March 05, 2014, 10:41:40 PM
Chomper closed his eyes, and made his wish in his mind. When he opened them, nothing had changed. Not that his wish was something you could see was happening right away, though.

He then focused on Ducky and Rudy, who hadn't made their wish yet. What did everyone else wish for? he thought to himself.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on March 06, 2014, 12:24:04 PM
By now, Ducky had already closed her eyes and made her wish. As expected, however, when she opened them, nothing happened.

Oh well, she thought, Nothing is ever bound to happen right away, no no no.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on March 06, 2014, 01:15:02 PM
"Yes, these things may take some time." Mimus nodded seriously here.

"Oh... so uh... what did everyone wish for, anyway?" Littlefoot asked now, looking around at his friends.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on March 06, 2014, 02:15:04 PM
Petrie groaned impatiently at Mimus. "Me wish it hurry up..."

He looked at Littlefoot, then glanced around the group bashfully. "Me... me wish for Petrie to be braver," Petrie mumbled, looking down at the floor as his beak turned pink. He edged away from Cera ever so slightly. "It not working."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on March 06, 2014, 02:24:56 PM
"My wish was so I could have Friends for Dinner, of course!" Chomper proudly proclaimed.

He waited for a moment, to see others reactions, then said "Nah, I'm just kidding!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on March 06, 2014, 04:14:19 PM
"Well, our purpose is done now so we will leave you again children," Galli spoke, smiling at the children. They were so innocent... if they knew what they would have to deal with very soon... She almost felt sorry for their fate but that actually wasn't allowed by the rules. "Farewell, children!"

"FINALLY!" Cera thought, grinning harshly. She soon joined in the ongoing discussing concerning the wishes they had made. "Well, they probably know anyway,"she mused before speaking up.
"Well, I wished to become braver and stronger. No big deal, it's a matter of training anyway. Don't be too focused on these wishes coz they won't turn true anyway."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on March 06, 2014, 05:29:10 PM
Spike, for his part, simply sighed at the departure of the rainbowfaces.  He could not tell the others what he had wished for because his wish had not yet been granted.  Since his wish of being able to speak had not yet come to pass, he would simply have to carry on in silence as he had before.

He then looked up at the others to see how they were reacting to the situation.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on March 07, 2014, 11:09:35 AM
"Uhhh... eheheheh, yeah, funny!" Littlefoot laughed at Chomper's joke, only finding it half-funny in reality. "Well uh... bye! I guess..." the longneck said to the rainbowfaces, waving his tail at them.

"Yes! Do take care, children! We shall see you later!" Mimus promised as he departed with his companion.

"Well... huh. I wished for our friendship to endure forever, as long as we live." Littlefoot stated, smiling at the group around him. "May it never die! I guess that one won't come true right away though, since we'll have to wait till the end of our lives to see." he chuckled, giving a shrug of his fore shoulders.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on March 10, 2014, 09:40:32 AM
Ruby was deep in thoughts. She didn't know whether her wish had been the one that her heart seeked for the most or not. There were more important things after all...

"Well, I have wished to become very wise although I'm already kind of wise," the pink Fastrunner spoke up. She feared that her wish was kind of selfish since she wished for an improvement that only she would benefit of. Littlefoot was the only one who had actually phrased a wish that would benefit the group. Though, if each member improved their abilities, it would eventually benefit the whole group, right? Ruby wasn't sure.

She shifted her mind to Spike who looked a little sad. "I kind of know what Spike has wished for since he would have told us his wish if he could..."

"Say Spike," she adressed the Spiketail. "Did you wish for the ability to speak?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on March 10, 2014, 11:57:27 AM
Spike was jolted out of his thoughts by Ruby's question.  I guess that my wish would be easy to guess.  He thought to himself.  The ability to speak would makes things much easier for me.

Taking a look at Ruby, he simply nodded and gave an affirmative grunt.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on March 11, 2014, 10:17:08 AM
"Oh, so we hear Spike talk?!" Petrie exclaimed excitedly. He faced him. "Try, try! Maybe it work now!" He waited, but after a while it became apparent nothing was happening. "Well... me guess we really do need to wait."

He sighed and looked around at the others. "So what we do until then?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on March 11, 2014, 12:02:49 PM
Cera wasn't surprised that Spike didn't speak up...since he couldn't. It had always been that way and that way it'd stay in her opinion.

"Petrie... what we aaaaaaaaalways do of course..." Cera said annoyedly. "Let's have some games like always... Haven't we agreed on a game already before those creeps showed up anyway?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on March 21, 2014, 01:32:14 PM
Spike decided to ignore Cera's tone concerning the rainbowfaces.  He didn't detect any malice from them, but then again Cera was always skeptical of new things.

Thinking back to Cera's question, Spike thought to himself.  Oh yeah...  We were playing Sharptooth Attack, weren't we?  

Nodding to Cera, he looked back towards the others.  Who was going to be "the sharptooth" this time?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on March 25, 2014, 06:18:35 PM
The Gang eventually chose Ruby to be the "Sharptooth". They were playing almost for the whole day, aside from some short breaks to check back with their folks, to have a snack or just to recover from the running.
In the evening, their parents tucked them into their nests - as lovely as they did every evening - and they fell asleep peacefully.
For the whole day, the Rainbowfaces didn't make it into their minds. They had been forgotten already in the process of playing and having lots of fun but they would enter their mind sooner than the seven kids would have liked...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on April 12, 2014, 05:35:19 AM
It was dark in the Great Valley. Very dark. The Night Circle was shining upon a group of carnivorous dinosaurs, spending only little light, but the sharpteeth didn't mind the darkness. Their eyes were adapted to be capable of stalking their prey at night also while their prey was almost blind.
The group consisted of seven members, each grinning at the sight of six young dinosaurs playing. They were a pack of different species, four of them being swift fastbiters, two of them being mighty twoclaws (=t-rex) and one being a sharp-eyed sharptooth flyer.
"Let's get us some delicious younglings!" the twoclaw whose skin was of a brown-ish colour growled. His statement was greeted by cheers from his pack members, his twoclaw pal being of a purple-ish colour, his four fastbiter pals being of a light-green, dark-green, light-pink and orange colour respectively and his flying pal being of a dark brown skin colour. Quietly, they began to approach their prey...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on April 12, 2014, 08:45:24 PM
The dark green fastbiter smiled as he looked upon the hapless younglings playing in the distance.  The fact that they were still playing attested to the fact that they were unable to see him or any of the others in the pervasive darkness, whereas he could see them very clearly.  He very quickly sized up the prey that lay before him.  

The longneck and spiketail would be easy catches, no doubt, on account of their great size and bulky build.  The swimmer and the flyer each would pose their own challenges, but he had no doubt that their own sharptooth flyer could make quick work of the flyer.  He looked over and saw his lighter green counterpart silently move closer to the swimmer, whereas their leader was edging closer to the longneck.  Well, those two are accounted for. He thought to himself.  The threehorn and the fastrunner would reach require strength and speed, respectively, in order to subdue, so he would leave those to the others.

Making his decision, he edged closer to the spiketail and gave a curt nod to his leader.  All he was waiting for now was the order to attack...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on April 12, 2014, 09:16:24 PM
The sharptooth flyer stretched his wings, and the air current carried him higher, higher. Far below, he could make out the forms of the young leafeaters running around, the movements as clear and sharp to his eyes as if he'd been down there amongst them. The young ones were playing.

The dark brown flyer grinned inwardly. Playing. He liked a good chase as much as anyone... but it was nice when they made it easy for a change. Tilting his head, the flyer scanned for the rest of his pack, and noted that they were moving into position. Snapping his beak, he tucked his body in and lowered into a dive, taking his place over the tiny flyer below. Good cloud cover meant there was less chance of them noticing his shadow. For a second the moon broke through, and the flyer's razor-sharp teeth glinted cruelly as he waited patiently for the others to make their move. He was going to enjoy this...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on April 13, 2014, 09:07:41 AM
The yellow fastbiter salivated upon seeing her dinner that was playing innocently. "Hmm, haven't had younglings in a fair while... Their flesh is so tender and... yuuuuummy," she thought. Like everybody else, she was getting ready to hunt down an easy prey. "For a change..." her mind added sarcastically. Her pack had a rough time lately so they were starving extremely.
She saw that her pack members focussed on their prey already. "I'm gonna kill the threehorn!" she thought. Being the bigheaded fastbiter she was, she had to hunt down the biggest prey. Not that killing a young one was that big a deal...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on April 16, 2014, 03:59:43 PM
The tyranosaur growled in response to the others starting to pick their prey. "That longneck is mine!" he ordered, licking his lips. "You guys can have the others, but I want that longneck for myself!" Smacking his mouth, he began circling the group from a distance, keeping to the thick trees to conceal himself. The children were still merrily playing, completely unaware of the danger they were in. Spittle dripped out of his mouth and down to the ground, splashing in small pools as he walked as quietly as he could, waiting for the others to completely surround the group before he'd make his move. Any minute now, and he'd be feasting on wonderful longneck! Any minute now, and he'd be tasting that flesh he hadn't had in oh so long...



An odd occurrence was taking place outside the dream. Littlefoot had stood up from his nest, eyes closed, but his legs had started moving of their own accord, carrying him forward now. The longneck was deeply asleep, and completely dead to the fact he was sleepwalking. Even more curious, he was growling a bit, almost as if he were mimicking a sharptooth in the many games he played with his friends. He was smacking his lips, and the further he sleepwalked, the more he growled. Soon, he was openly salivating onto the ground, something he rarely if ever did in his waking hours.

It was a curious change indeed, and he seemed fiercer, incredibly determined, and darkly savage as his legs continued moving him onward, one foot stepping in front of the other as he walked in his sleep, still as unaware of this as he had been since it had started.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on April 24, 2014, 06:12:19 PM
A young purple tyrannosaurus crept up behind his brown brother. "Let me scare that little longneck right into your jaws. There's enough longneck there for both of us!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on April 27, 2014, 11:52:14 AM
The brown tyranosaur grinned and nodded. "All right... go ahead! This I want to see!" he exclaimed, licking his lips again. "Scare him right into my jaws!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on April 27, 2014, 05:38:22 PM
The rose fastbiter slowly edged closer to the group of young ones who were completely unaware of the fact that they would die any moment in the cruelest way known to them.
"Oh, that fastrunner looks so delicious... I want her succulent, raw flesh so badly! I wanna smeeeeeeeeeell her blood, I wanna taste it, I wanna suck it in! Besides, I just love her colour... just as pink as me, heh." Giving her leader a questioning look that was responded to acknowledgingly, she focused on her prey, awaiting the order to attack and spitting all over the floor in anticipation of the wonderful taste that her tongue would soon experience...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on April 27, 2014, 05:50:00 PM
The light green fastbiter seemed to enjoy waiting for the right moment to strike, although she wasn't sure that she wanted to kill a young one. Wait...scratch the thought. She was a fastbiter, and eating other dinosaurs was her hobby, as was the case for the rest of the fastbiters. She had to get someone...yes...the little swimmer looked delicious...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on April 28, 2014, 07:59:20 AM
The flyer circled around, not taking his eyes off the small piece of meat flapping around beneath him. He snapped his beak again, impatiently, the sound cold and dead. This was taking too long... though the shapes down there, their food, were wonderfully ignorant of their surroundings, all it would take is one glance in their direction to make this hunt a lot harder.

In the corner of his vision, the flyer could see the two tyrannosaurs of his pack moving closer. His eyes, shining in anticipation, narrowed and he started to tuck his wings inwards, preparing to dive.

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High above the Great Valley, a small shadow passed over the still forms of sleeping dinosaurs. Petrie, his eyes closed, tilted his body and started to drift purposefully to the side. His beak snapped. His small claws twitched. Back in the nest, one of Petrie's sibling's groaned in her sleep and stretched out a wing, hitting empty space where Petrie had been lying moments earlier.  She muttered something, and it seemed for a second that she would wake up, would notice her brother was gone. Then she turned over again, and everything was still.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on April 29, 2014, 03:06:19 PM
The six children were playing innocently while being stalked by the group of predators. They were obviously unaware of the approaching danger.
They had decided to prolong their games this night and they were quite amazed that none of their folks had called them yet.

Then, the crack of a small branch put them on alert...

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"What was THAT?!" Cera called, a little startled and surprised. She looked at her friends in a questioning manner.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on April 30, 2014, 12:07:20 AM
Spike was startled by the sudden noise just as much as Cera was.  He looked in the direction of the snapping sound with an almost panicked expression, but couldn't see much of anything.  The enveloping darkness of the night had greatly affected his vision.  But he could of swore that he saw some shape move in the distance...

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In the real world, meanwhile, Spike was doing something rather uncharacteristic for him.  As he slumbered, his body began to slowly prod along away from the nesting site of the swimmer family that he called his own.  His loud snores continued unimpeded and ignored by his adopted siblings, but his vocalizations seemed to slowly begin to take on a growling tone.  It was almost as if he were growling in his sleep.

His hulking form continued into the darkness unnoticed.  Following an unknown path into a destiny that he couldn't foresee.  But despite the actions of Spike's body, in his mind the dream continued...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on May 04, 2014, 08:29:52 AM
Littlefoot had an uneasy feeling,he felt a presence-an unwelcomed one. His head whipped to the side when he heard a twig snap,something was there and that something did not mean well,it meant trouble. He squinted trying to see in the darkness of the night,he swore he saw something  rarely seen in the valley-a sharptooth like shape. He had to be seeing things-didn't he? Sharpteeth were not unheard of in this area, they were always spotted around the valley-but how could of any got in without anyone noticing? With a glance to his friends he looked back at the shape,his fight or flight instincts were telling him to flee,as a longneck Littlefoot was prey-food for the meateaters. He whipped his head around when he heard another branch snap-this one even closer. He shivered almost feeling breathing on his neck. Please let this be a bad dream. Suddenly he wished he was in his nest,by his Grandparents side. But no,he was out here not knowing what was watching him. He just hoped the gangs  choice to stay out late tonight would not cost them their lives. The uneasy feeling grew,one half of his instincts telling him to run,flee fast as he can. The other half told him,don't-if there was a predator waiting for either him or one of his friends to separate was what it was waiting for-sure a child in a group of just other children was an easy kill. But a lone child was an even easier one. If he ran,he would not be having dinner tonight-he would be dinner. Stay with the group,just stay with the group Littlefoot screamed in his thoughts. "Guys...anyone got this feeling like we are being watched or am I just suddenly paranoid?" he said in an uneasy tone his eyes darting around,everybody muscle in his body ready to flee at a moments notice. He turned his head slightly shivering when he saw two hungry eyes looking at him for a moment before darting away. His mind was screaming 'run! survive!' but he would not leave his friends behind,no generations of instincts were going to make him abandon them.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on May 05, 2014, 04:03:01 PM
One moment ago, Ruby was carefree, happy and relaxed. Now she was timorous, edgy and startled. One moment ago, she was still playing with her friends, now everyone, including her, was trying to spot who or whatever had caused the stick to crack. The crackling in the surrounding vegetation couldn't be denied, something was stalking them.
"I am scared, scared I am..." Ruby whispered to no one in particular. Just for a moment, she thought to have seen two eyes staring at her.
"I must be seeing things because it is fairly late and my eyes probably need some rest..." the rose fastrunner thought in search of a possible explanation for the things that creeped her out.

Meanwhile, Ruby left the Secret Cavern. Her eyes were closed, yet she was walking around like a zombie, holding her arms in front of her as if trying to grab something and salivating slightly more than usual...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on May 05, 2014, 05:05:28 PM
At the sound of the branch snapping, Petrie flinched. The game he'd been playing with his friends instantly forgotten, he spun in the air to face the direction the noise had come from. It hadn't sounded innocent. It sounded deliberate, bestial... predatory. There was a sudden chill in the air, and Petrie shivered.

Eyes darting around, trying to penetrate the gloom of the trees around them, Petrie hovered above his friends. "Uh... guys..." he squeaked, "Me think maybe we should go now... Me not having fun anymore!" He could feel his heart pounding, and suddenly he wanted nothing more than to be back with his family, safe in the nest.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on May 14, 2014, 05:22:53 PM
The change was sudden; one moment, Ducky was a happy-go-lucky swimmer playing and having fun with her friends, just like she would almost any given day. Now, with the sudden spooky sounds that shook her body from top to bottom, her mind wanted nothing more than to go back to her nest, where she and Spike would be safe with her family.

"Petrie is right, Spike! That sound we just heard-ed did not sound good at all! Go, go, go!" Ducky pushed, but seeing Spike hesitate, she looked back. For a split second, she saw a shape moving in the near distance...

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Back in the world of reality, Ducky had left her nest, not knowing at the moment that Spike had done the same thing. Her eyes remained closed, but her arms were in front of her, as if she was grabbing for something...anything in reach, catching nothing. For a few moments, she even...growled? This was rather unusual...what was happening to her?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on May 15, 2014, 04:27:26 PM
Cera too was sleepwalking out of her nest and away from her family. Her eyes were closed, and at first glance, she appeared perfectly serene, simply walking whilst asleep, but her demeanor soon changed. She started snarling and baring her teeth as she too began making her way to the same destination all the others were sleepwalking towards.



In the dream, Cera was beginning to worry, just like the others. "Uhhh yeah! Let's get outta here, guys!" she exclaimed, starting to head for an opening in the clearing, but it was far too late for that. They were surrounded now, and Cera skidded to a halt as she noticed the sharpteeth just barely visible all around them. Fear washed over her features, and she looked like she was positively petrified.

In the woods, a yellow raptor smacked her lips and glared at her leader. "Can we go yet? I want that terrified threehorn! I want to see the fear in her eyes as she dies as my meal! Come on! What are we waiting for?" she asked eagerly, hopping on her legs.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on May 17, 2014, 11:07:56 PM
"Alirght...." the brown sharptooth snarled softly to the fellow meat eaters with him "Now we all selected our prey..lets grab them before their mummy and daddys come..soon we will be feasting.." he glanced at the longneck and licked his lips "The good die young kiddies..." he said to himself and began to sprint forward his eyes set on his prize-the little longneck. "KILL THEM!" he roared back to the others

Littlefoot screamed and by instinct fled,he ran blindly in the dark trying to stay on his feet,if he stumbled even for a second he will be a goner,Oh please let me get out of this alive..let me go home.. he suddenly remembered-his friends! He had to get tot them..lead them to safety as he felt was his duty,he kidded to a stop and backed up as the sharptooth got closer,it opened his mouth in a roar ready for the kill.

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In the reality,Littlefoot opened his mouth to let out the same roar,yet he was still fast asleep..
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on May 18, 2014, 11:00:26 AM
At the sharptooth's roar, something that could have passed for laughter hissed from the flyer's beak. He tilted in the air and started to plunge down, angling himself towards the group of children, the wind roaring past him.

Petrie cried out at the sudden cacophony, his small frame quaking as he desperately jerked his head around, trying to locate where it was coming from... but it was so loud... it seemed to be coming from everywhere at once. Sudden flashes of movement in the bushes... there! Petrie's eyes widened as he made out the glint of teeth, the flash of claws. Wheeling, he started to raise himself higher in the air when he saw a shadow pass over him. Looking up, he felt his blood run cold.

The flyer grinned as he saw the small shape he was aiming for look up and notice him, savouring the fear in those eyes. It was too late to escape. Now, the only question was how far the prey, the meat, could run before giving in.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on May 18, 2014, 03:17:51 PM
The dark-green fast biter noticed that his quarry was already beginning to bolt at the roar of their leader and the panic of his friends.  Wasting no time, he sprinted at his prey and let out a horrific screech.  He wanted the stegosaurus to panic.  Panic gave rise to unwise decisions, which in turn created opportunity.  He knew that he only had to let one good strike at the hapless youngling's neck in order to put an end to him.

Spike screamed as he saw the fastbiter quickly gaining on him.  Seeing a tree quickly heading towards him in his headlong sprint, Spike decided to go to the left.  It was an unwise decision, as he found that he now had his path blocked by a fallen tree!  It was far too wide to jump over...   Knowing that this was the end, the small youngling cowered and awaited the end.  He hoped that Ducky could at least avoid his fate...

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In reality, Spike continued on his journey to a destination unknown.  Soft growls continued to emanate from his mouth as he salivated wildly.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on May 21, 2014, 04:39:09 PM
The rose fastbiter's body was flooded by adrenaline and all sorts of hormones as her leader gave the order to start the hunt. The polyphonic roars from her fellow pack members encouraged her so she joined in the choire of roaring that must sound awful to their prey as she concluded. Targeting the fast-runner - probably the hardest to catch, she stormed towards the group of children who quickly ran away in disorganisation.
"That'll be even easier as it already is." she noted, smirking.

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Ruby panicked when she saw sharpteeth approaching from all sides with loud roaring that creeped her out. Without thinking about her action, she stormed forward into the forest, just about dodging a sharp sickle claw that was aimed at her throat...

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In real life, Ruby was walking towards a place... not being aware of her sleepwalking and growling occasionally...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on May 29, 2014, 06:23:39 PM
The light green fastbiter spotted the little swimmer, soon meeting each other eyes to eyes, face to face, but only for a split second. The swimmer screamed and took off, the fastbiter chasing after her.

As Ducky ran off, she headed towards Spike's direction, to the left. Unfortunately, the fallen tree, being too wide even for Spike's size to jump over, block her way. This was it...she never imagined that this was the end, but it was. Cowering along with Spike, she awaited the end with him, wishing at least one of the pair would avoid her fate, because she knew it would not be her duty.

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Back in reality, Ducky continued to walk to another path, continuing to make occasional growls and even salivating, many of the drops falling onto the ground.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on May 29, 2014, 10:40:47 PM
"Sharpteeth!" Cera screamed, charging away from the oncoming danger. "Run!" The yellow fastbiter smacked her lips and went right for her now, knowing at this moment that she had triumphed, and that there would be no escape for her prey.



In reality Cera was very fierce now, beginning to climb a slight rise towards an open hillock at the top. Snarling, she just about had her catch... and she was hungry... very hungry.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on June 09, 2014, 07:53:05 PM
The purple sharptooth followed the brown one, who was chasing his prey. When the longneck was trapped he trotted up beside his brother. "Go rip his throat out!" He ordered.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on June 09, 2014, 09:08:18 PM
Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike and Ruby found themselves trapped. The sharpteeth had chased them into a dead end - a fallen tree trunk blocked their escape routes - much to the meateaters' pleasure...

In reality, one after another youngster was arriving at a random pillock in the Great Valley, none of them being aware of that. They began to build a circle, their bodies began to change...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on June 13, 2014, 09:04:35 AM
Petrie gasped as he saw the tree-trunk blocking their escape route... or at least, blocking the escape of the others. The flyer hovered above them, his heart hammering in his small chest, as he tried desperately to think of something he could do to help. A crashing of undergrowth from behind, hissing, snapping, and he turned to see dark shapes rushing towards them.

His nerve broke, and with a cry he flew up and over the trunk, leaving his friends behind. I'm sorry! Pumping his wings, he darted through the trees, over the bushes, and emerged out into a clearing. The sounds of his friend's cries were fading behind him, dwindling to nothing the further he flew.

A shadow passed over him.

Gasping, Petrie spun around and jerked his head up, frantically scanning the air. In the darkness of the night sky, he couldn't see anything... then a large shape passed over the moon. Razor-sharp talons, glinting teeth... hurtling down towards him. With a scream, Petrie desperately tried to speed up. There was a predatory hiss, and with a jolt of pain he was snatched out of the air, into the flyer's talons.

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Still sleeping, Petrie's small frame fluttered down and landed amongst his friends as they formed a circle. A low, dangerous hiss was escaping his beak. Small pops, brutal cracks sounded from his body as, slowly, he started to grow. And change.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on June 13, 2014, 04:14:30 PM
Spike whimpered as he knew that their luck had finally ran out.  Their only escape route was blocked by the fallen tree and the sharpteeth were rapidly making progress on them.  He looked towards his sister, the small hadrosaur, and could only hope that the sharpteeth would make quick work of them.  He desperately wished that she could avoid his fate, but now he knew that they all would be meeting their end together.  Somehow he knew that it would end this way.

Suddenly a screech interrupted his mournful thoughts.  The green fastbiter that had chased him was charging straight at him.  The rumbling footsteps of the clawed fiend matched the uncontrollable thundering of his racing heart.  He knew that this was the end.

