Aquarius almost jumped when he heard the terrifying roar. There was no doubt that it was a Sharptooth, a big one at that and by the sound of it a very angry one. However that's not what frightened Aquarius, it was the fact that the sound came from just outside the cave. The thought that a Sharptooth would have entered the cave had it not been for the rock slide was a terrifying one indeed to the young Swimmer. All of a sudden he didn't feel to keen on finding a way out but he knew he couldn't stay in the cave forever. So with an almighty huff he forced himself onto his legs which trebled under his weight but held and followed Rinen into the dark with a quiet whimper. "Why did all this happen to me?" lamented the young Swimmer inwardly as he trundled deeper into the cave.

A sickening feeling of dread came over the wounded Swimmer when he felt the whole cave rumble. In that moment he felt cursed to be followed by misfortune, he's already lost his family to the Great Wave and now when he was drained and injured the cave was starting to collapse and after a run in with a rather irate Threehorn. Said Threehorn was about to walk out into the storm when the rumbling started and ran back inside and through yelling for him to run which would have surprised Aquarius had it not been for the impending life or death situation that he found himself in. Aquarius gave a gasp as he forced himself quickly to his feet as pain racked through his body and he instinctively recoiled and gripped his side where the stab wound was. A large rock, over three times his size fell down right next to him and the Threehorn was already running deep into the cave which was there only hope of survival. Aquarius rushed forward but remembered the spring. It had food which they might need in the near future, without regarding the imminent danger he was in Aquarius ran back towards the spring as fast as he's sore legs which he ignored through sheer will power as fast as they could go.

Large rocks fell all around him and he heard the Threehorn call something but Aquarius continued through the mine field of rocks, his body was pummelled with small pebbles which only added to his pain but he pushed on to the spring and grabbed all the last tree stars and took one last gulp of water and ran back in the cave but at this point in time the entire ceiling was caving in rapidly from the entrance, sending huge rocks that where larger then the Threehorn down. Aquarius was breathing unsteadily and his vision was blurred with tears from all the pain and dust but he ran blindly on. However his body took to much pummelling and a large rock fell on his tail and tripping him just as the ceiling collapsed above him. Aquarius closed his eyes tightly but instead nothing happened. He heard the crash but there was no new pain. He opened his eyes and vaguely saw that the rock above was held up by large rocks on the side. Breathing a sigh of relief he began crawling his way through the debris and deeper into the cave, hoping that the rocks would clear soon and that none would collapse on him.

Aquarius saw the Threehorn raise his tail in an obvious preparation for a strike and he assumed that it wasn't going to be a soft blow but he was not willing to let that happen. Aquarius may have been wounded but he could still push himself up and judging by the relaxed stance this stupid Threehorn was making he was sure that a 'wounded, helpless hatchling' was no threat whatsoever.

Well, he had made a terrible mistake.


"Never underestimate your opponent" said Aquarius inwardly. He had heard many great tales and legends from his kinds past and he often recited them and now he could see how useful they were. A stone was not much but if it was used correctly it was deadly and that's exactly what he intended to use it for.

His body tensed as the tail swung down, leaving the Threehorn's flank and rear exposed with his head turned slightly away. Perfect. Aquarius closed his eyes and despite all the pain that his beaten body was feeling at that exact moment he jumped forward, just before the tail could come down and landed on all fours beneath the arrogant Threehorn.

Aqaurius wasted no time in running over to the neck of the Threehorn from underneath. He had no intention to hurt him but rather to humble him as he held the sharp end of the rock to his throat. In a dramatic turn of tables The Threehorn was now at his mercy, he could kill him if he wanted to and there was nothing that could be done to stop him. He held the stone firmly to the skin of the neck so The Threehorn would know his situation and said firmly:

"Not so tough now! I don't want this, stop calling me names and I won't do anything to you in return and as for my story I don't care of you believe it but it won't change me view on things. So just please leave me alone!" Aquarius shouted out the last part and pulled the rock away from the shocked Threehorn and walked a couple of paces till he was out in the open then promptly fell to the ground with the terrible pain that he no longer needed to keep at bay, his back to the Threehorn as he crawled away to the cave wall slowly and in agonising pain.

