Misty grinned up at Pearl, glad to have an allie in this. “Yeah, I’m with Pearl” she quietly said, pointing up at her.
“Him too” she said to Chomper’s father’s point.
Ruby sighed, “Yes…some might try to hurt us, but couldn’t most of us also fight back against Redclaw so much that Redclaw would not be able to fight us?” she wondered, looking around at the adults, “and Chomper is right, some sharp teeth do work together, we would just have to find those oneës that do and get them to help us”.
Misty sighed, “Well…how about we start with being quieter so we don’t get caught and…maybe” she had to admit, defeating Redclaw did sound like an appealing idea…if they could do it.
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“Well, it was almost by accident itself” the swimmer, Aqua replied, “the loose rocks covered a hole, it wasn’t until very far into the fight…when most of us were…gone“, Aqua was almost lost in thought herself as she went on, remembering that day too.
“…that Toot, bleeding and very weak, and Ridge not doing much better, had me backed up behind them and were facing the three fast biters who could now turn their whole attention to us having dealt with the rest of the group…no on was able to kill even one of them, all three were still there…anyway, we backed up and stumbled through a loose part of the ground, forming a hole we fell through. It was really low down, and the fast biters would probably have just followed us in but the rocks caved and covered the hole, making sure they couldn’t. We rested there a bit and then were able to find our way out again. We’ve been taking care of each other ever since”.
Cree’s eyes were wide as the swimmer, Aqua, finished her story. “That’s what I call luck” he breathed.
Aqua was trying to answer Pterano’s last question though, and this time she did frown, “Then why didn’t you stay, try to help us out?” she asked. She sighed, “That’s what Toot kept mumbling about, you just left us, if you’d really wanted to be good at leading you wouldn’t have…he said” she finished.
Cree had been looking between the swimmer and his brother and now voiced an idea he had. “You know…this might be a good second chance op” he told Cree, “I mean if we could convince Toot and Ridge to go along with it, and if we helped you out in avoiding Redclaw…well it’s bound to look good”.
Aqua frowned, thinking, “I don’t know…”.
Cree couldn’t believe he was saying this, but continued, “You would not believe how this guy’s grown” he thumbed behind him at Pterano, “I mean, he could probably lead you and do it right this time” he said, “and then…well like I said it’s bound to look good and sort of make up for before”.
Aqua’s gaze seemed fixed on Ptearno, “Well…I do belive in second chances…but…we’d have to convince Toot” he said, “and that could take some doing”.