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Spike had settled down into the circle that the rest of the gang were making.  He was still completely asleep and unaware of the reality of their situation.  A guttural growl left his mouth at his jaw suddenly cracked and began to change shape.  The sounds of cracking bones and slithering intestines arose from his insides as his digestive tracked shortened and his skeleton rearranged itself.  The physical changes had begun...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on June 18, 2014, 08:40:01 PM
Littlefoot looked around for an escape-any. But there was none,he could only shake in fear as the sharptooth got closer and closer. For a moment he had a spark of hope-his Grandparents would come in save him,he he knew in reality unless they suddenly dropped out of the sky there was no chance they would be here on time to save him from his doom,he wished he could of done something-he should of his friends to safety but he didn't. He knew in his mind there was nothing he could of done but his heart told him 'failure'. Least he would get to be with his Mother again but he didn't think it would all end so soon. He tried to block out thoughts of how his Grandparents would react and focused on what was going on now,he could barely see in the darkness but the sharptooth coming towards him was hard to miss. He looked into it's eyes-the eyes of death.

The sharptooth chuckled enjoying the fear of the longneck and feeding off it,he took another step closer and smirked "Ok,enough being nice-I'm hungry" without even looking at him he spoke to the purple sharptooth next to him "Time for this longneck to say 'bye bye' to the world don't you think?" with that said and with one large roar he lunged at Littlefoot,jaws opened and aimed for the throat.

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In realilty,Littlefoot was growling harder as his body began to change. His structure became more straight,his four legs becoming two,reaching the circle his normalyy flat teeth were beginning to sharpen. His long neck was gone,Littlefoot still alseep unaware what was happening to him,he let out a growl as he joined the circle his friends.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on June 21, 2014, 03:16:22 PM
Cera had managed to run under a rock, panting as she tried to hide. She had made it, but she could hear the screams of her friends. Could it really end this way? But then the screams became her own as a fastbiter suddenly grabbed her tail and dragged her out into the open. She yelped, feeling teeth tear into backside, and pain engulf her as her body succumbed. So... this was what dying felt like...

She felt teeth ripping into her neck now, and she tried to scream, but her voice was gone. The yellow fastbiter licked her lips as the young threehorn died in her mouth. "Yes! Yes!" she exclaimed, smacking her lips and licking the blood away as she continued to dig in. "This was so worth it!" she declared triumphantly.



In reality, Cera's body was remoulding itself, changing and transforming now into a yellow fastbiter. Her body was growing, her forelegs were shrinking to forelimbs, and her mouth was elongating into a snout as her horn stubs decreased in size. She was warping, and also... starting to wake up...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on June 21, 2014, 04:25:09 PM
Ducky, although managing to hide under Spike's leg, knew all too well the end was here for both her and Spike, as well as their other friends; no escape routes were available anyways. Without warning, the light green fastbiter, responsible for chasing the swimmer, spotted Ducky and grabbed her with force. She tried to scream, but nothing came out; the fastbiter's nail pierced through her stomach, drawing out a copious amount of blood. Pain overpowered her fear as she was able to make one final coherent thought before becoming meat for the predator.

See you soon, Spike. See you soon...everybody...yep...yep...yep...

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In reality, Ducky, now settling in the circle with the rest of the changing gang, began to change and grow herself. The unexpected transformation had begun.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on June 22, 2014, 03:11:37 PM
Ruby, like all of her friends, was trapped. A tree trunk - too high and massive to climb - had blocked her and her friend's escape route all of a sudden. The fastbiters and twoclaws were advancing; Ruby could see the malice in their predatory eyes.
"Oh no! They look very hungry... and mad, hungry and mad they look," her brain screamed in panic; not even in such a situation Ruby lost her speech pattern. The predators were now in range; one leap at her throat enough to destroy the talkative fast-runner she was - and soon wouldn't be anymore.
Ruby's instincts told her to run but she couldn't run anywhere besides right into the claws of the rose-coloured fastbiter that had been pursuing her earlier already. It was growling at her, showing the fast-runner its most malicious toothy grin upon knowing that her prey was dead, practically. It only had to strike.
Before Ruby could utter a scream, the predators attacked. The fast-runner could hear Ducky's terror-stricken scream- or was it Littlefoot's? Before she could utter a single loud, an excruciating pain shot through her body as a huge part of her back had been ripped out of her body, bones being crushed, blood spattering everywhere, screams of mortal agony and ecstatic roars deafening Ruby's ears. Knowing she'd meet her end any second, she spoke her last words on this side of life.
"Goodbye my friends, my friends goodb..."
*CRACK*
The rose fastbiter disconnected Ruby's head from the rest of her body by biting down on her neck, Ruby not being able to finish her good-bye. She knew no more, neither did her friends...

In reality, Ruby joined the magical circle her friends were forming and began to transform. Her change was much easier since her body was already similar to the body of a fastbiter but nevertheless she growled in pain, still sleeping. To an outsider, this scene would look disturbing and the sounds that the changing dinosaurs uttered in their sleep would have alerted the whole valley, hadn't they met deep in a wood by miracle...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on July 03, 2014, 11:08:30 AM
Chomper just stood back, watching his friend do all of the messy work. Gnashing, ripping of flesh, and the smell of fresh blood filled the air, making the purple sharptooth only salivate even more over the coming feast.

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In reality, Chomper was heading to the very same circle all of his friends were heading to as well. He his still asleep body took a position in the center of the circle the rest of the Gang were forming. He was the only one not in horrible pain at that moment, since, you know, he didn't have to undergo any transformation.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on July 03, 2014, 08:13:40 PM
The seven children were facing each other, their eyes closed and still sleeping. The last amendments were made to their bodies that were so different from their old bodies now. They groaned and growled in their sleep, not feeling the pain the transformation caused. Everyone but Chomper... He wasn't changed but his sleepstories still made him growl in his troubled sleep.
Their bodies were now ready; the seven young ones jerked out of their sleep, facing the ugly faces of their fellow friends whom they didn't recognise anymore despite their original colouring. They didn't know yet what abilities they had now and what abilities they lost... and most importantly, they weren't aware of their gruelsome fate... yet.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on July 03, 2014, 08:49:05 PM
The first thing that Spike noticed was the darkness.

He had just had the scariest sleep story that he could remember.  A terrifying tale that he witnessed from the viewpoint of the both the hunted and the hunter.  For a few moments after the green fast biter launched his final attack, he wondered if the sleep story was real and the darkness was simply what overtook you when you died.  However, after a few moments, he could hear the sounds of plants rustling in the wind, the heavy breathing of someone right next to him, and even what sounded like a stifled gasp.  It seemed that it was just a sleep story.  As soon as he reached this revelation, he hastily opened his eyes.

He immediately wished that he hadn't.  

Spike sucked in a deep breath, as he struggled to suppress a scream.  He was surrounded by sharpteeth!  A sharptooth flyer was to his right, whereas a brown tyrannosaurus in front of him was staring in his direction with a shocked expression.  The familiar face to his left filled him with pause, however.  Chomper!  In horror Spike realized that Chomper seemed to be frozen in place, his mouth agape.  I have to get him before the sharpteeth get him!  The obvious weirdness of the situation had not reached the consciousness of the former spiketail, as his only concern now was to rouse Chomper and flee from the predators that now surrounded him.  Hearing an audible scream from one of the fastbiters, Spike turned and tried to run towards Chomper...

Only to crash face-first into the ground.

Spike shook himself off, the panic of being around so many sharpteeth not having dissipated.  What is going on! He protested.  He couldn't determine why he was having difficulty getting up.  He looked at his clawed forelimbs in annoyance.  Why couldn't they do their job?  That was when the realization came to him.

Claws?! I have claws?!  The former spiketail thought to himself as the sounds of panic and confusion began to erupt around him.  However, he no longer paid any heed to the mysterious predators around him.  A more existential fear now gripped him.

With dawning horror, he looked at his two new appendages and noticed that each forelimb had three clawed digits.  What is going on!?  His panicked mind processed, as his eyes darted to the rest of his body.  He looked to his hind legs.  Each had four digits, including a small dewclaw, but the second digit had a massive claw that dwarfed the others.  A sickle claw.  He knew of only one kind of dinosaur that had that characteristic.  I... I'm a fastbiter... How?!  Spike desperately thought to himself.  Was this some kind of waking nightmare?  Spike had gone from being himself to being the splitting image of a predator, his worst fear, in the span of a single sleep story.  It was far too much for the poor child to process.

His breathing coming in quick, panicked gulps, Spike looked up at the other strange sharpteeth who were likewise now wide awake and reacting to their predicament in their own ways.  He was too overwhelmed at that moment to notice that they looked just as scared and confused as he was.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on July 04, 2014, 06:40:34 AM
In his dream, the sharptooth flyer was soaring up into the sky, clutching Petrie tightly in his talons. As the air rushed past him at breakneck speed, buffeting him relentlessly, the sharptooth's grip started to grow even tighter. Petrie felt the pressure building. He tried to scream as the strain on his limbs, his joints, grew unbearable - but the air had been forced out of his lungs. He could only gape soundlessly as his bones snapped, as talons shredded flesh and tore muscle.

Then, without warning, the pressure subsided. The sharptooth flyer released him and, suddenly free, Petrie tumbled helplessly through the air.

In shock, Petrie was only dimly aware of his situation. Weakly, he tried to open his wings but the torn flaps of skin fluttered uselessly in the air, his crushed and broken body refusing to obey him. He could only watch, a helpless observer, the night sky and the ground spinning madly as he hurtled towards earth. It rushed up to meet him, the wind roaring in his ears. Closer... closer...

What... Petrie's eyes focused almost absent-mindedly. On a hill, he could make out some sort of circle... and he was heading straight for it. Growing closer, he could make out that it was formed of a small group. A tyrannosaurus, fast-biters... Chomper?! What was he doing with all these sharpteeth? It never occurred to Petrie to question how he could suddenly make out all these details - their eyes closed as if dreaming, mouths twitching and revealing rows of deadly teeth.

No! No, please no! Petrie's eyes widened in terror. Next to the green sharptooth, a familiar shape was growing horribly closer. The sharptooth flyer. And he was staring up at Petrie. Grinning. Waiting. Petrie tried to scream, a thin whistle tearing free from his beak. Not him... please not him... The flyer seemed to be looming up now, drawing him inexorably closer, eyes flashing in anticipation. A terrible hissing started to fill Petrie's head, and he realised it was coming from the flyer. Guttural, sadistic... and hungry.

They were about to collide. Still screaming, Petrie tried to throw his wing in front of him as a pathetic gesture of defense. A glimpse of teeth, of talons.

Then darkness. Petrie could feel grass beneath his hands and knees, cool and almost soothing. His entire body was aching but, weakened and still in shock, he could only lay there, trembling, hoping for the pain to pass. The relative quiet around him was almost deafening. Leaves rustling in the wind, something scuffling in the grass. And still... that hissing noise. Petrie's heart almost stopped. The flyer! He's here! Then, confusion as it slowly dawned on him.

He was the one making the hissing sound.

A scream... and then a crashing sound to his left. Petrie forced his eyes open. They hurt... and everything was so bright! He could see everything so clearly... How? How was that possible? It was night-time! More sounds to his left. Petrie struggled to his feet, his limbs suddenly feeling larger, gangly, ungainly. He glanced to the side... and gasped in shock. A green sharptooth was lying just a few feet away from him, sprawled on the ground. Petrie raised a hand to ward him off, bringing into view sharp, vicious talons. He gaped. They were attached to him! Chest heaving in confusion, Petrie looked around, and saw he was surrounded by even more sharpteeth.

He stumbled back, horrified, and tripped over his own legs, his long, thin body crashing back. There was a sharp pain in his mouth as his razor-like teeth bit down into his tongue. Blood trickling down the corner of his beak, Petrie could only stare at the group of predators around him, frozen to the spot.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on July 12, 2014, 09:39:07 PM
Ruby, still having the gruelsome images of her bad sleepstory in mind, opened her eyes eventually. The first thing she noticed was a slight pain that was present in many parts of her body. Besides, she noticed that she wasn't lying on the ground as could have been expected but standing. "Have I slept in a standing posture?" the rose dinosaur thought, fastrunner not being a fitting term to describe and define her anymore. Upon looking upwards, she also figured that she wasn't in her save cavern but out in the open, the Bright Night Circle illuminating the scene. "How have I travelled here when I was actually sleeping?" she then wondered, starting to worry... as if the scary dreams she's just had didn't worry her already. Then it hit her. "I've been sleep-walking, sleep-walked I have..." she mumbled to herself. "So where is Chomper? I'm supposed to watch him, even in his sleep..." The young girl didn't have to search long. A simple straightforward look was enough to spot him as the little Sharptooth was literally lying right in front of her. She was too focussed on her task of watching the biter to notice her improved night vision...
"Chomper! There you are..." Ruby immediately fell silent upon realising that the two weren't alone. As a matter of fact, Chomper was positioned in the middle of a circle... and the circle was built by predators of all colours... and she was part of that circle.
"HELP!!!" her mind screamed yet she was standing like a statue, petrified to observe her probable killers in fear who were having a very strange expression on their faces. There wasn't any malice in their eyes however. Ruby noted that they looked just how she felt... "Scared...".
Ruby saw one of them making an attempt to walk but it tripped over its own feet uneptly. She had to supress a chuckle, making a step forward to check out whether she could walk as well. She abruptly stopped in her attempt when she felt something strange. Her body felt... different. It was stronger... and she noticed that she must have grown at least a head's height. Her tail touched the grassy ground. "Since when does my tail touch the ground?! It is too short to touch it, too short it is..." Ruby turned around and froze in fright upon realisung just WHAT her eyes were taking in. "Feathers? Long tail? STRIPES ALL OVER MY BACK AND TAIL?!?!?!" Being disdraught by this development, she took a look at her hands and feet... to recognise claws on both of them. "Fastbiter claws... but-but... HOW??? I c-can't be a fastbiter because I'm a fastrunner!"
Slowly, the answer of all her questions dawned to her and it made her gasp. Taking in a lot of air, a cocktail of scents hit her, instantly overwhelming her brain. Ruby lost consciousness before she was aware of it...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on July 16, 2014, 03:31:10 PM
Eyes snapping open, Ducky looked horrified after the unusually gruesome dream she just had. She and her brother had been killed by a fast-biter, both of whom were of identical colors. While she wasn't sure what this meant, she was certainly glad that it was over.

As she adjusted her eyes, she suddenly noticed that she was standing. Not only that, but she was not in her nest anymore. Rather, she were out in the open, several minutes away from home.

Huh? Ducky thought to herself, lost in confusion. Was...was I just sleepwalking like my aunt? What is going on?

She had little time to consider the thought, however, for as she looked around her, a feeling of horror struck her. The swimmer (no longer, as she was yet to find out) was surrounded by an array of fast biters, with the inclusion of a brown t-rex and a sharptooth flyer. All of them had formed a circle...and now she was part of it.

Oh no no no! Ducky thought worriedly. I must get back home to my mama before I get into big trouble, yep yep ye...!

Her train of thought stopped suddenly when she noticed a familiar face in the circle.

Chomper?!

The t-rex was indeed part of the circle. And the other fast biters are going to get him! she thought. She began to take a step forward to try to rescue Chomper, but abruptly stopped when she noticed a sudden feeling in her body. It felt...stronger. She seemed to have grown taller by at least a half foot, although she was still smaller than the rest of the sharpteeth. She then looked down at her hands, only to find...

Huh?! Since when did I have...claws? This cannot be, no no no!

Indeed, she had claws, both on her hands and on her feet...sickle claws, to be exact...and feathers...and stripes, as she further observed. She came to a startling realization that she could not believe.

I...I am a...a fast biter?! How? I cannot be a fastbiter when I am a swimmer! she thought.

Ducky gasped upon confirmation, her breathing becoming quicker. She was so overwhelmed by the sudden development, she was unable to see that the other sharpteeth were awake and were also horrified. The pressure was too much for her to handle.

Without warning, she blacked out.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on July 16, 2014, 06:51:21 PM
Chomper was still asleep, dreaming about devouring the longneck his friend just killed. He would probably rermain asleep, until someone else in the group tries to wake him up.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on July 19, 2014, 03:30:10 AM
I'm...alive that was the first thing Littlefoot thought when he first awoke,he remembered his friends and himself attacked by predators..he remembered all of them..dead...being eaten. That had to the most terrifying sleepstory he ever had,since the ones he had of his mothers death a few years back. He shook his head to clear his vision and nearly screamed at what greeted him-predators and worse of all they were the same ones from the sleepstory which he just awoke from.

Grandma? Grandpa? Littlefoot thought worriedly in panic,he was freaked out od his mind right now. Was the sleepstory a sign? A sign that this was his death?

It was then he realized he was standing What is going on? he screamed in his mind,he noticed the confused looks on the predators around him-why weren't they killing him? Or was he dead? How was he supposed to know what is meant to happen when you die? He tried to walk however he barely managed to take two steps before he found himself face planting the dirt Werid..it was like I was walking on two legs for a moment there it was then Littlefoot lowered his gaze to himself. His body no longer looked like a longneck he looked more like a sharptooth like Chomper. What is going on?! This has to be another sleepstory he turned his head and realized with horror that his neck was short,far from the trademark long neck his kind was meant to have. He looked to the ground I have two leg feet! Littlefoot screamed silently in horror,he looked around at the circle he found himself in-none of the predators were attacking nor did they look like they planned to hunt him down-so what just was going on? Did they catch him just to have a staring contest? He tried to move what were meant to be his front legs but were now tiny arms of a sharptooth.

This could not be real.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on July 26, 2014, 01:08:04 PM
Cera was now undergoing a metamorphosis in the real world even as she started to die an agonizing death in her dream. He tail was elongating, sprouting outwards and becoming far more prehensile than it had been before. Claws erupted from her forehands, which were being pushed out on longer arms and her hind legs were forcing her upper body skyward.

Shrinking away was her horned crest, the horns ceasing to exist as the crest pushed itself further and further inward, even as her head itself morphed into a far sleeker, angular version of itself.

Sharp teeth pierced through her gums, pushing out her old herbivorous ones as they fell uselessly to the ground. Growling now as her vocals changed, her eyes suddenly snapped open as her death wrenched her back to reality with murderous force. But her dream wasn't over! It was real! They were still there! All around her! Sharpteeth! Sharpteeth surrounding her!

Being the first one to speak, she screamed out "Sharpteeth!" and turned to flee, but wasn't used to walking on two legs, and instead tripped over her own two feet, face planting into the ground and eating dirt as she struggled to regain her footing and escape.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on July 26, 2014, 08:03:22 PM
Petrie continued backing away, pushing himself along the ground on his rump, his lithe body skidding across the ground. His eyes, pupils wide with terror, kept flicking between all the figures gathered around him. Sharpteeth! his mind screamed at him. Danger! They're here to kill you! KILL YOU! He was all alone... Where was Littlefoot? Cera? The rest of his friends? They'd be able to help him, if they were...

A small pattering on his body, like rain. Petrie glanced down. Dark red spatters, almost black in the darkness of the night - a sharp contrast against the grey of his chest. What... Petrie ran a talon through the substance, his nostrils easily picking up the thick, coppery smell of blood. Blood?! But where was it coming from? Petrie froze suddenly. Talons?! That... that wasn't... A sharp pain in his mouth. Flinching, Petrie raised a hand to his beak... and withdrew it with a gasp when he felt razor-sharp teeth dig painfully into the flesh of his palm. His vision blurred with confused tears. This... this isn't...

Movement from in front drew his attention. Petrie jerked his head up, just in time to see one of the sharpteeth jolt forwards - and to hear a terrifying noise tear from its jaws. In his panicked state, Petrie couldn't recognise that the sharptooth had spoken. His mind wouldn't allow him. It's calling for the attack! They're going to attack!

That was all it took. Rolling onto his front, Petrie dragged himself forwards, his claws slicing through grass and dirt as he crawled away desperately. His breath heaved out of him in wracking gasps. Wind rustled through the trees around him. Wind... Yes! Fly! Fly away! Get back to Mama! Pushing himself up to his feet, Petrie staggered and spread his arms. He flapped furiously. His wings felt wrong, the limbs larger and heavier... but soon enough, they began to catch the wind and he felt himself rising. As his feet left the ground, Petrie didn't look back at the others. Instead, he fixed his terrified gaze ahead, in the direction of his nest. In the direction of safety. Mama... my family! I have to warn them! Danger! Sharpteeth in the valley!
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on July 26, 2014, 10:51:50 PM
Spike rose from his prone position in a state of unrestrained fear and confusion.  He could see the scene around him and hear the confusing symphony of chaotic sounds, but they no longer seemed to reach his conscious thoughts.  His mind simply couldn't process the nonsensical scene around him.  It was as if he was a spectator to a weird sleep story.  As a result, his feelings of terror began to fade into the background as he looked at the world around him with dispassionate eyes.

The first thing that he noticed was that Chomper remained asleep as the chaos unfolded around him.  He was a lone figure of stability in a sea of chaos.  Turning his gaze elsewhere, he looked towards the sharptooth flyer that was beside him earlier.  The flyer had made a horrifying hissing sound and tumbled to the ground in a heap.  He then took off into the sky in a state of panic.  The flyer obviously wanted nothing to do with him or the others.  A very odd reaction from a sharptooth.

But not as odd as some of the others...

As he looked towards the other sharpteeth, he could see another Tyrannosaurus besides Chomper.  The sharptooth was looking at his claws with a look of disbelief, before continuing to focus on the others.  He eyes conveyed the same emotions that Spike now felt.  Confusion.  Fear.  Disbelief.  He now didn't feel fear from this creature, but rather an odd sense of camaraderie.  This dinosaur was obviously in the same conundrum that Spike faced.

Two of the fast biters seemed to have collapsed onto the ground, whereas the final one did something that made something click in the former spiketail's mind.  

"Sharpteeth!"

As the yellow fastbiter crashed into the ground by tripping over her own feet, a confusing thought came to him.  

Why would a sharptooth cry "Sharpteeth!"?

But then another thought entered his mind.

A flyer... A brown sharptooth...  A yellow fastbiter... A green fastbiter... A pink fastbiter... and me... another green fastbiter...  The colors match!  Are we... Are my friends all sharpteeth too?!

That last thought made something in Spike quake with emotion.  This was too horrible to contemplate.  His friends, who had struggled their whole lives to avoid and survive sharptooth encounters, were now the subject of their nightmares.  How could they have become the very things that they had feared for so long?

With slow, uncertain steps, Spike approached the green fastbiter that he assumed was his beloved sister.  She was lying on the ground, unmoving.  He wished that he could express his concern for her, but he knew that no words would leave his mute body.  Nonetheless, as he gently nuzzled her collapsed form, placing his feathered arms against her shoulders, his thoughts were definitely with her.

"Ducky?  Ducky, please wake up."

It was only when he had done the deed, that he realized that the words had been spoken aloud.  

He had just talked.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on July 28, 2014, 03:36:37 PM
"Ducky? Ducky, please wake up."

Those words were the first thing Ducky heard as her eyes suddenly snapped open. Sitting up and rubbing her eyes, she looked around, trying to spot whoever had spoken to her. She also noticed the other dinosaurs at her surroundings.

Other fastbiters...and Chomper. So it was real, she deduced. She and all of her friends were now sharpteeth, and there was nothing she or the others could do about it...or was there?

Right now, however, a more important matter to her was giving way.

"Who...who said that?" Ducky wondered out loud. She looked behind her and saw a darker green fastbiter, who she assumed was her beloved brother.

"It could not have been you, Spike, no no no. After all, you never do talk."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on July 30, 2014, 10:42:34 PM
Spike sputtered.  As if the shock of transforming had not been enough, now he had just spoken for the first time in his life.  What could all of this mean?

"I... I Spoke?"  Spike muttered in his confusion.  He could see that green fastbiter had rose to her haunches and seemed alert.  No... Ducky.  Spike corrected in his mind.  Because his sister was now the predator that stood in front of him.  

This realization made something snap inside of Spike.  It was so unfair!  He and his sister had been leaf-eaters for all their lives.  How could they become their greatest fears in the span of one night?  At the same time, however, he could now talk.  He had always wanted to speak ever since he was a hatchling and now he could.  He no longer had to accept that his thoughts and emotions would remain cloaked under his intractable muteness.  Now he could say everything that he always wanted to say.  This confusing jumble of despair, anger, and, at the same time, elation, greatly confused the former spiketail.  In his confusion, he said the first thing that came to mind.

"Ducky... What happened to us?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on August 04, 2014, 06:37:47 PM
Chomper was finally woken up from all of the commotion around. The view that met his eyes was chilling. Fastbiters!

The poor little predator darted his head back and forth, realizing he was surrounded by them. What's going on here!? chomper thought to himself. What are they doing here? Why are they in the valley? What of my friends?