Happy Starday Ducky . Finally 21 hope the day goes well for you mate.

Aquarius's patience was rapidly wearing thin but despite that he still tried to maintain a calm composure but he found that was way to difficult, he felt to much emotions to be calm. He still felt anger and betrayal when he looked at the Threehorn but he also felt pain, sadness, loss and humiliation from looking at his injury's or even think about why he was here. There was no way that Threehorn could understand what potentially loosing the entirety of his family was like.

Aquarius grimaced at the Threehorn's next statement. "He called me a flipping hatchling, who does he think he is?" Aquarius raged inwardly. He my be young but he did not think of himself as a hatchling when he had been through so much and he vocally challenged this "I am not a hatchling chubby and I'm not sure if you've been living in another cave but The Great Wave is what happened to me!"

However Aqaurius gave a loud moan as his the small wound on his front tinged with stinging pain and he held onto it tightly, in a curled, trembling ball. However despite this he was not going to let himself show weakness by crying in the presence of this ignorant Threehorn. His pain soon subsided back to a tolerable level and he simply lay on the ground in utter exhaustion.

Aquarius grumbled angrily to himself. This was the last dinosaur he wanted the unfortunate luck of running into, still it was better then a Sharptooth and if that Threehorn was not willing to cause any trouble then he would live with that. Aquarius couldn't help but wonder what had befallen the Threehorn, cause he looked simply exhausted, in both senses mentally and physically. "Fine," sighed Aquarius in defeat, letting his brave face fall "but stay away from me" he added quietly but in a tone that reeked of anger. He shuffled slightly away to the cave wall opposite the Threehorn.

I was not aware that the tsunami started at the ocean. The only way you'd get a big tsunami or in this case a mega tsunami is to have a lock slide in which large rocks for into water. An earthquake would can make large tsunami's (5-10m) but not large enough to threaten most dinosaurs so a mega tsunami that is over the 100m mark in height is probably the only way to get that scale of effect and they are only caused by huge water displacement from falling objects (eg. rocks falling in water, meteorites).

The tsunami I caused by a rockslide that happened during one huge earthquake, that's what I understand it to be.

I believe our original starting points are on the map if we want to try Sovereigns idea. As I said before my post was probably the confusing starter because I forgot that we were supposed to start at the oasis however since the RP has gone the direction it has here is what I make of it.

Ducky is at the oasis.

Fyn is near the oasis.

Jorrdy starts close to the oasis.

I don't know where Rhombus is but that means the he could position Buko near the oasis.

And me and Sovereign have just entered the cave together which is further away from the oasis. So we could still potentially do a meet up of one group there while Aquarius and Rinen travel there. This scenario would mean that the Great Wave has only just hit unless we decide to make the previous posts as full on flashbacks while for the others not affected by the wave they would probably already be converging on the oasis. I don't know about Darkwolf though as she has posted yet.

Aquarius looked about the forest, it was almost as dead as the word implied. Very little food grew on the trees and at any level of height food was scarce. Aquarius worried that if worse came to worse then he might have to climb to the top branches just to get a decent meal. The young Swimmer was covered in scars from many old wounds and he walked in a very closed, withdrawn fashion with the last dinosaur he expected; A threehorn. However that was not important right now what was important was getting food for his small starving form but seeing that the largest amount of food had other children trying to sink there teeth into his food, he would have to get rough if he wanted a meal.

Aqaurius sighed as he reflected on how he came to this situation in the first place:


Terrible pain and exhaustion; they had become the new companions of Aquarius, the young albino Swimmer had a light aqua blue on his underbelly and two golden lines going parallel up his back from tail to neck but none of his usual colouration could be easily seen beneath his battered and bloodied form as he lay inertly at the wall of a cave that he had been lucky to find. Yet even all the blood couldn't hide the two scars; one on his shoulder and the other on his back, it was like they were mocking him somehow.

