A new world...Same old faces

Kit12 · **Reply #380 on:** October 05, 2009, 12:39:52 AM

"The Week of Tears?" Kit asked, "no" she shook her head, "that's one of the past stuff I know Longtail has, just from...well you know comments here and there even by himself, but I never heard of that one" she admitted. She had a hunch it wasn't a good thing probably.

Petrie frowned, flapping down closer to see if Longtail needed help as well.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #381 on:** October 05, 2009, 08:43:29 PM

(OOC: No Brekclub I don't mind at all!

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Pearl grinned at Kit's response.
"The week of Tears was about ten cold times ago, when Longtail took over our herd. He was still just a hatchling but it seems our herds first leader saw something in him, and challenged him to a duel. Longtail won of course, but in the end our leader died, but before he did he made Longtail promise to lead the herd and protect us for as long as he could."
She paused for a moment to think about the details, "Longtail then began to cry and continued to shed tears for our old leader for a whole week. I think that's when I knew I loved him." she said with a small smile on her beak.

Longtail however opened his eyes and his body instinctively reacted to seeing Sweetie so close, and lashed out trying to whip her in the face as he said, "Even when I sleep you still try to kill me!"

Sweetie recoiled and blocked the attack but as she did she cried out, "You are such a fool, I try to help and this is how you repay me?! This is why you can't lead our herd!"
She then reached forward and grabbed Longtail above his right eye, and using all the strength she had, pulled down and across his face and beak leaving a long, deep, massive gash that dripped blood everywhere.

Longtail cried out in both agony and rage as he took another swing at Sweetie.
"You want to lead so bad, then prepare to kill me for it!" he shouted and flapped his wings, lifting himself into the sky and away from the others.

Cyrix turned around and paled at his nephews appearance.
"T-that wound..." he whispered to himself.

Sweetie quickly followed after Longtail hoping she'd get to finish him off and take her place as leader of the herd.

Kit12 · **Reply #382 on:** October 05, 2009, 09:41:22 PM

Kit smiled, yet shook her head, "The...just the stuff Longtail's had to endure...I'm not sure if anyone else but him could" she admitted, "but..." whatever else she'd been about to say was interrupted as Sweetie and Longtail darted up in their fight.

"Oh...dear..." she sighed.

"W-what on earth is going on now?" Twiz sighed in worry, but also not as much surprised as one would expect of him had anyone else been caught in a death match fight.

LBTFan13 · **Reply #383 on:** October 05, 2009, 10:23:55 PM

Littlefoot only caught a glimps of Longtail before the flyer shot up into the sky. Then when Sweetie followed him Littlefoot grew very worried. "This is just what we don't need right now." He called out to Longtail to get him down. "Longtail! Please don't do this! We need to work together!" He then looked over to Cyrix. "Is there any possible chance your nephew can be talked out of this? I can't have the two of them killing each other before we reach our destination."

Meanwhile Zaine was horrified at what he saw. Sweetie's action was certainly not necessary, but Longtail didn't even give her a chance. She was willing to help him and he attacked her furiously. This is wrong. This isn't the Longtail I know. He would never do something like this. "Longtail! Sweetie!" Zaine called out. "Stop fighting now! Have you lost your minds? In case you haven't noticed we have much bigger problems than your rivalry with each other, and this isn't helping us at all! Get down here before you hurt yourselves!"

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #384 on:** October 06, 2009, 12:05:47 AM

Cyrix looked up at Littlefoot with a stern and emotionless gaze as he replied, "We need to keep the herd moving...I may not like what's happening right now, but for the sake of everyone else here, we have to cover as much ground as we can, with or without Longtail and Sweetie."

He sighed for a moment before speaking again.
"IF one of them survives then they will catch up with us, however if they should both...kill themselves. Then we'll have more than one problem on our hands, but for now, it is best they deal with their issues now as opposed to later, now let's keep going!"

Pearl didn't hear Kit, she could only see the open wound on Longtail's face and Sweetie attacking her mate. She wanted dearly to dash forward and stop Sweetie, but she also knew that Longtail would handle his own fights. "Be careful Longtail..." she whispered.

Longtail kept himself aloft in the air as he stared down Sweetie and said through gritted teeth, "Even with myself blinded I can still see how far you've fallen from your mothers high praise as a hatchling!"