His friends! The Gang! Where were they? We're they still alive? HE still had no idea what was going on.

"wh...what are all of you sharpteeth doing here? How'd you find a way into the valley!?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on August 04, 2014, 07:32:51 PM
The night air chilled Petrie as he soared desperately towards his nest... towards his mother, his brothers and sisters. To safety. He pumped his arms, trying to increase his speed, and couldn't help but notice how much more powerful they felt. But it was more than that. He felt so alert, everything so vivid. As he glided almost silently through the air, Petrie could make out small, minute details occurring below him in the valley. Things that shouldn't have been possible for him to determine. His shadow passed over a sleeping dinosaur and Petrie saw him shiver and roll over, as if he was reacting to a sudden chill. From some bushes just off to the side, there was a rustling as some small creature scampered through, brushing leaves aside and snapping twigs in its path. Deep, rich smells were rushing him, assaulting his senses.

Something was wrong with him. Terribly wrong. Deep down, no matter how much he tried to ignore thinking about it, Petrie knew he was... different. His body started to tremble. His wide eyes started to water, the rolling tears whipped away by the force of the wind. Shaking his head almost angrily, Petrie started to flap harder, growing more determined. Something might be wrong with him... but his mother could help. He'd get to the nest, warn them about the sharpteeth... and whatever horrible thing had happened to him, his mother would know what to do. She'd fix him.

His mother had to help.

Up ahead, Petrie could see the comforting, familiar darkness of the cliff-face where his family's nest was located. A shaky, relieved smile lit up his face as started to spread his wings out further, slowing down to come in for a landing.

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on August 04, 2014, 07:56:58 PM
Littlefoot glanced around before spotting Chomper Chomper! he slowly walked up to him trying to keep his balance-how to two legs walk like this? Feeling like you can only use half your body was not a welcomed changed to Littlefoot.

"Chomper!" Littlefoot called "It's Littlefoot,whats going on? Do you know these fastbiters? confusion spread his face seeing the yellow fastbiter cry out 'Sharpteeth'-a Why would a fastbiter be scared of it's own kind-if anything they could kill me and eat me right here on the spot-I'm the one who should be scared

"Chomper,do you know whats happening?" the former longnecks red-brown eyes normally full of adventure were now full of fear and concern-what if his grandparents wake up and find him gone? They already told him he was all they had,they would have a heart attack if they knew their beloved grandson was now a sharptooth-the same creature they took the life of their daughter-that would be Littlefoot's Mother.

"I don't understand-where is our friends? Cera? Ducky?" he studied the fastbiters around him. Why do those fastbiters kinda look like my friends? And why did those two green ones just call each other Ducky and Spike?. All Littlefoot wanted to do was run home and alert his grandparents of this danger,but he knew theywould take one look at him and will never believe he was their grandson-after all longnecks  don't turn into sharpteeth..well...they're not meant to.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on August 05, 2014, 11:49:31 AM
Spitting out dirt, Cera managed to wobble up to her feet, but could hardly stay balanced as she wasn't used to walking on two legs yet. Tottering, her arms flailed about, causing her to nearly fall over again. "Wait..." she had heard the brown fastbiter talking. "You're... Littlefoot?" she asked. That wasn't possible... but why wasn't she able to stand up straight?

Looking down at her arms and claws protruding from her hands and feet, she shrieked again. The fastbiter toppled backwards this time, landing hard on her back, knocking the wind out of her in a painful start as she stared up at the night sky, the stars swirling around as she struggled to regain her breath. "It's me!" she managed to gasp. "Cera!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on August 06, 2014, 09:59:26 AM
It took Ruby several moments to regain her consciousness and even then she remained lying on the ground for some while as no immediate assault seemed to be planned on her.
Ruby tried to concentrate on the many smells reaching her extremely sensitive sniffer despite her efforts to breath through her mouth rather than through her nose as she would usually do. Simultanously, she made an attempt to scan the situation around her.
"There are so many smells, many smell there are. My head feels all dizzy!" the rose fastbiter complained. "So who are all these guys?" she wondered. Two green fastbiters instantly caught her attention as she clearly picked up two familiar names. "Ducky? Spike?" The colours matched them even, Ruby figured out in wonderment. "Wait a tiny second..." the fastbiter then muttered, not realising that her voice sounded... different; not realising she was in fact speaking in a totally different language only one of her friends was aware of by nature's law. "If both of them are talking, and if they are really Ducky and Spike, then this must mean that Spike can talk but he can't talk if he couldn't talk before?!" These observations strongly confused the former oviraptor. She decided to dig a little deeper later.
Concentrating on the smells her sniffer was receiving, she noticed, however, that there was a distinct difference in the body odors of the two fastbiters she supposed to be her friends having been changed somehow as well. Ducky seemed to share that smell with her while Spike's was different. Investigating this a little further, she tried to smell the other fastbiters and twoclaws in her close vicinity as well and came to not just one result...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: The Anonymous Person on August 10, 2014, 09:00:24 PM
Ducky was shocked beyond belief. Both of them were now fastbiters, so it confused Ducky enough. The fact that her brother, Spike, was actually talking to her, however, was even harder to consider for her.

"Oh Spike...I do not know exactly what. But what I do know is that...we will both get through this together...yep yep yep..."

She couldn't take the overwhelming sudden changes any longer. Breaking down, she began to sob silently, yet pitifully, as she embraced her former spiketail brother.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on August 11, 2014, 02:13:33 AM
Spike nuzzled his sister as she broke down emotionally at the catastrophic changes that had befallen them.  Despite the same emotionally turmoil affecting him, he seemed to be incapable of breaking down at the moment.  It was as if something in his mind were compelling him to stay alert.  To stay vigilant.  His senses, now improved, were working on overdrive.  He could now see the others beginning to come to terms with their immediate situation.  Both the yellow one (Cera, his mind deduced) and the brown... Littlefoot... had spoken and had now seemed to come to the realization of what had happened to the others.  They were sharpteeth now.  The nightmare was a reality.

Seeing no immediate way out of their quandary, Spike softly spoke to his beloved sister.  "You're right, Ducky.  I'm sure that we will get through this.  Just like we always have."  However, the words seemed hollow to Spike's ears.  This was different than any challenge they had faced in the past.  Far different.  

Much like the others, Spike had no idea how to proceed.  He only knew that they were in this mess together and that they would have to face it together.

The only question was: what were they supposed to do now?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on August 11, 2014, 06:58:09 AM
Petrie stretched his legs out as he came close to the cave, batting his wings to reduce his speed. His feet hit the floor and he skidded to a halt, claws scraping against the rock. Before him yawned the inviting darkness of the entrance to his nest, and the safety it promised. He started to move forwards, then stopped. Petrie was confused, frightened, but he wasn't stupid. If he could get to his mother, if he could explain what had happened to him, she'd understand... but he knew his siblings, as young as they were, would only see a tall, gaunt sharptooth invading their home. They'd only see the teeth and claws, they wouldn't see him. They'd be terrified. He'd be, if he were in their position, Petrie reflected bitterly. Have to be quiet... can't wake them up. Taking a deep breath, Petrie hunched over and stepped through.

Gazing through the darkness, he could see the sleeping form of his mother on the far side of the small cave. Dotted on the ground between him and her, Petrie's brothers and sisters were curled up, sleeping peacefully. He could hear the light sound of their breaths, could see their small chests moving in and out as they breathed. He could even, he noted with a sick feeling, smell them. Nervously, he took a step forwards... and froze as the claws of his foot clacked against the stone floor. It sounded painfully loud to him and as he stood statue-like, his heart hammering against his chest as if it wanted to tear itself free, he was sure the nest would be woken. But after several moments... nothing. Eyes wide, glinting in the inky gloom, Petrie started to shuffle forwards again, slower this time, making sure to keep his claws off the ground.

He was almost halfway across now, his mother getting closer. Almost there... One of his sisters was sprawled on the floor directly in the middle of his path. Awkwardly, Petrie raised his leg and stepped over her as quietly as he could. They were so small, so delicate... So defenseless. He'd been that way too, until earlier tonight. How was this possible? What had happened to him...

"Uncle Pterano?"

Petrie stopped dead, the quiet voice drifting across and turning his insides to ice. Slowly, he turned around. The sister he'd just stepped over was now sitting up, rubbing her eyes sleepily. "What are you..." She looked up at him... and trailed off when she saw it wasn't Pterano. For a moment that seemed to stretch on forever, she and Petrie stared at each other, the shock of the situation freezing them to the spot. Then something broke in the atmosphere, and his sister opened her beak to scream.

Quickly, Petrie lunged across and snatched her up with one hand, his other moving across to hold her beak shut at gently as he could. Her eyes widened, and she struggled against his grip. He opened his mouth to whisper to her, and winced at the pain that burned his throat as he tried to get the words out. The first few attempts only produced a low, rattling sound. "No... no scared..." he finally managed to force out, his voice hoarse and rough. "Petrie, it... Petrie!" Her struggles had stopped. "No scream, I... no hurt you." She didn't give any sign she understood him, but she wasn't trying to scream anymore either. Petrie was about to take his hand away when he felt a warm sensation running down his arm. He glanced down. A dark red line was trickling slowly down from where he was clutching his sister. He watched, transfixed, as it ran down, formed a small droplet and dripped onto the floor.

Slowly, his stomach a tight knot, he opened his hand. His sister flopped limply, his claws and palm soaked in blood from where he'd accidentally sliced her open. Her dull, glassy eyes started up at him, betrayed and accusatory. Petrie started to shake. Her body slipped from his hand and slapped against the floor. I... I just... He shook his head numbly. No... no, she's just hurt... if I tell Mama, she can help...

A gasp from behind. Petrie spun around, his eyes bulging, droplets of blood raining from his claw. One of his siblings was staring at him, at the body next to him. Still in shock, he could only watch as the small flyer scrambled back and screamed. "Sharptooth!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on August 11, 2014, 02:29:45 PM
"Come on, mama!  Fly with us!"  

Mama Flyer obliged the small flyer as she flapped her wings and propelled herself into the azure sky.  Everything seemed so peaceful here... wherever she was.  Flying seemed so effortless here and the colors seemed exaggerated into a world that was more vibrant than reality.  The blues were bluer than the deepest blue and the greens were greener than the brightest treestar.  It was a world that she could only enter during her sleeping moments.  It was only here that she could experience this wondrous place and see her beautiful children from before...  from before...

"Sharptooth!"

Mama flyer's peaceful dream suddenly took on a surreal quality to it as the terrible word echoed in her dreamscape.  Her peaceful dream instantly evaporated into a horror show of blood, death, and screams.  That word... That terrible word...   It brought back memories from their struggles to find the Great Valley.  From the time they had to abandon their nest in the Mysterious Beyond and leave Petrie behind.  It even brought back horrible memories from her first litter...  Memories that she had long ago tried to repress out of horror and shame.  After that failure, she had always resolved to do the best for her second litter.  She would not fail them like she had failed the first.


"Sharptooth!  Ahhhh!"

She jerked awake as the first scream was joined by a chorus of others.  The word hadn't come from her dream, she realized with sudden horror, it had come from her children!  A sharptooth was here!

"Children!"  She creamed in a terror-induced panic.  Adrenaline flooded her system as her emotions became cloaked under her survival instincts.  Even as she quaked in fear, her emotions began to become numb as her mind prepared for whatever actions were needed.  It was this instinctual numbness which had allowed her to abandon Petrie in the nest while she and the others fled in the Mysterious Beyond.  And it was this that allowed her to abandon her first nest when all hope was lost.  She had no time to contemplate the parallels, however, as her mind entered overdrive and focused on the situation around her.

As her eyes adjusted to her sudden awakening, she briefly took stock of the sight before her.

Seven of her children were backed up to the cave wall, shivering and crying in terror.  Several of them were screaming in their understandable panic, whereas a few were covering their eyes with their wings, awaiting the end.  It was a sight that she had hoped to never see again, but here it was.  Death was again visiting her nest.  

A small distance from her children stood a sharptooth flyer, obviously a juvenile, but still capable of serious damage.  Especially to a nest full of younglings.  He had an almost panicked look, some part of her mind observed, as his beak seemed to quiver in the reflected moonlight.  However, none of this was what caught her attention.

Blood.  Blood was dripping from his curved talon onto the cave floor.  As her eyes quickly followed the trail, she could see that it led to one of her daughters.  She was silent and still.  As dead as the rocks that filled the interior of the cave.  Only a stream of blood stood between herself and her killer.  At this realization, indescribable emotions filled the flyer.  A rage coming from the deepest parts of her soul rose to the surface and expressed itself in an unrestrained wail.

"Valaria!  No!"

With sudden fury, she charged at the winged fiend that now threatened her offspring with death.  He had shown them no mercy and she would show none to him.  As the sharptooth flyer began to step back with his wings outstretched in an almost placative gesture, she flapped her wings once and leaped at him with great velocity.  She would not let this atrocity go unpunished.

Thud!

Some distant part of her mind registered the flyer scream in pain as her body collided into his chest.  With unthinking fury and primal screams, she attacked him with her beak and wings.  An unintelligible fugue of impacts and cries emanated from the cave entrance as she fought for her life and the lives of her children.  It was like a fever dream.  She could not tell which screams were hers or that of her adversary.  She could not tell where she was or what she was even hitting.  When she felt the first splattering of blood on her wing, she couldn't tell if it were hers or his.  None of it mattered anyway.  It was a battle to the death and it was a battle that she planned on winning.

Suddenly, however, she felt an absence where the enemy was before.  Looking up from her prone position at the cave entrance, she could notice the sharptooth flyer flying away unsteadily into the night.  It was only then that she could feel the enumerable scratches and bites on her body.  A symphony of pain seemed to greet her perception.  But none of that really mattered... at least her other children were safe...

That was when the sound of crying snapped her out of her daze.

"Children!"  With unsteady feet, she rose from her position and advanced towards where the children had gathered.  They had all surrounded Valaria, who was still unmoving.  With shaking wings, she placed her head to her daughter's small body.  She was still breathing, but the breaths were very shallow.  They would have to get it under control immediately if she were to live.  

"Children!  Get some of the leaves from the back of the nest."  She had placed tomorrow's breakfast in the nest during the previous evening.  "Hurry!  We have to help your sister!"  Several of the younglings snapped out of their daze and sprung into action.  They were just as confused and shocked as she was.  She knew that the memories of this night would haunt them for as long as they lived.

It was only then that she became aware of her own tears.  The grief which had been restrained by the heat of battle and the immediacy of the threat had now risen to the surface.  It was then that one of her children made a horrifying observation.

"Petrie's gone too!"

With a shocked expression, she glanced at all of her children.  Counting the fallen Valaria, only eight remained.  That could only mean that Petrie had...  

No...  

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The flyer's grief-stricken scream echoed across the Great Valley.  As the adults awakened to the horrifying sound, it was followed by the accepted alarm call: a series of three screeches.  Each one being forced out as if under great distress.  As the alarm call was relayed across the valley by the other adults, confusion reigned amongst its inhabitants.  The residents could only be sure of one thing:

The Great Valley was under attack.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on August 12, 2014, 09:48:45 AM
"I can smell gender and emotions!" That realisation hit Ruby like a blow in the guts as it was just so utterly strange to the former omnivore. She was completely aware of the fact that carnivores had a strongly advanced sense of smell as opposed to their herbivorous counterparts but Ruby couldn't have dreamed that it was that advanced. "I will be able to smell how my friends feel... how other fastbiters feel..."
Ruby was hit by yet another horrifying realisation just then. "I will be able to smell the fear of those I hunt..." The thought was too terrifying to imagine; Ruby quickly suppressed the angst that build up in her chest. She was a predator now - one of the bad guys in the world of dinosaurs. She would have to eat meat in order to survive - and she surely wanted to... She was too young to die after all.
Soon she also recognised two of the fastbiters as Littlefoot and Cera, whereas Petrie was nowhere to be seen but Ruby wasn't concerned about this. "He might have just taken off and fled from the scene..."
Then she heard Chomper shouting. She didn't get every word but she understood enough.
"Chomper, don't worry. I'm still Ruby because I will always be myself."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on August 12, 2014, 01:42:26 PM
Hearing the brown T-Rex sharptooth speak, talking about Littlefoot suddenly filled him with rage. "You... You're not Littlefoot! How do you even know his name?" His young, gullible mind started filling with all kinds of premature assumptions. As it did, he Came up face to face with the other sharptooth. He didn't care if the brown onewas bigger than him, he was just angry.

"You killed him, didn't you? You killed my best friend, and now you're here to kill me, too!?"

His mind continued to race with all sorts of possibilities. What is this pack here surrounding him for? Are they trying to recruit him? What if his friends are now gone? How can I warn everyone one else. Oh, Sh**. What if they don't believe me? What if the grownups think I'm a part of this, and kill me, too?"

He finally heard another dinosaur speak, breaking him out of his little daze. This time it was a pink fast biter claiming that it was Ruby. "leafeaters don't just turn into sharpteeth! You think I'm little enough to fall for this? I'm not!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on August 15, 2014, 09:06:14 PM
Littlefoot hesitated for a moment before stepping forward. "Chomper...I'm being honest...it's me Littlefoot" he looked behind him "And that talking fast biter is named Cera-funny thats the same name as-" he cut himself with it finally hit him. He slowly turned "You're Cera?" he asked in disbelief "Ha ha..very funny..very funny".

Shock filled him-how were his friends and him now predators? That was not possible-impossible. His eyes flickered from his other friends to Chomper and back "If she is Cera" he said looked towards the yellow fastbiter "They called each other Ducky and Spike" he looked towards the green ones. "And there is Ruby...then that means...." he added finally looking at the last one that spoke "We are..."

A nightmare,that's what this was-a nightmare "We are meat eaters-but that can't happen it just can't!" the cry of alarm from Mama Flyer made Littlefoot jump-they weren't exactly safe here,like this they weren't seen as the valleys beloved children they were seen as a threat-the enemy.

"Listen-Chomper,I am Littlefoot you got to believe me-remember when the others and me got stuck on that island? You were there with your parents and you hide as in what you called 'The Stinky Place' you got us food. You also fell into the Big Water and I jumped in after you,then a swimming longneck named Elsie helped both of us" he tried to think of more things he could say to convince Chomper he looked franticly at the others to back him up.

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on August 17, 2014, 01:05:57 PM
Every breath Petrie tried to draw in sent a flash of pain shooting across his chest, his lungs protesting loudly as he struggled for air. His mind was threatening to tear apart, to shatter, as he replayed what had just happened, the images flashing through his head like a broken record.

At the sound of his mother's cry, Petrie had turned around, standing dazed over the body of his sister - dead she's dead you killed her - and he'd opened his beak to... explain? Apoligise? Cry for help? He had no idea. But before he could get any words out, his mother had descended upon him, a figure so full of anger and rage and intent to harm - your fault what have you done - that for a moment he could only stand in shock. As his mother rushed at him, her beak and fists and feet stabbing at him, slashing him, beating him. As he was thrown around, Petrie almost tried to ask why she was hurting him... wasn't she the one who was meant to protect him? To keep him from harm?

Then the pain had kicked in, and his question was drowned out in his own screams. He'd tried to raise an arm in defense, but it was futile and the blows just kept coming and coming. Somewhere deep down a thought, strangely clear, rose to the surface. That his mother was trying to kill him - you MURDERED Valaria - and that if he didn't get away, that's exactly what would happen. "Mama!" he'd tried to scream. "Ma-" Then something had slammed into his beak, cutting his tongue for the second time that night, and he'd stumbled backwards, crashing onto the cave floor with a cry of pain. He'd known that there was no way to explain himself. Through his tear streaked vision, Petrie could see his siblings fleeing from him in terror as if he were - a MURDERER?! A KILLER?! - some kind of monster. Wheezing, he'd started to scramble away, and as he could hear his mother chase him down, he'd more or less pulled himself out of the cave and fallen over the edge, catching himself in the air just at the last second.

Now he was struggling to stay up, trying desperately to fly... He didn't know where. Away. Away from his cave, his family. From what he'd done. Petrie's body felt like a canvas of agony, and every move he made burned. His skin was lined with deep slashes that didn't seem to stop bleeding, and ugly, purple bruises. Blood kept dripping into his eyes from a particularly large gash that ran across his face, forcing him to blink.

"Hah..." Trying to stay up in the air was too exhausting, the effort too painful, and with a final wheeze Petrie first started to lose altitude, then dropped altogether as his arms seized up. "Guh!" With a grunt, he hit the ground hard and rolled, coming to a stop with his back on the grass. For a moment, he could only lie there, staring up at the stars, listening to the gentle lapping noises of a nearby lake, and his own pained breaths. I've got nowhere to go... he realised. And I... my sister... I really am a monster... No... what had his brother screamed? Sharptooth? That was impossible. Petrie clenched his talons into fists. He was a leafeater. Leafeaters don't suddenly become sharpteeth.

His eyes suddenly widened. But those other sharpteeth that he'd seen when he first woke up... they'd seemed so confused, just as much as he did. And their colours... brown, green, yellow... No. Please no.

Twisting onto his front, Petrie awkwardly crawled over to the small lake a short distance away from him. Drawing himself to the edge, he placed his talons in the water with a small splash and looked down. His heart went numb. Staring back at him was a sharptooth flyer. No... He gritted his teeth. It's... it's me... Through blurred vision, he saw a tear roll down the sharptooth's beak and drop into the water, disrupting the reflection and shattering the illusion that somehow, what he was seeing wasn't real. A droplet of blood followed the tear, bursting on impact and staining the rippling image red.

Those sharpteeth on the hill really were his friends. He was just like them. And right now, they were all he had.

Suddenly, Petrie heard a shriek echoing across from somewhere further in the Valley. His mother. He stared back in confusion, until it was answered by a second cry from further away. He flinched back when there was a third, final bellow. What's going on? Why... He moaned, a harsh rasp, as he realised what was happening. They were sounding the alarm for danger. Only this time, he was the danger. And if they found him...

Whimpering, Petrie twisted around, his eyes desperately searching his surroundings until they settled on a small hill not too far away. The hill where he'd woken up. If his... his friends... were still there, they were the best chance he had. Gasping in pain, he picked himself up and started to stumble towards it, still too beaten up to fly for the moment, as around him cries of confusion and fear drifted across, the Great Valley on full alert.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on August 19, 2014, 01:13:11 AM
Upon seeing Ruby and Littlefoot try to convince Chomper of their identity, Spike decided to follow suit.  The sooner that they could all be on the same page, the sooner that they could deal with the surreal situation they now found themselves.

"It's us, Chomper.  Remember when you, Ducky, and I went with Ruby to find her parents?  It is still us, we have just changed... Although I don't know why..."

Spike was debating between saying more or waiting for Chomper to speak again, but his internal struggle was soon interrupted by a sudden screech.  And another... And then another...  He knew that call.  Everyone in the gang did.  It was unmistakable.

It was the alarm call.

With quick breaths and sudden shock, he looked at each of his friends in turn.  It seemed that their luck had run out.  What were they supposed to do now?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Pterano on August 20, 2014, 12:57:39 AM
"So wait... what's going on?" Cera asked now, approaching those who'd remained. "How did we... I was having a dream I killed myself as a sharptooth and now... now we're all sharpteeth? But why? What's going on?" she asked with confusion, but then the alarm in the valley began to sound, chilling her blood.

"What? That's the sound for sharpteeth in the valley... you don't think..." She looked at the others now with concern. "Oh no! I have to go tell my daddy!" she said, not even thinking about this as she was starting to let panic grip her mind in an icy vise. She turned and started running...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on August 24, 2014, 06:17:38 PM
well... Chomper thought to himself. That does sound like something only a few people would know. Maybe Littlefoot did... no! That's... that's just not possible! The little predator put his arms over his head, in frustration and thought. It was starting to look like this group of sharpteeth were his friends, but it just couldn't be true! Every part of him was trying to look for other excuses, and Spike's words gave him what he needed to go on not believing for a little longer.

"Spike? Did you just talk? Then you're not really spike! He's never said anything before, why would he start now!?" His eyes filled with anger again. "Stop lying to me. ALL OF YOU! What are you really doing in here?"

