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The Hunting Game

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It was a bright and sunny day out in the Great Valley. Perfect for some playtime with the kids, Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, and Ruby decided to go relax in the mud pool. While Ducky thought of a new game to play with Petrie and Chomper. She explained that Chomper would try to hunt them. If he catches them, they would end up being his "dinner" which just meant that they'd be tickled by him, and they got permission for Chomper to keep them captive longer than a day. Right now Ducky was running across a big grassy field with Petrie flying beside her on the right. Chomper was running in hot pursuit of them.

"Go on Petrie, it is too late for me." Ducky expressed playfully.

"No Ducky, Petrie will save you!" Petrie smiled bravely.

Chomper was getting closer with each passing second and had a victorious smirk on his face as he chased the smaller dinosaur. Petrie glanced around the area and couldn't see anything to the right but did see Ducky's lake coming up. The young flyer let out a brave sigh and picked up Ducky by the arms. Then threw the swimmer towards the lake, after Ducky had fallen below the water. Petrie landed on the ground, and turned around putting his hands up above his head in surrender. Chomper came to a stop upon seeing this.

"Petrie surrender, do your worstest to me." Petrie declared bravely.

"O-oh that is so c-, I mean. You are a brave one little flyer, I shall make this quick." Chomper grinned.

"N-not to quick me hope."

Of course all three of them really enjoyed being tickled which was why they made that a condition for being caught by Chomper in the first place. Petrie was picked up by his ankles so he was dangling upside down, and then Chomper began to walk away with him swaying in his right hand. Ducky surfaced back up above the water after about thirty minutes, mostly so the swimmer took sweet time in trying to "rescue" him.

She got up out of the water, and could hear Petrie's laughter not too far away from where she was. She followed it over to four boulders making up a square. She got behind one and saw Petrie now laying on a pile of leaves belly up, vines tying his wrists and ankles together to two separate boulders on an angle. One at the top right corner of this square shape, and the other secured to the boulder near the bottom corner. Chomper's tongue slurped on the grey belly making it ripple in place and getting adorably high squeals out of him. His laughter was loud and frantic as he pulled in the vines.

"PEEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHEHEHEHTRIE NO TASTE GOOHOHOHOHOHOHOD!"  Petrie pleaded cutely.

"Oh I beg to differ, good thing your not captured by a mean sharptooth." Chomper teased happily.

His tongue's tip swirled around in a circle on the grey belly, it quivered and bounced from the feeling of it. This tongue soon found it's way down to the center of his belly. Wiggling rapidly against it and making him squeal louder with his laughter's high frantic pitch rising higher. His back arched up out of reflex which only made the tongue's target push further into it. Chomper's claws began to scribble along it too now.

They Skittered rapidly against the skin making that adorable laughter shoot up higher and his body writhing side to side on the leaves. It was very cute to watch with Ducky and Chomper unable to keep their eyes off the quivering grey belly. Chomper's tongue tip began to lick up and down in a straight line from the top to his waist, going over that center every time. This new trick caused his squeals to turn to high pitched shrieks and made his back arch further up.

"NNOOOHOHOOHOHOHOH MOHOHOHOHOHOHORE PLEHEHEHEHEHASE CHOMPER!" Petrie begged happily.

"Sorry, but Sharptooth's make sure to enjoy every last bit of their meal." Chomper grinned.

Despite begging for mercy, Petrie didn't actually want it to stop. This was really more of a reflex from being tickled so hard, all of their friends had it really. The only time the begging should actually be taken seriously is when the word stop is uttered. Once it is the tickler has to oblige and possibly prepare to let the captive go too. Though most of the time this rarely came up when they play a tickle game. After going for a full hour, Chomper finally pulled away from Petrie's belly. He laid still on the green leaves panting in a heavy manner with his belly rising and falling adorably slow as a result of these deep breathes.

"Now, I think more flower pollen is needed." Chomper grinned.

