The Gang of Five
Role Play => Land Before Time RPG => Topic started by: brekclub85 on January 15, 2009, 07:10:55 PM
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Like I posted as a topic in the RP discussion thread, I'm starting an RP based off my fanfic, Sharptooth Valley. But when I realized that not many people posted, I thought of an idea inspired by the alphabet game in the Party Room: Everyone can control whoever they want, so for example, I control Chomper in this post, but feel free to control him in your posts! Plus, you can add your own OCs! Just be sure to read the fanfic so you're familar with all the changes.
NOTICE: Actually, OCs can only be controlled by their owners
It was another great morning in the Sharptooth Great Valley. Chomper was starting to awake as the Bright Circle rose. "Ahhh." he yawned as he woke up. Dein and Terri, his parents, were still sleeping, and Chomper was sure it was his father's snoring that woke him up. :DD
"Morning son," Terri said, her eye opening. "Morning mom," Chomper smiled. "I'm gonna go play with my friends."
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Longtail who was living in Sharptooth valley opened his eyes and jumped backwards in fear. It was only after a few moments that he realized it was just the bright circle in the sky. "oh...well another 'good' morning I suppose.' he said sarcastically as he stepped out of the cave.
"I wonder where everyone else is right now?" he thought aloud.
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Meanwhile, a tan-colored fast biter had awoken. "Morning Longtail!" Cera smiled, knowing how he would probably react.
"Hi Cera!" called Chomper.
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At the waterhole, Ducky and Spike had woken up. (Spike was sleeping right beside it.)
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Upon hearing Cera's greeting Longtail gave a startled yelp and jumped high enough to hit his head against a tree branch. As he landed on his belly back on the ground he moaned. "Hello...Cera. Nice morning isn't it." he said with a groan.
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"Cheer up Longtail," Littlefoot smiled, coming by. "We were going to go hunt for breakfast, wanna come?"
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Longtail rolled away from Littlefoot giving another cry of surprise and hit his head against a rock. "Ow...yeah, sure. I just wish you guys would stop sneaking up on me."
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"We won't, we promise," Littlefoot yelled. Chomper, Ruby, Spike, and Petrie came by. "Spike's hungry, can tell," Petrie smiled.
Chomper gave Ruby a quick kiss.
"Let's go," Chomper smiled. e enjoyed this reality he created.
(Remember, just cause I've controlled the gang in these posts, you all can control them in your posts.)
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As the bright circle topped the edge of the Valley rim, its rays spilled down to strike a broad arch of skin poking up between two leafy bushes. The sail quivered as sunlight warmed the blood vessels within, heart starting to pump with more vigor. One pale green eye peeked open to view the world.
With a wide yawn to show off a thick jaw of round jagged teeth, he drew his squat legs under his body and shuffled out of the shrubs where he had curled up to sleep. The sunlight fell on a long low gray-skinned body with thick blunt snout and four short legs, a strong tail trailing behind. From his back sprung a high sail, lightening from gray at the bottom to pale lavender at the top, with a dusting of dark purple dapples along the outter edge. Lavender diamond-outline shapes ran along the sides of his body, matching his belly and eye patches.
Winder stretched his neck left and right, and then did the same for his tail. With the kinks worked out of his body, he shuffled out onto the trail that ran to the lake. He was hungry and thirsty and now that he was awake, he didn't plan to stay that way for very long.
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(What species is Winder? I couldn't tell.)
"So what herd is hunting today?" Ruby asked. "I heard it's the belly draggers," replied Cera. "Of course, i could outhunt any belly dragger easily," the fast biter bragged.
"Right..." he friends went in unison
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Longtail gave a nervous laugh as he felt Spike lick his back. He turned around and said, "Thanks Spike...I needed that." Spike grunted in response and smiled as well. "Uh...m-maybe we can just....watch the bellydraggers watch...ya know...just to be s-safe?" asked Longtail again with a curious look
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"If you stay with us Longtail, I'm sure you'll be fine," Chomper smiled. "Yeah, let's hunt as a group of friends, that alwyas works," Ruyby smiled. Petrie was stil a bit tired so he slept on Spike's back, the belly dragger's body was big enough for a young flyer to lie on
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Longtail smiled a shy smile and stuttered, "O-okay you win. We hunt as a team." He then turned to Littlefoot and asked, "Is he okay?"
Littlefoot however didn't know, and just shrugged in response to the question. "I suppose we could ask if anyting is wrong with Petrie."
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"I'm just tired," Petrie replied, waking up from sleep briefly. "I did a lot of stunts yesterday, and I'm still a bit exhausted."
Everyone proceeded to walk towards one of the exits to the MB, occasionally passing by a friend or family member
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From a distance away, hidden among the trees, a pair of eyes watched the group leave the Great Valley. The eyes narrowed deeply, a hiss escaping their throat. They pulled their head away, not wanting to see this sight. Although shadow covered most of them, the dinosaur was definitely female, and she was covered in dark red, dark green, and pale green skin. A long, darker green crest formed on top of her head, set between her green eyes. On her left flank lay a forked scar, a long scar that split at the bottom tip. She wasn't very big, standing roughly 8 ft long. She was laying on the ground, her long arms in the grass like she was a four-legged dino. Teeth jetted out from her top jaw even when her mouth was closed.
She glanced over at another dino who was standing next to her, roughly 10 ft long this one was, covered in dark purple, light orange, and pale greenish yellow skin, also bearing a similar scar, though this one on her left thigh. Also female, but she wasn't of the same species. Her head was long and slender, her jagged teeth hidden inside the mouth. Her neck was long and slender, as well as her arms and legs; her tail was thicker in comparison. She had sickle claws like a fastbiter, but they were smaller and less usefull. Her body, however, was more built for speed compared to a fastbiter; her small size and longer legs helped her run faster, but she wasn't a fastrunner either. She flexed the digits on her hand, interlocking her thumb-like digit with her two longer digits, forming a fist, looking at it with her blue eyes.
The crested dinosaur growled in frustration. "How long must we suffer like this, Des?" The dinosaur muttered under her breath, curling her scaly lips back slightly. "We have been living like this for years. At what point are we going to do something about it?"
Des glanced at the crested dinosaur. "Patience, Guan. Patience... Good things come to those who wait." She gave a faint smile, tilting her head slightly to the side. She was looking at the same sharpteeth as Guan was. "Besides, we mustn't take out anger on the young ones..now can we..?"
Guan got up onto her feet. Although she was physically larger than Des, she wasn't as long or as tall. She craned her head slightly upward to look at Des in the eyes. "Well when is Chio going to give the orders? We've been living in this forsaken valley for too long with little action! I don't know how these sharpteeth can live like this..."
Des just sighed and shook her head. "Neither can I, but be patient, okay? And don't do anything stupid!"
"...fine..." Guan hissed.
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Chomper paused for a brief moment. "What's wrong Chomper?" asked Ruby. "It's weird, it felt like someone was watching us." Chomper replied.
"I didn't feel anything, maybe we should have Mr. Belly Dragger check you out," Cera half-jokingly suggested.
Chomper than let out a tiny huff and the group continued to head towards the exit. The belly dragger hunting group had just left
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((OOC: I wrote that Winder walks on four short legs and has a sail on his back. Those are pretty big hints. ;) Still can't guess? Click here to see his brother (http://bluedramon.deviantart.com/art/Bluff-24059995) ))
Winder dipped his heavy gray muzzle into the wateringhole, lapping up the cool liquid until he had satisfied his thrist. His stomach growled like an angry Bellydragger and he knew breakfast would be the first goal of the day.
Winder was quite the antisocial sharptooth, and didn't often socialize with the others in the Valley. But it was a beautiful land with plenty of cool water and access to easy prey, and when he had wandered in after getting lost in the mountains, he decided it was an opportune place to stay. The other sharpteeth were cordial and often invited him into their social circles, which he usually declined with a grunt and a shake of his head.
Now as he was heading for the Valley exit to see what food could be found in the outside lands, he noticed a group of younglings heading in the same direction. His pale green eyes narrowed briefly out of old habit as he studied them, but after a moment he relaxed. Sharpteeth didn't fight each other for food in the Valley, not often anyway. There was an air of cooperation among the people here. Winder wouldn't have to defend any catch from these children.
He nodded his head a little in greeting as he pulled alongside them, walking with them toward the exit.
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"Hi there," smiled Littlefoot, the first to notice Winder. "I'm Littlefoot, this is Cera, chomper, Ruby, Petrie, Spike, and Longtail. Are you going hunting too?"
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"Indeed," Winder said in a gravelly voice, walking beside the children. He saw no reason to be uncivil to the citizens who lived in the peaceful Valley. "An excellent time for a hunt, early in the morning. My name is Winder."
He eyed the group of younglings and raised one eyebrow ridge. "I must admit, this old Sailback isn't quite used to the ways of your Valley just yet. Is it usual for such a pack of younglings to go out of the Valley on your own?" A small twinkle in his eye, he added, "You watch out now, don't get stepped on by a nervous Longneck."
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"Don't worry, we've done this before, we know what to do," Cera assured Winder.
"Nice to meet you Winder," Chomper smiled. Meanwhile, Terri (Chomper's mom) met up with Cira (Tria) and Tera (Petrie's mom). "Morning girls, how's it going?" Terri asked her friends
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Des pulled her head back slightly. She noticed a sailback walking by the children and seemed to be talking to them. She recognized this sailback; she had seen the way that he had acted around the other sharpteeth. She had considered talking to the sailback, but thought better of it, feeling slightly intimidated by his jaws. She turned her head towards Guan. They had enough time to hang around this particular spot. The bright circle had long changed position since they first climbed up here. "Come on, lets go."
Guan looked at her. "Why? Are you afraid someone is going to smell us?"
Des shook her head. "No it is not that. We should report back to Chio." She glanced up at the bright circle, although indirectly so she wouldn't hurt her eyes. "He will be expecting us back there very soon."
With a grunt, Guan stretched her legs. "Okay, fine. But next time, can't we do more than just sit around, watching dinosaurs leave the valley? Doesn't Chio have anything better for us to do?"
Des grinned. "Soon, he will..."
With that said, the two small dinosaurs darted off into the distance.
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As the group exited the Great Valley, they followed a small river. Ducky soon appeared, leaving the valley from the waterhole that's connected to the MB.
"Morning Ducky," Petrie smiled, waking up.
Ruby remembered these parts. "This is where swimmers are usually found, you guys up for those?" she asked her friends and Winder.
(Remember, everyone can control the canon characters.)
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Olan kept gazing passively at the group that had left. Sighing, the bellydragger slowly walked by the edge of the river, saying something to himself.
"Let's if I can catch those up for a change..." Were some of the audible words tha slipped between his teeth.
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The gang walked passed Olan on thie way out of the GV and waved to him.
"Swimmer sounds good to us," Littlefoot, Cera, Chomper, and Petrie grinned. "Ok!" Ruby grinned. The fast biter began sniffing the air
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"So, are you going out ot hunt?" Olan asked out loud "Mind if I join you all?"
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"Not at all," Chomper smiled back
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Olan seemed to smirk and followed the group.
"So, what's up?" He inquired, trying to start some conversation.
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"Some things," Chomper replied.
"Spike's star day is coming soon, it is, it is," called Ducky from the water. Spike let out a little proud smile.
Ruby stopped suddenly. The swimmers are nearby, everyone get ready," she grinned playfully ready to take down her breakfast
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Des and Guan didn't take too long to reach their little hide out. It was in a cave up against the Great Wall of the valley. The cave itself was rather large, big enough to allow someone as large as Chio to get inside comfortably, although it was slightly too small for someone as big as Chomper's parents. The entrance was partially covered up by foliage, but it wasn't like they really had to hide from anyone in the valley. They knew of no one who would come into this part of the valley. They entered the cave, which held the stench of dead prey.
Skeletons lay scattered across the ground. There were many different species. But what was rather chilling is that they weren't just of leaf-eaters; there were several sharpteeth in the piles as well. Des and Guan walked through, paying little mind to the bones. They had gotten used to this sight during the years they've spent in this valley. Chio was in one of the back parts of the cave, probably sleeping or chowing down on his latest meal.
They didn't get far in before they were greated by another crested dinosaur. This one was female, white in color with dark gray and blue skin, eyes of a dark purple. She had not one, but two crests on her head, and her jaw had a slight bent in it, on the top jaw. She also bore the same scar, this one on the left side of her snout. She sneered at them as she walked up to them. "Back from your 'mission', are you?"
"Shut up, Dilo." Guan said, hissing.
Dilo just chuckled. She stood approximately 20 ft long, towering easily over the smaller dinosaurs. She tilted her flexible, muscular neck. "Oh what's the matter? You in a bad mood?" She chortled.
"I'm tired of always going to that same spot and watching the dinosaurs." Guan complained. "What are we supposed to accomplish anyway?"
"I see you are impatient." Dilo said, lifting up a claw. "We must study the behavior of these dinosaurs if we want to go forward with our plan."
Guan growled. "Our plan shouldn't require such tedious work!"
Des stepped in. "Now, now, calm down you, too. We won't get anywhere if we fight each other."
Guan rolled her eyes. "And this teamwork is exactly why we..."
But then a loud roar rang out through the cave, causing the three females to freeze where they stood. They could feel the ground vibrating as a fourth dinosaur approached them. A dark shadow casted upon them and they looked up. "Hello..Des...Guan...you bring me news?"
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Meanwhile, the kids and Winder were ready to take down thier prey. "On the count of 3," Ruby whispered to everyone. "1........2...........3!!!"
The gang jumped out and dashed towards their prey. The swimmers never stood a chance
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Olan looked around and quickly found a group of swimmers towards which he dashed, quickly catching one.
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Littlefoot and Chomper managed to take down a teenage swimmer, and everyone else was succesful in their own way.
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"Tricia's beginning to be able to speak more words," Cira informed Mama Flyer (Tera) and Mama Sharptooth (Terri) proudly.
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The family of young swimmers playing in the shallows didn't stand a chance against the odd little pack of sharpteeth that fell upon it. Watching the hunting children from the corner of his eye, Winder was nevertheless focused enough to snatch up a fleeing young swimmer as it tried to scramble past them. His thick, powerful jaws clamped shut with an audible snap, and the swimmer was still.
It was a scrawny young swimmer, and Winder swallowed the body whole with one toss back of his head. He could eat more, but for now he was satisfied. He'd gone longer on much less meat in the past--some days he didn't catch anything at all--and he wanted to make sure the young ones ate their fill first. This compassion was a new feeling to Winder, but he chalked it up to the fact that he had never had hatchlings of his own. Plus, no one went hungry for very long in the Valley.
Shuffling his feet to turn and regard the group of sharpteeth, his thin tongue snaked around his teeth, lapping up any stray taste that has escaped. "Everyone had their fill?" he asked.
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Spike let out a big BURP, which suggested "Yes." "I'm full," Chomper smiled, wiping a little blood off his face. "So am I," added Cera.
"Let's go explore more of the Great Valley," Littlefoot smiled.
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Guan gulped. Her original attitude faded away quickly in the presence of the group's leader.
Chio was easily the largest amongst them. His red eyes stared at her, feeling like they were boring right through her mind. His skin was black in color with a darker shade of red as well as a bright green coloring his body as well. Just like Guan's jaws, Chio's teeth also overlapped from his top jaw, over his lower jaw, even with the mouth closed. His forked scar was placed on the left side of his neck.
Des remained calm and collected next to her. She remained fearless in front of their leader, despite the fact that he could decide to kill them at any time if he wanted to. She gave a bow of respect to Chio as she approached him. "Yes, sir. We do."
"Well tell me then.." Chio spoke, his voice as dark as his black skin.
Before Des could continue, the final member of the group finally arrived. Stepping from one of the tunnels as another somewhat large sharptooth, but smaller than Chio. His body was a golden yellow in color and was combined with a black and light brown coloration. His scar was located on the left side of his thick tail. He had a bright smile on his face, a happy look in his green eyes. His head was recognizable from the abnormally large upper teeth that overlapped his lower jaw even more so than Guan's or Chio's and the horn that rested on his nose. He was the most pleasant member of the group, but despite his different attitude compared to the others, he still remained loyal to Chio, although he refused to explain why.
"Why, if it isn't dear little Des and Guan. How nice of you to return." The sharptooth said in a delightful tone of voice.
Guan forced a smile. "It's nice to see you too, Rato..I think."
Des didn't say hello to Rato, but did acknowledge his presence with a nod. "Well..we're all here now."
"Indeed." Dilo said in a sarcastic tone of voice.
"Now shall I began?" Des asked, glancing up at Chio.
Chio, obviously annoyed by Rato's interruption, nodded his head. "Yes..please proceed."
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Guido the young sharpbeak was flying around a short distance away from where Chio, Rato, Guan, and Des were, practicing his next stunt.
"Hmm...let's see, try to eat a longneck carcass in mid air, or glide underwater, why to try next," he contemplated
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Longtail said hello to Winder, but did so from behind a nearby rock, still being rather shy and skittish to newcomers. He slowly stepped out as he noticed Winder wasn't meaning any harm. He then said, "Well, I-I don't know, maybe we could use some help guys?"
Littlefoot smiled and replied, "Don't worry Longtail, we'll all be fine."
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Cira smiled back and said, "Good morning to you to Terri. I'm doing just fine, although I do wonder where our young ones have wandered off to."
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"Probably hunting," Cira replied, "You know how anxious kids can get," the mother fast biter smiled.
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After Longtail's relatively late introduction to Winder, the gang headed back to the Valley. "I think this swimmer was the biggest one we caught yet!" smiled Ruby
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Longtail grinned, "Yeah, I'm just glad that Swimmer didn't try to step on me. I'm still shaking from the idea of begin used as a distraction. Let's not do that again."
Cera rolled her eyes and groaned, "Oh calm down you scardy egg. You weren't hurt and we caught our food, so what's the big deal?"
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"Don't worry Longtail," Littlefoot assured. "As long as you have your friends by you, you'll be fine."
Everyone arrived back at the GV. "There's Cira," Cera said, eyeing her stepmom. "And my mom," Chomper added
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Longtail smiled, but it was still a nervous smile. He then nodded his head and said, "Thanks. It means alot coming from you Littlefoot."
The young Sharptooth smiled and nodded his head in return. "no problem."
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"Now let's eat," smiled Cera. Tera had also returned with a spiketail she and her children had caught.
"Mmmmm...spiketail," thought Spike, as he couldn't speak, you know.
"I wish I was always as energentic as you Chomper," Terri smiled to her son.
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Longtail hated to admit it, but Chompers folks always did scare him, only because they were alot bigger than he was. Longtail however smiled and asked Terri "M-may I...share with you folks and Chomper?"
Cira turned to Cera and smiled "Hello Cera, I see the hunt went well. Good for you." She then frowned as she asked, "you didn't use Longtail as bait again did you?"
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"Certainly," Terri replied to Longtail, "I'm always willing to share."
"Don't worry, we didn't use Longtail as bait," Cera assured Cira. "We've learned our lesson about that.
"Now let's eat!" smiled Chomper
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Olan didn't take long before heading back to a large cave nearby, resting down.
"I'llhave to meet them later..."
(OOC: quite a few posts I missed, I'll join in agan once I get the whole stuff)
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Chomper, his friends, and the grownups waved goodbye to Olan. "He was nice," commented Littlefoot, "Yeah," added Petrie. Terri, Cira, and Tera were sharing a spiketail, and the gang allowed Petrie's siblings to have some of the swimmers they caught.
"Delicious," smiled Glider, one off Petrie's sisters
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Guido was eventually getting tired. "Need a quick break," the sharpbeak said to himself, and flew towards a cave in the mountains. Inside, he noticed a group of 5 sharpteeth
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Des nodded her head. "All right, sir. Here's how it is. We spotted a group of youngsters heading out towards one opening of the Great Valley."
Chio narrowed his eyes softly. "And why would this interest me? You told me this in the past."
Guan smirked as she turned her head towards Des. "I told you it was worthless information."
"But thing about it, Chio..sir." Des explained further, holding out her paws as she tried to explain it to Chio. "Wouldn't that be the perfect place to strike? In an area with the most dinosaurs? Surely Sharptooth would..."
At the mention of Sharptooth, Chio growled, narrowing his eyes deeply. He took a step towards Des, his heavy footfall causing the ground to shake slightly. "I told you never to mention his name in my presence! He might be one of the biggest sharpteeth around, but he's a disgrace to the name!"
Des cringed slightly. "I'm sorry, sir.."
Rato chuckled softly, trying to lighten up the mood. He smiled at Chio and gently nudged him with his head. "Aww..come on. You should just relax, Chio. I mean..it's just a name. Is it really worth getting upset over?"
Chio snapped his jaws at Rato, forcing him to back away. "Do not test my patience, Rato..."
"Sorry!" Rato backed up, holding up his hands to show Chio he didn't mean any harm.
"Anyway, perhaps targetting that area could bring about the attention of...him..." Des suggested. She grinned nervously and lowered her head.
Dilo shook her head. "That's the most idiotic plan I ever heard of! Do you really want to fight against a horde of dinosaurs?"
"I didn't say a horde...but..." Des tried to say.
"Just..forget it..." Dilo turned her head away. "You're really slipping today, you know that? Usually you come up with brilliant plants, but that..that is just suicide!"
"Indeed..." Chio said. Then he thought more of the idea. Perhaps part of it could work. He agreed targeting that spot would be suicidal. But perhaps there was something else they could do to achieve a similar effect. "But luring that guy to one spot wouldn't be a bad idea..."
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Guido had overheard some of that conversation, he then was confused and quickly flew off. "What was that all about?" he wondered to himself. Luckily, the 5 didn't notice him.
He went back to the main part of the Valley where everyone was eating, then noticed Tippy. Ahh, she was the cutest belly dragger ever.
"Hi Guido!" Chomper waved
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Longtail looked up when Chomper greeted Guido, but was too busy eating to say hello, but he smiled as well.
Cira smiled as she said, "Hello Guido, how are you dear?"
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"Fine Ms. Cera's mom," the sharpbeak replied.
Guido flew down next to Tippy. "Morning Tippy," he smiled. "Feeling well?" "Tippy is," the belly dragger replied.
"So guys, what do you want to do next?" asked chomper
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Chio closed his eyes softly. "That will be all for now." He turned around and began to walk away. But he stopped when he heard the faint footsteps of one of his minions walking rapidly up to him.
"Wait!" Dilo called out. Chio looked at her. "We don't even know that much about..you know who. How do you propose we find a way to lure him anywhere?"
Chio narrowed his eyes. Did he have to come up with everything? "You're all smart, just like how sharpteeth should be. You can figure it out." With that, he disappeared back into his quarters.
Rato narrowed his eyes softly, and then thought of something. He turned his head towards Dilo. "Hey, I..."
"Don't even think about it.." Dilo hissed under her breath.
"What? Why?" Rato looked a bit upset.
"Because, Rato, the last time I took your advice on a mission that Chio assigned me, I ended up getting covered in sinking sand!" Dilo barked at him.
"It washed right off..." Rato said softly, remembering that incident. He thought Dilo was just kidding when she said that she wouldn't trust him with a plan again. But he turned out to be wrong.
Dilo just scoffed and went back to her original concern: coming up with a plan to discovering something about Sharptooth that they could use to their advantage. "There's got to be something..."
"What about the kids?" Des suggested.
"The kids? The ones you and Guan were watching earlier?" Dilo questioned.
"Yes." Des nodded her head. "Perhaps they would know?"
Dilo shook her head. "I seriously doubt it. And even if they did, how would we find out?"
Guan smirked, realizing where Des was getting at. "Well, you could hang out with them."
"What?!" Dilo screeche.d "Me? Hang out with a bunch of hatchlings?! You're kidding...!"
"You don't have to do it..." Des said, taking a step towards her. "However, no one else here has the deception to pull off the job...other than myself of course."
"Then you do it!" Dilo said angrily. "I'm not hanging out with a bunch of babies!"
Des chuckled softly. This is exactly how she thought Dilo would react. She nodded her head slowly. "All right then..I will do it..." She turned around and started to walk away. "But I suppose that this means you are a coward... A weak and cowardly sharptooth." She just had to wait until Dilo realized the gravity of those words. It would only take a couple seconds...
Dilo's eyes widened at this. "Wait...!" Des chuckled. That got her every time.
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Longtail nervously asked, "W-w-well....we could play 'IT' or...maybe practice hunting. Whatever you guys think is...fun."
Tippy looked over Longtail and said, "Tippy also agrees with those ideas too."
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"So does Guido," Guido added, smiling at Tippy, but she didn't notice. "I mean, so do I!" "Who will be it first?" asked Petrie.
"Me and chomper," Littlefoot smiled. "Alright!" added Chomper
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Longtail nodded.
"O-okay, but only if Petrie, and I go next." he said with a stutter.
Petrie smiled, as he said, "That's okay by me!"
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"Then you better run!" Littlefoot smiled, the game beginning. The two rexes ran towards the two flyers.
But then Petrie flew out of the way. "I thought you would've seen that coming," he smirked. "Don't count us out yet!" Chomper smiled back.
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Following Littlefoots advice Longtail turned and immediately ran in the opposite direction of his friends hoping to put some distance between himself and them. It was only then that he realized he was a flyer...so he did the natural thing, he flapped his wings and took to the skies.
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Chomper had managed to tag Petrie who had taken a breif rest on a log. "You're going to be it Longtail!" Petrie called, the young sharptooth flyer swooping towards his not-always cheerful friend.
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Meanwhile, things were happening in the leafeater valley. "Morning guys," Rita the longneck smiled to Myra, Rory, and Mo. "Hey Rita," replied Rory the threehorn. "Where's Greg?" Rita asked. "Probably watching another one of his mom and dad's arguements," laughed Myra.
(Just so you guys know, you guys can control MY OCs, the ones who appear in the story. Everyone else's ocs can only be controlled by their owners
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Dilo grumbled to herself. How did she get stuck doing this job? Yes, she had to admit, she was the most clever of the group next to Des. But why did she have to get stuck with this job? Why couldn't Des do it? Des had insisted that Dilo would be a better choice, but she never stated way. Dilo just felt that Des was too scared to do it herself.
Dilo didn't even know what kids Des was talking about. She wasn't there when she saw them, so how would she know? All she had to go by were vague descriptions of how the kids looked and how they smelled. While Des and Guan did their best to ensure that Dilo would recognize the kids when she saw them, she still wasn't confident it would work. There were hundreds of kids in the Great Valley, many of which do happen to look alike.
She stopped by a tree and leaned against it, resting. Looking ahead, she could see what appeared to be a group of young sharpteeth...playing. She growled and rolled her eyes. What a pathetic waste of time. But having nothing better to do, she started to walk towards them slowly, looking left and right to make it look like she was wandering around aimlessly.
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Ducky was swimming in the waterhole.
Just then, Spike accidently bumped in to Dilo, not having the best eyesight due to being a bellydragger. "He's sorry," Littlefoot apologized to the oddly-colored sharptooth.
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Dilo looked down at the young bellydragger. Normally, she would have kicked him for being so clumsy. But remembering her mission, she resisted the temptation. She then realized the bellydragger wasn't alone. She also took notice of another sharptooth with him. Trying to be as polite as she could, she forced a smile. "Oh it's quite all right... I should have been looking where I was going."
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"Hi I'm Littlefoot," the rex replied, "And the belly dragger is Spike. He can't talk, I'm sorry to say."
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Dilo was about to comment on Spike's inability to talk, but held her tongue. "Am I interrupting anything?" She lifted her head up slightly. "I thought I just heard voices." She then remembered she forgot to say her name. "Sorry I almost forgot to tell you my name. It's Dilo."
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"Just a game of tag," Littlefoot replied. Chomper, Petrie, Cera, and Ruby showed up. "Hey Littlefoot, who's this?" Cera asked
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"Ah yes... I used to play that when I was around your age." This was, of course, a lie, but how was the little rex going to find out? Upon hearing another voice, Dilo wanted to let out a groan of frustration. There were more coming? Well, Des and Guan did say there was a decent number of kids. Whether or not these were the ones, she couldn't be too sure.
Looking around, she saw that there were even more kids. Fastbiters, another rex, and a flying sharptooth. Just great, what she needed. More kids to keep an eye on. Dilo opened up her mouth to speak, but realized that the female fastbiter had directed the question towards the rex she had just met. Trying to be pilot, she went silent and waited for the rex to answer.
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"Oh, this is Dilo," Littlefoot responded with a smile.
"You know her?" Chomper asked after Littlefoot answered so casually. "When did you meet her?"
"Just now," Littlefoot replied. "Now that you all met Dilo too, let me introduce the rest of you to her. The fastbiter who asked about you is Cera. The other one is Ruby. The flyer is Petrie, and the sharptooth is Chomper."
"You're really going to like us," Chomper said to her with a smile. "We're all really nice. Would you like to join us?" wanting to include her so they get to know her better.
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Longtail wanted to meet the newcomer, but as was his nature he was hiding behind a rock, and he wasn't sure anything could get him to move. He had heard everything, but just lacked the courage to say anything. He just sighed and continued to hide.
Tippy at that moment stepped up and asked "A new friend? My name is Tippy! And the scardy flyer behind the rock is Longtail. Care to say hello Longtail?"
Longtail only began to shake as his name was called. He was way too nervous now.
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"Get some courage Longtail," Cera sighed annoyed. "You'll have to forgive him for his nervousness," she said to Dilo.
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"Me? Join the game?" Dilo said calmly. What use was a game? To her, it was nothing more than a waste of time. But she didn't want to appear rude to the kids. If she did anything to make them suspicious, her group's mission would be all for nothing. "I haven't played in a long time, but I suppose I could join.."
Dilo glanced over at the dinosaur they called Longtail. He was a rather unusual flyer. No wonder he was called Longtail. She just chuckled as she listened to Cera's comment on the flyer. "Nervous eh? Well that's quite all right. If he doesn't want to approach me, that's fine. I understand."
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Longtail frowned.
"H-hey! its not my fault everything is bigger and scarier then I am. But...I would like to play with you guys if that's alright."
Tippy giggled and replied, "Of course it's okay! Tippy knows we'll have fun!"
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Just then, Littlefoot heard a familar roar. "It's my family!" he realized, turning around. Indeed, it was Tyran, his father, Saura, his mother, and Shorty, his brother.
"Hey bro!" called Shorty. "Hey mom, dad, Shorty!" Littlefoot waved back.
"Cool, your folks are here?" asked Chomper, a bit distracted from Dilo. "Hey shorty, want to join our game?" asked PEtrie
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Longtail as it was his nature screamed like a baby and actually hid under Dilo when he heard Littlefoots family calling out. He stayed there for several moments shaking like a leaf in the wind.
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"Don't be afraid Longtail, these are my family members," Littlefoot smiled.
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Dilo was tempted to call Longtail a scaredy-dino, but she held her tongue. She glanced up at Littlefoot's family and almost felt like running herself. It was in her nature to be cautious of bigger sharpteeth. Life in the Great Valley had not changed this instinct.
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Longtail nodded his head at Littlefoots comment and crawled out from under Dilo and while still shaking bowed and said a little embarrassed, "Oh....hi everyone."
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"Hello there, I'm Tyran, Littlefoot's father," the big male rex introduced. "And I'm his mother, Saura," Littlefoot's mother asked.
Shorty could see that Longtail was a bit of a scaredy-dino. "I'm Shorty!" he said from behind, slipping out of Longtail's view when he wasn't looking.
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Longtail was nodding his head in response to hearing Littlefoots family introduce themselves, but gave a startled squeak and jumped forward only to hit his head against a nearby rock, and falling flat on his face.
"Ow..." was the only word he muttered as he looked back to face Shorty.
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"Shorty..." Littlefoot said, annoyed.
"Ok, I'm sorry," Shorty apologized. "What do you guys wanna do?"
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Longtail gave a nervous smile and nodded his head. He then spoke up and said, "We were still trying to decide on what game we were going to play Shorty."
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"Okay," responded Shorty.
Chomper was thinking. Right now, there was himself, Littlefoot, Shorty, Petrie, Longtail, Cera, Ruby, Tippy, Spike, and Dilo. A total of ten. Chomper knew Guido wasn't interested in what he was about to suggest
"Hey guys, how about a 5 on 5 game of Pine Cone?" Chomper suggested.
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Longtail gave a genuine smile and replied, "Yeah! That's a great idea Chomper!"
Tippy smiled as well, but then she looked to Guido and asked, "Guido wanna keep score?"
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"Sure!" the sharpbeak smiled back. "Maybe you'll find me cute as a scorekeeper," he thought. Guido still had a big crush on Tippy.
"How should we split up the teams?" asked Ruby.
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Dilo blinked her eyes a few times. "Pine Cone...?" She asked in a genuinely confused voice. She had never heard of this time before. She was familiar with the game of tag, although she saw it mostly as practice hunting, learning to find food and such. But what purpose could a pine cone serve?
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Tippy gave a wide smile as she heard that Guido would agree to be the scorkeeper. She then responded to Ruby.
"Tippy does not know. Maybe flyers and swimmers against the pack hunters?"
Longtail nervously looked back and forth between his friends hoping they would get this settled so they could play.
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"So, Tippy, Spike, Petrie, Longtail, and you Dilo, vs. me, Littlefoot, Shorty, Cera, and Ruby," Chomper smiled.
"That sounds fair," Petrie said.
