Torgo proceeded to limp down the slopes, he had stood there momentarily pondering how he had got up there in the first place, and the vision he had still held him in shock. Who was this strange new spirit that saved his life? and Why?
One thing was now for certain, he was under the protection of this 'valley spirit' or 'Valley Guardian'
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Blackclaw lead the long line of his fellow fastbiters down a trail, off in the distant south loomed the great walls that protected the valley.
Blackclaw, though not himself but now the living capsule that embodied the twisted spirit of Maganog held the fastbiters under a strange spell. They each had no choice but to follow him. To do his bidding. It was just as it was back in the day that Maganog was still alive. A lord over all Sharpteeth and others of their kind who were near enough to fall under his powers, he held the power of the Etheras Crystal from within him, the power to form armies and conjure them at his own will.
--Story Notes: The Etheras Stone----------------------------------
The Etheras Stone was a fragment of a meteor (or fallen rock as it was normally called in this time). And it was said to hold a power that enveloped those who possessed it. It was split in two when the fallen rock had impacted the earth nearly a hundred season cycles ago. One piece hit the sharptooth hatchling (Named Tinytooth long before his eternal title of Maganog) and lodged itself within him. And as he grew the stone within him became apart of him, and gave him an unnatural long life, and knowledge far beyond his time and age. The second fragment was discovered several times and those who carried it also obtained knowledge that they should had never had, and eventually was hidden away over time in hopes that it would never come into possession by another and that it may be forgotten.
Years later, a Duckbill by the name of Ellith (Syrius's uncle) was being chased by a group of hungry fastbiters, when he fell into a large pit and found himself in a massive cavern. It was here that he had found a secret chamber, possessing the mythical stone.
He would later find out about the stone and would be sent on his way, his nephew, Syrius and a few other party members (three rainbowfaces, a flyer and a black threehorn) to the Aldar Crater (or the Round Valley of Shadows as some called it (also the crater where the meteor had impacted) where the stone was to be destroyed. Ellith would succeed in this journey, but the journey would also claim his own life as he faced and fought the greed driven fastbiter Argon (Kragoth's father) who sought the stone for power over his own kind. Both Argon and Ellith would ultimately die in this battle and the stone itself would be destroyed along with them.
The stone, while it was kept undamaged and hidden away all those years after its split from its brother (the other fragment that was lodged within Maganog) kept the full power of the Etheras Stone active, and it made Maganog indestructible and nearly immortal. While both stones existed on the earth, the full power remained. And when Ellith destroyed the second fragment, half the power was destroyed and Maganog was no longer invulnerable. He would eventually storm the valley after the stone's destruction and there, finally be defeated by the longneck of legend (ironically labeled as the Lone Dinosaur in the films, but in my version here, he bears many titles including that of the Lone Dinosaur). Maganog would flee the valley and eventually fall to his death as the last fragment burned within him, its power faltered by its brother's destruction, and in its longing attempt to communicate to its deceased partner it would destroy itself and Maganog with it.
Thus ends the story of the Etheras Stone. Though the spirit of Maganog after a hundred years of life, he was able to keep his knowledge obtained from the crystals and his spirit remained strong and ever so wrathful. He would also eventually become a lord of Nightmares.
I am the mender of shadows
When you are asleep, I will break you.
I will reveal to you the creatures of the dark.
They will bite. They will tear. They will feast upon your flesh.
They will destroy your will to live.
I am Maganog. The Lord of nightmares.
Behold my wrath is upon you.
And you are now mine to posses and control.
Until the end of your days.
And your spirit, I shall soon consume.
And forever, shall you be tormented within me.
So mot it be. - Maganog
Author's Note: This entire story is being written in a full fanfiction manuscript serving as a prequel predating the stories of Littlefoot and his friends. In fact, the story of Ellith and Syrius's journey to destroy the stone would take place at the time that Littlefoot's grandfather was merely the age of Littlefoot himself, though even he himself has no part of this story. This story serves also as my version of the Lone Dinosaur story, that Littlefoot's grandfather told the gang in one of the sequels (the sequel number eludes me right now, I'd need to look it up, but I'm strained for time, so I'll just leave it to the sequel pros to figure it out =) )
--End Notes----------------------------------------------
(continuing the story)
The fastbiters little knew of the curse that had befallen them, they understood not what drove them to follow Blackclaw, nor did they understand what had happened to him to make him the way he was now. He was much more intimidating. And those who looked upon him did not see him as he was before. It appeared as if he was not even Blackclaw, son of Kragoth. His features were changing, and his old spirit broken and almost diminished.
He soon turned to the following fastbiters as they came into clear view of the great walls
"Here is the land that we seek. Beyond those walls of stone. They will not hold us back. We shall prevail through them, and the valley of peace shall soon be the valley of bloodshed and tears. Mark my words, my dear servants. Our kind will dominate these lands, and the souls that exists beyond those walls shall soon be mine."
