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"<I'll be the hunter, you guys go hide,>" instructed Chomper.


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"Yeah sounds easy" Kit said. "and fun so long as it's only pretend hunting" Cory added, "but who gets to be the hunter first?".

"I'd almost be glad if one of the actual sharpteeth did that one" Cera said, "I've been the sharptooth in sharptooth attack too many times". Some of the other leaf-eaters looked ashamed since she did have a point.

Cory smiled as Chomper offered, "Ok, come on guys" he started the others in rushing off to hide.


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<Yea, let's go.> Littlefoot said as he ran off to find a place to hide.  

Ducky ran off to find a place to hide as well.


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Chomper waited for his friends to hide.


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Apto run off too. After a while he found a perfect spot to hide in: bush of Stinky Flowers. Well... It was perfect except one thing: the smell. Although Apto decided it is not the time to be picky, so he jumped in a bush.
Pessimist sees a dark tunnel. Optimist sees a light in the tunnel. Realist sees the light of coming train. And a driver sees three idiots standing on the track.

"My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today." - Watership Down by Richard Adams.


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Trod began running as well. Using some bushes between the nearby trees to hide.


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"<Here I come!>" Chomper called after his countdown


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"Petrie, isn't this cheating?" Kit whispered over to her cousin. "Shh" he hushed her, "Chomper no find us here, but we low enough that it not cheating...really" he said, then ducked behind the leaf of one of the low branches of a tree he'd found. Kit hid behind her own leaf too.

Cory dove as far down into the water as he could, hoping to hide from Chomper there and not cause bubbles that might give him away.


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Littlefoot and Ducky crunched down in their separate hiding places and waited, hoping they would not be found.


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Chompwer sniffed the air. He caught Littlefoot and Ducky's trails. "Here I come," he smiled.


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Ducky & Littlefoot crunched down as small as they could in their separate hiding places, but while also staying somewhere comfortable as well since they didn't know how long they would be there.


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Trod was looking how Chomper was getting closer to Littlefoot and Ducky - "Well, at least I am safe for now." - He gave a step farther inside the bushes, but as he tried to look where he was standing, he touched a flower with his nose making some of the pollen to reach his nose - "atchoo!" . he had no chance to cover his mouth as he attempted to sneeze making as lower noise as he could, hoping Chomper not to listen to him.


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"What was that?" Chomper asked, hering Trod's sneeze.  He went in the direction of the noise.


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Trod saw between the bushes that Chomper heard him - "I think I should make a discreet exit." - the kid thought but he found a tree just behind himself, preventing him to flee the place - "oops... hehehe..." - he said with a low voice as he thought he would be caught.


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"Hello Trod," Chomper smirked, finding his hiding place.


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Trod looked back at Chomper - "Ehh, hello... should I run in 'terror' or I am already 'dead' ?." - The Runner asked making a smile.


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Chomper tagged Trod. "you're dead, and you were a tasty snack," the little biter said, just joking around.


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Trod understood the joke and followed it as he said while winking an eye - "I'm sure I was."

In the mean time, Rhamphy opened an eye, but even though he was still a bit sleepy, he decided to look in the direction to the mainland.


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Ducky & Littlefoot continued to hide where each separately was.  They were a bit curious where the others were and how they were doing.  

Ducky was thinking Spike may be eating his hiding place, or had he snuck back to the stinky place to eat and hide there.


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Trod sat down and began watching how Chomper was doing as he saw the little sharptooth using his sniffer to try to trace the others' scents.

Rhamphy still only had one eye opened, he then yawned and opened both eyes, but he didn't move from where he was. - "This feels strange, like when something isn't right" - the kid said as he kept watching his surroundings.