"But where should we play?" Ruby asked
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Dilo smiled nervously. Before she could even participate, she needed to know what this game was about. "So...how do you play pinecone..?" She just knew that at least one of them were going to wonder why she didn't know. She had a feeling that the concept of Pine Code was going to be relatively simple. But it is not her fault. She had hardly played games when she was little.
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"Well, as the name suggests, we use a pine cone," Chomprer replied. "Each team has a goal, and one player on each team is the goal keeper. Each team tries to get the pine cone in the other team's goal."
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"Oh..I understand now." Dilo rubbed the back of her head, feeling a bit silly to not understand the concept.
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"It'll be fun," Shorty said.
"I mean, you do know how to have fun right?" Cera asked Dilo. She had never met Dilo before, so she didn't know much about what she was like
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"Of course I do." Dilo found herself saying. She then added, "I just..never played this game before."
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Longtail stepped back as he sad, "Uhh...Ceram maybe we...shouldn't..make...Dilo mad...she looks pretty tough."
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Dilo turned her head towards Longtail and smiled. "Mad? Who said I was mad? I was just confused..that's all."
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Longtail gave a nervous grin.
"Well...I thought that crack Cera made about you not knowing how to play would make you mad."
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"This'll be fun!" smiled chomper. But for some reason, dilo made him feel a chill, like something was up, but he felt it was probably nothing
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Upon getting no response from Dilo Longtail just shrugged his wings and said, "OKAY! Let's get this game started!"
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"Ok, get ready!" Guido called. He put the pine cone down right between the two teams. "I'll be our goal keeper," Cera said
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"O-only if I get to get to goalie for my team." stuttered Longtail
Tippy giggled and said, "Okay Longtail!" She looked to Guido for a moment and gave him a warm smile to show she was ready to play.
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"Ok everybody...go!" Guido called, the sharpbeak flying backwards to get out of the team's way, then looked admiringly at Tippy.
Littlefoot and spike each headed for the pine cone first. It was going to be close
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Longtail stood his ground and cheered his team.
"Go Spike...get that pinecone!"
Tippy stayed inbetween Longtail and Littlefoot just in case he got the ball first.
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Dilo realized she had forgotten to answer Longtail, but it was too late now. The game had started. Before she knew it, Spike raced off towards the pinecone, Littlefoot coming towards it as well. Dilo almost took off after Spike, but decided to wait and see if he would get it first.
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Littlefoot was the first to reach the pine cone, and began dashing towards the goal. But Tippy tripped him with her tail, and the pine cone landed in front of Dilo.
"I'll get it!" called Chomper
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It took Dilo about a second to register what was going on. She almost grabbed the cone in her jaws, but she thought that would be unfair since she was taller than the rest of the kids. So she wrapped her tail around it instead, picking it up off the ground before Chomper could grab it. Then she began to run towards the goal Cera was guarding.
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"Hey!" Chomper called playfully.
Cera was preparing to block Dilo as Littlefoot, Shorty, and Ruby were preparing to block.
But this entire time, Chomper, as well as Ruby were feeling as if....there was something odd about Dilo, but they decided to ignore these feelings.
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Dilo was about to toss the pinecone towards the goal when her leg suddenly got caught in the ground. She fell into the ground and let go of the pinecone. The pinecone sailed into the air, heading towards Cera's goal. Dilo shook her head and looked up to see what would happen.
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Cera leaped up and managed to catch it. "Here guys!" she said, tossing it to Littlefoot and Shorty
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Longtail although nervous about losing the game altogether he managed to dig up some form of confidence and got ready to block anything Littlefoot or Shorty would try, and to prove his point he began swinging his tail back and forth, knowing it could cover a larger area then his body could.
Tippy laughed as she chased after Cera, and then Littlefoot who had caught the pine cone in his claws and started running. "Tippy is going to get you Littlefoot!" she cried as she put on a burst of speed quickly catching up to the sharptooth.
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"Not yet Tippy," Littlefoot laughed, passing the cone to shorty. "Got it!" the green sharptooth called, dashing towards the goal.
Aiming carefully, Shorty tossed the cone
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Longtail saw the cone coming and was ready for it as well. He spun twice in a circle, and on the final spin, hit the cone with the tip of his tail, and with a broad smile, sent the cone back into the middle of the field.
"Ha! Beat that!" said Longtail with a laugh.
Tippy saw this happen and immediately changed direction to try and catch the cone with her mouth.
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Dilo was back on her feet and was about to try to catch the cone. But Tippy had managed to grab it before her. She was about to run off in Tippy's direction, but thought better of it. She took a few steps forward and waited to see if Tippy managed to score.
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The belly dragger dashed towards the other goal, just barely able to maneuver away from Chomper and Littlefoot. She tossed the cone, and cera jumped to dodge it....but she missed.
"All right!" cheered Petrie
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OOC: Anyone care if my character by my same log-in name, Kit, comes in. I put her bio in the character spot to cut down as much as I can putting OOC here.
http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...0&#entry9051807 (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=762.40&#entry9051807)
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(Yeah, she can join.)
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(Ok, thanks)
Just then Kit flapped over, having finally found the other kids. "Hey guys what...", Kit's sentence was cut short as the hit seed flew past her. She quickly darted behind a rock and then peeked her head out once the projectile wasn't a problem.
"Um...playing the seed game huh?" she asked, smile on her face despite being startled by the seed. After all, the others had not expected her to just fly over into the seed's path, so they weren't to blame.
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"Yup, wanna play Kit?" Chomper offered.
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Longtail jumped for joy as he saw Tippy score! "That was great! Tippy." He cried.
He then looked up and noticed Kit, he waved to her and then asked, "w-wait...that would make the teams uneven...so, what now?"
Tippy turned and asked Guido "Did Tippy do good?"
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"Tippy did," Guido ndded, focusing only on the gir belly dragger
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"Oh, well I don't want to make the teams uneven" Kit said, coming out, "but...hmm..." she thought. Then her eyes lite up as an idea hit. "Do you guys need a helper seed finder or something. I could go get the seed after you hit it and...give it back!".
She flapped over to the middle of the area, "I'd have to hit right here I guess though so it's not unfair and one team doesn't get it by my hitting or something".
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"Tippy thinks that sounds good," said the belly dragger.
"Whatever, fine by me," said Cera.
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Dilo noticed the newcomer, but kept quiet. She tilted her head at the term the newcomer used. A helper seed finder? What was that? Even after she explained herself, Dilo didn't quite understand. But she didn't want to look like an idiot and decided to just play along.
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Meanwhile, back in the cave, Guan was resting on a rock along the side of the wall. She head her head facing the exit, her mind pondering what was happening. She glanced over at Des, who was standing nearby. "Do you think it was a good idea sending Dilo out there alone?
Des didn't bother looking at her. "What's the worse that could happen?"
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OOC: Sorry, changing stuff up since I get things I didn't get before about why Tippy would be a belly dragger.
Kit smiled a bit, really pleased, especially since the concept of a seed finder was something she'd just made up that second.
"Ok, then throw, Kit" Petrie said, snapping Kit from her thoughts. "Huh, Oh, right..." she tried to pick up the seed but that didn't work quite like she wanted...and kicking hardly moved it...so in the end she pushed it back over to the middle of where everyone stood.
"Ok...now you can go again" Kit giggled as she flew over to a sidelines position again. This was more fun than it seemed like it would be.
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Longtail grinned as the game got back underway. He started hopping from one foot to the next to keep himself amused until the cone came back around.
Tippy after hearing Kit give the go, ran forward and tried to tail whip the cone to one of her teammates. "Somebody catch!" she cried.
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"I got it!" called Petrie, flying under it
He flew a few inches over the other teams' heads, and made it to the goal.
The young sharptooth flyer dropped it, and Cera jumped up, but....
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...tripped over Spike as the belldragger rushed over and then punted the pinecone through with his tail into the goal.
Wow, Spike got really good at this game Kit thought but didn't say it incase she'd hurt the young belldragger's feelings. She flapped over to push the seed back to the middle of the playing ground.
"Are you going to get tried of doing that?" Ruby asked her. Kit giggled and shook her head though, "Nah, it's kinda fun".
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"Good job Spike," complimented Littlefoot, even though Spike was on a different team.
The game went on for several minutes.
"Anyone want to take a break?" asked Guido. "It's around lunch time."
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Tippy smiled.
"That sounds good! Great idea Guido!" she said as she smiled at the sharpbeak.
Longtail yawned for a moment and said, "Yeah okay...I'm getting hungry anyway. Or maybe I'm just tired...I don't know."
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Kit was pushing her hardest against the seed...trying to move it, and it wasn't moving since she was so tired. she slid down the seed to next be laying on the ground.
"Uh...yeah...I don't think I can move the seed anymore so maybe it is break time" she said.
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"Agreed," smiled chomper.
During the lunch break in which Cera's parents had caught food for the gang, Ruby walked over to Dilo. "So, Dilo, could you tell us a little about yourself? I don't think any of us have seen you before," the dark red fast biter smiled.
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Dilo glanced at Ruby. What a curious child she was, Dilo thought to herself. She was tempted to tell Ruby to mind her own business, but thought better of it. She still didn't understand why she had to do this. She was an interrogator, not a babysitter! Well technically, she wasn't really watching over these kids, but still...
Dilo decided to not waste much time in answering Ruby's question. "Well my pack and I had just moved in here. That's probably why you haven't seen me before." She smiled the best she could. "I'm the best tracker in my pack, so they put me in charge of trying to find food." She looked up at the great walls surrounding the valley. "I was on my way out to the Mysterious Beyond when I bumped into you guys."
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"Ok," replied Ruby. "So, what do you want to do now?" she asked, "Cause if you wanna go somewhere else without us that's fine." she said freindly.
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"Actually.." Dilo turned her head back to Ruby. "I was going to ask you kids something."
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"What?" asked Chomper curiously.
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"This might sound silly, but..." Dilo pretended to be nervous about what she was going to ask. "..just how did this place come to be? My pack and I have only been here a short while and we noticed the sharpteeth here seem to get along. Tell me.." She leaned in slightly. "..who came up with this idea and how were they able to make a difference?"
Dilo then leaned back a bit and said, "But if it's too much trouble to ask, you don't have to answer my question. I was just curious."
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Littlefoot didn't have any bad feelings toward Dilo, so he responded, "Well, some cold times ago this big Sharptooth, whose name is actually Sharptooth realized that predators worked better when they were together, and when they found this place, sharptooth and a lot of older sharpteeth ambushed this place and chased the leafeaters out, and now this is the home place of nearly all the sharpteeth in this area," Littlefoot smiled.
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Dilo nodded her head as she listened to the boy's tale. So it was Sharptooth who caused this place to come to be. She and the others knew that already, but this was the first time they've actually had it confirmed.
"This Sharptooth guy..." Dilo said cautiously, trying to sound a bit afraid. "What is he like? I think I've seen him a couple times and he looks scary. At least, to me, he does."
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"He's very kind and caring," Ruby said, knowing how Sharptooth adopted her after she lost her family.
"But don't underestimate him," Chomper added, "Anyone who threatens him or any of us, he can pretty much destroy," he said.
All the other kids nodded.
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(I'm going to also bring in my swimmer character who's a Corythasauraus crested swimmer, so I guess he'd be a swimming sharptooth with a cute little ridge on his head :DD Darn my none-drawing skills to show you guys the picture in my head)
Off in one of Sharptooth Valley's watering holes with a connection out to the Big Water (?) a yellow colored young swimming sharptooth suddenly popped up from the water, did a flip in mid-air, along with a cry of joy, and then pointed his nose to land into the water on his way down once more.
He popped up spitting water and laughed to himself...until the snickering reached his ears. Oh great, some of the other little swimming sharpteeth had seen him...again.
"Hey look, Cory thinks he's a swimmer" (they mean whatever Mo is) one of the most bold one's said and then laughed. His posse soon joined in. Cory frowned deeply, "Nothing saying we can't have fun too" he shot back.
"What chasing the water and ground swimmers not enough for ya?" one of the other kids asked.
"Oh, go bite your momma's!" Cory shot out agitated, trying to hide how embarrassed and now annoyed their teasing was making him feel. He turned his back to them swiftly, splashing them a bit in the process on purpose.
The others just laughed and dove down to swim off and do more exciting things.
"Stupid...them" Cory sighed to himself, not even able to think up a good insult on the spur of the moment.
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Longtail at that moment spoke up.
"Yeah, I can prove that as well! When I first came here, Sharptooth tired to eat me! If it hadn't been for my ability to speak sharptooth and fly, well...I wouldn't be here right now would I?" He then turned to Ruby and asked, "Did he ever tell you about that?"
Tippy gasped.
"That sounds scary! Why didn't you run?"
Longtail gave a nervous laugh as he said in reply "Well...hehe...I was too scared to run...which is why I kept flying in the air. It was all I could do."
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Kit gasped along with the others. "Gosh...well I'm very glad he didn't eat you, Longtail" she said giving the other sharptoothed flyer (or sort of I guess) a hug despite him being bigger than her (?) "You're too much fun, even if you do get worried all the time...uh that came out wrong" she admitted after having said this and realizing what and how she said it.
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"But he apologized, right?" Ruby said. The fast biter knew that Sharptoth did apologize to Longtail after this.
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Just then, another swimming sharptooth accidentally bumeped into Cory. "I am soorry, I am, I am," the swimming sharptotoh apologized. "I'm Ducky, I hope I didn't hurt you," she said friendly
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Cory gave a bit of a smile, "Uh..no, no I'm fine..." he said, "guess it might be my fault too, I wasn't paying attention either...uh, I'm Cory by the way, uh nice to meet you" he tried to give a bigger smile, but it didn't really work.
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Kit let Longtail go so he could answer the question. She thought Sharptooth probably did apologize but wouldn't know for sure until Longtail answered.
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Dilo lifted her head up slightly, offering a smile. "So does Sharptooth look out for the well being of everyone else in this valley? If so, that must be a huge responsibility."
Dilo was tempted to ask about weaknesses, but felt she should keep quiet about it for now. If she asked too many questions the same day, the kids might grow suspicious.
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"Yeah, but he can handle it," Ruby smiled. "He's very tough, both physically and mentally" Dein added, walking beside Dilo. Chomper's parents ondered who this dino was.
Littlefoot's parents also walked by, followed by Veli (Topsy) and Cira (Tria.) Cira was carrying a laughing Tricia on her back.
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Longtail, grateful for Kit letting go, smiled nervously as he stuttered, "w-well...yeah, of course he apologized...but then he smiled and I...fainted." He then blushed from embarrassment at admitting he'd passed out from a simple smile.
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Cera was silently snickering at Longtail's revelation, but she tried to hide it.
"So, what do you guys wanna do next?" Chomper asked.
Spike was showing signs that he was pooped out and wanted to do something that didn't require a lot of motion.
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Kit frowned a bit at Cera's snickering, "Well..." she tried to come up with some defense of Longtail's fainting that would make it better...but there wasn't much that wouldn't just come out wrong so she let it drop.
"Nevermind". She instead pondered on the game question. She thought of something but wasn't sure how far into explaining where she'd got the idea she should go.
"Well..one time..." she began hesitantly, "I was watching some of the flatteeth flyers play..." Kit's voice got really hesitant after admitting this part of where the idea came from, "and they uh...were playing a spotting game of one spotting something and the others guessing what it was...we wouldn't have to run around if we did something like that..." she suggested, seeing how tired Spike was.
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"Sounds fun, how about you Dilo?" Ruby asked.
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Longtail nodded in his head.
"Yeah...t-that sounds like alot of fun!" he said in response hoping they would get to try the game Kit had suggested.
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Kit beamed, "Alright I'll start...if that's ok". She looked around at where they still remained. "Ok...I spot...something green!" she said.
Petrie smiled, "That's easy, the flatteeth's green food" he pointed to an overhead tree. Kit shook her head, "Nope".
Petrie frowned, "but...that's green".
"Yeah, but not the green thing I spotted" Kit went on. She looked to the others a big grin on her face since she was wondering now if they would get it.
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Ducky laughed, "Well glad to meet you, Cory, I'm Ducky" she introduced. "Well then same here Ducky" Cory replied with a smile. Glad to have found a friend that might not think him weird, Cory laughed and flipped into the air again landing...before pausing and realizing he might have just ruined everything...
"Uh...that was just...um..." he looked for a way to explain his flipping almost like those other flatteeth swimmers.
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"That was neat, it was it was," Ducky smiled.
Meanwhile, the gang was stumped. "me or Spike?" asked Guido
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Dilo lifted up her head and gazed in one direction. "I'd love to join you kids, but I have to get going. My pack will be worried about me if I don't return soon." With that, she waved goodbye as she started to head off.
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"That's ok, see you around!" waved Chomper, ruby, and Littlefoot.
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"Bye Dilo, it was nice meeting you" Kit said. She then turned her attention back to Guido and his answer. "Um...which one of you's your guess?" she asked.
"Guido got it?" Petrie asked.
"Yeah" Kit sighed, "it was Spike, but I don't know if two guess is allowed, anyway your turn Guido" she smiled.
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"Really?" Cory looked even more pleased, "most of the other little sharptoothed swimmers made fun of my for it, or maybe that was just Biter and his gang" he indicated the bullies that had just left.
"Um, I could teach you if you want" he offered, "or you probably know how to flip on your own too..." he realized.
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Tippy smiled and said, "Make it an easy one!"
Longtail laughed.
"Oh wheres the fun in that Tippy?" he asked sincerely
"So it's not too hard. After all Guido wants the game to be fair right?" Tippy said in response as she looked over at Guido with a smile.
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Guido smiled and took his turn.
"I spot....something's that pretty," he said.
Chomper, Ruby, and Petrie smirked. They knew what he was talking about.
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Kit frowned, thinking. What Guido had said wasn't exactly a color, but she wasn't going to bring that up right now, it would do, it was a description.
Ruby, Chomper and Petrie's smirks made her think they knew what it was and so she tried to think if there was anything she should put together to get this.
She had an idea, but if she said it and it was wrong...well it would be really embarrassing, so she kept quiet for a bit longer, thinking about if she really was on the right track with this and not caring if she allowed someone else to take the risk of saying what Guido might find 'pretty'.
She smiled, though, if she was on the right hunch it would be so cute and adorable if it were true.
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"See, ya just swim like you're swimming up" Cory explained, "and when you hit the sky, you bend to land in the water again and point your nose to enter properly". He jumped one more time to show Ducky.
"Of course...I also know how to do a flip in the air...but my mom and sister all say showing off is bad"
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"That's not showing off, you're just having fun," Ducky smiled.
"so, any guesses?" asked Guido politely.
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Longtail had no clue as to what Guido was getting at, so in response he simply shook his head and continued to look around for something pretty.
Tippy on the other paw, was starting to giggle as she had a clue as to what Guido was talking about...but she didn't want to say it aloud, just in case she was wrong.
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Kit's beak moved nervously, as if in a lip biting action, yet she didn't fully do that since it would hurt her own self, and she then decided to spit it out.
"i--if it isn't, just everyone forget I said it...is it Tippy?" she asked, then all but flinched expecting to be wrong.
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Cory grinned, "Well...thanks. Gosh it's nice getting away from my mom and sisters to someone who doesn't tell me all the time what I'm doing wrong, but then I guess that's a family's job" he shrugged his fins.
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"Yes," Guido replied.
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Kit unflinched and smiled a bit, "Ok, anyway" she pushed past the still kinda embaressing, for Guido and Tippy, situation.
"Um...anyone want my turn?" Kit asked, realizing she got to go again. "Go ahead, Kit" Littlefoot urged. The sharptoothed flyer looked around, "Ok...I spot something...blue" she next picked.
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"So, you ever been out to the Big Water? Or do you stick around here?" Cory asked Ducky.
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"Stick around here, though I head out to the Mysterious Beyond waters when I go hunting," Ducky smiled.
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Tippy couldn't help but blush as she heard Kits answer, and even more so when Guido said it was correct. She took a step back from being embarrassed. "Is...it true Guido...you think I'm pretty?" asked Tippy with a giggle in her voice as she spoke.
Longtail not wanting to look stupid, but thinking he had the answer said aloud, "Is it me Kit?"
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"Yes," Guido admitted to Tippy.
"So, what do you wanna do?" Ducky asked Cory
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Kit giggled, partially because it was really obvious, but it had been the next thing to hit her to use, "Yeah, it is" she answered.
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"Well, I only asked about the Big Water because I was gonna offer to show you around if you hadn't been out there...but if you don't swim that far out normally we might get in trouble for that, what's there to do around here?" the young sharptoothed swimmer asked. Cory was always up for an adventure but did pause about dragging others into one without their wanting that too.
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"Maybe my friends would like to come along," Ducky said.
Just then, Ruby sneezed. "I hope I'm not getting sick," she said.
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Longtail smiled as he looked around for a moment. He then blinked as he said, "I spot something...red, and its moving this way." He turned for a moment as a tree in front of him caught fire. "Uhhh....do we run?" he asked not wanting to give up the game in spite of the danger.
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"Yes," Longtail's friends replied in calm unison.
"We gotta get to some water!" called Petrie.
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Longtail turned and flapped his wings hoping to stay above the fire water, and he turned and immediately took off flying past the others.
Tippy was terrified and couldn't move. "h-help." she squeaked in fear.
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"Come on Tippy!" Guido called back, he and Spike rushing back towards her.
Spike made a grunt that suggested "We gotta go!"
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Kit flapped along with the others. "Yeah" she agreed with Petrie's statement, "and maybe we can use leaves to carry it easier than in our mouths and beaks".
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"Yeah that'd be cool, where are your friends?" Cory asked.
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Tippy finally found the strength to run when she heard Guidos voice. She turned in the direction the others were running and she went in that direction.
Longtail following Kit, and Petrie as he nodded his head in agreement and asked a simple question.
"Where's the closest watering hole?"
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"Over here," Ducky's voice suddenly said, seeing her friends. "Is there something going on, is there, is there?" she asked concerned
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"Um, it's uh..." Kit tried to think of the answer to Longtail's question, but everything was in such a state of panic she chouldn't recall at the moment.
They caught Ducky's voice though. "Petrie hear Ducky!" Petrie said, swooping over nearer the water. "Oh thanks goodness" Petrie said, "we need help, tree over there on fire" he pointed.
Cory looked surprised by what the sharptoothed flyers said. The other swimming sharptooth looked familiar, Kit thought as she landed and then she recalled having spotted him once before, but she wasn't sure if he'd remember.
"Oh, it's you again" she said with a smile, eliciting a frown from Cory. "You...know me?".
"Well I don't think you remember" Kit was quick since this was an emergency, "anyway, could you guys maybe help us get water to the tree...I don't know if there's a river or anything that would let you help...but we're gonna fly back with some water".
Kit quickly plucked some leaves to help carry the water as she'd suggested.
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"We gotta act fast!" Littlefoot called, collecting leaves with Chomper and Ruby.
"To tihnk we'd actually get a use out of green food," Cera commented, as a joke despite the seriousness of the moment
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"Yeah, hopefully your dad won't call us bad influences again" Kit also allowed for a bit of humor while gathering up leaves.
"You ground dwelling sharpteeth are weird" Cory sighed. As the others looked to him he smiled, "Just kidding...anyway, I'll come help splash the tree if I can, if it's reachable by wherever the water flows".
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"Thanks for the help," Littlefoot said.
"We gotta put the fire out!" Said Chomper running back towards there with leaves carrying water.
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Longtail was scared...he had no doubt about that nor did he try to hide it...but knowing his friends needed his help he did the one thing he knew would work. He dipped his head below the surface of the water and gathered a mouthful of water. He immediately turned around and flapped back towards the nearest fire.
He took a deep breath and used his beak like a hose and sprayed the fire until it went out.
"This is taking way too long." He turned to Littlefoot and asked, "Is there any faster way to do this?"
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Kit and Petrie also were flapping over the fire trying to spit and drop as much water as they could. Kit panted, it wasn't doing much she noticed.
"Maybe from here I could splash...". Cory backed up and did a huge jump and dive, trying to splash as much water as he could...unfortunately this only got Cera wet. Cory smiled at the ground walking sharptooth, "oops...uh, sorry".
Littlefoot shook his head, trying to think of what else they could do. "What about your grown-ups" Cory said, "couldn't they do something?".
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As if on cue, Littlefoot's grandparents, Cira, Veli, Dein, Terri, and Tera (Petrie's mom) showed up.
"We saw the fire children," Tera called, "We'll take care of it!"
Cera shook her head to get the water off it.
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Longtail sighed.
"T-thank goodness you are all here!" he said with a relieved smile on his face.
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"Let's go," Terri called to the other adults, picking up a big amount of water with the leaves
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Kit also breathed a sigh of relief at the adults appearance. "Whew, we were getting more than a bit worried" she admitted, happy once the fire began to disappear. Once it was gone, she landed completely on a branch and slumped, "Ok, now I'm tired too" she told the others, meaning that before they had played the spying game since Spike was tired out.
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"Yeah, the Bright Circle is going down," agreed chomper. "We all should be getting some sleep."
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Longtail followed Kit's example and flapped down to the ground, but upon landing he immediately slumped his head forward resting it against the trunk of an unburned tree and fell asleep.
Cira at that moment blinked and said, "Well fighting that fire must have been scary for you young ones..." She then looks over and notices Longtail is asleep "Is Longtail...asleep? Was fighting that fire really that bad?" she asked with general concern
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"Are you ok Longtail?" Chomper asked, concerned for Longtail.
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Longtail blinked in response to Chomper's question, but didn't bother to respond. He simply nodded his head and gave a short grunt of approval.
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"That's good to hear," Littlefoot smiled friendly.
But Cera had a question: "What? Should we carry him back to his cave?" the fast biter girl asked.
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"Looks like we'll have to" Littlefoot said, tilting his head and noticing how Longtail did appear to be just drowsy but very drowsy.
"Aw, poor Longtail" Kit patted his head a bit, "Well I would carry him, but I don't think I'd make it very far".
"Yeah" Littlefoot admitted, "best let one of us do it, here Petrie, Kit, lower him down and I'll carry him over". The two sharptoothed flyers gently grabbed and attempted to lower down Longtail as easily as possible...only Petrie's grip slipped.
"Oh! Look out!" Kit cried as she lost her grip too, but they weren't that far from Littlefoot's back and the sharptooth caught him".
"Y-yeah, if you walk kinda hunched...I don't think he'd fall off" Cory commented, looking at the position of Longtail on Littlefoot's back and giving his comment.
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"Gotcha," Littlefoot replied, leaning forwards to balance out Longtail. The eventually reached the cave, and Littlefoot gently put the flyer down.
"Night guys!" Everyone waved to everyone else.
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Longtail felt himself get lowered to the ground inside his cave, and he smiled. Even in his sleep he muttered "Thanks guys...good night." as he took another deep breath and fell back to sleep.
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Kit smiled, "Yeah, see you guys tommorrow" she flapped over to her and her dad's own nest on a cliff a bit from where Petrie's own in the Sharptooth Valley was.
"Good night" Cory added to the others, making his own way over to the newest water cave within the Valley that his mother and sisters and him had found.
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"Goodnight Cory," Ducky called, heading back to her family's water cave, followed by spike.
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(I know no one remembers anything of before, but I figured you could make a case for this just like you could any dream, I'll edit it out if you don't agree)
As the night circle shone down on the Sharptooth Valley and Kit's nest, the young sharptoothed flyer within the nest was having anything but a peaceful sleep story...only this was an odd as well as bad sleep story
Kit saw herself, only she was one of those flatteethed flyers and she was flying rapidly away from a huge sharptooth with a red marking all down his face. They were just outside a Valley of some sort that both looked familiar and didn't at the same time, but Kit was on the outside wall and as she flapped into a dead end, she turned to face the sharptooth barreling down on her...fearing all was lost before...Longtail darted in and poked the sharptooth straight in the eye, causing him to roar and falter back.
With a jerk, Kit awoke and glanced about...her friends would never believe this in the morning. The topic of whether or not she should tell them was what ran along in Kit's mind as she settled to go to sleep once more, and hopefully dream normal things this time.
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(Chomper's the only one who remembers the past reality, since he wished for the new reality.)
Meanwhile, everyone else was starting to wake up.
"Cory, are you awake, are you, are you?" Ducky asked, swimming around the waterhole.
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Longtail began to blink himself awake. He turned to face the bright circle and gave a small smile as he felt the first rays of the day cover his face. He knew first he'd have to eat, and then go and see his friends to wish them good morning. So he stood up and walked out to the nearest tree and picked several leaves off and began eating.
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"Morning Longtail," Littlefoot said, followed by Cera and spike. Spike was carrying a few dead swimmers on his back.
"Want one?" Cera offered.
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Longtail gave a startled yelp and instinctively jumped into the air hitting his head on a branch and fell back to the floor. He was half asleep when he stumbled out of his cave, but now he was wide awake and realized what was in his mouth he immediately spat them out and looked to Spike.
"Y-yeah...sure...and good morning to you guys too!" he said with a slight chuckle.
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"Ouch, sorry about that," Littlefoot apologized.
Cera tossed Longtail one of the swimmers.
At this point, Chomper, Ruby, and Petrie arrived, Ruby and Chomper having a morning kiss.
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"Huh? Oh yeah" Cory swam out of his own water cave, "Hey" he greeted Ducky, a bit pleasantly surprised that his new friend had asked where he went first and he didn't have to wonder if he was bugging her when he found her again.
"Good morning" he greeted with a smile.
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(alright, well even if it was just a coincidental dream, which is what I had planned, not a memory, I'm not sure Kit will be mentioning it either way)
Kit next darted over, "Hey guys, sorry I'm late" she said.
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"That's ok Kit," smiled Chomper.
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Longtail gave a wide smile as he saw Kit, Chomper, Ruby and the others approaching. "It's okay Littlefoot. No harm done!" Only then did he notice Cera had tossed a swimmer his way, but not reacting fast enough his food collided with him knocking him onto his back.
He still smiled as he bit into the swimmer and began eating.
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"Sorry again," added Cera.
As they were talking, it began to rain. "I do recall Sharptooth telling me that the Days of Rising Waters were coming up," commented Ruby
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"Oh, I hope it doesn't flood the nests again" Kit sighed, "that's a nightmare when it happens".
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"So Ducky, how fast are you at water races, really?" Cory asked with a grin, "because I have this idea that I could probably beat you".
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"I am very fast," I am, I am," the swimming sharptooth smiled.
"Yeah, water can annoy me," added Cera
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Longtail groaned.
"Oh..not again. I hate the time of rising water...I won't be able to fly at all...I hate being stuck on the ground." He then looked to his friends with a nervous grin. "Not that the ground is a bad thing....its just, I don't like being stuck down here...when everyone is bigger than me." He said with a frown.
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"Just stay with us Longtail, and you won't have anything to worry about," smiled Chomper.
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"Yeah, plus it is kinda fun walking through the puddles while ya can't fly, so long as nothing steps on you" Kit added.
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"Care to put that to the test?" Cory asked, swimming past Ducky a bit, but just enough to turn and look at her before then darting off. "Bet ya I can reach that rock before you" he called, pointing out a rock nearby.
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Longtail smiled a bit as his friends were right. As long as he was with them, he had nothing to worry about.
"Y-yea...you guys are right. I won't worry so much now. Thanks." he said with a chuckle
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"I'll race you Cory, I will, I will," Ducky smiled.
"So, where should we go?" Petrie asked.
"Some place dry," replied Ruby.
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"If that exists" Kit muttered, yet then brightened up, "but I'm sure it does...like...well...a cave somewhere" was all she could think at the moment.
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"Yeah but you won't beat me!" Cory called back playfully, although he had to admit, for the head start he'd stolen, Ducky was gaining fast...
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"My family's cave is pretty big," Chomper said.
Chomper hated rain in the previous reality, because he and his family were always out in the open. But here, in this reality, they had a nice, big, dry cave.
"Good idea, let's go chomper," smiled Littlefoot
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Longtail smiled and followed behind Littlefoot and Chomper.
"I like caves...they are fun to explore."
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"Ok then, come on guys, let's go," Chomper smiled.
After leading the way back to his family's cave, Chomper asked his parents "ey mom, dad, you don't mind if I have some friends over, right?"
"Of course not son," Terri smiled back.
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"Thanks you ever so much Mr. Chomper's mom" Kit said when Terri said they could stay, "it's really alot better in here than out in the rain".
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As Cory reached the rock first in the race with Ducky, he smiled back at her, "Don't worry, I've always been called fast, but I gotta say that's the best anyone ever almost beat me, you're pretty fast yourself" he praised in surprise.
"Did you hear the time of Rising Waters is coming?" he next asked, "I can't wait! I know all that water's annoying for the sharpteeth on top but it's just more fun when it's all flooding around!".
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"It is more fun, it is, it is," smiled Ducky.
"Glad to be out of the rain," commented Ruby.
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Longtail simply nodded his head at Chompers folks. He knew they wouldn't hurt him, but still they were bigger than him and that made him shake a little. "I just wanna fly...silly skywater!" he next said with irritation in his voice.
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"You can fly around this cave," Dein's suggested. "It is pretty big."
"I wanna practice for my next stunt," added PEtrie.
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"Oh Petrie must you?" Kit frowned, "I know you never actually fall, but...one of these days your gonna actually fall and hurt yourself". She realized how much like a worried sister or mother, both of which Petrie already had, she sounded so she halted herself.
"but, go ahead" she sighed.
