In the land before time

Kor · **Reply #160 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:04:01 PM

Mim and Flapper continued towards the Thundering Falls. They both walked to the river and the main gathering spot.

"Nice looking place." Flapper said looking around.

"Yes, but a bit loud once one gets close to the waterfall." Mim said waving towards where the waterfall is. She didn't get to close very often, it being so loud once one was very close.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #161 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:10:54 PM

Thud heard out redclaw and proceded to where he was lying.

Amaranthine · **Reply #162 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:13:03 PM

Roaring in sharp tooth tongue, Red Claw demanded, "WHO'S THERE?!"

He was trying not to show it, but he was scared. If anything, bigger, younger, and stronger went after him, he would be dead. Or if a pack of a hundred other dinosaurs attacked, he would have the same result.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #163 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:17:24 PM

"It's me thud I was just looking for you and screech,' thud replied.

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Sam looked toward the thundering falls and saw chomper. "You know littlefoot when it comes to having sharpteeth as friends I have nothing against that in fact I have a few sharptooth friends myself,' sam said.

Amaranthine · **Reply #164 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:22:19 PM

Little Foot didn't hear what Sam said for he was too afraid for Chomper's well being and his sharp tooth friend. So kept trying to distract the others while Chomper and his friend were playing.

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"Well, Screech isn't here. If anything, I thought he would be with you." Red Claw replied.

"Please, help me get out of here! I can't see you! Where are you?" Red Claw was getting frantic.

Pangaea · **Reply #165 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:26:15 PM

Though a part of him worried that he would be unable to return home, he was elated. He had always wanted to know what it was like to be a different kind of creature, and he had the luck to have become one that particularly fascinated him.

It then occurred to him that, even though he had become a dinosaur, he was still speaking English. “Or maybe I’m just hearing English in my head,” he considered.

Then another thought struck him. “Hey, if I’m in prehistoric times, there must be other dinosaurs around!” He grinned and clenched his fists as he jumped up and down ecstatically. “Yes! Yes! Yes! I get to see dinosaurs! Live ones!”

Suddenly an ear-splitting shriek caused him to jump to about the level of his own height, freezing in place upon returning to the ground. Regardless of the drastic change his body had undergone, he was still as high-strung and panicky as ever. Slowly turning his head to look over his shoulder, he saw his first dinosaur stride into view from behind a rock formation.

It was a large blue biped, with small, wickedly clawed forearms, long, pointed jaws packed with sharp white fangs, and giant hooked claws on both its feet. He recognized it immediately. “A raptor,” he murmured, half in awe and half in terror.

It was far bigger than he would expect a raptor to be, but considering that his own size had probably changed along with his body, he realized he had no sense of scale in this world. Perhaps his new body was simply very small, and as a result the raptor appeared far larger to him than it would if he was a human.

He noticed that the raptor looked and sounded an awful lot like Screech, a character from his favorite animated movie and television series: The Land Before Time. “But that’s impossible,” he thought, “...isn’t it?” In any case, it didn’t matter. The raptor had noticed him. Snarling hungrily, it began to charge towards him.

“What a day to get my wish,” he muttered, before turning to run.

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #166 on:** September 04, 2009, 11:36:33 PM

"I don't know where screech is there is a ramp right below me I'm comming down there to lead you out,' thud said.

Pangaea · **Reply #167 on:** September 05, 2009, 12:00:30 AM

He ran as fast as he could in the one direction that wasn’t blocked by rocks. But he didn’t get far before he discoveredómuch to his terror and dismayóthat this was because the ground ended in a sheer drop hundreds of feet to the ground. He was at the edge of a cliff, with impassable boulders on both sides and a predatory dinosaur behind him. Trapped.

“Oh, crap,” he cursed.

Then a thought struck him. All might not be completely lost. If he was a Microraptor or some related dinosaur, then he should be able to glide. Fear attacked him at the thought. He was terrified of heights.

“Well,” he sighed, “If I jump I’ll either fall to my death or glide to safety, but if I stay here I’ll get eaten for sure.”

Without another thought, he leapt off the edge.

Amaranthine · **Reply #168 on:** September 05, 2009, 12:37:48 AM

"Thanks Thud!" Red Claw roared happily.
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Amy was able to find a place where she could climb and peer to where she was heading. It was the Great Valley.

"Holy cow!" Amy whispered to herself in amazement. She almost wanted to cry for she remembered when she saw the end scene in the first film of "Land Before Time".

She however, could not cry, as hard as she could. As usual, she could never force herself to cry. It had to come out on it's own. She crawled down from where she kneeled, she was careful not to slip.

Then she heard voices. One of them she was not familiar with, the other she knew perfectly.

Mr. Three Horn!

She also saw water from where she was. Crystal, clear water.
She drooled at the sight. However, she waited behind a tree and it just so happened that Mr. Three Horn was having a convorsation with a certain swimmer.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #169 on:** September 05, 2009, 12:46:22 AM

"Hello, Chomper. It is a pleasure to see you, yep yep yep. Oh, my! I see you have found a human too, yep yep yep," Ducky said as she could not help but notice that a human, this one a male, had landed right in front of her.

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Anna did not want to think about her small family back at home. Not at that time, anyway. She did not like crying in front of others. She felt others viewed her as weak or vulnerable if she cried in front of them.

"Yeah, I have family back at home, and I do miss 'em," Anna replied as she fought her emotions.

Amaranthine · **Reply #170 on:** September 05, 2009, 12:56:27 AM

Mr. Three Horn nodded, not noticing her struggle at all, as critical as he was.

