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Finally Together Again/Into the Mysterious Beyond

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"Looks like it..." Mitch said.
"Is anyone hurt?"

He then turned to Chomper.

"Chomper, a word..."
Mitch walked over to Chomper.
"I don't know much about sharpteeth, but is it normal for them to gather in soo much numbers? Besides, I'd be stupid if I didn't think they were looking for something, or someone...?"
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Mim took Ducky out of her mouth and looked herself over, "I just have some cuts and a bite or 2, nothing major, Ducky is unhurt." Mim said holding Ducky and looking her over a bit before putting her on her back.

"I an unhurteded, and I am glad that is over, it was not fun, no it was not." She said.

"Littlefoot no look hurt." Petrie said landing nearby.  

"I'm not really, maybe a scratch or 2 at most." He said.

"How is everyone else?  Does everyone else want to rest here and treat any injuries or move on for a bit?" Mim asked.

"How is Zaine, he was already hurt before this began." Littlefoot asked looking around for Zaine.


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Longtail and Cyrix walked over as Longtail said "I think he'll be okay."

Cyrix then said "Just don't do that again...we almost lost you, and I don't want to see that happen." He then looked up and over at Dante and said "Thank you again Dante for your help."


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Shera knew she didn't help a lot in the fight. "I'm sorry. I was just so scared. But I'm okay, I guess." she said.


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Ptyra crawls out of her hiding place
Ptyra: I feel like a coward...I don't want to face fast biters again...


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Chomper shook his head. "No, sharpteeth don't normally gather in great numbers. Besides, I think I have the same feeling as you. They were definitely sent here to stop us, but Ozz couldn't have known that Zaine is alive. He neve saw him after he tried to kill him. My guess is Ozzy is becoming more desperate to find the stone."

Zaine limped towards the group. "Well I think I speak for all of us when I say I don't want to do that again. Chomper, how much farther until we find your parents?"

"It shouldn't be much longer. I think my sniffer is picking up their scent. We must be getting close. Besides, if we don't find them, they will most likely find us."

"That doesn't sound pleasent," Strut said.

"Well maybe if you hadn't tried to kill Littlefoot that one time you wouldn't be in any danger," Chomper sneered. Strut nodded, knowing he was right. "Makes no difference to me though. I wouldn't care if they had you for lunch."

"That's enough," Zaine said. "I've just about had it with all this fighting. We need to get out of here now if we have any chance of reaching the stone, because that fight slowed us down. Let's go." He started limping in the direction they were heading before. He managed to catch up with Shera who was feeling very down about the fight.

"Shera don't feel bad about the sharpteeth. You should be happy you survived and that we can continue on our journey. I understand how you must be feeling right now, but don't let it get to you. You did all that you could, and that's all to be expected."

((OOC: I've been thinking. Whatever happened to Cera? Did she just become forgotten all of a sudden? :DD ))


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(OOC: GVG was doing Cera I think.  Not sure if he is still doing her or someone else is.  Maybe she was knocked out early in the fight or battling fastbiters on her own. ))

Mim looked over at Zaine.  "Are you sure you are ok?  Maybe Mitch and some others should carry you for a while so your legs can heal better.  Or we can use 2 long sticks and weave vines between them and you can rest on that as it is dragged." Mim suggested.  "We can treat our injuries once we're with Chomper's parents.  That should be a safe place for that."

"I hope they will remember us, I do." Ducky said.  

"Petrie too." Petrie said.





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Dante limped over, nursing a wound on his right leg.
"I'll help him..."
He said, then staggered, almost falling on his face before Virgil and Motochika caught him.

"Easy there Dante.  You're in no shape to be carrying any more weight.  Let us take care of this one."
Virgil said, grinning at his brother and handing him his staff...


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((OOC: Yeah... :^.^: Sorry bout that...I've just been getting used to my new classes this semester and I just kinda forgot about Cera... :lol ))

Cera who had miraculously come out of the fight completely unhurt, smirked as she walked along side Ziane and said "I don't know what the big deal was those fast bitters couldn't stop us anyway."

Longtail scoffed and replied "You only had to face off against one! I was pinned down by two of them and the third was about to kill me! If it weren't for Dante well, let's not think about it."

Cyrix nodded and replied "A very wise choice nephew." Cyrix then walked over to Dante and offered his help "If you need it I can help you walk until we meet Chompers folks."


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Dante smiled at Cyrix, then shook his head, saying...
"I'm fine.  Really.  Thanks for worrying though.  C'mon. Let's keep going..."

Vigil walked over to Zaine, then picked him up and slung him over his shoulders easily.
"Come Zaine.  Now we need your help to find the stone more than ever.  I think Ozzy may have spotted us.  I think he's leading the others..."


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Mim looked at the others, "It looks like everyone is ready to go." She then looked at Chomper to see if he was injured at all.  "It seems everyone is ready, are you ready to guide us to your parents?" She asked Chomper.  

Shera walked over to the middle of the group where she felt safest.  

"Let us go.  We need to get there, we do, we do." Ducky said still frightened by the attack and the fighting and wanting to get somewhere safe as fast as they could.

"Petrie ready too." Petrie said, also still feeling scared by the battle and wanting to get to someplace safe.