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"We'll probably be able to play with your, I mean our now I guess, other friends better too...or would they be avoiding the wet mess on the ground" he chuckled a bit, "atleast belly draggers like Spike don't seem worried by too much water".
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"Yup they don't mind," smiled Ducky, "they don't they don't."
Petrie began doing dlips in mid-flight.
"So what do you guys wanna do here?" homper asked his friends.
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Longtail smiled brightly as he said, "I wanna practice with Petrie!" he then flapped his wings and joined Petrie in the air and stared doing tricks of his own.
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"Whoa, that's cool," Littlefoot and Chomper replied.
"It's just to bad this sky water will go one for song," Cera complained
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Kit watched as Petrie and Longtail practiced tricks, sort of determined not to join in given her worry earlier of getting hurt...yet she was starting to feel left out just sitting on a rock of the cave.
"That...does look halfway fun" she admitted. She was silent a bit more before shrugging. "Ok, I guess I could try out some of my less fancy stuff...since I can't really do anything fancy yet" she admitted.
She shook this off though and flapped up lower than where Petrie and Longtail were, so she wouldn't be in their way, and tried out some less fancy flips and stuff. While doing this she bumped her head slightly on the side of the cave.
"Ow" she rubbed her head, "see, I told you guys" she said, but it was in half kidding as she next giggled and tried again.
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Meanwhile, Spike went out of the cave, as rain didn't bother belly draggers.
As Ducky and Cory were swimming, "There's my brother!" Ducky smiled.
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"Your brother?" Cory turned and spotted Spike. He figured that was who she meant, "Oh the belly dragger's your brother!" he realized, "Ok, sorry, I didn't catch that at first, um how do you do Spike?" he asked, swimming up.
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"Spike can't talk, he can't, he can't," Ducky explained, "It was something he was born with.
Spike smiled and crawled into the water
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"Oh, sorry" Cory said, "so, um, how do you know if he likes something or not if he can't tell you?" he asked, hoping he didn't push the subject and offend anyone but curious.
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"Well, he can make sounds, and I can tell if it means he likes it or not," Ducky smiled.
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"So, is there anything we can do for you children?" Terri asked chomper and his friends
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Longtail looked down for a moment as he hovered in the air, and asked Terri a question.
"I would like to go on a hunt...but I don't know how helpful I'll be in the skywater."
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"I could get us all something," Dein called, "Skywater doesn't bother me."
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Meanwhile, Ducky's mom swam by. "Oh Ducky," she smiled, "Me and your brothers and sisters are going hunting, do you, Spike, and your new friend want to come?" Spike nodded yes, Ducky said yes.
"What about you Cory?"
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"Yeah, fun as the puddles are, all that water hindering our flight is kinda annoying" Kit had to admit with Longtail's point. She landed from practicing, being a bit tired from it anyway.
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Cory smiled at the invitation, "Sure, uh thanks Mrs. Ducky and Spike's mom" he said.
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"Well than let's go," Mama Swimming Sharptooth smiled, taking off down the river that leadsw outside the valley.
"Let's go Cory," Ducky giggled, and began moving, followed by Spike.
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"And being wet isn't fun for us either," Cera added.
Terri had an idea: "Would you want me to tell you kids a story?"
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Cory smiled and swam after
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"Story?" Kit turned to the sharptooth and immediately flapped down closer to the ground to take a seat. "I like stories" she said with a smile.
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Terri began listing every story, whether it be fun fiction or fact, and left the kids to decide which one they wanted to hear:
THE LIST OF STORIES:
How Chomper's parents met.
The Sharptooth Who Could Swallow a Longneck Whole.
The Fast Biter Who Ran So Fast He Spun The World Around.
The Swimming Sharptooth Who Could Fly.
The story of how the sharptooth managed to takeover this valley.
How Chomper and some other sharpteeth saved the sharpteth from being posioned to death.
The Sharptooth Who Could Jump Miles High.
"So which one do you kids want?" Terri smiled
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Ducky's mother dove underwater, concealing her location. "I smell flatooth swimmers nearby," she explained to Ducky, Spike, and Cory.
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Kit tilted her head, "A Fast Biter made the world move?" she asked in interest. She was a bit shy about asking for this to be the story and waited to see what everyone else wanted to hear.
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Cory moved alongside, making sure to be quiet. "Do ya want us to chase 'em out?" he asked Ducky's mom really low. He wanted to be a help.
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"Of course you can," Ducky's mother smiled.
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"I'll tell you the story," Terri smiled
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Longtail held onto the side of the wall and listened as Terri began to tell the story. "This should be a good one!" he said aloud by mistake, making him blush slightly.
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"Well, here goes...." Terri said, beginning the story.
"You see long time ago, there was a group of fast biters far out in the Mysterious Beyond where it was very cold on that part of the world. The group was afraid they'd freez to death. But then, the leader of that fast biter pack, one named Valon, came up with an idea
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Kit looked interested, and idea that would keep fast biters from freezing? This did sound interesting
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"Alright then..." Cory scanned the herd of swimmers, looking for an easy target, "how 'bout that one?" he asked Ducky, pointing the little swimmer out, "think we could chase out that one on our own?"
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"You never told me why you left." Chio said, leaning against the rock of the cliff.
"I already told you," Dilo defended herself. "I wanted to get away from them and thought that you wanted me back soon."
Chio shook his head slowly. "You were to stay with them for as long as possible."
"There was a fire afterwards!" Dilo yelled. "If I had stayed... I...."
"And you should have stayed." Chio narrowed his eyes. "That was the perfect opportunity to gain more of their trust."
Dilo sighed and hung her head. There was no point in arguing with Chio. Besides, he made a valid point. Perhaps she should have stayed behind to help them out.
"So what do you want me to do now?"
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"Yeah, we can get it, we can, we can," smiled Ducky."
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The story continued. "The part of the world Valon and his pack was in was covered in white puffies, but the other part wasn't. So Valon came up with an idea: to run in place as hard as he could until the earth moved and the warm part would come to him and his friends. He just kept running and running, and soon children, the earth did move! Slowly but surely, the entire planet was moving by Valon's feet. Soon, he and his friends were away from the snow, and safe and warm
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“Alright then…” Cory geared up, seeming to aim almost as if he were a stick being launched at the swimmers, his tail swishing behind him before he shot through the water and aimed for the farthest out swimmer.
The hatchlings squeaked, but one of them had already been snagged by Cory’s jaws before it had too much time to panic. Just ëcause he needed to eat meat for a living didn’t mean Cory wanted young ones about his age to panic more than needed or torture them with fear.
He was still surprised with his success though and smiled, “I got one” he said, making sure not to lose the swimmer he’d just got.
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“Wow” Kit breathed, “did other dinosaurs in other parts notice the earth moving though?” she asked Chomper’s mother, wondering what it would be like for them if the earth moved. “and the sky kept up with the earth too?” she asked.
“Well duh, otherwise the world would be messed up” Cera answered.
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"Correct Cera," Terri added. "And the other dinosaurs did notice the earth move, but they adjusted."
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"That was a good job Cory," Ducky smiled, having snagged a swimmer herself. "It was, it was."
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Longtail smiled and looked genuinely surprised as he said, "So, what happened after the world began to move, did the ground start to quake? Did mountains rise into the sky? Did the water move like it does today?"
He didn't mean to ask so many questions, but this story had piqued his curiosity.
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"Oh, such a big earthshake sounds scary" Kit had to agree, hearing what Longtail described. She hoped she would never have to go through one that big.
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Cory smiled, really pleased at Ducky's compliments. "Gosh, thanks, uh you too" he added as they swam back to Ducky's mother.
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"Actually, the world stayed entact," Terri said. "But every dinosaur thought it was one heck of a ride!" everyone let out a little laugh.
"And that's the story. I wonder, do any of you kids know a story you'd like to tell?" Chomper's mom asked.
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Spike had a caught two swimmers, and managed to get a spiketail who wondered nearby too. "You did very well children," Mama Swimming Sharptooth smiled.
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Kit thought, but couldn't recall any really great stories she'd heard. Unless...
"Well I don't know if it's true..." she began, "but have you guys ever heard of Hidden Runner?" she asked.
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"Thanks Miss Ducky's mom" Cory smiled, "and thanks for letting me come along, again. My mom says I shouldn't forget to thank grown ups since it would be rude if I did" he explained, in typical childlike fashion explaining something that didn't need explaining.
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"I think we might've," Chomper replied.
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Kit giggled, "Yeah, it's a pretty popular story" she admitted. She thought again, trying to see if she knew any other stories.
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"Yeah, I like that story," Ruby smiled, "But I'm afraid that Cera's scared of it," she added with a laugh. Cera looked embarrassed.
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Longtail did his best to suppress a snicker at Cera's embarrassed state. It wasn't often he'd seen her like this, but as he thought about a story, one he'd heard in the Mysterious Beyond.
"Yeah have you guys heard about the story of the flyer made of Fire?"
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"No, I haven't heard that one," Guido commented. "Tippy hasn't either," the girl belly dragger added
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Kit almost seemed to float down, rather than fly, lower to the ground to be in a better listening position. Even if Longtail was probably talking about flateeth flyers, one made out of fire both freaked her out and intriqued her...but more the other.
"Ooh, I haven't heard that one! she admitted. "What's the story, Longtail?".
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Longtail grinned.
"Alright, well in the beginning, there were two flyers of fire, one a flattooth and the other a sharptooth. One was blue the other red, and they were fighting since the day they hatched. After many cold times of this they were ready to make the final move against each other, and in a final desperate move, the two flyers of fire collided with a one last head smash, and when that happened the Bright Circle was made."
As Longtail finished his story he took a deep breath and then asked, "So what did you all think?"
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"Cool," everyone replied.
"I still hate these days of rising waters though," added Cera. "I don't blame you," added Petrie.
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Longtail laughed at Cera's comment.
"Oh don't worry so much about it...besides telling these stories is kinda fun!"
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"Yeah, they are," Ruby smiled, giving Chomper a quick kiss
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Kit giggled, "Yeah, I kinda forgot it the skywater was falling for a while" she said.
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"At least Spike and Ducky like it," Littlefoot smiled.
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"Yeah, Cory too" Kit said. She sighed, "I tried swimming one time, thought it might just be flying through water, it's a bit different though" she admitted, "Ya gotta do stuff with your feet too for it to work".
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With the hunt over, and as he jumped and splashed about to kill time, Cory scooped up mud and threw it onto the land, with a chuckle. Spike got in the way once and he hit the bellydragger, getting mud on him.
"Opps sorry Spike" he said, "we don't need a mud belly dragger around the Valley I don't think" he laughed.
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"Yeah, it's better if you're cleaner Spike, it is, it is," Ducky chuckled. Spike smiled and dove into the water, cleaning himself off.
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Longtail laughed at Kit.
"Well maybe its harder for you...but I don't need to kick my feet, I just use my tail to help me swim in the water!" he said with a goofy smile.
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"Cool, I've tried that before," smiled Petrie.
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"Yep, then we can tell you're Spike" Cory said.
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Kit looked interested as Petrie also said he'd tried it. "I don't think I was there that time" she told her cousin, "are ya any good? Hey, maybe the days of rising water could be a good time to get good at swimming, and maybe you two could teach me, if either of ya wanted to" she shrugged. "They there'd be more stuff we could do in the water".
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"Yeah, I'd say I'm good at it," Petrie commented. "I'm not," Guido said, "Water doesn't mix well with my feathers." The sharpbeak had a point.
Chomper and Ruby kissed again.
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Longtail smiled as he said, "I'd be glad to teach you how to swim Kit. And you're right it will be fun!" He then looked up at Chompers folks and asked, "May we go outside?"
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"Ok, but if you here thunder or get hungry, come right back." said Dein.
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Kit smiled, then turned to Guido, “Come on Guido, if you want to come too I’ll help teach you what Longtail’s teaching me so you can get better at swimming too” the little sharptoothed flyer offered with a smile.
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Longtail visibly shook with fear at the thought of thunder and the lighting that came with it. "Well...n-now that I think...about it, maybe we should stay here...I-I don't like thunder..." he whispered as he continued to quiver with fear.
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"If you don't want to go I'll stay here with you," Cera smiled, but she in her mind was laughing her head off at Longtail's cowardice.
"Sure, thanks for the offer, let's go," Guido smiled.
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Kit was a bit worried that her teacher in the first place had pulled out, but as Guido accepted the offer, she felt maybe she could do this on her own.
"Ok" she told Guido and walked out with him. "Hmm..." she scouted about for the best and closest watering hole to try out swimming at.
"How 'bout that one" she pointed one out to Guido and started over towards it. "Ok, now I think you just get in and paddle your feet and wings at the same time, like Longtail said, and you should move". Kit tried it out and found she could splasher paddle (doggie paddle) a bit. Convinced that she could atleast keep herself up, she came back over, "Ok Guido, I think I got it and could help you out" she said, "come on in".
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The green sharpbeak nodded and got in, copying Kit's moves.
"Go Guido go!" cheered Tippy.
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Longtail was scared, but shook his head and gathered up what courage he could and stepped outside to where Kit and Guido were practicing. He stood at the waters edge for a moment and then dived in headfirst. Using his tail like he'd said he swam under the water and over to Guido and Kit and surfaced behind them. "Hi!" he said with a smile.
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"Good job Longtail," Guido complimented. Right after that, they heard thunder. Everyone else stayed calm, but knowing Longtail.........
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Kit also had smiled and laughed as Longtail jumped in. "Oh, so that's how you swim really good" she commented as Longtail popped up. She also heard the sky fire crack and frowned, glancing up. Did that mean they had to go in already?
With a sigh, and no more freaking out than that, she began to paddle towards the shore.
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"Come on guys," Tippy called as they heard more thunder.
"I really hate the sky water," Cera repeated
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As Longtail heard the thunder, his eyes widened and he stood still in the water for a moment...and after that moment passed he jumped out of the water (backwards :lol) and landed on his head, but not wanting to waste any time he rolled onto his feet and quickly bolted back into the cave seeking safety.
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"Yeah, us and the rest of the grownups aren't too fond of these conditions either," Terri said as the rest of the gang came in.
Petrie sounded bored. "What would you guys like to do?" the sharptooth flyer asked his friends.
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"That was cool, it was, it was," Ducky smiled as she heard the thunder. The sound didn't frighten her.
A thought suddenly hit Chomper. "Hey Petrie, are you sure your family's nest is ok?"
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Cory surfaced to hear more of the thunder, "Yeah, I don't know what the land-walkers hate about it...well I guess that it causes fires, I can see not like that" he commented.
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Once she'd darted into the cave herself, Kit caught her breath and then heard what Chomper said. "Oh, yeah, soon as it's safe you should probably check that, 'member last time" she commented. then she thought of something... "Wait, what about my nest too?! I mean I know it's just me and my daddy, but...oh I hope it's still there...".
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"We'll come with you if you're concerned about it," Ruby said.
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"Well, if we do we should check Petrie's nest first" Kit said, "he has more folks who count on his one nest than I do with mine".
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"Yeah, I have lots of siblings," Petrie agreed. "LEt's go!"
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Longtail eager to make up for his cowardice about the thunder sighed.
"I-I'll come...too, I-I guess...I just hate thunder..." he said with a slight whimper.
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"You can stay with us if you're scared Longtail," Terri offered politely.
Petrie had already taqken off, followed by the rest of his friends.
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Kit followed along with the others, scouting out for good sticks to use if they needed them. She would occasionally swoop down to grab a few, but found she could only carry about three sticks at a time, so she picked the best ones.
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"We'll carry some," Chomper, Ruby, Cera, and Littlefoot offered.
"Thanks guys," replied Petrie
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Longtail sighed again and shook his head.
"Thanks, but I'm going to help....no matter how scared...I may really be!" and with that he flapped his wings and took off following where Petrie and the others had flown off to.
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"I'd carry more if I thought I wouldn't drop them" Kit said, looking at the sticks she held and knowing that she should just stick with that number lest she loose all of the sticks. She sighed, "I hate it when I'm reminded how little I actually am".
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"Just because you're little doesn't mean you can't do big things," Chomper smiled to Kit. "Remember that."
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Kit giggled, "Ok, I'll remember, thanks Chomper".
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"And when we grow up, we'll be really big," smiled Littlefoot.
"Yeah, and I'll be the best hunter ever!" bragged Cera.
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Kit thought about that, "I don't know, Cera, Petrie and I can spot better than you, being up higher and all, what if we're better?" she just wondered in naive curiosity and wasn't arguing.
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"But fast biters are the best, my dad told me so!" Cera retored.
The others looked annoyed slightly, but they did get a small laugh out of cera's attitude.
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Dilo wandered through the forest, her head slightly low and grumbling to herself. Walking alongside her was Rato. She flinched each time his foot hit the ground. There was a slight vibration in the earth everytime he put his foot down. But what could he do about it anyway? And it wasn't like it was as bad as when a longneck steps onto the ground.
Dilo had been ordered by Chio to scout the valley, a job he usually gave to Des and Guan. She suspected that he wanted her to find the kids again and interact with them more. This was further supported by the fact that he had sent Rato to follow her. Now she wouldn't have an excuse to run away like she had before.
Rato had a big smile on his face. He knew that his mission was serious, but he couldn't help but marvel at the sights all around him. This valley was a beautiful place. Part of him wondered why Chio was unsatisfied with the place. Chio had explained before, but Rato wasn't sure if that was a good enough explaination.
Still, he did care for Chio and was loyal to him. He was willing to do anything for him, even if it meant something that he would later regret himself. He glanced down at Dilo, sensing her uncomfortableness with him. He understood, and part of him wanted to leave. But remembering Chio's words, he pressed on.
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"There's my nest," Petrie called to his friends. "We better check to see if it's ok!" Chomper called back.
Little were they aware of Rato and Dilo's presence.
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Longtail finally caught up to the others and smiled as he braved the sky water, and the thunder that came with it. "Hey guys, how can I help? Is everyone okay?" he asked Petrie with a concerned look on his face.
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Tera, (Petrie's mom) flew up. "Petrie, our nest is bad shape. Would you and your friends mind helping us fix it?"
"No, not at all Ms. Petrie's mom," Littlefoot smiled
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The sound of running water caught Rato's attention. He immediately turned away from Dilo and walked down to the muddy banks of the river.
Dilo quickly noticed this and growled. "Do you have to drink now?"
Rato stopped in his tracks. "Well, I'm thirsty."
Dilo rolled her eyes. But she didn't see a point in stopping the horned sharptooth. As Rato continued to move towards the river, Dilo settled down onto her haunches, keeping her head elevated above the ground and watched the scene.
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Longtail nodded his head at Petrie's mother and asked, "What can we do to help?" He then noticed that Kit had twigs and sticks in her talons, and that's when he got the idea. As he turned around and flapped towards the ground picking up sticks as he went, hoping that when he returned in a moment he'd have enough.
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"We need more sticks to reinforce the water-damaged ones," Tera explained.
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At that moment Longtail turned around and ascended to Petrie's nest again holding a large number of twigs. Unfortunately as he was attempting to slow down, a flash of lighting caught his attention for a moment too long, and he rammed his head into the side of Petrie's nest, but as he dropped the twigs they collected in a pile inside the nest.
Longtail moaned in pain and actually stayed in place, with his crest stuck in the wall.
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"No worries Aunt Tera, we're on it" Kit gave a small salute almost as she flew over and began trying to place her sticks where they would do the most good.
"Kit, you're doing it wrong, they go like this" one of the other girls began to try to correct her. Kit sighed, "Well if you're so good at nest fixing then why..." she cut herself off and just sighed at her other less hung out around but still cousin, "Ok, fine, I'll get more sticks and you can tell me what I did wrong while I help" she said, knowing this would do the most good the fastest.
As she flapped back down, Kit noticed Longtail's predicament. "Oh my...are you ok?" she asked. "Here, let's get ya out before any of Petrie's other siblings notice, Grace can be kinda mean with her giggling teasing, that and it must hurt", Kit began to pull, unfortunately she had to pull hard and both her and Longtail went flying without actually flying once she got him loose and tumbled down a tree which broke their flight.
Kit coughed and sat up, but was mainly ok, "Longtail, ya ok too?!" she turned to her friend to make sure he hadn't had worse stuff done to him.
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"Woah, it's getting pretty rough even from here!" Cory noticed both the sky and the torrents of water, "I hope our other ground walker friends are ok".
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"I do too, I do, I do," Ducky replied iin agreement. Spike was chowing down on the spiketail he had caught.
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"Thank you for the help kids," Tera said, then the mother sharptooth flyer noticed Longtail's predicament.
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Kit frowned and nudged Longtail once more, "Y-you ok?" she asked again, it was about all she could think to ask and/or do.
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Longtail groaned in response, but as he did he slid off the tree branch. However just before he fell completely out of the tree, his tail caught the edge of the branch, and he just swung with his tail as he looked up to Kit and finally finding his voice asked, "W-what happened?"
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"You rammed your head into the side of Petrie's nest," Littlefoot explained. "You ok?"
Cera couldn't help but snicker at Longtail's misfortune. Tera and the rest of Petrie's siblings kept working on the next. "How long should this take mom?" Dacty, one of Petrie's brothers asked.
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"Well, he is talking" Kit admitted with a smile to Littlefoot, "I think that's a good sign". She smiled back down at Longtail, "How 'come you keep getting hurt it seems?" she asked, trying to lighten the mood and make him feel better hopefully.
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"Longtail's always had bad luck," Cera said.
"Chomper, Littlefoot, Cera, Ruby, could you help us with the bigger brances?" Tera asked.
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(ooc: So I noticed, when you click reply to this, it says "replying in sharptooth..." in at least my box, just found that kinda funny, replying in sharptooth, ok I'm done :DD)
"Aw poor him" Kit said, "but yeah, you guys take them bigger branches I guess and I'll make sure he stays ok", she wasn't sure they should all just leave Longtail.
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"Got it," the quartet replied.
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Meanwhile Spike was swimming through the water, the sounds of thunder not bothering him.
(Remember, you guys can control the canon characters too.)
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Longtail laughed at Cera's comment about him.
"I don't always have bad luck, but I do happen to be in the wrong places at times." He then swung himself over to the wall and began to climb back up to Petire's nest.
He then turned to Cera and said, "Don't just stand there...come on and help out!" He then grabbed several branches and asked Petrie's mother, "Where do these go?"
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Ducky had gotten bored and began swimming in circles wondering what she could do for fun.
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Kit looked up at Longtail's quick recovery in surprise and then shook her head with a smile. "Yeah, we're coming" she said.
"Oh you can just put those over there dear, thanks" Petrie's mom said, pointing out a spot of the nest that needed work.
"and Fran" she turned to one of her girls as Kit reached the area with some sticks as well, "try to get along and let Kit help" she smiled.
The little girl, Fran sighed, "Ok mom, that last time was just 'cause she was doing it wrong". Kit smiled, she actually liked it when she got to be included in whatever the girls were doing, even if they didn't do much like her Petrie and their friends.
"I'll just help you cross these, anyway you want" she commented to her cousin. The girl laughed, "Ok, do 'em like this" she began to instruct.
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Cory hid his laugh as much as he could as he peered out from beyond some underwater water greens. "One...two...three!". He charged out and tagged Ducky.
"Hehe, hi Ducky, tag you're it!" he cried as he darted off.
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Longtail nodded and following Fran's example he set the twigs down in the same pattern hoping he got it right. Truth be told he considered all flyers as family. He was just happy to help.
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Ducky giggled as she heard Cory mention the word 'tag' and she bolted after him intent on tagging him back
"You will not get away from me! Nope, nope, nope!" she cried.
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Spike smiled at the sight of the two simming sharpteeth playing tag, and decided to join the game himself.
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Littlefoot, Cera, Chomper, and the rest began putting the sticks where they were needed. "Hopefully this nest will hold," commented Ruby
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Kit smiled and continued laying the twigs in a pattern. "Yeah, at least until the next time of rising waters" she said, trying to not sound pessimistic with that.
She stood back to look at their work, it looked pretty good, at least from what she could tell.
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Cory laughed, yet glancing back he noticed Spike was in the game too. He wasn't sure if Spike was a tagger or had to just possibly be tagged, but either way he knew he should avoid Ducky if he didn't want to be it again.
"You better watch out Spike, or I'll just swim by you and then Ducky might tag you and you'll be it" Cory called, swimming over nearer the bellydragger.
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"You've done very well kids," Tera smiled. "If you want, I'll hunt something down for you, even in this weather."
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Ducky missed tagging Cory, but instead tagged her brother! "Spike's it, he is, he is!"" she laughed.
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"Well, we ate kinda a while ago" Kit said, "So if it would be too dangerous or somethin' you don't have to" she assured her aunt.
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Cory, who was a bit too close to Spike as he was tagged, quickly slowed and turned to dart off in the other direction with a laugh. Spike grinned and followed, trying to decide whether or not to tag his sister or Cory.
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"Ok, but if when you do get hungry I'll gladly catch something," Tera assured. "Don't worry Petrie's mom, we can hunt by ourselves," Chomper said. "Sharptooth said we've been getting preety good."
Chomper loved this new reality.
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"Yeah, now all Cera's gotta do is stop shouting before she rushes out and scare stuff away" Kit giggled. Cera shot her a look. "But when she doesn't do that, she's pretty good" Kit added with a smile.
She thought of something though, "It probably won't need as much work, so you guys can stay here if you want, but I'm gonna go check mine and my dad's nest real quick, make sure it's not all a squishy mess" she flapped over to where her and her dad's nest was.
(ooc: Ok, in bringing in Tylr...does his name need to change with the other adults...maybe we should just call him Ty or something :DD)
When she reached the place, Kit noticed that she did apparently have the right idea. Water was pushing all the sticks out of place of her nest that use to be there and her dad was frantically trying to catch them and put them back up on the ledge before they slipped off again.
"Aw come on!" he sighed. The river of water dripping down the ledge stopped at least and Kit giggled as her dad sighed, "Thankyou" he commented to the sky. He then noticed his daughter and looked a bit embarrassed.
"I uh...".
"Need help putting the sticks back?" Kit asked to save her dad from having to explain the embarrassing 'talking to the sky' thing earlier. She started scooping up leaves same as she had done for Petrie's nest and bringing them back up.
Petrie had flapped over following his cousin to see if help would be needed and he frowned, "Woah, you said it wasn't going to be that bad" he told Kit.
Kit shrugged, "I didn't think it would be, but apparently the sky water hates all of us".
"Well then it's a good thing some of us followed" Petrie said as he helped bring up some sticks as well.
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"Yeah, it seems like it's getting worse, worse is what it seems like it's getting," added Ruby, collecting more sticks.
"But there is one good thing about this weather," Chomper smiled, pointing to some dirt. "It makes all the crawlers come out from underground!"
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Kit giggled, "Yeah it does, and somehow...they're the food I feel the least guilty about eating" she admitted softly before turning back to collecting sticks, in case any of her friends thought that was a bit of a weak statement to make.
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(ooc: Hmm...Twiz would be intriguing to bring in here too, since in this reality he's hanging out with a bunch of flatteethed flyers outside the Sharptoothed Valley...so I guess he's the same but his personality changes...in that he's the proud 'prince' of the herd, very good leaf collector and...he still cares that his dad's not there, but I guess isn't so hung up on it as normal)
Meanwhile, outside the Sharptooth Valley, a little green dot swished back up to be in sight of the herd of flatteethed flyers he belonged to. "Look guys, five on this trip!" Twiz said, dropping off his stash of leaves he'd caught on this trip, "and I'm hardly trying".
From nearby, his mother, the leader, laughed. "Very good, son" she commented. Twiz smiled at the praise and did a few cartwheels as he flapped off to find more green food".
"He certainly is everything one could want of a little leader's son" one of the flyers of the herd commented. Twiz's mother could only smile proudly, "Yes, yes he is" she turned to inspect the nests of the herd once more, helping out in patch work wherever any of the other females needed it.
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Longtail had followed the others towards Kits nest, but had stopped to rest for a moment on a tree branch. He sighed as the skywater just wouldn't stop, and as he looked up, he noticed a flash of light, and then he was thrown forward and slams into the side of a hill as the tree behind him, exploded as a bolt of skyfire struck the tree he was on.
Although being thrown from his tree, and possibly burnt he laughed aloud and said, "Wow! What a rush!"
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"You actually liked that Longtail?" Petrie asked intrigued.
Cera smiled. "Hmm...maybe you're toughening up now," the fast biter commented
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Littlefoot smirked an almost sigh type smirk at Cera's comment, "Well main things is as long as you're ok" he said, inspecting Longtail to make sure he was.
Kit had swooped over to grab some more leaves and she frowned, shaking her head, "Gosh, Longtail, maybe you're so scared since alot of stuff does happen to you" she admitted, "You gotta try to be more careful".
"Hmm...we might be almost done" Ty commented with a slight tilt of his head as he inspected the nest.
"Really?!" Kit asked surprised. Her dad smiled and shrugged, "Well it is a lot smaller than your cousins' nest. Yep, just a few more I think" He swooped down to gather up a few more twigs.
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(ooc: Sorry...one more character :DD I was debating how Misty would probably be a cute little rainbow face in this reality? So I wanted to explore that but didn't have a plot point really until I could give her another little friend to hang out with, that's where Twiz comes in handy)
As Twiz swooped off gathering more leaves he soon noticed something, something that looked like a small speck by the wall of the Sharptooth Valley. He swooped down closer, not really scared of the Sharptooth Valley since his cousin on his dad's side, Kit, did live there and could always back him up if anything happened.
What he spotted as he got closer probably didn't have any allies in the Valley though.
"Oh great, now I'm gonna get found out and...well given where it's so obvious I'm coming from having explored I'm gonna get yelled at and a million ohter bad things, this assuming the sharpteeth don't get to me first!" the little rainbow face hatchling stuck halfway in a small hole in the Valley wall was saying to herself.
Twiz swooped down closer, "Hey, you need help?" he asked. The rainbow face turned to him and, spotting his two little teeth, frowned, "Yeah, right! Help to the rest of your family for dinner!" she said.
Twiz surprisingly just laughed, "Oh no, my dad's just a sharptoothed flyer, rest of my herd are flateeth, I'll prove it when I introduce you after getting you out" he said, and with that he took a hold of her neck, gently, and pulled to try and release the other hatchling.
Misty, having no better options, just wiggled to try and aid the process of herself getting unstuck.
(ooc: It is kinda funny, the flatteeth kids are sneaking into the Valley from the Mysterious Beyond in this reality where as...ah you get it :DD)
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(Yeah, I can't wait to see how this goes! :DD )
After another 30 minutes, the gang finished on Kit's nest. "Good as new," Cera smiled.
Littlefoot's belly rumbled. "I am getting a little hungry." Cera laughed a bit. "It's not like food is just going to walk into the valley,": she laughed.
Or was it?
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"I still can't believe you took that long to take a drink." Dilo hissed to herself. She had no idea where she was at this point. She was too lost in her mind to realize where she was going.
"Hey, I think you're overreacting. What's your problem anyway?" Rato asked.
"I'm tired of all of this. Why do I have to hang out with those kids anyway? Why can't we just go after Sharptooth?
"Because we need to know..."
"His weakness." Dilo spat. "I know!"
Rato narrowed his eyes. "Yeah..of course you do. That's why you're snapping at me for no reason."
Dilo growled softly. Part of her wondered why she even bothered going through with this plan at all. If Chio wanted to know the weakness of Sharptooth, he could have figured it out for himself. But another part of her knew how important this mission was and she reminded herself that Chio wasn't the only one who felt the Great Valley was a strange place. She felt the same way, deep down.
Rato started at Dilo and shook his head slowly. Dilo had been a bit grouchier than normal today. He couldn't imagine why. All she did was hang out with a bunch of kids not too long ago. How was that a bad thing? And yet Dilo acts like it was the end of the world or something. Rato chuckled to himself. Perhaps he should have volunteered for that job. He did kind of enjoy the company of kids.
"Look, we should..." Then Rato noticed where Dilo was walking. There was a hill straight up ahead and Dilo wasn't looking where she was going. "Dilo! Watch out!"
"What are..." Dilo looked in front of her as she was about to take a step over the edge. Her eyes widened and she held out her arms and straightened her tail in an attempt to balance herself. But she lost her footing and fell over the edge and began to roll down the hill.
Rato quickly got to the edge and looked over. "Dilo!"
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"You hear something guys?' asked Chomper. Petrie looked aorund, and noticed Dilo rolling down the hill!
"Guys! It's Dilo from the other day, and she's in danger!" Petrie called
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Rato quickly ran towards Dilo, trying his best to catch up to her. His nose told him that someone else was nearby, but he wasn't sure if they would get to her on time. His feet nearly slipped as he ran down the hill, but he managed to keep his footing and managed to get in front of Dilo at the bottom of the hill, partially thanks to his longer strides.
A second later, Dilo slammed into the leg of Rato, her eyes widening. Rato glanced down at her and asked her how she was feeling. Dilo remained silent, however, frozen in place due to the force of the impact. She eventually fell backwards and landed on her back.
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"Guys! We should go check to see if Dilo's alright!" called Littlefoot
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"Hey, Dilo? Are you all right?" Rato lowered his head closer, thinking that maybe Dilo would be able to hear him better if he was a little closer.
Dilo shook her head slowly. "Rolling down hills..not fun..not fun..."
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Chomper, Ruby, Cera, Littlefoot, Spike, Petrie, and the rest soon came running up.
"You ok Dilo?" Chomper said, concerned about her.