He didn't have time to get a reply, as multiple calls ringed through the valley. Warning calls. "Oh no! They're... they're gonna be looking for us! We have to get out of here!" The yellow fast biter was the first to dart off. The T-rex decided to follow her. HE still didn't believe that she was Cera, but he wanted to stay with this group of sharpteeth, if nothing else to find out what they were up to, and to keep his friends safe, one way or another.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on August 25, 2014, 02:21:26 PM
Ruby was very happy to see that Chomper began to take her and her friend's reasoning into account... but then the alarm call sounded, echoing through the whole Great Valley. Moreover, this rather high-pitched and husky call was soon being repeated by many other dinosaurs.
"Oh no! This is not good; not good it is..." Ruby exclaimed in worry. The alarm call could only mean one thing: "Sharpteeth in the Valley! WE are Sharpteeth!" Ruby's mind raced. "We've been spotted, but how can they spot us if they aren't even here?" "Or are they?" Ruby quickly scanned the area - nobody but Chomper, she herself and 4 other predators were there.  "Wait! That's only 6 of us. Somebody is missing!" The former Fastrunner observed her friends and, indeed, there was one member missing. "Petrie..." Ruby now remembered seeing somebody fly off a little earlier. "Oh no! That must have been Petrie, Petrie it must have been! He might be in trouble!!!"
Suddenly, a soft stinging feeling developed in Ruby's guts. What if Petrie... "NO! Petrie will be fine but they have probably seen him so they will know that we're here too!"
Ruby figured that being a Sharptooth walking around in the Great Valley was as close to suicide as jumping into a fiery pit of a Smoking Mountain.
Chomper was throwing accusations at everyone again but Ruby didn't pay attention at all. She was focused on a much bigger threat than Chomper could ever be. The thought of Chomper attacking her was scary... but the thought of a whole crowd of grown-ups aiming their weapons meant for defence at them to attack was just pure terror. They would have to get out of there or, at least, hide to figure out what actually happened and, most importantly, WHY.
Then Ruby witnessed how Cera fled off the scene. Exchanging a few glimpses with the others, no word was due to be spoken. They couldn't stay wherever in the valley they were. They had to go SOMEwhere, hoping to find a familiar place, not to be caught by the residents and, of course, Petrie.
"Hmm, I wonder if anybody noticed what I noticed.."
"Uhm guys? Has anybody seen Petrie... since I can't see him anywhere?" Pausing, she added. "Err, and where are we going anyway?"

*~~*

The Family of hadrosaurs was slumbering in absolute peace when the flyer's screech shook them all awake immediately. Ducky's siblings rubbed their eyes dreamily, yawning and stretching their tiny arms, unaware of the fact that they would never see two of their family members again - at least not in a form they'd recognise, and, even it they did, it was likely to be the last thing they would see. Their mother, on the other hand, had literally jerked awake and her brain, even though only hearing the screech in her slumber, instantly drew the right conclusions by pure instinct.
"Children, come here! Quick!" she ordered with a voice so strict that the little ones almost teared up, not being used to such a tone. Besides, they were still partly caught in their very own world of dreams.
"Mommy, I'm tired!" one of them complained. "What is it, huh?" another one piped up. "I'm scared!" cried another swimmer. "Where are Ducky and Spike?"
Mama Swimmer was just performing the alarm call of her own, chiming in with the numerous calls that erupted from every corner of their home now, when she interrupted it, suffering of a harsh cough attack. As soon as it had subsided somewhat, she cast a look to the bunch of little ones. She had hoped her child were wrong but it wasn't. Ducky and Spike weren't in their nest... and Sharpteeth were in the Valley, seemingly. Assuming the worst, Mama Swimmer took in a huge amount of air and screamed, her scream almost overpowering the overall chaotic mixture of calls and screams that were to be heard...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on August 30, 2014, 08:29:00 AM
The sound of Petrie dragging his torn, beaten body through the dew dappled grass was swallowed up by the screams, the hoots and yells as the inhabitants of the Great Valley discovered that they were under attack. The sounds were suffocating, seeming to come from all directions.

Don't want to die... don't want to die!

Then, from just up ahead, something managed to cut through the maddening cacophony. Voices. His friend's voices. Ruby, Cera, Chomper... and another voice that he couldn't recognise. It sounded like they were having some kind of argument. Gritting his teeth and groaning, Petrie forced himself on.

Then, Cera's voice grew louder, more panicked. He heard her say something about telling her daddy. Rapid footsteps, getting closer - she was running... in his direction. Approaching the top of a small rise in the grass, Petrie opened his beak to try and call out to them.

Something slammed into him heavily, throwing him back and causing him to shriek in pain as he landed on his wounds. Gasping, he looked up to see a yellow streak dart over him. A fastbiter. No, not just a fastbiter...

"Cera!" he croaked, throwing out a hand. Petrie's talons closed around her leg and he let out a fresh gasp of pain as Cera was pulled off balance and to the floor, the action wrenching his arm around. Sucking in a lungful of air, he tried to continue. "Not there, they... they angry... Must run! Must... hide!"

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The wind was rustling through Guido's feathers, the currents letting him slide effortlessly through the air as he glided high above the ground. A warm sun shone down from a clear, uninterrupted blue sky. A flapping noise to his left. Guido turned his head to see Petrie flying beside him, a happy smile on his face. The glider couldn't help but grin back. Up here, far away from the troubles of down below... this was what real happiness could be.

He heard the faint sound of laughing beneath him. Looking down, Guido saw he and Petrie were flying above the Great Valley and, below, the rest of the gang were looking up, waving and giggling. Chuckling, Guido started to wave back... but then he paused. The gang wasn't laughing. They were screaming, and their waves were desperate attempts to draw attention. His eyes widened. In the distance, a pack of fastbiters was charging towards the gang. They were going to be torn to pieces! Guido turned to the left, opening his mouth to tell Petrie that they had to do something - and he recoiled in horror.

Petrie wasn't there. In his place was a hideous, scarred, ragged thing. Specks of blood, both dried and fresh, spattered its dark brown skin. An intermittent crackling noise was coming from its chest as it flapped its wings, as if trying to breath was uncomfortable. Dark, dead eyes were situated at the top of a stained, mud-streaked beak. They regarded the scene below, flatly, without emotion, as the fastbiters reached the gang and started tearing them apart in a frenzy. After a moment, the thing's head turned slowly and those cold eyes focused their attention on Guido instead.

"Help us..." it croaked. The screaming grew louder, deafening, until Guido wanted to cover his ears, to block it out...

With a gasp, Guido opened his eyes. The warm blue sky and gentle wind was gone, replaced by cold and dark. It took him a moment to realise he was safely in his tree hollow, and what he'd just experienced was a dream. After a couple of deep breaths, Guido started to settle back down, sighing in relief. Must've been something I ate... He paused.

The screaming continued. From everywhere, all directions. Panicked, afraid... Guido jerked up. The Valley was sounding the alarm?! Sharpteeth?! How'd they get in?! Then his blood ran cold as he recognised one of those voices. Petrie's mother. Scrambling to his feet in a rustling of leaves, Guido jumped from the tree hollow and spread his wings, letting the chill night air carry him upwards. As he angled himself towards their cave, only one thing was running through his mind. Please let this be a mistake... someone panicked, thought they saw something in the dark... don't let anyone be hurt...

Guido reached the mouth of the cave and landed, his small frame making only a small thump as his feet hit the stone floor. Running in, he felt his heart skip a beat. The kids were in a state, huddling close to their mother. They were huddled around a small, bloodied shape. Not Petrie... it was one of his sisters. Valaria... He felt something sticky against his feet. Glancing down, he saw splatters of dark red against the floor, along the walls. "Oh no..." he whispered.

Desperately, Guido looked up and scanned the crowd of small flyers. Petrie was nowhere to be seen. "What happened?!" he managed to choke out.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on August 31, 2014, 02:14:03 AM
Mama flyer was inconsolable, a fate that was shared by her children...  Or at least the children that remained.  Blood caked her wings and torso.  At that moment she couldn't tell how much of that was hers, the sharptooth's, or Valaria's... and she couldn't care less.  All that she cared about right now was the wellbeing of her gravely injured daughter.  

Deep gashes were still visible on her torso, but the blood loss had now been brought under some semblance of control.  But whether the drop in blood loss was due to bandaging of her wounds with leaves, or due to a terminal drop in blood pressure, was yet to be seen.  Although the emotional part of her brain yearned for her daughter's survival, the logical portion was already contemplating her death.  Mama flyer had never seen an injury of this magnitude where the flyer survived.  She knew the odds were against her.

She couldn't even reflect upon Petrie's death at the claws of the sharptooth flyer at this time.  Right now her thoughts were focused solely on what she could change.  They were focused on the survival of her remaining children and the protection of the valley.  Only after the crisis was over would she allow herself to mourn.  Only then could she take stock of what she had lost on this blackest of nights.  Her morose thoughts were soon interrupted, however, by an unexpected voice.

"What happened?!"

She looked back at the familiar, yet panicked voice.  It was Guido.  

She took in a shuddering breath.  She knew at that moment that she would now have to inform Guido of the most horrible of fates.  Petrie was dead.  He was dead because sharpteeth had entered the valley.  The one flyer who had accepted Guido as a brother and a friend was no more.  He was again on his own.  With great reluctance, she spoke to the teal flyer.

"A sharptooth flyer attack us!  Valaria is hurt and Petrie..."  She choked back a sob, trying to remain strong for her remaining children.  "Petrie is gone!"

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As sobs and mournful cries emanated from the nest of the distraught flyers, footsteps could be heard getting closer and closer.  The adults were fast approaching the source of the original distress call.  

The defenders of the valley were arriving.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on September 13, 2014, 06:57:29 PM
Grandpa's peaceful slumber was disturbed by the alarm. Jerking awake he took glances around the valley,was the alarm real? Or was it just a sleep story going bad? Then he heard it again.

The unmistakeable alarm call,it was real. Grandpa nudged his mate and stood up as fast as an elderly longneck could. Instinctively Grandpa gazed over to the spot his grandson rested,to his dismay Littlefoot was gone. He knew Littlefoot did tend to sneak off but right now the fact his grandson was missing at the time their were alarms being sent that the valley was under attack filled him with fear he did not want to admit. Without another moments hesitation he quickly went over to the Flyer Nest,around him he could see panic.

Where are the children?

The children were a smart bunch,they have gotten out of all sorts of things. But their luck could not last forever-could it?

Looking up upon the flyer above,he knew already tragedy had struck the valley.

He could not let his panic get to him,he had to remain strong for the whole valley. Clearing his throat he spoke "What's going on? What bought to to sound the alarm this late into the night?" though inside he already knew,the flyers have lost something. He knew those cries all too well,also there was no mistaking the red substance covering the flyer.

Blood.

Though he asked he knew very well what as going on,the Great Valley was being attacked. And the children were missing,that was two things Grandpa did not want to see ever. And now both were happening at once. He didn't even want to think of the fact there was a chance the children were already gone-lost in the attack. The thought of the any childs deaths was hard enough....but his own grandson-unbearable.

He just hoped Littlefoot and his friends had found safety..and they'll stay there until the threats were removed.

Yes,that had to be it. The children were fine..that had to be. However looking up and seeing that injured,possibly dying Valaria made him begin to doubt his own thoughts.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on September 13, 2014, 08:10:13 PM
Grandma stood back for a moment,staring at the empty spot where her grandson always slept,but he was not there. The sound of the alarm rang in her ears. With a shake of her head the came back to the reality of what was happening.

Fighting back her worry she followed the sound of the call,though it was night out she found her way quite easy. Though by default a longnecks night vision was not perfect,with longnecks being active during the daylight hours and resting during the night,she knew the valley so well it made no different it was day or night.

Upon reaching the flyer nest,she knew something was highly wrong. Blood.

She stopped next to Grandpa,and glanced up as he questioned the flyer. She could see the reaming of the flyer children,all seemed terrified and uttering mournful cries it  will take Grandma ages to forget.

"Where did you see these...intruders?" Grandma spoke up "And where have they gone?" with that last bit,she seemed to be referring to both the attackers and the children. She did not know about the others yet,but she did not where Littlefoot went the others were sure to follow.

She gritted her teeth,she hated to bring this up now but she could not hold in it "Also..is anyone..missing their children?" with a quick glance at Grandpa next to her she sadly shook her head "Littlefoot is missing" again she stared into the flyer nest and noticed one little flyer missing "I hate to bring this up but,what happened to your young one,Petrie?"

Littlefoot's gone...Petrie's gone...

Grandma had no idea what was going on,but she did not like this. But right now the whole valley was in danger. She was going to help defend it.

Though one question ran through her mind,

How did this happen?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on September 15, 2014, 09:09:02 AM
An old threehorn awoke from his slumber upon hearing the warning call. Sharpteeth? How can this be!?. Topsy worked himself up, and looked around his surroundings. He could see no immediate danger, but he could hear other cries from the other adults. Replies to the flyers warning call. He cried out his own reply.

After that, he looked back his nest, and noticed one troublemaker was missing. Immediately, he took off towards the flyer's nest, screaming out his daughter's name.

"Cera! CERA!" HE wailed out, but no reply came. He started to really worry, as he closed in on the flyer nest. The two elder longnecks were already there, and looking bewilderingly up at the nest. "w...what happened?" He said, but when he looked up himself, he had his answer.

Blood. The mother flyer was caked in blood.

After he heard that Littlefoot and Petrie were gone, he chimed in himself. "Cera's gone, too!"

The next words he spoke were much more of a command, shouted out at the mother flyer. "Where!? Where did those bastard sharpteeth go!?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on September 17, 2014, 08:16:47 PM
Tria walked with quick strides,the alarm call still rang in her ears. Around her she could see the other residents reacting to the call,it seemed the whole valley was awake now.

She caught something out the corner of her eye and froze. Then went another one and another all in fleeing like their lives depended on it-sharpteeth.

Keep her eye on the way they were heading she took a deep breath and yelled as loud as she could "SHARPTEETH IN THE VALLEY!" she glared after the sharpteeth "You's better run if you know whats good for you! You'll pay for ever coming into this valley!"

She followed them not letting them leave her sight,these sharpteeth needed to be put in their place...little did she know who she was really chasing..little did she know.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on September 17, 2014, 08:43:06 PM
Crash!

Damn it, Spike!  Get up!  Get up!  Spike raged at himself as he struggled to recover from his fall.  Although running seemed to come naturally to him in this new body, he was still unaccustomed to using two feet.  Based upon how Littlefoot was now face down in front of him, it seemed that he was not the only one with difficulties.  Despite his own problems, he attempted to grab Littlefoot with his forelimbs.

"We have to run, Littlefoot!  We have to get out of here!"

With trembling hands Spike helped Littlefoot to his feet and they resumed their headlong sprint from the adults.  Their very lives now depended on their new found speed.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on September 17, 2014, 08:57:28 PM
Chomper cursed under his breath, now knowing they'd been spotted. He started lashing out at the other sharpteeth around him in his anger. "Dammit, sharpteeth! Why'd you have to come in here, anyway? You're gonna get all of us killed!"

The little predator couldn't believe it. These evil sharpteeth might have killed his friends, and now they were getting him in so much trouble. For a moment, he thought of going  to tria, to try and help them catch these other sharpteeth ,but he quickly scrapped that idea. The parent's would never believe him at this point. They would just think he was with these other sharpteeth. They'd just kill him, too. No questions asked.

Ahead of him, he saw several of the other sharpteeth triping over. Some we're coming by to help them back up. This got a hearty laugh from the friendly shaprtooth. "Gonna have to stop tripping over twigs there, idiots!" It did seem odd to him ,though. How we're all of these sharpteeth so clumsy? If they were this bad at running, they would have all gotten themselves killed long ago. He didn't have long to ponder, though, as another roar slammed into his ears. "SHIT! Not him! Anyone but that old jerk!"

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The mother flyer wasn't responding to the old threehorn. Perhaps she's still in shock. Topsy thought to himself. When he heard another call, this time from his mate, he took off in that direction.

After following tria for a few moments, he caught sight of the sharpteeth. His eyes filled with rage, as well as his voice "Come back here, you bastards!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on September 18, 2014, 07:19:27 AM
Petrie's breath caught in his throat as Tria's roar drifted across. Gritting his teeth, he desperately tugged on Cera's tail. "Must... move! Now!" He felt the dirt beneath him start to tremble as the female triceratop's feet slammed against the ground, and as he jerked his head up Petrie saw Tria's huge form bearing down on them. "Please!" he started to scream out... but his voice was drowned out by another bellow adding itself to Tria's, this one deeper, louder, full of murderous intent. Cera's father.

Petrie's nerve broke.

Staggering back away from Cera, he struggled to crawl away, adrenaline doing its part to dull the pain racking his body from the movement. Spike and Littlefoot were already sprinting away, rapidly disappearing off into the distance. "Wait! Need... need help!" Petrie's voice cracked as he screamed after them, but by now they were too far away... and the two triceratops were almost on him. Shaking, blinking blood out of his eye, he rose slowly to his feet. A low groan escaped his beak as he spread his wings again, and ignoring the searing protests in his joints Petrie flapped as hard as he could. His feet left the floor, and he angled his body higher, trying to get as far away from the danger below as possible.

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As Topsy charged away, the sound of his heavy footfalls fading in the distance, Guido kept staring in shock at the chaos before him. The blood spattered on the walls and floor, the children huddled in terror around their mother, Valaria's torn body. And Petrie... How... How did this happen?!

Slowly, another name drifted through the jumbled mess of his thoughts. Cera... Cera's missing too... Blinking, he rubbed a trembling hand over his eyes, struggling to think clearly. "Stay... stay here and keep them close!" Guido called across to Petrie's mother, fighting to keep his voice steady. "If anything comes back, shout as loudly as you can!"

Giving one last despairing look around him, he turned and ran out of the cave as fast as his shorter legs could carry him, spreading his wings, the wind ruffling his feathers as he was carried up. He knew he stood no chance if he came across a predator on his own... but the threat needed to be dealt with now, before anyone else was hurt - and he had to help in the only way he knew how. Far below, the huge shapes of Topsy and Tria were pounding along - and just ahead, getting further and further away with every second, quick flashes of movement. The sharpteeth. As he watched, their path started to curve to the right. Guido took a deep breath.

"They're turning right! Right!" he yelled down to Topsy.

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on September 19, 2014, 07:43:19 AM
Oh no no no,this not good. It is not it is not

Ducky was fleeing with the rest of her friends,she was amazed at her new found speed,but that was not her concern right now. She quickly glanced behind her. She wondered why Spike and Littlefoot fell,then she remembered they were used to four legs,unlike her. She walked on two legs her whole life.

Behind her she heard the three-horns chasing "Oh this not good at all" continuing her sprint.

"How did this happen?" she spoke to herself and the others at the same time "Did someone do this to us?"

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on September 20, 2014, 08:03:28 AM
As a former fastrunner - a species walking on two legs, Ruby had near to no problem with moving her new body around. Nevertheless, it felt different and she had yet to find out how to use it properly... though of course she'd much rather return to her old fastrunner body...
Ruby heard a scream in front of her and she couldn't even think about it for her eyes caught the danger immediately. "Tria..." Ruby realised. In front of her, Cera desperately tried to escape her step-mother, Petrie who was covered in blood clinging to her desperately. Ruby didn't and couldn't care about Petrie's injuries at that point due to the Threehorn that was, luckily for her, not going after her yet. Nonetheless, Ruby assumed that Petrie had to fight when he had been discovered. The situation was as big a mess as imaginable; there would have to be a long discussion later on... but that could only happen if she made it out alive.
Ruby figured that it, in spite of the Threehorn pursuing her friends, would be smart to stay together so she followed the same direction Cera was running into. "The other grown-ups can't be far away, not far away they can be..." Ruby deduced. Just then, Mr. Threehorn entered her field of vision, charging into her direction.
"Oh nooooooo!" Ruby panicked. She ran as fast as she could but Mr. Threehorn came closer and closer...

When Mama Swimmer arrived at the scene, there was chaos everywhere. She saw fastbiters fleeing, residents of the valley pursueing them and Mrs. Flyer who was besmiered with partly dried blood.
"Dear? What the hell is going on?" she asked the Flyer in a panic. Instinctively, she shoved her children close together and grabbed them all - in her hands they would be save for the time being...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on September 23, 2014, 07:05:55 PM
As the group of shaprteeth continued in their escape, Chomper noticed the pink fast biter was losing ground. It seemed she was about to be trampled to death by Mr. Threehorn. This filled him with much glee, as he wanted the sharpooth that dared to tell him she was Ruby to die. She probably killed Ruby. The little sharptooth raged in his mind again.  She deserves whatever she gets!

Suddenly, an idea popped into the little predator's mind. If I run off from the rest of these sharpteeth, maybe the adults won't go after me? Maybe they'll just go after the other's instead! It was a long shot, but in his eyes it was worth pursuing. He couldn't get in any bigger trouble than he was in now, right? As soon as he got the opportunity, he shot hard to the right, away from the other fleeing sharpteeth. His plan seemed to work, until a yell almost made him soil himself right then.

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"I'LL KILL YOU, YOU TRAITOR! I'LL MAKE YOU REGRET TURNING ON OUR CHILDREN!!!"

It was the booming voice of Mr. Threehorn, who decided to go after the sharptooth he knew all too well.

Just a few moments ago, he was closing in on one of the fast biters. The pink colored sharptooth was about to be put out of the Valley's misery, but now that could wait. He had to put this madness out at it's source, and he knew that source.

That little monster was behind this, wasn't he? Mr. Threehorn thought to himself. How could the other sharpteeth know how to get in here, if he wasn't the one who led them in? The realization shook the old dinosaur. The sharptooth he doubted all along was just what he suspected. A liar, a cheat, and now a killer.

A tear formed in his eye as he thought back to his daughter. It seemed now he would never see her again, but now was not the time to mourn. Now was the time for action. He vowed in his mind, he was going to make this little runt pay, if it was the last thing he ever did.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on September 27, 2014, 07:32:12 PM
Littlefoot's head whipped around upon hearing the threehorns roar.Chomper....Even though he knew he could just run and save himself he turned back sprinting after the smaller sharptooth.

"Chomper! Stop!" he keep nearly tripping and had to struggle to keep his balance at this on two legs. "Chomper,come on we got to get out of here" he managed to speak before loosing his footing,looking up quickly fear spreading across his face at the threehorn bearing down on them..closer...closer.

Thinking fast,Littlefoot shoved Chomper into a nearby bush before darting into it himself,luckily avoiding the raging feet and horns of the massive threehorn..and just in time.

"What do you think you were doing?" Littlefoot whispered in a hiss to Chomper "Word is out of a sharptooth attack in the valley,and you go off on your own? Just be glad I came after you and not Cera" he nearly chuckled at that last bit but knew this was not the time "Chomper,I did not kill Littlefoot. I AM Littlefoot,but we'll talk about that later..right now we need to get out of here,but I ensure you I am Littlefoot..just a sharptooth now..and before you ask how I don't know either"

Littlefoot let it drop and peeked out looking for a chance to make a break for it.Go away....go away... Littlefoot repeated in his mind as he watched Mr Threehorn,he was caught he was dead...considering trying to convince the old threheorn who he was would be impossible,the threehorn would stomp on his head before he even got a chance to say a word....there was also the fact Littlefoot realized with horror-he could not speak leafeater anymore.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on September 28, 2014, 11:05:20 PM
Spike ran as the massive threehorn continued to charge at them with disturbing speed.  It was all that Spike could do to try to keep from tripping over his own feet.  He knew that any mistake now would ensure that he was a victim of Topsy's single-minded rampage.  The massive threehorns yells and roars now made no sense to him.  With a horrifying insight, Spike now realized that he no longer knew leaf-eater.  It seemed as if their change had not only taken his leaf-eater body, but his leaf-eater mind as well.

Despite the danger, however, it seemed that all of them were making pretty good speed in their headlong run.  Ruby and Ducky were already used to running of two feet, but Cera was having difficulties.  As for Chomper and Littlefoot...

Wait where are they?

Spike quickly looked around him and couldn't see them anywhere!  Had Topsy already crushed them?  This was horrifying beyond words.  With a panicked voice, he exclaimed to the others.

"We've lost Littlefoot and Chomper!"

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Mama Flyer could only stare at the massive hadrosaur.  Her question still echoed in her mind

"Dear? What the hell is going on?"

How could she describe the horror of what had transpired?  The fact that she had lost one child and possibly another due to the sharptooth attack.  It was all too much.  With a trembling voice, she answered the swimmer.

"Flying sharptooth attack..."  She shook her head as she tried to regain her composure.  "Petrie is gone!"

As she began to weep again while cuddling her remaining children, she did not look up to see the look on the swimmer's face.  The look of dawning horror.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on September 30, 2014, 05:44:10 PM
As Petrie's wings beat in the air, the flyer soaring high above his friends as they desperately sought an escape, he caught a familiar voice yelling below him. Guido?! Jerking his head down, Petrie's eyes widened as he saw the familiar blue shape gliding directly underneath him - in all the panic, Guido must have missed seeing him. He... what's he saying?! As Guido's voice drifted up to him, Petrie realised the words were completely meaningless, a jumble of sounds that meant absolutely nothing. Why no...

