As she closely followed Spike, Ducky, and Renn, Aurelia could not help but feel very sad for Ducky. She knew personally what it's like to lose your family in what seems like a blink of an eye. She looked toward the ground as she recalled what had happened on that fateful day...
"Mama! Trina's pickin' on me again!" a hatchling-aged Aurelia squeaked.
"No, I'm not!" Aurelia's sister, Trina, retorted.
"Are, too!"
"Am not!"
"Liar!"
"Crybaby!"
"Enough!" her mother thundered as she cast a glare down at the group of five hatchlings. "Can't ya kids behave while we..."
"Sharptooth!" the youngest hatchling, Troy, shouted, alerting the family of threehorns.
"Run, children! I'll fend 'em off!" Aurelia's father ordered as he charged toward the pack of fastbiters. The hatchlings' mother guided them away, but Aurelia kept watching in horror. Her father managed to trample one fastbiter and skewer another fastbiter, but the remaining six fastbiters took him down in a couple of minutes.
"Daddy! No!" she cried out as her father fell victim to the fastbiters.
"I love you," he said with his last breath. As the fastbiters began to tear into the slaughtered threehorn, three of them looked over at the mother and hatchlings. They spoke to each other in sharptooth, then charged toward the family.
"Get behind me, kids!" their mother ordered as she prepared to counterattack. However, what happened next totally startled her. As one fastbiter charged at her, the other two dashed around her.
"Children!" she gasped as she heard the terrified screams of her children. She knocked the fastbiter attacking her away with her horns, then turned around as quickly as she could. By the time she got around, three of her hatchlings were dead.
"No," she choked as she glanced at a nearby pond. What she saw gave her some hope. Aurelia was still alive and heading in the water. The entire family had always thought Aurelia was an odd threehorn for liking water so much, but this time, her mother could not have been anymore grateful, for she knew fastbiters could not swim. Aurelia was trying to get Trina to swim with her.
"C'mon, Trina! It's your only chance!" Aurelia cried as she tried to convince her sister.
"No way! I'll drown for sure!" Trina replied in a fearful tone.
"But, it's better than...AHHHH!" Aurelia screamed as Trina was snatched up by a fastbiter. She screamed in horror again as her sister's blood sprayed on her. She looked back behind the fastbiter in time to see her mother get killed the way sharpteeth like to kill, by going for the jugular. She began to cry, but her tears of grief became tears of fear as another fastbiter suddenly stood over her. She stuck her head underwater, and as the fastbiter prepared to snatch her up in its jaws, she resurfaced and spat water in the fastbiter's face. This incapacitated the fastbiter long enough for Aurelia to get a head start in swimming out to the middle of the pond. The fastbiter pursued her for as long as it could, before the water got too deep for comfort. The fastbiter let out a roar of defeat, and headed back for shore. Meanwhile, Aurelia just bobbed in the water like a buoy as she treaded water. All she could do was watch helplessly as her family was devoured down to the bones. She spent much of the day there, crying in grief and anger at the thought of being unable to help her family.
Aurelia shook her head of those memories as she kept on walking with the others.
