Prologue
Things had been going bad for months now. The once fertile land was a dusty wasteland, where plants rarely grew, and water scarce. This had caused dozens of herds to leave the area, and the few that remained only did to hatch their young.
For one mother, this was a particularly sad season. All but 1 of her eggs had been stolen by eggstealers, and she had lost her father, the last remaining member of her family aside from her mate, to a sharptooth just days earlier. "Telia, are you alright?" Came the voice of her mate, and leader of the herd, Dac.
"Yes." She replied. "I'm sorry about Leron, he..." Dac began. "I know, its just..." She started as tears left her eyes. "I know." Dac answered as he let his mate cry on his shoulder.
Suddenly, the herd members started screaming, and a loud roar was heard. "Sharpteeth! They're after the children!" Yelled one of the herd members. "Everyone, get behind me!" Dac ordered as he charged to face the sharpteeth.
"Dac! Let me..." Telia cried as she tried to follow him. "Go! The herd needs a leader, and your hatchling needs a mother! I'll deal with the sharpteeth!" Dac replied as he charged at two sharpteeth.
One was a dark green color, with two red eyes, and a lighter underbelly, while the other was smaller, with grey skin, yellow eyes, and a golden underbelly. The larger of the two was the dark one, and both were males. "Stay away from my herd!" Dac yelled as he slammed his powerful tale into the smalller one.
His comrade immediatley attacked, and caught Dac off guard, grabbing his leg and biting hard. "AAAAHH!" Dac cried as the sharptooth applied more pressure. Telia saw this as her time to act, and rammed her tail into the sharptooth. This time it hit directly in the head momentarily stunning the sharptooth.
Telia and Dac stood together, but the other sharptooth had gotten up, and closed in on Telia, while his brother stalked towards Dac. Suddenly, unseen by the two, two large females ran at the longnecks, knocking down Telia and stunning Dac.
Dac prepared to defend his mate when the larger male leapt into the air, and jumped on his back, beginning to rip into him, but Dac would have none of it, and swung his back into the air, throwing the sharptooth off, who landed on the ground and began to get up.
To avenge her mate, the smaller of the two females charged at him, but Dac reared on his hind legs, and crushed her. This earned a roar of anger and shock from the other sharpteeth, and the male who he threw off. In a vicious charge, he ran at him, and bit deep into his leg, on the upper thigh.
Suddenly, a boulder slammed into the last female, crushing her. This angered the males even more, and the grey one charged at Telia, who had used that to crush the last female. But the rest of the herd attacked in a united front driving off the sharpteeth, and one longneck hitting a small, but sharp rock at the grey sharptooth, slashing him in the face, and another, larger one slashing into his head. This knocked the sharptooth out cold.
The last male, who was trying to revive his dead mate turned his head to face the herd, which stood protectively between their leader and the sharptooth. The sharptooth growled viciously, but stalked off, now with a hatred of longnecks in its head.
Following this, Dac managed to get up, and Telia ran to him, nuzzling him ecstatically. "Are you alright?" She asked, fearing for her mate's safety. "Yes Telia, I'm fine, atleast the damned sharptooth left." Dac said.
Telia nodded. They would wait a few more days until the last egg hatched, but one night, a second egg mysteriously appeared in Telia's nest. No one had any idea where it came from, or how it got there, but Telia still decided to adopt whatever was in the egg, as a mother to be, she would not abandon another egg to its fate.
The hatching day came, and Telia's was the last to hatch. The first one, Telia's blood child, was a male, who she named Al, and inherited his father's Turquoise skin tone. The second was a shock. The second was a baby sharptooth, light green in color, with blue eyes, and a yellow underbelly.
"What is that?!" Dac exclaimed when he saw the second hatchling. "A sharptooth, its a threat to us and the children! Lets get rid of it!" Another longneck yelled. Telia was conflicted, she was wary about adopting a baby sharptooth, but something about it told her to.
"Wait! I'm...going to take care of it." Telia announced. This hushed the croud, who were in shock. Why would a longneck take care of something that might someday eat it? Was a killer? It was absurd! "Telia...Why?" Dac asked, shocked at his mate's decision.
"She, something about her just tells me to do it. We could take care of her, teach her to be friendly, to eat crawlers and silver swimmers." Telia answered, her motherly instincts toward the sharptooth increasing. "How do we know she'll still not betray us?" Dac asked, mistrust written on his face.
"Would you betray your mother?" Telia asked. Dac thought for a moment, he wouldn't but what if this sharptooth found out about her heritage, and embraced it? Hopefully it wouldn't come to that.
"She's your responsibily." Dac said. "Dac I know she'll make a good daughter." Telia replied. "I said she could stay! That doesn't make her my daughter!" He said as he walked off. Telia sighed as the herd disbanded, and turned her attention to the two babies in her nest, who were trying to play with eachother.
"It's okay little one, he'll grow on you." Telia said as she nuzzled both her babies. When the baby female sharptooth licked her back, she felt as if it was her own daughter. "Tyranna. My little sharptooth." Telia thought.
End of prologue, tell me what you think, should I continue, or just abandon it?
