(Here’s the beginning of the final battle, even though these aren’t the final chapters. I want to thank Serris and Dark Fox Tailz for giving me some ideas, cause I’ll admit I’m not that great at fight scenes.)
Chapter 39: Fight to the Finish Part 1
Since the groups had spent most of the time without rest, Sharptooth decided that rest was necessary, as they had 14 hours estimated before the ultimatum Rinkus and Sierra had given them was up. Chomper, Ruby, and Rita were sleeping on the back of Mr. Belly Dragger, his back big enough for the little t-rex, fast biter, and longneck. But the movement eventually woke them up.
Rita looked at the snow falling around them, it was near the Cold Time, after all. “The snow is so pretty,” she said, always fascinated by the sight. “Yeah, it’s nice,” Chomper said, still cuddling a sleeping Ruby. Dein, Terri, and Zidane soon walked up.
“Son, we want you and your friends to stay by us in case those flyers attack,” Terri said. “We will mom,” Chomper replied in sharptooth. “What did she say?” asked Rita. “She said that we should stay with them in case those flyers attack.” Chomper replied.
“But won’t they agree to release our friends?” Rita asked confused.
“We don’t know,” Chomper replied, “These flyers….they really are evil.” Ruby awoke at this point. Even though she didn’t know how to speak leafeater, she had an idea of what they were talking about.
“Those fleyers….they caused the death of everyone in my family,” Ruby said, with Chomper translating, “And I can only imagine every else they have hurt. We’ve got to stop them.” Ruby continued.
Rita looked horrified at Ruby’s story. “I’m sorry,” she said somberly, “I don’t know what it’s like to lose family, but I can only imagine it hurts greater than anything else.” Chomper translated for Ruby, then Rita asked how she got over the pain. Ruby replied, and Chomper translated “I helped a lot,” Chomper smiled, being kissed on the cheek by Ruby.
BACK WITH THE OTHER GROUP…..
Pterano was giving instructions to the swimming sharpteeth in the group. “In Cold Times like this, I’m sure some of the flyers relax in the nearby hot springs, so you need to stay underwater until some of them arrive.”
“Then what Mr. Petrie’s uncle?” Ducky asked, enjoying the hot water.
“Then…you pull them under by their feet and drown them,” Pterano instructed.
Ducky went wide eyed, she had hunted down flatteeth swimmers before, but this was something she had never done before. “Don’t worry Ducky,” Mama Swimming Sharptooth, “Me and the other grownups we’ll take care of this if you don’t think you can.” “Thanks mommy,” Ducky smiled.
Veli came up to Pterano “How are you so sure that the other flyers aren’t aware of your secret entrance?” the fast biter father asked.
Pterano smirked. “Because when your head’s as high in the puffies as theirs are, you tend to forget what’s on the ground,” he replied.
IN THE LAIR……….
Sierra flew up to Dack. “Some of the other flyers and myself are taking a flight then proceeding to Black Rock. I’ve decided to take our hostage with me, she should experience one more flight before her death,” Sierra laughed. Sierra had waited till Rory, Tricia, Myra, Mo, and Strut were asleep to say this. Dack silently pushed the boulder aside, and Sierra flew over to Tricia.
“Time to go,” he smirked in a sinister tone, and picked up Tricia and put her in his claws, and flew out of the Holding Caves, some of the other flyers ( A total of five) decided to follow him.
THE NEXT MORNING……….
Chomper’s group was a few hours walk away from Black Rock, but they would be able to make it within the time limit. “If they try to harm that baby fast biter, I will tear their freaking throats out,” Zidane vowed. Ruby nodded, as did Chomper. Rita had never seen or heard of someone who was pure evil before, so she had no comments right now.
Elsewhere, Pterano was leading both the sharpteeth and the flatteeth (minus the swimming sharpteeth of course) to the opposite side of the mountain from the entrance to the dominion of the evil flyers. “I don’t see any cave entrance,” Redfoot commented angrily.
Pterano let out a sigh. “That’s why it was a SECRET entrance,” he said. He pointed towards a part of the wall covered completely in moss. “Everyone! I will need assistance in moving the rocks that are covered in this moss.” Dil, Redfoot, Veli, Cira, Growley, Tyran, Saura, and every other name that’s counted as a spelling error on my Microsoft word program were up to the task.
