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"Um...well sure" Aqua said with a friendly smile, "just when the food comes...could I ask that you eat it somewhere else?".

"Yeah, we're not hardened to the sight of blood yet" Ridge said with a smile of his own, trying to make a slight joke and possibly help the words not offend in case they threatened to do such.

Misty gave a giggle as she walked up, "Well...maybe I could try one of your greenfood stuffs and see if it's as good as eggs" she shrugged.



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"Some can eat both, and some can eat only green foot or the other non green food." Ruby's father said.


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(Sorry, guys! I was on vacation. I posted a thread about it, but I guess I should have PMed you, too. Much apologies! If you'd still like me to control my former characters, I'd be happy to jump back in.)



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"Well...yeah, I have heard that..." Misty said, still a bit hesitantly. Aqua glanced about and soon spotted a bit of green jutting from the cave wall. She plucked it and tasted a twig of it herself. "Hmm, not bad, I'd say your first try should be a treestar...but we go with what we have" the swimmer said, "here dear, try this" she offered the other twig of it to Misty.

The young egg snatcher took it a bit unsurely and sniffed it before licking at it. She flinched a bit, "It's...not horrible I guess, but I don't think I'd eat it without really having to or something" she said.

She popped it in her mouth and chewed, flinching worse but swallowing it all the same, "Yeah, definitely only if I had to, uh no offense".

"None taken, after all you'll never get us near meat" Ridge shuddered at the very thought.


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"And you'll never get us near greenfood," Myra laughed.

"I just hope we can stop Redclaw soon," commented Chomper.


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Terri smiled as there seemed to be a rather large herd of Swimmers nearby.
"This is good...very good. Dil, care to do the honors?" she asked politely.

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Pterano almost had a heart attack when Twiz flapped out and closer to Redclaws sleeping place, and being the responsible adult that he was Pterano bolted out after him, grabbing Twiz and flapping high into the sky.
"Just what do were you thinking?! Not only could you have given our hiding spot away, but worse, you could have been hurt, and how do you think that would make me feel?" He asked Twiz once they were a safe distance in the air.


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"I'm sure working together we'll be able to." Ruby's Father said with confidence and to try to build up and keep up the other folk's confidence.

"I just know it's possible dad." Ruby's little brother said.


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Ruby's mother nodded. "Yes, with such a large group I'm sure we have a good chance of victory. I think even Redclaw can be overwhelmed by numbers."

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Finally satisfied with his digestion and the security of his imagined borders, Redclaw turned his attention back to the problem at hand: Chomper's parents. With a purposeful urgency and tension to his massive steps, the sharptooth trudged inland, growling ferociously under his breath.



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"Gladly." Dil replied.

One successful hunt later.....

When the mothers arrived back at the cave, they knew what they had to do. "We have to put our plan into action soon," Dil said to everyone in both languages.


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"Yes, that would be a very good outcome of cooperating" Aqua agreed, "Not that I don't already like you little sharpteeth for yourselves already" she smiled. Meat eating aside, they didn't seem much different than other younglings.

Ridge nodded with the fast runner's point, "Agreed, it's probably why he kept us all in fear so long, so we wouldn't try something like this that he knew could beat him".

They kept their distance, allowing the other sharpteeth to eat and stuck to the greenfood growing along the wall of that very good spot of the cave.

"Agreed, though past that I don't know what our first plan of action should be" Toot admitted.

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Twiz flinched a bit at Pterano's scolding, "I-I'm sorry, I was just trying to help" he said meekly.

Cree had flapped out to check on if between darting out and rescue time the kid had been hurt either, "How so?" he asked, hearing Twiz's defense.

"I...I thought maybe I could see a useful other hiding spot or something" Twiz continued, "I didn't mean to worry any one or ruin everything".

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Screech and Thud were right behind their leader, fanned on eitherside as they always did incase they spotted something first.


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"The grownups will know," Chomper said, pointing to his parents, Ichy, Dil, Ruby's parents, and the other grownups.


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"I"m sure everyone will help once the time comes." Ruby's Father said.


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Pterano sighed for a moment.
"I'm not mad at you Twiz, I just wish you would have told me what you were planning to do. Since I helped the valley looking after young ones such as yourself has been one of the greatest things I look forward to, and I won't risk losing you before we find your father. So the next time you want to try something like that let me know first so you won't be put in harms way, alright?" he asked.

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Terri frowned.
"I think honestly Redclaw will come after me and my mate first as we are the only two real sharpteeth willing to fight against him, and thats his greatest fear. So even if we find him first, Dein and I will fight him off."
She said in both languages.


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"Just be careful mom and dad," said Chomper. "I don't want to lose you...."


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Terri looked back with another frown for a moment at her son, and then smiled wide.
"Don't even worry! We're sharpteeth...we can handle ourselfs son! I promise!"


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"Thanks, I needed to hear that," Chomper smiled, hugging his mother's foot.


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"Ok, I will, I promise" Twiz said, flapping out and holding up a wing to show he really did promise such. At the mention of the Valley and the young ones Twiz tilted his head, "You took care of some of the others kids in the Great Valley?" he asked, "like Kit and..." Twiz's eyes went wide as somehow mentioning Kit had reminded him of an extended, by pairing family meeting not long after his hatching.

His Aunt Violet hadn't been around at the time, but her mate Tylr had and...

"That's how I'm s'pose ta know you!" the young one exclaimed, thankfully not too loud, "I just 'membered, your Uncle Tylr's actual blood relatives!".

Cree laughed, "Took ya long enough to put that together".

"Well I was like really itty bitty I think" Twiz shot back, but distractedly. "Oh boy" he circled in happiness, "Now I like you double than if you were just wierd flyers who knew my dad but that was it" he said.

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"Well, Ma'am, that's quite a sacrifice" Toot said quietly, "Don't worry, we'll do our part to help out past this plan of yours though".

Misty was silent, hoping with all she had that Chomper's parents would be ok, she knew what it was to lose one or both parents.