Aqaurius let out a miserable groan of pain. Here he was inside a deep dark hole in a hill, the interior was covered in stone teeth and the dark interior was not very inviting to anyone however the thing that gave Aquarius hope in this cave was the spring and a ground star plant with perhaps a dozen treestars on it. "If this is lucky, then I don't want to know what unlucky is" thought Aquarius. The once strong child was now as good as broken and at the mercy of the wild until he recovered somewhat from his own injuries. At present Aquarius had grazes all over his body including his back, flank, chest, tail and head but they were the least of his worries. On the right side of his head was a bloody gash on the side that occasional leaked blood into his eyes and he had another long gash on the left side of his back and a small horizontal gash on the front of his left leg which prevented him from walking far without experiencing pain. But all these injuries paled into utter insignificance when compared to the small hole in his lower abdomen where a pointed rock had gone through and just missing his right kidney...or that's what Aquarius hoped anyway.

"Why did all this have to happen?" asked Aqaurius painfully as if he expected the darkness to answer but like all the other times he asked, only the echo of his voice stating the very question he just asked greeted his ears. Aquarius cursed, he had lived a good but short life despite the harshness of the drought and despite being the only one of his clutch of eggs to survive, his parents became so paranoid about protecting his egg that they didn't let his egg out of their grasp till he eventually hatched on the palm of his mother's hand. His three younger siblings were luckier, most of the eggs survived but of the infants perished mainly due to egg stealers and predatory flyers, creatures that Aquarius loathed just as much has he did Threehorns. After the plank that those two heartless Threehorn girls pulled on him that nearly cost him his life and gave him his scars he became rather loathsome of Threehorns and distrustful of everything else that didn't swim naturally like his kind. Ironically the flash flood that saved him from the mud and the starving Fast Biter was the thing that gave him his scars, it would have been worse if he wasn't a natural talent at manoeuvring though, if he wasn't then he might not have survived the flood.

However, the life Aquarius knew had all been taken away from him barely a day ago and now here he was, lost and alone with no idea of what to do. It all started with a rumble that quickly got louder, the ground shook so violently that he could barely stand but thankfully the earthshake was to far away to be a threat or so he, his family and his herd thought. It was what happened after that really sent his life to hell. A large rockslide falling into the large lake that his herd were currently nesting by created a wave unlike anything he had ever seen, a wave over a hundred metres in height and thundering towards them at a terrifying pace. Aquarius closed his eyes and saw it all again.


RUN!

Everyone was running as fast as they could away from the monster wave that was engulfing everything in its path. Aquarius found himself hoisted into his mother's arms as she ran while his father held his younger siblings they both ran together but there was simply no escape they only had seconds remaining and Aquarius would never forget the terror that he felt and saw in his mother's face but all of a sudden the family stopped and Aquarius was nuzzled one last time by his mother. "Swim as best as you can my brave Aquarius" Those were her last words to him because his mother suddenly threw him into the air as high as she could in the hopes that she could get her son onto the top of the wave. His father didn't have the time to do the same with his siblings. Aqaurius watched as his family was washed away a second before he saw blue.    


His mother had probably saved him as her throw was just enough to get him into the higher part of the wave and he was lucky to break the surface a couple of times but was always pulled under again. Eventually all the water fell as the wave arrived at the crack created by the earthshake. Aquarius barely cleared the edge of that giant crack, drinking up water like a giant maw and was sent tumbling down a rocky hill till he eventually stopped and lay in a bloody heap.

Aquarius had since found refuge in the cave he was now in which was close by and used six of the tree stars as makeshift bandages on his more serious wounds but now that he was alone he allowed himself to cry because unless he was very much mistaken, he had just lost his whole family in one awful moment that refused to leave his memory. Everything he knew was now gone and he was alone, why did life have to be so cruel? His sobbing eventually died down and he lay back, too exhausted to do anything else but rest and hopefully recover.


Aqaurius blinked and returned to the moment, he wished he still had his family back but as he saw Rinen; the Threehorn move to the children for food he couldn't help but remember how they wound up together...