Petrie's heart jolted in his chest as, far below on the ground, he saw Chomper fall, and one of the sharpteeth - no, Littlefoot! - run back to help him. As he watched in horror, Littlefoot dragged Chomper into a nearby bush, attempting to hide from Topsy. But there was no way the huge adult hadn't seen them. He had to do something...

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Guido could feel his heart hammering in his chest as he saw the threehorn thunder closer and closer to the sharpteeth's hiding place. "There! In the bushes!" he yelled down, pointing even though Topsy wouldn't be able to see where he was indicating. Is... is one of them Chomper?! No. No, that couldn't be. Why would he do something like this? Shaking his head, Guido drew in a breath to shout again... and felt it die in his throat as from above him came a piercing, grating screech.

Before he had a chance to react, Guido was almost buffeted out of the air as a dark shape shot past him, a blood-streaked blur shooting almost vertically down as - Guido gasped - it made straight for Topsy. Even as he watched in shock, Guido heard it shriek again, a terrible, bloodthirsty scream. "Watch out!" he cried.

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Petrie couldn't pay any attention to Guido as he darted past him - all his attention was focused on the huge wall of muscle and rage that was closing on his friends.

"Please stop! Please! It's us!" he screamed desperately, but Topsy paid him no attention. No! Nononono... He had no other choice. Gritting his teeth, Petrie continued to dart through the air - and slammed directly down onto Topsy's head.

Wheezing as the air was forced out of his lungs, he flailed his arms about as he desperately tried to hold on, using his body to obscure the threehorn's vision. Even as he attempted to keep his talons out, preventing them from doing any damage, Petrie felt their razor sharp points slashing the adult's flesh. Me sorry, sorry- "Littlefoot! Chomper! Go... run!" he croaked desperately.

Petrie tried to hold on, but soon he felt his grip start to tear free. Crying out, he let go and pushed himself upwards, taking to the air once again. He couldn't see if his two friends had been able to escape during his attempted distraction - he could feel his battered, aching body starting to give up. He wouldn't be able to keep going for much longer.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on October 02, 2014, 10:55:01 AM
"Sharpteeth in the valley!?" It was a horrible thought for Mama Swimmer. She needed to act immediately.
"Children! You stay around the other grown-ups! I'll handle this.." she called determinedly. Of course she was extremely concerned about her children's safety... but first she had some sharpteeth to drive out lest they could harm anybody. After all, Ducky and Spike were out there... she HAD to rescue them!



"We've lost Littlefoot and Chomper..." These words echoed in Ruby's ears after Spike had uttered them. She couldn't believe it. They couldn't be... gone. They had to be somewhere; they had had to get separated from the rest. Back from her life as a fast-runner, Ruby recalled fastbiters being significantly faster than the big sharpteeth like Redclaw. So maybe Littlefoot and Chomper were just lagging behind?
"I don't think they're dead, not dead they are I think!" Ruby called into the night as a response to Spike. "We're faster than they are; we can outrun the grown-ups but they can't! We need to help them, helping them we must!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on October 02, 2014, 12:23:04 PM
Where did they go!? Topsy thought to himself. Chomper and the other little two footer with him seemed to disappear. In his rage, he had lost track of them for a moment. In his continued rag,e he started thrashing around in the growth around him, knocking down a couple trees, and smashing bushes and other foliage, looking for the two sharpteeth.

"Where are you? COME OUT AND FACE ME, COWARD!"

There was some,...flyer, above him, screeching at him, but he wasn't paying him any mind. he was too far in his rampage. When the little flying sharptotoh finally slammed down on his face, he swung his head, back and forth, trying to dislodge the flyer. He felt scratches across his face. This sharptooth was drawing blood. This just further fueled his rage.

"Is this little monster your 'friend' too, Chomper? It's gonna take much more than this to keep me from smearing you all over the walls of our valley, bastard!"

With a final, strong swing, he launched the flyer back into the air.

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He... saved me?

He started to think about the sharptooth that was beside him. Did he really know this sharptooth after all. Was it Littlefoot all along?" He had no time to contemplate this, though, Mr. Threehorn was still after him. Hearing his threats after the flyer tried to slow him down filled him with even more terror.

"He won't believe me!" He almost slapped his forehead right there for stating the obvious. "Run! Just run! He shot out of the bush, hoping the sharptooth behind him would follow him.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on October 07, 2014, 09:19:30 PM
Littlefoot paused for a moment still in a bit of shock from watching Petrie..well who he figured was Petrie try and distract the angered threehorn. Shaking his head and now fearing for his own life and began to run after Chomper trying to keep his balance and  not slip and fall after the massive feet of the threehorn.

"We...need to get back to the others,don't look back just keep running. Trust me,Chomper just keep running"

Littlefoot was overwhelmed by all the scents around him,he could smell and tell every type of dinosaur that was in the valley-all the scents. Threehorns,swimmers.,flyers..longnecks..

It's...too much the former longneck screamed in his mind Is this what Chomper feels like everyday? he tried to block all the emotion rushing to him all of a sudden,but he couldn't. The cries,the roars of the ones who were meant to protect and now were trying to kill them were ringing in his ears.

We have to get out...we have to get out... this was not a nightmare..no this was worse then a nightmare.

He quickly glanced behind him to see if they had lost the threehorn Someone...help us..
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on October 17, 2014, 03:03:32 PM
Cera's legs burned with exertion as the group continued their headlong sprint away from her father.  Despite their uncertainty about using their new legs, it seemed that they were surprisingly proficient when they switched from walking to running.  Against all odds, they now seemed to be building some distance on the elder threehorn.  All except for Littlefoot and Chomper, that is.

"We've lost Littlefoot and Chomper!"

As soon as Spike had uttered those words, Cera's heart sank.  Chomper would not be as fast as fastbiters and Littlefoot was not certain on his new two feet.  If they were allowed to fall back then that spelt doom for them.

I will be damned before that happens!"  Cera protested inwardly.  What they need is a distraction.  Sighing inwardly, she knew what she had to do.  Despite the obvious risk to herself, she would not allow harm to befall her best friends  She would do what was necessary.

"Everyone, run to the exit!  I have to get them before my father does!"

Ignoring the protests from the others, she made a wide turn towards the Thundering Falls.  If she knew her father correctly, then he would focus his attention on the sharptooth who appeared to remain a threat to the valley, which should provide Chomper and Littlefoot with an opening.

The only question now was: how was she supposed to escape?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on October 26, 2014, 02:42:33 PM
Ducky had been gaining quite some distance between the charging Great Valley residents and her changed self. Deep inside, she knew she was still herself to some degree but things had changed. The former Swimmer had yet to figure out how her body and her brain worked...

Ruby could have run faster but she slowed down her sprint somewhat in order to allow Spike and Cera, whose speed was nowhere close to the speed fastbiters of their age should have, to stay together with Ducky and her. "We need to stay together if we want to survive together!"
Ruby thought. It were the very same words she exclaimed worriedly when Cera suddenly rushed over to another place, claiming that she'd want to help Littlefoot and Chomper. At this, two particular thoughts popped up in the pink fastbiters head:
"Wait a moment! So they're alright which is good but will they stay alright? Besides, shouldn't we stay together?" The girl knew that Littlefoot and Chomper needed help. Maybe they should follow Cera?

Ducky watched with concern Cera departing from them. She cried out a warning but Cera didn't seem to hear her or she just ignored her. At first the former hadrosaur didn't understand but then she saw just where Cera was running to... or, more precisely, who she was approaching hurriedly. Ducky realised that Cera's plan was actually good. "If we follow Cera, then we can all escape together, yep, yep, yep!" Ducky knew now what she had to do.
"Ruby, Spike! We need to follow Cera, yes we must! Littlefoot and Chomper need us!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on October 30, 2014, 12:52:35 AM
Spike stared at the scene in confused horror.  Not only were Littlefoot and Chomper left behind, but now it seemed that Cera had taken the initiative to give them a chance to escape.  One unfortunate situation was now being traded for another.  Both Ruby and Ducky seemed to slow as they considered what was happening, but then Ducky shouted something that made him pause.  

"Ruby, Spike! We need to follow Cera, yes we must! Littlefoot and Chomper need us!"

His intellect told him that this was a bad idea.  That Cera was needlessly risking herself and that their friends might yet make it out from behind the massive threehorn.  But yet, both his instincts and his heart told him that this was the right thing to do.  Even in his leaf-eater days he would not willingly abandon his friends.  His choice was clear.

A pack stays together no matter what!

Spike did not have time to consider where that particular thought had come from or to ponder when exactly his friends had become a 'pack'.  In the heat of the moment he simply knew that the pack had to stick together and he had to trust that his friends knew what they were doing.

"Let's go!"  He shouted as he followed Ducky in her pursuit of their yellow feathered friend.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 02, 2014, 07:15:27 AM
Ducky's words matched Ruby's opinion on the matter completely. Without hesitating, the pink fastbiter changed directions, now heading towards the Thundering Falls with enormous speed. Even as a fastbiter, Ruby still felt that she was sort of responsible for Chomper which motivated her to run even faster to get him out of trouble in time - although it meant danger and trouble for her...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on November 13, 2014, 03:40:14 AM
Where did that little monster go? Topsy was thinking to himself. He had been thrashing around the area he last saw Chomper, and wasn't turning anything up so far. He was simply destroying everything around him in his search. From the corner of his eye, He saw a Yellow fast biter dash past him, followed close behind by several other fast biters.

"They're heading back to the valley, no!" He left the devastation to start chasing after the new threat. He wanted dearly to punish Chomper, but he also couldn't forget about these other sharpteeth. They could be after our other kids! He didn't even know where the kids known as the 'gang' were, but the other children were now in grave danger!

Chomper saw the other fast biters as well. "Now's our chance!" He called out to the fellow T-Rex behind him. "Let's get to the exit already!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on November 13, 2014, 09:45:18 PM
Grandpa has to remain calm,he had no idea where his grandson or his friends were. But right now he had to focus on the job at hand-protecting the valley. "Bring all children here,do not scatter them in different areas,Grandma and I shall stand guard"

Knowing both he and his mate were not as young and strong as they once were,Grandpa volunteered them both to guard the children,they had already lost some. They couldn't afford to lose more.

His mind drifted to Chomper-where was HE? Did he cause all of this? Had the little sharptooth betrayed them?

If so..what did that mean for the missing children? Did Chomper not only betray the valleys trust,but also turn on his friends?

He didn't have time to think about that now.for right now many lives and the valley it's self could be in danger,in the distant he could hear the roars of the old threehorn in full rage,not something that was new to him overall but this time it was different,the threehorn sounded like he was out to kill.

Scanning around the moonlit valley,Grandpa could not get the thought out of his mind Littlefoot..where are you? Please be safe wherever you are...please just be alright..
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on November 14, 2014, 02:08:32 AM
Grandma had the same thoughts as Grandpa but she could not run off in search of the missing children right now,she had a duty to perform. The 'gang' would be fine,they just had to be. With a trembling breath stood in front of the valleys young residents,if any predator wanted one of these children as midnight snack,they'll have to deal with her first.

The smell of blood coming from the flyer nest disturbed her,the scene of what she saw in that nest was still displayed in her mind,she never thought such a horrible thing would happen in their peaceful valley,the sharpteeth that attacked them tonight must of got in somehow...someone let them in...but who would do that?

Chomper..how could he? No...no...I'm just jumping to conclusions..when this is over we'll find all the children safe and well,they are just hiding...they are ok...they have to be.. she told herself this but still she had her doubts,where did these sharpteeth come from? What did they want? Was Mr Threehorn right all along about Chomper?

Have we made a mistake letting that sharptooth stay? the old longneck wondered,friend of her grandson or not,if he has betrayed them tonight she would refuse to forgive him..and if anything happened to Littlefoot as a result of this..she wondered if she'll be able to forgive herself.

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Littlefoot quickly followed Chomper,relief filled him when he saw the exit "We just need to make it out..and we should be okay" he said more to himself then Chomper. Trying to block out the roars of the valley behind him,the former longneck put on an extra burst of speed which in turn had mixed results,he got out of the valley not used to such high speeds on two legs,he lost his balance. Quickly getting on his feet he stared back into his former home wondering where the others were Where are they? We got to get as far from here as possible he could not believe this was happening..this could not be real.

We'll be okay...we always are..we'll work this out together...we'll fix this

Though,deep inside Littlefoot could not help but wonder- How are we supposed to fix this mess?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 14, 2014, 02:36:24 AM
Spike's legs burned with exertion as he continued his headlong sprint away from the enraged threehorn.  They had succeeded at shifting Topsy's attention from Littlefoot and Chomper, which only left one rather large problem.

How in the hell were they supposed to escape?

He looked to his side for a moment.  The green form of Ducky and the pink specter of Ruby were keeping a brisk pace in front of him.  They obviously had more experience at using two feet than any of them.  Meanwhile, Cera was somehow leading the group despite her lack of experience in her new form.  Which was equally curious was that he was keeping pace as well.  Perhaps their new forms were meant for running?  Perhaps that was why this felt so natural despite being so very wrong.

The thundering footsteps of Topps actually began to fade slightly as they made some distance on the persistent threat.  They must have been running faster than any of them could have ever imagined.  Sensing this, Spike took the opportunity to look behind and observe the current situation.  Sure enough the massive form of Topps was still in pursuit despite falling behind, but that was not what attracted his attention.  

A brown Tyrannosaurus disappearing behind a rock wall.

"Cera!  Chomper and Littlefoot are out!"

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Cera took on a determined smile as she heard Spike's affirmation.  It had worked!  Their slower friends were now out of immediate danger.  Now for the other part of her plan...

"Everyone, go around this hill and loop back!  We have to escape with the others!"

With no further words, she turned and followed the base of the small hill that stood to their left.  Her father would chase them around the hill as scaling it would take too much time.  His only option would doom him to not again catching sight of the fastbiters until it was too late.

Cera smirked.  Even though the escape had yet to be completed, she already knew that they had won.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 14, 2014, 07:42:30 AM
Ruby smiled in spite of the threat in form of Topsy chasing her and her friends. Littlefoot and Chomper are safe!" she cheered. Her main concern was Chomper since she was supposed to keep watch of him but she was also concerned about Littlefoot because he had always been a sort of leader of them. Losing him would be horrible. "But now they're safe! Now we need be reach safety as well so we are all in safety!"
With that in mind - and Cera's orders in her ears, she redoubled her efforts to sprint away from the raging Threehorn - around the hill... and towards the exit!
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on November 17, 2014, 04:54:33 AM
Ducky kept pace with the others,luckily for her she was long used to two legs so this was easier for her then it was for her former four-legged friends. At least Littlefoot and Chomper are now safe,yep yep yep

The sounds of the threat behind them grew more distant as the exit drew closer-we did it! Ducky cheered in her mind.

Ducky left herself relax just a little bit as she and the others passed  through the main exit to the valley,they were no longer in Great Valley lands. They were in what was called the Mysterious Beyond-the land of sharpteeth so be fair,they were in their land now.

Reality overtook her Our...our..own parents...tried to kill us...they chased us..out of our home... she skidded to stop to catch her breath,her blood still pumped from the mad sprint for her life "We did it everyone,yep..yep..yep" she slightly turned her head to look at her friends,she couldn't believe these..predators were her friends..she couldn't believe she was the predator she now found herself as,with a shaky breath she tried to keep back an emotional breakdown,it was not enough. The first tear fell from her eyes,she quickly wiped it away,there would be time for that later."Where is Petrie?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on November 20, 2014, 11:45:08 AM
His head fuzzy, mind blurry with the effort of staying in the air and not falling behind, Petrie weakly looked down, searching for the rest of his friends... and his heart skipped a beat when he realised he couldn't see them. Where?! Where are they... If he was on his own, he wouldn't be able to make it, he... No, there! He caught a glimpse of a tail disappearing behind a section of the rock that encircled the Valley. As a flyer, he could just have flown higher, making his way over the Valley and into the lands surrounding it - but his body was a mess of pain and he knew he couldn't handle the effort. Grunting with exertion he altered his course, making straight for the opening. Below, the enraged sounds of their pursuers became fainter.

But that leads to the Mysterious Beyond! part of him, deep down, cried out as he drew nearer, his stomach twisting in knots. But where else would he go? And after what he'd done...

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From further back, Guido's face twisted in frustration as the sharptooth flyer got further and further away. As torn up as he'd appeared, he was fast - soon Guido knew he'd lose sight of him... and who knows how many would suffer if the sharptooth was allowed to roam free?

Suddenly the sharptooth flyer twisted in the air and dove down. Guido gasped. Where's he going?! He looked ahead, and saw the passage the sharptooth was aiming for. He couldn't see any of the others - they must have had the same escape route.

Still keeping an eye on the flyer, Guido lowered his altitude until he was gliding just above Topsy. "They're leaving!" he called out, pointing ahead as the flyer vanished from sight behind the rock.

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Petrie's chest heaved raggedly as he followed the passage that led out, blood pounding in his ears. Can't stop... can't stop... And suddenly, before he knew it, everything opened up. He'd escaped the Valley - to whatever waited outside.

Up ahead, he saw the unfamiliar forms of his friends regrouping. As he neared, his arms seemed to lose strength, and with a whimper he dropped, landing on the hard floor at their feet with a crash.

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 20, 2014, 07:13:24 PM
Ducky's words were not heard by Spike as he was too busy considering his situation.

The gang had finally stopped after they were some distance away from the valley entrance.  They had made it.  Against all odds (and the newness of their bodies) they had escaped from the combined forces of the valley's herds.  A wave of euphoria threatened to overtake him, but it was soon overshadowed by the reality of what they had lost.  

Which was everything.

Their families thought that they were dead more than likely and they no longer had an opportunity to explain themselves.  Even if they could regain the use of the leaf-eater language, who would believe them?  As far as the valley was concerned they were simply brutal predators who had quite possibly killed the valley's children.  Their would be no forgiveness.  No reunions.  They could never reenter their home.  Their home was the uncaring beyond now, the land of the sharpteeth.

Because he was a sharptooth now.

He spoke with great hesitation.  "What... what do we do now?"

The unreadable face of Cera turned in his direction as she seemed to consider how to respond.  Her predatory face made her seem even more intimidating than she was during her threehorn days.  As she began to speak, however, a very familiar flyer came crashing in-between them.

It was the broken body of Petrie...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on November 25, 2014, 03:49:45 AM
Ducky's question was answered by said flyer crashing down. "Petrie! You're okay!" but when she actually got a look at the flyer-she realized he was not okay,far from it.

"Petrie!" she cried out "Petrie is hurt everyone,we must do something!" she looked around frantic-she had to help her friend "What can do we do? We can't just go and ask the grown-ups for help,nope nope nope."

We need to put something over the worst wound... she looked around "We need..to put something where he is injured...thats what the grown ups do when we get hurt.." Ducky could not control her emotions at this time,she couldn't handle all this sudden change. Her mind couldn't process it.

She leaned down to the flyer "Don't worry,Petrie..you'll be okay...we'll take care of you..yep,yep,yep...I guess now...we all have to take care of each other..our mummy and daddys don't like us anymore...we sharpteeth now..I do not understand,how dd this happen to us?"

She decided to brush those thoughts aside for the moment and focus on saving what she considered her closest friend,besides Spike. "W-w--where does it hurt,Petrie?"

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Tria caught up to her mate,panting from breath from the frantic chase. "They're..they're gone...I saw them..leave through the main exit" she glanced quickly to the exit "I've seen no sign of Cera or her friends..expect...welll"

The pink threehorn paused "Those sharpteeth that left...well Chomper was with them,he seemed to know them"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 25, 2014, 02:49:09 PM
"We need..to put something where he is injured...thats what the grown ups do when we get hurt.."

Spike looked upon the flyer with grave concern.  He had significant lacerations over much of his body, one of which nearly covered his entire left wing.  It was a ghastly sight to see his friend in such a state.

But nothing was worse than the smell.

A mixture of disturbing scents reached his nostrils, many of which he had never smelled before.  There was a smell that he could only describe as metallic and salty, which he immediately recognized as Petrie's blood.  But there were other smells imbedded within that larger smell.  Hints of something that his brain identified without his conscious effort.  Fear... Despair... Confusion...  He was smelling the flyer's emotions and deepest inner turmoil.  This sudden violation of his friend's privacy both surprised and horrified the former spiketail.  It seemed with a sharptooth's nose there was nowhere to hide.

Maybe I can find the right treestars for Petrie...  Spike considered for a moment.  I remember the plant smells from... from before... with this better nose maybe...

Without further thought he sniffed the air deeply and nearly gagged at the sensory onslaught.  Shaking his head and trying to calm himself down, he tried again.  Being prepared for the onslaught this time, he ignored the smell of blood and the multitude of details that were coming from Petrie.  Instead he focused on the dull smells that were coming from the nearby plants.  Plants used to make up a majority of what he could smell when he was a spiketail, but now they were simply minor details in a far bigger picture.  After all,  why would a fastbiter care about plants?  However, even with this shift in focus, he soon discovered the scent that he was looking for: a plant that he had seen his mother use on Ducky when she had a buzzer sting long ago.

Rushing into the bushes he soon discovered the needed plant.  Its leaves were non-distinct compared to the other bushes and would have been overlooked by most leaf-eaters, but his nose did not lie that this was the proper plant for the job.  He quickly grabbed some of the leaves with his mouth.

And nearly became violently ill.

Bad idea... I am not a leaf-eater anymore.  Had he not been in a panicked rush then he might have reflected on the fact that that thought did not disturb him as much as it should.  He might have wondered about what changes were happening in his mind to complement the changes to his body.  However, he had no time for such introspection and instead grabbed a large helping of the healing leaves.  

That was when he felt a hand on his shoulder.  Quickly turning his head, he could see the rose-colored form of Ruby standing right beside him.  Despite her horrifying predatory form, he could recognize that she had him fixed with a contemplative gaze.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on November 25, 2014, 03:24:44 PM
Petrie... hurt... Ducky's voice drifted into Petrie's thoughts as he lay sprawled on the floor, the side of his face pressed into the dirt. It felt cool, almost taking his mind off the waves of agony that were washing over him. Just leave me alone... he thought dimly, tired, just... just let me rest... He was aware of movement around him, a rustling of bushes.

Then Ducky's voice again. "We sharpteeth now..."

Petrie's eyes slowly opened. "Not... sharptooth..." he croaked, his voice a low hiss. Muscles trembling, he pushed himself up. He tried to put weight on his legs, to stand, but they gave way under him and the flyer slumped back to the floor on his side. Blinking blood out of his eyes, Petrie looked at the shapes around him, their forms slowly coming into focus. No... these couldn't be his friends, what had he been thinking?! His friends were back at the valley, this... they couldn't be...

"NOT... SHARPTOOTH!" he screamed, the effort searing his throat. Weakly, he dragged himself backwards until the solid weight of a tree trunk against his back stopped him. Wide-eyed, Petrie's torn body started to tremble. "Not... not sharptooth..." he muttered.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 27, 2014, 07:16:25 PM
Ruby was still too shocked to realise the consequences of their current situation and the fate awaiting the former fastrunner and her friends. There were more urgent things right now - she could always come back to these things later after all but right now there was a friend to take care of...
"Oh no! Petrie is badly injured and I have to make sure that he isn't injured anymore!" she thought to herself when she saw her flyer friend covered in crimson blood, collapsing on the ground after a rough landing. "I need to help Petrie but first I need to know what to help against!" Ruby walked closer to the sharptooth flyer to get a detailed impression of his injuries, analysing what she saw in order to treat him correctly.
"Hmm, he has gashes all over his body which means he has been in a fight, in a fight he has been. But who was he fighting against?" Ruby mumbled more to herself than to her friends. "Not important!" she scolded herself. She had to take into account Petrie's injuries and not how he received them. "Hmm, these don't seem to have been inflicted on him very recently... They're not bleeding very much so the bleeding isn't that bad. Therefore, I need to find this plant against infections. If I find that plant against infections, Petrie will be healed!"
It was that very moment when Ruby noticed Spike. It was odd to think of Spike as a fastbiter with pointy teeth and all that but then again she was just stuck in the body of the same horrifying creature. Likewise, it wasn't easy to refer to the blood-stained sharptooth flyer as Petrie. Or anyone else for that matter...
While Ducky rushed to Petrie's side, Ruby was wondering what Spike was doing. "Why of all things he could do is Spike looking into the vegetation?!" the fastbiter considered but then realisation hit her. "Oh right..."
Ruby walked towards Spike to help him search for the plant but when she arrived he had already grabbed what Ruby was searching for: Petrie's curing leaves. Ruby noticed a slight absentmindedness and sign of comtemplation in the dark-greenish fastbiter and responded with a similar gesture, placing her claws on his shoulder.
"What a mess, huh?" she spoke up softly. She didn't wait for a reply but carried on the matter on her heart. "Let's fix Petrie, shall we Spike?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on November 30, 2014, 12:32:29 AM
Spike followed Ruby with haste as he carefully held the curative leaves in his hands.  Hands... Spike still found the sensation of having two freely moveable appendages to be an odd one.  To finally have the ability to carry something with something other than his back...  It was almost as weird as walking on two legs.  Despite the inherent strangeness of the situation, however, Spike continued on.  He would not let anything, even his conversion into the stuff of his nightmares, get in the way of helping his dear friend.