This enraged Sweetie and she charged at Longtail with an almost feral screech that sounded like a fastbiter. She then swiped several times at Longtail just hoping to cause more wounds to his body and was actually trying her very hardest to kill him.
"WHY WON"T YOU DIE?!" She screamed as she took another swing at Longtail.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #385 on:** October 06, 2009, 01:45:07 AM

Ducky's group looked up at the sight of the two flyers duking it out.

"Sheesh! Just what we need!" Renn grumbled out of annoyance.

"I do not like this, oh no no no," Ducky whispered in fear. Spike nodded in agreement.

"If they wanna rip each other apart, then so be it. However, they outta take their little squabble somewhere else so we're not bothered," Aurelia grumbled.

tempestwheel · **Reply #386 on:** October 06, 2009, 07:34:27 AM

"Stop it you two!" called Myra, trying to settle the situation, but she only got knocked backwards.

Rory quickly ran to her side.

Kit12 · **Reply #387 on:** October 06, 2009, 10:31:19 AM

"Kit, you might be needed to make sure the hatchlings keep moving" Twiz' call startled Kit out of her own shock and she realized that at least for the bit Pearl was preoccupied by the fight he might be right.

Glancing to Longtail's hatchlings only made Kit feel worse about the whole thing, but she quickly began to attempt to shoo the little one's along.

"What going on?" Twiz asked and Kit actually found her answer to be something Petrie's mother had consoled her with one time, "Silly adult stuff" she said and, like it had with her and her cousins, while Flip didn't get it it did appease him and he moved on.

tempestwheel · **Reply #388 on:** October 06, 2009, 07:03:38 PM

"They can be hopeless," Myra grunted, looking at the fighting dinosaurs.

Little did the group know, that 2 familiar, big carnivores were nearby. However, they were not the bad guys......

LBTFan13 · **Reply #389 on:** October 06, 2009, 08:54:48 PM

Littlefoot gritted his teath as he watched the flyers fight in the sky. He didn't want to leave them, but there was some truth in Cyrix's words. If they didn't leave now they would never make it. "Cyrix I hope you are right."

Zaine gave him a surprised look. "You can't be serious Littlefoot! We are not leaving them behind!"

"Zaine we have no choice," Littlefoot argued. "We are a herd now, so we need to keep each other safe."

"Longtail as Sweetie are part of this herd!" Zaine yelled. "You can't do this Littlefoot! They'll die!"

"One of them is going to be dead anyway," Littlefoot argued. "I don't want to do this anymore than you do, but there is no other option."

Zaine was amazed. "Who are you? This isn't the Littlefoot I remember. The Littlefoot I know would do everything he could to save his friends, even if it meant risking his own life."

"The Littlefoot you remember grew up," Littlefoot replied, and Zaine gasped.

"If you want to leave them that's fine, but you might as well leave me too because I'm not abandoning them!"

Littlefoot didn't know what to say. Cyrix was right and they should leave, but deep down he knew Zaine was right. He simply stood still and didn't say anything.

Zaine turned around and looked for something to grab their attention with. "There's gotta be something I can throw at them without really hurting them." He then noticed a long but relatively thin stick. Perfect. Zaine grabbed the stick with his mouth and chucked it up into the air towards the two flyers. "STOP IT NOW YOU IDIOTS!" he yelled.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #390 on:** October 06, 2009, 09:09:26 PM

Ducky's group gasped at Littlefoot's statement as well.

"Zaine's right! I'm not leaving them, man!" Renn spoke up in outrage.

"Me, neither!" Ducky agreed.

"Nope!" Spike snorted.

"Never!" Aurelia growled. Renn spotted some small rocks nearby, and picked them up.

"Hey! Knock it off, you rockheads!" Renn shouted in anger as he chucked the rocks, one at a time, up toward the dueling flyers.

Kit12 · **Reply #391 on:** October 06, 2009, 11:26:11 PM

Kit...could see the others points very clearly but...it was odd, all she really felt as she listened was sorry for Littlefoot. She'd never lead a herd but she knew there was a lot of pressure to it.

"Now yall, we're also being a bit unfair to Littlefoot here" she said, flying over and lower, "I agree we need to help Sweetie and Longtail not do something foolish but Littlefoot's only trying to look out for all of us and...well that's my point is all, and how we don't have to make the decisions he does so we should think about that, but I don't wanna start up another argument that will get us no where; still" she turned to Littlefoot, "I'll keep things moving by scouting ahead" she said, "hopefully they'll have come to their sense by that time".