Chomper plucked a yellow flower from the field, these were spread across every inch of it. He began to shake it over Petrie's belly, making yellow pollen fall from them and land on it getting it to jolt cutely from the feel. Some fall over his nose which caused him to sneeze adorably. He adorably rolled side to side to avoid the pollen, but it just kept falling onto his belly. The only mercy he got was Chomper sniffing the air, and picking up Ducky's smell. The flower pulled away making him give out a cute sigh of relief.

"Seems Ducky will be joining us sooner than expected." Chomper teased playfully.

"N-no y-you l-leave Ducky alOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHONE NO NO ME SOOHOHOHHOHOHOOHRRY!" Petrie pleaded cutely.

Chomper had let the flower brush up and down on the grey belly to get him laughing adorably once again. The sharptooth had it slide along the sensitive skin for about three minutes. Amused as it shook cutely from the soft flower, Chomper pulled it away and allowed him to continue his break. Panting once more as his eyes were half drooped from exhaustion. Ducky was behind the bottom corner boulder starting to untie the vines holding his legs. Then Chomper walked up behind the swimmer.

"Oooh should've started untying him sooner." Chomper grinned victoriously.

Ducky's eyes widened as her hands stopped, she glanced behind her right shoulder to see Chomper staring at her with both arms crossed. She gives a cute and playful gulp before turning around to the sharptooth. Raising her hands up high above her head in surrender. Chomper simply chuckled and poked a claw onto her white belly, getting an adorable laugh out of her as she realized she was in big trouble.

To be continued.





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First of all, it is always a great pleasure to see new people try their hand at creative writing and the first stories are usually what you one would call mediocre at best. But that is why there are people who take the time to read and offer their opinion about it to help the author improve, which is what I do to the best of my ability with not only just new writers, but also new ones, like yourself. There’s only so much a person can accomplish on their first try, and I like to say that failure is the best teaching method there is.

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Perfect for some playtime with the kids, Littlefoot, Cera, Spike, and Ruby decided to go relax in the mud pool. While Ducky thought of a new game to play with Petrie and Chomper.

This sentence might seem correct at first glance, but with a little editing it can be transformed into functioning one. I would personally go with something like this; ''It was the perfect time for some quality playtime with friends. Littlefoot, Cera, Spike and Ruby all decided they'd rather go relax in the mud pool than join the rest of their friends on this day. Meanwhile, Ducky had thought of a new game to try out with Petrie and Chomper.''

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She explained that Chomper would try to hunt them. If he catches them, they would end up being his "dinner" which just meant that they'd be tickled by him, and they got permission for Chomper to keep them captive longer than a day.

Same thing here. Using commas instead of dots can improve the text to make it sound better to a reader as they will not be so focused on grammatical errors. As a writer, one should always capture the reader's attention quite early on, so the first few sentences will be the most important ones ever.

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Petrie surrender, do your worstest to me."

This was something I paid close attention to, as this doesn't quite fit in with Petrie's characterization. I feel that you may have mixed up Petrie and Ducky's characterization. It is not a big problem overall, but paying extra close attention to these small details can remedy the situation a lot.

I am aware that my comments could have possibly made you a bit sad or disappointed in your efforts to make a good story, and I am certainly not saying anything in a negative manner, but sometimes there comes a time for each person to write as good feedback as they can where they point out all the things that caught their eye in which the author can improve next time.

Also, there are most likely a ton more things I could lecture you about, but I'm going to offer the others a chance to make their feedback as effective as possible. If there are two more things I must point out, it is that most people don't usually like short chapters that much without an impact, which was totally missing from this story as it didn't pull the reader into it enough so. The other thing is your use of ''to be continued'' at the end of the page, and that's generally something I'm not very much into as it doesn't exactly serve a purpose in the long run.