And Petrie certainly needed his help now.

Spike put the leaves down and stared at the gashes on Petrie's body.  His mother had somehow wrapped leaves around Ducky's snout when she had been stung by the buzzer, but she had done something else as well...  He tried to think back...  She crushed some of the leaves!  That was it!  But how would she keep the leaves on Petrie's chest and body?  That was a different situation entirely than wrapping it around a nose...  That was when Spike had a thought.

Why don't I ask, Ruby?  After all I can talk now...

Spike blinked at that revelation.  He could indeed talk now, but it was a new ability for him.  It will still take a while before he thought of himself as a being capable of speech.  Nonetheless, if he could deal with the growing of sharp teeth and claws then he could handle this.  He quickly spoke to his counterpart.

"Um...  How do we put these on him, Ruby?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on December 05, 2014, 06:26:58 PM
Chomper simply looked at the sharpteeth in front of him for a little while. They were busy tending to Petrie, but he was simply busy with what his frends had already been through, shock of what they now were.

''You... you're all my friends, aren't you? My friends? The gang?"

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Topsy looked at her mate with worried eyes, something unusual for the threehorn who was raging just moments ago.

"Yes, I saw him, too, but then I lost that little b.... bastard. What do we do?"

He felt powerless right now. His daughter might very well be dead already, and the one responsible had went though a hole much too small fro any of the adults to go through. What could they do, now?

"The flyers! We have to get them to track those monsters, now!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 06, 2014, 05:30:03 AM
Ruby slowly walked along the dark-green coloured fastbiter until they arrived at Petrie's broken body.
"Um... How do we put these on him, Ruby?"
Ruby wasn't surprised of Spike's question. Due to being raised in the harshness of the Mysterious Beyond, she had been taught things like knowing which plant helps against certain illnesses and injuries or what plants you're better off avoiding. She even remembered that her mother had once treated her with the very same leaves Spike was holding in his mouth.
"Wait no! He has arms and hands to carry things now, arms and hands he has!" The former fastrunner was so used to Spike grabbing stuff in his mouth that it had become a sort of automatism. Likewise, it was odd to hear him speak...
"I know how the leaves need to be used," Ruby stated to Spike. They were standing in front of Petrie now, looking down upon his numerous gashes. "We need to mash some of the leaves. Then we need to put it on his injuries, on his injuries we need to put it!" Ruby explained. "The rest of the leaves are to be wrapped around Petrie's injuries and tied together so they would cover the worst injuries, keep the mushed leaves at the right place and prevent dirt and anything else to infect the injuries."
Ruby gazed at Petrie again, who was meanwhile in the company of Ducky, and tried to analyse which injuries needed to be taken care of most urgently. There was a really nasty one across his torso.
"We should start fixing this one," Ruby suggested to Spike. "Fixing this one is going to fix his worst injury. Now mash these leaves; I will go get some more of them!"
With that Ruby rushed back to the bushes to gather more leaves. Even though they were think, they would need more of them in order to create enough of the mashed, gooey mass they would put on Petrie in a bit.

*

Mama Swimmer arrived at the scene at last but she was too late. The sharpteeth were gone... or so she thought since the threehorns stood next to an exit of the Great Valley in defeat.
"Are they-are they gone!? Did they escape???" she exclaimed, panting from sprinting through the valley. Fear arised in her chest. Was Ducky alright? Or was she just in the process of being digested by one of these horrible creatures?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on December 06, 2014, 07:29:55 PM
''You... you're all my friends, aren't you? My friends? The gang?"

Cera looked over at the purple sharptooth with an exasperated expression, but soon relented.  He is just as confused as we are... I mean I can't hardly believe it...  The full emotion of the situation suddenly poured over her like a dam which had burst.  Why did this have to happen to us!?  Why!?  She struggled to contain her building grief, but only partially succeeded.  With a soft and breaking voice that seemed misplaced coming from her, she addressed Chomper.

"Yes... This is us, Chomper..."  She swallowed deeply.  It seemed that it was only as she made the admission that she began to believe the obvious.  "We are... we are sharpteeth now."

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The conversations that were going on nearby were ignored by the green fastbiter.  Spike did not have time for such concerns, he had a far more pressing matter on his hands.

Oh right... he had hands now...

Carefully considering Ruby's words, he grasped one of the healing leaves in his clawed hands and began to smash it against his other clawed appendage.  A slight moisture in his hands and a cracking sound indicated that he was doing it correctly.  This gave him the confidence to continue on with the other leaves.  Soon he had quite a large mass of gelatinous goop ready to be placed on the wound.  Which led directly to the hard part...

Putting it on Petrie...

Spike licked his lips.  Petrie was obviously emotionally unstable in light of his change and refused to accept the obvious truth that he was a sharptooth.  Nonetheless, Spike knew that he had to try to calm the flyer before he began to treat his wounds.

"It's alright, Petrie... I am just going to put this healing plant on your chest..."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on December 07, 2014, 06:19:45 PM
Petrie gritted his teeth as his body burned, now accompanied by a sticky sensation as the blood began to dry. These monsters around him had his friend's voices... Petrie's eyes teared up. Why? How was that possible?! His eyes flicked left and right, scanning the area, seeking a way to escape. It looked like a few of the sharpteeth were distracted... Petrie swallowed, his throat bone dry. He started to agonizingly drag himself sideways...

Slam!

The sudden noise shocked Petrie, and in surprise he jolted back against the tree he'd been leaning against, looking wide eyed for where it had come from. The green fastbiter was slamming some leaves between his claws, the clapping noise deafening to Petrie's ears. The fastbiter then started to approach Petrie... And spoke.

"It's alright, Petrie... I am just going to put this healing plant on your chest..."

Petrie pressed himself back against the trunk, grimacing. Healing?! Why would a fastbiter want to heal him?! "...Away! Get... AWAY!" he hissed, slicing through the air before him with his talons in an attempt to ward him off - and paused, his eyes widening. Talons? He didn't have talons. He wasn't meant to have talons. His tongue brushed against his razor sharp teeth, and as he probed them in bewilderment, he locked eyes with the green fastbiter - and froze. Spike?

Everything that had happened began to collapse down on Petrie. Waking up, his mother attacking him. His sister... His arm slowly falling to his side, Petrie tried to speak as his throat seemed to close shut. "This..." He'd tried to forget what had happened, to wish it away. But he couldn't - this was real.

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Landing beside Mama Swimmer, Guido nodded. "They're gone. The ones that we were following, at least." Looking at Topsy, who hulked over him, he gulped and raised his voice. "Before we go after them, maybe we should use the flyers to check the valley, to... to see if anyone's hurt. There could be someone who needs help."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 08, 2014, 07:28:56 PM
When Ruby returned with her hands loaded with a pile of leaves, the former fastrunner noticed in satisfaction that Spike had performed his task excellently.
"Very well done, done very well, Spike!" the girl called, giving the somewhat thoughtful green fastbiter a slight smile. "Now cover him with the gooey mass while I will make more of it," she instructed, unloading the leaves in question as she proceeded. "Oh, and perhaps you should let Petrie know that it will hurt," Ruby added, quietly hissing. "If it hurts, it helps my daddy always told me..." Sighing deeply, she turned away from Spike and began turning the leaves she brought into life-saving medicine...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on December 08, 2014, 08:48:27 PM
Spike nodded absentmindedly at his friend's explanation.  Something in his mind told him that a hissed response would have been translated as incomprehensible sharptooth vocalizations back when he was a leaf-eater, but that thought was quickly brushed aside as he considered the task that lay ahead of him.  He had to treat Petrie's wounds and this would be quite difficult on account of something that Spike was uncertain about treating.

Petrie's mental state.

The flyer was noticeably panicked as his eyes darted from side to side.  He had even appeared to attempt to move to his side a few moments ago... but now he seemed quite overwhelmed... as if a sudden realization had come to him.

Good... at least that is getting across...  Spike thought to himself.  But how do I do this?  

Spike had always been silent for the most part.  Sure, he would hum or give affirmative grunts from time to time, but actual speech was something that was new to him.  As a result, he had no idea how to reassure the injured flyer or to effectively assure him that everything would be alight.  In any case, he wasn't sure that everything would be alright.  They were the monsters now... and they had to find out how to deal with that horrifying fact.

"Okay, Petrie..."  Spike began uncertainly.  "This will probably hurt a little, alright?"

Spike watched the flyer for a few moments as he appeared to look absently into space.  What was going through Petrie's mind?

"Me... can't be sharptooth!  Why me sharptooth?!"

Spike swallowed before carefully going on one knee in order to better see his friend's wounds and to address him.

"I don't know, Petrie... but we are now..."  He sighed.  He obviously needed Petrie to focus on the reality at hand.  "It's me, Spike... okay Petrie?"  Upon seeing Petrie's uncertain expression, Spike continued again.  "And that over there is Ruby.  We are trying to help, okay?  And these leaves might sting a little..."

"My sister..."  Petrie spoke softly.  "Why did me..."

Spike paused at this.  There was great pain behind the flyer's words and the obvious tinge of regret... but Spike did not have time for this.  They had to get to work.

As gently as Spike could manage, he placed the goop on Petrie's major chest wound.  A terrible screech emanated from his friend, which cased Spike to feel immense regret.  Then he could feel Petrie convulse with pain for several seconds as the plants obviously did their work.  It was odd that healing plants sometimes helped take away hurt by hurting you more.

"Petrie?  Are you okay?"  Spike uttered tentatively.  He was now quite concerned.

Petrie let out a few hisses of pain before speaking in barely comprehensible syllables.  "Hurts..."  A shuddering breath escaped the sharptooth flyer's beak.  "It all hurts..."  Not knowing what had happened back at Petrie's nest, Spike simply assumed that the flyer was talking about the pain from his injury... and not also about the pain in his heart.

Spike nodded.  "That was the worst one... Momma always said that it was easier to get it done with quick than to drag it out..."  At the mention of his adopted mother Spike nearly broke down.  It was only his commitment to the task at hand that allowed his to stay composed.  That was when he realized something: Ducky and Petrie were close confidants, so maybe his sister could help make this process easier.  With that in mind he gestured towards the light green fastbiter.

"Ain't that right, Ducky?  The sooner that we get this stuff on you, Petrie, the better off you will be."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on December 11, 2014, 05:53:58 PM
filling in for Nahla on request...

Littlefoot looked at the confused purple twoclaw in front of him. It was the very biter he had once hatched and grown to like... almost like a big brother. The fact they were naturally hunter and prey never mattered... and now it was of no significance anymore.
"I've just been chased out of the Valley... my home... by our parents!" Littlefoot realised as he finally had some time to catch up on what had happened these previous moments. Because I'm a Sharptooth now! I'm like..."
"I'm like you now, Chomper," the brown twoclaw adressed the purple one. "I used to be Littlefoot the Longneck... but-but I'm a sharptooth now. J-just like you!" That realisation had been present in the former longneck's mind but only now he got around to think about it. "It's really me, Chomper. I hatched you and I saved you from drowning in the Big Water. I might have changed my body but I'm still I deep inside. A-and so are the others," he spoke. "Probably."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on December 17, 2014, 08:13:29 PM
Ducky nodded "If we do it more slowly,the more it will hurt" she said after a moments silence,still not believing Spike could actually talk-he never talked,now all of a sudden he was talking perfectly.

Ducky gave Pertie a small smile,"We just want to make you better,the more you move around and the longer time you make us take the more it will hurt"

She edged closer to the flyer "Trust us,Petrie you know we'll never hurt you on purpose,nope nope nope-you'll get through this..you just need to trust us,we may be sharpteeth on the outside-but on the inside we are still your friends,Momma always said sometimes things must hurt before they get better"

She was not sure if her words would help,but she at least hoped they reached Petrie's mind,she turned her head slightly to face her brother "How much longer will he hurt for? I do not like seeing my friends hurt,I do not. I do not"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on December 17, 2014, 08:24:33 PM
Chomper, finally starting to come to terms with what happened, came forward to embrace Littlefoot. The brown sharptooth was bigger than him, since he was older. For the momenth, though, he was looking at his friend like a little brother. Like someone who's just entered a new world, and is confused.

I'm... terrified right now. Terrified of being chased out my home. The little purple two-footer thought to himself. If I'm terrified, then what are my friends going through right now? It's must be many times worse for them! They've been turned into what they fear most, and been chased, almost... killed by their own parents! He kept his arms wrapped around Littlefoot, as he started to cry. "I... I don't know what's happened. What's... happened to you all. I just want you all to know I'm here for you. We're... gonna get through this together... somehow!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on January 01, 2015, 11:31:21 PM
Littlefoot kept his eyes closed,not wanting to be here anymore. He hoped for a moment if he closed his eyed and reopened them,he would be back at his Grandparents side and he would be a longneck,all of this would of been a dream.

But he knew this wasn't a dream,it was real. He opened his eyes and looked down at this two new clawed hands "H-h-h-how did this happen?" Littlefoot stuttered out "Leaf eaters don't turn into sharpteeth!"

Littlefoot would not deny it,he was terrified. The memory of the adults chasing them with the purpose to kill them replayed in his mind,their words no longer understood by him as if he never knew the leaf eater language to begin with.

"We....have to run away...get as far as we can..." Littlefoot's voice broke as he looked back towards their former home "We're...we're not welcomed here anymore."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on January 02, 2015, 12:59:25 AM
"How much longer will he hurt for? I do not like seeing my friends hurt,I do not. I do not"

Spike sighed.  As much as he would like to answer his sister's question, and what an astonishing thing it was to actually be able to answer her now, he did not have an answer.  For once in his life he had the ability to speak, but not the answer to put his sister at ease.

"I'm not sure..." Upon seeing her face fall, he quickly amended his answer.  "But I am sure that he will be better soon..."  

The green fastbiter turned back towards his rose-colored friend in the hopes that she agreed with his positive outlook.

"Won't he, Ruby?"

However, that was when Littlefoot's words hit everyone like a rockslide.

"We....have to run away...get as far as we can... We're...we're not welcome here anymore."

-----

"We....have to run away...get as far as we can... We're...we're not welcome here anymore."

Littlefoot's words seemed to bring everything to a standstill in the former threehorn's mind.  Sure, this was the course of action that was only possibility left to them now, but to have Littlefoot say it aloud was something else entirely.  Gone was the normally upbeat and optimistic Littlefoot.  Now what remained was a fastbiter who was simply thinking about their survival.  Normally Cera was the one to bring a harsh dose of reality to a situation; the fact that Littlefoot was the one saying it indicated the gravity of their situation.

They only had themselves now.  They would have to fight and struggle in the Mysterious Beyond and never see their beloved home again.  It was as if they were cast out of paradise and sent to toil in a hell that was unimaginable to them mere hours ago.

"Yes, we have to leave..."  Cera found herself saying before she realized it.  "We need to get out of here now...  but where are we to go?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on January 02, 2015, 08:33:51 AM
"How much longer will he hurt for? I do not like seeing my friends hurt,I do not. I do not"

It was a sort of relief for Ruby to see and hear that Ducky's soft, gentle and caring nature was still intact despite the change in species she just performed.

"But I am sure that he will be better soon... Won't he, Ruby?

Ruby took her gaze away from the gooey medicine she was just creating and fixed it on Ducky instead, who seemed to be rather upset about Petrie's current state, while she slowly continued to smush the healing leaves. It was no different for her of course but, unlike Ducky, Ruby wouldn't express her sadness as openly.
"Why of course he is going to be alright, Spike. If we give him the curing leaves, the curing leaves will cure him. He should be back to his full strength in a few days. Don't worry, Ducky." Ruby directed a slight smile at the former swimmer and continued her work which was almost completed. Now I just need some..."

"We....have to run away...get as far as we can... We're...we're not welcome here anymore."

Ruby stopped. With a frown, she let Littlefoot's words sink in. It was obvious that she and her friends wouldn't be welcome in the Great Valley anymore after being chased out of it with murderous intentions of the residents - their parents. Not her parents of course, since they lived at Hanging Rock, not Chomper's parents since they lived somewhere in the Mysterious Beyond but the parents of Littlefoot, Cera, Petrie, Ducky and Spike.
Their current situation filled Ruby's mind with a lot of concerns. Where should they go? What dangers would await them in the Mysterious Beyond? How was it like to be... a Sharptooth? The fact that they would have to feed themselves on meat was completely ignored by the pink fastbiter for the time being. First they needed to get to move... as soon as Petrie was being treated that was.
"You're right, Littlefoot. We are as welcome in the Great Valley as we are welcome in the Mysterious Beyond so we might as well just run somewhere and see where that somewhere is... as long as that somewhere isn't anywhere close to the Great Valley."
Ruby looked at her handiwork, considering the gooey mass gooey enough to be put on Petrie's injuries. "Spike, here's the rest. Put it on him and allow it to dry," she instructed.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on January 02, 2015, 06:08:23 PM
Petrie sucked in a trembling breath, his talons stabbing the ground as Spike pressed the sticky substance against the lacerations criss-crossing his body, the substance they leaked causing his wounds to burn... but as the green fastbiter stepped back, the pain started to fade, to be replaced by a strange numb sensation that seemed to wash in waves from where the paste was applied. Whatever they'd just put on him, it seemed to be working.

Still feeling weak, Petrie gathered his legs beneath him and struggled to his feet, leaning on the trunk of the tree behind him to steady himself. He struggled to think clearly. His beak opened and closed, then finally he managed to speak. "Must... leave now," he croaked, agreeing with Ducky. "Could still be... hunting for us. Must... not stay still." He looked around at the others and took a staggering step from the tree.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on January 02, 2015, 06:35:23 PM
As Littlefoot left his embrace, Chomper heard some other members of the gang start talking about leaving. When he heard Petrie's few forced words, he realized the injured sharptooth flyer had brought up a good point. They could still be after us! They could mount a excavation or something to hunt us down! They probably think we killed the gang!

"Yes, we have to get out of here. They might still be after us!" He thought about the next course of action, he thought back to his loved ones. They could protect them. "My parents! My parents could protect us from them!" He yelled that out, not even thinking of the possible ramifications of what he was saying. His parents 'protecting them' from the valley could very well turn into his parents killing some of the valley's residents. Some of his friends family, possibly.

Even then, they could possibly be in another dire situation soon, and they needed some allies. There was no one else to turn to in his eyes. "I... I know where they are, or... where they should be, at least."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on January 03, 2015, 02:26:14 AM
Ducky was finding it hard to believe, they had to leave? How could this happen?

It took her a few moments to register what Spike said to her, Spike can talk...he can talk. With a shaky breath she repeated the words to ensure herself "Petrie will be okay." she glanced sideways at the flyer, she did not want to think of the pain he was in or what he went through to get those wounds in the first place. She thought if Petrie wanted to tell them he would, in his own time.

At Chomper's words her head shot up "Y-y-y-our parents? But your parents are..big..and scary...why would they protect us? We are..." she was about to say leaf-eaters but with a look at all her friends she cut herself short "Oh yeah..we're not leaf eaters anymore, no no no but how will you explain who we are?" she fell silent after that, she wanted to run back into the valley and curl up at her mothers side, safe and warm.

Ducky glanced back at Chomper "What if your mummy and daddy get mad and try and hurt our families..I mean they did try and hurt you so won't they be mad?" a sinking feeling filled her stomach at the thought of her mother of siblings being hurt or even killed because of her. Without thinking she threw her arms around her brother in a hug "I'm scared, Spike...what will happen to us? Our families don't love us anymore..not while we look like this"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on January 04, 2015, 04:10:44 AM
Despite his surprise at being hugged by his sister, he reciprocated the gesture as he soothingly spoke to her.

"I don't know, Ducky.  We...  we just have to do what we can to survive now and..."  His eyes met Chomper's with a helpless expression.  "...and Chomper's parents are our best hope."

The fastbiter left his doubts unspoken for his sister's benefit.  ...and we don't have much hope right now.

------

Cera looked away at the scene with a feeling of dread settling over her.  It was one thing to talk about leaving, but it was quite another to actually find Chomper's folks.  That was when she had an unsettling idea.

"Chomper?  How far are your parents?"  She sighed.  "We are um... well... if they are far away then maybe we should try to find Ruby's folks first..."  She shifted her glance uncertainly to the rose-colored fastbiter.  "...we need help before we get hungry."

Silence descended upon the group for an instant.  Hunger...  The possibility that no one wanted to consider had just been broached directly.  One way or another they would need to seek help for their situation.  Otherwise nature might begin to take matters into its own hands...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: LittlefootAndAliTogether on January 06, 2015, 12:04:57 PM
"I do have an idea how to avoid what we are dreading." said Chomper.  "I've done it for many cold times."  "What?" said Littlefoot.  "We can eat Stinging Buzzers and shells.' said Chomper.  "That would work.  Work it would." said Ruby.  "Eat another creature?!  That would not be good.   Oh no, no, no, it would not." said Ducky.  "You would prefer to eat a Swimmer?" said Chomper.  Ducky shook her head.

"Besides, if worst comes to worst, we can always eat Egg Stealers." said Cera.  They all laughed.   "Me no want to eat another creature at all." said Petrie.  "You don't have a choice Petrie.  I learned that a long time ago." said Chomper.  

Their hearts fell in that they might have to become killers, but at least the worst hadn't happened yet.  They continued on their journey.  

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: DarkHououmon on January 06, 2015, 01:41:02 PM
LittlefootAndAliTogether, those characters are not assigned to you. You cannot just play as a character someone else is controlling in a roleplay. Here are the character assignments-


Narrator Ducky123
Littlefoot Nahla (Twoclaw)
Cera Pterano (Fastbiter) (currently taken over by Rhombus)
Ducky The Anonymous Person (Fastbiter)
Petrie bushwacked (Sharptooth Flyer)
Spike rhombus (Fastbiter)
Ruby Ducky123 (Fastbiter)
Chomper vonboy (Twoclaw)
Male Rainbowface (Mimus) Pterano
Female Rainbowface (Galli) Ducky123
Redclaw The Anonymous Person
Thud Dosu2Dinner
Screetch bushwacked
Guido bushwacked
Grandpa Zimba
Grandma Nahla
Topsy vonboy
Tria Zimba
Mama Swimmer Ducky123
Mama Flyer rhombus
Mr. Thicknose vonboy
Chomper's Mother Ducky123
Chomper's Father bushwacked
Mr. Thicknose vonboy
Tricia Nahla

If you would like to join the roleplay, please post in the discussion of this RP ( http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...opic=12861.0 (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=11461.0) ) and come up with your own character (or maybe find a canon character that hasn't yet been taken). You can describe the actions of a character you don't control, but only after the person controlling them made a post and the only actions you can describe are the ones the person dictated in their post.

Yeah there are a number of rules for roleplays. If you are still confused, you can post in the roleplay discussion to try to get a better understanding. A number of people here roleplay, so I'm sure they will be able to answer any question you might have.

(For those participatingi n this roleplay, I do apologize for the second interruption)
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on January 06, 2015, 02:23:11 PM
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"I do have an idea how to avoid what we are dreading." said Chomper. "I've done it for many cold times." "What?" said Littlefoot. "We can eat Stinging Buzzers and shells.' said Chomper. "That would work. Work it would." said Ruby. "Eat another creature?! That would not be good. Oh no, no, no, it would not." said Ducky. "You would prefer to eat a Swimmer?" said Chomper. Ducky shook her head.

"Besides, if worst comes to worst, we can always eat Egg Stealers." said Cera. They all laughed. "Me no want to eat another creature at all." said Petrie. "You don't have a choice Petrie. I learned that a long time ago." said Chomper.

Their hearts fell in that they might have to become killers, but at least the worst hadn't happened yet. They continued on their journey.