Petrie was confused about alot of stuff in this first big argument to crop up it seemed, but he knew one thing, he'd promised his Uncle Tylr to be there for Kit and that was something he wasn't ever going to doubt.

"No..." he flapped over, "Stay with the hatchlings and help Pearl out, especially now,...I'll scout and make sure it's clear up ahead". Kit nodded with a grateful smile before going back to where Pearl and the hatchlings were.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #392 on:** October 06, 2009, 11:38:53 PM

The two flyers expertly dodged the thrown projectiles and continued to fight each other in the air.

"You can't beat me fool! You taught me everything I know!" commented Sweetie with a devilish smile.

"Yes, but not everything I KNOW!" shouted Longtail as his scale colors began to change, from his normal sky blue, to white and then to a dark-almost midnight blue, and this pattern continued as he let loose a roar and said, "I MUST CONFESS I FEEL LIKE A MONSTER!" and did an arial flip and flapped his wings as he charged at Sweetie.

The female flyer was caught off guard by the color changes that Longtail was exhibiting and she could only squeal in surprise as she was tackled out of the air and down onto the ground with a rough sounding crack.

Cyrix turned to Zaine and the others who said they wouldn't leave Longtail.
"LISTEN TO YOURSELVES!" He shouted, "Do you think Longtail wants us around to watch this fight?! He knows just like I do that our lives are on the line, and he'd want us safe as opposed to being out here in the open!"
Cyrix then turned to Littlefoot and said, "Take those who want to keep going, and I'll try to get the others to follow you!"

Pearl stared for only a moment more of her mate and Sweetie fighting, as she said, "Diamond! We're breaking them up!" She looked to her cobalt colored brother and dived for her mate hoping that they could stop the fighting.

~~~

Two sharpteeth were walking along not sure where to go, or what if anything was left alive...the fact that the two of them survived was a miracle to begin with. Terri turned to her mate and asked a question as a smell caught her attention. "Dein do you smell that?!"

Dein turned and nodded his head.
"Yes dear I do! It's Chomper and he's alive. We have to hurry to catch up with him!"

tempestwheel · **Reply #393 on:** October 07, 2009, 07:47:15 AM

"Just then, a smell caught Chomper's sniffer. "Do you smell that?" the teenage sharptooth asked.

"What smell?" questioned Greg.

"A smell I recognize," Chomper continued.

"That must mean there's more survivors!" Rory realized.

LBTFan13 · **Reply #394 on:** October 07, 2009, 10:13:50 PM

Zaine couldn't believe what Cyrix was saying. Sure there was logic to what he was saying, but Longtail was his nephew. "So you're really just going to leave your nephew to die like this? What if he does survive but can't catch up to us? What if Sweetie permanently disables him? He would need our help and we wouldn't be able to! I don't care what you or anybody else tells me but I'm not going to let him die like this!" He looked back up, and the fight was still going on. There has to be something we can do. Longtail can't be convinced otherwise, but maybe I can get Sweetie to stop. Then all we would need to do is separate them. Zaine knew Longtail would probably start hating him if he suspected he was siding with Sweetie, but at this point he had to do something. "SWEETIE!" he yelled out. "PLEASE STOP FIGHTING! PLEASE COME BACK DOWN! DO IT FOR ME!"

Littlefoot heard Cyrix's words, but he still didn't move. He was couldn't get what Zaine told him out of his mind. We should keep moving, but Zaine's right. We are all part of the herd, which means we all need to look after each other. Littlefoot ran next to Zaine. "You're right Zaine. Forgive me for being such a fool."

Zaine smiled. "Hey when things get tough all we need to do is stick together. I understand why you wanted to continue on, so I'm sorry for being so hard on you."

Littlefoot shook his head. "Don't be. You reminded me what being a leader is truly about. You know, you would make a really good leader too."

Zaine laughed a little. "I'm afraid Longtail would probably fight me for that position." He looked back up. "Then again, he won't be able to fight anybody if he is dead."

Littlefoot nodded. Then out of the corner of his eye he noticed somebody approaching. He looked back and saw what looked like two sharpteeth. He was about to call out an alert when the sharpteeth got closer and closer, and then he realized who they were. "Chomper!" he yelled out. "It's your parents! They're alive!"

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #395 on:** October 07, 2009, 10:36:26 PM

By this point both Sweetie and Longtail were panting heavily and bleeding excessively. The two flyers screeched simultaneously and moved in to deliver the final death blows, when Sweetie heard Zaines call and she spun around to face the green longneck with surprise in her eyes. 'He really does care...'

Longtail could see exactly where he was going to strike and kill Sweetie, but he was suddenly shoved backwards and held on his back by his mate and her brother. He didn't say anything he simply stayed on his back in silence as his wounds on his body and above his right eye continued to bleed.

Pearl had tears in her eyes and she didn't bother trying to speak for fear of what she might say.

Cyrix was rather surprised that Longtail seemed to give up so willingly. He stepped over to Pearl and Diamond and looked down at his nephew. "Are you alright Longtail?"

Sweetie stepped over to Zaine and began to cry.
"thank you...thank you Zaine for showing that you care at least a little bit for my safety."