Despite these comments, I hope my feedback was appreciated and taken into account as I like to always express my belief in new writers that struggle at the start that they will improve if they are ready to improve. I probably wouldn't be in the situation that I'm currently in if people didn't offer feedback to my stories and I guarantee that there are many here who will offer insightful feedback on all stories.  :)

EDIT: I also totally forgot to inform you of the fact that mulling over stories shouldn't be rushed as that usually leads to bad circumstances. The idea behind this story, like I said earlier, didn't offer very much to the reader and it was just too silly to take seriously. This is nothing that a little planning in the future wouldn't fix, however, so don't give up!
« Last Edit: September 27, 2019, 10:10:20 AM by Anagnos »




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Hello! It's nice to see someone try their hand at writing in the LBT universe.

It's interesting to see another 'Gang just having fun' stories. Slice-of-life isn't tackled as much now as compared to the past, and honestly... this is probably the first time I've seen Chomper in this conniving role. Usually Cera would throw a fit or Ruby and Littlefoot would put a stop to it, but they aren't here. :thinking

My biggest improvement I'll advise would be the age-old adage, a trap new authors tend to fall into: show, don't tell! https://thewritepractice.com/show-dont-tell/
The jist of this is that most of what the characters are thinking and the reason behind their actions are outright stated, but it would be better for a reader to garner why they act this way from context and behavioural clues in the prose. It's definitely a paradigm shift to get used to at first, but the quality of writing will increase tenfold when one masters it.


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Petrie surrender, do your worstest to me."

This was something I also paid close attention to, as this doesn't quite fit in with Petrie's characterization. I feel that you may have mixed up Petrie and Ducky's characterization. It is not a big problem overall, but paying extra close attention to these small details can remedy the situation a lot.
This caught my eye too! I get that Petrie wants to get caught, but in my mind I picture Petrie pleading more or at least playing hard to get... from what we know in the films, he's usually adamantly trying to be brave (or try, at least). And since he's a flyer, he isn't trapped by Chomper just because he can't swim: he can fly over him. :p Submitting when cornered sounds more like something Ducky would do, especially since the repetition of the -est suffix in 'worst-est' sounds more like Ducky's verbal tic.

There are more things I can mention like adverbs, structure, and run-on statements, but I'll conclude by saying that while the idea is an idiosyncratic one, the execution can definitely be better. I'll say that the way Chomper catches Ducky out is true to character, but I didn't realize what she was doing until she was caught. Don't take anything to heart, but I hope that this concrit will help you in the long run!
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Okay I read your story since it's short before reading everything else I've been meaning to. First off, I have a few questions.

1. I don't understand the purpose of this story. I'm no stranger to Slice-of-Life stories and I thoroughly enjoy the genre both in writing and animation, however there are a few crucial criteria to make a SoL story work. This whole setup just confuses me and it screams "why?" at me. Please enlighten me because I have a serious feeling this is just gonna be some tickle fetish crap and that just doesn't work for me (please confirm, I might continue reading if it isn't)

2. Have you written much fanfiction before or are you a beginner?

3. Do you want serious feedback which includes criticism and suggestions?

I'll write my review once I get an answer.
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I must second the others’ concerns. I’d also like to welcome you to the world of LBT fanfics but this chapter wasn’t the strongest one I’ve seen. While some of the dialogue was actually very decent and the characters were handled rather well, the problems were quite severe I must say. First of all, it would be a good idea to dwell into the characters’ thoughts instead of just stating the tone they are speaking in. The ability to explore a character’s mind is one of the main benefits of a literary work after all.

Also, Ducky123 mentioned a very good point. Thus far, this story serves no purpose as showing three members of the Gang playing offers no real suspense nor warmth to it. Of course, a story can begin in a quiet note as well but even the first chapter often hints to some degree about what’s to come. Thus far, we’ve received none of it which isn’t an ideal beginning to any kind of story. That coupled with many spelling mistakes and lacking sentence structures was rather bothering.

That being said, it’ll be interesting to see what you’ll do next. The plot can go to any direction from this point and there is still a chance it might turn well. Just try to get some substance to this story and you’ll get to the right path before long. Anyway, I hope you’ll stay longer as it’d be great to have another author on GoF.




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Hello! It's nice to see someone try their hand at writing in the LBT universe.