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Cyrix nodded his head in agreement. He then commented "I to feel we should keep moving now. It isn't very safe here. Please Chomper lead the way." He then turned to Dante and said "It's alright, I'll still walk beside you in case you need anything alright?"

Longtail and Cera had gotten into another argument over how tough the sharpteeth were, but both had started to follow Chomper when he began leading the way again.


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Ptyra fumbled nervously
Ptyra: If any other sharpteeth come don't let me run away. After my last experience with them...


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Zaine sighed as Virgil picked him up. "You know there really is no need. I can still walk." He then thought about it. "Although, my legs probably could use some time to heal. Thanks Virgil."

Chomper kept sniffing out the scent of his parents. "We should be getting close. This area is very familiar to me, so I think they are nearby."

Strut still kept thinking about that figure he saw before. "I'm sure that was Ozzy. Who else could have manipulated the sharpteeth to do his will."


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(Why's Ptyra being ignored?)
Ptyra: (to Strut) Why do you think that?


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((Sorry, we aren't trying to ignore you))

"Well the figure looked a lot like him," Strut told Ptyra. "Besides, Ozzy is the evilist dinosaur I know, well next to a sharptooth anyway. There's nobody else who could convince sharpteeth to be his allies."

Zaine wasn't paying any attention to this conversation. He was still more concerned about what happened before their fight with the fast biters. He still couldn't get out of his mind what Strut had said about him. What if he is right? What if I risk everybody here for the stone just so I can use the wish myself?


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Mim looked at Strut, "Sounds like it could have been.  Maybe he was watching & enjoying what his servants were doing, at least until things didn't turn out like he wanted."  Mim said.

"He is mean, he is, he is." Ducky said remembering him.  

"He act like mean sharptooth." Petrie said agreeing with Ducky.

Shera listened to the conversation, but not having anything to add remained silent for now, hoping they would not run across this Ozzy person the others were talking about.  He sounded very scary to her.


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Chomper kept sniffing for his parents, but for some reason he still couldn't find them. "I don't get it. Their scent is close, but why can't I pick them out?"

"Maybe your nose is broken," Strut replied.

"Your nose will be broken if you don't shut up," Chomper growled.

"Maybe we just need to keep looking around," Zaine suggested. "You said yourself this area was familiar to you. Maybe it's interfeering with you trying to sniff out your parents."

"Well whatever it is, it's not making this any easier."

Just then, Strut noticed a rustle in the bushes next to him. "We're not alone."

Chomper looked at the bushes. "For once he's right. I'm picking something up."

Zaine nodded. "I'll go check it out." He slid down from Virgil's back and walked towards the bushes. I better not get pulled in from behind again. Zaine peered his head into the bushes and gasped. Not trying to draw too much attention, he grabbed whatever was behind the bushes and threw it to the ground. He pinned the fast biter to the ground and glared at it. "It must have gotten separated from the group earlier!" He then looked towards Chomper. "Translate for us! Ask him who sent him!"

Chomper nodded and walked towards the fast biter. He growled and roared out in sharptooth tongue, and the fast biter replied with hisses and louder growls. "He says 'I'm not talking'. Why do they always have to do it the hard way?"

Zaine looked towards the group. "Anybody want to help convince him that we aren't in the mood for this?"


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Mim looked at the fastbiter saying, "We can put a large rock or log on his tail and tie his mouth shut with leaves and his hands so he can't free himself and leave him to starve," She said, being tired of battling mean fast biters, "or we can turn him over to the 'tender mercies'," she said, putting a lot of sarcasm onto the words tender mercies, "of the fastbiters and sharpteeth that are with us."

Shera saw the fast biter and got near Mitch for protection since he was the biggest in the group and she felt safer near him.

"Me to scared to think." Petrie said hoping over closer to Mitch since he was scared of the fastbiter, shivering as he landed near Mitch.

Ducky put her hands on her hips, "He's just a mean fastbiter.  Make him eat green food or Lets just tie him up and turn him over to Cera's dad." She said thinking of the 2 worst things she could think of.

Mim smiled at that idea, "I'm sure Threehorn would, enjoy,  having his own fastbiter to play with." She said.

"Top.." Ducky started then caught herself by clapping her hands over her mouth and looking over at Cera before she said Tria's pet name for Cera's dad, "Mr. Threehorn likes to play? I never knew, he does not seem the type, no he does not." Ducky said amazed at the idea that Cera's dad may like to play.


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Cera glared at Ducky for a moment as she watched Ducky catch the words she was about to use. Then she smiled and replied "That is a wonderful idea, but my daddy isn't here now! I say we just turn him over to Longtail and Dante, I'm sure they can think of a punishment good enough for another sharptooth!"

Longtail gave a funny grin and said "That is one of the best ideas I've heard all day!" He shook his head and his eye changed color again. "Now, Dante, what do you think we should do to him, to get him to be a little more...cooperative with our group? I was thinking something along the lines of letting him bleed for a while, and then maybe..."

Before he could continue Cyrix cut Longtail off by saying "Uhh..nephew, we do still need him alive to talk to us...so try to control yourself."

Longtail nodded in response and said "Yes uncle...sorry."