Most of the dinosaurs with hands cleared the moss away, it had been many cold times since Pterano used this place, so it was a hard, but not too hard job. Redfoot, Tyran, Tera, Julie, and the rest of grownups took out the rocks, revealing a rather large tunnel.
“Wow….” Littlefoot, Shorty, Cera, Petrie, Tippy, and Guido went in unison. “We must be quick and as silent as we can,” Tera instructed, leading the way alongside her brother. “Got it mom,” Petrie replied.
After about 11 minutes of walking, they came to what looked like a dead end. Pterano ordered the big group to halt. “This is it everyone,” he said. “On the other side of this wall, there is no turning back until the fight is over. Anyone who doesn’t want to do this doesn’t have to.” But surprisingly, no one wanted to leave, not even the children. “I’m going to kill every one of them,” Cera muttered angrily, also having extreme anger in this scenario. “Yeah, let’s destroy them!” Shorty laughed. One quality about their soon that concerned Tyran and Saura was Shorty’s over eagerness to fight sometimes, but they realized now he had a reason to be.
Veli, Cira, Elsie, Tyran, Dil, Saura, and most of the fast biters began pushing on the rock that would lead to their final battle. “On the count of 3,” Cira instructed, even though Dil and Elsie had no idea what she was saying. As they were starting to shove the rock, one of the evil flyers noticed that one of the walls was shaking, and he couldn’t figure out why.
AT THE HOT SPRINGS…………
6 of the flyer’s in Rinkus and Sierra’s army were relaxing in the warm waters. “To think…this is our final day before the earth will become ours,” one sighed, relaxed. “And then all those other asinine species will finally realize who is truly superior,” another nodded. Little did they know what lurked right below them….
The water in the hot springs was a very dark shade of blue, so you could NOT see anything that was under the water. That was the perfect cover the swimming sharpteeth needed. Mama Swimming Sharptooth was giving commands to everyone else (Author’s note: I don’t know if this is true or not (I doubt it is, but it’s just here for the sake of the story), but swimmers of both types, in this story, have a special third language they can use to communicate with each other while underwater.) “We have to be swift,” she said. Everyone must attack at the same time.” Everyone looked up carefully at the flyer’s feet. They were about to strike.
“What a daAH!” one of the flyers said as he was suddenly grabbed by the feet and pulled under the water by one of the swimming sharpteeth, his 5 allies having a similar fate. Pterano’s strategy had worked. The pressure of being under water greatly slows down a flyer’s main weapon: their flight ability. 5 of the swimming sharpteeth were successfully holding down on the flyer’s feet in their mouths. After about 30 seconds of struggling, most of the flyers had given up. Too much water had gotten into their lungs. However, the one Ducky’s mother was holding onto still had some fight left in him. Using his hand claws, he slashed near Mama swimming Sharptooth’s eye. The impact weakened her grip.
“Mommy!” Ducky yelled, and swam as fast as she could towards the flyer and bit deep into it’s torso. Normally, the wound inflicted by the bite wouldn’t be enough to kill the flyer, but since they were underwater, the blood came out more faster, severely weakening the flyer, then it finally died. The swimming sharpteeth surfaced. “Mommy, are you ok?” Ducky asked scared.
“Yes, I am,” Ducky’s mother replied. She had a scratch on her face, but it was safely above her eye and nothing to severe. “Well, we’ve done our part,” another swimmer said.
BACK IN THE CAVES………
“3!” yelled Cira. The dinosaurs pushed against the rock so hard that when they pushed inside, the flyer who was standing right there was soon crushed between the rock and the opposite wall. The edges of the wall were sharp, and one of the spikes went into the flyer’s back. When the group entered, they noticed a small puddle of blood forming from the other side of the rock they pushed. Redfoot was the first to notice the evil flyer they had just killed.
“Wow……that was easy.” Icky muttered. This was a part of their lair that the flyers didn’t use much, so they didn’t hear the noise. Pterano flew in front of everyone. “But this isn’t going to be easy. Everyone here, this will be our finest moment, but we must be prepared.” Pterano said that in both languages. Everyone got battle-ready.
About this time, Rinkus and the rest of the remaining flyers who hadn’t left (besides Dack) were gathered in the central part of the lair. As Rinkus was relaxing, just waiting for their inevitable victory, a smell entered his sniffer. It was Pterano’s trail. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” he muttered in disbelief. “What? Who do you smell?” one flyer asked confused.