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Dilo rubbed her head. "Yes, I'm fine." She felt a bit silly for not looking where she was going. She glanced up at Rato. Normally she wouldn't bother saying anything, but she had to put up with the facade. "Thank you, Rato."
"Don't mention it." Rato replied, grinning as he realized he had to make sure he made a good impression too.
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"That's good to hear," Ruby said relieved, but she still had a weird feeling about Dilo.....
Littlefoot walked over to Rato and smiled. "Hi! I'm Littlefoot, who are you?" he asked
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"Hello, Littlefoot. I'm Rato." Rato greeted. "I'm..." He tried to think of the term that Dilo had used when she described what happened. "..part of Dilo's pack, or family, whichever you'd like to call it."
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"Nice to meet you," Chomper smiled. "I'm chomper, the flyer is Petrie, the teal fast biter is Cera and the other is Ruby, and Spike's the belly dragger."
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"Nice to meet you kids, too." Rato responded, still smiling.
Dilo got up onto her feet. Part of her wanted to just seize a kid by the throat and force them to cough up whatever they knew. But the other part of her told her that she shouldn't...at least not now. She would have her chance to deal with the kids in due time...
"So what have you children been up to?" She asked in a soft tone of voice.
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"Just trying to put up with this dumb skywater," Cera replied. "And we might to hunting later," added Petrie.
"I wanna get something for Sharptooth," Ruby added. "Sort of as a thank-you for letting me live with him after I lost my parents."
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Kit flapped over, yet a bit more hesitantly than the others and landed farther back than them.
"We've uh...been fixing nests" she softly supplied for another answer.
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"J-just suck in and maybe it'll be easier" Twiz said, still trying to pull Misty free. "Excuse me!" the rainbow face hatchling said. Twiz sighed, "I didn't mean...".
As Misty continued to push on the wall, she jolted a rock on the other side and it crashed down, knocking both of the kids free.
"Whew!" Misty sighed, smiling, "Wow, it's good to be out of..." she looked around and noticed they were still in the Valley.
"Aw, mushed treestars!" she said, "We're on the wrong side, now we're back where we started except you're here too!".
Twiz frowned a bit nervously, yet shrugged his own worry off soon, "Relax, I'll admit ever time I come here I sneak in and no one but Kit herself and her dad sometimes know I'm here, but like I said, she's my cousin on my dad's side of the family, I can talk us out of trouble here".
"I hope so" Misty frowned, "'cause that holes smaller than it was!" she pointed to the all but crack in the wall now due to the slight shift of rocks.
"Let's just find a hiding place first" Twiz said, flapping up and along the wall with Misty following hesitantly along. "I can pass for a sharptoothed flyer, being half one ya know" he pointed to his two little sharpteeth.
"Yeah, except for the really telling part of how every other sharptoothed flyer your age has all their growned up teeth by this point!" Misty shot back, quietly though.
"and your claws are just all wrong looking...".
"If you're not even gonna be a help..." Twiz said annoyed. He spotted a cave though, "Come on, let's try there" he said.
(ooc: Hehe, maybe I should turn Misty and Twiz into the next Ruby and Chomper of this reality or something :DD speaking concept wise)
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However, walking around the part of the valley they were in was little Tricia. The little fast biter stared curiously at Misty and Twiz.
(And yeah, they can become the Ruby and Chomper Kit12, Sharptotoh we'll accept them.)
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Dilo nodded her head slowly. "Fixing nests, eh? That sounds like..." She stifled herself from saying the word 'stupid.' She quickly replaced it with another. "...a very selfless thing for you kids to do." She said with a smile. "Quite the helpful bunch, aren't you?"
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"Yeah, you could say we are," Cera smiled.
Ruby was still having her weird feelings. She was giving Dilo an odd look when she wasn't looking.
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Rato noticed the way Ruby was looking at Dilo. He started to feel concerned. What if this little fastbiter was seeing right through Dilo's ruse?
Part of him wanted to question Ruby, but wouldn't that make her suspicious of him? No, he would keep it to himself, for now. Later on, he would discuss the issue with Dilo. If there was even an ounce of suspicion, Rato feared that it might ruin the plans.
Hoping to get Ruby's mind off of Dilo, if just temporarily, he expressed interest in something she had said earlier. "Did you say you lived with Sharptooth? The Sharptooth?"
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"Um...yes," Ruby replied, in her mind not liking where this was going...
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As little Tricia appeared, both Misty and Twiz faltered back. "W-what the matter Mr. brave almost sharptooth" Misty asked Twiz as she saw the worried look on his face, "i-it is just a baby".
"Y-yeah, a baby with more teeth than me" Twiz moved behind Misty.
"Hey! No pushing the flattooth out in front, that's just mean" Misty moved to be behind Twiz. The little flyer gulped, deciding that maybe if he spoke sharptooth to the little kid she wouldn't deem him food...and maybe that would help Misty by association.
"Um...hi there, little...one" Twiz said in sharptooth as he walked up, "Um, we're just going for a stroll so...no biting".
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Kit didn't know what to say, only she frowned as she could tell Ruby didn't particularly like where the topic was going. "Um...".
"So would you like us to show you guys around?" Littlefoot also caught on and interjected, hoping to save Ruby a hard explanation and/or topic.
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Tricia understood words but couldn't quite talk just yes, so she smiled and nodded. She picked up a ground crawler and began chewing on it. She started back towards the valley's center, looking back towards Misty and Twix as if telling them to come with her.
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Chomper was also starting to feel suspicious about Dilo and Rato.
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Rato started to feel nervous about what he said. The way Ruby reacted to his question suggested she didn't feel comfortable. He opened up his mouth to apologize, but quickly stopped himself, fearful that he would say something else stupid.
Dilo wasn't pleased either. Rato probably went and blew their cover already. She didn't show her disgust in her face, but she knew that Rato knew she was disappointed in him.
When Littlefoot offered to show them around, Dilo nodded her head. "We would like that."
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Misty flinched and had to turn her head, "Well...alteast it's just a crawler, huh?" she said. Twiz smiled and pat her shoulder.
As the little one seemed to beckon them on, Misty frowned, "Oh what's she want now? To led us to her parents for a snack?!" she asked. Twiz smiled, "Don't worry, remember you're with me and I'm in around here...sorta, it'll be ok" he tried to reassure around his own nervousness.
"Come on, she seems nice" he said. "Well...you know better than me about sharpteeth" Misty said, at least she already knew she trusted this little flyer.
Twiz flew near Misty as the two of them followed little Tricia wherever it was she was taking them.
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Littlefoot nodded, "we could...go met everyone, even some of the adults" he said, glancing to the others and noticing their uneasiness but hoping the adults would be able to handle anything that might come up.
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Longtail had heard everything that had been said, but stayed hidden in a nearby tree. These two newcomers he didn't know, and that put him on alarm...but he was still scared out of his mind. He could tell the others at least seemed to trust Dilo and Rato, but he wouldn't budge, so he tried calling Kits name several times hoping she'd hear him.
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Petrie flew back to where Longtail was. "I'm starting to not trust those two either," he said.
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Tricia walked over to her other friends, lots of really young fats biters. Thankfully for the two following her baby fast biters were not strong enough to kill anything yet
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Kit, finally hearing Longtail just as Petrie flapped back, turned and followed discreatly as well, since she was at the back of the group it was easy.
"W-what is it, the odd newcomers?" she asked, indicating Rato and Dilo, "Yeah they're uh...odd".
"Did you guys get to know Dilo better than I did?" she turned to Petrie, "Was she this odd then?".
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As they saw where Tricia lead them, Twiz gave a nervous laugh, "S-see Misty, it's not parents...just more friends".
Misty looked at all the little fast biters with wide eyes. "Ok, I'll never sneak in here again, I promise, just don't let me die!" she buried her face in Twiz's shoulder.
Twiz gently shook her to look up again, "Don't worry, I got ya remember". He sounded nervous himself though. Yet trying to remember he was the heir to a flyers herd and therefore should show some backbone, he walked forward.
"So...uh, you kids like catch?" he asked the little ones, picking up a nearby treesweet and rolling it gently across the floor so one of them could still catch it and roll it back if they wanted.
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One of the little fast biters did roll it back, but it was only because of hating the smell of it. Tricia and a few of the kids picked up some crawlers and showed them to Misty and Twiz, as if offering them a bite.
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"You know what, kind of," replied Petrie.
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Back at the cave, Des and Guan sat near the cave opening, wondering what Dilo and Rato were up to.
"I wonder how those two are doing..." Des thought to herself, her head facing the exit of the cave.
Guan chuckled to herself. "This is Dilo we're talking about. I should have known she wouldn't be up to this." She glanced over at Des. "Knowing her, she probably did something to blow her cover."
Des glanced over at Guan. "Oh really? ...like what?"
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Chomper and the rest were beginning to just plain not trust Dilo. Rato they were savbing thier judgement for now.
"Yeah...let's just walk," Cera said
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Rato started to feel guilty about what he had said earlier. Things seemed to be going downhill since he asked that question regarding Sharptooth. He glanced over at Ruby. "I apologize if my earlier question upset you. I didn't mean to sound rude or anything. I was just surprised." He lowered his head. "I'll try to watch my tongue next time."
Rato then turned his head towards Dilo. "And don't mind Dilo here. She's still a bit edgy from falling down that hill and isn't quite herself. She normally isn't like this."
Dilo was a bit surprised by what Rato was saying, but did her best to hide it. She quicky decided to go along with it. "Yes, I apologize myself. If you kids want us to leave, we will. We didn't mean to intrude on you."
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"I guess...." Littlefoot began, "We'll see you around. You probably should have time to rest."
And then the gang walked off
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After walking away for a bit until they were sure the kids were out of ear shot, Rato glanced down at Dilo. In a low whisper, he asked, "Why did you offer to leave? We were supposed to find those kids and..."
Dilo whispered back, "Look, you almost blew everything! If we continued hanging out with them, something was bound to happen to make them even more suspicious than they already were!" She smacked herself with one hand. "Did you have to ask about Sharptooth?"
"We were supposed to..."
"I know! But it was too early for that! The kid barely even knows us!" Dilo hissed. She shook her head. "Just forget it. We should report back to Chio. Perhaps he'll give up this futile attempt at befriending a couple of kids."
With that, they continued on their way.
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"Anything could happen." Guan said, pulling her head back. "And Dilo isn't exactly good with kids. Chio was probably better off sending me."
Des chuckled at that. "Yeah right."
"What's wrong with that idea?"
"You aren't exactly a babysitter yourself." Des said, smirking slightly.
"Well at least I'm better than Dilo!" Guan rolled her eyes.
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"Oh yeah, I forgot" Twiz picked the treesweet up, "This stuff stinks to full fledged sharpteeth, not sure why though".
Misty looked at the crawlers they little one's offered and smiled nervously, "Um...that's uh...".
Twiz took them both to be nice and not hurt the little one's feelings...still not sure himself what would happen when he tried to put it in his mouth...he'd been around his mom's herd of greenfood eaters, he'd never had to try meat or crawlers before.
As he handed Misty hers, he caught the rainbow face's "are you kidding?!" look and smiled. "Just drop it behind you or something".
Misty sighed and found a leaf to descretely let hers off on as she turned from Twiz popping his crawler in his mouth...and then grimacing. He swallowed it whole though.
"Well...I know I won't die or nothin' thanks to my dad's side of the family, but I'm not sure I'd call that pleasant" he said.
Misty giggled, "You really are a mystery even to yourself aren't you, Twiz" she said. The little flyer just smiled.
"Well" Misty turned back to the young ones, "How about kicking around a seed, can you guys stand the smell of those" she kicked a pinecone over to them.
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As they moved off, Kit remained silent, thinking through both Petrie's answer and the unsure feeling the others seemed to be feeling. Could the newcomers be up to something...and if so, what? and...why?
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Tricia and the other young fast biters nodded at this and began kicking it around. Soon, a roar was heard. "Tricia sweety, where are you?" Cira's voice called.
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I think we should tell the adults about Dilo and Rato," Chomper said.
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Even as he followed after his friends and seeing the two newcomers wander off, Longtail was still shaking in fear. These two Dilo and Rato had made Longtail feel not just nervous, but truly terrified, but he just couldn't understand why, and his friends talking about their real reasons for being here wasn't making his feelings any better.
"E-everyone...I'm...a-afraid. What...what are we gonna do?" he asked with a stutter in his voice.
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:oops Sorry double post.
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"I think we should tell the grownups," Littlefoot said. "Agreed," replied everyone.
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Cira soon saw Tricia among her friends and pciked her up, giving her a big hug. "There you are!" she smiled, eyes closed. When she opened her eyes...she saw Misty and Twiz
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"Yeah Longtail, the grown-ups will make everything alright" Kit tried to reassure the other flyer as they continued along, hoping to make him feel better.
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Misty's first action, after seeing with wide eyes, the fast biter notice her was to yell and dodge into a nearby bush. Twiz jumped in front of the bush, wings spread bravely despite being a bit uneasy himself.
"P-please ma'am" he said, again hoping him speaking sharptooth would show how he at least half deserved to be here and not be thought of as food, and by that help Misty by association.
"S-she's my friend and she got stuck, so I helped her. I-I'm Twiz Ma'am, m-my cousin Kit already lives around here I just...don't. Your daughter was being real nice and introducing us to her friends".
Surely she wouldn't think other kids like them had been trying to hurt Tricia or the other little ones, would she? No, he just had to worry about getting Misty not thought of as food.
Nervously, but hiding it well, he waited for Cira's response.
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Cira, being nice as she always was, smiled in reply. "Don't worry little one, we don't eat leafeaters who are friends of one of us," the fast biter mother replied.
"You said Kit is your cousin? I'm seen him around, and I could show you where he/she is." (I forgot Kit's gender :slap ) Tricia just kept hugging her mother
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Guan perked her head up as she heard someone approaching. "Well well..looks like they're back already."
Des got up from her position and walked over to take a look. Sure enough, approaching the cave were both Dilo and Rato. They looked a bit glum and disappointed. "Let me guess..things didn't go so well?"
Dilo hissed. "Things were going fine until Rato here just had to ask about Sharptooth!"
"Hey, I had apologized!" Rato shouted.
"It doesn't matter!" Dilo hissed at him. "That one move may have blown our cover! If Chio found out, he's going to kill us!"
"If I found out...what..?" Chio's dark voice sounded out.
The four dinosaurs froze in their tracks. Dilo and Rato's eyes widened far. They slowly turned around to see Chio towering over them. The shadows of the cave obscured his body, making the easiest thing to see being his red eyes. He glared at them, baring his teeth slightly.
"N-Nothing..." Rato said, taking a step back. "We were just...."
Chio growled, "It didn't sound like nothing. Are you saying that you failed...?"
"Well..you were the one who sent me out..." Dilo said, but quickly stopped herself when Chio shot her a glare.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't punish you now..." Chio took a step forward, looking very angry. "Tell me that you bring at least some good news...!"
"Well...there is something..." Rato said without thinking. "It has to do with Sharptooth."
Chio looked over at Rato. "What is it?"
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The gang went back to the waterhole despite the rain. "I've got a bad feeling about those two," Ruby said
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"Well..it seems one of the kids happens to live with Sharptooth." Rato said.
Guan snorted. "And how is that going to help us?"
"Don't you get it?" Rato said, turning his head to Guan. "The kid could be the key to bringing down Sharptooth. If he lets her stay with him, he obviously cares for her."
Guan nodded her head, seeing Rato's point. "Understood...but I still don't know if that will be good enough."
Chio thought about this for a moment. Perhaps Rato was onto something. He grinned evilly. Yes, perhaps this kid could be the key to making their plans become a reality.
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At the waterhole, Littlefoot's grandparents, Dein, Terri, Veli, Mama Swimming Sharptooth, and Tera arrived.
Chomper had an idea: "Maybe we should have a sleepover guys," he suggested. "But where?" asked Littlefoot.
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Des noticed the smirk on Chio's face. "Are you thinking what I think you're thinking?"
Chio nodded his head slowly. "We must get that kid."
"And how do you plan to do that?" Dilo asked. "It's not like she's unguarded or anything! And what of her other friends?"
"Well if you were able to find them away from their parents, or at least away from Sharptooth..perhaps there's a chance." Des suggested, scratching her chin lightly. "Just a suggestion of course."
Chio pointed a claw at Dilo. "And you're just the dinosaur to pull off this job!"
"Me?" Dilo said, surprised. "Why me? She is already suspicious of me..." She looked at Des and Guan. "Why not them? She has not met them!"
"Why would I send them?"
"They're smaller and more agile?" Dilo suggested.
Chio glanced at Dilo and Des. Dilo did have a good point. For stealth purposes, perhaps one or both of them would do better at capturing this kid than Dilo would. Perhaps Guan...her green colors would make her a bit harder to spot.
Guan noticed the way Chio was looking at her and shook her head. "I know where this is going and no!"
Des girnned at her. "What happened to 'I could do better than Dilo!'?"
At this, Dilo glared at Guan. She put her hands on her sides. "Well...!"
"But I don't even know where the kids are..." Guan said.
"I'm sure Dilo and Rato would be glad to tell you where they lost saw them..." Chio said, smirking evilly.
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"Hm...I doubt daddy would want all of us at my family's nest," Cera laughed. "My grandparents wouldn't mind," Littlefoot said, "And there's a big tree some of us can stay in where the sky water won't bother us."
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"Uh...sure..." Rato started to feel guilty about telling what he did to Chio. But what else could he do? If he didn't, things may have utrned out far worse.
"I just hope you'd be able to find it." Dilo smirked. "With all the scouting you two do, you should be able to find it no problem..I hope!"
"Of course we'll be able to find it!" Des said, glaring at Dilo. "Just tell us and we'll go there!"
As Dilo and Rato began to explain the location where they ran into the kids, Chio watched them, smiling darkly. The plan was in motion.
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Dein and Terri shared with the kids two big threehorns they had caught. "I love the taste of threehorn, it's nice and tough," Cera grinned.
Because of the constant rain, they couldn't see the Bright Circle at all, they could tell it was getting to be night time. "Grandma, Grandpa, can my friends spend the night with me?" "Sure Littlefoot," Grandpa Sharptotoh replied.
Sharptooth also showed up. He was unaware of Rato and the rest's presence. "Hello children, how are you doing today?" he smiled
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After a few minutes of talking, Des and Guan walked up to Chio.
"Are you two ready?" Chio asked.
"As we'll ever be." Des said.
"Good." Chio replied. "Now go!"
Des and Guan quickly left.
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As everyone was heading to Littlefoot's grandparents nest/the big tree, Chomper starting looking around.
"Something bothering you Chomper?" asked Littlefoot, the sharptooth was concerned. "You ever feel....never mind," Chomper replied.
Little did they know, some dinos, some bad ones were nearby
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As Des and Guan went off, Rato looked over at Chio, a slight frown on his muzzle. "Are you sure those two are up to it?
A glare. "You doubt my judgement?"
"No, of course not!" Rato took a step back. "I'm just.. a little concerned that something could still go wrong."
Dilo chuckled. "Don't worry so much. They can handle it."
"Yes..." Chio nodded his head. "Those brats don't stand a chance..."
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(OOC: Hehe, Kit's a little girl :DD)
Twiz nodded, "Oh well then...that's good, hey Misty I think it's cool" he said, turning to look in the bush. The small rainbow face peeked her head out, "R-really" she took one or two steps out.
"Well uh...thanks". She smiled, "you're uh...daughter there is actually alot of fun to be around for a little kid" she smiled, hoping that came out as a compliment as she'd meant it.
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Kit also noticed Chomper's mood and started trying to pay attention to her surroundings more, figure out if there was something to worry about. She was paying so much attention, in fact, she bumped right into both Longtail and Petire.
"Whops, uh sorry" she smiled in apology, "I uh...am just nervous with everyone else I guess".
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Longtail was still following his friends, but after reaching Littlefoots nest, and hearing Chompers' comment, he quickly flew into the nearest tree, climbed to the tallest branch and dug his feet and claws into the tree bark not wanting to let go out of fear, while his body was still shaking like a leaf.
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While finding her own safe spot once they reached Littlefoot's nest, Kit glanced up to where Longtail was. She smiled, "On edge too huh?" she asked, even if she didn't need an answer. Even she was still feeling the tension of the time though and glanced about a bit.
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"Thank you," Cira replied. "You two will love living here. There's plenty of prey for you and lots of green stuff for your rainbowface friend."
Everyone else (Minus Ducky of course) got in the tree. "At least the sky water doesn't touch us here," smiled Chomper
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After several minutes of walking, Guan and Des came to what seemed to fit the description of where Dilo and Rato last saw the kids. Guan dipped her nose to the grass and sniffed.
"Where did they go?" Des asked, narrowing her eyes slightly.
Guan lifted up her nose. "This way."
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"I feel safer here," Ruby said. "I just don't trust Dilo, and I'm not sure about Rato either."
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Twiz smiled once more, "Thanks, um...yeah that might be good since I sort of darted off away from my herd to save Misty in the first place...so I think I'm kinda alone now" he frowned as he realized this.
Misty sighed, "Oh Twiz, you didn't" she hugged her new friend though, "Well then thanks for sacrificing so much...and don't worry, I'll watch out for you, even if that's kinda funny, the flatooth looking out for the sharptooth" she laughed a bit.
"Um...will everyone else know not to eat me, though?" Misty asked Cira, "it does look like a big Valley and I personally would feel the worst about a misunderstanding" she frowned.
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"We just need to introudce you to our leader, Sharptooth. If he tells everyone not to eat you, they won't eat you," Cira replied, having Twiz translate
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OOC: Maybe I should do a reverse thing here as in your island RP and have all of Misty or whoever's flattooth spoke responses in <>, you think?
Twiz nodded, then turned back to Misty <"she said we'd just have to get the leader sharptooth tell others not to eat you"> he said. <"Oh"> Misty nodded, <"Well...if it's safe">.
Twiz laughed, <"I'm sure she wouldn't have offered if it wasn't, and remember I'm still here">. <"Yeah, and thanks for that"> Misty said, <"Ok, tell her that's fine">.
Twiz turned back to Cira, "Ok, with us around, I think she's ok with the idea" he told her.
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(Yeah, that's a good idea.)
"Ok then, follow me. It's best Sharptooth meets you as soon as possible." Cira said. "Just stay close to me."
Soon, since it wassn't that late, Cira eventually bumped into Sharptooth. He wondered what she wanted as Twiz and Misty saw the biggest sharptooth they ever saw
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The kids noticed they were seeing the biggest sharptooth ever too, as Misty's eyes went wide and she backed up; even Twiz looked nervous. He tried to think of something to say to maybe even help Cira explain...but found himself speechless.
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Sharptooth looked amazed, he was surprised two flatteeth managed to get into the GV, but he wasn't going to harm them or anything.
Cira began explaining the situation of how Twiz and Misty got stuck in the valley, and how Twiz was related to someone in the valley. Sharptooth, though extremely strong, was not natuarlly aggresive, and told Cira what he decided.
Cira then turned to Twiz. "He says it's fine that you two can live in here, and Twiz, you can live with your cousin. He'll announce to everyone that you are not to be eaten, and tell Misty that she can live with me, Tricia, Cera my other daughter, and my mate Veli."
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Twiz nodded, "Ok, um...thank you very much sir" Twiz peeked beyond Cira to still shyly thank the leader of this Valley.
He then turned to translate to Misty, who frowned a bit, yet more in thought, yet nodded as well.
<"Oh, well, tell them thankyou very much!"> she said in graititude, if not nervous gratitude. She smiled, <"I'm sure your other daughter is just as nice as little Tricia and your mate as nice as you"> she told Cira, knowing Twiz would translate.
He did, yet then grinned and turned back to Misty to add in flattooth, <"Yeah, but I've heard enough from being around here that he is rather grumpy"> the little flyer giggled.
At Misty's frown, Twiz went on, <"Oh, but he's still fair, I've also heard, and he'll listen to Miss Cira I'm sure"> <"Hopefully..."> Misty replied. She smiled to Cira though as her show of gratitude she could show without a translator needed, and plus to show it was still just good stuff they were saying in case the sharpteeth wondered what her and Twiz were talking about.
"Um, Kit's dad's name is...Ty I believe, do you know where either of them are?" Twiz next asked Cira and Sharptooth, "I'll go explain to them too".
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Sharptotoh nodded. "Ty lives in the nests in the south part of the valley," Sharptooth replied.
Cira began leading Misty to her nest. ">You'll love living with us<," she said, her flattoth still a bit rusty. Veli and Tricia were at the nest. "Hello dear, is that our dinner?" Veli asked.
Cira sighed. "No dear," she replied, "Meet your new step daughter."
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Guan stopped in her tracks and started to sniff. The sweet scent of a flattooth caught her attention. She licked her chops.
Des noticed Guan stopped and went back for her. "What are you doing?" She hissed. "We're supposed to be..."
"But don't you smell it?" Guan said, tilting her nose towards the sky. "A flattooth."
Des shook her head. "I don't care about that now... Let's just grab that kid."
"But I'm hungry now." Guan said, narrowing her eyes. "Surely, Chio wouldn't mind if we grab something to eat first."
"Maybe, if we're lucky, we'll get to eat that child Rato told us about."
"But sharpteeth don't taste as good as flatteeth."
"Tough luck." Des gestured her head. "Now come along. Chio doesn't like to hear excuses when plans are put off or even failed. And Rato and Dilo had already angered him enough." She shook her head. "Let's not give him another reason to get angry."
"Oh fine." Guan muttered. As she and Des went on their way again, she scented the flattooth one more time and felt her hands twitch in desperation, her mouth starting to water. If only Des hadn't come with her...
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MEanwhile, the rest of the gang was starting to fall asleep. "Night everyone," they all (Except Spike) called to each other.
But Ruby, as she was getting tired... a bad feeling kept entering her mind. What was going on around her?
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"The trail leads here." Guan said after several minutes of walking.
"Shhh! Not so loud!" Des hissed under her breath. She grabbed Guan by the muzzle before she could say anything else. "Stay low."
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Ruby thought she heard a noise, but she decided to ignore it
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Hidden behind some foliage, the two sharpteeth spotted the group of kids.
"How are we going to pull this off?" Guan asked quietly. "There's too many of them around."
"We wait until they fall asleep." Des answered. "But we only have one shot at it, so don't blow it."
Guan narrowed her eyes. "I won't."
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Misty smiled, especially as Cira put her best effort into speaking flattooth, it came out pretty good considering she figured. At the sight of the new fast biter as they approached, even if she knew this was likely Cira's mate, Misty halted a bit.
Veli stared a bit, as if trying to process what Cira had just told him. "Our...what?".
Misty gave a nervous chuckle, <"Uh, that's ok Sir, it's still all new to me too"> she said, <"and...you didn't catch a thing I just said..."> she realized, unless he spoke a bit of flattooth that was. She'd find out soon enough though, and if not Cira could help translate.
<"I'm kind of a friend of Twiz', a new little sharptoothed flyer...though he speaks flattooth too..."> she almost realized herself, <"anyway, he's someone named Kit's cousin, so...since I'm with him as a friend and all Sharptooth put me with your family for protection since...well I met Tricia and Cira here earlier"> Misty explained.
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"Oh, ok, well uh...from my other brief visits to see Kit before I sorta know where that is, thanks for the reminder" Twiz said in sharptooth, "and uh...thanks for the...well letting Misty and me stay and everything, uh...guess I'll see ya around". With that and another awkward smile, just 'cause he'd just met Sharptooth and not so much from fear, Twiz flew off towards where he knew the south of the Valley to be.
He was pretty stealthy when he needed to be so he made it there without any interruptions from others. He then spotted Ty. "Oh boy, guys only seen me like what, two times I think" he muttered to himself, "this should be interesting".
He'd hoped Kit would be at the nest, but she wasn't.
"Um...excuse me...uh Mr. Ty..." Twiz said hesitantly. Ty turned, squinted to recognize the little one and then smiled, "Oh Twiz" he said, "Well kinda surprised to see you here so suddenly, so what's Trip's boy doing here anyway?" Ty's smile was pleasant as he said this, and Twiz felt like he was flying even without flying at just being called 'Trip's boy'.
"Well sir, it's kinda a long story..." he began.
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Veli couldn't believe that a leafeater actually befriended his mate and daughter, but he was going to wait until he judged Misty.
"Ok...you can stay....but if you try to hurt my daughters, my mate, or myself, you'll regret it."
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(ooc: this whole set up of Misty staying with Cera and Veli is gonna be amusing I'm thinking :lol)
Misty gave a nervous chuckle at the almost threat, once Cira had translated (?). <"Uh, yeah, well actually Sir I really don't think a small rainbow face like me could do anything to two fast...I mean, yes sir, I won't"> Misty broke off her point for the simple answer and reassurance that she wouldn't be 'trying anything'.
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"...and so then Sharptooth said...well he was just thinking..." Twiz fumbled a bit with the end of his story. Ty smiled, "He was thinking you could just stay with me and Kit" he finished.
Twiz nodded, "Yes Sir". Ty laughed, "Well of course Twiz, Kit will be overjoyed at that prospect, and I don't mind watching out for Trip's boy one bit" Ty pat the top of Twiz's head in a hair ruffling gesture.
Twiz laughed, "Gee thanks alot Mr. Ty".
"You know, the kids are having a sleep over over at one of the other sharptooth, Littlefoot's, nest, I could fly you over there real quick to atleast let Kit know you're here; I mean I understand how maybe you wouldn't want to intrude on all her friends all of a sudden, but...".
"Oh that's ok" Twiz waved his wings in protest, "I wouldn't want to ruin her fun, I'll just wait until the morning".
Ty smiled, "I'm sure you would, if anything, just add to her fun" he assured the young one.
Twiz still looked unsure. "I'm gonna have to insist" Ty said suddenly with a good humored smile, and flapping up, looking back for Twiz to follow. The boy sighed, yet smiled to show he really would like seeing Kit even this soon and followed.
"Ok, thanks again Mr. Ty" he said with a grateful smile. Ty smirked back at him, "You know, Twiz, I did pair up with your aunt, if you want to call me Uncle Ty it's not unheard of".
"Oh" Twiz all but shrugged as they flew, "I thought I might be imposing to soon if I did that". Ty just shook his head, he liked this boy from his late mate's side of the family, but Twiz worried about too many things sometimes.
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Kit sighed, "Well I guess...", just as she was about to suggest maybe they should settle down, she spotted her dad coming over. "Dad? Is...is something wrong?" she asked.
"Not at all Kit" Ty laughed, "Um sorry to interrupt you kids fun" he apologized to the others, "I just wanted to let Kit know that Twiz is here and...".
Twiz?! Here?!" Kit cried excitedly, then she spotted him and rushed out to hug her cousin from her mom's side of the family, "Oh Twiz, you came to visit!" she exclaimed happily.
"Actually I'm staying with you and your dad, Sharptoothed okayed it, and my rainbow face friend, Misty, is staying with Miss Cira and Veli and their family" he added, unaware Veli's other daughter, Cera, was right here.
Kit hugged Twiz harder with this news, "Oh boy! Now I'm super happy!...hey Littlefoot" Kit swung around, still hugging Twiz so that the young flyer was semi-drug around along with her, "can Twiz sleep over with us too?" Kit asked with a broad smile.
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"A rainbow face is staying with my family?" Cera said in confused surprise, waking up
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Guan grumbled softly. "At this rate, we'll never get to them..."
Des nudged her gently with her elbow. "Patience, Guan. Patience..."
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"Well....make yourself at home," Veli grunted, with Cira translating friendly.
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"I'm tempted to just run out there now and grab her." Guan whispered softly.
Des shook her head. "No. If we do that, we would alert her friends."
"They'd already be on alert if we take her without them seeing us. So what's the difference?" Guan asked.
"Time." Des said. "That's the difference."
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"<So, what would you like for dinner?>" Cira asked Misty in flattooth.
(Woo-hoo! 3000th post!)
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"Well, you kids have fun, and again sorry for the intrusion" Ty said before turning to flap off. He paused a bit, a feeling of...uneasiness almost settling over him, yet he shrugged this off and continued on his way leaving the kids under Grandpa Sharptooth's watch of sleeping nearby.
"Come on Twiz, you can sleep right here next to me" Kit said, choosing to put Twiz on the other side of her as on her other side she was near where Petrie was sleeping. With no brothers or siblings of any kind, and being immensely fond of both her cousins Petrie and Twiz, Kit couldn't have been happier than she was right now to get to hang out with both of them; especially with Twiz even able to stay with her and her dad at their nest!
"I don't think this day could get better" the little sharptoothed flyer commented as she settled down.
Twiz smiled, "Yeah, it is pretty good, oh and to answer your question" he turned to Cera, "yeah, Misty's staying with your family...", as Twiz settled down to sleep he explained to Cera, with the last being an almost drowsly slur, the story of how him and Misty came to be stuck here and the rainbow face now being with Cera's family.
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Misty smiled, <"Thankyou...uh, don't worry, I'll be as much out of the way as I can"> she told Veli. She turned to Cira at the question, <"Oh, um...treestars if this Valley's got 'em" she answered, "oh and those really big treesweets that...oh right those stink to you guys, uh never mind on the treesweets then, I'll get 'em on my own tomorrow or something">
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"That's...neat," Cera said tired, dozing off like the rest of her friends
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Soon, the gang was all asleep....unawre of what was lurking nearby.
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Noticing the kids were now asleep, Des rose up onto her legs. "Okay, now we can go."