I thought DarkHououmon had told you how Roleplays work, LittlefootAndAliTogether. Neither are you allowed to post in this Roleplay unless you officially take a character with the agreement of the leader of the Roleplay which happens to be me (and you didn't have my agreement!) nor are you allowed to post as several characters at once ( in a Roleplay you are supposed to play as only the characters you have taken!).
I won't let you join this Roleplay in case that's what you want because neither do we need another player at the moment nor would your posts do anything to this roleplay but lower its quality significantly, judging by the written work you've shown us so far. I'm sorry but that's the harsh reality and sometimes things just need to be said...
I don't want any interruptions of you in this Roleplay again or else you're in trouble, that I promise you   :anger

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(For those participatingi n this roleplay, I do apologize for the second interruption)
Don't worry, I'm glad you did.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nick22 on January 06, 2015, 02:55:00 PM
L&AT, RPs have rules
1 you cant join a rp that someone else has started, without asking permission first
2 you cant 'hijack'; other players chars, you are limited to what characters you pick, UNLESS another rper asks you to rp as them for a time (ie they are on vacation and wont be able to rp for awhile).
3. rp posts must be connected in flow  to prior posts, questons about what to do must go in the "discussion ' thread connected to that rp.
4 the GM of the rp has final say on what to admit in his/her rp.
5 other rpers must be given the chance to post and contribute, you do not need to post 5 times in a row.
6. repeated violations of this rules will lead to consequences, first and foremost, not being allowed to rp, and second, warnings or even suspension from the GOF. If i get repeated complaints from the GM of the rp or other rpers that you are not following the rules i will act.

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on January 13, 2015, 08:02:54 AM
Littlefoot went silent for a moment, "We won't be able to prevent hunger, but we'll have to learn to control it..for now. At least until we figure out what is going on. All I know for sure is that we have to get away from here soon as possible, the grown-ups will be checking the area for us...they have no idea what happened to us and we can no longer talk to them" he paused as he glanced back towards the valley "Like they'll believe us anyway, to them we are predators who killed their children no doubt"

He glanced towards Chomper "Just how far away is the area where your parents would be? If it's a bit of a distant we could go to Ruby's folks seeing as we know exactly where they are, the sooner we get help the better"

"Our home is in the Mysterious Beyond now, and we won't survive long if we just try and fend on our own." glancing at Chomper again "Well..you might be ok, but the rest of us...we never eaten meat in our lives let alone killed a living creature, we can't hunt, we would die of starvation before we figure it out" he turning his gaze to each of his friends in turn "Soon as Pertie is fit enough to travel with no serious harm done, we'll set out but we need to be gone before the bright circle rises. We barely escaped the adults this time in the pitch dark,in broad daylight they'll have it much easier...and they will be out to kill"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on January 13, 2015, 06:45:35 PM
"Yeah, they're pretty far way. I don't think we'd make it to my folks before... you know" The friendly sharptooth was at a loss for words right now. Much of the gang didn't seem to like the idea of seeing his parents again, and they were starting to worry about the coming hunger madness, when a sharptooth is starving, everything else in it's brain will shut down, and focus only on food. It was a horrifying thing to watch, and even more horrifying to live through.

"Yes, maybe it would be better to go see Ruby's family. I remember Ruby's father was quite a good fisherman. Maybe he could catch us some fish to stave off the... hunger madness."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on January 13, 2015, 07:39:46 PM
"Can travel, don't... don't need to wait for me." Petrie tried to give Littlefoot an assuring look - an effect that was likely nullified by the fact that he had to lean on Spike for support. "Must move when still dark, or..." He left the rest unsaid - the chances of their surviving another encounter with the adults - their parents and friends - was slim to none.

As Chomper mentioned hunger madness, Petrie swallowed, the unconscious action stinging his throat. Of course - they were different now. They'd become monsters. With the shock of the realisation still working its way through his system, Petrie hadn't thought - hadn't wanted to think - about what they'd have to eat now. He blinked as he looked around at the others. That's what we're made for now Petrie thought bitterly. That's what we are... He caught a glimpse of the alien, brutal talons extending from his own hands, and gruesome memories forced themselves into his mind -

-MURDERED HER, KILLED HER, SLICED-

Trembling, Petrie shook his head and desperately clung onto the last few words Chomper had spoken. "Yes! Fish, we... we find fish! Find Ruby's parents! Have to!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on January 14, 2015, 09:07:42 AM
Ruby watched her winged friend with concern. "He shouldn't be walking yet, not walking he should," her mind noted. The fact that Petrie's expression was already less painful and the fact that he already tried to get to his feet was a positive sign in her book. Now the only thing he needed was...
"Petrie, I think that you should rest now, rest you should!" Ruby exclaimed. "We can carry you so you don't have to carry yourself."
Turning to Chomper's purple form, Ruby spoke. "I'm sure that your parents are where they should be, Chomper," but then the rose fastbiter added. "But I'm even more sure that my parents will be where they should be... at Hanging Rock. It's only a few days walk, a few days walk it is."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on January 15, 2015, 11:48:11 PM
Cera sighed.  A deep, growling sound that would have horrified her leaf-eater self.  But those days were no more.  The cocky threehorn who had been so sure of her abilities was no more and only a scared and confused fastbiter remained.  Cera didn't know what to make of that horrific reality, but at the moment she wouldn't let it overwhelm her.

Because they had a choice to make.

"But I'm even more sure that my parents will be where they should be... at Hanging Rock. It's only a few days walk, a few days walk it is."

Cera closed her eyes.  They would certainly begin to starve after more than a few days of travel and that would mean...

We have to avoid that at all costs.  Her mind protested resolutely.  We need to get help and Ruby's folks are our best help at this point.

"I agree with Ruby."  Cera began to speak before she even realized what she was doing.  "We have to get help before..."  She shook her head.  "Before we lose control."

With inquisitive eyes the yellow fastbiter turned towards Littlefoot as if to silently ask for his confirmation.  In many ways she was the counterpoint to Littlefoot, a voice of conservatism to counteract his optimistic idealism.  But idealism had no place in the situation that they now found themselves... and nor did her conservatism.  They now had to strike out with only each another as company into a reality that would not allow for a return to the old ways.  They were sharpteeth now and they no longer had the luxury of considering anything other than their survival.  The only thing that they had left of their old selves was their friendship.

Now it was commitment to this final shred of her identity that she looked towards her friend.  She awaited the words which would set them on a path into the unknown.  Into their new lives...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on January 16, 2015, 07:16:12 AM
Littlefoot looked at each of his friends before sighing realizing it was up to  him to confirm what they were to do. Before he could change his mind he spoke the words "We leave..we'll head to Hanging Rock and just hope we can keep in control until we get there and get help"

He nodded towards Petrie "Someone carry him until he regains enough strength to fly on his own, I don't know much about wounds but even I know he needs rest but we can't afford to just stay here nor are we going to abandon him here" turning back to the whole group now he continued speaking "We may have lost our home, our families..and everything that we used to be. But we still have each another..and we are going to need each other, I think this will be the biggest test of survival we have ever faced"

He glanced at the valley one last time whispering to himself "Bye Grandma and Grandpa" and turned and took a few steps into the unknown land "Let's get going..put some distant between us and this place..maybe we'll find a place where we can rest until daylight..but now we should just move far away as we can." he continued walking forward overwhelmed by all the scents now filling his nose. He had been out here many times, but before he had been the prey. Now he was the predator.

The tables had turned.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on January 16, 2015, 11:15:06 AM
Secretly, Ruby couldn't help it but feel happy about the fact that they were going to Hanging Rock after all. There would be her parents, her two siblings...
"But I'm a Fastbiter now, not a Fastrunner. I'm not what I used to be." These thoughts and the realisation hit Ruby hard - so hard in fact that she'd stop in her movement just for a moment, scratching her head in confusion, pondering, and move on. "What if my parents won't realise that I am I? Surely they wouldn't even let us get close to them! They would hide from us, hide they would..." Ruby decided to keep these thoughts for herself for the time being. She knew that her friends were, likewise, trying to deal with their new situation and the problems that would come along with them and she knew better than to disturb them. They were in the Mysterious Beyond now, moreover, so it was obligatory to keep an eye on your surroundings for behind every boulder could be a threat. They could always talk about it when they actually got close to Hanging Rock after all.
Ruby cast a quick look on Petrie who was resting on Ducky's back only to notice that he was alright. Her friend would fully recover and that was more important than anything else. They've been friends for a long time and friends they would stay, especially in a situation like this.
With that in mind, Ruby picked up some speed and continued the journey to Hanging Rock... gaining distance from the Great Valley...

*

In the morning that followed, a meeting was being held by the time the Bright Circle just peeked over the tops of the mountains that surrounded the Great Valley. Literally every resident was present to discuss the next steps after the terrible victory of the sharpteeth...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on January 23, 2015, 01:09:12 AM
Grandma stood with the others, her head hung. Littlefoot hadn't been found after the attack and she was starting to accept the worst..those..monsters. They took away the most precious thing she had. She refused to forgive either of them..Chomper...that traitor..he helped kill the children then took off-had he no shame?

The old longneck closed eyes trying to block out scenes of how terrified the children must of been, having their young lives ripped away from them. Killed by the one they trusted, the one they called a friend.

"I shall forever live to regret that day we let that darn sharptooth stay here" she intended to say that to herself, but spoke it loud and clear "If I ever cross paths with him he won't have a second to regret what he has done"

Grandma was growing mad with her grief, though the children's deaths had not been confirmed fully.All the signs lead to it, there was no sign of them anywhere, not even a footprint. She was convinced the children were gone, and nothing would ever bring them back.

"We surely can't just let them get away with this? I refuse to let those childrens memories just fade away, I refuse to have my grandson die and just pretend nothing happened. If we don't do something who knows how many more lives we will lose, we lost 6 in just one night. And now these sharpteeth know a way in and right now nothing is stopping them"

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on January 31, 2015, 11:51:07 PM
Grandpa took a deep breath "We must act reasonably." though he too was in mourning over the children he knew better to the react with emotion "We really only need one way in and out of the valley, all those extras are just asking for trouble and unwanted vistors. Maybe it's best if we blocked those off for good. They are rarely used anyway expect in a fire, but that could be a problem if there is a fire and all but one exit is blocked off. Not all of us might not make it to that one exit."

"We've been betrayed and lives have been lost as a result, going after revenge won't bring our children back, all we can do is honor their memories and protect what we have left. We must keep our eyes open. We can't have a repeat of last night, we were attacked when we were unprepared and vulnerable. We can't risk that again."


"I know some of you will want revenge on Chomper, but what will it solve?" Grandpa sighed heavily "I would do anything to have my grandson back, but going after revenge is not one of the options. And besides, sharpteeth have already long won for me. They took my daughter and now my grandson.  I wouldn't waste my last breath on those creatures..and besides. We have no idea where they've gone, we can't risk our lives trying to track down a pack of sharpteeth."

He turned his attention to Mr Threehorn "Do you wish to say something, Threehorn?"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on February 01, 2015, 10:16:20 AM
Topsy marched up to the front of the group, shaking his head at the old longneck.

I might have agreed with you on a different occasion, Mr. Longneck, but this is different. He... That monster knows our valley inside and out! We shouldn't have let him live with us in the first place, but now we have to deal with him. We have no choice. Who knows how many sharpteeth he has behind him? We saw several fast biters, and a sharptooth flyer, but there could be more, and they know how to get in now, because of him.

For a moment, he thought of his dear daughter, Cera. He couldn't bring her back, but he could do his part to ensure the rest of his family was safe.

He raised his voice, so everyone in the area could hear him. "As long as Chomper is alive, our valley is in grave danger! He must be dealt with!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on February 01, 2015, 06:09:31 PM
Perched on a small boulder overlooking the meeting, a small blue shape sat, arms wrapped its knees. Guido gnawed on one of his fingers nervously as he surveyed the scene with exhausted eyes. As Topsy's thunderous voice boomed through the air, his hate-filled words washing over the crowd, the glider couldn't help but notice that Topsy's suggestion of setting out to kill Chomper was having an effect. They were getting worked up, restless. They wanted blood.

But something was nagging Guido, details gnawing at the back of his mind. Why would Chomper do something like this? He and the other kids had best friends... it didn't make sense that he would just betray their trust like this. Of course, Chomper was still a sharptooth, but even so...

And why hadn't the sharpteeth put up more of a fight when they'd been discovered? Guido had seen sharpteeth when confronted by leafeaters. Sure, they might run eventually if overpowered, but not before biting, scratching, clawing at their prey, attacking with bloodthirsty and savage intensity. But the sharpteeth last night - they'd fled without so much as a snarl. Even the diving attack from the flyer hadn't seemed as hateful. It seemed almost... desperate. But then, what about Mama Flyer's cave? When he'd arrived, it had been a gory mess. Even now, the blood was still drying on the walls, and Petrie's little sister was clinging to life by a thread. But what was bothering him most of all was...

Gulping, Guido scrambled up and cleared his throat nervously. "Where are..." His trailed off as he could tell his small voice was almost inaudible against the excited chatter and anguished moaning being thrown between the scared and confused members of the crowd. Guido straightened his back and tried again, raising his voice.

 "Where are the bodies?"

One by one, the dinosaurs gathered in the meeting area turned to fix their eyes on him. As he stared back, Guido started to wilt under their stares, returning to his typical slightly hunched posture. "I mean, there's no bodies or... or anything!" Guido's hands fidgeted as he continued. "The only one's missing are Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Spike and Petrie, but there's no sign of blood or... anything else. I mean, we looked everywhere and except for Miss Flyer's cave, there's nothing. And most of that blood came from the sharptooth that attacked her family."

Guido paused, unsure of how to continue. "So... maybe they aren't dead. Something feels off about this. If Chomper really did have something to do with this then maybe the kids are with him. Or maybe he's... holding them hostage for some reason." He shrugged helplessly. "It's possible... isn't it?"

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on February 01, 2015, 07:59:04 PM
Mama Swimmer was choking back sobs as she was attending the meeting. Her little Ducky was gone - more than likely feasted upon by the sharpteeth who had entered the Great Valley the previous night; entered because Chomper had let them in, apparently.
"Chomper..." A wave of sadness stroke her body only to be replaced by pure rage. The swimmer was known for her peaceful and friendly attitude but if anything as wrong about her children... The death of Ducky, one of her children who brought an exceptionally broad smile to her face, by the claws of a friend, made something snap in the hadrosaur.
"Mr Threehorn is right!" the female shouted determinedly. "That son of a tar pit who we thought to be a friend of our children which are no more..." A mighty sob emerged from the heart-stricken mother. "We need to hunt him down, that bastard!!! He can return anytime and strike at the weakest of us, t-the children... We MUST prevent further harm to our beloved valley!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on February 02, 2015, 12:01:23 AM
Mama Flyer listened to the outraged parents in a near-stupor.  She had lost a son and now had one daughter that was barely clinging to life.  All of this pain... all of this suffering... all because of one traitor.  Her son had been betrayed by one of those he had trusted the most.

Killing Chomper won't bring Petrie back...  She tearfully concluded.  ...but it may save others.  Chomper knows our entrances... our defenses...  Shuddering, the female flyer took a deep breath.  She knew what had to be done.

"My son..."  Several of the voices became silent at the sound of the distraught flyer's hoarse voice.  After a pause, she continued.  "My son and his friends... your dear sons and daughters... they risked themselves many times when we were too divided to take any action at all."  She could barely see out of her tear-soaked eyes as she could feel the eyes of the others follow her words and murmur in agitated agreement.  They all knew that she spoke the truth.  "They are not here now... they are all gone."  Her voice cracked at that affirmation, but she carried on.  "They are no longer here to do what we cannot... if our remaining younglings are to be defended from the sharptooth and that worthless fiend..."  Her voice seethed with hatred.  She refused to speak Chomper's name.   "Then it is up to us."

As echoes of agreement and grunts of rage emanated from the crowd, she looked straight at Topps and to the flyers which were perched on the bluffs behind him.  "My daughter barely clings to life... if she awakes I do not wish to leave her alone... but you will need flyers to track down our enemies."  She swallowed.  "Are any of my fellow flyers willing to help the valley in its time of great need?"

An eruption of enraged affirmations arose from the bluff like thunder in the sky.  When the decision was finally made, there would be no doubt that the flyers would answer the valley's call.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on February 07, 2015, 07:59:10 PM
Grandma stepped forward "I must agree with the others, Chomper  must pay for this. Do we not owe it to our children to give them justice? Many times, our children took the problems of the valley into their own hands while we fought, they acted more like a true herd then we  adults ever did in times of  trouble."

"Littlefoot trusted that sharptooth, and all get gets in return for his devotion was his own death, I won't let that just slide. I'll make Chomper pay if it's the last thing I do, Chomper betrayed us, and killed. The punishment for such crimes should indeed be a harsh one."


A loud sob escaped the elderly longneck "Killing Chomper will not bring any of the children back, but it will bring justice to their deaths. What would the children think if we just sat back and tried to act like their deaths never happened? That they weren't betrayed? And if we don't do something who knows how many more he would kill, I'd hate for someone else to lose their child to that monster."

"You all know me, I rather not resort to violence. But this time there is no other option. We must hunt him down!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on February 12, 2015, 06:14:29 PM
Guido swallowed hard as the murderous threats passed through the crowd, the onlookers shouting in agreement and yelling their approval. Apparently they hadn't heard his questions, the small holes in what happened that didn't quite add up. And even even Littlefoot's grandparents were calling for Chomper's head, then it really was too late.

Sighing, Guido settled back down on his rock and put his head in his hands as he tried to tune out the roar of the crowd. Maybe he was wrong - maybe it really was as Topsy and Littlefoot's Grandmother said, and Chomper actually was to blame. Maybe his friends actually were dead. If that was the case, then going after him and the other sharpteeth was absolutely the right idea. So why couldn't he shake this feeling?

He sighed. Isn't there anything I can do?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on February 14, 2015, 07:57:27 PM
Topps face brightened up as he received very little opposition. In fact, most of the crowd was now calling for Chomper's head, including Grandma Longneck. The crowd was getting worked up.

So worked up, in fact, that they didn't seem to notice when he tried to talk again. He finally had to slam his tail on the ground to get the assembly's attention. "It has been decided. We will go out and punish the one who betrayed our young ones! We will send out a warning to all the cold-blooded killers out there. NO ONE MESSES WITH OUR VALLEY! "

An uproarious cheer rang form the assembly. After the cheering had died down, the old threehorn got down to business. "Petrie's mother is on to something. We need some volunteer flyers to seek out these monsters. Will anyone volunteer for this valiant endeavor? We have to send out flyers as soon as possible!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on February 22, 2015, 06:45:22 PM
What can I do? The question kept repeating itself over and over in Guido's head as he struggled to come up with an idea, a plan, anything that he could use to try to get to the truth...

Then it dawned on him - the answer was right in front of him. Guido picked himself up quickly and raised his voice to be heard over the others. "I'll be part of the search team! Let me help!" Hopping off the rock, he landed in the grass and walked up to Topsy, the threehorn towering above him. "You'll need as much help as you can to find them."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on February 26, 2015, 03:00:09 AM
Granpda listened to the cries around him sighing in defeat. "Alright, you're all right. We should indeed send out flyers to scout the area..and see if theirs any signs of...the childrens...bodies."

"Meanwhile, we must make sure all our entrances are guarded, even at night....especially at night. Keep all children in sight, please make sure any sights of a sharptooth is instantly reported even if you don't feel it'll come in here."

Grandpa's attention turned to Guido when he heard him speak, lowering his massive head to his level he spoke "Are you sure? We have no idea what else could be waiting out there, but if you insist , anything you can find out about what has happened would help, wherever it be good or bad."
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on March 08, 2015, 06:52:12 AM
Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie, Spike, Chomper and Ruby had run away from the Great Valley for the whole next day, not allowing them any breaks of some sort. It was only in the middle of the night that they collapsed and fell asleep where they were.

*

Ruby opened her eyes. The Bright Circle had barely risen above the distant horizon, its strong, light rays blinding Ruby for a moment. Her eyes had to adjust to this sudden flash of light but, as the former fast-runner soon realised, the process of adjusting was multiple times as fast as in her fast-runner days.
Ruby still couldn't believe that everything that had happened the previous night wasn't a dream but cruel reality. She took a look at her sharp claws (what horrible injuries these could cause...), carefully touching her sharp teeth in her mouth (they could rip apart Ducky or Petrie back when they were leafeaters...). "I am still a sharptooth, a sharptooth I still am..." Ruby noted with a deep sigh.
Then another part of her body got the pink fastbiter's full attention successfully... "Ugh, I'm hungry, hungry I am..." The fact that she was hungry greatly scared the young fastbiter. She knew too well what her new kind was usually feasting upon... She could already feel how her mild hunger unsettled her. What if her hunger got worse like during bad times at Hanging Rock? Ruby didn't want to know.
With a deep sigh, Ruby shook these thoughts away and decided to wake up her friends.
"Guys, we must not rest for any longer so stop resting and get up!"
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on March 11, 2015, 02:00:45 AM
"Guys, we must not rest for any longer so stop resting and get up!"

Cera groaned.  What is it,  Ruby?  It's too early...  She was about to roll back over onto her side when she felt the sudden urge to preen her crest feathers.  hmm... Sometimes these things are more trouble than they are worth...

Her eyes went wide.  Her feathers...  Her claws... The change... It all came back to her in one horrifying realization.  She was a sharptooth on the run.

She looked around at the others who were beginning to stir at the sudden racket.  Despite her horror at her predicament and the anguish of her friends, she knew that they would soon have to get moving.  If the valley honestly thought that they had killed their children...

"Everyone, wake up!"

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Spike woke up with a start at Cera's assertive command.  With a swiftness that would have been unimaginable in his leaf-eater days, he sprung to his feet and looked around in confusion.  Were they under attack?

Looking around him he could see fastbiters everywhere.  He was surrounded!  Edging backwards, he struggled to get away from the waking fiends when he suddenly tripped over yellow and feathered.  He nearly panicked when the yellow fastbiter looked down at him with her predatory eyes.

"Watch where you are walking with those things, Spike!  Your claws sting, you know?"

That was when Spike finally realized what had happened and remembered who all of these predators were.  These were his friends and they were on the run from a very angry Great Valley.  Seven predators with no idea how to find Chomper's parents, no idea how to hunt, and no experience surviving as sharpteeth.  

How can things get any worse?!

That was when Spike heard his stomach growl...
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on March 11, 2015, 03:29:05 PM
Petrie lay on his side, staring into the deep green of the bushes that faced him, seeming to stand guard over him. Dark shadows hooded his eyes, his expression frozen into an unnervingly blank, empty expression. The previous night, as Petrie had listened to his friends gradually drifting off into their restless, fitful slumbers, he'd lain awake, unable to sleep.

He couldn't close his eyes - that just brought forth images of his claws cutting, slicing, lacerating flesh. His sister's wide, terrified eyes. How his siblings had stared at him.

He couldn't try to listen to the sounds of the night as he had done when he was... normal. Each gust of wind howling through the trees was his mother, screaming in mindless grief, and Cera's father roaring for their blood. Each rustle of the undergrowth was his ragged breath tearing through his lungs as he flew desperately for his life.

And so he'd lain awake for hours, his trembling body gradually growing more still, more lifeless as his memories threatened to overwhelm him... until the first rays of sunlight started to pool around the group, spilling over Petrie's lean body and revealing his bruises and cuts, the injuries that had started to heal thanks to the help of his friends.

At the sound of Cera's voice, Petrie twitched, then slowly rolled over, his exhausted eyes passing over the group as the rest of them stirred. "How much... further?" he rasped as he struggled to his feet. It was very well trying to keep ahead of any potential pursuers from the Valley, but there was only so long they could keep going before the adults caught up to them.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on April 07, 2015, 08:25:36 PM
"Everyone, wake up!"

"Hey, what's the big idea, Cera!" A grumpy little purple T-rex yelled out, working himself to his two big feet. As he looked around, he remembered the previous night. The plight they were all now in. He also noticed the faces staring at him, perplexed. In his grumpy little remark, he had yelled out to his friend in leafeater, just like he always had. They don't speak that way anymore, dummy! he thought to himself. "Sorry, forgot you guys speak... sharptooth now...". His stomach growled, bringing his mind to much more important matters.

His mind drifted to his diet in the Great Valley. All manner of small bugs and insects. Sadly, there was none in the immediate area, and even if there was, it wouldn't be enough. Back in the valley, he could find enough grub to keep himself alive, but that was mostly because the valley was so lush, and over-ridden with insects, and also because sometimes ruby and his other friends would help him look for them.

Things were far different now. Some bugs wouldn't be able to keep a whole pack fed!