"I too miss a few of my family members." He sighed. "Especially my last mate and the daughters I had. We were seperated long ago..." He seemed to have zoned off into the past, into another dimension.

Suddenly he shook his head, "Still, that's a long time ago." He suddenly became stern and asked more questions.

"Do you think you will stay long in the Great Valley?"

Amaranthine · **Reply #171 on:** September 05, 2009, 12:58:23 AM

Little Foot introduced his friends.

"Sam, Rick, these are my friends, Ducky, Spike, and Chomper. I guess Chomper brought in a friend...." He stared at the creature with amazement. He didn't mean to be rude, but he just never seen anything like that in his life.

Pangaea · **Reply #172 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:00:54 AM

Partly out of instinct, partly out of the knowledge that he would meet a quick but messy end on the ground below if he didn’t, he stretched out his arms and legs as far out to his sides as they would go. Almost immediately the wind caught them, and his plummet arced sharply into a near-horizontal glide. The resultant backlash gave him such a jolt that he opened his eyes, which he had clenched shut as tightly as he could during his dive off the cliff. For a moment he almost shut them again, seeing the ground so far beneath him. But then he became aware that it wasn’t getting any closer, and that he was in fact riding the wind like a paravian hang-glider.

Still, even with the realization that he wasn’t going to end up like the plywood-parachuting crash-test dummy on MythBusters, he was terrified out of his mind. His heart felt like a jackhammer inside his chest, and he was practically hyperventilating. “THAT WAS THE SCARIEST THING I’VE EVER DONE IN MY LIFE!” But it had worked. To his amazement, he was gliding.

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Behind him, the raptor (who, as a matter of fact, really was Screech) skidded to a stop at the edge of the cliff, narrowly avoiding falling off. He growled and gnashed its teeth in frustration as his intended prey soared out of reach.

Then the fast biter heard a distant, but very familiar roar, and all thoughts of needing to fill his stomach (which had been empty for nearly three days now) instantaneously evaporated. He was already late in getting back, and knew that Red Claw wouldn't be happy about it. More anxious than he would have been willing to admit, Screech headed off as fast as he could in the direction of the roar.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #173 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:03:39 AM

"I'm really not sure. I mean, I don't plan on staying here permanantly, but I don't think I'll be gone by tomorrow either. I don't know how to get back home from here. The world is much larger than it seems," Anna replied, fearing Mr. Threehorn would have a problem with her staying.

What if there were others like me here? Would they be forced to leave as well? , she thought to herself.

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"Hello, Sam and Rick! I am Ducky, and this is my baby brother Spike. He does not talk much, no no no," Ducky chattered in excitement.

Amaranthine · **Reply #174 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:12:24 AM

Amy overheard the convorsation, suddenly, see tripped from the tree. She felt so many aches and pains, so she let out a soft cry. Which made Mr. Three Horn look to her direction.

"Who are you?" Mr. Three Horn demanded.

"Help me..." Amy replied as she looked up at Mr. Three Horn. She rested her head, still awake, but it was hard for her to stand up.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #175 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:22:16 AM

"Oh, my word! What the hell happened to ya?" asked Anna as she stood up.

Amaranthine · **Reply #176 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:31:46 AM

Amy looked up at the swimmer that made the comment. She tried get herself up slowly, but it only made her fall down again. So she sat and looked at the two faces.

"I...tried to save someone from a sharptooth. I...fought him off...and...well, I fell into a ditch...and..."

Suddenly she saw the water again.

"Excuse me for a moment..." She said and she dunk her head into the water. She inhaled the water. She didn't care how she looked at that moment. She was starving and thirsty.

"We need to get help." Mr. Three Horn turned to Anna. "I'll take her to the longnecks. By the way Anna...thank you for this talk." He said with a rare smile.

He then kneeled down to the flyer and nudged her. Amy stopped drinking and with Mr. Three Horn permission, she got onto his back.

"Anna, you can come if you want. It would be good that the others would get to know you too."

He went away with the flyer on his back.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #177 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:37:14 AM

Anna smiled back and joined Mr. Threehorn and the flyer in finding the Longnecks.

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"It is awful quiet this morning. It is, it is. Why do I get a feeling that we are not alone? Could there be more humans here than we have seen?" Ducky asked out loud.

Amaranthine · **Reply #178 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:43:15 AM

Little Foot replied to Ducky, "Well...if there are "humans" like that, I don't see how their could be more out there. But don't you remember that Guido was the only one he ever seen? So maybe this human is only one of his kind." He looked at the human.

"Sorry, I don't mean to make you feel bad, I just, well, no one has ever seen a "human" before. I'm Little Foot by the way."

Suddenly Little Foot saw Mr. Three Horn carrying something on his back, with a swimmer close to him. He raised a brow and nudged his grandparents.

"Um..what's going on?"
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Amy felt the back of a three horn, or more correctly, a triceratops! She knew this had to be a dream. It could have not been real, but it was.

Then she peered at the swimmer next to her. She tried to introduce herself.

"I'm Amy by the way."

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #179 on:** September 05, 2009, 01:54:08 AM

Anna looked up at the flyer.

"Cool! I have a good friend named Amy. Oops! Sorry to be rude. Name's Anna."

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"But, Littlefoot, I did meet a human earlier. I did, I did. She left with Cera's dad a little while ago, yep yep yep. She can change into a dinosaur like us. She could, she could," Ducky replied. She hoped Littlefoot would believe her.