~~~

Terri sniffed the air again and smiled.
"I smell blood...and lots of it. Perhaps there is food nearby, and Chomper could be close as well."

Dein smiled as well and replied, "Then what are we waiting for?" He then broke into a run and followed the scent of fresh blood to where ever it was.

tempestwheel · **Reply #396 on:** October 07, 2009, 10:43:54 PM

"What?!" Chomper shouted excitedly. The purple teenage sharptooth turned around and saw the two massive sharpteeth approaching the group.

"My, goodness, it is!" Rita jumped in agreement.

Myra got Kit and the others' attention.

"Dad! Mom!" Chomper cheered excitedly.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #397 on:** October 08, 2009, 12:46:40 AM

"It is Chomper's parents! It is, it is!" Ducky squealed in joy. "They are alive, yes they are!"

"Umm...they won't eat us, will they?" Aurelia asked out of concern.

"Of course not! We saved and hatched Chomper as a hatchling, and then Littlefoot saved Chomper from a swimming sharptooth later on, so his parents promised they would never harm us, yep yep yep!" Ducky explained as the group watched the approaching sharptooth couple.

LBTFan13 · **Reply #398 on:** October 08, 2009, 01:42:42 AM

Zaine looked down at Sweeite. "We are in a herd now. We have to look after each other. I don't know what happened between you and Longtail but that was in the past. Right now we have a much larger problem on our hands, and it won't help us if the two of you are constantly fighting each other. So from now on I think it's best if the two of you just stay away from each other." Zaine glanced at Longtail. He really seemed beat. "I just hope Longtail's okay." He glanced back down at Sweetie. "With that said, as long as you are in our herd I will always keep an eye out on you."

Littlefoot however was tending to Longtail. "Longtail you need to rest. Here I'll put you on my back. You won't fall off while riding on my back." Littlefoot gently lifted Longtail off of the ground with his tail and placed him on his back. Littlefoot then looked at Pearl. "Pearl maybe you should ride on my back too. You can take care of Longtail and make sure he gets some rest." He then looked at Zaine. "You keep Sweetie with you for now and I'll handle Longtail. The longer we keep these two apart the better."

Zaine nodded. "You got it."

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #399 on:** October 08, 2009, 08:37:34 PM

Pearl nodded in agreement with Littlefoot and landed next to Longtail. She then began to slowly and carefully clean the wound on Longtail's beak and eye. She didn't want to admit it, especially to herself, but she was worried Longtails wound could cause problems with his sight, or even make him sick.

Cyrix sighed as the situation seemed to resolve itself. But he too was still worried about both flyers, and as if to stress the point, he turned to Zaine and replied, "Perhaps you should stay towards the center of the herd, just to be safe."

Longtail turned to face Zaine and could see with his one good eye that Sweetie was lying contently on Zaines back, and his anger boiled over as he gave an ear piercing screech. "ZAINE! YOU TRAITOR, YOU DARE HELP HER AFTER SHE TRIED TO KILL ME?! PUT HER DOWN AND LEAVE HER TO DIE! I COMMAND IT!!!" he shouted loud enough to echo through the air, and startled several of the dinosaurs in the herd.

Diamond was shocked at Longtail's outburst, especially accusing someone like Zaine at being a traitor seeing as how the two frequently called each other brothers.

Dein smiled brightly as he laid eyes upon his son.
"You're alive! I'm so happy to see you Chomper."

Terri's eyes were filled with joyful tears as she nuzzled her son not having the strength to speak how she was feeling.