"How much... further?' he barely heard Petrie utter, as he was struggling to wake up again. "It's gonna be... a few more days... at least." He had to force out, now realizing himself how much worse this journey was going to get. How can we last a few more days? We're gonna have to eat before then, but that means... NO! No, we... can't resort to that!

He had never told his friends one way or the other, but he had never killed a dinosaur before. He'd come close to it before, many times during hunts by himself and with his parents, but he could never bring himself to making the kill. Half of his mind was kicking himself for never doing it, making this situation a little bit easier if he had, but the other half was quickly dreading the next few days. He knew what was probably going to happen soon, but he was trying to keep himself from believing it.

"We better get going, guys. We gotta get to hanging rock, and the valley could be after us, too!"

EDIT-just fixed some typos.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on April 12, 2015, 05:37:39 AM
Ducky jerked awake the memories of last night haunted her sleep. She hoped for a moment that it was all just a bad dream. But when she saw her friends reality hit her again.

"It wasn't a sleep story.." she spoke quietly. She pulled herself to her feet dreading what was ahead. She glanced down at her stomach as it grumbled. She glupped and hoped her friends would not hear. They all knew what sharp teeth ate.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on April 26, 2015, 06:02:30 PM
Littlefoot woke up  up in state of confusion for a brief moment he thought everything was normal until the reality hit him. He pulled himself up and looked around at the vast landscape. “Well it’s either go on and try to survive or give up and die here.”

Littlefoot normally full of confidence was at complete loss, like a hatchlīng without it’s mother. “The earlier we get going the faster we get there...get help…”

The former longneck felt the first signs of hunger growing in his stomach. He glanced around hoping their answer would somehow appear “We need to at least find water, we can last a while without food...but we can’t survive without water.”
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on April 26, 2015, 06:03:11 PM
“So, do we go now, Littlefoot?” Chomper piped up. He said it with some urgency in his voice, as he knew the rest weren’t going to keep their sanity for much longer without food in their bellies. As he looked around, he saw many worried faces. Eyes full of fear and dread. He was feeling that same fear, but much worse, knowing what was soon coming.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on April 26, 2015, 06:04:49 PM
Cera looked upon the sharpteeth around her with a mix of sympathy and trepidation.  These are my friends.  She had to remind herself.  ...and this is me..  

They were all awake and they were all hungry.  She knew very well that this did not bode well for the future.  Hunger was bad enough as a leaf-eater, but how was she supposed to fight off a new hunger that she had never experienced before?  The grumble from Spike’s stomach only further illustrated her concerns.

“Yeah, Littlefoot.”  She began.  “But if we are hungry...”  

She shook her head as she looked towards the former oviraptor, her friend Ruby.  Should we even head towards Ruby’s family when we are hungry?  We are sharpteeth now…  She swallowed as she realized that they had to deal with one crisis at a time.  

“You’re right.  We need to focus on water.”
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on April 26, 2015, 06:12:40 PM
Swallowing, his throat dry as sandpaper, Petrie put a hand on Spike to support himself as he looked around at the group. He nodded. “Need to move… quickly.” In their condition, waiting around in the same place for any length of time would be a bad idea. He glanced around them with anxious eyes, almost expecting to see a gang of furious pursuers come charging at them at any second.  “Which way?”
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Zimba on May 06, 2015, 08:03:44 PM
Ducky’s eyes went from each speaker to the other, she was not sure how Ruby’s family could help them when they wouldn’t be able to speak to them. Would they even believe Chomper?

Keeping her doubts to herself she spoke quietly “Yes...water..we’ll never make it to Hanging Rock without it, we’ll die of thirst before anything else.”

The landscape around them seemed to be mocking them, for what seemed like miles ahead the ground was dry and cracked, only the odd rock every now and then stood out in this living hell, it was like a punishment, the world turned against them testing everything they know about survival.

She squinted gazing into the distance trying to spot something...anything...she didn’t dare ask the question as she feared the answer-were they going to die?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on May 07, 2015, 04:23:05 PM
Ruby didn’t really need to add anything to the points that her friends had made. They needed to get to Hanging Rock quick so any further discussions were not only unnecessary but also a waste of time.

“So we all agree, agree we all do,” Ruby spoke up with a firm voice, ignoring the slight stinging in her stomach. “Hanging Rock is that way so let’s go that way,” she said, pointing towards the direction of Hanging Rock - their last hope.

Only then something Littlefoot said just moments before entered her mind.

“We need to at least find water, we can last a while without food...but we can’t survive without water.”

“Right… going the direct way won’t lead us to any water,” Ruby realised. The former fastrunner considered how to fix that problem. It wouldn’t have been so tricky if she knew a source of water nearby but she didn’t.The area around Hanging Rock was very dry and water was scarce. Hanging Rock itself was close to a source of water but the area between the Great Valley and Hanging Rock was pure wasteland.

“What should we do???” Ruby questioned herself. Then she had an idea. Turning towards Chomper, she spoke up.

“Hey Chomper, could you, well, sniff for any water we might find on our way? Littlefoot is right, we should find something to drink rather sooner than later.”
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on May 07, 2015, 04:32:01 PM
“I’d love to,” Chomper began “but I got this big knot in my side. Oh, if only a fast biter could do the sniffing for me!”

He didn’t really mean to be so snappy, but he really wanted everyone to get going. Water was a concern, yes, but food was a bigger concern in his eyes.

“We really need to get to hanging rock, guys! I know water is important, but… Sharpteeth… lose their sanity without food. They suffer from something called hunger madness. If we aren’t careful, we’re gonna be at each other’s throats soon!
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on May 07, 2015, 04:40:05 PM
Ruby was confused. What exactly did Chomper mean? Ruby knew only one dinosaur who was capable of tracking things with his sniffer effectively and that was Chomper. Surely she couldn’t do that.

“Yeah, if only I could… wait a minute!” Ruby exclaimed as she suddenly caught Chomper’s draft, realisation hitting her hard. “Darn it! I keep forgetting that I am no longer the Ruby that I used to be. Surely I could sniff for water I think but still... I guess that your sniffer is more experienced than mine, more experienced it is,” the rose coloured fastbiter spoke.

She then rose her sniffer towards the sky in order to inhale the hot and dry air through her nose, analysing the multitude of smells that were lingering in it. The most prominent of those were the distinctive smells of her friends and the various mixtures of different odors that indicated the mood of each of her friends as well as their feelings. She could smell on Chomper that he was in a hurry and most of her other friends had that particular smell on them too. As a matter of fact, she could even smell a slight hue of it in her very own body odor.

Chomper was right, there was little reason in being slow and trotting along in a relaxed manner. They had every reason to hurry for the faster they would arrive at Hanging Rock the greater their chances of survival would be.

Ruby’s thoughts then shifted to something else Chomper had just said. “Hunger Madness? That doesn’t sound good at all, not good at all it sounds…”
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: rhombus on May 07, 2015, 06:58:28 PM
They suffer from something called hunger madness. If we aren’t careful, we’re gonna be at each other’s throats soon!

Spike paused upon hearing his friend’s words.  Hunger madness… What exactly could his friend be referring to?  He had been hungry before in his life… well… most of his life actually, but now the food that he yearned for was something else entirely.  Ignoring the others and munching on plants was one thing, but to give into that urge now would mean…

“What exactly is the hunger madness and is there any way for us to stop it?”  Upon seeing Chomper turn in his direction, he amended his statement.  “I mean… without doing that.”
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on May 07, 2015, 07:58:55 PM
“What exactly is the hunger madness and is there anyway for us to stop it? “I mean… without doing that.”

“The only way to really stop hunger madness would be to… eat, yes. After you’ve dealt with it for a long time, you can get more used to it, but there’s no way to stop it completely. It makes you delusional. Makes you stop caring about anything around you. Only focusing on yourself, on staying alive.”

He could smell the tension rise in the group as he spoke on. He didn’t even have to see the faces of his friends to tell what they were feeling.The tale-tell signs of worry and anxiety filled his nostrils,

“It’s like that time you told me when the Great Valley was attacked by those swarming leaf gobblers. You all had to leave, and look for food elsewhere. After a few days, everyone became agitated, bickering and snapping at each other, getting into arguments that went nowhere. Even fighting a little. It’s like that… but so much worse! And none of you have ever had to go through it, like I have. I don’t know how you’re gonna deal with it.”

He felt awful, telling the pack this, but it had to get out. They had to know about it, as he didn’t see any way they would be avoiding it, even though he was going to try to avoid it, as much as he could. He couldn’t resort to killing, not now!

“Can we get going already!? We gotta get to Ruby’s parents!”

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Back in the Great Valley, the residents were waking up themselves. The Valley was surprisingly quiet after a rather loud and eventful night. Most residents were keeping to themselves this morning, in small groups, comforting and supporting each other.

Mr. Threehorn came to his feet just in time to see the volunteer flyers from last night’s meeting taking to the skies, in search of that traitor, and his pack. Seeing this filled him with great pride. Not for the flyers, necessarily (It would be weird if Topsy felt pride for another species, no?), but he felt pride in the valley as a whole. A community of dinosaurs that wasn’t going to let any predator get the better of them. He raised his head up to the skies to bellow out at the scouting flyers.

“Good luck in your search, and stay safe!” he yelled out to them.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on May 08, 2015, 08:03:55 AM
The wind felt good against Guido’s skin, brushing its fingers through his feathers as he glided through the air to catch up to the rest of the search group. As it always did when he was in the air, the brisk, cold feeling calmed him.

He heard Threehorn’s booming voice and glanced down, giving a thumbs up though there was no way that he’d be able to see it. I have the feeling we’ll need all the luck we can get… He looked up, looking past the Great Valley and out into the vast wilderness stretching out into the distance. The unknown. In an instant, the good feeling he’d had was gone, replaced by a sickly, corrupting sense of unease that wormed its way through his stomach. Closing his eyes for a second, he tried his best to force it away, then moved up to join the flyer at the head of the group. “So, do we… do we have a idea where to start? That’s a lot of ground to cover out there…” Guido scanned the mysterious beyond ahead of them. “Did anyone see which way they headed?”

Tero looked to his side, his grey eyes focussing on the small shape keeping pace, and he grunted. “So you’re actually coming then.” It was more of a resigned statement as opposed to a question, and the low, irritated tone of Tero’s already gravelly voice told Guido exactly how the bulky pteranodon felt on the matter.

He stared back at Tero, meeting his stare and ignoring the fact that Tero could easily swat him out of the air like a bug if he’d wanted. “Right. I’m actually coming. So which way?” Guido repeated, keeping his voice even.

The pteranodon frowned at him a moment longer, then with a sigh turned his attention back to the front. “They left the Great Valley from the caves on the north-east. The caves run straight through, so we know where they came out.” He grunted again. “It’s knowing where they went after that that’ll be the problem. They’ve got a lot of cover to hide with.”

“So we track them,” one of the flyers behind said.

“Right,” Tero nodded. “It might be harder to see them, but those were younger sharpteeth. Clumsy. And it looked like some of them were hurt. There’ll be a trail for us… we’ll find them.” The corner of his beak tightened. “We’ll find them.”

The uneasy sensation in Guido’s stomach returned with a vengeance.

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Petrie could feel his already crushed spirits sinking even lower as Chomper described what the hunger madness could do… what it could turn him into. Was that why sharpteeth - why other sharpteeth - were so terrifying? Had them been driven insane by their hunger?

Am I going to become that?

It didn’t seem possible. Petrie didn’t think he’d ever feel hungry again after the trauma - the blood - of last night. In fact, the very idea of eating made him feel sick. And fighting with his friends? That was unthinkable - they’d been through so much, too much to let something like this drive them apart.

No. No, they would find a cure. They’d find something to help them turn back, and then… and then everything could go back to normal. Ruby’s parents would help them before any of this became a problem. Petrie had to believe that. He had to.

“No… waste more time,” he rasped. Even the feeling of thirst that tugged at the back of his throat seemed less important than it had moments ago. “Ruby, take us to… parents!”
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on May 21, 2015, 11:16:10 AM
Her friends’ opinions about leaving their current location in order to set off for Hanging Rock matched Ruby’s completely. Discussions like the one they were just having usually didn’t go as smooth. Much rather there were often disagreements between her friends and sometimes it would even end in a fight. ”Luckily not this time…” the rose coloured fastbiter mused. The thought of her friends turning on each other was, considering the deadly weapons they now possessed, horrifying and therefore to be prevented by all means.

Ruby knew what she had to do. She quickly took in her surroundings, attempting to find some orientation in the vast desert. There were no landmarks she could rely on but Ruby had enough skills in orientation by using the Bright Circle or certain plants which were absolutely required for a dinosaur living in the Mysterious Beyond to find her way. Determined to know the rough direction they had to head to, Ruby gave Littlefoot a short glance before she turned to her friends and spoke up.

“You all are right, right you are. We will travel towards Hanging Rock as fast as our feet carry us and I will lead the way.”

There were no further words to be exchanged. Everybody got to their feet and, Ruby running ahead, the Gang set off towards Hanging Rock speedily.

Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Nahla on June 05, 2015, 07:23:49 AM
Littlefoot with one last glance behind him followed his retreating  friends, he tried to hide it but he was worried about this so called 'hunger madness' would he be expected to kill? Take a life away? The ground was cracked and dry under his feet, he longed for the soft feeling of the lush great valley grasses, but he knew he could not go back there. He would be killed on the spot, though his chances out here were not to great either.

He did not though a thing about surviving as a predator, how could he bring himself to make a killing blow? To take away someone’s loved one for his own needs?

He tried to block the thoughts out, and focus on the path ahead, slowly he was adjusting to two legs though still unstable.

That was proven when he misjudged a step and trip, cursing under his breath he pulled himself up. "Ugh I can't do this! With these legs and puny arms..what are the point of this?" in his  frustration he had forgot how sensitive Chomper could get about his arms "Seriously who in their right mind would want arms like-"

It was then he noticed Chomper and  silenced himself. Dammit, Littlefoot...if this is how you feel..think how Chomper feels  he thought Actually wonder how Chomper feels about a lot of things… he locked eyes with the sharptooth for a moment Has he ever killed? How did he handle it?. Already Littlefoot could feel his hunger growing, how long could he contain it before he snapped? Could hunger  alone really turn him into a monster?

What would happen when he first tastes blood?

Would he keep craving more and more until he is nothing more than a heartless killer?


Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on June 08, 2015, 06:33:32 PM
A loud smack rang through the air, followed by a grunt of disgust. A purple coloured flyer stared in horror at the huge, crushed bug in his palm, then at the gooey smear on his side where he'd slapped it off. Hissing, Soar wiped his hand off on the trunk of an adjacent tree then glared at the two other flyers, Beaks and Tailbone, as they snickered at his reaction. “I hate this place,” Soar muttered.

“It sure loves you…” Tailbone chuckled, glancing at Beaks. “That’s, what, the tenth time he’s been bitten?”

“More like the hundredth. Must be because he tastes so good,” Beaks grinned, then flinched as Soar flicked the remnants of the squashed bug’s juice at him. “Hey!”

Ignoring his protests, Soar turned to Tero, gesturing in Tailbone and Beaks’ direction. “The tracks keep going in that direction. We almost done here? Flyers don’t belong down on the ground.” He desperately waved a hand to ward off yet another insect that came buzzing perilously close to his head.

Watching, Guido felt he had to agree. Of course, it wasn’t until relatively recently that he’d managed to start gliding and spend less time walking, but now that he’d experienced that freedom, it just seemed so much more… vulnerable down here. Especially in the mysterious beyond – and given who they were looking for, that helpless feeling was only intensified.

Tero stood up from where he’d been crouched, examining the base of a large tree. “Yeah. Yeah, we’re done here.” He stared at the spattered blood, long since dried in the dirt. “We were right. One of them is hurt. Badly. We should be able to catch up with that one soon, at least.”

As Soar and the other flyers nodded eagerly, something caught Guido’s eye. He hopped off the log he’d been perched on and walked over to a small green blob. Bending down, he scooped it up and held it out for the others to see. “Maybe not as hurt as you think. This paste… it’s made of leaves that can help with cuts and bites. A friend showed me once… And if it’s near where all this blood is…”

Soar scoffed. “Sharpteeth don’t know anything about that stuff.”

“One of them does – this was done recently.” Tero bent to examine the paste that Guido held up. He considered a moment. “Odd. They’re young, clumsy enough to wake up half the valley, but they know medicine?” Tero shook his head. “This doesn’t change anything. Come on, we’re wasting time.”

As Tero and the others took off, following the direction the tracks led in, Guido glanced down at the dried medicinal paste in his hand. These sharpteeth they were tracking… they weren’t just any sharpteeth.  What’s going on? Swallowing, his throat dry, Guido followed the other flyers, his unease deepening.

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Hyp grimaced, the corners of the young hypsilophodon’s mouth turning downwards, his brow creased in a scowl as he sat despondently at the nest belonging to him and his father. Far off in the distance, Hyp could see his father among the large group of adults who had clustered together near the lake’s edge to discuss what should be done next about the sharpteeth, the ones who had managed to sneak in.
 
 He stared for a moment longer, eyes narrowed, then lifted himself up off the rock he was resting against with a heavy sigh. Casting a sly gaze around to see who was in earshot, Hyp folded his arms across his chest. He kicked the ground. He shook his head. He sighed again, then kicked the ground once more for good measure. “I can’t believe my dad told me to guard the nest…” he complained loudly. “If they just let me help, I could take out those sharpteeth no problem. Just give me a day… or two to make it more fair, and BLAM!” Hyp pounded his fist into his left palm. “It’s goodnight sharptooth losers!”
 
This was, of course, all bluster. Inside, Hyp was supremely relieved that his father had instructed him to stay at the nest, where it was safe and protected. Where he wouldn’t have to worry about being dragged away by bloodthirsty monsters, jaws crunching, teeth tearing, claws ripping…. Hyp almost shuddered, catching himself just in time.
 
And the hatchlings… those brats didn’t stand a chance… Deep down, Hyp felt bad that the small longneck and his friends had been taken. After all, if it hadn’t been for them, right now he’d be at the bottom of that tar pit – but closer to the surface, closer to the skin that he cared about most, the thought that just kept repeating in Hyp’s mind was ëBetter them than me… better them than me…’ But at least he wouldn’t have to worry about anything. All he’d have to do was sit back, sit right here, like his father instructed, and let the adults sort all this out. Then the danger would be over…
 
“Just one punch,” he announced, raising his voice to nobody in particular and waving his fists for emphasis, “And it’s over!”
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 08, 2015, 10:03:59 PM
“Hey Hyp, there yer are!” Mutt called panting as he finally arrived at his best buddy’s nesting place. Usually they would meet at their special hangout but the recent events in the Valley required them to pick a different meeting place.

The safety standards in the Valley had been raised. Mutt, with some annoyance, still had the words of his mother in mind. ”Don’t leave the nest until we can be sure the valley is cleaned of those beasts.” The young Muttaburrasaurus left anyway to see his friend in order to talk about the attack.

He had only heard rumors yet since his parents wouldn’t answer any of his questions but he was certain Hyp would be able to confirm what he had picked up from the flyers during their flight to the great meeting that was going on not too far away from Hyp’s nest. Mutt was almost excited but also very uncertain. After all he had heard that Littlefoot and his friends - their favourite little kids to pick on, had been captured by sharpteeth and, according to what he picked up, disappeared without any sign. No bones, no blood - nothing. To Mutt that sounded just like a big pile of dung but there had to be a bit of truth about it since the whole valley seemed to be agitated and mourning.

“Hyp, yer heard ëbout what happened last night?” Mutt exclaimed excitedly. “It true that those lil’ buggers were killed by sh-sharpteeth?”

At the corner of his eyes, Mutt noticed his other pal Nod approaching them. Maybe he would also know more?
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on November 09, 2015, 09:33:46 AM
While on the way to the gang’s meetup place, Nod wondered why Hyp called this meeting in the first place. He had heard some hearsay on the whole incident from last night. About how Littlefoot and his little collection of twerps had gone missing. About Chomper apparently betraying the valley and bringing in a whole pack of young sharpteeth. Was Hyp planning on finding out what happened? Maybe finding and beating up Chomper’s new little gang of fastbiter lackeys?

He’d almost always go along with whatever Hyp wanted, but he had to admit this whole incident was making him worried.

Thinking more about last night’s fiasco, he had to admit himself that it didn’t make much sense. Littlefoot and his friends gone, without a trace? Did Chomper’s pack take them for some kind of ransom? Was the gang now out, trying to find Chomper, and figure out what’s up with him? Well, if they aren’t dead yet, they're probably out there right now, about to get themselves killed! Hopefully talking with his two friends would clear these questions up. He came up to Hyp and Mutt, ready for a few answers.

“Hey Hyp, here for the little meet up. What’s up?”
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on November 13, 2015, 08:10:37 PM
"Yeah, I heard those brats got eaten tails an' all." Hyp turned his meanest expression to Mutt, growling. "And sure it's true - it's not like I was there to save the day. Those sharptooth cowards waited until I was asleep... they knew if I was there they wouldn't stand a chance. CRACK!" Hyp brought his foot down mightily on a twig, snapping it in half. Of course, this was only half true. He had been asleep up until the alert had been sounded. But as soon as the cry went out, he'd huddled quivering beside his father, terrified of the monsters that crept through the darkness... he thought this information was best kept to himself, however.

When Nod came ambling up, Hyp snorted. "Nothing's up... I was just getting bored 'cause I can't leave the nest!" When he realised how this sounded, Hyp blinked. "I mean... since my dad told me he wanted me to guard the nest, you know?" he recovered. "In case... in case the sharpteeth come back. Yeah." He recovered his composure and started to strut about. "This sucks... if it was up to me, I'd head out there, find those stinking sharpteeth babies and teach them a lesson they ain't never gonna forget!" he exclaimed, pulling a heroic pose, a bright ray of sunshine peeking through the clouds and shining on him dramatically.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: Ducky123 on November 28, 2015, 11:32:11 AM
Hyp’s speech gave Mutt a certain feeling. Suddenly, he felt like he could do anything he set his mind upon. Those annoying kids meant nothing to him and if it weren’t for the fact that they were now forced to look out for new promising targets they could bully it wouldn’t bother him at all that they were gone. ”Maybe those dumb ol’ sharpteeth could be our next victims tho…” he thought, a smirk apearing on his face as he considered his options, Yes, that sounded like a plan.

“He Hyp, why don’t we just go after them anyway?” Mutt offered to the group. “Those sharpteeth ain’t gonna come back after our old people chased ëem out so yer don’t need to watch the nest. Let’s beat some sense into them, shall we Hyp?” Mutt was salivating in childlike excitement.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: vonboy on January 16, 2016, 02:20:04 PM
“We’ll have those sharpteeth running home to their mommies and daddies, if they can even run after we’re done with em!” This remark was yelled out by Nod, without the knowledge that this pack of savage sharptooth can’t go back to their families. He also yelled this out with the most determined face he could muster, since he didn’t believe a bloody word he was spurting out.

This is just stupid. Really stupid! He thought to himself. He just couldn’t back down now, though. His little group had always been built around trying to appear tough, and showing any weakness or uneasiness, even if it was the thing any sane dinosaur would do, was looked down upon harshly.

So, Nod just kept nodding his head, hoping someone else would try to stop this stupid little charade, because he wasn’t really looking forward to stopping it himself.
Title: A sudden change of species
Post by: bushwacked on February 07, 2016, 06:08:09 PM
Hyp blinked. "You... you guys are serious?" Oh no... "I, ah... Uh..." He suddenly realised that he was just gawping at them, his mouth hanging open, and he shut it with a click as he struggled to regain his composure. "You guys wouldn't be too scared? I thought for sure I'd have to go alone. To deal with them. With the sharpteeth."

Sighing, his eyes glowering with deep frustration, he shook his head. "But... my dad needs me to guard the nest, Mutt. I mean, he's -" Hyp beckoned them forward, lowering his voice. "He's actually terrified of them. He knows if they came back, I'm the only one who'd be able to stop them. It's hard, all this responsibility but..." Hyp spread his hands as if to say 'What can you do?'

"Hey Hyp!" His father's voice carried across to him from a little way across the valley.

Hyp turned, squinting at the adult's distant form. "What dad?! I'm in the middle of something important!"

"We've been talking it over, and we think it's safe enough for you and your friends to go and play! Just stay together!"

Grimacing, Hyp shouted back. "I don't play dad! I'm basically a grownup!" Muttering under his breath, he turned back to Mutt and Nod, then paled as it dawned on him that his only excuse for not going along with his masterplan had just been destroyed. "I, ah... guess I can go after all. Awesome! Ha ha ha..."