It's interesting to see another 'Gang just having fun' stories. Slice-of-life isn't tackled as much now as compared to the past, and honestly... this is probably the first time I've seen Chomper in this conniving role. Usually Cera would throw a fit or Ruby and Littlefoot would put a stop to it, but they aren't here. :thinking

My biggest improvement I'll advise would be the age-old adage, a trap new authors tend to fall into: show, don't tell! https://thewritepractice.com/show-dont-tell/
The jist of this is that most of what the characters are thinking and the reason behind their actions are outright stated, but it would be better for a reader to garner why they act this way from context and behavioural clues in the prose. It's definitely a paradigm shift to get used to at first, but the quality of writing will increase tenfold when one masters it.


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Petrie surrender, do your worstest to me."

This was something I also paid close attention to, as this doesn't quite fit in with Petrie's characterization. I feel that you may have mixed up Petrie and Ducky's characterization. It is not a big problem overall, but paying extra close attention to these small details can remedy the situation a lot.
This caught my eye too! I get that Petrie wants to get caught, but in my mind I picture Petrie pleading more or at least playing hard to get... from what we know in the films, he's usually adamantly trying to be brave (or try, at least). And since he's a flyer, he isn't trapped by Chomper just because he can't swim: he can fly over him. :p Submitting when cornered sounds more like something Ducky would do, especially since the repetition of the -est suffix in 'worst-est' sounds more like Ducky's verbal tic.

There are more things I can mention like adverbs, structure, and run-on statements, but I'll conclude by saying that while the idea is an idiosyncratic one, the execution can definitely be better. I'll say that the way Chomper catches Ducky out is true to character, but I didn't realize what she was doing until she was caught. Don't take anything to heart, but I hope that this concrit will help you in the long run!

Well my thought was that Petrie knows this is a game and thus more relaxed knowing he's not in real danger. I also know he tends to make those same type of wording mistakes like Ducky. I don't think he does it as much though. I'm going to admit I'm not a perfect writer and I make grammar mistakes. I know I do them but I don't know how to fix it. This was just meant to be a fun playful story and I love seeing cute characters get tickled. If I get all caught up with the grammar and stuff it just sucks the fun out of it for me. I know that's important to some, but for me it's not nearly as important as the story itself and whether you find it enjoyable or not.

I could say the same for Chomper that he's only pretending and he's pretended to be an actual mean sharptooth before too. I know my favorite characters here. Also this one story is just supposed to be harmless fun, I didn't want to do a real serious story for my first one here. I wanted to see if people would actually read my stuff first. I'm breaking it up into parts only because I don't know if I can save what I've written here.

But this story is also to let people know, I do use tickling and I will use it in serious stories too. That's one of the tools I like to use as a writer and I don't plan to get rid of it.
« Last Edit: September 27, 2019, 04:22:48 PM by Cloud5001 »


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I'm not reading any tickle stories sorry. It's one of the more harmless fetishes out there but I'm just not interested sorry. Your writing style and storytelling also hasn't convinced me.

I'm just being honest with you, don't take anything personal :^^spike
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I'm not reading any tickle stories sorry. It's one of the more harmless fetishes out there but I'm just not interested sorry. Your writing style and storytelling also hasn't convinced me.

I'm just being honest with you, don't take anything personal :^^spike

and that's fine, see when you write your reply's like that people are more inclined to listen. I do have ideas for some more serious stories but I just wanted to have fun here first. with a cute innoncent story Writing a tickle story is just the best way I know how to do that when it comes to writing, plus as a kid I've just always wanted to see these characters get tickled more. I just think it's cute.

As I said tickling isn't all I know how to do, it just happens to be one of my favorite things to write about.


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Writing other types of stories would be a good idea. Personally I'm no fan of tickling stories. I find them to be a bit unsettling.


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Writing other types of stories would be a good idea. Personally I'm no fan of tickling stories. I find them to be a bit unsettling.

Ok I know there are a certain group out there that take it way too far and I'm no more a fan of that then you are. I see tickling as just innoncent harmless fun and would never do anything shall we say R rated with any character.