“A pest I believed I had shooed off,” Rinkus replied. “Wait here.” Rinkus began flying down the tunnel where he was noticing Pterano’s trail.
Pterano, meanwhile, flew ahead of the group. “Don’t follow until I give the signal,” he advised everyone. After about 1 minute of flying, Pterano and Rinkus finally saw each other face-to-face.
“Pterano, how you been?” Rinkus asked on the off-chance that Pterano had no idea what they were doing. “Cut the crap Rinkus,” Pterano replied. “I know what you and Sierra are up too, and I’ve come to stop you and free anyone you’ve captured.” Rinkus then burst into laughter.
“I hate to say the obvious, my friend, but do you realize how many flyers are on our side, the most you’d be able to do before we killed you is give one of us a tiny scratch!”
“That’s why I’m not alone,” Pterano grinned confidently. Tera flew beside him. “Ah Tera, I guess it’s true that siblings do everything together, including dieing together too.” “They’re not alone,” Tyran called, stepping up. “One rex, you think that’ll help you in the slightest?”
“Not one, two,” Saura said, stepping beside her mate. “Make that 4,” Littlefoot said, he and Shorty standing besides their parents.
“Add a longneck,” Redfoot said, even though the conversation had been spoken in sharptooth, he was able to understand the general gist of it.
“You have our daughter,” Veli said angrily, showing up behind Pterano, Cira and Cera standing next to him.
One by one, Petrie, his siblings, Julie, Icky, Greg, Dil, Rory’s folks, Myra’s folks, Grandpa Sharptooth, Spike, Mr. Belly Dragger, Growley, Mr. Bladeback, Elsie, Tippy, Guido, all of the other rexes, all of the other belly draggers, all of the other fast biters, and some of the sharptooth flyers all politely introduced themselves.
“Oh…..crap.” Rinkus muttered (But let’s just say that crap wasn’t the word he used.)
Littlefoot, Tippy, Shorty, and Cera covered their ears so they didn’t here the bad word. “You see Rinkus, if you do the math, you’ll realize you made and Sierra made a miscalculation. Now….attack!” called Pterano.
Rinkus quickly flew backwards, it was CLEAR that assistance was going to be needed against this army. “What’s going on boss?” one of the flyer’s asked, not knowing why Rinkus appeared panicked.
“We’re under attack,” Rinkus panted. “Everybody, get ready for battle.” Rinkus stopped being nervous. His army of flyers could take down any type of dinosaur, no matter how much the quantity of the opposing force. After mere seconds, the army of sharpteeth and flatteeth reached the central cavern, Veli and Pterano leading everybody.
AT BLACK ROCK……..
The group had arrived at the base of Black Rock. They were instructed by Rinkus and Sierra to take it to the top a while ago. “I’ll go up there,” Sharptooth said.
“But I want to help!” Chomper called, running beside the big rex’s feet. Sharptooth looked down at Chomper, with a caring expression on his face.
“Chomper….if the flyers attack, I do not want to put your life at risk,” Sharptooth replied. “But I don’t want to lose you Sharptooth!” Ruby called, running up, “You’ve helped me so much, you’ve cared for me….”
“We’ll go with you,” Mr. Belly Dragger and Grandma Sharptooth said. Dein, Terri, Zidane, and the others stayed to watch over the kids.
AT THE BATTLE……
The chaos had begun. One of the enemy flyers picked up a loose stalactite and threw it at Dil’s side. The spiketail screamed in pain. “Mom!” called Greg, rushing to his mother’s side. Icky looked angry at the flyer. “Why you….” He muttered in rage.
Icky flew towards the evil flyer, and the two began slashing at each other with their claws. Dil looked impressed at what the flyer that lived with her’s strength. All of those “weakling” jokes were being proven untrue.
Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, Guido, and Tippy stayed together. “What are we gonna do?” Guido asked nervously. One of the bad guy flyers flew towards them, but Saura managed to swipe it away. Suddenly, Spike’s sniffer began acting up, and he went overe to an old leafeater carcass.
“Now’s not the time for eating Spike!” Cera yelled in the heat of the moment, but Spike began doing something odd. “Tippy thinks Spike has a plan,” Tippy commented. The young bellydragger dug into the carcass, and using his mighty teeth, removed some of the leafeater’s bones.