The two came out of hiding, walking slowly and deliberately, making sure they didn't make any noise. They didn't want to wake the children up, or else they would have to face a wrath worse than a herd of leaf-eaters rushing towards them.
They walked up to where Ruby was sleeping. Guan narrowed her eyes and glanced at Des. "This is her, right?" She whispered softly.
Des nodded her head. "Yes. Now let's grab her and run before they wake up."
Des had brought along a vine, knowing that they would need to at least silence Ruby to increase the chances of them getting away without the kids waking up. She knelt down and slipped the rope around Ruby's snout and tied as tightly as she could. She nodded towards Guan.
Guan knelt down and siezed the child by her arms and legs, carrying her upside down. Then Des and Guan began to run as fast as they could to get back to their cave.
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Because of all the motion, Ruby soon woke up. "What the?!" she thought. She tried to shout, but she couldn't make a noise
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"Seems she's awake." Guan said, panting as she ran.
Des said without looking back, "Just make sure she doesn't get away!"
Guan tightened her grip on the small fastbiter. Briefly, she glanced down and smirked. "Oh, don't worry, little one. We have special plans for you, and when they're all done, we'll set you free."
Des hissed. "Guan, stop teasing the fastbiter and hurry it up!"
The two continued to run.
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Ruby started to cry, she should've listened to her feelings when she met Dilo.
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Meanwhile, Chomper woke up, and noticed something odd: Ruby wasn't there! "Guys wake up," he said
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With a jerk much as the others, Kit and Twiz both sat up at Chomper's calling. "What's going on?! Are we being attack by huge ground walking sharpteeth?!" he called before fully awake, darting behind Kit.
He then realized what he said and who he said it in front of, "Um...that is...".
"C-Chomper, what's wrong?" Kit asked, she then did a quick scan and noticed something, "Where's Ruby...".
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Meanwhile, at her own nest, or borrowed nest, Misty had been having issues sleeping, probably since she was near a group of fast biters and would half wake and almost freak before she remembered why she was here.
"Get a grip girl" Misty said, "you have a family now, it's more than you had before, so it's a good thing, plus the possible father figure protecting you looks like he could beat up and or eat anything that threatened you so...you've got less to worry about" Misty continued telling herself as she looked to Veli.
She nonetheless decided that maybe taking a quick walk would help her get to sleep quicker so she started out, not intending to get too far from the nest.
(ooc: Just so she could maybe at least see the direction Des and Guan head in to tell later, if we want to go that route)
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Des and Guan arrived at the cave with Ruby. Even though inside the cave Ruby couldn't get away, Guan still hung onto her, knowing that the fastbiter would try to get away anyway. Des noticed Ruby had started crying and glared at Guan.
"What?" Guan asked.
Des shook her head. "You are not very practical at this..are you?"
They were interrupted by Dilo, who had just arrived. She walked over, glancing down at both Des and Guan. She didn't make eye contact with Ruby.
"So, I see you actually managed to take the kid. I'm very surprised."
"Did you doubt us?" Des said coolly.
Dilo grinned and scratched her chin thoughtuflly. "Well, of course I did. I thought you two would fail like me and Rato did. Well we weren't supposed to be capturing anyone then, but..."
"So they've returned." A dark voice interrupted. Guan, Des, and Dilo all looked up to see Chio slowly appearing out of the shadows, his black skin making it hard to make him out. All three had a slight look of fear on their faces as he approached.
"Y-Yes, sir." Guan said, almost losing her grip on Ruby.
Chio glanced down at Ruby. "So this is the fastbiter that lives with Sharptooth, eh...?"
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Ruby just stared up in tears of fear.
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""Guys, Ruby's missing," Chomper panicked. "Something bad must've happened to her!"
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Chio narrowed his eyes. "What a weakling. I haven't even done anything to her and she cowers like a hatchling. What a disgrace to sharpteeth-kind. Everything went downhill since that blasted Sharptooth character took over."
"Well technically, it wasn't just Sharptooth who.." Dilo spoke up.
"It was still he who devised the plan!" Chio roared at her. Dilo moved back as quickly as she could. Chio glanced back at Ruby. "Remove the vine."
"But..what if she..." Guan started.
"If she tries to bite you or run, I will personally hunt her down and have her as the appetizer of my nest meal." He said darkly.
Guan gritted her teeth at that remark. "Well, all right..." With that, she opened her jaws and snapped at the vine holding Ruby's mouth shut and ripped it off.
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"Why are you doing this?!" Ruby growled.
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"Guys, Ruby's in danger, I just know it!" panicked chomper. And everyone did agree with him.
"I knew that dilo was up to no good," Cera grumbled angrily.
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(Yeah Kit12, that's a good idea.)
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"Maybe they left tracks" Kit flapped up and looked at the ground to look for any tracks. "Or maybe if I fly higher we can spot them, if they're still running".
Petrie nodded, "Yeah, that's a good idea" the two flyers flew higher, but couldn't see anything, and had to flap back down lower to the ground and inform the others of this.
"We should tell Littlefoot's grandfather, he and other adults will know what to do" Kit said.
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Misty frowned, she was new here and didn't know any of the other kids except for Twiz who was new with her, but something just seemed up about the sharpteeth she'd just seen walk by. She stepped farther out, making a mental note of exactly the way they went.
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"Why?" Chio chuckled softly, sounding strangely calm. "Isn't that an interesting question to ask. Then again, Sharptooth's probably shoved his ideas down your throat, so I am not at all surprised..."
Dilo spoke up, "It is easy why we are doing this, little biter. For too long, we have watched in disgust the way the sharpteeth here have grown so soft... Well, after we're done, all that will change..." She grinned.
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"We're not soft!" Ruby retorted. "We're just a tough as ever, do you realize how much prey we get every day?!"
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Dilo laughed. "Only because you work as a team. I'm sure that, apart, you weaklings wouldn't be able to catch anything! A true sharptooth always catchest their food on their own!"
"She's a fastbiter." Rato's voice interrupted her. Rato had just arrived. He felt hesitant to show his face, but figured that the child would find out he was there sooner or later. "They've always been pack hunters. Sharptooth's ways haven't changed them."
Dilo hissed. "Why did you have to go and ruin the fun?"
"So you finally arrived, Rato." Chio said, narrowing his eyes.
Rato immediately lowered his head. "Yes. I apologize for not being here earlier."
"You are right. Fastbiters have been pack hunters. But packs should fend for themselves." Chio said softly. "Just as all individual sharpteeth should fend for themselves. That's the way it was before." He glanced at Ruby. "What was wrong wtih the way things were before?"
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"I got a question," Ruby asked, "If that's what you believe....then why do all of you work together?"
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Chio was surprised at first by this question, but he quickly regained his composure. "This is just a temporary partnership. Once we succeed, we will split ways."
Des chuckled softly, turning her small head to the child. "Sometimes, in order to achieve what a dinosaur feels is right, they must do things they normally don't want to do."
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"But even if you accomplish your goal," Ruby said, "You'll only prove that Sharptooth's ways work."
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Chio hissed angrily. He was about to move towards the child when he heard Rato next to him speak.
"Relax..." Rato said. "She's just a kid. Are you going to waste all your energy on a kid?"
Chio snorted. "Whatever...." He glanced back down at the fastbiter. "Enough small talk. Let's get down to business..."
Rato glanced at Ruby as Chio began to talk. Her words did start to get to him. He hadn't thought of this before. Although he hated to bring himself to admit it, she was right.
Chio said, "I had you brought here for questioning. Don't abide by that and you become a hostage. So either way, I'll get what I want..." He glanced at Guan. "Guan, take her and Dilo into the back for questioning."
Dilo chuckled as she and Guan started to make their way down. Dilo clasped her hands together. "Finally, some fun!"
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Ruby feared what was coming next, but she stayed quiet for now.
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Soon, the group caught up with Misty. "<Did you see my friend Ruby?>" Chomper asked in flattooth.
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Dilo and Guan, who was still holding Ruby, arrived at a small entrance. Inside was a somewhat large room, but looked like it could just barely fit two of Dilo's species in it. Guan threw Ruby into the room and stood at the opening to make sure she wouldn't run away.
Dilo flashed her teeth. "Relax..I'm not the executioner of this group." She flexed her claws. "But if you don't tell me what I want...you're going to wish I was..."
"Dilo.." Guan called in. "Remember, Chio doesn't want you to harm her too much, if you can avoid it."
"Yeah yeah, I know." Dilo rolled her eyes. "I am just the interregator.... Now, first question. Where is Sharptooth's cave?"
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Ruby contemplated what to say next. She knew Sharptooth and the others could fight back if they went to attack.
"It's the....biggest cave....in the north-east part of the the valley," she said scared.
She could smell Rato nearby. For some reason, he didn't seem evil to her
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Dilo chuckled. "Next question... What are his weaknesses?"
Standing nearby was Rato. He wanted to get away from Chio for the time being. He could see Guan, even though she couldn't see him. He couldn't help but feel sorry for Ruby.
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"Well....he cares deeply for everyone here," Ruby said, fearing for hear and Sharptooth.
Then, she felt like she wanted to send a telepathic message to Rato by saying "Help me" in her mind to him, but she doubted she had these kinds of powers.
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"Rato..." Chio called out, walking up to the smaller sharptooth.
"Yes, sir?"
"Tell Dilo I'd like to speak to her." Chio said.
Rato tilted his head. "Whatever for?"
"That's between me and her." He said, eyes narrowing. "Now just do it. Tell her I'll be waiting for her at my cave."
"And what of Guan? Should she go? And the kid?" Rato asked.
"Guan is relieved of her duty..for now. You can take over watching the kid for a bit." Chio said. "Des will take over watching her in a few minutes."
Rato sighed and turned his attention towards the small room where Ruby was being held.
Inside the room, Dilo sneered. "We already knew that. What I meant was any physical weaknesses. Any places where we could..."
Suddenly she was interrupted by a heavy footstep.
"Dilo?" Rato's voice called. "Chio wants to talk to you. Alone. And he said you can leave for now, Guan."
"And who is going to watch the fastbiter?" Guan asked, craning her head up.
"I will." Rato said.
Dilo and Guan looked at each other. Guan just shrugged her shoulders and left without saying a word. Dilo was hesitant to leave, almost wondering if it was a trap. But she dare not try to question Chio's orders. She took one last look at the child before she left.
Once they were gone, Rato looked back at Ruby. He settled himself on the ground, blocking the path out, but tried not to look menacing. "Did you mean what you said before? About us just proving Sharptooth's ways work?" He asked softly, trying to start a conversation.
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Misty turned, more than a bit unsure at all these sharptoothed kids showing up at once, but she was comforted as Twiz came out. <"Hey Misty, these are my new friends, um that's my cousin Kit I mentioned, her cousin on the other side, Petrie, and Littlefoot, Chomper, and the other fast biter of the family you're staying with, Cera> he quickly introduced, <"There is another fast biter...Ruby, but we...well she was taken and...">
Misty gasped, <"Not those sharptooths I saw run off with a little pink fast biter...">.
<"You saw them?!"> Twiz asked, excited, he quickly turned to translate to those who might not have been following the conversation in flatooth, <"where'd they go?"> he asked anxiously.
<"T-through that exit"> Mist pointed, <"but...I didn't see where after that, I--I didn't even know they weren't suppose to be here, I'm sorry, I would'a stopped 'em if I knew they were up to no good"> she frowned, <"Sharpteeth kinda all seem the same to me at first glance">.
<"T-that's fine, you're actually helping a lot"> Twiz quickly reassured. "Come on guys, she said they went this way" Twiz pointed, even if he'd already told them that technically with the last translation.
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Guan decided to walk out of the cave. What was the danger? No one knew where they went and they had their little hostage. She grinned as she took in a deep breath. She usually wasn't out this late, but she felt compelled to go for a walk.
She walked along a path, unconsciously going the same way she and Des had come. She yawned softly and flexed her claws. She shouldn't be out too long. Chio was going to wonder where she was.
After a few minutes passed, she caught a scent in the air. "Those kids...?"
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Longtail was upset and angry with himself, even as his friends devised a plan to go and help Ruby. He had seen what happened, and he was too much of a coward to do anything about it...and he hated himself for it...but now his anger and fear for his friend were starting to mix, and he wasn't sure what to do about his feelings...it felt like he was sinking in the big water with no way out, and for a moment he stopped walking and had to balance himself against a tree.
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"Yes, I do," Ruby said to rato. "You gotta help me, and we gotta stop them.." she said, still afraid of the others.
Littlefoot's grandparents, Veli, Cira, Tyran, Saura, Shorty, and Petrie's mom, as well of Sharptooth of course were informed of what happened, and they were ready to go save Ruby.
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Rato felt confused. In a way, he did want to do something to help the fastbiter, but part of him still felt loyal towards Chio. "I don't know if I can, child. Not while Chio's still here..." He closed his eyes. "Despite what he does, I still feel compelled to follow him, and I hadn't had a reason to doubt his plan..." He reopened his eyes. "That is, until you came. So tell me, child...what would happen if Chio's plan does work? Chio is convinced it would benefit everyone if sharpteeth went their seperate ways. But what do you see?"
Back outside, Guan was growing anxious. She had ran up to a tree to hide behind and remained there. She could still scent the children's scent in the air and she thought she could scent more. She had made sure she put a lot of distance between the cave and where she was. She couldn't let the children find where Ruby was.
After a couple minutes, Guan moved her head out from behind the tree to see if anyone was coming.
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"Well, I'm afraid lots of us would be dead, but this Chio person would only prove that working together is better than survival of the fittest," Ruby replied, not being afraid around Rato. "I just want to see my friends again..."
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"Longtail..." Kit noticed him falter and rushed back even as the grown-ups devised a plan to try and save Ruby. Twiz turned back as well.
"A-are you sick?" Kit asked worriedly, "Oh that would be bad along with Ruby being gone".
<"Twiz!"> Misty called, <"Get up here and translate, the grown-ups can't understand me">.
<"Oh, right sorry"> Twiz flapped over.
As Misty headed towards the hole, Twiz turned and translated to the adults, "Misty saw them go by, she says they headed through this hole" Twiz translated following Misty.
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"Got it!" the rest of the gang replied, following Twiz and Misty. As well as the parents and Sharptooth.
"If any of them hurt Ruby swaer I'll..." Chomper said in anger.
"I have a feeling I know who's doing this..." said Sharptooth.
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Guan saw that someone was coming and immediately pulled her head back. She continued to hide behind the tree, starting to feel stupid for ever having left the cave. If whoever was coming didn't get her, Chio sure would give her a piece of his mind.
Rato's expression softened up a bit more. Even if he were to help her, though, how would he go about it? He couldn't just grab her and run. Chio was still inside the cave and he would quickly realize what was going on. No, if he were to help her, it would have to be more subtle.
He glanced at the back wall of the cave and recognized it from when he was smaller, younger. If he recalled correctly, this part of the cave was near the other opening to the cave, meaning the cave wall at this point wouldn't be as thick as the others.
There was no way he could fit into the small cave to perform the task, but perhaps the fastbiter could. "I remember this room... There's a small opening, caused by myself when I was young. The walls in here aren't as thick as the others." He gestured his head towards a large rock that was stationed against the wall. "There should be a small opening in there, sort of a back entrance, so-to-speak."
Then he thought of something. "But don't go through there..not yet." He turned his head back. He scented Des was coming. "Des will be arriving shortly. She won't hurt you; she's not the violent or strong type. "I'll find your friends and I'll give a roar to let you know when to push that rock out of the way. Don't worry, it shouldn't be too heavy. Understand?"
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"Got it," Ruby nodded, alsmost considering Rato a friend now.
Eventually the others followed Misty's direction and they came near the cave. "Whoever took Ruby has to be in there!" Shorty deduced
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Rato nodded his head and starte to walk away. Des immediately came into the room, remaining near the entrance. She frowned slightly at the child, but made no movement towards her. She was more of the intelluctual; her kind never was big on physical force.
"Why do you continue to hold onto Sharptooth's beliefs?" She asked, her tone more curious than disgusted.
Rato walked towards the cave entrance. He sniffed the air and realized someone was coming. It might be Ruby's friends. He walked out of the cave and then caught Guan's scent. He narrowed his eyes. This wasn't good. He needed a way to get her away from there, but there was no way he could without revealing both of their positions...
Oh well, not much else he could do. He yelled where he scented Guan was, "Guan! The boss wants you back! Come here!"
Guan was startled by the shout, but, forgetting about her fear of the approaching dinosaurs, immediately ran towards the cave. It was obvious she was more afraid about what Chio would do than what the other sharpteeth would.
Once Guan was inside the cave, Rato walked forward. He couldn't see the dinosaurs yet, but he knew he would in a short amount of time. He put a bit of distance between himself and the cave and finally came to a halt, and waited.
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Soon, the rest of the group saw Rato. "That's who dilo was with the other day!" Littlefoot called. Chomper looked angrily at Rato, as was Sharptotoh, not knowing he wasn't bad.
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"I believe in Sharptooth's beliefs because....they work, and he's not a bad guy at all," Ruby replied.
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Rato flinched briefly and immediately lowered himself onto the ground as if he was going to take a nap. It was a submissive posture; to show he wasn't going to try to fight back. Sharptooth was much bigger than he was. He knew when he was out of his league.
Back in the cave, Des tilted her head. She still preferred Chio's way, but she did start to somewhat understand the child's thinking. "I see..."
Meanwhile, Guan leaned against the wall, panting heavily. Chio and Dilo had walked out from where they were talking before and noticed Guan.
"What's the matter with you?" Dilo asked.
"The others..they're coming here..." Guan said.
Chio's eyes went wide with anger. "What?!"
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"Who are you?" Sharptooth asked Rato, he knew he was still awake
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(To note, Rato didn't try to fall asleep and he wasn't pretending to.)
Rato didn't get up from his position. He turned his head up, glancing at Sharptooth. After a moment, he spoke, "I am Rato."
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"You know where our friend Ruby is, don't you?!" Chomper yelled enraged.
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".....yes." Rato responded. "It was Guan and Des who took her."
Back in the cave, Chio was absolutely infuriated about the turn of events. He quickly glanced down at Guan. "You lead them here?!"
Guan cowered away. "N-No sir. They tracked me here and..."
"Shut up!" It took all of his strength to not just kill Guan right there. This was going to set their plans way back. He had to think of something and quick. He then realized Rato was missing. He looked over at Dilo, who was smirking at Guan's little mishap. "Dilo! Go find Rato!"
"On it!" Dilo exited the cave.
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"So where is she?!" Chomper, Sharptooth, Chomper's parents, and the rest demanded to know
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At this point, Rato stood back up, but still kept his head low. "She's in a cave, not far from here." He said softly, yet loud enough for them all to hear. "I'll...I'll lead you there... I know of a back entrance that's unguarded."
He was suddenly interrupted by Dilo. "What do you think you're doing?!" Dilo hissed angrily as she walked into view. "Aiding the enemy?!" Then she turned her head to the others. "Meh, doesn't matter anyway." She said, grinning. "Chio is so angry I think he's going to end up killing the little biter long before you reach the cave."
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"Don't you dare!" roared everyone.
Chomper and Sharptooth the were the most furious of all. All of a sudden, with a big burst of strength and speed, Chomper charged toward Dilo and pounced, knocking her off her feet.
Chomper than proceeded to, with all his might, bite incredibly hard into Dilo's arm. He wanted her dead for what she was doing. Chomper could feel his teeth pierce the bone. "Take that!" he yelled, letting go then stepping back.
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Dilo screeched in pain and quickly got back onto her feet. "Why you pathetic little runt...." Despite the pain in her arm, she charged towards Chomper, only to be thrown back immediately when Rato suddenly rammed his head into her. His horn drove into her side, not enough to kill, but enough to draw a little blood. Dilo hit the ground in pain and glared up at Rato. "You will pay for this treachery..." With that, she took off.
Rato watched Dilo run momentarily before turning his head to the others. "This way!" He shouted as he prepared to run. "I know where there's a weak point in the cave and that's where your friend is!"
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"We gotta go everybody!" Littlefoot called, following Rato along with the rest of them.
"Ruby, please be safe...." Chomper thought
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Rato led them to the cave and then around it, luckily before Chio or the others realized they were there. Once behind the cave, he quickly looked around for something that felt out of place. He quickly spotted the opening. "There!"
He then let out a roar, not loud enough for Chio or the others to hear, but loud enough for Ruby to hear.
Inside the cave, Des lifted up her head. "What was that? Rato...?" She turned her head away, not paying attention to Ruby momentarily as she tried to locate the source of the sound.
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Ruby knew that was the signal. Behind Des's back, she followed Rato's instructions
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Dilo arrived back in the cave, her arm bleeding from Chomper's bite. "That blasted little biter...I will kill him!"
Guan noticed Dilo. "What happened to you?"
"I'd rather not talk about it..." Dilo hissed back. She then saw Chio. "Chio! Rato..he..."
"What about Rato?" Chio asked, turning around to face the crested dinosaurs.
"He's aiding the enemy! They're going to rescue that fastbiter!"
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Ruby had managed to push the back rock out of the way, so she could run to safety. Rato was right. Ruby soon saw daylight again. "Thank goodness!" she thought.
She was now in an area by herself, but she recognized it so she dashed back towards the central part of the valley
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Rato lifted up his head and saw Ruby a bit aways from the cave. "There she is!"
Suddenly, he heard the sound of footsteps. He turned around and saw Chio standing behind him. "Chio!" He shouted in surprise.
Chio narrowed his eyes. "You traitor...!" He roared. He was so angry, he didn't even acknowledge that Rato wasn't alone. "Once I'm done with her..."
Rato growled, but still showed fear towards the sharptooth. "You referring to the kid?" Chio nodded. "She escaped."
Chio grinned. "That's why I sent Dilo out after her."
Rato's eyes widened. "You what?"
Chio chuckled. "I'm not stupid."
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Ruby heard Rato's voice, and began running towards it, where she saw her other friends.
"So you're the one behind all this," Sharptooth said, staring at Chio's eyes.
"You're gonna pay for what you've been doing!" growled Cera
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Chio finally took notice to the group of dinosaurs. He tilted his head slightly to one side. "In charge of this little group? Yes... But there's a lot more just like me out there.." He said, chuckling. "Even if you defeat me, another will take my place. There's a lot of us..."
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"This is between you and me," Sharptotoh said to Chio.
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Chomper saw Ruby getting near, but she also saw someone closing in on her!
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Chio chuckled. This was the moment he was waiting for. Despite Sharptooth's much bigger size, he stared at him as if he was no real threat. "Taking you done is going to be easy... Hatchling..." He charged towards Sharptooth, mouth split wide open for the attack.
Dilo hissed in pain from her arm, but she knew, despite her injuries, Chio wanted her to fulfull her duty. She raced towards Ruby at full speed. She lunged towards her and knocked her to the ground. "Pathetic little worm!" She opened her jaws and prepared to bite the child, not noticing Chomper watching her.
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Chomper was enraged beyond belief. "WHY YOU!!!" he roared, then pounced on Dilo, biting her other arm.
But this time...he bit so hard that Dilo's other arm came clean off!
Sharptooth head-butted Chio, knocking him back a bit, but he was aware Chio still had some fight left in him
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Chio got back onto his feet. "Is that all you got?" He asked mockingly. He charged forward again, this time diving low and biting onto one of Sharptooth's thick, strong legs.
Dilo howled in pain, quickly staggering back off of Ruby. Blood sprayed from the wound where her once good arm used to be. She tried to move the other arm that was bitten earlier, but winced in pain. She growled at Chomper. She took a step forward, a bit wobbly from the loss of blood. "You scoundrel...!" She charged towards Chomper.
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Chomper jumped out of the way, and tripped Dilo just as she passed him. He quickly bit into the legs.
Sharptotoh winced in slight pain, bu then stabbed Chio with he claws of his other foot.
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Dilo hissed in pain. She was not going to let the little runt get away with this! She lowered her head and bit onto Chomper's shoulder.
Chio growled in pain and released Sharptooth's foot as he felt claws slide into him. Blood dripped from his body. "It's only a flesh wound..." he growled before he rammed his head against Sharptooth.
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Chomper's parents quickly sprung into action. Terri freed her son while Dein bit into Dilo's torso.
"You ok son?" Terri asked concerned. "Yeah, this bite isn't too severe mom," Chomper replied.
Sharptooth wasn't really affected by the head butt. He leaned slightly and slashed Chio on the back.
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Dilo kicked her legs wildly. "Let me go, you weakling! This doesn't prove anything! You're all just a bunch of weaklings!"
Chio staggered back to his feet, becoming weak from the blood loss. "I..will not lose...to a weakling like you.." He tried one more time to attack.
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Sharptooth stepped out of the way then kicked Chio to the ground.
Dein bit harder into Dilo, hitting some vitals
Ruby walked over to Dilo. It was clear Dilo was dieing and nothing could save her. "Dilo, why did you do all the things that you did?" she asked
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Dilo's expression softened up a little. "I did it...because I thought it was the right thing to do..." She felt blood drip from her mouth as a result of Dein biting down on her. "I guess...you were right..." She smiled creepily. "We never should have underestimated you.."
Suddenly she stiffened up, her eyes going wide for a few seconds, and then she fell limp in Dein's jaws, her eyes closed. She quickly stopped breathing.
Chio managed to get onto his feet again. He started to shake from weakness. He couldn't believe what was happening. He couldn't lose to Sharptooth!
In an act of desperate cowardice and blind rage, Chio turned his attention to Cera, who had spoken out against him earlier. He rushed towards her.
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Cera had quick wits, and saw Chio coming. She quickly jumped between his legs, and got a quick swipe in on the tail. Spike and Littlefoot also bit Chio
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Chio growled in pain from the little ones attacking him. He shook himself free from Littlefoot and Spike's bites and placed his foot on them, pinning them down. "You're going to regret that...!"
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"Get off the little ones!" Sharptooth roared, head butting Chio to the ground. It was clear Sharptooth was winning.
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Chio crashed into the ground and this time didn't get back up. He chuckled insanely. "Even if you kill me, others will take my place..." He glanced up at Sharptooth. "You haven't won at all, you hear me?! You haven't won!"
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Misty wanted, more than anything, to be of help in helping save Ruby, but the others seemed to have it under control, and even from the start all of these sharpteeth fighting in very brutal style brought out every once of fear a flattooth could have in her and she all but huddled down, feeling every bit the coward.
Twiz flew over, putting both his wings about her, "i-it's ok Misty, I think Sharptooth and the others won't let them get to any more of us". His eyes went wide as Cera was charged, but Sharptooth didn't let that happen.
Kit flapped over closer to where Ruby was near the now dead Dilo. Such a thing...the sharptooth (?) ahd been breathing before and now wasn't, and she hadn't seem like the most evil one from what Kit had noticed through the chaos.
Kit gently put a wing on Ruby's shoulder, not saying anything beyond her sad frown, but offering what support she could.
Chio's yelled words made it to her even from where she was near Ruby and she frowned. other's would take their place... Kit felt a fear she was not familiar with grip her. Their whole Valley way of life had others...upset...and their might be other tries at what had happened to Ruby.
An idea hit Kit as she looked to where her caring cousin, Twiz, was as her thoughts she left unsaid continued.
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"Thanks Kit," Ruby said, watching Sharptooth fight Chio. The fight was going in favor of the leader of the valley.
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Longtail turned to face Kit.
"No I'm not sick...I'm angry!" He screamed. He didn't mean to shout at her, but she had asked how he felt.
"I...I'm tired...of being..afraid...all the time...I want more...more courage...more strength...but I still don't know if I'm good enough..."
The young flyer then turned around so his back was to Kit and screamed a feral roar into the sky.
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"Whoa, Longtail..." Littlefoot and Chomper said, not having seen this kind of anger before.
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Kit's own thoughts were put on halt as Longtail answered her question of before. She frowned, just thinking, and in the silence that fell after Littlefoot and Chomper spoke, she finally spoke too.
"B-but, you do have...some courage" she tried, not even sure if her argument the way she'd thought of it in her head would make sense when she tried to say it, "Y-you came with us...to help instead of just staying in the Valley".
With the threat over, Twiz let up and gave Misty a smile that seemed to say it was all ok. The rainbow face just sat there staring forward and looking still freaked out.
"In fact I was being the coward earlier with what I was thinking" Kit went on, ashamed of where her private thoughts had gone before and glancing aside.
"That...that Chio, he said others would take his place and...well I guess It was when I first noticed what Sharptooth's done has other sharpteeth angry, like they said when they took Ruby and...I was thinking of asking Twiz about where this flattoothed flyers herd of his was...thinking of staying...with them" Kit couldn't even look up as she admitted this.
"Kit..." Petrie's eyes were wide and he just stared. Twiz looked shocked too.
"I know...and, I won't, not really" Kit said, "but...I just thought...I'm not sure the Valley's safe anymore, not after all this!" she admitted, "lots of sharpteeth are angry with what we've done parently and...well like that other mean sharptooth said, there will be more and...what if Sharptooth can't keep them out, like he couldn't keep...them out".
Kit turned to Sharptooth, "I mean no disrespect sir...honestly I don't" she said, "but...".
She looked to where Dilo, now dead, was. "I'm not sure of things anymore" she whispered.
From out of the herd of adults, her dad, Ty, flapped over with a small smile, "It's ok Kit" he said, scooping her up, "questioning things isn't always a bad thing, but everything will be fine, you'll see" he reassured.
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Rato spoke up. "Chio is lying. Well partially lying anyway." He took a step forward, ignoring the look he was getting from Chio. "Yes, he is right that there are other sharpteeth who oppose Sharptooth's ways. But that's just it..they just oppose." He shook his head. "Most of them do not act. Instead, they just left the Great Valley. It was Chio and Chio alone who wanted to act upon what's happened, and he got only a few of those dinosaurs to join him and his cause."
"You traitor...when I get my hands on you...!" Chio screeched.
"You chose this path. You should have listened to the others." Rato commented. "You were doomed to fail from the start."
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Sharptooth knew if Chio was dead, the threat to the Great Valley would be over. He delivered a fatal blow across the chest.
"It's over.../" panted Ruby.
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After venting his feelings and seeing Kit question herself and what Sharptooth had done...Longtail's eyes softened immediately and he took a step forward and sighed.
"I'm...sorry Kit I didn't mean to yell at you...and even it dosne't mean a lot, I still think you are safe as long as you have us to help you. You're my friends...all of you are, and I'll do anything in the future to see you all are safe. You have my promise." he said with a serious face as he looked to the sky.
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"Yeah, we're all friends," Chomper smiled. "And we'll always help each other."
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"Maybe..." Kit admitted, glancing to the sky. "I'd think so" Twiz pipped up, "if you'd asked me about my herd, anyway, I wouldn't have told ya" he told Kit with a smile. As Kit looked confused, Twiz shrugged, "They...I don't know that they'd have let you stay...they did kick my dad out for being a sharptoothed flyer after all, I see more acceptance in this not so little herd of different sharpteeth" he thumbed to the Valley members present.
"Well duh" Misty said with a smile, she herself was the biggest example she knew.
"So yeah, we'll be fine, and along with Longtail's protection, if anyone gets within ten feet of ya I'm gonna beat 'em up just 'cause your family" he told his cousin with a grin.
Kit smiled, "Thanks guys...everyone" she included. "It was just...scary" she admitted, "I'd always thought no one could sneak into the Valley...but then I guess I should have known better" she giggled, "Twiz himself was sneaking in lots of times that no one ever found out about before he decided to stay!".
"Well, if it's over...can we go home now?" Misty asked, looking to the others, but then turning specifially to Veli and Cira with a smile. She'd gotten use to the whole guardianship under them thing.
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Rato watched as Chio fell limp on the ground, his eyes closing one last time. "Yes..it is."
Then he heard a sound behind him. He turned around and saw Des and Guan standing there, their eyes wide with fear. The two dinosaurs stared at the dead bodies of Chio and Dilo. Then they stared at the Great Valley Sharpteeth. They knew they wouldn't be able to fight. They wanted to run, but their fear kept them glued where they were.
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"<Aw, I was really starting to like you Misty,>" Cira smiled in flattooth.
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"I-I think we should go now.." Guan said, trying to get herself to move.
"I can't move my legs." Des replied.
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<"Same here"> Misty replied, giving Cira's foot a hug.
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Longtail smiled broadly at the emotion being shown in the group and he just gave a happy sigh, as he was glad for his friends. However he immediately turned his head and glared at Des and Guan as they tried to move away.
"Just where do you two think you're going?!" He then jumped in their way, blocking their escape route away from the group.
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Des and Guan immediately took several steps back away from the flyer.
"We were just leaving..." Des tried to explain.
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Longtail for other reasons that he couldn't explain began to shake....wither it was with excitement, or anger he couldn't tell, but as the duo stepped away from him, the young flyer advanced and bared his claws. "Ahh...you want to leave, but which way are you going to go...I seem to be blocking your only exit...so it looks like you two are trapped."
He then began to laugh...almost sadistically...almost.
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Kit backed up closer to where the others were, almost afraid of what Longtail might do when he was acting like this and Twiz moved to be in a better position to guard from...anything. Misty unconsciously gripped at Cira's foot just to make sure. She didn't know Longtail well enough to know if she should fear his odd actions,but there was still the possibility of the sharpteeth doing something as well...
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"<I'll protect you,>" Cira assured her.
"Longtail...what's going on with you?" Littlefoot and Chomper asked concerned for thier friend.
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Longtail heard Littlefoot and Chomper's concerned question, and he could tell the others were getting anxious or frightened, but right now...he honestly didn't care. He continued to stare down Des and Guan not willing to let them get away, but he didn't move anymore either. He just stared at them...waiting for something to happen.
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(There's only two. Rato wasn't trying to leave. Just Des and Guan.)
Des and Guan glanced at each other, and then back at the flyer. They were perplexed by the flyer's behavior. They took another step backwards.
Rato was also confused, but hung back for the time being. He wanted to see what Longtail was going to do to Des and Guan.
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(:smile heh...silly typos)
Longtail just stood in his one spot and continued to grin, not wanting to make a move.
He then decided to speak up.
"I won't fight you...but I won't let you two leave either...that decision is up to Sharptooth...heh..." He looked up to Sharptooth and asked, "So...what do you want to do with them?"
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Sharptooth had a contemplation moment.
"Before I make any judgment, you two must give me a reason you should not suffer the same fate of your evil comrades,"
Sharptooth wasn't naturally violent, but after what Chio and Dilo did to Ruby...it was a case of "Probably Guilt by Association."
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"Dilo not evil I don't think..." Kit muttered to herself in correcting Sharptooth without really correcting him, since going off Ruby's sadness at her death she had made up her own mind off of association of association with a friend.
"He's probably just making a point" Twiz realized and told Kit as the two flyers (and Misty!) watched nervously for what these two would pick for their fate, since it was really them just picking whether or not to cooperate.
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"I...I mean we..." Guan started to say, but couldn't think of anything to say. What could she say that would help save her own life? She doubted Des would be able to say anything either. "..I have no defense to offer." She finally said, lowering her head.
Des stared at Guan for a moment, slightly surprised by her giving up so quickly. This wasn't the Guan she knew. Des turned her head back at Sharptooth. "What threat could we possibly pose to this valley?"
"What could we do?" Guan added in.
Rato narrowed his eyes slightly. "You could leave." He muttered softly.
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"I don't believe in killing as a first option." Sharptooth said. "If you leave the valley now, no harm will come to you."
"Yeah, get outta here!" added Cera.
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Des and Guan didn't waste any time. They quickly turned around and ran off as fast as they could.
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"It's finally over," sighed Ruby.
She and chomper went over to Rato. "You ok?" they asked.
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Rato nodded his head slowly. "Yeah..I'm okay."
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"It's good to see that you're ok," Petrie said. "You're not bad like the others."
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When Des and Guan out of sight and no longer a threat...Longtail blinked. When he opened his eyes again he looked around, and his face showed confusion as he asked, "W-what....what happened? I...I remember getting angry...and then...nothing. Did...did I do something bad?"
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Ducky, from a nearby waterhole, called to Longtail. "Yeah Longtail, you got very tough and scared them off, you did, you did," the swimming sharptooth called.
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"What do I do now?" Rato asked, although the question wasn't directed at anyone. "Should I leave too?"
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"No Rato," Ruby said. "You're not like the rest of them. You're good."
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"Yeah, I'd never seen anything like it" Cory added with a grin.
"Yeah, you mainly just yelled at them alot" Kit added to what Ducky told Longtail about what had happened, "but I think if they hadn't have left you would have attacked them or something" she sounded a bit awestruck. She smiled at him, "In defense of us of course, I know". She knew this might be a shock to Longtail and wanted to not freak him out as much as possible.
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"That was.....awesome Longtail," Cera said impressed.
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Longtail looked around at his friends as they explained what happened, and even now he still couldn't believe it, and he scratched his head in surprise. "I...really can't remember anything like that...but it..heh..sounded kinda fun, and scary..." he said with a nervous laugh. He then looked over to Cera and asked, "You really think that was cool?"
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"Yeah, I never thought you could be that tough!" Cera said, still impressed.
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"and it's good to know you can take care of things if they come up" Kit added with a smile.
"Just don't turn into another Cera, no one needs that" Cory added, having already heard enough of the fast biter to know. He gave her an innocent smile as Cera turned a semi-glare back to him.
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Longtail laughed nervously, and said to Cory, "Oh...don't worry about it...I don't think I could turn into another Cera no matter how hard I tried...nobody can be as tough as she can."
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Cera looked flattered.
Petrie wondered something. "So what do we do now?" the little sharptooth flier asked.
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"Yeah, I guess not" Cory shrugged with a smile.
"I'm still all for going home" Misty commented off of Petrie's question. She didn't find it as odd as she should have that she'd already begun to think of the Sharptooth Valley as home.
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"<It'll be nice to have you in the family Misty,>" Cera said in leafeater slowly.
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Misty smiled, <"Yeah, same here, thanks for having me"> she told Cera, she was impressed by first Cira and now Cera knowing flattooth so well, <"Say, where'd you learn to speak flattooth anyway?"> she asked in interest.
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"<Well, sometimes I have to wait while I'm hunting before I begin chasing leafeaters, and I guess I picked up thier lingo,>" Cera laughed.
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<"Ah"> Misty gave a nervous little laugh a bit at the idea, but eased up soon enough, <"Well, eithrway, it will be good if you and your parents can understand me"> she said.
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"<Yeah, it is,>" Cira said.
After this eventful day, everyone was getting tired. "I think we should head back to our homes," suggested Petrie.
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Longtail gave a wide yawn as Petrie mentioned rest.
"Yeah....that sounds...like a good idea...I just hope I can get over my fear of the dark." he said with a shudder.
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The gang looked surprised. "I guess the old Longtail we know and love is back," laughed Cera.
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Longtail's eyes were half closed at this point and he was considering sleeping on the ground tonight, but that thought was pushed aside when a loud thump was heard as a branch fell to the ground, and the sound startled him enough that he darted forward with fear induced speed and was found clinging to littlefoots neck in fright.
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"Uh, you ok?" asked Littlefoot.
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Longtail continued to shake and tremble as he answered.
"Y-yeah..j-just afraid...is all." he then let go of Littlefoot's neck and sat on the ground. He then looked up to his friends and asked, "C-can I sleep with one of you tonight?"
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Dein and Terri looked down at Longtail. "Sure Longtail, you can spend the night with us," the big sharpteeth parents offered.
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Longtail smiled gratefully at Chompers folks and said, "Thank you. I feel safer already." he then asked Chopmer, so...uhhh...where is your nest anyway?"
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"Just follow us," Chomper's parents said. "Don't you remember? You were there before," Chomper commented.
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Longtail nodded as he began to follow, but he tilted his head and asked "Really...when...I can't seem to remember...guess my fear makes me forget sometimes too." he then chuckled nervously at the idea.
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Sharptooth looked down at Rato. "Are you ok?" he asked.
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"Weird trait," Dein commented.
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Ty smiled, "Alright Kit, come on, let's begin heading back to our nest too, and uh bring Twiz, he's staying with us too".
"Be happy too!" Kit said with a smile, and hugging Twiz she began to walk over to where her dad was still dragging her cousin behind her.
"Um...you will have to let him go to be able to fly to the nest" Ty said hiding a laugh.
"Oh sorry" Kit let Twiz go, "I'm just so happy you get to stay".
"Uh same here" Twiz said standing up and brushing himself off. He meant the words but he was still a bit worried if Kit would try to hug him that tight again. He got a small reprieve, atleast, as they flapped towards the nest.
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"It's been a big day for all of us," Ruby said. "We should all head back to our sleeping places."
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Longtail seemed to agree with Ruby on the whole sleep idea. He then turned to face Dein, and giggled as he replied, "well yeah, it is weird, but thankfully it doesn't happen too often."
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"That's good to hear Longtail," Chomper smiled.
Ruby and Sharptooth returned to Sharptooth's cave.
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"Here, you can sleep here" Kit picked out a spot just for Twiz to use within hers and her dad's nest, "it's got a part where it goes down so it's the best".
"Oh, then don't you want it?" Twiz asked. "Nah, there's other comfortable spots" Kit assured him.
Ty smiled, "Alright you two, settle down, you're up later than you should be with all this commotion...uh well atleast I know Kit is, I know when your herd had you going to sleep Twiz".
"Nah, it's the same" Twiz told him, "I should be asleep too".
As Kit and Twiz settled down, Ty walked over to his own spot within the nest yet didn't try to sleep himself just yet. After the scare of Ruby's kidnapping he found he felt a bit unnerved still like something else might happen.
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Cira led Misty back to their nest.
"<I'm...Cera. Neese...to meet you,>" Cera said, her leafeater not too good
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Misty hid her giggle at Cera's attempt at leafeater, she really shouldn't laugh, she realized, since she couldn't speak sharptooth, so luckily she only smiled.
<"Nice to meet you too, Cera"> Misty said, talking slowly so maybe Cera could hear how nice (and the others) were said, but not overly giving a lesson incase Cera didn't want one or would be offended.
<"Oh, I should probably tell you my name, if your mom hasn't, I'm Misty, incase I didn't tell you before"> Misty added, struggling to remember to not talk too fast so Cera could catch all that she said.
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"<Hi....Mesty," Cera replied, her pronunciation needing work.
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Longtail followed Dein, Terri, and Chomper back to their nest, and as they settled down, he decided it would be best if he curled up next to Chomper just to make sure he was safe. He knew his friend would protect him.
"Good night, Chomper." He said as a last moment thought.
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<"Um, it's more like M-i-sty, but you're doing very well for this not being how you normally talk"> the Rainbow face said, <"and you got hi right">
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Cira smiled at her daughter. "Let's head back to our nest," she said in sharptooth, but she knew Misty would be able to figure out what she was talking about.
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As Cera and the others did move off, Misty did get the point and followed along behind.
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Longtail began to laugh in his sleep, and it was getting louder the longer his sleep story went on.
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"I wonder what's going on in his sleep story.." Chomper said, finding Longtail's laughter amusing.
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Misty found it odd that as they got closer to Sharptooth Valley she smiled, feeling already like they were returning home.
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Cira put her claw on Misty's shoulder in a friendly way.
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Longtail's laughter still bothered Chomper.
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Longtail finally stopped laughing and settled into a quiet sleep once again. But now a frown was visible on his face, and his breathing was beginning to speed up.
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"Uh...Longtail?" Chomper asked nervous about him.
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Longtail then began talking in his sleep.
"No....p-please...don't...Redfoot...I'm sorry...I-I didn't mean to...p-please...I...AHHHHH!" he said followed by a blood curdling scream.
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"Wake up!" called Chomper, running over to Longtail. "What about Redfoot?" he asked, remembering when the longneck tried to poison them.
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Longtail bolted upright with his eyes wide,and he for a moment he didn't know where he was, but then he heard Chompers voice and sighed.
"Redfoot...created a....sickness...that affected sharpteeth flyers, and I...I was his first victim." said Longtail with a shaky voice and still sweating.
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"It's just like when he poisioned our water," Chomper realized. "Did you ever recover?"
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Longtail shed a tear and replied.
"N-no....Chomper...it was slow...and painful...the sickness...it was horrible..."
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"Is there anything we can do?" asked Chomper.
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Longtail couldn't stop shaking from his sleep story, and he just shook his head quietly to Chomper and gave a sad and hopeless sigh.
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"He really is evil...." Chomper said silently.
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"I...I've never....been so scared....I need...a drink." Longtail then looked over to Chomper and asked, "Can you....come with me?"
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"Sure Longtail, anything for a friend."
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Longtail smiled and began to stand on his wobbily feet. He took a few breaths, and started to walk forward, but his sleep story wouldn't leave his mind...and the more he thought about it...the more scared he became. It had gotten so bad, that before the duo had gotten halfway there Longtail had to stop and try to calm himself down.
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"The past is over Longtail, everything's fine now," Chomper tried to assure.
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Misty smiled up at Cira, <"Thanks again for watching out for me when you already have two daughters to watch out for to begin with"> she said sincerely.
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"<Well, I pride myself with my abilities to be a mother, I can handle another kid,>" Cira assured.
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Misty smiled, then noticed they had reached the nest and she paused a bit as Cera got in the nest, unsure if she should settle back down where she'd been before just outside the nest or actually in the nest this time after all of Cira's accepting words.
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"<You can climb in the nest, but I recommend staying close to me, as Veli isn't known for trusting someone immediately,>" Cira smiled to Misty.
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A shadow suddenly loomed over the two friends and a familiar voice called out and said, "Oh...but guess what, the past can sometimes give you a second chance. Hello...Chomper."
Longtail visibly went pale and took a step back, too stunned to say anything.
Redfoot then gave a devious smile at Longtail and asked, "Now where are you going? Don't you know...I need your help with something..." he then started laughing insanely while stepping forward towards Chomper and Longtail.
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Chomper was horrified! He thought Redfoot had learned his lesson! "We have to run," he said in sharptooth.
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<"W-well I wouldn't want to cause trouble..."> Misty began, yet she felt that maybe she shouldn't just push aside Cira's very generous offer, so she climbed in, but like Cira had said, made sure to stay really close to her. <"I hope I don't make him mad or anything by being here"> she said.
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"<Don't worry, he'll grow to like you,>" Cira assured.
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Longtail honestly couldn't move. He was petrified to where he stood, and he knew that if he didn't move...something bad was going to happen. But his body just wouldn't move!
Redfoot laughed again as he swung his tail knocking Chomper out of the way. "Time to claim my prize." he said as he continued to stare down Longtail.
"heh...you and me kid, are going to have a lot of fun watching you suffer." he whispered as he wrapped his tail around the young flyer and picked him up off the ground.
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Rato had left the others momentarily, thinking that things, at least for the Great Valley citizens, would go back to normal. He hadn't gotten too far when he heard something big and heavy moving somewhere. He caught the scent of what seemed to be a longneck. His eyes frowned. Since when did leaf-eaters come into the Great Valley? Then again, that one kid was an exception...
Rato quickly moved towards the scent, and another mixed in, that of fear. When he finally saw the longneck, it was towering over the children and had one of the flyers, looking like Longtail, in his tail! Rato stood there in shock for a few moments before letting out a soft growl, his teeth bared.
Without saying a word, Rato rushed towards the longneck from behind. He opened up his jaws as wide as he could and slammed down on the longneck's tail as hard as he could.
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"Rato!" Chomper called, recovering from the tail swipe. Chomper roared loudly, to get the attention of many of the sharpteeth so they could help stop Redfoot.
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Rato placed his foot on the longneck's tail and stepped it into the ground. He dug his foot claws into it as much as he could and continued to bite into the tail.
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Soon, lots of sharpteeth of all kinds came into the area. They were shocked to see Redfoot in the valley.
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Misty smiled, "Well, if you say so, I'm sure he will" the little rainbow face said before settling down to sleep.
She was awoken by a roar soon though. "What...what was that?" she asked?
In Kit's nest, both Twiz and Kit shook themselves awake and were wondering the same thing as Ty flapped ou. "You kids stay here" he said, "that didn't sound like just a conversation type roar" he said flapping off towards the sound.
He soon saw Rato from earlier struggling with a longneck? No..wait! Ty's eyes went wide, yet he snapped back to usefullness and dive bombed down, giving Redfoot a slashing peck across the neck before gripping Longtail as gently as he could and circling to a safer height with the young one.
"You're not gonna be terrorizing other sharptoothed flyers, or any of us if I can halt it!" he said.
He glanced back to see if Longtail had snapped to being able to fly or move yet. "Longtail, ya ok?" he asked.
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Seeing that Longtail was safely out of the longneck's grasp, Rato was tempted to let go. But his better judgement told him to hang on, and so he did.
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Redfoot was now in a bad spot...he had to get out, and figured there was only one real way to do that when you're out-numbed by teeth. He immediately turned around using his head and tail to knock some of the sharpteeth away from him, and then quickly picked Longtail up by the scruff of his neck and began to run, literally smashing several trees into the ground to make his escape, hoping he could outrun the bigger predators.
Longtail for his part was now dazed from being thrown by Redfoot when Rato attacked, and he hadn't recovered yet, and was still wondering what was going on.
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"Longtail!!!!!" Chomper and the rest of the gang cried.
Shartpooth appeared. "We have to stop him!"
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Rato nearly fell off when the longneck suddenly swung his tail to knock away some of the sharpteeth before he started to run. He immediately gripped as tightly as he could with his small arms and managed to hang on, despite the odds. The longneck was running away as he held Longtail in his jaws. Rato narrowed his eyes and began to climb up onto Redfoot's back. The progress was difficult, Redfoot being as large and heavy as he was, but Rato eventually got close enough to bite the longneck's neck. He opened his jaws and bit down on the back of the muscular neck.
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Redfoot screamed as he felt Rato bite down on his neck, and in a moment of desperation he preformed a rather unique trick for a dinosaur of his size. He turned sideways and let his weight take him down, but as his body hit the ground, he leaned into the fall and actually rolled back onto his feet hoping he'd gotten Rato to let go and give up the chase.
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Ty shook his head from where Redfoot's sweeping of some of the others aside had hit him as well. He noticed Longtail's predicament though and attempted to flap up, only he found he couldn't, he'd sprained his right wing bad enough to hinder flight.
"Oh, darn, not now!" he grit out. He walked over as quickly as he could to where Sharptooth was, "Don't worry sir, even if I have to trai them on foot..." he said determedly, though he knew the odds of that were very slim indeed.
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"Understood," Sharptooth replied to Ty. "But we have to stop him!" Sharptotoh and other grownups began persuing Redfoot.
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Rato grunted in pain as he felt himself being slammed into the ground as the longneck rolled once on the ground. He briefly let go and fell, but quickly grabbed onto one of Redfoot's back legs and bit down hard, hoping to create an injury that would slow him down. He tried his best to ignore his own pain, the feeling of his body being slammed against the ground, head turned in an uncomfortable position, his neck aching. He didn't know how much longer he'd be able to hang onto the foot.
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While agreeing, Ty was still at a lose for what to do.
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"Your dad's been gone an aweful long time" Twiz turned to Kit, the other sharptoothed flyer just shrugged, "I...I guess he's still figureing out what that noise was".
"S-should we get your friends?' Twiz asked. Kit sighed, not sure. "They should probably atleast know" she admitted.
As the two exited the nest, they flapped towards Littlefoot's nest first, and along the way heard alot of mentions of Redfoot and something about Longtail...it didn't sound good.
They finally reached the young sharptooth's nest and Kit went over to shake him, "Littlefoot...Littlefoot wake up, I...I think Redfoot might be here...".
"Yeah, and someone said Longtail's missing" Twiz added in a worried tone, "or something like that".
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"What?!" Littlefoot yelled, getting up. "Grandma, Grandpa, wake up! Redfoot somehow got ito the valley!"
Petrie flew nearby. "Redfoot's bad news," he said grimly.
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"You can say that again" Twiz nodded with a frown. As Littlefoot's grandparents woke up, Kit helped explain what was going on yet again.
"Oh my!" Grandma said, "we must find sharptooth!" she stood.
Twiz sighed, "First Ruby and now this, why does the world hate us!". Kit patted his shoulder, "It'll be ok, Twiz, Sharptooth will just help us get Longtail back too, you'll see" she reassured.
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Grandpa Sharptooth stood up and was shocked again to hear what was going on.
"Oh not again." he then heard what Kit had said. "He's taken Longtail? Now we must get him back, and why would Redfoot take another hatchling?"
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Redfoot could feel the pain shooting through his foot as Rato hung on, but he didn't stop running, cause he knew if he stopped his plan would fail...he needed this child, and he couldn't afford to fail.
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Ducky woke Cory up. "I think something bad is happening, there is, thee is!" the little swimming sharptooth said.
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Redfoot could see an opening in the valley wall and he knew he had to try to use it somehow...and he quickly realized that he could just barely fit through and knew the bigger sharpteeth at least wouldn't be able to follow, possibly giving him enough to enact his plans and then flee. He ducked inside and like he thought just squeezed through and out into the Mysterious Beyond.
He sighed and said to Longtail who was out cold: "You are a lucky little flyer...and when you wake up, I'll show you why!"
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Rato finally released Redfoot as he was running through the opening. He hit the ground hard and grunted as he skidded to a stop. He shook his head and looked at the opening the longneck disappeared through. His eyes narrowed softly. This wasn't good. The hole wasn't very large. He could fit through just fine, but what about the others?
He glanced at the ground and could see Redfoot's blood. He sighed softly. That was one bit of good news. The longneck's blood would help the others track down the longneck.
But what should he do? Should he stand here and wait? Or should he follow? He stood there, pondering this question for a few moments. He finally decided he would follow, but stay far behind and downwind of Redfoot. It was time for him to put his hunting skills to the test.
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Veli and other fast biter and belly draggers weren't as big, so they could fit outside easier. "We have to follow him," Veli panted between breathes.
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"Huh?" Cory shook himself awake and noticed it was Ducky. "Oh, what, what's up?" he asked, knowing his friend probably didn't just want to play in the middle of the night.
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"I--I don't know" Kit answered Grandpa's rhetorical question. she frowned even as Twiz flapped up to try and spot where the longneck had gone.
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"We have to go, Longtail's in danger!! Redfoot is evil!" Littlefoot called, running. Ducky, Cory, and the swimming sharpteeth went out of the valley via the waterhol.
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"Man, this is bad," Guido muttered to Tippy
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As they swam, Cory kept surfacing to make sure they were on the right track and swam at a half leap through the water.
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"So, what's the plan for what to do when we do catch Redfoot?" Kit asked as they all rushed along. "One of us should probably get Longtail away first while the others deal with Redfoot...though maybe that last one the grown-ups should do" Twiz suggested.
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"We'll attempt to take him down," Tera, Petrie's mom called, referring to herself and the other parents.
"I'll rip his neck open!" roared Veli angrily.
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"Yeah Kit, we've got it" Ty backed up his sister's statement, "you kids just stay out of danger".
"After we pull Longtail out of danger right?" Twiz asked lowly so that only Kit could hear. She smiled.
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Some of the sharpteeth followed Redfoot out of the valley.
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Rato was following Redfoot. He was careful not to get too close or make a sound. And he kept downwind and kept some distance away so Redfoot wouldn't get suspicous that he was being followed. Or at least, he hoped it would be that way.
Rato was unaware that anyone else had left the Great Valley at this point. But he figured that they would follow the trails. Even if Redfoot managed to cover his footprints, the scent of blood would help the others find Redfoot.
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Redfoot had gotten far enough away to feel safe for the moment. And luck would have it he was right where he needed to be for his plans. He put the flyer down for a moment and gave a wicked smile as he picked up a flower with his teeth, but this flower was different, it was white with several purple splotches on its surface and the stem was dripping.
Redfoot carefully leaned down and pushed the stem of the flower into Longtail's belly and applied enough pressure to make the small wound bleed. He then raised his head and proclaimed,
"HA! This is the end of your kind kid....you and all other sharpteeth are doomed this time!" And with that he turned and walked away laughing while he did so.
Longtail however, began to shiver and shake as it felt like he had a fever. His scales went pale like he lost the color in his body and he quickly began sweating. The flower then fell out of the wound in Longtail's stomach and shriveled up and died.
The pain was nothing like he'd ever felt before and he couldn't stop from crying out in pain with a loud screech.
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Soon, the sharpteeth found Longtail. "Longtail? What did Redfoot do to you?!" Guido panicked
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Rato lifted up his head as he heard Longtail's cry of pain and ran forward to the source, though careful to remain out of site. He saw Redfoot walking away and Longtail on the ground, looking rather sick.
Rato felt disgusted that the longneck would do this to someone who couldn't fight back. He bared his teeth and let out a roar of anger, hoping it would be loud enough for anyone following to hear him. He then lowered his head towards Longtail and gently nudged him.
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The slighest movements made Longtail convulse in pain, but when Rato nudged the young flyer he let out a blood curdling scream, and tried to roll away but that only caused more pain and more screaming and tears running down his face, he was in so much pain he couldn't do anything else but scream and cry.
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Mr. Belly Dragger soon arrived at the scene. "I think I know what happened to him," he said. He instructed Dein to find a specific kind of flower, one that counteracts the flower's effects.
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Rato glanced at the other adult sharpteeth that had arrived onto the scene. He then turned his head back to where Redfoot had taken off. He narrowed his eyes. He took a step forward, feeling so tempted to rush after Redfoot.
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"Seeing where Rato looked, Ty gave a frown of his own and nodded, "Don't worry, I'll trail the coward straight to where he rests and let the rest of you know where to find him!" he said, taking off and trying to follow Redfoot quietly and without being seen.
"W-where is the flower?" Kit asked, more than willing to look for it if it would help.
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Dein returned with some. "We have to lay these flowers on where the wound was, it'll heal it," said Mr. Belly Dragger.
"Longtail....please be ok," Ducky said from the waterhole.
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Kit watched nervously as the leaves were applied, just hoping it would work.
Over in the watering hole, Cory felt just plain helpless as they all watched for any movement from Longtail. "D-don't worry, I'm sure he'll be fine" he tried to reassure Ducky.
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((Don't worry...suspense is a good thing! ;) )
As the leaves were being applied Longtail continued to scream and shake in pain. After a few more minutes of this his body went limp...no rising of his chest to indicate breathing....no moving of his tail or wings....he just stopped moving all together. And after another few moments his body became cold.
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Littlefoot had an idea. He began performing the dino equivalent of CPR on Longtail, hoping to get him breathing again.
"That Redfoot's a monster," Cera muttered angrily.
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After just a few moments of Littlefoots treatment Longtail's eyes shot open and he inhaled sharply trying to fill his body with as much air as he could. That however forced him to cough several times as he had to regulate his breathing once again. He then looked up at Littlefoot and the others around him.
"What...*cough* what's up? You all look like...*cough cough* you've seen a living dead." he said with a weak and raspy voice.
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Redfoot at the moment wasn't aware that his plan had just failed, he was still to overjoyed that he could cause another sharptooth pain like that. It made him feel just so good.
However just as he came around a bend in the path he noticed another dinosaur he thought he should recognize....
"Is...that Ateo?" he asked himself quietly.
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Rato decided to follow Ty and help him look for Redfoot.
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Ateo stood on his hind legs, using the large sickle-like claws on his front limbs to rake down leaves growing out of a tree and using his bellydragger-like snout to swallow the leaves whole. Ateo was a clawhand, a species of sharptooth that preferred fish over dinosaurs. But Ateo gave up this way long ago, preferring the taste of leaves and plants over any form of meat.
When he heard a familiar voice, Ateo turned his and smiled softly when he saw the familiar longneck. The long scar gave him away instantly. "Hello there, Redfoot." He said. "What brings you here?"
(Note: For those who may be confused, Ateo is a baryonyx in this dimension.)
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"Maybe because we did!" Cory shouted over, shocked, even as Kit laughed and gave Longtail a quick hug before letting up to let the others be glad too. Twiz smiled, he wasn't sure if he knew Longtail enough to hug him, and girls could just do that, but he was glad the other flyer was ok.
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"I'm not gonna say I'm lost...since...I'm not" Ty said, glancing about, "but...well he either went this way or this way" Ty pointed to two different paths which he was having a hard time dispersing Redfoot's scent from.
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"We have to stop Redfoot from trying to kill all the sharpteeth again," said Chomper.
Littlefoot's grandparents, Sharptooth, Veli, and others went ahead, and Cira stayed beside Misty.
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Rato lifted up his snout and took a few sniffs. He picked up Redfoot's scent, but it was faint. He also saw a few blood drops on the ground, leading down one of the paths. "It's this way." He said, pointing his snout in one direction.
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Ty, now joined with the others nodded and followed along.
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"I don't get it" Misty sighed, "why would a leafeater be so mean, I mean he has no reason to".
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Longtail tried his hardest to stand up as he said aloud, "Oh...no....you all don't. I-I'm coming with you all...I want...revenge for what he did to...me."
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Redfoot smiled.
"well if you must know...I just finished causing a sharptooth child a great deal of pain. It never gets boring, so what are you doing way out here near Sharptooth valley?"
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"<Mesty....leafaters are just as mean as they think sharpteeth are,>" Cera said in leafeater.
"We got to find Redfoot before he can do any more damage," Grandma Sharptooth called.
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Kit and Twiz immediately flapped over to support either side of Longtail. "Well alright, if you think you're well enough" Twiz said. "We should probably tag along too just to make sure we don't lose track of you" Kit added.
<"Yeah, I see that"> Misty said, <"Well maybe I should go along with them, I mean...if anyone could get the longneck to see reason, it would be another flattooth, right?"> she guessed.
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Unfortunately Longtail took two succesful steps....and then fell flat on his face, his legs not being able to support his weight.
"I...really...hate this..." he mumbled to himself.
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"it's our best bet," said Cera in flattooth.
Chomper and Littlefoot also helped support Longtail.
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"Um, I don't know if you're gonna be able to go anywhere?" Twiz said, trying to be as gentle as he could with it. "Not without all of us going" Kit added, "and...I don't know if the grown-ups would let us...even if they are not here now since...they're trailing Redfoot too" she realized.
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"Actually, I was looking for you." Ateo said as he swallowed a few more leaves. "I was wondering if you have another plan to get rid of the sharpteeth." Although Ateo was a sharptooth himself, since he forsaken meat-eating ways, he developed a hatred against his own kind, one reason being of how some sharpteeth treated him since he made his decision.
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Longtail smiled gently as his friends helped him up.
"T-thanks....I'm still sore all over from whatever Redfoot did to me. Ugh...just the effort to breath is kinda hard right now." he stumbled a few more feet and then sighed.
"meh...you guys don't have to stay, but could you put me down and just let me rest..." he then closed his eyes and quickly fell asleep before Littlefoot or Chomper could put him down.
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"Gosh, maybe one of us should stay with him" Twiz suggested, seeing as how Longtail couldn't move even with their help and seemed more interested in sleep.
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Longtail sighed in his sleep and tried to roll over but failed and continued to sleep on the floor.
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The other grownups were catching up on Redfoot's trail. They also smelled a sharptooth with him.
"I'll carry him kids," Cira offered.
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Redfoot sighed for a moment while talking to Aeto.
"I was hoping to stay and watch the little sharptooth I wounded die, but I'm currently being chased by some of his friends and their elders. I suggest we finish our talk when we are somewhere private."
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Longtail felt Cira pick him and began to wake up...but he was still too sore to actually say thank you.
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"You're welcome," Cira said, guessing what he meant.
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"I'll...see if I spot them from the lake where they won't be looking for me looking" Cory said swimming ahead and hoping the water way would provide good cover and a good spying spot instead of just taking him farther from where he needed to be or anything.
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"I don't think we're on the wrong trail" Ty said, the scents keep getting stronger this way.
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"It's him...." Grandpa Sharptooth said, finally seeing Redfoot.
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Ateo caught the scent of something nearby. Without turning his head, he let out a soft sigh. "I can smell what you mean." He gestured his head towards where he had caught the scent, although he hadn't spot anyone just yet.
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Redfoot sighed as well. "Then I have to keep moving, if you would excuse me for a moment." He then started to walk away hoping to put distance between him and his pursuers.
Longtail tried to speak up...but all he could do was moan.
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Grandpa S. and the others kept going after Redfoot.
"You'll get better soon Longtail, you will, you will," Ducky called.
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"Y-yeah, you're gonna be just fine" Kit added, trying to sound more confident than she felt.
Ty tried to flap faster and reach Redfoot before the other adults did, or at the most be more stealthy...yeah that was it. He slipped behind the tree cover and kept on flying between the branches, hoping that Redfoot would keep his attention on the main herd of adults and then he could sneak up on him...even if flying this way was slower.
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Ateo looked at the tree he was eating from momentarily and turned to Redfoot while the longneck was walking away. "I'll slow them down."
He then pushed his body against the tree and, using as much of his strength, managed to push the tree onto the ground in an attempt to block the path. He glanced at it and realized it wasn't going to slow the sharpteeth down for too long. But it would have to do for now.
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As he flapped on, and finally came to the spot where the tree had fallen, along with the others, Ty frowned and glanced to his sister, "I...we could help move the log" he told Grandpa Sharptooth, "or...take after and make sure not to lose Redfoot while you guys move the log, but then I don't know what just we would do if we got there ahead of you, so I don't know which is best" he admitted.
Even as he said this, he glanced about for vines or something to help haul the tree up with.
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"You have to go ahead," Grandpa Sharptooth said. Veli and thew other fast biters were able to get over the log.
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Longtail finally started to feel better and as he did, he lifted his head and said aloud with a stutter, "I-I can help...move the log...please? I wanna...t-try."
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Redfoot couldn't help but smile as he knew that any diversion that kept the sharpteeth from following would be a good one. He looked down at Ateo as he caught up, and smiled.
"Good work my old friend. That should give us plenty of time. Unless they send flyers after us...which I doubt."
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Tera, as well as Pterano who came to the valley recently came ahead. "Redfoot's not far from here sister," Pterano said.
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Ty sighed as his two siblings flapped off, "Figures he'd show me up" he muttered about Pterano, but it was obvious he was kidding. He made a quick decision though, "Well Pterano's always telling me he can handle anything, and really he will deal with Redfoot better than I could, what say I help Longtail help you get this moved".
Even as he spoke, Ty looped vines where he could to then flap up with in his talons and pull against, trying to provide some counter balance that way while the tree was pushed up from behind.
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"Hello Ty," Pterano waved briefly, but then resumed persuing Redfoot.
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Ateo smiled back. He opened his mouth to reply, but he caught another scent. He couldn't make out where it was coming from, other than it was nearby. He shook his head. "Sharpteeth don't know when to quit, do they?" He said softly.