As Pterano was dueling Rinkus, he called out to everyone of his allies: “Go for the wings! A flyer who can’t fly can’t fight!” An angry Rinkus managed to hit Pterano in a……..sensitive area. Pterano cried out in pain, but before Rinkus could do anything else, Tera flew up and slashed him across the face, knocking him back.
“Sister….” Pterano said, still recovering from the blow, “I need you to take over as commander of our mission.” “Why?” Tera asked. “Sierra’s not here, but I know where he’s going.” Pterano then walked to the exit of the cave, and flew out.
“Coward!” Rinkus taunted out loud. Tera roared angrily, and all her children flew over beside her. “Don’t call my uncle a coward!” Petrie yelled. “He’s better than you in every way!” “Such brave words from such a foolish child,” Rinkus grinned in his in-dinomane (inhumane) way.
In the Holding Cells, the prisoners could hear the battle going on a short distance. “What’s going here?!” Myra yelled. Dack, noticing the struggle, looked into the cave where the young leafeaters were being held. “Bad news kids,” he grinned “It looks like your deaths are about to come more earlier than initially expected.”
Mo, Myra, and Rory’s hearts sank. They were too weak to fight, and just waited for the worst. “Rory…” Myra cried, “I….I….” but before Dack could lift his calw, someone dashed into the cave and knocked Dack against the wall. “What was that?” asked Mo.
It was an enraged Veli, followed by Cira, Elsie, and the parents of Rory and Myra. “MOM!” All 3 cried happily, running to their parents. “You’re safe,” Elsie said, hugging Mo tight. As the leafeater parents were glad to see thie rchildren again, Veli was killing the ever-living snot out of Dack.
“WHERE IS MY DAUGHTER?!” Veli yelled, louder than anytime he yelled before. “I’ll never tell,” Dack said. Veli kept smashing Dack’s head against the wall, blood coming out from the cracks. “WHERE IS SHE?!”
“I’ll never confess,” laughed Dack, as if he didn’t fear death. Veli than dug his claws into Dack’s chest and then proceeded to rip the chest open. Cira just stood there as her mate ripped out and tore up Dack’s internal organs (Hope this satisfies the violence-wanters.) “Veli….it’s over,” Cira said, trying to calm Veli down. “He’s dead.” “But where’s Tricia?”! he yelled. “I think the leader took her to Black Rock,” Cira replied.
Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, Tippy, and Guido were now all armed with broken leafeater bones, which could be used as weapons do to the sharpness. Growley and Grandpa Sharptooth had just knocked a flyer against the wall, Growley suffering a few injuries, but he was mostly ok. Before the flyer could move again, Cera, Littlefoot, and Guido quickly pinned him to the wall with the leafeater bones, which they lodged in the flyer’s wings. The flyer soon died. But the battle was far from over.
BACK AT BLACK ROCK………..
Sharptooth, Mr. Belly Dragger, and Grandma Sharptooth arrived at the top. Sierra and the other flyers were waiting for them. “I’m impressed Sharptooth, I honestly didn’t believe you and the rest of the Great valley would be able to locate the Ancient Stone.”
Sharptooth looked up angry at Sierra. “Just let the young fast biter go free,” he demanded.
“After I make my wish, she’ll be yours,” Sierra smiled sinisterly. “Of course, after I make my wish, it won’t matter, you’ll all be enslaved.”
“Fine,” Sharptooth nodded, knowing that trying something different could result in Tricia’s death.
Back at the base of Black Rock, Chomper was looking nervous for two reasons. 1: For Tricia’s safety, and 2: That Sierra’s wish would be granted and the world would become a terrible place. He went over to Ruby and hugged her, wanting her by his side.
Back at the peak, Sierra began the chant….
(Honestly, I could not think of any fancy chant for this part, so just leave it to your imagination. Anyways….)
“Oh Great Stone of Cold Fire: Grant my wish! I wish that flyers ruled the world, and that every other type of dinosaur would be our mere subjects!”
Chomper waited for the worst. Sierra waited for the best. But several seconds went by. Nothing happened. The stone the sharpteeth had located WAS the correct stone, but nothing happened. Then, louder than any noise the sharpteeth had heard before, Sierra yelled….
“NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
TO BE CONTINUED…………
(Read and review! I’m still open for ideas for the final showdown, but I do have Rinkus and Sierra’s final deaths planned, and I don’t think I’ll change them. Hope you liked the action.)