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"You're quite right traitor," Veli said, appearing suddenly behind Ateo.
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Ateo's head perked up and he turned around to see the source of the voice. He narrowed his eyes. "Well well well... a fastbiter? I've faced your kind before. You might be fast, but your bones...they're so easy to break.." He said.
Rato narrowed his eyes as she saw Ateo. How could a sharptooth be so willing to work for someone like Redfoot?
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"Ateo's a traitor," Tera said to Rato. "He eats greenfood, but that's not what we hate. He tries to kill us just because we eat meat to survive," Petrie's mom explained.
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"That's because, you little creature," Ateo hissed, pointing his jaws at Tera. "...to get your precious meat, you kill an innocent dinosaur!"
"Just like how Redfoot here was willing to kill a sharptooth child?" Rato growled. "How is that justified?"
"That's different! He was a sharptooth!"
"So?" Rato asked. "What difference does that make?" But he had a feeling it was no use trying to talk to Ateo.
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"He's incorrigible," Tera said. "But Redfoot is just a monster!" Pterano added, remembering his previous encounter. "At least sharpteeth have a reason to kill the leafeaters, Redfoot doesn't have a reason!"
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Even though Redfoot was putting much more distance between his attackers, in no small part to Ateo's help, he smiled as he could still hear them all arguing allowing him time to slip away.
"Just a little bit longer my friend. You've done far too well."
Longtail was still pretty weak but he managed to stutter out..."Redfoot...is getting...away...stop...him p-please."
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Grandpa sharptooth nodded. He, his mate, Sharptooth, and most of the other big grownups chased after Redfoot. He was now in eye view. "There he is!" Grandma sharptooth roared.
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Redfoot could hear the herd behind him and he groaned aloud.
"Don't they ever give up...I thought sharpteeth were supposed to be stupid."
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"You're the one who is dumb," Sharptooth said in leafeater.
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Meanwhile, a heard of t-rexes saw Chomper and the others, and they weren't aware of the Redfoot situation. "Hi guys," two voices said. It was Ali and Rhett, and their herd.
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"Sorry guys, can't talk" Littlefoot tried to explain, "We...Redfoot...and then Longtail...".
"Oh for crying outloud!" Cory yelled from the watering hole, "the evil longneck there tried to kill Longtail and now he's getting away and the grown-ups won't stop arguing, although they're doing better by actually chasing him now, so...he's like almost got away and that's why we can't stop long; we have to catch him" the swimmer swam on.
Kit giggled, "If you caught all that" she said to Rhett and Ali as she flew by overhead.
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Redfoot then stopped for a moment as he said aloud..."Wait, why am I running?! I'm Redfoot...a sharptooths bad sleep story!" He then turned to face the oncoming herd of sharpteeth and grinned as he asked a question as they came into view.
"So...did the kid die at least? Did he suffer? Cause thats what I like to hear."
Longtail still was having difficulty doing anything short of breathing. He could barely open his eyes...but he did wave his tail slightly as he heard Ali and Rhett nearby.
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It was said very fast, but Ali and Rhett caught it. "We will help," Old One said, the leader of the herd stepping forward.
"No, but you will," Pterano's voice said, suddenly swooping down and biting hard on Redfoot's tail, then slashing him on the side.
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Reacting quickly, Ateo rushed towards Pterano and snapped his jaws at the flyer. "Come down here, you cowardly sharptooth!"
Suddenly, he felt himself being slammed into the ground by another dinosaur. He turned his head to see Rato standing over him.
Rato said, "It is you who is the coward."
Ateo snarled. "We'll see about that, murderer." With that, he struck out forward, using one of the big claws on his hands to slash across the front of one of Rato's feet. The horned sharptooth roared in pain and stepped back.
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Sharptooth attacked, knocking Ateo off Rato. "Keep off of him!" he roared. Littlefoot's grandma went to help Rato.
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"Ok, thanks" Kit said to both Ali, Rhett and the Old One before leading them off the way the grown-ups had gone, "Not that I know what we'll be able to do".
Twiz frowned and landed near where Longtail was, "Y-you need more of that, special not bad flower thingy?" he asked.
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Longtail could only groan in response to Twiz's question as he trued to nod his head.
Redfoot on the other paw was finding this to be harder than he thought it would be. Even with Ateo it was still an outnumbered fight. He then swung his tail at Sharptooth hoping to knock him to the ground, and then tried to bite Pterano trying to force the flyer out of the fight.
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"Hurry up guys, we've almost..." Petrie paused as the second group tagging Redfoot reached the area. "Uncle Pterano!" the young flyer cried in worry, seeing the fight. He darted forward. "Petrie!" Kit cried, "wait for the rest of us, he'll just hurt you!" she darted after her cousin.
"O-ok, I'll fine one" Twiz glanced about. "Mr. Ty!" he cried in a frightened kid voice, "I can't find anymore of the flowers!". With a small smile, though not about to smile about much in this situation, Ty flapped over. "Calm down" he told Twiz, "here, I'll help, I think Sharptooth got them from over here last time" the sharptoothed flyer looked about, trying to find more of the flowers.
OOC: I'm not nitpicking your idea, just a question that hit me, if I may ask and not be a bother, why is Pterano's name the same and the other grow-ups aren't? :DD Oh wait, half of them except for Topsy, Tria...and I think that's it didn't have names, nevermind :lol
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"I've got some," Cira said to Twiz.
Meanwhile, Chomper's parents, Littlefoot's grandparents, and Sharptooth were planning to attack Redfoot by surronding him.
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Redfoot knew the ideas these sharpteeth liked to use and it required them to surround their target, but Redfoot had a plan in case they tried that move. He reared up on his hind legs and slammed into the ground causing an earthshake and with him being a four footed dino he had better balance and with that in mind he tail whipped at Sharptooth and then ran. And as he looked back he could see Longtail alive!
"That kid...should have died! I won't make the same mistake again next time I strike!" he swore aloud as he continued running.
Longtail still didn't feel as though he could do anything at all...he still felt sick to his stomach and he felt cold for some reason, but he could feel himself sweating as if standing in front of a smoking mountain. He however continued to sit as still as possible and conserve his strength just in case.
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Sharptooth quickly recovered his balance, but saw Redfoot take a big lead. They knew he was heading towards flattoth valley.
"What do we do now?" asked Cera. "Well, I'm sure some of the leafeaters back at Flattooth Valley hate him," Chomper said.
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"W-we...let h-him go..." stuttered Longtail from atop Cira's head. "I-I think...i'll...be okay...soon." he continued saying with his eyes still closed.
Terri nodded her head in response to Chompers claim.
"It must be true, after all even a hero can look bad if he goes after children."
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At that moment Redfoot was stepping into Flattooth valley and he sighed with relief. However as he stepped forward he felt an unpleasant feeling like something was wrong.
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"What did you do?" Dil the spiketail asked. She never trusted Redfoot, and her son and his friends especially didn't.
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Ateo watched as Redfoot ran off. Thinking that Sharptooth and the other predators would go after him, he decided to block up the path that Redfoot had taken. He had manaed to slip away from the sharpteeth when Redfoot stomped the ground. He climbed up the cliff where some loose-fitting rocks were located. Using all the strength he could, he pushed against the rocks, causing them to slide over the edge, effectively blocking the path that Redfoot had taken. He knew this wouldn't prevent them from reaching the leaf-eater valley, but it would slow them down.
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"Don't tell you me you tried to kill all the sharpteeth again," Ichy said, the glider slapping his face.
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Redfoot cleared his throat and stuttered to Dil, "Why no! Of course not! Only one this time." he said with a small smile.
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Longtail asked in a gruff voice.
"D-do we...have any...m-more N-Night...flowers?"
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"Right here!" Cira called, handing them to Longtail.
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Dil still didn't trust Redfoot. "What are you up to?" Rita asked, walking past with Rory, Myra, Greg, and Mo.
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Rato noticed Ateo fleeing the scene, but decided to ignore him. He looked down on his foot where the dinosaur had attacked him. It wasn't bleeding too badly. He could tend to it later.
Upon mention of the night flowers, he got a perplexed look on his face. "Night flowers?" He had never heard of them before.
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"You little ones have nothing to worry about. I remember what happened last time and the circle of life, I was only trying to test something I heard about and I needed a sharptooth to test it on is all...don't worry, the little sharptoothed flyer lived." commented Redfoot in a hurry to try and explain himself.
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Longtail gave a weak smile and tried to eat one as it was given to him. "T-thank you...Cira."
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"Let's just get back to the Great Valley," Cira said relieved.
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Rita still didn't trust Redfoot. To tell the truth, she trusted most sharpteeth more than she did Redfoot. "Ok...." Myra said in doubt.
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Littlefoot, as they walked back to the GV, looked slightly jealous at Rhett. He had a crush on Ali, but Ali had chosen Rhett.
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Twiz smiled, accepting the flowers from Cira. "Thanks" he said. He walked them over to where Longtail was once more, "here, we got some, um...where do I put them..." he looked for the wound again.
"There" Kit helped out, pointing, "see where it's all red". "Oh" Twiz went to apply the flowers but dropped them, thankfully Cira had some to also had up to help Longtail.
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Cory frowned, "I can't believe it, after all that they're just gonna let him go..." the swimming sharptooth shook his head, "not if I have anything to say about it" he waited until he thought Ducky wasn't watching and darted off the opposite way down the waterway than he should have gone, hoping to find a path to the flatooth valley, though he wasn't sure what he'd do when he got there.
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There was a waterway that led to Flattooth Valley, and Cory was on the path.
"Where did cory go?" Ducky asked, not seeing him. Spike made a noise suggesting "I don't know,".
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Cory kept on. "I'll show Redfoot he can't mess with us!" the kid whisting swimmer said, with more boldness than one of his age against someone like Redfoot would be expected to or probably should have.
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"Have you seen Cory guys?" Ducky asked, swimming beside her friends. "I haven't, I haven't."
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Kit frowned with the news that Cory was missing. She liked that little swimmer she'd decided even after just meeting him. "No" she shook her head, "I haven't seen him anywhere...hang on I'll fly up and see if maybe I spot him in the water, if he's not to far down or anything". Kit flapped up and scanned about, hoping to find some trace of Cory.
When she did see him it wasn't a good feeling she got, "He, he went down a waterway that way" Kit pointed as she flapped lower, "w-where does that one go?" she asked Ducky and even Spike, who swam quite a bit, hoping what she thought was the answer wasn't.
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"To flattooth valley....." Littlefoot realized.
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"W-we gotta stop him! Something tells me I'm right in trying to figure out what he's thinking!" Kit said, suddenly darting off herself to try and follow the waterway.
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Ateo was on his way back to the leafeater valley when he caught the scent of a sharptooth heading in the same direction. He stopped in his tracks and turned. He couldn't tell if the sharptooth was using the same path as he was or if he was using a different path. But still, he could not mistake the smell of a wretched sharptooth and bared his teeth.
"I'll have to inform Redfoot about this." He quickly turned and continued on his way.
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As everyone was heading back to the Great Valley, Tricia walked besides Misty. The baby fast biter gave her step sister a little hug.
"<Aw, she likes you,>" Cira said.
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Longtail after having the leaves applied again by Twiz, went into a coughing fit that lasted for several moments but after he stopped he took a deep breath and exhaled.
"I-I'm starting to feel a lot better! Thanks everyone...but I'm still pretty tired. I hope you don't mind Cira." he said with a nervous smile.
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Redfoot sighed.
"I'm glad to see you trust me. Now if you'll excuse me I need to rest, it has been a long day." he said sounding as exhausted as possible.
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"I don't trust him..." Rita said under her breath, her gang walking off.
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"Don't worry, i don't," assured Cira.
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As everyone else headed towards the Great Valley, Ty wasn't exactly moving on pace with everyone else. "Anyone seen Kit?" he asked worriedly.
Twiz flapped over from having helped Longtail, "She went towards the Flatooth Valley, since that's where Cory went, I...I was just thinking maybe we should follow to, but wasn't sure if...".
"No you kids stay with the other adults" Ty said, "I'll go try to stop her and steer her back, and Cory if I can find him too" he sighed.
Misty smiled, hugging Tricia back, "Aw, well back at you kiddo" she said, handling the sharptooth language pretty well for that one statement.
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"I'm sure you two will get along just fine," Cira smiled. "But Veli is my only big concern."
"I just hope Cory and Kit don't get hurt," said Guido. "So does Tippy," said the girl belly dragger.
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For a moment Longtail's body shuddered as if he were cold and then he slid off of Cira's snout and miraculously landed on his feet catching himself. He took a deep breath as he realized what had just happened. He then slowly but steadily rose to his feet, and smiled.
"Heh...I think I'm...okay." he said at a whisper almost as if he couldn't believe it.
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Redfoot was actually true to his word and fell asleep in a clearing, thinking about his next move against the sharpteeth menace.
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Rory, Greg, Rita, Myra, and Mo just looked at Redfoot untrusting. "I doubt he's changed," Rory muttered.
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"Really?" Littlefoot said, impressed and relieved that his friend was okay.
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"Uh, yeah, hopefully he'll like me too" Misty said with a nervous smile, he seemed to at least tolerate her being there from before but it was still hard to tell.
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"Kit!" Ty quickly did over take his daughter as she flapped along and halted her, "Hold up now...".
"But Cory's heading off to probably do something stupid" Kit said hurriedly, "I gotta stop him...". Ty held Kit to stop her and placed her sitting on a nearby branch, landing as well himself, "I know, but it's not going to help if you get yourself into trouble too. Stay here, I'll go try to stop Cory" he said.
Kit wasn't comfortable with this plan either as she watched he dad flap off.
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Meanwhile, Cory paused outside what looked to be the flattooth valley. He kept low and slowly swam in through the waterway, scanning about for Redfoot.
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"You guys hear something?" Myra asked, not seeing Cory slip by underwater.
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Soon, the group arrived back at the Great Valley. Cira lied down to the left to Veli, and Cera and Tricia on his right. Before Misty could enter the nest, Veli got up and moved so his daughters were safely between the two adults. "I still don't trust you..." he said silently.
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Misty bit back her comment of yeah like a leafeater's gonna do anything, given what Redfoot had done she really had no grounds for argument really. She just nodded, "Well...that's your buisiness sir" she said before curling up.
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Ty paused a bit from the flatooth valley and sighed, ok, so how was he going to go about this? He had to get in and out without being detected himself to not cause a panic and more trouble for Cory.
"That kid does swim fast though" he had to admit.
Meanwhile, Cory peeked up and glanced about, trying to figure out where exactly
Redfoot would be.
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Longtail had walked back with the others into the valley and despite the rest he'd gotten he fell asleep almost immediately before he even found a place to sleep...he just collapsed onto the ground and began to snore.
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Redfoot was also sound asleep and unaware of Cory's entrance into the valley.
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Eventually, Veli and the other fast biters went to sleep.
The sharpteeth finally got a chance to rest.
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Ateo had returned to the leaf-eater valley, but was cautious about entering. He still didn't feel accepted by the leaf-eaters of this valley. He couldn't blame them; he was still a sharptooth himself, at least in body. But not in mind.
He didn't see Redfoot at first and decided to check out his sleeping spot. If he doesn't find Redfoot at first when entering the valley, he usually checks the sleeping spot and he sometimes finds the longneck there.
He snarled slightly when he caught the scent of a sharptooth, but it was so weak that he figured it was probably nothing to worry about. He walked towards Redfoot's sleeping spot.
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Alternately peeking up and swimming low, Cory made his way along until he finally spotted what he'd come for...Redfoot, just a good jump away from the water it looked like. "That'll work" Cory reered back and leapt from the water, diving straight for the longneck and clamping his tiny jaws on the longneck's nose, biting down as hard as he could, with wasn't very hard he found to his disappointment.
"No one, poisons my friend and gets away with it!" the little swimming sharptooth said through his clamped jaws though.
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"You guys here something?" Rita asked her gang. The nodded yes, and walked in the direction of Redfoot.
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As Ty appreared in the scene, hidden by branches, he could hardly believe what he saw. "That boy..." he shook his head in shock and worry before preparing to dart out and get Cory away before something bad happened
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Ateo's eyes went wide with shock when he saw the tiny sharptooth attacking Redfoot. He remained stunned for a few seconds, but quickly recovered. He stomped his foot down angrily and said, "What do you think you're doing, you little biter?!"
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Cory let up to answer and flopped onto the ground, stranded now since he was a swimming sharptooth. Ty was quick to flap over and pick up up though, ""No freaking out" he told the Flattoothed Valleyer, "I'm just getting the kid, and yes Cory, what do you think you're doing!".
Cory frowned and from in the air with Ty, answered, "He poisoned Longtail and tried to kill him!" he pointed a flipper at Redfoot, "and no one does that to my friends!".
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"Shut up, you stupid kid." Ateo hissed at the child. "If you knew what was good for you, you would have stayed at your wretched sharptooth-infested valley!"
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"It's not wretched, you leafeaters are the wretched ones!" Pterano said, suddenly swooping down and attacked Ateo, getting a nice blow in right in the head.
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"Night Veli, Night Cera, Night Tricia," Cira said in sharptooth. "<Night Misty>" she said in flatooth.
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Ateo screeched in pain and shock. Where had this flyer come in? He looked up at Pterano and snapped his jaws in frustration. He knew there was no chance of him getting to Pterano so long as the sharptooth remained aloft.
Curling his hand claws in frustration, Ateo said, "Then why don't you do the math, you flesh eater... How often has a sharptooth killed a leaf-eater? And how often does a leaf-eater kill a sharptooth? Do the math, and you and I both know that sharpteeth do most of the killing." He narrowed his eyes. "So who is the real killer here?"
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"But tell me..." Pterano replied. "Why do us sharpteeth kill the flatteeth?" he asked.
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Ateo snorted. "Why do you think? So you can mutilate the bodies with your teeth and claws, like the monsters you are..."
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"You don't get it do you?" Pterano said, knowing Ateo's arguments were inaccurate. "We, as meat eaters, NEED meat to survive."
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Ateo chuckled and took a step forward. "And yet, here I am, living proof that a sharptooth can become a leaf-eater. I am living proof that your logic is incorrect."
Ateo gave a quick sideways glance to Redfoot, wondering when he was going to do something. He glanced back at Pterano.
"And further more, if I can change my diet, so can the rest of you sharpteeth. The land can be purified, and then everyone would be safe."
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"Question:" Pterano said, not losing his confidence. "If a meat eater can change his diet, why not vice-versa?"
"And if everyone ate greenfood, we'd eventually run out."
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Twiz smiled at the good shot that Pterano got in when he attacked Ateo. Ty did as well, but focused on his charge as well, "First things first, Cory, you need to get back to the water pronto" he flew over and gently plopped the swimming sharptooth back, "And this time stay there and no jumping out!" he gently but firmly ordered.
Cory grumbled and nodded that he'd obey. As Ty turned back he noticed there was an almost debate going off, not a surprise when Pterano was concerned.
"I can't recall the last meat eater I knew who poisoned a kid with no need to it but being mean, but that aside, just so you know, it doesn't always work both ways. I did, because I pitied you flat-teeth, try it, eating green food I mean, and...well it doesn't work if it doesn't stay down, so it's not so easy and you think; but right now all I care about is getting Cory back to safety and I couldn't care less about being proven right or anything".
He flapped back over to where Cory was, "Alright kid, swim" he pointed, Cory sighed yet obeyed.
"You coming back now too?" Ty asked Ptearno, turning back to him. He wasn't sure if his brother was done 'debating'.
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"Good nit Misss Cira" Misty replied back in trying out sharptooth before drifting off.
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"Coming brother," Pterano said, giving one final swipe at Ateo.
"Goodnight Misty," Cira said again, the fast biter falling alseep.
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Redfoot had indeed been awakened by Cory's bite to his snout, but Ateo's quick response was rather impressive and at the moment it didn't seem that any real fighting was going to take place so Redfoot continued sitting where he was, only picking his head up off the ground once the flying sharpteeth had gone.
"Ateo my friend both you and that flyer have very good points, but the one difference between them and us...including you...is that we are the smarter creatures! Those sharpteeth claim they need meat to survive, and they use their claws and teeth to do so in a brutish and messy way. When we eat, and even on occasion fight, we do so with our brains...not our bellies."
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Pterano didn't lose his confidence at all. "If we don't think when we fight.." he smirked, "Then tell me, is it dumb, like I did a few moments ago, when no one was looking, inject you with your own poison and have the other flyers secure every bit of the antidote away from you?"
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"We were leaving remember", Ty pulled Pterano along almost as they continued flying away, "honestly, sometimes just dropping a topic is best, especially when they just get stubborn".
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"Coming,' Pterano called. He didn't want to leave just yet, he wanted to see the look of Horror on Redfoot's face, but oh well.
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As they flew back, low enough that Ty could make sure Cory was still headed where he should be going and not back to the Flatooth Valley, Ty glanced back and thought about asking Pterano if he'd been serious and really poisoned the flatteeth, but he didn't know if he wanted to know the answer to that.
"You know, why I had to come after you, don't you Cory?" he asked the young one instead. "Not really" Cory admitted, "Revenge...is never right" Ty told him, "so, for that fact and your own safety, you shouldn't have gone over there alone to take on Redfoot".
"But if I didn't, he'd have just done it again!" Cory said.
"Well I just hope no actions anyone's done cause Redfoot to retaliate again" he said.
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"I don't trust that longneck," Pterano said, flying beside Ty.
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"Who does" Ty replied, "I'm just saying we shouldn't agitate him further than he already doesn't need to be agitated...that and watch the kids closer" he sighed, feeling a bit guilty for his own lack of watching that allowed Longtail to get kidnapped in the first place.
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"Let's just head back to the Great Valley," Pterano said.
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Cira noticed Tricia moving her feet a lot in her sleep. "Aw, she's having her hunting dream," she smiled in both languages.
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Ty smiled and just continued on.
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Misty at first, as she half awoke and heard this, felt the desire to scoot over a bit away from the sharptoothed kid just incase, but decided against it and just tried to settle back down.
She gave a small smile though, "Never thought I'd call a hunting sharptooth cute, but she is" she said partly to herself as she settled back down.
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"<Sharpteeth can be cute,>" Cira commented. "<I just wonmder what's she hunting in her sleep story.>"
(Hey Kit12, wanna come up with what's going on in Tricia's dream?)
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Longtail was beginning to dream and he was clawing and digging at the dirt as if trying to get away from something. He was crying, but it wasn't out of fear...it was rage. Longtail then opened his eyes in shock and noticed he was lying in a small pool of blood! As he stood up to figure out what had happened he cringed in pain as he felt a sicking and stabbing pain in the center of his belly.
As he looked down he could now see the wound adorning his belly and while shocked at first he took several deep breaths and said to himself..."I...I need to have nicer sleep stories." He then tried to lay down on his back and tried to sleep.
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"you ok Longtail?" Littlefoot asked, walking up to him, followed by Cera and Spike.
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Longtail looked up at his friends, and sighed.
"Yeah...I guess so, but I had a bad sleep story and it seems I scratched my self. I...I'll be fine, thanks for asking though." He tried to stand up but the pain from his wound only let him get halfway to his feet.
"Okay....maybe I'm not as well as I thought." he mumbled.
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"We'll spend the night with you, so we can wake you up if you have another bad sleep story," said Littlefoot.
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((OOC: Ooh, sure))
in her sleep story, Tricia continued on after the scent she'd found, dodging through bushes and shrubs and other such hinderances on her way to where the trail finally ended next to a rock wall that blocked the small herd of young rainbow faces she'd cornered. Tricia crouched down like she'd watched her parents do and prepared to strike when one of the oldest of the kid rainbow faces got infront to protect the others and Tricia recognized Misty. She sprung forward, but this time to give Misty a big hug and churp happily in sharptooth
In the nest, while Tricia dreamed and hugged Misty in her sleep, the rainbow face looked confused and only mildly worried. "Uh...this is a good thing...right?" she asked no one in particular. Tricia snuggled in next to her like one would a snuggling stick.
((OOC: Hopefully the outside the dream stuff wasn't taking it too far :DD))
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"<It is,>" Cira replied in leafeater.
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Longtail smiled gratefully as he closed his eyes.
"Thanks guys...I don't think my sleep stories will bother me...but this wound on my belly will." he stated with a frown as he tried to get back to sleep
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"I could get Mr. Belly Dragger to get something for that," Cera said.
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Longtail's eyes shot open for a moment as he stuttered,
"N-no...that's okay. The last time I asked Mr.Bellydragger to help me with a problem...I couldn't see out of one of my eyes for a whole day! I'll just let this one heal itself...but thanks anyway Cera."
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"Ok..." Cera said, wondering what happened then.
"Wanna stay with me and my parents and Shorty for the night?" Littlefoot asked Longtail, "They are still visiting you know."
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((ooc: Sorry about the lack of posting, RL's hectic))
"Ok...well that's good" Misty said, then decided not to disturb Tricia and hugging the little fast biter back, went to sleep.
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(OOC: It's ok, Kit12)
The next morning, Veli had went on an early-morning hunt and brought back a spiketail for his family. "Breakfast has arrived," he smiled, as Cera and Tricia went over to eat their fill.
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Longtail's eyes widened for a moment as he jumped up and most of his pain forgotten. "Yeah! That would be great Littlefoot, besides I still have a score to settle with Shorty."
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"Why? What did he do to you?" asked Littlefoot, as they walked back to where his family slept.
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Longtail frowned as he thought back to that day.
"The last time I busted my wing, Shorty thought it would be funny to push me off the top of the Thundering Falls...and if it weren't for the fact that I could swim, I'd would've drowned!"
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<"Um, I'm gonna go...just find some tree sweets"> Misty said, climbing out of the nest to let the predators have their meal in peace and be far enought that neither them nor her would be bothered.
<"Maybe I could see what Twiz is up to"> she said to herself as she walked.
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Meanwhile, and still looking a bit sleepy, Kit flew over to where Littlefoot and Longtail were. Twiz was following along as well. "Hi guys" Kit said, landing, "what are you doing?" she yawned once she said this.
"She's just tired because she was up during the night trying to keep Cory out of trouble" Twiz explained with a smile, "even if her dad and Mr. Pterano did most of that work".
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"I'm just glad Cory is ok, he is, he is," Ducky said from the waterhole.
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Spike came by, eating his breakfast.
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"Yeah, me too" Kit agreed with Ducky, "He seems to just get carried away sometimes. I only hope he doesn't do anything like that again" she sighed.
Cory swam over as well and sighed, "I was fine guys, just had to show Redfoot that he couldn't push us around!".
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(You mean Redfoot.)
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(Yeah, him :oops )
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Longtail smiled.
"Well don't worry, I don't think Redfoot will be bothering us again for a while. Unless he likes getting his tail whipped." he stated with a smile. He then turned to Cory. "Seriously I do understand why you did it...but next time warn somebody so you have some help....and so the grown-ups don't have to save your tail."
Longtail yawned and said aloud.
"I'm hungry...what's to eat?"
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"Whatever's huntable in the area," said Littlefoot.
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Longtail shrugged his wings as best he could and nodded.
"Alright, then let's go hunting!" he said with a smile forming on his beak.
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Littlefoot used his sniffer. "I can smell.....yellow belly."
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Longtail grimaced for a moment.
"Aren't yellowbellies mostly fat? Hence the giant bellies?" he asked with an air of concern.
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"True, but they still have plenty of meat on them. Besides, I've heard my grandparents say they are a bit concerned because you are kinda skinny," Littlefoot said.
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Longtail smiled for two reasons, one cause Littlefoots grandparents actually cared for his well being and because he was rather proud of his thin frame, as it allowed him to fly faster in big winds. But he shrugged in the end and gave up. "Alright, Yellowbelly it is then."
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"And from what I've heard, they are a very easy catch," Littlefoot said. "Besides, just one hunting of them won;t affect you badly. In fact, me and Chomper are some of the best students in the standard sharptooth hunting class."
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A good distance away, a sailed clawhand, much bigger than Ateo, was walking along the rocky mountain side. It tilted its head up, sniffing the air.
The familiar smell of yellowbellies flowed through its nostrils, and it started to drool. It hadn't eaten in a long time, and the fat of the yellowbellies would surfice it for a long time.
Hunching low, it followed the scent.
* * *
Rato yawned, getting up after his nap. There wasn't much to do today. His mind pondered back to Ateo. He had never seen a sharptooth like him before. How could he survive on just plants? Sharpteeth didn't have the right digestive system to take care of plants.
He wondered if Mr. Bellydragger would be able to have an answer for this. But where was Mr. Bellydragger anyway? He had never gone to see him before, and has only heard about him through some conversations he's heard from the other sharpteeth in the valley.
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Ateo snipped at a couple branches laying on the ground that he had knocked off. He couldn't help but think about that arrogant sharptooth that had gotten into this valley yesterday. The kid was apparently suicidal. It was lucky Redfoot hadn't killed him.
Ateo did notice that the valley residents didn't like Redfoot as much as they had the last time he'd been in the leafeater valley. Ateo couldn't understand why. Perhaps Redfoot would be able to tell him. He grabbed a branch that was bristling with treestars and headed towards Redfoot's sleeping place, where he felt he might find him.
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Misty soon found a bush with some small red treesweet berried on it. She smiled, "That'll do!" she walked over to pick one off and eat it.
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"We'll come help" Kit and Twiz followed Littlefoot and Longtail. "Yeah" Twiz said, "even if we're not up to Longtail's hunting skills we could probably still help..." he tried to think of the word he'd heard from his dad that one time, "...flush...it out?".
"Yeah, I think that's what it's called" Kit assured him.
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"Thanks for the help guys," Littlefoot smiled.
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Longtail smiled. "alright then, what are we waiting for?! Lets go hunting!" he said with a laugh as he spread his wings as he flapped into the sky with a smile on his beak. Using his sniffer for a moment he looked west and replied, "I smell yellowbellies...time for some fun!"
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Redfoot was indeed sitting at his meeting place eating several treestars from a nearby tree, and he smiled as he saw Ateo approaching. "Hello my friend, how are you this day?" he asked with a genuine smile.
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After a few minutes of trekking though the Mysterious Beyond, the group caught sight of what they were looking for.
"Longtail, you and me go first," Littlefoot instructed.
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The sailed clawhand noticed a smallish target up ahead. It looked like a yellowbelly. It was hard to tell if it was alone or not. Being extra cautious, the sharpteeth lowered its haunches and crept forward, sticking to the shadows.
* * *
"I'm doing fine, thanks." Ateo said as he set down his branch of food. "There was something I wanted to ask you, if you don't mind."
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Longtail grinned and nodded wordlessly to Littlefoot and landed on the ground so as not to make noise by flapping his wings, and slowly crept forward being sure not to startle the yellowbelly.
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Redfoot smiled and replied, "Why of course Ateo, always happy to answer a question."
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The sailed clawhand bared its teeth as it crept closer to the yellowbelly. Then it paused, raising its head in the air. It thought it had scented something just a moment ago, but let it go and continued its advancement.
* * *
"Why is everyone..acting differently?" Ateo struggled to find the right words to say. "The last time I was here, it seemed practically everyone looked up to you, but now I can't help but sense that they feel, almost suspicious about you."
Ateo wasn't sure if he was treading on thin ice or not, so he kept a certain distance from Redfoot just in case the longneck wanted him to leave. "I don't mean to offend you or anything. I'm just wondering if I had missed anything while I was gone. Did something happen?"
Then a thought crossed his mind. "Does it have to do with those sharpteeth we ran into earlier?"
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Redfoot sighed, letting his anger go with it. "Well in a way, yes it does have to do with those Sharpteeth we met earlier." He then continued,
"Some time ago...I tried to poison the entire Sharptooth valley, and some of them managed to escape the poison and came looking for me, and I confronted them and they beat me...sad isn't it?" he asked rhetorically as he spoke.
"Well after getting beaten, I returned here only to find that everyone had learned what I did and apparently everyone here believes in this silly notion about the circle of life and keeping balance in it...so after our most recent failed attempt to poison that flyer....they just don't trust me...or at least not as much as they used to."
Redfoot then hung his head for a moment as he whispered, "I miss the herds unyielding loyalty."
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Ateo shook his head slowly. He wondered who had poisoned the valley's residents into believing sharpteeth were important to the circle of life.
"I'm sorry to hear that." He then started thinking. "Perhaps there could be something you could do to win them back over."
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(OOC: Caustizer, you can't control other's OCs.)
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(OOC: Caustizer, you can't control other's OCs.)
You got me...maybe I should have read the rules to this game before jumping into it. :lol
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Kit and Twiz landed near where Littlefoot still was and watched as Longtail crept out closer.
"Should we...flush something?" Twiz wondered, whispering so low he was all but not talking, turning to Kit. She shook her head, "No, not yet, I think right now we'd get in his way" she replied in a similar fashion.
Twiz then frowned, "Hey Littlefoot...you smell that?" he asked the sharptooth, thinking maybe his sniffer would be better as he'd thought he'd picked up on something else besides Yellowbellies about.
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Longtail feeling he was far enough out of the way to corner and trap the yellowbelly should it try to run, Longtail stood and waited for the moment to strike...and he kept his eye on the yellowbelly almost without blinking...lest he break his concentration and it got away.
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As Littlefoot concentrated on the smell, Twiz watched him. Kit, meanwhile, watched Longtail incase she would be needed to dart in and distract or confuse some of the yellow bellies if they panicked too soon.
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"Yeah, I do," Littlefoot replied, nodding. "But I can't tell what it is."
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The long-snouted sharptooth picked up the foreign scents again and started to growl softly. It seemed it now had competition on its hands. But another whiff, though faint, suggested that the newcomers were probably just young ones. It could easily chase them off if it wanted to.
Then it spotted a yellowbelly that seemed to be a good distance away from the others. It licked its chops. What luck, it thought in its mind as it focused its attention on this particular yellowbelly.
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Twiz sniffed as well, trying to determine what the scent was, it was hard. He felt like he almost had it and then he didn't. "Yeah...I'm not sure what that is either...".
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Longtail was still waiting for the signal to go, but he caught a foreign scent, and he immediately drew his head up and sniffed in a wide circle..hoping to see what he was smelling...but still all he could see was the yellowbelly. He growled lightly, as he turned to face his friends and shook his head, believing that tracking this new scent was more important than hunting breakfast.
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Redfoot looked over to Ateo with a curious look on his face as he responded, "And just what do you have in mind my friend?"
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"We should find out what's making that scent," Littlefoot agreed.
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"I'll fly up and see what I can maybe spot" Kit said. She flew up to a nearby tree and quickly perched down, hoping to not get spotted by whatever might be about and scanned about until she did spot something off in the distance. She squinted until she could make out the form of a sailed clawhand, and her whole face fell into a frown.
For a while all she could do was open her beak and point as she tried to speak.
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"What? What do you see?" asked Littlefoot.
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The sailed clawhand suddenly charged from its spot, running straight towards the yellowbelly that was a bit aways from the group. Startled by the sudden appearance of the sharptooth, the yellowbellies dispersed, turning and running away. The sharptooth ran towards the seperated yellowbelly, roaring as it tried to position its jaws over the yellowbelly's back.
Quickly, it was able to get close enough to snap its jaws around the back of the yellowbelly. The yellowbelly cried out in pain and struggled as the sailed clawhand pushed it into the ground, biting harder, blood dripping from its jaws. The sailed clawhand put its hands on the yellowbelly to try to keep it from escaping.
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Longtail sighed as he'd seen that kind of face before...although he couldn't remember where, but now it didn't matter. He turned to his friends and said aloud..."Its a sailed clawhand...very big...very dangerous...and they are really fast...and they took my kill...oh this one is mine!" He yelled out loud as he ran forward and stretched his wings taking flight almost immediately, and racing towards his newest target.
He flew with a sole purpose and that was to take the kill from that sailed clawhand, and he was going to do it the only way he knew how...by fighting for it, and he let loose an ear piercing screech as he neared the sailed clawhand.
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The sailed clawhand snorted, turning its eyes up to see a sharptooth flyer coming towards it. It didn't take long for it to realize what the flyer wanted. It hissed as it placed its foot on the yellowbelly to keep it from getting away as it lifted up its head and snapped her jaws in the flyer's direction.
"Get away!" The sailed clawhand shouted, revealing that it was a female.
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Longtail wasn't even fazed by the threat of the sailed clawhand and he raised himself into the air and dove at her snapping his beak and using his tail like a whip to try and get her to move off the yellowbelly.
"Get out of my way and off my food!" He yelled in response to her.
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The sailed clawhand raised an arm to defend herself, and ended up stepping away from the yellowbelly. As soon as it realized it was free, the yellowbelly started to scamper away, although slowed down by the blood dripping from its back.
Annoyed, the sailed clawhand turned towards Longtail. "You fool! Look what you made me do! Now my hatchlings will go hungry!" She raised her sickle claws threateningly. "Since you chased away my food, then you shall be the replacement..."
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Longtail scoffed aloud.
"Please, if anything that yellowbelly belongs to me and my friends! You stole our kill and you can't touch me...I'm a flyer...and your just some silly land walker!"
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Littlefoot did not like where this arguement was going, he was worried Longtail was going to get hurt.
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"W-we should do something I know, but what?!" Twiz asked both Littlefoot and Kit as she flapped down.
"I...I don't know" Kit struggled to think. She sighed, "and my 'listen to your tummy' instincts' aren't sounding really smart right about now...". Twiz was about to ask for a clarification when Kit sighed and flew over to land on a tree near the argument, out of the way if the sailed clawhand decided to charge, and tried to calm the situation.
"Um...excuse me ma'am...we are sorry if we...chased off the others of the herd too and all but...maybe we could try to fix this somehow" she smiled in what she hoped was an appeasing way. Kit knew she needed some sort of idea as to how but was still working on that part.
Twiz' beak dropped, "what is she doing..." he wondered to no one in general. He sighed, but didn't know if going out there himself would just make it even worse.
"Like..." Kit still thought on how to fix this, "Ooh, I could drive two more this way and you could each catch one, I know the rest of 'em sort of went this way, so I'm sure I could find them" she pointed, hopeful about her plan working.
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The sailed clawhand turned her head over to Kit, narrowing her eyes. "The offer sounds tempting but..." She turned her eyes back to Longtail. "I do not think your scrawny little friend here will like the idea of me taking another of his yellowbellies." She snorted.
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Longtail gave a short screech as he replied to the sailed clawhand "You got that right ugly! The next kill is mine, and you won't stop me either!" Then the remark the clawhand made finally hit home. "Who are you calling scrawny you oversized bellydragger?!"
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"This can't end well..." Littlefoot muttered.
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"Kit get back here, they're gonna fight no matter what we do!" Twiz called. Kit frowned, "Oh no they're not!". She flapped down and started yanking on Longtail's tail, "You Mr. Stubborn are coming back with me right now if I have to tie you up and...hey!".
Twiz flapped over and did a very impressive job of scooping his cousin up himself and rushing off with her.
"It's gonna be better and quicker if we just let Longtail beat her up" he said. "But...he...oh" Kit sighed, seeing she was outnumbered in this.
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The sailed sharptooth chuckled lightly as she glanced at Twiz and Kit before turning her attention back at the long tailed flyer. "How would you make sure the next kill is yours, hmm? I could easily snatch it away. After all, flyers are such weak creatures." Then she rolled her eyes. "But perhaps I am wasting my time with a weakling like you. You're only fit for a snack. Perhaps I should take my leave now."
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Longtails face contorted in fierce, raw rage and he said aloud through gritted teeth, "NO ONE CALLS US FLYERS WEAK!!!" He then dived and quickly latched onto the calwhands snout with his talons and began to bite and scratch at her with the ferocity only a sharptooth could, and after several successful hits he jumped away from the wounded area and started scratching another.
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The sailed sharptooth screeched in pain, taking several steps back as the small flyer attacked her. "Let go of me, you little idiot!" She opened up her jaws and snapped down, catching the flyer's tail in her jaws.
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Longtail screamed in pain as he felt his tail grabbed by the clawhand's mouth. He then realized he was close enough to some serious damage as he aimed for and scratched across the surface of her right eye! "JUST DIE!!!" he cried out as he continued to claw at her eye in an attempt to rip it out.
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"That's not the same Longtail I know," Littlefoot gulped.
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When the little flyer slashed across her right eye, the sailed clawhand shook her head violently from side to side, shaking the small flyer. Still holding the flyer by the tail, she turned around and started to run off into the distance.
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Longtail continued trying to scratch at any open wounds he could to try and cause more pain to the now moving calwhanded sharptooth...and he had to admit..with his tail in it's mouth he was getting more and more annoyed.
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Redfoot was about to ask Ateo what he meant by his question when he heard a sound...it was familiar, but different...almost like....
"A SHARPTOOTH!" shouted Redfoot as he turned and faced the entrance closest to his nest.
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"O-oh no!" Kit said as she saw the sailed clawhand walking off with Longtail, though Longtail was still fighting.
"Do you still think he doesn't need help!" she said worriedly, "come on, we gotta make sure he doesn't get hurt" she flapped after.
"but...wouldn't telling the adults be better?" Twiz asked, turning to Littlefoot.
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Ateo's head quickly turned in the direction Redfoot was facing. "What perfect timing... This is what I had in mind." Ateo glanced up at Redfoot. "If you save this valley from a vicious sharptooth, maybe they would trust in you again."
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The sailed sharptooth didn't realize what she was headed as she continued to clamp down on the long tailed flyer. She wanted to speak, but feared if she moved her jaws, the flyer would get free. She wanted to kill the flyer and take him back to her babies, but she needed to get as far away from his friends as she could.
She found a rocky area with an opening and quickly went in there, hoping to escape the flyer's friends if they were following her.
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Longtail knew that if this sharptooth didn't let go of his tail he might lose it! So he did what he could and continued to claw and bite and slash at calwhand's eye and get her to let go.
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Redfoot couldn't help but smile at the opportunity and said aloud, "Of course! I'll do my duty and protect this valley! From the sharptooth."
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"I'll get the grownups!" Littlefoot called, dashing back towards the Great Valley.
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Twiz darted after Kit to get the grown-ups, fully expecting Kit to follow along, but she didn't. Instead she darted forward, not really recklessly diving at the sharptooth before she had a plan, but also knowing they shouldn't lose sight of them.
As she followed along she noticed where they were heading and gasped. "Oh no...".
"Hey! Stop!" she cried, trying to get the sailed clawhand's attention yet otherwise keep quiet. She flew over to push against the sailed clawhands snout, maybe helping Longtail get free but also just trying to push her in the other direction, "Hold up, that's the flatooth's Valley!" she said desperately, "and Redfoot, he's really mean".
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Longtail finally had had enough and using all the force he could muster he bit down on one the Clawhand's teeth knowing they were just as sensitive as the rest of her. He continued applying pressure trying to get her to let go of his tail!
'I hope my friends are doing something to help me instead of standing around and arguing...' commented Longtail mentally.
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Littlefoot managed to get his parents, his grandparents, Veli, Dein, Terri, and Tera to help.
"Longtail's in danger!" he explained.
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Terri turned to face Littlefoot and in a moment of stunned panic she shouted a bit loudly "WHAT?! What do you mean he's in danger?!"
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Redfoot stepped in front of the Clawhand and stomped his foot down, as he bellowed, "Leave our valley you sharptooth!" Then he noticed exactly what was in her jaws and his eyes bulged for a moment. "YOU?!" He asked rather stunned that the child had indeed survived their last encounter!
Longtail heard Redfoot speak but it didn't matter at the moment...he just wanted his tail free! He then thought of something...and let his body go limp simply hanging by his tail now still locked in the Clawhand's mouth.
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"Yes Mrs. Chomper's mom!" Littlefoot replied. He turned to his parents.
"Mom, dad, he's near Flatoooth Valley!" he cried to Tyran and Saura. "A clawhand's got him, and Redfoot might be coming by!"
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Rato lifted up his head when he heard shouts coming from one direction. He couldn't make out very many words, except Flattooth Valley, Clawhand, and Longtail. His eyes narrowed softly. Could it be that Ateo character again?
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The sailed clawhand felt the flyer go limp in her jaws, but she didn't care. Normally, this would have satisfied her, but she now had her eyes set on a much more pleasing target. Her hatchlings would be set for a long time if she could bring down the longneck standing before her.
Releasing her grip on the flyer and letting him fall, the female sharptooth opened her jaws and roared.
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Longtail hit the ground with a thud and he stayed still for a moment just to make sure he didn't try to draw attention to himself. He then realized he should probably move so he wouldn't get stepped on, and thats what he did he rolled out of the way as Redfoot began to step forward.
Redfoot stepped forward and bellowed a warning as he whipped his tail around trying to knock the clawhand off balance.
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From where she'd followed, the sailedclaw hand not paying any heed to her pleas to turn back, of course, Kit crept out from some trees she'd hidden behind to where Longtail now was.
"Pst, Longtail" she whispered, "you ok?" she approached. Her attention was next drawn by the beginnings of a fight between the sailed clawhand and Redfoot, "Oh, this does not look like it'll be good..." she muttered rhetorically, and of course of all places they had to be right next to Flattooth Valley again!
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"They aren't too far from here!" Littlefoot called to the rest of the adults.
Tera flew ahead.
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The sailed clawhand roared in pain as the longneck's tail slammed against her, knocking her to the ground. She glanced up at the longneck and roared.
Ateo was about to step forward, but stopped himself. He decided he should let Redfoot take care of this monster. That way, he can take full credit for saving the valley from the beast.
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"Follow me everybody!" Tera called to the other grownup sharpteeth.
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"Yeah just down here!" Twiz helped Littlefoot guide the grown-ups back to where they were. "Oh I hope we get there in time" he muttered as he flapped along next to the young sharptooth.
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"Me too," Littlefoot nodded.
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"Longtail?! Are you hurt?!" Grandpa Sharptooth called.
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Longtail blinked for a moment as Grandpa Sharptooth called out to him and he smiled, but continued to step away slowly from the fight between Redfoot and the clawhand...that was one fight he just didn't want to be a part of. He stepped over and replied, "We should go now...."
Redfoot however wasn't at all fazed by the clawhands roar, and tried to step on the vicious creature hoping to end this fight quickly and without harm to anyone.
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"What should we do about those two?" Grandpa asked, looking at the brawl a short distance away.
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Ty landed, looking thoughtful about Grandpa Sharptooth's question. He turned to both Kit and Longtail, "What would you say your take on the sailed clawhand is?" he asked, "I mean as I understand it, she drug you, Longtail here, but do you feel any...animosity over it, or was it just a poor predator's choice and she would need our help".
It was a though situation to feel out, since Ty himself would never hunt children, but then he knew otherwise fine sharpteeth just didn't have that qualm about them sometimes.
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The sailed clawhand saw Redfoot's foot coming down towards her and she quickly moved to get out of the way. But she reacted too slow and the heavy foot slammed down on her left arm. She roared in pain and struggled to get her hand free.
After a hard yank, she manage to free herself, but there was a sickening crack, her ulna and radius bones snap in two, and her hand and part of her arm had been ripped clean off.
The sailed clawhand staggered back, roaring in agony as blood squirted from the open wound. She glanced at the longneck and hissed, her eyes widened in both fear and shock. She started to move backwards.
Ateo watched as the female sharptooth started to move away. He glanced up at Redfoot and asked, "You going to finish it off?"
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"We.......can't let Redfoot kill her," Littlefoot said suddenly.
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Longtail turned to Grandpa Sharptooth and looked shocked when he heard Littlefoot speak up. "Are you crazy Littlefoot? She just tried to EAT ME! I say we let her finish what she started! I wanna go home!"
Redfoot was at this moment torn, between finishing off the Clawhand, or letting her live with her already disfiguring wound...but he figured to stop a sharptooth you had to kill it. He then stepped forward and brought his tail into the air ready to strike her down to the ground and crush her head.
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But before Redfoot could bring the tail down, one of his enemies stopped him by slashing his tail.
"Redfoot..." a large gray sharptooth muttered angrily.
"It's Doc!" noticed Littlefoot.
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Ty had been in mid-flight preparation to intervene when Doc did it for them. It was no secret how Littlefoot thought Doc was the Lone Sharptooth of legend. Ty...wasn't so sure, but kept this thought to himself.
Kit glanced up at the sharptooth in awe though, silent awe though and backed up a bit due to shyness.
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Longtail slapped his face with his tail and muttered, "Oh, here we go...and the game just gets harder to play everyday!"
Redfoot turned to face Doc, and without making a single sound nodded his head to Ateo to attack Doc and keep him distracted so he could finish the Clawhand off.
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"Traitor..' Doc muttered, pouncing Ateo and slashing Redfoot on the tail again
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Ateo looked up at Redfoot and nodded back. He then moved forward, prepared to do what it took to keep Doc distracted. He charged towards Doc, mouth agape.
The sailed clawhand didn't know what to make of the scene. But she didn't have time to ponder. She looked at Redclaw and, remembering her injury, quickly turned and ran, intent on leaving the valley as quickly as she could.
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Doc charged Ateo back, and ducking to avoid his jaw.
He then thrust his own head right on the bottom of Ateo's jaw.
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Longtail felt something inside him as he watched the sailed Clawhand turn and run...he then flapped his wings and broke his hiding cover and flew above the Clawhand and spoke. "You get out of here...I'll keep Redfoot busy!" He then turned and faced Redfoot and said, "Just let her go...she's not trying to fight you anymore."
Redfoot grinned and said, "Not a chance...and now I'll finish what I started with you kid!" Redfoot then charged Longtail and the Clawhand hoping to get them both with one attack.
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"Longtail!" Kit had just prepared to flap up to help him, when her dad gently yanked her back down, "Don't you dare!" he said worriedly. Before she could protest, he was up in the air himself, "Come on, Longtail's going to need our help...again" he said to the others, hoping that maybe as one charge they could deal with Redfoot and keep him at bay from both Longtail and the sailed clawhand.
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(Mind if I join in and add two characters?)
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(Sure Noname, go ahead.)
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(Thanks)
A mated pair of sharpteeth, the same kind as Chomper's, rested just outside of the valley.
The first to wake was Rutilus, a large male with red eyes, a green hide with a pale yellow underside, and a very strong jaw, even by his kind's standards.
Rutilus got up and sniffed the air, hoping to find some traces of food. He found none. He looked next to him and saw his mate, Whiteclaw. She was still asleep.
Whiteclaw was colored a light shade of red, and had a pale white underbelly. Her claws were unusually whitish, hence her name. She was with eggs, and had been so for over two months. Normally, she had average patience, for a sharptooth, but the lack of food and her changing hormones made her rather... insistent.
Not wanting to announce a lack of food again, Rutilus let her sleep on... but could not help but to nuzzle her once, lightly. This slowly woke her up, though... she would not be happy to hear that there was no food... again. She needed more food now, and her disappointment at not finding any was more due to the risks posed to the children then to herself.
"Morning, Whiteclaw" Rutilus said. "I wish I could say that I found-"
"No food again?" Whiteclaw said. "That's the third day now..." Whiteclaw slowly rose to her feet, feeling the parched earth beneath her white soles. "This land is dry... no leafeaters would want to move here..."
"We should keep looking" Rutilus said to his mate. "There's a valley up ahead, and it might have-"
"MIGHT! Rutilus, we are starving! I am suffering more because I need more food for our children! Or did you forget that you got me-"
"I KNOW!" Rutilus roared. "You think I don't care?! When we found that juvenile threehorn a week back, who did I give it to? I gave it all to you, even though it was I who killed it!"
"Only because you said you would 'make it up to me' after leading us into a desert!" Whiteclaw snapped back. "Giving me a snack hardly compensates for that!"
"It was your idea to head north in the first place!" Rutilus replied.
"Yes, to follow the river!" Whiteclaw snapped.
"The river which turned foul when we followed it north? Oh yes, the one with the infected water!" Rutilus said.
Whiteclaw wanted to slap him with her tail, like she had done when he pressured her to mate with him some times... but knew better than to do that when Rutilus was mad. He could be violent when angered, as most sharpteeth were... he would probably not attack the female who had his offspring with her, but it was not worth taking that chance.
"Let's just... continue" Whitclaw said. Clearly, she was not going to win. Sometimes, she wanted to just leave and hope to find food on her own... but a gravid female is hardly a fit individual in a harsh world, particularly when she was alone. Like it or not, she needed Rutilius to help protect her and the children, when they were hatched. It really stank; when she had wanted to mate all those many times, they had no eggs, but when Rutilus had successfully pressured her into mating with his words... she got gravid... this was the first time that she was with eggs... and it was not when she wanted it. She did not intend to lay eggs until she and her mate were in prey-rich territory... but neither she nor Rutilus waited that long before doing 'it'...
She loved Rutilus, but sometimes, she wished that he would not pressure her for mating so much...
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(think this is a good start?)
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(It is.)
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The mates continued to march towards the valley. Rutilus was hungry, but he could handle it. Whiteclaw, by contrast, was NOT in a good mood. Between her hormones, hunger, and his unceasing insistence that they mate, she was pretty mad.
The fact that the trip into the valley was over rough terrain didn't help, either. After some hours, Whiteclaw had stubbed her toe on a boulder and roared in pain.
"What's wrong? Are you okay, my love?" Rutilus said.
"Oh, now it's back to 'my love' now that I'm in pain? I walked into a rock and hurt my toe. I need to rest for a while."
"By all means, rest." Rutilus said. She looked so beautiful when sleeping, he thought.
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"Who's there?" a voice asked from nearby. It was Mr. Belly Dragger, looking for plants for his medicines.
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After an hour or so, Whiteclaw got up and started walking again. Her toe was feeling better, but her mood was steadily worsening; there was still no food and the climb into the valley was only getting harder.
Rutilus saw this and said nothing, as anything could set her off when she was like this.
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"Hello there, who are you?" Mr. Belly Dragger asked, seeing Whiteclaw and Rutilus.
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It was a surprising sight. A belly-dragger in the middle of a mountain range. Those kinds of sharpteeth lived near water... which meant that there was some nearby! But, just as importantly, where there was water there were usually plants, and where there were plants, there was leafeaters!
Taking the lead, Rutilus stode forward and spoke.
"My name is Rutilus, and this is my mate, Whiteclaw. We have traveled a long way, looking for food and water." Said the green-skinned predator.
"And a place to raise our young" Added Whiteclaw.
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Mr. Belly Dragger started to smile. "Tell me...have you ever heard of the Great Valley?" he asked.
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"Great Valley? Isn't that just a myth?" Whiteclaw asked.
"No, he means that we have reached it, and we are here!... or is this Sharptooth valley?" Rutilus responded.
This was great; either wat, it meant food, water, and a place to raise the hatchling! There was, however, a problem. Whiteclaw loved Rutilus... his feelings for her were not the same as her's were for him, however.
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"New sharpteeth are always welcome to the Valley," Mr. Belly Dragger assured.
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"That's great! Forgive us if we rush off to find some prey; we haven't eaten in-" Rutilus said, but was cut off when he saw his famished mate dash into the valley.
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"I take it she's hungry?" Mr. Belly Dragger asked with a smirk.
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"Very. So am I, but she needs to feed our children as well." Rutilus said. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I really need to catch up with her. I may be stronger than she is, but my mate is faster than I am."
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"I understand," Mr. belly Dragger replied, heading off to collect plants.
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After some time, the two sharpteeth found a swimmer to prey on. It was enough to give them their first big meal in a long time, and there was plenty of water too!
"How are you feeling now, my love?" Rutilas asked, while eating.
"Much better, Rutilas. Thanks. I guess your plan wasn't so messed up." she responded, speaking between taking bites of the meat.
After eating, the pair decided to see their new neighbors; surely there were many other sharpteeth in the valley...
Whiteclaw was more concerned about potential threats to their unborn children... Rutilas was concerned about potential rivals... but he was also interested in finding other females...
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Meanwhile, Doc kept fighting Ateo. The Lone Dinosaur slashed at his face.
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Rutilas and Whiteclaw came upon the fight between Doc and Ateo. Rutilas knew that his mate would not involve herself in such a dangerous fight, but he might, if he thought that he had something to gain from it...
"I think we should back off, my love" Whiteclaw said to her mate.
"Oh, now she's calling me that. What she really loves is a full stomach..." Rutilas thought.
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Ateo roared in pain and staggered back, his hands on the sides of his face. But he only paused momentarily before lunging forward, arms spread out. He landed on Doc, his arms encircled around him as if he were giving him a hug. He dug his claws in deep into Doc's skin while biting onto Doc's shoulder.
The sailed sharptooth was suspicious of Longtail's offer. Just a while ago, this same little flyer had attacked her because he felt she stole his prey. He even tried to claw out her eye, and she wouldn't be surprised if he was successful. And now he's trying to help her?
She narrowed her eyes suspiciously as she slowed down and looked over to see what the flyer was doing. Sure enough, he was trying to distract Redfoot. She wanted to run, but something made her hesitate. Should she turn back to try to help the flyer, or should she just turn around get back to her hatchlings? Her priority was to her chicks, so perhaps she should just turn around get away. But why couldn't she just run?
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"We've already eaten" Whiteclaw told her mate. "There's no need to fight now..."
Rutilas was undecided as to whether or not he should fight.
"I think... If I killed that big one over there, it would give me a big name in the valley... and don't try to tempt me with mating, Whiteclaw; I'm not that easily excited..."
"Would you do something for me then? My back hurts..." She asked him.
She got him. While he was willing to mate with other females behind her back, he still cared enough about Whiteclaw to tend to her needs...
"Alright, fine. I'm guessing it has something to do with our recent trip, right?" Rutilas answered. "Can't it wait, though?"
"My back hurts now, Rutilas." she insisted. "You wanna mate again? Then help me feel better!"
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Doc managed to push Ateo off of him for enough time to recover from the bite.
Using his own claws, he gave Ateo an uppercut.
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"Alright, you made your point. Let's find somewhere for you to lie down. I know the drill, you lie on your stomach..." Rutilas said.
"And YOU walk on my back." Whiteclaw said. "And make it good!"
The mated pair went to find some soft grass for Whiteclaw to rest on. Normally, Rutilas would have complained about this, but he wanted to keep his pregnant mate comfortable... those were his eggs in her after all.
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Sharpteeth were like leafeaters in more ways than most of them thought. Not only did they have the same intelligence and emotions, they also were prone to similar pain, illnesses, and injuries. And, as Whiteclaw demonstrated, they were also susceptible to stress...
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Redfoot swung his tail a second time and caught Longtail in the belly sending him down onto the floor, and he laughed. "Don't you get it kid? No Sharptooth can ever beat us leafeaters...we are stronger than you know...and we can fight together as family instead of enemies like you sharpteeth!"
Longtail coughed and stood. "really...you think that...b-becuase I've been with my friends all my life, and honestly, they are my family!"
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Whiteclaw found some grass and lay down... her mate began walking on her back to soothe her pain immediately. This made her roar with pleasure. He was quite good at this...
"This had better be worth it..."Rutilas thought to himself.
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"Will you shut up?!" Doc yelled in leafeater, temporarily knocking Ateo off to the side, then rushing up and biting Redfoot's side.
Just then...Pterano came down to help Doc!
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Whiteclaw gasped with pleasure after her mate finished her back massage. Her face had a large smile of pleasure on it...
"(pant pant) Glad to see that you (pant pant)... haven't gotten rusty." Whiteclaw said.
"Glad to see that you enjoyed it" Rutilas replied.
Whiteclaw fell asleep, muttering a "thank you" as she began to get her first good night's sleep in over a week.
Rutilas admired her sleeping form, but he decided to check out the rest of the valley. She would still be there when he returned later in the day, he was sure...
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Rutilas came across a waterfall with many other sharpteeth in and nearby it... there were clearly no shortage of potential rivals... and yet... few of them looked like they could match him... there were also some females, but the majority of them weren't of his kind...
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Ty had been about fly out when he noticed Pterano fly in, of course, he always had to beat them to the punch.
Ty darted over to where Longtail was after his tumble, "Thanks, and right now we're proving that by dragging you off for your own good" he stated getting a grip on Longtail and attempting to flap over to safety with him
((not that Longtail's not free to argue back and/or struggle free, Ty's not all that strong ;)))
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Rutilas approached Longtail and the rest. He knew that he was jumping into the middle of something that was happening in the valley, but being a new resident, it concerned him, too.
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"We have to get you away from here!" Littlefoot called to Longtail.
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"Hello. My name is Rutilas. May I ask what is going on here?" the large, green sharptooth said to longtail and the others. He knew that it would be somewhat odd for a large predator like himself to just walk in... but then again, it wasn't like there weren't any predators around here...
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"ohhh...FINE!" cried Longtail as he turned and ran from the fighting. "I hate running away, especially when we're winning!" he muttered loudly to his friends.
Redfoot grinned triumphantly as he watched the sharpteeth turn tail and run away.
"Another disaster fought off...glad to see those silly sharpteeth know not to mess with our home!"
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...and just as he said that, Pterano flew down, swiping Redfoot right in the eye!
Doc followed this up by charging into in and knocking the longneck on his side.
"You'll never win, coward..." he muttered.
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Rutilas saw the sharpteeth run. He decided to follow them... hoping to get some information about what had just happened.
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The sailed sharptooth shook her head, coming back to her senses, before she turned and ran out of the valley, her tail carrying her severed arm. As gruesome as it seemed, her young still needed to eat and her arm did have some meat on it that would suffice the young ones long enough for her to get something else for them to eat.
Ateo's eyes widened as he saw Doc knock Redfoot to the ground. He growled softly. "Oh no you don't..." He rushed towards Doc and leapt onto his back, clawing and biting.
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Whiteclaw woke up, yawned, and stretched her legs, feet, and toes. Rutilas was gone... again. Probably looking for other females... again. She only put up with it because, for all his escapades, he was still protective of her and still cared for her... she had never caught him in the act, after all, but she could smell the scent of other females on him after an unexplained absence...
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"Go on" Ty instructed the others, "I've got to...make sure Pterano actually get's back without getting himself injured or worse". Honestly, he saw what Pterano was attempting but sometimes the stubborn pride was just too much!
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Whiteclaw walked through the water and the grass... she would have gone right back to sleep if her mate was there, watching over her or sleeping with her... now she was pissed... Rutilas was probably checking out some other females, and had probably hoped to be back before she woke... big mistake on his part.
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Redfoot landed on the ground with a thud. He looked up and scowled at Doc as he knew the sharptooth would be trying something stupid. Redfoot then lashed out with his tail hoping to catch the giant sharptooth off guard. "Take that!" he said aloud.
Longtail turned back to face his friends and said,
"You guys need to keep up...I don't wanna have to fight my way out of here!"
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Whiteclaw approached Longtail. "Excuse me" the reddish female sharptooth asked "Have you seen a large, green male of my kind lately? He's my mate and I really need to find him, and soon."
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Doc jumped to avoid Redfoot's tail swipe.
"<They didn't leave because they are cowards,>" Doc said in leafeater, "<They left because they don't want to waste their time fighting a crybaby longneck ike you.>"
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"We're...doing the best...we can" Twiz said as he dodged around tree branches on their run.
Meanwhile, after having grabbed up some of the more edible plants in this Sharptooth Valley she was thankfully able to stay in, Misty spotted through a clearing two female sharpteeth talking together. She wasn't sure if either of them were new, but if they were they probably hadn't heard the announcement and so she quietly turned and rushed back to the nest to huddle near Cira ((I believe was the name we came up for Tria, I kinda forgot))
"Just...making sure if anyone felt like trying anything they'd be reminded I'm with you" she told the adult fast biter with a smile, trying to cover for if she came off as a scared kid, which she deep down was.
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(It is, Kit12, you got it right.)
"Don't worry, the others know you live with us," the mother fast biter assured.
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Whiteclaw found that she had unintentionally stumbled into a fight! But, which side would she help... one of the combatants was named "Longtail..."
Whiteclaw leaped into the fray, fighting on the side of Longtail, hoping to get some answers about what was going on...
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Whiteclaw leaped into the air, and brought her clawed foot down hard!
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"Yeah but I saw a red sharptooth I wasn't sure about if was at the meeting" Misty said, "so I just wanted to make sure incase she saw me and hadn't heard".
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Pterano took another swipe at Redfoot's head when he saw Whiteclaw jump into the fray.
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Whiteclaw slashed Redfoot on his left front leg, drawing lines of blood down his side...
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Pterano sliced Redfoot on the tail.
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Whiteclaw backed off a bit, to catch her breath before charging again...
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As he helped lead the kids home along with the others, Ty couldn't help but notice Pterano wasn't there.
"Oh I hope he's not doing something reckless again..." he said.
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Whiteclaw attacked Redfoot again, trying to go for a killing bite... but failing at it as she tripped on a tree root.
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"It'll be ok," Cira assured Misty.
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Whiteclaw cried for help! She had fallen and Redfoot was still attacking her!
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Misty just nodded, smiling gratefully.
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As they continued on, Ty suddenly heard another noise ring out, a pained cry. "What do you suppose..."he listened again.
"Keep with the kids, I'll check it out Veli (?) said, leaving the group to head that way.
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Rutilas heard his mate cry out in pain and fear, and he also moved to help her... but he was quite a distance away from Whiteclaw...
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Redfoot by this moment in time, was growing tired from his numerous wounds, and was now trying his hardest both to fight off the sharpteeth fighting him and make an escape. "I'm ending this now!" he cried as he raised himself up and using his weight to shake the ground under his foes.
Longtail was flying as fast as he could, and for a moment he stopped as he could still hear the sounds of the fighting in the distance. "I still don't like running away...but let's try to go faster shall we?" he asked as he flapped his wings faster trying to gain some speed.
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"Way ahead of you," Littlefoot agreed, running faster.
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"Yeah" Kit agreed, "that sounds less than pleasant...". She flapped to keep up with the others.
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"So how you been Twiz?" Petrie asked Kit.
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(Wait, did Petrie ask Kit or Twiz a question?)
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(OOC: Whoops, mistyped. He asked Kit.)
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"Fine" Kit said with a smile, "especially now that that's all over" she cast a still somewhat worried look back towards where they had just fled Redfoot.
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"Same here," Cera added.
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(OOC: I love the Sharptooth valley fanfic and it's sequel, I will join, all my characters bios are here: http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...8566.0#lastPost (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=8292.0#lastPost) ).
Sneere crawled out of a whole in the great valley and grined, he had only got there recently and he knew he would find much fruit here, he spoted a nest of eggs or as he called them: fruit, near Cera, he snuck past Cera and quickly grabbed one of the eggs.
"Got the fruit, thay didnt notice a thing," Sneere chuckled in leafeater language thinking non of the sharpteeth would hear him.